and wore the architect right into all this appeared to have told tom. 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 worth very rapidly there are you 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 we heard from an eyewitness earlier who saw the rocket coming down in that region you know. you know i looked at it and it seemed like a white stripe i thought it was a plane a first but then i realized planes never fly that low or quietly and 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 or that 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 here 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 sail for a tease we heard recently follow put ministration and them fellers a little bit 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 globe 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 launch satellite went off it's all bits 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 still to have to be another emergency mission up there and they're totally reliant on flights of these soyuz rockets from baikonur. and to get new insight into what happened joined live by tariq malik managing editor at space dot com mr malik thank you very much indeed for time so are you surprised by this accident yes actually i am surprised you let me ask you here part of your question or were very surprised largely because of the phenomenal track record progress and so use

laundry eagles have had for the last decade or two. right about now with a one hundred percent safety record as you say for the season and broken how do you think its reputation can be restarted. well i think of the investigation. surely is going to come. or go a long way to hopefully easing the fears at least here in the states depending on if they actually isolate that about the ocean or not we got a taste of this a little while back when there was a similar investigation into the story is the cause themselves the ending of target landings so nasa has had some experience with these types of geishas not a lot of vehicle like we saw today and i think that extreme. i think that if it all goes as planned and they're able to resume launches in october as they're hoping for then that would go a long way to relieving some of those concerns right that we know this coming september of the same rocket is taking a group of us. today i says is it likely to be affected by this accident well

that's what we heard today from the folks here at nasa is so used a rocket carrying the crew is slightly different but not that much different than the one that was to progress today they're going to want to make sure that anything that is similar they could go wrong on that one you know won't happen and they want to make sure that say it's a lie so they're going to hold off until they're sure for that would show that launch itself might suffer the nasa space station director here said that he was hopeful that the next progress launch which was slated for early october might be able to go somewhere around that time frame that works then they'll be very happy to be able to do that. this is the second russian rocket failure in a week and on the eighteenth of august have toned they cope telecommunication as satellites in the wrong all that you are promoting of space travel right doesn't this highlight the dangers and undermine confidence you know it certainly shows

that it is difficult to launch things into space i think that there's a general concern perception that these types of space launches are routine over time they happen all over every every week or so every month but just now in the last week not not just a russian rocket the chinese rocket failed last week as well that's three rockets they're yours in seven days it's a tough business and it's unforgiving as we found out today and one more pessimistic question could this be a setback for nun's exploration and eventually. space from your point you know there's a lot of concern here in the states about this that in particular because russia right now is the sole provider to launch american astronauts in space we don't have our own launch vehicle right now and so the series definitely some uncertainty now on how that. and that's what will it will play out here where and when the united

states will be able to launch its own shots in this race with russia can resume its cause or a lot as well all right that was terry malick managing editor at space dot com thank you very much indeed. well there now they rebel government is running around its international supporters to get funds to run the country at a closed door meeting with head of bieber's national transitional council nicolas sarkozy promised continued military assistance rebels are now in control of most of tripoli but there is still reports of resistance by government loyalists the united nations that still hold talks on freeing the u.s. health care assets to help with the record structure if it's an international conference to help the new rebel government is due to take place in paris on september the facts daniel bushell has no capital. france becomes the first e.u. power to host the head of libya's transitional national council nicolas sarkozy said

that he and nato will continue to supply military equipment to the rebels as long as they need it no he didn't mention the un resolution authorizing intervention in libya which many think actually expressly rules out military supplies to libya in the rebel leader. said that he sees a driving force in the nato campaign against gadhafi troops the french and british have invited libya's government to a meeting on september the first with e.u. leaders that they will meet quote not military allies but friends but 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 for costs and announced eleven billion dollars in. measures the french president being accused of trying to bury this very news in the euphoria of

war victory but they're all signs that the war isn't producing the results because they wanted more in this report. was the first power to recognize lip. as 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. jag lang everyone to be thankful that france 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 a french team. as a representative of the different or company. is not. of course french all join the toll 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 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 for all that these so-called position government has promised to give the all to france france officially claims its war mission is over but analysts tippit to secretly stay you'll be in libya make sure it profits early maintaining forces. presence in libya even the. resolution. 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 pieces for the

bloodshed and the hefty price tag to deal with it now is the past 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 fears a growing that libya's new leaders to divide it with the peace. points to the rebels murder last month of the military chief general yunis exposed widespread rebel looting and executions beachfronts these problems they have only just begun. to see paris. u.s. senator and former presidential candidate john mccain has lashed out at russia saying it could be the next country to experience a libya like i prize the uprising and he's not the first american legislator to end statements like they said moscow the kremlin commented by saying that these remarks are emotional and incompetent and out his washington correspondent dan education has more. senator mccain has got a very far from rich far fetched that's what sure he's for that the so-called arab

spring will rage on and will make it to countries like china russia which according to mccain need democracy just like libya does by the way at some point even libya has already achieved democracy which judging by the situation on the ground is really far from reality because even as the transitional national council takes over in tripoli that's not the government that was chosen by the libyan people and many libyans are outraged by the fact that foreign powers of essentially made those choices for them and looking back at it gyptian is to don't seem to have achieved actually worth fighting for so as far as democracy is concerned in those countries there are still lots of questions but according to mccain it's all great and the fire of our pricing should move on to other countries first stop syria according to the senator right after he said it's bashar assad is next to fall but too many mccain's statements are not surprising really because he is seen as a mouthpiece to those forces in washington who have this hawkish mentality and

would want to see some countries go upside down especially rich nations or strategically important ones but it's quite interesting that senator mccain is pointing at some of the world's richest countries russia that sitting on vast natural resources and china which is developing extremely rapidly america's biggest creditor it's the world's number one export of goods as we know the senator is basically calling for revolutions in those countries presuming that their livelihood is soledad that they need to rebel immediately polls show that most americans are not happy with where their economy is going also they're not happy with their president is approval rating is below forty percent the nation's fourteen plus trillion dollar debt continues to rise the economy is not generating enough jobs and unemployment remains above nine percent as we know you know we're talking about millions of people jobless the rights of unions that were supposed to protect employees were slashed and a lot of states have seen massive protests. about it but their voices have been largely ignored following mccain's logic though does that mean that americans to

have to take to the streets and rebel and with all not clear really some want to have to ask that question because there's a lot of discontent in mccain's home country but senator mccain obviously you know hell is other people as one why is french writer said. and for more reaction from washington on the libyan conflict and u.s. politics are now joined live by dr willett for rest live from our studio in washington d.c. dr fred thank you very much indeed so we just heard about senators mccain comments on the developments in libya how will the libyan conflict play out on the american domestic arena well of course those who are interested in foreign policy in washington d.c. see that the departure of gadhafi is a good thing compared to the fact that for the last forty years he has been oppressing the libyan people but having said that libya is not yet in

a state of democracy there is a transition there the rebels have not yet established a new government and the government to be established has would have to be grounded in democratic institutions which does not exist so one stage is is over which is the qaddafi regime but the next stage that we are looking forward to see develop with take a much longer time many problems would have to face the new government before it's installed it's working. most of the khadafi loyalist in the city could they launch a long time. the khadafi supporters the remnant of his army cannot at this point in time strategically because they are surrounded and isolated cannot revert back the entire conflict and take back libya but at the same time. he has many supporters in his birthplace and many supporters in the south if gadhafi has left the tripoli area to the south he could well unleash

a new insurgency so his regime will go but it will become the new rebels and the current rebels now will become the new regime so we are still far away from a complete stable libya. would of gadhafi himself there's been reports he's hiding a network of heavily fortified tunnels beneath tripoli didn't need it still that in the country somewhere. where basically all that would have been decided at the time when the rebels have attacked tripoli if gaddafi would have left tripoli before that invasion on saturday sunday then most likely he would be in the south or in areas where his supporters are still in control if he didn't leave tripoli at that day then he is somewhere inside tripoli hidden but that would be a negative thing for me for him because he would be found if he had left tripoli it's going to be very difficult for the rebels future government to find him in the

desert shore and from your point of view how star would need to smoke him out would they use bunker buster bombs. well there would have to be to play it very carefully because if they are going to be responsible for his killing then they'll have to be responsible for the consequences nato it seems would like to see the rebels finding him but at the same time you know the nato would like to see the rebels acting as a force that will become a government and try him and no extrajudicial killing will take place so it's a very difficult choice most likely at least one of his son will be found because saif al islam gadhafi appeared in front of the camera after the invasion of tripoli so most likely he would be found we don't know really for gadhafi the father if he is inside the city in those bunkers or he if he is outside the city somewhere in libya right and rather than guessing khadafi as the west now go to

a more important agenda competing with each other for lucrative oil contracts. between qaddafi and the future there is something to be solved as well number one is to bring the institution the interim transitional council from benghazi to tripoli because tripoli is in chaos and to control all of these ministries appointed bureaucrats and more importantly is to form quickly a new unit or multiple new units of the libyan army because what we have right now is a multitude of militias many of these militias are islamist militias they have their own political agenda and then you have weapons in the hands of many people plus as your reports have said earlier you have you know what kinds of mass destruction or non conventional weapons that are across libya and that has to be secured saw a lot of issues have to be addressed really before only focusing on qaddafi or even thinking of the contracts the oil contracts to come. nicolas sarkozy promise the

new libyan government the military support whenever they need it isn't france effectively taking the new government under its wing. that's what the french government thinks that's what the president would love to see happening that he's going to have an ally in libya but they may not be the case because the rebels are of different political directions and backgrounds of course that when they needed france to mobilize nato to do the strikes to stop gadhafi to remove gadhafi you know they called on france but in the future of that next government is going number one probably for a few months maybe a year or so sell france the oil that it needs the price that it needs but once there will form the government there will be more say tougher of forces in tripoli such as those islamic militias who are going to say well we have our own agenda we don't have to follow exactly what the french agenda is so we're going to wait and see how it's going to be playing in the next few months. all right dr laid to rest thank you very much indeed for your time. north korea is ready to resume

long stalled six party talks on its nuclear design element without any preconditions the statement was made by the country's leader kim jung il held talks with president dmitry medvedev on wednesday the two leaders also struck a deal on the transit of russian natural gas through north korea to south korea being young pledged it will impose a moratorium on the country's nuclear missile tests and production during the negotiations you can see now is not a reports now from the capital of the russian russia's republic of. 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 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. as the civil war in libya rages many say the country could go the way of egypt and and and with the dissolution society impatient for reform but some believe it could be much was. talks to the editor of a london based upon arab newspaper but he's using recent events that's coming up in a moment. i'm talking to abdel bari atwan who's the editor of the london based newspaper al

could be he is obviously going to talk to me about libya and he says that there's a huge potential for libya to turn into another afghanistan i missed out on thank you for talking to r.t. today now explain to me what the factors are at play all comparable between libya and afghanistan. a lot of similarities here between. afghanistan and libya we have been need to intervention military intervention it is through this intervention is not actually sending troops on the ground but the. other and try to say. like afghanistan the other point is you know leave. could turn to a failed state like what happened in afghanistan nobody can predict what will happen after we know if we would be removed from power because he cannot actually fight the jews and he has

a good backup abilities but the big question is you know that transitional council which is that of presenting that liberal will be able first to contain the differences you know divisions in its own second whether it is capable to run the country that seems like an excellent of the issues but let's talk about the more specifically first of all where do you think it's. going to do you think you'll fight to the bitter end qaddafi is a very cunning despite to many people and their words describe him as crazy mad. three times in my life he is you know. whether we like it or not he calculates very well we don't know where he is actually hiding it took the need to american fifteen years to find osama bin laden and kill him i don't know how many months how many weeks how many years you know that it will take him to come back

and as far as the mood on the ground goes what do you think will happen when and if the rebels catch him will they kill him or they they talk big about the international criminal court what do you think will happen it depends who is going to cut him if he is captured by. groups there are almost no. he could be sure that the death these presidents or not in libya is obviously particularly because up till now the rebels have really been united by a common hate. how likely now do you think a violent splits in the transitional council i think the problem after that post could be more actually problematic and the problem before or before the removal of could very cheap because there is a huge slick split among. themselves the factions who are participating. there are united by their hatred toward get that for you but if that is if he is

killed i think you know now we will turn against each other and we know that some brigades you know who are fighting with their bills. buddy extremist muslim groups . we wouldn't fight with the secular and the same time even belief to talk to those . secure those or to those actually liberals be considered. part of there was some conspiracy so maybe those people will turn against each other but also we knew that you know the majority of the people who are fighting muslim extremists or actually you know people who believe that they should slip mixtape and so how that the two is going to deal with those people after the mobile of chemical are they going to legitimize them considers them illegitimate illegitimate after but part on the future libya so there are huge question marks here personally i

believe the post would be more problematic than that. david cameron has been talking about sending british troops to libya as a peacekeeping force but will that be enough to keep a lid on what is potentially a nation at war if david cameron sent. army. personnel on the banner of keeping peace in post gadhafi era this will be seen in libya and also in the arab world as a foreign intervention exactly like what happened in afghanistan this takes massive out there now nato and the u.k. specifically is talking about democracy that is owned by the libyan people how realistic do you think that is talking about democracy is very easy option actually practicing democracy. it is a very complicated process democracy cannot actually parachuted in with people in

the war in iraq war in afghanistan democracy is a culture it is a process first you have to start this process in a country like libya you know for the last forty two years never had the you know multi-party system been never had the parliament been never had a situation as democratic institutions or any institutions do you think the rebels basically sold off the oil when they accepted western military support there finitely the need to bombardment played a major role in the success that it took most of the cities of libya to advance toward tripoli so. presumably there was a deal struck between that i believe be unbearable that need to put it in france in particular it is not. a free service you know definitely there is something behind that. i suspect the need to would like to have military bases in

libya i suspect that you know british and french company is looking for exploration contacts abdel-bari atwan thank you very much. well to british soil. the time to go to the front. garden. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with much stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines. is a report. card

on the says it all see a quick check of the headlines. to us the bond engine failure causes russia's on month condo space called progress to question the remote interest that you know that was felt one hundred kilometers away. the head of leave is rebel government to meet with european leaders to pull these countries all of the trends and while nato rushes to provide stockpiles of chemical weapons falling into the wrong. and north korea is ready to hold nuclear tests at six party talks are resumed so says the countries and he said leadership on a rag trade. as the headlines up next it's our special report and it looks at life in the form was soviet republic of to decus on a central asia twenty years after the collapse of the u.s.s.r. .