people four bodies have been found but the storm is so bad the waves about six meters high with howling gales that they haven't managed to recover those bodies at the moment there is still hope for the forty nine people that were on the oil rig that haven't been found they were all wearing diving suits at the time the rake saying conomos rescuers say may help keep them warm for longer and stave off the just above freezing temperatures in the sea we heard a little earlier from one of the rescuers. pulled those rescued wearing diving suits every single one of the rigs crew was wearing a diving suit we should have kept them afloat in these icy waters. however the air temperature there is minus ten and they've been in the water for for many hours now hopes are starting to fade that people maybe five still found alive there's been quite a few setbacks in the rescue operation and mostly because of the weather night has

now fallen there in the weather means that the two helicopters that helped fourteen people to safety have had to leave as has an aircraft and a tugboat that was also helping started itself to take on water its pumps were struggling to bail that boat out and it's now limping back to port more ships are on the way to more should arrive in a few hours time but there at the moment it's just one ship on its own trying to search for those people the situation to us and what do we know about why the rate went down. well at the time that the rig sank it was being towed back to port by another ship when this storm really brewed up the rigs own pumps which bail out water it's quite a normal procedure they were completely overwhelmed by the amount of water which meant that it sank very quickly. in just twenty minutes that meant that no proper

procedures for evacuation could be put into place rescuers have found life jackets and rafts in the water all of them without any people using them we heard earlier about the state of the conditions but they found these jackets in earlier on. there are 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 are saying that safety protocol was followed believed breached in the towing of this rig that's very official language what it really means is that it should never have been towed in the first place in such stormy seas and that was also probably the cause for it sinking so fast and people just having to jump ship in sort of very cold water as the president medvedev has said that

a full investigation must be launched and that all help must be rendered to try and help those in the water and those that have been rescued as for now it is a race against time and the hopes are slimming that the people in the water are going to be found alive. many. tom bass in there reporting for us what the call sky oil rig sank whilst it was being towed back to port after finishing a drilling expedition in the sea of a horse but there's no threat of an oil spill long like previous incidents involved or oil will go where in the world the biggest such disaster of course is last year's gulf of mexico accident when iran operated by b.p. exploded it took months to cap it but not before around five new gallons of oil leaked. the russian platform in today's incident is the country's largest it was built back 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. in touch

developments on the tragedy in the sea of hearts stay with us. well you are watching live from moscow with me alice have it has all the main news today and for the week more deadly violence in the wake of the catholic stand a crackdown which saw eleven striking when the work is killed on independence day i gather. 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 talk. and russia is welcomed to the global trade part of the almost twenty years of talks the move to bring both advantages as in tough competition. a very warm welcome to western 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 workers. is going off is across the latest from the central asian country. google protesters blocked a really station including 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 a few models of cocktails that the train and the police. 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 or was in this all down also in western style and what happened there on friday is that a protest rally against the salaries combined with celebrations of twenty years of kazakhstan's independence just spiraled out of control it's still not clear what exactly triggered it but at one point the angry crowd began setting buildings on fire including state facilities see that forty six buildings have been burned down a little clashes with the police as well and also unfortunately the authorities say

they were forced to. retaliate and take 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. already has maintained the situation is under control more local journalists because menard told r.t. she believes outside influences behind the unrest workers in generalising have been striking for fairly long already for several months it is true story note if you hear those people they're all dressed in clothes with their guns uniforms this is fairly strange for a strike two uniformed you know they were just rushing things around. and there were behaving too organized and they were joking authorities and.

it looks like crew this is being let down even one of the opposition leaders that this is not in the interests of what it was you that you were getting killed because they are not fighting for their own ideas syria's leaders have been given until wednesday to stop the violence and that observers in 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 asaad regime and the opposition to end the bloodshed and begin to move because i was out for an intervention and sanctions that some western states say they can't accept that and blame rest of damascus alone that's despite thousands of army defectors claiming to be fighting to bring down the middle east politics professor jeremy salt says the main task now is between both sides to put down their weapons. but western governments i think would have to accept that the bonnet is two way the building up

west and so far has been the bonds being one one way spectacularly forces directed towards a consulate in tennessee and being very little reference to the bonds of ongoing contact that bonnets began almost from the beginning with like this movement gangland hiding behind the people fighting for generally pleased with them because in a long time and more recently lifted by the axis that in fact there was a monitor but it was a little by factors now i think the way out of this before on 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 way have you found. this waiting others what their weapons on the tiriel because they hop in the millions or whatever happens that. we can be very very serious. and global thinking that patience nothing will protect a very wary of that they agree with russia's position and so far russia solidly

behind the syrian government. just as it was today being frank 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 badass. libya's banks are getting some much needed cash flow again after the u.n. lifted some economic sanctions wanted helps the new leaders grapple with a regime change they brought their problems elsewhere following the toppling and killing of candle gadaffi clashes between tribal groups iraq to the capital this week libya's new government also a lot of pressure from the divine the protesters in benghazi where. they were going to leadership to quit saying it's not doing enough to bring change patrick hayes

from the online political magazine spikes believes the transitional government doesn't represent the libyan. the national transitional council was never actually really part of a democratically forged libya anyway they were never on the streets really fighting for the so 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 suitable people to represent the libyan people you know we have a situation where the libyan people are so you have got them and if these people don't represent us we don't even really know who they are. so it's come this hour a champion all trace the wiki leaks military hearing bradley manning appears in time accused of siphoning sense divinely data and his supporters rallied behind this to go down salt. and we also head to one of the houses most volatile republics

to see what's being done to ensure the younger generation on the seduced into extreme. buses the 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 fraud during the vote there where cameras will be installed this. polling station next year president of urge the revised russia party to move with the timing of bringing fresh faces to the growing tired of the old system he also here in the u.s. and its missile defense shield in europe which most cases poses a threat to its security says washington still won't give britain assurances that it's not aimed at russia moscow radar system it's a bit west of us territory when you go to the music 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 finally came to fruition by the end of the week with russia being stepped 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 where fastener explains. with almost two decades of hard talks now 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 agreements to firmly behind closed doors experience will have 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 and are currently not in use and the rough. here's that cut of foreign subsidies like sessional grain will only make things dramatically worse with 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 and. 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 give 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 our producers have been on the menu start to w t o critics say russia's making history will be unable to meet the increased competition exception of attracting offering a gloomy prediction that once the country's in bad lines will stop factories will shut and thousands of people will be left out of work and out of la however the predictions continue to go 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 their gross you 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 a vast a little strange russia has been the biggest economy not to be integrated into the

w t o but after an eighteen year marathon of negotiations all the world's key players finally come together under the same umbrella. brazen arsenal are to moscow. i reminded of our breaking news here on off oil rig with sixty seven people on board have capsized off russia's far eastern coast four people are confirmed dead while over forty remain unaccounted for. fourteen people have been rescued the rescue efforts continue through the night but visibility high waves. the operation ships are being sent to the site of the tragedy. went down walls being towed about pools it's believed the crew didn't have enough time to. keep you updated on any developments of. now the minute you're hearing of the soldier accused of passing secret american government data to wiki leaks going on the well friday bradley manning had already spent more than a year in

a detention hearing is to determine whether that enough evidence to put manning on trial if guilty he would spend life behind private manning served as an intelligence family in iraq and is accused of leaking classified military and diplomatic data to go with a plan backfired. if that had happened manning has already been judged by top officials. who think that manning is not someone who is a traitor he was. documents to foreign enemies he didn't profit from them he is accused of giving them to the media and what he gave to me were allegedly were very low level documents low security in fact probably should not have been divisive i darkness at all were also worried i mean i can't get a fair trial president obama has already announced that he's guilty he's the commander in chief it's a command structure in the military cerebrally who is involved in the judge the jury under president obama's command and their careers on the land line there is no

choice but to say manning is guilty if they want to keep their military career since the president already said he's guilty a soldier who is in that situation is a choice of ignoring the nuremberg principles and becoming complicit in these crimes or exposing those crimes if meaning is guilty of what he's accused what do you get what he's guilty of is telling the truth telling the truth so the american public can see what the u.s. military and state department actually are doing this trials embarrassment to the u.s. military and the united states it shows a great deal of fear of the truth and fear of the truth is what's driving this prosecution. now we're online dot com whenever you want to catch up with what's happening in the world or beyond it. has looking at you this russian rocket that's been enormous from french guy and i carrying a badge of satellite that will keep an eye on all of us will tell you he's keeping watch. on the devoted dog he refused to abandon his dead mate in russia's far east

but three hundred is the determined to destroy him author dot com reports in the race to save the brain just ahead on. at least a fifty. eight activists have been arrested in new york after they broke into a private park of manhattan asking we've been top its three month anniversary the protesters who were victims from the national park last month attended the set off a new camp in the city's do walk a park by ripping holes in the fence and using ladders to climb over police dispersed the protesters claiming they were invading private property and town followed the cafes followed by a number of different view including times square thousands of people have that arrested and detained across the u.s. journey and to court closer. look now at some other world news in brief this hour heavy handed a gyptian song have been caught on camera pulling

a woman across the pavement by her hair cure and protests in the capital. according to reports that she offices throwing rocks and using batons on demonstrators ten people have been killed and hundreds wounded since clashes began on friday demonstrators are demanding power be transferred from the military to a civilian authority the full unedited video all of that violence can be found on our website r.t. dot com but you may find the images disturbing not the czech republic's first post communist leader vaclav havel has died at the age of seventy five that is still in play right president oversaw his country's transition to democracy as well as the peaceful breakup between the czech republic and slovakia have all died at home after a long l. s. . a mammoth rescue operation is now underway in the southern philippines after floods tore through the area killing over six

hundred and leaving hundreds missing a thai food hit on friday night 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 gewirtz troops have officially withdrawn from iraqi nine years after the invasion that ousted saddam hussein soldiers crossed into neighboring kuwait during the night many now fear a surge in terror attacks following america's wintry departure the conflict saw 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.

now dr stan often makes headlines for the wrong reasons with frequent reports of insurgency and instability high unemployment and low living standards are sometimes blamed as root causes which helped feed militancy i thought of it in the courts to explain this. 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 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 warranted the lives of many innocent families across the region because of that a number of organizations have sprung up fighting for victims' rights and helping is also fucked its peace 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 the swede 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 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 bible should not be unusual our organization mostly helps women it doesn't matter what situation they're in if they're in need to come to help most of these women don't know their rights or who to ask who 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 most valuable time that could have been used to rescue him. with that he won'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 a good have done something. 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 to the forest use them as them 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 honeymoon

remembers how when her daughter started working at the market she met very religious people that. proust 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 going to paradise i tried to talk her out of it but she never listened she only 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 deadly 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 pakistan has become really just theoretical ice 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 yet if anyone told me thirty years ago that life in dagestan would be like what we see now i would never believe that. locals want the rule of law enforced and respected again every turn to a time before terror played such a dominant part in the lives of so many marginal question archie calls up in the republic of dagestan. a check in on the breaking news 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 for are confirmed dead while forty nine are still missing russia's emergency ministry is expanding its mission in the sea of a hoss by sending more ships to the disaster site the operations big hampered by poor weather conditions because sky already capsized while falling back to port and sank within just twenty minutes is that the big four holes were damaged by ice and waves and water began flowing inside the city as a thousand meters deep in that area well of course keep you informed as we get more details. and surely we look at how to scientists paid with their careers for revealing the truth about genetically modified food that's after an update of the main news for today on the week in just a few minutes we. did

stress nutrition and religious products on the price of healthy eating. we need to test these foods for times is the allergenicity immune response lower nutrition and for environmental contamination don't you feel like a lab brought some consider the experiment is human treatment very highly significant differences between the g.m. fact that they both at they don't cheer had that much they weren't treated so well

themselves one question means one carrier if you ask one question you get the answer and you might or might not be able to publish it but that's the end of your career. it's help us now here in moscow breaking news now from r.t. rescuers will work through the night in russia's far east where the oil rig the sixty seven people on board have capsized four people on the way to have died and fourteen have been saved from the icy waters and the rest are still missing. and other news this week a more deadly violence in the wake of the covered done crackdown which so well happened striking on the work of kill that independence day cowboy.