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 a week after i should say i 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 archies were in if notion is in tripoli. we are receiving reports that khadafi wants to hold talks with the rebels to form a transitional government mussa ibrahim gadhafi is information chief has apparently called a.p. news agencies has quarters in new york and has sad that he easer ready for negotiations with the rebels to form transitional government and he's appointed his a 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 himself an ounce bag he would fight till his dad found called libyan people to come and fight against rebels and to die we thin meanwhile many he has kept to 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 repeatedly announced ceasefire with the rabbits 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 controlling most parts 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 cut off his native town city which he thought

actually to be cut off is 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 it is very close to humanitarian catastrophe actually the city is currently facing severe shortages of running water electricity few 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 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 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 amp t. and in some districts even abandoned. or to his real financial there in tripoli for us meanwhile the pentagon says is monitoring libyan sites containing stockpiles of chemical weapons and is pledging to prevent them from falling into the wrong hands the arsenals include mustard gas and wrong your rainy i'm. now 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 celebrate three and on the outskirts of the capital stockpiles of chemical weapons nato know very little about the people who might come to power. trip to leave. so now if you've got this

cache of weapons of mass destruction that again people really don't know what's there and if this is falling into the hands of certain 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 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 or 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 the national

territory of libya by nato led rebel forces i think that the idea that he would be beholden to these types of agreements would be off the table at this point and certainly he was quoted as saying in early july that 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 it at any rate but the alternative rebel control of chemical weapons is arguably worse according to many some of the rebel factions have links to al qaida or of 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 attractive we know that the majority of the people who are fighting muslim extremists how that is going to be with those people. and i believe.

would be more proper i'm a big fan. if you're there also indications nato is considering putting peacekeeping troops on the ground in libya regional experts warned that could be seen by parts of the free libya movement as an act of aggression but having supported the rebel movement must now deal with the consequences even if that's. islamic extremists and it's all too much. well remember you can also get the latest news on the situation in libya as well as blogs analysis and 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 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 is our of our follow

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 quests on from there he traveled on the translate beren railway to the buy call region with the republic of video to as his final destination and a meeting with president of a div 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 pasta vladimir lenin 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 but 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 carry. price

of gas imports from russia would ever pay but because the building pipelines of the pipeline has to be extended into 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 a lot i did with north korea as china is 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 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 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 market oriented 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 catherine as are about r t well on a day. 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 way. and france is feeling the pinch as death surges and growth stagnate and fears future cuts could spill over into angry wyatt's. 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 grieve 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 at first but then i realized coins never fly and that quietly then it turned into some white object and i saw 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 station 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 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 are being felt much. further afield with the question of how to resupply the international space station proving the most pressing. operational glamourous always keep in mind that possibility of a big cargo space ship not docking to the international space station for some reason so that get on board has enough of water and food supplies to survive on for another three or four months until their. cargo spacecraft arrives for 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 about why you want what happened when i say it's applies there's more turbulence of russia's space program back in december when three grown 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 nationals 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 j.q.

greaves r.t. millions of new yorkers who have chosen to stay in their homes to spite manchuria vacuum rationed 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. have been devastated leaving millions without electricity our teams were important i as among those preparing to weather the storm. businesses are that are 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 the border 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 here 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 hog saturday here's a little bit of what they had to say. my whole life and this is the only real one they really had a major evacuation for so here's to you know something now we don't know the whole thing i'm scared out of like going outside in the i'm like tons of water like hurricane katrina like that there's me the public transportation system in new york city has also been shut down that includes the trains the bus 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 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 we're 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's i can tell you right now. but from moscow here with r t coming up a new president but all problems as the people. in the caucuses make their choice at the ballot box we look at what lies ahead for the new peter 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 dale bussell explains the move could be too little too late but fear social unrest could follow. france enjoys

a triple a credit rating for now one of the fois debt ratios among the world's top rated states many investors bet on it to follow the u.s. and be downgraded just repaying interest on its debt this year has overtaken education and defense as the government's biggest spend was just mr cause he's presided over the biggest jump in debt levels in our history books that carry too much water. or. france has gone up the tolerance limit admitted prime minister seeks blame didn't 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 lamborghini and buy a porsche and they call that austerity doctors board for all these huge debts burden is bringing crudely of the reverse mint in schools and hospitals.

hitting. into. computers. very old. fashioned. the situation's big. explosive say experts and frauds could be next to witness roy it's like those in britain was deprived regions the lloyd 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 could come from the suburbs and spread through. because these flying a call from france as he turned over to his pacific island of new caledonia with students climbing street protests over the cuts he's left the job of presenting a bill to his prime minister he'll let them take the flak for it and hopefully

unions students retirees can march directly in protest against their ministers while he's bathing in the sun because these absence in this time of crisis wright's 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 don't you see. the people of the caucasus republic have settled upon their choice of who they want where they want to lead their flooding country wise president alexander won the presidential vote beating two rivals. died recently from illness after playing a crucial role in abkhazia as long and bitter struggle for independence from georgia and he has more. he promised to make a pause it a stronger state know what x. on the one five has the power to do so winning fifty four percent of the vote in friday's presidential election had 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. i came from crimea to vote for our puppet he helped war veterans like me a lot when we had tough times it's. like son that 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 at the same year for almost two decades after a pause it declared 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 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 one club's agenda at that but i would have a problem we have to admit it and it is true we see certain growth but it is no no we need loans and series 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 an earthquake a reaction from the georgian i was says oh no don't go sir but my ideals are any american independence and i can exactly you support what you are doing here you know because you are fighting for your summer and geo tanami independence democracy for an election observers ignored the threats and gave the poll a clean bill of health. these elections very well. have been operating 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 labor in georgia and a legacy of difficulties following independence citizens will be hoping that they've chosen this president will help herald a new hero for their country. don't forget you can watch the news you want when you want it and are to dot com here's a taste of what's lined up 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 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 same predator our team dot com. a look now at some other international news in grief in syria two more protesters have reportedly been killed by thirty

forces with activists saying there was sporadic shooting in separate cities it comes as a close ally iran has reaffirmed its support for president but said you 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 lamppost investigators are trying to find what caused the accident when it comes to months after a french tourist died. 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 as underwent surgery in june for a mole ligament 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 twenty twelve presidential election . well this week before time african player of the year samuel eto'o agreed on a story deal with the russian team. making him one of the highest paid players in the world the arrival of the superstar striker is a massive coup for russia's premier league and puts i'm firmly on the map as one of the global games most ambitious clubs are cheese medina has the story. to divert from the above to go much and for the next three years most of salmon at those big games will be in russia this thursday the cameroon international left into milan and each day behind flying in to join new club and.

i'm starting from scratch i've always possible in europe as a player and here i can start a new plus i've played with a bunch of crazies before and you told me a lot about russian feeble and i do look forward to joining the team at the three time champions league winner and the most decorated african player of all time lightening pace has made out to one of the sport's most prolific goalscorers yes this stellar signing has put this region of russia the north caucasus into the soccer world spotlight this is the in the he says. it seems that until recently few side of russia had heard off but which is now making sports had lines across the globe and it's in this unlikely setting that i'd seen all. world soap and stars is being built the story behind this transfer began in january when the douglas tony club was bought by celine monk giving him of a locally born businessman and one of the richest men in russia he vowed to turn

gene into a contender hoping to transform the republic's image in the process a handful of promising acquisitions followed among that legendary brazilian de-fund about the cardless the current captain of the club the fact that one of the best. in the world will be playing. there are some very valid will. make their very big impact so it's a good development top of the game here in russia. i think it will give a very good image of ross and football because. there is one of the best there are certain players here is not the star of the past russian money in european football is nothing new back in two thousand and three russian businessmen are more now but are more each bought english club chelsea and transformed a mid-level club into you are paying powerhouse i should a smart have has also ploughed his millions into english giants arsenal but this

time the situation is different here is a bit as 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 superstars playing for russian clubs are asco men as chose goals like the bush no r t reporting from the north caucasus. will take a short break here on our team i'll be back with the headlines stay with us.

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me start on t.v. don't come. at three thirty pm times these are the top stories on our colonel gadhafi reportedly all first talks with the libyan rebels who runs a transfer of power good while there are fears the country's civil war could see its chemical weapons falling into the wrong hands. north korea is ready to limit nuclear arms and tasks arms testing and production if international talks on security in the region resumed floods were made by the countries that use of leader kim jong il on a rare trip to russia. and an unmanned russian space ship is missing after crashing over siberia the progress vessel was carrying supplies to the international space station when.