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russia's membership in the world trade organization has finally been approved eighteen years of talks in bringing about the benefits and top of the. welcome to all cheese weekly review my name is you volatile main story now or more ships on an airplane joining this search to find forty nine people who remain missing after an oil rig capsized off russia's far east coast four have been confirmed dead while fourteen have so far been saved. greaves is in the city of leeds chorus near the disaster scene with the latest. so far four bodies have been pulled out the water fourteen survivors found still forty nine missing an airplane patrolling the area as well looking again for people for survivors for
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a total of sixty seven who were on board this all rig before it capsized and sunk but we know those fourteen survivors that four were sent to hospital actually bought a hospital here succulent for further treatment but now being deemed fit to go and in a stable condition the other ten well they had only minor injuries really and therefore were dealt with on the ships which plucked them out of the water that's the actual survivors have been found guilty to being a rarity good and stable condition for a number of reasons already being given one of them that owing to the weather conditions the strong winds the highways well from the windows caved in on this all ring that led forces to flood the rig and it collapsed from the weight capsized and sunk it sunk in a quite quick time according to many estimates around twenty minutes and that means
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that they weren't didn't have a chance to deploy lifeboats and they have seen two other life boats in the vicinity yes they with nobody on board so this is again another fear for rescue workers that no one had time to actually get in lifeboats and don the life jackets available now president medvedev has ordered a full and thorough investigation to find out what exactly happened so it's been a criminal case opened into proceedings here one and another possible reasoning being given here and a further consideration when it comes this criminal case is why exactly was this all rigged being towed in such stormy conditions it's being towed to port and that's already come under some criticism. protests in western cause i stand have been held demanding a period of official mourning for fifteen demonstrators shot dead in clashes with police that were started with a strike of oil workers on friday leading to more run is across the country because
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a health overseas have called for calm from the demonstrators. going off in the central asian country for us. on a sunday afternoon he's managed to stop an attempt to storm the local courthouse in janelle's and and also attacks various attacks on police that 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 glassing 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 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
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kazakhstan's the constitution since then has been in force around sixty people have been detained and also three are 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 a way 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 village setting things on fire there as well breaking shop windows car windows and so on and forty say that at some point their actions
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became a threat to the lives of both the locals and of the police so they had to use force there as well in. around. twelve people were hospitalized with gunshots one of them died down a lot. more than four hundred protesters have gathered for a protest rally but fortunately it was reported to be going peacefully but of course we'll be monitoring the situation. still to come this hour a champion outraged at the weak links military hearing to the rioting if he is called for the first time and he's deciding sensitive army data but his supporters rallied behind a single down still. staying in the american courts in iran and its supreme leader has been judged to have given support for al gore it is not out of time the details just ahead. at least ten people have been killed and hundreds injured in
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fresh violence in egypt since friday the protesters want a faster transfer of power from the military to civilian authorities even though elections are under way and veteran middle east expert terry garvey 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. in a prize being dragged by police when there are other images coming out of egypt of soldiers you're an aging 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 we and
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the egyptian ruling elite is a sign that things are in a very serious. serious situation developing in egypt and the soon the soon or by hour 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 our own to create a great deal of anger people are now asking in egypt so what's changed i think the army is deliberately provoking this anger in order to create the impression that the violence is coming not from them they're being defensive and that 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
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killed in syria ira bleed officials say they expect their democracy 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 stay threatening otherwise to turn to the un for 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 to begin to dialogue that rolls out a foreign intervention and function of political and it's chris banbury says it isn't strongly opposed to foreign intervention by western countries that are pushing for it to reinforce their position in the region. i think there must be worries the increasing call for foreign intervention in syria not least from the syrian national council or body which is based both in the country and outside the country i have to say that many of those forces demonstrating in the assad regime did not share our demands for foreign intervention or indeed for nor strikes on what is happening in syria now is that what as
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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 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 saudi arabia and i think there is a developing difference here between for the people who have been organizing the peaceful demonstrations the uprising if you like inside syria on the grown to many 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 the demand for western intervention this is coming i think that extraneous to the
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movement and i think it's something we should be opposed to those forces are opposing it and then did they have said they were against the violent overthrow of the assad regime they want to see it toppled by peaceful means and i think that's to be applauded in that situation they don't want syria to go down the road of a civil war libya's buying separate bearing for a much needed cash flow boost as the u.n. has lifted some economic restrictions while it helps the new leaders grapple with the regime change they've brought they face many problems the toppling and killing of colonel gadhafi clashes between tribal groups rapid south of the libyan capital this week to start a local officials agreed on a cease fire between is new government also came under pressure in the guys in front thousands of demonstrators protesting against the lack of transparency in the interim leadership patrick hayes from the online it's a magazine spikes believe the transitional government doesn't represent. the national transitional council was never actually really part of a democratically forged libya anyway they were never on the streets really fighting
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for the with the libyan people against gadhafi a lot of them in fact of a country that the time waiting to almost be helicoptered in when it was safe enough to enter tripoli it was made up of gadhafi cronies people who were basically cherry picked by the west as being suitable people to represent the libyan people now we have a situation where the libyan people are so you have got a minute these people don't represent of we don't even really know who they are. 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 member should free up business opportunities and positively impact on prices but as artie's maria financially explains they will welcome comes at a price. with almost two decades of hard talks now over it's still not clear exactly what russia's w.t.r. membership is offering the country and with most of the details of the freeman
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still firmly behind closed doors experts and 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 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 crazing 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 sessional grain will only make things dramatically worse for it which is currently importing forty five percent of all food products and 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 saudi alexander and his family run a small business just outside moscow their one hundred twenty goats skiff enough
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fuel to produce series of high quality cheese and i would reckon the crystal ball the future doesn't look bright for wrong the mystic copper uses have been on the menu start at the w t o critics say russia's making history will be unable to meet the increased competition exceptional attract 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 glow 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 the early years after accession. more like ten years we think russia would gain about eleven percent of g.d.p. departs from economic achievements the country's political image should benefit not
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been 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. griffin otieno t. mosco. and we are online at home whenever you want to catch up with what's happening in the world. is looking at you this russian rocket that's a little with from french guiana carrying about that satellite keep an eye on i tell you. it's not included a sort of read on our website about a tentative agreement under which north korea needs to suspend its part rational uranium enrichment program in exchange for us today. the military hearing the soldier accused of passing secret american government data
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to weaken legs got underway on friday bradley manning had already spent more than a year and a half in the terms of the hearing is to determine whether there's enough evidence to put manning on trial if found guilty he would 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 with the growing website to cover these private bradley manning support networks and if so what you will one day 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 didn't sell documents to foreign enemies he didn't profit from them he is accused of giving them to the media what he gave to me were allegedly were very low level documents low security internet i probably should not have been divisive i darkens at all were also worried i mean i can't get a fair trial president obama has already announced that he's guilty he is the commander in chief it's a command structure in the military cerebrally who's involved in this trial from
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the judge the jury under president obama's command and their careers on the line there is no choice but to say meaning is guilty if they want to keep their military career since the president already said he's guilty a soldier who's in that situation is a choice in the nuremberg principles and becoming complicit in these crimes or exposing those crimes. it's meaning is guilty of what he's accused what is it was he's guilty of is telling the truth telling 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 iran supported the nine eleven plotters and hijackers the lawsuit in new york was filed by some of the victims' families and was set up by default because that is the including iran's supreme leader went in court during an american activist things they case is part of the
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largest 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 broad in solidarity with the
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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. breaking news this north korean leader kim jung il has died in pyongyang and they have sixty nine stated he has just announced he died on saturday night in physical fatigue the country's supreme leader was believed to have diabetes and heart disease and had a rarity been seen in public and recent years she's an isa now a hospital. a mystery to the world what now for north korea with its leader kim jong il gone this massive military grade was held in two thousand and eight to mark north korea's sixtieth anniversary general can john wasn't there to greet the crowd
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report suggested he suffered a stroke in two thousand and three reports claimed kim jong il died of diabetes and had been replaced in public by stand ins hired previously as a security measure he never spoke to the media had a profound fear of flying and ate with special chopsticks which could detect poison rumors have surrounded the so-called supreme leader throughout his life beginning with birth according to one source he was born in the soviet union in one nine hundred forty one during his father's exile all kim jong il's official biography claims his birth was heralded by the appearance of a double rainbow. with our people take pride in the fact that they are blessed with great leaders from generation to generation. the leader of the democratic people's republic of korea since one nine hundred ninety four he succeeded his father kim il sung keeping korea close to the world. was also named supreme commander of the
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people's army one of the largest in the world with one million active troops and over four million reservist it's believed enormous funds allocated to its military might ate up north korea's resources needed to fight famine and other social problems but kim jong il and his regime tried to put on a different show when allowing the globe a glimpse inside one of the you know in our father the general kim jong il thank you so much you know after the korean war the demilitarized zone was drawn up sending north and south korea into very different directions decades on the north remains a closed communist state. the self and modern democracy and innovative success story i know. are easy jokes aside north korea has caused global outrage in recent years testing patience
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by carrying out underground nuclear test and short range missile launches leading to us in un financial and military sanctions it is now not a matter of the united states and north korea it is a really a matter of the region saying to north korea that it has to change its behavior russia has tried to be a mediator for peace on the peninsula by pushing for negotiations. in the asia pacific region is serious potential for conflict and there's no alternative but to set up dialogue and improve understanding between the soyuz in twenty ten new who operate in the north with talk of the possible next leader that's when kim john on became a four star general and first moved into my mind to take over for his father oversaw tensions reached its highest point in decades after the north launched an artillery strike that left four dead south korea continues to hold large scale war games with the u.s. and japan and want a conflict would break out if another attack was launched now kim john on our young
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and inexperienced leader is at the helm and will either open the door or continue to keep it shut this were always station was built in two thousand and two with hopes of connecting seoul and pyongyang but the north korean regime backed out at the last minute making this the last stop train heading back into the south now with kim jong il knew that perhaps soon we would see a train heading in. that white house the most secretive group. in the world and he's now our team korea. russia's communist party held peaceful protests on a sunday against the results. parliamentary elections around three thousand people gathered in central moscow with similar number of protests in st petersburg the elections saw the routing united russia party gain the majority of seats in the dealer however the opposition claim to be voting was arranged and demanded
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a new one prime minister vladimir putin said all cases of violations of is sorry investigated and cameras should be installed at polling stations to minimize fraud at a future actions. with. a new asking me a little commission to install web cameras at every polling station in the country and there are over ninety symbols and all these cameras should be on or around the clock so that everyone can see what's happening in every station rule out any allegations of fraud. let's now have a look at some other news from around the world this hour completion the release of five hundred fifty palestinians in the final stage of a prison a small with hamas for a kidnapped israeli soldier and egyptian brokered do you agree the release of over a thousand palestinians in return for israeli sergeant gilad shalit who was captured in gaza in two thousand and three meanwhile has announced plans to build more than one thousand settlements in the occupied west bank but palestinians have
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made a return to peace talks conditional on a freeze on any news radio homes being built on that land. rescue operation is now underway in the southern philippines after floods told through the area killing over six hundred and leaving hundreds missing it 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 has died at the age of seventy five the dissident playwright turned 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 a long illness. to finally hear troops have officially was drawn from the old days after the invasion that ousted saddam hussein the soldiers crossed into neighboring kuwait during the night many the terror attacks holding america's
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military departure the conflict around six hundred thousand iraqi civilians killed and cost the united states almost a trillion dollars. back to our breaking news story this hour north korean leader kim jung il has died in pyongyang at the age of sixty nine states he has just announced he died on saturday citing physical fatigue so the country's supreme leader was believed to have diabetes and heart disease and had been seen in public in recent years and of course we'll be bringing you more as soon as we get it. and out about whether to recap our top stories in just a few moments stay with. the euro.
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this was the plant that was responsible for causing the world's worst industrial disaster and now it had been abandoned in a condition where it had become a source of pollution or the most recent study that was done shows that this water pollution and spreading. will continue to be in the more than hundred thousand
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people in the. groups working in effect the children see the children to be more likely to be born with birth defects in children and the rest of the country. being received as little as five hundred dollars long. unpunished. it's.
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market why not. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with much stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines in two cars a report on our. breaking news story to the north korean the that came out of the age of sixty nine to be has just reported. some today during a train ride because it's psychological and physical between the country's supreme leader it was pretty good to have his aren't heart disease that rarely been seen in public in recent years and of course we'll bring you more information as soon as we get it. it's more than twenty four hours since an.

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