russia's membership in the world trade organization has finally been approved eighteen years of dogs in a move that brings both benefits and tough competition. hello and welcome to our weekly review i am you there should have our first more ships and an airplane are joining the search to find forty nine people who remain missing after an oil rig count sized off russia's far east coast four have been confirmed dead while fourteen had so far been saved the disaster happened as the coal scale with six to seven people on board was being towed to shore two hundred kilometers off saddling island severe weather conditions are humphrey in the emergency effort and will be crossing live to our correspondent draycott greaves who is arrive close to the scene of the tragedy in russia's far east. that's next that first protests

in western cannot stand have been held demanding a period of official mourning for fifteen demonstrators shot dead in clashes with police that arrest started with a strike of oil workers on friday leading to more rallies across the country because a horse or a chase have called for calm from the demonstrators on this kind of is the central asian country for its. 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 while it's there started on friday it was a protest rally against and beat 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 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. 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 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 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. live rounds are also twelve people were hospitalized with gunshot wounds one of them died in iraq also in washington more than four hundred protesters have gathered for a protest rally but sort of war fortunately everything is reported to be going on peacefully but of course we will be monitoring the situation. and now back to our top story a 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 ask is jacob green he's

a pretty of usenet clear the disaster scene hello there jacob so how is the rescue operation looking this morning so far well we're just receiving reports right now that one of the ships involved in this rescue operation and icebreaker has spotted a lifeboat in the water it's going to take them about an hour to get close enough to see that actually any signs of life there this to be very crucial because these people. are of the fort would be in icy cold waters for it to stand trial mountain time as you mentioned twenty four hours ago so crucial if they are to find survivors that really be on this lifeboat now or have been other this is just yes they were they found lifeboats but they were empty i mean to really show how quickly this oil rig capsized and then sunk and we spoke with someone who has been involved with this whole search and rescue operation

because scribed the situation. for. their 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. the operation itself over the course of the night is really marred somewhat by the fact that no planes and helicopters could take part because it was too dark for them to do so and there were three ships patrolling the area but they found no more survivors of the hopes pinned on this sighting they were receiving reports about now there's also an airplane on route to aid in the search and rescue . world do we know about the fate of those fourteen people have been fair and. people so far for them transferred to hospital in three face further treatment by the who are actually supposed to be in a stable and good dish and and those other ten will they remained on that boat so

much they were found plucked out of the water they also said to be quite a good condition that's why they were even transferred to the hospital for further treatment. or different reasons have been suggested as to the cause of the disaster at this particular stage or quite a number closely about at the moment one of them principally being given here is that they're highly winston's holloways them stormy conditions it's a situation where the windows broken this all rigged water flooded in and that led it to capsize tilt over capsize and sink and they're saying estimates put is just sinking in twenty minutes and that's why people who may not have the charts that don't life vests and life boat be crucial in these freezing weather conditions there is an investigation underway prison in venice spoke about wanting it for proper investigation conducted criminal proceedings have also been opened into this

case and really also looking into why this boat this oil rig was even being towed in the first place by an ice breaker in the store we were the conditions. good grief reporting there live from san jose in the region jake of thank you very much indeed for that update and we'll talk to date. we go now at least ten people have been killed and hundreds injured in fresh violence in egypt since friday protesters want to fast the transfer of power from the military to civilian authorities even though elections are underway and veteran middle east expert 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 being dragged off you could see her. being dragged by police when there are other images coming out of egypt of

soldiers you're relating from the rooftop of the parliament building on to demonstrators below and this really takes one back to the colonial period in 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 your wonders 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 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 all its rangers are bound 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 is coming not from them they're being defensive and that he can't 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 been reportedly killed in syria an arab league official say they expect that the markets will find out their proposal to send in an observer mission within twenty four hours the border representing arab states has given syria and ultimatum to do so by wednesday threatening otherwise to turn to the u.n. for action this comes as russia has put forward a draft resolution. it demands that all parties immediately stop the violence and to begin dialogue that rules out foreign intervention with sanctions and it gets chris bambery says it is very strongly oppose foreign intervention that western countries are pushing for it to reinforce their position in. i think there must be

worries the increasing call for foreign intervention in syria are not 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 for nor strikes on what is happening in syria know is that what as a popular revolution other forces are moving in to try and take that all for 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 iraq it was severed ties to hamas and hizbollah it would treat russia as a special relationship i don't think that sounds very very good by the way and it would strengthen ties with qatar saudi arabia the other gulf states and with america and france now it would seem to me an agenda should be joyous the years of people in paris. in washington and in soda and soda arabia and i think there is

a developing a difference here between for the people who have been organizing the peaceful demonstrations the uprising if you like inside syria on the growing to many years of 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 syria's civil war. it is by and. much needed cash flow again after the u.n. lifted some economic sanctions while it helps the need leaders grapple with the regime change they've brought their problems elsewhere following the toppling and killing of colonel qadhafi clashes between tribal groups erupted near the capital this week the biz and your government also came under pressure from the thousands

of angry protesters in bengazi where the revolt began and they want the interim leadership to quit saying it's not doing enough to bring change and political journalist stephen brown things the country is bike on the brink of civil. now you're going to see. people are very dissatisfied the way it seems are going they fought hard especially been guarded it don't do to being properly rewarded and now you're going to see the country just fall apart into different areas of warlords just like in afghanistan i don't have the carbon is in to see those people in to see or all complicit in the dark it's crimes they're going to stir things up so they're going to do very well again and they're probably going to try and emerge as the new rulers a new dictators of libya which is we're going to be headed for example. who heads the n.t.s.c. was gadhafi justice minister that just made a joke of the whole council his response of for a lot of crimes and the gadhafi i don't blame these people been guys who were having no trust me in to see it all. this is r.t.

and still to come this hour a chant penetrate the weekly ex-military bradley manning appears in court for the first time accused of siphoning sensitive army data about his supporters rallied behind it singled out soldier. staying in the american courts iran and its supreme leader have been judged to have given support far kiat is nine eleven a time the details just ahead. almost two decades of talks finally came to fruition by the end of this week with russia being accepted into the ranks of the global trade club the world trade organization being a member should free up business opportunities and positively impact on prices but has actually as maria for notion explains the warm welcome comes 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 with most of the details of the grievance to firmly behind closed doors experts are left to try and 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 travelled two hundred fifty kilometers away from moscow and what we see here is a sad picture goes through it is like this one a spread all across russia and with a struggle in agriculture industry their number is only crazing thirty percent of the countries are will land currently not in use and the raw fear is that cut of foreign subsidies like session will bring will only make things dramatically worse for the russians currently importing forty five percent of all food products that may soon become fifty to seventy percent local producers will be unable to compete or get older 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 skiff enough unique to produce series of high quality cheese and i would back in the crystal

ball the future doesn't look right from wrong to mystic copper juices have been on the menu start and the w t o critics say russia's making history will be unable to meet the increased competition in the accession of a tract offering a gloomy prediction that once the country's in bad lines will stop factories will shut and thousands of people will be left out of work and out of la however the predictions continue to go with foreign investments said to be ready to rock it the cable gains we believe or roughly three point three percent of russian g.d.p. in the early years after accession. gross it would be about eleven percent of the deposits from economic achievements the country's political image should benefit north korean part of the global body would have 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. or as an option are to moscow and where online at home whenever you want to catch up with what's happening in the world beyond that. he's looking at this russian rocket have successfully launched from french going on are carrying a bunch of satellites there pipin i know so i will tell you who's keeping watch. and food for thought to read on our website about the turn to agreement under which north korea used to suspend its controversial uranium enrichment program in exchange for u.s. food aid. the military hearing of the soldier accused of passing a secret american government dated two week leagues got underway on friday bradley manning had already spent more than a year and

a half in detention the hearing is to determine whether there's enough evidence to put manning on trial if found guilty he could 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 whistle blowing web site and kevin aziz from the bradley manning support network says the soldier will hardly receive a fair 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 to me were allegedly were very low level documents low security and that i probably should not have been declassified documents at all were also worried that i mean i 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 sorry buddy who is in the. judge the jury under president obama's command and their careers on the land line there no choice but to

say manning is guilty if they want to keep their military career since the president already said he's guilty a soldier who is in that situation is a choice of ignoring the nuremberg principles and becoming complicit in these crimes or exposing those crimes as meaning is guilty of what he's accused what does he get what he's guilty of is telling the truth the truth so the american public can see what the u.s. military and state department actually are doing this 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 is what's driving this prosecution. an american court has rules that your supporters the nine eleven plot has and as it also getting new york was founded by some of the victims' families and it was settled by default because that he's been creating iran's supreme leader went to court to rein in american activists general do you think is the case as part of a not just smear campaign to paddling to fetch you. 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 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 peaceful protests on sunday against the results of the parliamentary elections around three thousand people gathered in central moscow with a similar number of the protests in st petersburg elections so they really united russia party game the majority of seats in the d'ivoire however they opposed claimed the opposition a lot of claims the voting rights of brakes and demanded a new one prime minister vladimir putin said all cases of violations were investigated and cameras should be installed at polling stations to minimize fraud at a future. with. commission to install web cameras of every polling station in the country in the early ninety's. but these can we should be. sure that everyone can see what's happening in every station any

allegations of fraud. and let's have a 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 or a prisoner swap with how much for a kidnapped israeli soldier the egyptian brokered deal to grieve the release of over thousand palestinians in return for israeli sergeant gilad 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 palestinians have made a return to peace talks conditional on a freeze on any new israeli homes being built on their land. 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 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 while the deluge the rescues currently being hunted by widespread power cuts and flooded roads. the czech republic's first post communist leader

backlit gather has died at the age of seventy five the dissident playwright turned president of a saw his country's transition to democracy as well as the peaceful break up between the czech republic and slovakia gaveled 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 these soldiers crossed into neighboring kuwait during the night maybe now here is surging the terror attacks falling america's military departure the conflict saw around six hundred thousand iraqi civilians killed and caused the united states almost a trillion dollars. and up next we head to one of russia's most of all a time of great tennis and the battle to stop the young young people falling prey to terrorists.

so darkest on often makes headlines for the wrong reasons with frequent reports of a surgeon say understood betty high unemployment and low living started it all sometimes blamed as root causes which helped feed militancy has autism and in a culture of explained. 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 organisation 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 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 brother should not be unusual our organization

mostly helps women it doesn't matter what situation they are 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 most valuable time could have been used to rescue him. with that 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 good for saluting you and your. son was accused of helping terrorists in dagestan she fears he was killed but were she still doesn't know these accusations are common in this region young an image to pay. people often become the victims of terrorist brainwashing high unemployment also boast this quite often people that fall under the influence of those with no financial or social prospects and c going to the forests at use them as and for joining terrorist as the only way out for them that's what happened with mariam and it cost

her her life because 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 never figured out 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 nuisance and was going to paradise i tried to talk her out of it but she never 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 doubly 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 panic ok ssion islamist state. in the last decade parts of dagestan has 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 and shoot thousand 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 yes 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.t. close up in the republic of dagestan. the banquet the recapping our top stories in just a few. moments

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has been seeing from the streets of canada. operations are all of that. hello again this is a quick check of the headlines. a desperate search continues for forty nine people missing off russia's far east after an oil rig capsized on sunday morning four confirmed dead and fourteen have been saved but schools remain unaccounted for in stormy icy sees 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 dead in clashes with police and.