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 cut off forces with the colonel's whereabouts still unknown meanwhile khadafi air it and the other radio message claiming he's fighting on the front line nato has denied it is reports that its sister rebels. investigative curio list webster tarpley as if canal is capture it 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 or seven months if gadhafi 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 gets into iran and also russia because of that important naval station to syria which is the base of the russian mediterranean squadron so if it's if it's calming 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 the omar but you know that was ten years ago mullah omar is still operating with no problems. i think can go in one better so don't 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 organization in libya is ideal for conducting a resistance under these conditions. the paragon status monitoring sites in libya known to contain stockpiles of chemical weapons it's fear terrorist cells and militants can raid the arsenals which allegedly include tons of mustard gas and raw uranium and while the u.s. is pledging to prevent the weapons from falling into the wrong hands down it's being cast over whether they would be safer under nato as watch as loren am it reports. tripoli a city in chaos there's constant gunfire aggressive and celebration 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 your brain which can be processed and used in nuclear bombs nature know very little about the people who might come to power.

tripoli so now if you've got these caches of weapons of mass destruction that again people really don't know what's there and if this is falling into the hands of certain people i mean the situation is potentially disastrous despite the heavy presence of rebels in tripoli the chemical stockpile appears still to be in the hands of what's left of gadhafi government that's both good and bad news following a series of meetings in two thousand and three moammar gadhafi 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 agree that he wouldn't use all move the material but now thanks in part to nato in support of the rebels he's on the back foot and may feel he has nothing to lose by disregarding that agreement cry of victory or martyrdom will strike an omen

a snow to those who know of his weapons potential given the divine. lesions of the national territory of libya by nato led rebel forces i think that the idea that he would be beholden to these types of these 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 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 it at any rate 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 a 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 you know the majority of the people who are fighting for the muslim extremists

or actually. people who believe that they should slip mixtape and be so how that the thought is going to be with those people after that remove all of them and come back are they going to legitimize them from the illegitimate illegitimate part but apart from the future leave here so there are huge question marks here personally i believe the post would be more problematic than that. if you are there are some indications nato is considering putting peacekeeping troops on the ground in libya regional experts warn that could be seen by parts of the free libya movement as an act of aggression but having supported the rebel movement nato must now deal with the consequences even if that w m d islamic extremists nor and that our teams. well syria is also believed to possess massive stocks of chemical

weapons the ongoing on the rest of 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 said 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 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 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 that weapons in 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 it's unlikely coming to live from moscow still i have for you this hour program record as experts try 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 vital supplies . and discover how people in a sense the 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 announces some twelve billion euro worth of cuts along so. gloomy forecast for growth but as our g s dental bushell explains the move could be too little too late with fear a social unrest could fall. from the enjoys a triple a credit rating for now one of the ploys debt ratios among the world's top rated states many investors bitterly to follow the u.s. and be downgraded just repaying interest on its debt this year has overtaken education and defense as the government's biggest spend was just mr sir cause he's presided over the biggest jump in debt levels in our history books that carry too much water. or. france is going to the tolerance limits to

prime minister osieck splendid new road of spending cuts this week but economists fear things so bad those cuts go nowhere near enough and you can compare it with people saying we're going to buy a lamborghini and they only buy a porsche and they call that austerity doctors board france's huge debt burden is bringing critique of dream vestment in schools and hospitals. hitting. winter and. computers. and old fashioned. out of the situations explosive say experts and frauds could be next to witness roy it's like those in britain with deprived regions the likely spark the inner part of cities and the suburbs. are certainly

segregated to very high extent far more so than in the u.k. or in germany so yes unrest could come from the suburbs and spread through nicolas sarkozy's flying a fall from france as he can on budget they taze 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 you know students retirees can march directly and protest against the ministers while he's behaving in the sun because these absence in this time of crisis rights 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 of the new push to see paris the caucuses republic of a posse is electing a new leader following

a recent death of its president sergei but gosh 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 barton joins us from the public's capital so home tom good morning now the polls have opened in us tiny republic and the vote is taking place on a significant date 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 abkhazia the central election commission predicts the 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 nine when surrogate bag ups the former president died in moscow of heart failure but it's also come on a very special day for abkhazia 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 abkhazia and in south of setia further to the east there are three candidates running today the three candidates because of surrogate by grouches 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 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 with that independence we should they should now show that that didn't come recognition didn't come in vain he however had allegations made against him in the previous week that he may have been involved in collaborating with georgia in one thousand nine hundred two helping that country to invade because

you're all those years ago all those the origins of those allegations are unclear it 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. the security that provides cars should now get on with building up its economy and the third is raul hi jim 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 cars years relations with russia should have substance if it's going to become a truly independent country however he is connected to a near descent into civil war in two thousand and four when both he and then

presidents. 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 their 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 thousand nine hundred 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 that process was completed in two thousand and eight with the fighting here and in south the city when all of the georgians were pushed off what is now the territory of abkhazia but those dates really do ring very very important in the abkhazian 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 and they set out to 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 are because you're. right tom thanks very much

indeed for bringing us this sunday now of course will be crossing back to you throughout the day for more information as they progress down 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 a rise in russia to join the study side with hefty salary to go with and all the details at r.t.d. dot com. emergency crews have so far failed to find the wreckage of the man russian spacecraft that crashed on wednesday experts say parts

of the progress vessel could have burnt in the atmosphere while falling down the space ship was carrying supplies to the international space station when it malfunctioned shortly after launch it crashed in southern say the area triggering fears its toxic fuel could be dangerous for 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 ordered the tougher control of space ships after the second rocket failure in russia in less than a week thomas now takes a closer look at what exactly happened with the progress spacecraft and the implications of the crash or the ice as crew. here you can see video of that rocket falling from the sky and right now there are crews which are flying over southern 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 at the same time in the big. 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 synchronized 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 necessary items for every crew member on board sean 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 as far as floods and power cuts. an attack on iraq is seen no in northern mexico has left at least forty five people dead and twelve injured armed 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 one of mexico's deadliest attacks since president calderon 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 clarity is user

and reliable stross khan said he has a number of plans including a return to his native france. 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 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 that are with abstract freedoms in a region such as the care of region one of the poorer regions of russia want to get subsidies from moscow these practical problems are politically pressing problems of

infrastructure problems of providing services so here with a limited budget they have come up with an innovative way of solving the most pressing issues they got what they asked for two slides a sand bank and it beach i might not seem like much but for a small community in the cure of region they've become a leisure hotspot there used to be no one here it was abandoned now when the sun is out you can get a place. 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 and still 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. the thing with a brick if people who were consulted over those was our decision to build it and i think as a result people look after this property properly. day of micro projects it was thought of jointly by the world bank and the cure of administration they provide

about two thirds of the money while local citizens have to fund the rest often go around houses to collect the cash nearly two hundred micro projects will be built in this region by the end of the year. we want to change people's attitudes instead of expecting things done for them we want them to take initiative we are 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. unlike other projects the financing of the road is completely transparent we know where every rouble has gone. the village of color chickie has just over a thousand residents several hundred of them petty criminals serving their time in a labor colony that has one poorly stuck shop and for every road built dirt turns more that need to be repaired. the micro 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 i've never artsy care of region while i've got plenty more for you coming your way before they're there 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 while zero hour is approaching for ben bernanke you to outline his vision of how to save the u.s. from slipping back into recession the markets will be kimberly watching the federal reserve's annual meeting in jackson hole healthy looking for hints that the money printing press will once again start it how will the tim mccutcheon from of oka gold believes the fed has fired its ammunition and all it's got left are blanks.

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 and they bought up all of 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 us 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 cami doesn't pick up then they go to print more and more money to cover the the budget deficit 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 a trading flat to negative despite fears that are can i really could just drop for fine art production on the east coast of the u.s. . gold is heading for

a weekly decline snapping its longest winning streak in four years together metal is dropping just a notch this is shedding of one hundred percent. and across asia stocks are trading in a tight range investors seem to be unwilling to make strong moves ahead of the u.s. federal reserve conference well some find some under pressure with the dial security is down to two percent in tokyo in hong kong strong earnings report industrial and commercial bank of china up three percent. well the two hours ahead of the opening bell here in moscow because you can see on the screen all thursday's close up when the worst markets and the session in the red both are in the biceps most of the same. russian equities have been struggling to find any positive momentum andree. from buying says all eyes will be on the fed's comments on friday evening. but don't thinking in any sharp movements will happen just because more or

less all the market is expecting nothing sensational to come out of bernanke of the day or the night and in debt circumstances with all the will if you will to look at interest month and other things sort of apples to end of august people of occasions and then these nine eleven coming as well which some people in the way off so i think before all that will pass the way the markets will be lazy to say to say the least of course we can expect some you know some news or what have you but i think we should not be a major trend upwards or downwards. at least until the next two or three weeks from now. while russia turns out to be quite a hot spot when it comes to advertising media agency caracas says the country's advertising market will grow seventeen percent this year three times faster than the global one analysts note that companies all over the world ah cutting spending on promotion also failed seven times but russia is an exception with growth for its

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dot com. welcome back you're. coming to you live from moscow us now take a look at our top stories the u.n. calls for restraint in levy amid reports of abuses and alleged summary killings by both rebels and gadhafi forces there's also concern the country's chemical weapons could fall into the wrong hands in a bloody civil war. france struggles to balance the books as stagnating growth and surging dab bring about government cuts their fear of public outrage could soon spill out into the streets. and the caucuses republic of a posse is electing a new leader and a vote triggered by the death of its president a lot as a stake for the new head of the state as the country is still recovering from its long and violent struggle.