the report calls for a corruption probe at state on corporations among them state power companies the need for the details of our business border enforcement. a very warm welcome to you this is our to live from moscow now the search goes on at the site where a giant russian oil rig sank off russia's far east coast on sunday there were initial reports a raft floating in the area might contain survivors more than twenty four hours after the captain went down but it was later found to be empty fourteen people were rescued within the first few hours of the disaster so fast sixteen bodies have been recovered but dozens of people are still missing jake agrees has the latest from the city of used as the highlands close to the site of the maritime disaster. initially there were reports same it actually there being a boat located

a lifeboat located which may hold up to fifteen people in total you know the condition of their health now i've been told by emergency ministry that that isn't the case that they have spotted a lifeboat and located it but has nobody no survivors on board this is similar story to what we've heard throughout the course of the day and indeed yesterday as well where lifeboats life rafts being located but no survivors present and the hopes now somewhat dwindling because of serious amount of time has passed and still taking over twenty four hours and those who may still be out dealing with a lot of extreme weather conditions minus twenty degrees celsius here second in under water conditions not very good either and all of this being helped by the fact that those are trying to use you and find more of people alive have lost

one their key. things to search with that is their airplanes and helicopters so that not helping the issue either of course an inquest has already been opened and people looking to answer certain questions questions such as how and why one of the possible reasons being given so far is that water flooded on to this before it capsized and sank and gave people very little time to get to large boats and to safety now there has been a fish to investigation already launched criminal proceedings as well and they're asking why this was towed is all request towed to port despite such bad weather conditions. and will be closely monitoring the rescue operation in russ's of files to bring you all the latest of course the internet of things. they have all our twitter feed follow us at all to dot com to keep on top of this

breaking story. now north korea's veteran leader kim jong il has died of the age of sixty nine state media and else he passed away on saturday after suffering a heart attack. the youngest son kim jong un has been named his successor meanwhile as the news broke. down the enemy's south korea puts our forces on high alert while the government has declared the situation and the emergency. a body lying in state in the more than name of the capital for a funeral service on december twenty eighth until then a period of mourning has been declared in the country and he said now it takes a look back now at the life of a man who became a symbol of the reclusive state. 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 . wasn't there to greet the crowd with what 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. according to one source he was born in the soviet union in one thousand nine hundred forty one during his father's exile. 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 democrat. atic peoples 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 for their own you know in our thoughts are 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 this is a modern 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. in the asia pacific region this serious potential for conflict and there's no alternative but to set up dialogue and improve understanding between the soils in twenty ten new cars 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 line 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 continues to hold large scale war games with the u.s. and japan and wants a conflict would break out if another attack was launched now came john on

a young and inexperienced leader is apa 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 palin yang but the north korean regime backed out at the last minute making this the last stop trains heading back into the south now with kim jong il to their new hope that perhaps soon we would see a train heading in that. setting why the most secretive anger. in the world and he's now artsy korea. now fifteen people have been confirmed dead and about one hundred others injured following a weekend of mass violence and west bank towns expand the situation in the central asian republic remains a volatile after deadly clashes between striking oil workers and police followed more unrest across the region. is in catholic's out for us. it seems that the

authorities resort to order in these parts of the country were these were this while unsee 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 about forging new that went on she's fully but the other rallies didn't go in the same fashion unfortunately for example on saturday a group of protesters blocked release station and about retraining to 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 as they were called now by the authorities showed fierce resistance and as they said a locomotive and 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 ours and also in the west of the country where on friday protests 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 the resource 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 all or 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 stan. when they go into an attack because now many peaceful rallies by

the kathak all work as well hyped up and he's wanting to use them for their own gangs. it has been going on for several months but. for some strange reason it has turned out to be very violent. as authorities think there must be somebody else behind it or just covering up with the we just. eve you've seen the video there people are behaving strangely this is organized and they're all strangely very in a seemingly form it looks like somebody who's interested in harming their government or as we can see in the birch of so short months trained you and then to your the situation it looks like it is either somebody outside the country who is interested in harming the garment or through an order to somebody inside the country who is also interested in grabbing the power i don't think it's going to be any more violence it is all very local all concentrated in one small region so it is pretty easy to group which. coming up

a little later on the program a battle of billionaires a mega money to be between russian tycoon enters the final sprint we've got more on the london where the cave is being. now israel's planning to build over a thousand new settlement homes in east jerusalem in the west bank it's speeding up construction after palestine won membership in the un's heritage body in october palestinian leaders think peace negotiations are impossible without that and freeze on his part of clear has more now from tel aviv. what we're hearing is that the israeli government has announced it will be building more than a thousand housing units across the green line on palestinian land now the purpose of the housing units is to try and help alleviate the shortage of accommodation particularly among young israeli couples in the jerusalem area but no doubt this announcement will draw the anger of the international community as indeed have

similar announcements in the past so it does not bode well for any kind of resumption of peace talks between the israelis and the palestinians it seems out a strong message that the netanyahu government is not interested in sitting down and talking with the palestinians while at the same time continuing to build settlements on palestinian land while we're talking palestinians in the west bank are celebrating and this is because of the release last night sunday of five hundred and fifty palestinian prisoners from israeli jails this was the second phase of an israeli prisoner exchange swap that was carried out back in october you remember there that the first phase of this prisoner exchange deal started that will ultimately see more than a thousand palestinian prisoners released for one israeli soldier gilad shalit who has already returned to israel now it was a time when clashes broke out shortly before the exchange last night took place these clashes were between israeli soldiers and families who were waiting for prisoners to come back the soldiers were firing tear gas and rubber bullets the

palestinians were throwing rocks and burning tires so you do have this policy which seems quite strange to some observers on the one hand israel that hearing to a prisoner exchange deal and seemingly one thousand to move forward and create some kind of of negotiations with the palestinians but on the other hand we do have this flare up in violence and we also have this continuation in settlement building by the netanyahu government also plenty more ahead of you this hour including can protecting copyright be a pretext for internet censorship. by using copyright. as a wedge issue suddenly we're able to put this power in the hands of the government where pundits are sounding the alarm over america's pending stop online piracy states jeopardize the fundamental principles of freedom of speech on the internet. and one of the biggest civil trials in british legal history is entering its final stages with two russian tycoon in the spotlight but he's been suing the chelsea

football club another one of a movie claiming more than six billion dollars in damages on monday out on mortgages lawyers will start giving his final statement to bennett's following the case for us 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 claims they were business partners equals and what became an enormous empire built on oil. and ill gotten gains he wants the biggest slice than the one point two million dollars he received back in two thousand and two mr average over actually 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 is 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 bury. as an artificial transaction freely admitting he was a way around the money laundering regulations as for barry he claims his stake in sydney 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 acknowledge 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. elsewhere around the world

a rescue operation is now underway in the southern philippines after floods killed more than six hundred people in the south i'm on the thing a typhoon hit on friday night causing a multi. of rain to fall in just twelve hours tens of thousands have been forced from their homes by the deluge the rescues currently being hampered by widespread power outages and flooded roads but philippine suffers about twenty typhoons and storms each year. around the state t.v. has released a video of the man it claimed was a cia spy who tried to gain access to the country's secret service iran's intelligence ministry identified amir hekmati at bagram airfield in afghanistan agents kept track of him if he entered the country in august and arrested him when he tried to carry out his mission. island clashes between protesters in egypt and troops in cairo continued throughout the weekend the demonstrators have been demanding the ruling military handover of power to a civilian administrator and soldiers will see protesters of battens as they lay on

the ground ten people have been killed and more than four hundred injured in the latest wave. hundreds of protesters have gathered outside the italian parliament in rome demonstrating against austerity measures lawmakers recently approved a forty three billion dollars package to save the nation is crippled economy it's expected to be passed by the senate before the end of the week critics say the cuts run fair and will impact on the poorest in society. or find out more of the term more that's gripping the eurozone on our website dot com the i.m.f. financial folk part of your life this is explored in depth reading all of this on the debt drama club. and on line to read about dozens of occupy protesters who've been detained him and. trying to set up camp all of church own property a month after all bodies of victims that are. now

in the u.s. the uproar surrounding the controversial stop online piracy act is gathering pace with a digital committee vote scheduled for later this week fears are growing that the law aimed at fighting copyright infringement will ultimately lead to censorship and the stifling of freedom of speech artie's garbage account explains. 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 the 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 to 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 to 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 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 program 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 laws would make it very easy to silence internet 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 covering infringement to share those emails under this bill they could shut the

entire site down and 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 internet to the wall that a home 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 now about three capital stories in a few moments but before that let's get a thought they were getting now.

but i welcome to the business here not a thanks for joining me this hour russia's prime minister vladimir putin is calling for a corruption probe at state owned companies during a visit to siberia said inspections will take place in the next two months and will include companies such as gas. the prime minister is also ordering to tighten control over state energy companies to specifically demand managers their families declare their incomes and property but inside it's what he calls the other except i'm also phoning of money from the power generating industry to fake and offshore companies. do it not if we want to good investment climate we cannot accept offshore schemes any longer especially in infrastructure sectors those who want to keep profiteering russia you welcome it's simple compliance with the law but we're drawing money from the country to free companies cannot be accepted we need to pull the plug on the legacy of the arab world capitalism. while i'm on this

story i'm joined by rod he's business as nick poole hello to you nic ok so what's different this time we had these anti corruption bribes before what's different now names have been named also there's been an acceptance of how boyd spread the problem is a promise to putin's a rock the whole of all the bosses in the sector were involved in shady deals and now we've we've had corruption draws before and president medvedev made it one of the sort of central policy issues of his presidency and he dealt with the police this is tony industry such a what the prime minister is saying is we know who you are and this is your warning so he's giving names at the time but why why now is it after the question and answer thing when people were asking when this is going to end you think i think it's pretty clear anybody who's been watching russian politics for the last few weeks sees that things have changed here. particularly off the ruling you know it's

russia party picked up a very unwelcome morning the party of crooks and thieves the people in russia are demanding more almost from. the people in charge seems to be a loop putin has not conceded as much the response to that he did say he would listen to this would be reading between the lines seems to be a response to that criticism ok thanks very much nick for this for this update. it's been called the deal of the year by russian business magazine company the country's two stock exchanges have completed their merger at the ati the r.t.s. and isaacs will continue to trade as separate in this is by the trading platforms clearing systems and data centers will be integrated the exchanges are expected to go for a public meeting 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. and that brings us to the markets

let's look at russia where markets are lower the guess is moving a quarter of a percent the miles six is down point one percent let's have a look at some individual samples on them isaac's banking stocks among the top losers with a largest lender d.t.b. dropping over a quarter of a percent energy majors are also in the red with wells have done just a notch this hour and probably metal is gaining a quarter of a percent bucking the trend the company plans to increase production by as much as twenty percent in two thousand and twelve and expect the gold price to rebound about two thousand u.s. dollars an ounce. now let's take a look at europe stock markets there have recovered from earlier losses and are mostly higher this hour stocks in france fell the most in morning trade on news that rich ratings revised the country's outlook to negative owner shares are on the rise with shares of pedro over one and a half percent in paris and dollar unfolds wagon up over one percent and thirty percent respectively in frankfurt. now here's a boil it rebounded through my head near its lowest in more than six weeks

advancing equity markets eased concerns that the new government measures will be unable to stem the debt crisis like wheat is trading at under ninety four dollars per barrel the brant blend as it will for a one hundred and forty dollars a barrel. well that's it for me for this hour but joining us in less than fifteen minutes from now with more here in business.

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now a harem of a this is see the top stories now a rescue is struggle to find any more survivors at the site where a giant oil raid signed off from says far east coast sixteen people are dead so far we fear the number will rise drastically and. north korea's longstanding leader came jong ill and dies of heart failure it may just sixty nine of his death sending shock waves across the country on the homefront.