hello and welcome to the program this is weekly review hour and we start in libya where rebels have ruled out any possibility of talks with monica duffus side the national transitional council says all that colonel deserves is a rest not dialogue archies marie a few notion has spoken to the rebels and reports now from tripoli. we have been able to speak to the rebels information minister here in tripoli and he has made his position quite clear the rebels will not negotiate with the criminals the rebels will not negotiate with the killers 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 new solution use of the period that. duff is information chief has apparently called a peace headquarters and has said that gadhafi is ready for talks with the rabble

to form a 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 and including the capital tripoli and they are now claiming that they are preparing for what they call this final battle an assault on kid off his native town city at the same time the rebels say that the go round to go in with his supporters there in syria and if it's successful they will no be any military operation if only 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 medicine and water garbage is everywhere on the streets because municipal services happen paralyzed people trying to deal with that themselves they're. 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 that themselves coming out to the streets and organizing kind of armed volunteers to for checkpoints so the situation is very hard very difficult here in tripoli. concerns have been raised over who is to control libya stockpiles of chemical weapons what reports of rebel factions have been infiltrated by islamic extremists washington with that kind of guarantee terrorists will not get their hands on the arsenals but has pledged to

try to prevent it from happening it has. tripoli a city in chaos there's constant gunfire both aggressive and celebration and on the outskirts of the capital stockpiles of chemical weapons nato know very little about the people who might come to power. tripoli so now if you've got this cache of weapons of mass destruction that again people really don't know what. and if this is falling into the hands of certain people i mean the situation is potentially disastrous despite the heavy presence of rebels in tripoli the chemical stockpile appears still to be in the hands of what's left of these government that's both good and bad news following a series of meetings in two thousand and three moammar gadhafi agreed to allow weapons inspectors into libya the first step towards abandoning his w m d program in return for a normalizing of relations with the u.k. and u.s.

they agree that he wouldn't use or move the material but now thanks in part to nato support of the rebels he's on the back foot and may feel he has nothing to lose by disregarding that agreement cry of victory or martyrdom will strike an ominous note to those who know of his weapons potential given the violations of the national territory of libya by nato led rebel forces i think that the idea that he would be beholden to these types of agreements would be off the table at this point and certainly he was quoted as saying in early july that he would be willing to strike out europe if tripoli was attacked so i think it's a fair assumption to say that if there is the. capability that he would be looking your best option at this point at any rate but the alternative rebel control of chemical weapons is arguably worse according to many some of the rebel factions have links to al qaeda or

a commentator abdel bari atwan says the west got itself into this trouble now it has to decide how it will figure it out and the options aren't attractive we know that the majority of the people who are fighting muslim extremists or how the people is going to be with those people are about the mobile of chemical i believe their post would be more problematic than that. if you there are some indications nato is considering putting peacekeeping troops on the ground in libya regional experts warn that could be seen by parts of the free libya movement as an act of aggression but having supported the rebel movement nato must now deal with the consequences even if that w m d armed islamic extremists are emmet london. journalist richard spencer says there's another war raging in leaving and that's between the rebels are that will be in charge after the khadafi regime falls

i think would be us as accomplish is to establish a coming civil war in libya which we have financed we will be a trained number of the people who will be cheering one another we shouldn't be. children and think that these rebels are these nice little folks who want democracy and freedom and mcdonald's this is clearly a chance for them to gain power and maybe get in action revenge against all the enemy but mainly for them to be in control and they're going to be fighting with each other. for the next months in yours. coming up in a little while we'll storm watch that never lying low as a tropical storm irene so we thought the u.s. east coast turning streets of the big apple and many other places into everybody's . prime minister vladimir putin has ordered every view and improvements to russia's space industry after yet another unmanned spacecraft crashed on wednesday the

progress has blasted all with cargo for the crew of the international space station before hurtling barked earth in siberia the crash has sparked fears of contamination from toxic fuel that could be dangerous for local people and the environment jake agrees with the story. the moment it's all came crashing down. launched on wednesday from the baikonur cosmodrome three hundred twenty five seconds later the progress craft atop a soyuz rocket plummeted back to earth i thought it was a plane a first but then i realized goings never fly there close or quietly then it turned into some white object and i saw that it was sparkling and i heard a loud noise it was like three bangs one really loud and two quieter it was due to dock with the international space station on friday delivering essential supplies to the six crew members on board rocket malfunction has been blamed for the unsuccessful launch as a craft ascended into orbit

a signal failure here meant the third stage in the sequence in this part of the rocket was an act of a just as a result it failed to ignite a propel the progress out of the earth's atmosphere. teams have be sent to southern siberia out-i republic to look for signs of any wreckage amid fears toxic fuel may seep into the surrounding soil and water supply so far they've drawn a blank but already the repercussions of the bush mission are being felt 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 docking to the international space station for some reason so that 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 there's no use of a rocket carrying. a crew is slightly different but not more that much there than the one that lost the progress they're going to want to make sure anything that is similar could go on about what happened well it shouldn't say oh it's of life there's more turbulence of russia's space program back in december when three clone a satellites the country's alternative to g.p.s. plummeted into the pacific ocean with this latest setback roscosmos has been forced to tighten quality 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 j.q. greaves r.t. . north korea's leader has announced young is willing to return to international

talks on his country's nuclear program at a summit with dmitri medvedev came young ill spent more than three days on the train before meeting the russian president in siberia where they also discussed a possible energy do you. have a report. 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 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 stop in the far eastern town of from there he traveled on the translate beren railway to the bike call region with the republic

of video to as his final destination and a meeting with president of age of 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. 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 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 and 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 a new market for russia the north koreans are not going to be able to pay

a sufficient price for gas imports from russia would we overpay but because the building the pipelines of the pipeline has to be extended into south korea to the south korean market but the foremost 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 vaclav havel once said that we must change our ray of 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.

whose constant sanctioning has failed to bring results and results are what this brief chief to 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 talks 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 castro's or of a r t. this is a handsome ahead for you this hour a journey through russia all the way of the region where an unusual festival held in the name of a lean and green vegetable is entertaining adults and children alike. millions of new yorkers have been taking cover as hurricane irene sweeps through the city turning the streets into rivers and bringing power shortages the storm has killed nineteen along the u.s. east coast and caused the power of factness while forcing the closure of the big

apple's public transportation system and subway auntie's marina portnoy a prince with the natives from new york the city was prepared a way in advance before i remain begat it's way down the eastern seaboard but at this point things seem extremely calm relatively calm the sun actually looking out of my window on the sun is beginning to come out here in new york city but that does not mean that there are not been any damage from this tropical storm now i remarked to hurricane but according to meteorologist when it was making its way down the eastern seaboard once it i went through plowed through north carolina downgraded to a tropical storm by the time it hit manhattan we did see shades of of rain coming down and the wind became extremely heavy i was downgraded to a tropical storm as you mentioned at this point there's been severe flooding are along the hudson river in manhattan and in all the outer boroughs of new york city

there however out there is our shortages now on manhattan that all the emergency workers and first responders are dealing with major flooding for the old 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 a 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 your right 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. developers unraveling on the east coast of america which has been hit by a wave of extreme weather that the no one tell you to channel to watch the most recent and most impressively deers from the hurricane site.

as europe's economic crisis deepens and france is imposing harsh austerity cuts of twelve billion euro with the country burdened by the biggest debt and money here pain countries with aaa credit rating daniel bushell reports some believe the measures could lead to social unrest. brawls enjoys a triple a credit rating for now which is one of the fois debt ratios among the world's top rated states many investors better to follow the u.s. and be downgraded just repaying interest on its debt this year has overtaken education and defense as the government's biggest spend was just mr sir cause he's presided over the biggest jump in debt levels in our history books that carry too much water. or. france has gone above the tolerance limit admitted prime minister as he explained the new road of spending cuts this week but economists fear things. those cuts go nowhere near enough leigh you can compare it

with people saying we're going to buy a lumber genie and they only buy a porsche and they call that austerity doctors board frauds these huge debt burden is bringing trouble of drink vestment in schools and hospitals. hitting. winter and. computers are very old. equipment are old fashioned. out of the situations explosive say experts and frauds could be next to witness riots like those in britain deprived regions the likely spot. the inner part of cities and the suburbs. are socially segregated to very high extent far more so than say in the u.k. or in germany so yes unrest could come from the suburbs and spread through. because

these flying this fall from france as he had on budget they taze pacific island of new caledonia with students climbing 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 so because these absence in this time of crisis writes leading newspaper le figaro may be clear both politically but his failure to tackle the country's troubles now could be creating even greater problems for the future of the new bush you'll see paris. let's now check some other international news stories in brief unrest continues in syria with opposition groups claiming at least five people have been killed by security forces opening fire on protesters arab league members have urged syria to end the bloodshed and i

think announcing they'd send an envoy to push for films 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 since demonstrations against the regime began in march. twenty nine people have been killed and thirty eight injured by a suicide bomber who blew himself up inside baghdad's largest sunni mosque during prayers early in the day a series of bombs of a bomb attacks in the city left six people dead and wounded seven violence has decreased in iraq since its peak in two thousand six hundred thousand and seven but the types remain common at least two 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 by two of foreigners the bomb went off early on sunday on a beach in can marry entirely a province popular with german dutch and russian tourists the device was buried in

the sand with most of the injured by flying stones and there was no immediate claim of responsibility about kurdish militants fighting what we're told to me in southeastern turkey have carried out at times as tourist resorts at tourist resorts in the past. former into milan superstar footballer samuel eto has joined russian club for a reported three year deal worth almost twenty six million dollars yet the deal makes become your union striker the best paid player in the world and also a massive coup not just for the team but for russia's premier league to. show has the story. and for the next three years most of summer add toast games will. in russia this thursday the cameroon international left into milan and each day behind flying in to join new club and. i'm starting from scratch is possible in europe as a player and here i can start

a new plus i've played with a bunch of crowds before and he told me a lot about russian football and i do look forward to joining the team is the three time champions league winner and the most decorated african clay of all time lightening pace has made out one of the sport's most prolific goalscorers increased again this still assigning has put this region of russia the north caucasus into the soaker world spotlight this is the innate says. it seems that until recently few side of russia had heard off but which is now making sports had lines across the globe and it's in this unlikely setting that i team of world soap a stone house is being built the story behind this transfer began in january when the darkest on the clock was bought by still a month getting him off a locally born businessman and one of the richest men in russia he found to turn gene into a contender hoping to transform the republic's image in the process

a handful of promising acquisitions followed among them legendary brazilian to fund the cardless the current captain of the club the fact that one of the best players in the world will be playing and there are some families will. america very big impacts of the development of the game here in russia. i think it will give a very good image of ross and football because. it is one of the best parts inquests here is not the star of the past russian money in european football is nothing new back in two thousand and three russian businessmen are more in the but are more beach boys english club chelsea and transformed a mid-level club into a new opinion poll of. i you should a smart move has also plowed his millions into english giants arsenal but this time the situation is different here is the bid is to make a little known russian football team known across the world this deal may heralds

a new reality in the european game where international football superstar us playing for russian quads are ass common as toes goals in the bush no r.t. reporting from the north caucasus. and join our close out team exploring historic regions and traditions across the world's biggest country. and this time close up to his child around a thousand kilometers from moscow to the camera region so it's payments for handmade folk toys and for the annual summer festival devoted to a common green vegetable. garden brings us a taste of the band. it's the pride of the cure of region that annual cucumber festival the governor himself invited journalists from all across russia just to showcase the region's tourist potential organizers here make the bold claim

that the pickled cucumbers in this village of stubbins are the best in the world. so while the players sing folk songs 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 my disheartened by the long wait we decided to take our search to the locals it's the middle of the pickling season the cucumbers are harvested but in brine. and mixed 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 sealed barrels

are dumped in the river for six months it's said that the called water gives them a subtle shawqi 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 i decided to give it a try myself. thankee traditionally the career of region has been known for its dim covered toys base an ancient pagan day tease these clay figurines have been handmade here for hundreds of years the handicraft strict tradition prescribes that artisans was depict very specific subjects namely peasant women and improbably colored down the most of this is not just a trademark a very gentle this is russia's visiting come out 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 and i suppose the most. before i became

a tall 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 party cure of region. here i am today ten dollars back with a recap of our top stories in a moment. thanks . to you.

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