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 that's 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 but there's still concern that some toxic materials may have come down to earth or all of our reports. 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 hundred tons of toxic field now scientists testing the rocks the soil and the water and preliminary 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 in the worst case scenario an extra soyuz rocket 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 seats three people or six people on board it would take that extra hour to have been sent out 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 at this unmanned module isn't the first in

recent times it's in the fourth that's occurred in the last nine months now a full investigation has been ordered we have heard in the past the president medvedev wants to see the russian space program updated to bring it right up to the modern era the soyuz rocket is the only way we have now is 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 so you struck at the only lifeline we have between people on the i.s.a.'s on the ground. we could see the program temporarily grounded until what caused this problem is discovered now what we are hearing from though is that they are fully committed to providing every single bit 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. reporting right still ahead for you this hour here on a major 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. libyan rebels say they have surrounded colonel gadhafi in tripoli and the end of his rule is just hours away. sister transfer millions of dollars of frozen khadafi assets to the libyan leader. reports from. half a billion dollars in frozen assets expected to be released from is really a big question mark that he remains but if he's ready for a long stint a lot of analysts i've been speaking to the past couple of days said it's very hard to gauge libya's got a lot of business dealings in italy and it's very unclear exactly which one is

libyan money a exactly which money belongs to the family question now a lot of people want to know is whether the libyan rebels are going to be honoring these extremely lucrative contracts they actually had to live in a society and to get that. very beneficial situation because they've 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 with the russian foreign ministry today now they said that any case will settlement should be happily exclusively under the supervision of the u.n. we've heard an announcement that there's going to be a meeting taking place in september control going to the nato a coalition russia has not been invited to that and they say essentially putting this system into the future of libya is being handed over to a 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 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 that the rebel groups themselves as we've seen over the last week with some of the events it's a very disorganized group the libyan people are still burying their dead and there remains a big question mark over whether the nato missions justification for humanitarian reasons leave discreetly now what you could be going to be in the coming weeks as this is the tension of the libyan the first open up. the european majors they could be competition events not only of the companies themselves but of course the government. and that's certainly been something that we've been talking about i've been looking at every meeting him about that now. till to the heart of most modern walls and you'll strike oil whether or not the sayings true when it comes to libya

will it's going to play a pivotal role in the country's future here we have to fear restrict interest me. western interest to tell me to join. also to rebel to ordinary to try to cover interest to restart selling our possible a stranger to the concept of friends with benefits berlusconi's being quick to casey up to the new transitional council inviting the public face of the group that major brill to italy. was good at these places european allies in the nato a bombing campaign began back in april when the power up of the switch sides began courting the rebels in full the wall almost a third of its least daily energy needs were imported from libya an oil giant any was the largest foreign operator in the country the government here have been doing all they can to safeguard these contracts but the if they will be able to maintain

these previously close business is by no means a given in a post gadhafi libya the future likely extremely uncertain and there are little guarantee one of the biggest problems with 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 islamist tunisian people. it's just organized and chaotic and many chief of these groups of rebels not from the politicians that before were with gadhafi and then they completely changed their face. the wind with the wind as they send it to me i think that corrupt politician to. the mic could be personally on a number of occasions three business connections less than a month to gay she returned from a fact finding trip to libya with a handwritten letter she says was written by gadhafi to palace gain 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 us he cites the treaty he's referring to he was time just two months before the libyan uprising the letter goes on to why did you join our enemies or that any diplomatic dialogue or investigation berlusconi now seems t.v. be making me friends that whilst it may be the final chapter the death the many feared conflicts will continue i would dare to see them tell you if you talk to friends or for the cheese among the rebels there is no such. census no consensus call for me to meet 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 previous lucrative relations may

turn out to be just as fickle but the rainfall the way the french surf. right. now and talk to some arab in last year from the telegraph university in israel a research fellow at the mortuary diana center for middle eastern studies and african studies thank you for joining us today oh no reports suggest the cut off his 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 coincidence. well thank you for having me and i would say that this is actually a country without. if we're talking about the economy crisis. on the contrary most of the countries and the whole world are actually from russia and. america passing through your own this country money. and it's time that they will pay

back and they will pay back by. helping. to govern the come the country all pay in cash i mean today. for some of libyan money but the one cash in. you know you say this that you say. 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 it's just a form of carrot sticking up just basically the west is bribing its way and so it can stick at stakes right next to the big oil reserves. look i would i would i wouldn't call them any more rebels i think these are citizens they were forced to hold hold our arms and 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 situation so if they have achieved what they have until now i'm sure they will they will monitor the money and also the countries and america will give them their money back i think. they have also to monitor the money i think the world bank. normally. very much help to monitor my need to rule. there and there are many that are saying we are going to be there saying that we're 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 very little per year where's that money going what is this money for you

know under the rule of khadafi 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. will i hope so let's hope so and i think we. and the american with the international community so i don't think they will manage alone because i mean we have to give them sometimes and we have to help them but from a distance. they did in iraq but from a distance and i think europe and america has separation. experienced to help countries like the nation but this. 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 the european wouldn't just give money without some morning and you know the need they have to be very very through parents. dealing with this money so if i didn't if they see that they don't keep their promises so maybe they wouldn't change i mean well that's one of the russian regardless of where all of this money is going whether it's going to 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 really 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 capable of the rebels of becoming a government when here they are dishing out all contracts to members of nato when nato is there simply for a humanitarian mission. i

mean i don't personally i don't know how they are going to do it but what i can tell you that and now they have kept all their promises and how they are going to spend the money you know really i don't know really how i'm going to do it but you know i mean the let's take italy they have been they have been. in libya for a long time sometimes they 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 that libya will get this money. and you know people normally even if. they don't give all this money back so i don't think it's a real problem today you know because there is some i mean the key word is monitoring. and we'll see we'll see how they are going to do that more the

monitoring of abundance of millions of dollars are we going to go into the members of the soon to be transitional government last year the latest report we have here about see 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 the 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 sells 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 who are believed to have been killed in syria since march but as artie's financial reports what's really going on it's hard to verify began around four o'clock in the morning this is how the world has been watching the unrest in syria through mobile phone cameras and to footage from the wall stricken country has flooded international news or rather blog. killings and executioners supposedly

at the hands of the president are signs military filmed on cell phones have become a trademark of the regime syrian officials those seized the scenes a staged the you tube is not credible and i 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 the situation the un has condemned over the violence against his people the damascus emphasizes from afar until recently no un 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 claim itself for the country's image and the real he is a banned foreign journalists and 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 with the lack of access to information many people have used their cell phones to feel what's been happening and to share it with the rest of the world. but this is what going against censorship is a double 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 marzan not his real name is the man behind the camera is a freelance journalist currently working for a western media outlet he cannot tell more and he doesn't want his face to play on screen hiding the truth about himself its rise to reveal the truth of another kind . of. information about what's going on. there are some armed forces i don't think that are going to believe is wild. in most of the cities that your forces are shooting and killing.

unarmed. civilians and went out to broach the money even more 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 he got shot out during the process because he was filming it was the only one who was started. but you have brought this and others are very rich that syrian state t.v. brings their evidence to support their leader. they should be cheerful mother crying over her body apparently dead they said that was in the homes but here at the same picture indeed it was made in the right in two thousand and nine they condemn the sad but they just play one of the most oppressive regimes in the world food and all the press has never been serious strong point 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 win refuse to damascus syria. that we're twenty minutes past the hour here in moscow you without c syria is believed to possess a large arsenal of chemical weapons ready to use and the continuing on rest in the country is causing international concern of those materials falling into the wrong hands for more on this now let's cross live to deputy director of the center for nonproliferation studies are leonard spector live in washington thank you for

joining us today to tell us about how well the 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 armed and perhaps take on the regime then the chance for chaos and for the loss of control i think will grow substantially so these dangerous weapons could ultimately if the west over the us get into the wrong hands but what can be done to protect these weapons in a time of such chaos internal chaos and well i think what we have to imagine is perhaps a change of government that is 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. going to getting an international team into the area to secure these potentially dangerous depots or weapons but at a time of such chaos and turmoil she really think such a team would be welcome that. 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 want to mediately for the teams to come in at the 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 weapons and ultimately the capability of being devastating and ultimately dangerous that is 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 a 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 we now see 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 kind but not the overt 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. the center for nonproliferation studies lives affected life in washington many things like. a superstar football strike up has arrived in russia to join the north caucasus club and. samuel eto'o who is from cameroon and a full time african player of the year has agreed to a reported salary of ten million euros per season season but in a culture that has more. the latest news over the transfer of the interim millon striker salman ito is really capturing the imagination of the world of football according to the leaders information sam alito has a right to moscow just several hours ago he underwent a magical examination and signed

a contract to become an hour player on wednesday and many waited for some kind of a commons from his side 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. i'm very glad to be here is the most important thing in life is to be happy and i'm happy to be here i'm starting from scratch. possible in europe as a player and here i can start a new. bridge across before and he told me a lot about responsible 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 early ito the highest paid a footballer in russia as dungy will pay overturned a million euros per season let alone win and gold one assists in the wake of the few months of the biggest sunday football club has made have lines all across the world by buying leading international football stars the team has already legendary

brazilian and to find out about the crowd was as well as he did the silver and a famous russian footballer you should call for meanwhile this all happened when the any football club was bought by the locally born in a businessman and also one of the richest men in russia so the monkey market 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's really seems that he's possibly gathering some kind of a dream team on the russian soil meanwhile maniacs for his believes that signing and so will bring the dagestani football club into a new level in the international world of football. time now for the business with marina. 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 of record peak of one thousand eight hundred dollars earlier this week the precious metal also shined as the comics exchange raise trade in margins by the most in over two and a half years and that was to curb volatility but simak action from gold says nuisance you 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 because things don't go up and up forever and that includes gold we've had a huge rally in the gold price in the past week and so it's only natural that there's some correction. so clearly i think what you're seeing is just the trading activity the noise as you call it in the market but the fundamental case for gold hasn't changed at all in the past couple days and so i think we're going to see continuation of what we've seen for the past ten years which is the ever increasing gold price. 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 or oil 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 he will announce another round of money printing to prop up the u.s. economy and let's take a look at what's happening with the u.s. stocks they opened higher but slipped into negative territory after an unexpected increase in 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 and the red following losses on wall street the footsies down half a percent and the tax is musing of one point three percent here in moscow stocks are now mixed this time as the my side switch is losing and that's point four percent while the r.t.s.

is adding the point two percent. that's all we have for this hour the headlines on that. renewed the latest in science technology from around the world. we've gone through huge earth coverage.

six thirty pm here in the russian capital with on to the headlines now a search and recovery operation is underway in siberia to resupply craft that never reach the international space station the russian space agency faces a major overhaul after the progress vehicle broke into pieces just five minutes after launch on wednesday. rebels claim a colonel gadhafi and his sons are trapped in tripoli. to transfer half a billion dollars of the deposed leader's assets to his opponents. western states called for tougher sanctions against the syrian regime but journalists on the ground say footage used as evidence of the government crackdown is hard to verify. super star struck.