breaking news on r.t. a russian oil rig off the country's far east coast capsizes during a storm with more than sixty people on board. fresh clashes flare up in western kazakhstan just days after a demonstration by oil workers ended with eleven people dead. in. the west and its allies mounting pressure on the syrian regime as russia fights to pull through its draft resolution at the u.n. aimed at solving the crisis peacefully. the wait is finally over as russia has accepted as a member of the world trade organization after eighteen years of tough talks.

we're watching artie's weekly news review welcome to the program but first breaking news story a russian oil rig has capsized in a storm in a sea of our hearts in the country's far east let's get the latest details now from our jacob greece jacob what do we know about the instant and the rescue efforts at this time. already in full swing. with over sixty people of the passengers now those two helicopters on the way to the area where this all caps. two vessels two ships in the immediate vicinity aiding in this rescue operation all those being the towing. support when it capsized occurred about two hundred of the closest star clear.

russia's far eastern is highways a season's stormy weather we don't know just yet whether or not it is actually. thought this took on a lot of water during this stormy weather or not the lifeboats crucially all boards failed to deploy as there was no way in these high seas and so far version issue said they found no one in lifeboat so they have rescued a total of nine people the conditions in the area very bad indeed in the water temperature just above freezing zero degrees celsius so really everyone's attention now focused the retrieving those boards. keep us updated jake agrees thank you. well of course sky oil rig started drilling in the sea of our hearts in september and was on its way back to port when it capsized about four was built in ninety five seventy meters long and eighteen wide it's one of the largest oil rigs

in russia was going to set sail for drilling off the vietnamese coast end of its current mission. now fresh riots have reportedly flared up in western kazakhstan one person was killed and eleven others injured a railway station where people were protesting against a fatal crackdown on striking oil workers in a town around one hundred kilometers to northeast well artesian office going off joins us live from kazakhstan with the latest they go away haring reports of renewed violence what's going on in kazakhstan right now. well these are some very troubling new horse indeed and basically the latest information from gaza audi's that we're getting is that on saturday a group of protesters blocked a really station including train with over three hundred people on board in western kazakhstan in total seven bastard trains and three freight trains where do you lead and at around eight pm local time sixty

a moscow time police came in trying to disperse the crowd but instead google around fifty people and the authorities call them now who showed fierce resistance they set a locomotive on fire if you multiply that the train and the police some of them reportedly moved into nearby setting a christmas tree going for a breaking shop windows car windows and cetera and authorities say that their actions at one point became a threat to the lives of the locals and off the of the of the audi so they had to use force including with a live rounds and as a result twelve people were hospitalized with gunshot wounds and one of them died. but you know remind us what's happened in the oil town on friday. well this particularly rally was actually initially organized in support of another one which happened in the town or was in the soil down also in western kazakhstan and what

happened there on friday is that a protest rally against the salaries combined with celebrations of twenty years of kazakhstan's independence just spiraled out of control it's still not clear what exactly triggered it but at one point the angry crowd began setting buildings on fire including state facilities say that forty six buildings have been burned down in the clashes with the police as well and also unfortunately the authorities say they were forced to. retaliate and retake the center of the situation under their control so some live shots were used there as well and according to official figures eleven people were killed in that incident several dozen others were injured although some sources suggest that the figures are much higher than that now the prosecutor's office of kazakhstan says that this violence was organized

from abroad if. they have stored order in that town and the situation is completely under their control declared a state of emergency in journalism for the next thirty days for the next three weeks rather in. the constitution. ok you can offer porting live from kazakhstan thank you for now. as a local journalist she told us she believes the rest was stricken from abroad. oh work isn't generalising have been striking for fairly long already for several months it is treasury notes it's in those people the old dressed in clothes and their guns uniforms this is fairly strange for a strike there but you're uniformed you know they were just crashing things around . and there were behaving too organized and they weren't attacking authorities and at least as a police came in it looks like chris this is being let down. so they had

this consumerism calamity us credit card soon profit from running that claimed three million lives and. the arab league has given the syrian government until wednesday to end its crackdown on the opposition and letting observers otherwise it's threaten to turn to the u.n. security council for action meanwhile russia is defending its proposed resolution on syria and the u.s. and its allies want to see changed moscow is appealing to both the assad regime and the opposition to end the violence and begin dialogue while ruling out foreign intervention sanctions some western states saying they can't accept the proposal blaming the bloodshed on the damascus authorities. despite thousands of army defectors claim to be fighting to bring down assad regime the middle east politics

and the salt says the western governments have to admit all sides must put down weapons before solution can be found. but western governments are. right now. there's very little bonsa been one one way. and it's been very little. ongoing project their bonnets began almost from the beginning. hiding behind. them according to. their more recently activists in fact they want to monitor. this now i think. it's not just the syrian government has. the army down but somehow some way has found. this waiting. period to be very hard for whatever happened.

i think that patients not people with the stakes are very wary of that they agree with russia's position and so far russia is solidly behind the syrian government is this a solution today thinking psyching as a sign by some that russia changes its position i first and then see it like that i think much is going to college on the way out of which we can go because first of all putting on the witness because so many charges and countercharges being made it would be almost impossible to get all of them so it would change the way that they way had not tried to stop the killing of a badass. and in libya a country that's already seeing regime change following international sanctions banks are preparing for a much needed cash injection as the u.n. lifts its economic restrictions but while that's will help the new rulers problems are still brewing thousands of protesters rallied in the city of benghazi testing against that of transparency national transitional council as it was rather than

going down alternately ended two years of his rule about your days reports of online magazine spiked in the city doesn't represent the people. the national transitional council was never actually really part of a democratically forward libya anyway they were never on the streets really fighting for the with the libyan people against gadhafi a lot of them in fact were in other countries at the time waiting for much to be helicoptered in a way where it was safe enough to enter tripoli it was made up of gadhafi curry lease people who were basically cherry picked by the west as being future people to represent the libyan people now we have a situation where the libyan people say you have got a minute these people don't represent us really if you really know who they are. when a few minutes we return to libya to see how schools that have changed who need to please get off his name every morning instead they give thanks to the martyrs of

the revolution is the change only skin deep. and controversy in court the military hearing of the alleged wiki leaks bradley manning to news protests to say deserves a medal not a prison sentence. before that russia's leaders have spoken extensively this week we got into the changing political landscape of the recent parliamentary elections present better have addressed members of the ruling united russia party. for introducing new faces as people have grown tired of the old system mr hooton also health is today's session he dismissed allegations of widespread fraud during the recent election you promised a new technology to help make presidential elections next year more transparent. logo but actually they're only breaking the very i'm now asking me a little commission to install web cameras at every polling station in the country

and there are over ninety thousand of these cameras should be on around the clock so that everyone can see what's happening at every station little rule out any allegations of fraud. russia has finally been accepted as a full member of the world trade organization after a wait of eighteen years then is expected to strengthen the country's global ties and provide greater incentive for investment as artie's wherever national spain's accession comes at a price. with all my studio cases of hard talks now over it's still not clear exactly what russia's w.t.r. membership is offering the country and with most all the details of the grievance to firmly behind closed doors extremism left to try and little crystal ball gazing . their predictions begin with agriculture to enter the w t o russia had to pledge to reduce in-state support to farming we've already travelled to hundred and fifty kilometers away from moscow and what we see here is

a sad picture goes through it is like this one us road all across russia and with a struggle in agriculture industry there number is only increasing thirty percent of the countries are will land currently not in use and the raw fear is that the cost of farming subsidies like sessional grain will only make things dramatically worse for it russia is currently importing forty five percent of all food products and may soon become fifty to seventy percent local producers will be unable to compete with holdout because. meanwhile those competitive enough will stay afloat and benefit alexander and his family run a small business just outside moscow there one hundred twenty goats skiff enough fuel to produce feelings of high quality cheese and a bit back in the crystal ball the future doesn't look bright for wrong that mr kopper use is happening on the main star and the w t o critics say russia's making history will be at mabel to meet the crazy competition expression of

a tract offering a gloomy prediction that once the country's in bad lines will stop factories will shut and thousands of people will be left out of work and out of luck however the predictions continue to glow with foreign investments said to be ready to rock it the cable gains we believe or roughly three point three percent of russian g.d.p. in. early years after accession. more like ten years with their grocer would be about eleven percent of g.d.p. departs from economic achievements the country's political image should benefit not really part of the global body would have passed a little strange russia has been the biggest economy not to be integrated into the w t o but after an eighteen year marathon of negotiations all the world's key players finally come together under the same umbrella. ready for national guard t. mosco. but a reminder of our breaking news story now

a russian oil rig has capsized in a storm in a sea of the hearts of the country's east coast and more than sixty people onboard including passengers and crew a search and rescue operation is in full swing nine people have already been plucked from the ice cold water strong winds and high waves are complicating efforts stay with r.t. the latest on this developing story. the military hearing of the so-called wiki leaks continues in the united states with bradley manning having to spend his twenty fourth birthday in court this week he made his first public appearance since being detained every year and a half ago the court hearing is to determine whether prosecutors have enough evidence to bring manning to trial if found guilty he could receive a life term on the private faces twenty two charges of distributing government secrets which eventually passed to wiki leaks and of aiding the enemy and war

activist brian becker says if manning is convicted he'll become a nationwide hero an icon of truth telling. i think the bradley manning if it's true that he was the one who released the documents to wiki leaks will be considered in u.s. history as a hero because he took a stand and is obviously willing to pay a very difficult price possibly life in prison possibly the death sentence for exposing a criminal war the iraq war is a crime against humanity it's a war crime in fact bradley manning had an obligation to reveal that this country was carrying out criminal activities of course we all knew that and one sense but by releasing these hundreds of thousands of classified documents if in fact it was he who did it he did a great deal to expose to shine a bright light on those who are committing crimes against the iraqi people and in fact against the american people bradley manning has been held wrongly he's been

held in solitary confinement he's been pre-judged by the military and by the media he has been stripped naked in forest in solitary confinement that's a kind of torture and he's being treated as the worst possible lowest criminal in fact somebody who's not even part of the judicial system since he's been pre-judged and. now from in the credit card this hits in the u.s. markets just in time for one of the shopping it relates to one of the most painful episodes in ukraine's history buttons of people starve to death across the city in three billion dollars last new crane that. reports. you the moral. almost a decades on ukraine still mourns those who died in the 1930's famine in the u.s.s.r. known here as the whole of the more and it's a rare example where political forces more used to in fighting put aside their differences to unite in common cause now the ukrainian diaspora in the united

states is joining in remembrance in a rather peculiar fashion is the application for the whole of the credit card. will be able to allow the south asian. and one of our branches the catastrophic nine hundred thirty to nine hundred thirty three famine claimed at least three million lives in ukraine alone with several more million perishing across what is now central russia and kazakstan some one key of insist it was an act of genocide directed against ukrainians most school says it was caused by criminal agricultural policies of stalin's government but those behind the credit card project claim they're driven by remembrance motives only putting all his story debates aside you know what it's another good mechanism to have all of them or a mammal thanks to the political elite and civil organizations it is well known in ukraine. besides there are only a few living witnesses left and there already are. however it's not only about the

intangible one percent of each purchase made with a whole the more card will be allocated to a special charity fund ukraine's main monuments commemorating the 1930's famine was built in two thousand and eight amid recession and millions of us dollars were used from the state budget people behind the hole the more credit card project say that the money they raise may be used to build more monuments and memorials this apparently benign initiative however was met with an avalanche of criticism in ukraine and that's not only because there are practically no survivors left who could be helped with the money raised this political analyst says buying groceries with. a famine inspired card is a blasphemy if the idea is completely immoral it's an attempt to popularize a great tragedy and use it for commercial needs i can only think of a proven tragedy the holocaust but the jews are not putting that on a credit card in fact such an attempt was made by a u.s.

company in two thousand and nine the blue card but it had no direct reference to the holocaust and it's not so popular across the atlantic where the whole of the more card will be more successful can be seen when it hits the market in late december just in time for christmas shopping. see reporting from kiev in ukraine. some world news in brief this hour first to the philippines where more than four hundred people have died of the floodwaters swept through the south of the country many perished on friday night when twelve hours of relentless rain poured down on them and then now flood waters from a tropical storm raced down mountain slopes and tore through homes killing hundreds of thirty's continued to search for more than two hundred missing people living many were swept out to sea when the waters struck philippines southern regions are generally immune from flooding and even residents are. part of

protests erupted in brussels by companies nationals of the supreme court of democratic republic of congo are held there is a true presidential elections belgium but the aussies former clune questioned his reelection and made corruption claims to hold more than half of all votes in the ballot the results were met by angry protests nationwide. ten people have been killed and hundreds injured as clashes between the gyptian military and civilian protesters continue demonstrators are demanding power be transferred from the military to civilian authority protests turned violent after forces moved in to disperse an unseen military sitting on friday demonstrators responded by throwing petrol bombs and rocks at soldiers who don't retaliate it. two months after the end of the civil war in libya changes are expected in almost all areas of life it but in one of the most important parts of the country's future

education the serious doubt that change will be for the best even the record high literacy rate reached on the good offices rule some parents now oppose a total tearing up with a curriculum and the position of new values on the children of some of what reports . it's a new day in the new libya but it starts with an old preacher oh students assemble different classes to see a new flag be posted and to sing a new national anthem found. that was like the revolution the rich tricolor and the hume is a flashback to the preview now for iran with a few verses tweak to represent the notion of the country's recent liberation for decades on the get out the school leavers tutors were expected to hammer rise long passages from his brain will ever question that and it looks like this tradition may continue i did manage the dishes while his children are too young to understand

the meaning of life in this city of the new route wish their anthem of their own very expected to know it by heart next comes a speech that unambiguous the explains who are the heroes of the new libya the were over the rebels to talk how to gain freedom they told us to how the had high they taught us to not our country this is the only new material students in this trouble is who have learned since september regular classes like math or chemistry are suspended until january when the new curriculum is expected to be introduced minister but in the elysium will definitely introduce foreign languages into a curriculum now kids will start studying english from the first grade because they have to be prepared for universities but then again in the meantime the students are preoccupied with making drawings and trinkets to commemorate the february seventeenth revolution teachers here say they try their best to explain to students

what has happened in libya over the past few months in this chemical that nobody tells us what to tell students who are free to say whatever we want it we don't say bad things about gadhafi in fact we don't talk about him at all here as they say sometimes that picture is worth a. thousands more it's a good afternoon blaze and carter died just a year ago adorned the principal's office is now strategically placed in front of the door several hundred copies of his green book from the local library have been thrown away the forty two years of his rule that how brinkley basically just who reads from twenty six to about ninety percent is a distant memory he did a good things but what she did in the past eight months for beginning here they are no you don't think people don't talk about what you know what she does does to talk about but what she did in the past eight months is carrying. on a few hundred fifty students that attended this school a year ago half are still absent some fled the country others were pulled down by

their parents who disagree with the new values taught here those who have rendered this traitors tools i think it's better to catch you know when i say something bad about the good. well the study of english was banned under going after words like freedom and revolution a familiar to every first grader here but when asked what's the difference between gaddafi is due me here a year she literally man's power of the masses and libya's new democracy both students and teachers are close i don't actually know the answer to that question it's on a boycott artsy ship only. about to watch breaking a news story now a russian oil rig has capsized in a storm in the sea of a hearts in the country's far east let's get the latest details now from green jacob we know a search and rescue operation is underway what are we hearing from the russian

emergencies ministry. operation to rescue those aboard already in full swing emergency ministry saying it's over sixty people aboard fourteen of the confirmed to be passengers so. they have already rescued nine from those icy waters its two helicopters or route to aid in this rescue operation there were you know that those two ships in the immediate vicinity again aiding in the rescue operation or woman being an ice breaker that was towing the support so the time when it capsized we have heard the latest from an emergency ministry spokesperson. according to the latest data sixty seven million dollars for a nice break in a chopper that was located nearby started to rescue mediately currently nine people have been rescued two of them in severe condition. missiles of could about

two hundred miles off the coast of sakhalin in russia's far east in hall you wins and high seas well some of the ways measuring about six meters so surely stormy weather conditions we don't know whether or not this all rigs actually sunk just yet or sort of capsized off taking on stunt show amounts of waters and it's also thought the norm the lifeboats assessed sea to put all these owing to the high seas of stormy weather conditions because sirs always see the race for those who were on board as the weather conditions in the area very grave in the sea temperature just above freezing. ok for now a drink of cream so thank you for that. of course we'll have more on that story as we get it here on r.t. stay with us the headlines are up next in just a few moments. here

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