tensions are running high in northern costa bow with the breakaway regions all foresees planning to seize control of two border crossings late on friday nato troops have blocked off one of the checkpoints while concert than serbs use trucks to shut off the road to the album. called for an emergency un security council meeting to try and prevent violence from escalating artie's we know what naïve 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 counterpart flew into new york for this our merchant seen meeting that was called for by serbia and supported by russia serbia is urging the council to prevent kosovo's ethnic albanian authorities from using force in northern and close of oh that is an area populated

by ethnic serbs now kosovo house and plans to send its custom officials and security forces to the border and 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 kosovar albanians have threatened to use force ambassador churkin says that nato peacekeepers in the area he believes could be cooperating with the hand of the plans of the kosovar albanians rather than venting danger from working out we have serious concerns about where the little this is going and the minister getting she made it very clear that the. entire proposition of european union playing this mediating role in a dialogue between between pleased and belgrade is maybe put in question so

this 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 an international issue that russia serbia and many other countries believe needs to be addressed now before violence escalates and then further. let's get some perspective on this now with but it's not a good ski he's a serbian film making he's made several costco and he joins me live now from belgrade many thanks and being with us him it's my go to ski and i what do

you think could happen to the serbs in the north of kosovo if the crossings fall under full control of these breakaway. well i think the serbs realize that this is a life or death situation for them because their course all being a 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 that this is happening right now at a time when it seems that the international community is against any such moves of course the u.s. security council has denied support for these actions and the serbs are trying to use this to their advantage and that's why they're setting up roadblocks and trying to prevent. these measures take place but in any case there's already arrived at the. checkpoint and there is a helicopter that landed at the checkpoint so we're waiting to see what will happen next and the serbs are waiting as well now the international community see in the

region that is that maintaining peace and stability see it bape if he's speaking or in calls to encourage dialogue between both sides choosing to support solely because that is why do you think that that is well you know it's very naive to think that you lex and k. four are actually helping the pristina government looks and for just continue their policies. under the banner of protecting peace and stability as you said but with the establishment of course of a customs at this checkpoint the budget of kosovo is being filled up and the finances and economy in kosovo are controlled by international forces and international powers so touchy 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 might choose to station their 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 national forces work will protect the serbs 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 serbs who live currently in the province of kosovo but with such a strong community in northern ca suppose is there a challenge of another breakaway happening on the cards perhaps well northern kosovo is already breaking away because they have very few points where they meet with that with the all being authorities in pristina so the serbs there have parallels to sions and they will not accept any independent kosovo institutions they have been fighting 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 on 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 the area and. many thanks for speaking to us on the situation on the border many thanks. rebel forces in libya claim they're advancing in colonel gadhafi his hometown of sirte one of the last known as bastin several thousand opposition fighters backed by tanks and heavy weapons have reportedly launched an offensive on the city. 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 sip some five hundred kilometers east of tripoli that off his hometown and one of the colonel's last strongholds the city was first attacked by nature

airplanes on the second day of the matriculation me in libya in march the anti see reports that thousands of its fighters there have apparently advanced into the center of the city of city facing heavy resistance from cut off is elite troops apparently armed with a jewelry and long range drug rockets and also snipers the m.t.c. report also that 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 lawless have been captured and since there are several reports that cut off his information chief dr muesli brigade would have been one of them but this information is very hard to verify fighting over another center of gadhafi supporters bani walid some two hundred kilometers south of the capital few play continues while concerns over security safety of civilians trapped in the

cities and the areas where the clashes between the rebels and gadhafi loyalists open tina and 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 are causey have said that they would introduce a u.n. security council draft resolution which expects to abolish international arms embargo and freeze libyan asses that. had been frozen as part of sanctions against gadhafi also stylish mission u.n. mission here in the country leaders of the two nato countries that played a prominent a key role in the libyan revolution that also say that nato mission here on the ground will continue who are. as long as it is necessary to protect civilians here in need be i mean while some are skeptical about the real amps of this mission as it's more loops right now like backing the rabble and helping them take control

over the rest of the country rather than protecting civilians so yes now a little bit far from its initial go meanwhile the turkish prime minister is also expected to visibly bear why soon we'll keep you updated on his visit. now after the british premier david cameron's trip to libya to celebrate the end of kidnappings forty two year rule r.t. is either bennett looks at how u.k. arms dealers are still working that house. 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 the 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 at home in any bond film this tank can alter its temperature changes infrared appearance but like the british government the gump and he 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 to. make sense of. the thing is right to sell to say rich regimes like bahrain that have repressed democratic process. i will tell because. these protesters from the stop the arms fair coalition they are 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 show the web. as deny all the countries that are now experiencing the arab spring i think it's short sighted it's bad for this country it doesn't make money it makes wars partly just to get 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 i'm sure they're very a barest because of the one target figure oh 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 kuwait and it turned out he was traveling with eight arms tripoli executives but the whole purpose of the trip this trade one of

the big trade to try 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 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 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 during their nearly six month mission they took part in what's been one of the tensest times in the history of the i.f.'s all of those at mission control in the moscow region. the crew of soyuz t.m.a. twenty one a back on earth aleksandr a summer could have andrea and ron garland 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 month spaceflight fifty years since you're a good car 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 with their 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. 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 to the ground some huge round of applause went up here not just amongst the family members also amongst the controllers they knew that they'd done their job well now those family members will be reunited with their loved ones very shortly that we spoke to the wife of one of the cosmonauts she said she can't wait to have her husband home. americans and. the europe's picked up the pace over the last few days

a string of agreements with turkey remain and so the remaining major obstacles the troubled project cleared also in washington also gave a joint statement an ounce and which part of nato would be deployed by twenty eighteen gammage again has the specifics the police the missile defense agreement signed between the u.s. and poland in two thousand and eight and its amending protocol of two thousand and ten has come into force this thursday in visions 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 u. way 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 with that one was about deployment of of an early warning radar keep the 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 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 states they usually namely ran in north korea and moscow saying why we need interceptors for weapons that those rogue states don't 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 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 they say they will cooperate but not on equal terms. european energy giant gearing up to bring the long planned south stream gas pipeline a step closer to reality it will be another method of pumping russian gas directly into europe just like the nord stream network which is already being primed to

supply what is going to detail. to use in the russian resort of salty for us to be that it could see again the law it's being said isn't about the south stream project a lot of buzz surrounding this what is all the noise of olives. 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 froogle garia 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 stakes 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 south stream is happening the other pipeline 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 a transit country so therefore ensuring gas supplies and therefore actually enforcing european energy security we've also heard a statement from kiev suggesting that 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 is said there is no point in this because the whole aim is to avoid going through ukraine all together like a jimmy to many thanks for that more information on this coming up in the business plan very shortly but for now thank you need to have to thank you insult for us.

now imagine a community where you want for nothing life is plenty one such place did exist in a remote russian. not even a place within russia's borders it's actually a norwegian archipelago. it was somebody the soviet system with money but where everyone's needs were provided for in a series of special reports for. what was meant to be communism zone full of a bright future. it's one of the busiest colonies in the arctic. cold in a sun the brits called the island to search of food for their young noisy and disorderly like old big families the seagulls of the last three minder of the one family atmosphere that once permeated this arctic island becky eighty sounds coming

from this building were just as yours 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 roll 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 various given russian women's undying infatuation with everything french. a bit 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 that band and buildings. this settlement was called fire a myth 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 around vibrant social life in many ways it was a task for the brighter future that soviet people were trying to build. snow than most statue of peering into the nearby glacier. most of the parliament's residents worked at a coal mine it 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 spirit 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 parliament realized the perfect life was just that a geopolitical parliament 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 the families packed and laughed abandoning parliament in all its grandstanding glory this pillar was erected here with much pomp on the settlements thirtieth or fortieth anniversary only to become with the gravestone decades later when the last batch of coal was extracted from the local mine workers just laughed and here it was their way of raking over the coals for the life that always do you good to be true i kind of like our sea pirate myth spitzbergen archipelago. revenues this is our hair on our t.

didn't go away then go to business update coming up now on of course of the latest . investment forum. hello and a very warm welcome to the program russia's next olympic venues gunning for gold in the race to secure foreign funds the ten to international investment forum is underway in sort she was thirty five countries looking to put money into russia archies into which she would say is that those southern seaside resort joining me live. how to trace a lot of influential guests that one of the main themes that i marched in so far. well there's talk about macro economy of course we are just awaiting for them a person the prime minister to take up a step 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 its

speech about we have already heard some hints as to where inflation is going to go it's 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 make certain statements for example lukoil has said that it is willing to continue expanding overseas as well into by upstream projects not only in the united states but also in asia and earlier business r.t. talked to the president of lukoil but you've got to get off and this is what he said about his plans of increasing production. piece in the next ten years will

concentrate on projects like west to iraq that will significantly change the structure. volume of oil 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 very good for the good of the head of lukoil also what's most important is the privatization plans because many state owned companies where the large participation of the state are planning to reduce the stake that the state has specially what's interesting in sperm bank in b.c. b 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 at

the end of this year and also a limit you could in the head of the company of russian railways as 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 working with this stage so for us to plan what 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 broad but it presented to us of the start of this . in libya to continue this project. of comments to business and of course to stay tuned for further well live versions versions from our source you studio will have more guests more expert commentary more information thanks lot to asia looking forward to hearing more from here and that wraps up the business

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