i very well welcome to you this is r.t. live from moscow emergency crews are searching forests in southern siberia for potentially toxic wreckage from the unmanned russian space ship that crashed on wednesday the progress vessel was ferrying food and fuel to the international space station when it fell back down to earth for the first time in its thirty year history let's get a live picture all of us standing by live and he did talk to us just how toxic is the wreckage how dangerous could it be for locals. well what we're hearing from the russian space agency. cosmos is that the progress module was carrying one and a half tons of potentially toxic fuel in barrels on board now we are hearing from the local authorities there that they're saying that there was no reports of any any injuries any. on the ground from falling wreckage however they are saying as well though due to the the sheer remoteness of the area of southern siberia where

this took place they they can't account for everybody who may have been there one thing they are saying though is no one no local residents should be going into the woods in search of any of the wreckage nobody should be going out trying to hunt for souvenirs say from this this crash due to the fact that this toxic fuel was being carried on board. the the the recovery mission is well and truly underway now they're going to be wanting to find out what exactly caused this crash to take place now the rocket failed to make the required speed to allow it to break through the earth's atmosphere and end all but breaking into three pieces and crushing down into earth now that there are some theories that suggest that you to the the fact that the rocket had already entered parts of the earth's atmosphere the after the explosion some of these may not have even reached earth that may have been top in the now the the recovery workers and ross cosmos will be looking to try and piece

together what exactly happened because this of course involves the soyuz rockets the only thirty we have at the moment to transport crewmembers from the i.s.a.'s to earth and by now this is after the the retirement of the american space shuttle of course leaving the soyuz is the only way to end to space so it's a really big deal if we wanted to find out exactly what went on and there is information trickling out over us cause most that until they find out what caused the soyuz missions will be grounded. as you were saying one of the main lines of themes from the from the report there is that our russian authorities saying no souvenir searches should be going on looking for bits and pieces on the record but you know as you were saying this was carrying essential supplies to crew members of the international space station how big of a problem is it that now that i'm going to get them. well is going to be a problem there's a quote from mike for n.d. who's the space station program manager associated with not saying that any situation like this is going to affect them however they received

a massive dump of supplies from the last space shuttle mission that went up there should be enough to keep them going for several months if they were in terms of food and other supplies there. there is another supply supply trip was planned for october if that can be brought forward he doesn't see any problems of this taking up the slack caused by this incident however it's when we look at the issue of if the u.s. is going to be grounded that becomes a big issue for the six astronauts currently on board the i.s.a.'s from russia from the united states and japan up there right now now this becomes an issue because if there's no as so use missions taking place going up there then there's no way of bringing back half of the crew there's already one soyuz docked with the i.s.a.'s that can only take three people six true on board of course if they needed to evacuate the international space station for any reason they simply aren't enough seats right now are to and as we understand most of them are for the meantime and

on any immediate danger of running out of supplies of oxygen for that matter but this is not the only spacecraft failure and russian response i mean there's a. cause for concern. yes indeed it's actually the full thing the past nine months in december of last year three glowing us positioning satellites plummeted into the pacific ocean which caused several key figures in roscoe's most to lose their jobs in february of this year a military satellite went offline on the eighteenth of august. just last week a satellite being launched from the same launch pads at the baikonur cosmodrome was also lost so this is the full in the space of nine months however the woods we're hearing coming out of cosmo says that they are still able to fulfill their commitments when it comes to supplying the international space station and as it stands at the moment despite this most recent crash they don't see any problems in completing their mission of continuing to send supplies to the international space

station so a tough year for the space program in the moment one of the magic only things can look up from here on out of that thank you. but there's been no official comment yet on whether russian space agency would consider putting the soyuz a space program on hold following the latest but many experts believe a serious investigation should be completed before the project can be continue there's no use a rocket carrying the crew is slightly different but not not that much different than the one that was to progress they're going to want to make sure that anything that is similar they could go on that one you know won't happen they want to make sure that say it's a fly so they're probably hold off until they're sure for that for that launch itself i think there's a general perception that these types of space launches are routine overtime they happen all of every every week or so every month but just now in the last week month not just a russian rockets

a chinese rocket killed last week as well that's three rockets in seven days. it's a tough business and it's unforgiving. you without a life in moscow and still ahead of us our security breakthrough north korea says it's ready to return to the six party negotiations table as leader kim jong il says he'll consider a moratorium on nuclear testing. and nice work if you can get it football superstar samuel eto'o signs a deal with russia's ambitious and. final the eye watering some he's going to be getting. wanted dead or alive a reward for almost two million dollars has been offered to any regime loyalists who delivers colonel qadhafi to the rebels is also reportedly been promised safe passage out of the country if he renounces his leadership could have his whereabouts still a mystery the rebels think he is in or around tripoli the opposition claims to be in control of most of the capital but there are still reports of resistance by

could be loyalists and while the battle continues the carve up of libya's vast oil riches is already in full swing italian prime minister silvio berlusconi is hosting the libyan rebel leader about now with the two countries energy contracts are expected to be the focus of discussions. reports now on western powers lining up for a piece of the pile. till to the house of mace modern walls and you'll strike oil whether or not that's sayings churi when it comes to libya well it's going to play a pivotal role in the countries here we have to fear restrung interests that means . western interests to attack it just want. also to rebel to any way future libyan government interests to restart selling oil this was a stranger to the concept of friends with benefit of being quick to casey out to the new transitional council inviting the public face of the group that need

djibril to italy it's a little. doubt these places do it here. an ally when the nato bombing campaign began back in april when the properly switch sides began courting the rebels in full the war almost a third of its least daily energy needs were imported from libya an oil giant any was the largest foreign operator in the country because many here have been doing all they can to safeguard these contracts but the if they will be able to maintain these previously close business cards is by no means a given in a post gadhafi libya the future looks extremely uncertain and there are little guarantee one of the biggest problems italy and other western countries since the beginning of the war has been the struggle to adequately understand the internal workings of the rebels themselves. among the rebels there are many factions in the midst tunisian people. and many chiefs of these groups of rebels not from

the politicians that before were with gadhafi and then they completely changed their face they went with the wind as they say and you to me i think that corrupt politician to. evolve the personally on a number of occasions three business connections less than a month ago a sure turn from a fact finding trip to libya with a handwritten letter she says was written by gadhafi to berlusconi in it he allegedly says he was surprised by your decision to join the coalition against libya especially after we signed the friendship and cooperation treaty between our two sides the treaty he's referring to he was time just two months before the libyan uprising the letter goes on to ask why did you join our enemies or that any diplomatic dialogue or investigation berlusconi now seems t.v. is the making the friends the walls that may be the final chapter the death the

many fear the conflict will continue i would dare to see this done if you talk. which is among the rebels in the region. now it's a tense is no consensus alternately an internal. meeting. actually the person to talk to. will be. preparing for a. year now is to lay low with many in the way it will find previous lucrative relations may turn out to be just the way in full the. third. and there's not taking a back seat after helping the rebels advance into tripoli but admits it's assisting in the hunt for colonel gadhafi u.s. government adviser on terrorism dr while he thought it says that could as he could still mount a massive counter offensive while the rebels still face some stunt tests khadafi has many supporters in his birthplace and many supporters in the south if gadhafi

has left the tripoli area up to the south he could well unleash a new insurgency so his regime will go but it would become the new rebels in the current rebels now will become the new regime so we are still far away from a complete stable libya number one is to form quickly a new unit or multiple 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 you have weapons of mass destruction or nonconventional weapons that are across libya and that has to be secured so 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. meanwhile one of america's best known senators believes it's russia that could be next in line for a libya style uprising former republican presidential candidate john mccain has

lashed out at moscow on the american c.b.s. news channel saying the spirit of the arab spring is due to spread and could also reached china he's gone a church can has more from washington. senator mccain has got a very far far fetched that's for sure he's sure 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 said libya has already achieved a 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 levy the people and many libyans are outraged by the fact that foreign powers of essentially made those choices for them and looking back at it egyptians who don't seem to have achieved what they were 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 in the fire of our placings should move on to other countries first stop syria according to the

senator right after could alfy he said it's bashar assad is next to a fault but too many mccain's statements are not surprising really because he's 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 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 it's 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 poll showed 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 following

mccain's logic though does that mean that americans too would have to take to the streets and rebel and group alt not clear really someone someone had to ask him that question. because there's a lot of discontent in mccain's home country but to senator mccain obviously you know hell is other people as one wise french writer said. he's going to write that for us now and are some e.u. countries are calling for an arms embargo and wider sanctions to be imposed against syria following the crackdown but russia and china are opposed to the plan with moscow saying countries should be encouraging dialogue in syria not punishing it with reports from the country it's hard to verify it the way it's perceived from the outside is decidedly one sided as autism or if national reports began around four o'clock in the morning this is how the world has been watching the unrest in syria through mobile phone cameras and to footage from the war stricken country has flooded international news or rather blooded killings and executions supposedly at

the hands of president arsons military filmed on cell phones have become a trademark of the regime syrian officials though insists the scenes a staged the you tube is not credible and eye witness account is not credible after we come on now and shout help they're killing us next door. these are not credible ways to assess a situation the u.n. has condemned over the violence against his people the damascus emphasizes from a far until recently no u.n. mission has crossed the syrian border hyundai's a correspondent with saudi arabia based at rb international news channel in syria he says the government is a claim itself for the country's image and the real in my thinking it is a banned foreign journalists and the fact finding missions from coming in and they don't allow us to work they cannot just take a camera and go filming even here in the mask and you should and i would never wait till the government made

a statement there are ten million reporters in the country everyone has a phone why should they wait with the lack of access to information many people have used their cell phones to feel what's been happening and to share it with the rest of the world. but this is what going against censorship is a double edge sword while mobile video can give anyone and perhaps help save lives it can just as well be used to transform the truth and that could come at the cost of people's lives. not his real name is the man behind the camera is a freelance journalist currently working for a western media outlet he cannot tell more and he doesn't want his face to play on screen hide in the truth about himself it's wise to reveal the truth of another kind. for mention about what's going on. there are some armed forces on the ground that are going to believe.

that your forces are killing. unarmed. civilians and. pursuing freedom i am muslim isn't afraid of being thrown in jail has been there three times already. his afraid of being killed or friends in the room where you go. during the process because he was filming it was the only one who was sorry. but you have brought this as a result of were arrested syrian state t.v. brings their evidence to support their leader. better. be cheerful mother crying over her body apparently dead they said that was in the homes but here it is same picture indeed that was made in the iraq in two thousand and nine they condemn the surge but they just play one of the most oppressive regimes in the world freedom of the past has never been serious strongpoint because

this is all we ask all we are is for the truth to come out the birth sides of the story to be told not just one side all the time the fact that not as many foreign journalists are allowed in. the western world once does not give the right to the western world to grab any story and put it as true but that doesn't look to be among them it is goals and this conflict the press is not just about coverage it's a war and as in every war they go is to win refuse to damascus syria. now and then twenty minutes past the hour here in the russian capital do you remember missed anything we're compering here on r t just on our website or dot com it's a taste of what else you'll find a lot of yourself right now iran of files a lawsuit against russia in the international court of moscow's refusal to supply

its s three hundred defense missiles to terror on. tuesday's unlikely earthquake in the u.s. two nuclear reactors offline outside of washington d.c. could have been caused by a controversial mining method known as fracking all the details at home. north korea's reclusive leader kim jong il who rarely ventures outside the country is heading back home after talks with president medvedev finned russia's republic of. says it's ready to return to six party talks on its nuclear program without preconditions. the man from the national campaign to end the korean war believes it's south korea and its ally the u.s. who aren't really willing to negotiate. there's 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 lowered 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 that will necessarily see it they're talking about the precondition wait you must stop production on a certain date before the talks not on the day of the talks those types of arguments seem to imply that someone doesn't want to speak we have more than twenty eight thousand troops stationed in south korea and close to one hundred bases and posts in a tiny country is this really to defend against the north no i would contend that it's relates to china and the desire by the united states to maintain its military presence in korea. all right now you without

a lot from moscow let's go to some other international news for you this hour steve jobs founder of the electronics giant apple has resigned its c.e.o. following health problems we replaced by chief operating officer tim cook jobs who underwent a liver transplant after suffering from pancreatic cancer said he could no longer handle his duties fifty five year old has been on a medical leave for an undisclosed condition since mid january. the former bosnian serb military commander about to return to the international tribunal for the former yugoslavia in the hague later on thursday night it was accused of responsibility for the killing of almost eight thousand bosnian muslim men and boys at seventy in one thousand nine hundred five it comes a day after goran the. leader of rebels in croatia pleaded not guilty to crimes against humanity at the court. therefore time african player of the year some will eat her has been agreed now to a deal with the russian team. for

a record salary of thirty million dollars a year and the arrival of the superstar striker is a massive coup for russia's premier league and puts are firmly on the map was that one of the world's most ambitious clubs artie's medina question of a has more. the latest news coming from of the football club is really capturing the imagination of the world of football and it really seems that we are witnessing possibly a new dream team gathering on the russian soil as we can now officially say that a long awaited transfer of the interim millon striker atto has been completed and the negotiations took more than a week but on wednesday so signed a contract and became an. player the cameron international under one's magical examination and will start training with his a new team today meanwhile of this move makes him the highest paid football player in the world as will pay over thirty million dollars pay yeah and in the three

years contract he will receive over nineteen million dollars last alone when an goal bonuses in the space of a few months the dentist any football club has made had lies all across the world by buying leading international football players the team has already legendary brazilian roberto carlos the team has already signed a contract where the silver and also a famous russian a football player you do sort of course meanwhile all that happened after the new football club was bought by a locally born and businessman and also one of the richest men in russia. and now he's spending millions of dollars in a bid to make this club which is situated here in russia's north caucasus known all across the world. the rights of all the prisoners with you earlier here on alt.

thanks farai that's right time for a business update hello and a very warm welcome to start with the price for gold the yellow metal has suffered the biggest drop since late two thousand and eight off to hitting a record peak of one thousand nine hundred dollars earlier this week the precious metal lost some shine as the comics exchange rays trading margins by the most in over two and a half years to curb volatility but to mccutcheon from gold says losing two hundred dollars in twenty four hours doesn't mean the fundamentals have changed. people have to realize that you know prices of any assets they go up they go down because things don't go up and up forever and that includes gold we've had a huge rally in the gold price in the past week and so it's only natural that there's some correction. so clearly i think what you're seeing is just the trading activity the noise as you call it in the market but the fundamental case for gold hasn't changed at all in the past couple days and so i think we're going to see continuation of what we've seen for the past ten years which is the ever increasing gold price. but so have a look at the price of the black gold oil prices

a high underpinned by the crisis in oil which may be investors all looking ahead to the speech to the head of the first reserve on friday and all eyes are now on whether ben bernanke will and also another round of money meeting to prop up the u.s. economy. and as you've heard gold has slumped to one thousand seven hundred fourteen dollars per ounce losing about two and a half percent that's after hitting another record of one thousand two hundred dollars out of the so called members down to profit taking on top of new measures in the u.s. to try to bolster its for corporate. shares in europe a mixed into it sees down just marginally out of the debts is up point seven percent as you can see from the crop finally here in moscow off to dropping slightly in early trades in the r.t.s. and the my six up both gaining. a hot percent and the my sense is actually flat to positive let's now have a look at some of the individual share moves here banking stocks saw among the main

gate is the solid up almost one percent meanwhile look no surprise mining from palmetto is in the red that's on we could gold and another metal mine and katie is also down despite the strong second before it starts the company has boosted its net profit by fifty percent reaching five hundred eighty seven billion dollars. well given the current market uncertainty eager for high from troika dollars says my cap stock saw the best but short term. my recommendation for short term each to be very liquid stocks so we can see moving to about ten fifteen percent just during one we just during. a few days during short term we definitely should be in liquid stocks but at some point when the volatility in the markets will go down you should look to move from the mental stores and growth stories like consumer sector in russia maybe even some stocks in oil sector russia. i think that's also big going

to be the case. fund and some of the news russian foreign direct investment almost tripled in the first half of the year around eighty eight billion dollars have crossed the border with manufacturers and financial industry receives the most competent meanwhile around eighty two billion dollars have fled the country making russia's net foreign direct investment about six billion dollars. and finally russia's restive north caucasus region could be about to set up its own silicon valley the blueprint suggested by local authorities involves establishing a high tech help making silicon parts for solar power systems while it's focused that the one billion dollar project could break even in two to seven years but the cost split between investors and the state officials say a silicon valley in the region would help attract investment and develop alternative energy sources the project still needs to be approved by the russian government. ok that's all we have time for now yorkshire data and more business

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three thirty in the afternoon here in the russian capital he would take the headlines. after launch emergency crews are searching for the unmanned russian space freighter which crashed on wednesday in siberia the soyuz rocket was ferrying food and fuel to the international space station when it fell. rebels in libya promise of two million dollars for colonel gadhafi dead or alive that's what western nations waste no time in jostling for a slice of the country's oil. the u.s. the e.u. are pushing for more sanctions against syria after the crackdown there against protesters meanwhile journalists on the ground say there's a lack of objective coverage coming out of the country why would those are the headlines here and to stay with us no weapons.