live in rebels have turned down reported offer by want to get off the to negotiate their power transfer as they prepare a final our task on the colonel's hometown. the rebels say it's freezing talks that's ahead pulling back the 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 on matter of mission scientists now rushing to resupply the international space station after the disaster. north korean leader kim jong il rolls through her off of russia by train for a meeting with president medvedev same opinion wants a resumption of its national talks it will bring peace to the peninsula. that

tropical storm i believe leaves four million people without power along the u.s. eastern seaboard as it slams into new york bringing high winds and heavy rain. coming to you live from moscow this is our team with the day's news and the week's top stories and we start in libya where rebels have given a resolute no to war margaret coffey is reported suggestion to sit down for talks although bashful transitional council says all the colonel deserves is arrest not dialogue archy's media financial house 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 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 said that darby is ready for talks with the radicals to form a transitional government and even appointed his third son the idea to leave this negotiations and these news comes just a week after a successful assault by the rebels on the libyan capital tripoli which became a kind of breakthrough in the libyan six month long. civil war well meanwhile the rebels are progressing quite well they're currently control than 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 cut off his native town city at the same time the rebels say that they go she should run to go in with

his supporters there in syria and eve. or they will know greet 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 a 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. also try to do that themselves you know to the streets and. kind of. volunteer to checkpoints so the situation is

very hard to build here in tripoli. professor university dr mussina could see. the u.s. to bring back its military base to libya has driven its leading role in the nato campaign. western powers have been personally libya. most important of course libyan oil and the us used to have a military base if you're. very interested. in military power in libya so in that sense i see a problem in the structure of the libyan revolution and. clearly there are balls that were created by the western powers initially there were few demonstrations being. of course the western powers nato. is not just the military power and they are pushing they have also increasingly

weapons on the ground. they have also supported them with special forces from britain even the united states giving them careening and this in some way below is that because it puts a foreign imprint on really what was before the rebellion like the egyptian rebellion or the tunisian rebellion. all nato allies have already spent millions of dollars of their participation in the coalition's campaign in libya are now resigned to cash in on profitable oil deals are further reports now of the coalition members lining up to secure lucrative energy contracts. killed so the housemates model was and you'll strike oil whether or not that saying but it comes to libya well it's going to play a pivotal role in the country's q we have to feel we struck the interests that.

the western interest to protect it well. but also rebels fighting with the future may be interesting to restart selling oil it's possible it's strange it's the concepts of friends that benefit. he's been quick to casey up to the new transitional council inviting the public face of the group from the djibril to italy for talks was good at these closest european allies when the native bombing campaign began back in april probably switch sides and began courting the rebels instead for the wall almost a third of italy's daily energy needs were imported from libya an oil giant any with the largest foreign operator in the country because many here have been doing all they can to safeguard these contracts but it's they will be able to maintain these previously close business cards is by no means a given approach is that in libya the futility extremely uncertain and there are

little guarantee one of the biggest problems for both italy and other western countries since the beginning of the war has been a struggle to adequately understand the internal workings of the rebels themselves . amongst the rebels there are many factions islam is commission people. it's just your sick and many chiefs of these groups of rebels are from a part of titian's with gadhafi and then they completely changed their face they went with the wind as they say i need to leave i think corrupt politicians. the personally on a number of occasions three prisoners connections less than a month ago she returned from a fact finding trip to libya with a handwritten letter she says was written by could have berlusconi in it here allegedly says we were surprised by your decision to join the coalition against libya especially after we signed the 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 or that any diplomatic dialogue or investigation berlusconi now seems too busy making the friends. maybe to find a child to think that they many conflicts will continue i would care to see them tell you if you start a new book which is among the rebels there is no such. consensus no consensus helping you 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 as they kill their own full of friendships serve the right. and coming up on r t we're on a storm watch the city that never sleeps and brings tropical storm irene as it's

moves of the u.s. east coast are moving through the big apple. now the russian government has ordered a major shakeup of the country's space agency after the loss of yet another american mission a progress resupply craft failed to reach the international space station and burned out of the earth's atmosphere all six crew members aboard the i.s. as well now how to ration out the food and water they have left archy's google groups has more for. the moment it's came crashing down. a lot sean was there from the baikonur cosmodrome three hundred twenty five seconds later the progress craft atop of soyuz rocket plummeted back to earth i thought it was a plane and first but then i realized planes never fly there quietly and then it turned into some bright object and then so it was sparkling and i heard a loud noise it was like three being one really loud and two quieter it was due to

joke 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 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 pell 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 seek into the surrounding soil and water supply so far they've drawn a blank that already the repercussions of the box mission of being fails much further afield of the question of how to resupply the international space station proving the most pressing. operation glamorous always keep in mind that possibility or picard was not talking to the international space station for some reason so

that crew on board pairs of water and food supplies to survive on for another three or four months until their. cargo spacecraft are right for the space station time then maybe on the side of ross cosmos russia space agency the loss has still raised significant alarm bells this all use a rocket carrying the crew is slightly different but not much. progress they're going to want to make sure anything similar could go on about what happened when. it was more turbulence of russian space program back in december when three glow in a satellites the country's alternative to g.p.s. plummeted into the pacific ocean with this latest setback was kosmos is be forced to tighten called the control in hope there won't be a repeat of the problems possibly good news for the six astronauts currently on

board the international space station especially today after the scrapping of the u.s. shuttle program is now global importance on the success of the soyuz. degrees r.t. . this week north korea announced its readiness to refute international talks over its disputed nuclear plants well the news came as the country's leader made a rare for broad to meet president dmitry medvedev and discuss among other things a vital energy deal for both 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 with chopsticks designed to detect poisons but the fear of ongoing sanctions and tough financial times proved more significant as i think 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 start in a far eastern town of her son from there he traveled on the trance a beer in railway to the by call region with the republic of video to as its 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 pos the idea 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 that 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. 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. price the gas imports from russia would we overpay not because building the pipelines and the pipeline has to be extended are in south korea so it's not with 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 allied with north korea as china is you know president obama. once said that we must change our river 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 implemented more torreon and production and testing of nuclear weapons if the talks resume for north korea is a chance to recover from recent doubts of famine and get some much needed food aid but for russia it's a chance to do what everyone else has failed so far catherine as are about r t. well millions of new yorkers decided to stay in their homes as hurricane irene swept through the city ringing partial flooding and power shortages well it's now been downgraded to a tropical storm all public transportation will remain shut throughout sunday is

sweeping up the u.s. eastern seaboard and that's great at least fifteen lives already are reports now from new york. the city was for paired our way in advance before i read your art begat its way down the eastern seaboard but at this point things seemed extremely collaborates we conned sun actually looking out of my window on the sun is beginning to come out here in new york city where that does not mean that there are not been any damage from this tropical storm now irene was a hurricane but according to meteorologists when it was making its way down the eastern seaboard once an hour went through plowed through north carolina it sounds great it's more tropical storm by the time it hit manhattan we did see shades of rain coming down the wind 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 in whole the outer boroughs of new york city there are how

out in our shortages now odd manhattan that all the emergency workers and first responders are dealing with major flooding before the low lying areas of manhattan as we remember it was in new york city mayor michael bloomberg that border a mandatory evacuation of certain parts of new york city those are wrangled lying areas proximately three hundred seventy thousand people who live in all those different areas a lot of equal evacuated and a lot of new yorkers chose to stay and our way out of the storm as it made its way through your according to what we are all just are saying on 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 the plains laments and heading that way detroit 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. of course we're closely following the developments on raveling on the east coast of america which has been hit by a wave of extreme weather a lot more you to. also watch the most recent as well as the most impressive videos from hurricane site. by europe spread exact quotes this is threatening to grow enough for us as a government announce a new one started measures earlier this week amid concerns it could lose its aaa credit rating where the 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 if he hears that social unrest is just around the corner. enjoys a triple a credit rating but now the truth one of the boys ratios among the world's top rated states many investors bitterly to follow the u.s. and be downgraded just paying interest on it this year has overtaken education

and defense as the government's spend. mr silicosis presided over the biggest jump and levels in our history carry too much water. france is going to tolerate. a prime minister as he explained to you real deep 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 that heresy doctors board for all these huge did birds and is bringing crudely of drink versus mint in schools and hospitals. getting. into. computers. very old.

fashioned. out of the situations explosive say experts and frauds could be next witness routes like those in britain with the proved. a lawyer can spot the inner part of cities and the suburbs. are socially segregated to very high extent. in the u.k. or in germany so yes unrest from the suburbs and spread through nicolas sarkozy's flying a fall from france as he can on budget 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 in protest against their ministers while he's paving in the sun because these absence in this time of crisis what'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 push to see. and still ahead for you this hour a journey through russia all the way to you all were an unusual first of all held in the neighbor between an actionable is entertaining adults and children alike. but before that let's look at some the news that made headlines today across the world on the us continues in syria with activists scream government forces have opened far protestors in separate cities at least five people it comes as the arab league of else it will center on going to the country to hold talks with president assad to seek an end to the violence in iraq iran has reaffirmed its alliance with syria but want that assad should listen to his peoples who didn't make demands two thousand have been killed since the government demonstrations began in march.

a series of overnight with taxes left six people dead and injured at least seven in the iraqi capital baghdad the explosion started 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. it was superstar football striker has joined the russian north caucasus clogged. up some cameroon they took them four time african player of the year over portably received ten million euros a season and his arrival is a massive coup for russia's premier league and puts all g firmly on the map as one of the world's most ambitious clubs artie's within a quarter of what has the details. i think a diverse group of people got my hand for the next three years most of summer at joe's big games will be in russia this thursday the cameroon international left

into milan and each day behind flying in to join new club under which color. i'm starting from scratch i want all of these possible europe as a player and here i can start a new play with a group of problems before and he told me a lot about russian football and i do look forward to joining the team after all is the three time champions league winner and the most decorated african player of all time a long way to name case has made after one of the sport's most prolific calls scorers increased again this still assigning has put this region of russia the north caucasus into the soccer world spotlight this is the in the. it seems that until recently few outside of pressure had heard off but which is now making sports have lines across the globe and it's and there's unlikely setting that a team of world service stars is being built the story behind this transfer began

in january when the douglas tony clark was bought by stanley monk getting him off a locally born businessman and one of the richest men in russia he found to turn on jeans to a contender hoping to transform the republics and mage in the process a handful of promising acquisitions followed among the legendary brazilian to fund a cardless the current captain of the clock the fact that one of the best wears in the world will be where. there are some. real. america a very big damper in parts of the role of them talk of the game here in russia. i think it will give a very good image of cross because. it is one of the best spirits in 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 and i'm one of the more beach boys english club chelsea and transformed to mid-level clarke into you would paint

powerhouse i should have smart has also ploughed his millions into english giants arsenal but this time the situation is different here is that there 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 spraying for russian clubs are asked common as golds why didn't bush know r.t. reporting from the north caucasus. and now it's time for the latest in our close of series and this week we're in the kirov region located around a thousand kilometers east of moscow i read out for its folk arts and crafts in the summer it also hosts an adult best of all celebrating a common agreed vegetable archy's eager oh god never joys of the fun. it's the pride of the kirov region the 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 pickled cucumbers in this village of its numbers are the best in the world. but while the players sing folk songs extolling the virtues of the green staple because only one stalwart actual vegetable can report more trouble eighty kilometers to be in this q 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 put in brine. and mix 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 seal barrels are dumped in the river for six months it's called water gives them a subtle chalky flavor luckily we found some pickles left over from last year's crop all the stalk of cucumber has made me quite hungry for the local delicacy so decided to give it a try myself. thank you traditionally the kirov region has been known for its them covered toys base an ancient pagan beatty's these clay figurines hoping handmade there for hundreds of years handicrafts trick tradition describes that artisans was depicted very specific subjects namely present women and probably colored animals and. this is not just a trademark of our region this is russia's visiting card or want the wow 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 and i suppose the most. before i became 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 motifs 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 of nerve. cure of region. and that's all for now but i'll be back in a few moments of the week out of the top headlines to save us.

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