in the. top stories of the week leaving rebels have turned a reported offer by mom a cadaver for talks on the transfer of power they can plan for the final time on the colonel's hometown. say it's treason not told that pulling back the libyan leader for more join the regime notion of from tripoli in just a moment. north korean leader kim jung il travels halfway across russia by train to meet the president with there to say pyongyang is willing to restart international told something on its nuclear program. russian prime minister vladimir putin has ordered a big shakeup in the russian space agency after the loss of yet another month mission after the last stop. with nineteen dead and on the u.s. and supposed hurricane irene on the bring you all causing severe flooding but

leaving millions without electricity. this is all she's weekly review hello and welcome to the program and we start a new be aware rebels have ruled out any possibility of talks of more market down beside the national transitional council says all the colonel deserve his arrest not dialogue or she's marie a few notion has spoken for 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 rabble will not negotiate with the criminals the rebels will not negotiate with the killers they want to get out 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 that.

gadhafi is information chief has apparently called a.p.s. headquarters and has said that the gadhafi is ready for talks with the rattle's to form a transitional government and his 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 progress and 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 of his native town still at the same time the rebels say that the go round to go in with his supporters there in fear 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 severe shortage of electricity gas a line magazine and water garbage everywhere on the streets because municipal services happen paralyzed people trying to deal with themselves they are. taken out to the streets with brooms or. 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 i know two histories and organizing kind of. volunteers. for checkpoints so the situation is very hard to call here in tripoli. concerns have been raised over who is to control libya's stockpiles of chemical weapons or the reports rebel functions have been infiltrated by islamist extremists

washington admit it cannot guarantee terrorists or nor get their hands on the arsenals but has pledged to try to prevent it from happening on his lore and 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 you know very little people who might come to our. tripoli you know if you've got this cache if those weapons of mass destruction that again people really don't know what's there and if this is falling into the hands of people i mean the situation is potentially disastrous despite the heavy presence of rebels in tripoli a chemical stockpile appears still to be in the hands of what's left of good athletes government that's both good and bad news following a series of meetings in two thousand and three more likely to be 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 he wouldn't use all 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 victory or martyrdom will strike an ominous note to those who know of his weapons potential given the violations of. international territory of libya by nato led. rebel forces i think the idea that he would be beholden to these types of these remains would be off the table at this point and certainly he was quoted as saying in early july that he would be willing to straighten out europe if tripoli was attacked so i think it's a fair assumption to say that if there is that capability that he would be looking at that option at this point in any way but the alternative rebel control of

chemical weapons is arguably worse according to many some of the rebel factions have links to al qaida are 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 attractive we know that you know the majority of the people who are fighting. extremism so how the people is that we could be those people are often very mobile of kind of i believe their posts would be more problematic than that. 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 and it's all a team of. international observers say the rebels are we divided force which may

not be able to properly govern the country but middle east expert than played spirit told r.t. that that's exactly what nato wanted to happen in. this war is fundamentally a war to maintain africa in a subordinate position in the global economy in twenty ten i get that he made a proposal to the african union that was not just the price that no african country would allow a u.s. base on its soil since that time the u.s. has been desperate to get rid of gadhafi when you talk about the rebels but this is a very disparate group of people and really who's calling the shots as nato few leaders that we hear about anatomy jabril. these are people who have links with western financial institutions going back over several years so really when when we hear from these people bad mouth pieces of major place the libyan state with the same as what's replaced the state in iraq afghanistan which is

a dysfunctional government complete lack of security gang warfare and civil war and this is not a mistake a major they would prefer to see failed states and states that are powerful and independent and able to challenge their germany and those who are fighting for nato and in libya and fighting gnc really need to understand that this is nato is vision of their country we need to wake up and saying that they have been used. you're watching on c.n.n. coming up a little while real strong the city that never sleeps has been lying low as tropical storm irene sweeps of the u.s. things closed turning streets of the big apple and many other places into rivers while claiming nineteen lives. and find out why some believe rises harsh austerity cuts could lead to british style drive and social unrest. prime minister vladimir putin has ordered a review and improvements to russia's space industry after yet another unmanned spacecraft crashed on wednesday the program blasted out with cargo for the crew of

the international space station before hurdling back to earth in siberia it crashed has sparked fears of contamination from toxic fuel that could be dangerous for local people and being warm and drink agree with. the moments it's who 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 one but then i realized queens never fried their cologne more quietly then it turned into some bright object and then saw that it was far flung i heard a loud noise it was like three being one really loud and seek where i don't it was due to dock with the international space station on friday delivery essential supplies to six crew members on board rocket malfunction has been blamed for the unsuccessful launch as a craft ascended into orbit 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 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 porch 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 a possibility or cargo space ship not booking to the international space station for some reason so that crew on board cares enough water and food supplies to survive on for another three or four months until their cargo spacecraft arrives to the space station time then maybe on the side of ross cosmos russia's space agency

the loss has still raised significant alarm bells this all use a rocket carrying. a crew. but not much to. the progress they're going to want to make sure anything similar. happened. like it was more turbulence of russian space program back in december when three grown a satellite's the country's alternative to g.p.s. plummeted into the pacific ocean with this latest setback was kosmos is before starting called the control in hope there won't be a repeat of the problems that'll be good news for the six nationals currently on board the international space station especially to tell for the scrapping of the u.s. shuttle program has now global importance on the success of the soyuz. jigger greaves r.t. . north korea's leader has announced pyongyang is willing to return to international

talks on his country's nuclear program at a summit with me that of spent more than three days on a train before meeting the russian president as siberia but they also discussed a possible energy. or. a man of mystery north korea's came 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 made his first stop in the far eastern town of his son from there he traveled on the trance a beer in railway to the bike zero region with the republic of borneo 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. 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 in which the russian federation and south korea will also take apart the pipeline which would bring savory natural gas to the hub of asia would mean money for the strictly north korea and a new. market for russia the north koreans are not going to be able to. price.

from russia would we overpay not because the building of pipelines in the pipeline has to be extended in 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 russia is in the perfect position to play this role because of their closer relationship with the united states over the past few years because of the fact they aren't seen as a lot i did with north korea as china is you know president. once said that we must change our river tension from what separates us to what unites us and russia plays in. 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 us whose constant sanctioning has failed to bring results and results are what this

chief of 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 but for russia it's a chance to do what everyone else has failed so far kashmiris are about r t one of their. still ahead this hour journey through russia all the way to the kia region where an unusual festival held in the name of believe in green vegetable isn't attaining adults and children alive. the big cleanup in the big apple is underway 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 caused power cuts affecting millions also shutting new york's public transportation system and subway. trains as more from the city. was prepared our way in advance for irene are begat it's way down the eastern seaboard but at this point things seen extremely calm relatively calm the sun actually looking out of my way down the sun is beginning to come out here in new york city but that does not mean that there has not been any damage from this tropical storm now irene was a hurricane but according to meteorologist when it was making its way down the eastern seaboard once it i went through plow through north carolina it sounds great it's where tropical storm ida time hit manhattan we did see shades of harvard 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 they involve the outer boroughs of new york city there how out

there our shortage is now on manhattan at all the emergency workers and first responders who are dealing with major flooding before the low lying areas help 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 rather lying areas proximately three hundred seventy thousand people who live in all those different areas i live 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. and of course we're closely following all developments from the east coast of america in the eye of the storm don't hesitate to launch our you tube channel where you can find the very latest on hurricane irene. as europe's economic crisis deepens france's imposing harsh austerity

cost of twelve billion euros would be country burdened by the biggest debts among the european countries with aaa credit rating but as all she's done although she reports some believe the measures could lead to social unrest. france enjoys a triple a credit rating but now puts one of the hoist ratios among the world's top rated states many visitors bet on it to follow the u.s. and be downgraded just repaying interest only it's this year has overtaken education and defense as the government's biggest spend this. causes presided over the biggest jump in debt levels in our history books that carry too much water since. france has gone above the tolerance limit admitted prime minister your as he explained the new road of spending cuts this week but to call them is fear things so bad those cuts go nowhere near enough the 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 warned france these huge pittsburgh's and is bringing crudely under-investment in schools and hospitals. getting. into. computers. very old. fashioned. out of the situations explosive say experts and frauds could be next to witness roy it's like those in britain with the proved regions the likely the inner part of cities in the suburbs. are certainly segregated to very high standards far more so than in the u.k. or in germany so yes and from the suburbs and spread through nicolas sarkozy's

flying of 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 to let them take the. black four and hopefully unions students retirees can march directly in protest against the ministers and the sun 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 the new push to see. so more international news stories in brief now and work continues in syria with opposition groups claiming at least five people have been killed by security forces opening fire on protesters leaving members of. the bloodshed and i'll say that found an envoy to push for reforms in the country and while 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 so the most recent surveys 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 prayer is early in the day series of bomb attacks in the city left six people dead and wounded seven violence has decreased in iraq since its peak hours and six and two 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 the mediterranean resort frequented by foreigners there on sunday on a beach and it can marry an entire province popular with german dutch and russian tourists the device was buried in the sun with most of the injured hard by flying styles there was no immediate claim of responsibility but the kurdish militants

fighting for autonomy in southeastern turkey have carried out attacks that tourist resorts in the past. into milan superstar footballers samuel eto has joined a russian club. for a reported three year deal worth almost twenty six million dollars a year the deal makes the county rooney and strike out the best paid player in the world and want some massive coup not just for the team but for russia's premier league two million story. the global gold market and for the next three years most of summer ad shows games will be in russia this thursday the cameroon internat. a left into mellon and each leave behind flying in to join you club under which color. i'm starting from scratch i've always shortest possible in europe as a player and here i can start a new place i've played little bridge across before and he told me a lot about russian feeble and i do look forward to joining the team at zero is the

three time champions league winner and the most decorated african player of all time lloyd's name pace has made out one of the sport's most prolific calls scorers increase and yes this still assigning house but this region of russia the north caucasus into the soccer world spotlight this is the in the. jima which got lucky and it seems that until recently few outside of russia had heard off but which is now making sports have lines across the globe and it's and this unlikely setting that it seems more also starts is being built the story behind this transfer began in january when the douglas tony clark was bought by stanley monk getting him of 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 republic's image in the process a handful of promising acquisitions followed and long the legendary brazilian

defines a cordless the current captain of the club the fact that one of the best wears in the world will be where. there are some families will. make their very big in parts of the world from top of the game here in russia. i think it will give a very good image abroad for people because. it is one of the best spirits and it's not the star of the past russian money in european football is nothing new back in two thousand and three russian businessmen are on one of our more beach boys english club chelsea and transformed a mid-level club into you or a parent powerhouse i should a smart move has also plowed his. 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 heralds a new reality in the european game where international football superstars playing

for russian clubs are ask aman asked that those goals and i didn't question all r.t. reporting from the north caucasus let's now join our close down team exploring historic regions and traditions across the world's biggest country. and this time our close up to you has traveled a thousand kilometers from moscow to the kirov region so it's famous for hunt made toys around for the annual summer festival devoted to a common green vegetable garden and brings us a taste of a violent. 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 the bold claim that a pickle cucumbers in this village of you stubbins are the best in the world.

so while the player saying folksongs extolling the virtues of the green staple because only one store what actual vegetable can be bought. have traveled 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 do the harvest that put in brine. and mix with. the recipe to what makes them special is a strictly kept secret of the magic ingredients are deal garlic and horseradish. but the truly need part of the local pickling process is that it's sealed barrels are dumped in the river for six months it's called water it 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 i decided to give it a try myself. thank you traditionally the kirov region has been known for its them covered stories base an ancient pagan beatty's these clay figurines have been handmade here for hundreds of years handicraft strict tradition described that adams was depicted very specific subjects namely how important women and probably colored animals then. this is not just a trademark of our region this is russia's visiting card we want the wells to 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 must be for became tall maker making the same things over and over again would be boring but actually they always turn are different and once have most of the traditional

motifs i my grandchild and its. local authorities are hoping master classes like this one will become a tourist attraction and a recruiting ground for new craftswomen. eager of nerve. cure of region. that's the news for now i'll be back with a recap of the headlines in a moment. all .

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