live from moscow this is r t welcome it's now ten pm here my name is kevin aoun and first 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 recover other possible victims in the water earlier 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 are still missing now it is jacob greaves is in usual second lynskey 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 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 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 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 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 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 sac ali 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. well arty's crew is in the region following the developments for you hopefully we're going to show you more of how the rescue is progressing for the coming hours both from the air and in the sea as well as hearing as well from those desperate relatives about information wanting them over there's always a slow recovering on our web site as well r.t.

dot com. who witnessed the tragedy unfolding how he saw the survivor recalling the final minutes before that oil rig so quickly capsized in just twenty minutes. don't call. japan is voicing fears of a possible military escalation in the korean peninsula following the death of the north's leader kim jong il the warning follows a state of emergency and military alert declared by south korea china in turn has expressed its condolences but it's 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 as the late leader youngest son kim jong il prepares to assume power the country has declared a period of mourning with state t.v. showing outpourings of emotion from across the country and it is in this in our reports now of the 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 ill wasn't there to greet the crowd reports suggested he suffered a stroke in two thousand and three reports claimed kim jong il died of diabetes and had been replaced in public by stand ins hired previously as a security measure he never spoke to the media had a profound fear of flying and ate with special chopsticks which could detect poison rumors have surrounded the so-called supreme leader throughout his life beginning with birth according to one source he was born in the soviet union in one thousand nine hundred forty one during his father's exile all kim jong il's official biography claims his birth was heralded by the appearance of a double rainbow. our people take pride in the fact that they are blessed with great glee there's 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 our thought or idea the general. thank you 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. the south a modern democracy an innovative success story north korea has caused global

outrage in recent years turns to patients by carrying out underground nuclear test and short range missile launches leading to us in un financial and military sanctions it is now not a matter of the united states and north korea it is really a matter of the region saying to north korea that it has to change its behavior russia has tried to be a mediator for peace on the peninsula by pushing for negotiations or in the asia pacific region this serious potential for conflict and there's no alternative but to set up dialogue an improved 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 john on a young and inexperienced leader is at the helm and will either open the door or continue to keep it shut this were a 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 there is new hope that perhaps soon we could see a train heading in the right setting light on the most secretive and reply. in the world and he's now our team korea but with korea preparing to take his first steps on the new leadership now the world's waiting to witness the country's next move to discuss what may or may not must talk to the director of the center for political mileage. now this is the hudson institute dr richard. dr good to see you thanks for

being on the program in a recent article you argue the policies are at the root of the north's current economic predicament a predicament as we go on the deeds of many years because. well the regime has been given clearer opportunities to change in the sense that kim jong il is travelled around china he's probably aware of what the progress that south korea and other east asian countries have made in the past few decades in terms liberalizing their condom a variant prosperity and so on but they his regime is chosen not to pursue that road presumably because he was concerned that an economic liberalization would risk political liberalization and weakening of the his control so they've chosen a little coal domination and sustain a tall tall tarion system even if the cost of prosperity and often the starvation

of his people the majority of the majority of those sanctions initiated the course of by the us. right it's not that sanctions are the problem the problem is the economic policies i mean they still relying communes i may use they use the kind of system that the soviet union had in the thirty's in china in the fifty's and sixty's this very outmoded economic system which we now know does not work and but it does ensure political control over the tree and allows them to extract resources from the people which they can use to pay off the regime supporters and the military and so on the rich and really get the message the you know you don't think the system is a very good system but you know should the west have been trying to deal with it in a different way rather the story these sanctions i was talking about except for except on the way that is dealt with north korea should be

a different game. well i think that you could fault the united states and some of the other countries for the way they dealt with the incipient nuclear program out of north korea we know there's had program for several decades but there was a time early on where it might have been stopped or delayed if the country hadn't felt so threatened by it because of the way what happened in the united states and nine eleven and the iraq invasion and so on it was a combination of frightening the regime and not paying attention intentional what's going on in korea that allowed it to become possibly a nuclear weapon arm state and when they haven't they've exploded a nuclear device it's not clear if they have a nuclear arsenal but still it's now much more dangerous country than it was so should. have been trying to work closely in a better with it from the start regarding the nuclear issue which has been one of the big crux is of the arguments all the way along the line and if you wind the

clock back to ninety four if i remember correctly. a crucial let's not be for nuclear energy agreement with. the but was written a go on. well the problem of course was that the reason we ended up with that deal was because in one thousand nine hundred two became clear that the north koreans were cheating on their or agreement with international energy or pursuing a nuclear weapons program so we got to stay where they like the clinton inspirational considering going to war with north korea and button said recall president carter went there and it worked out a deal and it's not clear i mean both sides didn't implement everything north koreans are claiming didn't get the economic and other compensation they expected the. other powers united states clain that north korea didn't totally stop its nuclear program so perhaps the deal could have been struck in a bit more efficiently but i think most he would have been happy if that deal

stayed and were and because it broke down and we end up with a more unfortunate situation that's the past let's just quickly look forward to. the guy we think will be. he's inexperienced is there a danger of inexperience might be taken advantage of by the military. yes i think that he's got a big problem if his father had lived maybe another five six more years that would have given him time to ensure that he could have succeeded him again and it's not thorough enough experience to be looked upon but what we have now is the father's and he still has some family members supporting him but if you're a sudden dear old general in north korea you know you maybe you fought the americans maybe you've done other things i want to place your country's fate in the hands of a twenty plus something year old youngster is not very appealing so i suspect we're going to end up with a contested succession and that can either lead the kind of country to focus in

word or as we saw in two thousand and ten it could happen negative or reacts and counter for all of us say we're all going to be threatened by missile launches nuclear saber rattling and so on story we're keeping a very close call it's much appreciated. the director of the center for political military analysis at the hudson institute thanks. israel says it plans to build over a thousand new homes of these jerusalem in the west bank it's part of a speeding up of settlement construction in response to palestine succession to unesco palestinians say peace negotiations are impossible while settlement expansion continues to sleep 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 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 is well that hearing to 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 israel's aggressive policy threatens to split the jewish state from its western allies with no real political goal it's a view of doctors from the palestinian israeli peace for. the whole idea of punishing the palestinians by building another one thousand units in. 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 against the israeli interests. our friends our allies in europe they are against them and building in united states. a clue and now the day against you settlement building on a large extent building this is not the time neither to have a fight with the europeans or with the americans but r.t. dot com tonight from festivities to fire on our web site this independence day turns deadly in kazakhstan but updating on that story for the last couple of days when angry mall burning thousands of buildings their industrial action goes on heard we've got more about that online tonight. also why doing what the bankers say to get us out of recession is already a tried and failed formula reports on argentina which discovered that the hard way

a decade ago. security forces opened fire on anti military 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 injured let's go live so while there is a local blogger and journalist in cairo for a look at the recent developments there you live on our t.v. i hope you can hear us. with this one is kevin zero in egypt two thirds of the way through its long election process to replace the military government we know why on protesters allowing the democratic process to conclude and take its natural course . the demonstrators do not believe that the democratic

process as it's called is will really. lead to democracy they have no faith that the military will leave any kind of power and they don't believe that everything has been fair so far for perspective of the military council at least they been very biased in how they've handled everything and one of one such example is allowing a particle like which is based on religion to exist the law clearly states that such a party should not exist and yet the military has not done anything to uphold the law and so in a. sort of environment where there is no laws there are no laws being upheld how can we be even sure that the democratic process will take place particularly

because even the parliament the powers of the parliament are being negotiated by the military. so people are demonstrating because they don't believe that the military's control over every aspect will will eventually lead to any sort of democracy and while it seems to be the view of a lot of our guests that we've talked of the last couple of days as we bring our viewers the latest on this with the same message seems to come by their view is that it's that the military instigating the anger of the crowd so then the military can turn around and say hey we need to be a long term to control this on really mob can you see the reasoning there. absolutely in order to see the past events we must really look at the context of these events over the past ten months and the fact of the matter this might be shocking to some that not a single month has passed without the army creating some sort of violence. or some

sort of violent act killing people dispersing protests they've been very consistent and systematic in their use of violence and instigation and none of the none of the events have been investigated at all at all and so even if they promised investigate these events people have no faith at all that they will particularly because there are so many reports that it's always the army that starts it's always the army that instigates protestors and they've been doing very provocative. things like detaining a lot of women and beating them one of the military personnel. he was doing really horrible like signs with his hand and holding his privates and and doing a lot of the really provocative things and as soon as things would calm down they were really instigate the violence again so i see the reasoning is absolutely

correct so even when the result does want the violence to continue even when the results of the election are made no what's going to happen then as far as you see it. things are going to calm down. i don't think that things will calm down for a lot of reasons we don't know what's going to happen after elections already there seems to have been a deal with the mist about the elections. but some people think that confrontation between us and the military is bound to happen some people think that they might have a deal but in in the very end we don't expect that things will calm down because the way things have been running the country is really just like a mob running running the country rather than a real government so people will not allow. criminal activities to govern and they want the rule of law thanks for the program while they're sick and local

blogger and journalist joining us on the line from cairo there we appreciate it. military violence against civilians has taken a turn elsewhere in the arab world to syria has now signed an agreement letting in our of league observers to monitor how the regime is dealing with the unrest in the country the league threatened the u.n. 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 withdraw troops and start a dialogue with the opposition. another new user must burial has been organized from was seven hundred victims of the flash floods in the southern philippines in the city of illegality fifty unidentified bodies already been buried there is still a struggle to help survivors called by the deluge that was triggered by tropical storm and high tide the red cross estimates about eight hundred people still missing. thousands of people save rallies across italy in protest of the stereotype cuts which include tax and pension changes

a bailout package of over thirty billion euros was recently approved by lawmakers headed 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 by the poorest. coming up to twenty four minutes exactly past ten o'clock at night moscow time rather than a sport for you shortly about twenty minutes or dmitri i'll tell you where the latest achievements of british go for lee westwood let's get across the business now actually. cloned a very warm welcome to the program russia's prime minister vladimir putin is calling for a corruption probe at state and power companies inspections will take place in the next two months and will include forums such as gas from the. bank the milestone announcement was made at the country's largest power plant business. is there with the details of the government meeting devoted to the power sector surprised many it

started in the routine way with large similar puton announcing new investments in the sector but when that was done the prime minister devoted how often now 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 my he called these schemes a legacy of wild mind his and said russia has to make sure strategic sectors worked in a transparent way. that 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 full 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 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 a lot has cleared up your act all software as

a consequence is that you're not going to call a business are to siberia. well it's been called the deal of the here by russian business magazine the country to stock exchanges have completed their merger the r.t.s. m i six will continue to trade a separate indices but the trading platforms clearing systems and data centers will be integrated the new exchange is expected to go for the public listing in twenty thought maybe to raise at least three hundred million dollars the merger is an essential part of the government's plan to promote moscow as an international financial center. let's have a look now at how the markets are performing this hour u.s. stocks so low off the comments from the european central bank chief injected a fresh load of pessimism into the markets. and european stocks will lower as your area policymakers discussed additional financial support through the i.m.f. the fruits of the last point seven percent while the debts was five percent lower.

and finally here in russia the markets close in the red to quarter percent while the might six finish just a dollar that's now have a look at some of the individual show moves on there my six some energy majors are in the rush forward of a speech at a two city produces. more than three percent after russian prime minister says the company should cut its consumer prices by twelve and a half percent next year gas monopoly gas problem also posted losses off to vision mr newspaper reported its spending may rise to fifty five billion dollars next year brush especially monopole the metal company plaster increased production by as much as twenty percent in twenty twelve and expect to go price to rebound about two thousand dollars an ounce. capital outlines two main factors that affected the day straight. the situation room gus. was this book is new.

looks largely in the bag or you believed to go. to raise taxes on. the loose is a for out to investors from the nerd shareholders of the stock second biggest story . we can score one regarding the field this was a performance of we just were pretty mixed so the those i would see were the key factors driving gershon market today. ok that's it for now i'll be back about fifty five minutes from now for more financial news here on our t.n.t. you can find more analysis on our website r.t. dot com slash business.

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market why not. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with much stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into cars a report. is coming over here though to you tonight. with the headline update for you and hopes the fighting of finding more survivors now from that oil platform that sank in the cold waters off russia's far east coast with rescuers failing to locate the missing workers. a cloud of uncertainty descends on eastern asia as the death of north korean leader kim jong il leaves neighbors on the edge growing fears of violent conflict to follow his demise now. and israel pushes for more settlements announcing over a thousand new houses in east jerusalem.