this is. a search and the recovery operation is underway in siberia for an unmanned space to resupply but never reach the international space station. the russian space agency set for a major overhaul following the latest in a string of launch failures join me in a few moments for all the latest. italy is set to transfer millions of frozen and libyan assets to the rebel government even as russia argues the new leadership has yet to prove its legitimacy. to western states call for tougher sanctions against the syrian regime journalists on the ground say it's a footage used as evidence of the government crackdown is hard to verify. it.

worldwide news live from moscow this is r.t. with me recently showing an unmanned space resupply vehicle lost in the skies on thursday could have completely burned up in the atmosphere that's according to russian space officials that would mean no wreckage made it to earth but a thorough search and recovery operation is underway in syria siberia anyway fears that some toxic materials may have come down there. for the latest on this story. what are we hearing about the damage caused by this disaster. well what we're hearing happened was around five minutes into the mission one of the booster rockets on the carrying this the progress unmanned space refueling module up to the

international space station was a misfire on dr resulting in the whole rocket breaking into pieces and making its way down to earth well as you mentioned in the introduction there there is a very good chance the scientists are believing that the fact that it was already in the earth's atmosphere means that it's much of the paper if not all of it could have been in the optimists fear no among that they're breathing we're hearing that was around a ton and a half of potentially toxic fuel on board the progress module that may have been completely destroyed in the atmosphere scientists have been had the whole area around where they step three could have fallen in some siberia cordoned off they've been taking samples of the the soil of the water preliminary experiments have shown that there's no contamination there just yet but they will be they will have to wait until maybe perhaps tomorrow before we will see a full of valuation to get the all clear to say that that no contaminants made it

into into into the up. i made it back towards earth now for a little bit more on what happens with this crash we can now hear from my colleague sean thomas. and what we know is that stage three fails to ignite which is the stage that propels it further into space stages one into both ignite at the same time at the actual time of launch but then there are sensors they communicate with the third stage of the rocket which you can see here and it's that third stage which propels the progress craft up out of the earth's atmosphere so that it can then be in orbit and then synchronize with the international space station talking about the international space station itself it is a very large station in fact if you spread it out over a football field an american football field including the end zones it's a pretty big place in livable space there's it's about the size of

a five bedroom house and has two bathrooms and it is comprised of sixteen different pressurized modules which they've been putting together over the past few years now it's relatively old in terms of space the first zaria model was launched in one nine hundred ninety eight but it has been continuously inhabited it for about eleven years in fact in november it will reach its eleven year anniversary there's a crew of six on board right now and what this progress model was about ready to deliver was food oxygen supplies as well as personal items and hygiene items for that crew of six which are on board right now another function that this progress module was to do was to help boost the space station into a specific orbit there are about six hundred times a year that the space station has to maneuver whether to avoid space debris or if it has to actually adjust its orbit in certain ways so that it can keep from falling out of the sky and this progress rocket has the engines and the fuel to help the space station do that so in terms of what does this mean for the

international space station and the crew onboard. we should note that there is no routine to space flight there is always an inherent danger but there is no immediate threat to the crew on board right now because they have enough supplies right now we are told that they have about three months of regular supplies left as well as pay an additional emergency thirty day supply of food and water and the necessary items for every crewmember on board. so i think peter some a fascinating insight there. tough nine months for the space program hasn't it i mean no this is not the only space launch fairly recently as. well this is the fourth incident like this that we've seen concerning space launches in the past nine months now the first the first one of those in december saw three. global positioning satellites plunge into the pacific ocean in february of this

year a military satellite was lost all contact with and's on the eighteenth of august just last week launching from the same baikonur cosmodrome another satellite was lost so this is the fourth in the space of of nine months as i say and now this is probably the prosecutor's office to launch an investigation into what's been going on and what caused this to happen now president dmitri medvedev has previously said that he wants to see a i'm old nice ation all that the russian space program to try and bring it up to the cutting edge where it should be after remember russia now the only the only organization the only organization that can bring human beings to and from the international space station following the this continuance of the nasa shuttle program so an incredibly important job that's on their hands and one that they can't be any margin of error for now despite these the setbacks that have had

occurred with spacecraft in previous months and recent months most have said that they are fully committed to to the supply train that they signed up for and it said that they can continue to supply everything that they said they could supply to the international space station as we know the astronauts on the ice are still have a good three months before they get dangerously low on their supply so some time to help them perrin's. thank you. a little ahead for you this hour here on r.t. a major coup for russian football a north caucuses football club put itself on the sporting back by signing a new superstar striker and breaking the bank in the process all the details shortly here on out. you with r.t. now italy is hosting the leader of libya's opposition to discuss a future energy contracts and even though the rebel council is yet to prove its

legitimacy prime minister silvio berlusconi has promised to transfer millions of dollars in frozen caviar across seven hours or sarah ferguson monitoring the milan meeting for a sara hello to you are italy is libya's largest economic partner what do these millions mean to the rebels. well this is huge amounts of money is exactly what the libyan rebel council would have been hoping for when they came to this meeting stay in line with members of the italian government that's been going on this afternoon in this building behind me and gender really was going to be discussing this money becoming unfrozen and also. a lot of vested interest in trying to gauge whether previous very lucrative contracts that italy has with libya will be honored by the new transitional council. to going on stand we've had the latest amount of announcements from prime minister berlusconi they say half a billion dollars in frozen assets expected to be released in

a slave i know the big question mark actually remains aver. that money belongs to a lot of analysts i've been speaking to the past couple of days is that it's very hard to gauge libya's got a lot of business dealings in italy and it's very unclear exactly which many libyan money and exactly which money belongs to the family there's a question mark even that but. no stranger to raising libyan leaders you cast your mind back to the pictures we saw in two thousand and nine when colonel gadhafi visited it. any leaning down to kiss his hand it was an extremely quick turn around the palace gates and for him they very quickly switched sides to stick with the rebels was it quick enough because the question now a lot of people want to know is whether the libyan rebels are going to be arguing these extremely lucrative contracts that it's really how did libya this is signed and they get at the regime a lot of people are saying that they will see and the libyans as you see in the

libyan rebel council do have a vested interest in this also is a mutually beneficial situation because as we think they've come here it's clear wanting to find out about these oil and energy contracts and libya getting a huge amount of money noun phrases for the. russians be critical of the rush by. the opposition as libya's legitimate leadership what's moscow saying rather latest moves. from the russian foreign ministry today now they said any case will settle and should be happily under the supervision of the un we've had an announcement that there's going to be a meeting taking place in september a controlled way the natick whole issue of russia's not being invited to go out and they say essentially what's happening with them is in the future of libya being handed over to very small indeed and that's certainly going to be a concern a russia doesn't actually recognize the national transitional council yet they're

saying they're waiting until there's legitimate reasons to recognize it as the governing body because legitimately control of the future of libya and have a government there and that's what a lot of people have been saying from the ground in libya we've had the rebel groups in the south as we've seen over the last week with some of the events very disorganized groups amongst the rebels themselves very different factions and just fight events he's seen recently in tripoli it's really worth remembering that libya remains a country in conflict or a huge amount of the critics he's speaking to said they're very quick to point out that i was going on this is very public meetings with western leaders and the head of the national transitional council the libyan people are still paring their dead and there are made a big question mark over whether the nato missions just because of humanitarian reasons really stands up to scrutiny now but what you're probably going to see over the coming weeks is that as this is the tension of the libyan. the european majors

they could be fierce competition a banks not only the companies themselves but of course the governments who support the and that's been something that we've been talking about i've been looking at meeting him about that. kill to the heart of most modern wars and you'll strike oil whether or not that sayings true when it comes to libya well it's going to play a pivotal role in the country's future here we have to feel restricted to be. divorced from interest to check each one. to rebel to one where you. live in government interest and we start sharing all of it's possible the stranger to the concepts of friends with benefits berlusconi has been quick to k.z. up to the new transitional council inviting the public face of the great but major brill to italy for talks was it that these closest european allies when the native bombing campaign began back in april police switch sides and began causing the

rebels. the full the wall almost a third of its least daily energy needs were imported from libya and oil any was the largest port operator in the country because many here have been doing all they can to safeguard these contracts but if they will be able to maintain these previously close business ties is by no means a given in a post in libya the futility 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 a struggle to adequately understand the internal workings of the rebels themselves . amongst the crowd goes there are many factions islamists commission people al-qaeda if. your sick and many of these groups of rebels are former politicians that before were with gadhafi and we completely changed our face we went with the

wind as they say i need to leave i think they're corrupt politicians. they've all know it could be personally on a number of occasions three business connections that's a month ago she returned from the. fact finding trip to libya with a handwritten letter she says was written by the two palace gain a 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 cittie he's referring to he was trying to keep the months before the libyan uprising. why did you join our enemies or that any diplomatic dialogue or investigation police gainey now seems to be making the friends it was maybe the final shot to take the tapi many complex will continue i would dare to see young people start. to choose among the rebels there is no such.

instances no consensus call for me to be having trouble. getting to know actual person to talk to. the. foreign media now is still a along with many in the west could well find that previous lucrative relations may turn out to be just the speckle of the rainfall the friendships. the. tarnower staying with the story you're an author and our talk through life through political commentary newspaper i believe it does make thank you for joining us today so the rebels have their hands not over half a billion of cadavers assets what are they going to spend this money on and who's monitoring the way they use this money. well there are certain question that remains unanswered perforce here a billion movements in this growth of very different sections some tribally orient the older religiously oriented and they stand united sort of moments against the

cult of eminent seventy but what will happen once the enemy is gone and that remains the question but if you're saying a tribal of right all factions are united for now but who knows what the future will hold on hold after they get rid of arkadelphia one question many are asking is how trustworthy are the rebels because the west even know who they're dealing with . well they have several contacts of course with the leaders of the of all worlds and as army to sort of fears explained at the time we are seeing the right words they are saying we want more democracy we want legitimacy for the movement we won't the jewish story call it the will of everything that sounds group or worse. is they are saying for the moment we're pushing this will they also do it certainly sounds good to the west and is considering the west are the ones that are actually funneling all this money to the rebels are they just perhaps trying to appease those who have all the power that by the time checks now by nato is helping the opposition to find kidnapping but wasn't that their mission originally the

humanitarian mission u.n. one might have been free all about protecting civilians are libyans still in danger from conducting forces of this point. i don't think so interlaced in the scene we are in the end game or all of this conflict so we'll stay permanently over here till there's absolutely perfect sure absolutely sure that there is no longer a danger for good are he her troops brought one is that this finished we already have promised to support for military action. or find themselves who were supportive of the democratic perversion of libya so also all that this also remains to be seen now we've heard from a number of sources now analysts professionals in the region but one could have used opposing this new transitional government comes into place it's going to be an imminent civil war why what do you think could mean rebel rule for the future what does that mean for the country. well again there i can't predict the future the

fact that they are so the first in so many factions that doesn't put anything good sort of future i think you're listening to people believe that if they're imposed a walk received by a strike that they will have to come down to the ground the they will have to. guide through this process towards more democracy that they will have to have elections of a very near future because that's the only way that the new government can opening the formal logic of the city. or it's a little content out there morgan newspaper even that many many thanks indeed. the u.s. and e.u. are pushing for more sanctions against syria's government with embargo on oil sales likely by the end of the week russia and china oppose the move but of call for an end to violence and for damascus to start social reforms over two thousand people are believed to have been killed in syria since march because r.t. is maria maria rather for national reports of what's really going on there it's

hard to verify. but again. 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 a larger than killings an execution is supposedly at the hands of president our sense military food and cell phones have become a trademark of the regime syrian officials though insist the scenes a staged the you tube is not credible and eye witness account is not credible after we come around and shout help they're killing us next door. these are not credible ways to assess the situation the un has condemned over the violence against his people for damascus emphasizes from a far until recently no u.n. mission has crossed the syrian border how as a correspondent with saudi arabia based at rb international news channel in syria he says the company should claim itself because this image the goodwill and my

thinking it may ban foreign journalists and fact finding missions from coming in and they don't allow us to work they cannot just take a camera angle filming even here in damascus and you should and i would never wait till the government made a statement every ten million reporters in the country everyone has a phone why should they wait for the like an abscessed or information many people have used their cell phones to film what's been happening and to share it with the rest of the world. i think is what again censorship is a double edged sword while mobile video and give anyone a voice 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 martin 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 be on screen hiding the truth about himself it's tries to reveal the truth of another

kind. of. information about what's going on. there are some armed forces on the ground that are going to believe you well. that's good for start from killing. unarmed. civilians and. broached the regime freedom. wasn't afraid of being thrown in jail has been there three times already. his afraid of being killed or friends in the room where. this person was for many years was the only one who was very. particular growth of and those are very peripheral syrian state t.v. brings their evidence to support their leader. would be cheerful mother crying over her boy apparently bit this is what it was and holmes

but here it is simply cheer indeed it was made in the right in the person name so you can then assert the just way one of the most oppressive regimes in the world food and of the press has never been serious strong point because this is all we ask all we ask is for the truth to come out for both 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 rights to the western world to grab any story and put it as true but that doesn't move to be in london with his goals and this conflict the press is not just of our coverage it's a war and as in every war they go so we reflection our team damascus syria and our twenty two minutes past the hour here in moscow marinas here just

a moment with the business but for now a superstar football striker is coming to russia to join the country's north caucasus club. samuel eto'o a cameroon native and a four time african player of the year has agreed to a reported salary of ten million euros per season as a rival is a massive coup for russia's premier league put firmly on the map as a one of the world's most ambitious clubs medina conover history tells. the latest news coming from of the angy football club is really capturing the imagination of the world of football and it really seems that we are witnessing a 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. has been completed and the negotiations took more than a week but on wednesday signed a contract and became an. player the cameroon international under one for magical

examination and will start training with his a new team today of the space of a few months the dentist any football club has made headlines all across the world by going 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 a russian a football player you these are 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. headlines and sports are not for a for no it's a business with very. hello and welcome to business here we start with gold this hour which has suffered

the biggest drop since late two thousand and eight and that was after getting a record peak of nineteen hundred dollars earlier this week but precious metal has lost some sign as the complex exchange rates trading margins by the most in over two and a half years and that was the core volatility but cotton from of walker gold says lucent super hundred dollars in forty eight 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 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 here is 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 old growth. cycle look at the latest figures we can see now about

gold has slumped to seventeen hundred thirty dollars per ounce losing about one and a half percent that's after dropping about five percent yesterday let's take a look at the oil prices they are higher underpinned by the crisis in oil rich libya investors are looking ahead to the speech off the head of the federal reserve on friday and all eyes are now on whether ben bernanke he will announce another round of money princeton surprise aggressive call me. over in europe shares are trading in positive territory the footsie is gaining just a notch all the dax is adding point seven percent at this hour and here in moscow after dropping slightly in the first minutes of thursday's trade the r.t.s. and the my sax are both gaining but the gains are not significant quite yet so let's take a look at some of the individual share moves on the my sex banking stocks are among the main gainers this hour with. signs meanwhile mine in firm polymath all is in

the right on the gold and another rattle miner and pay is so supported by strong second quarter results the company has boosted its net profit by fifty percent reaching five hundred eighty seven million dollars. given the current market uncertainty you could profit from troika dialog says big cap stocks are the best specs and the shorts are. my recommendation for short term each to be very liquid stocks so we can see. ten fifteen percent just during one week just during one in a few days doing so in 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 it's a more fundamental story and growth stories like consumer safety in russia and maybe even some stocks in also to russia like to include b.p. i think that's also be can be the case. that's five retail group rushes leavin

supermarket chain by sales has posed that second quarter and that profits of seventy three million dollars that's almost two hundred percent more than the same period last year but slightly below analysts forecasts and that's all business news for now for more stories you can that's our web sites are to dot com slash but in the meantime states in for the headlines with henri.

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