live from moscow this is r.t. with me roll recent shame an unmanned space resupply vehicle lost in the skies on thursday could have completely burned up in the atmosphere 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 amid fears that some toxic materials may have come down the life out. for the latest on the following story hello to you so 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 they say the progress unmanned space refueling module up to the international space station was a misfire 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 and scientists are believing that the fact that it was already in the earth's atmosphere means that much of the day every if not all of this could have burnt up in the optimists fear now among not deborah we're hearing that was around a ton and a half of potentially toxic fuel on board the progress module that may of been completely destroyed in the atmosphere scientists have been hot the whole area around where this deadly could have fallen in southern 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 evaluation to get the all clear to say that that no contaminants made it into into into the atmosphere and made it back towards earth now for a little bit more on what happened with this crash. we can now hear from my

colleague sean thomas. what we know is that the stage three failed to ignite which is the stage that propels it further into space stages one into both you can ignite at the same time at the actual time of launch but then there are sensors that 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 zarya module was launched in one

nine hundred ninety eight but it has been continuously inhabited and 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 module 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 on board we should note that there is no routine to space flight there's always an inherent. 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 an additional emergency thirty day supply of food and water and the necessary items for every crewmember on board. so fascinating inside there. has been a tough nine months for this program house and i know 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 glowing. global positioning satellites plunge into the pacific ocean in february of this year a military satellite was lost all contact with and 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 prompted the prosecutor's office to 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 multi nice ation of 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 discontinuance 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 occurred with unmanned spacecraft in previous months and recent months have said that they are fully committed to to the supply train that they signed up for and that said

that they can continue to supply everything that they said they could supply to the international space station. still have a good three months before they get dangerously low on time to help them up there and. i thank you. i have three of us our here on r.t. a major. coup for russian football the north caucuses football club put itself on the sporting bat by signing a new superstar striker and breaking the bank in the process all the details shortly here on out. you without see now italy is hosting the leader of libya's opposition to discuss 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 khadafi out let's cross over now to sarah ferguson monitoring the

meeting for us sarah hello to you are italy is libya's largest economic partner what do these millions mean to the rebels. well it's a huge amount of money is exactly what the libyan rebel council would have been hoping for when they came to this meeting today with members of the italian government that's been going on this afternoon in this building behind me and top of the agenda really was going to be discussing this money becoming frozen and also from the italian side there's 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 now the means to going on today we've had the latest amount announcement from prime minister berlusconi say half a billion dollars in frozen assets expected to be released from israeli i know a big question mark actually remains aver exactly who that money belongs to a lot of analysts i've been speaking to the past couple of data set is very hard to gauge libya's got a lot of business dealings here in italy and it's very unclear exactly which many

libyan money and exactly which money belongs to you think it does the family there's a question mark over that but the palace going no stranger to meeting libyan leaders you cast your mind back to the pictures we saw in two thousand and nine when colonel gadhafi visited berlusconi leaning down to kiss his hand it was an extremely quick turnaround berlusconi and for him they very quickly switched sides to support 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 honoring these extremely lucrative contracts that italy had libya those was signed under the gadhafi regime a lot of people are saying that they will want to 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've seen they've come here wanting to find out about these oil and energy contracts and libya getting a huge amount of money now and frozen for the. rush of critical of the rush by some

studies to recognize the opposition. libya's leader should tell us what moscow saying rather latest moves. with the russian foreign ministry today now they said that any. war settlement should be happening exclusively under the supervision of the un we've had an announcement that there's going to be a meeting taking place in september a control group at the nato coalition russia's not been invited to that and they say essentially what's happening here is testament to the future of libya being handed over to a very small group 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 this as a governing body that can legitimately control 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 that the rebel

groups themselves as we've seen over the last week with some of the events it's a very just organized groups amongst the rebels themselves there are different factions and despite the 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 spoke into said they're very quick to point out that it was true this is going on this is very public meetings with the western leaders and the head of the national transitional council the libyan people are still burying their dead and there remains a big question mark over whether the nato missions justification 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 potentially the libyan of the first open up to 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 certainly been something that we've been talking about i've been looking at in rome you can hear more about that now. filter the heart of most modern wars and you'll strike

oil whether or not. 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 fear a strong and. western interest to the torah. and to rebel to ordinary. common interest to restore sanity morris possible to a stranger to the concept of friends with benefits gagne's being quick to casey up to the new transitional council inviting the public face of the group that made djibril to italy the tool. duffy's closest european allies in the nato a bombing campaign began back in april when the properly switch sides began courting the rebels in full the wall almost a third of italy's daily energy needs were imported from libya an oil giant any was

the largest foreign operator in the country the government had 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 for both 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 tunisian people. it's just organized and chaotic and many of these groups of rebels are from the politicians that before were with gadhafi and then they completely changed their face they went with the wind as they send it to me i think corrupt politicians. they've all met gadhafi personally on a number of occasions three business connections less than

a month ago she returned 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 a decision to join the coalition against libya especially after we signed a friendship and cooperation treaty between the two sides the cittie he's referring to he was talking just two months before the libyan uprising the less we gaze on to ask why did you join our enemies without any to mattick dialogue or investigation fellas gainey now seems to be making the friends the waltz that may be the final chat to take death a many things the conflicts will continue i would dare to see them tell you if you talk to you for the cheese among the rebels there is no such. sense is no consensus helping you to be an internal. meeting whom you actually have a person to talk to. who will be. preparing foreign media now is

silly along with many in the west could well find that previous lucrative relations may turn out to be just as fickle as the rain full of friendships surf city. or in our staying with the story here on our talk to life through political commentator newspaper i believe it does mike thank you for joining us today so the rebels have their hands not want over half a billion dollars assets what are they going to spend this money on and who who's monitoring the way they use this money. well that's a question that remains unanswered of course there are a billion movements. of very different sections some tribally orient the religiously oriented and they stand united for the moment against the call of them and that means but what will happen the ones the enemy is gone that remains the question why as you were saying a tribal of rival factions are united for now but who knows what the future will hold a hold after they get rid of arkadelphia the one question many are asking is how

trustworthy are the rebels does the west even know who they're dealing with. well they have several contacts of course with the leaders of two of them and as our minister of foreign affairs explained at the time the are saying the right words they are saying we want more democracy we won't legitimacy for the movement we won't do a story quote the bandwidth of everything that sounds good to we're still diplomatic is they are saying for the moment the question this will they also do it certainly would sound good to the west that is considering that the west of them are the ones that are actually funneling all this money to the rebels are they just perhaps trying to appease those who have all that the blank checks now nato is helping the opposition to find khadafi but wasn't that their mission regionally the humanitarian mission u.n. one nine seven three all about protecting civilians are libyans still in danger from khadafi forces at this point. i don't think so it's remains to be seen we are

in the end game of this the horse so they will stay permanently over their hill there's absolutely. sure until they're absolutely sure that there is no longer a danger from gadhafi troops but one is that this finished they already have promised to stop the old military action. to go find themselves through the support of that they're more critical version of libya so all that is also remains to be seen now we've heard from a number of sources nationalists in professionals on the region that once gadhafi is to pose in this new transitional government comes into place it's going to be an eminent civil war why what do you think could mean rebel rule for the future what does that mean for the country. well again then i can predict the future but the fact that they are so the first in so many factions that doesn't to take anything good sort of future i think less nato believes it's going to mock received by

a strike that they will have to come down to the ground and they will have to or guide to this process towards more democracy that they will have to have elections in the very near future because that's the only way that the new government can the opening of a form of legitimacy. or rights as a commentator newspaper even me many thanks indeed. for the u.s. and the u.s. 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 being killed in syria since march but as aunties maria maria rather for national reports what's really going on there it's hard to verify. began a long walk walk 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 an executioner supposedly at the hands of president ourselves military filmed on 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 i can become requests 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 but damascus emphasizes from a far until recently no u.n. mission has crossed the syrian border as a correspondent with saudi arabia based at on the international news channel in syria he says the government should claim itself for the country's image and the deal it might like he is a banned foreign journalist in 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 damascus 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 for 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 edged sword while mobile home 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 he's a freelance journalist currently working for a western media outlet he cannot tell more and he doesn't want his face to appear on screen hide in the truth about himself its rise to reveal the truth of another kind. of. information about what's going on. that there are some armed forces on the ground that are purely civilian while.

the good forces are killing. unarmed. civilians and went out to broach the christian freedom. muslim isn't afraid of being thrown in jail has been there three times already. he's 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 thirty. brokers and those are very rich that syrian state t.v. brings their evidence to support their leader. but be cheerful mother crying over her body apparently dead they said that was in the homes but here it is same picture indeed it was made in the right in that there's a line they condemn the surge but they just play. one of the most oppressive

regimes in the world freedom of the press has never been serious strongpoint because this is all we ask all we ask 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 rights 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 wean reflection r.t. damascus syria now or twenty two minutes past the hour here in moscow marina's 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 his arrival is a massive coup for russia's premier league firmly on the map was it one of the world's most ambitious clubs medina caution of a state. 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 of the russian soil as we can now officially say that a long awaited transfer of the interim millon striker atto has been completed the negotiations took more than a week but on wednesday 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 in the space of a few months the dentist any football club has made had lines 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 deserve a call for meanwhile all that happened after the football club was a barge a buy 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. well headlines and sports not for a for a but for no it's the business with murder. hello and welcome to business here on our two we start with gold this hour which has suffered the biggest drop since late two thousand and eight and that was after hitting a record peak of nineteen hundred dollars earlier this week the precious metal has lost some scion as the comics exchange rates trading margins by the most in over

two and a half years and that was the core volatility but mccutcheon from gold says losing two 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 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 gold price. second look at the latest figures we can see now about gold has slumped to seventeen hundred thirty dollars per ounce losing about over 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 the u.s. economy. over in europe shares are trading in positive territory the footsie is gaining just a notch while the dax is adding point seven percent at this hour and here in moscow after a drop and slightly in the first minutes of thursday's trade the r.t.s. and the my sex 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 the sperm bank up over one percent meanwhile mine in firm polymath all is in the right on the gold and the other metal miner and k. is so supported by strong second quarter results the company has boosted its net profit by fifty percent roots in five hundred eighty seven million dollars.

given the current market uncertain c.e.o. from troika dialog says big cap stocks are the best bets in the 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 week just during even a few days time 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 at some more fundamental stories and growth stories like consumer sector in russia maybe even some stocks seen oil sector russia like b.p. i think that's also be going to be the case. that's five retail group rushes leavin supermarket chain by sales has post that second quarter net 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 the business is for

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few jerks covered. looking back you would go with me rory stewart show you a quick summary of the headlines now a search and recovery operation is underway in siberia for an unmanned resupply craft the never reach to the international space station the russian space agency faces a major overhaul after the progress futile broke into pieces just five minutes after launch on wednesday. italy is said to transfer millions of frozen libyan assets to the rebel government even as russia argues the new leadership is yet to prove his legitimacy. western states call for tougher sanctions against the syrian regime journalists on the ground say amateur footage used as evidence of the government crackdown is hard to verify.