great. book the. moscow. libyan rebels have turned down the port of offer by one margaret coffey to negotiate a power transfer as they prepare a final up top on the colonel's hometown. the rebels say it's freezing talks that's ahead pulling back the libyan leader who will join the reflection of from tripoli in just a moment. there's a big shake up in the russian space agency after the loss of another on a mission that scientists now rushing to resupply the international space station and a group that is outside. north korean leader kim jong il rolls through cost of russia by train for a meeting with president medvedev sitting up here beyond wasa resumption of international talks that brought bring

a peace to the peninsula. and tropical storm irene leaves three million people without power along new absence or seaboard as it slides into new york with high winds and heavy rain. just after nine pm here in the russian capital and you're watching r t we're bringing you the day's news at the week's top stories so we start in libya where rebels have given a resolute no more get off is reported suggestion sit down for talks with the national transitional council says that all the colonel deserves is a rest and not dialogue archy's but if an option 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 rabble will not

negotiate with the criminals the rebels will not negotiate with the killer is they want to get up here 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 it appears that. gadhafi has information chief has apparently called a.p.'s headquarters and has said that gadhafi is ready for talks with the radicals to form a transitional government and his even appointed his third son started to lead this negotiations and these 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

with because of this final battle an assault on could have his native town city at the same time the rebels say that the go round to go in with his supporters there in syria and if it's successful they will no be any military operation if only the greed to surrender if not. will start within the next two days while the people here in tripoli are struggling because currently the city is facing severe shortage of electricity gas line magazine and water garbage is everywhere on the streets because municipal services happen paralyzed people trying to deal with themselves they are. taken out to the streets with brooms and. trash bags trying to clean them they also now live in fear of anarchy because there is no police but the. also try to do that themselves come out to the streets and organize in kind of. full and t.

is two for checkpoints so the situation is very hard to call here in tripoli. well nato allies have already spent millions of dollars and their participation in the coalition's campaign in libya are no reason to cash in on the profitable oil deals artists are for of course now on the coalition members lining up to secure lucrative energy contracts. kill to the hearts of most modern was and you'll strike oil whether or not that sayings true but it comes to libya well it's going to play a pivotal role in the country's future here we have to feel restruck interest. to western interest to check the choice. to travel to a very wary future media interest to restart shamming all it's possible is stranger to the concepts of friends with benefits gagne's being quick to casey up to the new

transitional council inviting the public face of the group like nature grill to italy for talks was it done these closest european allies in the native bombing campaign began back in april police which sides again courting the rebels in full the wall with a third of its lease daily energy needs were imported from libya and oil any was the largest foreign operator in the country because many here have been doing all they can to safeguard these contracts but if they will be able to maintain these previously close business ties it's by no means a given in a post in libya the futility extremely uncertain and there are little guarantee one of the biggest problems italy and other western countries since the beginning of the wall has been a struggle to adequately understand the internal workings of the rebels themselves . and mark geragos there are many factions islamist commission people are.

sick and many chiefs of these groups of rebels that from the politicians be fooled . with gadhafi and then we completely change their face. and as they say anything i think that corrupt politician if. it will not be personally on a number of occasions three business connections less than a month ago she returned from a fact finding trip to libya with a handwritten letter she says was written by gadhafi to berlusconi in it he allegedly says he was surprised by your decision to join the coalition against libya especially after we signed a friendship and cooperation treaty between our two sides the treaty he's referring to he was time just two months before the libyan uprising the letter goes on to ask why did you join our enemies without any to look at it or investigation berlusconi now seems t.v. making the friends it was maybe the final chapter the. many fear the conflict will

continue i would dare to see you if you talk to him. which is among the rebels there is no such. sense of. both consensus if you need to meet them in terms of whom you are actually the person you talk to. be. with her foreign media now is silly along with many in the west could well find that previous lucrative relations later not to be just despicable but the rainfall the fair weather friendship third party. the international observers say the rebels are a weak and divided force which may not be able to properly govern the country but. told r.t. that that's exactly what needs to wanted to happen in libya. this war is fundamentally a war to maintain africa in a subordinate position in the global economy in twenty ten i get there and he made

a proposal to the african union that was that adopted that no african country would allow a u.s. base on its soil since that time the u.s. has been desperate to get rid of cuba when we talk about the rebels but this is a very disparate group of people and really who's calling the shots as nato leaders that we hear about matthew to be real trouble julio's these are people who have lish links with western financial institutions going back over several years so really when when we hear from these people that bad mouth this is made over a place the libyan state and we the same is what's replaced the state in iraq afghanistan which is a dysfunctional gov complete lack of security gang warfare and civil war and this is not a mistake on major 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 a maidservant in libya and fighting for the t.n.c. really need to understand that this is nato is vision for their country we need to

wake up and saying that there are news there. well coming up on r t were on a storm watch the city that never sleeps very brave sparkle storm irene as it sweeps up the west coast of the through the gulf. but the russian government has ordered a major shake up of the country's space agency after the loss of yet another mission a progress resupply craft failed to reach the international space station on bird up in the earth's atmosphere all six crew members aboard the i.s.o.'s will now have to ration out the food and water they have left are a great 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 and first i didn't then i realized the coins never fly there quietly then

it turned into some white object and then saw that it was sparkling and i heard a loud noise it was like three being 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 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 recent a sudden siberia's 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 bush mission are being fails much further afield with the question of how to resupply the international space station

proving the most pressing. operational planners always keep in mind the possibility of their cargo space ship not booking through the international space station for some reason so that go 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 base agency but a loss has still raised significant alarm bells this or you as a rocket carrying the crew is slightly different but not not that much that. was the progress they're going to want to make sure anything similar. happened. like those more turbulence of russia's space program back in december when three colonus satellites the country's alternative to g.p.s. plummeted into the pacific ocean with this latest setback was kosmos has been

forced to tighten called the 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 since after the scrapping of the u.s. shuttle program there's now global importance on the success of the soyuz. greaves r.t. . well this week north korea announced its readiness to regime international talks over its disputed nuclear plans the news came as the country's leader made a rare trip or brought to me the president dmitri medvedev at the start of all other things a vital energy deal for all three a struggling economy archy's got the lot of our reports. a man of mystery north korea's kim jong il prefers to stay out of the media spotlight a 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 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 quests on from there he traveled on a trance a beer and railway to the by call region with the republic of borneo to as its 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 pos the idea that lenin is one of the biggest in the world and by stopping here kim jong il has made sure that the entire world knows what might have been russia's past is still north korea's future as kim jong il's press service scrambled for their multitude of motion picture cameras to document

the great leaders every word the two men get down to business. 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 the pipeline which would bring siberia natural gas to the hub of asia would mean money for the strictly north korea. and a new market for russia the north koreans are not going to be a machine price for gas imports from russia would overpay about the cost of building a pipeline so the point one has to be extended are 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 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 we must change our real 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. was 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 and production and testing of nuclear weapons if the talks resume for north korea is a chance to recover from recent bouts of famine and it's a 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 so here for you this hour a journey through russia all the way to make you

reject an unusual first of all held in the name of all these that we catch the ball as entertaining adults and children alike. but millions of new yorkers decided to stay in their homes as hurricane irene swept through the city bringing partial flooding out of power shortages well it's now been downgraded to a tropical storm all public transportation will remain shop throughout sunday irene is sweeping up the u.s. eastern seaboard and has claimed at least fifteen lives artie's made a port by reports out from new york. it's that he wants the carrot away in advance before i remain are on the gag it's way down the eastern seaboard but at this point things seen extremely hot 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 has not been any damage from this tropical storm now irene was

a hurricane but according to meteorologist when it was making its way down the eastern seaboard once i went through plowed through north carolina a downgraded to a tropical storm ida time hit manhattan we did see shots of harvard rain coming down when i became extremely happy it was downgraded to tropical storm as you mentioned at this point there's been severe flooding along the hudson river in manhattan and in already outer boroughs of new york city here our out in our shortages in our morning to con edison more than three more even people all along the eastern seaboard how our now on manhattan of all the emergency workers and person stronger it's hard dealing with major flooding before the low lying areas help 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 rattled 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 a way out of the storm as it meet its way through your morning to what we are all just are saying this storm has now passed new york city is heading towards rhode island you heard island in new england when it could even become a little bit greater as it cleans romance and heading that way to turn out to be a lot less than what was anticipated and what words up and at this point it's just about cleanup here in new york. i work closely following the developments on broadway on the east coast of america which has been hit by a wave of extreme weather because of ottawa channels watched the most recent and also present videos from hurricanes. europe spread a debt crisis is threatening to draw in a friend as the government announces new a sturdy measures earlier this week amid concerns could lose its aaa credit rating

of the new deficit reducing package will see some twelve billion euros worth of cuts plus a tax hike for the rich as artie's daniel bushell explains the move could be too little too late with fears that social unrest is just around the corner. enjoys a triple a credit rating but now one of the foisted ratios among the world's top rated states. is bitterly to follow the u.s. and be downgraded just repaying interest on its 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 to. get it probably just as he explained the new road of spending cuts this week but to call it is fear things. those cuts go nowhere near enough really

can compare it with people saying we're going to buy a lumberjack and. a porsche and they call the terrorist doctors warn free. bird is brilliant critique of driven in schools and hospitals. and for keeping. current. computers are very old. fashioned. if the situation's explosive say experts and friends could be next to witness riots like those in britain with the proved regions like the inner part of cities and the suburbs. are socially segregated to very high extent far more so than say or in germany so yes and rescue time from the suburbs and sprint for

nicolas sarkozy's flying to pull from france as he can on budget day to specific or 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. 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. let's now look at some news that made headlines today across the world on the left continues in syria with activists waving government forces have opened far protestors in separate cities can inspire people it comes as the arab league

announced it will summon all four to the country to hold talks with president assad and seek an end to the violence meanwhile iran has reaffirmed its alliance with syria but warned that assad should listen to this people's legitimate demands more than two thousand have been killed since the government demonstrations began in march. and a series of overnight on the taxes left six people dead and injured at least seven in the rocky capital baghdad explosion started at a police patrol in one of the city's neighborhoods and more than half of the casualties were office. there's official say at least two hundred fifty people have been killed by extremists in iraq in july over. the consonance elected their new president this weekend alexandra will now lead the country that's been exhausted by two decades of tensions after a declared independence from neighboring georgia. he reports a challenging task lies ahead for the new leader i said that's chopra folk songs.

he promised to make a pause it is stronger state now what it's on the one has the power to do so winning fifty four percent of the vote in friday's presidential election out of some rivals is giving him a clear mandate with some citizens of the small caucus republic willing to travel a long way to support their man. i came from crimea to vote for are he help war veterans like me a lot when we have tough times. i like sandra was vice president one the man he succeeds as leader sergei by gosh died in office last may the two saw a pause in independence recognized by russia and a number of other countries in two thousand and eight with both men helping prevent war with georgia the same year for almost two decades after a pause here declared independence from georgette fear and uncertainty marked life in the country the mood seems to have changed the early battles for many scholars

in a policy as capital you can see how badly the parliament building was damaged cleaning up the rubble and getting things back in order will probably be the toughest part of the job for the new president keeping good ties with russia and restoring the economy will be the top of one clubs agenda. we have to admit it and it is true we see certain growth but it is no no we loans and serious investments. the campaign was monitored by more than one hundred international observers from countries including france austria and israel when i was invited. i have. a very quick reaction from george always says oh no don't go there about my ideals or so or anything independence and i can exactly support what you're doing here you know because you're fighting for you are foreign to you it's one of the independents democracy for an election observers ignored the threats and gave the pool a clean bill of health for these alexion so very well planned and have an operative

at the highest level as well as the results of the outcome has meant another positive step for democracy in the region according to the election monitors the new man faces stiff challenges in leading his country with a hostile labor in georgia and a legacy of difficulties following independence citizens will be hoping the man they've chosen as president will help herald a new era for their country that is below r t so cool. and our side for the latest in our close of series where we venture to areas of russia where few have traveled before. and this week kirov a regional located around a thousand kilometers east of moscow the city of here all of it is a rebel a cultural center it was for its arts and crafts all in the summer the region has

hosted an adult percival celebrating a common green vegetable artie's ground there lies in the fact. 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 a bold claim that a pickle cucumbers in this village of its targets 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 the actual vegetable can be bought for a truck and eighty kilometers to be in this care 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 surge to the locals it's the middle of the pickling season if

you can harvest it put in brine. and mix it with. the recipe to what makes them special is a strictly kept secret at the magic ingredients are deal with garlic and horseradish. but the truly unique part of the local pickling process is that it's sealed barrels all dumped in the river for six months it serve the cold water it gives them a subtle chalky flavor luckily we found something else 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 big kirov region has been known for its them covered toys base an ancient pagan beatty's these clay figurines have been handmade here for hundreds of years handicraft strict tradition describes the artisans was the people very specific subjects namely present women and then

probably colored down and. this is not just a trademark of our region this is russia's visiting card we want the wilds to 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 most. before game time maker 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 t.v. 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 to see hear of region. that's all for this hour i'll be back with a recap of our main story shortly to stay with r.t. .

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