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 breanne high winds and rapidly rising sea levels. live from our studios in central moscow you're watching our two with me and he said now it is four pm here in the russian capital eight am in new york but 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 rif an ocean is in tripoli with more. 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 is a ready for negotiations with the rebels to form transitional government and he's appointed his third son saadi to lead this negotiations 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 controlling most part of the country which is actually true including the capital tripoli which is virtually now almost completely under their control they're now claiming that they're preparing for an assault on conduct his native town city which is 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 a situation on the ground in the libyan capital is very complicated and it is very close to here on it aaron catastrophe actually this thing she is currently facing

severe shortages of running water electricity fuel and medicine people are trying to deal 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 in tripoli live in fear of anarchy because there is no police in the city and the order and 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 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. but freelance journalists chandan says the rebels would not have got so far in their uprising it wasn't for nato bombing fear and terror into civilians some of the countries will fall into support

you know who is one of those so-called you know protecting civilians but since since day one of the bombing of the major operation they have been massacring civilians and most infamously in so little in just two weeks ago it's been confirmed it was the british are you concerned about conducted that massacre eighty five civilians is a clear program of state terror this is the business which nato is involved in in libya in afghanistan and anywhere else they operate it's state terrorism pure and simple nato apache helicopters and jets have literally massacred and blown apart these rebels against the tripoli. well libyans are the latest in line to celebrate the end of a dictator said following tunisia and egypt but judging from the post-revolutionary struggles the free countries are now going through it's unclear of the changes in the hour the arab spring has brought or for the better parties going to check out looks at the parallels between tuck rear and martyr square. the cadets the regime

is crumbling. the rebels are cheering. the. same cheers and tears could be seen in egypt in february as the nation ousted their longtime leader hosni mubarak but six months on many egyptians say their hopes have been crushed by reality. you know i loved the revolution when it happened i welcomed it that looked at the time we call life at the end of the tunnel we see it's not getting better we have nothing to eat just don't tell me about democracy for hungry people it 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 the essence the fundamental essence of the mubarak regime those remain and we can see the thousands of people have been

brought to military trial since the end of the popular revolution that ousted mubarak in tripoli the body taking over is the national transitional council also not chosen by the levy in people yet the council has been recognized as the legitimate government of libya by all allies who've been helping oust gadhafi many leave ians are outraged by the fact that foreign powers are effectively making vital choices for them there is too much wealth and geopolitical strategic value to libya to only become reformed in democratic rights and universal produced. by the citizenry the western powers need to implement it western economic and military agenda and therefore the people who will eventually command the political situation in libya and the military situation in libya will indeed be supported and buttress by western powers western powers have thrown all their support behind the 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 chaos nobody knows the outcome this is tribe against tribe this is not democracy against totalitarianism revolutions in libya have developed under different scenarios it was an on armed uprising of millions in libya it's been an insurgency flooded with weapons by the west and those weapons are still in their arms and they're not going anywhere and many analysts are saying that we could find themselves in a much worse situation than the egyptians because on top of power crisis similar to the one egyptian is are having libyans could be facing a fresh violence at the hands of the armed mom. reporting from washington hard to. coming up on r t 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 men mission a progress resupply craft fell to reach the international space station and burned up in the earth's atmosphere six crew members aboard the i as us will now have to ration out the food and water they have left or it is jacob griefs reports. 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 first but then i realized queens never fly there or 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 delivery of century supplies to 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 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 drawn 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. operation planners always keep in mind episode bill of

the of the cargo space ship not docking to the international space station for some reason so that they're on board pairs of water and food supplies to survive on for another three or four months until their. cargo spacecraft arrive to the space station time then maybe on the side of ross cosmos russia's space agency but the loss has still raised significant alarm bells this or you as a rocket carrying crew is slightly different but not more that much different than the one that was the progress they're going to want to make sure anything that is similar could go on about what happened. oh it's applies there's 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 that'll be good news for the six astronauts 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 j.q. greaves r.t. . this week north korea announced its readiness to resume international talks over its disputed nuclear plans the news came out as the country's leader made a rare trip abroad to meet president dmitri mincemeat of and discuss among other things a vital energy deal for north korea's struggling economy. has more. 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 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 hey 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 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 medvedev 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 siberia 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 ever pay but because the building the pipelines of the pipeline has to be extended into south korea to the south korean market but the foremost 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 white 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 moratorium on production and testing of nuclear weapons if the talks resume for north korea is a chance to recover from recent data famine and get some much needed food aid but for russia it's a chance to do what everyone else has failed so far cashman as are about r t. live from moscow you're with our team still have this hour breaking the bank an hour since football has washed the cash for

a new super striker making them one of the world highest paid players. the 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 parties where an important iowa is new york businesses are 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 for 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 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. my whole life this is the only real one that really had a major evacuation or so. to know something that we don't know the whole thing i'm scared out of like going outside in the i'm like. on the water like hurricane katrina like that there's me the public transportation system in new york city has also been shut down that. the trains the buses i could 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 where city would go and spend so much money and the federal government if this was not a serious storm and at this point where we're 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's not to tell you right now. well we are keeping a close eye on developments on rambling on america's east coast let's take a look at found live images we're getting from new york city broadway the heart of the city empty and you can see as people prepare for the worst we'll stay on top of what's happening in new york and the u.s. coast on our web site our team dot com you can witness the extreme weather that's been 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 was artie's daniel bushell explains the move could be too little too late but fear social unrest is just around the corner. france enjoys a triple a credit rating for now one of the toys ratios among the world's top rated states many investors bitterly to follow the u.s. and be downgraded just repaying interest on its this year has overtaken education and defense as the government's biggest spend was just cause he's 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 as explained you rolled up spending cuts this week but economists fear things. those cuts go nowhere near

enough leave you can compare it with people saying we're going to buy lumber gini and they only buy a porsche and they call the austerity doctors board for all these huge debts burden is bringing crudely of drink versus mint in schools and hospitals. hitting. current. computers. very old. equipment are old fashioned. out of the situations explosive say experts and frauds could be next to witness riots like those in britain with deprived regions the likely spark the inner part of cities and the suburbs. are certainly segregated to very high extent far more so. or in germany

so yes unrest could come from the suburbs and spread through because so because these flying this fall from france as he turned over budget they taze 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 and protest against the ministers while he's bathing in the sun so because these absence in 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 of the new bush you'll see. a look now at some news that made headlines around the world today unrest continues 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 an envoy to the country to hold talks with president assad and seek an end to the violence meanwhile iran has reaffirmed its alliance with syria but warned that also should listen to his people's legitimate demands more than two thousand been killed since anti-government demonstrations began in march. a series of overnight bomb attacks have left. people dead and injured at least seven in the iraqi capital baghdad the explosions targeted movies 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. to cameroon native and four time african player of the year will reportedly receive ten million euros as season as a rival is

a massive coup for russia's premier league and puts it firmly on the map as one of the world's most ambitious clubs arches medina question of the details. to divert. 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 today behind flying in to join new club and. i'm starting from scratch of all the trophies possible in europe as a player and here i can start a new plus i've played little bridge across before and you told me a lot about russian football 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 lightening pace has made out one of the sport's most prolific goals scorers. 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 scores had lines across the globe and it's in this unlikely setting that i'd seen world superstars is being built the story behind this transfer began in january when the darkest on the clock was bought by still a month good enough locally born businessman and one of the rich his. and in russia he found to turn gene into a contender hoping to transform the republic's image in the process a handful of promising acquisitions followed and long that legendary brazilian defined about the cardless the current captain of the club the fact that one of the best where's in the world will be playing. there are some families will. america a very big impact of the role of the top of the game here in russia. i think it will give a very good image role for us in football because. it 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 in them but are more of each english club chelsea and transformed a mid-level club into a you are paying powerhouse i should of small enough has also ploughed his millions into english giants arsenal but this time the situation is different here is that that is to make a little known russian football team known across the world this deal may herald a new reality in the european game where international football superstars playing for russian clubs are asco men as toes goals like the question are to reporting from the north caucasus. now it's time for the latest in our close up series but we venture to areas of russia where few have traveled before.

this week where the curator of region located around a thousand kilometers east of moscow the city of cure of is renowned is a renowned cultural center famous for its fall cars and crops in the summer the region is host to an annual festival celebrating a common green vegetable arts use joins in the fun. the spirit. so far not very well known outside of russia and even inside russia is going to brand itself after one thing and this thing 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 cucumber you know fresh or 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 first it was getting bigger and bigger and this year the national with people coming in from all over the world just a sample of these special cucumbers which are local speciality but more than my

report it's the pride of the cure of region that 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 pickled cucumbers in this village of disturbance are the best in the world. so while the players sing folk songs extolling the virtues of the green staple because only one store where the actual vegetable can be bought and i've travelled eighty kilometers to be in this queue i'm curious about what it is that makes them so special but then 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 with the harvest that put in brine. and mixed with herbs.

the recipe to what makes them special is a strictly kept secret but the magic ingredients are deal garlic and horseradish. but the truly unique part of the local pickling process is that the sealed barrels are dumped in the river for six months it's said that the cold water gives them a subtle chalky flavor luckily we found some pickles left over from last year's crop all the stalk of cucumber has made me quite hungry for the local delicacy decide to give it a try myself. thank you traditionally day care of region has been known for its dim covered toys base an ancient pagan date these clay figurines have been handmade here for hundreds of years the handicraft strict tradition describes the artisans most depict very specific subjects namely present women and i'm probably color down and. this is not just

a trademark of our region this is russia's visiting come out of 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 i became to make 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 grandchild 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 dim core family statue in the city square but that was paid for by a mobile phone operator when my journey at the met and i was shown by the dim covered toys and filled myself up on the local pickles but whether this is enough to turn to care of region into

a tourist destination well that's another question altogether eager of. cure of region. headlines are next after a short break. here

with our to you live from moscow our top stories libyan rebels have rejected a reported all for by moammar gadhafi for power transfer negotiations the opposition claims jail not talks are ahead for the fugitive colonel as they prepare an attack on his last stronghold to proclaim absolute control over the country. there's a big shake up in the russian space agency after the loss of another unmanned mission but scientists now rushing to resupply the international space station and prevent disaster six people aboard the i asked sas will have to ration out their supplies until the causes of the failure are discovered and dealt with now so says the station could have to be abandoned if russians.