the un's most powerful bodies in stalemate over tensions that cost the vote in serbia the northern border crossings the breakaway region ignored calls the talks but seemed set on seizing the checkpoints even using. but show me a crew of soyuz t.m.a. twenty one and returned safely to earth after spending six months on board the international space station. as the british and french leaders held the democracy they poured into libya u.k. tanks the way it's continued to strengthen and other arab hardline regime.

a very warm welcome to you this is also the high for moscow tensions running high in northern stay with the breakaway regions all thorazine planning to seize control of two border crossings they saw on friday a.j. troops of one of the checkpoints while costs have been serbs use trucks to shut off the road to the earlier called for an emergency un security council to just try and prevent violence arrests casing our she's going to follow that discussion. the united nations security council gathered behind closed doors for hours to debate and discuss and growing tensions in northern kosovo serbian foreign minister book your image and his course of our counterpart lou in new york for this our emergency meeting that was called for by serbia and supported by russia now serbia is urging

the council to prevent. kosovo's ethnic albanian authorities from using force in northern kosovo that is an area populated by ethnic serbs kosovo hows and now its plans to send its custom officials and security forces to the border up to to take it over violence between ethnic serbs and albanians are ruptured there in july that violence killed one person and wounded several others russian ambassador vitaly churkin says kosovar albanians have threatened to use force ambassador churkin says that nato peacekeepers in the area he believes could be cooperated with the path of the plans of the kosovar albanians rather than preventing danger from breaking out we have serious concerns about what little this is going and. you can assure the ministry made it very clear that the.

position of european union playing this mediating role in a dialogue between the. great is the people in question. to this sudden departure from the process of dialogue at the moment when it was beginning to show some promise promise in our view is completely unjustified unwarranted and that it injures now was back in two thousand and eight when kosovo unilaterally declared its independence with the support of the united states and western european countries this is something that was not approved by the security council and russia was one of the security council members that warned there would be escalating tensions to follow for years this is an international issue that russia serbia and many other countries believe needs to be addressed now before violence as collates and further. round more european all maneuvers nature as

america's a bench ilsa good to go that all still holding out to hasty u.s. missile radar bases which washington says they're only for their own safety the details on that in just a few minutes also this hour. live decades back and talk. one dollars one miles from the north pole. the arche team is taking you on a trip to spitzbergen archipelago kuwait twenty years ago how to do it to sars collapsible the soviet way of life is still going strong look where the world's a northern most statue of lenin presides over a ghost town where the sewage heritage has become a tourist site for those overcome by the cold war in the style. of the close up special edition on our t.v. . forces in the claim they're advancing in colonel his hometown of

serbs one of the last loyalist last years several thousand fighters i had the. tanks reportedly launched an offensive on the city where they managed to reach as outskirts but were met by rocket fire from the town is waters britain's prime minister who visit the country along with france's president called the have a strong message to followers of libya's old regime to give up the fight both leaders want but nato has mission against progress the forces will continue as long as they feel it's necessary which they say is to protect civilians and has more on what some call ground standing politicians. these two leaders have become the first foreign heads of state to visit khadafi freely not surprisingly though these two nato countries have played a prominent a crucial role in the libyan revolution backed by the alliance which eventually led

to the fall of gadhafi and to the end all for the almost forty two year long dictatorship here in leave these countries were those pushing for a nato action actually for a military operation he leave it a french war plane was the first to fly in. pain the timing of the space it is very strange because it looks like. a leader is came to tripoli to leave here to take part in celebrations of the rebels while fighting is still continuing and people are still dying not only tried to leave here they still remain pockets of gadhafi loyalists but here in tripoli in the capital this city looks pretty much divided right now we've seen many people all way have been. carrying banners thank you so causey thank you france think. what you've done. as we. take shape but the rust to areas in tripoli where people like grow police

important gadhafi and they say they don't trust the rebels because they don't know them and they see them as those who just want to share. all piii so situation even here in tripoli is very complicated and that's why some skeptics say that all these celebration and even the space that by cameron's to cause here to tripoli is a little bit premature. and this person is credited with cameron visited libya to celebrate the end of the down things fourteen year rule aussies and bennett seniors are still working class towns. selling weapons could be a moral minefield but not here this is the world's biggest arms fair and a massive earner for the british economy the government's putting its conscience aside as international delegates short for tanks rocket launchers and missiles so

long as business is being done here it doesn't seem to matter who's buying this is guest list includes countries like saudi arabia and bahrain both regimes that violently suppressed pro-democracy demonstrations earlier this year bahrain was accused of opening fire on its own armed citizens in february saudi arabia sent its national guard in to help driving armored vehicles made by be a systems the u.k.'s largest pence company its products on this play here would be at home in any bond film this tank can alter its temperature changes infrared appearance but like the british government began pany can't change its spots it says there are countries it won't sell to but that doesn't include any here if a country's been invited by the british government here it's it's probably going to be on your list of countries who are able to sell tickets and. make sense. if

these rights sells as a reason regimes like bahrain that have rigorous democratic process. that will target forward so that. these protesters from the stop the arms coalition they're angry it's going ahead despite the recent crackdowns in libya and egypt both former customers of britain using their purchases against their own people we're paying the price there in the mediterranean because we show weapons dinny all the countries there and our experience in the arab spring i think is short sighted it's bad for this country it doesn't make money it makes walls. at this year's shop a. includes fourteen countries branded all thora tarion by human rights groups a fact the government came clean on just one day before trade began i'm sure they're very a barest because of the one target factory. david cameron is going to be walking

around terriers for claiming his belief in human rights of freedom and democracy and the next stop was kuwait i get turned out he was travelling with eight strictly executives and that the whole purpose of the trip was trade one of the big traits or trying to make was weapons straits the least the government says it's tightening restrictions on who can buy weapons that could be used for oppression and he claims an invite here doesn't guarantee an export license the defense is big business for britain it generated twenty two billion pounds for the economy last year and the u.k. has now the second biggest weapons exporter in the world. with money like that up for grabs turning customers away empty handed when proved difficult might have been it r t london. now there's also a growing concern that syria's conflicts on the verge of a disastrous i ask him as our position members get hold of some mysterious weapon

shipments itself the discussion analyses cross-talk at seven thirty g.m.t. here's what. the syrian government has pointed out that the opposition so only elements within the opposition have been armed by outside forces particularly the united states as well as israel are they claim that they have a concession from a former our generals from syria who defected and he's going to be featured on syrian television are very soon i don't know anyone who believes the syrian government now is the syrians now believe the syrian government i don't know any nation in the world who takes over the serious war of the syrian the syrian government said if they are telling the truth the allow the media to syria allow the media into the squares loving myriad media to see the troops moving down innocent people like pacifist people and our roses to soldiers if they don't allow the media because they know they can massacre and torture and brutalize a lot more people if they don't allow the media in nobody believes the syrian government not even in fact the people the syrian government.

if you go with. the russian resort of sochi may have the olympics on its mind but it's big business that the starting blocks right now is the first day of the city's annual investment forum and later should see european energy giants sign up for the ambitious south stream gas pipeline project let's get the details now he's an economist the think of these insults you for us morning to you now there's been a lot that has an air about the south stream project lately particularly what's all the noise about those. well the noise is all about the scale of the project that's why it's so important south stream is a gas pipe. project which will deliver gas eventually from russia underneath the black sea to bulgaria and then eventually directly to european consumers in austria

and italy basically russia has been spending quite a lot of time with gathering partners in this project and today in around two hours we are going to be witnessing the signing of the shareholder agreement which will divide stakes in the project russia will get gazprom will get fifty percent plus one stake controlling stake and for french companies german companies and selling companies will get the other half basically what's been happening is this signing of this agreement means that this project is potentially actually happening and this says that creates a lot of fossil lot of concern from european authorities now we've heard comments from the european energy commission a good. that he sees basically from his words it seems that this project is a threat to european energy security because europe has been working through outlining a rival project called the south corridor and that's the trance caspian pipeline and then a book of tipline which will be delivering central asian gas to europe the problem

here is that these projects are still in the phase of just outlining and they are far from happening and so he's saying right now that south stream is just too expensive that it does mean that russia is using gas as a political tool and it seems europe has been launching a campaign against the south street but i will be talking more about the business aspect of this project and other aspects happening here the investment for an associate around fifteen minutes down the deed we well say eight hundred eighteen for that everyone i do need to read for thank you many thanks for that line from such and for us. america's anti missile shield plan for europe has picked up the pace over the last few days a string of agreements with turkey remain yeah still remaining a major obstacles of the troubled project he is also on washington also gave a joint statement announcing which parts of nato and she'll be deployed potent by

twenty eighteen hours he's going to do you can house the specifics the police the 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 visions the deployment of a land basis and 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 us romania two will host a very good blend basis in three interceptors on wednesday turkey and the us signed a similar agreement but that was about deployment of an early warning radar in korea keep the shield will be unfolding fairly close to russian borders needless to say there's always been an irritant in the relations between washington and moscow the lure 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 live interceptors for weapons at those ropes they still with 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 ok it is not against us in this thing together in this big missile shield in europe together and the response they get is always a no you know they say is this they will cooperate but not on equal terms. now russian manned spacecraft has learned that in kazakstan bringing three members of the international space station crew back during their nearly six month mission they took part in what's been one of the tenses times in the history of the i s s r he's all of us at mission control in the moscow region. the crew of soyuz t.m.a. twenty one back on earth aleksandr some of andrea and ron in

a pain up there on the i.s.a.'s for almost six months now and what a six months they've been they were full of celebration trepidation and sometimes downright dangerous though the celebration of course was that they were up in space for yuri's night the celebration of fifty years of manned spaceflight fifty years since you first went into space they were also up there for the last ever docking with the i s s and the last of a flight in fact of nasa space shuttle an emotional moment and they a major landmark moment in terms of human space flight now the soyuz rocket is the only way and baikonur cosmodrome the only place where from month space flight can take place so they saw the end of the. space shuttle space now they also with they are on board for the fourth at the end of last month when a progress module powered by

a soyuz rocket crashed on its way to meet with the i.s.a.'s now that progress module was carrying supplies of food and water for these people who these three astronauts who were on board the international space station so they had to make do without them here at mission control we saw some great scenes as the family managed to see the the module finally enter the earth's atmosphere the parachute deployed and they knew that their loved ones were on their way back down to the ground some huge round of applause when so here not just amongst the family members also amongst the control as they knew that they had it they'd done a job well now those family members will be reunited with their loved ones very shortly those cosmonauts will be put on a plane to fly to moscow where they'll be reunited with friends and family and also spoke to the wife of one of the cosmonauts she says you can't wait to have her husband home. ok some of the world's other main stories this hour denmark's elected

its first female prime minister helen thought english victory ends the decade long leadership of the storm she and immigrant r.t. her campaign primarily focused on the country's struggling economy which stowed public anger at the previous government's policy blunders it was a close run election though she now faces a tough task in forming an effective government with only a very slim majority. so cute deteriorating relations with longtime ally israel were in evidence on those day night during a european league of football match between the country's national teams other than turkish protesters gathered outside while others boycotted the game which saw masters of riot police it's over israel's refusal to apologize for killing nine guards eight activists in last year's deteriorate turkey recently cut ties with israel and expelled top diplomats. now imagine

a community where you want for nothing lives easy and work is plenty well one such place did exist in a remote russian outpost but not anymore well it's not even a place within russia's borders it's actually a norwegian archipelago called spitsbergen it once embody the soviet dream a system without money but where everyone's needs were provided for in a series of special reports for r.t. exam the boy visited what was meant to be communism's example of a bright future. it's one of the busiest seagull colonies in the arctic. restless there's the northern sun the brits called the island insert your food for their young and noisy and disorderly like old big families the seagulls are the last reminder of the one family atmosphere that once permeated this arctic island back in the eighty's sounds coming from this building were just as era splitting as

they are today only instead of siegel cries there are children streaks and laughter this apartment block was built specifically to house families and while adults were out working he is role after their own devices running down hallways then banging doors local residents usually referred to this building as the crazy house across the street was a female dormitory nicknamed various given russian women's and dining patch ation with everything french i think further away he was a male dormitory also known as london to cause at least for the gentle manners of its inhabitants during its best here is the settlement house more than a thousand people today it's a ghost town with a spirit of communism is lurking in that band and buildings. this settlement was called pirate because of the cube like mountains surrounding it thirty years ago it had the highest living standards soviet people could dream of salaries two to three

times higher than in the mainland free food free around wide and social life in many ways it was a task model for the bride and future of the soviet people were trying to build your rights northernmost statue of lenin is still clearing into the nearby glacier . most of the apartments residents worked at a coal mine it was never very profitable it maintained for the sake of keeping the presence of the strategically placed archipelago not only an outpost this westernmost soviet settlement was also an ideological show window but it capitalists rivals and no resources for spirit to cut a dash a concert hall a library a rock band and even this hostiles olympic paul people here reliving the true dream have their best hopes and almost overnight when the soviet union fell apart all of a sudden people of realized the perfect life was just that

a huge political power amid based on faulty economy and shaky ideology and if you your is the former archie paradise turned into a desperate hole people who are used to eating caviar for breakfast have to turn to hunting to put food on the table. one often out there the family scattered and laughed at gardening made in all its grandstanding glory this pillar was erected here with march palm on the settlements thirtieth or fortieth anniversary only to become with the gravestone they please later when the last batch of coal was extracted from the local mine workers just laughed and here it was their way of raging over the coals for the lives that always seemed too good to be true i thought about our sea pirate spitzbergen archipelago. a time now for the latest business news and of course with a strong. investment for. hello

and a very warm welcome to the business program brushes next olympics that is gunning so gold in the race to secure foreign funds the tenth international investment forum is underway in sochi with thirty five countries looking to put money into russia arches which was a car is it something seaside resort joining me live to treat foreign investors alongside russian police to go and commercially at some high profile talks that was being discussed so far. well the main day of the forum that is today is actually coming into full motion into full swing we're seeing a record attendance apparently of something like seven thousand participants with sixty different regions presenting goodies looking for investment looking for different opportunities to make new contacts to form new projects a lot is actually happening over here but what's widely anticipated is. in the

speech there will be a plenary session devoted to russia's macroeconomic position right now and how to cope with the risks coming from abroad and from inside the economy of course and this is of course going to be very interesting to listen to what sort of living a person has to say about the russian currency for example because the ruble has been pretty volatile the past couple of months despite the fact that well as come back just below ninety dollars per barrel the ruble is weakening and we've heard the statement from the deputy economics minister. yesterday about the fact that russia needs a weaker ruble to compete with imported goods so there might be some kind of hint from going to putin as to whether rubles going to go how inflation is going to be tackled also and what russia's going to be doing to cover its budget deficit. to treat i we know with a lot of ground breaking deals are space science day and as you said earlier the south stream gas projects of the force today is that right. that's absolutely right

and around the two and a half hours we're going to be seeing the signing of the shareholder agreement between gazprom and its european partners gazprom will get a fifty percent stake in this gas pipeline project which will deliver gas directly from russia underneath the black sea to bulgaria and to austria and to italy and italy's any will get a twenty percent stake ransom and the germany's ones as well will get the percent in this project the whole project is valued at around fifty eight and a half billion euros with the undersea pipeline segment alone costing around ten billion but indeed as we've said before earlier now this is causing some kind of concerns about european authorities about the security of a gas a delivery about energy security in europe but russia want what russia wants to do is to avoid having to deal with transition countries transit countries notably

with ukraine belarus and. parties to trade as anchor thank you very much for that such a centimeter will be of course bring us more from the international investment forum in sochi throughout the day and we still have time to have a quick check on the markets all is on the rise and easing concerns about the european debt however the disappointing jobs data from the u.s. are limiting the gains grand plant is close to one hundred and thirteen dollars per barrel while dudley tie is trading at eighty nine dollars. in asia the nuclear rose more than two percent on friday clearing some recent resistance levels us coronated action from central banks calm fears of a european credit freeze and sent financial shares surging back saying is heading for his biggest gain in a month. and here in russia the markets have opened mixed your prior to trickle down and believes the stocks could see some correction fall when you jump into predecessor. very strong just for the the. i expect some weakness

there's definitely some stocks went up just simply technically so i would expect some profit taking today and soon but don't expect a drop actually i think we're coming closer to twenty twenty first of september when investors expect something very positive from for. you for the you know some for new stimulus measures for the american economy and the situation can change dramatically and they can go shopping up so we will present will see probably some correction but we just want to keep it from troy because i think with his analysis of what we can expect from try to trade a session and that wraps up the business floor could join me for another business update unless someone else time.

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