live from moscow this is r.t. all welcome to you it's now eight pm here and my name is kevin now in eleven bodies have been pulled out of freezing sea off russia's far east coast to an oil rig capsized and sank on sunday crews are working to try to recover other possible victims in the water a life raft was spotted which was initially thought to be carrying fifteen people but it turned out to be empty fourteen were rescued from the sea shortly after the rig collapsed but several dozen a still missing tonight artie's jacob grieves is in use in a second instance in the coastal region where the disaster happened. it's looking increasingly unlikely that any war survivors will be found search and rescue teams have made contact with lifeboats and life rafts through 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 all wreak 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 being in the water for well over twenty four hours now given night time 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 total 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 today have been ruled that they're in a fit and good state and that she those four have undergone questioning in it because certainly in this case the 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 perhaps 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 carolinian in russia's far east as is or it was being towed to a port 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 to continue throughout the course of the evening. thank you grieves part of our tease crew in the region are following developments to keep you posted hopefully we will get to show you more too of how the rescue is progressing from both the air and the sea in

the coming hours as well as hearing from those relatives of course desperate for information about their loved ones and as always we're coverage on our web site to tragedy through the eyes of a witness a survivor recalls the final minutes before that oil rig capsized investigators will be talking to him as well of course very closely log on to our team dog kong to get his story. japan is voicing fears of a possible military escalation in the korean peninsula after the death of the north's leader kim jung il the warning follows a state of emergency and military alert declared by south korea china in turn has expressed its 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 now is the late leader's youngest son kim jung il prepares to assume power the country's declared a period of mourning with state t.v. showing outpourings of emotion from across the country but isn't this now a reports of

a man who personified north korea's communist state. a mystery to the world what now for north korea with its leader kim jong il gone this massive military parade was held in two thousand and eight to mark north korea's sixtieth anniversary general can john wasn't there to greet the crowd 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 former or you know in our father the general came john 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. the stuff i'm under democracy and 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 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 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 sawyer in twenty ten new cars blew up around the north with talk of the possible next leader that's when kim john on became a four star general and first moved into 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 want a 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 railway station was built in two thousand and two with hopes of connecting seoul and callen 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 to test their new power that perhaps we could see a train heading in that. setting light up the most secretive end of. the world and he's now artsy korea. meantime south korean media is reporting that the north has test fired a ballistic missile as its new leadership seems to establish its authority and

james colbert editor of the colbert report dot com believes it's the first warning shot of aimed at those the vested interest in the communist state. it's quite a tense situation and one would imagine that diplomats of every stripe would be interested in getting their fingers in this pine and trying to stabilize the relations now especially because of course we know north korea is a nuclear armed country with a ballistic missiles and it serves i think a useful function for a number of parties in the region not only as a sort of proxy for china which has been really propping up the regime internationally by giving it its the its support on the international skitt stage which can then use the menace of north korea and be seen to be keeping north korea in line but it also serves a sort of strange function on the stage for for example the united states which one would think would be interested in disarming north korea but in fact in every single stage of north korea's nuclear armament even united states has been deeply involved with that the other vector by which north korea supposedly became

a nuclear armed nation was through the a.q. khan network which we now know through a series of whistleblowers and courtroom document revelations and leaked documents that that network was infested from top to bottom with cia and other assets of the american intelligence they're also concerned i think that they could potentially even lose what what group they've managed to maintain over jong il and his regime so they want to of course be able to make sure that they can secure the their nuclear weapons or whatever might be floating around in north korea in the event of some sort of truly madman type situation where kim jong un turns out to be even more maniacal than his father. still ahead this hour dealing a digital blow them to that you sound the alarm over a u.s. piracy act that could strangle freedom of speech on the world wide web that. israel plans to build over a thousand new homes in east jerusalem in the west bank it's part of a speeding up of settlement construction now following palestine succession and

unesco the move slammed by palestinians who say paste negotiations are impossible while settlement expansion continues his paul asli 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 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'll 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 will israel's aggressive policy threatens to split the jewish state from its western allies will be no real political goal that is the view of. the palestinian israeli peace and joe for. the whole idea of punishing the palestinians by building another one thousand units invasion was a live issue was of him and the west bank is a big mistake from the point of view of the israeli interest it is the direction that this government is taking and that they were action is to work. against the palestinian demands of stopping all settlement buildings but more so i'm afraid that it works also against the israeli interest in our friends our allies in europe they are against them in building in united states the move can save you a clue and now the day against the new settlement building on a large extent building this is not the time neither to have

a fight with your peers or with the americans. a website called got the world wrapped up for you with news analysis and continuing coverage there tonight from first of a tease to fires independent state deadly in kazakhstan an angry mob burning dozens of buildings and their industrial action goes on heard we've got the latest online i know why doing what bank is say to get us out of the recession is already a tried and failed formula how to report on argentina which discovered the hard way a decade ago. this is r.t. one of the biggest civil trials in british legal history is entering its final stages with two russian tycoon titans in the spotlight but as off scale warms more

than six billion dollars for helping swell the wealth of roman abramovich the man best known of course for pumping millions into his football club chelsea promotions lawyer will start giving his final statement on monday artes of a ban it's been following the case in london for. 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 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 is the various claims they were business partners equals in 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 is 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 adam overage even passed off one payment to paris or ski as an artificial transaction freely admitting he was a way around the money laundering regulations as for barry he claims his stake in sydney 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 prime minister vladimir putin has recently acknowledge 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. russia said that any global treaty on internet control must be worked within the u.n. framework so not by a single nation this comes as internet giants fear the proposed u.s. stop online piracy act could assure in a new dawn of web censorship is going to she can't looks at why the plan is being branded a case of double standards. just 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 and it is vitally important to every nation represented and every nation in the world namely internet freedom u.s. lawmakers may soon pass legislation that would make taking down a website as easy as a walk in the park the government would be able to shut down eighty sites suspected

of hosting copyright material no court warrant needed the government doesn't just take down the infringing material it takes on the site entirely and it does it without even a trial to find out whether it's illegal or not and as you know copyright laws are extremely complicated there are lots of things that look like copyright infringement the turn out to be licensed in one way or another even a site like you tube which has a mix of different kinds of content under this bill the entire site could get shut down companies like google yahoo facebook are furious over the pending stop online piracy act google co-founder sergey brin compared the bill to censorship being china and you ran imagine my astonishment when the newest threat to free speech has come from the mother but the united states legendary computer scientist vin serve widely hailed as one of the founders of the internet itself said the legislation has the potential of bringing about unprecedented censorship of the web by using copyright as a wedge issue suddenly we're able to put this power in the hands of the government

and then once they have it it can be expanded and expanded to deal with a whole range of other things the programmer aaron swartz was under investigation for sharing the united states federal court documents on the web in july he was arrested for downloading roughly four million academic articles from a protected computer he says the laws would make it very easy to silence internet whistleblowers any time a news organization or activist group or critic. tries to put up some internal documents that were leaked or things like that all those documents are copyrighted for example we found e-mails from the people who made voting machines and a group that supports more 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 copper infringement to share those e-mails under this bill they could shut the entire site down to prevent anyone from reading these emails of incredible public importance but not only could it a fact freedom of speech but also businesses might 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 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's sweeping powers to stifle web sources i'm going to check our reporting from washington our team. more america's direction to come on the program to is rezoning on who the republicans have on the short list to take a shot at unseating barack obama even if it means trying to meet into a big fish. the joke about being rich is he doesn't have skeletons is cause it is close he has graveyards in his client in his closet you know he has turned 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 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. there's much more of that with peta the rest the cross talk team at nineteen thirty g.m.t. tonight. security forces opened fire on anti realty protesters in cairo killing at least three egypt's health ministry says the total number of casualties

following days of renewed violence now stands of fourteen with seven hundred reported a good job reece is a political activist from the british based stop the war coalition he told us the news the military using in there were provided by the west. the government is continuing the mubarak era regime policy and that couldn't be clearer with the current crackdown and the extreme violence now being used against the protesters i think what many people believe is that no elections that take place no could be described as free and fair when they're taking place against this background the west has been complicit in backing the skaf regime since mubarak fell as it was in backing the mubarak regime when he was in power there is still one point three billion pounds of u.s. military aid given to the egyptian military you will have seen the videos of the protesters holding up the c.s. canisters fired at them into here square with the words made in the usa on them we know that david cameron when he visited here square behind him british companies

including arms companies and these people have been part of the rearmament of the egyptian military with very arms that are now being used against the protesters are provided by by the western governments who have been backing this regime so they have is times two there was hypocrisy with regard to mubarak and there is no further hypocrisy with regard to the supreme council the armed forces regime. military violence against civilians is taking a turn elsewhere in the arab world to syria is no sign of agreement letting in arab league observers to monitor how the review is dealing with the unrest in the country the league of threatened to ask the un security council to take action unless damascus agreed the arab groups already suspended syria's membership refusing to comply with a peace plan to get president assad to withdraw troops and start dialogue with the opposition. thousands of people who stayed rallies across italy in protest of austerity cuts which include tax and pension changes

a bail package of over forty billion dollars was recently approved by lawmakers 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. ok we've got one of those sport with dmitri very shortly tell you about one young sprint to replace the same boat as the fastest man on the planet spreading across the business days before the let's get across the headlines now with yulia. thanks kevin everyone welcome to the business program russia's prime minister vladimir putin is calling for a corruption probe at state owned power companies while inspections will take place in the next two months and will include from such as casper the bank as bear a bank milestone announcement was made at the country's largest power plant business archies touchin a prick over is there with the details. the government meeting devoted to the power

sector surprised many and it started in a routine way with large zimmer puton announcing new investments in the sector but when 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 mine and 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 cannot accept offshore schemes any longer especially in 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 free companies cannot be accepted we need to pull the plug on the legacy of the arrow 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 as clear up your act all

software as the consequences that you're going to call a business are to siberia. now has been called the deal of the year by russian business magazine company the country's two stalker exchanges have completed their merger the r.t.s. the might six will continue to trade a separate indices but the trading platforms clearing systems and data centers will be integrated the new exchange expected to go for a public listing in twenty thirty they need 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 check on how the markets are performing this hour here in russia the markets closed in the red the arch has lost a quarter percent while the my stocks finished down just a notch let's have a look at some of the individual share moves in the might succeed energy majors in the red for the madrid which is beach electricity producers hydra lost more than

three percent after russian prime minister said the company should cut its consumer prices by twelve and a half percent next year monopoly gas promo supposed losses softer vetter mr newspaper reported its spending may rise to fifty five billion dollars next year and precious metal manifold in metal gained the company plans to increase production by as much as twenty percent in twenty twelve and expect the gold price to rebound from two thousand dollars an ounce. and european stocks are down this hour as the markets awaited fresh debt crisis developments and react to the debt for north korean leader kim jong il which raised geopolitical concepts. and finally u.s. stocks so low world trade investors anticipated some progress out of the european union conference call. ok that's it you have more market analysis in less than fifteen minutes time here on r t and you can find more

stories on our website r.t. dot com slash business. was the plant that was responsible for causing the world's worst industrial disaster and now it had been abandoned in a condition where it had become

a source of pollution or the most recent study that was done shows that this water pollution and spreading. will continue to be in the more than hundred thousand be both. groups working in effect the children see the children to be ten times more likely to be born with birth defects in children in the rest of the country. in the sea as little as five hundred dollars for lifelong in. the unpunished.

kevin i would here with a headline update for you the hopes fade of finding more survivors from the oil platform that sank in the cold waters off russia's far east coast with the rescue of. the missing workers. the cloud of uncertainty. as the death of north korean leader kim jong il leaves neighbors on the edge of growing fears of violent conflict could follow his demise. over a thousand new house.