as the british and french leaders held the democracy they brought to liberate u.k. tanks and weapons continue to strengthen our hard line regime is. the un's most powerful bodies in stalemate over tensions of possible and serbia and all the border crossings the breakaway region ignores the course of the talks the same steps on seizing the checkpoints even in our. bucko me crew of so used to be twenty one and returned safely to earth after spending six months on board the international space station.

a very warm welcome this is a line from moscow rebel forces in libya came their advancing and colonel gadhafi is hangtown of served one of the last loyalist bastions several thousands of opposition fighters that i times and heavy weapons have reportedly launched an offensive on the city where for nationals in the libyan capital for us right now where it gets sorted out the new authorities are searching an increasing level of control over the country putting pressure on gadhafi supporters but peace is still a long way off its neighbors. yes that's right how is indeed what we're hearing here in the capital tripoli from the national security from national transitional council business your sources that it's troops have apparently and to some i probably form of there's a stop the capital caracas hometown and one of the colonel's last strongholds the city was first attacked by nato planes on the second day of the major operation

here in libya in march the r.t.c. reports that thousands of its fighters from misrata have apparently advanced into the center of the city of sirte put facing a heavy resistance from duffy's. troops gadhafi elite troops apparently armed with a jewelry and a long range drug trials a rocket and also it's not has been to see also reported at least four of its fighters eleven and other reports have been killed during this offensive and seven others wounded and we also receive an information of forty get off the loyalists have been captured in syria and the reports that is information. that happen one of them to get this information is very hard to verify said anyway whatever happens right now in the city of say a battle if confirmed would mean

a breakthrough in terms of ending six month long civil war here leave here this battle is very false and symbolically and also practically because it opens major ace tries west a road here in libya meanwhile fighting over in not essential could be supported by some two hundred kilometers south of the capital few became teen years ahead of the rich prime minister and french president's choice was it to leave you with national security transitional council ministry officials have ordered to stop any maturity . the area for security reasons and we are receiving information from bani walid that's an office loyalist have used the momentum at this time to attack the rebels and the reason for mation that they've apparently eventually succeeded in throwing them back to seventy kilometers line meanwhile concerns grow the safety of civilians trapped in the city center in the areas where clashes between the rebels

and gadhafi is still continuing alice and maria with a new leadership in place and is half we now on the run this to you when do you think considering now we sing in sanctions against libya. indeed we expect the u. and to is sanctions against libya visiting the country on thursday british prime minister david cameron and french president nicolas sarkozy have started but they would introduce a u.n. security council draft resolution which extracts to establish a u.n. mission here in libya polish international arms embargo also and freeze libyan assets that were frozen under kentucky's part of sanctions against gadhafi. he also sad the leaders hold for the two countries or two nato countries that played a prominent role in leaving revolution that led to the gadhafi is for the end of

almost a forty two year long dictatorship here in libya that's made his mission on the ground will continue will continue for as long as it's necessary to protect civilians been while many are skeptical about the real aims of this mission of nato mission here in libya since it's right now more loops like back in the rubble see how people take control of the rest of the country rather than protecting civilians so says right now quite far from its initial go turkish prime minister is also expected to visit leave here today we'll keep you updated on his visit a list of many points that update that was obviously a phenomena for us live from libya. well as the british prime minister david cameron visits libya to celebrate the end of cathy's forty two year rule all his life about it looks at how u.k. arms dealers are still. selling weapons could be

a moral minefield but not here this is the world's biggest arms fire and a massive earner for the british economy the government's putting its conscience aside as international delegates shop for tanks rocket launches and the missiles so long as business is being done here it doesn't seem to matter who's buying this is just 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 this play here would be at home in any bond film this tank can alter its temperature changes infrared appearance the light the british government accompany can't change its spots it says there are countries that were still too 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 of. these right to sell to save regimes like bahrain that have a press democratic process. that would have a cause that. these protesters from the stop the arms 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 showed weapons deny all the countries there it out here is in the arab spring i think it short sighted it's bad for this country it doesn't make money it makes walls. at this year's. was include fourteen countries branded all thora tarion by human rights groups

a fact the government came clean on just one day before trade began but five sure they're very of direst because of the one tragic figure e. david cameron was going to be walking around cherry a square proclaiming his belief in human rights and freedom and democracy and the next stop was kuwait i get turned up he was traveling with eight zero and stop really executives but the whole purpose of the trip was trade one of the big traits or traits 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 the fence is big business for britain it generated twenty two billion pounds for the economy last year and the u.k. is 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. tensions running high in northern kossovo with the breakaway regions of thora he is planning to seize control of sea border crossings later on friday night he achieved a lot on one of the checkpoints because of uncertainties trance to shut off the road to the other earlier service call for an emergency un security council meeting to try and prevent violence from escalating. ali 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 vokey and his course of our counterpart flew into new york for this our emergency meeting that was called for by serbia and supported by russia not 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 house and plans to send its custom officials and security forces to the border 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 and bassett or churkin says that nato peacekeepers in the area he believes could be whopper reading with the pair 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 see a minister getting should get it very clear that the. position of european union and weighing this mediating role in

a dialogue between the between great is maybe put in question. to this sudden departure from the path 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 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 as collates and a further more european element of his america's defense shields get together in the last few countries thing else agreed to u.s. missile radar bases which washington says all that only for the safety of these

girls all of that in just a few minutes also this hour. one thousand miles from the north pole. they are. taking you on a trip to spitzbergen on could probably go. where twenty years after the u.s. is charged the suv between life is still going strong. in the world so the statue of lenin presides over a ghost. it. has become a tourist site for those overcome by the cold war in the style of. the close up special edition on our. now european energy giants gearing up to bring the long plan sounds strange gas pipeline a step closer to reality it will be another method of pumping russian gas directly

into your just like the north stream network which is a way to being primed to supply what the details are straight from now she's going to make it then came he is in the russian resort city of sochi for us to meet the morning here last ben said. project they mean wants all the noise about. well south stream is a very large scale an important project and its goal is to deliver gas from russia underneath the black sea directly to european consumers through bulgaria to austria and italy what is happening today is the signing of a shareholder agreement between gazprom and its european partners companies like e.t.f. winter's hall and it's on these any but the whole fact that these companies are signing this shareholder agreement means that this project is actually close to realization gazprom has been saying the first liberties are expected no later than twenty fifteen and this has been causing concerns from gherkin authorities notably

from the european energy commissioner good. now he has been saying that this is a threat to european energy security because this means that europe will become more and more dependent on russian deliveries of gas but these statements seem to be quite controversial on the other hand because europe is already at its twenty five percent of its gas demand is already satisfied by russia and the whole aim of this project is to bypass transit countries and therefore ensure gas deliveries so it seems that this situation is only in the interests of a rival project this whole campaign launched against russia and this south street project is launched to promote rival project the pipeline called nobuko which will deliver central asian gas to europe right dimitri many thanks about looking forward to hearing more on the spectrum the business i'll take coming up shortly but for now dmitry medvedev i like him so she thinking.

america's anti missile shield plan for europe has picked up the pace over the last few days a string of agreements with the turkey romania and poland saw the remaining major obstacles of the troubled projects cleared all warsaw under washington also gave a joint statement announcing which parts of nato shield would be deployed in poland by twenty eighteen what is going to judge you can has the specifics. but police think missile defense agreements signed between the u.s. and poland in two thousand and eight and it's amending protocol of two thousand and ten has come into force this thursday as we speak it in vision is the deployment of a land 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 that some three interceptors on wednesday turkey and the us signed a similar agreement but that one was about deployment of an early warning radar for a key issues will be unfolding fairly close to russian borders needless to say there's always been plenty of attending the relations between washington and moscow the worry of words on missile defense has been going on for quite some time now with washington saying we need powerful missile interceptors against a possible attack from some dangerous they usually namely ran and wants and moscow saying why are interceptors for weapons at those ropes they still look what should 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 consistent for years saying it's ok if it's not against us this thing together in this believe missile shield in europe together and the response they get is always a no you know this is this they will cooperate but not on equal terms. now

a russian manned spacecraft landed in kazakstan bringing three members of the international space station crew back to earth with jaring and their nearly six month mission they took part in what's been one of the tenses times in the history of the i.s.o.'s lassies their piece of all of that is that mission control in the musky region. the crew of soyuz t.m.a. twenty one back on earth aleksandr summer could have andrea and ron garland have been up there on the i assess almost six months now and what a six months they have been they were full of celebration trepidation and sometimes downright dangerous this. celebration of course was that they were up in space for yuri's night the celebration of fifty years of months basically 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 are 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 of the nasa space shuttle space you know they also were there on board for the for the at the end of last month when a progress module pollard pious soyuz rocket crashed on its way to meet with the i assess 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 there as the family managed to see the the module finally enter the earth's atmosphere the the the parachute deploy and they knew that their loved ones were on

their way back to. down to the ground some huge round of applause when so clear not just the most appalling members also most controllers they knew that if they'd done a job well. those family members will be reunited with their loved ones very shortly that we spoke to the wife of one of the cosmonauts she said you can't wait to have a husband home now imagine a community where you want for nothing life c.z. and work as well one such place does exist in a remote russian outpost but not anymore it's not even a place where the russians borders it's actually a norwegian archipelago spitzbergen in want somebody to solve your dream a system without money where everyone's needs were provided for in a series of special reports for example visited what was known to be communism's example of a right teacher. it's one of the busiest legal colonies in the arctic. restless as the northern sun the brits called the island in search of food for their young

noisy and disorderly like old and families the seagulls are the last reminder of the one family atmosphere that once permeated this arctic island back in the eighties sounds coming from this building were just as era splitting as there today only instead of cries there are children streaks and laughter this apartment block was built specifically to house families and while adults were out working here role after their own devices running down hallways them banging doors local residents usually referred to this building as the crazy house across the street was a female dormitory nicknamed paris given russian women's undying infatuation 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 to more than

a thousand people it's a ghost town but its spirit of communism is lurking in that band and buildings. this settlement was called pirate bay preserve the surrounding it thirty years ago it had the highest living standards so if people could dream of salaries two to three times higher than in the mainland free food free around rider and social life in many ways it was a task model for the bride a future that soviet people were trying to build. your rights northernmost statue of lenin is still peering into the nearby glacier. most of the parliament's residence work if you call mind it was never very profitable. for the sake of keeping the soviet presence would be strategically placed archipelago not only an outpost this westernmost soviet settlement was also an ideological show window but it capitalist rivals and no resources for spirit to cut a dash a concert hall

a library a rock band and even this olympic pool people here relieving the true soviet dream have their best hopes almost overnight when the soviet union fell apart all of a sudden people of parliaments realize 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 greg have to turn to hunting to put food on the table. one of two now there are the families packed and laughed again and an inquiry made in all its grandstanding glory this pillar was erected here with march palm on the settlements thirtieth or fortieth anniversary only to become a grave stone decades later when the last batch of coal was extracted from the local mine workers just laughed and here it was their way of breaking over the

coals for the life that always seemed too good to be true i thought about our sea pirate spitzbergen archipelago. and his this is our hair on our c.r.-v. about with an update of the headlines in just a few moments right now this is the latest from the annual saatchi investment forum over the best esque. colognes a very warm welcome to the business update russia's next olympic venues gunning for gold in the race to secure foreign funds since international investment forum is underway in sorts with thirty five countries looking to put money into russia. between the center is that the southern seaside resort joining the life we treat foreign investors alongside russian political commercial use at some high profile

talks what's been discussed so far. well yes it did indeed the best moral is in full swing we are a way to let you know participation is going to have a speech talking about the macroeconomic state of affairs that's going to be interesting to hear about how to minimize the impact of the. sovereign debt woes are coming from europe and the united states but for now it's an excellent platform for new concepts to exchange ideas and of course secure investment and what better to find out how this is happening then by actually talking to a major participant of the forum that's the good in the presence of russian railways let me thank you so much for being with us so just how important is investment right now for russian railways although i suppose it is a little bit for russia it is exciting but what. is. so debate is the seizure of the government to rise the tariff for six of us had

this is equal to or if they should rating and plus he was forty has been the rule also such so this there's many more which we were speaking to my mind that is not enough and of course we will continue our call duration and discussions with the governmental offices in order to promote de de is both more aggressive if you want to get a rest wanted to develop a for infrastructure without infrastructure it is not possible to talk about the visibility of modernization afresh and of course right now you are about to sell seventy five percent of one of your subsidiaries that's cargo one where do you think the money will come from and where will it go well that's what it is where from where i am i suppose from the four could go for private investors and you know when i supposed it to be like an old pair they had them the end of the year and of course all the amount of the man has really go into investment program fresh and

railways and it is already calculated in the investment program all. this year is the investment program of russia where with one of the investment wrote up a series of several parts of the major part there is the development of infrastructure i can give you just one example today we are carrying the cargo in mounting thirty percent high compared to the main eighty eight which was that more good year poor national railways and because of their of course the ability for food for structure to adopt this cargo flow is not enough we need to invest. in also what's very interesting is your project in north africa you had a massive overseas project in libya at apparently abandoned it for for some time because of the political turbulence what's happening right now right now nothing can happen

i hope that there mid appropriate action us in bed korea will stop permanently of course to be breaking with the government with this space so for us the line what investment thought was is or for extreme importance so because everything will be good there and then read you should get in contact with the brought it to zap it hears of the authorities. in libya to get you to this project they're waiting all right thank you very much mr you could in the budget you can in the presence of russian railways was with us here in the investment form of course joint business out so you know the bulletins we will have more expert opinion no more commentary so don't indeed to me through thank you very much looking forward to hearing more from hugh and i was so have time to have a look at the markets on the rise on easing concerns about european debt how with

a disappointing jobs data from the us how limiting the gains friend plant is close to one hundred in sat team tell us. well and w.t.r. is trading at eighty nine dollars. in asia the maker rose more than two percent on friday clearing some recent resistance levels that's coordinated action from central banks calm fears of a european credit freeze and sent financial shares surging hand saying it is heading for its biggest gain in a month. and finally here in russia the markets have opened mixed yes a slipped below sixteen hundred points this hour and the mice it's as high a point four percent let's have a look at some of the individual show moves on the mines so it's energy may just are among the main gala supported by strong currents the court is up almost one percent and banking stocks also on the rise with those p.c.b. as bear bank of all point seven percent. that wraps up the business blog you can find more analysis and more interesting interviews in our web site archie dot com slash business.

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