you're watching our t.v. with the day's news and the week's top stories libyan rebels say it will be no negotiations with moammar gadhafi claiming all the colonel deserve is a rats it's not as after reports said the leader is still in the country and willing to transfer power to the opposition. although it could off is effectively gone prices over not the kind of goals the libyan capital for more would join me in reflection of from tripoli in just a few moments. and there's a big shake up in the russian space agency after the loss of another on manned mission scientists now rushing to resupply the international space station and preventing the subsurface. north korean leader kim jong il roll through half of russian by train for a meeting with president medvedev saying leader with the leader saying once the

resumption of international talks to bring peace to the peninsula. and hurricane irene leaves three million people without power along the u.s. eastern seaboard as it heads towards new york green high winds and grasp of the rising sea levels. but from our studios in central moscow you're watching argue with me and he said now it's four pm here in the russian capital eight am in new york where we start in libya where rebels have given a resolute no to moammar gadhafi is reported suggestion to sit down for talks the national transitional council says prison not negotiations is in store for the fugitive colonel written notion a is in tripoli with more. we are receiving reports that kentucky wants to hold

talks with the rebels to form transitional government mussa ibrahim cut off his information chief has apparently called a.p. news agencies has orders in new york and has sad that he easer ready for negotiations with the rebels to form traditional government and he's appointed his third son started to lead these negotiations and 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 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 virtually now are almost completely under their control they're now claiming that they're preparing for an assault on his native town which he's thought actually to be his last stronghold and there's nothing that is 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 this three she is currently facing severe shortages of running water electricity few and madison people are trying to do with that they're 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 the order now is maintained by armed volunteers there are checkpoints throughout the city it's not safe here in tripoli because we are receiving from time to time reports about snipers 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. oh three last journalists chandan

says the rebels would not have got so far in their uprising it wasn't for nato bombing fear and terror into. some of the countries will fall into support when the who is one of the so-called. civilians but since since day one of the bombing of nato operation they have been massacring civilians and most infamously little and just two weeks ago it's been confirmed it was not our year the british are concerned the conduct of that massacre eighty five civilians is a clear programme of state terror this is the business which nato is involved in in libya in afghanistan and anywhere else they operate state terrorism pure and simple nato apache helicopters and jets massacred and blown apart these rebels are going to tripoli. but libyans are the latest in line to celebrate the end of a dictatorship following tunisia and egypt but judging from the post-revolutionary struggles the free countries are now going through it's unclear if the changes in the hour of the arab spring has brought or for the better parties gets to count

looks at the parallels between career and martyr square. the crew that the regime is crumbling. the levy unravels 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 is being crushed by reality. you know i loved the revolution when it happened i welcome to the time we call light at the end of the tunnel we see it's not getting better we have nothing to eat just don't tell me about democracy for hungry people just doesn't matter the egyptians now are not governed by who they chose as their leaders instead it's their army that's in control the army that has strong ties with the us and is sponsored by washington the military regime that the edifice the institutions that were to be as since the fundamental essence of the mubarak regime

those remain and we can see that thousands of people have been brought to military trial since the end of the popular revolution that ousted mubarak in tripoli the body taking over is the national transitional council also not chosen by the leave young people yet the council is being recognized as the legitimate government of libya by all allies who've been helping oust gadhafi many libyans are outraged by the fact their foreign powers are effectively making vital choices for them there is too much wealth and geopolitical strategic value to libya to let it only become reformed and democratic rights and universal protests. creation by the citizenry. western powers need to implement it was during economic and military agenda and therefore the people who will command the political situation in libya and the military situation will indeed be supported and buttressed by western powers

western powers have thrown all their support behind the leading national transitional council giving them billions of dollars and weapons to gain control but the rebels are far from being a united group what is going to face after that is a period of prolonged nobody knows the outcome this is tried because tribe this is not democracy against what our three revolutions in egypt and libya have developed under different scenarios in egypt it was an armed uprising of millions in libya it's really 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 wanted to transfer having libyans could be facing a fresh outbreak of violence at the hands of the armed mom i'm going to shut down reporting from washington. coming up on our t.v.

we are on hurricane watch for you the city that never sleeps has turned into a ghost town check out these live pictures from downtown new york as hurricane irene sweeps up the u.s. east coast closing in on the big apple. the russian government has ordered a major shake up of the country's space agency after the loss of yet another on manned mission a progress resupply crouch fell to reach the international space station and burnt up in the earth's atmosphere six crew members aboard the i as a last will now have to ration out the food and water they have left are tears jacob griefs reports. at the moment it's. crashing down. a lot sean was there 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 going never fried that quietly and then it

turned into some bright object and then suddenly it was part one 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 that 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 some of the siberian altai 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 drawn a blank do already the repercussions of the bush mission of being fails much further afield but the question of how to resupply the international space station

proving the most pressing. operational planners always keep in mind that disability or card was not talking to the international space station for some reason so they could go on board pairs of water and food supplies to survive on for another three or four months until their. cargo space craft arrived to the space station time then maybe on the side of ross cosmos russia's space agency for the last has still raised significant alarm bells this is all you carrying. the crew is slightly different but not much here. was the progress they're going to want to make sure anything similar. happened. is more turbulence of russian space program back in december when three glow less satellites the country's alternative to g.p.s.

plummeted into the pacific ocean with this latest setback was kosmos as before sometimes in quality control in hope there won't be a repeat of the problems but if we could use the six astronauts currently on board the international space station especially to solve the scrapping of the u.s. shuttle program there's now global importance on the success of the soyuz to griefs r.t. . this week north korea announced its readiness to resume international talks over its disputed nuclear plans the news came as the country's leader made a rare trip abroad to meet president dmitri mitzi to even discuss among other things a vital energy deal for north korea's struggling economy arsons katrina was more. a man of mystery north korea's kim jong il prefers to stay out of the media spotlight a great leader as he's officially known at home constantly fears for his life which is why he avoids planes has armored cars and eats with chopsticks designed to

detect poisons but the fear of ongoing sanctions and tough financial times proved more significant as. 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 some from there he traveled on the transept here in railway to buy col region with the republic of borneo to as his final destination and a meeting with president mediate 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. is one of the biggest in the world and by stopping here kim jong il has made 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 and which the russian federation and south korea will also take part the pipeline which would bring say korea 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. price for gas imports from russia would. cause the growth in the pipelines that part one has to be extended into south korea so it's not the south korean market but a 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

are insane as a lot i did with north korea as china is you know president. one said we must change our river tension from what separates us to what unites us and russia plays a 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. was constant sanctioning has failed to bring results and results are what this brief to russia appears to have achieved with kim jong il's announcement of a desire to return to the talks and implement a more torreon and production and testing of nuclear weapons if the charts resume for north korea is a chance to recover from recent that's a famine and get some much needed food aid but for russia it's a chance to do what everyone else has failed so far catherine as are about r t.

but for moscow here with our team still have this hour breaking the bank i know this football has watched the cash for a new super striker making him one of the world highest paid players. but first millions of new yorkers who decided to stay in their homes are bracing themselves for the full force of hurricane irene all public transport has been shut down and the weather is rapidly deteriorating with one hundred twenty kilometer an hour winds fast approaching the big apple irene is sweeping up the u.s. eastern seaboard and has claimed at least ten lives already are going to porton iowa is in new york. businesses are are either have boarded up their windows or put people along their windows and you can feel the wind increasing you killer rain increasing their brain 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 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 were heading to the stores to buy up supplies i fabricate here's a little bit of what they have said i will go. my whole life and this is the only real one and really had a major graduation or so here's two of you know something we don't know the whole thing i'm scared out of like going outside in the in my 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 story's being overblown and it's being hyped up but i can't imagine that entire in this kind of time a time of economic crisis or a 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 mean 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 right out. well we are keeping a close eye on developments on rambling on america's east coast let's talk about the film i think images we're getting from new york city broadway the heart of the city and you can see as people prepare for the worst stay on top of what's happening york and the u.s. this coast on our website. you can witness the extreme weather that's unleashing across the eastern seaboard. europe spreading debt

crisis is threatening to draw in france as the government announced new austerity measures earlier this week amid concerns it could lose its triple a credit rating the new taxes that reducing package will see some twelve billion euros worth of tax cuts plus a tax hike for the rich as ours is doing a bushel explains the move could be too little too late it's fear social unrest is just around the corner. france enjoys a triple a credit rating but now one of the noise ratio is among the world's top rated states believe has been told it to follow the u.s. and be downgraded just paying interest on it this year has overtaken education and the feds as the government's biggest. causes presided over the biggest jump and debt levels in our history books that carry too much water. or. france is going to

tolerate it it probably does do as explained you rolled up spending cuts this week but the call of the spirit things. those cuts still nowhere near enough and you can compare it with people saying we're going to go. and buy a porsche and they call the austerity doctors all frauds these huge burden is brilliant critique of drink in schools and hospitals. getting. current. computer is. very old. fashioned. the situation's explosive say experts and frauds could be next to witness riots like those in britain with the proved regions the loike least the inner part of cities and the suburbs. are socially segregated to

very high stand for more. or in germany so yes unrest and come from the suburbs and spread through nicolas sarkozy's flying is forefront as he kind of budget they tease pacific island of new caledonia with students planning street protests over the cuts he's left the job of presenting his prime either stump you let them take the flak for it and hopefully unions students retirees can march directly and protest against the ministers while he's paving in the sun so because the absence this time of crisis writes 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 harris look now at some news that made headlines around the world today unrest continues

in syria with activists claiming government forces have opened fire on protesters in separate cities killing at least two people it comes as the arab league announced it will send it anyway to the country to hold talks president assad is seeking and to the violence meanwhile iran has reaffirmed its alliance with syria but warned that also should listen to his people's majida make demands where the two thousand been killed since anti-government demonstrations began in march. a series of overnight bomb attacks of laughs. people dead and injured at least seven in the iraqi capital baghdad the explosions targeted police patrol in one of the city's neighborhoods more than half of the casualties were officers officials say at least two hundred fifty people have been killed by extremists in iraq in july alone. superstar football striker has joined at the russian north caucasus club. of two. and four time african player of the year

will reportedly receive ten million girls a season as a rival is a massive cool for russia's premier league and put firmly on the map as one of the world's most ambitious clubs parties medina course never has the details. to divert a group of people going out and for the next three years most of samurai at those big games will be in russia this thursday the cameroon international left into milan and each leave behind flying in to join new club and color. i'm starting from scratch of all the trophies possible in europe as a player and here it is starting a new course i've played with a bunch of crawlers before and you told me a lot about russian and i do look forward to joining the team alto is the three time champions league winner and the most decorated african player of all time low lightening pace has made one of the sport's most prolific calls scorers increase and yes there's still

a signing has to put this region of russia the north caucasus into the soccer world spotlight this is the in the arm jima which color it seemed that on sunday recently few side of russia had hurried off but which is now making sports had lines across the globe and its inverse unlikely something that i'd seen of world superstars is being built the story behind this transfer began in january when the darkest on the clock was bought by slowly month giving him of a locally born businessman and one of the richest men in russia he valid to turn our gene to a contender hoping to transform the republic and mage and the process a handful of promising acquisitions followed and legendary brazilians affirmed the cardless the current captain of the club the for good one of the first where's. and the world will be playing for us in the premier league or will. america very very important it's a good road from top of the game here in russia. i think it will give

a very good image of profitable because summer is one of the best there are certain where's there's a lot of the star of the past russian money in european football is nothing new back in two thousand and three russian businessmen are on the bottom of each boat english club chelsea and transforms a mid-level club into you are a pain powerhouse i wish you the smart have has also ploughed his millions into english giants arsenal but this time the situation is different here is that there 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 asked that shows goals like the question are easy reporting from the north caucasus. now it's time for the latest in our close up series of events for gerri's of russia where few travel before.

this week where the cure of regional catered around a thousand kilometers east of moscow the city of curate is renowned is a renowned cultural center famous for its for cars and crafts in the summer the region is host to an annual festival celebrating a common green vegetable argues you are growing and joins in the fun. kirov region so far not very well known outside of russia and even inside russia is good the brand itself. is cucumbers the most russian of vegetables so if you look behind me what you are seeing is a cucumber festival people thousands of them coming here all day eating cucumbers you know fresh pickled or whatever else and this is something of an initiative we'll see what it takes off but we're noticing that over the last fifteen years

getting bigger and bigger and international with people coming in from all over the world just to solve these special ticket was a troll local speciality but more and out than my report it's the pride of the cure of region annual cucumber festival the governor himself invited journalists from all across russia just to showcase the region's tourist potential organizers here make the bold claim that a pickle cucumbers in this village of stubbins are the best in the world. but while the players sing folk songs extolling the virtues of the green staple has only one stall the actual vegetable can be bought literally ninety kilometers to be in this queue i'm curious about what it is that makes them so special but i'm a bit disappointed i wasn't allowed to buy more disheartened by the long wait we decided to take our search to the locals it's the middle of the pickling season if

you can there's a harvest that put in brine. and mixed with. the recipe to what makes them special is a strictly kept secret magic ingredients are deal garlic and horseradish. but the truly unique part of the local pickling process is that a sealed barrels are bump in a river for six months it's server the cold water gives them a subtle shorty flavor luckily we found some pickles left over from last year's crop of the stalk of cucumber has made me quite hungry for the local delicacy so i decided to give it a try myself. thank you traditionally bichir of region has been known for it's been covered stories base an ancient pagan beatty's these clay figurines have been and made here for hundreds of years handicraft strip tradition prescribes that athens was the big very specific subjects namely peasant women and

improbably colored animals and. this is not just a trademark of our region this is russia's visiting card we want the well to take notice the toys can only be made by women and apprentices have to perfect their craft for years before they can be called masters of the must. before he came to me for making the same things over and over again would be boring but actually they always turn out different and once i have most of the traditional motifs i my brainchild and. local authorities are hoping master classes like this one will become a tourist attraction and a recruiting ground for new craftswomen there's also talk of massive craft fairs that promise to draw thousands now there's even a family statue in the city square but that was paid for by a mobile phone operator with my journey and then i was charmed by did them cover

toys and pulled myself up on the local pickles but what if this is enough to turn the career of region into a tourist destination well that's another question altogether. clear of region. headlines are next after a short break.