afraid of finding more survivors from the oil platform that sank in the cold waters off russia's far east coast with rescue is failing to locate the missing work is. a cloud of uncertainty descends on isa nature is the death of north korean leader kim jong il leaves neighbors on the edge with growing fears of called late could follow his demise. and israel pushes for more settlements and breath thousand new houses in east jerusalem and the west bank in response to palestine's progress toward state there's.

a very warm welcome to you this is our 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 all the possible victims seen in the water well earlier a life raft was spotted which was the mission we thought to be carrying fifteen people but it turned out to be empty fourteen people were rescued from the sea shortly after the collapsed but several dozen are still missing jake and screens in the south and in the coastal region where the design. it's looking increasingly unlikely that any war survivors will be found search and rescue teams who have made contact with lifeboats and life rafts for out the course of the day but no people so far no survivors crucially have been found as a very similar story to that of sunday and largely this is owing to the fact that

this oil rig sank so quickly in bad weather conditions that swept away many of these lifeboats before it seems people could board them and we're looking at a very grave picture present if there are any survivors though been in the water for well over twenty four hours now typically given nighttime conditions that means planes can't fly and can't be used to try and search out any signs of life indeed throughout the course of monday we have seen the number of people found dead and mounting as for those who have been found alive for so far fourteen in toto took place on sunday where they're plucked from the water shortly after the sinking of this oil rig for the were immediately flown out to sakhalin here for further treatment a day have been ruled that they're in fits and good state and that she those four have undergone questioning in it because this case is

a criminal case has been opened to try and find out what exactly happened some of the theories that have been put forward so far looks at the haps as this oil rig took on a significant amounts of water which meant it sank very quickly it's all occurred approximately two hundred kilometers off the coast of south holly and in russia's far east as it already has been towed support by an icebreaker a very bad weather conditions now of course the search and rescue operation is still ongoing there are many more still missing and expecting it continue. throughout the course of the evening. crew in the regions following the developments we'll get to show you more of how the rescue is progressing both from the air and in the sea as well as hearing from relatives desperate for information about their loved ones still ahead this hour a former business bodies now battling the billions with the latest clash between

two russian billionaires who made all the little fortunes of the teams that they get out of london for their reputations and which. also internet news is. a u.s. piracy at the struggle for freedom of speech on the worldwide web. japan is voicing fears of a possible military escalation in the korean peninsula following the death of the north need to kim jong il the warning follows a state of emergency a military declared by south korea china in turn has expressed its condolences but is also reported to have sent troops to its border with the replacement state it's all being driven by fears of a possible succession to the late leader's youngest son kim has to assume power the country's declared a period of mourning with state t.v. showing outpourings of ovation from across the country and he said now we have

a port on the. north korea's communist state. a mystery to the world what know with its leader kim jong il. this message really to recreate was held in two thousand and eight more north korea's sixtieth anniversary he wasn't there to greet the crowd just did he suffered a stroke in two thousand and three reports claim to. have diabetes and been replaced in public by stand ins hired previously as a security measure he never spoke to the media had a profound fear. 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 thousand 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 our top or the general. thank you very much so much ours 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 innovative success story north korea has caused global outrage in recent years to patients 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 is serious potential for conflict and there's no alternative but to set up dialogue and improve understanding which we just saw you 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 oversaw

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 a conflict would break out if another attack was launched now kim john on a young and inexperienced leader is at the helm and will either open the door or continue to keep it shut this role way station was built in two thousand and two with hopes of connecting seoul and pyongyang but the north korean regime backed out at the last minute making this the last stop train heading back into the south now with kim jong il that they knew that perhaps soon we would see a train heading in. setting up the most secretive and ever. in the world and he's now our team korea. tensions across the korean peninsula are at the peak of the wild ways to see want to rush in the north and leadership will take the

grocery clerk a former australian diplomatic specialist but he has the opportunity for better relations has already been lost. i am very pessimistic i think we will see a worsening of the situation i think it's almost certain that kim jong un will be unable to control the military he will be controlled by the military and they will of course take a harder line in international affairs we had a wonderful chance to improve relations you kim jong il tried to improve relations with the united states and with japan but in both cases the hawks in japan and the united states in doing to prevent the improvement in relations in one in ninety four some very important green was reached between the united states to north korea to develop a nuclear reactor for a new career to produce power those promises were not kept and this is freely admitted in the united states those promises were not kept because the hawks under

bush said we don't need to make any concessions to this regime it will collapse and they kept on waiting for it to collapse and if those promises been kept north korea would probably would not have gone on its own nuclear development nuclear weapons development so this really is the whole story of relationships between north korea and the outside world. that was gregory a clark former australian diplomats specialist on asian politics. now israel plans to build a breath thousand new haven twenty story for them and the west bank is part of the speeding up settlement construction are following palestine succession into an escrow then we put sound by palestinians who say peacenik a stations are impossible 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 certainly it does not bode well for any kind of resumption of peace talks between the israelis and the palestinians it same 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 all 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. the world with news analysis continuing coverage including from festivities to fire is independence day turns deadly in. with an angry mob burning dozens of buildings is the reaction of games on the. grass why doing what the bank say is to get us out of recession is already

a tried and failed formula on the report which discovered a decade ago. now one of the biggest civil trials in british legal history is entering its final stages with two russian tycoon titans in the spotlight but is but more than six billion dollars for helping swell the. mortgage than their. best name for pumping millions into chelsea well abramovich is lawyers will stall of giving his final statement on monday live events 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 it's out of 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 the various claims they were business partners equals and 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 just 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 skis 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 round 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 and 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. more russian energy process will seem now to declare their ranks as part of prime minister vladimir putin a wide ranging anti-corruption campaign here the asking president of course has the details. rosenior. says inspections will take place in the next two months and will include the country's gas monopoly gas from prime minister cited what he calls the

unacceptable siphoning of money from the power generating industry for fake and companies both you'll hear more in business in about seven minutes. now the u.s. government bangs the drum louder the most when it comes to free speech but it's a reputation some believe isn't entirely deserved internet users fear the proprieties stop online piracy and in a new dawn of web censorship he's got if she can explain 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 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 to find out whether it's illegal or not and as you know copyright laws extremely complicated 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 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 why. i'd leave 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 loss would make it very easy to silence 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 that company alleged it was copyright infringement to share those e-mails 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 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. more on america's direction it's a come as we zoom in on the republicans have on the short list to take a shot of unseating bracket even if it means trying to turn and me into a big fish. the joke about newt gingrich as he does not skeletons is cause it is

closer to his graveyard it is quiet in his closet you know his time the speakership ended with him being the first the first speaker of the house who was basically found guilty of ethics violations of the pay three hundred thousand dollars signing 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. thank you time now it's going to take what else is happening around the world they say and syria has signed an agreement getting in arab league observers to monitor

how the regime is dealing with the rest of the country have threatened to security council to take action on that's the mask disagree groups already suspended syria's membership are refusing to comply with the peace plan to get president assad to withdraw troops dialogue with the opposition. thousands of people have staged rallies across italy in protest at the cards which include tax and pension changes made out a package of over forty eight billion dollars was recently approved by law making is added by mario monti's new technocrat government is expected to be passed by the senate by the end of the week but many believe the brunt of the cuts will be borne out by the poorest. security forces of a predefined. cairo killing at least three egypt's health ministry officials need to take a number of casualties and that we think outbreak of lives is now out of the seven

. i'm told also reported injured controller i would tie a square has gone back and forth between writers and the authorities guarding the capitol building nearby veteran middle east expert terry allen thank you on these provoking anger in order to blame the demonstrators for the violence. the fact that the military is now turning on its own people under the your wonders of your screen of wheat 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 our as strong as for 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 terry square and all the it's rangers by own to create a great deal of anger people are now asking it egypt so what's changed i think the army is just desperately provoking this anger in order to create the impression

that the violence is coming not from them they're being defensive and they think you're pretty has to be run by the military and definitely that is their remit it's not going to work like a sports to lead the this hour including who is the best football club in the wells first they know it's going to business all day with you via. thanks ls everyone welcome to the program as with been reporting russia's prime minister vladimir putin is calling for a corruption probe at state owned public companies inspections will take place in the next two months and will include from such as the bank and spare a bank the milestone announcement was made at the country's largest power plant business archies that is there with details. the government meeting devoted to the power sector surprised many and it started in the routine way with a large number of putin announcing new investments in the sector but none of that

was done the prime minister devoted how often the were to naming people in the industry suspected of corruption he highlighted how top managers used offshore companies and i feel it's still siphoned off 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. if we want to good investment climate we cannot accept offshore schemes any longer especially in the infrastructure sector those who want to keep profiteering russia you're welcome it's in compliance with the law but withdrawing money from the country through three companies cannot be accepted we need to pull the plug on the legacy of the arrow capitalism. what's different this time is that it appears to be more than grant awards officials and managers have been put a lot has cleared up your act all software as a consequence is that you have

a bit of global business are to siberia. well it's been called the deal of the year bond russian business magazine company the two countries two stock exchanges the are chasin the my six have completed their merchant business to move it and carpools. for sixteen years russia has had to 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 of the move is to reduce transaction costs now the head of the my six r.t.s. says the main goal is to persuade investors and companies alike to operate both trade and list in russia not a 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 some day join forces with the n.y.s.e. euronext or do each of bursa but that seems to be a long long way down the road. let's have

a look at how the markets solve performing this hour here in russia the markets some mixed p.r. chasse's down a quarter of a percent while the my sixes upload just. let's have a look at some of the individual share moves in the might six some energy may just in the right speech producers hydro is losing more than three percent up to russian foreign ministers said the company should cut its consumer prices by twelve and a half percent next year guys monopoly gas promised posting significant losses after vege mr newspaper reporters spending may rise to fifty five billion dollars next year and brushes metal monopole of metal is gaining the company plans to increase production by as much as twenty percent in twenty twelve and expect the gold price to rebound two thousand dollars and. european stocks are mixed this hour as the markets await fresh that crosses developments and react to their death for north korea's leader kim jong il which raised political concerns.

not times have a look at the price of oil well current prices are high helped by rising equities although prices fails to take advantage of geopolitical tensions caused by the death of north korea's leader by its weight is now trading at mine to the four dollars per barrel while the brunt land is just under one hundred four dollars per barrel this hour. that's it for now europe has eight more market analysis in about fifty five minutes time for you here on r.t. .

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