in touch with her tell me touch your room it's a good girl international. every green her till into. a search and the recovery operation is underway in siberia for an unmanned space resupply craft that never reached 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. to transfer millions of frozen libyan assets to the rebel government even as russia argues the new leadership has yet to prove its legitimacy and. western states call for tougher sanctions against the syrian regime where journalists on the ground say amateur footage used as evidence of a government crackdown is hard to verify. and superstar striker samuel eto'o arrives

in russia to join the north caucasus club. for a record breaking paycheck. plus in business gold suffers the biggest drop in three years after return and record more business in twenty minutes. it is just after five pm on thursday here in moscow this is with me roll recent shots a major overhaul of the russian space agency has been ordered by prime minister vladimir putin after an unmanned resupply vehicle was lost in the skies on thursday search operation is currently underway i was told the craft may have burned up in the atmosphere however there's still concern that some toxic materials may have come down on a. lot of ports. the problems occurred for this mission around five minutes after

the launch when one of the booster rockets carrying the progress module failed resulted in the whole spacecraft breaking into several pieces and descending towards earth they have cordoned off an area of southern side bierria underneath where this incident took place now that cordoned off area is being tested for any toxic elements that could be there the progress module did have on board around one hundred tons of toxic field now scientists testing the rocks the soil and the water and to limit the results suggest that there's been no contamination on the ground for the astronauts on board the international space station who are waiting for the supplies the progress module was supposed to top them up with fuel and food they still have some supplies on board they haue food and water for around three months they'll be able to russia not out in case of having to go any longer in the worst case scenario and extra so use rockets could be sent up to act as

a second escape pod already one soyuz module attached to the international space station a soyuz module though only seat three people or six people on board it would take that extra module be sent up to be able to evacuate everybody from the space station but that of course is a last resort scenario something that is really being looked into i mean it is a viable option this incident involving this on monday isn't the first in recent times it's in fact the fourth this occurred in the last nine months in december of last year three global positioning satellites that were launched from the russian military plunged into the pacific ocean resulting in several key people several high members of the upper echelons of lost cause most to lose their jobs in february of this year a military satellite went off line and on the eighteenth of august this year just last week. launch from the same launch pads in baikonur another satellite was lost

now a full investigation has been ordered we have heard in the past the president medvedev wants to see the russian space program dated to bring it right up to the modern era the soyuz rocket is the only way we have now of getting crews from the earth to the international space station and back down again not that since the the nasa space shuttle program was scrapped earlier this year leaving the soyuz look at the only lifeline we have between people only i.s.a.'s on the ground we could see the soyuz program temporarily grounded until what caused this problem is discovered now what we are hearing from roscoe's morse though is that they are fully committed to providing every single bit of the supply network which they said they could give to the i.s.a.'s now for more on how this incident occurred and what it means for those on board the international space station we can now hear from my colleague sean thomas. what we know is that stage three failed 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 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 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 in 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 it has two bathrooms and it is comprised of sixteen different pressurized modules which we'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 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 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 in additional emergency thirty day supply of food and water and necessary items for every crew member on board. on thomas right there well with a manned mission to the shuttle to take place in just two weeks' time the progress of launch a fairly has put into question the reliability of the entire space program experts stress the importance of getting to the bottom of the disaster so if a possible loss of life. this all use rocket carrying crew is slightly different but not not that much different than the one that lost the progress they're going to i want to make sure anything that is similar could go wrong on that one you know won't won't happen they want to make sure that they don't apply so there are probably a whole lot of talk that without russia itself i think there's a general perception of these types of launches are routine over time they happen

almost every every week or so every month just now in the last week not not just a russian rocket the chinese rocket built last week as well that's three rocket carriers in seven days. it's a tough business and it's unforgiving. with r.t. it's good to have your company today so ahead for you this hour here major coup for russian of all north caucuses football club put itself on the sporting map by signing a new super star striker and breaking the bank in the process all the details shortly. italy has promised libya's opposition it will transfer over millions of dollars in frozen khadafi assets prime minister silvio berlusconi made a pledge at a meeting with the rebels leader also out for discussion of world lucrative oil contracts for the future and so forth reports from milan. a billion dollars in frozen assets expected to be released from islay. questionable apache remains asia if 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 here in italy and it's very unclear exactly which many libyan money a factory which money belongs to the family a lot of people want to know is whether the libyan rebels are going to be on way these extremely lucrative contracts it's really how did libya days aside and they get that the regime is a mutually beneficial situation because as we seeing they come here it's low wanting to find out about these oil and energy contracts and libya getting a huge amount of money now frozen for them because the russian foreign ministry today now they said any case. should be hotly he simply under the supervision of the u.n. we've heard in announcing that there's going to be a meeting taking place in september control going to donate a coalition russia's not been invited to that and they say essentially what's

happening here is dismissing the future of libya being handed over to very small indeed and that's certainly going to be a concern a russian 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 heard the rebel groups in south as we've seen over the last week with some of the events that is very disorganized people are still carrying their dead and their remains a question of whether the nato missions just because of humanitarian reasons leave discreetly now you're probably going to see a for the coming weeks is that just attention of the libyan going up to the european majors they could be competition the banks not only the companies themselves but of course the government he's too poor and that's been something

that we've been talking about i've been looking at in my 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 restruck interest me. the western interest to tell me just one. or two rebels who are going to track me down the government in trying to restore some english possible the stranger to the concepts of friends with benefits berlusconi's being quick to k.z. up to the new transitional council inviting the public face of the group back in egypt well to italy the talks. these closest european allies in the eighty eight bombing campaign began back in april when the probably switch sides and 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

with the largest foreign 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 is by no means a given. in libya select extremely uncertain and there are little guarantee one of the biggest problems have 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 rebels there are many factions commission people. if. you are sick and many chiefs of these groups of rebels are from a politician's before were with gadhafi and then be completely changed their face they went with the wind as they say i need to i think that corrupt politicians. it will make it personally on a number of occasions three prisoners connections less than

a month ago she returned from a fact finding. it's libya with a handwritten letter she says was written by get. in it he allegedly says he was surprised by your 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 signed just two months before the libyan uprising the letter goes on so why did you join our enemies or any diplomatic dialogue or investigation berlusconi now seems to be making the friends that maybe the final chapter they could be anything to the conflict will continue i would dare to see this stuff people start to feel that she's among the rebels so there is no such. chances no consensus holds and it'll be an internal. meeting. you actually have a person to talk to. will be. with her for

a. year now is silly along with many in the west could well find previous lucrative relations they turned out to be just as they killed the rainfall the friendship. the. torah told our quarter past the hour here in the russian capital you with us here in the us you are pushing for more sanctions against syria's government and an embargo also is likely by the end of the week russia and china oppose the move but have called for an end to violence and for the massacres to start social reforms over two thousand people are believed killed in syria since march result is more a financial reports what's really going on there is hard to verify but began to run for the morning this is how the world has been watching them dressed in syria through mobile phone cameras i want to footage from the war stricken country has flooded international news or rather blog. 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 are staged in you tube is not credible and eye witness account is not credible other because i request around and shout help they're killing us next door. these are not credible ways to assess a situation the u.n. has been downed over the violence against his people but damascus emphasizes from afar until recently no your 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 should blame itself for the country's image and the goodwill and rather than foreign journalists and fact finding missions from coming in and they don't allow us to work can i just take a camera angle 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 for the lack of access to information many people have used their cell phones to film what's been happening and to share it with the rest of the world. but this one against censorship is a double edged sword while mobile video can give anyone a voice and perhaps help save lives it can just as well be used to transform the truth and that's become a 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 i cannot tell more and he doesn't want his face to appear on screen hiding the truth about himself it 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 very civilians while. most of this is that your forces are killing.

unarmed. civilians and. broached the regime 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 bomb. during the process because it was for me it was the only one who was the reason we wrote this and others are very average the syrian state t.v. brings their evidence to support their leader. it was so i believe would be cheerful crayola her body apparently there they said that was in the homes but here at the same picture in the lead in the right person name they can then just play one of the most oppressive regimes in the world to them all the press has never been serious strong point because this is all we are all we are 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 right to the western world to grab any story. and put it as to that there's a little to be monday media's goals in this conflict the press is not just about coverage it's a war as in every war they go to ween raef notion r t the mask is syria. just a few minutes an hour away from the business use with marina but for now the world up here on r.t. is really a military aircraft struck a number of targets in gaza overnight with four deaths confirmed by the palestinian side twenty others were also wounded persuaded to play old cease fire comes after palestinian militants fired over a dozen rockets into israel on wednesday the latest round of violence broke out

last week when gunmen reportedly from garza bush to cars and buses and near and yet leaving eight people. former bosnian serb commander choose to appear in court for a procedural hearing of the international tribunal for the former yugoslavia faces a trial over the alleged killing of almost eight thousand bosnians or seven it's in one thousand nine hundred five hearing comes a day after gordon hydrogen there was i'm leader of the rebel serbs in croatia pleaded not guilty to crimes against humanity. steve jobs the founder of electronics giant apple has stepped down as the company's c.e.o. after a long battle with you on this he'll be replaced by chief operating officer tim cook jobs who fought and survived a rare form of pancreatic cancer returned from medical leave in march the latest version of the i pad he will however stay on at the world's largest technology company as chairman of the port. well

a superstar football striker has arrived in russia to join the north caucasus club and shiva hutch callar some eto'o cameron native and four time african player of the year has agreed to a reported salary of ten million euros per season for all the details now we're joined live by our visa of course well that might be the question about you know the wait is finally over and she's a new superstar as arrived here in russia. indeed the latest news over of the transfer of the interim millon striker sam alito is really capturing the imagination of the world of football according to the latest information sam alito has a right to moscow just several hours ago he underwent a magical examination and signed a contract to become an andrina player on wednesday and many waited for some kind of a commons from his side all on his arrival and during the press conference that he explained why he made such a decision and why he decided to join the club. but

i see it is very good to be here is the most important thing a life is to be happy and i'm happy to be here i'm starting from scratch says of all the trophies possible in europe as a player and he reckons starting new players are played in the protocols before and he told me a lot about russian football and i do look forward to joining the team. also he added that he hopes he will be given a chance to join the team next saturday for tons of fifteen minutes on the field meanwhile of this latest move makes some elite so with the highest paid a footballer in russia will pay overturned a million euros per season let alone win and gold bonuses. the first star. who will be given itto cover. that's right in the wake of the few months of the u. dagestani football club has made headlines all across the world by buying leading

international football stars of the team has already legendary brazilian and the fans out of the carlos as well as receive the silver and famous or russians would blare use of course but meanwhile this all happened when the new football club was bought by the locally boring a businessman and also one of the richest men in russia's three months and now he is there basically spending millions of euros in a bid to make this football clock which is situated here in the russia's morse caucasus known all across the world and sometimes it's really seems that he's possibly gathering some kind of a dream team on the russian soil meanwhile maniacs for his believe that signing an so will bring big dagestani football club into a new level in the international world of football. or world so a brazilian newcomer really you know the russian jews he will have to see how they enjoy the russian winters here in the cultural life of the north caucasus thank you

. i'm going to get more news and videos of the latest updates on our website r.t. dot com here's what's on line for you right now iran launches a legal misdialed against moscow by filing a lawsuit in the international court tehran says the russian rockets it wants don't fall under the u.n. security council resolution. a group of topless and fierce ukrainian activists protest for freedom in the country by tearing up the lawn in front of a government building. a mysterious cabin identical to the famous hut on a chicken leg from a notorious slavic fairytale pit in a forest in latvia locals are puzzled tourists are flocking there.

will be doing a recap our top story short the dots are right after the business news with marina next right here on out. hello and welcome to business here and i see we start with gold of course 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 lost some shine as the climax extends race trading margins by the most in over two and a half years it's a curveball it's a let's see but some mccutcheon from gold says losing two hundred dollars and forty eight hours doesn't mean the fundamentals have to. people have to realize that you know prices of any assets they go up they go down the correct things will 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. i think america has lowered its forecast for russia's annual g.d.p. growth to four percent so not so the slowing global economy during the second quarter the rate of growth in russia fell zero point six percent on the decline in oil price thoughts and analysts believe things will get slightly better and the second half the bank expects an increase in corporate profits to spur investment in the country but the lower unemployment and inflation should support consumption. let's take a look at the latest figures now for precious metals. there they are gold has slumped to seventeen hundred thirty four dollars and seventy five cents dropping almost one and a half percent and that's up to prop up about five percent yesterday. all prices

are hard underpinned by the crisis in the world actually libya investors are looking ahead to this month off the head of the federal reserve on friday and all eyes are now on whether ben bernanke you will announce another round of one place it's a prop out the u.s. economy. let's take a look at what's happening in europe shares their trade the mix this hour the footsie is losing just the north while the dax is that in point two percent this hour. here in moscow stocks have slipped into negative territory after brief gains the r.t.s. is losing point three percent of all my sites is losing half of science. given the current market uncertainty from troika dialog says big cap stocks are the best bet in the shorts were. my recommendation for short term is to be very liquid stocks so we can see. about ten fifteen percent just during one week just during

a few days starting so we definitely should be in liquid stocks but at some point when the volatility in the markets will go down you should look at small fundamental stores and growth stories like consumer certain russia maybe even some stocks seen that also to rush in p.p.p. i think there's also be going to the. next five retail group russ's leave in supermarket chain by sales has passed that second quarter net profits are seventy three million dollars that's almost two hundred more than the same period last year but still slightly below other less forecasts. last well than seem drawn in the north and gas pipeline to the european network in germany is now concludes the direct line from the russian reserves and siberia as more than twelve hundred kilometers in length and goes via the baltic sea the company operating the connection pipeline bring group says it's ready for the gas to flow it expects

conversion in the first off the north since when pipelines to start in the fourth quarter of twenty eleven. that's all the business is for now for more stories head to our web site r.t. dot com slash business in the meantime as the headlines of.

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