tv [untitled] December 18, 2011 7:01pm-7:31pm EST
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his membership in the world trade organization has finally been approved eighteen years of talks in a move that brings both benefits and tough competition. because her russia and around the world this is r.c. with me here thanks for joining us faster more ships and an airplane joined the search to find forty nine people who remain missing after an oil rig capsized off russia's far east coast so have been confirmed dead while fourteen have been so far saved his combat and has been for the trash to for the moment conditions in the rescue sites two hundred kilometers of russia's far east coast are very difficult indeed 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
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recovered 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 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 in so 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. 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 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 how. and why this rig sank so fast investigators do say also
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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 kazakhstan have been how demanding a period of official mourning for fifteen demonstrators shot at and clashes with police then rest started with a strike of oil workers on friday needing to morons across the country. have cultural come from the demonstrators is going off in the central asian country for
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us. on a sunday afternoon he's managed to stop an attempt to storm of the local courthouse in janelle's and and also attack 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 crowd began setting buildings on fire including state facilities clashing with police and authorities say that forty six buildings have 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 they've deployed a state of emergency for the next three weeks there in accordance with because our constitution since then has been in force around sixty people have been detained
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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 village 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
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there as well in. around. twelve people were hospitalized with gunshot wounds one. worked. more than four hundred protesters gathered for a protest rally but fortunately it was all to be going. really well of course we'll be monitoring the situation. this is our see and still to come this hour for you actually and then all traitor at the week's military hearing bradley manning appears in court for the first time accused of siphoning sensitive army data but his supporters rallied behind this singled out soldier. staying in the american courts iran and it supreme leader have been judged to have given support for our kind is nine eleven attack the details are just ahead. at least ten people have been killed and hundreds injured in fresh violence in egypt since friday protesters want a faster transfer of power from the military to civilian authority even though
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elections are under way veteran middle east expert terry garlett 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 who have been dragged off you could see her. 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 the 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 us all be a screen of we and the egyptian ruling elite is
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a sign that things are in a very serious. serious situation developing in egypt and those soon the sooner bio is 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 terry 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 has 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 their image it's not going to work. at least fifteen civilians and six government troops have been reportedly killed in syria arab league officials say they expect their don't ask us will sign up to a proposal to send in an observer mission within twenty four hours the body
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representing arab states has given syria and ultimatum to decide by wednesday threatening otherwise to turn to the un for their scams as russia has put forward a draft resolution a secret to the u.n. it demands that all parties immediately stop the violence and begin dialogue that rules out foreign intervention and sanctions political and it's chris banbury says citizens strongly oppose foreign intervention but western countries are pushing for it to reinforce their position and every day. 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 be in the country and outside the country i have to say that many of those forces demonstrating in the assad regime did not feel that demand for foreign intervention or indeed from the north strikes on what is happening in syria no is that what as a popular revolution our forces are moving in to try and take that off or and use it for it's all in the syrian national council this body of the sea which is blood
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in the country and save the country is no seeing and if it would several tries iraq it was severed ties to hamas and hezbollah or 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 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. or 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
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peaceful means and i think as we 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 and 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 positively impact on a crisis but as aussies or if an ocean explains the warm welcome comes at a price 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 experts and have to try a little crystal ball gazing with. 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 traveled two 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
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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 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 of producers will be on able to compete in the world out of it meanwhile those competitive enough will stay afloat and benefit alexander and his family run a small business just outside moscow there one hundred twenty goats give enough milk to produce kilos of high quality cheese and a bit back in the crystal ball the future doesn't look bright for wrong that mr kopper uses have been among the many used the n t w t o critics say russia's making history will be unable to meet the raised competition exceptionable attract
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offering a gloomy prediction that once the country's in bad lines will stop factories will shot and thousands of people will. out of work and out of la however the predictions continue to do only 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. to 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 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. where is an option out to moscow. and we are online at home whenever you want to catch up with what's
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happening in the world all beyond it. is looking at this russian rocket successfully launched from french guiana caring about each of satellites they'll keep an eye on as well tell you they scaping watch . food for thought to read on our website of the turn to tip at greenland under which north korea is to suspend its controversial uranium enrichment program in exchange for us for you today. the military hearing of the soldier accused of passing secret american government data to weaken leagues got underway on friday bradley money had already spent more than a year and a half in a detention hearing is to determine whether there's enough evidence to put money on trial if found guilty he would spend life behind bars private manning served as an intelligence analyst turn around and he's accused of leaking classified military and diplomatic data to the whistle blowing web site and kevin scenes from the
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bradley manning support networks as a soldier will hardly ever see the fat trial after president obama has stated that he is guilty. we think that manning is not someone who is a traitor he was. documents to foreign enemies he didn't profit from them he is accused of giving them to the media and what he gave me were allegedly were very low level documents low security and that i probably should not have been declassified documents at all were also words i mean you can't get a fair trial president obama has already announced that he's guilty he's the commander in chief it's a command structure in the military cerebrally who is in the wagners trial from the judge the jury pool under president obama's command and their careers on the land line they're no choice but to say money is guilty if they want to keep their military career since the president or has said he's guilty a soldier who's in that situation is a choice of you're in the nuremberg principles and becoming complicit in these crimes or exposing those crimes is meaning is guilty of what he's accused what does
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he get was he's guilty of is telling the truth telling the truth so the narrative we can see what the u.s. military and state department actually are doing is trials embarrassment to the u.s. military and the united states it shows a great deal of fear of the truth and fear of the truth as was driving this prosecution. an american court has ruled that iran supported the nine eleven plotters and hijackers their lawsuit in new york by some of the victims' families and was set up by default because that is the enclaves in iran's supreme leader that weren't in accord you re an american activist general things the case as 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
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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 tough broad in solidarity with the americans who lost their lives. and 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 and sunday
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against the results of the parliamentary elections and around three thousand people gathered in central square with a similar number at a protest in st petersburg the election so they're proving united russia party again the majority of seats however the opposition claims the voting was rigged and demanded a new one prime minister vladimir putin said all cases of violations will be fairly investigated and cameras should be installed at polling stations to minimize fraud at the action it's. put on these but a new commission to install cameras and every polling station in the country. these cameras should be on around the clock so that everyone can see what's happening in every station little rule of any allegations of fraud. and let's now go back to our top story rescue teams are continuing to search for forty nine people missing after an oil rig capsized off russia's far east coast almost twenty four hours ago and let's now cross live to our man jacob greaves who's just every
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ride at the city of youzhny helena's can hear the disaster scene hello there jacob so how's the rescue operation looking this morning. well he's finally managed to kick off in full and this once again is port hole somewhere with nightfall that meant that no airplanes and helicopters could take part in the search and rescue operation is left down to just three ships and therefore no other survivors were found so dealing with quite similar situation at present that we had yesterday was before bodies found so far fourteen survivors plucked from the sea still sistan szell amount missing forty nine in toast out the sixty seven who were originally on board is daylight here down though in sakhalin and just two hundred kilometers off the coast of second in where it's thought this already capsized and sunk so it can once again begin in earnest yes or do you know the fate of those who have been
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found but we know there's fourteen survivors clark from the sea and they've been taken to hospitals low cost was he in sakhalin for further treatment we know that for in a good and stable condition as for the others with i'm not getting too much information about their man present. what different reasons are being suggested as to the cause of the disaster at this stage has been a number of reasons put forward so far firstly we heard that a lot of water was taken on by the vessel owing to some of the windows cracking from the high waves heavy winds and the temperatures as well so that led to the vessel taking on water they think and potentially capsizing there are a number of other theories be put forward as well the fact that these were very stormy conditions and it's already raised a question there has been criminal proceedings open into this question being raised as to whether or not it should have been even been towed into port as being towed
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into port by an icebreaker at the time of its capsizing the same story where the conditions made it should have been towed in the first place of sea quite. those coming up with conclusive reasonings. because a lot of evidence as to what went wrong sure are she's very grieved reporting there live from the region jacob many thanks indeed and we'll talk to you they sure. and let's now look at some other news from around the world this hour israel has completed the release of five hundred fifty palestinians in the final stage of a prisoner swap with hamas for a kidnapped israeli soldier and the egyptian brokered deal agreed the release of over a thousand palestinians in return for israeli sergeant gilad shalit who was captured in gaza in two thousand and three men while tel aviv has announced plans to build more than one hundred settlements in the occupied west bank but palestinians have made a return to peace talks conditional on a freeze on any news really homes being built on their land. a mouth rescue
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operation is now underway in the southern philippines after floods tour through the eric killing over six hundred and leaving hundreds missing a typhoon hit 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 hunted by widespread power cuts and flooded roads. the czech republic's first post communist leader of godall has died at the age of seventy five the distant playwright turned president oversaw his country's transition to democracy as well as the peaceful break up between the czech republic and slovakia havel died 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 this soldiers crossed into neighboring kuwait during the night of the surge of terror attacks following america's military departure the
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conflict around six hundred thousand iraqi civilians killed and caused the united states almost a trillion dollars. under next story head to one of russia's most volatile regions and the battle to stop the young falling prey to terrorists. so dark star often makes headlines for the wrong reasons were frequent reports of insurgency and instability high unemployment and low living standards are sometimes blamed as root causes which help feed militancy as artie said in a courtroom 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 serene 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
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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 will sit on the brings food clothes and talks to her talking is seen as the most important part offering reassurance to victims that they have not been forgotten your bubble should not be rolled our organization mostly helps women it doesn't matter what situation they're in if they're in need we come to help them with most of these women don't know their rights or who to ask who held 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. and he wouldn'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 you and your. son was accused of helping terrorists in dagestan she fears he was killed but where she still does
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know these accusations are common in this region young and immature people often become the victims of terrorist. brainwashing high unemployment also boasts this quite often people that fall under the influence of those with no financial of social prospects and see going into the forest used them as one for joining terrorist as the only way out for them that's what happened with mayor rahm 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 nuisance and we're going to paradise i tried to talk her out of it but she never listened shown listened to her new friends. her new friends turned out to be
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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 tarus led by dog who is russia's most wanted militant and on the list of america's most wanted terrorists want to establish a panic ok ssion islamist state. in the last decade parts of pakistan have 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 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
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a simply bandits from an ant is such as fight a 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 respect as again every turn to a time before terror played such a dominant part in the lives of so many minds in the question r.c. close up in the republic of dagestan. and author of i quote the recap our top stories in just a few moments stay with us. which
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brightened if you knew me. from plans to. start on t.v. dot com. welcome back this is archie the headlines. the desperate search continues for forty nine people missing off russia's far east after neuer a capsized friday but sunday morning four confirmed dead and sixteen had been saved but scores remain unaccounted for in stormy icy season with 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 for fifteen protesters shot down it clashes with police.
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