historical hotels have been capturing the city streets and sky calls more militant . as a good until close in strength or less the become the hoods no. rebels have turned out reporters all provide new markets often to negotiate the power transfer as they prepare in final at top of the hurdles hometown. rebels say it's reason the talks it's getting back to being the full join the rich nation of from tripoli in just a moment. there is a big shakeup in the russian space agency after the loss of another on match mission with scientists now rushing to resupply the international space station and to prevent a disaster. north korean leader kim jong il rolls through half of russia wide frame for a meeting with president medvedev the same appeal beyond wants a resumption of its your whole talks that will bring peace to the peninsula.

topical storm i removed three million people without power along the u.s. eastern seaboard as it slides into new york and bringing high winds and heavy rain . it's r t with the day's news at the week's top stories well we start in libya where rebels have given a resolute notes omar gadhafi is reported suggestion to sit down for talks with the national transitional council says all the colonel deserves is a rest not dialogue archy's but if the national has spoken to the rebels and has more now from certainly. 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 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 news solution use of the that. duff is information chief has apparently called a.p.'s headquarters and has said that gadhafi is ready for talks with the rabble to form a government and his even appointed he's heard son side 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 progress and 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 could his native town city at the

same time the rebels say that the run to go in with his supporters there in syria and if. 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 in severe sure the chauffeur electricity gas line magazine 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 and. trash bags trying to clean them they also now live in in fear of anarchy because there is no police but the. try to do. i know two streets and organizing kind of. checkpoints so the situation is very hard to go here in tripoli.

although we will cross live to political analyst on the middle east for his thoughts on the libyan conflict thank you very much for joining us tonight now it's not the first time believe it neither has suggested sort of a big crisis through talks scared of a full scale u.s. offensive the colonel had tried to reach out to washington early early on offer a negotiation is that in the past why have all his efforts unresolved talks been ignored or rejected do you think. well the reason his office have been rejected is the same reason as the nato countries decided to intervene in libya in the first place and i understand why they did that we have to understand that this war is fundamentally a war to maintain africa in a subordinate position in the global economy what's been happening and this all has to be seen the context of the rise of china as well china in the last five years has been investing massively in in africa and in

a way that's unprecedented in terms of building infrastructure and manufacturing industry now this threatens the whole. western ascribed role for africa of the western financial institutions and corporations is as a provider of cheap labor in fact of and slave labor and raw materials and what chinese a manufacturing investment is going to do is potentially allow africa to export finished products rather than having to constantly. materials now how is the u.s. decided to do with this in the only way it knows how militarily so it's set up a couple of years back african african command and control center for africa. but no african country wanted to host it us doesn't have any basis at all in in africa negotiating one with djibouti and that is a part of the reason for this is that in twenty ten days after you made a proposal to the african union that was adopted but no african country would allow

us based on its oil so. so the u.s. has been since that time the u.s. has been desperate to get rid of gadhafi and show it on to their own. and their own people effectively real. you're talking about. the role of that i would like to meet him on but just clarify that. that. reason you're saying that the rebels themselves don't want to sit down and talk it's because of this changing of landscape i mean just from the rebels' point of view why don't they want to sit down and talk to the southie. well good don't forget when we talk about the rebels this is a shia this is a very disparate group of people really who's calling the shots and made the chilean sea. call themselves the rebel leadership although actually they don't really have control even of their own troops to issue edicts one day the rebels

should refrain from looting houses refrain from shooting into civilian houses refrain from summarily executing black africans and the soldiers just ignore it at the same time the soldiers themselves have no respect for the t.n.c. leadership so when we're talking about the rebels you have to understand what the rebels are very disparate group we don't really know all of them one and who's really calling the shots is is nato and the few leaders that we hear about mahmoud jibril. these are people who kind of stablish links with western financial institutions going back over several years so really when we hear from these people there are pieces of meat as for the rest the rebels we don't know what they want her to speaking about what's going to happen you're saying they don't know what they want the rebels are at let's look a little bit forward many predict that another civil war i have for libya is khan and you have different factions possibly will argue and fight among themselves what could the scenario lead to i mean how do you expect nato to wrap the event of this

is a possibility for the. well let's let's look at we have to go by historical precedent here rather than wishful thinking let's look at maters previous inventions in the last ten years and so because of a look at afghanistan look at iraq what you see here is that there's been a lot of talk about well what will happen will there be a real or will it be a liberal democracy where we have to understand is that what will replace the libyan state won't be any of those things will replace the libyan state going to same as what's replaced the state in iraq and afghanistan which is a dysfunctional government complete lack of security gang warfare and civil war and this is not a mistake for nato they would prefer to see failed states and states that are powerful and independent and able to challenge their germany and those who are fighting for nato and libyan fighting for the t.n.c. really need to understand that this is nato his vision of their country we need to

wake up and saying that they're being used here are this is a grave that we're running out of time but i do want to ask you this i mean a lot of has been at the forefront of this campaign how profitable al buildings in new deals we're talking about be for the u.k. . are profitable for the u.k. well that's an interesting it's an interesting question so i'm sure times in two thousand and nine warns that gadhafi was succumbing to a girl and brand of resource nationalism they said meaning that he was negotiating hard with the oil companies or western oil companies for a better deal for libya. so presumably and jabril has just been speaking in the last couple of days saying that the nato countries and those countries that help the top of it after he will get special privileges when it comes to dividing up libya's resources so presumably the u.k. companies will do very well the role of b.p. is going to be absolutely crucial in all of this mark allen. head of or you can you

negotiate the deal in two thousand and seven was a former m i six officer who got special clearance from the cabinet office fast tracked to go out of m i six and into b.p. didn't have to go through the normal betting the c.d.s. was fast tracked into b.p. to negotiate this oil there and it seems that a lot of the movement around that time within his government may have been part of b.p.'s deal that was when jabril got his job in government that was when. his job so the oil considering crucial in all of this and presumably they'll be rewarded by the rebels. thank you very much we've run out of time required to very much. and coming up on r t we're on storm watch the city that never sleeps raise topical storm irene as it sweeps up the u.s. east coast moving through the big apple and. now the russian government has ordered a major shake up of the country's space agency after the loss of yet another on the

mission a progress resupply crowd failed to reach the international space station and burned up in the earth's atmosphere while six crew members aboard the all i have to ration out the food and water they have left jake a group supports. the moment it's came crashing down. launched on wednesday from the baikonur cosmodrome three hundred twenty five seconds later a progress craft atop a soyuz rocket plummeted back. i thought it was a plane a first then i realized queens never fly there clone quietly then it turned into some white object and i saw that it was concrete and i heard a loud noise it was like three bang this one really loud and two quieter it was due to dock with the international space station on friday delivery essential supplies to the six crew members on board rocket malfunction has been blamed for the unsuccessful launch of the 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 siberia altai republic to look for signs of any wreckage amid fears toxic fuel may seep into the surrounding soil and water supply so far they've drawn a blank but already the repercussions of the book's 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 it was ability or for that car was not working for the international space station for some reason so they could go on board pairs in the water and for supplies to survive on for another three or four months until their cargo spacecraft arrived to the space

station time then maybe on the side of those cosmos russia's space agency but the loss has still raised significant alarm bells this story is carrying. crew is slightly different but not much there. was the progress they're going to want to make sure anything similar. happened. like it was more turbulence of russia's space program back in december when three satellites the country's alternative to cheap p.s. clotted into the pacific ocean with this latest setback was kosmos has been 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 solve the scrapping of the u.s. shuttle program there's now global importance on the success of the soyuz. greaves

r.t. but this week north korea announced its readiness to resume international talks over its disputed nuclear quads or the news came as the country's leader made a rare broad to me the president to me from a bit of an discuss among other things a vital energy deal for both korea's struggling economy artie's company 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 he avoids planes has armored cars and eats with chopsticks designed to detect.

us and russia plays 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 cheek to russia peers 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 drafts of famine and get some much needed food aid for russia it's a chance to do what everyone else has failed so far catherine as are about r t. and still ahead for you this hour a journey through rush hour wait to hear all reject or an unusual festival held in the name of the leader of all its other teeming ourselves and children alike. the millions of new yorkers decided to stay in their homes as hurricane irene swept through the city bringing partial flooding and power shortages and while it's now

been downgraded to a tropical storm all public transportation will remain a shock throughout sunday i read it is sweeping up the u.s. eastern seaboard and has claimed at least fourteen lives already archy's medina port joins us now from new york. the state was prepared a way in advance that for irene he got its way down the eastern seaboard but at this point things seem extremely calm relatively calm the sun actually looking at margaret on the side is beginning to come out here in new york city where that does not mean that there has not been any damage from this tropical storm now irene was a hurricane put up warnings meteorologists when it was making its way down the eastern seaboard once it all went through plowed through north carolina it sounds great it's where tropical storm ida time hit manhattan we did see sheets of of rain coming down when i became extremely heavy it was downgraded to tropical storm as you mentioned at this point there's been severe flooding are on the hudson river in

men who and they are in all the outer boroughs of new york city here our out in our shortages now according to con edison more than three more even people are along the eastern seaboard however the last hour now on manhattan all the mercy workers and first responders are dealing with a major flooding for the low lying areas south of manhattan as we remember it was in new york city mayor michael bloomberg that order a mandatory evacuation of certain parts of new york city those are wrangled lying areas approximately three hundred seventy thousand people who live in all those different areas are a lot of people evacuated and a lot of new yorkers chose to stay and are way out of the storm possibly to its way to the forty two when 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 any could

even try to become a little bit greater as it gains momentum heading that way by eight each turn out to be a lot less than what was anticipated and what we're seeing hyped up and at this point it's just about cleanup here in new york. over close and fall. and the developments unraveling albie east coast of america which has been hit by the use of extreme weather and you can log onto our you tube channel to watch the most recent and most impressive videos from the hurricane site. and. the news today is once again. these are the images rogue world seeing from the streets of canada.

and 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 now the new deficit reducing package will see some twelve billion euros worth of cuts plus a tox hike for the rich authorities dial bushell explains the move could be too little too late if your social of rest is just around the corner. france enjoys a triple a credit rating but now puts it one of the hoist debt ratios among the world's top rated states many investors bet on 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 mr sir cause he's presided over the biggest jump in levels in our history but the current too much water sink . france has gone up the tolerance limits adhere to prime minister

as he explained the new road of spending cuts this week but economists fear things are so bad those cuts go nowhere near enough and you can compare it with people saying we're going to buy lumber gini and they only buy a porsche and they call that austerity doctors warned frauds is huge to its burden is really truly under-investment in schools and hospitals. and. computers. very old. fashioned. out of the situations explosive say experts and frauds could be next to witness roy it's like those in britain to prove regions the likely the inner part of c. and the suburbs. are certainly segregated to stand for more so than

in the u.k. or in germany so yes unrest comes from the suburbs and spread through nicolas sarkozy's flying a fall front as he chatted on budget they teased pacific island of new caledonia with students climbing street protests over the cuts he's left the job of presenting them to his prime minister to let them take the. four and hopefully unions students retirees can march directly in protest against their ministers paving in the sun because these absence in this time of crisis writes leading newspaper le figaro may be clever politically but his failure to tackle the country's troubles now could be creating even greater problems for the future. to see paris. and now to some news that made headlines today across the world on the west continues in syria with activists claiming government forces have opened fire

on protesters in separate cities least five people it comes as the arab league announced it will send it on board to the contrary to hold talks with president assad and seek an end to the violence meanwhile iran has reaffirmed its alliance with syria but more that assad 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 as left six people dead and injured at least seven in the iraqi capital baghdad explosions targeted a police patrol in one of the city's neighborhoods more than half of the casualties were officers official say at least two hundred fifty people have been killed by extremists in iraq in july alone. and to brazil now where at least five people have been killed and more than thirty others injured after a tram a popular with tourists in rio de janeiro after coming off the tracks it skidded

down the street before crashing into a black post it's not yet known what caused the accident and if any foreigners were among the casualties it comes two months after a few died of the falling out one of the frogs as it was crossing at the top of the government. and now it's time for the latest in our close up series where we venture to areas of russia where few have traveled before. kirov region located around a thousand kilometers east of moscow the city of king of is a renowned a cultural center famous for its folk arts and crafts all over summer the region is host to an angle first of all celebrating green vegetable garden of the farm. it's the pride of the cure of region annual cucumber festival the governor himself

invited journalists from all across russia just to showcase the region's tourist potential organizers here make the bold claim that pickled cucumbers in this village of stubbins are the best in the world. but while the player saying folksongs extolling the virtues of the green staple has only one stalwart actual vegetable can report. trouble eighty kilometers to be in this queue i'm curious about what it is that makes them so special but i'm a bit disappointed i wasn't allowed to buy my disheartened by the long wait we decided to take on the locals it's the middle of the pickling season if you can harvest that but in brine. and mix with. the recipe to what makes them special is a strictly kept secret the magic ingredients are gill garlic and horseradish.

but the truly unique part of the local pickling process is that it's sealed barrels dumped in the river for six months it's served in the cold war to give 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 decided to give it a try myself. i get traditionally the cure of region has been known for its them covered toys base an ancient pagan beatty's these clay figurines hoping handmade here for hundreds of years but handicrafts trick tradition describes that artisans was depicted very specific subjects namely peasant women and improbably colored animals. this is not just a trademark of our region this is russia's visiting card it won't go well stake not just the toys can only be made by women and apprentices have to perfect their craft

for years before they can be called milestones and i suppose the most. before i became to my maker 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 brain child and its. local authorities are hoping master classes like this one will become a tourist attraction and a recruiting ground for new craftswomen. eager unnerve party cure of region. ok i'll be back with a recap of our main story short we need to stay with r.t. .

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