live from moscow you're watching our weekly program here in r.t. this sunday it's two pm in the russian capital first up colonel gadhafi is reportedly ready to begin talks to transfer power to libya's rebels the news comes a week after a decisive breakthrough in the country's civil war which i believe was the scene of a major battle as the rebels took control of the city from gadhafi loyalists the notion now is in the libyan capital for us. we are receiving reports that khadafi wants to hold talks with the rebels to form a transitional government to mussa ibrahim gadhafi is information chief has apparently called a pin usages it has quarters in new york and has sad that he ready for negotiations with the rebels to form transitional government and he's appointed his third son saadi to lead these negotiations this news comes just one week after the rebel

successful assault on the libyan capital tripoli which became kind of breakthrough in the libyan six month long civil war and just days after the colonel and he was south announced that he would fight till his dad found called libyan people to come and fight against rebels and to die or with him meanwhile many here are skeptical about his intentions because it's not for the first time that the colonel expresses his readiness for peaceful solution of this crisis we know that he'd repeatedly announced ceasefire with the rebels but he'd broken many times. he didn't earn trust enough to be sure that these negotiations will actually take place meanwhile the rebels are progressing quite well they're now claiming that they are controlling the most part of the country which is actually true including the capital tripoli virtually now are almost completely under their control there now

claiming that they're preparing for an assault on conduct his native town city which is thought actually to be cut off these last stronghold and there is now saying that they're just waiting for nato to help them clear the path the situation on the ground in the libyan capital is very complicated and if it is very close to humanitarian catastrophe actually this is the she is currently facing severe shortages of running water electricity few anti-medicine people are trying to do with that they are using public taps to get some rule. and since the city's municipal services have been paralyzed streets of the capital tripoli full of garbage and people are also trying to cope with that themselves also you people here in tripoli live in fear of anarchy because there is no police in the city and people are trying to do that themselves the order now is maintained by armed

volunteers the right checkpoints throughout the city it's not safe here in tripoli because we are receiving from time to time reports about sniper shooting that's why people are afraid to leave their houses and that's why tripoli now looks a little bit amp t. and in some districts even abandoned. meanwhile western powers have begun bear own fight for their beers fast or oil riches are too sour furth reports now on the nato states lining up to secure lucrative energy contracts. drill to the heart of most modern walls and you'll strike oil whether or not that's sayings true when it comes to libya well it's going to play a pivotal role in the country's future here we have two very strong interests that meet. the western interest to test the torah. but also to rebel to ordinary future media government interest to restart selling all this possible

this stranger to the concept of friends with benefits gagne's being quick to casey up to the new transitional council who invited the public face of the group. so it's really the tool was good at these places and you have here an ally when the nato bombing campaign began back in april remember up to the switch sides began courting the rebels. the full the wall almost a third of its least daily energy needs were imported from libya an oil giant any was the largest foreign operator in the country the. they had been doing all they can to safeguard these contracts but the if they will be able to maintain these previously close business ties is by no means a given in a post gadhafi libya the future looks extremely uncertain and there are little guarantee one of the biggest problems with italy and other western countries since the beginning of the war has been the struggle to adequately understand the

internal workings of the rebels themselves. among the rebels there are many factions islamists tunisian people. if. your sick and many chiefs of these groups of rebels are from the politicians that before were with gadhafi and then they completely changed their face if we went with the wind as they send it to me i think that corrupt politician if. it will make gadhafi personally on a number of occasions three business to mention less than a month ago a sure turned from a fact finding trip to libya with a handwritten letter she says was written by gadhafi to berlusconi in it he allegedly says he was surprised by your decision to join the coalition against libya especially after we signed the friendship and cooperation treaty between our two sides the treaty he's referring to he was talking just two months before the libyan uprising the letter goes on to ask why did you join our enemies without any

diplomatic dialogue or investigation berlusconi now seems t.v. is he making the friends there was that maybe the final chapter that deathy many feared the conflict will continue i would dare to say this stuff if you talk to you which is among the rebels there is no such. circumstances. no consensus call for me to be an interim whom you are actually the person to talk to. be. with her foreign media now is silly along with many in the west could well find that previous lucrative or. they turned out to be just as good as the way in full the friendship there for the. well nato has been denying previously reports that it was helping the rebels in the hunt for colonel gadhafi despite the fact british jets have bombed gadhafi is hometown journalist and broadcaster neil clark says the use of dissent from ation by all sides is

a whole mark of the conflict. what is very clear is happening here is the rebels trying to teach this to the international audience and trying to make out their complete control of the country that gadhafi is finished that the war is basically over everyone supports them the situation is wrong more complex and it's a very very divided society along tribal lines and the gadhafi regime which was secular did manage to hold the country together for a long period and now we're going to see tribal warfare break out and it's very clear that he still has lots of support in the west these pools that you have no support and that everybody behind the opposition but it isn't true what nato has done here basically transform a situation where there was demonstrations against the into a full scale civil war the western powers who. really want to get their money back and they want to get money they want to profits this whole enterprise about humanitarian intervention that was entirely bogus this was all about talking. and

installing the new regime we would hand out the contracts to western companies and would be much more amenable to america and its allies general. journalist and broadcaster they are neil clark commenting on libya well remember you can also get the latest news on the situation in libya as well as blogs and now assess a much more on our web site r.t. dot com. it emerged this week that north korea is ready to return to international talks over its disputed nuclear plants with no preconditions the announcement came as the country's reclusive leader met president dmitri misery to find russia on a rare trip brought kim jong il rolled across siberia in an armored train also to discuss a vital energy deal for his state struggling economy. followed 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 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 he can john l. 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 sun from there he travelled on the translate here in railway to the by call region with the republic of borneo to as its final destination and a meeting with president made a video of his ultimate goal but before meeting with this current russian counterpart the north korean leader stopped to pay his respects to the first soviet leader this past of like the meddling in 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 a gas 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 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. price for gas imports from russia would we overpay but because the building the pipelines of the pipeline has to be extended into south korea to the south korean

market but the. foremost of war between north and south korea is a huge obstacle and this is yet another situation where russia has an advantage but she 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 you know president obama. 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 markedly different approach from some of the other members of the six party talks like south korea and the u.s. whose 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 more tory and production and testing of nuclear weapons if the talks resume for

north korea is a chance to recover from recent bouts of famine and get some much needed food aid for russia it's a chance to do what everyone else has failed so far. as our of our will on the day . still ahead for you this hour a storm brewing in new york the streets of the metropolis stand empty as hurricane irene sweeps leaving devastation in its wake. and france is feeling the pinch as surges and growth stagnates with fears huge cuts could spill over into a groove riots. 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 a won't it. should say spread fears that its toxic fuel could be dangerous for

locals and the environment 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 queens never fly and that more quietly then it turned into some white object and then so that you were sparkling 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 been sent to southern siberia out-i republic 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 afield with the question of how to resupply the international space station proving the most pressing. operation glamorous always keep in mind that possibility of cargo space ship not docking to the international space station for some reason so that go on board has enough of water and food supplies to survive on for another three or four months until their. cargo spacecraft arrives 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 this story is

a rocket carrying crew is slightly different but not that much there. then the one that wants to progress they're going to want to make sure anything that is similar could go on about why you want what happened when. there was more turbulence of russia's space program back in december when three cloner 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 would 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. griefs r.t. . well following that latest rocket malfunction the return of three crewmembers from the international space station is scheduled for early next month has been delayed despite the setback for the side use many experts believe it's still the most

reliable way to transport people and cargo into or. the soyuz is a very reliable vehicle but it's still got a something like a one in fifty a little bit of the money fifty failure rate so as long as you're using expendable vehicles this sort of failure is bound to happen you know every fiftieth to sixtieth flight the soyuz is a more reliable system of the shuttle remember the shuttle did not have an escape system so when it failed the crew were in very serious trouble whereas the soyuz has a very effective escape system so both the rocket and the escape system have to fail before the astronauts are in any danger. that was mark ourself from the british interplanetary society now. millions of new yorkers who chosen to stay in their homes despite mandatory evacuations are bracing themselves for the worst of hurricane irene heavy rain and strong winds have already started plummeting the city parts of the east coast the u.s.

have been devastated leaving millions without electricity as among those preparing to weather the storm businesses are either or either have boarded up their windows or put cheap along their windows and you could feel the wind increasing you feel the rain increasing the rain is coming down like sheets of water 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 friday new york city michael bloomberg for the first time in history issued a mandatory evacuation of certain parts of new york city 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 and did get to speak with some people doubt were heading to the stores to buy up supplies saturday

here's a little bit of what they have to say and i will go. my whole life this is the only real one that really had a major evacuation or so here's the nose of the we don't know the whole thing i'm scared about it like going outside in the in like tons of water like hurricane katrina like that for me the public transfer station system in new york city has also been shut down that includes the trains the process is i could tell you that the city is prepared for the worst most new yorkers are hoping that the stories being overblown that it's being hyped up but i can't imagine that in in time. this kind of time a time of economic crisis where city would go and spend so much money and the federal government if this was not a serious storm and at this point we're waiting for seeing it seems a little bit like a movie where you know you don't know what's going to happen but you're just prepared and that's the circumstance here in new york that secretary right now. by

from moscow you're with are to coming up a new president but all problems as the people. in the caucuses make their choice at the ballot box and look at what lies ahead 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 slams france has also announced some twelve billion euro worth of cuts for starters daniel bushell explains the move could be too little too late but fears social unrest could follow. enjoys a triple a credit rating for now one of the choice debts 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 mr causes 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 a six year old of spending cuts this week but economists fear things. those cuts go nowhere near enough you can compare it with people saying we're going to buy a lamborghini and buy a porsche and they call the austerity doctors board for all these huge debts burden is bringing crudely of the reverse mint in schools and hospitals. hitting. into current. computers. very. old fashioned. the situations. explosive say experts and

friends 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 socially segregated to very high extent far more so than say in the u.k. or in germany so yes unrest could come from the suburbs and spread through. because these flying this fall from france as he had on budget they taze 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 he'll 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 so because these absence in this time of crisis rights 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 the new bush will see. the people of the caucasus republic of have settled upon their choice of who they want to lead their fledging country vice president alexander won the presidential vote beating two rivals now succeed thirty bug ups who died recently from ls after playing a crucial role in a positive long and bitter struggle for independence from georgia and he has more. he promised to make a pause it is stronger state know what it 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 caucasus republic willing to travel a long way to support their man as i came from crimea to vote he helped war veterans like me a lot when we had tough times it's. like son that was vice 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 declared independence from georgia in one nine hundred ninety one military conflict along with fear and uncertainty marked life in the country the mood 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 an agenda. we have to admit it and it is true we see growth but there's no no we need loans and series and. the campaign was

monitored by more than one hundred international observers from countries including france austria and israel and i was invited to. have. very quickly the reaction from the georgian always says oh no don't those are about my ideals so sure any general independence and i. was exactly support what you are doing here you know because you're fighting for your syringe you know to intervene dependency democracy for election observers ignored the threats and gave the poll a clean bill of health these 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 and leaving his country with a hostile labor in georgia and a legacy of difficulties following independence citizens will be hoping demand they've chosen this president will help herald a new hero for their country. are to support. now don't forget

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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 in rio de janeiro more than thirty others were injured some of them critically after coming off the tracks the tram skidded down a street before crashing into a lamp post investigators are trying to find what caused the accident becomes 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 ligament tumor in his pelvic area the exact nature of his cancer has not been disclosed chavez has been in power for over a decade as his party's only candidate for the twenty eight twelve presidential

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a human voice face to face with the news makers. see live from moscow our top stories in a look back at what happened this week colonel gadhafi wants talks with the libyan rebels to arrange a transfer of power that's according to a spokesman meanwhile the opposition's western allies are eyeing payback as a car up of the country's oil wealth begins. north korea is ready to limit nuclear arms testing and production of international talks on security in the region resumed supplies was made by the countries of the close of leader kim jong il on a rare trip to russia. and an unmanned russian space ship is missing after crashing over siberia and the problem.