international news and comment live from our headquarters here in central moscow this is r.t. just past midnight here and ten pm in tripoli where british prime minister david cameron has promised financial aid to libya's new rulers he's there with french president nicolas sarkozy in support of the regime there warplanes helped put in power. in tripoli is across the latest developments. french president also cause he and rich 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 visit 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 qaddafi free libya these two countries france and britain have played a crucial role in the currently with the revolution because of course he has said

that nato will continue to form in leave here and ministry facilities. here in libya till 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 in the south cheaply meanwhile russia's foreign ministry has announced today that they will call for a no fly zone to be lifted since it's no longer aimed at protecting civilians just ahead of these two leaders visit here to tripoli the head of the national transitional council mr father john who has pledged that both sikorsky and cameron will be safe and 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 equally held by by the rabble sun not all the districts here in libya are 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 but feel full. in parts of the city the rebels' triumphant campaign feels like it's never happened or did so somewhere else. now that we will do anything for mom our only moammar even if we have to give our own lives. seven support for the ousted leader just solves once they see our camera interview with their hero like the one with a weird television how could you tell it on 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'll throw television so they're going to tell the camera no no thanks arrive create front of the camera they will send the bullet to the head oh the criminals you don't know them you call them the rebels hey guys do you remember how up the black guy he was arrested a few days ago after here appearing on t.v. don't do that you flags you slogans new speeches. the rebels were out celebrating again this week when they had of the national transitional council leave his new authority to rise in the capital before large crowds even libyans in no doubt about who's ruling out. those who don't support mr fogg those only and who we used to see all across the city proudly waving green flags just weeks ago thanking khadafi now trying not to leave their own backyards

here their prayers there are. shared. with many. feel very. tough it is effectively gone then you all sources have settled 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 remain. all the. fear. one youngster finally agrees to talk about 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. in favor of gadhafi they can kill us and the rest of us of course only are not tired of. them 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 the darkest secret in jails political prisoners known as abu sleen don't believe me the rebels they only represent themselves not the libyan people and this revolution started with killings to intimidate through the fear of their hobbies 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 these are being felt by some here that more is in store roof notion r t tripoli libya. and john laughlin from the institute for democracy and cooperation in paris says the cameron sarkozy visit to libya on the line is 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 a state as a 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 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 only as a coup the editor of the pan-african newswire says the western leaders visit to the country is an attempt to repeat 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 nikolaus cycle see a france and david cameron of britain this is an attempt to shore up this. takeover of the most star all rich and the most prosperous country only after the. 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 in about ten minutes from now but here's a brief preview for you. 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 maybe happening in syria and 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 with their statements and assurances from them of various sorts when we're working on that resolution in libya which then we're very quickly forgotten in the heat of the battle in. u.s. missile defense plans in europe 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 and r.t. is going to has the latest for us now from washington. the police think missile defense agreement 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 some free 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 uighurs romania too will host a very good land base there some three interceptors on wednesday to turkey and the us signed a similar agreement but that one 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

war 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 say usually namely ran in north korea and moscow saying why would you need interceptors for weapons that those rogue states don't like russia does 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 in this building missile shield in europe together and the response they get is always a no you know they say they say we will cooperate but not on equal terms of that russians say then give us a legally binding guarantees that the defense system will not be used against us. she mentioned romania and turkey also agreed missile defense deals with the us this week developments that alarmed many. more military

equipment here in europe we are. one of them is an activist for the human movement and you can find my interview with him website. opinion on the story and get the full perspective of. russia's political season may have only just got underway but the first scandals already arrived the party run by russia's richest man has collapsed less than three months after he became its leader. has the details. the m. vicious plan of the right course body which was to gain some fifteen percent of the vote clashed over some far more modest political for a costs and reality is now the proper of as love to the party will hardly make it into dumont but we all have to understand that program has very good p.r. in 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 to they had lines international headlines in two thousand and seven when he was arrested by french police in course chevelle on suspicion that he arranged prostitutes for russia's oligarchs there and we remember what it and up like headed up like the french authorities officially apologized before him during an official visit in two thousand and nine and has brought her 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's 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 butt tradition with russia's right wing forces and now that. leaves the ranks of the party's no longer its leader it's not clear what part of the electorate the right course will be you rate at all and secondly it's interesting what will happen

with all the money which. which it invested into these projects 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 this billionaire turned politician. or we've got more on this and all the other stories we're covering on screen on our website. there online you can find out about the officials who have rolled out and engaged because the cause of last week's plane crash that killed an entire top russian ice hockey team you can read the story so many theories that have been put forward and dismissed by the experts. a diamond worth thousands of dollars is found in the stomach of a man suspected of theft at a spanish restaurant more on that story and.

some other international headlines in our world update 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 that. statement. said a full for full statehood would be submitted next friday under u.n. rules such an application must first be approved by the security council and said last week that it will use its veto to block it another option for the palestinians is to offer u.n. observer status which will go straight to the general assembly where there is no power. the suicide bombing at a funeral in northwest pakistan has killed at least thirty one further fifty were injured but the attack took place during the burial problems for tribal leader a local militia to oppose militants in the area and idea region is close to the afghan border escalating violence between militants and security forces.

dramatic pictures of a farm 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 blaze broke out in the engine room police suspect an explosion may have triggered the incident. but 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 come from outside the country this time from norway's spitzbergen archipelago and russians developed a coal mining community there during the soviet period and reports twenty years after the u.s.s.r. ceased to exist many are still living an old soviet dream. a cluster of violence between the devil and the deep blue sea for the us aside the spitzbergen archipelago was a lot like puerto rico for the u.s. not entirely its own yet not fully foreign

a former 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 and of course yeah of course all of this the most western tourists this morning meant is a testament to the failed soviet and. the town of barons burke once a flourishing mining community isn't a source they. give behind this feeling façade one can also see a freshly painted writing on the wall that russians on a living in fact their back. right to be here. if this second summer in a row that. banding launch busy bergen decorating this kindergarten give the fiction 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 his parents 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 treat 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. mosco that for decades has been mining coal here. co-produced here has always been a credit expansive but back in soviet times it was not an issue of economics but

rather the politics needed to maintain its mining base here to pittsburgh and at any cost but now production volumes have been built just a fraction of what they used to be but one teeny 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 the ethnic composition of the workforce could makes of you to feel solvent nostalgia. says 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 you cream 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 lost making venture for decades here increasing its efficiency is politically inconvenient. money is what allows russia to be a president's speech going to be profitable we need to mine three times as much

calls we do now. find that we have to go. meanwhile russia has notably increased funding of scientific expeditions and spitzbergen in an effort to explore the archipelagos natural reaches. you get a bill thomas 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 take graphically it's a place where the global weather is being. ground for science and nine in its oil gas and other minerals it's a place we simply can't afford to lose. and his country. seems to agree with kind of arts the bearings works pittsburgh an archipelago and. that's it for me for now i'll be back with headlines in less than ten minutes from now before that stay with

us for our special interview with russia's ambassador to the u.n. the telegenic in gave us his views on everything from the arab spring and palestinian statehood to the possibility of new violence in cos in that interview is next. investor thank you very much for that it seems certain that the united states well you know it's veto power within the security council to prevent any recognition

palestinian state what are the palestinians have before we go there let me 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 albanian or sort of this and prishtina basically to take over a northern course of a by force and another very disturbing element of the situation is that the international presence is ok for the nato force there and of the european a war mission ulick's which are there in order to preserve peace they seem to be cooperating without very dangerous plan of the course of all being in a sort of a so. other donation of serbia here in new york has sent a letter to the president of the security council asking for an emergency meeting of the security council and russia is supporting this request in order to prevent

those dramatic and dangerous developments in the course of the but i anticipate that we're going to have some rather interesting debates in the security council first of all whether to convene that meeting or not and to me this will be a reality check. about whether indeed the security council we in the united nations are interested in preventing disputes and peaceful mediation it's interesting you bring up kosovo because kosovo unilaterally declared its independence and with the support of the united states and many european countries this was done outside the scope of the security council and it was done with the backing of the us yet when it comes to the palestinians. the u.s. . has already been screaming to tell v. tell the position of the united states is very often not entirely consistent to put it mildly because they do like some other. western european countries they do

blood double standards from time to time 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 without using 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 that resolution so this is one of the problems i think in trying to put in train negotiations between the israelis and the palestinians if 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 then it does not really help to move matters talks must start between the israelis and the palestinians i know that there are contacts. there are

certain requirements which the palestinians want to see for those talks to start and i hope of the israelis will 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 that we know we cannot be assured that we will have a situation in the arab world is going to go i mean we are all full as i am sure was the hope of those who were on the front lines of the arab spring that things will evolve towards democracy and cetera et cetera but this kind of a positive scenario is not a sure at all european countries and the united states from what's been reported are trying. to push forward a resolution calling for more sanctions against syria and this is something that. the president of russia dmitry medvedev said he's not in support of because

additional pressure he believes is not necessarily needed nor would it help. can you explain russia's position on on syria that is a very dangerous situation it is a very dramatic and tragic situation i think the russian position is reflected very well something which was a consensus position of the security council the first of the statement does come down. by the syrian a sort of is you know excessive use of force but secondly it calls on everybody to stop violence including the opposition and also it calls for dialogue in order to resolve the differences and visions of what should happen. in syria and very importantly it calls for on the government of syria to implement the reforms there for them now so this is exactly all right but more importantly 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

that something similar to what happened in libya may be happening in syria and that could have extremely destructive consequences our western colleagues swearing to us that this is not their intention to use military force well incidentally we have to remind them that with. statements and assurances from them of various sorts when we're working on that resolution in libya which then we're very quickly forgotten in the heat of the battle in media in order to get out of the cycle of violence. we just don't see this scenario of regime change which some are entertaining. as something which can be beneficial or which can improve in any way the humanitarian or economic or social situation in syria there have been reports that foreigners in particular colombian ukrainian nationalists have been executed in

libya by and armed forces. do you think that it's time for un peacekeepers to intervene in libya let me also tell you that we are keeping very close track of those reports and at every opportunity what is that in our discussions in the security council which we have very well and making sure that every measure is taken out of the you will leave it all thought it is understand the responsibility. of course nothing can be at all doubt because the situation as you pointed out correctly is quite dangerous it's chaotic when all that sort of pulled unfold pretty view shouldn't have happened including some killings of black people simply because they were suspected of having been cut off from mercenaries this is something which. will cause our own happiness when we are with raising our complaints on what is about the. absence

a lack of proper implementation of resolution one thousand seventy three if you want to protect civilians the last thing you do is stop a civil war and this is what happened let's face it. wealthy british style it's time to. find out what's really happening to the global economy. on.

top stories now. the british and french leaders visit the libyan capital in a show of support for the new authorities while the people in tripoli still packing . devotion and. russia says it's time to lift the u.n. impose no fly zone over libya to save civilians and measures criticize as being ineffective if it doesn't help those trapped in the last remaining. ready for them becomes the third country in the space of a week to join. with us. to bring it up to date for the moment i'll be back with more news for more developments in less than half an hour from now on the.