heavy fighting continues in the bloody civil war there is concern the country's chemical weapons could fall into the wrong hands the brand struggles to balance the books as stagnating growth and surging dead bring about government cuts with fierce public outrage could soon spill out into the streets. of the caucuses republican because he is electing a new leader in a vote triggered by the death of its president. and i am in the russian capital you're watching r t with me joshua welcome to the program. the un last call for restraint in libya ended reports of abuse and alleged

summary killings by both rebels and gadhafi loyalists the security council is also agreed to release one point five billion dollars in libyan assets to help deal with humanitarian needs the opposition continues to claim that tripoli is largely under its control while the national transitional council says it's moved from its stronghold of benghazi to the capital there are reports of heavy resistance by could our forces with the colonel's whereabouts still unknown while this area and the other radio message claiming he's fighting on the front line nato has denied previous reports that its system grapples. investigative journalist west sitar fully as it can often is capture will shift its attention to countries like syria. gadhafi was supposed to fall in march he has essentially gummed up the works he has

assumed the blocking position of be the nato subversion machine and he's kept them tied up for six and seven months if the resistance were to subside which i do not think will happen these military assets that we presently see deployed in the central mediterranean will be moved to the eastern mediterranean and there has been and syria and ultimately iran had better watch out because they're also targets and remember this then gets into iran and also russia because of that important a naval station that card to syria which is the base of the russian mediterranean suad and so if it's if it's coming down in libya that simply means that this war will move movies but i think right now we're looking at a very long war in libya let's compare gadhafi to well i don't want to compare him to mobile omar but you know that was ten years ago mullah omar is still operate.

with no problems. i think can can go on one better so don't look for gadhafi to be rounded up any time and even if he is there's an extended family here and there is indeed an extended tribe the tribal organisation in libya is ideal for conducting a resistance under these conditions. a paragon service vinatieri and sides in libya known to contain stockpiles of chemical weapons it's fear of terrorist cells and militants can raid the arsenals which allegedly include tons of mustard gas and raw uranium and while you as is pledging to prevent the weapons from falling into the wrong hands doubts being cast over whether they would be safer under nato is watch as archie's lore am it reports. tripoli a city in chaos there's constant gunfire both aggressive and celebrate and on the outskirts of the capital stockpiles of chemical weapons south east of tripoli mustard gas and other chemical agents which can cause severe blistering and death

and to the east hundreds of tons of rule uranium which can be processed and used in nuclear bombs nature you know very little about the people who might come to power in tripoli you know if you've got this cache of what we consider mass destruction then again people really don't know what's there and if this is fully going to the fans and people i mean the situation is. despite the heavy presence of rebels in tripoli the chemical stockpile appears still to be in the hands of what's left of good athletes government that's both good and bad news following a series of meetings in two thousand and three moon rocket that he agreed to allow weapons inspectors into libya the first step towards abandoning his w m d program in return for a normalizing of relations with the u.k. and u.s. they agreed that he wouldn't use all move the material but now thanks in part to

nato support of the rebels on the back foot and may feel he has nothing to lose by disregarding that agreements cry victory or martyrdom will strike an ole miss notes to those who know his weapons potential given the. actions of the national territory of libya by needle led rebel forces i think that the idea that he would be beholden to these types of agreements would be off the table at this point and certainly he was quoted as saying in early july that he would be willing to strike out in europe if tripoli was attacked so i think it's a fair assumption to say that if there is that capability that he would be looking at that option at this point. but the alternative rebel control of hundreds of tons of raw uranium and chemical weapons is arguably worse according to many some of the rebel factions have links to al qaida or of commentator abdel bari atwan says the

west got itself into this trouble now it has to decide how it will figure it out and the options aren't attractive we know that the majority of the people who are fighting are muslim extremists or actually. people who believe that they should slip mixtape and be so how their people is that we can deal with those people after that any move of are they going to legitimize their income for them. but apart from the future leave here so there are question marks here personally i believe that their fear would be more than that. for there are some indications nato is considering putting peacekeeping troops on the ground in libya we general experts warn that could be seen by parts of the free libya movement as an act of aggression but having supported the rebel movements nato must now deal with the consequences even if that w m d arms islamic extremists.

well syria is also believed to possess massive stocks of chemical weapons the ongoing unrest in the country coupled with international economic and political pressure is only fueling fears of global security leonard spector from the center for nonproliferation studies says the weapon seen by president asad as a symbol of legitimacy have to be limited. 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 and then the chance for chaos and for the loss of control of the gross

extensionally 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 where you would then have the orderly control and maybe eventual dismantling of these weapons they are really getting the 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 had to do up to now but it's unlikely coming to live from moscow still have for you that's our progress report as x. earth tried to establish the cause of russia's unmanned spacecraft crash but look

into how it will affect the crew at the international space station had been awaiting final supplies. and discover how people that assembled russian region are taking the initiative back into their own hands to change their communities for the better. now the richest sector of french society are pledging another three percent of their annual income to help the country battle its deepening debt crisis that's the french prime minister announced this some twelve billion euro worth of cuts along. well only forecasts for growth but as art is doing a wash and explains the move to whittle to weight with fear of social unrest but far. from the enjoys a triple a credit rating but now puts it one of the ploys that ratios among the world's top rated states believe it is better to follow the u.s. and be downgraded just repaying interest on its this year has overtaken education and defense as the government's biggest spend this. causes presided over the

biggest jump in debt levels in our history books that carry too much water since. france is going to get taller again it's a prime minister as the explain the new road of spending cuts this week but economists fear things so bad those cuts go nowhere near enough leigh you can compare it with people saying we're going to buy a lumber genie and they only buy a porsche and they call that heresy doctors board frauds these huge hit birds and is bringing crudely of dream christmas in schools and hospitals. getting. into car and. computers are very old. fashioned. out of the situations explosive say experts and frauds

could be next to witness roy it's like those in britain with the proved regions alertly the inner part of cities in the suburbs. are certainly segregated to extend far more so than in the or in germany so yes the rest of town from the suburbs and spread through nicolas sarkozy's flying a full front as each pound off budget they take pacific island of new caledonia. with students climbing street protests over the cuts he's left the job of presenting them to his prime minister you let them take the flak for it and hopefully unions students. get more directly and protest against the ministers being in the sun because the absence in this time of crisis brits leading newspaper le figaro may be clear both politically but his failure to tackle the country's troubles now could be creating even greater problems for the future to see

paris the caucuses republican years electing a new leader following a recent death of its presidents or gave a gobshite after cancer treatment it comes as the country faces a number of challenges in the wake of its long fight for independence from neighboring georgia artie's tom gardner like this france capital city home town good morning now the polls have opened in a stymie republic and have always taken place on a significant day for the country tell us more. it is indeed marina good morning polls are just opening here around the so who me the capital of our cars here the central election commission predicts a turnout today a high turnout of seventy percent we'll we'll see if that materializes or not but at the moment things are just getting started here as the sun rises over the capital. this election was brought about on may the twenty ninth when surrogate

biograph the former president died in moscow of heart failure but it's also come on a very special day for our cars here this day exactly three years ago russian president dmitri medvedev recognized the independence of our cars here after a war with georgia both in this territory and in south the seta further of east there are three candidates running today with three candidates because of surrogate by gotcha's death and because of that sort of the vacuum left by his death there's no obvious front runner at the moment the first of those is alexander and he is the current vice president although he's now competing in these elections he has said that he's very grateful for the recognition of independence from russia but also that without independence we should they should now show that didn't come recognition didn't come in vain he has however had allegations made against him in

the previous week that he may have been involved in collaborating with georgia in one thousand ninety two helping that country to invade cause your all those years ago all those the origins of those are allegations are unclear may have just been a mudslinging campaign against him the second is. the prime minister here in abkhazia he also is very grateful for the recognition of independence and he says that with. the security that provides our cars should now get on with building up its economy and the third is raul how jim breuer he is former vice president on how he has formally contested presidential elections here although he hasn't although he hasn't won he seems the most critical of over dependence on russia and he says that the cause years relations with russia should have substance if it's going to

become a truly independent country i heard for he is connected to a new descent into civil war in two thousand and four when both he and then president both claimed victory in the presidential elections so those three candidates at the moment there's no obvious front runner many international observers here today from the region from the e.u. and from further aboard trying to monitor the fairness of the election said today all calm has he of course is a very young state so what's the mood among the people there and what do they expect from the or future leader. well abkhazia is indeed a very young state and this election you can see from what the candidates have all said it revolves very much around its independence it pretty much defines this country at the moment firstly in one nine hundred ninety two and ninety ninety one after the breakup of the soviet union a vicious war was fought here against georgia the majority of the population back

then were ethnic georgians and in one thousand nine hundred two they invited the georgian army to come and help. keep control of this region and stop it breaking away from georgia the georgian army was routed in one thousand nine hundred two and most of the georgian population left leaving ethnic had cars here off of most of the territory of cars here that process was completed in two thousand and eight with the fighting here and in south a city when all of the georgians were pushed off what is now the territory of those dates really do. very very important in the consciousness just last night we heard in a cafe here set to music president medvedev the dress announcing the recognition of the independence for a cause here and they said that the music that was of a very important symbol to them here in this country after all that fighting the

the infrastructure here is very weak and it's going to need the next president's going to face the tough challenge of trying to build up both the economy and the international links of this young i. read can't thanks very much indeed for bringing us this sunday and of course we'll be crossing back to you throughout the day for more information as they progress the time dark reporting there. what you know if you coming to live from moscow and we're here for you twenty four hours a day plus you can watch the news you want when you want it on our website r t dot com here's a quick look at what we've got lined up online right now. new york police and the cia are slammed for racial profiling and discrimination as it emerges they collected intelligence on muslims in undercover operations. and a superstar signing cameroon striker semi autos arrives in russia to join the study side on jeev with hefty salary to go with all the details at our t.v.

dot com. emergency crews have so far failed to find the wreckage of them manned russian spacecraft that crashed on wednesday experts say parts of the progress vessel could have burnt in the atmosphere falling down a space ship was carrying supplies to the international space station when it malfunctions shortly after launch it crashed in southern sabeer you triggering fears it's toxic fuel could be dangerous for the locals and the environment so far there are no reports of any such damage investigators and experts are now looking into what could have caused the incident the government orderly telford control of space ship after the second rocket failure in russia in less than a week already sean thomas now takes a closer look at what exactly happens with the progress spacecraft and the implications of the crash or the ice as group. here you can see video of it that rocket falling from the sky and right now there are crews which are flying over

southern in siberia looking for that rocket what we do know is that there was a sensor failure in the second stage of that rocket and the third stage failed to ignite which gave it the inability to make it to orbit the first two stages usually launch of the exact same time in fact they always launch of the same time and then to communicate with that third stage and it's that third stage which propels the progress craft up out of the earth's atmosphere so that it can then be in orbit and then synchronize with the international space station 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 is 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. john thomas

there now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world a state of emergency has been declared in four u.s. states as hurricane irene heads towards the country's east coast authorities in new york have ordered evacuations from low lying districts while in north carolina around two hundred thousand people have already fled earlier in the week the hurricane battered the bahamas and the caribbean causing huge destruction logs and power cuts. that's happened is seen in northern mexico as last at least forty five people dead and twelve injured our man broke into the building in the city of monterrey and doused the facilities with a flammable liquid witnesses said they heard three explosions before the fire started it was mexico's deadliest attacks since president held iran launched his offensive against drug cartels five years ago. new york prosecutors have given the

former head of the i.m.f. his passport back after the collapse of the sexual assault case against him dominic strauss kahn is now free to travel once again after the core of the player if you use are unreliable john said he has a number of plans including a return to his native french. watching r.t. live from moscow now it's time for the latest in our close of series where we explore and discover parts of russia. and today we are in the care of region it's famous for its natural beauty and stunning countryside and as we explore the region are easier abroad this explains how people there are taking matters into their own hands as they tackle local problems. social logical surveys regularly show that russians are more concerned with practical problems with social issues but now with abstract freedoms in

a region such as the kirov region one of the poorer regions of russia one would get subsidies from moscow these practical problems are particularly pressing problems of infrastructure problems are providing services so here with a limited budget they've come up with an innovator way of solving the most pressing issues they got what they asked for these slides a sand bank and a peach i might not seem like much but for small community new cure of region they've become a leisure hotspot they used to be no one here it was abandoned now when the sun is out you can get a police. this type of project only cost five thousand dollars but it was no money in the local budget to build safe access to the lake until the regional government introduced a local initiative scheme when they heard of it the village club together and applied for a grant from a special fund within months the beach was late. for a fee of people who were consulted over the decision to build it and i think as

a result people look after this property properly the idea of micro projects or thought of jointly by the world bank and the cure of administration they provide about the third of the money while local citizens have to find the rest often go around houses to collect because nearly two hundred micro projects will be built in this region where the end of the year. we want to change people's our suits instead of expecting things done for them we want them to take initiative we're giving power to the people this might look like a women's institute meeting in a village hall in fact the participants are thrashing out the details of a new road there is heated debate about the quality of the works and whether the builders are falling behind. other projects the financing of the road is completely transparent we know where every rouble has gone. the village of color chiggy has just over a thousand residents several hundred of them thirty criminal serving their time in

a labor colony and has one poorly stuck shop and for every road it builds good turns more that need to be repaired. one way or the project will not solve its problems but it is a start now the government can't just rely on its citizens to come up with a solution for every single infrastructural problem that faces russia but in a place where major decisions are often made with little consultation for the foreseeable future this program is a good idea either and no artsy hear of region. plenty more for you coming your way before of their we'll take a look at what's happening in the world of business with your. hello and a very warm welcome to the program zero hour is approaching for ben bernanke you outline his vision of how to save the u.s. from slipping back into recession the markets will be watching the fed results

annual meeting in jackson hole healthy looking for hints that the money printing press will once again start it how the two mccutchen from gold believes the fed has fired its ammunition and all that's left out planck's. all of the money has already been printed there's already massive cash reserves both outside of the us on a corporate level as well as at the federal reserve bank. and their own balance sheet when they bought up all the mortgages and everything else back in two thousand and eight so no matter what they do they're really sort of a rock and a hard place if economic activity picks up in the u.s. then velocity picks up money starts moving more and more and there's a lot more money than there was three years ago that's inflationary if the economic economy doesn't pick up and they have to print more and more money to cover the the budget surplus of shortfalls they have which again is inflationary so they really don't have much choice the only thing they can do is raise rates but if they do that they're going to kill all the homeowners in the u.s. who are underwater on their mortgages so there's really not much more bernanke you can say frankly on friday. let's have

a quick look at the markets oil prices are trading flat to negative despite fears that can i really could just drop for fine art production on the east coast of the u.s. and gold is heading for a weekly decline snapping its longest winning streak in four years because the metal is dropping just a notch the solvent silver is shedding over half a cent. and across asia starts the trading in a tight range to simply be unwilling to make strong moves ahead of the us federal reserve conference call sometimes under pressure to dial securities down to two percent in tokyo in hong kong strong earnings report in just the merchant bank of china both three percent. well the two hours ahead of the opening bell here in moscow because the can see on the screen are the thursday's closure when the russian markets and the session in the red both are in the biceps most of all this . all russian equities have been struggling to find that opposed to the momentum m

three done with a gasp from bank says all eyes will be on the fights comments on friday evening. thinking ensure more groups will happen just because more or less all the market is expecting nothing sensational to come out of that are going to be. naive and that's are going stances with all the volatility we are in just a month and other things with their bills through the end of august and of occasions and then. when the incoming as well which some people here we afraid of so i think before all that will prosper we markets will be lazy to say the least of course you can express some you know some news or view but i think you should not be a major brant upwards or downwards. at least since you all in the next two three weeks from now. russia turns out to be quite a hot spot when it comes to advertising agency karate countries advertising market

will grow seventeen percent this year times faster than the global one but companies all over the world are cutting spending on promotion also the uncertain times russia is inception with growth rates forming for us. that's all we have time for not for stories you can log on to that site that's r g dot com slash business sounds and the business up there involves time.

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