breaking news here 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 mount pressure on the syrian regime as russia fights to pull through its draft resolution at the u.n. aimed at solving the crisis peacefully. plus the wait is finally over russia is accepted as a fully fledged member of the world trade organization after eighteen years of tough talks.

here watching our weekly news with carrie johnson 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 greene. what do we know about the instant and the rescue effort at this time. we know the search and rescue operation is currently in full swing and called to emergencies ministry over forty passengers aboard accompanying crew members have been told that two helicopters have been sent to the area currently on route also there's a number of ships in the present aiding in the search and rescue operation being. towing. support when it capsized. we can now listen to the ministry has spoken about. according to the latest

data sixty seven million dollars for a nice break in a child that was located nearby started to rescue mediately currently nine people have been rescued two of them in severe condition. this all occurring about two hundred miles of the coast are stuck in russia's far east in stormy conditions very high seas about six meters high and also very strong winds as well we don't know if this all rig has sunk or just capsized but it's still it took on stand sure amounts of water and also that all the lifeboats were failed to deploy owing to those weather conditions there is of course is because serbia express that present for those who are on board sickly taking into account the grave weather conditions in the area with temperatures just above zero so now

the search and rescue operation in full swing to save anyone who's been left in the water. ok do keep us updated jake increase thank you. well the coal skier oil rig started drilling in the sea of a hot in september it was on its way back to port when it capsized a platform was built in one thousand nine hundred five centimeters long and eighteen why it's one of the darkest oil rigs in russia was due to set sail for drilling off the east coast at the end of its current assignment. or so you can stay with r.t. for more on that breaking news story as we get it now moving on now fresh riots have reportedly flared up in western cuz it started one person was killed and eleven others injured at a railway station people were protesting against a fatal crackdown on striking oil workers in a town around one hundred kilometers to the northeast r t zero percent off has latest from start. on saturday a group of protesters blocked

a really station including badge and train with over three hundred people on board in western. in total seven bastard trains and three freight trains were delayed and at around eight pm local time six pm moscow time police came in trying to disperse the crowd but instead google grown fifty people and the authorities call them now who they showed fierce resistance they set a locomotive on fire a few mall just cocktails that the train and the police some of them reportedly moved into nearby setting a christmas tree gone 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 o.t. so they had to use force including with a live rounds as a result twelve people were hospitalized with gunshot wounds and one of them died there is particularly the rally was actually initially organized in support of

another one which happened in the town of jenin i was in this all down also in western style 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 burnt down in the clashes with the police as well and also unfortunately the authorities say they were forced to. retaliate and retake the central 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.

tatyana is a local journalist she told r.t. she believes the unrest was triggered from abroad. oh workers in generalising have been striking for fairly long already for several months it is treasury notes if you lose people the old dressed in clothes from the guys uniforms this is really strange for a strike but your uniform you know they were just rushing things around. and they were behaving too organized and they were talking authorities at least until the police came in it looks like this is been. even one of the opposition leaders this is not in the interests of what we see that you were getting killed because they are not fighting for their own ideas. or sort of heads view this hour consumerism meets calamity a new u.s. credit card will soon profit from a famine that claimed to three million lives in ukraine alone.

but the arab league has given the syrian government until wednesday to end its crackdown on the opposition and let in the observers of the ones it's threatened to turn to the u.n. security council for action meanwhile russia is defending its own proposed resolution on syria u.s. and its allies want to see changed moscow is appealing to both the assad regime and the opposition to any violence and begin dialogue or ruling out foreign intervention sanctions some western countries say they can't accept the proposal but they mean the bloodshed on the damascus authorities. despite thousands of army defectors claiming to be fighting to bring down assad runyan that's very professor at university and lebanon says the crimes of the government's forces are being deliberately exaggerated. while there are definite questions on the credibility of the syrian human rights of serve a tory particularly when it comes to the number of victims that they allege are victims of the government atrocities and many

a time anyone who dies in syria they claim that these are victims of the syrian government atrocities you could say we haven't met several different banks factions here were. we have the united states and france and turkey and certain members of the league of arab states that are of course working very strongly to push for an allied government in syria a government that would do its wishing as a government that may be more akin to the jordanian government more it came to what wasn't egypt prior to his downfall so i government that that would not not support resistance against israel a government that would work towards a peace agreement with israel a government that would open up its economies fully for the united states. in libya a country that's already seeing regime change follow international sanctions banks are preparing for a much needed cash injection as the u.n. lifts its economic restrictions but while that will help the new route this problems to bring thousands of protesters rallied in the city of benghazi tasting

against the lack of transparency national transitional council because it was where the great back then ultimately ended two years of his rule patrick hayes reporter for online magazine spiked. doesn't represent the libyan people. the national transitional council was never actually really part of a democratically forged 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 you know the country that the time waiting for might be helicoptered in 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 free to pull people to represent the libyan people now we have a situation where the libyan people say you have got to meet these people don't represent us we don't even really know who they are. now coming out this controversy in court. hearing on the wiki leaks bradley manning continues the

protesters saying he deserves a medal not a prison sentence. and financial inspectors scrutinize greece you know whether this yet again. because they need to agree on this new deal. but before that russia's leaders have spoken extensively this week we're acting to the changing political landscape after the recent parliamentary elections prime minister putin held his annual dive televised q. and a session he dismissed allegations of fraud during the vote as promised to make next year's presidential elections more transparent. machinery that of the ruling not. russia party to reform and introduce new faces same people have grown tired of the old system they also want the us european missile defense shield russia seems as a threat washington has provided no proof to the contrary forcing the kremlin to step

up the country's security measures that would mean of those who knew there were to be we must not let ourselves be intimidated or confused we must clearly understand the goals we are heading for politics is a concrete think whatever friendly relations we have if we are not being heard we will answer that's what i had to do it wasn't against obama but against the policy that the us has adopted if they continue to be rude we will respond if they hear our concerns we will work together. well russia has finally been accepted as a full member of the world trade organization after a wait of eighteen is moves expected to strengthen the country's global ties and provide greater incentive for investment as artie's with a national explains 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 freeman

still firmly behind closed doors experts are left to try and little crystal ball gazing which. their predictions begin with agriculture two into the w t o russia had to pledge to reduce in-state support to farming we've already travelled to a 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 will land currently not in use and the raw fear is that the cut of foreign subsidies that session will bring 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 all that goes. 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 milk 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 may start to w t o critics say russia's making history will be unable to meet the raised competition the accession 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 la however the predictions continue to go away 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. early years after accession. more like ten years with the grocer would be about eleven percent of g.d.p. but apart from economic achievements the country's political image should benefit

not being 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. moscow. remind of our breaking news story now a russian oil rig has capsized in a storm in a sea of a hot scott the country's far east coast there are more than sixty people onboard including passengers and crew a search and rescue operation is in full swing fourteen people have already been plucked from the ice cold water but two bodies have also been recovered 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 leak it continues in the united states bradley manning having to spend his twenty fourth birthday in court this week he

made his first public appearance since being detained for a year and a half ago a court hearing is to determine whether prosecutors have enough evidence to bring that into trial if found guilty he could receive a life term in the private faces twenty two charges of distributing government secrets which eventually passed to wiki leaks and of aiding the enemy former cia officer ray mcgovern says that bradley manning did nothing apart from reeling abuses the american people needed to know about. these charges are greatly overwrought. gates's term so there has been no indication of serious damage to u.s. personnel or those who cooperate with the united states what's the damage is is the revelation of things that the american people should know about and that's what bradley manning was doing by his own players own e-mail see indicated that he wanted this to lead to a discussion and

a debate and some reconsideration are the kinds of policies that he witnessed he affects so there are agreed ation of values here there is the promise of the written promise that i and others assigned before we became employed and got access to classified information they will not release information that would endangered the national security but the supreme value there is what ethicists call a supervening value and that's what bradley manning saw he saw the torture he saw the other abuses he saw the feckless war and he said i can go back and keep my mouth shut like my superiors say or i can follow my conscience at great peril to myself and this is very clear in his e-mails a great peril to myself the american people need to know what's going on so they can make more enlightened decisions. well at least fifty occupy wall street activists have been arrested they broke into a private parking lot hacking as the movement blocked its three month anniversary

the protesters who were big to call musical tea party last month attempted to set up a new campaign the city's don't want to talk looking holmes on a fence and using the largest economy over police disperse the protesters from new york a possible invading private property turning violent a clash was followed by a number of marches in different areas of new york including times square thousands of people attending the rest of the united states during three months of protests. with more updates on the background on the protests that have been shaking america for months on our website r.t. dot com is what else is waiting for you online right now it's the first anniversary of this is anti-government protests became a catalyst for the entire arab spring movement party looks into changes which the revolution brought also failed to deliver.

also on law and so you see takes our spies high in the sky russian rocket delivers six minute you start lights into war with france and one of the ones on our huge huge. news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations are rooted a. farm in themed credit card is hitting the u.s. markets just in time for the holiday shopping season it relates to one of the most painful episodes in ukraine. straight millions of people starve to death across the soviet union. reports there are many here. 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 is the application for the whole of the modern credit card. will be able to allow the south in case. any 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 british 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. besides there are only a few living witnesses left and they're already told. 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 family inspired card is a blasphemy. 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 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. a russian convoy carrying humanitarian aid to ethnic serbs in kosovo was allowed to enter the tariffs on friday after a four day standoff twenty five trucks were stranded at the border tuesday a dispute about how the call from the school to it was worth mentioning by police

who managed to take turn it into the territory to avoid roadblocks the region has been tense since july the territories minority serbs set up barricades to protest against running the checkpoint was controlled by the campaigns to make up ninety percent of its population. inspectors from the so-called financial troika consisting of the european commission european central bank and the international monetary fund were in greece this week trying to agree on a new bailout officials say the country needs a major reform of this public sector to kill the one hundred thirty billion euro tranche rather than simply imposing more austerity a possible new deal comes against the backdrop of a split in the scene at the latest summit in brussels there britain vetoed an offer for by germany france to revise the treaty and create a fiscal union with a tighter group of finances how to gerard loans economist at standard chartered

bank. needs more political integration to survive. the euro can't survive its current format what we saw last week apart from the u.k. brito was once again a cop out from the european leaders they haven't come up with a comprehensive solution so we're seeing a further muddle through i don't think it's going to collapse but difficulties will remain to survive in its current form the euro area needs to become a political union the germans have a clear mandate but what we saw last week we didn't see enough comprehensive action to remove all the immediate worries overhanging either of european economy itself or the euro currency itself. some world news in brief this hour first to the philippines where more than four hundred people have died off the floodwaters swept through the south of the country very bearish on friday night twelve hours of adventurous rain poured down on them and then region that waters were a tropical storm raced down the mountain slopes and tore through homes killing

hundreds of a continuing to search for more than two hundred missing people living many were swept out to sea with little to struck. protester up to brussels right to use nationals of the supreme court of the democratic republic of congo joseph kabila is presidential elections belgium the aussies former colonial questioned his reelection and made russian claims that hold more than half of the votes in the ballot but the results were met by angry protests nationwide. ten people have been killed and hundreds injured as clashes between the objection military and protests continue demonstrators are demanding power be transferred from the military to civilian authority protests turned violent forces move into this person until the city on friday demonstrators responded by throwing petrol bombs and rocks at soldiers in the tanita. the final u.s.

troops have left iraq signaling an official end to the nine year war it will start soldiers across the border to kuwait on sunday when president barack obama marks the end of the war early this week along with iraqi prime minister maliki called that the deaths of more than one hundred thousand iraqi civilians and thousands of u.s. troops. pakistan may soon implement attacks on nato shipments passing through its territory to reach afghanistan if the country passes transit. its border to nato hundreds of supply containers awaiting to pass through as long as its twenty day border was closed almost a month ago the u.s.'s tried twenty stones the u.s. is facing pressure to resolve the dispute on the mains but to reach a point troops in afghanistan some say pakistan's reaction should come as no

surprise listen threatening messages to us that. we want to go back to how did this start this about ten years ago there was an ultimatum delivered in the wake of nine eleven by colin powell and richard armitage to the pakistani government and they said if you don't give us transit rights across pakistan we will bomb you back into the stone age so this is not an alliance this is not friendship this is the united states having gone in there and the goal of the u.s. presence had very little to do with terrorism but rather had to do with promoting the break up of pakistan if you just look at the map pakistan is wedged in there between iran on the one side india and china in some ways it's the hub of the world and the goal of the u.s. has always been to take a civil war in afghanistan exported into pakistan the question is what where where is all this going the pakistanis are becoming more militant which is perfectly

understandable right we have a we have a man it could move here in washington i guess you can call it a psychosis of destabilization it's like the the year of the dupes may be ending and they've got to export destabilisation to as many countries as they can interesting is that the pakistanis say now that they have a surface to air missile system along the border with afghanistan so that if the u.s. tries to come over. with helicopters and essentially take possession of the pakistani nuclear deterrent the pakistanis now say that they would be able to fight back against that. remind of our breaking news story now a russian oil rig has capsized in a storm in a sea of off the country's far east coast the more than sixty people on board including passengers and crew a search and rescue operation is in from swing auton people have already been plucked from the ice cold water but two bodies have also been recovered strong

winds and high waves a complicating efforts stay with r.t. for the latest on this developing story as we get. a few moments we'll unveil the stories of scientists who pursued warnings against the sale of genetically modified food can we the public still trust our scientists special report.

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