this is also the high for moscow tensions running high in northern cos they with the breakaway regions the authorities planning to seize control of two border crossings they saw on friday a.j. troops have blocked one of the checkpoints while calls of in serbs use trucks to shut off the road to the alpha. school for the most is a un security council to just try and prevent violence or best get a saying he's going to follow that discussion. the united nations security council gathered behind closed doors for hours to debate and discuss growing tensions in northern kosovo serbian foreign minister and his course of our counterpart louis into 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 now kosovo has an ounce plans to send its custom officials and security forces to the border up to to take it over violence between ethnic serbs and albanians erupted 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 cooperating with the pair the plans of the kosovar albanians rather than preventing danger from breaking out we have serious concerns about where we're all this is going. the minister made it very clear that the. opposition the european union playing this mediating role in a dialogue between between. great is it may be put in question.

this sudden departure from the bus of dialogue at the moment when it was beginning to show some promise promise in our view is completely unjustified unwarranted but eventually. now it 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 escalates and then further. more european all maneuvers lasers america's defense shield good to go through that all still holding out to haste u.s. missile and radar bases which washington says they're only for their own safety the

details on that in just a few minutes also this hour. back in. one thousand miles from the north pole. they are a mistake you want to try to spitzbergen archipelago. where twenty years after the u.s. was sars collapsed the subregion way of life is still going strong. for the world's most statue of lenin presides over a ghost. the still it. has become a tourist site for those overcome by the cold war in the style. the clothes special edition on our. rebel forces in libya claim they're advancing colonel gadhafi saying town of serbs one of the last loyalist bastions several thousand opposition fighters that i have the. tanks have

reportedly launched an offensive on the city what they managed to reach is outskirts but were met by rocket fire from supporters meanwhile britain's prime minister who visit the country along with france's president called the send a strong message to followers of libya's old regime to give up the find both leaders want the nato mission against pro get out the forces will continue as long as they feel it's necessary which they say is to protect civilians. that has more on what some call political grandstanding to politicians. these two leaders have become the first foreign hads of state to be that gadhafi 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 libya these countries were those pushing for

a nato action actually for a military operation heli bit of french warplanes was the first to fly in. the timing of the space of this very strange because it looks like. a leader is came to tripoli to leave here to take part things celebrations of the rebels while fighting still continue and people are still dying not only through here they still remain pockets of it after loyalists but here in tripoli in the capital this city looks pretty much divided right now we've seen many people way of in business you fly isn't carrying banners thank you so because you thank you france thank you britain for words what you've done. as we do. but the ross two areas same tripoli where people like row 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. situation even here in tripoli is very complicated and that's why some skeptics say that all these celebration and even this phase it by cameron sicko's are here to tripoli is a little bit premature. because persons primary david cameron visited libya to celebrate the end of down things forty two year rule aussies other than it looks at how you can see there's a still working class town. 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 shop 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 defense company its products on display here would be home in any bond film this tank can alter its temperature to changes infrared appearance but like the british government the company 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 to. make sense of. these right to sell to say was regimes like bahrain that have repressed democratic process. that will target all. these protesters from the stop the

arms fair coalition they're angry it's going ahead despite the recent crackdowns in libya in egypt both former customers of britain using their purchases against their own people we're paying the price there in the mediterranean because we sold weapons deny all the countries that out experience in the arab spring i think it shortsighted it's bad for this country it doesn't make money it makes wars. at this year's shopping. include fourteen countries branded all thora tarion by human rights groups in fact the government came clean on just one day before trade began but i'm sure they're very a barest because of the one good figuring. david cameron was going to be walking around terrier square proclaiming his belief in human rights and freedom and democracy and the next stop was kuwait and it turned out he was travelling with

eight probably executives but the whole purpose of the trip this trade one of the big trade to a trade to make was weapons straight to the middle east 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 but if it is big business for britain it generated twenty two billion pounds for the economy last year and the case now the second biggest weapons exporter in the world. with money like that up for grabs turning customers away empty handed may prove 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 escalation as opposition members get hold of some mysterious weapon shipments itself a discussion in our cross talk at seven thirty g.m.t. here's what's ahead. the syrian government has pointed out that the opposition so

many 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 confession from a former journal 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 by the syrian government i don't know any nation in the world who takes over the serious word the syrian the syrian government said if they are telling the truth then all our media to syria how are the media. into the square is a lovely 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 and nobody believes the syrian government not even in fact the people the syrian government.

the russian resort of so much she may have the olympics on its mind but it is big business at the starting blocks right now it's 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 isn't even made a dent in his insults you for us morning to you now there's been a lot said as in there about the south stream project lately particularly what's all the noise about. well the noise is all about the scale of the project that's why it's so important so our stream is a gas pipeline 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 are gathering partners in this project and today in around two and a half 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 a controlling stake and for french companies german companies and selling companies will get to the other half basically what's been happening is this signing of this agreement means that this project is potentially actually happening and this is the creator of a lot of files a lot of concern from european authorities now we've heard comments from the european energy commission a good thirteen go. that he sees basically from his words it seems that this project is a threat to european energy security because europe has been working throughout lining in a rival project called the south corridor and that's the transfer caspian pipeline and then a book of pipeline 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 itself st but i will be talking more about the business aspect of this project and other aspects happening here the investment for him in sochi in around fifteen minutes time did we well say do stay tuned for that everyone i came to me to read for then came many thanks for that live from sochi 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 and poland still remaining a major obstacles of the troubled project cleared also and washington also gave a joint statement announcing which parts of nation shield will be deployed in poland by twenty eighty one hours he's going to just you can have the specifics. 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 us romania too will host a very good land base there some three interceptors on wednesday turkey and the us signed a similar agreement but that won't was about deployment of of an early warning radar or keep 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 world who 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 but usually namely ran in north korea and moscow saying why would you need interceptors for weapons at those ropes they

just don't like what he 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 those two together in 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 now a russian manned spacecraft has landed in bringing three members of the international space station crew back during the nearly six month mission they took politics what's been one of the tenses times in the history all of that the i s s b to all of us at mission control in the most region. crew of soyuz t.m.a. twenty one back on earth. andrea and ron garland have been 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. the celebration of course was that they were up in space for yuri's night the celebration of fifty years of manned space flight fifty years since you first went into space they were also up there for the last at the 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 for the 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 here not just amongst the family members also amongst the controllers they knew that they'd done their 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 we spoke to the wife of one of the cosmonauts she said she 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 hello fording a victory ends the decade long leadership of the storage the anti immigrant party

but i campaigned primarily focused on the country's struggling economy which stowed public anger at the previous government's policy blunders it was a close run the election though and she now faces a tough task in forming an effective government with only a very slim majority. 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 about a thousand turkish protesters gathered outside while others boycotted the game which saw masses of riot police it's over israel's refusal to apologize for killing nine guards eight activists in last year's fratello raid turkey recently cut ties with israel and expelled top diplomats. now imagine a community where you want for nothing life is 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 one somebody the soviet dream a system without money but where everyone's needs were provided for in a series of special reports for aussie 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. and sun the brits called the island in search of food for their young noisy and disorderly like old big families the seagulls are the last reminder of their warm 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 single cries there are children streaks and laughter this apartment block was built specifically to house families and while adults were out working

kids were left to their own devices running down hallways and banging doors local residents usually referred to this building as the crazy have across the street was a female dormitory nicknamed paris given russian women's ondine infatuation with everything french it further away what a male dormitory also known as london supposedly for the gentle manners of its inhabitants during its best years the settlement house to 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 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 vibrant social life in many ways it was a task for the brighter future that soviet people were trying to build their old

snow than most statue of lenin is still peering into the nearby glacier. most of the parliament's residents worked at a coal mine that was never very profitable it maintained for the sake of keeping the soviet presence at the strategically placed archipelago not only an outpost this westernmost soviet settlement was also an ideological show window for the capitalists rivals and no resources for spirit to cut a dash a concert hall a library a rock band and even this size olympic pool people here are reliving the true salvi a dream you have the best hopes the almost overnight when the soviet union fell apart all of a sudden people of parliament realized the perfect life was just that a few political power amid based on faulty economy and shaky ideology and if you your is the former 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 of to now their families packed and laughed abandoning parra made in all its grandstanding glory this pillar was erected here with much pomp on the settlements thirtieth or fortieth anniversary only to become with the gravestone decades later when the last batch of coal was extracted from the local mine workers just laughed and here it was their way of raking over the coals for the life that always seemed too good to be true a kind of work of art sea pirate myth spitzbergen archipelago. it's time now for the latest business news then of course they says from. investment. hello and a very warm welcome to the business program russia's next olympic venues gunning

for gold in the race to secure foreign funds the tense international investment forum is underway in sochi with thirty five countries looking to put money into russia arches which was a day isn't this 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 their 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 putin's 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 the person has to say about the russian currency for example because the ruble has been pretty volatile the past couple of months it's spike the fact that oil has come back just to 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 the approaching as to where the ruble is going to go how inflation is going to be tackled also and what russia is going to be doing to cover its budget deficit. tree are we know what the little groundbreaking deals are to be signed today and as you said early the south stream gas projects at the for today is that right. that's absolutely right and around the two 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 go garion to austria and to italy and italy's and he will get a twenty percent stake france's e.d.f. and germany's winters hole will get fifteen 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 a billion but indeed as we've said before earlier now this is causing some kind of concerns about european authorities about the security of 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 turkey parties to trigger denker thank you very much for the date and to me true will be of course bring us more from the tenth international investment forum in sochi throughout the day and we still have time

to have a quick check on the markets oil is on the rise and easing concerns about the european debt help with the disappointing jobs data from the u.s. to limiting the gains grand plan to close to one hundred and thirteen dollars per barrel while w. tally is trading at eighty nine dollars. in asia the nuker rose more than two percent on friday clearing some recent resistance levels sask ordinated action from central banks come to fears of a european credit present sent financial shares surging back saying is heading for his biggest gain in a month. and here in russia the markets have opened mixed troika dialog believes the stocks could see some correction following the jump in the previous session. very strong just of the do. i expect some weakness there's definitely some stocks went up just simply technically so i would expect some profit taking today and but don't expect the drop or actually i think we're coming closer to twenty twenty

first of september when many investors expect something very positive from fed. for they know some kind of new stimulus measures for american economy and the situation can change dramatically and they can go shop the up so we will see probably some correction but these won't be deep. from troika dodik with his analysis of what we can expect from try to stray just session and that wraps up the business blog join in for another business update unless someone else time.

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very well can see this is all here live from moscow now the un's most powerful bodies and stalemates have. tensions at kosovo and serbia as northern border crossing the breakaway region ignores schools between expert seem set on seizing the checkpoints even using fatah it's. as the british and french leaders held a democracy in libya u.k. tents and weapons continue to strengthen all other arab dictatorships. a russian manned spacecraft touches down bringing three international space station crew members back after one of the tensest missions in its history. is a pricey place to visit but you don't need to fork out for a five star if you come for a.