mission street. on the. move in rivals have turned down reported all for by more market feed to negotiate the power as they prepare a final attack on the colonel's home town. the rebels say it's treason talks that's ahead believing leader who will join me reflection of from tripoli in just a moment. there's a big a shake up by the russian space agency after the loss of another on matter of mission the scientists now rushing to resupply the international space station and prevent a disaster. north korean leader kim jong il rolls through half of russia by train for a meeting with president medvedev saying up to a resumption of international talks that will bring peace to the peninsula. and

a tropical storm irene leaves four million people without power along the u.s. eastern seaboard as it slams into new york bringing high winds and heavy rain. it's just after eleven pm here in the russian capital and this is our key with the day's news and the week's top stories we start in libya where rebels have given a resolute note to war garg about his reported suggestion to sit down for talks the national transitional council says all the colonel deserves is a rest not dialogue archies but if at all she now 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 rebels will not negotiate with the criminals the rebels will not negotiate with the killer is they want to cut off he 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 police that. duff is information chief has apparently called a.p.'s headquarters in taffy is ready for talks with the rabble to form transitional government and even appointed his third son sided to lead this negotiations and this news comes just a week after a successful assault by the rebels on the libyan capital tripoli which became kind of breakthrough in the libyan six month long. civil war well meanwhile the rebels are progressing quite well they're currently controlled in most of the country including the capital tripoli and they're now claiming that they are preparing for what they call 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. 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 every. try to do. i know it's the streets and organizing kind of. pulling teeth. for checkpoints. the situation is very hard surgical

here in tripoli professor at university dr told r.t. the us ambition to bring back its military base to libya has driven its lead role in the nato campaign western powers have interest in libya. most important of course libyan oil and the us used to have a military base in libya. very interested. in military power in libya so. i see a problem in the structure of the libyan revolution and the way that. well clearly the rebels were created by the western powers initially there were few demonstrations that were being. known of course the western powers and. not just the military power in the area that they are pushing they have also

increasingly weapons on the ground for the rebels they have also supported them with special forces from britain even the united states without giving them careening and this in some way below gitmo is that because it puts their foreign imprint on centrally what was before the rebellion like the rebellion or the conies in rebellion. the nato allies have already spent millions of dollars on their participation and the coalition's campaign in libya are now racing to cash in on profitable oil deals arky sarfraz reports now all the coalition members lining up to secure lucrative contracts. kill to the hearts of most modern was and you'll strike oil whether or not that's things true when it comes to libya well it's going to play a pivotal role in the country's future q we have to feel restruck interest me.

the question interest to check if it's one. or two rebels fighting when you try to do government intervention to restart shelling all it's possible is stranger to the concepts of friends with benefits berlusconi's been quick to kacey up to the new transitional council inviting the public face of the group from the grill to italy. was good at these closest european allies when the native bombing campaign began back in april we're up early switch sides again courting the rebels . for the wall almost a third of its least daily energy needs were imported from libya and oil any with the largest foreign operator in the country because many here have been doing all they can to safeguard these contracts but the if they will be able to maintain these previously close business ties is by no means a given in a post in libya the future likely extremely uncertain and there

a little guarantee one of the biggest problems for the italy and other western countries since the beginning of the war has been the struggle to adequately understand the internal workings of the rebels themselves. amongst the rebels there are many factions islamist tunisian people. it's just you know if your sick and many chiefs of these groups of rebels are from the politicians with gadhafi and then be completely change their face. as they say i need to i think that corrupt politicians. have all met personally on a number of occasions through business connections less than a month vacation returned from a fact finding to. it's libya with a handwritten letter she says was written by get a pizza palace k. in it he allegedly says he was surprised by your decision to join the coalition against libya especially after we signed the friendship and cooperation treaty between our two sides the cittie he's referring to he was talking to two months

before the libyan uprising the letter goes on to ask why did you join our enemies without any to mattick dialogue or investigation berlusconi now seems to be busy making new friends but whilst it may be the final chucked it does say anything complex will continue i would dare to see if you talk for a cheese among the rebels there is no such. sense or. no consensus hoping to be an internal coup no actual person to talk to. be. with her foreign media now is silly along with many in the west could well find previous lucrative relations may turn out to be just this vehicle for the rainfall the friendships serve the. well coming up on our team we're on a storm watch the city that never sleeps great tropical storm irene as it's the western

schools moving through the big apple. 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 failed to reach the international space station and growing up in the earth's atmosphere all six crew members aboard the i assess all there have to ration out the food and water they have left artie's jake agrees reports. at the moment it's all came crashing down. on wednesday from the baikonur cosmodrome three hundred twenty five seconds later a progress craft atop a soyuz rocket plummeted back to earth i thought it was a plane a first then i realized coins never fly there close quietly then it turned into some bright object and then saw that it was sparkling 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 six crew members on board rocket malfunction has been blamed for the unsuccessful launch as a craft ascended into orbit 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 held the progress out of the earth's atmosphere. teams have be sent to southern 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 books mission of being felt much further afield with the question of how to resupply the international space station proving the most pressing. operation always keep in mind that possibility of cargo space ship not booking through the international space station for some

reason so that crew on board has enough off water and food supplies to survive on for another three or four months until their guard spacecraft arrive to the space station time then maybe on the side of ross cosmos russia's space agency the 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. they're going to want to make sure anything similar. happened a surprise there's 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 is being forced to tighten cause he control in hope there won't be a repeat of the problems that'll be good news for the six nationals currently on

board the international space station especially to tell for the scrapping of the u.s. shuttle program has now global importance on the success of the soyuz. greaves r.t. . this week north korea announced its readiness to review when to national talks over its disputed nuclear plants the news came as the country's leader made a rare for abroad to meet president dmitry medvedev and discuss among other things a vital energy deal for north korea's struggling economy are. reports. a man of mystery north korea's kim jong il prefers to stay out of the media spotlight the great leader as he's officially known at home constantly fears for his life which is why 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 class on from there he traveled on the translate here in railway to the by col region with the republic of borneo as this final destination and a meeting with president mediated 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 past of lies in that lenin is one of the biggest in the world and by stopping here kim jong il has bates 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 that two men get down to business but not 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 struggling north korea. and the new market for russia the north koreans are not going to be able to. a solution price for gas imports from russia would. cost them building reply so the pipeline has to be extended to south korea to 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 but she 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 are insane as a lot i did with north korea as china is you know president vaclav once said we must change our way of attention from what separates us to what unites us and

russia plays an all white now and 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 treaty to russia appears to have achieved with kim jong il's announcement of a desire to return to the talks and implement a march for human production and testing of nuclear weapons if the chance resume for north korea is a chance to recover from recent data 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 m. m millions of new yorkers decided to stay in their homes as hurricane irene swept through the city bringing partial flooding and power shortages well it's been downgraded to a tropical storm all public transportation will remain shut throughout sunday. u.s.

eastern seaboard and house claimed at least fifteen are these many report i reports out from new york. the state was carried away in advance therefore i remain gat it's way down the eastern seaboard but at this point things seen extremely calm relatively calm and sun actually looking out of my way down 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 mayor ologists when it was making its way down the eastern seaboard i went through wow through north carolina it downgraded to a tropical storm by the time it hit manhattan we did see sheets of of rain coming down when i became extremely heavy i 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 main hall the outer boroughs of new york city there how how how

are shortages now on manhattan of all the emergency workers and first responders hard dealing with major flooding or the low lying areas and how now 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 rational ryan 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 how does it leave its way to you or the forty two when we are all just are saying this storm has now passed new york city is heading towards rhode island you were an 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

cleanup you or or any. well of course we're closely following the developments of raveling on the east coast of america which has been hit by a group of extreme weather people walk onto our you tube channel to watch the most recent videos from the hurricane site. europe spreading that crisis is threatening to draw in a friends as the government announce new or sturdy measures earlier this week amid concerns it could lose its aaa credit rating for the deficit reducing package will see some twelve billion euros worth of cuts plus a tax hike for the rich but authorities don't know bushell explains that move could be too although 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 choices that ratio is among the world's top rated states maybe verse does bitterly to follow the u.s. and be downgraded just repaying interest only this year has overtaken education

and defense as the government's biggest. cause he's presided over the biggest jump in debt levels in our history books the curry too much water. france is going to get tolerance limits probably disturb us as he explained the new road of spending cuts this week but economists fear things. those cuts go nowhere near enough and you can compare it with people saying we're going to buy lumber gini and buy a porsche and they call the austerity doctors warned france's huge debts burden is bringing crudely of dreams this meant in schools and hospitals is the program for getting. into story. computers are very old. equipment are old fashioned.

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 our inner cities in the suburbs. are certainly segregated stand for more so in the u.k. or in germany so yes in. suburbs and spread through nicolas sarkozy's flying a ball from france as he can on budget day to his 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 the ministers while he's bathing in the sun because these absence in this time of crisis wright's 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 of the new bush team paris. and still ahead for you this hour a journey through russia all the way to the legion where an unusual festival held in the name of a leader and a green vegetable as a mother to make the dolls and children alike. and now to some a news that made headlines today across the world on the west continues in syria with activists claiming the government forces have opened foreign protesters in separate cities killing at least five people it comes as the arab league in the house it will separate 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 and more than two thousand have been killed since that your government demonstrations began in march. a series of overnight bomb attacks as left six people dead and injured

at least seven and the iraqi capital baghdad explosions targeted a police before all of one of the city's neighborhoods more than half of the casualties were officers officials say at least two hundred fifty people have been killed by extremists in iraq in july although. there was superstar football striker has drawn the russian north caucasus. summer cameroon native a four time african player of the year reportedly received ten million euros a season on his arrival is a massive coup for russia's premier league and puts owners you firmly on the map as one of the world's most ambitious clubs artists but in a court universe has the details. to do very well put on my hands for the next three years most of san antonio's big games will be in russia this thursday the cameroon international left into milan and each leave behind flying in to join new

club ella. i'm starting from scratch i've always been in europe as a player and here it is starting new plus. i've played with a bunch of crazies before and he told me a lot about russian and i do look forward to joining the team at zero is the three time champions league winner and the most decorated african player of all time loitering case has made out one of the sport's most prolific calls scorers in recent yes this still assigning has put this region of russia the north caucasus into the soaker world spotlight this is the in the. 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 in this unlikely something that a team of world superstars is being built the story behind this transfer began in january when the darkest on the clock was bought by sally monk giving him of

a locally born businessman and one of the richest men in russia he found to turn on gene to a contender hoping to transform the republic's image in the process a handful of promising acquisitions followed among that legendary brazilian to found out about the card list the current captain of the clock preferred but one of the first wears in the world will be playing him there are some general eager will . america very big in parts of the growth of the game here in russia. i think it will give a very good image overall for people because summer is one of the best bits and where's there's a lot of the star of the past russian money in european football is nothing new back in two thousand and three russian businessmen i don't want to put on more beach boys english club chelsea and transformed and mid-level club into you would paint pilot house i should have smart have has also ploughed his millions into english giants arsenal but this time the situation is different here is 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 spring for russian clubs are ass common tells calls meisner question r.t. reporting from the north caucasus. now it's time for the latest our close up series this week we're care of reacher look at it around a thousand kilometers east of moscow renowned for its folk arts and crafts and the summer it also holds an annual festival celebrating common green vegetable art is your god never joins in the fun. it's the pride of the cure of regent annual cucumber festival the governor himself in by the journalists from all across russia just to showcase the region's tourist

potential organizers here make a bold claim at a pickle cucumbers in this village of. all the best in the world. saying folksongs extolling the virtues of the green staple because only one store where the actual vegetable can be bought a lot of trouble ninety 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 surge to the locals it's the middle of the pickling season if you can. put in brine. and mix some of. the recipe to what makes them special is a strictly kept secret at the magic ingredient is our deal garlic and horseradish. but the truly unique part of the local pickling process is that

a sealed barrels are gone from the river for six months it serve the cold water it gives them a subtle shortly 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. thank you traditionally the cure of region has been known for it's the uncovered toys base an ancient pagan beatty's these clay figurines have been and made here for hundreds of years handicrafts trick tradition describes the artisans was the pig very specific subjects namely how it will present women and probably color down in malls. this is not just a trademark a very gentle this is russia's visiting card who want the world 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 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 and its. local authorities are hoping master classes like this one will become a tourist attraction and a recruiting ground for new craftswomen. here are of no. cure of regional. alerts are for an hour then back in a few moments to recap the week's top stories for r.t. .

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