great club after almost twenty years of talks but a move that brings both advantages and some tough competition. in the air. it's a pm here in moscow this sunday night a warm welcome to you watching the weekly around r.t. it's around to put the day's news in the week's top stories with me kevin ho in but the breaking news i just mentioned first of all an oil rig with sixty seven people on board capsized off russia's far eastern coast today four people are known to have died while fourteen others have been rescued so far emergency teams are working through the night now to try to find more than forty missing workers but it's not an easy task artie's tom barton has the latest. at the moment conditions in the rescue site two hundred kilometers off russia's far east coast are very difficult indeed it's night time there and there is

a huge storm whipping around those that are in the water and there's been four bodies found in the water but such were the the horror of the gale force winds and the and the high waves that those bodies couldn't be recovered there has been life jackets and boats found but nobody has been in them more ships have arrived to the rescue site and they will now provide extra manpower to try and find anyone still alive in the water or to recover any bodies that may be there however with water temperatures only just above freezing and the air temperature of minus ten degrees c. movies fading that those people in the water but any of those will be found alive the search efforts have had a lot of difficult setbacks mostly because of the weather two helicopters that helped pluck fourteen people to safety earlier were forced to turn away ours was an

aircraft because of the horrendous weather conditions and a tugboat that was also helping run into difficulties itself it started to take on water in the being battered by those waves the rig was being towed back to port when the storm brewed up around it and the pumps in the rig that usually just just chuck out the bit of water that sloshes into into the rig totally normal procedure those pumps were totally overwhelmed by the amount of water that was coming in the rig sank in just twenty minutes and that meant that all the people on board had no real time to organize a proper evacuation life jackets were found in the water but it seemed no one had time to put them on as we heard from one of the rescuers earlier. newcrest. 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 some of those that have been rescued are now in a nearby hospital they will be given medical treatment and the also big question to find out just what happened and why this rig sank so fast investigators do say also that it seems safety protocol may well have been broken and that's official language what it really means is that the rig should never have been towed in these weather conditions in the first place it was very dangerous to do so president medvedev has said that all help must be extended to those people that have been rescued and to those that may still be rescued and also that a full investigation must be launched to find out what's has gone on and what caused this for the moment though it's a race against time to try and find those people that may still be alive before it's too late. and there was a cold sky all rigs sank while it was being towed back to port after finishing a drilling expedition in the sea of cortes there is no threat of an oil spill

unlike previous incidents involving oil rigs elsewhere in the world the biggest such disaster of course last year's gulf of mexico accident when a rig operated by he exploded it took months then to cap it but not before five million gallons of oil that leaked into the ocean well this russian platform in today's incident is the country's largest it was built back in one thousand nine hundred five it was jus to set sail for drilling off the vietnamese coast at the end of its current assignment will of course keep you fully in touch with developments on this unfolding tragedy in the sea of red hots throughout the night . more deaths have been recorded in kazakstan officials now say thirteen people have been killed in independence day clashes striking more workers clashed with police in the west of the central asian country on friday sparking more rallies across the region and he got a piskun off for us. according to the latest reports we're getting from kazakhstan stories the death toll from friday's violence in the town of version i was in in

the west of kazakhstan has now risen to thirteen people with over eighty others injured and authorities also say that on a sunday afternoon he's managed to stop an attempt to storm the local courthouse engine hours and and also attacks various attacks on police the violence there started on friday it was a protest rally against and beat salaries combined with celebrations of twenty years of independence and the entire thing just spiraled out of control it's not clear. what exactly triggered it but at some point the angry crowd began setting buildings on fire including state facilities clashing with police and authorities say that forty six do things have been burned to the ground and as a result police had to use force including live rounds of thirty say that they have the situation in under control deployed

a state of emergency for the next three weeks there in accordance with because our constitution since then has been in force around sixty people have been detained and also three russian journalists have been detained as well and they are reported to have been released also in the west of kazakhstan a group of protesters blocked our way to weigh station including a passenger train with over three hundred people on board of thirty say that seven passenger trains and three freight trains on i would delete as a result and at around eight pm local time six pm moscow time police came in to disperse the crowd but instead authorities say that a group of around fifty hooligans as we call them showed fierce resistance they said a locomotive on fire threw molotov cocktails balls at the train and the police they moved into. setting things on fire there as well breaking shop windows car windows and so on and our story see that at some point their actions became

a threat to the lives of both the locals and of the police so they had to use force there as well including live rounds also twelve people were hospitalized with gunshot wounds one of them died in town a lot also in kazakhstan more than four hundred protesters have gathered for a protest rally but so far fortunately everything should be going peacefully but of course we'll be monitoring the situation. we certainly will no serious leaders have been given until wednesday to stop the violence and let observers in or the arab league says it will turn to the u.n. security council for action russia meantime is defending its own proposed resolution on syria but the u.s. and its allies want it changed moscow's appeal to both the assad regime and the opposition to end the bloodshed and begin talks with foreign intervention in sanctions some western states though say that kal except that they blame the rest

of the damascus alone despite thousands of army defectors claiming now to be fighting to bring down or sad middle east politics professor jeremy salt says the main task now is to persuade both sides to put down their weapons. but western governments i think would have to accept the bonuses to weigh the building up west and so far has been the bonds being one one way respect security forces directed towards a consulate in tennessee and being very little reference to the bongs obama gangs contract that bonnets began almost from the beginning like this movement and the gangs and they can't hide behind the people fight generally pleased with them because in a long time it's more recently admitted by the activists that in fact there was anonymous but it was a little by factors now i think. a 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 for the army to work with

sound but somehow way have you found. this waiting up as to what their weapons on the turia because they hardly listen to whatever happens that. we can very very serious we journal and global implications not think we're protected very wary of that they agree with russia's position and so if i lost. somebody behind the syrian government. this position today i think banking at the time that russia changes its position i first and then see it like that i think much is going to college on the y. out of which we can go because first of all putting on the question is because so many child discounts are being made it would be almost impossible to get back into all of them so it would change the way that they weigh it now it's the 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 now while it helps the new leaders grapple with a regime change they brought their problems elsewhere following the toppling and

killing of colonel gadhafi clashes between tribal groups erupted near the capital this last week libya's new government also came under pressure from thousands of angry protesters in benghazi where the revolt began they want the interim leadership to quit saying it's not doing enough to bring change patrick a use from the online political magazine spike believes the transitional government doesn't represent the libyan people. the national transitional council was never actually really part of democratically forward 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 a way when it was safe enough to enter tripoli it was made up of gadhafi cronies people who were basically cherry picked by the west as being suitable people to represent the libyan people now we have a situation where the libyan people are saying how to manage these people don't represent of we don't even really know who they are still ahead for you on this

channel along the road to school while libya sort of back to normality after the civil war many parents still keep their kids from class because of what schools now want to teach we got a report on that coming up and in the american courts around the supreme leader a judge to have given support for al qaeda is nine eleven attack if you haven't caught that story from us this week we've got the details coming up to. almost twenty years of talk finally came to fruition by the end of the week with russia big 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 also those who could find the competition a bit too tough as well as his maria from ocean of found. with all my studio a case 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 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 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 bring 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 will go down because. 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 wrong the mystic copper juice is happening on the main stock and the w t o critics say russia's making history will be unable to meet the raised competition exception of a tract offering a gloomy prediction that once the country's in bad lines will stop factories will shut and thousands of people will be left out of work and out of la however the predictions continue to 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 we think russia would gain about eleven percent of g.d.p. but apart from economic achievements the country's political image should benefit not been part of the global body would have 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. griffin otieno t. mosco. 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 proposed to make the presidential ballot in march more transparent in his annual live q. and a session with the public patil dismissed allegations of fraud are in the vote but said web cameras will be installed at all polling stations next year president medvedev the ruling united russia party to move with the times and bring in fresh faces say people have grown tired of the old system he also warned the u.s. on its missile defense shield in europe which moscow says poses a threat to its security since washington still have written assurances that it's

not aimed at russia moscow the radar system of its own and its western most territory one of those means that 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. one of russia's billionaires put his name down for the country's top job this week metals mogul mikhail prokhorov wants to run against putin for the presidency in march and is spending the maximum top point five million dollars allowed for his campaign his announcement follows the largest rally in decades in a gathering against election fraud of moscow a week ago. at the political arena in this year and spearheaded the right cause political party and then he quit over disagreements with other party members he is

russia's third richest man worth an estimated eighteen billion dollars and he owns the american basketball team the new jersey nets. the military hearing of the soldier accused of passing secret american government data to wiki leaks come under way friday bradley manning has already spent more than a year and a half in detention the hearing is to determine whether there's enough evidence to put manning on trial if guilty he would spend life behind bars private manning served as an intelligence analyst in iraq and is accused of leaking classified military and diplomatic dated to the whistleblower web site former cia officer robert government says the american people needed to know about the alleged abuses carried out by their army. these charges are greatly overwrought. gates this term so there has been no indication of serious damage to

u.s. personnel or those who cooperate with the united states what's the damage is is the revelation of things that the american people should know about and that's what bradley manning was doing by his own players own e-mail seat indicated that he wanted this to lead to a discussion and debate and some reconsideration are the kinds of policies that he witnessed the effect so there are gradations of values here there is the promise of the written promise that i and others signed before we became employed and got access to classified information they will not release information that would endangered the national security but the supreme value there is what ethicists call a supervening value and that's what bradley manning saw he saw the torture he saw the other abuses he saw the feckless war and he said i can go back and keep my mouth shut like my superiors say or i can follow my conscience at great peril to myself and this is very clear in his e-mails at great peril to myself the american

people need to know what's going on so they can make more enlightened decisions were a lot of course but if you want to catch up with what's happening in the world all beyond. this one of the big stories of the week we brought you here is look at you this is a russian rocket successfully launched from french guyana caring about ships satellites it'll keep an eye on us every detail. tell you what to expect their own lines more details about that story and also the devoted dog who refused to abandon these dead mates in russia's far east but stray hunt is to destroy him go to fly the go to story. though. iran's been ruled by a court that it didn't support the hijackers behind the nine eleven terror attacks the lawsuit in new york was filed by some of the victims' families and was settled

by default because the accused including iran's supreme leader was in court iranian american activist judge melody thinks the case is part of a large a smear campaign to prepare for intervention. i don't see any evidence that is particularly compelling that iran had a direct role in nine eleven i know that we have seen in washington there's been a campaign in new york to link iran very publicly to nine eleven on the anniversary of those attacks earlier this year there was a billboard campaign in times square with what is god's face and something along the lines of you know the silent partner of al qaeda. there's clearly a campaign right now to try to ratchet up the pressure for yet another u.s. attack on a middle eastern country and i just think this is so dangerous if you go back to when those attacks happened immediately afterward iran condemned the attacks there

were there were candlelight vigils on the streets of broad in solidarity with the americans who lost their lives. in cooperating with the united states in helping topple the taliban who. is the enemy of iran as was osama bin laden what we're seeing now is this strange self filling prophecy process and i'm worried that this is exactly what we saw with iraq this is this is a campaign to go to war just two months after the civil war of the school books already telling a new story instead of having to read about the peoples and now learning of the heroes of the revolution but for someone of the woods of change not the system is out his exam the boy has been finding out. it's a new day in the new libya but it starts with an old ritual students assemble before classes to see a new flag be hoisted and to sing

a new national anthem. that was like the revolution the rich tricolor the human is a flashback to the pretty good afi era with a few verses tweaked to represent in the action of the country's recent liberation the decades on the good of the school even students were expected to see them rise long passages of his brain will never question them and it looks like this tradition may continue i did you notice while his children were too young to understand the meaning of life the story of the new relish their answer they're already expected to know it by heart next comes a speech that unambiguously explains who are the heroes of the new libya the were the rebels to get out how to gain freedom they taught us to how don had high they taught us to love our country this is the only new material students in this triple

a school have learned since september regular classes like math or chemistry are suspended until january when the new curriculum is expected to be introduced minutes but in the english will definitely introduce foreign languages into the curriculum now kids will start studying english from the first grade because they have to be prepared for university and again in the meantime the students are preoccupied with making drawings and trinkets to commemorate the february seventeenth revolution teachers here say they try their best to explain to students what has happened in libya over the past few months in this that nobody tells us what to tell students who are free to say whatever we want we don't say bad things about gadhafi in fact we don't talk about him at all here as they say sometimes that picture is worth a. thousand wards to get our families and carpet died just a year ago our door in the principal's office is now strategically placed in front of the door several hundred copies of his green book from the local library have

been thrown away the forty two years of his rule that how bring libya's literacy rates from twenty six to about ninety percent is a distant memory he did it to sinks but what she did of the past eight months for visits here they are no you don't think people don't talk about what you know what she does it doesn't move to talk over to but what you did in the past eight months of killing and. murdering out of four hundred fifty students that attended the school a year ago half are still absent some fled the country others were pulled down by their parents who disagree with the new values talk here those who laugh and round it is traitors have to say i think it's better to catch you know when i say something bad about the good. well the study of english was banned under going after words like freedom and revolution a familiar to every first grader here but when asked what's the difference between

gadhafi is due me here a year which literally means power of the masses only be a new democracy both students and teachers are at last i don't actually know that i was just that question of some boycott artsy. as a look at some more news from around the world this hour heavy handed egyptian soldiers have been caught on camera pulling a woman across the pavement. during protests in the capital it comes before to but it is throwing rocks and using batons of protesters ten people have been killed hundreds maybe since clashing started on friday demonstrators of the modeling power being transferred from the military to civilian authority to follow their lead to video of the violence can be found in a web site www dot com there's a warning that goes with though you may well of course find those images setting. the czech republic's first post communist leader vaslav havel has died at the age of seventy five the dissident playwright turned president over saw his country's transition to democracy as well as the peaceful breakup between the czech republic

and slovakia havel died at home after a long illness. israel is a free five hundred palestinians in the final stage of a prisoner swap with hamas the egypt brokered deal agreed the release of over a thousand palestinians for israeli sergeant gilad shalit who was captured in guards or in two thousand and three israel freed the first round of four hundred seventy seven prisoners in october including dozens of palestinian militants serving life in deadly terror attacks. the final u.s. troops of officially withdrawal from iraq nine years after the invasion that ousted saddam hussein the soldiers crossed into neighboring kuwait during the night many now fear a surge in terror attacks following america's military departure the conflict saw around one hundred thousand iraqi civilians killed and cost the united states almost a trillion dollars. takes a twenty six military twenty seven pm moscow time on the breaking news we're bringing you all day on r.t. the rescue operation that's continuing in russia's far east right now where an oil

rig with sixty seven people on board went down earlier in the smalling fourteen people have now been plucked from the very icy waters there for a confirmed dead forty nine are still missing rushes the mergence caesar ministries now expanding its mission in the civil courts by sending more ships to the disaster site the operations being hampered by poor weather conditions the cold sky already capsized while on its way back to port it sank within just twenty minutes it's believed the rig four holes were damaged by ice and waves of water began pouring inside the sea as a thousand meters deep in that area we'll keep you posted. sport coming up in twenty minutes with all the latest scores in the euro hockey told before but i'll be back to munge of our top stories of today and the week as our weekly continues on r.t. now in thanks for being with. us

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you're watching the weekly on our top stories the past seven days and breaking news right now from a rescue is still working through the night in russia's far east when all right and sixty seven people aboard this capsized today four people died fourteen have been saved from the icy waters while the rest of my sick. now the stories of the week more deadly violence in the wake of the. workers killed in the independence day gathering.