breaking news on r.t. a russian oil rig off the country's far east coast capsizes and sinks 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. 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. 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.

on air and online you're watching artie's weekly needs review welcome but first our breaking news story a russian oil rig has capsized and sinks in a storm in a sea of hearts in the country's far east let's get the latest details now jake jake what do we know so far about the incident and the rescue effort. search and rescue operation going in earnest president immersion. the sixty seven people were on board including fourteen passengers two helicopters are in the area aiding this search and rescue operation as well as two ships are scouring the sea for signs of life being an icebreaker that is towing this. support when it capsized it can now confirm that it has sunk for more. we've

spoken to the emergency ministry spokesperson. about what fourteen people have been rescued so far with two of them in a critical condition two people have been sports on the surface of the sea that of pizza be dead being recovered now the weather conditions in the area are very grave strong winds with waves up to five meters. this occurred about two hundred clubs off the coast in russia's far east into very high waves as mentioned in strong winds and storm conditions it's thought the alric took hold water before sinking but also that the lifeboats were able to deploy before it capsized and eventually sunk version ministry those of the sea has said that they found two large boats but so far they've proven empty of course the ocean the sea for signs of life and hours of mounting here because cern's

a growing as the weather conditions in the air are quite grave the water temperatures just above freezing a criminal case is already been opened into proceedings here of course everyone's attention of finding people alive who left be left in the water. ok for now ketchup drink agree thank you for that update. while the whole sky oil rig started drilling in the sea of a hard skin september it was on its way back to port when it capsized the platform was built in ninety five centimeters long and eighty wide it's one of the not just oil rigs in russia was going to set sail for drilling off the vietnamese coast and the end of its current assignment. or stay with r.t. for more on that breaking news story as we get it here. now moving on now fresh riots have reportedly flared up in the western cause it started one person was killed and eleven others injured at

a railway station where people were protesting against a fatal crackdown on striking all workers in a town around one hundred kilometers to the northeast ortiz of open skin off has the latest now from kazakhstan. 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 in three three 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 around fifty people and the opportunity to call them now hooligans showed fierce resistance they were going to 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 o.t.

so they had to use force including a live rounds as a result twelve people were hospitalized with gunshot wounds and one of them died that is particularly 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 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 to see that forty six buildings had 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. is a local journalist she told r.t. she believes the unrest was triggered from abroad oh work isn't generalising have been striking for fairly long already for several months if this were a story now to those people in the old west in question the guys uniforms this is very strange for a strike to uniformed you know they were just rushing things around. and they were behaving too organized and they were talking authorities and at least until the police came in it looks like this is been let down even one of the opposition leaders said that this is not. what we see that people are getting killed because they are not fighting for their own ideas but coming up tackling the

terrorism in the caucuses you go to doesn't see why they become the target of militant brainwashing. 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 own proposed resolution on syria that the u.s. and its allies want to see changed what's goes into the assad regime and the opposition to end violence against dialogue while ruling out for intervention sanctions some western countries say they can't accept the proposal and that's because the origins of known as despite thousands of army defectors claiming to be fighting to bring down a set and that's really a professor at the university of lebanon says the crimes of the government's forces are being deliberately exaggerated. well there are definite questions on the

credibility of the syrian human rights observatory particularly when it comes to the number of victims that they allege are victims of the government atrocities 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 function factions here working you have the united states and france and turkey and certain members of the league of arab states that of course are 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 the mubarak 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. and in libya a country that's already seen regime change follow international sanctions banks are preparing for a much needed cash injection as the u.s.

lifts its economic restrictions while that'll help the new rule is problems brewing thousands of protesters rallied in the city of benghazi protesting against the lack of transparency the national transitional council. where the nato around the gather and it gives a kind of dolphins with patrick haynes online magazine spiked and doesn't represent the libyan 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 might 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 free to pull people to represent the libyan people now we have a situation where the libyan people are saying you have got to meet these people don't represent us we don't even really know who they are. coming up for you this

hour controversy in court the military hearing of the alleged wiki leaks bradley manning continues saying he deserves a medal not a prison sentence. but before that he rushes leaders have spoken extensively this week we acting to the changing political landscape of the recent parliamentary elections which are very good addressed members of the really united russia party hears them to reform and introduce new faces as people have grown tired of the old system prime minister putin held his q. and a session dismissed allegations of widespread fraud in the lection and promised new technology to help make presidential elections next year more transparent. nuanced give me a little commission to install. 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 it doesn't rule out any

obligations of fraud yes russia has finally been accepted as a full member of the world trade organization after a weight of eighteen years move is expected to strengthen the country's a global ties and provide greater incentive for investment as r.t. as well for national expats accession comes at a price. with almost two decades of hard talks no 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 green still firmly behind closed doors experience and left to try a 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 crazing thirty percent of the countries are will land currently not in use and the raw fear is that the cost of farming subsidies like session will remain with all the make things dramatically worse for russia's 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 gold out of. 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 give enough milk to produce kilos of high quality cheese and a bit back in the crystal ball the future doesn't look bright for wrong the message company uses have been among them a start to w t o critics say russia's making. the street will be unable to meet the green competition the expression of a tract offering a gloomy prediction that once the country's in bad lines will stop factories will

charge and thousands of people will be left out of work and out of la however the predictions continue to do with foreign investments said to be ready to rock it the cumulative gains we believe or roughly three point three percent of russian g.d.p. in. early years after accession. more like ten years with a grocer would be about eleven percent of g.d.p. but apart from economic achievements the country's political image should benefit not been 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 or. mosco. but a reminder of our breaking news story now a russian oil rig has capsized and sank in a storm in the sea of

a hot school the country's foreign stressed more than sixty people on board 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 highways are complicating efforts officials say there's no danger of a leak there's been any oil was on board stay with the latest on this developing story. the military hearing of the so-called wiki leak it continues in the united states with bradley manning and to spend his twenty fifth birthday in court this week he made his first public appearance since being detained over you know half ago hearings to determine whether prosecutors have enough evidence to bring manning to trial if found guilty he could receive a life term private places. twenty two charges of distributing the secrets which eventually passed to wiki leaks and aiding the enemy or to facebook says if money

is connected to become a nation one hero and an icon of 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 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 is not even part of the judicial system since he's been pre-judged them. at least fifty occupy wall street activists have been arrested they broke into a private parking lot happen. to three months. the protesters who were victims from zuccotti park. cities don't want to talk. fence not just when the police disperse them. to. clash with the marches. or times thousands of people have been detained and arrested across the united states three months. well you can read more updates on the background of the protest shaping of the months when i website bhatti dot com here's what else is waiting for you online

right now it's the first anniversary of to museums and government protests which became a catalyst for the arabs we didn't party looks into the changes which the revolution brought didn't deliver. all so on and so use it takes our spies high into the sky a russian rocket to the six military satellites into orbit from france and chile because you don't know you teach. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations rule the day.

a russian convoy carrying humanitarian aid to ethnic serbs in kosovo was allowed to enter the terra show friday after a four day standoff thirty five trucks were stranded up with border tuesday morning to spew to other convoys should be schooled to be cool when she led police managed to take an alternative route through to avoid. the region has been tense since july when their territories minority serbs barricades to protest against constable forty's running the checkpoint was first controlled by ethnic albanians which make up ninety percent of its population. some news in before you know the south or first to the philippines where more than five hundred people have died of the floodwater. swept through the south of the country when he perished on friday night when twelve hours of relentless rain poured down on the then region

floodwaters from a tropical storm or a stone mountain slopes and tore through homes killing hundreds of porches are continuing to search more than two hundred people including many who were swept out to sea when a strong. product protests erupted in brussels to the nationals of the supreme court the democratic republic of congo held terms of computers with three presidential elections belgium that they are sees former colonial rule questioned his reelection amid corruption claims that polled almost half of all votes in about it but the results were met by angry protests nationwide . ten people have been killed and hundreds injured as clashes were to leave gyptian city the testers continue there in straits is a demanding power be transferred from the military to civilian authority protests turned violent the forces went into dispersing the city and on friday.

the final u.s. troops have left iraq signaling an official end to the nine year war because terrorists soldiers across the border to kuwait on sunday president barack obama marked the end of the already this week along with iraqi prime minister nuri al maliki conflicts led to the deaths of more than one hundred thousand iraqi civilians and thousands of u.s. troops. belgium was left in mourning this week following tuesday's shooting spree in which five people were killed and more than one hundred twenty injured a man that went on a rampage in the center of the age shooting and living grenades into crowds increasing shock was. shot himself dead before police arrived at the scene it was an x. convict or just the sentence for possession of this it. and selling drugs the body of a female house cleaner was also discovered inside a shed he used there were initial reports that several dozen are involved and that

was later ruled out what was. well next we head to one of russia's most of all its hold regions in the battle to stop the young for in prey to terrorists. doggystyle in their papers in russia's headlines almost every day with reports of shootouts and explosions latest reports eighty percent of all anti terror operations in russia carried out in unstable republic but as a man in a cautionary reports that some also been made to wipe out extremism and radicalism and its roots. the caucasian republic of dagestan in russia is one of the most volatile areas in the country groups of militants operating in this part of the caucasus are reported to have strong links with al qaida look to exalt the people in when they're young and to tell rays are constantly carried out in

a time to eradicate the problem although militants usually target police and government officials tourism has often wore into bill lives of many innocent families across the region because of that a number of organisations have sprung up fighting for victims' rights and helping is also fucked it's peace their lives back together i had it turns to spend the day with. after losing her son three years ago has dedicated her life battling for her people's future. it's a called mr winter morning in the swede line a sign of as always is first in the office the telephone starts to ring right as she enters the room it is the usual start of the day for the mothers of dagestan a human rights organization created four years ago and now known across the region today's headline is having to the outskirts of the capital a single mother of four lives that her husband was killed by robbers and she was left with nothing but her children sitting on the brings food clothes and talks to

her talking as soon as the most important part offering reassurance to victims that they have not been forgotten your gravel should not be unusual our organization mostly helps women it doesn't matter what situation they're in if they're in need to come to help with most of these women don't know their rights or who to ask who help three years ago said lana was in the same position when one day her son failed to return home she didn't know what to do and most valuable time that could have been used to rescue. with a human if i knew then what i know today my rights the right people i could have saved him i could have found out where he was have done something. as you said lois son was accused of helping terrorists in dagestan she fears he was killed but where she still doesn't know these accusations are common in this region young and immature people often become the victims of terrorist brainwashing high unemployment also boast this quite often people that fall under the influence of

those with no financial or social prospects and see going into the forests at used them as and for joining terrorist as the only way out for them that's what happened with mariam and it cost her her life she had a difficult childhood was raised without a father and her mother couldn't provide for the family her mother honeymoon remembers how when her daughter started working at the market she met very religious people that. at first i thought there was nothing bad in that but then my little girl started to change she talked a lot about being a real new slang or going to paradise i tried to talk her out of it but she never listened sean listened to her new friends. her new friends turned out to be extremists and the last year of her life she disappeared for several months the next time her mother saw her face was on t.v. in a report on the latest special forces raid against suspected terrorists these doubly

skirmishes are part of a bigger conflict being played out across the north caucasus region the terrorist led by dog who is russia's most wanted militant and on the list of america's most wanted terrorists want to establish a pan caucasian islamist state. in the last decade parts of dagestan have become really just theoretical ice this region is now the heart of russia's islamic terrorist problem and almost every day the authorities are engaged in shootouts with terrorists and very often that happens even in the capital city of the region . locals say it's hardly surprising muslims are turning. to radical islam as they see it as an alternative to the hard life in the region the older members of the community believe a large proportion of those who went to the fore is a simply bandits from an am dissatisfied younger generation. if anyone told me thirty years ago their wife in dagestan would be like what we see now i would never

believe it. the locals want the rule of law enforced and respect is again every turn to a time before terror played such a dominant part in the lives of so many i do not question articles up in the republic of dagestan. well that was just one in a series of reports from russian republic of dagestan that we've been showing for this week but the travel to many other regions in the world's biggest country had to r.t. to call. for a mind of our breaking news story now a russian oil rig has gone down in a storm in the sea of the hearts of the country's far east coast there are more than sixty people on board 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 officials say there's no danger of a leak any oil is on board stay with r.t.

and a test on this developing story as we get it. of course i'll bring you today's headlines on this week's top stories next.

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