international news and comment live from our headquarters in moscow this is r.t. good to have you with us this hour an unmanned russian cargo spacecraft has crashed in eastern russia progress launched from the baikonur cosmodrome in kazakhstan on wednesday morning was due to dock at the international space station on friday but the engines on board the soyuz rocket taking it into orbit appear to have failed artie's told botan joins me live with more so tell us what happened. but as far as we know bill it was a three hundred twenty fifth second of the rockets ascent into war but when there was this engine failure it certainly hit the ground with a bump afterwards having come down to worth very rapidly there are a as yet unconfirmed reports that also that day rocket broke into three parts

which fell in three different areas in the altai region in russia's east and also that the first parts of this survey rocket and its progress module which sat on top . that also that they have found it in different areas we heard from an eyewitness earlier who saw the rocket coming down in that region what she said. you know catherine i don't know if you know if i looked at it hard and it seemed like a white stripe right i thought it was a train a first time but then i realized queens never find their trail 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. so obviously that evidence there from the. eyewitness also perhaps supporting the idea

that there are three separate sites of impact those three bangs however on the ground having fallen in such a wide area it's not known whether anyone was around at the time and may have as a result become a casualty from this massive falling debris there were no crew on board and the search in the area will begin shortly sail for a tease we heard recently from the local administration. the first space of failure recently is it. it's not it's not bill. it's the fourth really in the last year which has really made ross cosmos the russian space agency quite nervous the first was back in december when the three glow nasa satellites responsible for navigation used by the space program run by russia's military they plunged into the sea in february a ministry of defense satellites stopped working properly and just

a few days ago on the eighteenth of august another freshly launched satellite went off its orbit and disappeared off the radars altogether so this is the fourth in that line of rather worrying pick ups it's also made a little bit more worrying by the fact that the u.s. has now stopped its space shuttle flights to the international space station those astronauts up there can survive about two months on the supplies that they have but it's thought to have to be another emergency mission up there and they're totally reliant on flights of these soyuz rockets up from baikonur tom thanks very much indeed for that update live there in moscow that's our reporter tom barton now we're going live to london and we're going to be joined by jerry webb he's general director of commercial space technology is limited and i can understand i do understand that he may not be ready for us yes he is thanks very much indeed for being with us live there in london. what's the likely reason for this crash do you

think in your opinion what caused it. very difficult to tell at this early stage. but i can tell i can tell you the russian balls of inquiries on parties of this sort are always very thorough very good and i hope they'll they'll have to be very quick i'd like to add something in now that the in your previous. run up to this the this is the only soyuz failure and the soyuz is one of the longest running russian rockets and has the highest reliable look for a lot of the record even though we were in the shuttle you know man cross so. what he's actually on that based on that doesn't that being come as a surprise to you that this has happened. but because all expendable calls will have a limit so there are a lot of ability there are many ways they're made to a process that is armed to be thrown away it's a very critical judgment between whether you. know how much you use for in all the

effort of mikey it reliable don't forget the you know in commercial launches log live satellite for years there are insurance issues so it depends on how much you spend on the launcher and how much you spend on. the side of lawyers. and the insurance this is an insidious thing with all the expendable launchers and i sure will tell you i mean i you know i know that you work with the russian space agency said this doesn't affect your view of the reliability of your russian partners and the equipment they use or i'm sure that the scoby some are. sorry. roscoe's most will be very thorough in the us the goetia and so on and so the only problem is that if there are any upcoming manned flights they have to show what actually went wrong with this launch or a very early stage to make sure but it shouldn't stop good future progress floats on shore functional or stand was really interesting you mention manned flights if

there was a crew on board this one could have survived this incident. lolis very conjectural because it was the first so i really can't go to the stories until i know the book obviously the. world probably yes because on my own want to see the first of the the scotto on the top of the book and that has been proven on the on one my own little movie of. a very long time ago now just as a little floyd it's a little more difficult to guess what exactly would hope of but there are modes on and on the moon so it's one other matter that affects you and me and everybody else of course we're getting more and more space travel now and here's an example where for example the rocket actually landed back on earth is it possible to avoid.

accidents where by populated areas cities could be affected. no it's not. explainable goes wrong there's really very little you can do. you can see from previous won't use the. response was stupid do is destroy. what you mean far far it with another rocket from from earth i mean. this was it was a. while gerry very interesting to hear i'm sorry we are out of time i've got to move on but thank you so much for your time gerry webb live there in london thank you. well of course we are keeping up to date on the situation and you can always find more on our website it is r t dot com. other news now after a meeting with the french president in paris the head of libya's national transitional council has recognized france's leading role in removing gadhafi and

return to closer causey promised military assistance to the new libyan government for as long as they need it and sorties daniel bushell reports from france says much more than just democracy on the table. fraud's feels like a winner was the first power to recognize libya's rebels the first to become tree and now the first in talks with rebel leaders for mr allan she paces 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 u.n. intervention are rubbing their hands one of the first members of the french to. march as a representative of the different or company. is not. french all drawn towards a whole has been named as this was big enough rubble all for

a go to look brazil russia and china for quote political issues there are three states who refuse strong sanctions against gadhafi those nations had contracts with the former regime the russian official 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 france and italy maintain forces. presence in libya even the. resolution it's going to answer yes but keeping troops in the country means heavy costs drag on latest polls say most 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 reports but it could take us with him in much the war is far from over and this invasion is already costing much more than we give back. libya's new leaders to. the peace. points to the last months of the military chief general yunis exposed. executions beachfronts these problems they have only just begun. paris. a spokesman for colonel gadhafi regime has promised libya will become a volcano of fire lawless forces are continually vowed to keep fighting pointing to a prolonged civil war let's get more analysis from author and journalist after maternity joining us live there in london well faced with complete defeat the former regime continues to show defiance you just heard those words just a moment ago how does that defiance and it still numerous supporters throughout

libya bode for the country's future stability i think should expect to see international have said in the past few hours is a humanitarian crisis i've seen pictures of the dead children killed by nato airstrikes what we have ahead of us is an insurgency campaign the bombing is going on in tripoli from the program every forces and then of course when they get a regime finally crumbles we have the onset of the rivalry between this. trans national transitional council because he must have loved standing next to the leader of it was of taking away the french people's minds from the austerity cuts. the picture you paint of the future humanitarian disaster it's not exactly what we're hearing from mainstream media the rebel governments claims are also often been suspect but why is it that their statements are being reported by the mainstream media as fact i mean we know that fighting is still continue in tripoli and throughout libya even as the rebels are now claiming victory we're getting

mixed messages here only. it's difficult to criticize corporate media in light of wars or new liberal wars neocon wars this is exactly one of those idealistic. again without thinking again with reporters in the field. with the rebels cheering the rebels on without understanding what. states there are flickers of al qaeda now in libya and. will be searching for new territories in which to exploit divisions what we have here and that the us has for us is perhaps a kind of junior partner in this convention the european union countries is the possibility of terror attacks around the world because of yet again support for a ragtag band of the different forces different types of people supposedly in an

idea some kind of idea that liberation will follow it's. the end of the second world war the idea of sovereignty nation states and what this means for the united nations resolution one thousand three what is done how many people have been killed it's been a disaster sort of quickly ask you what are the chances that gadhafi might choose to use some of those weapons that have been referred to weapons of mass destruction in the chemical weapons and also it's been discovered and we don't know exactly what he is holding himself is there any thought that he could actually use these weapons in one act of defiance one final dramatic end to his life and his regime. there's very much a possibility that we mustn't individualize these things the corporate media loves to call libya it's about the transitional council now calling for is. to be captured dead or alive is not about free. embrace me liberalism literally embraced

tony blair i think lots of leaders around the world we think. the liberal market ideology is that safe. embraced in recent years is the undoing of his regime just as that of egypt and tunisia and as for gaddafi it doesn't matter what he does in all these countries it depends on the structure of these countries i must realize that the people that we see on the streets in tripoli they seem to come from a class very different to the poor in libya they seem to come from an educated class many of them foreigners as well as of course in certain areas people from the south the idea of individualizing this called like gadhafi. anything to do with it is like i mean are saying that the assassination of archduke ferdinand. catalyzed. actually we're going to leave it there we are out of time thanks for being with us

live here on r.t. there in london afshin rattansi joining us there not. well rebels now control colonel gadhafi fortress in central tripoli but violent clashes continue throughout the capital however the u.s. defense department says it has another concern the security of sites in libya known to contain stockpiles of chemical weapons something we've just been talking about there including your rainy and dust was speaking to my colleague rory sushi earlier today james corbet from the center for research and globalization question white libya's new government is not being trusted to deal with it. 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 civilians in tripoli have been the nato 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 cut off he was quoted as saying that he would be willing to strike at

europe if if tripoli was was attacked so i guess that is a possibility it seems to be on the table but certainly it's unclear to me whether it's the the weapons would be safer in the hands of get off the 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 let's talk about gadhafi himself their brain reports that he's been hiding in a twenty kilometer network of heavily fortified tunnels but in tripoli a given if you still there or indeed even in the country. personally i have no knowledge of it and no way of finding out i think it would be foolhardy to to get venture a guess at this point especially when there's so much of a fog of war over the situation right now and that's been demonstrated in all sorts of events including the early reports we had the gadhafi sons had been captured by rebel forces when we do have video footage that was aired on our t.v. of gadhafi son parading around in the center of tripoli so so at this point really it's anyone's guess what's really happening there and unfortunately it's extremely difficult to get in touch with people there and there are reports even though there

is a tank battalion in these giant underground tunnel complexes so the idea that there would be bunker busters or other types of heavy weaponry used in trying to lay siege to it is not out of the question and certainly nato has demonstrated that they have no compunction about using these types of weapons on civilian populations and in civilian populated areas so it would certainly be no moral qualms about that and unfortunately likely no international criminal court investigation of the war crimes being perpetrated by the nato led rebel forces at this moment. well you get more analysis on the situation in libya on our website while the conflict rages just log on to what he dot com for the latest details. north korea has confirmed it's ready to resume long stalled six party talks on its nuclear program without any preconditions pyongyang would also consider suspending the production and testing of nuclear weapons while talks are ongoing north korea's reclusive leader kim jong il met president dmitry medvedev in russia's republic. during a rare visit to the country party's catarina czar of is in the republic 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 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 kim 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 dmitri the video 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. and kim jong il's trip to

russia began on saturday for more on his arm a train stopped on its journey log on to our web site if you don't come distributed to relax and have the world's deepest lake by car in the difference waters. party. iran has filed a lawsuit against russia in the international court over its refusal to supply s three hundred missiles to you going to brings us more on the story from outside the iranian embassy in moscow quoting to the iranian ambassador to iran 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 to the shipment never went through because in june two thousand and ten the u.n. the security council slammed the set off sanctions on iran which in force is a wide range of limitations including those on the sales of various types of all arms 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 they could go all go through with a deal if and when the u.n. security council a lift 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 steps are not aimed against russia but are actually aimed at giving moscow the 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 they'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 were the more advanced models taking place. and the world of football is abuzz with news of a new dream team being formed on russian soil. from russia's republican. standard

sized superstar striker from the italian side interment cameroon international cost thirty six million dollars and will pocket a cool twenty million dollars a year himself and twenty nine million. more than any other player on the plane to see if you can see them on kimmel now he lined up alongside brazilian legend carlos and russia has. just brought in from chelsea to be more with kate in the business i should say the sport's ok. but in the sports update in about an hour from now in the meantime let's stay with the world of business with marina here she is next. hello and welcome to business here on c.n.n. will not talk about football but i will talk about something else and that is how rochelle wants to bring the normally hostile north and south korea's together in the name of business at their summit in siberia with the image of

a defend kim jong il have agreed to look at building a gas pipeline across north korea to supply the republic in the cells but it's analysts warn that south korea will have a hard time coming to terms with being dependent on this northern talents 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 are quite across the northern neighbor you have to have an agreement between all three countries russia north korea and south korea it's no good. building a pipeline i think the simply links 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 it's jumped almost seventy percent in the last four weeks and that was amid the uncertainty about economic prospects in europe and america the market as waiting for it to news conference right now in the u.s. to hear more about for the stimulus measures there and heard him want to pick up from platt says the current rally in precious metals reflects investor perception that a new round of money plans and 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 more the round of quantitative easing you can see that the market is forecasting that quantitative easing so the price of gold seems to be here indorse two thousand and beyond all that high price in gold

is just people trying to put. their currency from any further dilution with a quantitative easing wall we call silver is going all oriel stop falling and now seems to be wanting to go all so everything will go up really but just the dollar will buy less than they used to. let's take a look at the figures now we'll start with gold it's a dropping from an all time high above one thousand nine hundred dollars an ounce right now it's nice and over three and a half percent and silver is setting almost double that figure let's move on to oil crude is trading in the black this is my forecast of growing crude stockpiles in the u.s. right now the w c i is trading at eighty six dollars per barrel while bryant is approaching one hundred and eleven over in the u.s. stocks are trading mets after opening on a positive note investors away in a larger than anticipated rise in orders for durable goods against mores about the

global economy. let's take a look at what's happening in europe markets there are closed in the black culture footsie and the facts are that their own one and a half percent the only direction soon for investors was a kiss speech by federal reserve chairman ben bernanke in all friday. and here in russia markets end of the trade in session on the positive notes about the arts yes i know my sex clothes more than a percent investors were hesitant to make any big moves and they were also looking forward to digest the news from the glass throughout on friday let's take a look at the. share moves on the my sac source of the blue chips were trading in the black blue call added points eight percent gas monopoly gas from one up over two and a half percent and that was the news that will pump natural gas to south korea through the north of public banking stocks also climbed into positive territory the sperm bank point seven percent. squiggles attempt to buy back a transformer saw have once again failed nor the offer to buy

a fifteen percent stake from or sell for around nine billion dollars this was part of an effort by the company to resolve a dispute between its two biggest shareholders who saw has consistently imitated that it has a long term interest in or else and is not prepared to sell outs. and that's all the business is for now for more stories you can always had so our web sites are to dot com slash business in the meantime stay tuned for the headlines with.

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