of costs of in service have gathered in the north of the breakaway province protesting over the self-proclaimed government's plan to seize control of two border crossings with serbia well nato troops have blocked one of the checkpoints all serbs have use trucks to shut off the road to the other in the ethnically divided town of mounds of earth and gravel were piled on a bridge separating the city of the serb and cost of an albanian sectors earlier serbia called for an emergency un security council meeting to try and prevent the violence from escalating parties medina port and i followed 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 llewelyn to new york for this our mergence seen meeting that was called for by serbia and supported by russia now serbia is urging

the council to prevent kosovo's ethnic albanian authorities from using force in northern kosovo that is an area populated by ethnic serbs now kosovo has an ounce plans to send its custom officials and security forces to the border to to take it over violence between ethnic 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 pair in the plans of the kosovar albanians rather than preventing danger from breaking out we have serious concerns about where we're all this is going. the minister made it very clear that. entire proposition of european union

playing this mediating role in a dialogue between between pleased and belgrade is a maybe put in question so this sudden departure from the best of dialogue at the moment when it was beginning to show some promise promise in our view is completely unjustified unwarranted and very dangerous 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 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 all artes been here who are increasingly isolated serbs in kosovo won't be able to rely on belgrade's help

serve in canadian documentary maker but his mother gorski says they're at the mercy of foreign puppet tears because serbia won't jeopardize its chances to join the e.u. . it's very naive to think that you lex and k. four are actually helping the pristina government know it looks ok for just continue their policies. under the banner of protecting peace and stability but what the establishment of course of a custom is that these checkpoints 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 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 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 hundred thousand plus serbs 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 and just look at the talk now so far most think it should be taken back from the albanians that's a view of just over two thirds full twenty percent say belgrade should repatterning at all costs of the serbs and leave but the breakaway region alone eight percent think they recognize the cost of oil 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 with paul great wall. of turkey's prime minister has arrived in tripoli as part of his arab world tour a day after the visit by the british and french leaders to want stripped 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 east last bastions artie's movie if it 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 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 military operation in march the anti see reports that thousands of its fighters there have apparently advanced into the center of the city of city face and have the resistance from cut off is elite troops apparently armed with a cheery and long range grad rockets and also snipers the m.t.c. report also that at least four of its fighters eleven and the 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 several reports that cut off his information chief moose a 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 opened meanwhile the u.n. is expected to ease sanctions against libya visiting the country on thursday british prime minister david cameron and a french president nicolas sarkozy 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 have also said 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 is right now like the rebels and helping them take control over the rest of the country rather than protecting civilians now a little bit far from. 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 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 shop for tanks rocket launchers and missiles so

long as business is being done here it doesn't seem to matter who's buying this is guest list includes countries like saudi arabia and bahrain both regimes that violently suppressed pro-democracy demonstrations earlier this year bahrain was accused of opening fire on its own armed citizens in february saudi arabia sent its national guard in to help driving armored vehicles made by be a systems the u.k.'s largest defense company its products on display here would be a home in any bond film this tank can alter its temperature to changes infrared appearance but like the british government the company can't change its spots it says there are countries it won't sell to but that doesn't include any here if a country's been invited by the british government here it's it's probably going to be on your list of countries who are able to sell to. make sense of.

these right to cells as a result regimes like bahrain that have repressed democratic process. that will try 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 there in the mediterranean because we sold weapons deny all the countries that out experience in the arab spring i think it shortsighted it's bad for this country it doesn't make money it makes walls right here at this year's shopping. include fourteen countries branded all thora tarion by human rights groups in fact the government came clean on just one day before trade began the five sure they're very a barest because of the one good february. david cameron was going to egypt walking

around town real square claiming his belief in human rights and freedom and democracy and the next stop was kuwait and it turned out he was travelling with eight probably executives but the whole purpose of the trip this trade one of the big trade to a trade to make was weapons straight to the middle east the government says it's tightening restrictions on who can buy weapons that could be used for oppression and he claims an invite here doesn't guarantee an export license but defense is big business for britain it generated twenty two billion pounds for the economy last year and the u.k. is now the second biggest weapons exporter in the world. with money like that up for grabs turning customers away empty handed may prove difficult might have been it r t london and more here a p n r when you first later as america's defense shield is good to go the last few countries holding out rita hosts u.s.

missile and radar bases which washington says are there only for their own safety or the details of a battle just a few minutes and also this hour. back o. me crew of soyuz t.m.a. twenty one the return safely to earth after spending six months on board the international space station. european energy giants have signed 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 north sea network which is already being primed to supply the artes dmitry medvedev has more now from sochi. the fact that gazprom has signed the shareholder agreement with its european partners companies from france in the germany means that russia is indeed 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 rival project in the bucco pipeline which is outlined to deliver gas from central asia to europe and this has spurred concerns from europe food european the authorities about the security of energy in europe on the other hand actually 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 what if by energy deliveries will be secure and russia won't have to deal with transit countries like ukraine which have created problems with deliveries to europe in the past also we have heard an offer of from kiev victory in the cause of the iranian president has said suggested having the south stream go not underneath the black sea but through ukraine's territory making it cheap by gazprom a 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 lead believes that diversification is the theme of the day. nobody in europe is suggesting that russia will not be a major and probably three major supplier of gas to europe now and in the future but that's not in dispute. what europe is trying to do is to add. variety to its sources of gas supply he doesn't want to become overly dependent on russian gas in exactly the same way that he doesn't want to become overly dependent on north african gas or indeed on north sea gas what he's seeking to do is to find a balance between a variety of suppliers delivering gas through

a variety of routes and nobody is disputing that among that variety russian will ease and will continue to be the most important. we've got plenty more on the south stream pipeline and all the biggest deals going down in such a coming up that business bulleted that's coming up in a few minutes time. now a russian mad spacecraft has landed in kazakhstan to bring 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 moscovici. the crew of soyuz t.m.a. twenty one a back on earth aleksandr a summer could have. run and gun and have been up there on the i assess for almost six months and what a six months they've been they were up in space for yuri's night the celebration of

fifty years of month spaceflight fifty years since year ago and first went into space. they were also up there for the last at the docking with the i assessed in the last of a flight 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. parachute deployed and they knew that their loved ones were on their way back down to the ground huge round of applause when to appear not just amongst the family members also amongst the controllers they knew that if they'd done their job well. while you're enjoying r

t h i gan take six on satellite is heading towards earth at increasing speed not some lost control of it over five years ago but now it's on its way back but don't worry just yet we'll tell you why on our website just go to our t.v. dot com we want to give our tax. now america's anti missile shield plan for europe has picked up the pace over the last few days a string of agreements with turkey romania and poland saw the remaining major obstacles of the trouble project cleared warsaw and washington also gave a joint statement announcing which parts of nato shield will be deployed in poland by twenty eighteen now it is going to check on 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 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 romania and the u.a.e. romania too will host a very good land base this on three interceptors on wednesday turkey and the us signed a similar agreement but that one was about deployment of an early warning radar. the shills will be unfolding fairly close to russian borders needless to say that's always been an irritant in the relations between washington and moscow the work of words on missile defense has been going on for quite some time now with washington saying we need powerful missile interceptors against a possible attack from some dangerous they usually namely ran in north korea and moscow saying why would interceptors for weapons that those rogue states the in russia and russia views america's missile defense plans as an attempt to breach that very precious parity principle that was said by the start treaty russians have been quite persistent for years saying it's ok if it's not against us 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 they say we will cooperate but not on equal terms of that russians say then give us a legally binding guarantees that the defense system will not be used against us. a lot room for now let's look at some of the world's other main news stories right now does mark has elected its first female prime minister california schmidt's victory ends the decade long leadership of the staunchly anti immigrant popular party but her campaign primarily focused on the country's struggling economy which stirred public anger at the previous government's policy blunders it was a close run election of 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 thursday 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 masses of riot police it's over israel's refusal to apologize for killing nine gaza eight activists in last year's full 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 easy and work is plenty well one such place did exist in a remote russian outpost but not anymore it's not even a place within 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 at a series of special reports for r t x out of work a visit of what was meant to be communism's example of a bright future. it's one of the busiest colonies in the arctic. new zealand disorderly like all big families the brits called the island insurgent food for their young. back in the eighties sounds coming from this building were

just as era splitting as they are today this apartment block was built specifically to house families and while adults were out working kids were left to their own devices running down hallways and banging doors local residents usually referred to this building as the crazy have across the street was a female dormitory nicknamed paris given russian women dying 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 years the settlement house more than a thousand people today it's a ghost town with a spirit of communism lurking in that band and buildings. this settlement was called fire a myth 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 vibrant

social life in many ways it was a task for the brighter future that soviet people were trying to build. their old snow than most statue of lenin still peering into the nearby glacier. most of the parents 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 a concert hall a library a rock band and even this half size olympic pool people here reliving the true dream you have the best hopes the almost overnight when the soviet union fell apart all of a sudden people of realized the perfect life was just that a few political power amid based on faulty economy and shaky ideology and if you your is the former paradise turned into a desperate hole people who are used to eating caviar for breakfast have to turn to

hunting to put food on the table. one of 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 a 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 seemed too good to be true kind of like our sea pirate myth spitzbergen archipelago let's not get more of the deals being struck in soft and archie's business update for the. hello and a very warm welcome to the program while the money is starting for roll in as dale's gets struck at russia's international investment form and sort of representatives from thirty five countries all in the black sea resort looking for

investment about his his own to mature the center isn't this sudden resort and he joins me now. how to trade thanks for joining us so prime minister putin has said his speech at the four was awarded to 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 not improved and said also we heard statements from the central bank president by of 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 an easier 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 if the overall external situation for example the oil prices change for the better then russia's budget maybe even balance next year too but also what's interesting in what 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 is let's listen in. i mean 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 into creating and producing high tech human. well that was prime minister vote in a person talking about russia needs innovative investment rather than speculate of capital you know. about that miter what about the deals that have been signed. well most importantly of course we have see the shareholder agreement between gazprom and its european partners being side. winter's 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 coil and the company's president get elected upset that they are eyeing overseas investment by upstream projects in the united states and in asia that also they will be increasing production overseas. use in the next ten years will concentrate on projects like west couldn't go to iraq that will significantly change the structure in volume of oil production in twenty fifteen we're implementing a project in the north of the caspian sea which will also increase our production we think that in ten years the company will increase hydrocarbon production by twenty to thirty percent. that was their corals present but you've got a bit of talking to business and indeed the forum is in full swing we're going to have more gas later on of course of more expert opinion and commentary so do join us if you can and offer the bulletins for updates looking forward to that term is

a tanker fourteen from sort. and in other news the latest turmoil in the stock markets but concerns over russia sponsors ation plans the sale of seven point six percent of bear bank expected to happen this year that's in the balance to central banks and soon to kind of says it will all depend on the markets. the market that we're currently waiting for a window of opportunity is recommended by off 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 privatization is possible this year if the situation is right and . that's the business news stay with us. with. the b.

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the end. welcome back here's a quick look at the stories we're covering today on our new ones most powerful body is at stalemate over tension. possible and service northern border crossings the breakaway region is ignoring calls for talks but seems seven seizing the checkpoints armed if necessary. as the british and french leaders hailed the democracy they bombed into libya u.k. tanks and weapons continued to strengthen other arab dictatorships. along the south three pipeline moves a step closer to reality as russia signs a landmark deals with top european energy giants. and a russian mad spacecraft touches down bringing three international space station crew members.