after eighteen years of tough talks. we're watching artie's weekly news review welcome to the program but first to our 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 artie's jacob greece jacob what do we know about the incident and the rescue effort at this time. who are racing to rescue those on board already in full swing called to the emergencies ministry to you with over sixty people of board fourteen of them passengers now there's two helicopters on the way to the area where this already capsized and already two vessels two ships in the immediate vicinity aiding in this rescue operation warm those being the icebreaker is actually towing this

all routes of course when it capsized occurred about two hundred miles off the coast to suckle in russia's far east the maze highways a season's stormy weather we don't know just yet whether or not it all rick has actually saw this thought this took on a lot of water during this stormy weather or not the lifeboats crucially on board failed to deploy as their watched away in these high seas and so far 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 on retrieving those on board. the paycheck of the keeper set up day to check in greece thank you. well of course guy oil rig started drilling in the sea of our hearts. in september it was on its way back to port where 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 at the end of its current mission. the fresh riots 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 the northeast well arty's little person of joins us live from kazakhstan with the latest there go away haring reports of renewed violence what's going on in kazakhstan right now well these are some very troubling you or cindy then basically leaders information from guys about all these that we're getting is that on saturday protesters blocked a really station including train with three hundred people on board in western.

india all seven bastard trains in three three trains were doing and around eight pm local time sixty a moscow time police came in trying to disperse the crowd but instead google grown fifty people and the opportunities call them now showed fierce resistance lucetta locomotive on fire up the train and the police some of them reportedly moved into nearby setting a christmas tree and for a break in 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. of the of the already so they had to use force including a live round as a result twelve people were hospitalized with gunshot wounds and one of them died. but it will remind us what 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 of john i was in this all 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 sensualist 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 i can offer porting life from kazakhstan thank you for now. as a local journalist she told r.t. the rest was stricken from abroad. oh workers in generalising have been striking for fairly long already for several months if this trucks were even out if those people the old dressed in clothes and the guys uniforms this is fairly strange for a strike but your uniform you know they were just crashing things around. and

they were behaving too organized and they weren't attacking authorities and at least until the police came in it looks like chris this is being let down. so they had this consumerism meets calamity us credit card soon profit from running that claimed three million lives in training. the arab league has given the syrian government until wednesday to end its crackdown on the opposition and let in 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 say 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 the 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. one way. has been very little wrong as of ongoing project their bonnets began almost with. gangs hiding behind. them according to one or more recently by activists. 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. its waiting. period to be very hard. for whatever happened in syria. implication is not. russia's position in russia. this resolution. changed. from the white. people first of all putting down. because so many charge. it would be almost impossible to get. so. now trying to stop the killing. and in libya a country that's already seen regime change following international sanctions banks are preparing for a much needed cash injection as u.n. lifts its economic restrictions but while that's will help the problems are still

brewing thousands of protesters rallied in the city of benghazi against that of transparency national transitional council. and the. pains reporter for online magazine spiked. doesn't represent the people. the national transitional council was never actually really part of a democratically forward anyway they were never on the streets really fighting for the with the libyan people against gadhafi a lot of them in fact in other countries at the time waiting for my speech helicoptered in a way when it was safe enough to enter tripoli it was made up of gadhafi cronies people who were basically cherry picked by the west as being people to represent the libyan people now we have a situation where the libyan people are so you have got a minute these people don't represent us we don't even really know who they are.

when a few minutes we return to libya to see how schools that have changed over need to praise get out his name every morning and stay thank you thanks to the martyrs of the revolution this is a change only skin deep. and controversy in court the military hearing of the alleged wiki leaks bradley manning to news attest to saying he deserves a medal not a prison sentence. before that russia's leaders have spoken extensively this week we're acting to the changing political landscape after the recent parliamentary elections present make them a better dressed members of the ruling united russia party good thing for introducing new faces as people have grown tired of the old system mr hooton also health is here and they session dismissed allegations of widespread fraud during the recent election promised new technology to help make presidential elections next year more transparent. with. a nuance give me

a little commission to install web cameras at every polling station in the country and the over ninety fields and of these cameras should be on around the clock so that everyone can see what's happening in every station 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 and was expected to strengthen the country's global ties and provide greater incentive for investment but artie's wherever national spain's accession comes at a price. with almost two decades 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 greens to firmly behind closed doors experts are left to try and little crystal ball gazing which. 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 crazing thirty percent of the countries are well and are currently not in use and the raw fear is that the cost of farming subsidies like session will grain will only make things dramatically worse for the russians 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 it all down 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 i would back in the crystal ball the future doesn't look bright for wrong the message cupboard uses have been

on the menu start and the w t o critics say russia's making history will be unable to meet the increased competition the exceptional attractive offer in 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 la however the predictions continue to glow with foreign investments said to be ready to rocket the cable gains we believe or roughly three point three percent of russian g.d.p. in the. early years after accession. more like ten years with the grocer would gain about eleven percent of g.d.p. departs from economic achievements the country's political image should benefit north korean 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. reason otieno t. mosco. 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 there were more than sixty people on board 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 to stay with r.t. the latest on this developing story. the military herring or the so-called wiki leaks continues in the united states with bradley manning having to spend his twenty fourth birthday this week he made his first public appearance since being detained in the home forget the court hearing to determine whether prosecutors have enough evidence to bring that into trial if found guilty he could receive

a life term on the private faces twenty two charges of distributing government secrets which eventually plans to wiki leaks and the aiding the enemy and or activist says that he's convicted he's become a nation want to hear it and i call him truth telling. i think that 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 in this lee 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 in. there are famine themed credit card is hitting the u.s. markets just in time for holiday shopping it relates to one of the most painful episodes in ukraine's history and millions of people starve to death across the soviet union with three million lives lost in ukraine alone. reports there are many in here view the move as immoral. 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 to the application for the whole of the modern credit card. will be able to allow the south asian. i mean one of the branches the catastrophic nine hundred thirty two 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 remember thanks to the political elite and civil organizations it is well known in

ukraine elsewhere 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 after floodwaters swept through the south of the country many perished on friday night when twelve hours of relentless rain or down on the mindanao region flood waters from a tropical storm raced down mountain slopes and tore through homes killing hundreds of thirty's continuing to search for more than two hundred missing people living many were swept out to sea when the water struck philippines southern regions are

generally immune from flooding even residents are prepared. product protests erupted in brussels by companies nationals of the supreme court of democratic republic of congo are held there is a tree presidential elections belgium the aussies for mckown 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 egypt should military and civilian protesters twenty demonstrators are demanding power be transferred from the military to a civilian authority the protests turned violent after forces moved in to disperse an anti military sitting on friday demonstrators responded by throwing petrol bombs and rocks at soldiers who then you tell you it it. two months after the end of the

civil war in libya changes are expected in almost all areas of life that when one of the most important parts of the country's future education is serious doubt that change will be for the best given the record high literacy rate reached on the gadhafi israel some parents now oppose a total tearing up of the curriculum and the imposition of new values on the children parties of some of what reports. it's a new day in the new libya but it starts with an old preacher students assemble different classes to see a new flag be posted and to sing a new national outcry. that was like the revolution the rich tricolor and the hume is a flashback to the pretty good afi era with a few verses tweaked to represent the notion of the country's recent liberation the decades on the good offices will leave us students were expected to memorize long passages from his brain book without ever questioning that and it looks like this

tradition may continue i did manage to deceive us while his children are too young to understand the meaning of the bloody history of the new route lish their anthem of their own ready expected to know it by heart next comes a speech dead on a big year slick's plains who are the heroes of the new libya the were over the rebels to talk hard to gain freedom they told us to how the had high they told us turn of 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 it will include 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 more than again in the meantime the students are preoccupied with making drawings into kits 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 bring libya's literacy rates from point to sixty about ninety percent is a distant memory he did a good things but what she did in the past eight months for britain it is there are no you don't people don't talk about what you know what you done to turn over to but what you 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 laugh and round it is traitors go to school i think it's better to catch you know when i something bad about the good. well the study of english was banned under gadhafi 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 literally man's power of the masses only be a new democracy both students and teachers are close i don't actually know the answer to that question but it's in a boycott artsy ship only. go back to our breaking news story now a russian oil rig has capsized in a storm in the sea of

a hearts in the country's far east west get the latest details now from graves of 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 here saying it's over sixty people board fourteen of them confirmed to be passengers they say they've already rescued nine from those icy waters it's two helicopters or route to aid in this rescue operation there were you know that there's two ships in the immediate vicinity again aiding in the rescue operation a woman being an ice breaker that was towing this support to 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 taboo that was located nearby started to rescue mediately currently nine people

have been rescued two of them in severe condition one of. 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 it's thought of capsized off taking on to stanch or amounts of waters and it's also thought that norm the lifeboats was a sexy 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 i j can chremes 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

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film these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. china corporations are all today. you're watching r t live from moscow and breaking news out of r.t. a russian oil rig off the country's far east coast during a storm with more than sixty people on board a search operation is in full swing with nine people confirmed rescued so far. pressure crashes flare up in western kazakhstan just days after a demonstration by oil workers ended with eleven people dead in. the west and its allies mount pressure on the syrian regime.