today's news and the weaves top stories colonel gadhafi reportedly offers talks with the libyan rebels to arrange the transfer of power meanwhile there are fears the country's civil war could see its chemical weapons falling into the wrong hands hold the gadhafi is effectively gone crisis of another kind and gulfs the libyan capital for more joining reflection of from tripoli in just a few moments. north korea will limit nuclear arms testing and production of international talks on security in the region and resume the pledge made by the country's reclusive leader on a rare trip to russia. and lack of progress another man's face a very surprise to the international space station is missing after crashing over

siberia. it's three pm in moscow this is r.t. coming to you live on news now with our top story colonel gadhafi is reportedly ready to begin talks to transfer power to libya's rebels the news comes after a week of a week after i should say a decisive breakthrough in the country's civil war and tripoli was the scene of a major battle as the rebels took control of the city from gadhafi loyalists or she's worried if notion is in tripoli. we are receiving reports that could go off he warns to hold talks with the rebels to form a transitional government mussa ibrahim could offer his information chief has apparently colds and a.p. news agencies has orders in new york and has found that he sees are ready for negotiations with the rebels to form transitional government and he's appointed

he's a third son saadi to lead these negotiations this news comes just one week after the double 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 himself an ounce he would fight till his dad and called libyan people to come and fight against rebels and to die 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 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 control the most part of the country which is actually true including the capital tripoli she's a virtually now are almost completely under their control there now claiming that

they're preparing for an assault on his native town she's thought actually to be last stronghold and there's 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 it is very close to humanitarian catastrophe actually is the she is currently facing severe shortages of running water electricity fuel and madison people are trying to deal with that they are using public taps to get some water 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 people here believe in fear of anarchy because there is no police in the city and people are trying to deal with that and sal's the water it now is maintained by

armed volunteers there are checkpoints throughout the. 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 t. and in some districts even abandoned. there in tripoli for us meanwhile the pentagon says it is monitoring libyan sites containing stockpiles of chemical weapons and is pledging to prevent them from falling into the wrong hounds and start the arsenals include mustard gas and wrong uranium. reports that's causing concern with some rebel factions who say they've been infiltrated by islamic extremists. tripoli a city in chaos there's constant gunfire both aggressive and celebration and on the outskirts of the capital stockpiles of chemical weapons nature you know very little

about the people who might come to power in. tripoli you know if you've got this cash if weapons of mass destruction then again people really don't know what's there and if this is fully going to the 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 peace government that's both good and bad news following a series of meetings in two thousand and three moammar gadhafi agreed to allow weapons inspectors into libya the first step towards abandoning his w m d program in return for a normalizing of relations with the u.k. and u.s. they agree that he wouldn't use all move the material but now thanks in part to nato support of the rebels he's on the back foot and may feel he has nothing to lose by disregarding that agreement cry victory or martyrdom will strike an

ominous note to those who know of his weapons potential given the violations of. international territory of libya by needle and 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 quoted as saying you know. in july of it he would be willing to strike out europe if tripoli was attacked so i think it's a fair assumption to say that if there is that capability that he would be looking at that option at this point. but the alternative rebel control of chemical weapons is arguably worse according to many some of the rebel factions have links to al qaida arab 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 the majority of the people who are fighting are mostly extremists so how

there could be those people are very mobile of chemical i believe there. would be more proper and i think that. if you there are some indications nato is considering putting peacekeeping troops on the ground in libya 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 nato must now deal with the consequences even if that w m d armed islamic extremists and it's all a team much longer. remember you can also get the latest news on the situation in libya as well as blogs and much more on our web site r.t. dot com. it emerged this week about north korea is ready to return to international plots over its disputed nuclear plans with no preconditions be announcement came as the contras reclusive leader met president dmitry medvedev in russia on a rare trip brought kim jong il rolled across siberia in an armored train and also

to discuss a vital energy deal for his state's struggling economy katrina as our our of. a man of mystery north korea's kim jong il prefers to stay out of an east spot like 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 have 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 trance a beer and railway to the bike call region with the republic of billiards as his final destination and

a meeting with president of egypt 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 pos the ones in the lane is one of the biggest in the world and by stopping here kim jong il has made sure that 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 that you 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 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 say very natural gas to the hub of asia would mean

money for the struggling north korea and the new market for russia and north koreans are not going to be able to. price for gas imports from russia would we overpay but because the building the pipelines of 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 few 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 there we must change our way of attention from what separates us to what unites us and russia plays a role right now to help lead the world now correction markedly 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 prefectly from 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 counts 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. still ahead for you this hour a storm brewing in new york the streets of the metropolis and empty as hurricane irene sweeps closer leaving the devastation in its way. and france is feeling the pinch as debt surges and growth stagnate and fears future cuts could spill over into angry wyatt's. but one 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 fear 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 a progress craft atop a soyuz rocket plummeted back to earth i thought it was a train at first then i realized that point never fly that point only then it turned into some white object and then suddenly it was sparked by 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 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 disability or card was not booking through the international space station for some reason so they could on board have enough off water and food supplies to survive on for

another three or four months and deal. with craft arrived at this base the from time than may be on the side of those cause most russia's space agency but the loss has still raised significant alarm bells this all your. crew is slightly different but not much there. what was the progress they're going to want to make sure a thing that is similar could go on about why you want what happened. why it was more turbulence of russia's space program back in december when three 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 quality control and hope there won't be a repeat of the problems that'll be good news for the six nationals currently on board the international space station especially to sell for the scrapping of the

u.s. shuttle program there's now global importance on the success of the soyuz. greaves r.t. . millions of new yorkers who have chosen to say in their homes white men story of backing away shirts are bracing themselves for the worst of hurricane irene heavy rain and strong winds have already started plumbing plumbing the city parts of the east coast of the u.s. 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 can feel the wind increasing you feel the rain increasing rain is coming down like sheets the boiler shop in new york city michael bloomberg did have a press conference stating and urging all new yorkers just 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 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 and did get to speak but some people doubt were heading to the stores to buy up supplies odd saturday here's a little bit of what they have to say i will go. on hold on while this is the only real one that really had me through regulation or so here's the nose of the we don't know what was going on here out of like going out crying in pain in my tons of water like hurricane katrina like that here me the public transportation system in new york city has also been shut down that includes the trains the crosses i can tell you that the city is prepared for the worst most new yorkers are hoping that the story is being overblown that it's being hyped up

but i can't imagine that in time in this kind of time a time of economic crisis or 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 scene 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's not right now. but from moscow here with r t coming up a new president but all problems as the people of our cause here in the caucuses make their choice at the ballot box we look at what lies ahead for the new year 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 that's called slams france has also announced some twelve billion euro worth of cuts dale wessel explains the move could be too little too late but fear social unrest could

follow. france enjoys a triple a credit rating for now but should not have the choice ratios among the world's top rated states maybe but it is better at it to follow the u.s. and be downgraded just repaying interest only this year has overtaken education and defense as the government's biggest spend was mr sir cause he's presided over the biggest jump in vehicle levels in our history the current too much water. france's goal of tolerance limit it to prime minister a c explained to you rolled up 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 lumberjack and they only buy a porsche and they call that heresy doctors all frauds these huge debts burden is

bringing crudely of the reverse mint in schools and hospitals is the. current. computers. are old fashioned. out of the situations. explosive sea experts and friends could be next to witness routes like blues in britain proved regions likely the inner part of cities in the suburbs. are socially segregated to very high standards for more so in the u.k. or in germany so yes unrest come from the suburbs and spread through nicolas sarkozy's flying a call from france as he can on budget they taze pacific island of new caledonia with students climbing street protests over the cuts he's left the job of

presenting them to his prime either stop to let them take the flak for it and hopefully unions students retirees can march directly and protest against their ministers while he's behaving in a certain because these absence in this time of crisis rights leading newspaper le figaro may be clear both politically but his failure to tackle the country's troubles now could be creating even greater problems for the future of the new push to see paris. the people of the caucasus republic have settled upon their choice of who they want and where they want to leave their country ice president alexander one the presidential rivals will see. recently from illness after playing a crucial role in abkhazia as long and bitter struggle for independence from georgia. has more. he promised to make a pause it a stronger state now what it's on that i thought has the power to do so winning

fifty four percent of the vote in friday's presidential election head of 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. i came from crimea to vote he helped war veterans like me a lot when we had tough times. alexander and bob was vice president when the man he succeeds as leader sergei volkov option died in office last may the two soft paws in independence recognized by russia and a number of other countries in two thousand and eight with both men helping prevent war with georgia at the same year for almost two decades after a pause in a declared independence from georgia in one nine hundred ninety one military conflict along with fear and uncertainty marks life in the country the mood now seems to have changed their early battles for independence left many scars in a process 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 influx agenda. we have to admit it and it is true we see certain growth but it is no no we close and serious in this instance 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 which says oh no don't go there about my ideals or any independence and i can't exactly support what you're doing here you know because you're fighting for your summer and geo tone of the independence of democracy for an election observers ignored the threats and gave the poll a clean bill of health care. selections spoke for a while why it's not for 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 moon faces stiff challenges and leading his country with hostile labor and georgia and the legacy of difficult to get pundits citizens will be hoping that the chills of this president's health care old and new hero for their country. are change. so forget you can watch the news you want when you want it and are too dark calm here's a taste of what find out for you today a personal account of nine eleven is a balance a former f.b.i. agent who claims the cia could have stopped the attacks is prevented from public saying his upcoming inside story. and attacks from the diva third man is mauled by a shark in russia's far east find out more about the search for the sea predator our team dot com. a look now at some other international

news in brief in syria two more protesters have reportedly been killed by security forces but activists say there was sporadic shooting in separate cities it comes as a close ally wrong has reaffirmed its support for president also 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. 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 lamppost investigators are trying to find what caused the accident but it comes to months after a french tourist died out. out of one of the trams as it was crossing a bridge so. venezuela's president hugo chavez has announced i'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 mole ignorant tumor in his area the exact nature of his cancer has not been disclosed travers who's been in power for over a decade is his party's only candidate for the twenty presidential election. but this week a four time african player of the years samuel eto'o agreed a story deal with the russian team. are making him one of the highest paid players in the world their wives all of the super star striker is a massive coup for russia's premier league and firmly on the mouth as one of the global game's most ambitious clubs archie's machine of course no one has the story . of the good football people don't like and for the next three years most of summer actos big games will be in russia this thursday the cameroon international

left into milan and each leave behind flying in to join new club under which color . i'm starting from scratch of all the trophies possible in europe as a player and here it is jordan you played little bridge across before any told me a lot about russian feeble and i do look forward to joining the team at zero is the three time champions league winner and the most decorated african player of all time long retuning pace has made out tell one of the sport's most prolific old scorers increase and yes this still assigning how sport this region of russia the north caucasus into the soccer world spotlight this is the in the. it seems that until recently few side of russia had hurried off but which is now making scores had lines across the globe and it's and this unlikely something that i had seen elsewhere. also open starts is brain builds the story behind this trance

began in january when the duck is tony clark was bought by celine monk giving him of a locally born businessman and one of the richest men in russia he vowed to turn our genes to a contender hoping to transform the republic stanage in the process a handful of promising acquisitions followed among that legendary brazilian to found out about the parlous the current captain of the club the fact that one of the best wares in the world will be where. there are some very military will. america very big impacts of what the role of them thought of the game here in russia. i think will give a very good image of profitable because. it is one of the best bets in where's there's not a star of the past russian money in european football it's nothing new back in two thousand and three russian businessmen and i'm one of their mortgage bought english club chelsea and transforms a mid-level club into you were paying powerhouse i should

a smart have has also plowed his millions into english giants arsenal but this time the situation is different here is the bid is to make a little known russian football team known across the world this deal may heralds a new reality in the european game where international football superstar spraying for russian clubs are ask women as hos calls why didn't bush know r.t. reporting from the north caucasus. when take a short break here on our team i'll be back with headlines stay with us.

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