preventing weapons imports. live from moscow this is r.t. with me. the unmanned russian progress has crashed in eastern siberia after failing to reach its target orbit it launched from baikonur cosmodrome in kazakhstan on a wednesday morning and was due to dock with the international space station on friday. now joins us live more details on this can you tell us what's happened. but as far as we know rory in its three hundred twenty fifth second flight this progress module such on top of a soyuz rocket which could launch from the baikonur cosmodrome. suffered an engine failure and that meant that the rocket essentially tumbled back to work with an almighty great bang in the far east in the altai region in the east of russia

said that some people could feel all register that that impact up to one hundred kilometers away however no one was hurt it must be stressed that on the ground no one was around for around forty kilometers and there was no crew on board it's non-man so no one's actually been hurt in this explosion where the problems come in is that this was carrying up to three tons of fuel and food supplies for the crew for the crew on the international space station and it's feared that out worst crew may have to leave the international space station is currently six of them up there because there might not be enough supplies for them for them to last with that current crew number one you say with this but it's not the first space recently. it's not rory last december was the first of four space space aliens in russian spacecraft the globe navigate. network three of its satellites crashed into the

into the sea last december in february a ministry of defense satellites stopped working properly and in all this year just a few days ago in fact a newly launched satellite went off orbit and went off the radar screens so this is the fourth era as it were in the russian space program made all the more important by the fact that the u.s. has just retired very recently its last space shuttles and it would be having stopped those missions the international space station is now reliant. on soyuz rockets fired up from baikonur so much cause for concern because of this because of this crash. in moscow thanks very much. of course i will be keeping you up to date on the situation keeping a posted fully here on our two you can always find more on our website of course that's our dot com. rebels and now control colonel gadhafi is fortress in

central tripoli but violent clashes continue throughout the capital however in the u.s. the pentagon says it has another concern the security of sites known to contain stockpiles of chemical weapons including you raney and dust james corbet from birth center for research on globalization and wonders why libya's new government is not being trusted to deal with. perhaps it presupposes the idea that the stockpiles are unsafe in the hands of the rebel forces and would be safer in the hands of the nato forces whereas the people who have so far been involved in siege in tripoli and killing tripoli's civilians in tripoli have been beaten into the side so i think the question is really who are the people to be concerned about having access to those weapons i would imagine that that if there was any danger to be had it would be obviously in the proliferation of those weapons as in early july it was quoted as saying that he would be willing to strike in europe if if tripoli was was attacked so i guess that is a possibility it seems to be on the table but but certainly it's unclear to me

whether it's the weapons would be safer in the hands of the gadhafi forces or the terrorists i think ultimately perhaps getting rid of these types of weapons would be the ultimate goal for in terms of peace and stability of the u.s. as it's working to what he's up to one hundred billion dollars of frozen assets to the new transitional government some say that for a government barely six months all that's simply not ready to handle such cash or anything. certainly i think it would be foolish to hand that sum of money over to a transitional council which has yet to demonstrate that it has the support of the vast majority of the country and and even by their own standards even at recent meetings obviously true libya's very much divided along tribal lines as you know and of the dozens and dozens of different tribes represented in the in libya only only less than half of them actually claim to be in support of the true transitional council so so there is a deep divisions going on in libya right now and i think it would be very foolhardy to release those types of funds to a transitional government which so far has really only demonstrated its interest in

securing contracts with foreign and western companies. meantime the leader of libya's national transitional council of gibril has begun a tour of europe to secure funds for his new government will meet with french president nicolas sarkozy in paris and as r.t. said daniel bushell reports for france there's much more than just democracy on the table. fruits feels like a winner was the first power to recognize libya's rebels the first to become free and now the first in talks with rebel leaders for mr allen pace's victory gives him great satisfaction opposition m.p. jack lang everyone to be thankful that inspired action at the united nations corporations in states that voted for you in intervention are rubbing their hands one of the first members of the french team. who.

was a representative of the french or company and that is not very far from of course french all joint toll has been named as this was big enough rubble for a go go has threatened to look brazil russia and china for quote political issues there are three states who refused strong sanctions against gadhafi those nations had contracts with the former regime of russian officials says quote we've lost libya completely it is well known that it is a wall for all that these so-called position government has promised to give the old two from france officially claims its war mission is over but analysts tippit to secretly stay you'll be in libya make sure profits only maintaining forces. presence in libya even the. resolution. yes but keeping troops in the country means heavy costs drag on latest polls say

mood. french people now oppose the military intervention this in p.c.'s for the bloodshed and the hefty price tag to deal with it now as opposed. to war. and this invasion is already costing much more than we give back fears a growing that libya's new leaders to divide the peace. points to the rebels move the last months of their military chief general yunis experts will spread rubble looting and executions fronts these problems may have only just begun. r.t. paris. the future of libya now appears to hinge on the capacity of the transitional council to establish law and order and scott abates the vice president at the center for national policy believes it will be much harder to establish the ability than it was to remove gadhafi. look it underscores the real problem in libya right

now which is that no one is in charge and security is tenuous make no mistake the libyan rebel movement could not be where it is today without nato's involvement the real test though is going to be what comes after because there are good feelings toward nato governments in benghazi right now but if the country falls to chaos over the next six months two years time frame it'll be very different story you can't just go in and use force of arms and destabilize an entire nation and then leave any time you go into these situations it's very easy with a modern force of arms and the disparities in the world when it comes to that to topple a regime it's incredibly difficult then to stabilize situation especially where for decades there's been little to no tradition of consentual rule or democratic rule at all so he was a master at pitting group against group i think first of all what this intervention

showed to me is nato has capabilities are incredibly stretched and the european component of nato exposed itself is not particularly capable as it should be so i hope the situation doesn't deteriorate because the only force in the world military force capable of projecting the logistical strength and the force is the united states and the united states does not need to be front and center in this situation so i think the nato alliance is in a very precarious spot right now. and you can get more analysis on the situation in libya on our web site while the conflict rages on just log on to our dot com for details. now north korea has confirmed it's ready to resume long stalled six party talks on its nuclear program without any preconditions it will also consider suspending the production and testing of nuclear weapons while talks are ongoing north korea's reclusive leader kim jong il met president dmitri medvedev the

republican during a rare visit to the country. is in their publics capital following the talks. after a meeting with the russian president the north korean leader kim jong il has announced his country's willingness to return to the six party negotiations aimed at denuclearizing the korean peninsula but it will only reimpose its moratorium on production and testing of nuclear weapons once those six party talks begin the rest of the six party talks members like south korea japan the united states and they all want the north korean leader to implement the moratorium first and then have north korea return to the six party talks which have been stalled since two thousand and eight the north korean leader still wants to do it his way but still his announcement is a very big deal there were several signed pointing to the possibility of such a breakthrough even when kim jong il began his journey usually the very secretive

north korean leader travels completely incognito in the international community finds out about his travels post factum or even not at all this time the entire world knew as soon as came jong il crossed the russian border on his specially designed armored train and that of course led many to speculate that the meeting also publicized with the russian president dmitry medvedev would bring about some definite breakthrough and we know that there have been further developments in the plans for a gas pipeline that will go from russia to south korea of course north korea we also know that a number of committees have been created and this c.e.o. of russia's gas giant gazprom has been tasked with overseeing the project so that definitely is still in the works and could be a very lucrative deal for north korea for south korea as well and definitely for russia which is looking to export more of its resources. more.

lucrative deals between russia or north korea you know a business book of marino. business desk keeping an eye on that yes there are we are keeping an eye on that and of course everyone sees is there as a great step forward for everyone but i mean this we've spoken to say that it will be actually a turtle and so convince south korea because they don't want to be dependent on the north for anything but there is a way out of our analysts told us about that i know you hear about it and business shortly. you will see now more details have surfaced about the murder of a russian human rights journalist on the political sky over five years ago investigators say they have new information about who might have ordered the killing the statement a follows the arrest of a former a key witness in the case he is a retired police lieutenant colonel who's now under suspicion for organizing the killing and the pilot who investigated human rights violations in chechnya was shot five years ago on the stairs of the building where she lived investigators say her

professional activities were likely to motive for the mud now a quarter past the hour here in moscow iran has filed a lawsuit against russia in the international court over its refusal to supply s. three hundred missiles that you've got to spin off now brings us more on the story from just outside the iranian embassy right here in moscow. according to the iranian ambassador tehran is suing moscow over a shipment of a badge of russia's past three hundred air defense systems to tehran under a deal which was signed back in two thousand and eight but the shipment never went through because in june two thousand and ten the un security council slammed a set off sanctions on iran which in force was a wide range of limitations including those on the sales of various types of forms so russia froze the shipment last year officials said that they are ready to give iran back its down payment which is around two hundred million dollars or we could

go on go through with a deal if and when the u.n. security council lifts this set of sanctions tehran says that it has taken this case to the international court of justice but what's interesting is that they see these stamps are not aimed against russia but are actually aimed at giving moscow be a so-called illegal trump as the ambassador said in order for this shipment to go through but actually talking about the s. three hundred air defense systems we've been in production strictly for export since one thousand nine hundred ninety four but just a few days ago their production was stopped altogether with the more advanced models taking place r.t. if you're going to spin off right there earlier i spoke to a military expert fouth things that iran needs the s. three hundred to protect its nuclear facilities. around the system to protect our sea our civilian targets but definitely going to be

a part of their nuclear program and they. protect nuclear facilities that could be attacked by israel or the united states because we're covering the story that iran has moved some of its nuclear facilities to this mountain bunker and says it's ready to resume international negotiations on its disputed nuclear program are they ready to make some concessions to the u.n. because it seems like a bit. sudden one eighty if they're now suing russia for not supplying this mobile s. three hundred missile system. inside iran all the. international community it. can. control their all. faces great challenges from the young people who want better relations with more united states russia or are you with moscow let's get some world news in brief for you now and we're staying in iran where an iranian man has admitted to killing

a nuclear scientist in tehran last year and of working with israeli intelligence at the trial. taught him how to carry out terrorist acts including how to plant a bomb the defendant could now face the death penalty because the system that muhammad was murdered in a bomb attack outside his home in january last year scientists were killed shortly afterwards. israel says a leader from the palestinian islamic jihad group has been killed in gaza. an alleged weapons smuggler died in one of the three strikes also targeted to other militants accused of firing rockets at israel last week which caused at least seven civilian deaths it was the deadliest string of attacks against the israeli population in two years. a strong earthquake has the east coast of the united states tremors centered in virginia forty regulations in washington including the white house and pentagon in new york two nuclear reactors were shut down and people

also had to leave buildings that say no one was seriously injured but damage to property was widespread. all right now back to our breaking news here on r.t. the unmanned russian cargo space ship progress has crashed in eastern siberia after failing to reach its target or but it launched from a baikonur cosmodrome in kazakhstan on when. morning and was due to dock with the international space station on friday he's now joins us live and tell us what's the latest that you know what happened. well rory as far as the details we can glean at the moment the rocket the progress module on top of a soyuz rocket had blasted off from baikonur as scheduled in the three hundred twenty fifth second of its ascent up into war but it suffered a rocket failure of the third stage of that rocket and that meant essentially it fell back to work with an almighty great bang in the in the eastern area of russia the altai region it was forty kilometers from the nearest village that it fell. to

said it's very unlikely anyone was hurt although they'll make a full inspection of the area shortly around the craft itself was unmanned so there was no crew inboard where the difficulty comes is that this ship was a supply ship for the international space station it was due to carry around three tons of fuel and food up to the crew there. have said that the crew up there currently have enough supplies to last them two months and they're probably not going to bring any crew down from the s.s. i think they can last ok until the next scheduled flight or the progress module on the twenty eighth of october that's right i'm seeing are seeing reports here that the ice crew will not have to return early due to the loss of of the progress but it's not exactly the first failure when it comes to us. in the recent past is that . it's not it's sort of some tremors of nervousness i think

because this is the fourth in under a year the fourth pick up as it were in their space program last december glow. a satellite system mapping the navigation system very important for the space program and for the russian military three of its satellites plunged into the sea they're still investigating as to why that may have happened in. february a ministry of defense satellites stopped working properly and just a few days ago with this month another satellite freshened to war but went off course and went off and lost all contact with it so this is the fourth on top of all of those all of this made a bit more worrying by the fact that just recently the u.s. stopped its space shuttle flights the last one went around a month ago and that means that the i assess is now totally reliant on the soyuz ships flying from baikonur so they'll be some very hard questions asked as to why this happened and to try to make sure it doesn't happen again all right art is

a time bomb they live in moscow i told we actually spoke to a witness on the ground here's what she had to say. you know what captain are you trying to share with us i looked at each other and it seemed like a white stripe right i thought it was a train at first i don't but then i realized queens never fired their turn or quietly then it turned into some white object and i saw that it was sparkling you went behind a cloud and i thought you were come out in a minute but it disappeared i didn't see it again but i heard a loud noise it was like three bangs one really loud and two quieter and i thought it was thunder first but it was not raining at the time to. try to well do stay with us here and r.t. for more details on the loss of the space ship progress for now the business news is next with larry. hello and welcome to the business here on ars to you russell wants to bring the

normally hostile north and south korea's together in the name of business at their summit in siberia admitted amid words of until jong il have agreed to look at building a gas pipeline across north korea to supply the republic in the south but analysts warn that south korea will have a hard time coming to terms with being dependent on this northern towns of parts. i think there will be a large amount of skepticism to overcome in south korea about allowing themselves to become even partially dependent on supplies of gas that all point across the northern neighbor you have to have an agreement between three countries russia north korea and south korea it's no good. building a pipeline i think the simply lives russia or north korea because the north koreans are not going to be able to pay a sufficient price for gas imports from russia that would ever pay back the cost of

building the pipelines of the pipeline has to be extended into south korea to tap the south korean market that's all this has been the best month for gold and twelve years has jumped almost seventy percent in the last four weeks that's amid the uncertainty about economic prospects in europe and america the market as waiting for its news conference in the u.s. to hear more about further stimulus measures they're well hard to him want to back up from platt says the current rally in precious metals reflects an investor perception that a new round of money printing as unavoidable. if one looks at the sequence of events of what the central banks need to do they are in effect draw in terms of liquidity so the only option they have left is to do all the round of quantitative easing you can see that the market is forecasting that quantitative easing so the price of gold seems to be hitting doorstep thousand and beyond. all that high price

in gold is just speak will trying to preparing their currency from any further dilution with a quantitative easing wall we call silver is going all oriel stop falling m l seems to be one thing to wall so everything will go up really but just the dollar will buy less than they used to. then let's take a look at the figures now gold is dropping from an all time high above one thousand nine hundred dollars an ounce and that's a concern of course then sovereign debt crisis complicating global economic slowdown has been fueling the land for a store of value but right now gold is news in over four percent so let's move on to. this trading in the black this by a forecast of grown crude stockpiles in the u.s. right now. eighty six dollars per barrel bryants is approaching one hundred ten dollars a barrel. over in the u.s.

stocks are trading mixed after opening on the positive notes they are lower compared to wednesday's rally the dow is point two percent as news in one third of a percent it's. the second what's happenin in europe shares there are rising after the toughest started to trade in the only direction seen for investors so far is a speech by federal reserve chairman ben bernanke on friday the footsie is gaining more than one and a half percent and that's is approaching three percent this hour. and here in rush hour. investors are hesitant to make any big moves they're also looking forward to digest the news from the e.u. while still alex friday both the arts yes and m i six are adding more than one percent this hour let's take a look at the individual share moves on the my subs most of the blue chips are trading in the black blue pool is adding close to one percent that's been awfully

gas problem is over two and a half percent and that's on news that will pump natural gas to south korea to the north but public banking stocks have also climbed and suppose it's of territory of this point seven percent it's. girls critical is the time to buy back its shares from roussel has once again failed neuros call for it's a buy a fifteen percent stake for sol for around nine billion dollars this was poured over there for by the company to resolve a dispute between its suit because shareholders who sell has consistently maintained that it has a long term interest and norilsk and is not prepared to sell out. russia's inflation has reached a five percent in the first seven months of the year and that's four times higher than the european average consumer prices have fallen in the last two months as fruits and vegetables go cheap birds are used to seasonal factors meanwhile

citibank is lower in its forecast for the country's g.d.p. for this year and that stupid civil or oil price although it says this could lead to a further reduction and inflation. that's all the business news for now for more stories head to our web site starts you don't call them slash business but in the meantime say it soon all the headlines with valerie.

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