the un is the most powerful bodies in stalemate over tensions that cause the bow and serbians northern border crossings the breakaway region ignores calls for towards but instead on seizing the checkpoints are if necessary. as the british and french and lenders held the democracy they brought to libya u.k. tanks and weapons continue to strengthen our arab hard line regime. but show me a 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 to you this is r.t. live from moscow tensions are running high in northern cos the bow with a breakaway regions all four she's learning to control of two border crossings and late on friday many troops have blocked off one of the checkpoints all cos of an serbs use trucks to shut off the road to the other earlier serbs called for an emergency un security council meeting to try and prevent violence from escalating artie's made a point neither follow the 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 flew 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 course of those ethnic albanian

authorities from using force in northern cool civil that is an area populated by ethnic serbs now kosovo has announced plans to send its customs officials and security forces to the border up to to take it over violence between as nic serbs and albanians erupted there in july that 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 cooperated with the pair of hands of the kosovar albanians rather than preventing danger from working out we have serious concerns about where the little this is going and the minister getting 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 people don'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 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 in russia was one of the security council members that warned there would be escalating tensions to follow for years this is international issue that russia serbia and many other countries believe needs to be addressed now before violence escalates and for. some perspective on this now with what is not

a good ski he's a serbian filmmaker he's made several costco and he joins me live now from belgrade many being with us and it's my legacy and i want do you think it happened to the serbs in the north of course of the crossings full of the full control or the. the serbs realize that this is a life or death situation for them because their self-proclaimed government of kosovo has been trying to push the serbs out of coastal ever since they have gained significant power status and and it's it's very interesting got this is happening right now at a time when it seems that the international community is against any such moves and of course the u.n. security council has tonight support for these actions and the serbs are trying to use this to their advantage and that is why they are setting up roadblocks and trying to prevent. these measures take place but in any case you know it's there's already arrived at the new checkpoint and there is

a helicopter that landed putting up a checkpoint so we're we're waiting to see what will happen next and the serbs are winning as well now the international community see in the region is that maintaining peace instability it bait he's speaking or in calls to encourage dialogue between both sides choosing to support solely because that means why do you think about is well you know it's very naive to think that you lex and k. four are actually helping the pushing of government no it looks ok for just continuing their policies. under the banner of protecting peace and stability as you said but with the establishment of course of the customs at this checkpoints the budget of course was being filled up and the finances and economy in kosovo are controlled by international forces and international powers so she is merely fulfilling his tasks and it's very naive to think that his mentors will stop him i

where do you think this will lead as a last resort is it possible that this is not used to station their own troops on the border. i think the current government in serbia is unwilling to take any measures to protect the serbs other than to talk to international forces and hope that the international forces work will protect the surge there. we all know that serbia's main goal is to join the european union and they will not jeopardize that even if it means giving up on the hundred thousand serbs hundred thousand plus troops who live currently in the province of course alone but with such a strong community in northern possible is there a chance of another breakaway happening on the cards perhaps well north in course of all is already breaking away because they have very few points where they meet with the all being authorities in pristina so the serbs there have karl

institutions and and they will not accept any independent course of the situations they have the infighting up till now to resist all that so it is already breaking away and this is what bothers the international community they want sovereignty of course of one all of its territory so the search will fight it i. firmly believe that they will fight it at any cost even if it means fighting to leave for the very and. many thanks for speaking to us on that situation on the border many thanks. now rebel forces in libya claimed they're advancing in colonel gadhafi his hometown of thirty one of the last one espoused in several thousand opposition fighters that i tanks and heavy weapons have reportedly launched an offensive on the city and is in the libyan capital. 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 duffy's hometown and one of the colonel's last strongholds the city was first attacked by nature airplanes on the second day of the matriculation in libya in march the anti see reports that sort of thousands of its fighters there have apparently plunged into the center of the city offices facing heavy resistance from cafes elite troops apparently armed with a cheery and long range grog rockets and also snipers the n.c.c. report also at least four of its fighters eleven and other reports have been killed during these offensive seven others wounded and also there is information that forty could have been loyalists have been captured and since we are receiving reports that that office. information chief dr muesli brigham would have been one of them but this information is very hard to verify fighting over

a novice until gadhafi is supported by anybody some two hundred kilometers south of the capital for people he continues while from sos row over security to safety of civilians trapped in the cities and the areas where the clashes between the rebels and gadhafi is lord still continuing meanwhile the u.n. is expected to ease sanctions against libya visiting the country on thursday british prime minister david cameron and french president nicolas sarkozy has said that they would introduce a u.n. security council draft resolution which expects to abolish international arms embargo and freeze leave in asses that. had been frozen as part of sanctions against gadhafi also starvation mission u.n. mission here in the country the leaders of the two nato countries. played a prominent a key role in the libyan revolution and also say that nato mission here on the ground will continue for as long as it is necessary to protect civilians here in

libya meanwhile some are skeptical about the real aims of this mission as it's more loops right now like back in the rubble and helping them take control over the rest of the country rather than protection civilians so it's now a little bit far from its initial go turkish prime minister is also expected to visit libya by soon we'll keep you updated on his visit. after the british premier david cameron's trip to libya to celebrate the end of kidnapped these forty two year old osses other than it looks at how you can see there's a still glass house. 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 stop the tanks rocket launches and missiles so long as business is being done here 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 at home in any bond film this tank can alter its temperature changes infrared appearance the light the british government the gump and he can't change its spots it says there are countries it would silty 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 it celtics in. makes sense. these right to sell to say rich regimes like bahrain that have repressed democratic

process. or alter because of. these protesters from the start 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 now in the mediterranean because we showed weapons denay 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 haifa tear gas these years shoppers in. fourteen countries branded all thora tarion by human rights groups in fact the government came clean on just one day before trade began i'm sure they're very embarrassed because of the one tragic figure e o. david cameron was going to egypt walking around carry a square proclaiming his belief in human rights and freedom and democracy and the

next stop was to wait i determined that he was traveling with eight abstractedly executives but the whole purpose of the trip this trade one of the big traits or tried to make was weapons straits that the least the government says it's tightening restrictions on who can buy weapons that could be used for oppression and he claims an invite here doesn't guarantee an export rice since the 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 either bennett r.t. london a russian manned spacecraft has landed in kathak sand bringing three members of the international space station crew back to earth during their nearly six month mission they took part in was one of the tensest times in the history of the i.f.'s

peter oliver's a mission control in the mosque a region. the crew of soyuz t.m.a. twenty one back on earth aleksandr a summer could have andrea and ron karen 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 nurse though the celebration of course was that they were out in space for yuri's night the celebration of fifty years of months based life fifty years since eureka garren 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 a 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 crawl gress 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 teach 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 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 to the ground some huge round of applause when so here not just amongst the family members also amongst the controllers they knew that they had it done a 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

hear. the husband home. plan for europe's picked up the pace over the last few days a string of agreements with turkey romania and poland so all the remaining at major obstacles of the troubled projects cleared also in washington also gave a joint statement an ounce and which part of nato shield would be deployed in poland by twenty eighteen he's going to teach 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 in visions the deployment of the land bases 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 in agreement was signed between in washington between romania and the us romania toolholders the americas lend base there some three interceptors on wednesday turkey and the us signed

a similar agreement but that won't well that was about the ploy of an early warning radar or keep the shills 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 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 in north korea and moscow saying why would you need interceptors for weapons that those rogue states still but russia does and russia views america's missile defense plans as an attempt to breach that very precious parity principle that was said by the start treaty russians have been quite persistent for years you know saying ok that's not against this be together list believe missile shield in europe together and the response they get is always the know you know this is this they will cooperate but not on equal terms. your energy giants are gearing up to bring the long. gas

plant a step closer to reality it will be another method of pumping russian gas directly into europe just like the nord stream which is already being primed to supply what is going to do you don't know do you use in the russian policy for us i think you could see again a lot being said isn't it about the south stream project a lot of buzz surrounding this what is all the noise about. well the thing is that south stream is a very important a large scale project its goal as you mentioned is to deliver gas from russia underneath the black sea directly to european consumers and in austria through bulgaria and the balkans well apparently the signing of a shareholder agreement that is due in just a couple of minutes gazprom is going to be. dividing and states in the project with its european partners from france germany and italy and this means it is indeed one step closer to reality whereas the rival project of nabucco is only being outlined

and therefore european authorities are concerned with the fact that since our stream is happening the other project nobuko might not happen at all so therefore we have heard from. the european energy commissioner statement that it is a threat to european energy security and if such a project is realized moscow can't say gas is not a political tool in its arms but this statement seems to be controversial because the whole goal of this project is to deliver gas directly to europe without going through transit countries so therefore insuring gas supplies and therefore actually enforcing european energy security we've also heard a statement from here suggesting that it is the south stream should go not underneath the black sea which will be of course very costly but through ukraine's territory to buy gas from a said there is no point in this because the whole aim is to avoid going through

ukraine altogether placated me too many thanks for that more information on this coming up in a business plan very shortly but for now thank you gentlemen thank you in such a half for us. not to the community where you want for nothing life's easy and work is plenty vol one such place did exist in a remote russian outpost but not anymore not even a place within russia's borders it's actually a norwegian archipelago called spitsbergen it wants and body the soviet dream the system without money but where everyone's needs were provided for in a series of special reports for r.t. to visit what was meant to be communism as example of a bright future. it's one of the busiest colonies in the arctic. restless there's the northern sun the brits call the island in search of food for

their young noisy and disorderly like old big families seagulls are the last reminder of the one family atmosphere that once permeated this arctic island. eighty sounds coming from this building were just as yours as there are today only instead of cries there are children streaks and laughter this apartment block was built to house families and while adults were out working he is reluctant out own devices running down hallways and banging doors local residents usually referred to his building as the crazy house across the street was a female dormitory nicknamed paris even russian women's undying infatuation with everything french. the further away was a male dormitory also known as london supposedly for the gentle manners of its inhabitants during its best here is the settlement house more than a thousand people today it's a ghost town but

a spirit of communism is lurking in their band and buildings. this settlement was called fire a myth because of the like mountains surrounding it thirty years ago it had the highest living standards people could dream of salaries two to three times higher than in the mainland free food free around wider and social life in many ways it was a task for the brighter future of the soviet people were trying to build. new roads northernmost statue of man in a sealed peering into the nearby glacier. most of the parents residents wanted a coal mine it was never very profitable it maintained for the sake of keeping the soviet presence of 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 were spared to cut a dash a concert hall

a library a rock band and even this hostile olympic pool people here are living the true salvi a dream you have the best hopes almost overnight when the soviet union fell apart all of a sudden people of parliament realized the perfect life was just bad and you political parliament based on faulty economy and shaky ideology and if you your is the former arctic paradise turned into a desperate hole people who are used to eating caviar for breakfast have to turn to hunting to get food on the table. one option out there the families packed and laughed again and an inquiry made in all its grandstanding glory this pillar was erected here with march palm under settlements thirty of their fortieth anniversary only to be commons greystone decades later when the last batch of coal was extracted from the local mine workers just laughed and here it was their way of raging over the coals for the live always good to be true of some of

our sea pirate pittsburgh an archipelago. revenues this is our hair on our t. don't go away don't go to business update coming up mt of course of the latest on the annual such an investment forum. hello and a very warm welcome to the program russia's next olympic venues gunning for gold in the race to secure storage funds the ten to international investment forum is underway in sochi with sassy five countries looking to put money into russia archies to maturity say is that those southern seaside resorts joining me live. how to use meters a lot so influential guess that one of the main things that i am or so i thought. well there's talk about macro economy of course we are just awaiting for dinner

putin the prime minister to take up. with his speech and talk about the main factors driving russia's economy just actually standing around ten meters away from me right now about to make a speech about we have already heard some hints as to where inflation is going to go is going to decrease according to the president of the central bank. we have also heard him as to the ruble gradually being devalued in order to compete with imported goods but everything of course is going to be cleared out in the speech of the prime minister for the companies present here this is a great opportunity not only to make contacts and exchange ideas but also to promote themselves as a very attractive for foreign investment and we have heard many companies using the opportunity to to make certain status for example lukoil has said that it is willing to continue expanding overseas as well into by upstream projects not only in nineteen states but also in asia and earlier business r.t.

talked to the president of luke. and this is what he said about his plans of increasing production. the recipes here in the next ten years will concentrate on projects like west couldn't go to iraq that will significantly change the structure and volume of our production in twenty fifteen we're implementing a project in the north of the caspian sea which will also increase in production we think that in ten years our company will increase hydrocarbon production by twenty to thirty percent. that was what you're going to get of the head of lukoil also what's most important is the privatization plans because many state owned companies with the large participation of the state are planning to reduce the stake that the state has specially what's interesting in sperm bank and b t v have said that they are slightly postponing their privatization plans because of the market conditions not being very favorable to go ahead with with sales but earlier

business out he also talked to the head of russian railways now they have confirmed that they are going to go ahead with the privatization of a one of their largest subsidiaries cargo one but it will happen no earlier than the end of this year and also alleging that you could in the head of the company of the russian railways as i said they're very much interested in resuming operations in libya which have been halted because of the political situation in the country. of course we are breaking with the government as we are working with the states so for us the climate investment climate is of extreme importance so we hope everything will be good there and then we are ready to get in contact with the broader presented hears of the authorities. in libya to continue this project. so comments to business see and of course to stay tuned for further

live versions versions from the studio will have more guests more expert commentary more information thanks a lot trisha looking forward to hearing more from hugh and that wraps up the business stories you can log onto our website r t dot com slash the sets. the me.

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