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 that. greaves jacob what do we know so far about the incident and the rescue effort. well that search and rescue operation ongoing in earnest at present immersion ministry has said that the sixty seven people were on board including fourteen passengers we know that 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 on those being an icebreaker that is towing this stricken alric to port when it capsized we can now

confirm that it has sunk for more we spoken to the emergencies ministry spokesperson. 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 have pizza be dead they are 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 of stucco in russia's far east owing to 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 much of ministry those of the

sea has said that they found two lifeboats but so far they've proven empty they are of course scouring the ocean the sea for signs of life and hours of mounting here concerns a growing as the weather conditions in the air are quite grave the water temperatures just above freezing a criminal cases already been opened into proceedings here of course everyone's attention on finding people alive who are left being left in the water. ok for now i'll get your drink agree thank you for that update. while the oil rig started drilling in the sea of a hot in september it was on its way back to pause when it capsized the platform was built in one thousand nine hundred five at seventy meters long and eighty wide it's one of the largest oil rigs in russia it was due 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. but moving on now fresh

riots have reportedly flared up in the west in kazakhstan one person was killed and eleven others injured at a railway station where people were protesting against a fatal crackdown on striking workers in a town around one hundred kilometers to the northeast forty zero percent 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 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 around fifty people and the opportunity to call them now hooligans showed fierce resistance they said 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 this 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 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 see 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 central the situation under their control so some live shots that 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. but r.t.r. . 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 if this race were even out if you know people in the old west in cars when they got 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 this is not in the interests of 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 threatened 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 both assad regime and the position 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 want is known as despite thousands of army defectors claiming to be fighting to bring down a set and your mastery 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 of serve a tory 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's atrocities you could say we haven't settled 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 government more it came to what the mubarak was in 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 will help the new rules problems are brewing thousands of protesters rallied in the city of benghazi protesting against the lack of transparency the national transitional council. where the nato about seventy gather and it gives a kind of dolphins with patrick haynes. sprite. doesn't represent the libyan people. the national transitional council was never actually really part of 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 were in other countries at the time waiting for my to be helicoptered in a way where it was safe enough to enter tripoli it was made up of gadhafi curry least people who were basically cherry picked by the west as being fit for 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 of 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 russia's leaders have spoken extensively this week we acting to the changing political landscape of the recent parliamentary elections which are granted address to members of the ruling 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 new q. and a session he dismissed allegations of widespread fraud during the action and promised new technology to help make presidential elections next year more transparent. give me a little commission to in. to all 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 it doesn't rule out any allegations of fraud with the good at the u.s. russia has finally been accepted as a full member of the world trade organization after weight of eighteen years it was expected to strengthen the country's a global ties and provide greater incentive for investment but r.t. as well for national expats 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 of the details of the agreement still firmly behind closed doors experts i'm 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 instate 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 sessional grain when all they 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 all down. meanwhile those competitive enough will stay afloat and benefit alexander and his family run a small business just outside moscow their one hundred twenty go to skiff 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 cupboard uses have been on the menu start at the w t o critics say russia's.

history will be unable to meet the increased competition exception 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 luck however the predictions continue to go with foreign investments said to be ready to rocket 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 their gross it 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.

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 high waves the complicating efforts officials say there's no danger of a leak 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 court hearings to determine whether prosecutors have enough evidence to bring manning to trial found guilty he could receive a life term only private places twenty two charges of distributing documents

secrets which eventually passed to wiki leaks and aiding the enemy into war to respond back says if manning is convicted to become a nationwide 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 in a 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. at least fifty people i was to talk to this have been arrested they broke into a private parking lot happen. to three months. the protesters who were victims from zuccotti park are tempted to say you cities don't want to talk. sense using not just the police disperse them. to. clash was followed by the marches. looting times where thousands of people have been detained and arrested across the united states so.

you can read more updates on the background on the protest. months when i website bhatti dot com here's what else is waiting few online right now. it's the first anniversary of to museums antigovernment protests which became a catalyst for the arabs we didn't party looks into the changes which the revolution brought them so didn't deliver. and. also online so use it takes spies high into the sky russian rocket to the six military satellites into orbit for france and chile because you don't know you keep . 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 tariffs on friday after a four day standoff thirty five trucks were stranded up with border on tuesday during a dispute about how the convoys should be scooted recruits were eventually led by police managed to take an alternative route to turkey to avoid. the region has been tense since july when their territories minority serbs barricades to protest against constable authorities running the checkpoint was first controlled by ethnic albanians which make up ninety percent of its population. some news in brief for you now the south or first to the philippines where more than five hundred people have died after floodwaters swept through the south of the country

and he perished on friday night when twelve hours of relentless rain poured down on the then region floodwaters from a tropical storm raced down mountain slopes and tore through homes killing hundreds of parties are continuing to search for more than two hundred missing people including many who were swept out to sea when strong. product protests erupted in brussels is nationals of the supreme court the democratic republic of congo held terms of computers three presidential elections belgium that they are sees former colonial questioned his reelection amid corruption claims that polled almost half of all votes in the ballot but the results were met by angry protests nationwide. ten people have been killed and hundreds injured as clashes were to leave gyptian military and civilian protests continued demonstrators are demanding power be transferred from the military to civilian

authority protests turned violent after forces moved into this person and the military city and on friday. the final u.s. troops have left iraq signaling an official end the nine year war because parents soldiers across the border to kuwait on sunday president barack obama marked the end of the early this week along with iraqi prime minister nuri al maliki conflicts led to 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 went on a rampage in the center of the age shooting and living grenades into crowds and kristen schaal was. shot himself dead before police arrived at the scene it was an x. convict or just the sentence for possession of illicit forums and selling drugs the

body of a female house cleaner was also discovered inside the shed he used there were initial reports that several dozen involved and that was later. the next we head to one of russia's most of all told regions in the battle to stop the young foreign prey to terrorists. doggystyle and their peers 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 the unstable republic but as one in a conscionable reports of also being 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 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 warranted the lives of many innocent families across the region because of that a number of organizations have sprung up fighting for victims' rights and helping is also fucked its 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 heading 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 will sit 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 bible 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 do to 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. or that they shouldn't even 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. janja. 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 c going into the forest use them as one 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 so when we're going to paradise i tried to talk her out of it but she never listened she only 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 dog least 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 panic ok ssion islamist state. in the last decade parts of pakistan has 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 and should thousand with terrorists and very often that happens even in the capital city of the region. locals say it's hardly surprising muslims are turned. into 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. who if anyone told me thirty years ago that life in dagestan would be like what we see now i would never believe that. 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 a hot off 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 officials say there's no danger of a leak barely any oil was on board stay with r.t. and they test on this developing story as we get it. the horse i'll bring you today's headlines on this week's top stories after a short break stones. this

was the plant that was responsible for causing the world's worst industrial disaster and now it had been abandoned in a condition where it had become a source of pollution or the most recent study that was done shows that this water pollution and spreading. will continue to be in the more than hundred thousand people in. groups working in affected children see the children to be ten times more likely to be born with birth defects in children in the rest of the country. being received as little as five hundred dollars long into these. unpunished.

this is all tivo costing live from moscow our breaking news story this hour russian oil rig off the country's far east coast has gone down during a storm more than sixty people on board the search operation is in full swing with fourteen people confirmed rescued and today. fresh clashes flare up in western kazakhstan just days after demonstration my work has ended with eleven people dead. in. the west and its allies mount pressure.