legal troubles have turned out reported all by monica down here to go save the power transfer they have final time and proud old hometown. rebel say it's treason not talks that's ahead for the battle libyan leader could join the reflection of from tripoli in just a moment. but there's a big shakeup in the russian space agency after the loss of another unmanned mission with scientists now rushing to resupply of international space station and prevent a disaster. also north korean leader kim jong il rolls through apple's russia by train for meeting with president made a very good saying beyond young ones a resumption of international talks that will bring peace to the peninsula. and tropical storm irene leaves one million people without power in the u.s.

eastern seaboard as it slams into new york green high winds and heavy rain. hello welcome to the program this is our cheese weekly review i mean you are and we start in libya where rebels have ruled out any possibility of talks with moammar gadhafi aside the national transitional council says all the colonel deserves is a rest now dialogue or he's maria has spoken to the rebels and reports from tripoli . we have been able to speak to rubbles 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 to get our fee 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 piece that. this information chief has apparently called a.p.'s headquarters and has to be is ready for talks with the rabble to form a transitional government and even appointed his third son saadi 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 a kind of breakthrough in the libyan six month long. civil war well meanwhile the rebels of progress and quite well they're currently control in most of the country 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 the go she ran to go in with his supporters there in syria 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 shortage of electricity gas line magazine and water garbage everywhere on the streets because municipal services happened 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 the. also try to deal with. the streets and organize in kind of. two for check call is. the situation is very hard to call here in tripoli. american military ambition could be one of the reasons the nato campaign in need according to a professor. of bethlehem university and he told r.t.

that washington is hoping to reinstate space in the country. western powers have interests in libya. most important of course libyan oil and the us used to have a military base in the. military power in libya so in that sense i see a problem in the structure of the libyan revolution and. clearly there are calls that were created by the western powers initially there were a few demonstrations that were being you. know of course the western powers and the fear. is not just a military power and they are pushing they have also increasingly workmen's on the ground for the rebels they have also supported them with special

forces from britain and even the united states without giving them training and this in some way below gitmo is that because of. their foreign imprint on centrally what was before the rebellion like the rebellion or the tunisian rebellion. looks like looks like leaders are the latest to celebrate the end of a long standing to take shape following their neighbors in tunisia and egypt that's continuing difficulties in the revolutionary aftermath i mean it's too unclear if the people how want what they wanted from the arab spring uprisings and looks at the parallels between the egyptian. 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 there a long time leader hosni mubarak but six months on many egyptians say their hopes

have been crushed by reality. but you know i love the revolution. it happened i welcomed it and it looked at the time like a light at the end of the tunnel you see it's not getting better we have from nothing to eat just don't tell me about democracy for hungry people it just doesn't matter the egyptians now are not governed by who they tros as their leaders instead it's their army that's in control of the army that has strong ties with the u.s. and he sponsored by washington the military regime the other first the institutions that were the absence 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 body taking over is the national transitional council also not chosen by the leading people yet the council is being recognized as the legitimate government of libya by all accounts

nice has been helping oust gadhafi many libyans 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 look at only because reform democratic rights and universal participation by the citizenry the western powers need to implement 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 buttressed by western powers western powers have thrown all their support behind a lead in national transitional council giving them billions of dollars and weapons to gain control but the rebels are far from the united group and libya is going to face after that is a period of prolonged chaos nobody knows the outcome this is tribe against tribe

this is not democracy against authoritarian revolutions in egypt and libya have developed under different scenarios in egypt it was an. an armed uprising of millions 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 we'd be as could find themselves in a much worse situation than the egyptians because on top of the power crisis similar to the one egyptians are having libyans could be facing a fresh outbreak of violence at the hands of the on the more i'm going to shift our reporting from washington our team. and coming up a little while we're on storm watch that never sleeps lying low as tropical storm irene sweeps up the u.s. east coast turning streets of the big apple and many other places into rivers. prime minister vladimir putin has ordered a review on improvements to russia's space industry after yet another unmanned spacecraft crashed on wednesday their progress blasted out with carpet with

a crew of the international space station before things siberia the crash has sparked fears of contamination from toxic fuel that could be dangerous for local people and the environment jacob green has a story for us. the moment it's came crashing down. launched on wednesday from the baikonur cosmodrome three hundred twenty five seconds later a progress craft atop a soyuz rocket plummeted back to us i thought it was a plane at first but then i realized the coins never fly their clothes quietly then it turned into some white object and then so that it was sparkling i heard a loud noise it was like three bangs 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 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 to propel the progress out of the earth's atmosphere. teams have be sent to southern 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 of being fails much further afield with the question of how to resupply the international space station proving the most pressing. operation planners always keep in mind the possibility of a big car was not working for the international space station for some reason so they could go on board pairs of water and food supplies to survive on for another three or four months until their cargo spacecraft arrive to the space station

time then maybe on the side of ross cosmos russia's space agency but the loss has still raised significant alarm bells this story is carrying. crew is slightly different but not much here. was the progress they're going to want to make sure. it is similar to go on that way. and. there's more turbulence of russia's space program back in december when three glow less satellites the country's alternative to cheap p.s. plummeted into the pacific ocean with this latest setback roscosmos 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 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 to greaves

r.t. . this week north korea announced its residents to resume international talks over its disputed nuclear plans and news came with the country's need and made a rare trip abroad to meet president dmitry medvedev underskirts among other things a vital energy deal for north korea struggling economy. or. 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 you avoids planes has armored cars and eats with chopsticks designed to detect poisons but the fear of ongoing sanctions and tough financial times proved more significant as kim jong il embarked on a widely publicized trip to russia making tracks from pyongyang in a special armored train gifted to kim's father by stalin the leader crossed the border with russia and made his first stop in the far eastern town of quests on

from there he traveled on the trance a beer in railway to the by coal region with the republic of borneo as its final destination and a meeting with president of egypt 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 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 apart the pipeline which would bring say durian 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. shoot prices for gas imports from russia would we overpay but because the building the pipelines and the pipeline has been extended into south korea since 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 calls or 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 that we must change our way of attention from what separates us to what unites us and russia plays a 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 cheechoo russia appears to have achieved with kim jong il's announcement of a desire to return to the talks and implement a moratorium on production and testing of nuclear weapons if the charts 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. and still ahead for you this hour a journey through russia all the way to the camera return where an unusual festival held in the name of the nina and green vegetable as entertaining adults and children like. millions of new yorkers decided to stay in their homes as hurricane irene swept through the city bringing concho flooding and power shortages well it's now been downgraded to

a tropical storm all public transportation will remain shut through our sunday irene is sweeping out the u.s. eastern seaboard has claimed at least fifteen lives already. reports now from new york city was the carried away in advance there where irene begat its way down the eastern seaboard but at this point things seem extremely conference we consarn 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 i really was a hurricane but according to meteorologist when it was making its way down the eastern seaboard once it i went through a plow through of carolina a downgrade it's more tropical storm by the time it hit manhattan we did see shades of of rain coming down the we became extremely heavy i was downgraded to a tropical storm as you mentioned at this point there's been severe flooding along the hudson river in and in all the outer boroughs of new york city there our out in

our shortages now i know how all the emergency workers and first responders are dealing with major flooding topic for the low lying areas south of 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 now lying areas approximately three hundred seventy thousand people who live in all those different areas are lot of people evacuated and a lot of new yorkers chose to stay and are way out of the storm as it made its way to you are right. now to be a lot less than what was anticipated and what was hyped up and at this point it's just about cleanup the irony or. we are closely following the developments and reveling on the east coast of america which has been hit by a global extreme weather tell you tube channel to watch the most recent most

impressive videos from the hurricane site. with their new president this weekend alexander will now lead the country that has been exhausted by two decades of tensions declared independence from neighboring georgia wonders and he's done his let's hear reports are trying to drink cask lies ahead with a new leader as the next chapter of our buildings. he promised to make a pause it is stronger state now it's on the run but has the power to do so winning fifty four percent of the vote in friday's presidential election out of two rivals has given him a clear mandate with some citizens of the small caucus republican willing to travel a long way to support their man as i came from crimea to vote for our help war veterans like me a lot when we had tough times. alexander was feisty president when the man he succeeds as leader sort of gave a gosh died in office last may the two sought haws independence recognized by

russia and the number of other countries in two thousand and eight with both men helping prevent war with georgia in the same year for almost two decades after a pause it declared independence from georgia fear and uncertainty marked life in the country the mood now seems to have changed paperweight battle for the pendency of many scholars in applause is 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 an club's agenda. we have to admit it and it is true we see growth but it is no no we close in series and distance. the campaign was monitored by more than one hundred international observers from countries including france austria and israel and i was invited to. have a very quick reaction from the georgian always says oh no don't those are about my

ideals for any independence and i can detect please support what you're doing here you know because you're fighting for your summer and geo tone of the independence democracy for an election observers ignored the threats and gave the poll a clean bill of health these elections are a well planned. operating at the highest level as well as the results come as another positive step for democracy in the region according to the election monitors the new bern faces stiff challenges leaving his country with a hostile leader in georgia and a legacy of difficult to speak that we can depend so citizens will be hoping that the chills of this president will help carry the euro for their country. check some other international news and breed and rescue teams in syria with opposition groups claiming at least five people have been killed by security forces

opening fire on protesters arab league members have merged syria to end the bloodshed and i think they send an envoy to the reforms in the country meanwhile president assad has endorsed a new media law supposedly allowing freedom of expression and dropping penalties against journalists the united nations says two thousand two hundred people have been killed in syria as those demonstrations against the regime began in march. twenty nine people have been killed and sent to eighty injured by a suicide bomber who blew himself up inside brother guard the largest sunni mosque during prayers and in the day a series of bomb attacks in the center left six people dead and wounded seven but as has decreased in iraq since its peak in two thousand six hundred thousand and seven but attacks remain common at least one hundred fifty people have been killed by extremists in the country in july alone. and in turkey an explosion that has injured fifteen in a mediterranean resort frequented by foreigners and the bomb went off early on sunday on a beach in a camaro entirely

a province popular with german dutch and russian tourists the device was buried in the sand with most of the injured hurt by flying stones so there was no need to have a claim of responsibility by kurdish militants fighting for ptolemy in southeastern turkey have carried out attacks tourist resorts in the past. former into milan superstar footballer samuel eto has joined a russian club for a report a reported three year deal worth almost twenty six million dollars a year makes the striker the best paid player in the world and what's a massive coup not just for the team but for russia's premier league two. story. it was a very good bloke who got mike and for the next three years most of summer at those big games will be in russia this thursday the cameroon international left into milan and each leave behind flying in to join new club under which color. i'm starting from scratch over all the trophies possible in europe as

a player and start a new. bridge across before each old me a lot about russians but i do need for them to join the team at zero is a three time champions league winner and the most decorated african player of all time lightening pace has made hotter one of the sport's most prolific calls scorers in recent years this still assigning has this region of russia the north caucasus the soccer world spotlight this is the in need says. it seems that until recently few outside of russia had heard off but which is now made gains force had lines across the globe and it's and there's unlikely certainty that a team of were also been stars is being built the story behind this transfer began in january when the guy. this tony clark was appalled by suleyman killing of a locally born businessman and one of the richest men in russia he vowed to turn genes to a contender hoping to transform the republic's damage in the process

a handful of promising acquisitions followed among the legendary brazilians have found a better cardless the current captain of the club the fact that one of the first wears in the world will be wearing them or us in the premier league or will. america a very big damper impacts it's a good development all of the game here in russia. i think it will give a very good image of ross in football because that's turmoil is one of the bastards in question is not the star of the past russian money in european football is nothing new back in two thousand and three russian businessmen are on the bromwich english club chelsea and transformed a mid-level club into a you appear powerhouse eilish of the smart have has also clout his millions into english giants arsenal but this time the situation is different here is that that 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 superstars playing for russian clubs are ask women asked at those goals by the question r.t. reporting from the north caucasus and now let's join our closeout team exploring historic regions on traditions across the world's biggest country. and this time our close our team has traveled around a thousand kilometers from moscow to the killer region it's famous four hundred zero zero tories and for the annual summer festival devoted to a common green vegetable garden brings us a taste of the event. 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 over he started are the best in the world. but while the players sing folk songs extolling the virtues of the green staple has only one stalwart actual vegetable can be bought for a troubled eighty kilometers to be in this queue i'm curious about what it is that makes them so special but i'm a bit disappointed i wasn't allowed to buy more this heartened by the long wait we decided to take our search to the locals it's the middle of the pickle in season if you can there's a harvest put in brine and mixed with herb's. so the recipe to what makes them special is a strictly kept secret at the magic ingredient are deal with garlic and horseradish but the truly unique part of the local pickling process is that

a sealed barrels are dumped in a river for six months it serve a bit 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 because of region has been known for its them covered toys base an ancient pagan they see these clay figurines have been handmade here for hundreds of years handicraft strip tradition describes the artisans most depict very specific subjects namely present women and i'm probably color down and. this is not just a trademark of our region this is russia's visiting card i want the well to take notice of 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 to me 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 of new of. cure of region. the years from now back with a recap of the headlines from. all .

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