millions without electricity. this is our seas weekly review hello and welcome to the program and we start in libya where rebels have ruled out any possibility of talks with water khadafi side the national transitional council says all the colonel deserves is a rest not dialogue or he's marie a few notion i have spoken to the rebels and reports from tripoli. we have been able to speak to the rebels' information minister here in tripoli and he's made his position quite clear the rebels will not negotiate with the criminals the rebels will not negotiate with the killers they want 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 news of the period that. khadafi 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 the 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 progress and quite well they're currently control 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 try to ration will start within the next two days while

the people here in tripoli are struggling because currently the city is facing severe sure the chauffeur electricity gas line magazine and water garbage 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 fear of anarchy because there is no police but the. also try to deal with it themselves come now to the streets and organize in kind of armed volunteers to four checkpoints so the situation is very hard very difficult here in tripoli. and wiles the rebel ruling council only really struggling to get oil production facilities back to work nato allies are racing to secure energy contracts for reports now on the battlefield that spoils of war. chill to the heart of most modern wars and

you'll strike oil whether or not the sayings true when it comes to libya will is going to play a pivotal role in the country's future here we have to feel restricted to. the western interest to tear it all. into rubble to learn and we are trying to discover in trying to restore some english possible the stranger to the concept of friends with benefits berlusconi's being quick to casey up to the new transitional council inviting the public face of the group like me djibril to italy for talks was good at these closest european allies when the native bombing campaign began back in april up to the switch sides and began courting the rebels in the fall the wall almost a third of italy's daily energy needs were imported from libya an oil giant any was

the largest foreign operator in the country the government 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 gadhafi libya the future looks 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 the struggle to adequately understand the internal workings of the rebels themselves. amongst the rebels there are many factions islamist tunisian people. it's organized and chaotic and many of these groups of rebels are from the politicians that before were with gadhafi and then they completely changed their face. they went with the wind as they say i need to lee i think they are corrupt politicians. yvonne met gadhafi personally on a number of occasions three business connections less than a month

a gay she returned from a fact finding trip to libya with a handwritten letter she says was written by gadhafi to berlusconi in it he allegedly says he was surprised by your decision to join the coalition against libya especially after we signed a friendship and cooperation treaty between our two sides the cittie he's referring to he was trying just two months before the libyan uprising the letter goes on to ask why did you join our enemies without any diplomatic dialogue or investigation berlusconi now seems t.v. is the making the friends the waltz that may be the final chat to take down the many things the conflict will continue i would dare to see if you talk. which is among the rebels there is no such. consensus no concern seems to me 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

that previous lucrative relations may turn out to be just as fickle as their own former fairweather friendships surf city. and journalist neil clark says nato allies are rushing to do business and they've been spreading reports of war service. what is very clear is happening here is the rebels are trying to sort of these two to the international audience and trying to make out their complete control of the country he's finished that the war is basically over and that everyone supports them the situation is wrong more complex than that it's a very very divided society along tribal lines and the gadhafi regime which was secular did manage to hold the country together for a long period and now we're going to see trouble for broke. it's very clear. he still has lots of support in the west is of course that you have no support and everybody behind the opposition but it isn't true what nato has done here basically

is transform a situation where there was a demonstration against the regime there into a full scale civil war the western powers who are again change. really want to get their money back and they want to get money they want profits this whole enterprise what about humanitarian intervention that was entirely bogus this was all about toppling the regime and installing a new regime which would hand out the contracts to western companies and would be much more amenable to to american its allies generally. you're watching r.t. and coming up a little later we'll stormwatch the city that never sleeps has been lying low as tropical storm irene sweeps up to us east coast turning streets of the big apple and many other places into rivers while claiming nineteen lives. prime minister vladimir putin has ordered a review and improvements to russia's space industry have to get another unmanned spacecraft crashed on wednesday the programmers have blasted all with cargo for the crew of the international space station before hurtling biped earth in siberia the

crash has sparked fears of contamination from a toxic fuel that could be dangerous for local people and the environment breeze 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. i thought it was a plane a first but then i realized planes never fly there khloe or quietly then it turned into some white object and i saw that it was sparkling 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 delivery essential supplies to the six crew member. the 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 activated as a result it failed to ignite and 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 with the question of how to resupply the international space station proving the most pressing. operation glamorous always keep in mind the possibility of a big cargo space ship not docking to the international space station for some reason so that they're on board pairs of water and food supplies to survive on for another three or four months until their. cargo spacecraft arrive to the space station time then maybe on the side of ross cosmos russia 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 wants to progress they're going to want to make sure anything that is similar they could go on that way you know won't will happen well it shouldn't say oh it's like there's more turbulence of russia's space program back in december when three grown 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 biondi is willing to return to international

talks on his country's nuclear program at the summit of the way trinidad in young males spent more than three days on train before meeting the russian president in siberia where they also discussed a possible energy deal of his country 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 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 his son from there he traveled on the transept beren railway to the buy call region with the

republic of video to as his final destination and a meeting with president medvedev 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 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 the two men get down to business. as far as i understand the democratic people's republic of korea is interested in the implementation of this trilateral project in which the russian federation and south korea will also take part in the pipeline which would bring 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. price for gas imports from russia would ever pay 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 trip 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 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 on a day. still ahead for you this hour a journey through russia all the way to the region where an unusual festival held in the name of the lead in the green vegetable is entertaining adults and children alike that's later. the big cleanup in the big apple is under way as new yorkers deal with the aftermath of hurricane irene which swept through the city turning streets into rivers and bringing widespread destruction the storm has killed nineteen along the u.s. east coast and calls power council fact in millions also shutting new york's public

transportation system and subway. brings as more from the city. the city was prepared a way in advance before i renewed 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 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 remarked the hurricane but according to meteorologist when it was making its way down the eastern seaboard once it i went through cloud through north carolina it 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 and it was downgraded to tropical storm as you mentioned at this point there's been severe flooding along the hudson river in manhattan and they involve the outer boroughs of new york city there how out and

how are shortages now on manhattan at all the emergency workers and first responders are dealing with major flooding for the low lying areas south manhattan as we remember it was in new york city mayor michael bloomberg that order a mandatory evacuation of certain parts of new york city those are wrangled lying areas approximately three hundred seventy thousand people who live in all those different areas are a lot of people evacuated and a lot of new yorkers chose to stay and our 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. we are closely following all developments from the east coast of america in the eye of the storm so don't hesitate to log on to the t.v. channel where you can find the very latest bt is hurricane irene. as europe's economic crisis deepens france's imposing harsh austerity cuts of twelve

billion euro with the country burdened by the biggest debt among european countries with aaa credit rating but as artie's daniel bushell reports some believe the measures could lead to social unrest. france enjoys a triple a credit rating for now one of the hoist debt ratios among the world's top rated states many investors bet on it 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 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 you can compare it with

people saying we're going to buy a lamborghini and buy a porsche and they call that austerity doctors warned for all these huge debts burden is bringing crudely of dream vestment in schools and hospitals. getting. into car and. computer. equipment fashioned. out of the situations explosive say experts and frauds could be mixed to witness roots like those in britain with deprived regions the likely spark the interim. part of cities in the suburbs. are socially segregated to very high extent far more so than in the u.k. or in germany so yes unrest could come from the suburbs and spread through. because these flying is all from france as he chatted on budget they tease pacific island

of new caledonia with students climbing street protests over the cuts he's left the job of presenting a bill 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 behaving in a certain because these absence in this time of crisis writes leading newspaper le figaro may be clever 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 see paris. and let's check some other stories making news around the world continues in syria with opposition groups claiming at least five people have been killed by security forces opening fire on protests ira believe members have urged syria to end the bloodshed announcing and then avoid to push for 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 a spirit of 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 bomb attacks in the city left six people dead and wounded seven violence has decreased in iraq since its peak in the six hundred thousand seven but attacks remain common at least two hundred fifty people have been killed by extremists in the country in july alone. and an explosion that has injured fifteen in a mediterranean resort frequented by foreigners the bomb went off early on sunday on a beach in the canary in an entire province popular with german dutch and russian tourists the device was buried in the sand with most of the injured heard by flying styles there was no immediate claim of responsibility about kurdish militants fighting

what were told to me in southeastern turkey have carried out attacks at tourist resorts in the past. for into superstar footballer samuel eto has joined russian club. for a reported three year deal worth almost twenty six million dollars to get the deal that makes the come european 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 men you know the story. and for the next three years most of summer at joe's big games will be in russia this thursday the camera. international left into milan and today behind flying in to join new club and. i'm starting from scratch i've always trophies possible in europe as a player and here i can start a new plus i've played with a bunch of crazies before and he told me a lot about russian football and i do need forward to joining the team at the three

time champions league winner and the most decorated african player of all time lloyd to name pace has made out to one of the sport's most prolific goal scorers increased again this still assigning has put this region of russia the north caucasus into the soccer 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 had seen 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 sally monk giving him of 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 and monk the legendary brazilian to fund the cardless the current captain of the club the fact that one of the best

where's in the world will be playing and there are some families. america very big parts of the world from top of the game here in russia. i think we're given a very good image of ross and football because. he is one of the best where he 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 bromwich english club chelsea and transformed a mid-level club into you or a pin powerhouse i should've small enough has also. ploughed 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 superstars playing for russian clubs are asco men as toes goals and i didn't question our city

reporting from the north caucasus. let's now join our close up team are exploring historic regions and traditions across the world's biggest country. this time a close up team has traveled around a thousand kilometers from moscow to the camera creature it's famous for her naked photos and for the annual summer festival devoted to common green vegetable garden brings us a taste of that. 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 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 travel 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 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 but 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 served in the cold war to give them a subtle shortie 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 decide to give it a try myself. thank you traditionally the kirov region has been known for its dim covered toys base an ancient pagan day tea's these clay figurines have been handmade here for hundreds of years the handicraft strict tradition describes the artisans most depict very specific subjects namely how people present women and i'm probably color down to most of them. this is not just a trademark of our region this is russia's visiting card we want the well 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 to make a 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 it's. local authorities are hoping master classes like this one will become a tourist attraction and a recruiting ground for new craftswomen. eager of nerve party care of region. now and that's the news for now back with a recap of the headlines very short. i

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this is. the week's top stories. for talks on a trial i think for a time. to supporters to refrain from reports so much that. even. travels home point across train to meet president but. he is unwilling to restart international talks. also russian prime minister vladimir putin has ordered a big shakeup in the russian space agency off to the north of yet another mission for.