soumitra bryson if you remove the song from silence to its. knees for instance on t.v. dot com. as the british and french leaders hail the democracy they brought to libya u.k. downing's and weapons continued to strengthen all that iron pot line regimes. the un's most powerful bodies in still made over ten percent the cost of own serbians nor was all things the breakaway region ignoring calls the poles would seem set on seizing the checkpoints armed if necessary. but show me crew of so used to be twenty one and returned safely to earth after spending six months on board the international space station.

and i want to welcome this is our see live from moscow top story now rebel forces in libya claim their advance again colonel gadhafi is hanged salah started one of the last loyalist bastions several thousand opposition fighters backed by tanks and heavy weapons reportedly launched an offensive on the city the losses may have an option as in the libyan capital for us. we're hearing from the national transitional council here in the capital tripoli that its troops have apparently entered the city of sirte some five hundred kilometers east of tripoli that of his hometown and one of the colonel's last strongholds the city was first attacked by nature airplanes on the second day of the military operation in libya in march the anti see reports that have thousands of its fighters there have apparently advanced into the center of the city of city facing having resistance from gadhafi is

elite troops apparently armed with a cheery and long range grad rockets and also snark is the n.c.c. report also that at least four of its fighters eleven and other records have been killed during these offensive seven others wounded and also there is information that forty could offer loyalists have been captured and see if there is to be reports that this information chief dr muesli brigade could have been one of them but this information is very hard to verify fighting over another center of gadhafi supported by some two hundred kilometers south of the capital tripoli continues while concerns rose over security safety of civilians trapped in the cities and the areas where the clashes between the rebels and the office lord is still continuing meanwhile the u.n. is expected to use sanctions against libya visiting the country on thursday british prime minister david cameron and french president nicolas sarkozy have started they would introduce a u.n.

security council draft resolution which takes paths to abolish international arms embargo and freeze even asses that. had been frozen as sanctions against gadhafi also start this mission u.n. mission here in the country the leaders of the two nato countries that played a prominent a key role in the libyan revolution i'd also say that nato mission here on the ground will continue. as long as it is necessary to protect civilians here you've been involved some are skeptical about the real end of this mission as it more right now like backing the rabble helping them take control of the rest of the country rather than its axis is now a little bit far from its initial. prime minister is also expected to visit libya by so we'll keep you updated on his visit. as british prime minister david cameron with the libya to celebrate the end of. year rule art is under bennett looks at how

u.k. on scene is the still working class hounds. selling weapons could be a moral minefield and 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 stop the tanks rocket launches and the missiles so long as business is being done here it doesn't seem to matter who's dying this is just list includes countries like saudi arabia and bahrain growth 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 the way here would be

home in any bond film this tank can alter its temperature changes infrared appearance like the british government a company can't change its spots it says there are countries it would still to you but that doesn't include any here if a country's been invited by the british go here it's it's probably going to be on your list of countries worried celtics it. makes sense. to be. right to self is a reason regimes like bahrain have repress democratic process. but don't have it all that's all that. these protesters from the stop the on speculation 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 now in the mediterranean because we showed weapons dinny all the countries that are now experiencing the arab spring i think it shortsighted it's

bad for this country it doesn't make money it makes walls here to get this use 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 but i'm sure they're very a barest because i don't want to get february. david cameron was going to be walking around twelve years where 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 hours company executives but the whole purpose of the trip was trade one of the big traits or try to make was what straits 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 if it does 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 harder than it r.t. london. well there's also a growing concern syria's conflicts on the verge of a disastrous escalation as opposition members get hold of the mysterious and shipments well it's all up for discussion asking. crosstalk at around eleven thirty g.m.t. what's ahead for you. the syrian government has pointed out that the opposition suddenly elements within the opposition have been armed by outside forces particularly the united states as well as israel they claim that they have a confession from a former general from syria who defected. he's going to be featured on syrian television are very soon i don't know anyone who believes the syrian government not only the syrians not believe the syrian government i don't know any nation in the

world who takes over that serious word to syria the syrian government said it very telling the truth then allow them maybe into syria allow the media into the square as a lot of myriad media to see the troops moving down innocent people like pacifist people and our role is 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. now sanctions are running high in northern climes with the breakaway regions authorities planning to seize control of t. border crossings later on friday major chiefs have blocked off one of the checkpoints well costs and trucks to some of the greats of the opera earlier call for an emergency un security council meeting to try and prevent violence from

escalating he's going to quote knife on it that discussion. the united nations security council gathered behind closed doors for hours to debate and discuss the growing tensions in northern kosovo serbian foreign minister and his cause of our counterpart flew into new york for this are 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 cool civil 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 as nic serbs and albanians are brought to there into why the violence killed one person and wounded several others russian ambassador vitaly

churkin says course of our albanians have threatened to use force ambassador churkin says that nato peacekeepers in the area he believes could be cooperating with 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 get it very clear that the. entire proposition of european union playing this mediating role in a dialogue between the between priest and i and belgrade is that you couldn't question. the sudden departure from the past of dialogue at the moment when it was beginning to show some promise promise in our view is completely unjustified unwarranted and that 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 warns 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 further more european all maneuvers later as americans depend shiels good to go to the last you come to agree to hasty u.s. missile bases which washington says well they're only for their own sake the details about if you also you can sound. back in. one thousand miles from the north pole. the team is taking you on a trip to spitzbergen on google ago. where twenty years after the u.s.s.r.

still on the subregion life is still going strong. in the world the statue of lenin presides over a ghost. this. has become a tourist site for those over the cold war in the style. of the close up special edition on our. european energy giant gearing up to bring the long stream a gas supply line a step closer to reality it will be another method of pumping russian gas directly into europe just like the north korean network which is already being primed to supply let's get the details on the latest on all this from marty's who's in the russian resort of sochi for us dmitri a lot's been said recently about this south stream project what is all the fuss about. well basically south stream is a very important project

a large scale gas pipeline which it's goal is to deliver gas directly from russia underneath the black sea to europe through bulgaria to austria and as a regular european clients are voiding transit countries because today we are going to see the signing of the shareholder agreement tween gas from and its european partners companies from france italy and germany this basically means that this project is not far away from happening this is one step forward a very important step forward to the realization of the project unlike a rival project in a bucco pipeline in europe which is supposed to deliver central asian gas to europe and therefore a lot of concerns of arisen from european authorities notably european energy commissioner. has said that this is threatening european energy security as it becomes more reliant on russian gas but this statement seems controversial because

as i mentioned the goal is to deliver gas from russia to your directly avoiding transit countries so it is actually ensuring gas supplies to europe and ensuring energy security at the same time we've heard a statement from here from the president of ukraine dignity an apology is suggesting having the south stream not go underneath the black sea we're going through the territory of ukraine but we've also heard a comment from gazprom on this saying that there's no point in having a south stream go free trade because apparently its goal is to avoid going for ukraine altogether right to me too many thanks for the update teach in a blanket i live for us from such a. americas . europe has picked up the pace over the last few days a string of agreements with turkey remain. the remaining major obstacles of the

troubled project clear also in washington also david joint statements and else which part of who she will be deployed in potence by twenty eighteen as you get if you can this if it remains 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 it in vision is the deployment of the land base s m three system in poland and it's part of america's we've planned 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 land base that's in three interceptors and wednesday turkey and the us signed a similar agreement but that won't work that was about deployment of an early warning radar. a 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 that those groups they'd still like russia does and russia views america's missile defense plans as an attempt to breach that very precious parity principle that was said by the start treaty russians have been quite consistent for years you know saying ok if it's not against us those two together a list 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. a russian manned spacecraft has landed in that bringing three members of the international space station crew back to earth 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 p's on

a visit russian control in the moscow region. the crew of soyuz t.m.a. twenty one back on earth alexandra stomach andrea and ron garden it being a pair on the i.s.a.'s 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 months basic life fifty years since you're a to go in 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 thought at the end of last month when a progress module how would buy 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 where managed to see the a module finally enter the earth's atmosphere the the the parachute deploy 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 public 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 we spoke to the wife of one of the

cosmonauts she said she can't wait to have her husband home. well not in a community where you want for nothing life's easy and work it's plenty well one such place did exist in a remote russian outpost but not anymore it's not even a place within russians borders it's actually a norwegian archipelago called spitsbergen it once somebody of the soviet dream a system without money where everyone's needs were provided for in a series of special reports farty examine a boy who visited what was meant to be communism's example of a bright future. it's one of the busiest colonies of arctic. restless there's the northern 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 the one family atmosphere that once permeated this arctic island that eighty sounds coming from this building were just as you're

a splitting as there 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 reluctant 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 various given russian women's undying infatuation with everything french. further away he was a male dormitory also known as london supposedly for the gentle manners of its inhabitants during its best here's the settlement house more than a thousand people. it's a ghost town but this period of communism is lurking in that band and buildings. this settlement was called because of the like mountains surrounding it thirty years ago it had the highest living people could dream of salaries two to three

times higher than in the mainland free food free around rider and social lives in many ways it was a task for the bride of the soviet people were trying to build. your rights northernmost statue of land in a sealed peering into the nearby glacier. most of the parliament's residents working to call mind it was never very profitable if maintained for the sake of keeping this obvious presence of the 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 hostile olympic pool people here are living the true dream have their best hopes tanked almost overnight when the soviet union fell apart all of a sudden people of pirates realize the perfect life was just that

a few political parra made based on faulty economy and shaky ideology and if you juris the former characters turned into a desperate whole people who are used to eating caviar for gratis have to turn to hunting to put food on the table. one after now their families packed and laughed at gardening parra made in all its grandstanding glory this pillar was erected here with march palm on the settlements thirty of their 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 raking over the coals for the life that's always been too good to be true and some of our sea pirate spitzbergen archipelago ok it's time now for the business of date and of course the latest from the annual saatchi investment forum.

thanks a lot less welcome to the business update russia's next olympic venues gunning for gold in the race to secure foreign funds and turn to international investment forum is underway in sochi with thirty five countries looking to put money into russia. is that this southern seaside resort joining me live now hello to you. ok now dimitri's joining me live from the southern seaside resort of sorts here. thanks for joining with me just a foreign investors are joining russian political commercial you for some high profile talk so what's been discussed so far. well the government officials are using this opportunity to talk about what's most important for russia's economy and that is the rouble inflation covering the budget deficit we have the head of the

russia central bank aleksey want to talk about the forecast for inflation for the upcoming years and it seems there's a gradual reduction of the inflation rate to twenty twelve the same level of a maximum of six percent twenty five and a half percent or twenty fourteen five percent but companies are of course using this opportunity to talk about their investment plans to promote themselves as expanding companies developing companies lukoil for example has said it's going to continue increasing foreign assets both in the united states and in asia and also in african countries to develop production over there we have also interviewed earlier on the vice president of procter and gamble's eastern european division that's the part you see a low pass and she has said that the russian market is extremely important right now because they're seeing stagnant growth in the united states and in developing markets such as europe the bric countries are proving to be most efficient so production is going to be increased in russia listen to what she had to say. we

have a plant here in russia and mine in the trailer region and a number now from this plant now represents a second largest plant in the world the there are big plants that we're now producing over fifty percent of the products that we found in these plants in addition to that about twenty five percent of the output is still outside of russia . we have also talked to the head of russian railways you couldn't and not only has he given us an idea when the privatization of one of its major subsidiaries cargo one will happen he has said it will happen not only are then the end of this year but he has also given us a hint that the russian railways is very much interested. in resuming operations in libya where it had to halt the construction of a major railway because of the political turbulence that isn't what he had to say. of course we are working with the government working with the space so for us

to live work and work with what is of extreme importance so we hope everything will be good there. we are ready to get to corporate to the broader prison of their authority is. in libya to get you to this project. and that was an exclusive government of business from the head of russian railways limited couldn't but of course stay tuned for further updates will have more expert commentary more analysis more news coming from the international investment for back to you there thank you very much to me for looking forward to hearing more from you from the forum. branson's soft korea will help russia turn its troubles caucasus region interest tourist hot spots russia's commerce not newspaper says france's state investment institution c d c will put ten billion euros towards developing new ski resorts it's creating the joint venture with russia in order to

build eight hundred kilometers of slopes and accommodation for one hundred thousand people separately south korea may strike a one billion euro deal to construct a trip to facilities they claim and sought you to be signed off at these so what changed and for. what a quick check on the markets well is on the rise and easing concerns about the european debt ta with the disappointing jobs data from the u.s. the limiting against grand plans is close to one hundred of that team dollars barrel and w c i s trading at eighty nine dollars stocks in asia finishing that we composed of chartres following solid gains on wall street on thursday the nikkei rose more than two percent on friday clearing some recent resistance levels as coronated. and from central banks conch fears overeager credit freeze and sent financial shares surging bank saying finished up one point seven percent. european stocks are higher for a full day i mean speculation prudent action point policymakers will be able to

ease the region's debt crisis doesn't versus look forward to meeting of euro zone finest ministers and u.s. treasury secretary in poland. all these are the games on the footsie. and here in russia the markets are mixed the r.t.s. has slipped below six two hundred points for some of the mice it says point four percent so let's have a look at some of the individual share moves in the night six and if you majors are among the main game is supported by strongly crude oil is up almost one percent and banking stocks are also on the rise with both the t.v. of burbank up around point seven percent. ok you're up to date knowledge for more stories you can head on toll website argue dot com slash business you can watch another business update in less than one us time well we'll bring you more from the tenth annual investment forum in sochi.

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