international news and comment live from our headquarters here in central moscow this is r t just past 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. in tripoli is across the latest developments for us. french president carter causey and which prime minister david cameron hey leave here first of all to show their support for the country's new authorities for the national transitional council both political and financial since this week that comes just days before all deliveries will be resumed and also you military support not surprisingly that these two leaders have become the first to visit khadafi free libya these two countries france and britain have played a crucial role in the current libyan revolution because of course he has said that

nato will continue to fall mainly beer and ministry facilities. here in libya 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 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 judicial council mr father john who has pledged that both sikorsky and cameron will be safe he's mentioned that because the security situation in the country here in the capital tripoli remains a very tough very difficult very complicated and still while there still remain

several pockets all over the libya where still held by khadafi forces even in the capital it's not it's not equally well how by by the rebels and 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 back the old regime remain defiant but feel full. 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 momar even if we have to give our lifes. fervent support for the ousted leader does solves once they see how a camera in there. like the one with a weird television how could it tell the camera why. it's the same situation with others two. hundred percent good we don't want this revolution we don't know

the rebels we want them to go away. we are from television so we couldn't tell it on camera no no thanks to five p. in front of the camera they will send the bullet to my whole world oh 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. the rebels were out celebrating again this week when they had of the national transitional council libya's new authority arrives in the capital before large crowds even libyans in no doubt about who's really here. those who don't support mr fogg those only you and who we used to see all across the city proudly waving green flags just weeks ago back in khadafi now trying not to leave their own backyards

here they are there. because i. shared. with. you there is. stuff it is effectively gone then you also have several down here in the capital tripoli people are chanting that is here free country but it seems that there is at least one thing that still remains of all the bear fear. one youngster finally agrees to talk. is now under the control of the national transitional council and we don't feel we have freedom to talk or to express our opinion if we see something in favor of gadhafi they can kill us and arrest us of course money and fear. the nineteen year old says many of his friends have been arrested recently for making critical statements about new regime ironically we're talking just

a kilometer away from one of gadhafi is top secret jails for political prisoners known as abu sleen. the rebels they only represent themselves not the libyan people this revolution started with the killings to intimidate through fear their hands are covered in blogs amnesty international has recently accused both gadhafi regime and the one which replaced it of committing war crimes including killings and torture of military prisoners and civilians theories are being felt by some here that more is in store roof notion r t three probably libya. and john laughlin from the institute for democracy in 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 feed 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 of 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 stated as a as a regime stood in the way of that apparent wave which was the case of libya its regime was brushed aside that has now been achieved and that's why david cameron and nicolas sarkozy have gone there today it's to demonstrate that fact and it's to publicize to show to the world their victory at least in their own terms. and are you me as you could be 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 transition 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 that 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 nicolaus and co c. of france and david cameron of witness is an attempt to shore up this colonial takeover of the most all rich and the most prosperous country on the after continent. and he spoke to russia's envoy to the u.n. he 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 protect civilians the last thing you do is

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 libya something similar to what happened in libya may be happening in syria. that could have extremely destructive consequences our western colics swearing to us that this is not their intention to use military force well incidentally we have to remind them that we heard statements on assurances from them of various sorts when we're working on the resolution on libya which then we're very quickly forgotten in the heat of the battle in libya. and you can watch that interview in full a little later here on. u.s. missile defense plans in europe it gathered pace with 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 he's got to japan has the latest now from washington. the police think missile defense agreement signed between the u.s. and poland in two thousand and eight and its 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 base there some three system in poland and it's part of america's revamped plan to build a missile shield in europe with 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 u. way romania too will host a very good land base this on three interceptors on wednesday turkey and the us signed a similar agreement but that won't was about deployment of an early warning radar in turkey the shills 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 work 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 state they usually namely ran in north korea and moscow saying why would interceptors for weapons at those rogue states the one with 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 if it's not against us this thing together and this believe missile shield in europe together and the response they get is always a no you know they say they will cooperate but not on equal terms. and as she mentioned romania and turkey also agreed missile defense deals with the us earlier this week developments that alarmed many analysts. if we build up more

and more american equipment here in europe we are moving closer to a conflict that's for sure one of them is 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 artie's katrina has the details for us from moscow. the m. vicious plan of the right course body which was to gaze up fifteen percent of the vote clashed over some far more modest political for costs and realities now that proper of has left the party will hardly make it into dumont but we all have to understand that program is very good in p.r. himself in dealing with john lewis and this is what we witnessed today we all

remember that he's not afraid to be are we remember how he made it to they had lines international headlines in two thousand and seven when he was arrested by french police in coeur chevelle on suspicion that he was here a straw city as for russia's border guards there and we remember what it and up like add it up like the french authorities officially apologized before him during an official visit in two thousand and nine and as a brother of himself said today i may make one microstate backwards he said but then i will make a long jump forward just wait and see a very bold step for a person who is only making first steps on a political arena but what we're seeing is actually cuomo on clashes in the ranks of a political force and sadly this has become somewhat of a but tradition with russia's right wing forces and now that. leaves the ranks of the parties no longer it's it's not clear what part of the electorate the right calls will be during at all and secondly it's interesting what will happen with all

the money which a pro have supported invested into these the project that we are talking about some thirty million dollars. today that he'll be doing all his best 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 movement of these billionaire turned politician. well we've got more on this and all the other stories we're covering on screen on our website. and also online right now if you. ruled out an engaged break because 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 diamond worth thousands of dollars is found in the stomach of a man suspected of theft but a 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 is future lies with the euro but international patience is running out fast as china calls on euro zone leaders to put their own house in order the second bone up for athens hangs in the balance as frustration also grows amongst its neighbors over missed deadlines for the agreed reforms are now threatening to stop by payments to the embattled economy economists are also impressive mistaken there are mounting calls for athens to drop out of the euro zone and according to analysts dimitri kovtun us 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 fall which is frightening but i think that the most likely scenario is that again kick the can down the road france denmark all have

been saying france germany and angela angela merkel have been about how they want to wait until at least twenty thirteen when the european stability. mechanism is in place so they have some sort of institutional framework to go with with a bailout so i think that eventually greece will default but i think that it's not going to happen on october seventeenth 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 this this large debt burden and go back into growth because. right now the greek economy is in a collapse mode so there's no way they can service this that a lot of the american banks were on the other side of these derivative deal so they were ensuring that there was on the book the books of european banks so bad in the event of a default a european bank would yeah they 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. banks will be on the hook because it's an empire that has the imperial currency and

as the world struggles to avoid that dreaded double dip recession. but discuss what some students will do to make ends meet in hard times the full program is coming up in fifteen minutes in the meantime here's a quick preview. eighty percent of the lap dancers at this one lap dancing 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 a school of economics call web ads that unfortunately up the prostitute themselves because i was born in cameroon raised the question of free to pay out the bail out the banks i'll be there are these clubs every night.

the kaiser report of a later here in r t now to some other international headlines in our world update of this 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 that backtracks on earlier statement by the foreign minister in ramallah who said a formal bid for full statehood would be submitted next friday on the un rules such an application was first be approved by the security council washington said last week that 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 for the fifty injured police say the attack took place during burial prayers for a tribal leader who had formed a local militia to oppose islamist militants in the area and the dia region is close to the afghan border which is seen as collating violence between militants

and security forces. and to dramatic pictures of a far 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 after the. the blaze broke out in the engine room police suspect an explosion may have triggered the incident. well now 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 russia 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 oksana booker reports twenty years after the u.s.s.r. ceased to exist many there are still living on old soviet dream. a cluster of violence between the devil and the deep blue sea put the use aside the spitzbergen archipelago was a lot like puerto rico for the us not entirely its own not food for in

a form pulls between north america and western europe and as many hope a future base for the russian advance in the arctic. just a few words about this monument to. their lives. yeah of course all of. the most western tourists this morning meant is a testament to the trail. the town of barons worked once a flourishing mining community is in a sewer stay. behind this peeling facade one can also see a freshly painted the writing on the wall the russians on a living in fact they're back. it's a russian birthright to be here. the second summer in a row that office banding launch busy bergen decorating this kindergarten good depiction of russia as a narc is not to project an image of an unshakable state emerging from dire straits

of history in a town that still experiences difficulties with running water and electricity this choice of priorities would have been questionable if it wasn't geo politically timely. 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 big should feel like they've stepped on russian soil. technically that's already the case russian settlements and bergen have greener grass because of the several loads of black soil that was brought here from siberia in soviet times legally terra treat belongs to norway and nine hundred twenty agreement guarantees its signature is the right to conduct industrial activity on the archipelago an option foully you to. only by moscow that for decades has been mining coal here. coal produced here has always been pretty expensive but that can soviet times it was not an issue of economics but rather

politics moscow needed to maintain in smiling face here to pittsburgh and at any cost but now production volumes have built just a fraction of what they used to be but one thing the russian presence here is still considered a matter of strategic importance the soviet methods die hard the mines equipment hasn't changed much in the last fifty years while they ask me composition of the work force could makes of you to feel solvent nostalgia about this i'm twenty seven years old so i don't have clear memories of the soviet union but i guess the soviet spirit is very well preserved here we have people here from ukraine central asian and we all feel like citizens of one country ironically the attitude toward the mines perfectibility is also inherently soviet it's been a loss making venture for decades here increasing its efficiency is politically inconvenient but we. call money is what allows russia to the president's speech

program to be profitable we need to mine three times as much calls we do now but since that posits are finite we have to go slow. meanwhile russia has notably increased funding of scientific expeditions and spitsbergen in an effort to explore the archipelagos natural reaches. the baton why is a geologist who first arrived in baron's work in the early eighty's the collapse of the soviet union made him trade geology for business but the recent afternoon state funding allowed him to come back to his building in the bergen is a key to all the arctic geographically it's a place where the global weather is before joe logical ground for science and money and its oil gas and other minerals it's a place we simply can't afford to lose. and he's country seems to agree kind of we got our key bearings works peter bergen archipelago. coming up to twenty four

minutes past the hour now i'll be back with a summary of our main news stories about six minutes from now in the meantime the business update is next with marina stay with us for that. hello and welcome to the business here on ars see the world bank says the risks of the global economy are rising and so are the risks to russia's growth the slowdown in the u.s. and that crisis in europe are all weigh in on the country's economy the world bank has cut its g.d.p. forecast to four percent from four point four percent for the sea year bazza high oil prices and lower inflation could help russia sustain growth. i think that we should really. look at their situation in russia is fairly favorable with current surplus probably almost balanced budget this year i think that temporary paper will situation should be used to implement the more serious medium term fiscal adjustment to reduce the known fiscal deficit in medium term which i think would be

important for us to 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 share is medium term structural issues that are well known in russia i'm sure the list of climate to davis vacation and. infrastructure gaps and all that. was like a look at the markets now european stocks rallied after european policymakers said they were convinced greece would stay in the euro zone and here and moscow the markets close on the positive notes of the r.t.s. froze over two percent more than my son has gained almost one point four percent and here's a snapshot of the end the movers on the my sites oil majors maybe if you rallied on news that will invest what is nine billion dollars in business over the next decade plus of carrier air flights also and that in the black after it bought back its

shares for about ten million dollars and bank of moscow more than six percent despite for more purpose all its. fears all the global recession spurred concerns over growth in many industries and the vehicle market is no exception marcus also galvez from volkswagen group here in russia says although there are still worries the potential for the conference call market is still very promising if you look at russia in general and the car potential there over the long run. but looking at the number of cars per thousand habitants looking at the age of the car park then definitely russia is growing we will have been russia the biggest car market in europe pretty thirteen third to fourteen so the general album. it's very good in russia of course you never know when is the next the coming rains to make strides discovery so our investments are safe and we are happy with our investments so we definitely want to want to grow again in russia significantly. so currently we aim it at a market share of about eight percent and with different me maybe we can already

reach the two digits next year and some of the markets are. that's all the business is for now the headlines are next. to. wealthy british style sign some time to. find. target.

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when you live from moscow this is. your main news stories the british and french leaders visit the libyan capital in a show of support for the new authorities the people in tripoli backing colonel gadhafi fear that their devotion might cost them their lives. and 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 strong. plus ready for radar becomes a third country in the space of a week to confirm joint missile defense shield plans with the u.s. . would warn those stories and less than half an hour from now in the meantime it's the kind.