the crisis peacefully. plus the weight is finally over as russia has accepted as a fully fledged member of the world trade organization after eighteen years of tough talks. this is our team and our weekly news review but first breaking news story a russian oil rig has gone down in a storm in a sea of the hearts in the country's far east let's get the latest details now from marty's taken green straight to the rig capsized several hours ago how is the rescue operation today but. we can now confirm the four bodies have been pulled from the water so far just fourteen survivors found. out of a total of sixty seven who were aboard the stricken alric before it capsized now

we have just been told that the search and rescue operations had to be suspended owing to nightfall that was involving planes helicopters at the scene also search and rescue ships scouring the sea birds had to be suspended suspended have to stress as well very bad weather conditions in the area just two hundred clubs off the coast of soka in very bad weather conditions also a temperatures below freezing there as well as jacob what's the latest take on why the rake went down. well actually occurred as a mensch just off to a close off the coast of sakhalin in russia's far east and then it was being towed is being towed by a. two horse and that's when it capsized song is supposed to a sortie thought within about twenty minutes we have spoken to someone involved in the search and rescue operation he described the scene for us. while we catch the new christian. there are safety suits floating around the area but there are new

people in them he means the crew was unable to get down to the lifeboats or the boats were washed away with the flow of the water. so that search and rescue operations so far suspended it's thought that the alric filled with water prior to capsize things and very few of those actual life boats ray would employ because of the weather conditions now an investigation has already launched incredibly seedings have been started and they're looking into war i this. this is very good being towed is such bad weather conditions they say that's against regulations so it's best case will continue for now though the search and rescue operation has been called off owing to nightfall and there are still extreme weather conditions in that area talk about minus ten degrees celsius air temperature and war so temperatures just above freezing. ok jack agrees to keep us

updated on that story thank you. for small details out of oil rig sank when it was being tugged back to port arthur had finished drilling in the sea of hopes that's why there's no major threat of oil contamination in the sea unlike previous instances of rigs well why includes the mexican gulf incident of twenty ten when the b.p. oil rig sank after explosion and major fire broke out disastrously was plugged in the after around five million gallons of oil spill in the sea the russian rig in today's instance was built in nineteen eighty five was one of the largest in the country at centimeters long and eighty meters wide tuesday to set sail from drilling off the vietnamese coast at the end of its current assignment. say with r.t. more on that breaking news story as we get it here. moving on now and fresh riots reportedly flared up in western kazakhstan one person was killed and eleven others

injured at a railway station where people were protesting against a fatal crackdown striking oil workers in a town around one hundred kilometers to the northeast what is your piskun off the latest from kazakhstan. on saturday a group of protesters blocked a really station including train with over three hundred people on board in western gaza 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 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. authorities 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 that is particularly rally was actually initially organized in support of another one which happened in the town of dollars 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 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 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 actually i'm a local journalist she told r.t. she believes the unrest was triggered from abroad oh workers in general i think have been striking for fairly long already for several months it is very serene out if you know people in the old west including the guys uniforms this is very 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 and. 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 you are getting killed because they are

not fighting for their own ideas so coming up for you a change of name but not a purpose vestry previously known as blackwater undergoes rebranding to secure new contracts in iraq despite being kicked out of the country after tacon civilian several years ago. the arab league has given the syrian government until wednesday to end its crackdown on the opposition and that 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 wasco is appealing to both regime and the opposition to any violence and begin dialogue while getting out to foreign intervention sanctions some western states say they can't accept the proposal in iraq shed damascus authorities alone that's despite thousands of army defectors claiming to be fighting to bring down the assad regime on middle east politics

professor jeremy salt since western governments have to admit all sides must put down weapons before solution can be found. western governments i think would have to accept that the bonnet is two way west and so far has been the bonds being one one way. or the forces directed towards the consulate intensely with something very little reference to the bonds of ongoing non-fact that bonnets began almost from the beginning the slightest movement think tanks and they can hide behind the people fighting the general place with them across in a long time it's more recently admitted by the activists that in fact there was monitors but it was a little by practice now i think. a way to have this be sung western governments are going to have to accept it in fact we've been through it myself and it's not just the syrian government it has to come if you want to for the army to work with sound but somehow some way have you found. this waiting others what their weapons on the tiriel because they hop in the millions or whatever happens that. we have

very very serious. and global implications not people with respect to very wary of that they agree with russia's position and so far russia solidly behind the syrian government. this position today being banking at the time that brussels changed its position on first and then see it like that i think much is going to college on the way out of which we can go because first of all putting on the witness because so many charges and countercharges being made it would be almost impossible to get back with all of them so it would change the way that they way had now try to stop the killing such a badass. and in libya a country that's already seen regime change following international sanctions banks are preparing for a much needed cash injection as u.n. deficits economic restrictions while that will help the new rule problems are still brewing thousands of protesters rallied in the city of benghazi protesting against

the lack of transparency the national transitional council because it was the nato back when it began also with the ended two years. patrick pays reports of online magazine spiked believes the empty seat 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 my to be helicoptered in a way where it was safe enough to enter tripoli it was made up of gadhafi curry people who were basically cherry picked by the west as being people to represent the libyan people now we have a situation where the libyan people are so you have got a minute these people don't represent of we don't even really know who they are. a few minutes we return to that we have to see how schools that have changed children don't need to praise the doctor's name every morning now that they can thanks to

the martyrs of the revolution that is the change only skin deep. and controversy in court victory hearing on the edge which is the bradley manning to news to saying he deserves a medal not a prison sentence. but before that russia's leaders haue spoken extensively this week we got into the changing political landscape of the recent parliamentary elections present to be sure that we have dressed members of the ruling united russia party. to reform and introduce new faces people have grown tired of new system. prime minister also held his annual q. and a session dismissed allegations of widespread fraud during a recent election and promised new technology to help make presidential elections next year more transparent. i'm now asking the election commission to install web cameras at every polling station in the country and there are over ninety fills and of these cameras should be on around the clock so that everyone

can see what's happening at every station little rule out any allegations of fraud yes or russia has finally been accepted as a full member of the world trade organization after a wait of eighteen years move is expected to strengthen the country's global ties and provide a greater incentive for investment as r.t.f. 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 was amazed all the details only grievance to firmly behind closed doors experts are left to try and little crystal ball gazing with. 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 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 at all down because. meanwhile those competitive enough will stay afloat and benefit alexander and his family run a small business just outside moscow there one hundred twenty goats skiff enough fuel to produce kilos of high quality cheese and i would back in the crystal ball the future doesn't look bright for wrong the message cupboard uses have been on the menu start the w t o critics say russia's making history will be unable to meet the increased competition the exceptional attractive offer in

a gloomy prediction that once the country's in bad lines will stop factories will shut and thousands of people will be left out of work and out of la however the predictions continue to glow with foreign investments said to be ready to rocket the cable gains we believe or roughly three point three percent of russian g.d.p. in the early years after accession. more like ten years with the grocer would gain about eleven percent of g.d.p. but apart from economic achievements the country's political image should benefit not being part of the global body would have a vast 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. group an optional. most go. remind of our breaking news story now a russian oil rig has gone down in

a storm in a sea of hearts off 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 highways are complicating efforts officials say there's no danger for the cars barely any oil is on board stay with r.t. for latest on this developing story. the military hearing of the so called wiki continues in the united states with bradley manning having to spend his twenty four day court this week he made his first public appearance since being detained for a year and often get him used to determine whether prosecutors wanted to bring money trial if found guilty he could receive a lifetime. profit faces twenty two charges of distributing doesn't secrets which eventually post to wiki leaks aiding the enemy and to war activists braun beca says

if manning is convicted to become a nation on 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's not even part of the judicial system since he's been pre-judged in. at least fifty truth activists have been arrested they broke into a private parking lot happiness and movement three month anniversary of attest to from zuccotti park last month are tempted to set up a new camp in the city's duarte park by making holes in a fence using letters to climb over place dispersed the protesters claim the occupiers were raiding private property and turning violent past was followed by a number of marches in different areas of new york and today in times square thousands of people have been detained and arrested across the united states during the anti protests. but you can read more updates in the background on the contest that have been shaking america for months at our website autumn dot com. so what

else is waiting for you just because it's the first anniversary of tunis is antigovernment protests became a catalyst for arms free movement party looks into changes which the revolution brought but also failed to deliver. the online so use it takes in the sky russian rocket live the six ritchie satellites into orbit france and jodie foster launched on a you tube. news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world from the streets of canada. giant corporations through the day.

they know tourists american security contractor which used to be called blackwater announced on monday that it's returning to do business in iraq it was expelled from the country in two thousand and seven for using dubious tactics including attacks. civilians to leave the endings later it's coming back because i could demi wants to win contracts with a multitude of couples who've building the war torn country and the former cia officer told us it's a lot to get them spotted scandalous not to see thanks to the high level connections in the us news. they have very deep pockets and they also have very very good connections you can call this company anything that you like whether it's blackwater whether it's the whether it's academy whether it's john smith it doesn't make any difference the sad part is though is that if you go to a restaurant and you have a bad meal just because they change the name on the front door doesn't mean the food's going to be any good when you have this close relationship between essentially mercenary groups they're not u.s.

government or european or brits or german or anybody else these are actually independent companies that you hired to do things that you don't want to do the real question is the ability to control them and the americans did not do this very well that one of the biggest problems that they had was i think they didn't want to they wanted to be able to show off certain things to these guys and say go and do this and my problem is that there's a certain culture that blackwater has and you can change a couple of the guys at the top of the heap they're hiring the same kinds of people who are doing the very same way they're doing much of the same work and the leadership comes from the same places with the same connection so my fear is the failures of the past and they have been dramatic will continue into the future. and as iraq begins to rebuild itself it says goodbye to u.s. troops nine years after a military invasion people took soldiers to kuwait on sunday morning president obama the end of the war earlier this week along with the iraqi prime minister conflicts that the deaths of more than one hundred thousand iraqi civilians and

thousands of u.s. troops operation cost washington almost a trillion dollars. and other world headlines this hour floodwaters that have swept through the southern philippines and killed more than five hundred people of hours of the dead this rain from a tropical storm or down probably right now the waters raced down mountain slopes and tore through homes killing hundreds search for more than three hundred missing is ongoing many were swept out to sea even more to strike. ten people have been killed and hundreds injured as clashes between the egyptian military and civilian protests continue demonstrators are demanding power be transferred from the military to civilian authority protests turned violent after forces moved in to disperse and to military city on friday. just two months after the end of libya's civil war and the school curriculum has already

drastically changed its sort of reading colonel gadhafi is green book people are now praising the heroes of the revolution but some of the words have changed the system son of a worker has been funny at. it's a new day in the new libya but it starts with an old preacher oh students assembled different classes to see a new flag be hoisted and to sing a new national anthem. that was like the revolution the rich tricolor and the human is a flashback to the pretty good afi era with a few verses tweaked to represent in the action of the country's recent liberation the decades on the good offices will leave us students were expected to memorize long passages of his brain will have a question and that and it looks like this tradition may continue i did manage to discuss while this children are too young to understand the meaning of life as this story of the new that wish there ask them if they're already expected to know it by

heart next comes a speech dead on ambiguously explains who are the heroes of the new libya the were over the rebels do it and how to gain freedom they told us to how the had high they taught us janov our country this is the only new material students in this who have learned since september regular classes like math or chemistry are suspended until january when the new curriculum is expected to be introduced minutes but in the english will definitely introduce foreign languages into the curriculum now kids will start studying english from the first grade because they have to be prepared for university with them again in the meantime the students are preoccupied with making drawings and trinkets to commemorate the february seventeenth revolution teachers here say they try their best to explain to students what has happened in libya over the past few months in this chemical that nobody tells us what to tell

students who are free to say whatever we want it we don't say bad things about gadhafi in fact we don't talk about him at all here as they say sometimes a picture is worth a. thousand wards to get after emblazoned carpet not just a year ago adorned the principal's office is now strategically placed in front of the door several hundred copies of his green book from the local library have been thrown away the forty two years of his rule that how bring libya's literacy rates from point to sixty about ninety percent is a distant memory he did a good things but what she did of the past eight months for britain it is there are no you don't people don't talk about what you know what you done to turn over to but what you did in the past eight months is killing. murder out of four hundred fifty students that attended the school a year ago half are still absent some fled the country others were pulled down by their parents who disagree with the new values talk here those who laugh and run

because traders go to school i think it's better to catch you know when i know something about the about the good. well the study of english was banned under gadhafi words like freedom and revolution a familiar to every first grader here but when asked what's the difference between gaddafi is due me here a year and she literally man's power of the masses only be a new democracy both students and teachers aren't lost i don't actually know that i was just that one teacher. that's in a boycott artsy ship only. her mind breaking news story now a russian oil rig has gone down in a storm in a sea of a hostage 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 recovered strong

winds and high waves are complicating efforts officials say there's no danger of and leak and oil is on board with r.t. for that test. stay with us the headlines up next in just a few. days francis nutritious and this is product on the price of healthy eating. meat to

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it's half past the hour herr in moscow this is our to our breaking news story a russian oil break off the country's far east coast has gone down during a storm with more than sixty people for the search operation will continue through the night martin people have so far been rescued off four others are confirmed dead . fresh clashes flare up in the west in kazakhstan just days after demonstration by or workers ended up in people in. the west and it's all lies.