gadhafi is home town of sirte one of the last loyalists bastions several thousand opposition fighters backed by tanks and heavy weapons have reportedly launched an offensive on the city. as in the libyan capital for us right now. the new authorities asserting an increasing level of control over the country piling pressure on gadhafi supporters but peace is still a long way off his nose. says the writer is indeed what we're hearing here in the capital tripoli from the national security from the national transitional council business your thoughts he's that it's troops have apparently entered the city of saved some five hundred for the first east of the capital put up his hometown and one of the colonels last strongholds the city was first attacked by nato planes on the second day of the major operation here in libya in march them to see reports that thousands of its fighters from misrata have apparently advanced into the center of the city of said put

a face in heavy resistance from gadhafi. troops gadhafi is elite troops apparently armed with a two or three and a long range drug me styles of rockets and also it's not because they insist he 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 received information that forty get our feet loyalists have been captured in syria and the reports that information. would have been one of them but this information is very hard to verify said anyway whatever happens right now in the city of said this battle if confirmed would mean a breakthrough in terms of and in six month long civil war here in libya this battle is very important symbolically and also practically because it opens major

aced by as west a road here in libya meanwhile fighting over another center of khadafi support bani walid some two hundred kilometers south of the capital feebly continues ahead of the rich prime minister and french presidents trying to use it to leave the national security for the national transitional council ministry officials have ordered to stop an image which he he was. in the area for security reasons and we are receiving information from bani walid that gadhafi loyalists have used the men to 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 about the safety of civilians trapped in the city center in the areas where clashes between the rebels and gadhafi loyalists still continuing alice and maria with a new leadership in place and gaffney now on the run is the year when do you think considering now we sing in sanctions against libya.

indeed we expect the u.n. to is sanctions against libya visitation the country on thursday a british prime minister david cameron and french president nicolas sarkozy have sad that they would introduced a u.n. security council draft resolution which acts facts to establish a u.n. mission here in lee be abolished the international arms embargo also unfreeze the libyan assets that were frozen under could offer as part of the sanctions against gadhafi the all so sad leaders all for the two countries the two nato countries that played a prominent role in libyan revolution that led to gadhafi is fall and the end of the almost forty two year long dictatorship here in libya that his mission on the ground will continue to continue for as long as it's necessary to protect civilians

be 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 helping to 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 basically be here today we'll keep you updated on his visit a list where many thanks for the 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 gadhafi is forty two year rule all he lied 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 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 a home in any bond film this tank can alter its temperature to changes infrared appearance but like the british government the gumption he 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 of. these right to cells as a result regimes like bahrain that have repressed democratic process. i don't have it 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 it out experience in the arab spring i think is short sighted it's bad for this country it doesn't make money it makes wars. at this year's. shoppers include fourteen countries branded all thora tarion by human rights groups in fact the government came clean on just one day before trade began five sure they're very a barest because of the one good figuring. david cameron was going to egypt walking

around terrier square proclaiming his belief in human rights and freedom and democracy and the next stop was to wait it turned out he was traveling with eight properly 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 it claims an invite here doesn't guarantee an export license but defense 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 its artsy london. tensions running high in northern ca survey with the breakaway regions all thorazine is planning to seize control of t.v.

border crossings later on friday night here chiefs have blocked off one of the checkpoints cost of and serve these trucks to shut off the road to the upper earlier serves called for an emergency un security council meeting to try and prevent violence from escalating up or no i followed 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 counterparts lou in new york for this our mergence seen meeting that was called for by serbia and supported by russia now serbia is urging the council to. kosovo's ethnic albanian authorities from using force in northern kosovo that is an area populated by ethnic serbs now kosovo has and now its plans to send its custom officials and security forces to the border up to to take

it over violence between as an excerpt 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 in the plans of the kosovar albanians rather than preventing danger from breaking out we have serious concerns about where the little this is going and the minister getting made it very clear that the. opposition of european union playing this mediating role in a dialogue between between priest and great is it may be put in question so this sudden departure from the best 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 escalates and them further. more european nominated as america's defense shields good to get a the last few countries holding alsa greetings to u.s. missile radar all bases which washington says all that only for the safety details on that in just a few minutes also. decades back

into. one thousand miles from the north pole. the arche team is taking you on a trip to spitzbergen on capella go. where twenty years after the u.s. was ours collapsed the soviet way of life is still going strong. where the world's northernmost statue of lenin presides over a ghost town where the soviet heritage has become a tourist site for those overcome by the cold war in the style of. the close up special edition. now european energy giants a garret not to bring the long planned sell stream gas pipeline a step closer to reality it will be another method of pumping russian gas directly into year just like the north stream network which is a way to being primed to supply what has got the details straight from now he's

going to make you think a who's in the russian resort city of sochi for us to meet the morning to you along has been said now about the sound stream project lately 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 froogle garia to austria and italy what is happening today is the signing of a shareholder agreement between gazprom and its european partners companies like winter's hall and it's in 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 first liberties are expected no later than twenty fifteen and this has been causing concerns from the european authorities notably from the european energy commissioner good. that 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 it's 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 nabucco which will deliver central asian gas to europe right dimitri many thanks for that looking forward to hearing more on this federal the business update coming up shortly but for now dmitry medvedev a life from saatchi thank you. america's anti missile shield plan of the europe has picked up the pace over the last few

days a string of agreements with the turkey rumania and poland saw the remaining major obstacles of the troubled projects cleared will warsaw washington also gave a joint statement and i'll sing which parts of nato shield would be deployed in poland by twenty eighteen what is going into canada has the specifics. 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 system 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 one was about deployment of an early warning radar in

turkey the shield will be unfolding fairly close to the russian borders needless to say that's always been an irritant in the relations between washington and moscow the work of words on missile defense has been going on for quite some time now with washington saying we need powerful missile interceptors against a possible attack from some dangerous they are usually namely ran in north korea and moscow saying why would interceptors for weapons at those rogue states those with russia and russia views america's missile defense plans as an attempt to breach that very precious parity principle that was said by the start treaty russians have been quite persistent for years saying it's ok if it's not against us there's two together in this believe 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. now russian manned spacecraft landed in kazakstan bringing three members of the international space station crew back to earth with deering 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.a.'s lassies their piece on the other is that mission control in the moscow region. the crew of soyuz t.m.a. twenty one back on earth aleksandr some of could have and. run guard and have been up there on the i assess 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 months spaceflight fifty years since you get ghar and 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 of the space shuttle space now they also were there on board for the for the at the end of last month when they progress module powered by a 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 as the family managed to see the the module finally enter the earth's atmosphere the the the parachute deployed and they knew that their loved ones were on their way back down . down to the ground some huge round of applause when so appear not just amongst the fallen 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 that we spoke to the wife of one of the cosmonauts she said she can't wait to have her husband home now imagine a community where you want for nothing like c.z. and work is plenty well one such place did exist in a remote russian outpost but not anymore it's not even a place within russia's borders it's actually a norwegian archipelago spitzbergen it wants somebody to solve it dream a system without money but where everyone's needs were perfectly good for in a series of special reports for asio examine a boy who visited what was meant to be communism as example of a bright future. it's one of the busiest seagull colonies in the arctic. restless. 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 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 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 house across the street was a female dormitory nicknamed paris given russian women undying infatuation with everything french. a bit further away was a male dormitory also known as london to pose at least for the gentle manners of its inhabitants during its best years 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 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 the rights northernmost 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 western most soviet settlement was also an ideological show window for the capitalists rivals and no resources for spared to cut a dash a concert hall a library a rock band and even this size olympic pool people here 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 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 its 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 lives that always seemed too good to be true a kind of work of art see pirated spitzbergen archipelago. even his this is our

hair on our boat with an update of the headlines in just a few moments right now the let's get the latest from the best move for him over the best esque. hello and a very warm welcome to the business update russia's next olympic venues gunning for 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. and artie's to me to present the is that the southern seaside resort joining me live mitri foreign investors alongside russian political commercial these are at some high profile talks what's been discussed so far. well yes it did indeed the best moore is in full swing we are awaiting the. 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 contacts 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 you could 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 important for russia. as it was on his way. to see and all the government to rise that target for six percent this is equal to or a rating and plus you us support here being in the room also sub so this

there's many a moment which we were seeking to my mind that is not enough and of course we will continue to call duration and discussions with the governmental offices in order to promote de de is both more aggressive if you want to investment into development of infrastructure without infrastructure it is not possible to talk about the visibility of modernization of russian economy right now you are bound to sell seventy five percent of one of your subsidiaries let's go along where do you think the money will come from and where will it go well as far as when and from where i suppose from the fork at the private investors and you know when i supposed it to be like a month they had them the end of the year and of course all the amount of demand this going to go into investment program fractional railways and it is already calculated in the investment program. this year i want is the investment program of russia where always one of the investment throw consists of several parts of the

major part that is the development of infrastructure i can give you just want to sample today we are carrying the cargo in mounting thirty percent high compared to the main eight eight which was the morse good year for rational railways and because of debt of course the ability of infrastructure to adopt this cargo flow is not enough we need to invest. but you know 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 is not going to happen i hope that they're minute to us and that culprit will stop permanently of course the big thing with the government is with the states so for

us the climate investment climate is of extreme importance so the whole everything will be good there and then read you to get in contact with the broad but have presented peers of the start of this. in libya to continue this project they are waiting all right thank you very much mystique going into the budget you can in the presence of russian railways was with us here in the investment form of course joint business i'd say you know further bulletins we will have more expert opinion no more commentary so join us indeed to me truth thank you very much looking forward to hearing more from here and was so have time to have a look at the markets oil is on the rise on easing concerns about the european debt how with the disappointing jobs data from the u.s. are limiting the gains grand plan to close to one hundred tenth that ten dollars. barrel and w.t.f. is trading at eighty nine dollars. in asia the nikkei rose more than two percent on

friday clearing some recent resistance levels coordinated action from central banks calm fears of a european credit freeze and sent financial shares surging ahead saying it is heading for its biggest gain in a month. and finally here in russia the markets have opened mixed to slip 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 from the minus six energy may just among the main gave us supported by strong crude record is up almost one percent and banking stocks also on the rise with both. of my own point seven percent. that's wraps up the business blog you can find more analysis and more interesting interviews and our website our two dot com slash business.

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