some 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 make it into more serious trouble as well that leaves just

one icebreaker trying to find those people the water itself is just above freezing point the air 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 it's 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. why would

a new question would be do nuclear 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 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 dmitry 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 tamaki checking in with me for any progress on this time passing their banks. well the.

rig sank whilst it was being tugged back to port after he had finished drilling in the sea of a horse that's why there's no major threat of oil contamination in the sea unlike previous incidents involving oil rigs worldwide that includes the mexican gulf incident of twenty ten when the b.p. oil rig 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 was one of the largest in the country at seventy meters long and wide it was judges that sell for drilling off the vietnamese coast at the end of its current assignment well we'll keep you in touch with developments on the tragedy in the sea of hot so do stay with us. and of course instant 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 r.t. 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 kathak sound just days after a demonstration by oil workers ended with eleven people dead. the west and its allies mount pressure on the syrian regime as russia fights to get its draft 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 council stand one person was killed and eleven others injured at a railway station where people were protesting against a fatal crackdown on striking the oil workers were there are also reports stream russian journalists have been detained in the country r.t. if you go to cannot has the latest from kazakstan. on saturday a group of protesters blocked a really station including passenger 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 opportunity to 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. 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 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 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 it is treasury notes those people they're all dressed in clothes and 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 were joking authorities at least. it looks like 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 cute because they're not fighting for their own ideas so the compu 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 damascus authorities alone and that's despite the house and of army defectors claiming to be fighting to bring down the 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. but 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 in some

respects security forces directed towards conflict intensity and being very little reference to the bongs of ongoing non-fact that bonnets began almost from the beginning the slightest movement and the gangland hiding behind the people fighting for general place with them across in a long time which more recently admitted by the axis that in fact there was a modest but it was a little by feckless now i think the a way out of this the funk western governments are going to have to accept that in fact we've been through it myself and it's not just the syrian government it has to come if you want to support the army to work with sound but somehow some way has found. waiting august what their weapons on the tiriel because they hop listen to whatever happens that. we have very very serious. and global implications nothing will protect a very wary of that they agree with russia's position and so far russia solidly behind the syrian government. this is an issue today being banking at the time that

russia changes 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 of a bot. and in libya a country that's already seen regime change following international sanctions banks are preparing for a much needed cash injection is the un less its economic restrictions but while that will help the new rulers problems brewing thousands of protesters rallied in the city of benghazi protesting against the lack of transparency in the national transitional council. was where the nato backed rebellion began and ultimately ended all she use of chemical. patrick a reporter for online magazine spiked binny's the empty sea 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 to almost be helicoptered in when it was safe enough to enter tripoli it was made up of gadhafi cruelly people who were basically cherry picked by the west as being suitable people to represent the libyan people no we have a situation where the libyan people are so you have got of 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 leak of bradley manning to news 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 after the recent parliamentary elections prime minister putin held his annual live televised q.

and a session he dismissed allegations of fraud during the very progress to make next year's presidential election more transparent president to be preventive to the ruling united russia party to reform and introduce a new face is saying people have grown 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. proved to the contrary forcing the kremlin to step up in the country's security masses. we must not let ourselves be intimidated or confused we must clearly understand the goals we are heading for but politics is a concrete thing whatever friendly relations we have if we are not being heard we will answer that's what i had to do it wasn't against obama but against the policy that the us has adopted if they continue to be rude we will respond if they hear our concerns we will work together. now russia has finally been accepted as

a full member of the world trade organization after a wait of eighteen to me is expected to strengthen the country's global ties for five great incentive for investment but as braff and explain succession 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 now used 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 her 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 rough areas that cut of foreign subsidies like session will drain 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 with all doubters. 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 message cupboard uses have been on the menu start at the w t o lobby critics say rush is making history but we i'm able to meet the crazy competition the accession 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 rock it became a lot of gains we believe or roughly three point three percent of russian g.d.p. in the early years after accession the. 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 illegal 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. 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 hawse cost 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 rooter more ships are on their way to replace the tugboat rescue efforts are also being complicated by nightfall and the ongoing storm 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. well i think the 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 he's if. they break into private. i mean it's three months to me the protest is. among them to defend. home from the fence and the thing that is to climbing pleased to. see him turning violent clashes followed by a number. of different areas of pleading times square thousands of people have been detained under arrest and across the united states cheering corporate tax.

well you can read more updates of the background of the protests that have been shaking america for months on our website dot com here's what else is waiting for you online right now it's the first anniversary of tunis 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 delivers six military satellites into orbit for france and chile watch the launch on all 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. operations throughout the day. now a russian convoy carrying humanitarian aid to ethnic serbs in kosovo was allowed to enter the terror on friday for a four day standoff twenty five chances stranded out of order on tuesday following a dispute about how the convoys should be exported the vehicles were eventually led by police who managed to take the seas be an alternative route to avoid roadblocks the region has been tense since july with the territories minority serbs set up barricades to protest against cost of the authorities running the checkpoint kosovo is controlled by ethnic albanians which make up ninety percent of its population. now the notorious american security contracts how it's nice because blackwater analyst on monday that is returning to the 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 the multitude of companies we've killed in the war torn country and a former cia officer told us it's unlikely to get that despite its countless legacy and the high level connections from 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 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 does that mean the food is 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 don't do this 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 they're 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 there are some world news in brief this hour heavy handed gyptian 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 throw rocks at news and bad things on demonstrators ten people have been killed and hundreds wounded since clashes began on friday demonstrators that a man in power be transferred from the military to a civilian authority the full on edited video of the violence can be found on our

website r.t. dot com but you may find the images disturbing. caches between army chiefs and suspected al qaeda militants in yemen is 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 on 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 see and implement attacks on nato shipments

passing through its territory each week afghanistan as if the country party has any chance it tanks may reopen its borders to nato hundreds of supply containers awaiting to pass through as the blockade enters its twenty day the border was almost clones 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 is pakistan where maine's a vital route to reach foreign afghanistan but some say pakistan's reaction should come as no surprise after the u.s. sent 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 exploded into pakistan big question is what where where is all this going the pakistanis are becoming more militant which is perfectly understandable right we have a we have a manic move here in washington i guess you can call it a psychosis of destabilization it's like the the year of the dupes may be ending and they've got to export destabilisation to as many countries as they can interesting is that the pakistanis say that they have a surface to air missile system along the border. go there so that if the u.s.

tries to come over with our captors. take possession of the pakistani nuclear deterrent the pakistanis that are so that they would be able to fight back against . cancer and not do it 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 hostile star off the country's far east coast where there were more than sixty people in total on board and the rig was being towed to port when it capsized fourteen people have been plucked alive from the ice cold waters the rescue operations has set up after one of the vessels involved suffered damage to its hull 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 replace the tugboat rescue efforts are also being complicated by nightfall and the ongoing storm do stay with r.t. for the naysayers on this developing story. ossie special report on the former soviet

republic of azerbaijan is next i'm back with a recap our top stories fast. twenty years ago largest country. disintegrates it's of.

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now here in moscow all breaking news story four people are confirmed dead russian oil we're going the country's far east six jury in a stalled the search operation is continuing throughout the night fourteen people ha so far been rescued but schools remain missing. and today's all the main news in the week's top stories fresh clashes flare up in western kansas found just days after a demonstration by oil workers ended with eleven full day of. the west.