a very warm welcome to this is r.t. with continuing updates on our breaking news story the tragedy in this area hosken russia's far east where one of the country's biggest oil rigs has gone down in a storm let's get the latest details now from tom barton tom the recap size some nine hours ago how the rescue operation turned into a recovery one yet or is there still hope. well alice at the moment in the two hundred kilometers off russia's far eastern coast night has fallen and there is a ferocious storm still going on in the rescue site waves of five

to six meters howling winds and at the moment there is only one ship on its own in the darkness trying to find the forty nine people that are still unaccounted for four bodies have been seen without signs of life but the weather is so bad they haven't been able to recover those bodies from the water fourteen people were rescued earlier by helicopter but the two helicopters and aircraft that were helping have had to be pulled out because the weather was so bad and because of nightfall there was also a tugboat helping but so bad with the weather conditions that it started to take on water it is now limping back to the coast but apparently its pumps are struggling there is possibly a risk that this ship beggared into more serious trouble as well but leaves just one ice breaker trying to find those people the water itself is just above freezing point their temperature is about minus ten there that means that hopes are now

rapidly slimming for those people in the water the situation sounds pretty desperate doesn't it what's the latest take we have on why this work went down. the oil rig was being towed back to port at the time it got into trouble it's thought that the pumps on board which usually just standardly pump out the water that sloshes into the oil rig those were overwhelmed when this storm brewed up around the billion rick and that meant to the sank very quickly just twenty minutes many of that there was nowhere near enough time to organize a proper evacuation i'm so so many people ended up just having to jump into the water without any proper equipment we can hear now from one of those people involved in the rescue operation. where we knew christian would be renewed 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. investigators also say that there may well have been a breach of safety protocol as they put it which translated into layman's terms means that they spoil rigs should never have being been towed in these conditions in the first place was far too dangerous to try and attempt that president dmitri medvedev has said that all help must be extended to those rescued and that a full investigation must take place but now the focus is on the race against time to try and get anyone left alive out of the water before it's too late ok tom keep checking in with me for any progress on this time passing their banks. well the oil already sunk whilst it was being tugged back to port after had finished drilling in the sea off a horse that's why there's no major threat of oil contamination in the sea on like

previous incidents involving oil rigs worldwide that includes the mexican gulf incident twenty ten when it be. exploded causing a disastrous leak it was only plugs after around five million gallons of oil spilled into the ocean the russian platform in today's incident was built in nine hundred eighty five it was one of the largest in the country at seventy meters long and wide it was huge is itself a drilling off the vietnamese coast at the end of its current assignment or will keep you in touch with developments on the tragedy in the sea of holes so do stay with us. and of course instead updates on the rescue operation in the hot sea are available on our twitter feed for you follow us that dot com to be on top of this breaking news story. well this is live from moscow i'm at the other main news story that we're covering for you this hour fresh classes that flare up in western catholic sound 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 strong resolution exception to the u.n. aimed at solving the crisis peacefully. class the wait is finally over as russians accepted as a fully fledged member of the world trade organization after eighteen years of tough talk. fresh riots have reportedly flared up in western kansas one person was killed and eleven others injured after a railway station where people were protesting against a fatal crackdown on striking workers were also reports streamed russian journalists have been detained in the country r.t. if you go to spin off is the latest from kazakhstan. on saturday a group of protesters blocked a really station including a badge and train with over three hundred people on board in western kazakhstan in total seven bastard trains in three three trains were delayed and at around eight

pm local time six pm moscow time police came in trying to disperse the crowd but instead a group of their own fifty people and the opportunity to call them now showed fierce resistance they were going to set a locomotive on fire of tumultuous cocktails at the train and at the police some of them reportedly moved into. a setting a christmas tree going for a breaking shop windows car windows and cetera and authorities say that their actions at one point became a threat to the lives of the locals and off the of the of the o.t. so they had to use force including a live rounds as a result twelve people were hospitalized with gunshot wounds and one of them died this particularly rally was actually initially organized in support of another one which happened in the town of jenin i was in this all down also in western 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 looting 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 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. as a local journalist she told me that she believes the unrest was triggered from abroad oh workers in generalising have been striking for fairly long already for

several months if this treasury note is those people they're all dressed in clothes in their guns uniforms this is fairly strange for strike two uniformed you know they were just rushing things around. and they were behaving too organized and they weren't attacking authorities at least. it looks like crew this is being looked for even one of the opposition leaders that this is not in the interests of workers what we see that you were getting killed because they are not fighting for their own ideas. so the compu of this hour a change of name but not of purpose the mercenary film previously known as a blunt water undergoes rebranding to secure new contracts in iraq despite being kicked out of the country after an attack on civilians several years ago.

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 assad regime and the opposition to end violence and to begin dialogue whilst ruling out foreign intervention and sanctions but some western states say they can't accept the proposal blaming the bloodshed on the bus because of ortiz alone and that's despite house and of army defectors claiming to be fighting to bring down the assad regime middle east politics professor jeremy salt says the western governments have to admit all sides must put down weapons before a solution can be found. so far has really been one one one. but security forces the wreck towards the consulate impose its will be very little reference to the songs about gangs

soundtrack that bonnets began almost from the beginning with like this movement and the gangs fighting behind people fight with the general place with some are causing a lot of damage and more recently admitted by the action that in fact there was monitors but it was little by practice now i think. a way out of this before long western governments are going to have to accept it but we didn't do it and it's not just the syrian government it has to issue orders for the army to work with bound but somehow some way has found. waiting others with their weapons on the tiriel because they hardly listen to whatever happens in syria will get very very serious regional and global implications not think it will protect the very wary of that very weird russian position and so far russia solidly behind the syrian government . this is a list today being taken at the time that russia changed its position i personally don't see it like that i think bush is going to college find

a way out of which we can go because first of all putting on the weapons because some of the charges you talk which are being made it would be almost impossible to get back with all of them so it would seem to be that they waited now it's the try to stop the killing of abbas and any country that's already seen regime change following international sanctions banks are preparing for a much needed cash injection if the u.n. messes economic restrictions but while that will help the new rule is problem brewing found the protesters roundedness if you think out the price how things again the lack of transparency in the national transitional council benghazi was where the nay take back to family and began and ultimately ended a panic attack israel had to pay for post online magazines like beneath the n.p.c. 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 in other countries at the time waiting till 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 suitable people to represent the libyan people now we have a situation where the libyan people are saying hang on a minute these people don't represent us we don't even really know who they are. coming up for you this hour controversy in the military the alleged wiki kept bradley manning tinnies with protesters saying he deserves a medal not a prison sentence. but before that russia's leaders have spoken extensively this week reacting to the changing political landscape off the recent parliamentary elections prime minister putin held his annual live televised q. and a session he dismissed allegations of fraud sharing the very progress to make

next year's presidential election more transparent president given to that of the ruling united russia party to reform and introduce new faces saying people have are tired of the old system you also want the u.s. on its european missile defense shield which russia perceives as a threat washington has provided a proof to the contrary forcing the kremlin to step up in the country's security masses when you go through there were to be we must not let ourselves be intimidated or confused we must clearly understand the goals we are heading for politics is a concrete think 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. now russia has finally been accepted as a full member of the world trade organization after a wait of eighteen years to me is expected to strengthen the country's global

thyssen provide greater incentive for investment but as artie's braff a national explains accession comes at a price. with all my studio a case of hard talks now over it's still not clear exactly what russia's double your membership is offering the country and with most all the details the league remains to firmly behind closed doors x. produce enough to try a little crystal ball gazing. their predictions begin with agric. to enter the w t o russia had to pledge reducing state support to farming we've already traveled to her 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 there number is only increasing thirty percent of the countries are will land currently not in use and the raw fear is that the cost of farming subsidies that session will bring will 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 unable to compete will go down because. meanwhile those competitive enough will stay afloat and benefit alexander and his family run a small business just outside moscow they one hundred twenty goatskin if enough milk to produce kilometers of high quality cheese and i was back in the crystal ball the future doesn't look bright for wrong the message cupboard use is happening on the main stock and the w t o lobby critics say russia's making history will be unable to meet the raised competition exception of a tract 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 cumulative gains we believe or roughly three point three percent of russian g.d.p. in the early years after accession and after more like ten years with a grosser 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 of the past be a little strange russia has been the biggest economy not to be integrated into the w t o with a. after an eighteen year marathon of negotiations all the world's key players finally come together under the same umbrella. reason arson r t moscow. i can update now on our breaking news story for people are confirmed dead after a russian oil rig went down in a storm in the sea of a whole sky the country's far east coast there were more than sixty people in total on board the rig was being towed to port 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 hooter more ships are on their way to replace the tugboat rescue efforts are also being complicated by nightfall and the ongoing story to stay with r.t. for the latest on this developing story. the military hearing of the so-called wiki leak it 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 and a half ago with a 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 to wiki leaks and of aiding the enemy antiwar

activist brian becker says if manning is convicted he'll become a nationwide hero and an icon of truth telling. i think that bradley manning if it's true that he was the one who released the documents to wiki leaks will be considered in u.s. history as a hero because he took a stand in a willing to pay a very difficult price possibly life in prison possibly the death sentence for exposing a criminal war the iraq war is a crime against humanity it's a war crime in fact bradley manning had an obligation to reveal that this country was carrying out criminal activities of course we all knew that and one sense but by releasing these hundreds of thousands of classified documents if in fact it was he who did it he did a great deal to expose to shine a bright light on those who are committing crimes against the iraqi people and in fact against the american people bradley manning has been held wrongly he's been held in solitary confinement he's been pre-judged by the military and by the media

he has been stripped naked in forest in solitary confinement that's a kind of torture and he's being treated as the worst possible lowest criminal in fact somebody who's not even part of the judicial system since he's been pre-judged and. now if he's if. they break into private man a three month for me the protest is. the. one that's empty just. home from the fence and nothing that is to climbing. the protesters came. to see him turning violent clashes followed by a number. of different areas of creating times square thousands of people have been detained under arrest and across the united states cheering protests. where you can read more updates in the background of the protests that have been

shaking america for months on web site dot com here's what else is waiting for you online. right now it's the first anniversary of this is antigovernment protests which became a catalyst for the entire arab spring we've made. the changes which the revolution brought but also fail to deliver. also online soyuz takes i spy high in the sky a russian rocket delivered six military satellites into orbit for france and chile was the launch on all you tube channel. news today violence is once again flared up. in these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. operations through the day.

russian convoy carrying humanitarian aid to ethnic serbs in kosovo was allowed to enter the terror on friday a four day standoff twenty five chances stranded out of order on tuesday following a dispute about how the convoys should be exclusives the vehicles were eventually led by e.u. n.b.c. managed to take seize be an alternative reach to avoid roadblocks the region has been tense since july with the territories minority serbs set up barricades to protest against costa authorities running the checkpoint kosovo is controlled by ethnic albanians which make up ninety percent of its population. now the notorious american security contracts which east blackwater analyst on monday that it's returning to business and iraq it was expelled from the country in two thousand and seven for using g.p.s. tactics including attacks on civilians t.v.

branding it's coming back as akademi and wants to win contracts with a multitude of companies in the war torn country and a former cia officer told us it's unlikely to get them despite if countless legacy and the high level connections the last week enjoy. 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 easy 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 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 my problem is that there is 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 you are 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 nelson world news in brief this hour heavy handed it to patients soldiers have been caught on camera pulling a woman across the pavement by her hair jane protests in the capital well this comes after reports of miniature offices throwing rocks and using back things on demonstrators ten people have been killed and hundreds wounded since clashes began on friday demonstrators there's a man in power be transferred from the military to a civilian authority the full on edited video of the violence can be found at our website r.t. dot com but you may find the images disturbing. caches

between army chiefs and suspected al-qaeda militants in yemen as most volatile region 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 targeting 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 and now killed over six hundred people twelve hours of relentless rain from a tropical storm poured down with friday night floodwaters raced down the mountain slopes and tore through homes killing hundreds the search for more than eight hundred missing people is ongoing many were swept out to sea where the waters struck. pakistan may soon implement attacks on nato shipments of passing through its territory to reach afghanistan that's if the country passes any

transit tax when it reopens its borders to nato hundreds of supply containers awaiting to pass through as the blockade enters its twenty third day the border was almost closed a month ago in retaliation for a u.s. airstrike that killed twenty four pakistanis the u.s. is facing pressure to resolve the dispute as pakistan remains a vital route to reach foreign troops in afghanistan but some say pakistan's real. action she comes next prize after the u.s. senate threatening messages to his family bands. 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 across pakistan 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 as you well 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 man it could move here in washington i guess you can call it a psychosis of destabilization it's like the the year of the dupes may be ending and they've got to export destabilisation 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. can't get an update now on our breaking news story a fool people are. rational when went down in a storm in the sea of a hostile fire off the country's far east case where there were more than sixty people in total on board the rig was being tended to port 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 haul it's heading back to shore but it's pumps are reportedly struggling to cope with the inflow of 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 r.t. for the nation on this developing story. special report on the former soviet republic of azerbaijan is next bizarre i'm back with

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