live from moscow this is r.t. will welcome to futures join this it's now midnight here my name is kevin owen and first 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 try to recover other possible victims now that have been seen in the water earlier a life raft was spotted which was initially thought to be carrying fifteen people but sadly it turned out to be empty fourteen were rescued from the sea shortly after the rig collapsed but several dozen a still missing tonight are tease jacob grieves in usual secondly the skin the coastal region where the disaster unfolded. it's looking increasingly unlikely that any war survivors will be found search and rescue teams have made contact with lifeboats and life rafts throughout 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 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 of 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 korea near russia's far east as is or it was being towed to a port by an icebreaker a very bad weather conditions jacob they're just part of our teams crew in the region following developments to bring you the latest now hopefully we will get your war and bring it today on how the rescue. progressing from both here in the sea in the coming hours coming days as well as well as hearing from relatives desperate for information about their loved ones as always there's more coverage as well online on a website. tragedy through our eyes of a witness that we've managed to track down a survivor recalling the final minutes before that oil rig capsized only had twenty

minutes before it went down over the r t there are home 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 jong 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 kim jong un prepares to assume power the country has declared a period of mourning with state t.v. showing outpourings of emotion from across the country r.t. to listen now in 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 l. 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 part 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. 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 self 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 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 saw you in twenty ten new buzz 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 shot. this railway station was built in two thousand and two with hopes of connecting seoul and killing 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 him john he'll tell you that perhaps we could see a train heading in. that it might have the most secretive group. in the world and he's now our team korea. or touches across the korean principle and cetera to the world waits to say you know what direction in the north new leadership set to take let's try and discuss those possibilities may be able to erick's iraq and co five. and of the national campaign to end the korean war eric thanks for being on the line tonight good to see you an uncertain singer and certainly seems to be the key word in the succession and it's often

a word with unpredictable that you think about you think of north korea what do you think is going to happen now can kim young will fill his father's boots successfully well what we have is a shocking situation but it's nothing as of been expected and that they have been preparing for sure. and today have leadership connections with committees of the working park workers party and the military and we have yet to see how this will all do want to send our condolences from the united states as well to the family i think we forget sometimes that these are human matters as well and it's very true. how settled it is very difficult all the way along the lines very difficult to know what's actually going on inside i mean the news was only released today to get he died on the seventeenth i mean but your estimation of what

might be becoming on behind the scenes now is what i mean do you believe there's a danger this could be used as an opportunity maybe for outside interference. well i think there's certainly going to be a concern on the north koreans about outside interference we have the korean war that ended with an arm assisted one nine hundred fifty three but no peace treaty so we've essentially just promised to stop shooting on both sides and so they take that very seriously and the north and the u.s. says oh over eighty military bases and posts and twenty eight thousand troops in south korea there's concern always about that in the north after years and years of being on the edge of war creates certainly some nervousness about these issues but not a real standpoint i really see it's an opportunity if we can respond with some compassion deal with the food issues and go heavily into engagement and not play the sitting game pretending that the regime is just going to collapse shortly then i think we

can use this opportunity to build bridges rather than. it sounds good but of course the problem of engagement is economy two sides to engage for it to be meaningful in the north being stubborn in the face of international sanctions and criticisms tough a century now what could be done to make things a little happier to make them listen in the. well two days ago in beijing an agreement was hammered out between the united states and north korea that time the u.s. has agreed for the first time in three years to send some food two hundred forty thousand tons of food to north korea and north korea has agreed to take its initial steps suspend and will suspend its uranium enrichment program and some other agreements they were that close and it was shortly to be a bounced and i really hate that scuttle any progress in that regard we forget that

both sides bear responsibility over the years in broken promises yeah and i think that then point fingers at either side it's really an opportunity to say let's sit down and do as winston churchill said it's better to talk talk talk to him by white exactly but to many onlookers it's kind of been like two steps forward one step back all the time this tit for tat thing under the new regime do you think things will be any different. realistic well we hope we hope with kim jong un. that he is education. background will perhaps give us direction but it provides an opportunity for that twenty twelve is the year for peace in north korea and we should seize that opportunity it's the hundredth birthday celebration of kim il sung and they promised peace and prosperity in twenty twelve this is a door that is open right now and it is the new leader could orchestrate peace and

a peace treaty after all of these years and begin to exist exchanged and have more dialogue i think that it would go a long way toward. empowering potentially. someone who might be a little more. connected with the international community nicely put good to hear your thoughts let's hope it all plays out co-founder of the national campaign to end the korean war thanks ever so much thanks. syria signed an agreement to allow a lot of league observers into the country to monitor the regime's dealing with the rest the league threatened to ask the u.n. security council to take action unless damascus damascus gave the green light beirut based political analyst come away and he says the mission will help to reveal the real situation in the country. well i think the syrian spoke very clearly they don't have anything to hide they have to they let those observer to witness how the weapons smuggling from turkey from levanon and from jordan are

coming into the country and how these what bin infiltration cause in. those how to feed into those terrorists and how they terrorize certain area in syria today. there was a propaganda actually launched by some satellite of satellite trying to bitrate at different pictures i was in syria just two days ago i was in damascus there is nothing. more than i was there i went to the cafe i went to a lot of places but when you listen to the arab satellite you think there is like a whole war is going on so there is reality and there is a propaganda and i think the observer on the ground can testify to some of the. facts on the ground. security forces have opened fire on anti military protesters

in cairo killing at least three egypt's health ministry says the total number of casualties after days of renewed violence stands at fourteen with seven hundred reportedly injured while i ask and there's a local blogger a journalist he told me the military rulers he thinks are deliberately provoking the violence. not a single month has passed without the army creating some sort of violence there are so many reports that it's always the army that starts it always the army that instigates protesters and they've been doing very provocative. things we don't know what's going to happen after elections some people think that confrontation between us and the military is bound to happen 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 check in a couple of stories that are on our website from festivities as independent state

turns deadly start with an angry mob burning dozens of buildings is the real dust production goes on heard a story bring in chief the last couple of days we've got the latest updates online tonight at r.t. dot com and also why doing what a bank is say to get us out of a recession is already a tried and failed formula reports online but argentina was discovered via the hard way a decade ago. israel says it 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 in response to palestine succession in the u.s. go palestinian say peace negotiations are impossible while settlement expansion continues 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 seems out a strong message that the netanyahu government is not interested in sitting down and talking with the palestinians while at the same time continuing to build settlements on palestinian land while we're talking palestinians in the west bank are celebrating and this is because of the release last night sunday of five hundred and fifty palestinian prisoners from israeli jails this was the second phase of an israeli prisoner exchange swap that was carried out back in october you

remember there that the first phase of this prisoner exchange deal started that will ultimately see more than a thousand palestinian prisoners released for one israeli soldier gilad shalit who has already returned to israel now it was a time when clashes broke out shortly before the exchange last night took place these clashes were between israeli soldiers and families who were waiting for prisoners to come back the soldiers were firing tear gas and rubber bullets the palestinians were throwing rocks and burning tires so you do have this policy which seems quite strange to some observers on the one hand israel that hearing to a prisoner exchange deal and seemingly one thousand to move forward and create some kind of of negotiations with the palestinians but on the other hand we do have this flare up in violence and we also have this continuation in settlement building by the netanyahu government policy or a middle east correspondent well israel as aggressive settlement policy threatens to split the jewish state from his worst of allies with no real political goal

that's the view of dr wrong from the palestinian israeli peace for. the whole idea for punishing the palestinians by building another one thousand units in nature was a levy sure was them 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 most so i'm afraid that it works also against the israeli interest. our friends our allies in europe the establishment building in united states the american city it's very very clear and loud and they are against any new settlement building or enlarging segment building this is not the time neither to have a fight with the europeans or with americans. next boss he talks to russia's deputy foreign minister about missile defense talks between moscow and more.

we're sitting down with. russia's deputy foreign minister he's heading the russian side of the us russia working group that deals with issues of global security arms control missile defense thank you very much for joining the mystery of russia and void two nato said the u.s.

seems to be surrounding russia with military installations like an anaconda and that was his comparison and that russia would have to try and break out of that not how deep is the misunderstanding on the issue at the moment and does it seem like all of russia's concerns are falling on deaf ears in washington i wouldn't describe this. along the lines as you did i think we have a very very productive and although a straightforward a difficult one but a very productive dialogue with our u.s. partners we are making no secret of our concerns we are definitely disturbed by the fact that this strategic instability will grow according to our assessment because of the u.s. effort to deploy anti-missile assets in several regions of the world including in europe. according to what was described by president obama and his people as

european face the dept of approach when you're saying strategic stability will be disturbed what do you mean by that strategic stability is a very multiverse the term and notion that implies several things we can for example not allow for further cuts in or fence of strategic weapons in nuclear weapons in the absence of a meaningful arrangement in the area of missile defense in the area of. conventionally armed or fancy weapons of strategic range and in the absence of real settlement in the area of imbalances with regard to conventional weapons it would be very irresponsible to believe that we just move forward in cuts in numbers of strategic weapons while advantages. and even predominance of the us and nato parties as

a whole in other areas just grow you know it will always stretch the very concept of strategic stability and it may well break apart we are very sponsible in this regard how close or how far is moscow from possibly pulling out of the start treaty of the us advances with their missile defense plans in europe we have a very clear explanation of this situation by a president with video of who on november twenty third presented what i would describe as a phased adaptive answer to the phase the dept of approach our phased adaptive answer means that we are not rushing into any dramatic decisions like the kind you have just described we begin with a very militant limited response to what we think he's a real danger a real threat to. that's the u.s. is winding down wars in iraq and afghanistan but for example they're expanding

their military presence in the persian gulf what will the american security architecture look like after the point that we regularly exchange views with the u.s. on this issue regional security in the gulf is a very common topic withing that the point here to underscore in my part would be first. the should be ensured a real a local regional ownership for security arrangements should be made that no one feels that its security is threatened because of the u.s. pullout secondly with respect to afghanistan we are telling our u.s. partners that we cannot understand the for what purpose they're contemplating a long term presence in forms of u.s. military bases in this country and in some of the years and there is a thing we need further explanation for these plans you were talking on withdrawal

i think this withdrawal should be full and complete with regards to syria the possibility of a military intervention in syria do you sense that it is diminishing and as far as armed rebels in syria does russia have any information on who is arming them we do not want a repetition of the libyan scenario there the problem here is not that much of who is arming whom and through what channels although this is also an important part of the whole equation and we are in constant discussion of this aspect but the major political point on our part here is everyone all the actors around all and all foreign powers everyone who really wants us stabilize situation there should avoid action that may be regarded by opposition elements in this country. as an incitement as you know a push towards

a military solution no illusion should be left that this is possible we should do the reverse we should encourage and urge these forces and the government for that case as well to find compromises to move together towards a better future for the country to reform the country and we're working with both sides we should not take part is there the whole goal would be a more democratic and more stable and more inclusive syria rather than a divisive towards a yet another civil war in a country that is that centrally pleased in in a very dangerous situation in the middle east thank you very much for the thank you .

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