the syrian opposition is playing say the government's move to allow foreign observers into the country some welcome decision but others want to denounce the military action now after a hundred and fifty more clued in the past few days it's. all fourteen survivors from a capsized oil rig in russia's bar rigged have been brought to shore for treatment in all spittal eleven people are confirmed dead while rescuers continue to search for forty two missing including scenes with hope threatening others may be found in the. moment of shame one of russia's and main opposition leaders about a stem cell phones deeply embarrassed as a result of comments he made about his allies in a private phone calls and leaks into.

a very warm welcome to you this is live from moscow syria could be the next subject to foreign military intervention of some opposition groups get their way the calls for outside help are growing louder insisting is the only way to protect civilians from government security forces all the time on comes despite the latest decision by damascus to allow arab league observers to monitor how the regime is dealing with the rest of the recent reports suggesting that thousands of army deserted has been killed by syrian troops pushing the toll for two days of violence to nearly one hundred fifty and is asking sara first found out the situation in syria now that some more like a civil war and a government crackdown. we're here in the about the city have. songs and you can

hear heavy gunfire in the background there it's really hard to share insurance as the civilian population here live here as we're called to wait a month after month to ensure this conflicts the ongoing violence is taking its toll best are they in the wrong maybe who's there have been suffocated surrounded by armed groups there are many people who've been kidnapped we've had enough who did we do to deserve this homes is being described as a city on the brink in civil war where some of the series fiercest fighting has broken hours driving through the streets there are clear signs of conflicts bullet holes in window panes and slogans on the walls there's a heavy military presence we went able to visit some of the areas where concentrated fighting was continuing it would seem too dangerous to visit. us in other areas of the city daily life struggles on movie it's under the backdrop of gunfire. you can see the children playing here in the homes that this is the one of

the major concerns is this conflict continues for the safety of the civilians if they continue living here and this is the situation in homes right now is far more complex than simply what is the opposition against the regime has a deep seated sectarian conflicts have with their heads. from the very beginning to home. because they're equal large numbers of both much more than. the military funeral held yesterday gets under way five soldiers killed by what the government says is an increasingly militant movement and on the same day the pool's from the opposition the harrowing accounts the civilian deaths around the country. make serious decision to allow the arab league to send observers to the more important this is naturally we want. to. in the same time

preserve our sovereignty so really it depends on the intention do they really want to help syria or course. the decision by the main opposition outside the country b s and c. the opposition inside the country has welcomed in the north. we hope it's going to be implemented on the ground as it stated in the protocol and we remain completely against international intervention it would lead the country to destruction. with a fractious opposition and rising death toll with facts and information still very hard to verify even on the ground if that is a rival here in syria will be an important step but it's going to be just one of many more that we need to pull away and seeing to ensure the name or lives lost. city of homs. delta he says things he want foreign

intervention in syria really have humanitarian motives. we know how the syrian people feel they're all against foreign intervention and we've seen what foreign intervention has done in our country in iraq for example and in libya recently it was a disaster so nobody no arab i think not only let alone the syrians know out i would welcome a foreign intervention but these people the so-called opposition has gone out of their minds i think they're just lost and they're beginning actually to lose contact complete contact with the syrian people it's the simple as that these people are desperate they want power they they of course they want to topple the syrian regime and they don't care about the country you know even if the country is destroyed as long as there is toppled as long as they. gain power then. they

don't care much about their own homeland after all they've been out of their country for a long time and i don't think. anybody who calls so foreign intervention is actually inimical not only to the syrian government but to this city and people to the syrian homeland still to come this hour on the program beaten up by. the bungles it's a bailout cash deadline as the blog struggles to convince member states to champaign for the common good of. the fourteen survivors from a sunken oil rig in russia's far east have been brought ashore for treatment in a hospital eleven others have been confirmed dead but the search for forty two still missing in icy waters goes on with hopes are fading greaves met some of the survivors who told how the tragedy unfolded. dry land and the end of a nightmare for the weary few on board this ship rescued from

a horrific ordeal in which friends and colleagues were lost they are among the few to be found alive after an all rig on the toast sank in freezing waters for the servant he thought about some a port and their families awaiting them the moments will no doubt be one of intense relief but their tale of survival differs greatly to that the majority of those aboard this ill fated oric. psychologists and doctors met the survivors upon arrival will likely be an experience that will haunt them for a lifetime. swam away from the rig a bit turned around inside capsize and i started swimming away as fast as possible in fear that i could be drawn into the vortex but those found alive you can see that in comparison they are the fortunate few dozens are still missing in the icy hoxsey following more than two days of searching planes are flying sorties to try and locate those lost and they're being accompanied by boats in the area but the

hours spent scouring the horizon so far prefer as only the numbers found dead appear to grow and angry relatives for they know just who is to blame. seem to like why did they need so many sixty seven people at the rig why what was the paths of having sixty seven people there. yes you know i'm the wife of captain kozlov before the voyage here dressed every official morning down there to talking was prohibited in the winter months by all or. it may have been one of the largest oil rigs in russia but disappeared beneath the waves in a matter of minutes when the shooting another wattles investigators are looking into three possible causes of the accident firstly it could have been due to violations of safety regulations during the tugging of the drilling rig secondly the condition of the rig itself might be to remain and lastly the. the rig might have been taken without probably consideration of the weather conditions of the wreck site. but the official findings will take some time and whatever the outcome

for the families of those involved the little comfort they still to come to terms with losing their loved ones something more may experience as a hope remains alive the possibility discovering further survivors appears slim jake agrees r.t. sakhalin in russia's far east. we'll continue to follow the rescue operation for instant updates follow jacob on twitter monitoring developments as they happen in one of his recent tweet three reports on the anger of the victims' relatives who are raising questions about why the race was towed in such a severe storm follow off you twitter feed on our website on.

the. body of north korea's late veteran leader kim jong il who died of a heart attack on saturday has been put on display in pyongyang his son and successor was to pay his final respects video from the country also shows thousands of mourners weeping in the streets the news of cames death puts the name the north neighbors on. fearing instability in the region japan called a special security meeting while south korea said its military is standing ready but peace almost korean peninsula depends on how much pressure the outside world puts on the north according to the former head of the un's atomic watchdog. i think it is important that they are outside the world. does not make.

threats from the outside. we know that list with a large jewelry range for all of north korea so even without nuclear weapons this situation would be a risky one. and if north korea were provocative. there could be a risk also of a. forces india. where you can watch the full interview with hans blix this hour here on r.t. . now the personal phone conversations of a russian opposition leader have been lead on the internet creating a storm of controversy but he's known as soft could now face a split within opposition ranks after using insulting words about protesters who attended a rally against the conduct of russia's parliamentary elections artie's tom barton has the details. revelations were published in life news dot ru

a notoriously tabloid sensationalist website in russia and they concern six hours of private phone conversations recorded boris nemtsov an opposition figure in which he insults fellow opposition leaders using very profane language and calls protesters so how would really kind wins and internet comes to those protesters turning out on the reports of widespread vote rigging in that december's parliamentary elections boris nemtsov one of the all denies of the protests has hit back saying that this is kremlin phone tapping and that they've been released these phone conversations to try and discredit him to split the opposition he doesn't ever admit that some of the phone conversations did happen and he's apologized for any insult caused in those but he says that others were falsified life muses only for its part has also added to the controversy by refusing to say where they got the recordings from and all of this is caused

a great storm of controversy on the internet with people shocked by themselves words and his use of language about other opposition figures and the possible splits in russia's opposition that that could indicate. or for more news on the conspiracy issues head to our website dot com. or say that find out how the newly appointed american ambassador to moscow is to influence russians are coming to the election. and topless cover up three ukrainian there there in that news need it's easy to make their point have gone missing in bed every south after staging and making demo against the country's president i found a look at. a new short range anti missile interceptor rocket has been test firing kazakstan as part of the russian military defense modernization drive army. officials say the new rocket weighing ten tons is the fastest in the world well this is the first time the russian ministry of defense

has released footage of its a.m.d. tests the display of firepower comes amid the long lasting russian nato standoff over the u.s. bad missile defense system planned for eastern europe and turkey washington says it will not threaten russia security demands a legal guarantees it also suggested the actions of the u.s. could undermine the recent star nuclear reduction treaty. because while the international headlines this hour now and troops under riot police work through cairo's tahrir square before dawn and newsday in another attempt to evict protesters beating them and using live ammunition to fourteen people have lost their lives and five consecutive days of clashes in the capital demonstrators are calling for an immediate end to the military rule in force since egyptian leader hosni mubarak was ousted in february and these now are live

pictures that we're seeing from cairo where protesters are at a fund to remain on terrorists where. the philippine government has shipped more than four hundred coffins to two flood stricken cities to help local authorities handle the growing number of dead almost one thousand people most of the women and children were killed by the deluge which struck the south of the country as they were sleeping dozens are still reported missing as the rescue efforts continue. piers morgan has denied the phone hacking took place while he was editor of the daily mail and the news of the world the current c.n.n. host was giving evidence to an inquiry into the conduct and ethics of the british press the scandal broke after it was discovered that the news of the world had been illegally accessing the cell profile of the cellphones rather of high profile people who still lysol be hacking revelations of forced the title to close while

several executives and journalists have been arrested in an ongoing police investigation into the scandal. a minute's silence was held across belgium as thousands remember the victims of last week shootout in the city of leeds the incidents were a man go on a rampage shooting and lobbing grenades at a crowd they were christmas market five people were killed in a vile hundred and twenty injured in the incident the attack a good shot himself before the police arrived was the ex convict sentence of firearms and drug related crimes. iraq's sunni vice president al hashimi has lashed out against terrorism charges brought against him by the government he said the allegations have been fabricated appertains is then assumes iraq's officials issued an arrest warrant fame yesterday all suspicion of running

a hit squad to kill government figures the episode has increased tensions between sunni and shia groups just days before u.s. forces complete their withdrawal from the country. european financial turmoil sees no signs of easing off to italy's biggest bank uni credit was downgraded by the fitch rating agency on tuesday several of the top european banks including spain's banco santander and belgium's dexia bank are also on credit watch by the agency now and face possible cuts in their ratings meanwhile the e.u. missed a self-imposed monday deadline to come up with two hundred billion year a for its latest bailout scare the union fell fifty billion short of its target with political bickering paralyzing the project to britain refusing to pump more cash into the giro their reasoning is that the euro zone which the case is not a member of should sort out its own problems but. reports that may be asking too

much of the member states on the last two legs. on paper these people live in one of the most prosperous economies of the baltic region of reality their whole story is the e.u.'s poorest country and after spending a year being part of the euro zone these people say the positive changes they were promised are nowhere to be seen but the mobile up recently euro commission check their pensions are authorities told the received an average pension of six hundred euros this is far from reality pensions in greece which fifteen hundred euro we hear get around two hundred a stone he adopted the euro last january but despite a general positive attitude towards the move until now it is mostly big businesses and politicians that are really enjoying the transition there are clearly some political advantages in terms of if you want lock in your stone you're more firmly in into the you know make advantages world in terms of investment the support for the euro is holding up very well your people seem to be to see the advantages you

maybe politically rather than economically but the year award option part of the soon brought a painful hangover since september a story has agreed to. take part in the group in financial stability facility the board he created to combat financial crisis and countries like greece and now experts say this membership comes at a price you can not afford to buy. for us. because we need to. march. or percentage from our g.d.p. rich countries something more than nine percent from. the poorest country we need to pay off march richer countries the country central bank has even warned of a possible recession recent poll suggest up to sixty percent of historians are against the country's membership of the. government however doesn't seem to pay

attention and refuses to drop out of this relief fund meanwhile members of this community say they would rather help greece with potatoes than for it would then see their pension money heading their adopting the euro soon or later was a necessary condition for a stone you to join the european union but being part of the european financial stability facility was not in the agreement and while economists are speculating whether stonier should continue its membership in this organization ordinary people are left to wonder why they have to pay someone else's debts. reporting from. countries inspectors of developing nuclear weapons attract global concern perhaps the best person for experts and i was the former chief of the un atomic want our interview with hans blix the man he was the head of the ages fifteen years.

well i'm joined by mr hans blix from stock called mr blix chaired the international atomic agency for energy agency for sixteen years and was they had of the u.n. inspection team in iraq prior to the second iraq war mr blix it's great to have you

with us sir now i'd like to start with i say latest news came young male who during whose seventeen year old rule north korea has emerged as a nuclear state has died of a heart failure now his son in kenya and is the next national leader what do we know about him are things going to stay pretty much the same or where general security under threat how vigorously will he have push for nuclear weapons. well we are generally rather it. without the. architecture of the power building north korea. but the change has been underway for some time but of course we. figure is. and there's always a risk in such a structure that there can be changes so. i think it is important that the

outside world. does not make them nervous because they will feel themselves in a situation of some weakness and then the threats from the outside might make them provocative for the last few years iran was number one nuclear enemy for the united states do you expect maybe a shift of interest from iran to north korea or does a country need to have oil as well to justify that much attention from the west no i think both places are of great importance in the north korean situation first of all we know that within artillery range for all of north korea so even without nuclear weapons the situation there would be a risky one. and if north korea were provoked at him. there could be a risk also of encouraging. forces in japan. i don't see that

now. but that would be a risk in the case of iran. on the other hand really see that already in. their work in iran to develop a capacity we enrich uranium has increased threat tensions enormously and there is a great arms race going on. and we hear who works in israel and then in the united states saying that they should bomb iran oh yes sir this is very similar similar to what happened in iraq. could we be seeing an iraqi scenario unfolding here as far as iran goes well there are some similarities in the. escalation of the language and the threats. that we had in the case of iraq and now having case of iran on the other hand we must remember that in the case of iraq

they talked about. weapons that in fact did not exists today they are talking about iranian intentions that may or may or may not exist. but the difference is that iran certainly has a lot of nuclear installations iraq did not have that but in your own opinion is iran or of any imminent threat to any nation at this point. i don't think so. david is true that you are merely dad has come out in the area very bad language about israel and wiping israel off the map of the world. but i think most people with me think that he is really talking to the arab street he has want to wanted to destabilize arab states that have supported the united states. iraq iran does not have

a track record of aggression in fact there was iraq that attacked iran so i don't see an immediate threat from iran but i can understand that israelis are nervous. but the u.s. and israel maintain the latest i ate a report provides very strong evidence that iran is seeking a nuclear weapon. here's the question do you think iran has a nuclear weapon. no i think in nobody really thinks they have a nuclear weapon and i think one must read that report rather carefully. what they say that they see some evidence that could be explained if they were dealing with a weapon or a weapon and that there seems on the other evidence that it's very hard to explain unless they were working towards a weapon but they have not said that they established that iraq or actually intends

to do it so they might stop short of their weapons thank you very much for this interview. witnesses. to history in the making. testimony. ten stories that shapes two thousand and seven on our. here in bygone days sleds were vital to get around. but today they're more leisure than lifeline. one drives people to quit their

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