the knowledge of the. top stories on our t.v. you once most powerful body isn't still laid over tensions of possible and service northern border crossing the breakaway region ignores calls for talks with seen seven seizing the checkpoints are if necessary. as the british and french leaders hailed a democracy they bonded in libya you can't accept weapons continue to strengthen our other arab hard my regime that's. the long drive south street pipeline needs to stop closer to reality as prophesies landmark deals with top european energy giants .

just after three pm here in the russian capital this is our ticket to have you with us and hundreds of calls have been serbs have gathered in the north of the breakaway province protesting over the self-proclaimed government want to seize control of two border crossings with serbia the nato troops have blocked one of the checkpoints all serbs have used trucks to shut off the road to the other in the ethnically divided town of making beats of mounds of earth and gravel were piled on a bridge separating the city had to serve and cost of an albanian sectors earlier serbia called for an emergency un security council meeting to try and prevent the violence from escalating up his body in a fortnight or followed a 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 course of our counter. part flew into new

york for this our emergency 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 coast 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 to to take it over violence between us nick serbs and albanians are brought to bear in july that violence killed one person and wounded several others russian ambassador vitaly churkin says kosovar albanians have threatened to use force and bassett or churkin says that nato peacekeepers in the area he believes could be cooperating with the pair in the plans of the kosovar albanians rather than preventing danger from breaking out we have serious concerns about what

a little this is going and the minister getting made it very clear that the. opposition the european union playing this maybe in a dialogue between the different. is that maybe it wouldn'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 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

as leitz and in further. he's been hearing increasingly isolated serbs in kosovo won't be able to rely on belgrade's help certain canadian documentary maker but it's not of course he says they're at the mercy of forward proper tears because serbia won't jeopardize its chances to join the e.u. . it's very naive to think that you lex and kay four are actually helping the person in government no it looks thank you for just continuing their policies. under the banner of protecting you since the but with the establishment of course of the customs that is 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 task and it's very and i used to think that his mentors will stop him 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 in that international forces work will protect the serbs there. and we all know that serbia is 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 a hundred thousand plus troops who live currently in the province of kosovo of course we're always keen to know your views and on our website we're asking what you think belgrade should do about kosovo just log on to r.t. dot com to have your say i just look at the chart now so far most think it should be taken back for a guess that's if you just over two thirds rule twenty percent say belgrade should repatriate all costs of service and leave that breakaway region alone eighty percent think the recognize costs of zero is service only route to joining the e.u. and the smallest minorities so far just four percent say it should just be sealed off the concrete wall. that's work his prime minister has arrived in

tripoli as part of his arab world tour a day after the visit by the british and french leaders so you have to want strip comes as libya's new government continues to assert an increasing level of control over the country rebel fighters are reportedly advancing and want to get off these last bastions archies maybe if that option is following developments. 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 off his hometown and one of the colonels last strongholds the city was first attacked by nature airplanes on the second day of the matriculation here libya in march the anti see reports that thousands of its fighters there have apparently advanced into the center of the city of santa fe st have the resistance from cut off is elite troops apparently armed with a two re and long range. rockets and also snipers the n t c report also

at least four of its fighters eleven and other reports have been killed during offensive seven others wounded and also there is information that forty could have been loyalists have been captured and see if there are some reports that this information chief dr muesli brigade would have been one of them but this information is very hard to verify you know we never sent his support but he will leave some two hundred kilometers south of the capital tripoli continues while concerns row over security safety of civilians trapped in the cities and the areas where the clashes between the rebels and gadhafi is lord still contain 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 sarkozy have said of they would introduce a u.n. security council draft resolution which ex-pats to abolish international arms embargo and freeze leave in asses that. had been frozen as part of

sanctions against gadhafi also sublist mission u.n. mission here in the country leaders of the two nato countries played a prominent a key role in the libyan revolution and also that nato mission here on the ground will continue. 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 backing the rebels and helping them take control over the rest of the country rather than production civilian so it's now a little bit far from its initial go. after british premier david cameron's trip to libya to celebrate the end of get off his forty two year rule looks at how a u.k. arms dealers are still working flat out. 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 short for tanks rocket launchers and the missiles and so long as business is being done here it doesn't seem to matter who's buying this is the us 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 arman 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 like the british government become pany can't change its spots it says there are countries it won't sell to you but that doesn't include any here if the

country's been invited by the british government here it's it's probably going to be on a list of countries who are able to sell to. make sense of. these right to self is a rich regimes like bahrain that have repressed democratic process. altogether because. these protesters of from the stop the arms 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 there in the mediterranean because we sold weapons deny all the countries that out here's an arab spring i think is short sighted it's bad for this country it doesn't make money it makes walls right here at this year's shopping. includes fourteen countries branded all thora tarion by human rights groups a fact the government came clean on just one day before trade began i'm sure

they're very a barest because of the one good figuring. david cameron was going to be walking around terriers where proclaiming his belief in human rights and freedom and democracy and the next stop was kuwait i get turned out he was traveling with eight zero obstructively executives but the whole purpose of the trip this trade one of the big traits you're trying to make was weapons straits the middle east the government says it's tightening restrictions on who can buy weapons that could be used for oppression and he claims an invite here doesn't guarantee an export license but a fence 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 live better up for grabs turning customers away empty handed may prove difficult either bennett r.t.

london and more european are venue versus later as america's the fashion world is to go the last few countries holding out rita holds u.s. missile and radar faces which washington says are there only for their own safety for the details of that just a few minutes and also this hour. back o. me crew of soyuz t.m.a. twenty one and returned safely to earth after spending six months on board b. and c. national space station. european energy giant have signed up to bring along the south stream gas pipeline a step closer to reality it will be another method of pumping russian gas directly into europe just like the north stream that work which is already being primed to supply the artes dmitry medvedev has more now from saatchi. the fact that gas prom has signed the shareholder agreement with its european partners companies from france italy and germany means that russia isn't the one step closer to realizing

the transportation of gas from russia underneath the black sea to bulgaria and then eventually to austria and italy so directly to european consumers and this one step gives it an extreme advantage over a rival of project nabucco pipeline which is outlined to deliver gas from central asia to europe and this has occurred concerns from europe for european or dorothy's about the security of energy in europe on the other hand actually the the fact that russia will be delivering gas starting from zero to twenty fifteen directly to european consumers means that actually energy security will be fortified as energy deliveries will be secured and russia won't have to deal with transit countries like ukraine which have created problems with the liveries to europe in the past also we have heard a lot of wrong here victory in a college the iranian president has said suggested having the south stream go not

underneath the black sea but through ukraine's territory making it cheap gas promise said there's no point in doing that because the whole goal of the pipeline is to bypass transit countries now the degree of europe's opposition to the south stream pipeline has left analysts scratching their heads given that the navajo project is significantly more risky but energy analyst julia legal leaves that diversification is the theme of the day. well nobody in europe is suggesting that russia will not be a major and probably the major supplier of gas to europe now and in the future that's not in dispute. what europe is trying to do to add. variety to its sources of gas supply it doesn't want to be tried unfairly dependent on russian gas in exactly the same way that it doesn't want to become agreed on north african gas or indeed on nazi gas while he's seeking to do is to point

a balance between a variety of suppliers delivering gas through a variety of routes and nobody is disputing good among mandarin tree russian will resound will continue to be the most important. we've got plenty more on the south stream pipeline and all the biggest deals called out in such a coming up in our business bulletin that's coming up in a few minutes. of a russian map spacecraft has landed in class x.i.i. bringing three members of the international space station crew back to earth well during their nearly six life mission they took part in what's been one of the tensest times in the history of the i s s peter all of us at mission control in the moscow theater. crew of soyuz t.m.a. twenty one are back on earth aleksandr summer could have andrea and ron perelman

had been up there on the i assess almost six months and what a six months they've been they were up in space for yuri's night the celebration over fifty years of month spaceflight fifty years since you first went into space. they were also up there for the last at the docking with the i s.s. and the last of the flights in fact of nasa space shuttle now the soyuz rocket is the only way and baikonur cosmodrome the only place where from month space flight can take place now they also were there at the end of last month when they progress module 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 here at mission control we saw some great scenes as the family managed to see the module finally enter the earth's atmosphere the parachute deployed and they knew that their loved ones were on their

way back down to the ground huge round of applause when so clear not just about coming and there's also much to control as they knew they had it and if they'd done their job well. well you're enjoying r t h i dance like six ton satellite is heading towards earth and increasing speed nasa lost control of it over five years ago but now it's on its way back don't worry just yet we'll tell you why our perhaps scientists go to are. wrong and even. america's anti missile shield plans for europe has picked up the pace over the last few days a string of agreements with turkey romania and poland so the remaining major obstacles of the travel project clear warsaw and washington also joint statement announcing which parts of nato shield will be deployed in poland by twenty eighteen artie's get education as the specifics. the police think missile defense agreements signed between the u.s. and poland in two thousand and eight and it's amending protocol of two thousand and

ten has come into force in vision is the deployment of the land based s m three system in poland and it's part of america's weave them 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 romania and the u. way romania to will host a very good land base there some three interceptors on wednesday turkey and the us signed a similar agreement but that was about deployment of an early warning radar. 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 word for 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 interceptors for weapons that those rogue states that russia and

russia views america's missile defense plans as an attempt to reach 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 it is not against us in this thing together in this believe missile shield in europe together and the response they get is always a no you know they say it is they say we will cooperate but not on equal terms and that russians say then give us a legally binding guarantees that the defense is the will not be used against us. on our own for now let's look at some of the world's other news stories right now that mark has elected its first female prime minister full of the morning schmidt's victory as the decade long leadership of the staunchly anti immigrant popular party but her campaign primarily focused on the country's struggling economy which third public anger at the previous government's policy blunders it was a close run election though and she now faces a tough task in forming an effective government with only a very slim majority. turkey's deteriorating relations with longtime ally

israel were in evidence on there is a night that's during a europa league football match between teams from both countries about a thousand turkish protesters gathered outside while others boycotted the game which saw a vast as of right police it's over israel's refusal to apologize for killing nine gaza eight activists in last year's four tiller raid turkey recently cut military ties with israel and expel top diplomats. and i would imagine a community where you want for nothing life is easier to work is plenty but one such place does exist in a remote russian outpost not anymore it's not even a place within a russia's borders it's actually a region archipelago called spitsbergen it wants everybody to soviet dream a system without money but where everyone's needs are provided for now in a series of special reports for our team it's not about the visit it was meant to be communism's example of a bright future. it's one of the busiest to go colonies in the arctic.

restless there's the northern front in new zealand disorderly like all big families and brits called the island in search of food for their young. back in the eighties sounds coming from this building were just as dearest pleading as there are today this apartment block was built specifically to house families and while adults were out working kids relaxed 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 every further away he was a male dormitory button on his london to close 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 lurking in their bandon buildings. this settlement was called

. 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 a vibrant social life in many ways it was a task model for the bride and future of the soviet people were trying to build. the roads northernmost statue of lenin still peering into the nearby glacier. most of the apartments residents worked at a coal mine it was never very profitable it maintained for the sake of keeping the soviet presence of a strategically placed archipelago a concert hall a library a rock band and even these hostiles olympic pool people here reliving the true salvi a dream he had the best hopes almost overnight when the soviet union fell apart all of a sudden people of parliament realized the perfect life was a chance that a few political power only based on faulty economy and shaky ideology in

a few years 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 at gardening parra made in all its grandstanding glory this pillar was erected here with march palm on the settlements thirty of her 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 always seemed too good to be true and some going to our sea pirate spitzbergen archipelago let's not get more of the deals being struck in sochi in artie's business update with your ear.

hello and a very warm welcome to the program while the money is starting for all in as deals get struck at russia's international investment foreman representatives from thirty five countries in the black sea resort looking for investment to the shares his own triggers anger isn't this sudden resorts and he joins me now. how do we trade thanks for joining us a prime minister here fortune has had a speech at the forum is a word you say. well mainly actually what's been interesting about the voting approach and speech is that it was rather upbeat despite the ongoing woes about sovereign debt in both europe and the united states that if a person says russia's economy is steadily recovering and is to reach pre-crisis levels in twenty twelve that means next year also the inflation this year will be no more than seven per cent has what it was and said also we heard

a statement from the central bank president. saying that in the years twenty twelve and twenty fourteen inflation will be going down around half a percentage point every year so this is already a record low level of inflation so it's pretty upbeat here too and the budget deficit will also be covered as it were the prime minister expects by the end of the year so we will have a zero budget and next year it's expected to be around one and a half percent we're going to see a deficit of no more than one hundred percent but the overall external situation for example the oil prices change for the better then russia's budget maybe even balance next year true but also what's interesting in the world lead in a person had to say is that russia needs to support the business of all types of business from small to medium and large enterprises. several bodies will be created to support business and to even ensure that small and medium businesses gain safe

access to external markets also but if a person had this to say about what kind of investment russia's economy needs let's listen and. then we must strive not only to grow the economy but to improve economic efficiency through the development of production and innovation we need to change the structure of the economy our common goal is not to be a safe haven for speculative capital russia should create all the conditions for so-called smart investments that are creating and producing high tech. well that was prime minister vote in a person talking about the russia needs and innovative investment rather than speculate of capital you know. that we train what about the deals that have been signed. well most importantly of course we have seen the shareholder agreement between gazprom and is european partners being side. winds as whole and any but also many deals within the crust nadar region itself notably actually

infrastructure production projects and also this investment of forum here in sochi is a great platform for companies known companies to promote themselves as developing and expanding and we earlier talked to do coyle and the company's president i get elected i've said that they are eyeing overseas investments by upstream projects in the united states and in asia and also they will be increasing production overseas . recipes in the next ten years we will concentrate on projects like west could not to iraq that will significantly change the structure in 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 the corals present i developed a lot of talking to business and indeed the forum is in full swing we're going to

have more guests later on of course of more expert opinion and commentary so do join us if you can and after the bulletins for updates looking forward to that as a tank reporting from sochi and in other news the latest turmoil in the stock market but concerns over russia plans the sale of seven point six percent punk expected to happen this year that's in the balance central banks and soon a kind of says it will all depend on the markets. the money we're currently waiting for a window of opportunity is recommended by our financial consultants the situation is very flexible and global markets have recovered give some positive indications but what's most important for us is a stable trend so privatisation is possible this year if the situation is right. that's the business news to stay with us. and.

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