rescuers continue a desperate search for survivors after an oil rig with six just seven and was capsized over russia stories codes four confirmed dead fourteen have been saved but its course remain missing is stormy i.c.c. . and other news this hour hundreds of people have taken to the treats and western kazakhstan demanding a period of official mourning to be declared fourteen protesters killed in clashes with police since friday your sources claim the tension has been orchestrated from outside the country. and also this week the arab league able to damascus and till wednesday to stop the bloodshed while russia dishes its resolution of the security council ocean broadsides and syria into dialogue. and russia's membership in

the world trade organization has finally been approved up to eighteen years of talks in a move that brings both benefits and top competition. hello and welcome to our weekly review my name is you'd have thought as to rescue teams continue to work through the night senator in full survivors after an oil break with six to seven people on board capsized off russia's far east coast have been confirmed dead while fourteen have been so far saved but a desperate search goes on for forty nine people still missing in stormy icy seas barton 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 nighttime 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 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 hard 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 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. new questions. 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. hundreds of people have taken to the streets in western kazakhstan demanding a period of official mourning today declared for fifteen striking oil workers shot dead in clashes with police on friday the incident has sparked more round as across

the. canal is in kazakhstan. on a sunday afternoon he's managed to stop an attempt to storm of the local courthouse in janelle's and and also attacks various attacks on police the violence there started on friday it was a proto surround the against and 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.

constitution since then has been in force around sixty people have been detained and also a 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 should setting things on fire there as well breaking shop windows car windows and so on and 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. twelve people were hospitalized with gunshot one. john a lot. more than four hundred protesters have gathered for a protest rally but fortunately it was all to be going peacefully but of course we will be monitoring the situation. still to come this hour a child penetrator we can be ex-military hearing bradley manning appears in court for the first time accused of siphoning sensitive army days had let his supporters rally behind the singled out soldier a. day in american courts give ron and a supreme leader of the church to have given support nine eleven attack details just ahead of. at least ten people have been killed and hundreds injured in fresh

violence in egypt since friday the protesters want a fast transfer of power from the military to civilian authorities even though elections are on the way gyptian soldiers have been caught on camera being heavy handed with protesters although the prime minister has denied the use of excessive force and veteran middle east expert terry calley says the army is provoking anger to blame the demonstrators for violence. it's an old tradition in their country to deny it all we are all watching it the whole of egypt is watching it there was one young woman in particular whose blouse had been dragged off you could see her. in a prize being dragged by police when there are other images coming out of egypt of soldiers urine eighteen 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 that 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 you want to use all of your screen of power 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 disgusting things that are being done to demonstrators in terry square and on its ranges 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 of the violence that's coming not from them they're being defensive and that he can create he has to be run by the military indefinitely and if that is there him it's not

going to work. at least fifteen civilians and six government troops have been reportedly killed in the last violence in syria arab league officials say they expect that damascus will sign up to a proposal to send in an observer mission within 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 tend to the u.n. security council for other action this 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 that rules out foreign intervention and sanctions but some western states want to blame that rests solely on the ass sound regime that's despite thousands of army defectors claiming to be fighting to bring down the government middle east politics professor jeremy sole says the main talks now is to persuade both sides to put down weapons. is.

one word. that is very very little reference to the wrongs of ongoing project their bonnets began almost from the beginning. is going to make. them according to. activists in fact yes they want to monitor. this now i think. it's not just the syrian government appears to. be arming. but somehow some way or persuading. to really get going. for whatever happens in syria very very serious regional and global implications not it will be starts agree where you agree with russia's position and sort of are russia. behind the syrian. this is the mission today being at the sun my mom said rushing to change

this position i was listening to see it like. she's going to college on the way out of which we can go because first of all putting down their weapons because so many charge you sound just being made it would be almost impossible to get back and so it would say to me that they way it now it's the try to stop the killing the bottom . almost two decades of tools finally came to fruition by the end of the week with vasher being accepted and today ranks of the global trade club the world trade organization being a member should free out business opportunities and positive impact on prices but it also sees maria finish and explains they will welcome come that surprise. with all my studio caves of hard talks now over it's still not clear exactly what russia's w t o membership is offering the country and with most all the details of the greens to firmly behind closed doors x.

produce enough 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 to hundred and 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 will land currently not in use and the raw fear is that the cost of farming subsidies like session will bring will only make things dramatically worse for russia's currently importing forty five percent of all food products or may soon become fifty to seventy percent local producers will be on able to compete will go down. meanwhile those competitive enough will stay afloat and benefit alexander and his family run a small business just outside moscow 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 best copper uses have it on the used car and the w t o obvious critics say russia's making history will be able to meet the raised competition exception of a track 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 away 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. early years after accession. more like ten years with the grocer would gain about eleven percent of g.d.p. deposits from economic achievements the country's political image should benefit not being 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. raise an option out most go. the military hearing all this soldier accused of passing secret american government data to weaken legs caught on when friday bradley manning had already spent more than a year and a half and detention hearing is to determine whether there's enough evidence to put money on trial if found guilty who spent life behind bars private manning served as an intelligence analyst in iraq and is accused of leaking classified military and diplomatic data to the whistle blowing web site and for much of the separate and i've got it first the american people need to know about their alleged abuses carried out by the alamy. these charges or greatly overwrought. 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 lawyers own e-mail see indicated that he wanted this to lead to a discussion in a debate and sort of consideration of the kinds of policies that he witnessed the effects so there are gradations of values here there is the promise of the written promise that there is a sign 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 one that's just. 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 emails at great peril to myself the american people need to know what's going on so they can make more delight and decisions. and we are online at home whenever you want to catch up with what's happening in the world all beyond it. he's looking at this russian rocket have successfully launched from front straight you are not carrying a bunch of first lines down and i will tell you if he's capable. i'm truthful sold read on our website about the tentative agreement under which north korea is to suspend its controversial drain you in return to program in exchange for a day. american court has rules that iran supported the nine eleven. hijackers the lawsuit in new york was filed by some of the victims' families and was settled by the ford because that seized including

iran's supreme leader at one in court during an american action his german things the case is part of a larger smear campaign to prepare for intervention. i don't see any evidence that is particularly compelling the 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. its 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 tough broad in solidarity with the americans who lost their lives. 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. we're just communist party how peaceful protests on sunday against the results of the parliamentary elections around three thousand people gathered in french or in moscow with that similar number at a protest in st petersburg the elections saw the ruling united russia party gained a majority of seats in the however the opposition claims the voting was rigged and demanded and new one prime minister vladimir putin cases of violations of the family investigated and cameras should be installed at polling stations to minimize

fraud at the track at election. commission to install web cameras at every polling station in the country and there . are these cameras should be on around the clock so that everyone can see what's happening in every station you can rule out any allegations of fraud. look at some news from around the world this hour is drone completed the release of five hundred fifty palestinians and the final stage of a prisoner swap with hamas for a kidnapped israeli soldier the egyptian brokered deal agreed to release a thousand palestinians in return for his release sergeant get out shalit who was captured in gaza in two thousand and three meanwhile tel aviv has announced plans to build more than one thousand settlements in the occupied west bank but it's seen as have made a return to peace talks conditional on a freeze on any new israeli homes being built on their land. a monolith

rescue operation is now underway in the southern philippines after floods told through the area killing of the six hundred and leaving hundreds missing a typhoon 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 humbled by widespread and flooded roads. the czech republic's first post communist leader gabble has died at the age of seventy five dissident a playwright and president oversaw his country's transition to democracy as well as the peaceful break up between the czech republic and slovakia died at home after. the final u.s. troops has officially was drawn from iraq nine years after the invasion that ousted saddam hussein the soldiers crossed into neighboring kuwait during the night many. terror attacks following america's military departure the conflict saw around six hundred thousand iraqi civilians killed and calls the united states almost

a trillion dollars. however the u.s. occupation of iraq is far from over as the notorious american security contractor formerly called blackwater announced on monday that it's returning to do business in the country it was expelled from the country in two thousand and seven for using dubious tactics including attacks on civilians terror branding nathan it's coming back at me and wants to win contracts with the multitude of companies building the country and a form that cia officer told us it's likely to get them despite a scandalous legacy thanks to their high level connections the masteries enjoy. they have very deep pockets and they also have very very good connections you can call this company anything that you like whether it's blackwater whether it's the whether it's academy whether it's john smith it doesn't make any difference the sad part is though is that if you go to a restaurant and you have a bad meal just because they change the name on the front door doesn't mean the food is going to be any good when you have this close relationship between

essentially mercenary groups they're not u.s. government or european or brits or german or anybody else these are actually independent companies that you hired to do things that you don't want to do the real question is the ability to control them and the americans did not do this very well that one of the biggest problems that they had was i think they didn't want to they wanted to be able to show a lot of certain things to these guys and say don't do this my problem is that there is a certain culture that blackwater has and you can change a couple of the guys at the top of the heap they're hiring the same kinds of people who are doing the very same way you are doing much of the same work and the leadership comes from the same places with the same connection so my fear is the failures of the past and they have been dramatic will continue into the future. up next we're head to one of russia's most volatile regions and the battle to stop the young falling prey to terrorists.

so dug a start often makes headlines for the wrong reasons were frequent reports of a silicon sea and instability high unemployment and low living standards are sometimes blamed as the root causes which help feed militancy has an idea called the explain. it's a called mr winter morning in the 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 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 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 your bible in our organization mostly helps women it

doesn't matter what situation they are in if they're in need we 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 lost valuable time that could have been used to rescue him. if i 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. sadler's 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 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. at first 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 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 dudley's 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 wants to establish a pan caucasian islamist state. in the last decade parts of dagestan 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 these. see it as an alternative to the hard life in the region the older members of the community believe a large proportion of those who went to the fore is a simply bandits from an dissatisfied younger generation. if anyone told me thirty years ago that life in dagestan would be like what we see now i would never believe that. 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. in the republic. we are with the european commission on trade in a few minutes. for sure is that so much as i can which of course he was on a conference of unity like a pleasing phoenix rising from the ashes newt gingrich again shows himself to be a major figure in american politics does he represent the republican party.

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