russia's membership of the world trade organization has finally been approved after eighteen years of talks in a move that brings both benefits and tough competition. hello 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 no in 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 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 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 of 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 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 or 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. hundreds of people are 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 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 proto surround the against on beat salaries combined with celebrations of twenty years of stan's 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 glassing 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 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 the kazakhstan's the constitution since then has been in force around sixty people have been detained 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 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 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 of story say 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 in. around also twelve people were hospitalized with gunshot wounds one of them died in the work though also in. more than four hundred protesters gathered for a protest rally but sought for fortune we. should be going 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 data but his supporters rallied behind the single there of soldier. staying in the american courts or rather that supreme leader have been judged to give support for al qaeda as nine eleven attack gave a report on. 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 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 veterans 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 being dragged off you could see her. 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 on to demonstrators below and this really takes one back to the colonial period in arab history and the 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 obviously of we and the egyptian ruling elite is a sign that things are in a very serious. serious situation developing in egypt and those whom the sooner i was transferred to a civilian government an elected government the better whatever that government may be and these just gusting things that are being done to demonstrators in derry square and on its rangers by our own to create a great deal of anger people are now asking in 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 them they're being defensive and that egypt really has to be run by the military indefinitely and if 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 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 and 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 immediately stop the violence and begin dialogue but it rules for an intervention and sanctions for 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 the increasing call for foreign intervention in syria not least in the

syrian national council a body which has been in the country and outside the country i have to say that many of those forces demonstrating in the regime did not share our demands for foreign intervention or indeed for nor strikes on what is happening in syria no is that what as a popular revolution other 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 tries with iraq it was severed ties to hamas and hezbollah 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 would seem to me an agenda to 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 grown to many 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 which should be a pause and indeed those forces are opposing it and indeed they have said they are against the violent overthrow of the outside 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 syria's 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 up business opportunities and positively impact on prices but as art is rare for national explains the warm welcome those come at a price. with almost two decades of hard talks now over it still not clear exactly

what russia's w.t.r. membership is offering the country and was amazed all the details of the three winston firmly behind closed doors experience of left to try and little crystal ball gazing which. their predictions begin with agriculture two into the w t o russia had to pledge to reduce instate 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 was 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 that 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 moscow there one hundred twenty goats give enough meat to produce feelings of high quality cheese or to put back in the crystal ball the future doesn't look right from wrong to mystic copper juices have been on the used car and the w t o critics say russia's making history will be unable to meet the increased competition the exceptional attractive offer in 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 cumulative 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 the grocer would

gain about eleven percent of g.d.p. to pilots from economic achievements the country's political image should benefit not being part of the global body would of the past be a little strange russia has been the biggest economy not to be integrated into the w t o but after an eighteen year not a thought 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 is already spent more than a year and a half a detention hearing is 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 website 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 rush. 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 american people should know about and that's what bradley manning was doing by his own players own e-mails see indicated that he wanted this to lead to a discussion in a debate and sort of the consideration or 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 assigned before we became employed and got access to classified information they will not release information that would endanger the national security but the supreme value there is what ethicists call a supervening. are you 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 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 the course. of talking to be of his look at you this russian rocket successfully launched from fred garner carrying a bunch of satellites will keep 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 the fold because the accused including iran's supreme leader weren't in court 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 were there were candlelight vigils on the streets of tap raud in solidarity with the americans who lost their lives. in cooperating with the united states in helping topple the taliban who. is an 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 the election saw the ruling united russia party gave the majority of seats in the duma 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 cameras should be installed at all polling stations to minimize free or did any future election. commission to install web cameras at every polling station in the country. these cameras should be on a room the clock so that everyone can see what's happening in. little rule of any allegations of. belgium's left a morning this last week following tuesday shooting spree in which five were killed and more than one hundred twenty injured a man went on the rampage in the city of shooting and lobbing grenades 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 the possession of illicit firearms and selling drugs the body of a female house cleaner 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 final stage of a prisoner swap with a mass in the kidnapped four rather the kidnapped israeli soldier gillet 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. of rescue operations now underway in the southern philippines

after floods taught through the area killing over six hundred and leaving hundreds missing a typhoon hit on friday night causing 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 vast harvell 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 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.

dagger stuff often makes headlines for all the wrong reasons with frequent reports of insurgency and instability high unemployment and low living standards are sometimes blamed as the root causes which help feed militancy and that is why did a culture reports. it's a called mr winter morning in the high speed 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 is 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 sudan that 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 or gravel should not unusual our organization mostly helps women it doesn't matter what situation they are in if they are in need we

come to help them with 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 most of that would have been used to rescue him or that they shouldn'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 good with you and your. 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 norm remembers how when her daughter started working at the markets 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 muslim going to paradise i tried to talk her out of it but she never listened sean listened to her new friends. her new friends turned out to be extremists and the last year of her life she disappeared for several months the next time her mother saw her face was on t.v. in a report on the latest special forces raid against suspected terrorists these dudley's skirmishes are part of a bigger conflict being played out across the north caucasus region literacy by dog who is russia's most wanted militant and on the list of america's most wanted

terrorists want to establish a pan caucasian islamist state. in the last decade parts of dagestan has become really just the resident lies this region is now the heart of precious islamic terrorist problem and almost every day the authorities are engaged in shootouts with terrorists and very often that happens even in the capital city of the region . locals say it's hardly surprising muslims are turning to radical islam as they see it as an alternative to the hard life in the region the older members of the community believe a large proportion of those who went to the fore is a simply bandits from an am 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 every turn to a time before terror played such

a dominant part in the lives of so many might in the question are easy calls up in the republic of dagestan for shortly tonight we're going to special report for you telling how two scientists paid with their careers for real and the truth about genetically modified food very interesting program if you know. call it already on this channel software update of main news was made kevin zero in in just a few moments.

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world with the. technology innovation. developments around russia we've. covered. live from moscow this is our top stories for you rescuers continue a desperate search for survivors after an oil rig with sixty seven on board capsized off russia's far east coast for a confirmed dead fourteen have been saved but schools remain missing in stormy icy sees as weather conditions hamper rescue efforts with high winds and waves up to five meters. in other news this week hundreds of people call for a period of official mourning to be declared in kazakhstan for fifteen protest.