this is. today's news and of the week's top stories at libya's tipping point backed by nato bombs to the rebels hunt colonel gadhafi after taking over the capital tripoli. north korea will limit nuclear arms testing and production if international talks on security in the region to resume a pledge made by the country's reclusive leader on a rare trip to russia. and the lack of progress in unmanned space ship carrying supplies to the international space station is missing after crashing over siberia.

and it's the week a very decisive breakthrough arrived in libya's civil war when tripoli was the scene of a major battle between the rebels and forces fighting for longtime leader colonel gadhafi the opposition claims that now controls most of the capital the resistance continues among cut off in loyalists in some parts of the country let's get more from archies at riff notion of who is in the libyan capital live now thanks for joining us at this moment and we're hearing about concerns for the humanitarian situation in tripoli or any signs of it getting better at this moment. well as the rebels report there now control the most of the libyan capital it seems that facing the battle of another trying to him military in one situation here on the ground is very complicated is very difficult and this is very close to humanitarian

catastrophe because the city is now facing severe shortages of running water electricity gas line and medicine even in the hotel where we are staying and where most of the foreign journalists to stay we have serious problems with bad. people use public taps throughout the city to get some water we've seen many of them lining up with plastic can try to do all the cross trickily and also the use electric generators to produce some electricity since the city's municipal services happen for allies series of full of garbage and people are trying to clean themselves try to do something with ads in the evening. live here usually sours in the evening in the evening they come out to the streets with brooms and trash bags of course they say that their times are not enough to deal with the situation and many of them concerned that it will take a while for their life to get back to normal people here in tripoli also live in

fear for anneke there is no police in the city and here people are trying to deal with this situation in south. their order now here in the libyan capital is maintained and maintained by. volunteers to run checkpoints every one hundred or two hundred meters they check every car passing by and leaving with drive with lights switched on inside the car just to allow people at the checkpoints to to see years it's still not safe here in tripoli and people are afraid to leave their houses that's why the libyan capital looks quite empty and in some districts they've been abandoned just. piece of good news the rebels have recently announced that they've strengthened their hold on the road from tripoli to the need to nation border known as major supply routes which extracts t. help improve the situation but so far the picture is not. back to you know marshall

you mentioned that it is still not safe there in tripoli and the city is obviously still reeling trying to recover from of the five that has taken place there in the midst of all of this there is still a hunt for colonel gadhafi can you tell us a little bit more about the latest on that situation. what the rebels are know claiming that we're currently preparing for an assault on a native town city which is six hundred kilometers east of the capital tripoli and this city thought to be his last stronghold and they say they are now waiting for nato to help them to clear the path and as soon as. they will advance towards serious we've been hearing airplanes during the day and night and recently we've heard from nature that it had carried out several air strikes here in the capital tripoli and in south of the country and some military targets have

been. hundred feet or so and a surface to surface missile launcher meanwhile as you just sad indeed for khadafy is undergoing we recently been hearing numerous reports from the rebels leader is that they know. where. they've been several reports that the gadhafi had been cornered but still we don't have a niece i know so far meanwhile the reports that the colonel had fled the country in and around a convoy towards algeria but as far as we know the foreign minister of algeria didn't confirm. this information and i had denied this information back to you right r.t. is maria for notion of reporting from the libyan capital tripoli and of course we'll keep you updated as more information becomes available. now the scenes of celebrations this week across libya were reminiscent of those in cairo's tahrir

square in february but there the high expectations after the revolution so gave way to this illusion that he just had been due to hold its first parliamentary vote in september but the interim government has delayed it citing the need for more time to prepare or he's going to can look at the parallels with libya. the death the regime is crumbling. the levy and rebels are cheering. the. same cheers and tears could be seen in egypt in every as the nation ousted their longtime leader hosni mubarak but six months on many egyptians say their home is being crushed by reality. you know i love the revolution when it happened i welcomed it but look at the time we call life at the end of the tunnel we see it's not getting better we have nothing to eat just don't tell me about democracy for

hungry people it just doesn't matter the egyptians now are not governed by they chose their leaders instead it's their army that's in control the army that has strong ties with the u.s. and who sponsored by washington the military regime that the edifice the institutions that were the essence the fundamental essence of the mubarak regime those remain and we can see that thousands of people have been brought to military trial since the end of the popular revolution that ousted mubarak in tripoli the body taking over is the national transitional council also not chosen by the libyan people yet the council is being recognized as the legitimate government of libya by our allies have been helping oust. many reviews are outraged by the fact that foreign powers are effectively making vital choices or that there is too much wealth and geopolitical strategic value to libya to look at only become reformed

and democratic rights and universal produced creation by the citizenry. western powers need to implement a western economic and military agenda and therefore the people who will actually command the political situation in libya and the military situation in libya will indeed be supportive and buttressed by western powers western powers have thrown all their support behind a lead in national transitional council giving them delia's of dollars and weapons to gain control but the rebels are far from being a united group what libya's going to face after that is a period of prolonged chaos nobody knows the outcome this is tried again strive this is not democracy against the kalahari revolutions in egypt and libya developed under different scenarios in egypt it was an on armed uprising of millions in libya it's been an insurgency flooded with weapons by the west and those weapons are still in their arms and they're not going anywhere and many analysts are saying

that we could find themselves in a much worse situation than the egyptians because on top of power crisis similar to the one egyptians are having libyans could be facing a fresh outbreak of violence at the hands of the mob i'm going to shut down reporting from washington parties. and remember you can also get the latest news on the situation in libya as well as blogs and analysis at our website. it emerged this week that north korea is ready to return to international talks over its disputed nuclear plans with no preconditions you know incident came as the country's reclusive leader met president dmitry medvedev in russia on a rare trip abroad kim jong il gold across the. in an armored train also to discuss a vital energy deal for his state's struggling economy. was following the visit. a man of mystery north korea's kim jong il prefers to stay out of the media

spotlight the great leader as he's officially known at home constantly fears for his life which is why you avoid planes as armored cars and eats chopsticks designed to detect reasons but the fear of ongoing sanctions and tough financial times proved more significant as when kim jong il embarked on a widely publicized trip to russia making tracks from pyongyang in a special armored train gifted to kim's father by stalin the leader crossed the border with russia and made his first stop in the far eastern town of cross on from there he traveled on the translate here in railway to the by call region with the republic of borneo as its final destination and a meeting with president mediated his ultimate goal but before meeting with this current russian counterpart north korea's leader start to pay his respects to the first soviet leader this. is one of the biggest in the world and by stopping here kim jong il has made sure the entire world knows what might have been russia's past

is still north korea's future as kim jong il's press service scrambled for their multitude of motion picture cameras to document the great leaders every word the two men get down to business but let's look as far as i understand the democratic people's republic of korea is interested in the implementation of this trilateral project in which the russian federation and south korea will also take part some technical matters are going to be settled now some time ago against problem delegation at the level of the vice chairman of the board visited the d.p. r. k. yesterday i ordered the chairman of the border like similar to tackle this issue the pipeline which would bring siberian natural gas to the hub of asia. it would mean money for the struggling north korea and a new market for russia the north koreans are not going to be. a sufficient price for gas imports from russia would we have a paper because the building of pipelines in the pipeline has to be extended in

south korea so it's not the south korean market but the formal state of war between north and south korea is a huge obstacle and this is yet another situation where russia has an advantage bush is in the perfect position to play this role because of their closer relationship with the united states over the past years because of the fact they aren't seen as allied with north korea as china is and because someone has to as a world leader stand up and say this war has gone on for sixty years that there's been a change a cold war has ended folks let's get on to the idea that you only build peace through engagement and relationship you know president obama. once said that we must change our way of attention from what separates us to what unites us and russia plays a unique role right now to help lead the world in that direction and markedly

different approach from some of the other members of the six party talks like south korea and the u.s. this constant sanctioning has failed to bring results and results are what this free trade to russia appears to have achieved with kim jong il's announcement of a desire to return to the talks and implement a moratorium and production and testing of nuclear weapons if the chance resume for north korea is a chance to recover from recent data famine and get some much needed food aid for russia it's a chance to do what everyone else has failed so far catherine as are about r t one of them. and still ahead for you this hour a storm brewing in new york. the streets of the metropolis stand empty as hurricane irene sweeps closer leaving devastation in its wake. and france is feeling the pinch as debt surges and the growth stagnate with fears huge cuts could spill over

into angry writes. the hunter continues for the wreckage of an unmanned russian space ship that crashed on wednesday the progress of vessel was carrying supplies for the crew at the international space station when it fell back to earth in siberia shortly after launch its crash spread fears its toxic fuel could be dangerous for locals and the environment to grieve stakes in the story. the moment it's all came crashing down. launched on wednesday from the point nor cosmodrome three hundred twenty five seconds later a progress craft atop a soyuz rocket plummeted back to earth i thought it was a plane first then i realized i never fly there widely then it turned into some bright object and then suddenly it was partly buried in a loud noise it was like three bangs one really loud and two quieter he was due to talk with the international space station on friday delivering essential supplies

to the six crew members on board rocket malfunction has been blamed for the unsuccessful launch as a craft ascended into orbit a signal failure here meant the third stage in the sequence in this part of the rocket was an activated as a result it failed to ignite and propel the progress out of the earth's atmosphere . teams have be sent to southern siberia is altai republic to look for signs of any wreckage amid fears toxic fuel may seek into the surrounding soil and water supply so far they've drawn a blank but already the repercussions of the bush mission of being fills much further afield with the question of how to resupply the international space station proving the most pressing. operation always keep in mind that possibility or cargo space ship not booking through the international space station for some reason so the crew on board pairs of water and food supplies will survive on for

another three or four months until their. cargoes craft arrive to the space station time then maybe on the side of ross cosmos russia space agency but the losses still raised significant alarm bells this story is carrying. crew is slightly different but not much there. then the one that was the progress they're going to want to make sure. thing is similar to go all of that what you want what happened it was a surprise it was more turbulence of russia's space program back in december when three lowness satellites the country's alternative to g.p.s. plummeted into the pacific ocean with this latest setback was kosmos has been forced to tighten called the control in hope there won't be a repeat of the problems that'll be good news for the six astronauts currently on board the international space station especially since after the scrapping of the

u.s. shuttle program there's now global importance on the success of the soyuz to greaves r.t. millions of new yorkers who have chosen to stay in their homes despite mandatory evacuations are bracing themselves for hurricane irene the deadly storm has already devastated parts of the east coast of the u.s. leaving millions without electricity marina is among those preparing to weather the storm. the big apple looks extremely eerie the streets are empty businesses are either or either have boarded up their windows or keep along their windows and tropical winds are beginning to move into new york city at this moment and you could feel the wind increasing you feel the rain increasing the rain is coming down like sheets of water and new york city has also been put under turning to right shoulder five am sunday morning in iowa and new york city michael

bloomberg did have a press conference stating and urging all new yorkers to stay away from their windows move away from their glass windows because he says the winds are going to take up speed con ed may be forced to shut down power in certain parts of new york city between now and sunday evening if those areas get to light it friday new york city michael bloomberg the first time in history issued a mandatory evacuation of certain parts of new york city up to three hundred seventy thousand people live there all these evacuation zones a lot of people chose to not move chose to stay in their homes but overall there is a feeling of anxiety taking over not just new york but all the surrounding states we did get to speak with some people about work heading to the stores to buy up supplies hot saturday here's a little bit of what they had to say. hold on. this is the only real one it

really had a. regular or so appears to be you know something no we don't know what was going on here out of lego now tried in the in my time in the water like hurricane katrina that gives me the public transportation system in new york city has also been shut down that includes the trains the processes at this point the trouble. are moving and everyone is just bracing themselves for this storm. reporting for us a very now you are with our team in coming up a new president but old problems. as the people of cars here in the caucuses make their choice of a ballot box we look at head as what lies in store for the new leader as his republic struggles to rebuild after winning independence from georgia. the richest a sector of french society is pledging another three percent of its annual income

this week to help the country battle its descent into debt as growth slumps france has also announced some twelve billion euro worth of cuts but as archie's daniel bushell explains the move could be too little too late with fears social unrest could fall. brawls enjoys a triple a credit rating for now between one of the boys did three shows among the world's top rated states minibuses 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 cause he's presided over the biggest jump in debt levels in our history books that carry too much water sink. france has got a bit taller its limits it probably does though for us as he explained to you real deep spending cuts this week but economists fear things so bad those cuts go

nowhere near enough and we 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 for all these huge hit birds and is bringing chronic underinvestment in schools and hospitals. getting. into car and. computers. 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 deprived regions alertly spoil the inner part of cities and the suburbs. are socially segregated to very high extent far more so than in the u.k. or in germany so yes unrest to come from the suburbs and spread through nicolas

sarkozy's flying as forefront as he can on budget they take 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. for hopefully unions students. can march directly in protest against the ministers. because these absence this time of crisis it's leading newspaper le figaro b b clipper politically with his failure to tackle the country's troubles now could be creating even greater problems for the future to see. the people of the carcasses republic of them have settled upon their choice of who they want to lead their fledgling country vice president alexander won the presidential vote beating two rivals he will succeed sergei who died recently from

illness after playing a crucial role is long and bitter struggle for independence from russia excuse me from georgia and then it has more. he promised to make a pause it a stronger state know what xander thought has the power to do so winning fifty four percent of the vote in friday's presidential election out of two rivals has given him a clear mandate with some citizens of the small caucus republican willing to travel a long way to support their man as i came from crimea to vote for our party he helped war veterans like me a lot when we had tough times. alexander unquote was feisty president one the man he succeeds as leader sergei volkov ops giant in office last may i too saw taz independence recognized by russia and a number of other countries in two thousand and eight with both men helping prevent war with georgia the same year for almost two decades after a pause he had to claridge's independence from georgia in one nine hundred ninety

one military conflict along with fear and uncertainty marked life in the country the mood now seems to have changed the early battles were dependence left many scholars in a policy as capital you can see how badly the parliament building was damaged cleaning up the rubble and getting things back in order will probably be the toughest part of the job for the new president keeping good ties with russia and restoring the economy will be the top on clubs agenda. we have to admit it and it is true we see some growth but it is no no we close and series and this is. the campaign was monitored by more than one hundred international observers from countries including france austria and israel and i was invited to. have a very quick reaction from georgia always says oh no don't go there about my ideals for anything independence and i can exactly support what you're doing here you know because you're fighting for your syringe you're going to be

independence democracy for an election observers ignored the threats and gave the pull a clean bill of health is. the elections have been very well planned and have been operative at the highest level as well as the results of the outcome has meant another positive step for democracy in the region according to the election monitors the new man faces stiff challenges in leading his country with a hostile leader in georgia and a legacy of difficulties following independence citizens will be hoping the man they've chosen as president will help herald a new era for their country that is full of artsy support. and don't forget you can watch the news if you want to when you wanted had r.t. dot com here's a taste of what we've got mind up for you right now. a personal account of nine eleven is banned a former f.b.i. agent who claims the cia could have stopped the attacks is that prevented from publishing his upcoming inside story. and attacks from the deep

a third man is mauled by a shark in russia's far east find out more about the search for the sea predator at arjun dot com. on to some other international news in brief for you at this moment . in syria two more protesters have been reportedly killed by security forces with activists saying there was sporadic shooting in separate cities it comes as its close ally iran has reaffirmed its support for president assad but said he should answer the legitimate demands of his people the arab league has decided to send a mission to the country saying it will no longer be silent on the crackdown against protesters over two thousand people have been killed since anti-government demonstrations began in march. at least five people have died in brazil after a tram popular with tourists derailed in rio de janeiro more than thirty others were injured some of them critically after coming off the tracks the tram skidded down the street before crashing into a lamp post investigators are trying to find what caused the accident comes two

months after a french tourist died falling out of one of the trams as it was crossing a bridge. venezuela's president hugo chavez has announced he'll start a third round of chemotherapy at home instead of cuba where he had two previous courses of treatment chavez underwent surgery in june for a malignant tumor in his pelvic area the exact nature of his cancer has not been disclosed chavez who's been in power for over a decade is his party's only candidate for the two thousand and twelve presidential election. and i'll be back with the headlines in just a few minutes stay with us. i

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