holiday in the pool to ease goldman holds the rim brunch this clearly shows the feel of the multitude of the world all the ribbons original. even rebels have turned down a reported op about lawn they could not include talks on a transfer of power as they prepare for a final time on the ground all over town. the rebels say it's crazy talks that's ahead for the battles libyan leader for more join the redemption of from tripoli in just a moment. north korean leader kim jong il travels all way across russia by trying to meet rather than the better to say if you're going to willing to this kind of international talks only began for. the russian prime minister vladimir putin has ordered a big shakeup in the russian space agency after the loss of yet another noncommissioned officer blastoff. on with nineteen dead along the east coast hurricane irene ponce occurring in doing is causing severe flooding while leaving millions without

electricity. this is all she's weekly review hello and welcome to the program my name is us and we started leading where rebels have ruled out any possibility of talk of more mcduffie's side the national transitional council says all the colonel and deserves is a rest and dialogue oh she's morea few notion has spoken to the rebels and reports now 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 gadhafi and they're running after him street after street district after district and as soon as they catch him they will throw him to jail this statement comes after the new solution use it appears that. duff is information chief has apparently called

headquarters. is ready for talks with the rabble to form a transitional government and his even appointed his third son side 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 progressing quite well they're currently controlled 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 could have 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 magazine and walter 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 in fear because there is no police but the. also try to do that themselves i know to the streets and organizing kind of. volunteers to check poisons so the situation is very hard cold here in tripoli. and while the rebel ruling council in struggling to get oil production facilities back to work nato allies are racing to secure energy

contracts are reports now on the battle for that spoils of war. kill to the hearts of most modern was and you'll strike oil whether or not that sayings true when it comes to libya well it's going to play a pivotal role in the country's future q we have to feel restricted and let me. keep western interest to check if one. wants to rebel to turn away to try to live in government interest to restart from horace possible the stranger to the concepts of friends with benefits berlusconi has been quick to kacey up to the new transitional council inviting the public face of the group in egypt will go to italy for talks. these closest european allies when the native bombing campaign began back in april we'll look for up the switch sides and again courting the rebels in the fall the wall missed

a third of its lease daily energy needs were imported from libya and oil any was the largest port operator in the country because many here have been doing all they can to safeguard these contracts with its lee will be able to maintain its previously closed business is by no means a given and oppose a libya the futility extremely uncertain and there are little guarantee one of the biggest problems today italy and other western countries since the beginning of the war has been a struggle to adequately understand the internal workings of the rebels themselves . among the rebels there are many factions islamist tunisian people. if. you are sick and many chiefs of these groups of rebels are from a part of titian's with gadhafi and then they completely change their face. as they say i need to i think politicians. evolve into the personally on

a number of occasions three prisoners connections less than a month ago she returned from a fact finding. it's lydia with a handwritten letter she says was written by a to balance gain a minute he allegedly says he was surprised by your decision to join the coalition against libya especially after we signed the friendship and cooperation treaty between our two sides the cittie he's referring to he was time just two months before the libyan uprising the letter goes on to ask why did you join our enemies without any to mattick dialogue or investigation berlusconi now seems t.v. is he making any friends but was that maybe the final check to make that a mini theatre complex will continue i would dare to see if you start. to choose among the rebels there is no such. consensus no consensus call for me to meet and until you actually push him to talk to. will 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 a speckle of the rainfall the fair weather friendships third party. and journalist neil clark says nato allies are rushing to do business only be spreading reports the war's over. what is very clear is happening here is the rebels are trying to reach these to the international audience and trying to make up their complete control of the country because he's finished the war is basically over and everyone supports them the situation is rather 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 tribal warfare break now and it's very clear. he still has lots of support in the west is of course that you have no support and that everybody behind the opposition but it isn't true what they tell

is going on here basically transform a situation where there was a demonstration against the regime there into a full scale civil war the western powers who are. really want to get their money back and they want to get money they want to profits this whole enterprise it's not about humanitarian intervention that was entirely bogus this was all about talking . and installing a new regime we could hand out the contracts to western companies and would be much more meaningful to america and its allies general. this is our c.n.n. coming up in a little while we stormwatch that never sleeps has been lying low try to call storm irene sweeps up the u.s. he's telling the streets of the big apple and many other places into rivers while cleaning nineteen lives. prime minister vladimir putin has ordered a review and improvements to russia's space industry after yet another a manned spacecraft crash on wednesday a program blasted out with cargo for the crew of the international space station

before in siberia the crash has sparked fears of contamination from toxic fuel that could be dangerous for local people and the environment jacob creates the story. the moment it's train crash. last on with a story from the baikonur cosmodrome three hundred twenty. seconds later a progress craft atop a soyuz rocket plummeted back to earth i thought it was a plane first then i realized that point never fly there close quietly then it turned into some white object and then 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 that the third stage in the sequence in this part of the

rocket was an activated as a result it failed to ignite a 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 seek into the surrounding soil and water supply so far they've drawn a blank but already the repercussions of the bush mission of being felt much further afield with the question of how to resupply the international space station proving the most pressing. operation planners always keep in mind that possibility or for that car was not brought into the international space station for some reason so that crew on board pairs of water and food supplies will survive 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 anything similar. happen when. there's more turbulence of russia's space program back in december when three lowness satellites the country's alternative to g.p.s. plummeted into the pacific ocean with this latest setback was kosmos has been forced to tighten called the controls 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 since after the scrapping of the u.s. shuttle program is now global importance on the success of the soyuz. greaves r.t. . if failure of the song is rocket propelled the progress into orbit with the entire

mount space program in question nasa is now saying the international space station would have to be abandoned it so use long please don't presume soon that's not henschel there's no viable alternative to the long thread of russian long serving russian rocket the soyuz is a very reliable vehicle but it's still got a something like a one in fifty a little bit of money in fifty failure rate so as long as you're using expendable vehicles this sort of failure is bound to happen you know every fifty to sixty it's flight the soyuz easily more reliable system of the shuttle remember the shuttle did not have an escape system so when it failed the crew were in very serious trouble whereas the soyuz has a very effective escape system. rocket and the escape system have to fail before the astronauts are in any danger. north korea's leader has announced pyongyang is willing to return to international talks on his country's nuclear program but the summit with nature meant that it could be

a little more than three days on the train before meeting the russian president is liberia but they also discussed a possible entry to you. 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 from there he traveled on the translate here in railway to the by call region with the republic of borneo to as its final destination and a meeting with president made

a video 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 what might have been russia's past is still north korea's future as kim jong il's press service scrambled for their multitude of motion picture cameras to document the great leaders every word that you men get down to business but let's look 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 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. the north koreans are not going to be able to pay a. price for gas imports from russia it would. cost them building

a pipeline so the pipeline has to be extended in south korea to 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 because she 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 ride 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 trip to russia appears to have achieved with kim jong il's announcement of

a desire to return to the talks and implement a march for human 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 before russia it's a chance to do what everyone else has failed so far catherine as are about r t. you're watching are c.n.n. still ahead this hour a journey through russia. all the way to the cure of region where an unusual festival will hold in the name of the lead in the green vegetable is entertaining adults and children alike. but now the big prenup and a 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 this storm has killed nineteen along the u.s. east coast and cause power cuts affecting millions also shutting new york's public transportation system subway. at night brings us more from the city. the city wants

the carried away in advance therefore i renewed it got its way down the eastern seaboard but at this point things seen an extremely calm relatively constant action 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 his tropical storm now irene was a hurricane but according to meteorologists when it was making its way down the eastern seaboard once i went through the house through north carolina a downgrade it's where tropical storm by the time hit manhattan we did see shades of of rain coming down our mean became extremely high feet high and with our a two tropical storm as you mentioned at this point there's been severe flooding all along the hudson river in manhattan and in all the outer boroughs of new york city there how out is our shortages now on manhattan at all the emergency workers and

first responders hard dealing with major flooding before 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 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 this storm as it meet its way to your right it did turn out to be a lot less than what was anticipated and what was i mean at this point it's just about cleanup here in new york. and we are closely following all developments from the east coast of america and beyond of the storm so don't hesitate to log on to our channel where you can find the very latest videos on hurricane irene. higher has elected a new president this weekend former vice president alexander i could be two rivals with around fifty five percent of the votes and will now lead the country for the

next five years the op has an economy has struggled for almost two decades would continue after he declared independence from neighboring georgia seventeen years ago and as our she's done is the law school reports the new man at the top of the challenging task to help the nation stand on its own feet again. he promised to make a pause it is stronger state now it's on the but has the power to do so winning fifty four percent of the vote in friday's presidential election had of two rivals has given him a clear mandate with some citizens of the small caucuses republican willing to travel a long way to support their man as i came from crimea to vote for our public he helped war veterans like me a lot when we had tough times. alexander was feisty president one the man he succeeds as leader sergei volkov died in office last may the two saw taz in independence recognized by russia and

a number of other countries in two thousand and eight with both men helping prevent war with georgia 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 battles were the pendency of many scholars in a policy as 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 cease and grow 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 georgia always says oh no don't go there about to my ideals for any independence and i can exactly support

what you are doing here you know because you are fighting for your syringe your turn and independence democracy for in the election observers ignored the threats and gave the pool a clean bill of health these elections for a while prime. when operating at the highest level as well as the result the outcome has meant another positive step for democracy in the region according to do action monitor the new bern three sisters challenges and leading this country with a hostile leader in georgia and a legacy of difficult to dependents citizens sweet behold bring the children this president he helped herald in the new iraq for their country. so more international news for you in brief this hour under arrest in teen years 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 the

regime and the bloodshed announcing they send an envoy to food for reforms in the country meanwhile president assad as adults to new media laws supposedly allowing freedom of expression and dropping penalties against journalists united nations says two thousand two hundred people have been killed as serious as 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 prayer is early in the day a series of bomb attacks in the city left six people dead and wounded seven by the decreased in iraq since its peak in two thousand and six and two thousand and seven but attacks remain common at least two hundred fifty people have been killed by extremists in the country in july allies. saudi taki an explosion that has injured fifteen in the mid to rainy and resort frequented by foreigners the bomb went off early on sunday on a beach and you can marry in entirely a problem it's popular with german dutch and russian tourists the device was buried in the sand with most of the injured heard by flying stones there was no immediate

claim of responsibility about kurdish militants fighting but of torn in southeastern turkey up erudite at times at tourist resorts in the past. right now let's join our close up team exploring historic regions and traditions across the world. and this time our close up team has traveled a thousand kilometers from moscow to the region famous four hundred eight zero troy's and what i know some of first of all the part of the common green vegetable garden here brings us a taste of being around 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. but while the players saying folksongs extolling the virtues of the green staple there's only one stalwart actual vegetable can be bought for travel lately 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 pickle in season if you can there's a harvest that put in brine. and make some of. the recipe to what makes them special is a strictly kept secret at the magic ingredients are veal garlic and horseradish. but the truly unique part of the local pickling process is that it's sealed barrels are dumped in the river for six months it's served in the cold war to give them

a subtle chocolate 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 decide to give it a try myself. traditionally the cure of region has been known for its toys base an ancient pagan beatty's these clay figurines have been handmade here for hundreds of years handicrafts trick tradition prescribes but artisans depict very specific subjects namely present women and improbably colored animals. this is not just a trademark of our region this is russia's visiting card we want the well stick notice the toys can only be made by women and apprentices have to perfect their craft for years before they can be called moral stance against those the must. be flogged came to my maker for 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. party cure of region. here today stand up if i could to recap our top stories in a moment. to .

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