million people without power along to you as eastern seaboard as it slams into your brain high winds and rapidly rising sea level. live 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 to sit down for talks the national transitional council says all the colonel deserves arrest not dialogue artie's move and also has spoken to the rebels and has more from tripoli. 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 get coffee and they're running off to him straight after street they strict after district and as soon as

they catch him they will throw him to jail this statement comes after the news solution the news of the feed that. duff is information chief has apparently called a peace headquarters and has said that the top speed isn't ready for talks with the rabble to form a transitional government and even appointed his third son side to lead the 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 control 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 off his native town city at the same time the rebels say that they go she says. randy go in with his supporters

there in the field and if edge the cash for they will no be any military operation if only they agreed to surrender if not. we'll start within the next two days while the people here in tripoli are struggling because currently the city is facing severe show the show for electricity gas a line medicine and water garbage everywhere on the streets because municipal services happen paralyzed people trying to deal with it themselves they are. taken out to the streets with brooms or. trash bags trying to clean them they also now live in in fear of anarchy because there is no police but they also try to deal with it themselves come out to the streets and organize in kind of armed volunteers . for checkpoints so the situation is very hard very difficult here in tripoli. investigative journalist webster tarpley science even though the war in

libya is far from over and nato could soon sift its attention. it was supposed to fall in march he has essentially gummed up the works he has assumed the blocking position of the the nato subversion machine and he's kept them tied up for six or seven months if gaddafi 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 been and syria and ultimately iran had better watch out because they are 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 war 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 the omar but you know that was ten years ago mullah omar is still operating with no problems. i think can go in one better so don't 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 organization in libya is ideal for conducting a resistance under these conditions. 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 get another unmanned mission a progress resupply craft failed to reach the international space station burned up

in the earth's atmosphere six crew members aboard the i asked us will now have to ration out the food and water they have left parties jacob grieves has more. 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 train a first but then i realized coins never fly and they're all quietly and 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 pell 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 glamourous always keep in mind the possibility of a big cargo space ship not docking to the international space station for some reason so that crew on board has enough 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 space agency but the loss

has still raised significant alarm bells this story is a rocket carrying the crew is slightly different but not much there than the one that was the 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 apply those more turbulence of russian space program back in december when three clone 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 would be good news for the six astronauts 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. . well the failure of the science rocket propelled the progress into orbit puts the

entire manned space program in question now now saying the international space station could have to be abandon its size launches don't resist soon resume but space expert mark himself says there is no viable alternative to the long serving russian rocket the soyuz is a very reliable vehicle but it's still got something like a one in fifty a little part of the money fifty 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 sixty eight flight the soyuz is a more reliable system in 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 escape 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 dmitri medvedev and discuss among other things a vital energy deal for north korea's struggling economy are seen as are the 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 he avoids planes has armored cars and eats 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 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 sun from there he traveled on the translate beren railway to the buy call region with the republic of video 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 in which the russian federation and south korea will also take part of 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 pay a. price for gas imports from russia would we overpay 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 obama. 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. 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 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. as our of our will on the day . still ahead for you this hour breaking the bank north coffee. was the cast. for a new super striker making him one of the world's 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 while i remains now been downgraded to a tropical storm the weather's rapidly deteriorating but the hudson and east rivers 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 empty businesses are either or 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 of water and new york city has also been put under terminator watch she york city it is a city with extremely tall buildings so it's like it's sort of like a graph of of of of 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 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 bus is and that was in effect as of twelve pm on saturday and that is expected to be put to stay that way all throughout sunday at this at this point i can't imagine that in time in this kind of time

a time of economic crisis or city would go and spend so much money and the federal government if this was not a serious storm and at this point we're waiting for 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 secretary right now. we're keeping a close eye on developments unraveling on america's east coast stay with our web site r.t. dot com to get the latest news images and broadcast from new york. well in 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 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 to little to late with fear social unrest is just around the corner. enjoys

a triple a credit rating but now one of the choice dates ratios among the world's top rated states many investors bitterly 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 causes 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 he explained the new road of spending cuts this week but to call them is fear things. those cuts go nowhere near enough lead can compare it with people saying we're going to buy a lamborghini and buy a porsche and they call that heresy doctors board frauds these huge debt burden is bringing truly a dream vis mint in schools and hospitals. hitting. into

current. computers. very old. equipment old fashioned. out of the situations explosive say. butts and friends could be next to witness roy it's like those in britain was deprived regions the likely spark the inner part of cities and the suburbs. are certainly segregated to very high stand far more so than say in the u.k. or in germany so yes unrest could come from the suburbs and spread through nicolas sarkozy's flying as paul from france as he had over 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 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 behaving in a certain song 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 don't you see. still ahead this hour here at r.t. a journey through all the way here of region burn unusual facet of all health in the name of a clean and green vegetable is entertaining adults and children alike. first a look at some of world news in brief for you this hour on the us 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 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 warned that also 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 least seven 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 do you were held in rio de janeiro after coming off the tracks skidded down the street before crashing into a lamppost it's not yet know what caused the accident and if any 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 into effect.

well the superstar football striker has joined the russian north caucasus club and . samuel eto'o 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. the details. to divert from the above to go much and for the next three years most of summer at toes 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 crybabies before any told me a lot about russian feeble and i do not 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 goalscorers yes this still assigning house of this region of russia the north caucasus into the soccer world spotlight this is the in the 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 team of world soap and stars is being built the story behind this transfer began in january when the darkest on the clock was bought by sally monk getting him off 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 the legendary brazilian de-fund the cardless the current captain of the club the fact that one of the best players

in the world will be playing and there are some families will. make their very big impacts of the development of the game here in russia. i think we're given a very good image of rawson football because. it is one of the best where's there's not a star of the past russian money in european football it's nothing. i knew back in two thousand and three russian businessmen that i'm on them but i'm more mature bought english club chelsea and transformed a mid-level club into a you are paying powerhouse i should have small enough has also ploughed his millions into english giants arsenal but this time the situation is different here is that bit is to make a little known russian football team known cross the world this deal may heralds a new reality in the european game where international football superstar playing for russian clubs are asco men as at those goals in the bush no artsy reporting

from the north caucasus. now it's time for the latest in our close up serious but we venture to areas of russia were few have traveled before. this week we're in the care of region located around a thousand kilometers east of moscow the city of care of is a renowned cultural center famous for its fall cars and crafts in the summer the region is host to an annual festival celebrating a common green. joins in the fun. it's the pride of the kirov 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 the pickled cucumbers in this village of

stubbins are the best in the world. so while the players sing folk songs extolling the virtues of the green staple there's only one store where the actual vegetable can be bought more of trying eighty kilometers to be in this queue you know i'm curious about what it is that makes them so special but time 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 with the harvest that put in brine. and mixed with. some of 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 seal barrels are dumped in the river for six months it's said that the cold war to give them

a subtle shawqi 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. thankee traditionally the kirov 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 prescribes that artisans was depict very specific subjects namely present women and i'm probably color down to most of the day this is not just a trademark of our region this is russia's visiting come out you won't do 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 a tall maker thought making the same things over and over again would be boring but

actually they always turn out different and once i have mastered 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. cure of region. take a short break here on our team and i'll be back with a recap of our top stories stay with us.

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we've got the future of coverage. it's six thirty pm in moscow and these are the top stories on our libyan rebels have turned down a reported all for by mark to negotiate the power transfer as they prepare a final attack on the colonel's hometown. there's a big shake up in the russian space agency after the loss of another unmanned mission the scientists now rushing to resupply the international space station and prevent a disaster. north korean leader kim jong il rolls through half of russia by train for a meeting with president medvedev saying pyongyang wants a resumption of international talks that will bring peace to the peninsula. and.