this is our shes weekly review hello and welcome to the program my name is us and we started leaving where rebels have ruled out any possibility of talks with gadhafi side the national transitional council says all the colonel deserves is a rest in a dialogue. spoken to the rebels and reports now from a 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 cut off his native town city 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 try to ration will start within the next two days while

the people here in tripoli are struggling because currently the city is facing in syria show the show for electricity gas a line madison and water garbage everywhere on the streets because municipal services happened paralyzed people trying to deal with it themselves they are. taken out to the streets with brooms and. trash bags trying to clean them they also now live in in fear of anarchy because there is no police but the. also try to deal with that themselves come now to the streets and organize in kind of armed volunteers to for checkpoints so the situation is very hard to call here in tripoli. and while the rebel ruling council in the bay struggling to get oil production facilities back to work nato allies are racing to secure energy contracts r.t. sarah firth reports now on the battle for the spoils of war. drill to the heart of

most modern wars and you'll strike oil whether or not the 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 fear a strong and begged me. to question interest to protect the torah. or to rebel to ordinary. living government interest to restart show me how this possible this 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 to make djibril to italy for talks was good at these closest european allies in 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 and 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. among the rebels there are many factions islamist tunisian people. it's just organized and chaotic and many of these groups of rebels are from the politicians that before were with gadhafi and then they completely change their face. the wind with the wind as they send it to me i think that corrupt politician. yvonne met gadhafi personally on a number of occasions three business connections less than a month the gay she returned from a fact finding trip to libya with

a handwritten letter she says was written by gadhafi to palace gain a in it 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 treaty he's referring to he was talking just two months before the libyan uprising the letter gaze on to ask why did you join our enemies without any diplomatic dialogue or investigation berlusconi now seems to be making the friends the waltz that may be the final chapter that death a many things the conflict will continue i would dare to say this stuff if you talk to you for support but she was among the rebels there was no action. center. no consensus call for me to be an internal whom you are actually the person to talk to. you 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 the rainfall the fair weather friendships surf city. journalist neil clark says nato allies are rushing to do business only because spreading reports the war's over. what is very clear is happening here is the rebels are trying to teach this to the international audience and trying to make out their complete control of the country that gadhafi is finished that the war is basically over and that 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 broken out and it's very clear. he still has lots of support in the west is of course that going to have no support and that everybody behind the opposition but it isn't true what nato has done here basically is transform a situation where there was demonstrations against the regime there into

a full scale civil war the western powers who are being changed. really want to get their money back and they want to get money they want to profits this whole enterprise what about humanitarian intervention that was entirely bogus this was all about talking. and installing a new regime which we could we would hand out the contracts to western companies and would be much more amenable to america and its allies general. this is our sea and coming up in a little while we'll stormwatch that never sleeps has been lying low as topical storm irene sweeps up the u.s. east coast tending 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 after yet another unmanned spacecraft crashed on wednesday the program blasted out with cargo for the crew of the international space station before back to earth in siberia the crash has

sparked fears of contamination from toxic fuel that could be dangerous for local people and the environment jacob grieves the story of. the moment it's crashing down. on way the story 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 first but then i realized that cleans never fly there khloe or quietly then it turned into some white object and i saw that it was sparkly 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 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 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 of 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 that possibility of a big cargo space ship not docking to the international space station for some reason so that crew on board pairs enough 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 different than the one that was the progress they're going to want to make sure anything that is similar could go on that why you want what happened when we should say why there was more turbulence of russia's space program back in december when three glow ness 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 would be good news for the six astronauts currently on board the international space station especially to itself the scrapping of the u.s. shuttle program has now global importance on the success of the soyuz. j.q. griefs r.t. . if failure of the song is rocket propelled the progress into orbit who had been tired mind space program in question nasa is now saying the international space

station could have to be abandoned if so use launches don't presume soon but space x. that mark there is no viable alternative to the long seventy russian long serving russian rocket the soyuz is a very reliable vehicle but it's still got of something like a one in fifty a little bit of the money in fifty failure rate so as long as you're using expendable vehicles the sort of failure is bound to happen you know every fifty years to sixty it's flight the soyuz is a 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 so both the 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 at a summit with me can be a little spend more than three days on a train before meeting the russian president in siberia but they also discussed the

possible energy to you catherine as our reporter. 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 quests on from there he traveled on the translate beren railway to the buy call region with the republic of video to as his final destination and a meeting with president the 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 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 sufficient price for gas imports from russia would ever pay but because the building the pipelines of the pipeline has to be extended in 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 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 catherine as are about r t well on and to em. hanson the had this hour a journey through russia. own away to the camera region where an unusual festival held in the name of a nina green vegetable is entertaining adults and children alike. but now the big cleanup and the big apple is underway as new yorkers deal with the also mouth of hurricane irene which swept through the city turning streets into rivers and bringing widespread destruction this storm has killed nineteen on the u.s. east coast and caused pollock concept acting millions also shot in new york's public transportation system subway. brings us more from the city the city was

prepared a way in advance before i remain begat its 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 are not been any damage from this tropical storm no i really was a hurricane but according to meteorologist when it was making its way down the eastern seaboard once it i went through a 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 it was downgraded to a tropical storm as you mentioned at this point there's been severe flooding along the hudson river in manhattan and in all the outer boroughs of new york city there our out in power shortages now on manhattan at all the emergency workers and first responders are dealing with major flooding for the low lying areas 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 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 are way out of the storm as it made its way to you are 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 we're closely following all developments from the east coast of america in the eye of the storm so don't hesitate to log on to our channel where you can find the very latest videos on hurricane irene. hi-z. has elected a new president this weekend former vice president alexander two rivals with around fifty five percent of the votes will now leave the country for the next five years the app has an economy that has struggled for almost two decades with continuing

tension after a declared independence from neighboring georgia seventeen years ago and as all she's done is below ski reports the new man at the top faces a challenging task to help the nation stand on its own feet again. he promised to make a pause it a stronger state now what it's on the down fall has the power to do so winning fifty four percent of the vote in friday's presidential election out of two rivals has given him a clear mandate with some citizens of the small 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. alex on the up was feisty president one the man he succeeds as leader sergei bug option died in office last may the two saw a pause in independence recognized by russia and a number of other countries in two thousand and eight with both men helping prevent war with georgia at the same year for almost two decades after

a pause he had to clear dependence from georgia fear and uncertainty marked life in the country the mood now seems to have changed the early battles for independence led 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 one club's agenda at that but out of a bog and we have to admit it and it is true we see some growth but there's no no we close in series investments. the campaign was monitored by more than one hundred international observers from countries including france austria and israel and i was invited to. have an earthquake a reaction from the georgian always says oh no don't go to her but my ideals or any american independence and i can exactly you support what you are doing here you

know because you are fighting for your summer and geo tournament independence democracy for an election observers ignored the threats and gave the poll a clean bill of health these elections have been very well planned and have. operating at the highest level as well as the results come has meant another positive step for democracy in the region according to the election monitors the new faces stiff challenges in leading his country with a hostile labor in georgia and a legacy of difficulties. so citizens may be hoping the chills of this president will help herald the new hero for their country. so more international news for you inbreed this hour 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 the race to end the bloodshed announcing they found an envoy to push for reforms in the country i mean well 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 secret sort 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 prayer is 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 two thousand 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. saudi taki an explosion that has injured fifteen in the mediterranean resort frequented by foreigners their bomb went off earlier sunday on a beach in can marry in an 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 and there was no immediate claim of responsibility but kurdish militants fighting for torn amine

southeastern turkey have carried out attacks at tourist resorts in the past. and right now let's join our close out team explore a historic regions and traditions across the world's biggest country. and this time a close up team has traveled a thousand kilometers from moscow to the care of region famous four hundred made photos and the annual summer festival devoted to common green vegetable gardening brings us a taste of an event. 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 take hold cucumbers in this village of disturbance are the best in the

world. but while the players sing folk songs extolling the virtues of the green staple there's only one store where the actual vegetable can be bought or have traveled eighty kilometers to be in this queue i'm curious about what it is that makes them so special but i'm a bit disappointed i wasn't allowed to buy more 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 with the harvest that put in brine. and mixed with. some 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 said that the cold 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 decide to give it a try myself. thankee traditionally the care of region has been known for its them 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 the pick very specific subjects namely present women and i'm probably color down to most of the group this is not just a trademark a very gentle 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 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 might branch out and experiment. 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. you're up to date and out the back with a recap our top stories in a moment. if . you.

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is all c.n.n. these other week's top stories we've been troubles have rejected an offer by law mcduffie to negotiate a transfer of power as that violence towards that kind of last remaining stronghold . north korean leader kim jung il troubles a holes toppled by train for a summit with president medvedev announcing that the union is ready to resume talks on its nuclear program and. also a major shake up of the russian space agency is ordered by prime minister vladimir putin out of a. spacecraft of the last thing all done to deliver food and water supplies to the international space station. now on target.