notshyofthediy on "Fatal error: Call to a member function register_handler(). Help?!"

Hi

I just updated to the latest version of word press after having an outdated version for some time, i cannot access my site or wpadmin either now and just get the following error messege

Fatal error: Call to a member function register_handler() on a non-object in /home/notshyof/public_html/wp-includes/media.php on line 1304

any help would be appreciated, thanks!

1296-1305 is as follows

/**
 * Register an embed handler. This function should probably only be used for sites that do not support oEmbed.
 *
 * @since 2.9.0
 * @see WP_Embed::register_handler()
 */
function wp_embed_register_handler( $id, $regex, $callback, $priority = 10 ) {
	global $wp_embed;
	$wp_embed->register_handler( $id, $regex, $callback, $priority );
}