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north korea's longstanding leader kim jong il dies of prayer at the age of sixty nine his death sending shock waves across the reclusive country his youngest son has been named as successor. a news justin rescuers found a life raft with around fifteen people in the freezing waters off russia's far east coast where an oil rig capsized. and explosive in. fifteen people are confirmed dead and dozens more injured in a series of rallies sparked by striking oil workers. and our top story in business the country's two stock exchanges complete their merger today it's an essential
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part of the government's. national financial center join me for more on that album . world news twenty four hours a day you're watching r.t. north korea's a 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 longstanding enemy 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 the most of them in the capital before funeral service on december twenty eighth until then a period of mourning has been declared. the country. back in the life of the man
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became a symbol of state. a mystery to the world what now for north korea with its leader kim jong il dong 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 reports 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
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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 four hundred you know in our thought or the general. thank you so much you know after the korean war the demilitarized zone was drawn up sending north south and. with korea in two very different directions decades on the north
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remains a closed communist state the south amar democracy and innovative success story 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 a process in the asia pacific region is serious potential for conflict and there's no alternative but to set up a dialogue and improve understanding between the soils in twenty ten new pas 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
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tensions reached 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 who 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 palings 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 could see a train heading in that. setting my problem up secretive and our place in the world and he's now artsy korea. news just in rescuers have found a raft containing around fifteen papers. the freezing waters off russia's far east
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coast oil rig capsized on sunday it's not clear if they're still alive sixteen people are now confirmed dead after more bodies were found in the freezing waters off russia's far east coast where an oil rig capsized thirty seven people are still missing more than a day since the tragedy happened fourteen people have been rescued so far and more on this we will be speaking to artistic agrees in just a couple minutes. well fifteen people have been confirmed dead in about one hundred others injured following a weekend of mass violence in western kazakhstan the situation in the central asian republics remains volatile after deadly clashes between striking oil workers and police sparked more unrest across the region ortiz evil is going off is in kazakhstan. it seems that the authorities stored water in these parts of the country where these where this violence erupted we've heard reports from the town
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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 railway station and about a train into over three hundred people on board and also in the west of the country and when police came in to disperse the crowd they see 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 you know was and also in the west of the country where on friday protests
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rally combined with the celebrations of twenty years of. independence turned into a very ugly picture brought 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 you know that over sixty people have been detained after that including three russian journalists who've been then released we will be of course monitoring the situation as it continues here in gaza. back to one of our breaking news stories here on r t sixteen people now confirmed dead after more bodies were found in a freezing waters off russian's far eastern oil reka capsized now jake aggrieved is
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there for us now but i can you tell us we understand that a life raft has been found what's the latest situation on that oh yes we are receiving reports at present that's a life raft has been found with about fifteen people on board we don't know what condition they're in are present and whether or not any of them are even alive this comes after a day every fruitless searching when it comes first survivors they found many lifeboats but no one on board they have her been pulling more bodies from the water now it is growing in concern today because time is passing over twenty four hours since it's already capsized and sank and these people are facing extreme conditions if they're to survive at freezing temperatures and also just above freezing it's very important that they do find them quite soon particularly because here in
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sakhalin night is setting in and that means that they can no longer use air support to help find people and search for anyone in the area jacob do know anything about the condition of those who have definitely been rescued from the freezing waters oh yes here we're talking about fourteen in total and that occurred yesterday now four of them were mediately airlifted out so hostile and sakhalin to face further treatment and after being diagnosed by doctors they said that she in a fit and stable condition and as for the other ten well they were in such an ok condition that they actually stayed on the vessels which picked them out of the water and they are expected to arrive important about two days' time it's more than twenty four hours now since this happened are we any clearer as to why the request down in the first place. well no we're still dealing with guesswork the self has actually sunk so with it probably quite
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a lot of evidence but from eyewitness reports that some of those at the scene where same it's at the moment looks like the oregon self was flooded alter that led to sinking such a quick time it's estimated about twenty minutes has been a full investigation launched into this criminal proceedings have already been opened and one area they're looking into is why exactly this all route was towed in the first place because there were such high winds and high waves and such bad weather at the time so why was that undertaken in those circumstances. ok keep us updated the jacob green is reporting from the southern region thank you. in the u.s. the uproar surrounding the controversial stop online piracy act is gathering pace with a judiciary committee vote sheffield for the later this week years of growing up and or aimed at fighting copyright infringement but ultimately the to censorship
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and stifling of freedom of speech what is going to you can expect. as the obama team travels around the globe preaching virtues of internet freedom but i'm a big believer in technology and i'm a big believer in openness 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 any site 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 the find out whether it's illegal or not and as you know copyright laws extremely complicated there are lots of things that look like copyright infringement but 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
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down companies like google yahoo or facebook or furious over the pending stop online piracy act google co-founder sergey brin compared the bill to censorship being china and iran imagine my astonishment when the newest threat to free speech has come from the mother but the united states legendary computer scientist vince 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 programa aaron swartz was under investigation for sharing 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
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whistleblowers any time a news organization or activist group or critics. 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 a 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 the company alleged it was copyright infringement to show those emails under this bill they could shut the entire site down prevent anyone from reading these e-mails 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 huge it debates congress postpone the vote the websites of the congressmen themselves could potentially be shut down under the proposed legislation because all of them
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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 the wall that holds it might soon pass legislation that gives the government's sweeping powers to stifle web sources i'm going to check our reporting from washington our team. while i'm there also continues to be felt on the streets of the u.s. as the occupy movement box the three month anniversary of its fight against justice i don't mind if you don't come to read about dozens of protesters painted on. property money is a bit to the. patient also. on this financial. crisis in northern.
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one of the biggest civil trials in british legal history is entering its final stage with two russian tycoons in the spotlight barry sparrow's ascii is suing his former business partner the chelsea football club and a man up a move which claiming more than six billion dollars in damages on monday afternoon which is lawyer will start giving his final statement lottie's i bet it is following 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 to the various claims they were business partners equals and what became an enormous empire built on oil. and ill gotten gains he wants
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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 bures or ski's 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 adam overage even passed off one payment to bures or ski as an artificial transaction freely admitting he was a way round the money laundering regulations as for verizon ski he claims his stake in sydney their company was twenty five percent but has 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 that his 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
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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 continue over the weekend in cairo as egyptian troops cast with protesters and demonstrators have been demanding that the ruling military hand over power to the superdome station so as we see the test battle ground ten people have been killed and more than four hundred injured in the latest round of violence better in the middle east experts terry county says the army's provoking want to hold demonstrators 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
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in particular who blows 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 urine eating from the rooftop of the parliament building onto demonstrators below and this really takes one back to the colonial period in arab history and the history of that region when they were occupied by the british empire that is what they were told to do and the fact that the military is now turning on its own people. under the your wonders of your screen of the week and the gyptian ruling elite is a sign that things are in a very serious. serious situation developing in egypt and those whom the sooner by were is transferred to a civilian government an elected government the better whatever that government may be and these discuss think things that are being done to demonstrators in terry
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square and only it's 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 doing differently provoking this anger in order to create the impression that the violence is coming not from them they're being defensive and that egypt really has to be run by the military indefinitely and if that is their e-mail it's not going to work. well chatter on the internet is raging over the beatings of protesters in cairo we're going 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 and a nearly a thousand more missing the typhoon hit on friday night causing a month's worth of rain to fall in just twelve hours tens of thousands have been forced from their homes by the deluge the rescue is currently being hampered by
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widespread power outages and flooding roads the philippines suffers about twenty times in storms each year. a landmark israeli hamas prisoner swap has been completed remaining five hundred fifty palestinians were released under the egyptian brokered deal israel agreed to exchange one thousand palestinian prisoners for israeli sergeant that charlotte was captured five years ago the first phase of this want to place no tobar and shall return home and israel one hundred prisoners. iran's state t.v. has released a video of the man it claims was a cia spy trying to gain access to the country secret service iran's intelligence ministry identified. math field in afghanistan agents kept track of fantasy entered the country newcrest and arrested him and tried to carry out his mission. rescue is a battled high waves on sunday as they search for two hundred people feared dead
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over crowded ship sank off indonesia's main job survivors say they were in the water for five hours before being spotted it was practice with two hundred fifty people fleeing economic and political hardship in afghanistan iraq iran and turkey the ship was heading to australia when it ran into a powerful storm. a recap of our breaking news this hour rescuers found a raft containing around. fifteen people in the freezing waters off russia's far east coast where an oil rig capsized on sunday it's not clear there if they're alive sixteen people have so far been confirmed dead two more bodies were found in the sea thirty seven people are still missing more than a day since the tragedy happened we have more on this throughout the day arundhati . tamera there for business update with korea.
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thank you carrie hello and welcome to business here in our tip this hour it's been cold the deal of the year by russian business magazine company the country's two stock exchanges have completed their merger of the r.t.s. and my xix will continue to trade as separate and this is what the trading platforms clearing systems and data centers will be integrated the new exchanges expected to go for a public listing in two thousand and thirteen aiming to 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 market was low for fourth day straight day with the pressure coming from stronger dollar and concerns about the european debt light sweet is trading at ninety three dollars per barrel while brant blend is that over one hundred and two dollars per barrel. and asian markets extend losses up to reports north korean leader kim jong il died be consequences for joe political stability strike equity
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markets already dampened by concerns about europe's debt crisis south korea's cost could drop four percent japan's nikkei is giving up over one of the quarter because sand and hong kong is losing one point three percent the sell. here in russia markets dropped at the start of the trading session pricing in the european dell be use energy stocks weighing only in the season the price of oil comes down that's not a look at some individual travels otherwise it's our banking stocks among top losers with largest lender dropping over two percent energy majors are also in the red while snapped one percent down and food retailer are holding heading lower might be needed is dropping two point three percent. now with little sign of christmas rally trading volumes are beginning to drop towards the end of the year. that the coming week is unlikely to deliver an early yuletide
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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 by european and global investors and yes i don't think they'll give us 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 beast two weeks time but again i repeat we're very cheap so the change in sentiment global sentiment will bring these investors work the latest turmoil on 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 increase social spending
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however the long term prospects for the russia's fight for russia's finances 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 forecasts. the world good always middle class 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 is so reliable sources. for from here to two thousand and twenty rather and up to and for the russian economy but there could be a cups and bumps on the road. russia has agreed to grant bellows
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a discount on oil supplies minsky's increasing oil purchases to one hundred fifty seven million barrels from next year but it will pay one billion dollars less than the current price in exchange for this it is allowed russian companies to use well it was refineries to persist fifty percent of oil by supply the products could be sold in by the rules and russia or go for export early in moscow home of the price of gas supplies from minsk president lukashenko says energy discounts will allow the country to save four billion dollars a year. and russia's oil major tat near ft has agreed to develop the rich oil field in iran in a deal worth one billion dollars now it will work in partnership with a state run petroleum and adjoining an engineering development company iran's oil minister says that the field is expected to produce around twenty million barrels a year that's close to tat annual output that you have to seeking more joint
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ventures in iran and western companies curb their investment as part of economic sanctions against the country's nuclear activities. and russian tycoon dmitri live has bought the most expensive home in the history of manhattan real estate the new york observer says he's paid eighty eight million dollars for a ten room penthouse measuring six thousand seven hundred forty four square foot. runs the world's biggest potash producer all carty and his wealth puts him in the top one hundred richest people on the planet according to forbes magazine. well that's it for now i'll be back with more in less than an hour german. lucky.
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