how far along the u.s. is from seaboard as it slides into your comparable high winds. that's our team with the day's news and the week's top stories well we start in libya where rebels have given a resolute no to a market often reported suggestion to sit down for talks with the national transitional council says all the kernel disserves is arrest dialogue archy's media financial has spoken to the rebels and has more now 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 gadhafi and they're running off to here street after street they strict 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

period that. duff is information chief has apparently called a peace headquarters and has said that gadhafi is 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 progress and quite well they're currently controlling 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 the go round to go in with conduct. supporters there

in fear that if. 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 sure the chauffeur electricity gas 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. and now live in fear of an acute because there is no police but the also try to do that themselves to astri's and organizing kind of. volunteers to for checkpoints so the situation is very hard to call 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 beleaguered leader has suggested solving the crisis through talks scared of a full scale u.s. offensive the colonel had tried to reach out to washington early early on offer goes to show that he's done that in the past so why have all his efforts or is offers for talks been ignored or rejected do you think. well the reason his offers 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 is unprecedented in terms of building infrastructure and manufacturing industry now this threatens the whole. the the western ascribed role for africa for

the western financial institutions and corporations is as a provider of cheap labor and quite often slave labor and materials now what chinese manufacturing investment is going to do is pretend chile allow africa to export finished products rather than having to constantly export cheap raw materials now how is the u.s. decided to deal 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 is negotiating one with djibouti and that is a part of the reason for this is that in twenty ten get after you made a proposal to the african union that was adopted that no african country would allow us based on its soil so. so the u.s.

has been since that time the u.s. has been desperate to get rid of gadhafi and scheuer onto libya their own. their own people affected by this really over again it's a disease and you're talking about the landscape of africa the role of that i would like to get into that in a bit later on but just just to clarify what you're saying is that's is that. the reason you're saying that the rebels themselves don't want to sit down and talk it's because of this the changing of landscape i mean just from the rebels' point of view why don't they want to sit down and talk to the daffy. well the don't forget when we talk about the rebels this is a shift this is a very disparate group of people really who's calling the shots is nato the t.n.c. . who's called and so the rebel leadership although actually they don't really have control even of their own troops the issue edicts one day that the rebels should refrain from looting houses refrain from shooting into civilian houses were trained

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 where the rebels are very disparate group we don't really know all of them all and who's really calling the shots is is is nato and the few leaders that we hear about mahmoud jibril. abdul julio these are people who have established links with western financial institutions going back over several years so really when when we hear from these people they're the mouthpieces of mater as for the rest the rebels we don't know what they want ok speaking about what's going to happen you're saying they don't know what they want the rubble so it let's let's look a little bit forward many predict that another civil war ahead for libya is coming you have different factions possibly will argue and fight among themselves now what could the scenario you lead to i mean how do you expect nato to whacked given that this is a possibility for libya. 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 interventions in the last ten years as a cause of a look at afghanistan look at iraq what you see here is that there's been done that a lot of talk about well what will happen will there be shari'a law or will it be a liberal democracy what we have to understand is that what will replace the libyan state won't be any of those things will replace the libyan state the 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 in libya and fighting for the t.n.c. really need to understand that this is nato his vision for their country they need to wake up and seeing that they're being used here all right this is a game that we're running out of time but i do want to ask you this i mean london

has been at the forefront of this campaign how profitable will these 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 financial times in two thousand and nine warned that gadhafi was succumbing to a variant brand of resource nationalism they said meaning that he was negotiating hard with the oil companies the western oil companies for a better deal for libya. so presumably and jabril has just been are speaking in the last couple of days saying that the nato countries and those countries that helped to topple gadhafi will get special privileges when it comes to dividing out libya's resources so presumably the u.k. or companies will do very well the role of b.p. is there and been absolutely crucial in all of this mark allen. head of b.p. yuna goetia b.p.'s deal in two thousand and seven was a former m i six officer who got special clearance from the cabinet office tracked

to go out of m i six and into b.p. didn't have to go through the normal vetting procedures was fast tracked into b.p. to negotiate this and it seems that a lot of the movement around that time within good af his government may have been part of the peace deal that was when jabril got his job in hierarchies government that was when but mr leader his job so that the oil company being crucial in all of this and presumably they'll be rewarded by the rebel government thank you very much we've run out of time but thank you very much for your thoughts stan grazed our political analyst on the middle east thank you. coming up on r t we're on storm watch the city that never sleeps great topical storm irene as it sweeps up the u.s. east coast moving through the big apple. now 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 while six crew members aboard the u.s.s. although i have to ration out the food and water they have left our jake agreed supports. the moment it's came crashing down. launched on wednesday from the baikonur cosmodrome three hundred twenty five seconds later the progress craft atop a soyuz rocket plummeted back to earth i thought it was a plane a first but then i realized queens never fly their close or quietly then it turned into some white object and i saw that you were sparkling and i heard a loud noise it was like three bangs one really loud and two quieter it was due to dock with the international space station on friday delivery of century supplies to six crew members on board rocket malfunction has been blamed for the unsuccessful launch as a craft ascended into orbit a signal failure here meant the third stage in the sequence in this part of the

rocket was an activated as a result it failed to ignite propel the progress out of the earth's atmosphere. teams have be sent to southern siberia out-i republic to look for signs of any wreckage amid fears toxic fuel may seep into the surrounding soil and water supply so far they've drawn a blank but already the repercussions of the bush mission are being felt much further afield but 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 go on board pairs of water and food supplies to survive on for another three or four months until their. cargo spacecraft arrive to the space station time then maybe on the side of ross cosmos russia space agency but the loss has

still raised significant alarm bells there's no use of a rocket carrying. a crew is slightly different but not more that much to. the progress they're going to want to make sure anything that is similar they could go on that was all happened where we shouldn't say oh it's like there's more turbulence of russia's space program back in december when three cloner satellites the country's alternative to g.p.s. plummeted into the pacific ocean with this latest setback roscosmos 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 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. griefs r.t. . this week north korea announced its readiness to resume international talks over its disputed nuclear plants well 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 both korea's struggling economy marty'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 poisons 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 to as his final destination and

a meeting with president of age of 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 in the pipeline which would bring siberia natural gas to the hub of asia would mean money for the struggling north korea and a new market for russia the north koreans are not going to be able to pay

a. price for gas imports from russia would ever pay but because the building pipelines of the pipeline has to be extended into south korea to the south korean market but the foremost of war between north and south korea is a huge obstacle and this is yet another situation where russia has an advantage bush is in the perfect position to play this role because of their closer relationship with the united states over the past years because of the fact they aren't seen as a lot i did with north korea as china is you know president vaclav havel once said that we must change our ray of attention from what separates us to what unites us and russia plays a unique role 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. whose constant sanctioning has failed to bring results and results are what this

brief trip to russia appears to have achieved with kim jong il's announcement of a desire to return to the talks and implement a moratorium on production and testing of nuclear weapons if the talks resume for north korea is a chance to recover from recent data famine and get some much needed food aid but for russia it's a chance to do what everyone else has failed so far cashman as are about r t well on a day. and still ahead for you this hour a journey through russia all the way to the good old region or an unusual festival held in the name of the leader of all it's entertaining adults 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 shot throughout sunday irene is sweeping up the u.s.

eastern seaboard and has claimed at least fourteen lives already artie's medina port maya join says now from new york. the city was prepared a way in advance before i ring in the got 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 but that does not mean that there are not been any damage from this tropical storm now i remember the hurricane but according to meteorologist when it was making its way down the eastern seaboard once it i went through plowed through north carolina it downgraded to a tropical storm by the time it hit manhattan we did see sheets of of rain coming down and the wind became extremely heavy i was downgraded to a tropical storm as you mentioned at this point there's been severe flooding along the hudson river in manhattan and they involve the outer boroughs of new york city

there are how out in our shortages according to con edison more than three morely in people all along the eastern seaboard how about the last hour now on manhattan that all the emergency workers and first responders are dealing with major flooding for the low lying areas of manhattan as we remember it was in new york city mayor michael bloomberg 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 as it made its way to your according to 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 he could even become a little bit greater as it gains momentum heading that way but it did turn out to

be a lot less than what was anticipated and what was hyped up and at this point it's just about cleanup here in new york. over close and fall. developments unraveling on the east coast of america which has been hit by the wave of extreme weather and you can log on to our you tube channel to watch the most recent at most impressive videos from the hurricane site. today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world seeing from the streets of canada. operations. 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 tax hike for the rich. bushel explains the move could be too little too late with your social unrest is just around the corner. enjoys a triple a credit rating for now one of the toys ratios among the world's top rated states many investors but told it to follow the u.s. and be downgraded just repaying interest on it this year has overtaken education and defense as the government's biggest spend. causes presided over the biggest jump in debt levels in our history books that carry too much water. or. france is going up the tolerance limits it's a prime minister as he explained the new road of spending cuts this week but

economists fear things. those cuts go nowhere near enough you can compare it with people saying we're going to buy lumber jinnie. by the porch and they call that heresy doctors warned frauds these huge debts burden is bringing truly under-investment in schools and hospitals. hitting. computers. and old fashioned. out of the situations explosive say experts and for olds could be next to witness roy it's like those in britain with deprived regions the likely spark the inner part of cities and the suburbs. are certainly segregated to very high extent far more so than say in the u.k. or in germany so yes unrest could come from the suburbs and spread through nicholas

so because these flying a ball from france as he chatted over budget they taze pacific island of new caledonia with students planning street protests over the cuts he's left the job of presenting a bill to his prime minister he'll let them take the flak for it and hopefully unions students retirees can march directly and protest against their ministers while he's behaving in a certain 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 of the new bush you see paris. and now to some news that made headlines today across the world on the rest 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 war 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 now officials 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 do in rio de janeiro after coming off the tracks it skidded down a street before crashing into a lap it's not yet know what caused the accident and if any foreigners were among

the casualties it comes two months after a few died a little holding out one of the tracks as it was crossing 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 kid off as a renowned a cultural center famous for its folk arts and crafts all of a summer the region is host to an angle first of all celebrating a common green vegetable garden of john's on the farm. it's the pride of the cure of region that annual cucumber festival the governor himself invited journalists from all across russia just to showcase the region's tourist potential

organizers here make the bold claim that pickled cucumbers in this village of stubbins are the best in the world. so while the players sing folk songs extolling the virtues of the green staple because only one store where the actual vegetable can be bought a lot of trouble and 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 more disheartened by the long wait we decided to take our search to the locals it's the middle of the pickling season if you can with the harvest that put in brine. and mixed with. the recipe to what makes them special is a strictly kept secret at the magic ingredients are deal garlic and horseradish. but the truly unique part of the local pickling process is that the sealed barrels

are dumped in the river for six months it's served in 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. thank you traditionally the kirov region has been known for its dim covered toys base an ancient pagan day tease these clay figurines have been handmade here for hundreds of years the handicrafts trick tradition describes that artisans most depict very specific subjects namely peasant 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 card it 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 know before we came

to make a thought making the same things over and over again would be boring but actually they always turn out different and once i have most of the traditional motifs i my grandchild. local authorities are hoping master classes like this one will become a tourist attraction and a recruiting ground for new craftswomen. eager of nerve. cure of region. ok i'll be back with a recap of our main story short we need to stay with our team. there

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welcome back here's a look at the main stories on our t.v. live in rubble some turned down to report it all for food to negotiate the power transfer as they prepare a final attack on the pulse not. there is a big shakeup in the russian space agency after the loss of another on that mission and scientists now rushing to resupply the international space station and prevent a disaster. north korean leader kim jong il rolls the top of russian trains meeting with president medvedev saying up yacht was a resumption of international talks that would bring peace to the peninsula. optical storm i relieve sober three.