the search and 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 day is join me in a few moments for all the latest. rebels claim colonel gadhafi and his sons are trapped in tripoli as italy pledges to transfer a billion dollars over the post libyan leader's assets to his opponents. 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. and superstar striker some mules each one arrives in russia to join in the

north caucasus club color for a record breaking page. a very warm welcome to you live from moscow a major overhaul of russia's space agency has been ordered by prime minister vladimir putin after an unmanned resupply vehicle on its way to the international space station was lost in the skies on thursday a search operation is currently underway for those thought the craft may have burned up in the atmosphere and there's still concern that some toxic materials may have come down to earth control of our 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 siberia 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 half tons of toxic fuel now scientists testing the rocks the soil and the water and collimator 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 talk them up with fuel and food they still have some supplies on board in the worst case scenario and extra so you could be sent up to act as a second to skate board already one soyuz module attached to the international space station so used to although only seats three people or six people on board it would take that extra load through the sensor 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 at the minute as a viable option this incident involving this on months module isn't the first in recent times it's in fact the fourth in the last nine months now a full investigation has been all that we have heard in the past the president medvedev wants to see the russian space program of data 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 since the the nasa space shuttle program was scrapped earlier this year leaving the soyuz rocket the only lifeline we have between people only i.s.a.'s on the ground. we could see the program temporarily grounded until what caused this problem is this now what we are hearing from cosmos though is that they are fully committed to providing every

single piece of supply of the supply network which they said they could give to the i.s.a.'s now they're saying that they can they can come through on everything they promised and that this is just a blip in the road peter all of our reporting right while i still have you this hour here on r t a major coup for russian football a north caucasus football club put itself on the sporting map by signing a new superstar striker and breaking the bank in the process all those details shortly. the libyan rebels say they have surrounded colonel gadhafi in tripoli and the end of his rule is just hours away but as italy promises to transfer millions of dollars of frozen khadafi assets to the libyan leader surface now reports from. half a billion dollars in frozen assets expected to be released from israeli. mossad he

remains a thirty feet long stick a little ballast i think stephen take the past couple of days that is very hard to gauge that is a lot of business dealings in italy and it's very unclear exactly which one is libyan money that he which money belongs to get half the family. a lot of people would die if the libyan rebels against the only way they sixteen a contract basically had it they signed and i think that was very beneficial situation because. they've come here it's really wanting to find out about these oil and energy contracts and libya getting a huge amount of money now frozen for them with the russian foreign ministry today now they said that any case wolf settlement should be hotly exclusively under the supervision of the u.n. we've heard announcing that there's going to be a meeting taking place in september a control group the natick hellishly russia's not been invited to come and they say

essentially what's happening here is testament to the future of libya being handed over to very small indeed and certainly danes big concern now 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 a governing body that could 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 seen such as we've seen over the last week with some of the events very disorganized the libyan people are still burying their dead and there are many the big question out of the nato mission is just the case of humanitarian reasons leave discreetly now what you call the beginning to the end of the coming week as this attention of the libyan. european majors they could beat the competition advance not only the company since those governments. and that's certainly been something that we've been talking

about i've been looking at it mainly to him about the. kill to the hearts of most modern was and you'll strike oil whether or not that's sayings true when it comes to libya will is going to play a pivotal role in the country's future here we have to feel restruck interest. in western interest to check each one. also reveled in we are trying to cover interest and we start sharing our list was possible this stranger to the concepts of friends with benefits berlusconi has been quick to casey out to the new transitional council inviting the public face of the group but major thrill to italy it's. these closest european allies when the native bombing campaign began back in april proudly switched sides and began courting the rebels in 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 it's by no means a given in a post 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 wall has been a struggle to adequately understand the internal workings of the rebels themselves . amongst the rebels there are many factions islam based tunisian people. if you know of the and chaotic and many of these groups of rebels that come of politicians with gadhafi and then we can be. do you change their face. if they say anything and i think that corrupt politician if. it will make it happy personally

on a number of occasions three dismissed elections in a month vacation returned from a fact finding trip to libya with a handwritten letter she says was written by the to but it's gaining 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 chain between us he cites the treaty he's referring to he was trying to be months before the libyan uprising let me ask why did he join our enemies without any to. all investigation berlusconi now seems tediously making the friends it was that maybe the final chapter the. many conflicts will continue i would dare to see young people charge you fees of cheese among the rebels so there is no such. instances no consensus call for me to be an internal. meeting. you actually have

a person to talk to. be. with her 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 despicable but the rainfall the french serve. now and talk to us american last year from the university in israel a research fellow with the more for diana center for middle eastern studies and african studies thank you for joining us today oh no reports suggest the conductor's battle could be over just as the rebels were promised half a billion dollars worth of the colonel's assets by italy can you draw any parallels any co-incidence. well a lot of possible thank you for having me and i would say that this is actually really country we. are talking about the economy crisis. on the contrary most of the countries and the whole world actually from russia and.

america. through europe own this country money. and it's time that they will pay back. by. helping. to govern the the country all pay in cash i mean today. for some of libyan money the one cash in. you easy to. use that you say there's no debt there's no there's no economic crisis in libya here's all this money coming to the rebels who are trying to put together this transitional government that is comprised of a mixed bag of internal tribal people who don't even agree with each other is this just a form of carrot sticking a just basically the west is griping its way in so you can stick it states right

next to the big oil reserves. well look i would i wouldn't call them any more robbers i think these are citizens they were forced to hold are it's a whole. arms and to to topple. him on the team see we have we have people like with the with the economical education and economists who have some economies they were exiled in europe and i'm sure they can manage the distinguish and so if they have achieved what they have now i'm sure they will they were only through the money and also the countries through and america will give them their money back. they have also to monitor the money i think the world bank normally has. very much help to to monitor minute rule. there and there are many that are saying we are going to say no there

is going to during all of the money the monitoring of the money hundreds of billions of dollars going to people that some might say and some i suggest a very little year where it is money going what is this money for you know under the rule of gadhafi he spent a fortune on the transportation infrastructure on education or medical hospitals this that and the other can we expect these rebels here it's a really invest in the future of libya. well i hope so let's hope so and i think we. and the american with the international community so i don't think that they will manage alone because i mean the we have to give them some sams and we have to help them but from a distance not like they did in iraq but from a distance and i think europe and america has such an. experience to

help countries like here in transition but this i mean. i mean this money first first of all it should be used to reconstruct the country i hope you agree with me and then and then i'm sure that the european wouldn't just give my new without some monitoring and you know the teensy actually they have promised to be very very through parents. dealing with this money so if i if they see that they don't keep their promises so maybe they will change i mean well as well as with the russian regardless of where all this money is going whether there be any harder for whether it's going to be absolutely taken care of whether it's going to infrastructure whether it's going to the new transitional government we were you know the rebel leader is meeting with the italian leader he's met with the french leader the main subject on the table that of very lucrative oil contracts how independent and capable of the rebels are becoming

a government when here they are dishing out all contracts to members of nato when nato is there simply thought she might it's very mission. i mean i don't personally i don't know how they are going to do that but what i can tell you that until now they have people all their promises and how they are going to spend the money you know i'm not really i don't know really how they're going to do that but you know i mean the let's take italy they have been they have been. living in for a long time sometimes pay and sometimes they don't pay they just put it on the council which means they will pay in the future and today it's time actually i will give this money. and you know people normally even. give all this money back so i don't think it's

a real problem today but you know because there is some i mean the key word is monitoring. and we'll see you will see how they are going see if you get more the monitoring of my dreams of dollars only go going to the members of the soon to be transitional government last year the latest report we have it r t is that could afi has allegedly been surrounded in his compound in tripoli more details to come. from the center for middle eastern african studies and television for the television universe and many things. of the u.s. and the e.u. are pushing for more sanctions against syria's government with an embargo want to oil sales likely by the end of the week russia china the move 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 as artie's financial reports what's really going on it's hard to verify but began 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 blood it instead. killings and execution is supposedly at the hands of president arsons military filmed on cell phones have become a trademark of the regime syrian officials those seized the scenes or 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 u.n. has been downed over the violence against his people the damascus emphasizes from a far until recently no u.n. mission has crossed the syrian border as 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 i don't think they're going to feel like he is a brand foreign journalist and in fact finding missions from coming in and they

don't allow us to work can i 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 very generally and reporters in the country everyone has a phone why should they wait with the local 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. and this is what going 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 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 that he doesn't want his face to appear on screen hide in 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 reporters are killing. unarmed. civilians and. broached the regime freedom. wasn't afraid of being thrown in jail has been there three times already. he's afraid of being killed or friends in. this was the worse for me it was the only one that was there. were broken and there was a risk that syrian state t.v. brings their evidence to support their leader. it was. peach of a mother crow your her body apparently there this is it was in the homes but here it is simply cheer indeed it was made in the right in that there's

a name they could then assert but they just play one of the most oppressive regimes in the world to them of the press has never been serious strong point because this is all we are all we are 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 prove to be among them it is girls and this conflict the press is not just about coverage it's a war and as in every war they go is to we refresh in our team the mask of syria. that we're twenty minutes past the hour here in moscow you with r.t. syria is believed to possess a large arsenal of chemical weapons ready to use the continuing unrest in the

country is causing international concern over those materials falling into the wrong hands for more this knowledge cause live to deputy director of the center for nonproliferation studies or leonard spector live in washington i thank you for joining us today go tell us about how it will be instability in syria affecting the security of these weapons do you think. well my sense is that at the moment with assad still in control of the country and his forces still intact with very few defections although we are seeing some defections the items are safe although still in the hands of a very vicious dictator so for the moment i don't think we're seeing any loss of control but as this situation unfolds and as we may have the violence of the kind that we've seen in libya and different factions become alarmed and perhaps take on the regime then the chance for chaos and for the loss of control i think will grow substantially so the standard weapons could ultimately if the worst of the us get into the wrong hands or what can be done to protect its weapons and it's

a time of such tales internal chaos and well i think what we have to imagine is perhaps a change of government that is that done peacefully under international pressure that assad steps aside when he observes the magnitude of the demonstrations and the pressure that he's now receiving in terms of sanctions and other means and in that environment then we can get an international team in from the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons and perhaps actually take control of these sites and eventually eliminate these weapons a new government might also want that kind of legitimacy of showing that it had no intention of g.m. some sort of truck you know it was going by setting up an international team into the area to secure these potentially dangerous depots of weapons but at a time of such chaos and oil really think such a team would be welcomed. well i think really it depends on what scenario we're speaking about if you have simply

a chaotic situation i think you're right it's going to be very hard to accomplish this but if there is a transition which is a little smoother then you would not immediately for the teams to come in i think request of the government or the way that has happened in some other cases where you would then have the orderly control and maybe eventual dismantling of these weapons they are illegitimate weapons and the international community is our eyes and they need to be eliminated as fast as possible and hopefully the new government that might come in would not look to them as symbols of legitimacy the way assad has to now when we talk about these are weapons here and ultimately the capability of being devastating and ultimately dangerous is this the kind of reason that could see nato decide to take action in syria because when it came to libya we know now that the u.n. is calling for human rights investigation into syria that's not the same but it's in the same vein as when it came to a humanitarian mission in libya could be jealousy nato action in syria do you think . i think there's

a bit of exhaustion on the part of nato and the united states so i don't think we're going to see this but you may see sort of covert assistance covert provision of arms maybe some training teams something of that time but not the over of presence and no fly zones of the type we saw in libya i think right now. we're just recovering from this and it was not a popular intervention in libya in the united states and in western europe so i have a feeling there's going to be great caution before taking on anything like this in the syrian case all right to be doing the same for nonproliferation studies lead suspect and life in washington anything like. a superstar football struck up has arrived in russia to join the north caucasus club and she. samuel eto'o who is from cameroon and a four time african player of the year as agreed to a reported salary of ten million euros per season season but in a culture that's more. the latest news over the transfer of the interim millon striker sam alito is really capturing the united nations of the world of football

according to the leader's information sam alito has a right to moscow just several hours ago he underwent a magical examination and signed a contract to become an on jima player on wednesday and many waited for some kind of a commons from his size zero on his a rival and during the france conference that he explained why he made such a decision and why he decided to join the club and see if the i'm very glad should be shoes emotion born thing in life is to be happy and i'm happy to be here i'm starting from scratch because of all the trophies possible in europe as a player and here it is starting new. protocols before each told me a lot about russians and i drooled 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 sam alito the highest paid a footballer in russia and sunday will carry over turned

a million euros per season let alone win and gold bonuses in the wake of the few months of e.u. dagestani football club has made hard lines all across the world by buying leading international football stars of the team was already legendary brazilian and the fans out of but the crowd was as well as he did the silver and a famous russian for blair. meanwhile this all happened when the new football club was bought by the locally born a businessman and also one of the reaches man in russia's three months and now he is basically spending millions of euros in a bid to make this football club which is situated here in the russia's north caucasus known all across the world and sometimes it really seems that he's possibly gathering some kind of a dream team on the russian soil meanwhile maniacs for his believe that signing and so will dream big dagestani football club on to a new level in the international world of football. time now for the business with

maria. hello and welcome to business here and i see we start with gold which has suffered the biggest drop since late two thousand and eight after hitting every record peak of one thousand eight hundred dollars earlier this week the precious metal lost some shyness but comics exchanged race traitor margins by the most over two and a half years and that was to curb volatility but some a caution from of bochum gold says lucent sumantra 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 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 of a noise as you call it in the market but the fundamental case for gold hasn't changed at all in the past couple baden so i think we're going to see

a continuation of what we've seen for the past ten years which is the ever increasing gold price. let's take a look at the latest figures for precious metals gold has slumped to seven hundred thirty four dollars seventy five cents per ounce and that's a drop of almost one and a half percent and that was after dropping five percent yesterday well prices are higher underpinned by the crisis in the oil rich libya investors are looking ahead to the speech of the head of the federal reserve on friday and all eyes are now on whether ben bernanke the real islands and another round of money present the u.s. economy and let's talk about what's happening with the u.s. stocks they opened higher but slipped in snug as a territory after an unexpected increase in jobless claims apple lost two point one percent following the resignation of the company's c.e.o. steve jobs. and european shares are also trading in the red following losses on wall street the footsies down half a percent and the dax is

a losing one point three percent here and most of those stocks are now mixed this time as the my side switch is losing its point four percent while the r.t.s. is out on the plane supersets. that's all we have time for this hour the headlines are next.