as heavy fighting continues in levy's bloody civil war there is concern the country's chemical weapons could fall into the wrong hands. france struggles to balance the books as stagnating growth and surging dad bring about government cuts with fierce public outrage could soon spill out into the streets. and the caucuses republican because he is electing a new leader and a vote triggered by the death of its president. is the final countdown to the federal reserve's annual meeting in jackson hole with investors and to supposing ben bernanke is speech first market something risky rising in early trade will be more emails in business about twenty minutes.

eleven am in the russian capital you're watching r t i'm marina joshie welcome to the program the u.n. has called for restraint in libya amid reports of abuses and alleged summary killings by both rebels and gadhafi loyalists the security council has 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 a 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 gadhafi forces the calls were about still unknown while cut off u.s. aired another radio message claiming he is fighting on the front lines nato has denied bringing us with force that it's. rebels in the hunt to find him

investigative journalist webster tarpley says even though the war in libya spot from all over again soon shift its hanchen east worse. is that it was supposed to fall in march he has essentially gummed up the works he has assumed the blocking position viz a viz 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 ball 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 a naval station a car 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 and move east 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 operating no problems. i think can go one better so i 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 your business that's under these conditions. pentagon says it's monitoring libyan side containing stockpiles of chemical weapons and is pledging to prevent them from falling into the wrong hands and start the arsenals include tons of mustard gas and raw uranium as archie's lore and it reports that's causing concern with some rebel factions that have been infiltrated by islamic extremist.

tripoli a city in chaos there's constant gunfire both 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 uranium which can be processed and used in nuclear bombs made to know very little about the people who might come to power in tripoli so now if you've got this cache of weapons of mass destruction that again people really don't know what's there and if this is falling into the fans and 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 these government that's both good and bad news following a series of meetings in two thousand and three moon rocket we 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 us they agreed that he wouldn't use all move the material but now thanks in part to nato support of the rebels he's on the back foot and may feel he has nothing to lose by disregarding its agreements cry victory or martyrdom will strike an ole miss notes to those who know his weapons potential given the violations of. international terrorism. of libya by needle led rebel forces i think that the idea that he would be beholden to these types of. grievance would be off the table at this point and certainly he was called it is seen 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 no capability that he would be looking your best option at this point. but the alternative rebel control of hundreds of

tons of rule 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 knew that you know the majority of the people who are fighting. extremists or how they're people is the people are that he will come and go i believe or. be more problematic than that. figure there are some indications nato is considering putting peacekeeping troops on the ground in libya we journal experts who are back could be seen by parts of the free libya movement as an act of aggression but having supported the rebel movement they too must now deal with the consequences even if that's w m d islamic extremists and it's all

a team. well syria is also believed to possess massive stocks of chemical weapons the ongoing unrest in the country coupled with international konami and political pressure is only fueling fears for global security leonard spector from the center for nonproliferation studies says that what is seen by president asad as a symbol of legitimacy have to be eliminated. 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 what we have to imagine is perhaps

a change of government that is that done peacefully under international pressure that assad steps aside when he observes the magnitude of the. demonstrations and the pressure that he's now receiving in terms of sanctions or 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 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 had to do up to now. it was an r.v. coming to live from moscow still ahead for you this hour progress reports experts trying stablished the cause of russia's unmanned spacecraft crash will look into how it will affect the crew at the international space station who've been awaiting vital supplies. and discover how people in

a central russian region are taking the initiative back into their own hands to change their communities for the better. their riches sector of french society are pledging another three percent of their annual income to help the country battle its deepening debt crisis that has the french prime minister announces some twelve billion euro worth of cuts alongside gloomy forecast for growth but as artie's daniel bushell explains the move could be too little too late with fears social unrest could follow. france enjoys a triple a credit rating but now put it one of the boys ratios among the world's top rated states many investors bet on it 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 was just causes presided over the

biggest jump in debt levels in our history books that carry too much water since. france has gone above the tolerance limits and hits 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 me 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 austerity doctors bald frauds these huge hit birds and is bringing crudely under-investment in schools and hospitals. getting. into car 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 in the suburbs. are certainly segregated to very high extent far more so than in the u.k. or in germany so yes and rescued from suburbs and spread through nicolas sarkozy's flying a fall from france as he can on budget day he's pacific island of new caledonia with students planning street protests over the cuts he's left the job of presenting them to his prime minister to let them take the. four and hopefully unions students. can march directly in protest against the ministers while he's bathing in the sun because these absence 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 of

the new cultural scene. the caucasus republic of a posse is electing a new leader following the recent death of its president sarah gave adoption after cancer treatment comes out of 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 republic's capitol so home tom as we know it's a very young state so to what degree is this presidential vote firing the imagination of people there a lot or the expectations. people are going to polling stations across the capital so whom and across the the time republican about cars here and they're voting for one of three candidates they're currently ones we've asked anyway they're keeping their choices quite close to their chest but they certainly do seem to be turning up in this presidential vote for the future of their tiny republic the reason for this election is the death of surrogate the previous president quite suddenly on

may twenty ninth leaving a vacuum of power at the top and three contenders now want to try and lead their country in place the first alexander is the vice president he says he's very grateful for russia's recognition of our cars years independence in two thousand and eight and he thinks though that should not be in vain this tiny and young republic should try and stand on its own two feet surrogate shambo is the second candor that he's he said also that he's grateful for the recognition that the country's got and they can use this chance to try and focus on building up its economy role had jim the third candidate is a former vice president and he's the most critical of what he sees as over dependence on russia many international observers have come to try and look at this

election to see if it's fair and how it's been conducted from the region from europe and from further abroad and we got a chance to speak from a representative of the swiss parliament who was here earlier. when i was invited to. have a very quick reaction from georgia who says oh no don't know yours or it but my impression is who can exactly support what you're doing here you know because you're fighting for your summer into your tune of the independence of the press he appreciates in the context of this country now is that the people are fighting for the freedom. well john speaking of people and looking ahead in a sense what hopes are spinning on their new leader. but i think it will be hoping for quite a lot one refers to one of the things they'll be heard hoping for refers to what a member of the swiss parliament just said is that georgia didn't want many

observers to come they were trying to stop them and he was referring to the fact that georgia still thinks of cars here as part of its territory that also. matches in with this being a very special day for many cars ians it is this day three years ago that russian president dmitri medvedev gave his recognition to this to this tiny republic in the caucasus and the real catalyst for that was in august two thousand and eight when george are attacked another small republic to the east of here south of setia georgia didn't attack. in that war but georgian troops were pushed out of cars in territory however that comes at the end of a very long and a very bloody struggle for independence for of cars you're really starting after the collapse of the soviet union in one thousand nine hundred one and to this area was a battlefield for a long time and the result of all that fighting is the immense damage to the

infrastructure of this this small republic a lot of the people here are going to want the next president to help build that back up again used to be a very famous soviet holiday resort and it's very famous for growing fruit here those are two major sectors in the economy that are going to need real pumping up despite the five hundred million dollars in the past three years of aid from russia they're still very weak because i need a new president whoever he may be to try and bolster that and make sure this country doesn't just rely on the fact that it had a struggle for independence. ok tom thanks very much indeed for bringing us the subject from. reporting there. you were tonight he hired from moscow and we're broadcasting very twenty four hours a day plus he can watch the. do you want when you wanted on our web site r.t. dot com but here's a quick look at what we've got lined up on line for you 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. as superstar signing cameroon strike girls sunny is arrives in russia to join the stony side are gene would have to be celery to boot all the details of dot com. and emergency crews have so far failed to find the wreckage of the unmanned russian spacecraft to crash on wednesday experts say parts of the progress vessel could have burned 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 siberia 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 orderly 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 for the isis group. 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 and then they 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'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. sean thomas reporting there well let's now take a look at some other stories from around the world a state of emergency has been declared in many parts of america's east coast were hurricane irene is on its way 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 well as flooding and power cuts. and a task on a casino in northern mexico has left at least fifty three people dead and twelve injured armed man broke into the building in the city of monterey and doused the

facilities with a flammable liquid witnesses said he heard three explosions before the fire started it was one of mexico's deadliest attacks since president calderón launched his offensive against drug cartels five years ago. japan's prime minister has announced his resignation clearing the way for the country's six premier in five years khan has been under fire for his response to the massive earthquake and tsunami earlier this year and the radiation crisis that followed among the potential successors are the current foreign finance and trade ministers and you premier will face a number of challenges including rebuilding from the devastation of problems caused by the strong yen which is holding back economic recovery. forcing r.t. live from moscow now it's time for the latest in our close up series where we explore undiscovered parts of russia.

and today we are in the kirov region it's famous for its natural beauty and stunning countryside as we explore the region r t zero grodd 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 than now with abstract freedoms in a region such as the cure region one of the poorer regions of russia what 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 innovative way of solving the most pressing issues they got what they asked for two slides a sound bank and it be child might not seem like much but for a small community in the cure of region they become

a leisure hotspot there they used to be no one here it was abandoned now when the sun is out you can get at least. 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 so the regional government introduced a local initiative scheme one day heard of it the village club together and applied for a grown from a special farm with the beach was laid. for a fee of the british people who were consulted over this very decision to build it and i think as a result people look after this properly properly the idea of micro projects i 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 fund the rest often go around houses to collect the cash nearly two hundred micro projects will be built in this region but it ended a year and. we want to change people's attitudes instead of expecting things done for them we want to see conditions we are giving power to the people because of

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 everyone has gone. the village of color cherokee has just over a thousand residents several hundred of them petty criminals serving time in a labor colony because one poorly stuck shop and for every road it builds good 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 and no. cure of region. i we are up to date for the moment let's see what's happening in the world of business. hello and a very warm welcome to the business program or hours approaching from ben bernanke it to outline his vision of how to save the u.s. from slipping back into recession and the markets will be watching the federal reserve's annual meeting in jackson hole but i'll be looking for that the money printing press will once again be start it how whether to mccutcheon from gold believes if that has fired its on the nation and all its cut 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 when 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 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 economy doesn't pick up they're going to print more and more money to cover the the budget surplus of shortfalls 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 than was already been so. fresh brings us to the markets oil prices a flat just fears that harken i renewed could just drop refinery production on the east coast of the u.s. but gold just what positive this hour though we're still having for a weekly declines not think it's most winning streak and for here is still about shedding and such and across asia stocks so trading in

a tight range investors seem to be on wanting to make strong moves ahead of the u.s. federal reserve conference call sometimes the pressure with dial security is down two percent in tokyo and hong kong strong earnings report posted industrial and commercial bank of china out of the three percent. let's see what's happening in europe and of course everyone isn't just beijing founder and thank you speech in jackson hole at six pm moscow time and as you can see the attack stopped last the footsie which had been boys in the past three sessions by speculation that the u.s. may opt for the stimulus into the economy dropped on thursday let's see what's going to happen to the kids today and. the person is same picture here in moscow both the r.t.s. and my six slightly in the red top are seeing some gains in the first minutes of trading. let's have a look at some of the individual moves on the market six most oil majors

a down the solid well this point eight percent in the red cross never is risen of a cent and still make a serious dollars also down just by posting a sixteen percent rise in second quarter profits. russia turns out to be quite a hot spot but it comes to advertising media agency korat says the country's advertising market will grow seventeen percent this year that's three times faster than the global one analysts note that companies all the world are cutting spending on promotion well that's because of uncertain time but russia is an exception with growth rates already. ok that's it europe more business news in lost time.

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