so true but the illegal. moscow. libyan rebels have turned down recorded all four by moammar gadhafi to negotiate the power transfer as they prepare a final attack on the colonel's home town. the rebels say it's treason not talks that's had pulled him back will he be a leader from all join the rich nation of from tripoli in just a moment. there's a big shake up in the russian space agency after the loss of another on man mission scientists now rushing to resupply the international space station and preventing disaster. north korean leader kim jong il rolls through half of rock from by train for a meeting with president medvedev saying pyongyang wants a resumption of international talks that will bring peace to the peninsula. and

tropical storm irene leaves three million people without power along the u.s. eastern seaboard as it slams into new york bringing high winds and heavy rain. at seven pm in moscow you're watching archie i mean it's now with the day's news and of weeks and a look at the week's top stories 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 all the colonel deserves is a rest not dialogue. not haue spoken to the rabble so has the latest 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 raggles will not negotiate with the criminals the rebels will not negotiate with the killer is they want to get our fee 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 comes after the new solution use of the police that. duff is information chief has apparently called a.p.s. headquarters and has said that darby is ready for talks with the rabble to form transitional government and his even appointed his son started to lead 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 control than 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 the could of his native town still at the same time the rebels say that the goetia is iran to go in with his

supporters there in syria and eve. they will no be any military operation if only they agree to surrender if not try to ration will start within the next two days while the people here in tripoli are struggling because currently the city is facing severe shortage of electricity gas law and medicine and water garbage is 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 in the. also try to deal with that themselves i'm now to the streets and organizing kind of armed volunteers to for checkpoints so the situation is very hard to call here in tripoli. well concerns have been

raised over who is to control libya's stockpiles of chemical weapons with reports rebel factions have been infiltrated by islamic extremists washington limits and cannot guarantee terrorists will not get their hands on the arsenals buttons pushed to try to prevent it from happening. has more. tripoli a city in chaos there's constant gunfire both aggressive and celebration and on the outskirts of the capital stockpiles of chemical weapons nature you know very little about the people who might come to power in tripoli you know if you've got the cache of weapons of mass destruction that again people really don't know what's there and if this is falling into the fans and people i mean the situation is potentially disastrous despite the heavy presence of rebels in tripoli the chemical stockpile appears still to be in the hands of what's left of these governments

that's both good and bad news following a series of meetings in two thousand and three moammar gadhafi agreed to allow weapons inspectors into libya the first step towards abandoning his w m d program in return for a normalizing of relations with the u.k. and u.s. but he wouldn't use all moved the material but now thanks in part to nato support of the rebels he's on the back foot and may feel he has nothing to lose by disregarding that agreement he's cry victory or martyrdom will strike an ominous note to those who know his weapons potential given the violations of the national territory of libya by you know led forces i think the idea that he would be interviews tapes of. agreements would be off the table of this point and certainly he was called it as seen in early july that he would be willing to go to europe if

tripoli was attacked so i think it's a fair as. i'm trying to say that if there is no capability unit he would be looking at an option at this point anyway but the alternative rebel control of chemical weapons is arguably worse according to many some of the rebel factions have links to al qaida or a commentator abdel bari atwan says the west got itself into this trouble now it has to decide how it will figure it out and the options aren't attractive we know that you know the majority of the people who are fighting are muslim extremists so how do you call is that we could deal with those people often i mean one of i believe the post would be more proper and i think than that but. there are some indications nato is considering putting peacekeeping troops on the ground in libya we general experts warn that could be seen by parts of the free libya movement as an act of aggression but having supported the rebel movement nato must now deal

with the consequences even if that's w m d armed islamic extremists and it. journalists richard spencer says there's another war raging in there we are not between the rebels overhauled be in charge of the gadhafi regime falls i think would do us as accomplish is to establish a coming civil war in libya which we have financed we will be and we will have trained a number of the people who will be chilling one another solution of the. children and i think that these rebels are these nice little folks who want democracy and freedom and mcdonald's this is clearly a chance for them to gain power and maybe get it in action ribbon and you can see all the enemy but mainly for them to be in control and they're going to be fighting with each other again for the next months and years. coming up on r t we are on storm watch the city that never sleeps braves tropical storm irene as it sweeps up

the u.s. east coast we're going through the breakdown of. 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 and burned up in the earth's atmosphere but six crew members aboard the i as ours will now have to ration out the food and water they have left. a moment it's came crashing down. launched on wednesday from the baikonur cosmodrome three hundred twenty five seconds later the progress craft atop a soyuz rocket plummeted back to earth i thought it was a plane at first then i realized coins never fly there quietly then it turned into some white object and then suddenly it was far 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 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 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 jorn a blank but already the repercussions of the porch mission of being felt much further afield with the question of how to resupply the international space station proving the most pressing. operation always keep in mind the possibility of cargo space ship not booking to the international space station for some reason

so that get on board pairs of water and food supplies will 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 story is carrying. crew is slightly different. than the one that was the progress they're going to want to make sure. that what happened. there is more turbulence of russia's space program back in december when three cloner satellites the country's alternative to g.p.s. climate it into the pacific ocean with this latest setback was kosmos has been forced to tighten quality control in 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 there's now global importance on the success of the soyuz. greaves r.t. . but the failure of the science rocket propelled the progress into orbit because the entire manned space program in question nasa is now saying the international space station could have to be abandoned if science marches don't assume soon but space expert marchand cell says there is no viable alternative to the long serving russian rocket the soyuz is a very reliable vehicle but it's still got a something like a one in fifty a little better than one in 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 sixtieth like the soyuz is a more reliable system 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's meeting with major and discuss among other things of vital energy deal for north korea's struggling economy katrina's are reports. 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 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 embarks 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 course some from there he traveled on the transept here in railway to the guy called region with the republic of video as his 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 that you 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 same period 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. the price for gas imports from russia would we overpay but because the building of pipelines in the pipeline has to be extended in south korea so it's not the south korean market but the formal state of war between north and south korea is a huge absecon 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 way of attention 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 march more human production and testing of nuclear weapons if the talks resume for north korea is a chance to recover from recent deaths of 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 one of them. there with r t why from moscow still have this hour journey through russia all the way to the cure of region where an unusual festival alvin the name i will leave and green vest of all as entertaining and cults and children one.

but first millions of new yorkers decided to stay in their homes as hurricane irene swept through the city bringing partial flooding and power shortages well it's now been downgraded to a tropical storm all public transportation will remain shut throughout sunday i read is sweeping up the u.s. eastern seaboard and has claimed at least eleven lives are ready marti's more important is in new york now joins us live. it seems it wasn't as bad as some people thought it might but it's not every day of course that new york sees a tropical storm how is the city been dealing with it what something like. well he says the city was prepared away in advance before i renewed begat its way down the eastern seaboard but at this point things seem extremely calm relatively calm the sun actually looking out of my window in the sun is beginning to come out here in new york city or does not mean that there are not been any damage from this

tropical storm no i mean was a hurricane but according to meteorologist when it was making its way down the eastern seaboard words that i went through route through north carolina downgrades were tropical storm by the time it hit manhattan we did see shades of of rain coming down our green became extremely happy i was downgraded to a tough storm as you mentioned it is point there's been sued we're watching our world on the hudson river in manhattan and in forward outer boroughs of new york city you know how out there how are shortages according to con edison more than three million people are along the eastern seaboard lost power as you mentioned at least. that's not resulted from hurricane. or tropical storm irene making its way down the east now on manhattan all the emergency workers and first responders are dealing with major flooding before the low lying areas of manhattan as we remember

it was in new york city mayor michael bloomberg bloomberg to order a mandatory evacuation of certain parts of new york city those are lying areas approximately three hundred seventy thousand people who live in all those different areas a lot of people evacuated and a lot of new yorkers chose to stay and are way out of the storm as it made its way to you who are already into what we are all just are saying this storm has now passed new york city is heading towards rhode island newport rhode island and new england and it could even become a little bit greater as it gains momentum heading that way on at this point cities dealing with lots of white and making sure that no no i know our outages increase throughout new york city right detroit now city a lot less than what was anticipated and that was tied up and at this point it's just about cleanup here in new york. right marina for nial live from new york

thanks for that update. and we will continue to keep a close eye on developments on rambling on america's east coast stay with our web site r t dot com to get the latest news updates images and some live broadcasts throughout the day. europe's 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 dale bushnell explains the move could be too little too late with fears social unrest is around the. credit rating but now putting one of the boys 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. because it's presided over the biggest jump and it levels in our history books that carry too much water. france has got all the tolerance limits of it it probably does do for us as explained to you rolled up spending cuts this week but the call is free of things. those cuts go nowhere near enough and you can compare it with people saying we're going to buy a lumber genie and buy a porsche and they call that heresy doctors board frauds these huge tits burden is bringing crudely of drink versus mint in schools and hospitals. getting. in. computers. very old. fashioned through. the situations explosive say experts and frauds

could be the next witness roy it's like those in britain with to prove regions likely spoke the inner part of cities in the suburbs. are socially segregated. to very high extend far more so than say in the u.k. or in germany so yes unrest from the suburbs and spread through nicolas sarkozy's flying a full front as he chatted 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 minister he'll let them take the flak for it and hopefully unions students retirees can march directly in protest against their ministers while he's bathing in the sun so as 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 you see. well look now at some global headlines in brief this hour unrest uses syria with activists claiming government forces have opened fire on protesters in separate cities killing two people it comes as the arab league announced it was going to end noise in the country to help talks with president and seek and to violence meanwhile iran has reaffirmed its alliance with syria but warn that also should listen to his people's legitimate demands more than two thousand have been killed since anti-government demonstrations began in march. a series of overnight bomb attacks have left six people dead and injured 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 trial popular with tourists in rio de janeiro after coming off the tracks and skidded down the street before crashing into a lamppost it's not yet know what caused the accident and if any foreigners are among the casualties it comes just two months after a french tourists died falling out of one of the trams as it was crossing and aqueducts. now it's time for the latest in our close up series areas of russia were few have traveled before. this week where in the care of region located around a thousand kilometers east of moscow the city of cura is a renowned cultural center famous for its folk arts and crafts and in the summer

the region is host to an annual festival celebrating a common green festival art is a grabber and joins in the fun. 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 made the bold claim that ok cool cucumbers in this village of the standards 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 but we're going to try the lady kilometers to be in this care and 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 that they can also do the locals it's the middle of the pickle in season one of your little if you can with the harvest to put in broiling. and mixed with.

the recipe to what makes them special is a street we kept secret at the magic ingredients are dill garlic and horseradish. but the truly neat part of the local paper link process is that a sealed barrels all dumped in the river for six months and serve a bit cold water to give them a subtle chalky flavor luckily we found some pickles left over from last year's crop all this talk of cucumber has made me quite hungry for the local delicacy so i decided to give it a try myself. tanky traditionally bichir of region has been known for its the tories face an ancient pagan date these clay figurines have been and made for hundreds of years the handicrafts trick tradition prescribe the artisans was the pig very specific subjects namely present women and i'm probably

color down a most. this is not just a trademark of our region this is russia's visiting card 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 and i guess those are the most. 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 keeps 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. eager i'd love. your region. a recap of the week's top stories is coming up after a short break. as

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