loads of black soil that was brought here from siberia in soviet times it legally belongs to norway and nine hundred twenty agreement guarantees its signature is the right to conduct industrial activity on the archipelago an option fully utilized only by moscow that for decades has been mining coal here. coal produced here has always been pretty expensive but back in soviet times it was not an issue of economics but rather politics moscow needed to maintain in smiling face here it is bergen at any cost but our production volumes have killed just a fraction of what they used to be. known thieving russian presence here is still considered a matter of strategic importance of the subject matter it's guy hard mines equipment hasn't changed much in the last fifty years while the athlete composition of their workforce could make severe fuel solvent nostalgia about his image of i'm twenty seven years old so i don't have clear memories of the soviet union but i

just assume its spirit is very well preserved here we have people here from ukraine go through central asia and we all feel like citizens of one country ironically the attitude toward the minds of its ability is also inherently soviet it's been a loss making venture for decades here increasing its efficiency is politically inconvenient. because all money is what allows russia to be a president's speech program to be profitable we needed my three times as much calls we do now but since posits are finite. meanwhile russia has notably increased funding of scientific expeditions and spitzbergen and in africa to explore the archipelagos natural reaches. you could become a is a geologist who first arrived in barons were in the early eighty's the collapse of the soviet union and the tree geology for business but the recent afternoon state funding allowed him to come back we're going. i mean it's bergen is

a key to all the arctic geographically it's a place where the global weather is before july logically it's a unique ground for science and money in its oil gas and other minerals it's a place we simply can't afford to lose. and he's country seems to agree can't we got our key guerin's worksheets bergen archipelago. twenty four minutes past the hour here in moscow with some of our main news stories very shortly in the meantime business news is next with marina. hello and welcome to business here are the world bank says the risks to the global economy are rising and some of the risks to russia's growth the slowdown in the u.s. and the crisis in europe are all weighing on the conscience economy the world bank has cut its g.d.p. forecast to floor percent from four point four for the see here but a high oil price and a lower inflation could help russia sustain growth. i think that we should really.

go to a situation in russia is fairly favorable current sherpas probably almost that was but this year i think that temporary paper will situation should be used here with people in it was sure is mediocre of fiscal constraints been reduced to normal in fiscal deficit in medium term which i think would be important for russia very significantly strengthen its fiscal position over the medium term so i think the overall picture is that the short term picture is favorable but there remains shirish medium term a structural issues that are well known in russia that appreciate your listener play make you nervous for creation in. infrastructure gaps in europe and you know that i'd. like to look at the markets now we'll start with oil crude prices are higher after a three month employment figures in the euro zone around the most since the financial meltdown and its new thousand and eight in the u.s.

markets are extending gains into a fourth day number of applications for unemployment benefits rose last week to the highest level in nearly two months thoughts in the us is the main confidence after the european central bank sort of was ordinated by the federal reserve and other cells will banks. european stocks rallied after european policymakers said they were convinced greece would stay in the euro zone the footsie close over two percent higher and that's gained over three percent. and here in moscow the markets close on the positive note as well the arts yes rose over two percent while the my sex gained almost on point four percent and here's a snapshot of it and that's movers on the my sex well major it sank in fear rallied on news that will invest forty nine billion dollars in business over the legs decade flagship carrier air france also other than the block after it bought back its shares for about ten million dollars and bank of moscow there were more than

six percent this spied for corporate result. it's the lenders that profit more than the first eight months of the year so one hundred and six million dollars in their profiles that's worth a dialogue that's up at those prices for us the markets were very strong today and it's the major reason for that is that we saw probably the largest seen russian history separation of futures on arthur's index open position in the morning or something like go three billion or so from the three o'clock to four o'clock we saw at the expiration actually that's was the pricing over in excess and it was fantastic drug in general the market is two point four percent up it's also supported by good news from europe there were some dollar liquidity measures announced there and great relief for european banks and the data on unemployment and inflation in the united states worried beaten negative but actually the markets ignored it at least right now and so there's not much influence. well that's how business looks the sorrow the headlines are next with

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happen with this is r.t. comes in live from moscow half past the hour now the british and french leaders visit the libyan capital in a show of support for the new authorities just as the first signs emerge of a rift within the national transitional council. also russia says it's time to lift the un imposed no fly zone over libya introduced to save civilians the measures criticizes being ineffective as it doesn't help those trapped in the last remaining gadhafi stronghold. and a blow for the billionaire who turned to politics russia's third richest man

sensationally quits as leader of the party he's headed for just three months. about code with another summary for in fifteen minutes from now the meantime the head of the annual general assembly this month r.t. has been sitting down with russia's ambassador to the u.n. he gave us his views on everything from the arab spring and palestinian statehood to the possibility of new violence in kosovo that's our special interview next. party sitting down with russia's ambassador to the united. states seems certain that the united states will use its veto power through the security council to prevent any recognition of a palestinian state right where the protestants have before we go there live near address another issue for me because at this very moment we are facing

a possible very dangerous escalation in tension was announced by the course of our being you know sort of as an prishtina basically or a northern course of war by force and another very disturbing element in the situation is that the international presence is key for the nato force. and other european. mission ulick's which are there in order to preserve peace they seem to be cooperating with their very dangerous of the course of albany and also it is so other given of serbia here in new york has sent a letter to the president of the security council asking for an emergency meeting of the work of the security council and russia is supporting this request in order to prevent. dramatic and dangerous developments in the course of a but. we're going to have some other interesting debates in the security council first of all whether to convene that meeting or not and to me this will be reality

check. on. whether indeed the security council we in the united nations are interested in preventing disputes and peaceful mediation of situation like this so we'll we'll we'll be following those developments and we'll see what is going to happen in the security council it's interesting you bring up cause because kosovo unilaterally declared its independence and we pursued. port of the united states and in many european countries this was done outside the scope of the security council and it was done with the backing of the us and yet when it comes to the palestinians. the us. has already been screaming detail he took the position of the united states is very often not entirely consistent to put it mildly because of the blow like some other. western european countries and they did apply double standards from time to plan and we had the vote several months ago on

a resolution of the security council the israeli settlements of the resolution was essentially composed of quotes or the old using quote marks of course from statements by president obama and secretary of state clinton and the united states went ahead and vetoed that resolution in the face of a one hundred twenty sponsors of the risible sure this is one of the problems i think in trying to put in train negotiations between the israelis and the palestinians if. the israelis get this kind of unqualified support from a country which is trying to play the main mediating role in the palestinian israeli situation and then it does not help to move matters ahead but coming back to your very important question it is going to be one of the. interesting challenges for the general assembly and for the security council for the

palestinians decide to bring matters to one of those two bodies of the united nations main body of united nations or both because the point i've been making to israeli colleagues and the people who have been showing up and also expressing their concern. of the situation in and around israel that. start between the israelis and the palestinians and although there are contacts. there are certain requirements. which are the palestinians want to see for those talks to start and probably israelis would see it. as something being to their advantage because in my view at least sort of pressures of various sorts are going to grow in israel especially of that we know we cannot be assured that. we have a situation in the arab world is going to go i mean we are all hopeful as i am sure was the hope of those who are on the front lines of the arab spring. things will

evolve towards democracy etc etc but this kind of a positive scenario is not a sure at all. israel's best interest right now to get back to the question is absolutely and this is what they say too but unfortunately they come up with. various positions which are the palestinians not regard as acceptable they don't want to do anything about the settlement activity which is extremely brisk both and that is jerusalem and the west bank they were quite dramatically prime minister netanyahu you will recall rejected. something which everybody thought was an obvious thing read the ration of the proposition that a deal between the israelis and the palestinians must be based on one hundred sixty seven borders of course with the letter swaps which can be negotiated so the tragedy of it all is that. at least all reasonable people seem to know.

what those negotiations should look like but. if you keep sort of beating about the bush. many question marks are put. the israeli vision. of their future. as neighbors or the palestinians and their neighbor for neighborhood the find themselves in the middle east keratin country. i mean united states from what they're trying to push forward over a resolution calling for more sanctions against syria and this is something that our the president of russia said he's not in support of because additional pressure believes is not necessarily needed nor would it how. can you explain from russia's position i'm in syria because it is a very dangerous it is a very dangerous situation and there's a lot of dramatic and tragic situation i think the russian position is reflected

very well in not something which was a consensus position of the security council first of all of the statement does condemn the violence by the syrian i thought it is excessive use of force but secondly it calls on everybody to stop the violence including the opposition and also it calls for dialogue in order to resolve the differences and visions of forward to happen. in syria and very importantly it calls for the government of syria to implement the reforms that over there are not sort of this is exactly i mean it's and it's not just for the matter of pressure on the syrian government because after all in the european union the united states of the most what if you sanctions against syria already they are already in place so essentially when they are to have such a resolution in the security council they're asking us to rubber stamp something which they have already sort of done without asking anybody's advice on the

security council but more importantly our concern is that any sanctions resolution . on syria in the security council might be seen by this truck of elements of syrian opposition as sort of encouragement looking at libya something similar to what happened in libya maybe happening in syria and that could really destructive consequences western call ix. hearing to us that this is not their intention to use military force well incidentally we have to remind them that we've heard statements and assurances from them of various sorts when we're working on that resolution in libya which then will very quickly forgotten in the heat of the bubble in the media but let's see i mean of course the best scenario is that the violence stops in syria both sides and they carry out those who for the of them that at least we have a situation where the syrian government has

a line those reforms are promised those reforms unfortunately we haven't seen any indication from the opposition to be willing to enter into dialogue i mean granted the. reasoning they say that many opposition figures. have been arrested that they cannot negotiate in a situation of awareness but in order to get out of the cycle of violence not to plunge the country into a major bloodshed must happen i mean we we just don't see this scenario of regime change which somehow intervening as something which can be beneficial or which can improve in any way the communitarian or economic or social situation in syria there have been reports that foreigners and there are currently in ukrainian nationals have been executed by armed forces. do you think

that it's time for un cle skippers to interval peacekeepers that you usually have when you have a cease fire arrangement now the situation is different now hopefully the military operations are going to come to an end very soon so what will be required is. police are ancient and the united nations now the security council is working on. the security council resolution and under that resolution u.n. mandate will be spelled out for for libya and in that moment mandate there will be steps taken in order to make sure sort of all law and order system is going to be created in libya which it will which will prevent those horrible things which of allegedly happened happening but let me also tell you that we are keeping very horse track of those reports and at every opportunity would raise their discussions in the security council which we are very often and making sure

that every measure is taken. of the new early going i thought it is understand their responsibility but of course nothing can be rolled out because the situation as you pointed out correctly square dangerous and it's chaotic when all that sort of called on board for it to be you should have happened including some killings of black people simply because they were suspected of having been a mercenaries this is something which. caused our unhappiness when we were raising our complaints and what is the. absence of a lack of proper implementation of resolution one thousand seventy three if you want to protect civilians the last thing you do is start a civil war and this is what happened let's face it can rescue in my last question for iraq. as more countries and for its libyan assets how can the world be sure that the money is properly

a given you an illustration you are talking about how you could describe it as a little political track a very expensive route there are first of all. those tourism options. spring established the sanctions committee. when the issue of unfreezing assets came up people went to the sanctions committee saw this acutely council committee members of the security council through the sanctions committee will be able to keep track. thoughtful double check on how the money is being spent and the same sort of checks and balances are going to be also included in the new resolution of the role of the united nations in libya and on lifting the sanctions front from libya so it's not going to be a free for all paul says because of course. those countries which is understandable would have those assets in their hands and sort of to start helping the medium people so the danger is that too much money is going to be. you know on the table.

somewhere in the libyan sound especially under you know the kind of still very unstable. circumstances and i think turkey thank you very much the prime. the.

pump sources are not t.v. partition french leaders visit the libyan capital in the show of support for the new authorities just as the first signs emerge of a rift within the national council transitional. also russia says it's time to lift the un imposed no fly zone over libya introduced to save civilians the measure was criticized as being ineffective as it doesn't help those trapped in the last remaining gadhafi strongholds. oh and a blow for the billionaire who turns of politics russia's third richest man sensationally quits as leader of the party he's headed for just three months. i'll be back with more on those stories in fifteen minutes from now in the meantime the latest from the world of sports with kate.

hello welcome to the sport and here are the headlines. losing starts the usa edge value of russia thirteen six to inflict an opening defeat on the bears on the rugby world cup debut in new zealand. while the russian rubin arrived in dublin for thursday's you greatly group irish side shamrock rovers. and head to head to talk exclusively to russian formula one driver conflict cost savings get back on the podium after a turbulent few months. but first russia have made a losing start at their first ever rugby world cup in new zealand where they were defeated thirteen points to six to the usa in new plymouth richard from coffee reports. it was a very brave and gutsy performance by the russians but in the end they lack the

skill and perhaps experience as they fell to their feet so america has a bitterly cold and wet minds and then of the last sort of quite a few positives but the bears can take from this match against the usa you're a first for the world cup bonus point to go to and. you know came from really that the fans were for it hard in the defense and the system was good but the attitudes are absolutely fantastic. you know sometimes you're really under the cosh but we can give this we're given crucial points so we should be stuck in there that put us in a position really to challenge them when they give away for a draw the game at the end or russia are always going to be underdogs coming into this clash with the united states army actually played the americans back in june in the churchill car where the usa ran out winners just seven points while russia certainly was held by the wind and rain which affected their strength which was playing the banks they were under huge amounts of pressure of the same periods in

the first and second however russians can take great credit from their defensive display which kept the scoreline here for just seven points again under pressure in a big environment difficult assists like the systems you know i've looked at the team and we'll find out what the next three weeks who actually can make that step up because the mental approach in sport is massive top two inches when it comes to the top level is what makes the difference tonight we saw him pause team you know mitchell sierra's defense unfortunately us exploited it we're going to try but it's my hardening in the game for the first hour and the americans really should have scored more points for me i actually managed to do so the russians came out brilliantly in the final twenty minutes. goalkeeping and decision making the russians kind of our chance of stretching what would have been credibly unlikely to jury. no the truth even got confused while i was in the peach i didn't know what to do we should have scored

a try another patootie between east and straight forward penalty from twenty two meters and it was at that point that i couldn't understand what our strength. but for all their good work and approach play russia were badly let down of their set pieces especially the lineout the americans managed to steal number of russian fro ins a lot something they'll need to improve going into bendix match against italians. didn't function as well as we'd like scenario that we did work hard on but didn't go our way we must keep conference and get back to the drawing board more morning. and. improve the areas we made mistakes but also build on some of the fantastic things with one of the best of starts to russia's world cup campaign as their best chance of playing a big tree here in new zealand went up in smoke all about the fate of the americans however there was some better news as russia was officially unveiled as the host of the two thousand and thirteen was a rugby sevens event and event which i went along so. this could be the event that

has the potential to kickstart the game of rugby and russia moscow will host the two thousand and thirteen world sevens championships of all the games taking place at the country's biggest sporting arena luzhniki stadium which can seat in excess of seventy thousand fans for deputy prime minister alexander is also the president of russia the committee this is a massive boost for the game especially. now becoming an olympic sports of course it's very important that we came. to explore and. make use. to. develop. will support. also a very big future in the international rugby board is trying to expand. games appeal from his traditional power bases such as new zealand australia france and

the u.k. and burnable proceed believes taking the event to russia will definitely help spread the appeal of a small globally is a great great national sport this was a great country and i'm sure that it will be a question just go to them and the most will pretty proud of the ring we will have seven to seven sorkin in moscow that we know the quality of the organization we know the dedication of the people the government and the union and we work together we're going to have the best tournament that we have could possibly russia has had plenty of experience of hosting sevens events for the last five years moscow's host of the world cup leg and the president of the russian rugby federation has became has never been more popular in russia the more we broadcasted the more we bring to his screens to the homes of fans and those who are really interested in the game the more we were the more they were enjoying coming to stadiums to see the game though russia is still considered one of the minnows of.