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really happening to the global economy with mike's cancer for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines join into kaiser report on our. rescuers continue a desperate search for survivors after an oil rig of sixty seven on board capsized off russia's far east coast for a confirmed dead fourteen have been saved but scores remain missing in stormy i.c.c. . you know the news hundreds of people have taken to the streets in western kazakhstan demanding a period of official mourning to be declared for fifteen protesters killed in clashes with police since friday. and also this week the arab league gives damascus until wednesday to stop the bloodshed while russia pushes his resolution of the security council urging both sides in syria into dialogue. and russia's membership of the world trade organization is finally been approved after eighteen years of talks and a move that brings both benefits and tough competition. hello
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it's one i am here in moscow you're watching the weekly here on r t it's our roundup of the day's news and the week's top stories with me kevin. rescue teams continue to work through the night searching for survivors after an oil rig with sixty seven people on board capsized off russia's far east coast four have been confirmed dead while fourteen of being saved but a desperate search goes on nonetheless for forty nine people still missing in stormy i.c.c. . has been following the tragedy at the moment conditions in the rescue site two hundred kilometers off russia's far east coast of very difficult indeed it's nighttime there and there is a huge storm with thing around. those that are in the water and there's been four
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bodies found in the water but such were the the horror 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 at 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. hope is 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
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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 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. there are 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 boots 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
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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 with the people taking the streets in western cuz it start demanding a period of official mourning to be declared for fifteen striking all workers was shot dead in clashes with police on friday the instance far more rallies across the region. for us. on
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a sunday afternoon he's managed to stop an attempt to storm of the local courthouse . and also attacks various attacks on police while it's there started on friday it was a protest rally against downbeat 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 ground began setting buildings on fire including state facilities clashing with police and authorities say that forty six buildings had been burned to the ground and as a result police had to use force including live rounds authorities say that they have the situation in under control deployed a state of emergency for the next three weeks there in accordance with the. constitution since then has been in force around sixty people have been detained
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and also 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 away 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 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 at the police they moved into. a nearby do it setting things on fire there as well breaking shop windows car windows and so on and thirty say that at some point their actions became a threat to the lives of the locals and of the police so they had to use force
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there as well. live around so also and twelve people were hospitalized with gunshot wounds one of them died down a lotto also in. more than four hundred protesters have gathered for a protest rally but so far for shouldn't we everything is reported to be going on quite peacefully but of course we will be monitoring the situation. still to come this hour a champion or traitor of the wiki leaks military hearing bradley manning appears in court for the first time accused of siphoning sensitive army data but his supporters rallied behind the singled out of soldiers. staying in the american courts around and that supreme leader have been judged to have given support for al qaeda as nine eleven attack gave a report on where. at least ten people have been killed and hundreds injured in fresh violence in egypt since friday the protesters want a faster transfer of power from the military to civilian authority even though
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elections are currently under way egyptian soldiers have been caught on camera now being heavy handed with protesters over the prime minister's denied the use of excessive force i spoke to a veteran middle east expert who says the army is provoking and get to play the demonstrators for violence it's an old tradition in their country to deny it all we're all watching it the whole of egypt is watching it there was one young woman in particular who blows being dragged off you could see her. in a browser being dragged by police when there are other images coming out of egypt of soldiers you're really seeing from the rooftop of the parliament building onto demonstrators below and this really takes one back to the colonial period in history history of region when they were occupied by the british empire that is what they were told to do and the fact that the military is now turning on its own people. under the your wonders all. because of the weak and the gyptian
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ruling elite is a sign that things are in a very serious. serious situation developing in egypt and those whom the sooner i was drawn to a civilian government and elected government the better at whatever their government may be and these are just gusting things that are being done to demonstrators in derry square normally it's rangers by our own to create a great deal of anger people are now asking it egypt so what's changed i think the army is deliberately provoking this anger in order to create the impression that the violence is coming not from being defensive and that he really has to be run by the military indefinitely that is their remit it's not going to work. at least fifteen civilians and six government troops have reportedly been killed in the latest violence in syria officials say they expect that damascus will sign up to
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a proposal to send an observer mission within the next twenty four hours part of a plan by the organization to end the bloodshed the body representing arab states has given syria an ultimatum to do so by wednesday threatening otherwise to turn to the u.n. security council for further action this all comes as russia has put forward a draft resolution on syria to the u.n. it demands that all parties and mediately stop the violence and begin dialogue but it rules out foreign intervention and sanctions but some western states want to blame the unrest soley on the assad regime despite thousands of army defectors claiming to be fighting to bring down the government right now political analyst chris bambery told me citizens strongly oppose foreign intervention but western countries are pushing for it to reinforce their position in the region. i think there must be worries there are increasing call for foreign intervention in syria or not we think the syrian national council a body which has been in the country and outside the. country i have to say that
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many of those forces demonstrating in the saudi regime do not share our demands for foreign intervention or indeed for nor strikes on what is happening in syria now is that as a popular revolution our forces are moving in to try and take that off and use it for its own ends in the syrian national council this body of the sea which is both in the country and save the country is no seeing and if it would several ties iraq it was severed ties to hamas and hizbollah it would treat russia as a special relationship i don't think that sounds very very good by the way and it would strengthen ties with qatar saudi arabia the other gulf states and with america and france now it would seem to me an agenda should be joyous the years of people in paris. in washington and in soda and saudi arabia and i think there is a developing difference here between for the people who have been organizing the peaceful demonstrations the uprising if you like inside syria on the ground in many
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of the forces the people in the grown by and watch are opposing as i understand it foreign intervention people have been organizing the demonstrations have not come up with a demand for western intervention this is coming i think that extraneous to the movement and i think it's something we should be a pause in if you those forces are opposing it and indeed they have said they are against the violent overthrow of the asaad regime they want to see it toppled by peaceful means and i think to be applauded in that situation they don't want syria to go down the road of civil war almost two decades of talks finally came to fruition by the end of last week with russia being accepted into the ranks of the global trade club the world trade organization being a member should now free of business opportunities and positively impact on prices the result is rare for national explains that the warm welcome those come at a price. with only studio a case of hard talks no overt it's still not clear exactly what russia's membership is offering the country and its neighbors to all the details of the free will still
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behind firmly. close doors expiries enough to try and little crystal ball gazing with. their predictions begin with agriculture two into the w t o russia had to pledge to reduce in-state support to farming we've already traveled two 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 crazing thirty percent of the countries are will land currently not in use and the raw fear is 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 it may soon become fifty to seventy percent local producers will be unable to compete at all down because. meanwhile those competitive enough will stay afloat and benefit alexander and his family run a small business just outside of moscow
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a one hundred twenty goatskin if enough unique to produce series of high quality cheese into it back in the crystal ball the future doesn't look right from wrong to mystic copper juices have been among the names todd and the w t o critics say russia's making history will be at maple 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 luck however the predictions continue to go away with foreign investments said to be ready to rock it the cable 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 grocer would gain about eleven percent of g.d.p. but apart from economic achievements the country's political image should benefit
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two or three in part of the. lobel body would have the best strains russia has been the biggest economy not to be integrated into the w t o but after an eighteen year not a throne of negotiations all the world's key players finally come together under the same umbrella. reason otieno t. mosco. the military hearing of the soldier accused of passing secret american government data to wiki leaks got underway on friday bradley manning's already spent more than a year and a half a detention hearing to determine whether there's enough evidence to put manning on trial if guilty he'd spend life behind bars private manning served as an intelligence analyst in iraq and is accused of leaking classified military and diplomatic data to the whistleblower web site former cia officer ray mcgovern told me the american people needed to know about the alleged abuses carried out by their army. these charges or greatly over rosh.
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gates's 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 damages is the revelation of things that the merkin people should know about and that's what bradley manning was doing by his own players own e-mail see indicated that he wanted this to lead to a discussion in a debate and some reconsideration are the kinds of policies that he witnessed the effect so there are agreed ation of values here there is the promise of the written promise that i and others assigned 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 oh. or i can follow my conscience at great peril
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to myself and this is very clear in his emails a great peril to myself the american people need to know what's going on so they can make more of the latent decisions were allotted r t dot com whenever you want to catch up with what's happening in the world or beyond of course. i am talking to be of is looking to you this russian rocket successfully launched from french garner carrying a bunch of satellites will keep a very close eye on us we'll tell you who is keeping watch online and food for thought read the online. read on our website about a tentative agreement under which north korea is set now to suspend its controversial to raid the richmond program in exchange for us today. an american court ruled that iran supported the nine eleven plotters and hijackers 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 weren't in court
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iranian american activist judge allowed to fix the case is part of a larger 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
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were there were candlelight vigils on the streets of tap raud in solidarity with the americans who lost their lives. on 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-fulfilling 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. russia's communist party held peaceful protests on sunday against the results of the parliamentary elections around three thousand people gathered in central moscow with a similar number at a protest and some petersburg election saw the ruling united russia party gave the majority of seats in the do however the opposition claimed the voting was rigged and demanded a new one of the putin said all cases of violations will be thoroughly investigated and that camera should be installed at all polling stations to minimize free or did
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any future election. with. these but it. can be a little commission to install web cameras and every polling station in the country . these cameras should be on a room the cloak so that everyone can see what's happening in. little rule in any allegations of. belgium's after morning this last week following tuesday shooting spree in which five were killed and more than one hundred twenty injured a man went on a rampage in the city of shooting and mobbing grades into crowds of christmas shoppers the attackers shot himself dead before police arrived at the scene he was next convict to just served a sentence for possession of illicit firearms and selling drugs the body of a female house clean it was also discovered inside a shed he used there were initial reports that several government were involved although that was later ruled by the police. some of the news in brief around the world israel has completed the release of five hundred fifty palestinians in the
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final stage of a prisoner swap with a mass in the kidnapped four of the kidnapped israeli soldiers show that the egyptian brokered deal agreed the release of over a thousand palestinians in return for him he was captured in guards there in two thousand and three meanwhile televisa announced plans to build more than a thousand settlements in the occupied west bank but palestinians have made a return to peace talks conditional on a freeze on any new israeli homes big built on the. final u.s. troops officially withdrawn 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. rescue operation is now underway in the southern philippines after floods tours through the area killing over six hundred and leaving hundreds missing a typhoon hit on friday night causing
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a month's worth of rainfall in just twelve hours tens of thousands were forced from their homes by the deluge the rescues currently being hampered by widespread power . and flooded roads. the czech republic's first post communist leader vaslav havel has died at the age of seventy five the dissident playwright turned president oversaw as countries transition to democracy as well as the peaceful break up between the czech republic and slovakia have all died at home after a long as. next we head to one of russia's most volatile regions and the battle there stop the young falling prey to terrorists. the august star often makes headlines for all the wrong reasons with frequent reports of insurgency and instability high unemployment and low living standards
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are sometimes blamed as the root causes which help feed militancy as it is with a culture that reports. it's a called mr winter morning in the speed line a sign of as always is first in the office the telephone starts searing right as she enters the room it is the usual start of the day for the mothers of dagestan a human rights organisation created four years ago and is now known across the region in today's headline is heading to the arts curse 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 will sit 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 longer gravel should not be robbed our organization mostly helps women it doesn't matter what situation they're in if they're in need to come to help them with most of these women don't know their rights or who to ask
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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 most valuable time could have been used to rescue him. and 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 good have done something good for you. son was accused of helping terrorists in dagestan she fears he was killed but where she still does 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 c going into the forest use them as and 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
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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. 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 new slang or going to paradise i tried to talk her out of it but she never listened sean 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 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 pakistan has become
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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. if anyone told me thirty years ago that life in dagestan would be like what we see now. now i would never believe it. locals want the rule of law enforced and respect it again every turn to a time before terror played such a dominant part in the lives of so many minds in the question archie calls up in the republic of dagestan for surely tonight we're going to special port few telling
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how two scientists paid with their careers for availing the truth about genetically modified food very interesting program called it already on this channel after update of main news was made kevin know it in just a few moments. it's
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grass nutritious and this is products of pride of healthy eating. we need to test these times is the allergenicity immune response lower nutrition in for environmental contamination don't you feel like a lab rat some consider the experiment in human treatment very highly significant differences between the g.m. felt that they both at the chia pet but they weren't treated so well themselves one question means one career you ask one question you could be uncertain and you. might or might not be able to publish it but that's the end of your career.
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