the end is nigh rebels claim they've surrounded moammar gadhafi and his sons near their compound in tripoli. the reports come as entirely in prime minister silvio berlusconi pledges to transfer a half billion dollars of the deposed libyan leader's assets to his opponents. western states call for tougher sanctions against the syrian regime but journalists on the ground say i'm going to footage used as evidence the government crackdown is hard to verify. a search and recovery operation is underway in siberia for an unmanned space resupply craft but never reach the international space station. the russian space agency set for a major overhaul following the latest in

a string of launch failures join me in a few moments for all the latest. under super star striker samuel eto'o arrives in russia to join the north caucasus club. for a record breaking paycheck. plus in business russian markets and the trade incessant in the right track says. wall street we'll have all the figures for you and business in twenty minutes. a very warm welcome to you this is r.t. live from moscow a major overhaul of russia's space agency has been ordered by prime minister vladimir putin so after an unmanned resupply vehicle was lost in the skies on thursday the search operation is underway although still the craft may have burned

up in the atmosphere however there's still concern that some toxic materials may have come down to earth. the problems occurred for this mission around five minutes after the launch when one of the booster rockets carrying the progress will fail resulted in the whole spacecraft breaking into several pieces and the sending it back towards earth they have cordoned off an area of southern siberia underneath where this incident took place last cordoned off area is being tested for any toxic elements that could be there the progress module did have on board. 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 were 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 and extra so you 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 incentive 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 unmanned module isn't the first in recent times it's in fact the fourth that's occurred 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 so you struck at

the only lifeline we have between people on the i.s.a.'s on the ground. could see the soyuz program temporarily grounded until what caused this problem is discovered now what we are hearing from cosmos 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.f. 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 killed 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 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 they've been putting together over the past few years now it's relatively old in terms of space the first zaria model was launched in one nine hundred ninety eight but it has been continuously inhabited it for about eleven years in fact in november it will reach its eleven year anniversary there's a crew of six on board right now and what this progress 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. 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 an additional emergency thirty day supply of food and water and the necessary items for every crew member on board. without a law for moscow now libyan rebels say they've surrounded colonel qadhafi in tripoli if true and there's more than four decades of rule finally and promises to

transfer millions of dollars of frozen khadafi assets over to rebel. live in italy we just heard from gadhafi spokesperson that he's leading the fight against the rebels the rebels say he's trapped. well it's very very hard to get not sure it's. exactly which information is the correct information we've really seen this happening a lot over the entire period of the war there's been a lot of conflicting reports coming out of that inquiry hard to establish exactly what's happening on the ground now as many say it's nearing the final chapter of his will in libya but in summation really cranking up we had the information coming from some of the rebels that they had managed to get out. that coming on the back and denouncement today from the prime minister berlusconi who held talks here with the head is the national transitional council but the two bill he pledged to

release half a billion dollars a phrase in. the nation coming from. a . leading. rebel stuff really this is painting a picture still of a very very disorganized situation in libya. why exactly it's not looking. only it's like the u.s. is also looking at the freezing of here to mount a defense to libya why this money is being released now to the rebels but it's not even sure exactly really he's in charge on the ground yet despite the recent events we've seen in tripoli. libya still a country very much in conflict right now by a reporter here in italy. thank you very much for joining us now. do you think following the story. billett

a lot of information that comes from the clowns in libya he told his bit about how difficult it is to piece together all this good thinking information he to each of us is it up a being like a spider rebels or is he still fighting against and what do you think what he said before sarah it's very. close at the moment. there are voices and information on the ground there comes from every possible site so nothing is predictable and nothing we can trust surely one hundred percent what we may say is that there are two conflicts going on one is the conflict on the ground the war that's going on the ground between the rebels and the loyalists and this one is probably going to end if you want to see the battle for tripoli is going to end you know probably predictable amount of time the other one is the economic and political comfy viscosities become more overt. so we can say for sure that these steps like the freezing of the assets are

a very important tool to try to get us that the siege of the situation in there is a big phones that is here in qatar to is not a fleeting use for the rebels in this fund which is a box of a will convey would be channeled. an awful amount of money from all the countries that are part of this war we can still forget that the caliche and of the countries that take part in the war. will be the first to be on the top would be the leaders who will take advantage of from from the from the cape to the cake that people for oil and energy contracts and he's on the forefront obviously because he has historical reasons to be to be in forefront we have the main oil company who is investing in the country and whose situation is he's a fixer stable also he should. have been stopped as we saw for postpone is very important. to. which again are the biggest amount of contracts.

with the transitional council in order to have the contracts preserved in order to have. in order to have the situation be more stark simple for a company that operates in libya in that all of the country. on the other side it's very very difficult it's very very it's very very difficult to be. precise and objective in the situation because the situation is too ongoing like we the situation in other countries like in india or iraq in but that when saddam hussein was in look a tit for for a long period of time therefore who can see where gadhafi is at the moment we needed to wait a few were a few weeks a few days for three months thank you very much for telling us that. that was our life for us from the mainland and when it comes to the issue of italy

unfreezing hundreds of billions of dollars worth of. market up his assets. this insightful story that had us here on alt. kill to the heart of most modern wars and you'll strike oil whether or not that's sayings true when it comes to libya well it's going to play a pivotal role in the country's future q we have to feel restricted interest. in western interest to check each one. also to rebels when we are trying to live in government interest to restore from what it's possible the stranger to the concepts of friends with benefits berlusconi being quick to casey up to the new transitional council inviting the public face of the group back in egypt well to italy it's talks. these places european allies in the native bombing campaign began back in april probably switch sides and began courting the

rebels. before the wall almost a third of its least daily energy needs were imported from libya and oil any was the largest port operator in the country because many here have been doing all they can to safeguard these contracts but if they will be able to maintain these previously close business ties is by no means a given. in libya the future likely 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 . as there are many factions islam based commission people. and many of these groups of rebels are from the politicians with gadhafi and then they completely change their face. and. i think that corrupt politician.

of all know it could be personally only number of occasions three business connections less than a month the gay she returned from the. fact finding trip to libya with a handwritten letter she says was written by gadhafi two 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 a friendship and cooperation cittie between us he cites the chief he's referring to he was trying to team months before the libyan uprising. why did you join our enemies or that any diplomatic dialogue or investigation police gainey now seems t.v. be making the friends it wants that maybe the final chapter they could be any conflict will continue i would dare to see them tell you if you start for the cheese among the rebels there is no such. census no consensus call for me to

be an internal. meeting. you actually have a person to talk to. will be. with her foreign media now is silly along with many in the west people find that previous lucrative relations may turn out to be just despicable the rainfall the friendships serve. and america one of its longest serving senators has predicted but russia and china are next in line for a libya style revolution former republican presidential candidate john mccain a lush saying the spirit of the arab spring and a change of promises will soon take hold. more from washington. senator mccain has got a very far far fetched that's for sure he's sure that the so-called arab spring will rage on and will make it to countries like china or russia which according to mccain need democracy just like libya does by the way at some point even said libya

has already achieved a democracy which judging by the situation on the ground is really far from reality because even as the transitional national council takes over in tripoli that's not the government that was chosen by the leading people and many libyans are outraged by the fact that foreign powers have essentially made those choices for them and looking back at it egyptians who don't have to seem to have achieved what they were fighting for so as far as democracy is concerned in those countries there's still lots of questions but according to the cain it's all great and the fire of our placings should move on to other countries first stop syria according to the senator right after he said it's a start next to fall but too many mccain's statements are not surprising really because he's seen as a mouthpiece for those forces in washington who at this hawkish mentality and would want to see some countries go upside down especially rich nations so we're particularly important ones it's pretty interesting that senator mccain is pointing at some of the world's richest countries russia that sitting on bass natural resources and china which is developing extremely rapidly it's america's biggest

creditor it's the world's number one export of goods as we know the senator is basically calling for revolutions in those countries presuming that their livelihood is soledad that they need to rebel immediately poll shows that most americans are not happy with where their economy is going also they're not happy with their president his approval rating is below forty percent the nation's fourteen plus trillion dollar debt continues to rise the economy is not generating enough jobs and unemployment remains above nine percent as we know following the king's logic though does that mean that americans too would have to take to the streets and rebel and recalled not clear really some want to have to ask him that question because there's a lot of discontent in mccain's home country but to senator mccain obviously you know kelly is other people as his french writer said. he's going to write to you with r.t. live from moscow now the u.s. and the e.u.

both pushing for more sanctions against syria's government with an embargo on oil sales likely by the end of the week russia and china oppose the move but have called 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 there it's hard to confirm. what part of the morning this is how the world has been watching the unrest in syria through mobile phone cameras and to footage from the wall street in the country has flooded international news or rather blooded killings and executions supposedly at the hands of president our sense military filmed on cell phones have become a trademark of the regime syrian officials though insists the scenes are staged and the you tube is not credible and i witness account is not credible. and shout help they're killing us next door. these are not credible ways to assess the situation

the un has been downed over the violence against his people the damascus emphasizes from afar until recently no your mission has crossed the syrian border is a correspondent with saudi arabia based at rb international news channel in syria he says the coming days to claim itself becomes this image of the good will in my thinking it is really beyond foreign journalists and in fact finding missions from coming in and they don't allow us to work they cannot just take a camera angle filming even here in damascus and you should and i would never ever made a statement there are ten million reporters and she lied everyone has a phone why should the way the left want access to information and 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 what went against censorship is a double edged sword while mobile 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 as 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 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 wrong that are purely civilian while. the forces are killing. unarmed. civilians and. broached the receive freedom. wasn't afraid of being thrown in jail has been there three times already. his afraid of being killed or friends in the room where you get. this person was filming it was

the only one who was thirty. brokers and other observers were arrested syrian state t.v. brings their evidence to support their leader. should it be cheerful mother crying over her boy apparently there they said that was in the homes but here it is same picture indeed it was made in the right person i mean they can be just like one of the most oppressive regimes in the world food of the past has never been serious strongpoint 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. the western world once does not give the rights to the western world to grab any

story. and put it as to that there's little to be mindreaders goals and this conflict the press is not just about coverage it's a war and as in every war they go through we refuel sheltie damascus syria. r.t. is going to live from moscow in a few moments it's a marina with the business news personnel artie's world update for you and the israeli military have struck a number of targets in gaza overnight with four deaths confirmed by the palestinian side twenty others were also wounded despite a two day old cease fire that comes after palestinian militants fired over a dozen rockets into israel on wednesday the latest round of violence broke out last week when gunmen pulled from gaza ambushed cars and buses near a lot left at least eight people dead. that's the lot it has pleaded not guilty during a pretrial hearing at the international tribunal for the former yugoslavia the

former bosnian serb commander was accused of killing or for almost eight thousand bosnian serbs threaten it's in one thousand nine hundred five his lawyers claim that sixty nine year old client is too ill to stand trial here in come just a day after go to one hundred wartime 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 illness 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 twenty eighth all the latest version of the i pad he will however stay on of the world's largest technology company as chairman of the board. but a superstar football striker has arrived in russia to join the north caucasus club and jima which color samuel eto who is from cameroon and a four time african player of the year has agreed to a salary of ten million euros per season parties within

a quarter of stinkers. the latest news over the transfer of the interim millon striker sam alito is really capturing the imagination of the world of football according to the leaders information center ito has a right to moscow just several hours ago he under one's magical examination and signed a contract to become an ongoing player on wednesday and many waited for some kind of a commons from his side on his arrival and during the last conference he explained why he made such a decision and why he decided to join the club that i'm very glad to be the most important thing in 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 here it was sort of new plus a little bridge across before he told me a lot about russian siebel and i drew forward to joining the team also he adds as that he hopes he will be given a chance to join the team next saturday for transfer fifteen minutes on the field

meanwhile of this latest move makes sam alito the highest paid player in russia as sunday will carry over turned a million euros per season let alone win and gold bonuses in the wake of the few months of the biggest sunday football club has made headlines all across the world by buying leading international football stars of the team has already legendary brazilian and to find out about the crowd was as well as you get the silver and famous a russian for blair of course but meanwhile this all happened when the biggest only football club was bought by the locally boring a businessman and also one of the richest men in russia to 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 if he's possibly gathering some kind of a dream team on the russian soil meanwhile many aspers believe that signing an so

will bring the dugan study football club on to a new level in the international world of football. in a culture of it right there and up marina with a business. hello and welcome to business here on artsy gold which has suffered the biggest drop since late two thousand and eight after hitting every record peak of nineteen hundred dollars earlier this week that precious metal lost some shyness the comics exchange rate the straight in margins by the most in over two and a half years and that was to curb the volatility but similar caution from a voc ago it says lucent hundred dollars in forty eight hours doesn't the seven 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 don't go up and up forever and that includes pool 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 with 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 see for the past ten years which is ever increasing gold right. to look at the latest figures for precious metals gold has slumped to seventeen hundred thirty six dollars and fifty five cents per ounce and that's a drop of almost one and a half percent a drop of life percent yes they says then slightly better that's let's take a look at oil prices they're going down now after a negative economic reports and equities lower in the new york investors are also looking ahead to the speech all the head of the federal reserve on friday and all eyes are now on whether prank or nine q will announce another round of money for instance of prop up the u.s. economy well let's take a look at what's happening and they do last stocks opened higher but slipped into

negative territory after an unexpected includes in the office claims apple lost two point one percent following the resignation of the company's c.e.o. steve jobs. european shares are also trading in the right following losses on wall street's the footsies down one point eight percent of all the dax is saving two point seven percent this hour. and it's a similar picture here and moscow where markets ended up right in session in the red both b r c s m i six lost over one percent let's take a look at some of the individual fare moves on the my sex bragging stocks were among the main gaiters this outputs over one percent meanwhile mining firm polymaths old was in the red on the good gold and nothing that almihdhar and l. i'm case that incident negative territory after earlier gains shares gained some support from stronger second quarter results and the company has boosted its not profit by fifty percent reaching five hundred eighty seven million dollars.

so the business news for now the headlines out acts of. from. twenty years ago i just come from. dissenters.