and it's the week of 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 while resistance continues among khadafi loyalists in some parts of the country let's get more from our notion of who is in the libyan capital live now. thanks for joining us at this moment time 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 that's they're now control than most of the libyan capital it seems that there are facing the battle of another kind of a humanitarian one the situation here on the ground is very complicated very difficult and this is very close to humanitarian catastrophe because the city is now facing severe shortages of running water electricity castle and medicine even

in the hotel where we are staying and where most of the foreign journalists to stay we have serious problems with that. people use public taps throughout the city to get some water we've seen many of them lining up with their plastic cans trying to do all the cross a tree quickly and also the use electric generators to produce some electricity since the city's municipal services have been paralyzed series of full of garbage and people are trying to clean the house try to do something with in the evening since since i done live here usually stars in the evening in the evening they come out to the streets with brooms and trash bags but of course they say that their times are not enough to deal with this 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 of anarchy there is no police in the city and here again people are trying to

deal with this situation themselves. their order now here in the libyan capital is maintained and maintained by armed volunteers the right 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 deep tunisian border known as a major supply route which expects to help improve the situation but so far the picture is not at all 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 the five that has taken place there in the midst of all this there is still a hunt for colonel gadhafi can you tell us a little bit more about the latest on that situation. while the rebels are now claiming that theah currently preparing for an assault on khadafi native town city which is about six hundred kilometers east of the capital tripoli 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 it's done 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. facilities on the vehicles and a surface to surface missile launcher meanwhile as you just sad indeed duffy is

undergoing to be recently i've been here in numerous reports from the rebels leader is that they know. his whereabouts and they've been several reports that gadhafi had been cornered but still we don't have any sign of 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 welsh area didn't confirm. this information and i had denied this information back to you right artie's maria for an ocean 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 do. it egypt 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 church you can look at the parallels with libya. the kid that he regime is crumbling. the rebels are cheering. the. same cheers and tears could be seen in egypt in february as the nation ousted their longtime leader hosni mubarak but six months on many egyptians say their hopes have been crushed by reality. you know i love the revolution when it happened i welcomed that looked at the time we call life at the end of the tunnel we see it's not getting better we have nothing to eat don't tell me about democracy for hungry people it just doesn't matter the egyptians now are not governed by whom they chose as their leaders instead it's their army that's in control the army that has strong

ties with the u.s. and he 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 the 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 leading people yet the council has been recognized as the legitimate government of libya by all allies who have been helping oust the. mendeleev ians 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 only become reformed in democratic rights and universal participation by the citizenry. western powers need to implement a western economic and military agenda and therefore the people who will

command the political situation in libya and the military situation in libya will indeed be supported and buttress by western powers western powers have thrown all their support behind the league in national transitional council giving them billions of dollars and weapons to gain control but the rebels are far from being the united group what is going to face after that is a period of prolonged chaos nobody knows the outcome this is tribe against tribe this is not democracy against totalitarian revolutions in. different scenarios it was an 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 egyptian. could be facing a fresh violence at the hands of armed mom. reporting from washington. 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 the announcement came as the country's reclusive leader met president dmitri medvedev in russia on a rare trip abroad kim jong il rolled across a. 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 evil explains has armored cars and eats chopsticks designed

to detect reasons but the fear of ongoing sanctions and tough financial times proved more significant as 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 class on from there he traveled on the translate here in railway to the by call region with the republic of borneo to as his final destination and a meeting with president made a video of his ultimate goal but before meeting with his current russian counterpart the north korean leader stopped to pay his respects to the first soviet leader this bust of legs in the leg and is one of the biggest in the world and by stopping here kim jong il has sure that the entire world knows that 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. 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 able to pay a sufficient price for gas imports from russia would would ever pay but because the building the pipelines of the pipeline has to be extended into south korea to 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 russia 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 a lot i did 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 the cold war has ended folks let's get on to the idea that you only build peace through engagement and relationship you know president vaclav havel once said that we must change our ray 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 a marketing different approach from some of the other members of the six party talks like south korea and the u.s.

has constant sanctioning has failed to bring results and results are what this brief trip to russia appears to have achieved with kim jong il's announcement of a desire to return to the talks and implement a moratorium on production and testing of nuclear weapons if the talks resume for north korea is a chance to recover from recent doubts of 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 m. 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 the debt surges and the growth stagnate with fears huge cuts could spill over into angry writes. the hunt continues for the wreckage of an unmanned russian

space ship that crashed on wednesday the progress 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 greaves takes up the story. the moment it's came crashing down. launched on wednesday from the baikonur cosmodrome three hundred twenty five seconds later the progress craft atop a soyuz rocket plummeted back to earth i thought it was a plane a first but then i realized coins never fly and that no more quietly then it turned into some white object and then so that it was sparkly and i heard a loud noise it was like three bangs one really loud and two quieter it was due to dock 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 out-i republik to look for signs of any wreckage amid fears toxic fuel may seep into the surrounding soil and water supply so far they've joined a blank but already the repercussions of the bush mission of being felt much further. there a field with the question of how to resupply the international space station proving the most pressing. operational glamourous always keep in mind and possibility of cargo space ship not docking to the international space station for some reason so that they're on board has enough of water and food supplies to survive on for another three or four months until their. cargo spacecraft arrive to

the space station time then maybe on the side of ross cosmos russia's space agency but the loss has still raised significant alarm bells it's only as a rocket carrying a crew is slightly different but not that much the. last progress they're going to want to make sure anything that is similar could go on that way you want what happened when we should say life was more turbulence of russia's space program back in december when three clone a satellites the country's alternative to g.p.s. plummeted into the pacific ocean with this latest setback roscosmos says be forced to tighten quality control and 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 to itself the scrapping of the u.s. shuttle program has now global importance on the success of the soyuz j.q.

greaves r.t. . millions of new yorkers who've 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. a big apple looks extremely eerie the streets are and the businesses are are either have boarded up their windows or put cheap along their windows the 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 terminator watch chilled out five am sunday morning in 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 pick 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 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 down who were heading to the stores to buy up supplies saturday here's a little bit of what they have to say i love. my whole life this is the only real one they really had a major evacuation for so here's the nose of the no we don't. the

one thing i'm scared about is like going outside and being like tons of water like hurricane katrina that to me the public transportation system in new york city has also been shut down and that includes the trains the process is this point the truck went are moving and everyone is just bracing themselves for the storm. reporting for us there now you are with our team and coming up a new president but problems. as the people of the caucuses make their choice at the ballot box we look at head what lies in store for the new leader as his republic struggles to rebuild after winning independence from georgia. the richest 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 artie's daniel

bushell explains the move could be too little too late with fears social unrest could follow. enjoys a triple a credit rating but now one of the choice did three shows among the world's top rated states. followed the u.s. be downgraded just repaying interest on its this year has overtaken education and defense as the government's biggest spend. causes presided over the biggest jump in debt levels in our history books that carry too much water. or. france is going to. as you roll deep spending cuts this week but to call them is fear things. those cuts go nowhere near enough. people saying we're going to buy lumber and buy a porsche and they call the. doctors board for old says huge debt burden is

bringing truly under-investment in schools and hospitals. hitting. winter and. computers. very old. equipment old fashioned through. the situation's explosive say experts and friends could be next to witness roy it's like those in britain deprived regions the likely spot 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 unrest comes from the suburbs and spread through. because these flying of fall from france as he chatted over 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 to let them take the flak for it and hopefully unions students retirees can march directly and protest against the ministers while he's bathing in the sun because these absence in this time of crisis wright's leading newspaper le figaro may be clip of politically but his failure to tackle the country's troubles now could be creating even greater problems for the future of the new bush you'll see. the people of the caucuses republican 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. has more. he promised to make a pause it

a stronger state now what it's on the down fall 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 now going to as i came from crimea to vote for our puppet he helped war veterans like me a lot when we had tough times. alex on the un club was feisty president one the man he succeeds as leader sergei bug option died in office last may the two saw a pause in 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 it declared independence from georgia in one thousand 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 for independence led 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 of and clubs agenda at that but out of a bargain we have to admit it and that is true we see certain growth but there's no no we need loans and serious investments with 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 george how he says oh no don't go sir but my ideals so are any american independence and i can exactly you support what you are doing here you know because you're fighting for your sorrentino tone i mean dependence democracy for an election observers ignored the threats and gave the poll a clean bill of health this. elections are very well planned and have been

operative at the highest level as well as the result 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 neighbor in georgia and a legacy of difficulties following independence citizens will be hoping the man they've chosen this president will help herald a new era for their country. artsy support. and don't forget you can watch the news if you want to when you want it had r t dot com here's a taste of what we've got lined up for you right now. the 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

our to 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 a 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. 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 popular with. more than thirty others were injured some of them critically after coming off the tracks down the street before crashing into a lamppost investigators are trying to find what caused the accident two months after he died falling out of one of the trams as it was crossing

a bridge. venezuela's hugo chavez has a third round of chemotherapy at home instead of cuba where he had two previous courses of treatment underwent surgery. the exact nature of his cancer has not been disclosed chavez who's been in power for over a decade his party's only candidate for the two thousand and twelve presidential election. will be back with the headlines in just a few minutes. i

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a close eye on our. direct from the heart of moscow certainly glad to have you with us now let's take a look at today's news stories. by bombs nato bombs that is the rebels. taking over the capital tripoli but the dire humanitarian situation there jubilation over countries a longtime leader. north korea is ready to limit nuclear arms reduction if. he in the region resume the pledge was made by the country's reclusive leader kim jong il on a rare trip to russia.