brothers and three children in cold dream which will burn coal so if it kills until a grand going cold i'm specifically told going cold remembering who told blanco those that haven't even called a role in the radio. libyan rebels have turned down reported only for five moammar gadhafi to negotiate the power transfer as they prepare a final attack on the colonel's hometown. the rebels say it's treason not talks that's ahead pulling back will be a leader who will join the rich notion of from tripoli in just a moment. there's a big shakeup in the russian space agency after the loss of another unmanned mission the scientists now rushing to resupply the international space station and then disaster. because north korean leader kim jong il rolls through half a process by trying for a meeting with president medvedev saying gang wants a resumption of international talks that will bring peace to the peninsula.

and hurricane irene leaves three million people without power along the u.s. eastern seaboard as it slams into new york green highways and grappling bronzing sea level. why from moscow or at six pm it's ten am in new york we start with libya where rebels have given a resolute no to moammar gadhafi is reported suggestion sit down for talks the national transitional council says all the colonel deserves is a rest not dialogue artie's rufe an ocean has spoken to the rebels and has more than tripled. we have been able to speak to the rebels' information minister here in tripoli and he's made his position quite clear the rebels will not negotiate with the criminals the rebels will not negotiate with the killers they want to cut

off he and they're running after him street after street district after district and as soon as they catch him they will throw him to jail this statement after the new solution use of the police that. duff is information chief has apparently called a.p.s. headquarters and has said that it is ready for talks with the rabble to form a government and his even appointed his son so i do to leave this negotiations and this news comes just a week after a successful assault by the rebels on the libyan capital tripoli which became kind of breakthrough in the libyan six month long. civil war well meanwhile the rebels are progressing quite well they're currently controlled in most of the country and including the capital tripoli and they are now claiming that they are preparing for what they call this final battle an assault on kid of his native town still at the

same time the rebels say that the go round to go in with his supporters there in syria and if. will they will no be any military operation if only they agreed to surrender if not. will start within the next two days while the people here in tripoli are struggling because currently the city is facing severe sure the chauffeur electricity gas line magazine and water garbage is everywhere on the streets because municipal services happened paralyzed people trying to deal with it themselves they are. taken out to the streets with brooms and. trash bags trying to clean them they also now live in in fear of anarchy because there is no police but of the. i also try to do that and. i know it's the streets and. denies any kind of . volunteers. for checkpoints. the situation is

very high surgical here chiefly. investigative journalist webster tarpley says even though the war in libya is far from over and nato could soon sift its attention or it's good that it was supposed to fall in march he has essentially gummed up the works he has assumed of blocking position of the the nato subversion machine and he's kept them tied up for six or seven months if gadhafi resistance were to subside which i do not think will happen these military assets that we presently see deployed in the central mediterranean will be moved to the eastern mediterranean and there has gold and syria and ultimately iran had better watch out because they're also targets and remember this gets into iran and also russia because of that important naval station to syria which is the base of the russian

mediterranean squadron so if it's if it's calming down in libya that simply means that this world will move move east but i think right now we're looking at a very long war in libya let's compare gadhafi to well i don't want to compare him to morrow more but you know that was ten years ago and will almost all operating with no problems. i think can go on one better so don't look for gadhafi to be rounded up any time and even if he is there's an extended family here and there is indeed an extended tribe the tribal organisation in libya is ideal for conducting a resistance under these conditions. but coming up on r t we are on storm watch the city that never sleeps has turned into a ghost town as now tropical storm irene sweeps up the u.s. east coast closing in on new york city. the russian government has ordered a major shake up of the country's space agency after the loss of yet another

unmanned mission a progress resupply craft failed to reach the international space station in the earth's atmosphere so its crew members aboard the i s us will now have to ration out the food or water they have left or does jacob greaves has more. moments it's who came crashing down. launched on wednesday from the baikonur cosmodrome three hundred twenty five seconds later the progress craft atop a soyuz rocket plummeted back to earth i thought it was a plane a first then i realized going never flying there or quietly and then it turned into some bright object and then suddenly you were sparkling and i heard a loud noise it was like three bangs one really loud and he 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 a 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 of being fails much further afield with the question of how to resupply the international space station proving the most pressing. operational planners always keep in mind the possibility of cargo space ship not booking through the international space station for some reason so the crew on board pairs enough off water and food supplies to survive on for another three or four months until their cargo spacecraft arrive for the space

station time then maybe on the side of those cosmos russia's space agency but a loss has still raised significant alarm bells this story as a rocket carrying. a crew is slightly bigger but not not that much there. was the progress they're going to want to make sure anything similar could go on about what happened. why there's more turbulence of russia's space program back in december when three glow of 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 to sell for the scrapping of the u.s. shuttle program has now global importance on the success of the soyuz. jigga greaves

r.t. . but the failure of the science rocket propelled the progress into orbit puts the entire manned space program in question now source now saying the international space station could have to be abandoned and don't resist soon resume but space expert mark himself says there is no viable alternative to the long serving russian rocket soyuz is a very reliable vehicle but it's still got a something like a one in fifty a little better than one in fifteen failure rate so as long as you're using expendable vehicles this sort of failure is bound to happen you know every fifty years to sixtieth light the soyuz easy a more reliable system of the shuttle remember the shuttle did not have an escape system so when it failed the crew were in very serious trouble whereas the soyuz has a very effective straight system so both the rocket and the escape system have to fail before the astronauts are in any danger. 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 to meet their needs relative and discuss among other things of vital energy deal for north korea's struggling economy artie's consider the us our courts. 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 you avoid planes as armored cars and eat with 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 it to kim's father by stalin the leader crossed the border with russia and made his first stop in the far eastern town of press on from there he traveled on the trance

a beer and railway to the buy call region with the republic of borneo to as its 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. 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 the two 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 in the pipeline which would bring savior a natural gas to the hub of asia would mean money for the strictly north korea and a new market for russia the north koreans are not going to be

a. price for gas imports from russia would we overpay but because the building the pipelines and the pipeline has to be extended. korea 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 because she is in the perfect position to play this role because of their closer relationship with the united states over the past years because of the fact they aren't seen as a lot i did with north korea as china is you know president obama. once said that we must change our river tension from what separates us to what unites us and russia plays and. 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. who is 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 march for human production and testing of nuclear weapons if the talks resume for north korea is a chance to recover from recent data found and 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 one of their. still ahead for you this hour breaking the bank north called football watch that cast for a new super striker making him one of the world's 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 while i remain now been downgraded to a tropical storm the brothers rapidly deteriorating but the hudson and east reverse

overflowing and threatening to flood the big apple irene is sweeping up the u.s. eastern seaboard and has claimed at least ten lives already. is in new york. well right now the big apple looks extremely eerie the streets are and the 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 the rain is coming down like sheets of water and new york city has also been put under a tornado watch in new york city is it is a city with shereen lee told buildings so it's a it's sort of like a graph of of of the buildings that can create green tunnels and knock anyone down con ed may be forced to shut down power in certain parts of new york city between now and sunday evening if those areas get to light it let's remind our

viewers that on friday in new york city michael bloomberg for the first time in history issued a mandatory evacuation of certain parts of new york city up to three hundred seventy thousand people live there all these evacuation zones and that those evacuations began on friday evening and continued on through saturday into sunday up until this point and those evacuation zones include five hospitals nursing homes so people literally had to go to shelters a lot of people chose to not move chose to stay in their homes but overall there is a feeling of anxiety taking over not just new york but all the surrounding states the public transportation system in new york city has also been shut down that includes the trains the process is on and that was in effect as of twelve pm on saturday and that is expected to be. to stay that way all throughout sunday night

this is a this point i can't imagine that intact 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 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 right now. keeping a close eye on developments on rattling on america's east coast stay with our website r.t. dot com to get the latest news images and broadcast from new york. well in europe spreading debt crisis is struggling to draw in france as the government announced new austerity measures earlier this week amid concerns it could lose its aaa credit rating the new deficit reducing package will see some twelve billion euros worth of cuts plus a tax hike for the rich but as artie's daniel bushell explains the move could be so

little to late with fear social unrest is just around the corner. enjoys a triple a credit rating for now which is one of the choice ratios among the world's top rated states. has been told 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 just because it's presided over the biggest jump in debt levels in our history books that carry too much water. france is going to solve the. problem is that for us as he explained to you rolled up spending cuts this week but to call it his fear of things. those cuts go nowhere near enough and you can compare it with people saying we're going to buy lumber gini and buy a porsche and they call that terracing doctors all frauds these huge tits burden is

really crudely of driven smooths in schools and hospitals. keeping. current. computers. very old. fashioned through. the situations explosives see. birds and friends could be next to witness roy it's like those in britain deprived regions like east the inner part of cities and the suburbs. are socially segregated to very high stand for more so in the u.k. or in germany so yes unrest from the suburbs and spread through nicolas sarkozy's flying is forefront as he can on budget they take pacific island of new caledonia with students planning street protests over the cuts he's left the job of

presenting them to his prime either stuff he'll 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 so 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. still ahead this hour here at r.t.e. a journey through all the way to care of region for an unusual festival held in the name of aleve and cream festival as entertaining adults and children alike. first a look at some of world news in brief for you this hour unrest continues in syria with activists claiming government forces have opened fire on protesters in separate cities killing at least two people come for the arab league announced it

will send an envoy to the country to help president and seek an end to the violence meanwhile iran has reaffirmed its alliance with syria but warned that it also should listen to his people's legitimate demands more than two thousand have been killed since antigovernment demonstrations began in march. a series of overnight bomb attacks have left six people dead and injured at these salmon in baghdad the explosions targeted a 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. to brazil now where at least five people have been killed and more than thirty others injured after a tram popular with tourists to you were held in rio de janeiro after coming off the tracks and skidded down the street before crashing into a lamppost it's not yet known what caused the accident and many foreigners were

among the casualties it comes to months after a french tourist died only out of one of the trams as it was crossing and. she got those superstar football striker has joined the russian north caucasus club a la. cameroon native and four time african player of the year will reportedly receive ten million euros a season as a rival is a massive coup for russia's premier league and puts on g. firmly on the map as one of the world's most ambitious clubs. i think of the word group of people going my hand for the next three years most of summer add to those big games will be in russia this thursday be cameroon international left into milan and each leave behind flying in to join new club hala . i'm starting from scratch i've always short as possible in europe as a player and here i can start a new plus i've played with

a bunch of crazies before and he told me a lot about russian feeble and i do look forward to joining the team is a three time champions league winner and the most decorated african player of all time lloyd's name case has made out one of the sport's most prolific calls scorers increased again this cell signing has put 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 heard off but which is now making smores have lines across the globe and it's in this unlikely something that would seem off world soap and starts is being built the story behind this transfer began in january when the duchess tony clark was bought by sally monk giving him of a locally born businessman and one of the richest men in russia he found to turn on jeans to a contender hoping to transform the republics and in the process a handful of promising acquisitions followed among the legendary brazilian to find

out about the cardless the current captain of the club the fact that one of the first wears in the world will be playing. for us in the family or will. america a very big amperage in parts of the world from top of the game here in russia. i think it will give a very good image for profitable because. it is one of the best spirits in where's there's not a star of the past russian money in european football is enough. they knew back in two thousand and three russian businessmen around one of their mortgage bought english club chelsea and transformed into a mid-level club into a you are paying powerhouse i'll issue smart has also ploughed his millions into the english giants arsenal but this time the situation is different here is the bit 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 superstars playing

for russian clubs are ask aman as at those goals by smith bushnell r.t. reporting from the north caucasus. now it's time for the latest in our close up series where we ran sure to areas around so were few have trouble before. this week we're in the clear of region located around five thousand kilometers east of moscow the city of care of it is a renowned cultural center famous for its called cars and crafts in the summer the region is host to an annual fast of all celebrating common green. drawings in the fun. it's the pride of the kirov region annual cucumber festival the governor himself invited journalists from all across russia just to showcase

the region's tourist potential organizers here make a bold claim that pickled cucumbers in this village of disturbance are the best in the world. so while the player is saying folk songs extolling the virtues of the green staple has only one stalwart actual birgitta balkan people. have trouble eighty kilometers to be in this case you know 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 looking a little if you can there's a harvest that but then brought in. and mixed with. the recipe to what makes them special is a strictly kept secret that the magic ingredients are gill garlic and horseradish. but the truly unique part of the local paper ink 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 so i decided to give it a try myself. traditionally the kirov region has been known for its the toys base an ancient pagan beatty's these clay figurines have been handmade here for hundreds of years handicraft strip tradition prescribes that artisans was depicted very specific subjects namely present women and improbably colored animals. this is not just a trademark of our region this is russia's visiting card the well stick notice the toys can only be made by women and apprentices have to perfect their craft for years before they can be called. the must. be floor became tommy making the

same things over and over again warren but actually they always turn out different and once i have most of the traditional teachers 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. cure of region. well take a short break here on our team i'll be back with a recap of our top stories stay with us.

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