breaking news on the. capsized into the freezing waters off russia's a far east for people of forty and missing. following a developing us tom it's been several hours now how is the rescue operation progressing. at the moment it is nightfall out in the off the coast of far eastern russia in the middle of the sea there is a huge storm that's brewed up there that was the cause of all this trouble and there is at the moment just one ship searching in the darkness for the forty nine people yet unaccounted for and who rescuers fear may already be dead the problem started with

a storm that caused the oil rig to capsize and to sink four bodies have been found but such as the difficulty of the weather there they haven't been able to be recovered forty nine are unaccounted for there were helicopters and a plane that were helping they've had to be sent home another tugboat that was also looking for people started to take on water as five to six meter waves that rescuers are battling against there is a howling gale from the water out there is only just above freezing point and the wind the air temperature is about minus ten so you can imagine how difficult it must be both for the rescuers and the slimming chances of hope that there are for those in the water it should be said that all the people on board the oil rig did have diving suits on that can help stave off the cold for a bit longer so there is still some hope that they might find some people yet and

it's all sounding quite desperate at how did this all happen. at the time of the sinking the oil rig was being towed by another ship back to port when this storm brewed up the pumps that pump water out of the oil rig were overwhelmed by the amount of water and that caused it to sink in just twenty minutes it meant that there was no time for a proper evacuation some life rafts have been found they were empty there was nobody in them there were life jackets in the water that haven't been able to be put. on time we managed to hear really from one of the people organizing the rescue efforts what they think may have happened. to. 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 safety protocol may well have been breached they often use official language like that in

these situations what it really means is that this oil rig should never have been towed in such conditions in the first place it was far too dangerous to do that at the moment search efforts are the focus president medvedev has said that all help must be given to those who have been rescued fourteen were plucked to safety by helicopter really or four of those are now in a nearby hospital and the president also said that in a full investigation must be launched to try and find out what caused this ok tom many thanks but of course if we hear any more on this story tom barton that many. while the oil rig sank while it was being towed back to port arthur finishing a drilling expedition in the sea of a there's no threat of an oil spill though on like previous incidents involving oil rigs elsewhere in the world the biggest such disaster of course is last year's gulf of mexico accident when a rig operated by b.p.

exploded it took months to cap it but not before about five million gallons of oil leaked into the ocean the russian platform in today's incident is the country's largest and was built in one thousand nine hundred five it was due to set sail for drilling off the vietnamese coast at the end of its current assignment. for developments on the tragedy in the sea of a hostile with us. you all watching here the other main news stories of today and of the week more deadly violence in the wake of the conflicts down crackdown which saw eleven striking oil work is killed in independence day countering. the arab league gives damascus until wednesday to stop the bloodshed while russia pushes its resolution at the security council calling for both sides in syria to. welcome to the global trade club after almost

twenty years and in a move that brings both advantages and some tough competition. western kazakstan is experiencing further violence in the wake of a deadly independence day clash the latest fighting saw one person killed and a lebanon others injured at a rally against friday's lethal crackdown on striking oil workers. across the latest from the central asian country. 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 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 google around fifty people and the authorities call them now who

they showed fierce resistance they set a locomotive on fire if you multiply 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 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 fire including state facilities say 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 central the situation under their control so some live shots were used there as well and according to official figures eleven people were killed in that incident several dozen others were injured although some sources suggest that the figures are much higher than that. because external forces maintain the situation is under control local journalist because we're not told she believes outside influences behind the unrest oh workers in generalising have been striking for fairly long already for several months it is treasury now which is where those people they're all dressed in clothes with their

guns uniforms this is very strange for a strike but your uniform you know they were just rushing things around. and they were behaving too organized and they weren't attacking authorities at least on the police came in it looks like this is being let down even one of the opposition leaders that this is not in the interests of what we see that you were getting cute because they're not fighting for their own ideas. well serious leaders have been given until wednesday to stop the violence and that observers in all the arab league says it will turn to the u.n. security council for action russia is defending its own proposed resolution on syria but the u.s. and its allies want it changed moscow is appealing to both the regime and the opposition to end the bloodshed and begin talks but rules out foreign intervention and sanctions but some western states a concept that person claims the unrest on damascus despite. defectors claiming

to be fighting to bring down the middle east politics professor jeremy salt says the main task now is to persuade both sides to put down but. so far there's very little bonsa very large one word. directed towards. them is very very little reference to the violence ongoing project their bonnets began almost. fighting because peaceful protests were generally pleased the first time according to. their more recently written body. that in fact he was modest but it was a little by factors i think. a way to have this be sung western governments are going to have to step in to it's nice that it's not just the syrian government it has to come if you want to support the army to work with sound but somehow way have

you found. this waiting others to put their weapons on the tiriel because they hop you listen to whatever happens that. we can very very serious. and global implications not people with the stakes are very wary of that they agree with russia's position and so far russia solidly behind the syrian government. this position today being at the time that brussels changed its position on first and then see it like that i think much has been the polish on the way out of which would involve people first of all putting on their 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 tried to stop the killing such a badass. libya is banks are getting some much needed cash flow again after the un lifted so many economic sanctions what it helps the new leaders grapple with the regime change they brought their problems elsewhere fall of the toppling and

killing of camel daffy clashes between tribal groups erupted near the capital this week libya's new government also came under pressure from thousands of angry protesters in benghazi where the revolt began they wanted to have the district quit saying it's not doing enough to bring charges patrick h. from the online pertwee magazine spite he's the transitional government doesn't represent. the national transitional council was never actually really part of a democratically forged libya anyway though 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 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 us we don't even really know who they are. so

to come this hour a champion or traitor but would he be ex-military hearing about manning appears and for the first time accused of siphoning sensitive army data that his supporters rally behind the singled out soldier. said one of russia's most volatile republics to see what's being done to ensure the young generation on seduced into extremism. russia's political priorities were set straight by the country's leaders this week after several rallies against the parliamentary election results prime minister vladimir putin promised to make the presidential ballot in march more transparent and his annual live q. and a session with the public who dismissed allegations of the vote but said web cameras will be installed at all the polling stations next. here president vet of the routing united russia party to move quicker times and bring in fresh faces say people have grown tired of the all system we also want the u.s. on its missile defense shield in europe which basket says poses

a threat to its security since washington still won't give written assurances that it's not aimed at russia moscow would radar system of it so it's western ways territory. we must not let ourselves be intimidated or confused we must clearly understand the goals we are heading for 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 almost two decades of talks of finally came to fruition by the end of the week with russia being accepted into the ranks of the world trade organization being a member should free up business opportunities and positively impact on prices but there are those who could find the competition a bit too tough there's a national explains. with all my studio a case of hard talks no over it's still not clear exactly what russia's w two your

membership is offering the country and with most all the details of the greens to firmly behind closed doors extremism left to try and little crystal ball gazing. their predictions begin with agriculture to enter the w t o russia had to pledge reducing state support to farming we've already travelled to hundred fifty kilometers away from moscow and what we see here is a sad picture goes through it is like this one are spread all across russia and with a struggle in agriculture industry their number is only increasing thirty percent of the countries are well land are currently not in use and the raw fear is that cut of farming. it is like 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. meanwhile those competitive enough will stay afloat and benefit

alexander and his family run a small business just outside moscow for a one hundred twenty goatskin if enough milk to produce killers of high quality cheese in taipei but back in the crystal ball the future doesn't look bright for wrong the message cupboard uses have been on the menu start the w t o lobby critics say russia's making history will be unable to meet the phrase 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 rocket the cumulative gains we believe or roughly three point three percent of russian g.d.p. in. early years after accession 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 really 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. resolution are to moscow. a reminder now of our breaking news here on our oil rig with sixty seven people on board as capsized off russia's far eastern coast four people are confirmed dead well over forty remain unaccounted for fourteen people have so far been rescued rescue efforts continue throughout the night with poor visibility and high waves in the operation more ships are being sent to the side of the tragedy but the whole sky went down while back to port its body the crew didn't have enough time to board

with life rafts but of course we can update it on the ballot for the military hearing of the soldier accused of passing secrets american government data to wiki leaks got on the well friday bradley manning had already spent more than a year and a half in detention well the herring is whether there is enough evidence to put manning on trial if found guilty he would spend life behind bars private manning and intelligence analysts interact and is accused of leaking classified military and diplomatic data to deal with would blow website. as they are an active with kevin says manning has already been prejudiced by top officials of base is a dark future. we think that manning is not someone who's a traitor he was. documents to foreign enemies who profit from them he is accused of giving them to the media what he gave to me were allegedly were very low level documents low security and that i probably should not have been divisive i

darkens at all were also worried i mean you can't get a fair trial president obama has already announced that he's guilty he is the commander in chief it's a command structure in the military cerebrally who is in the wagners trial from a judge the jury will under president obama's command their careers on the line there no choice but to say is guilty if they want to keep their military career since the president or assert he's guilty a soldier who's in that situation is a choice there nor in the nuremberg principles becoming complicit in these crimes or exposing. as crimes if meaning is guilty of what he's accused what does he get what he's guilty of is telling the truth laying the truth out 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 of the truth is what's driving this this prosecution. aware online that almost dot com whenever you want to catch up with what's happening in the world or beyond it.

here's looking at you this russian rocket successfully launched from french guy like carrying a batch of satellites that will keep an eye on all of us will tell you this keeping watch. on a devoted dog who refused to abandon his dead major launches far east but stray hong's is a determined to destroy him all to dot com reports on the race to save the rage escaping. at least fifty occupy wall street activists have been arrested in new york after they broke into a private parking lot as we've been told topic three month anniversary the protesters who were evicted from across the park last month attempted to set up a camp in the city's do ross a park i repeat holes of the fence and easy lovers to. police disperse the protesters playing the game they don't quite see it turning violent for the class was followed by

a number of marches in different areas of new york including times square thousands of people have been arrested and detained across the midwest during the anti corporate tax. as that now at some more news from around the globe this hour in brief and heavy handed gyptian soldiers have been caught on camera pulling a woman across the pavement by her hair during protests in the capital this comes after reports of military officers throwing rocks and using bastions on demonstrators ten people have been killed and hundreds wounded since clashes together on friday demonstrators are demanding power be transferred from the military to a civilian authority the full unedited video of the violence can be found on our web site r.t. dot com but you may find some of the images disturbing. the check. first post communist leader vaclav havel has died at the age of seventy following the dissident playwright tired president oversaw his country's transition to

democracy as well as the peaceful breakup between the czech republic and slovakia have all died off to a long. a mammoth rescue operation is now underway in the southern philippines of the floods tall through the area killing over six hundred and leaving hundreds missing the typhoon hit all finite causing a month's worth of rain to fall in twelve hours tens of thousands have been forced from their homes by the deluge the rescues currently being hampered by widespread power cuts and flooded roads. the final u.s. troops have officially withdrawn from iraq nine years after the invasion that ousted said he saying the soldiers crossed into neighboring kuwait during the night many now fear a surge in terror attacks following america's military departure with conflicts around one hundred thousand iraqi civilians killed and cost the united states almost

a trillion dollars. next we head to one of russia's most volatile regions in the battle to stop the young falling prey to terrorists. ordog a stand off to make headlines for the wrong reasons with frequent reports of insurgency and instability high unemployment and those living standards are sometimes blamed his route cools and which helped feed militancy in due course he explains. 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 look to draw people in when they're young and tito arrays are constantly carried out in an attempt to eradicate the problem although militants usually target police and government officials tourism has often ruined

a bill lives of many innocent families across the region because of that a number of organisations have sprung up fighting for victims' rights and helping is also affected their lives back together i had it turns to spend a 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 march gone straight 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 to d.c. 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 stood 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 our organization mostly helps women it doesn't matter what situation they're in. is there a need to come to help most of these women don't know their rights or who to ask to 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 lost a valuable time that could have been used to rescue him. 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 good have done something. said lois son 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 forest use them as one 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 her normal 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 new slang were going to paradise i tried to talk her out of it but she never listened sean listened to her new friends. 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 doubly skirmishes are part of a bigger conflict being played out across the north caucasus region the terrorist

led by dog who is russia's most wanted militant and on the list of america's most wanted. terrorists want to establish a pan caucasian islamist state. in the last decade parts of dagestan has become really just the rez you can lies this region is now the heart of precious islamic terrorist problem and almost every day the authorities are engaged in shootouts with terrorists and very often that happens even in the capital city of the region . locals say it's hardly surprising muslims are turning to 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 and

returned to a time before terror played such a dominant part in the lives of so many my gentle question archie calls up in the republic of dagestan. ok let's cross but now to the breaking news that we've been covering here on a rescue operation is underway in russia's far east where an oil rig with sixty seven people on board went down fourteen people have been plucked from the icy waters four are confirmed dead whilst forty nine are still missing russia's emergency ministry is expanding its mission in the sea of why sending more ships to the disaster site the operations being hampered by paul weather conditions because guy on your way capsized on his way back to port and sank within just twenty minutes it's believed the rigs portholes were damaged by ice and waves and water began flowing inside the sea is a thousand meters deep in that area r.t.

would of course keep you informed as we get more details. now later this hour the membership benefits of joining the world's biggest trade club as a russia takes its place in the a that's after an update of our main news in just a few minutes.

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