just. breaking news on r t a russian oil rig off the country's far east coast sinks during a storm with more than sixty people on board. the search goes on for dozens still in the water with four confirmed dead and just over a dozen plucked to safety by helicopter. this is r t with continuing updates on the tragedy in the sea of a hot skin the country's far east where russian oil rig has gone down in a storm let's get the latest details now from artie's tom bart and tom the rig capsized seven hours ago now how is the rescue operation going. well at the moment carey it is night out in the far east of russia in the windy choppy seas two

hundred kilometers off the island of sufferer lynn where the rescue operation is ongoing the darkness and the difficult weather have meant that two helicopters and an aircraft that were helping rescue efforts have had to be withdrawn there remain two ships with their searchlights trying to help find the forty nine people that are thought that could still be alive in the water there the water there just above freezing and the air temperature at minus ten degrees so it really is a race against time to try and find those people that are still in the water and there has been four people who have been found in the water with no signs of life and fourteen people have been plucked out of the water by those helicopters the search goes on there was sixty seven people on board the the oil rig when it sank including fourteen passengers but the search has been complicated now by the fall.

of night. tom what's the latest take on why the rake went down. at the time of the sinking the rig was being towed by another ship it was being towed in very difficult waters a storm had whipped up around it and at the moment it's thought that water pumps that were constantly pumping out water on board which is a normal procedure those pumps couldn't cope with the amount of water they either broke or the amount of water coming into the rig vastly increased causing it to sink sinking in just twenty minutes which also meant that there wasn't time for any kind of proper evacuation for the dawning of life jackets which has led to so many people being in the water we can listen now to one of the coordinators of the rescue efforts who can tell us a bit more about what is thought to have caused the sinking lower. their 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 the boats were washed away with the flow of the water. investigators are saying that it was a breach of safety protocol investigators always use very official language in these circumstances what that really means is that the oil rig should never have been being towed in these kind of conditions in the first place the obviously the the focus now for investigators and rescuers is to try and get as many people out alive before it's too late. ok keep us updated tom barton thank you for now. while the cost sank while it was being tugged back to port arthur to finish drilling in the seal that's why there's no major threat of oil contamination in the sea unlike previous incidents involving rigs worldwide that includes the mexican gulf incident of twenty ten when a b.p.

oil rig exploded causing a disastrous leak only loved after around five million gallons of oil spilled into the ancient russian platform in today's instant was built in one thousand eight hundred five and was one of the largest in the country centimeters long eight hundred wide it was due to set sail for joining off the vietnamese coast at the end of its current assignment of course we'll keep you in touch with developments on the tragedy in the sea of states. this is our team from moscow on carriage the other main news we're covering the press clashes flare up in western just days after a demonstration by oil workers ended with eleven people dead. the west and its allies around the syrian regime as russia fights to get its draft resolution accepted at the u.n. and solving the crisis peacefully. the wait is finally over as russia has accepted as a member of the world trade organization eighteen years of tough talks.

riots have 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. has the latest from. 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 authorities call them now who showed fierce resistance they were going to set

a locomotive on fire if you multiply the train and the police some of them reportedly moved into nearby setting a christmas tree on fire 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 authorities so they had to use force including a live rounds and 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 june 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

firing leading 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. as a local journalist she told r.t. she believes the unrest was triggered from abroad. oh workers in generalising have been striking for fairly long already for several months it is treasury notes those people the old dressed in clothes and the guns uniforms this is really strange for strike two uniformed you know they were just rushing things around. and they

were behaving too organized and they were talking authorities and. it looks like this is. even one of the opposition leaders this is not. what we see that you were getting killed because they are not fighting for their own ideas. but coming up tackling terrorism in the caucuses go to dog star see you become the target of militant brainwashing. the arab league has given the syrian government until wednesday to end its crackdown on the opposition and that in observers otherwise is threaten to turn to the u.n. security council for action. russia is defending its own proposed resolution on syria that the us and its allies want to see changed moscow is appealing to both the assad regime and the opposition to end violence and begin dialogue ruling out foreign intervention sanctions some western countries say they can't accept the

proposal in the bloodshed on the damascus authorities and that's despite thousands of army defectors claiming to be fighting to bring down a set and running a professor at the university of bottom and in lebanon says the crimes of the government's forces are being deliberately exaggerated. but there are definite questions on the credibility of the syrian human rights of serve a tory particularly when it comes to the number of victims that they allege are victims of the government atrocities and many a time anyone who dies in syria they claim that these are victims of the syrian government atrocities you could say we haven't necessarily different thanks factions here working the united states and france and and turkey. certain members of the league of arab states that of course are working very strongly to push for an allied government and syria 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 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 economy is fully for the united states and in libya a country that's already seen regime change following international sanctions banks are preparing for a much needed cash injection as the u.s. lifts its economic restrictions while that's will help and you will lose problems of brewing thousands of protesters rallied in the city of benghazi. that's the lack of transparency the national transitional council ghazi was where the nato then began. his group also named patrick hayes of online magazine spiked. doesn't represent the libyan people. the national transitional council was never actually really part of a democratically forged libya anyway they were never on the streets really fighting for the with the libyan people against gadhafi

a lot of them in fact were you know of a country that the time waiting for my speech helicoptered in when it was safe enough to enter tripoli it was made up of gadhafi cronies people who were basically cherry picked by the west as being 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. well coming up for you this hour controversy in court but three his best with bradley manning continues the protesters saying he deserves a medal not a prison sentence. but for that russia's leaders have spoken extensively this week acting to the changing political landscape after the recent parliamentary elections promise to put in health is our new live televised q. and a session he dismissed allegations of fraud during that i promise to make next year's presidential election more transparent. present to make america better for the ruling united russia party to form introduced new faces saying people have

grown tired of the old system and also with us on its european missile defense shield which russia perceives as a threat washington has provided no proof to the contrary or seen kremlin to step up the country's security measures. we must not let ourselves be intimidated or confused we must clearly understand the goals we are heading for politics is a concrete think ever 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. russia has father been accepted as a full member of the world trade organization after weight of eighteen years it was expected to strengthen the country's global ties and provide greater incentive for

investment as r.t.f. national explains succession 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 all the details of the greens to firmly behind closed doors experts are 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 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 a spread all across russia and with a struggle in agriculture industry their number is only crazing thirty percent of the countries are will land currently not in use and the rough areas that cut of foreign subsidies like session will bring will only make things dramatically worse

for russia's currently importing forty five percent of all food products or may soon become fifty to seventy percent local producers will be unable to compete with all that goes. meanwhile those competitive enough will stay afloat and benefit alexander and his family run a small business just outside moscow there one hundred twenty goats skiff enough milk to produce communities of high quality cheese and a huge back in the crystal ball the future doesn't look bright for wrong the mystic copper uses have been on the menu start the w t o law business critics say russia's making history will be unable to meet the increased competition the accession of attractive 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. and out of la however the predictions continue to do only 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 their grocer would be about eleven percent of g.d.p. but apart from economic achievements the country's political image should benefit not being part of the global body would have passed a little strange russia has been the biggest economy not to be integrated into the w t o but after an eighteen year marathon of negotiations all the world's key players finally come together under the same umbrella. where is an option out mosco. remind of our breaking news story now four people are confirmed dead after a russian oil rig went down in a storm in the sea of the heart of the country's far east coast there were more than sixty people on board including passengers and crew fourteen people have been plucked alive from the ice cold water is the rescue operations had a setback after one of the vessels involved suffered

a leak and turned back to shore efforts complicated by nightfall and ongoing storm officials say there's no danger of a leak barely any oil was on board stay with r.t. for the latest on this developing story. the military hearing of the so-called wiki leaks continues in lighted states bradley manning spent his twenty fourth birthday in court this week he made his first public appearance since being detained for a year and a half to get hearings today telling the prosecutors the evidence to bring that trial found guilty he could see a life. that faces charges of distributing government secrets which eventually passed to with aiding the enemy former cia officer. manning. and judged top officials now faces a fate we think that manning is not someone who's

a traitor he was didn't sell documents to foreign enemies he didn't profit from them he is accused of giving them to the media and what he gave the media were allegedly were very low level documents low security in fact probably should not have been divisive i darkens that all were also worried i mean you can't get a fair trial president obama has already announced that he's guilty he's the commander in chief it's a command structure in the military cerebrally who's involved in the judge the jury under president obama's command and their careers on the land line they're no choice but to say manning is guilty if they want to keep their military career since the president already said he's guilty a soldier who's in that situation is a choice of ignoring the nuremberg principles and becoming complicit in these crimes or exposing those crimes if meaning is guilty of what he's accused what does he get what he's guilty of is telling the truth telling the truth so the american public can see what the u.s. military and state department actually are doing this trial is embarrassment to the u.s. military and he united states it shows

a great deal of fear of the truth and fear the truth is what's driving this the prosecution. at least fifty all keep our eye wall street activists have been arrested off they broke into a profit park in one happiness the movement marked its three month anniversary protests as his victim from zuccotti park last month attempted to set up a new camp in the city's daughter park by ripping holes in a fence and using ladders to climb over his disperse them apart as we're leaving private property turning behind it the class was followed by a number of marches in different areas of all concluding times square thousands of people have been detained in the rest of the cross united states during the protests. and you can read more updates in the background on the protest shaking america for months on our website r.t. dot com as what else is waiting few online right now is the first anniversary of tunisia as anti-government protests became a catalyst for the entire arab spring movement looks into the changes soon

pollution rules rules and failed to deliver. also online so use it takes on spies in the sky russian rocket delivers six military satellites into orbit from france and you can watch the 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 rule the day. some world news in brief view this out first to the philippines where more than five hundred people have died off the floodwaters swept through the south of the

country many perished on friday night in twelve hours and then closer. all down in the mindanao region floodwaters from a tropical storm raced down the mountain slopes and tore through homes. authorities are continuing to search for more than two hundred missing people including many who were swept out to sea when the waters struck. ten people have been killed and hundreds injured and clashes between the egyptian military and civilian protests just tell me demonstrators are demanding power be transferred from the military to a civilian authority and test body forces move into dispersant until she's sitting on friday. for the last remaining u.s. troops have left iraq signaling an official end to the nine year war because carried soldiers across the border to kuwait on sunday in iraq about our about the end of the war early this week with iraqi prime minister maliki

a conflict 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 which five people were killed and more than one hundred twenty injured. went on around page in the central religious shooting through grenades into crowds of christmas shoppers it's arca shot himself dead before police arrived at the scene it was an x. convict of the sentence for the possession of illicit firearms and drugs the body of a female house cleaner is also discovered inside a shed he used there were initial reports that several gunmen were involved into police. when next we head to one of russia's most volatile regions in the battle to stop the young women prey to terrorists.

the starlit pair is in russia's headlines almost every day with reports of shootouts and explosions basis reports say eighty percent of all anti terror operations in russia are carried out in the unstable republic has many more questionable reports efforts are also being made to wipe out extremism and radicalism at its root. 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 al look to draw 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 speed 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 you're probably 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 have been used to press. with it he will 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 last song 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 nuisance and we're going to paradise i tried to talk her out of it but she never listened she only listened to her new friends who 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 tarus lead 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 dagestan 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 sure thousand with terrorists and very often that happens even in the capital city of the region. locals say it's hardly surprising muslims are turning. 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 dissatisfied younger generation. if anyone told me thirty years ago that life in dagestan would be like what we see now i would never believe it. locals want the rule of law enforced and respected again every turn to a time before terror played such a dominant part in the lives of so many major the question are you sequels up in

the republic. that was or just one in a series of reports from russian republic of dagestan that we've been showing all this week but the travel to many other regions in the world's biggest country head to. the reminder now breaking news story four people are confirmed dead after a russian oil rig went down in a storm in a sea of the hearts of the country's far east coast there were more than sixty people on board including passengers and crew fourteen people have been plucked alive from the ice cold waters the rescue operation has had a setback there after one of the vessels involved suffered a leak and turned back to shore efforts are also complicated by nightfall and the ongoing storm officials say there's no danger of a neat barely any oil was on board stay with aren't they just on this developing story as we get. well just ahead russia's far northwest with a visit to a thousand year old town were not good shortly after

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