rescuers continue a desperate search for thirty nine people who remain missing in nice to the waters also russia's far east almost two days after an oil recount sized eleven bodies were recovered in monday. a cloud of uncertainty descends on each major as the death of north korean leader kim jong il leaves neighbors on the edge with growing fears a bond in conflict could follow his demise. on days roguishness for more settlements announcing over a thousand new homes in east jerusalem and the west bank a response to its time progress toward state.

russia and around the world this is the with me jewish power thanks for joining us rescuers are desperately continuing to search for thirty nine people missing after an oil rig capsized off russia's far east coast on sunday morning fourteen survived the disaster but eleven bodies have been recovered from the freezing sea as hopes fade for the others jacob grieves in the the usenet skin the coastal region nearest where the tragedy occurred. it's looking increasingly unlikely that any more 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 the 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 plucks 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 russia's far east as it already has been towed to 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. and he has a news team in the region monitoring the situation and the rescue at that and more coverage is available on our website on t. dot com including an eyewitness account of the tragedy you promised survivor tells of the final minutes before that world recap sized log on to r.t. dot com to get his remarkable story. and also on our web site finding the planes and that greenwald said dozens of buildings alight in kazakhstan as violence in the central asian states punctured by an oil strike leaves at least twelve dad after clashes with police. and anti-piracy or censorship fears are growing there be

controversial u.s. proposal for stop online piracy act and copyright infringement threatens fundamental principles of freedom of expression on the internet. and japan is voicing fears of a possible military escalation in the korean peninsula following the death of the north's leader kim jung il the warning follows a state of emergency and military declared by south korea china in turn has expressed its condolences but it also reported to have sent troops to its border with they were closed of state it's all being driven by fears of a possible succession conflict as the late leader's youngest son kim jung moon prepares to assume power the country's declared a period of mourning with state t.v.

showing outpourings of emotion from across the country and he said now reports on the man who personified in 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 who 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 their own you know in our father the general came john thank you so much. 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. this is a modern 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 is serious potential for conflict and there's no alternative but to set up dialogue and improve understanding between this site and 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 continue to hold large scale war games with the u.s. and japan and want to 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 roadway 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 a lot stop train heading back into the south now with him time he'll tell you that perhaps we could see it frame heading in. that it might be the most secretive group . in the world and he's now our team korea. so korean media is reporting that the north has test fired

a ballistic missile it's new leadership seeks to establish itself and james corbet editor with a court reporter homilies is the first a warning shot and at those with a 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 as 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 its support on the international skipped 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 duke 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 a.q. khan network was infested from top to bottom with the 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. a butcher international consultant and also believe that peace on the korean peninsula is not determined by of relations between north and south but the standoff between china and america. the important thing here to

understand is that for example the thought of south korea being on military alert it's not south korea that is our military alone it's the united states that is actually using south korea as a beachhead ever since the end of the korean war and the other hand we have to understand or should really be asking ourselves will the military the north korean military which are very powerful one million strong army four million reserves nuclear arms ballistic missiles will they really be subordinated to the new government or will they have a larger stanford is probably the key question is how will all of this unfold what will china do china has a very special relationship with north korea it's sort of a love hate strict father versus problem child relationship i cannot see how all these things could be because north korea will undoubtedly not do that which china does not allow we have to always interpret north korea within the scope of

the regional geopolitics of china which is the key power in the region this is our c.n.n. still ahead for you squeezing syria and the assembly vote condemns to replace crown down this year in which an estimated five thousand have been killed but damascus bans to arab league pressured to allow international observers into the country. and troops opened fire on anti military person as in cairo as violence in egypt rages into its fourth day the details just ahead. israel plans to build over a thousand new homes in east jerusalem and the west bank it's part of a speeding up of settlement construction in response to palestine's accession to unesco palestinians say peace negotiations are impossible while settlement expansion continues his policies following developments for us. 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 mid term now who government. israel's aggressive settlement policy threatens to split the jury's state from its western allies while achieving no real political goal that dr ron pundak from the palestinian israeli peace for. whole idea of publishing the palestinians by building another one thousand units in nature was

a lady. and the west bank is a big mistake from the point of view of the israeli interest. is the direction that this government is taking and that they were action is two. against the palestinian demands off stopping all settlement buildings but most so i'm afraid that it works against the israeli interest. our friends our allies in new york against them in building in united states can save it very very clear and how did that against any new settlement building on a loving segment be doing this is not the time neither to have a fight with the europeans so with americans. the un general assembly has condemned syria for its nine month crackdown on protesters and human rights abuses and links to. state in which an estimated five thousand have died one hundred sixty three countries have voted in favor of the resolution drafted by britain france and

germany it follows a serious signing off an agreement on a beleaguered service into the country to monitor how the regime is dealing with them arrest the need threatens to ask the u.n. security council to take action unless damascus gave the green light a red based political analyst to come i was in a believe however that the real situation and the country and exaggerated by arab states. well i think the syrian spoke very clearly they don't have anything to hide they have to let those observer to witness how the weapons smuggling from turkey from lebanon on from jordan are coming into the country and how these what bin infiltration calls 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 create a 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 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 to military protesters in cairo killing at least three egypt's health ministry says the death toll has risen to fourteen following days every need violence with seven hundred reported injured and a while as come down a local blogger and journalist says it is the military rulers who deliberately initiated 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's 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 a confrontation between the islamists 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 run in the country is really just like a mob running running the country rather than a real government. and let's now take a look at some other world news in brief this hour a mass burial has been organized for more than one hundred victims of the flash floods in the southern phillip is efforts continued to help survivors called by the deluge triggered by tropical storm and high tides so much as have been humbled by flooded roads and wrecked infrastructure the red cross estimates that over eight hundred people are still missing. iran has reinstated and not for the u.n. nuclear agency officials to visit tehran the inspectors are supposed to scrutinize the country's controversial nuclear program amid allegations it's geared towards

creating atomic weapons iran is under u.n. sanctions for refusing to stop your aim in richmond but insists it's for purely peaceful energy purposes diplomatic sources say a top level international atomic energy agency mission could fly to tara in late january. thousands of people have stationed rallies across asia in protest at austerity cuts which include tax and pension changes the bailout package of over thirty billion euros was recently approved by lawmakers headed by mario monti his 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. off next hour she talks to russia's deputy foreign minister about what's ahead in missile defense talks between moscow and washington.

we're sitting down with. russia's deputy foreign minister he's heading the russian side of the u.s. 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 boy to 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 it doesn't seem

like all of russia's concerns are falling on deaf ears in washington i wouldn't describe this is along the lines as you did i think we have a very very productive and all the way 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 region. 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 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 u.s. and nato parties as 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 u.s. advances with their missile defense plans in europe we have a very clear explanation of this situation by a president with the idea of who on november twenty third presented what i would describe as a phased adaptive answer to the fees 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 mill limited response to what we think is. is a real danger a real threat to our assets the u.s. is winding down wars seeing 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 pullout we regularly exchange views with the u.s.

on this issue or regional security in the gulf is a very relevant topic with thing that the point here to underscore on my part would be first. there should be ensured a real 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 informed 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 actors around all and all foreign powers everyone who really wants us stabilize situation there should avoid action that may be regarded by. i l immense 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 divisive towards a yet another civil war in a country that is that centrally placed in in a very dangerous situation in the middle east thank you very much for the thank you . gone days vital to get around. the lifeline. what drives people to quit their modern lives and settle in remote

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