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hour. international news and comment live from our headquarters here in moscow this is r.t. good to have you with us this hour but on manned russian cargo spacecraft has crashed in eastern russia progress launch from baikonur cosmodrome in kazakhstan on wednesday morning it was due to talk at the international space station on friday but the engines on board the soyuz rocket taking it into orbit appear to have failed lottie's don't talk about explains. it was a three hundred twenty fifth second of the rockets ascent into orbit when there was this engine failure it certainly hit the ground with a bomb path towards having come down to earth for a rapidly there are you as yet unconfirmed reports that also that day

rockets broke into three parts which fell in three different areas in the altai region in russia's east we heard from an eyewitness earlier who saw the rockets are coming down in that region now. i looked at it and it seemed like the right strike i thought it was a train at first then i realized that planes never fly that low quietly then it turned into sound white object and then suddenly it was parked around it 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 that 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 sell for a season we heard recently from the local discretion and earlier with people go there to collect pine nuts they grow everywhere so they may well be people mounting the tiger although we don't know how many in that area back in december when the three glowed enough satellites responsible for navigation used by the space program run by russia's military they plunged into the sea in february ministry of defense satellites stopped working properly and just a few days ago on the eighteenth of august another freshly log supplied went off its. 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 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 from baikonur. reporting their will for more insight on the story i'm joined live by dr robert williams he's an astronomer and professor at the space telescope science institute based in baltimore in the usa thanks very much indeed for being with us i don't want to put you on the spot here but do you have any sort of speculation any idea of what could have caused this incident. no i don't do well i can tell us what i've read and that is it appears that the third. not separate from the rest of the rocket there for suppose that the system was trying to the meaning extended first and second still. energy do you know. well with over forty missions in the past with plenty of success does it come as

a surprise to you that something like this could happen. absolutely not he says a risky business as anyone who's been in it will tell you so still in space is a hostile environment secondly it requires lots of energy to put something in orbit those two factors are a recipe for danger no matter how good or we are or there will be accidents. could it perhaps be damaging to soissons reputation and maybe encourage so. much foster competition i know that lots of projects are in line at the moment could it speed up the competition from other rocket developments i suspect it will have a positive effect on turn it to. your first question will it affect the reputation notorious us of course on the other hand it it's so they have an excellent record. in pricing for more than three hundred lances and there have been really few accidents it simply highlights the fact that like getting into your driving or.

the risk in battle and it's hard to quantify it. the fact is that i'm sure that there are people out there who can you can be responsible for a person alternatives and this will give them some importance to do so despite the risks involved the unknown the hostile environment you're talking about in space just what are your predictions of space travel in our lifetime in the next twenty thirty years. brad pitt would you know it's i living species expand or all our environment whether it's fish in the sea birds or it was on land the fact is it's part of evolution which is genetically driven and that we try to accommodate to environments that are somewhat different than one or currently temporal in the case of humans what space obviously we haven't of all people point for a quick spin to accommodate to space but i believe that we're genetically wired to

explore it's part of our media and it has great rewards and so we're going to continue to do it. you can't stop people from doing it you know whether i look back a century ago on polar exploration. of the world people are good to me to do these things let me please a space that has great rewards we discover lots of things out there it's the best place through a steady the universe and the universe is what we're all from where i think if we want to understand ourselves and we obviously have a basic right to do that the human species and the universe is where we came from only a universal sense it's best to discover the rest of the universe from space and so i think it's inevitable that it will continue trying to do that in fact. it's hard to toss it just very briefly and maybe ambitions not just for space tourism but to spend more time in space and people actually spending their lives there i mean is

that likely. it's man unlikely i think and time it's inevitable and fact i congratulate the authorities and russia continue to give space exploration high priority for a world thinking you know you know i don't think you can stop people from running to do risky things i tell you one thing though risky what about pluto's a stint on this rocket crashed onto earth with normal. space travel just briefly one of the risks of that happening in a densely populated area cities being at risk very briefly in the future i think that it is inevitable at a certain point where one can obviously minimize the risk and so the best thing to do is to launch sites in isolated areas which is where those countries are so hopefully. serious risks to populated areas a long way out in the future of really interesting here we have to say thanks. in conversation live with us here on r.t. dr robert williams astronomer professor at space telescope science institute in

baltimore thanks for your time sure not my pleasure. other news now the president francis met with the head of libya's national transitional council in paris after a meeting behind closed doors because he promised military assistance to the new libyan government for as long as they need it well for more details on what was said let's now go to our tease daniel bushell in paris daniel what came out of this meeting. yes france becomes the first e.u. power to host the head of libya's transitional national council nicolas sarkozy said that he and made so we'll continue to supply military equipment to the rebels as long as they need it though he didn't mention the un resolution authorizing intervention in libya which many think actually expressly rules out military supplies to libya rebel leader djibril said that he sees from a driving force in the nato campaign against gadhafi troops now the french and

british have invited libya's government to a meeting on september the first with e.u. leaders i think that they will meet quote not as military allies but brains the british prime minister's office has also released a statement saying that the meeting will help to build a free and democratic libya during wednesday's meeting sarkozy also cuts france's economic growth forecast and announced eleven billion dollars in also there are measures the french president being accused of trying to bury in this very bad news in the euphoria of war victory but they're all signs that the war isn't producing the results sarkozy wanted more in this report. frauds feels like it 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 should paste this victory gives

him great satisfaction or position him p.j. lang everyone to be thankful that france inspired action at the united nations corporations in states that voted for you an intervention a rubbing their hands one of the first. members of a french team. as a representative of the. company. is not. french all drawn towards whole has been named as this was big enough rubble all for a go go has threatened to brazil russia and china political issues there are three states refused strong sanctions against gadhafi those nations had voles contracts with the former regime a russian official says quote we've lost libya completely it is well known that it is a wall form that these so-called position government has promised to give the old to

france france officially claims its war mission is over but analysts tippit to secretly stay only libya and make sure it profits only entailing was his. presence in libya even though it's not. but keeping troops in the country means heavy cost strike on latest polls say most french people now oppose the military intervention this in p.c.'s further bloodshed and the hefty price tag to deal with it now reports but guess what the war is far from over and this invasion is already costing much more than we could back fears a growing that libya's new leaders to divide it so when the peace. points to the rebels murder last month of a military chief general yunis experts warn widespread rebel looting and executions

beat france's problems they have only just begun their new bushell r.t. paris. a spokesman for colonel gadhafi regime as promised libya will become a volcano of fire loyalist forces are continually valid to keep fighting pointing to a prolonged civil war and according to author and journalist action returned c he told me earlier that the evidence points to more conflict. i think what we should expect to see international of. is a humanitarian crisis i've seen pictures of the dead children killed by nato airstrikes but 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 their free regime finally crumbles we have the onset of the rivalry between this. transactional transitional council sarkozy mr love standing next to the leader of

it was of taking away the french people's minds from the austerity cuts of the global media loves to call libya. the transitional council now calling for is. to be captured dead or alive it's not about their fate this is exactly one of those idealistic. again without thinking again with reporters in the field embedded with the rebels cheering the rebels on the understanding. of the armed services committee in the center of the united states or flickers. now in india we have here is the possibility of terror attacks around the world because yet again support for a ragtag band of different forces different types of people supposedly in an idea some kind of idea that liberation will follow. should return to me

a little earlier well rebels now control colonel gadhafi fortress in central perkily but violent clashes continue throughout the capital however the u.s. defense department says it has another concern the security of sites in the beginning to contain stockpiles of chemical weapons including you raney i'm just speaking to my colleague rory earlier today james corbet from the center for research on globalization question 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 trick police civilians in tripoli have been in the side so i think the question is really who are the people were to be concerned about having access to those weapons so 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 could if it was all it is saying that he would be willing to strike in europe if if tripoli was it

was attacked so i guess that is a possibility it seems to be on the table both 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 so i think ultimately perhaps getting rid of these types of weapons would be the ultimate goal for it in terms of peace and stability. or to get more analysis on the situation in libya on our website it's all there while the conflict rages on just log on to r.t. dot com for the latest details and developments. to north korea now and north korea is confirmed it's ready to resume. six party talks on its nuclear program without any preconditions become young 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 of europe there during a rare visit to the country. in the republic's 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 really impose 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 or korean leader still wants to do it his way but still his announcement is a very big deal there were several signs 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 to meet the need to be a diff would bring about some definite great through 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 via the 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 a 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. in a sort of that will fall on this i'm joined by. a coupon. of the national campaign to end the korean war joining us live there in oregon thank you very much indeed

for being with us here in r.t. north korea has confirmed it's ready to resume long stalled six party talks and who consider halting the production and testing of nuclear weapons does this mean that all parties should go ahead with a dialogue and will they go ahead with. and you are absolutely i mean there is nothing to stop any party from sitting down at the table now you have the opportunity to stop the production of nuclear material you have the ability to discuss such issues you have the ability to begin to develop a peace process that could lead to demilitarisation and lower tensions in the region so will they do it will the south koreans and the united states sit down it remains to be seen at this point i think not without the international pressure on the united states and south korea i don't think there will necessarily

see if they're talking about the precondition you must stop production on a certain date before the toxin not on the day or the talks those types of arguments seem to imply that someone doesn't want to speak but you can understand maybe that attitude from south korea but why from the u.s. why would they be reluctant not to progress with these terms. you know the u.s. issue is a little tricky it's involved in several issues as you may know we have more than twenty eight thousand troops stationed in south korea at close to one hundred bases and posts in a tiny country. a lot of money is spent that way i'm js you island in the sea outside korea there is a massive naval base anything built against you in opposition to the wishes of the local island community where they're pouring cement on coral reefs and beginning to build this huge naval installation is this really to defend against the north you

know i would contend that it's relates to china and the desire by the united states to maintain its military presence in korea this is been a desire on the part of the united states and if you take away the threat of the north koreans that we truly work toward a peace treaty and it demilitarisation or a denuclearization of the korean peninsula more then the reason for the u.s. troops there become less and less or at least we can deal more directly with the china u.s. issue why is though north korea making these positive signals being prepared to make concessions why now. well what's forgotten is that they've been saying they would return to the talks throughout today have been saying to the united states that they would give up all nuclear weapons in exchange for peace and normalized relations such as russia has and one hundred fifty seven fifty eight countries have

with north korea so there's not a big change there are what we're hopeful about is that there's a change in the attitudes a little in the south with an election coming up in twenty and in the united states a change because we're spending so much money and so many billions of dollars in korea right now perhaps administration is beginning to understand that there could be peace dividend here so this visit to russia by kim jong il what way could russia play an important role obviously we need to be talking about economy trade ties but in what way could russia play a mediations role here and be effective in this between the space between the north korea and south korea if russia is in the perfect position to play this role because of their closer relationship with the united states over the past years

because of the fact they aren't seen as a lot i did with north korea as china is and because someone has to as a world leader stand up and say this war has gone on for sixty years that there's been a change a cold war has ended let's get on to the idea that you only build peace through engagement in relationship you know president. once said that we must change our way of attention from what separates us to what unites us and russia plays a unique role right now to help lead the world in that direction barry thanks so much we're out of time eric joining us live there from oregon in the us a really interesting thing we have to say thanks for joining us thank. nato should be obliged to combat the drug industry in afghanistan if it wants to renew its mandate to stay in the country and that's according to russia's anti drug chief victor yvel north during a visit to belgrade he said the majority of drugs smuggled into europe come from

afghanistan with kosovo acting as the center for distribution insisted russia and serbia can't cope alone and needs full regional cooperation. runs for the lawsuit against russia and the international court over its refusal to supply s. three hundred missiles are you going to bring this more on the story from outside the iranian embassy here in moscow. according 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 of the shipment never went through because in june two thousand and ten the un the security council slammed a set of sanctions on iran which in forces are 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 all go through with

a deal if and when the u.n. security council a lift this set of sanctions turn around says that it has taken this case to the international court of justice but what's interesting is that they see the stamps are not aimed against russia but are actually aimed at giving moscow the so-called legal 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 more advanced models taking their place. and the world of football where an unheralded russian team is breaking records and breaking the bank from russia's republic of dagestan assigned super star striker samuel from the italian side into the renowned football no cost thirty

six million dollars pocketing twenty nine million dollars a year in south east the among the best players on the planet because the story all the details tomorrow when time i'll be back to help and very shortly next it's a business update with. hello and welcome to business here on our it's your russia wants to bring the normally hostile north and south korea's together in the name north business at their summit in siberia admit they made very differently in john ale have agreed to look at building a gas pipeline across north korea to supply the republican the south but analysts warn that south korea will have a hard time coming to terms with the independence on its northern towns of parts. well i think there will be a large amount of skepticism to overcome in sort of korea. allowing

themselves to be even partially dependent on supplies of carrots that all point across the north you have to have an agreement between three countries russia north korea and south korea it's no good. building a pipeline i think simply leads russia or north korea because the north koreans are not going to be able to pay a. price for gas imports from russia but would we ever pay but the cost of building the pipelines to the point where it has to be extended to south korea to china south korean market. let's take a look at the markets will start with gold this been a rather volatile period for the precious metal it has plunged the most since two thousand and eight after reaching an all time holiday earlier this week this could become one of the battles of worst days are over in terms of the sense of right now it's losing more than three and a half percent and analysts say the sharp decline is

a result of profits take it and holds for new badgers to help recovering in the u.s. let's move on to or oil corridors next this hour of us following reports saying stockpiles the klein in the u.s. right now that we as losing thirty cents right to say they had close to one hundred ten dollars per barrel when they last stops are in the fall after investors are weighing a larger than anticipated rise in orders for durable goods against worries about the global economy the dow is up more than half a percent the nasdaq is gaining point three percent over in europe markets closed in the black part the footsie as you know that saturday around for the half percent the only direction sing for investors was a speech by federal reserve chairman ben bernanke that's true on friday. there are also markets and of the trade in stuff and on the positive notes both the arts yes and the my sex clothes more than ever sense all investors were has a sense to make any big moves they're also looking forward sincere what will happen

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