russia's membership in the world trade organization has finally been approved after eighteen years of talks in a move that brings benefits and top of the to. russia and around the world this is our she was me our thanks for joining us first the rescue teams continue to work searching for survivors after an oil rig with sixty seven people on board capsized off russia's far east coast more ships and an airplane are on the way to the scene to boost the emergency operation four have been confirmed dead while fourteen have been so far saved but a desperate search goes on for forty nine people still missing in the stormy ice's seas arteries dhanbad and 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 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 and 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. protests in western kind of time have been held demanding a period of official mourning for fifteen demonstrators shot dead in clashes with

police started what it's trying to work as a private moving to more rallies across the country has authority of course will come from the guy. country. on a sunday afternoon he's managed to stop an attempt to storm the local courthouse in janelle's and animals or 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 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 they've deployed a state of emergency for the next three weeks there in accordance with the guys are 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 one 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 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. around. twelve people were hospitalized with gunshot one. more than four hundred protesters have gathered for a protest rally but fortunately it was all to be going on peacefully but of course we will be monitoring the situation. this is. a campaign of traitor at the weekly ex military theory bradley manning appears in court for the first time accused of that siphoning the sensitive all the days when his supporters rallied behind a single down soldier. day in american courts in iran a supreme leader had been a judge to have given support for al gore and his nine eleven attacks the details

just ahead. at least ten people have been killed and hundreds injured in fresh violence in egypt since friday they protesters want a faster transfer of power from the military to civilian authorities even though elections are under way middle east expert terry alley says the army is provoking anger to blame the demonstrators. 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 eating from the rooftop of the parliament building onto 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'll want to use all of your screen of we and the egyptian ruling elite is a sign that things are in a very serious. serious situation developing in egypt and the soon the sooner power is 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 on 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 pretty 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 syria an arab league official say they expect that demarcus will sign up to a proposal to send in an observer mission within twenty four hours the body representing arab states has given syria and ultimatum to do so by wednesday threatening otherwise to turn to the un this comes as russia has put forward a draft resolution on syria to the us it demands that all parties immediately stop the violence and begin dialogue that rules out foreign intervention and sanctions political analyst chris bambery says citizen strongly opposed foreign intervention but western countries are pushing for it to reinforce their position and giving a chance. i think there must be worries the increasing call for foreign intervention in syria not least in the syrian national council or body which is based in the country and outside the country i have to say that many of those forces demonstrating in the assad regime do not share our demands for foreign

intervention or indeed for nor strikes or what is happening in syria now is that what as a popular revolution our forces are moving in to try and take that all for and use it for its all 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 with iraq it was severed ties and has ball or 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 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 forces the people in the grown by and large 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 assad 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 the week with russia being accepted into the ranks of the global trade club the world trade organization being a membership free of business opportunities are the positive it in part our prices but as aussies marry if an ocean explains their warm welcome comes at a prize. with almost two decades of hard talks now over it's still not clear exactly what russia's w two your membership is offering the country and with most all the details of the greens to firmly behind closed doors extremism left to try a 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 fifty kilometers away from moscow and what we see here is a sad picture goes through it is like this one are spread all across russia and with a struggle in agriculture industry their number is only increasing thirty percent of the countries are well and are currently not in use and the raw fear is that the cost of farming subsidies like session will bring with only make things dramatically worse for russians currently importing forty five percent of all food products that 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 that mr

kopper use is happening on the used car and the w t o obvious critics say russia's making history will be at mabel to meet the increased competition the exceptional attract offering a gloomy prediction that once the country's in bad lines will stop factories will shout and. thousands of people will be left out toward and out of la however the predictions continue to glow with foreign investments said to be ready to rock it the cumulative gains we believe or roughly three point three percent of russian g.d.p. in. early years after accession and 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 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 marathon of negotiations all the world's key

players finally come together under the same umbrella. griffin ocean are to mosco. the military hearing of the soldier accused of passing secret american government data to weaken the when friday bradley manning already spent more than a year and a half in detention hearing is to determine whether there is enough evidence to put money on trial if found guilty he could spend life behind bars private mining served as an intelligence analyst in iraq and is accused of leaking classified military and diplomatic data to the whistle. and. coalition says bradley manning if he were a. crime the trustees. i think the bradley manning if it's true that he was the one who released the documents to wiki leaks will be considered in u.s. history as a hero because he took a stand in a willing to pay a very difficult price possibly life in prison possibly the death sentence for

exposing a criminal war the iraq war is a crime against humanity it's a war crime in fact bradley manning had an obligation to reveal that this country was carrying out criminal activities of course we all knew that and one sense but by releasing these hundreds of thousands of classified documents if in fact it was he who did it he did a great deal to expose to shine a bright light on those who are committing crimes against the iraqi people and in fact against the american people bradley manning has been held wrongly he's been held in solitary confinement he's been pre-judged by the military and by the media he has been stripped naked in forest in solitary confinement that's a kind of torture and he's being treated as the worst possible lowest criminal in fact somebody who's not even part of the judicial system since he's been pre-judged in. of course we are online at. whenever you want to catch

up with what's happening in the world beyond that. so here's a looking at this russian rocket successfully launched from french guiana caring about her son's life tell people not to tell you who is keeping. an eye on food for thought to read on our website a badly tentative agreement under which north korea is to suspend its controversial your brain and which the program in exchange for us today. an american court has ruled that iran supporters 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 went and called iranian american activist jamal do you think is the case as part of the largest make i'm paying 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 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 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 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 how to peaceful protest on sunday against the results of the parliamentary elections around three thousand people gathered in central moscow with a similar number at a protest. they lection saw the ruling united russia party game the majority of seats in that however the opposition claims the voting was great and demanded and one prime minister. cases of violations of the authority investigated and cameras should be installed at polling stations to minimize fraud at election this. election commission to install every polling station in the country. you know these can we should be on a round the clock so that everyone can see what's happening in every station any

allegations of. the internet has been built on a bedrock of free speech since it began but those principles could ban the threat of the bill and it counseling online piracy being debated by congress in the us internet activist aaron swartz could end up with the web for going into government . the government doesn't just take down the infringing material it takes on the site entirely and it does it without even a trial to find out whether it's illegal or not and as you know copyright laws are extremely complicated there are lots of things that look like copyright infringement that turn out to be licensed in one way or another part of this is a larger crackdown on freedom of speech there's pretty much no other law that would give the government the power to censor the internet that wouldn't be laughed out of congress you know if you said the government needed to censor the internet to protect national security it would be widely seen in america is totally unacceptable and beyond the pale but by using copyright as a wedge issue suddenly we're able to put this power in the hands of the government and then once they have it it can be expanded and expanded to deal with

a whole range of other things one of the interesting provisions in this law is that it doesn't just shut down websites it also increases the penalties for people caught in gauging and copyright infringement so for example if you make a video on you tube of yourself singing and copyrighted song this bill would increase the penalty to that to ten years in jail so there's all sorts of people who do these things that would just be considered part of natural life as a teenager that now are facing huge felony charges as a result of this law. let's now have a look at some other news from around the world this hour. police it leaves a five hundred fifty palestinians in the final stage of a prisoner swap with hamas were kidnapped israeli soldier an egyptian brokered deal agreed the release of over a thousand palestinians in return for israeli soldier and good luck should lead who was captured in gaza in two thousand and three. has announced plans to build more than one thousand seven minutes in the occupied west bank but palestinians have made their return to peace talks conditional on a freeze on any new israeli homes being built on. a mammoth rescue operation

is now underway in the southern philippines after floods told through the area killing over six hundred and leaving hundreds missing the typhoon hit on friday night causing a month's worth of rain to fall in twelve hours to tens of thousands have been forced from their homes by the deluge the rescues currently being humbled by widespread power cuts and flooded roads. because the public's first post communist leader goggle has died at the age of seventy five a dissident playwright turned president over saw his country's transition to democracy as well as the peaceful breakup between the czech republic and slovakia at home after a long illness. the final u.s. troops have officially was drawn from iraq nine years after the invasion that ousted saddam hussein the soldiers crossed into neighboring kuwait during the night and many now fear that surge and 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. up next we head to one of russia's most volatile regions on the battle to stop the young falling prey to terrorists. doggystyle and often makes headlines for the wrong reasons with frequent reports of insurgency and instability high unemployment and low they've inkstand are sometimes blamed as the root causes which help feed militants as all his men do you know what shall i explain. 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 sit on a 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 brother should know when you will our organization mostly helps women it doesn't matter what situation they are in if they are 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 a valuable time that could have been used to rescue him or that he would 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. in 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 normal remembers how when her daughter started working at the market she met very religious people. 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 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 tarus lead 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 have become really just theoretical ice this region is now the heart of russia's 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 four 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. 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 r.t. close up in the republic of dagestan. her shortly our special report telling her to science has paid for their careers for revealing the truth about genetically modified food that's not true or not dated on raney's. all.

this francis nutritious and this is product on the price of healthy eating. we need to test these three times the city allergenicity immune response lower nutrition in for environmental contamination don't you feel like a lab rat some consider the experiment in human treatment freddy idly significant differences between the g.m. fed that they both at their own 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. here in bygone days dogsleds were vital to get around. but today they're more leisure than life line. one drives people to quit their modern lives and settle in remote woods. one finds them up to survive in the freezing cold. beginning in russia's newly discovered of the arctic circle on our t.v. . news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has

been seeing from the streets of canada. trying to corporations rule today. and again this is. a desperate search continues with forty nine people missing off russia's far eastern oil breakouts times on sunday morning before it comes down to fourteen up and say but scores remain unaccounted for and stormy icy seas but high winds and waves up to four meters hampering rescue teams. and other news this week hundreds of people call for a period of official mourning to be declared in kazakhstan but fifteen for taxes.