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 there's 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 could help stave off the cold for

a bit longer so there is still some hope that they might find some people yet tom once all sounding quite desperate 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 that 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 or 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 are new people in them here 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 the 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 earlier 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 there are many things. while the oil rig sank while it was being towed back to port arthur finishing a drilling expedition in the sea of there's no threat of an oil spill though unlike

previous incidents involving oil rigs elsewhere in the world the biggest such disaster of course is last year's gulf of mexico accident when. rated by exploded it took months to cap it 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 well developments on the tragedy in the sea of a hostile with us. you are watching here the other main news stories of today and of the week more deadly violence in the wake of the comics down crackdown which saw eleven striking oil work is killed in independence day gathering. 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 in a move that brings both advantages and some tough competition. questing kazakstan is experiencing further violence in the wake of a deadly independence day clash the latest fighting saw one person killed and eleven others injured at a rally against friday's lethal crackdown on striking oil workers. going off is across the latest from the central asian country. on saturday a group of protesters blocked a really station including passenger 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 a group of their own fifty people and the authorities call them now hooligans showed fierce resistance they were going to set a locomotive on fire if you multiply up hills mall that the train and the police some of them reportedly moved into nearby 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. 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 that is particularly rally was actually initially organized in support of another one which happened in the town of dollars 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 to see that forty six buildings had been burned down in the clashes with the police as well and also unfortunately the authorities say they were forced to. retaliate and retake the sensualist situation under their control so some live shots were used there as well and according to official figures eleven people were killed in that incident several dozen others were injured although some sources suggest that the figures are much higher than that. because external forces maintain the situation is under control local journalist tatiana has now told r.t. she believes outside influences behind the unrest oh workers in generalising have

been striking for fairly long already for several months it is true story now which is he knows people they're all dressed in clothes and their guns uniforms this is fairly strange for a strike but you uniformed you know they were just rushing things around. and they were behaving too organized and they were attacking authorities and at least. it looks like chris this is being let down even one of the opposition leaders that this is not in the interests of what we see that people are getting killed because they are not fighting for their own ideas. well serious leaders have been given until wednesday to stop on internet 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 well south foreign intervention

sanctions but some western states say thanks set that us and things on rest on. despite. the fact his 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. there's very little bonsa been one one way. through it for two or three months with . has been very little reference to the bombings of ongoing contact their bonnets began almost from the beginning of. these gangs fighting people and. generally pleased with them because you know there are more recently activists in fact yes they want to monitor. this now i think for a way out of this funk western governments are going to have. to work but it's not

just the syrian government appears to. be on the ground but somehow some way has found or just waiting. period to get going. so whatever happens in syria will get green very serious regional and global implications not people will start to really we're very we're russian position and sort of are russia. behind the story and you don't like. this resolution is going cranking up the fun part that brought the change the position i was first i don't see it like. russia's giving calling from the white house. first of all putting on the speakers so many charts. it would be almost impossible to get. so that they way that now try to stop the killing. libya is banks are getting some much needed cash flow again after the un lifted so many economic sanctions while it

helps the new leaders grapple with the regime change they brought their problems elsewhere father of the toppling and killing of camel 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 in one district quit saying it's not doing enough to pretty much a case from the online 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 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 for my speech helicoptered in when it was safe enough to enter tripoli it was made up of gadhafi cronies people who were basically cherry picked by the west as being suitable 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 at this hour a champion or traitor the wiki leaks military hearing about manning appears for the first time accused of cycling sensitive army data but his supporters rally behind the singled out soldier. had to want to crush his most volatile our public 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 at his annual live q. and a session with the public who dismissed allegations of fraud during the vote but said web cameras will be installed at only polling stations next year president of the routing united russia party should move quicker times and bring in fresh

faces saying people have grown tired of the old system he also warned the u.s. on its missile defense shield in europe which mask a says poses a threat to its security says washington still won't give written assurances that it is not aimed at russia moscow degrade our system of it so in its western ways territory when you go through their words. 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 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 as explains. with all my studio cases of hard talks now over it's still not clear exactly what russia's w t o membership is offering the country and with most all the details of the greens to firmly behind closed doors experts are left to try and little crystal ball gazing. their predictions begin with agriculture to enter the w t o russia had to pledge to reduce instate support to farming we've already traveled two 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 grain 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 on able 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 their one hundred twenty goats skiff enough milk to produce kilos of high quality cheese and a bit back in the crystal ball the future doesn't look bright for all the mystic copper users have been on the menu start to w t o obvious critics say russia's making history will be 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 glow 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. more like ten years with a 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 vast be 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. griffin ocean are to mosco. a reminder now of our breaking news here on an oil rig with sixty seven people on board as can size 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 site of the tragedy

the whole sky rate went down back toward it but he didn't have enough time to board from the fourth lot dated on. the first 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 but herring is determined whether there is enough evidence to put on trial if found guilty he would spend life behind bars private manning as an intelligence analyst in iraq and is accused of leaking classified military diplomatic data with a blank website for my thigh or as or an active with kevin says and manning has already been prejudiced by top officials and faces a dark future. we think that manning is not someone who is 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 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 under president obama's command and their careers on the line there are no choice but to say many is guilty if they want to keep their military career since the president or assert he's guilty soldier who's in that situation is a choice there nor in the nuremberg principles and becoming complicit in these crimes or it's. closing those 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. where online and on t.v.

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 balance of satellites that will keep an eye on all of us will tell you this keeping watch. on the devoted dog who refused to abandon his dead mate in russia's far east but stray hong's is a determined destroy him marty dot com reports on the race to save the brave just getting. at least fifty occupy wall street activists have been arrested in new york after they broke into a private parking. as we've been called topic three month anniversary the protesters who were evicted from across the park last month attempted to set up a camp in the city you were asked a park i repeat holes of the fence and these are lovers to climb over the police

disperse the protesters played the game they didn't hide. telling mine and the class was followed by a number of marches in different alleys of new york including times square thousands of people have been arrested and detained across the west during the anti corporate tax. but as of now it's the 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 or foresee the full unedited video of the violence can be found on our website r.t. dot com but you may find some of the images disturbing. the chance. republic's first post communist leader vaclav havel has died at the age of seventy five the

dissident playwright turned president oversaw his country's transition to democracy as well as the peaceful breakup between the czech republic and slovakia have all died often 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. are finally u.s. troops of officially withdrawn from iraq nine years after the invasion that ousted said are you 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 or

around one hundred thousand iraqi civilians killed across the united states almost a trillion dollars. but 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 low living standards are sometimes blamed his root cool things which helped feed militancy. do courtship explains. the caucasian republic of dagestan insults that 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 to tell rays are constantly carried out in

a time to eradicate the problem although militants usually target police and government officials tourism has often go into the lives of many innocent families across the region because of that a number of organisations have sprung up fighting for victims' rights and helping of those affected their lives back together i had it turns to spend the day would speak. 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 today's headline is heading to the outskirts of the capital a single mother of four lives that her husband was killed by robbers and she was left with nothing but her children sitting on the brings food clothes and talks to

her talking as soon as the most important part offering reassurance to victims that they have not been forgotten your brother should not be unusual our organization mostly helps women it doesn't matter what situation they're in. they're in need we come to help most of these women don't know their rights or who do 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. that he wouldn't even knew then what i know today my rights the right people i could have saved him i could have found out where he was have done something. wrong a 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 order a truce i thought there was nothing bad in that but then my little girl started to change she talked a lot about being a real muslim we're going to paradise i tried to talk her out of it but she never listened she only listened to her new friends who were. 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 dogs 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. charice once to establish upon caucasian islam a state. in the last decade parts of dagestan has become really just theoretical ice this region is now the heart of russia's islamic terrorist problem and almost every day the authorities are engaged in shoot outs 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 that. the locals want the rule of law enforced and respected again and return to a time before terror played such a dominant part in the lives of so many marginal question r.t. close 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 the 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 apparels and meters deep in that area r.t. will of course keep you informed as we get more details. now later this hour the membership benefits of joining the world's biggest. trade takes its place in the got softer and update of all meanings in just a few minutes. here

in bygone days sleds were vital to get around. but today they're more leisure than life line. one drives people to quit their modern lives and settle in remote woods. one finds them up to survive in the freezing cold. beginning in russia's nose discover the arctic circle on r.t. .

breaking news so now from aussie rescuers will work through the night in russia's far east where an oil rig with sixty seven people on board has come sized four people are known to have died and fourteen have been saved from the icy waters rest on the same. in the news this week more deadly violence in the wake of the comics done crackdown which saw eleven striking the oil workers killed an independence day government. the us.