as of russia's far eastern coast out the rescue site that and the very stormy weather and the high seas are really complicating rescue efforts there there is currently just one ship a an icebreaker trying desperately to find the forty nine people that are still unaccounted for from the sunken oil rig. four people have been confirmed dead fourteen were plucked to safety by helicopters but those two helicopters and an aircraft that were helping up had to be pulled out because of the stormy weather and the fall of night there was also a tugboat helping as well but because the seas are so rough as reported damage to its hole that's had to be pulled out as well there is another ship on the way that will help this ice breaker once it arrives but those forty nine people in the water it's now a race against time to try and save them the water itself is only just above

freezing point and the air temperature is minus ten degrees c. the situation very serious for those people in the water at the moment the race against time as you say tom and and what's the latest take on why the rate went down. the oil rig was being towed at the time that it sank it was being towed back to port when this storm and gulf it and the and the ship towing it and it's thought that the water pumps which in normal use are in operations like this that just pump out the water that sloshes into the into the oil rig they couldn't cope they were overwhelmed by the amount of water this all meant that the oil rigs sunk in just twenty minutes meaning that there was nowhere near enough time to organize a proper evacuation one of the people called warden ating the rescue efforts spoke to us earlier and what can you tell us a little bit more about what happened. why would. their safety suits floating

around the area but there were 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. so that was the situation with life jackets in the water very little time to organize a proper evacuation making it all the more difficult investigators have also said that there may well have been a breach of safety protocol and what that official language really means is that this oil rig should never have been being towed in these conditions in the first place it made it very dangerous to even attempt such a maneuver president medvedev has said that all help must be extended to the people rescued to those in the water and that a full investigation must be launched to find out why this happened. ok tom many thanks for houses tom barton there from central moscow for us. all the cold sky or

a sunk one that was being tugged back to port arthur has finished drilling in the sea of a hole and that's why there is no major threat of oil contamination in the sea unlike previous incidents involving oil rigs world wide that includes the mexican gulf incident of twenty ten when a b.p. oil we get exploded causing a disastrous leak it was only after around five million gallons of oil spill to into the ocean the russian platform in today's incident was built in one thousand nine hundred five and was one of the largest in the country at seventy meters long and wide it was due to set sail for drilling off the vietnamese coast at the end of its current assignment and of course keep you in touch with developments on this tragedy in the sea of our hearts so do stay with us. and of course in our days on the rescue operation in their heart scare available anytime you like on our twitter feed do you follow us at r.t.

dot com to be on top of this breaking news story. well this is our scene live from moscow i'm alison with the other main news stories that we're covering this hour for you fresh clashes. flare up in western catholic style just days after a demonstration by oil workers ended with eleven people dead. the west and its allies mounted pressure on the syrian regime is rushing the findings to get a strong resolution accepted the un aimed at solving the crisis peacefully. loss of the wait is finally over as russia is accepted as a fully fledged member of the world trade organization after eighteen years of tough talk. now fresh riots of reports of the fed up and westing as it stands one person was killed in an eleven others injured at

a railway station where people were protesting against a fatal crackdown on striking all workers in a town around one hundred kilometers to the northeast. was going on has the latest from kazakstan. 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 authorities call them now hooligans showed fierce resistance they were going to set a locomotive on fire. that 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 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 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. well tatiana is a local journalist she told r.t. she believes the armrest was triggered from abroad or workers in generalising have been striking for fairly long already for several months it is true story note is that those people they're all dressed in clothes and the girls uniforms this is fairly strange for a strike but you're uniformed you know they were just rushing things around. and they were behaving too organized and they were joking authorities at least and. it looks like crew this is being looked for even one of the opposition leaders this is not in the interests of what it was you that you were getting killed because

they are not fighting for their own ideas. 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 moscow's appealing to both the outside regime and the opposition to end violence and begin dialogue or ruling out foreign intervention and sanctions but some western countries say they can't accept the proposal blaming the bloodshed on the damascus operatives alone despite thousands of army defectors claiming to be fighting to bring down assad but this 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 least in the syrian national council

a body which is based both 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 now is that what as a popular revolution other forces are moving in to try and take that off or 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 assad 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 a regime change following international sanctions bunks are preparing for a much needed cash injection as the u.n. lifts its economic restrictions but while that will help the new rulers problems

thousands of protesters rallied in the city of. protesting against the lack of transparency in the national transitional council when girls it was where the nato backed rebellion began and ultimately ended forty years of colonel gadhafi is will cain's report of online magazine spiked but he's the m.d.c. doesn't represent the libyan. 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 in other countries at the time waiting to almost be helicoptered in 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 suitable people to represent the libyan people you know we have a situation where the libyan people are so you have got a minute these people don't represent us we don't even really know who they are. just a few minutes we return to libya to see how schools there have changed children don't

need to praise god after his name every morning instead they give thanks to the masses of the revolution but is the change only skin deep. and controversy in court the military hearing of the alleged wiki leaks bradley manning continues with protesters saying he deserves a medal not a prison sentence. but before that russia's leaders has spoken extensively this week reacting to the changing political landscape after the recent parliamentary elections president dmitri medvedev addressed members of the ruling united russia party he urged them to reform and introduce new faces as people have grown tired of the old system prime minister putin also held his annual q. and a session he dismissed allegations of widespread fraud during the recent election and promised new technology to help make presidential elections next year or transparent. i'm now asking the election commission to install web

cameras at every polling station in the country and there are over ninety thousand of these cameras should be on or around the clock so that everyone can see what's happening at every station that will rule out any obligations of fraud yes russia has finally been accepted as a full member of the world trade organization after a wait of eighteen years there is expected to strengthen the country's global ties to provide greater incentive for investment but as aussies with the national explains it session 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 with most all the details of the grievance to firmly behind closed doors experts and 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 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 session will bring will only make things dramatically worse for the russians currently importing forty five percent of all food products that may soon become fifty to seventy percent local producers will be unable to compete with holdout 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 milk to produce killers of high quality cheese and a bit back in the crystal ball the future doesn't look bright for wrong the mystic copper uses have been on the menu start at the w t o critics say russia's most

industry will be unable to meet the green competition exception of attracting 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. turn yours 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 option r t

moscow. one an update now on our breaking news story of four people are confirmed dead after a russian oil rig went down in a storm in the sea of a hard disk after the country's far east coast well there were more than sixty people on board the rig was being towed to shore when it capsized fourteen people have been plucked alive from the ice cold waters the rescue operations had a setback after one of the vessels involved suffered damage to its whole it's heading back to shore but it's pumps are reportedly struggling to cope with the inflow of water more ships are on their way to a place the tugboat rescue efforts are also being complicated by nightfall and the ongoing storm or do stay with r.t. for the latest on this developing story. now the military hearing of the so-called wiki leaks continues in the united states with bradley manning having to spend his twenty fourth birthday in court this week he made his first public

appearance since being detained over a year at a home for go well the court hearing is to determine whether prosecutors have enough evidence to bring manning to trial if found guilty he could receive a life term the army private faces twenty two charges of distributing government secrets which he allegedly passed away he leaks and evading the enemy former cia officer ray mcgovern says that bradley manning did nothing apart from revealing abuses the american people needed to know about. these charges are greatly overwrought. gates's term so there has been no indication of serious damage to u.s. personnel or those who cooperate 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-mails seat indicated that he wanted this to lead to a discussion and a debate and some reconsideration are the kinds of policies that he witnessed the

effect so there are gradations of values here there is the promise of the written promise that i and others signed before we became employed and got access to classified information they will not release information that would endanger 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 enlightened decisions. now at least fifty occupy wall street activists have been arrested after they broke into a private park in manhattan as the movement mounted three month anniversary the protesters who were victims from zuccotti park last month as empty just set up

a new camp in the city's it brought a paul di resta home for the fence and using ladders to climb over please disperse the protesters claiming the occupiers were invading private property and tank farm and the clash was followed by a number of marches in different areas of new york during times square thousands of people have been detained and arrested across the united states during the anti course protests. we can we more updates on the background of the protests that have been shaky america for months on our website all g dot com here's what else is waiting for online right now it's the first anniversary of india's antigovernment protests which became the catalyst for the entire arab spring and the event looks into the changes which the revolution brought but also failed to deliver. also online views soirées takes i spy is high in the sky

a russian rocket delivers six minute you satellites into orbit for france and chile watch the launch on our you tube channel. four news today violence is once again flared up. in these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. showing up for a shot to rule the day. now iran was judge this week is playing a key role in the nine eleven terrorism whether new york who ruled that it gave support to the process and hijackings the challenges were brought. by some of the victims' families when among the top iranian they went to kuwait so the lawsuit was ruled by the food well the cooler demands damages the chances of that. too

and is always denied any connection to al qaida every indian american activist jamal. as a smear campaign to build up to. i don't see any evidence that is particularly compelling that iran had a direct role in nine eleven i know that we have seen. in washington there's been a campaign in new york to link iran very publicly to nine eleven on the anniversary of those attacks earlier this year there was a billboard campaign in times square with god's face and something along the lines of you know the silent partner of al qaeda. there's clearly a campaign right now to try to ratchet up the pressure for yet another u.s. attack on a middle eastern country and i just think this is so dangerous and if you go back to when those attacks happened immediately afterward iran condemned the attacks

that were there were candlelight vigils on the streets of broad in solidarity with the americans who lost their lives. cooperating with the united states in helping topple the taliban who. is the enemy of iran as was osama bin laden what we're seeing now is this strange self-fulfilling prophecy process and i'm worried that this is exactly what we saw with iraq this is this is a campaign to go to war. now some world news in brief this hour the final remaining u.s. troops have said goodbye to iraq nine years after the military invasion vehicles took folgers across the border to kuwait sunday with president obama marked the end of the war earlier this week along with the iraqi prime minister the conflict led to the deaths of more than one hundred thousand iraqi civilians of thousands of u.s. troops the operation cost washington almost a trillion dollars. deadly clashes between army troops and suspected al qaeda

militants in yemen is most volatile wages have killed ten people it's a setback to the government which has been trying to secure the province for months al qaeda linked groups have been targeted control of the area during gammons ongoing political unrest taking advantage of the instability over one hundred thousand people have fled to safety in neighboring provinces. floodwaters that have swept through the southern philippines have now killed more than five hundred people twelve hours of relentless rain from a tropical storm tore down old friday night floodwaters raced down mountain slopes and tore through homes killing hundreds the search for more than three hundred missing people is ongoing many were swept out to sea when the waters struck. ten people have been killed and hundreds injured as clashes between the egyptian military and civilian protesters continue demonstrators are demanding power to be transferred from the military to civilian or foresee the protests turned violent

after forces moved in to disperse an anti military city on friday. just two months after the end of libya's civil war and the school curriculum has already drastically changed is that having to read about colonel gadhafi people's allow learning of the harries the revolution of a song and it was have changed the system as a result of boy has been finding out. it's a new day in the new libya but it starts with an old ritual students assemble before classes to see a new flag be posted and to sing a new national anthem. like the revolution the rich tricolor the hume is a flashback to the pretty good afi era with a few verses tweaked to represent the notion of the country's recent liberation for decades and a good after school even students were expected to memorize long passages from his brain will ever question that and it looks like this tradition may continue i did

you know this happens while this children are too young to understand the meaning of life the sort of the new wish their answer is they're already expected to know it by heart next comes a speech that unambiguous the explains who are the heroes of the new libya the were rebels to talk hard to gain freedom they told us to how dire had hari they taught us to not our country this is the only new material students in this trouble is who have learned since september regular classes like math or chemistry are suspended until january when the new curriculum is expected to be introduced. minnis 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 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 afraid to say whatever we want we don't say bad things about gadhafi in fact we don't talk about him at all here as they say sometimes that picture is worth a thousand words the good afternoon blazoned carter died 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 sleep just to raise from point to sixty about ninety percent is a distant memory he did it just sinks but what she did of the past eight months but then it is a i know you don't have a bunch of but what can i will but she does doesn't move to talk to but what she 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 out by their parents who disagree with the new values taught here those who laugh and run because traders go to school i think it's better to caffeine now when i something bad about the good. well the study of english was banned under good afi words like freedom and revolution a familiar to every first grader here but when asked what's the difference between gadhafi is jimmy here which literally means power of the masses only be a new democracy both students and teachers are the. i don't actually know that i was just that. it's on the boycott artsy. an update on our breaking news story this hour and four people are confirmed dead

after a russian oil well went down in a storm in the sea of a hotspot that's off the country's far east coast where there were more than sixty people on board the rig was being towed to shore when it capsized fourteen people have been plucked alive from the icy cold waters the rescue operations had a setback after one of the vessels involved suffered damage to its hull is heading back to shore but it's pumps are reportedly struggling to cope with the info water more ships are on the way to replace the tugboat rescue efforts are also being complicated by nightfall and the ongoing storm do stay with us here on r.t. for the latest on this developing story. a little later this hour the membership benefits of joining the world's big trade club as russia takes its place in the w.t. over that's after an update of our main news stories of racial. lead

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leg. length. leg. very well welcome to you this is also at home breaking news story now full people confirmed dead. already get the country's foreign sinks during a storm the search operation is continuing throughout the night forcing people have safe all the rescue that scores from a missing leg in today's main news in the week's top stories fresh clashes flare up in west bank towns that stand just days after a demonstration by oil is ended with and that the people dead.