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 in. the west and its allies mount pressure on the syrian regime as russia fights to get its draft resolution accepted at the u.n. and 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.

world news twenty four hours a day you're watching r.t. first our breaking news story a russian oil rig has gone down in the storm in the sea of a hot spot in the country's far east let's get the latest details now on marty's jake reeves. the rig capsized several hours ago now how is the recovery operation daring. rescue operations still going but five hours have passed now since the oil rig capsized. sixty seven people were on board fourteen of them passengers some have been pulled from the water. but many of the majority still missing we've spoken to an emergency ministry spokesperson for more. than. 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 appeared to be dead being recalled. now the weather conditions in the area of very

very strong winds with waves up to five meters. one plane has been deployed to aid in this search and rescue operation as a company two helicopters are also being dispatched a number of ships ships in the sea in a present scouring the sea first saw end of life and we spoke with someone who's aiding in the search and rescue operation who described the scene for us. there are safety suits floating around the area but there are new people in them here means the crew was unable to get down to the lifeboats the boots were washed away with the flow of the water. they still took place about two hundred kilometers off the coast of sakhalin in russia's far east it's thoughts that all reet so-called board water before capsizing in eventually sinking mean that not many of those life boats were dispatched and weren't able to take cold water the

crew members and passengers now the immersion issue you have wall the environment strokes shastri as unlikely as the oil rig didn't have much. when it's song and also there has been a cruel seedings already open to find out what's occurred here in the early hours of this morning but really great concern being expressed that's present for those who are still missing as the hours tick by and the weather conditions showing no signs of letting off in the area just off the coast of sakhalin where the air temp just minus eight degrees celsius the water temperature just above freezing. ok for now jake aggrieved thank you for that update. well the oil rig started drilling in the sea of a hot skin september was on its way back to port when it capsized form was built in one thousand nine hundred five centimeters long an eighty meters wide it's one of

the largest oil rigs in russia it was due to set sail for drilling off the vietnamese coast at the end of its current assignment. course stay with r.t. for more on that breaking news story as we get it here we've been on the island fresh riots have reportedly flared up in western kazakhstan one person was killed eleven others injured at 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 parties are pissing off as the latest from kazakhstan on saturday a group of protesters blocked a really station including train with all of three hundred people on board in western gaza in total seven bastard trains in three three trains where do you lead and at around eight pm local time sixty a moscow time police came in trying to disperse the crowd but instead google around fifty people and the opportunities call them now showed fierce resistance they were

going to set a locomotive on fire of. the train and the police. reportedly moved into a. wide 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 already 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 or was in this all down also in western eyes like stars 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 you see that. twenty six buildings have been burned down little clashes with the police as well and also unfortunately the authorities say they were forced to. tell you. this in a situation only their control so some wide shots were used as well and according to official figures eleven people were killed in that incident several dozen others more injured although some sources suggest that the figures are much higher than that. well tatiana. local journalist she says young rest was treated from abroad oh work isn't generalising have been striking for fairly long already for several months if this race were even out if those people in the old dressed in clothes when they got uniforms this is very strange for a strike. you know they were just rushing things around. and

they were behaving too organized and they were attacking authorities and at least until the police came in it looks like this is being let down even one of the opposition leaders this is not. what we see that people are getting killed because they are not fighting for their own ideas. so they head for you this consumerism meets calamity a new u.s. credit card will soon profit from a famine that claimed three million lives in ukraine and. the arab league has given the syrian government until wednesday to end its crackdown on the opposition letting observers was it's threatening to turn to the u.n. security council for action meanwhile russia is defending its own 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 ruling out foreign

intervention sanctions some western countries say they can't accept the proposal claiming the bloodshed on the damascus authorities. and that's despite thousands of army defectors claiming to be fighting to bring down a sad political analyst chris bambery says the majority of syrians want peaceful change not violence and foreign intervention. i think there must be worries that there are increasing call for foreign intervention in syria not always from the syrian national council a body which is based in the country and outside the country i have to say that many of those forces demonstrating in the assad regime did not share our demands for foreign intervention or indeed for nor strikes on what is happening in syria no is that what as a popular revolution our forces are moving in to try and take that off and use it for its own ends people have been organizing the demonstrations have not come up with a demand for western intervention this is coming i think that extraneous to the movement

and i think it's something which should be a pause and indeed those forces are opposing it and indeed they have said they are against the violent overthrow of the outside regime they want to see it toppled by peaceful means and i think has to be applauded in that situation they don't want syria to go down the road of syria's civil war. 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.n. lifts its economic restrictions but while that will help the new problems brewing thousands of protesters rallied in the city of gansey protesting against the lack of transparency the national transitional council dancing was. then it began. to be. patrick hayes online magazine spiked the m.t.c. doesn't represent the people. the national transitional council was never actually really part of a democratically forged 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 speech helicoptered in a way where 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 poor 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 we don't even really know who they are. we're coming up for you this hour controversy in court three hearing edged wiki leaks radley thing continues just to say he deserves a medal not a prison sentence. but before that russia's leaders are spoken extensively this week we get into the changing political landscape of the recent parliamentary elections for mr putin held his annual live televised q. and a session dismissed allegations of fraud and promise to make next year's

presidential election more transparent. present. russia party to reform introduce. system you also warned the u.s. on its european missile defense shield russia perceives as a threat force. why did you prove your contrary forcing the kremlin to step up the country's security measures that would give those new their way. we must not let ourselves be intimidated or confused we must clearly understand the goals we are heading for but politics is a concrete thing 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 we knew that russia has finally been accepted as a full member of the world trade organization off the weight of eighteen is what is

expected to strengthen the country's global ties and provide greater incentive for investment because artie's worth 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's russia's w. two your membership is offering the country and with most all the details of the greens to firmly behind closed doors experts and have to try and little crystal ball gazing. their predictions begin with agriculture to enter the w t o russia had to pledge to reduce in-state support to farming we've already travelled to hundred and fifty kilometers away from moscow and what we see here is a sad picture goes through it is like this one us road all across russia and with a struggle in agriculture industry there number is only 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 with only 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 on able to compete with all doubters. meanwhile those competitive enough will stay afloat and benefit alexander and his family run a small business just outside moscow for a one hundred twenty goats 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 may start to w t o critics say russia's making history will be i'm able to meet the crazy competition the exceptional attract 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 the early years after accession. more like ten years with the grocer with. 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 of the past be 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. moscow. remind of our breaking news story now a russian oil rig has capsized and sank in a storm in a sea of the country's far east coast more than sixty people on board including passengers and crew a search and rescue operation is in full swing fourteen people have been plucked

alive from the ice cold waters 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 was on board stay with our team for latest on this story as we get it. the military hearing of the so-called wiki leaks 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 you know half ago a court hearing to determine whether prosecutors have enough evidence to bring manning to trial if found guilty he could receive a life term only private faces twenty two charges of distributing government secrets which he eventually passed to wiki leaks and of aiding the enemy former cia officer ray mcgovern says that bradley manning did nothing apart from revealing abuses the american people need to know about. these charges or

greatly over rush. gates's term so there has been no indication of serious damage to u.s. personnel or those who. operate 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 seat indicated that he wanted this to lead to a discussion and a debate and so reconsideration are the kinds of policies that he witnessed the attack so there are gradations 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 and lighten decisions. at least fifty occupy wall street docs of us have been arrested they broke into private manhattan as movement it's three month anniversary of the victims from zuccotti park last attempt to set up a new home since they want to park the homes and. letters to. these disperse the protests. turned violent past was run by. different teams of looting times square thousands of people have been detained under arrest at the cost united states during three months of protests. and we need more updates on the background of the protests that have been shaking

america for months when i websites you don't know what else is waiting for you online right now it's the first anniversary of these eons and got. protests which became a catalyst for the entire arab spring movement party looks into the changes which the revolution will also from to deliver. also online so use takes i spy is high in the sky a russian rocket delivered six military satellites into orbit around simpson it was a launch on you tube channel. four 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 on the day.

a famine themed credit card is hitting the u.s. markets just in time for the holiday shopping season relates to one of the most painful episodes in ukraine's history when millions of people starve to death across the soviet union. and reports that many in kiev who view them as immoral. almost a decades on ukraine still mourns those who died in the 1930's famine in the us is so far 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 there is a whole of the modern credit card remember you'll be able to fill out the south occasion and transfer up at any one of the other 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 british ng across what is now central russia and stand. someone give 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 the story debates aside you know what it's another good mechanism to have all of them or remember that 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 over eighteen years old. 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. 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 on a credit card in fact such an attempt was made by a us 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. alexi rush of ski r.t.

reporting from kiev in ukraine. a russian convoy carrying humanitarian aid to ethics. in course that was allowed to enter the tariffs on friday after a four day standoff twenty five trucks were stranded at the boardwalk tuesday only a dispute about how the court should be schooled to vehicles were eventually led by police who wanted to take a turn it into the territory to avoid roadblocks region has been tense since july when the territories minority serbs set up barricades to protest against cosworth origins running a checkpoint service controlled by brain is a traitor ninety percent of its population. there are some world news in brief the sound first to the philippines where more than five hundred people have died after floodwaters swept through the south of the country many perished on friday night when twelve hours of relentless rain poured down over the region floodwaters from

a tropical storm raced down the mountain slopes through homes to me hundreds of torches a continue to search for more than two hundred missing people many who were swept out to sea when the waters struck. a demonstration in the congolese neighborhood of brussels turned violent before the ruling by the democratic republic of congo a supreme court to uphold this week sri presidential elections belgium. questioned his action and corruption claims hold 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 between the egyptian military and civilian protesters. demonstrators are demanding power be transferred from the military to civilian authority protest. forces me to disperse and the city friday.

the last remaining u.s. troops left iraq signaling an official end to the nine year war because i carried soldiers across the border to kuwait on sunday morning. as of the end of the day this week along with iraqi prime minister maliki the conflict led to the deaths of more than one hundred thousand iraqi civilians thousands of u.s. troops. pakistan may soon implement attacks on nato shipments passing through its territory to reach afghanistan that's if the country passes a new transit tax returns its border to nato hundreds of supply containers waiting to pass through as a blockade enters its twenty third the border was close almost a month ago interrogation from the same strike that killed twenty four pakistanis u.s. is facing pressure to resolve the dispute as pakistan remains a vital route to reach foreign troops in afghanistan some say pakistan's reaction should come as no surprise after the u.s.

threatening messages to us now that. we want to go back to how did this start is 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 of course 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 were exported into pakistan big 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 manic move here in washington i guess you can call it a psychosis of destabilization it's like the the year of the dupes maybe ending. and they've got to export destabilization 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. reminder of our breaking news story a russian oil rig has gone down in a storm in the sea of a hot ski in the country's far east there are more than sixty people on board including passengers and crew a search and rescue operation is in full swing fourteen people have been plucked alive from the ice cold waters but four bodies have also been covered strong winds

and high waves complicating efforts officials say there's no danger of a leak. is on board stay with r.t. the latest on this developing story. in a few moments we unveil the stories of scientists the simple warnings against the same of genetically modified food comes to trust our scientists it's in our special report.

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