a very warm welcome to you this is r.t. live from moscow eleven bodies have been pulled out of freezing sea off russia's far east coast where an oil rig capsized and sank on sunday crews are working to recover other possible victims seen in the water while earlier a line from it was spotted which was initially thought to be carrying fifteen people but it turned out to be empty fourteen people were rescued from the sea shortly after the raid collapsed but several dozen are still missing jake agrees is in. in the coastal region where the disaster and. attention really on the time issue here over twenty four hours of past since this all rick capsized and sank i mean they've been exposed to the elements for a significant amount of time deal with minus twenty degrees celsius in terms of air

temperature and freezing conditions in the water there and rescue efforts at present may be hindered somewhat with the old set of night which means that no more aerial sorties can be launched to try to scan the sea for signs of life of those survivors taking yes they fourteen in total or four of them were mediately airlifted to hospital to face treatment and to be assessed doctors today have concluded that they're actually in good health and free to go now when it comes to the remaining ten while they're actually still residing on the ships that pluck them out of the water and should return to port within two days as for the are going to the how or why this occurred there are a number still being discussed one of them that's already itself flooded with water which led to it capsizes sinking very quickly in an estimated twenty minutes has been a criminal investigation already launched at present it was called for

a full thorough investigation in this case and that criminal investigation is looking into why exactly this all rig was being towed is that stormy weather and bad conditions well our crew in the region is following the developments hopefully we'll get to show you more of how the rescue is progressing both from the air and sea as well as hearing from relatives desperate for information about their loved ones. still have this hour the former business bodies are battling over billions for the latest courtroom clash between two russian billionaires who made all the logical fortune of the ninety's as they slug it out in london their reputation is and richard's. also internet uses sound the alarm over a u.s. piracy act that could strangle freedom of speech on the world wide web. now to pile on is voicing fears of

a possible military escalation in the korean peninsula following the death of the north leader kim jong il the warning follows a state of emergency a military declared by south korea but china in turn has expressed his condolences but is also reported to have sent troops to its border with the reclusive state it's all being driven by fears of a possible succession conflict with the late leader's youngest son kim prepares to assume power the country's declared a period of mourning with state t.v. showing outpourings of emotion from across the country and it's in now with our report on a man who personified north korea's quintus state it's. 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 kim jong il 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. well 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 the you know in your mouth father the general. thank you so much others 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 an innovative success story north korea has caused global outrage in recent years testing patience by carrying out underground nuclear test and short range missile launches leading to u.s. and 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 this science in twenty ten new cars who operate in the north with talk of the possible next leader that's when kim jong un. 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 continue to hold large scale war games with the u.s. and japan and wants conflict would break out if another attack was launched now kim jong un a young and inexperienced leader is at the helm and will either open the door or continue to keep it shut. this roadway 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 stop train heading back into the south now with kim jong il knew that perhaps soon we would see a train heading in that. setting up the most secretive end of. the world and he's now a r.t. korea. korean media is reporting that the north has test fired a ballistic missile as its new leadership seeks to establish itself already but james cool with editor of the corporate report dot com doesn't believe any change in policy. the north has always been the sort of mad woman in the attic when it comes to east asian politics and the new regime in north korea is looking to assert its power into to show that it is obviously still exists on the world stage and

that this is not going to destabilize the country so it might just be saber rattling for the sake of saber rattling at this point so it's of course anyone's guess that you know what way this will unfold but i hesitate to predict that there will be any major changes in and near future i don't think that the the son of a tyrannical dictator and inherited to inherit it is own power grip on power will have any anything of the sort of international experience that would be necessary for an international statesman of like the head of a nuclear armed state if north korea was was interested in rejoining the international community and becoming part of part of the globe again one would hope that they would start to return to to at least talks about their nuclear program and things of that nature. now israel plans to build a very thousand new homes in these two with and around the west bank it's part of a beating up a settlement construction following palestine succession into an escrow then we have with by palestinian peace negotiations are possible while settlement expansion

continues on his policy is following developments. 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's a result 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 there 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. with news and analysis and continuing

coverage of the day from festivities to fire isn't. day turns deadly encounter with an angry mob burning dozens of buildings as the industrial action goes on. plus why doing what the bank is say to get us out of recession is already a tried and failed formula reports all g. and tina which discovered that the hard way a decade ago. the u.s. government bangs the drum louder the most when it comes to free speech but it's a reputation somebody isn't entirely deserved into that uses fear the proposed stop online piracy act could usher in a new dawn of web censorship artie's gathered as you can luke said why the plan is being branded

a case of double standards. 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 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 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 iran 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 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 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 covering infringement to share those emails under this bill they could shut the entire site down and 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 do disappear competitors and made heated debates congress postpone 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 sweeping powers to stifle web sources i'm going to check our reporting from washington our team. now we delve deeper into u.s. politics with a close look at new gingrey questioning if you can topple barack obama nominated as a republican candidate for next year's presidential race the full series coming your way at fifteen that he has a quick preview. the joke about newt gingrich as he does not skeletons as cause as it is close to his graveyard at his client in his closet you know his term the speakership ended with him being the first the first speaker of the house who was basically found guilty of ethics violations had to pay a three hundred thousand dollars fine and by the way the house ethics committee was chaired by a republican led by republicans since republicans controlled the house at that time you know he's got two two marriages where he was unfaithful you know speaking of

that infidelity and i'm thinking you know john edwards is standing out there somewhere saying hey if i do this again can i run for president in two thousand and sixteen. now one of the big gay civil trials in british legal history is entering its final stage with two russian tycoon type in the spotlight but he's been in more than six billion dollars the helping swell the wealth of roman i move it the man best name for pumping millions into his football club chelsea his lawyer will start giving his final statement on monday bennett's 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 it's out over the small matter of six and

a half billion dollars around every move which. used to be close just how close is what this case rides on is to 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 was to add remove which 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 berries or 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 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 and prime minister vladimir putin has recently acknowledged that fact even in his recent televised q. and a where he said this transfer to be held in russia because that's where the money was stolen and that's where it should be divided. russian energy bosses will soon have to declare their earnings as part of prime minister vladimir putin's wide reaching and to corruption campaign yulia oddities business desk has all the details for us. as a specialist will take place in the next two months and would include the countries gas monopoly gas problem prime minister also cited what he calls the unacceptable siphoning of money from the power generating industry through fake and offshore

companies well to do more in business in just a minute. it is going to check on what else is happening around the world this hour on syria has signed an agreement levy an arab league observers to monitor how the regime is doing again rest of the country the league had threatened to ask the un security council to take action on less damascus agreed the group's already suspended syria's membership for refusing to comply with the peace plan to get president assad to withdraw troops and start dialogue with the opposition. thousands of people have staged rallies across a fluid protest addle ferrety cards which include tanks and pension charges a bailout package of over forty billion dollars was recently approved by will make is headed by mario monti's new technocrat government it's expected to be passed by the senate by the end of the week but many believe the brunt of the cuts will be borne by the poorest. security forces have opened fire on anti military

protesters in cairo killing at least three egypt's health ministry officials say the total number of casualties of the recent outbreak of violence is now fourteen the seven hundred also reported to control over the highest square has moved back and forth between rises and your forty's guarding the capital building here by veteran middle east expert tariq ali he says the army is provoking anger in order to blame the demonstrators for the balance. the fact that the military is now turning on its own people under the your wonders obviously 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 bio is transferred to a civilian government an elected government the better whatever their government

may be and these just gusting things that are being done to demonstrators in derry square and on its rangers by 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 really has to be run by the military indefinitely and if that is the area it's not going to work coming out pair up next here on ars he would have been his business would be even if they don't go away. thanks that us a very welcome to the program as we've just been reporting russia's prime minister vladimir putin is calling for a corruption probe at state owned power companies inspections will take place in the next two months and will include companies such as gazprom the bank and spare

bank business archies that an appellate court has the details. the government meeting devoted to the power sector surprised it started in a routine way with large him or putin announcing new investments in the sector but none of that was done the prime minister devoted half an hour to naming people in the industry suspected of corruption he highlighted how top managers used offshore a company is and i feel it will siphon off my he called these schemes a legacy of wild mind his and said russia has to make sure to check sectors worked in a transparent way. that if we want to good investment climate we do not accept offshore schemes any longer especially in the infrastructure sectors those who want to keep profiteering russia you're welcome it's in full compliance with the lord but withdrawing money from the country through three companies cannot be accepted we need to pull the plug on the legacy of the arab world capitalism. what's different

this time is that it appears to be more than a grand words officials and managers have been put on not has cleared up your act all software as the consequences that you are going to call a business are to siberia. on it's been called the deal of the year by russian business magazine company the two countries stock exchanges they are chance in the might six have completed their merchant business arches to machu madrid and carports. for sixteen years russia's had two stock exchanges the my six and the r.t.s. now the latter has been mainly operating in dollars and focuses on derivatives trading while the my six takes around seventy percent of overall trading volumes and focuses on equities trading in rubles now the two have merged reflecting the volume difference in the combined entities capital the r.t.s. takes around a third of the total four point eight billion dollars of value yet it is quite symbolic that this big house still hasn't got a proper new name for now it's called the my six r.t.s.

and that's because not a lot is expected to change for the time being still the same services the same conditions and r.t. as m i six indices are still calculated separately reflecting currency fluctuations obviously there's a lot of sense in this move as there's little point in having competition between the two if they're providing identical services in fact the move is to reduce transaction costs now the head of the my six r.t.s. says the main goal is to persuade of investors and companies alike to operate both trade and list in russia not have brought there's a good reason to work in that direction for more than a year russian stock trading in london outpaced volumes in moscow and by a whopping fifty percent at peak times but traders say that's related to problems with the russian economy and capital outflow rather than technical trading issues although this is a step in the right direction finally the merger also opens the road to further

partnerships on the global markets for quite a while there's been speculation that the joint body could for example someday join forces with the n.y.s.e. euronext or door but that seems to be a long long way down the road. let's not have a look at the markets here in russia the markets are mixed this hour the r.t.s. is just a notch in the red one of my success point two percent. let's have a look at some of the individual share on the mice that's. energy majors are in the right forward about bruges speech editors the two producers hydros losing almost four percent off to russian prime ministers said the company will reduce its consumer prices by twelve and a half percent next year and. is also retreating and precious metal mine appalling that toll is gaining the company plans to increase production by as much as twenty percent in twenty twelve and expect the gold price to rebound about two thousand dollars an ounce. and european stock markets have recovered from earlier losses and

they are mostly high of the solid stocks in france felt most in morning trade on news that ratings revised countries with two negative quarters shares are on the rise with shares of players show up one point seven percent in paris and diamond spike and up one percent and point eight percent respectively in frankfurt. and or rebounds from near its lowest in more than six in more than six weeks advancing equity markets east concern the e.u. government measures will be unable to stem the debt crisis lights which is not trading at around ninety four dollars a barrel while the brunt of the one hundred three dollars. russian tycoon to retrieve a lot of live has bought the most expensive home in the history and then have real estate the new york observer says he's paid eighty eight million dollars for a ten room penthouse measuring six hundred twenty six square meant me to have all their brands the world's biggest port touch produce

a little comedy and his wealth puts him in the top one hundred richest people on the planet according to forbes magazine. that's all we have time for now we're joined me about fifteen minutes for another business update here on our team. the world with. science technology innovation all the latest developments from

around russia we've got the huge earth covered. in two thousand and ten especially economic zone for industrial production was established in russia somalia region with a total area of six hundred sixty ect as. its investors are granted exclusive tax and customs benefits which includes a five year exemption from property land and transport taxes as well as an income tax rate. to fifteen point five percent. the special economic zone operates as a free customs zone which enables manufacturers to market their products in russia free of indoor duties to some our region sees it is currently witnessing a sewage infrastructure construction the somare region special economic zone

promises exceptional of the treaties for developing your business in russia will come to the similar regions for more information log on to invest in somalia that all you. that's all past the hour here in moscow this is a new heights of feta finding more survivors from the oil platform that sank in the cold waters off russia's far east coast with rescue is fading to the cape the missing kids. a cloud of uncertainty descends on eastern asia as the death of north korean leader kim jong il leaves neighbors on the edge with growing fears of bought a cold plate could to follow his to minds. that israel pushes for more settlements and i'll sing over a thousand new.