and in business this is our countries to stock exchanges complete their merger on monday it is an essential part of the government's plan to promote moscow as an international financial center that and more coming up in our business important. you're watching our t.v. broadcasting live from moscow welcome to the program north korea's veteran leader kim jong il has died at the age of sixty nine state media announced he passed away on saturday after suffering a heart attack kim jong il's youngest son kim jong un has reportedly been named his successor meanwhile as the news broke on young's longstanding any south korea put its armed forces on high alert for the government has declared the situation an emergency kim jong il's body is lying in state in a muslim in the capital for

a funeral service on december twenty eighth until then a period of mourning has been declared in the country and it's on our way takes a look back at the life of a man who became a symbol of the reclusive state. a mystery to the world what now for north korea with its leader kim jong il gone this massive military parade was held in two thousand and eight to mark north korea's sixtieth anniversary general can john wasn't there to greet the crowd 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 thousand

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. 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 kim jong il was also named supreme commander of the 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 their own you know in our father the general came john thank you so much as 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 south a modern democracy and innovative success story i know who. are very jokes aside north korea has caused global outrage in recent years has two patients 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 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 or hope 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 soils in twenty ten

new blew up around 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 november saw tensions reach its highest point in decades after the north launched an artillery strike that left four dead south korea continue to hold large scale war games with the u.s. and japan and want to conflict would break out if another attack was launched now came john on a young and inexperienced leader is up a helm and will either open the door or continue to keep it shot this roadway station was built in two thousand and two with hopes of connecting seoul and palenque yang 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 that there is new hope that perhaps soon we would see a train heading in that. setting life on the most secretive and reply. in the

world and he's now our team korea. nine more. bodies have been found in the freezing waters off russia's far east coast where an oil rig capsized it brings the death toll to thirteen with forty still missing more than a day since the tragedy happened fourteen people have been rescued so far but more let's cross live to artie's jake agreed says in the city of new orleans close to the site of the maritime disaster jacob grim news out there what's the latest we know so far or we are just hearing reports here stressing that they may have found nine more bodies there people at the scene may have pulled no more bodies from the water men found to be true that would take the total number to see so far to thirteen so that's the latest in terms of reports where they also think that they've found two more life boats as well in the area checking them as we speak

see if there's any survivors of board this all comes after just a couple of hours ago hopes were raised as they saw a lifeboat in the distance but upon inspection that found no one again was on board as a passenger but it could just yesterday as well were found two large boats with no survivors their missile comes on the back of when this all week capsized it is so very quickly some estimates in about twenty minutes this stormy weather condition that swept away a lot of these lifeboats for people had chances to all them so this is. a lot of the cern of warre from those in search and rescue teams because the elements down here are quite harshness of the talk about minus twenty degrees celsius in sakhalin where i am right now air temperature and the water temperatures just above freezing as you mentioned they've been in those waters if they are still there over twenty four hours now so

a lot of their hope for survival being pinned on them being one of the remaining life boats. jacob doing know anything about the condition of those rescued alive from the freezing waters. one of those fourteen survivors see no four were deemed in a serious enough condition to be airlifted for further treatment in hostile here in south l.a. and now doctors here are stressing that they're actually in a stable and good condition and so far no worry about those four as for the other tens of i was they were deemed in a stable and fit enough condition to actually remain on the boats that plucked them out of the water and they should returning as those boats in the next couple of days supported sakhalin and what do we know about why this oil rig sank in the first place there are a number of reasons so far being speculated upon billy's just speculation at present one being that the oil rig itself was flooded with water owing to the

stormy conditions and as such it capsized that's what some people think led to it sinking just so quickly in about an estimated twenty minutes president of it have has called for a full and thorough investigation into this and there has already being criminal proceedings opened into this account and one area they're looking into a present is why was this oil rig being towed at the time and sippin given the stormy weather conditions they say wasn't right for the all right to be towed in such conditions ok jake and grieves reporting from the southern region thank you for now. of course we'll be closely monitoring the rescue operation in russia's far east to bring you all the latest when we get apparent. instant updates are available on our twitter feed follow a set r.t. don't call people talking this breaking news story also plenty more ahead for you

this hour including can protecting copyrights be a pretext for internet censorship hyundai sounding a lot of america's pending stop online piracy act if they say jeopardizes the fundamental principles of freedom of speech on the internet. fifteen people have been confirmed dead in the ballots one hundred others injured following a weekend of massive violence in western kansas down the situation in the central asian republic remains volatile after deadly clashes between striking oil workers and police sparked more unrest across the region. is in kazakhstan. it seems that the authorities resort to order in these parts of the country were these were this violence erupted we've heard reports from the town of walked out on sunday in the west of the country were for over four hundred protesters gathered for a rally in front of the local building of the administration but for she knew that

went on peacefully but the other rallies didn't go in the same fashion unfortunately for example on saturday a group of protesters blocked a real way station and a bass into a train with over three hundred people on board and also in the west of the country and when the police came in to disperse the crowd they say that around fifty people who are against as they're called now by the authorities showed fierce resistance and they set a locomotive on fire they were throwing around malt of cocktails both at trains and at the police some of them moved to a nearby village setting things on fire there as well the violence erupted in the city of and i was and also in the west of the country where on friday protests rally combined with celebrations of twenty years of stance independence turned into

a very ugly picture where the broad just setting buildings on fire including state facilities authorities say that forty six buildings have been down there east first they started firing warning shots into the air that didn't help to calm the crowd down they have deployed a state of emergency in this town i was in i was in and we know that over sixty people have been detained after that including three russian journalists who've now been then released we will be of course monitoring the situation as it continues here in gaza. coming up. later in the program a battle of billionaire a mega money dispute between the russian tycoon censors the porn straight. from london but the case is being heard. in the u.s. the opera or surrounding the controversial stop online piracy act is gathering pace with the judiciary committee vote for they to this week fears are growing that the

all aimed at fighting copyright infringement will ultimately lead to censorship and the stifling of freedom of speech what he's going to chicken explains. just as the obama team travels around the globe preaching virtues of internet freedom but i am a big believer in technology and i'm a big believer in openness and it is vitally important to every nation represented and every nation in the world namely internet freedom u.s. lawmakers may soon pass legislation that would make taking down a website as easy as a walk in the park the government would be able to shut down eighty sites suspected of hosting copyright material no court warrant needed 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 the turn out to be licensed in one way or another even a site like you tube which has a mix of different kinds of content under this bill the entire site could get shut down companies like google yahoo and facebook are furious over the pending stop online piracy act google co-founder sergey brin compared the bill to censorship in china and you ran imagine my astonishment when the newest threat to free speech has come from the mother but the united states legendary computer scientist vin serve widely hailed as one of the founders of the internet itself said the legislation has the potential of bringing about unprecedented censorship of the web 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 program aaron swartz was under investigation for sharing the united states federal court documents on the web in july he was arrested for downloading roughly four million academic articles from

a protected computer he says the loss would make it very easy to silence internet whistleblowers any time a news organization or activist group or critic. tries to put up some internal documents that were leaked or things like that all those documents are copyrighted for example we found e-mails from the people who made voting machines and the group at swarthmore college put them up on their website showing that the people who made these voting machines knew they were flawed and people could hack into the voting machines those emails were all copyrighted and that company alleged it was copyright infringement to share those emails under this bill they could shut the entire site down prevent anyone from reading these emails of incredible public importance but not only could it affect freedom of speech but also businesses by potentially giving companies easy tools to drive competitors out of business they would have every opportunity to take action to disappear competitors and made heated debates congress postponed the vote the websites of the congressmen

themselves could potentially be shut down under the proposed legislation because all of them post content that was borrowed from somewhere else like t.v. news clips what's even more ironic is that as the u.s. preaches freedom of iran and to the wall that home it might soon pass legislation that gives the government sweeping powers to stifle web sources i'm going to check our reporting from washington our team. well rage also continues to be felt on the streets of the u.s. as the occupy movement marks the three month anniversary of its fight against economic injustice i don't live on t. dot com to read about dozens of protesters who've been detained in manhattan trying to set up camp in a church and property among them front is effective in those who call support nation also. financial popal in the euro crisis explored in debt. crisis on the debt drama love on toddlers.

one of the biggest civil trials in british legal history is entering its final stages with two russian tycoons in the spotlight or a spears or skis suing his former business partner man up a move which claiming more than six billion dollars in damages on monday of a move which is lawyer will start giving his final statement forty seven bennett is fighting the case in london. russia has a history of epic tales and the one playing out in here is up there with the best of them with no shortage of intrigue mystery and menace to former friends now foes as long as out over the small matter of six and a half billion dollars around every move it. used to be close just how close is

what this case rides on is the various claims they were business partners equals in what became an enormous empire built on oil. and ill gotten gains he wants a bigger slice than the one point two million dollars he received back in two thousand and two is to add remove it meets cash payments were made to his former mentor but says this was just protection money a necessary business expense at the time to benefit from mr berezovsky political capital in trying to prove their stories both men have disclosed damaging details of their own as a way of trying to humiliate their rival even more mr and remove it even passed off one payment to bures or ski as an artificial transaction freely admitting he was a way around the money laundering regulations as for barry he claims his stake in sydney for their company was twenty five percent but he's been forced to come clean on how for several years he took much more than that sometimes even more than the company's own profits is this sense of lawlessness the riches lawyer will emphasize

in the closing statement of his defense he's already like a ninety's russia to medieval england and that's the get out clause both are using for their previous misdeeds the difference is every moment is using it also to show that legitimate business simply didn't exist at that time the prime minister vladimir putin has recently acknowledged that fact even in his recent televised q. and a where he said this trial should be held in russia because that's where the money was stolen and that's where it should be divided. scenes of brutality continued over the weekend in cairo as egyptian troops clashed with protesters demonstrators having him on getting richer and they were power to a civilian administration soldiers were seen beating to test his baton since then ground ten people have been killed and more than four hundred injured latest round of violence veteran middle east expert eric alley says the army's provoking anger wanted to blame the demonstrators harman's. for no 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 their 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 obviously of the weak 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 normally it's 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 is coming not from them they're being. really has to be run by the military and definitely that is very it's not going to work but chatter on the internet is raging at the cruel beatings of protesters in cairo log on to r.t. dot com for more reaction and background to the unrest elsewhere around the world a rescue operation is now underway in the southern philippines after floods killed more than six hundred people left many a thousand more missing the typhoon hit on friday night causing months worth of rain to fall in just twelve hours tens of thousands have been forced from their

homes by the deluge rescues come from being hampered by widespread power outages and let it grow the philippines suffers about twenty typhoons and storms each year . landmark israeli hamas prisoner swap has been completed meaning five hundred fifty palestinians released under the egyptian brokered deal grew to exchange more than one thousand palestinian prisoners who israeli sought and charlotte was captured by years ago the first phase of the swap took place in october shalit returned home and israel freed four hundred prisoners . iran's state t.v. has released a video of them that it claimed was a cia spy try to gain access to the country secret service iran's intelligence ministry identified the resign and marty graham airfield in afghanistan agents kept track of the night he entered the country and arrested him and try to carry

out his mission. rescuers battled high waves on sunday as they search for two hundred people feared dead after the overcrowded ship sank off the museum's main island java survivor say they were in the water for five hours before being spotted the boat was packed with two hundred fifty people fleeing economic and political hardship in afghanistan or iraq iran turkey ship was heading to australia when it ran into a powerful storm. as it would. korea's had now the latest business. it's twenty three past nine am here in moscow welcome to our business update it's been called the deal of the year by russian business magazine company the country's two stock exchange is complete their merger today. will continue to trade

a separate indices but the trading platforms clearing systems and data centers will be integrated the new exchange is expected to go for public listing in two thousand and thirteen raise at least three hundred million dollars the merger is an essential part of the government's plan to promote moscow as an international financial center. let's have a look at the markets now oil is law for the fourth straight day with the pressure coming from a stronger dollar and concerns about the european debt is trading at ninety two dollars over ninety two dollars a barrel brant that over one hundred and two dollars a barrel asian markets lower on monday with the knowledge and retail. concerns again provided the backdrop to the expected quite weak trading shares trade lower grade partly by the u.s. dollar weakening against began over the weekend elpida memory is losing over three percent and panasonic is down. less than one hour ahead of the opening bell here in

moscow russian markets closed in the red on friday lost over one and a half percent and my sex and the point seven percent global. with little sign of a christmas rally trading volumes are beginning to drop towards the end of the year it. believes that the coming week is unlikely to deliver an early yuletide gift. the global picture again is very uncertain and many already took positions till the year and so i don't expect much activity but i still think that there is some hope for the rally if we don't see any serious bad news from europe and i think the credit to you to greece will be kind of released that will be will be taken very positively by where you would be and global investors and yes i don't think they'll give any negative surprises so the environment will be good as for russia we remain

very cheap but the only thing we need to international investors and unfortunately we haven't seen them for a whole year don't expect them to come in because two weeks time but again i repeat we're very cheap so the change in sentiment global sentiment will bring these investors work let us trim all in the markets has put the russian economy under pressure capital outflow reached around ten billion dollars last month the country's budget has also suffered from election costs and increase social spending over the long term prospects for russia's finance looks more promising our metals guess. all of this will be in very big demand from here to two thousand and twenty because according to all four. of the world good. will grow by three billion people in these people. this population will need more cars will need more food

will need more gas all of what russia is producing or is part of like the components metal is vital for for the automobile construction for example so the reliable sources. for from here to two thousand and twenty rather and up to them for the russian economy but they could be bumps on the road. and russia has agreed to grant bell there was a discount on all supplies minsk is increasing all purchases to one hundred fifty seven million barrels from next year but it will pay one billion dollars less than the current price now in exchange for this it is allowed russian companies to use refineries to process fifty percent of supply the products could be sold in better was that russia or go for export only in moscow home of the price of gas supplies for minsk president lukashenko says energy discount will allow the country to save

four billion dollars a year. well that's all for this hour but don't forget you can always find lost always if you log on to our website i t dot com thanks for. being . here in bygone days sleds were vital to get around. but today they're more leisure than lifeline. one drives people to quit their

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you're watching on t.v. broadcasting live from the russian capital for breaking news this hour north korea's a long standing leader kim jong il dies of heart failure at the age of sixty nine his death sending shock waves across the piece of country and the whole region and the son of kim jong un has reportedly to name as his successor and. nine more dead bodies have been found in the freezing waters of russia's far east coast oil rig capsized and went down brings the dead.