and pick sports and see but in any case where interest to. develop the. russian government will support. you are also very big fish in the international rugby board is trying to expand the game's appeal from his traditional power bases such as new zealand australia france and the u.k. and see believes taking the event to russia will definitely help spread the appeal of the sport globally is a great britain a sinful sports is a great country and i'm sure that there will be a christmas for them and in moscow we are pretty proud of the reveal of seven to seven sirkin 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 to are going to the first ever tournament to that we have capacity that 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 a game has never been more popular in russia the more we broadcast or the more we bring to the screens to. those who are really interested in to give the more we were the more they were enjoying coming to stadiums to see the game go russia is still considered one of the minos and fifteen man game said he saw it as more than established they want to told him it recently in spain over men saw it as only lost once of a powerhouse england side and their loss of all writings. that was written about the reporting there now finds a gulf and i over one hundred pros from all over europe are in the moscow region this week for the russian challenge cup with a chance of places on the european tour i'm confident of that for a first round. russia returned to europe's golfing map last year with the inaugural russian challenge cup and the biggest international event on the domestic calendar

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while holds eleven to thirteen can really make or break year round and with low temperatures a breeze and wet fairways and the course on the outskirts of moscow has become even longer and tougher as the opening round goal and the way. the fairway between the. long course is very difficult to make a good round with. you need to play very well to me fleetwood has already won this year's european challenge tour and so quaintly card for the biggest stage of next year's european tour however the twenty year old goal for his still beating to increase his overall lead and aims to become only the second player this season to win back to back titles last year the rising star produced a solid performance and finished second in moscow and after the opening round the englishman was in a four way tie for a. i want to underscore this writer again the winds up in a spray call this morning and it's a long enough process. to show you anything there are

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the british and french leaders visit the libyan capital in a show of support for the new authorities that's as ordinary people in tripoli still backing colonel gadhafi fear their devotion might cost them their lives. also russia says it's time to lift the u.n. impose a no fly zone over libya introduced to save civilians as it doesn't help those trapped and the last remaining gadhafi strongholds. plus ready to radar poland becomes a third country in the space of a week to confirm joint missile defense shield plans with the u.s. . and a blow for the billionaire who turned to politics russia's third richest man sensationally quits as leader of a party he's headed for just three months of top stories this hour.

international news and comment live from our headquarters here in central moscow this is our teachers costs eleven pm here and nine pm in tripoli where british prime minister david cameron has promised more financial aid to libya's new rulers he's there with french president nicolas sarkozy in support of the regime there was planes helped put in power or he's going to notional in tripoli is across the latest developments for us. french president carter causey and which prime minister david cameron to he leave there first of all to show their support for the country's new authorities for the national transitional council both political and financial since this visit comes just days before the old deliberates will be resumed and also you military support not surprisingly that these two leaders happy

come the first to visit khadafi free libya these two countries france and britain have played a crucial role in the currently been revolution because of course he has said that nato will continue to call me in leaving and mistreat facilities. here in leave it to the rebels take control over the whole of the country fighting still continues over at least for gadhafi stronghold including. the colonel's hometown city some six hundred kilometers east of the capital tripoli and bani walid today in the south of cheaply meanwhile russia's foreign ministry has announced today that they will call for a no fly zone to be lifted her things it's no longer am tied to protecting civilians just ahead of these two leaders visit here to tripoli the head of the national regional council mr fogg has pledged that both sikorsky and cameron will be safe he's mentioned that because security situation in the country here in the

capital tripoli remains a very tough very difficult very complicated and still wow there still remain a several pockets all over the leave here where sioux held by khadafi forces even in the capital it's not it's not equally well how by by the rebels are not all the districts here in libya supporting the new authorities here's my report about that . and months after tripoli fell into rebels hands those who backed the old regime remain defiant fearful. in parts of the city the rebels' triumphant campaign feels like it's never happened or did so somewhere else. that we will do anything from our only one even if we have to give our lives. fervent support for the ousted leader it is solved once they see our camera it would be. like one with

a weird how could you tell the camera why. it's the same situation with others two. hundred percent we don't want this revolution we don't know the rebels we want them to go away. we are from television. to tell it on camera no no thanks a five pm front of the camera they will send the bullet to my head. the criminals you don't know them you call them the rebels hey guys do you remember the black guy he was arrested a few days ago after here appearing on t.v. don't do that you flags new slogans new speeches. and the rebels were out celebrating again this week when they had of the national transitional council libya's new authority arise in the capital before large crowds even libyans in no doubt about who's really. those who don't support mr fogg

those of you and who we used to see all across the city proudly waving green flags just weeks ago packing khadafi now trying not to leave their own backyards here there. with. your very. tough it is effectively gone then you also have settled down here in the capital tripoli people are chanting that is free country but it seems that there is a police one thing that still remains of all the their fear. one youngster finally agrees to talk what tripoli is now under the control of the national transitional council and we don't feel we have freedom to talk or to express an opinion if we see something in favor of gadhafi who can kill us and arrest us of course money and figure. the nineteen year old says many of his friends have been

arrested recently for making critical statements about a new regime ironically we're talking just a kilometer away from one of the dark is top secret jails for political prisoners known as abu salim. the rebels they only represent themselves not the libyan people this revolution started with killings to intimidate through fear of their hands are covered on blogs and list international has recently accused both conduct his regime and the one which replaced it of committing war crimes including killings and torture of military prisoners and civilians these are being felt by some here that's more is in store and reflection r t tripoli libya. and john laughlin from the institute for democracy and cooperation in paris says the cameron sarkozy visit to libya underlines the real goal of the nato strategy.

i don't think anybody seriously bought the line that this intervention was about protecting civilians that was merely the fig leaf the legal figley for that france britain and america used to overthrow gadhafi the west by overthrowing gadhafi wanted to maintain the fiction that the entire world is moving towards a western dominated model or a pro western model it wanted to show that the arab spring movement was a movement for liberal western style democracy and of course as soon as a country is stated as a regime stood in the way of that apparent wave which was the case of libya it's regime was brushed aside that has now been achieved and that's why david cameron and nicolas sarkozy have gone there today to demonstrate that fact and it's to publicize and show to the world their victory at least in their own terms. and i mean you know me as a cooee the editor of the pan-african newswire says the western leaders visit to

the country is an attempt to reap the financial rewards of helping put the rebels in power the national transitional council would have never been able to get outside of benghazi if it had not been for the support of the united states as well as the nato forces they have supplied these rebels with arms with diplomatic cover and then of course there was the so-called no fly zone over libya which has really been a massive bombing operation against their country of six million people it's a very very tense situation that exists right now all over the country so i believe that the visit on the part of. the of france and david cameron of britain this is an attempt to shore up this. takeover of the most all rich and the most prosperous country only after the time that. and r.t. spoke to russia's envoy to the u.n.

who says the libyan experience is helping determine moscow's position on syria and you can see the full interview next hour but here's a quick preview. if you want to put up experience the last thing you do is that start a civil war and this is what happened let's face it our concern is that any sanctions resolution. on syria in the security council might be seen by destructive elements of syrian opposition as sort of encouragement looking at leading something similar to what happened in libya maybe happening in syria. that clearly extremely destructive consequences western colics swearing to us that this is not there and then some thought use military force well incidentally we have to remind the world statements and assurances from them of various sorts when we're working on the resolution in libya which then we're very quickly forgotten in the keeper of the bubble in libya.

and you can watch that interview in full a little later here on r.t. u.s. missile defense plans in europe it gathered pace for poland becoming the third country this week to confirm its commitment to the controversial project the two countries have made a joint statement specifying which elements of the nato back shield will be deployed in poland by twenty eighteen and he's got a ton has the latest now from washington. but police think missile defense agreements signed between the u.s. and poland in two thousand and eight and it's amending protocol of two thousand and ten has come into force this thursday as we speak it in vision is the deployment of a land based on three system in poland and it's part of america's revamped plan to build a missile shield in europe with the elements of it deployed in different countries in eastern europe just earlier this week an agreement was signed between in washington between romania and the us romania too will host a very good land base this in three interceptors on wednesday turkey and the us

signed a similar agreement but that one it was about deployment of an early warning radar for a key issue is will be unfolding fairly close to russian borders needless to say that's always been an irritant in the relations between washington and moscow the worry of words on missile defense has been going on for quite some time now with washington saying we need powerful missile interceptors against a possible attack from some dangerous they usually namely ran in north korea and moscow saying why would interceptors for weapons that there was ropes they'd still russia and russia views america's missile defense plans as an attempt to breach that very precious parity principle that was said by the start treaty russians have been quite persistent for years you know saying it's ok it's not against us in this thing together in this believe missile shield in europe together and the response they get is always a no you know this it is this thing will cooperate but not on equal terms. i'm going to come there and as she mentioned romania and turkey also agreed missile

defense deals with the u.s. earlier this week developments that alarmed many analysts. believe we've got more equipment here in europe we are all being closer to a car that's for sure one of them is from our she's an activist from the humanist movement and you can find our interview with him on our website that's along with other opinions on the story and get the full perspective and r.t. dot com. russia's political season may have only just got underway but the first scandal has already arrived the party run by russia's third richest man has collapsed less than three months after he became its leader i think critical true but has the details for us from moscow. the impishness plan of the right cause party which was to gains of fifteen percent of the vote clashed over some far more modest police calls for costs and realities now the broker of has left the party will hardly make it in to do much but we all have to understand that

from our of his they're a good n.p.r. himself in dealing with john lewis and this is what we witnessed today we all remember that he is not afraid to be are we remember how he made it today had lines international headlines in two thousand and seven when he was arrested by french police in crucial vote on suspicion that he arranged trusted to use for russia's oil you guards there and we remember what it adds up like ended up like the french authorities officially apologized before him during an official visit in two thousand and nine and as proper of himself start to date i may make want a microscope backwards he said but then i will make a long jump forward just wait and see the very bold step for a person was only making first steps on the political arena but what we're seeing is actually calling on clashes in the ranks of a political force and sadly this has become somewhat of a butt tradition with the russians right wing forces and now that brother of leaves

the ranks of the party's no longer its leader it's not clear what part of the electorate the right calls will be you write at all and secondly it's interesting what will happen with all the money we. had invested into these projects and we are talking about some thirty million dollars. today that he'll be doing all he has passed to pull the money out of the party now that he's left and he'll be forming a new political force well we'll wait and see what will be the future of these yet another movements of these billion or town politician. we've got more on this and all the other stories we're covering on screen on our website dot com also online right now if you. ruled out and engaged brakes is the cause of last week's plane crash that killed an entire top russian ice hockey team you can read the story of many theories that are being put forward and dismissed by the experts. a lot of the

moment hard to swallow a garment worth thousands of dollars is found in the stomach of a man suspected of theft by the spanish restaurant find out more on that story at r.t. dot com. the leaders of france and germany have announced their belief that greece's future lies with the euro but international patience is running out fast as china calls on eurozone leaders to put their own house in order the second bailout for athens hangs in the balance as frustration also grows amongst its neighbors over missed deadlines for the agreed reforms and now threaten to stop buying our payments to the embattled economy economists are also possibly stick in their own mounting calls for athens to drop out of the euro zone and according to analysts to me to be causing us he says future is far from secure and that could bring grave

consequences for the global financial system. we're hearing a lot more rumors about of the fraud which is frightening but i think that the most likely scenario is. again kick the can down the road in france and america will have been saying germany and angela merkel have it and how about how about a one hour wait until at least twenty thirteen when the european stability. mechanism is in place so they have some sort of this crucial framework to go with with a bailout so i think that eventually greece will default but i think that if i could happen on a proper sudden they're not addressing they're not creating a scenario where greece or greeks can say ok in five years and seven years whatever we have a viable plan to exit with this large bad burden and go back into growth because the. connelly is in a collapse mode so there's no way because service this that a lot of the american banks on the other side of these derivatives deal so they were ensuring that i was on the book the books of european banks so that in the

event of a faulty european bank would yeah it would they would lose out on their bonds but then they would go to the american bank and say give us the money because you wrote the insurance so the u.s. can actually be on the hook because if it's an empire that has the imperial curtsey and as the world struggles to avoid that dreaded double dip recession mexico you have discussed what some students will do to make ends meet in hard times the full program is coming up in fifteen minutes here and in the meantime here's a quick preview. eighty percent of the lap dancers at this one lap dance and chain in london are college students and the owner of this chain says that these girls are very popular because his clients often don't expect them to be knowledgeable interesting as well as attractive. they like to have a lap dance and talk about interest rate differentials from you know school of economics called the ads that unfortunately have to prostitute themselves because i was born in cameroon raise the question of free to play out of bail out the banks

i'll be down these clubs every night. because a report of a later here on our team now to some other international headlines in our world updated this hour the palestinian envoy to the united nations has said the final decision will be made in the next few days over a bid for full u.n. membership backtracks on earlier statement by the foreign minister in ramallah who said a formal bid for full statehood would be submitted next friday and the u.n. rules such an application was first be approved by the security council washington said last week it will use its veto to block it another option for the palestinians is to opt for un nonmember observer status which would go straight to the general assembly where there is no power veto. a suicide bombing at a funeral in northwest pakistan has killed at least thirty one a further fifty were injured police say the attack took place during the burial

prayers for a tribal leader who had formed a local militia to oppose islamist militants in the area a little dia region is close to the afghan border which has seen escalating violence between militants and security forces. and to dramatic pictures of a fire on board a cruise ship off the western coast of norway at least two of its crew members have been killed and nine people were injured and the two hundred passengers had to evacuate the ship off of the blaze broke out in the engine room police suspect an explosion may have triggered the incident. i know it seems sometimes you have to leave russia if you really want to get to know it better and this week a special series of our russian close up reports comes from outside the country from norway's spitzbergen archipelago russians developed a coal mining community there during the soviet period and as of sign a book or reports twenty years after the u.s.s.r. ceased to exist and many there are still living an old soviet dream.

the cluster of violence between the devil and the deep blue sea could be used to sarve the spitzbergen archipelago was a lot like puerto rico for the us not entirely its own yet not food for in a form between north america and western europe and as many hold the future base for the russian advance in the arctic. just a few words about this monument it was their land and course. of course all of. the most western tourists this morning meant is a testament to the failed solve it in bishan the town of barons work once a flourishing mining community is in is so as they. leave behind this appealing facade one can also see a freshly painted writing on the wall that russians are not pleading in fact they're back. it's a russian birthright to be. the second summer in

a row that we tell each and cough responding on spitsbergen decorating this kindergarten is the picture of russia as a narc is not to project an image of an unshakeable stay emerging from dire straits of history in a time that still experiences difficulties with running water and electricity this choice of priorities would have been questionable if it wasn't geo politically timely it was. there was a time when the soviet union was feared and respected you can't turn back time but russia should also position itself as a strong state people who visit parents should feel like they've stooped russian soil. technically that's already the case russian settlements and speeds bergen have greener grass because of the several loads of blacks all that was brought here from siberia in soviet times legally this territory belongs to norway and nine hundred twenty agreement guarantees its signature is the right to conduct industrial activity.