libyan rebels have turned down reported offer by wal-mart gadhafi to negotiate the power transfer as they prepare a final attack on the colonel's hometown. the rebels say it's freezing talks it's ahead of libyan leader who will join the rich nation of from tripoli in just a moment. there's a big shakeup in the russian space agency after the loss of another a mathematician and scientists now rushing to resupply the international space station and to prevent a disaster of. north korean leader kim jong il rolls through half of russia by train for a meeting with president medvedev saying that pyongyang wants a resumption of international sports that will bring peace to the peninsula.

because storm irene these three million people without power along the u.s. eastern seaboard as it slams into new york bringing high winds heavy rain. it's your software tech pm and you're watching marty with the day's news and the week's top stories and we start in libya where rebels have given a resolute no to more reported suggestion to sit down for talks and the national transitional council says that all the colonel deserves is a rest not dialogue artie's many of the national haue 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 me 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. duff is information chief has apparently called a.p.s. headquarters and has seven taffy is a brady for talks with the rabble to form a transitional government and his even appointed his third son so i do to leave 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 controlled in 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 fear and if it's successful 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 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 in fear of anarchy because there is no police but the. try to do that. i know to the streets and. kind of. checkpoints so the situation is very hard to go here in tripoli.

next to me cross live to a doctor most unicom see is a professor at bethlehem university for his perspective on the libyan develop it's . very much for being on the program more market off involved in the beginning to die fighting rather than deal with why this apparent about turn i'm sorry can you hear me. dr can you hear me i'm sorry i think we're having problems would be audio we're trying to bring back our guest later on. now libyans are the latest in line it's to celebrate the end of a dictatorship following the tunisia and egypt but judging from the post revolutionary struggles the so-called freedom contraries are now going through it's unclear if that changes the arab spring brought are for the better lark is going it looks at the parallels between a talker and archer square. could that the regime is crumbling. the levy and rebels are cheering. the. same cheers and tears could be

seen in egypt in february as the nation ousted their longtime leader hosni mubarak but six months on many egyptians say their hopes have been crushed by reality. but you know i love the revolution when it happened i welcomed it but it looked at the time we call life at the end of the time and we see it's not getting better we have nothing to eat don't tell me about democracy for hungry people just doesn't matter the jitters now are not governed by who they tros as their leaders instead it's their army that's in control the army that has strong ties with the u.s. and he sponsored by washington the military regime that the edifice the institutions that were the essence the fundamental essence of the mubarak regime those remain and we can see that thousands of people have been brought to military trial since the end of the popular revolution that ousted in tripoli the by taking

over is the national transitional council also chosen by the libyan people yet the council is being recognized as the legitimate government of libya by all accounts nice in helping oust gadhafi many lidia's are outraged by the fact that foreign powers are effectively making vital choices for them there is too much wealth and geopolitical strategic value to libya to only because we formed a government credit gripes and universal participation by the citizenry. western powers need to implement a western economic and military agenda and therefore the people who will eventually command the political situation in libya and the military situation in libya will indeed be supported and buttress by western powers western powers. have thrown all their support behind the leader in national transitional council giving them

billions of dollars and weapons to gain control but the rebels are far from being a united group what is going to face after that is a period of prolonged chaos nobody knows the outcome this is try again strive this is not democracy you can still call it very revolutions in egypt in libya have developed under different scenarios in egypt it was an own armed uprising the new leads in libya it's been an insurgency flooded with weapons by the west and those weapons are still in their arms and they're not going anywhere and many analysts are saying that medians could find themselves in a much worse situation than the egyptians because on top of power crisis similar to the want to jets fans are having libyans could be facing a fresh outbreak of violence at the hands of the mob i'm going to shut down reporting from washington our team. and coming up for you on our t.v. or on a storm watch in the city that never sleeps and brace tropical storm irene as it sweeps up the u.s. east coast moving through the border. but the russian government has

ordered a major shakeup of the country's space agency after the loss of yet another on that mission a progress resupply craft builds reaching the international space station and burns up in the earth's atmosphere all six crew members aboard the i.s.o.'s will now have to rationale for food and water they have left jacob griefs now reports. the moment it's came crashing down. on wednesday from the baikonur cosmodrome three hundred twenty five seconds later a progress craft atop a soyuz rocket plummeted. i thought it was a plane at first but then i realized i never fly there close or quietly then it turned into some white object and then saw that it was dark plane i heard a loud noise it was like three bangs one really loud and two quieter it was due to talk with the international space station on friday delivering essential supplies

to the six crew members on board rocket malfunction has been blamed for the successful launch as a craft ascended into orbit a signal failure here but it's the third stage in the sequence in this part of the rocket was an activated as a result it failed to ignite and held 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 drawn a blank but already the repercussions of the bush mission of being fails 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 talking to the international space station for some reason so that they're on board pairs of water and food supplies to survive on for another

three or four months until their. cargo spacecraft arrives for 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 or you as a rocket carrying. crew is slightly different but not not that much there. was the progress they're going to want to make sure there is a thing that is similar. all happen where they live there's more turbulence of russia's space program back in december when three lowness satellites the country's alternative to g.p.s. plummeted into the pacific ocean with this latest setback with cosmos as me force the titan called the 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. greaves r.t. . all this week north korea announced this readiness to review better national talks over its disputed nuclear plans the news came as the country's leader made a rare trip abroad to meet president dmitri medvedev and discuss among other things a vital energy deal for north korea's struggling economy archy's got that he was out of our reports. a man of mystery north korea's came john l. 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 as armored cars and eats 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 a far eastern town of from there he traveled in a trance a gear in railway to the bike zero region with the republic of borneo to as its final destination and a meeting with president made a video of his ultimate goal but before meeting with his current russian counterpart the north korean leader stopped that way his respects to the first soviet leader this pasta vladimir lenin 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 huge 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 siberian natural gas to the hub of asia would mean money for the struggling north korea and. a new market for russia and north koreans are not going to be. a solution price for gas imports from russia would we ever paid out because the building the pipelines and the pipeline has to be extended into 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. one said we must change our river tension 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. has 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 implementing more tori and 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 ghastliness our of our r t. and still ahead for you this hour a journey through rochelle all the way to the region on the usual festival held in the name of a lean and green vegetable entertaining adults and children alike. and millions of new yorkers decided to stay in their homes as hurricane irene swept

through the city bringing partial flooding and power shortages while it's now been downgraded to a tropical storm all public transportation will remain shut throughout sunday i remain as sweeping up the u.s. eastern seaboard and ask claimed at least fifteen lives are these medina porton i have reports from new york. the state was prepared our way in advance the who i really mean are we got it's way down the eastern seaboard but at this point things being extremely conference we consarn actually looking out of my window in the sun 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 no i mean what's a hurricane but according to meteorologists when it was making its way down the eastern seaboard at once and i went through route through north carolina it downgraded to a tropical storm by the time it hit manhattan we did see shades of of rain coming to our home when the canucks truly happy it was downgraded to tropical storm as you

mentioned at this point there's been severe flooding all along the hudson river in manhattan and the pain of all the outer boroughs of new york city there how how in power shortages warning to con edison more than three more even people all along the eastern seaboard how who last hour now on manhattan all the emergency workers and first responders hard dealing with major flooding before the low lying areas helping 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 are logically yorkers chose to stay and are way out of the storm as it meet its way to new york of forty two when we are all just are saying this storm has now passed new york city is heading towards rhode island you

forward island in new england and it 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. well we're closely following the developments of raveling on the east coast of america which has been hit by a wave of extreme weather. to our you tube channel to watch house results results and the most impressive videos from the hurricane site. now europe spreading debt crisis is threatening to grow in france as the government announced new a sturdy measures earlier this week amid concerns it could lose its aaa credit rating all the deficit reducing package will see some twelve billion euros worth of cuts as a tax hike for the rich. bushel explains the move could be too little too late with fears that social unrest is just around the corner. france enjoys

a triple a credit rating for now put it one of the hoist ratios among the world's top rated states. to follow the u.s. and be downgraded just repaying interest only this year has overtaken education and defense as the government. closes presided over the biggest jump and levels in our history books that carry too much water since. france is going to the tolerance limit and it's a prime minister and you'll see explained you rolled up spending cuts this week but economists fear things. those cuts go nowhere near enough we can compare it with people saying we're going to buy a lamborghini and buy a porsche and they call that's heresy doctors warn frauds these huge good burden is really truly of driven in schools and hospitals. for getting.

into. computers. very. quickly and fashion. the situation's explosive say experts and friends could be next to witness roy it's like those in britain with the proved regions the likely spark the inner part of cities and the suburbs. are certainly segregated to very high standards for more so than say in the u.k. or in germany so yes and to come from the suburbs and spread through nicolas sarkozy's flying us all from france as he can all bullshit they tease pacific island of new caledonia with students planning street protests over the cuts he's left the job of presenting them to his prime minister he'll let them take the flak

for it and hopefully unions students retirees can march directly and protest against their ministers while he's behaving in a certain soul because these absence in this time of crisis right leading newspaper le figaro may be clip of politically but his failure to tackle the country's troubles now could be creating even greater problems for the future the new push to see paris. and now to some news that made headlines today across the world unrest continues syria with actually this claiming government forces have opened foreign protesters in the circuit city killing at least five people it comes as the arab league of mass it will send an envoy to the country to hold talks with president assad and seek an end to the violence meanwhile iran has reaffirmed its alliance with syria but warned that assad should listen to his people's legitimate demands more than two thousand have been killed since the 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 and 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 of the. superstar football striker has joined of russia north caucasus. some. native and a four time african player of the year will reportedly receive ten million euros a season is a rival is a massive coup for russia's premier league and puts firmly on the bout as one of the world's most ambitious clubs are no question about has the details. i think if you heard about people going out and for the next three years most of summer actos big games will be in russia this thursday the cameroon international left into

milan and each day behind flying in to join new club and ella. i'm starting from scratch i've always short as possible in europe as a player and here we're going to start a new. protocol is before any told me a lot about russia and i do look forward to joining the team at zero is a three time champions league winner and the most decorated african player of all time loitering pace has made out one of the sport's most prolific calls scorers in recent yes this still assigning how sport of this region of russia the north caucasus into the soccer world spotlight this is the in the i.r.l. . it seems that until recently few outside of russia had heard off but which is now making sports headlines across the globe and it's and this unlikely something that i team of world superstars is being built the story behind this transfer began in

january when the darkest on the clock was bought by slowly month giving him of a locally born businessman and one of the richest man in russia he vowed to turn on gene to a contender hoping to transform the republic and much in the process a handful of promising acquisitions followed among the legendary brazilians have found out about the cardless the current captain of the clock the fact that one of the best wears in the world will be playing for us in the family will. make their very big i am pretty good parts of the role of the game here in russia. i think it will give a very good image of us and for people because. it is one of the bastards inquests years not the star of the past russian money in european football is nothing new. back in two thousand and three russian businessmen i don't remember a movie each bought english club chelsea and transformed and meant local clubs into you would pay into a house and issue smart has also ploughed his millions into english giants arsenal

but this time the situation is different here the bit is to make a little known russian football team known across the world this deal may herald a new reality in the european game where international football superstar us playing for russian clubs are ask aman asked those goals i didn't push no r t reporting from the north caucasus. and now it's time for the latest in our close up series where we venture into areas of russia where few have traveled before. this week were in the care of a region located around a thousand kilometers east of moscow where the city of kirov is a renowned a cultural center famous for its folk arts and crafts in the summer the region is host to an annual festival celebrating a common green vegetable artes you gotta grow up never 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 make a bold claim in a pickle cucumbers in this village of the establishment of the best in the world. but while the players sing folk songs extolling the virtues of the green staple has only one stall the actual vegetable can be bought and i've travelled eighty kilometers to be in this case i'm curious the bard what it is that makes them so special but i'm a bit disappointed i wasn't allowed to buy more this heartened by the long wait we decided to take our surge to the locals it's the middle of the pickle in season if you can with the harvest that put in brine. and mixed with herbs.

so 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 a sealed barrels are dumped in the river for six months it's service because water 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 bichir of region has been known for its them to always be some ancient pagan haiti's these clay figurines have been handmade here for hundreds of years their handicraft strict tradition for the scribes that artisans was the very specific subjects namely present women and improbably colored animals. this is not just

a trademark of our region this is russia's visiting card we want the world's 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 suppose the most. before we came to maker thought making the same things over and over again would be boring but actually they always turn out different and once i have mastered the traditional teves i my grandchild. local authorities are hoping master classes like this one will become a tourist attraction and a recruiting ground for new craftswomen. of. cure of region that's all for this hour i'll be back with a recap of our main story shortly with r.t. .

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