an. plus tiger the un seems powerless to prevent pending violence on serbia's border with breakaway kossovo as a something clever public appears determined to seize checkpoints. in the wake of the british and french leaders visit to libya to show support for the new look forty look at how the u.k. still invites repressive regimes on a shopping spree for military hardware. rolls so the much anticipated south stream gas pipeline moves a step closer to reality as russia signs landmark agreements with european energy giants. and russia's goes down on the region soil parties cause

a team series takes you to what used to be the bluster in those soviet settlement and modern mental becalmed in a stream of spitzbergen archipelago. just after four pm here in the russian capital you're watching our t.v. now we're top story tensions are running high in northern kossovo on the border with serbia where the breakaway regions of thirty's are plotting to seize control of two crossing points later on friday the local serbs are trying to prevent the move they're blocking roads leading to the two border posts and hundreds of them are staging a protest in the northern city of mixer of each sub to protest against kosovo's plans police and nato troops have been deployed to the two sites that serbia claims international representatives are siding with cos of an authorities here's artie's

medina fortnight. the council gathered behind closed doors for hours to debate and discuss the growing tensions in northern kosovo kosovo has announced plans to send its. officials and security forces to the border to take it over 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 violence between ethnic serbs and albanians erupted there in july that violence killed one person and wounded several others russian ambassador vitaly churkin says that nato peacekeepers in the area he believes because i was going with the plans of the kosovar albanians rather than venting danger from breaking out we have serious concerns about where the little this is going and the

minister getting made it very clear that the. opposition of european union playing this mediating role in a dialogue between priest and i is maybe put in 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 adventures now was back in two thousand and eight when kosovo unilaterally declared its independence with the support of the united states and western european countries this is something that was not approved by the security council and russia was one of the security council members that warns there would be escalating tensions to follow for years this is an international issue that russia serbia and many other countries believe needs to be addressed now before violence

escalates and them further. now serbia won't jeopardize its e.u. ambitions to protect serbs living in kosovo that's a view of what his mother gorski a serbian filmmaker who's made it several documentaries in and about kosovo. it's very naive to think that you like sen kay for are actually helping the person in government know it works and care for just continue their policies. under the banner of protecting peace and stability but with the establishment of course of a customs at 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 topsy 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 international 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 thousand plus serbs who live currently in the province of kosovo. well as always are invited to share your thoughts on this story just log on to r.t. dot com with a burning question is what should belgrade do about kossovo and it's looking at the chart there so far the majority of our viewers think the best way out is to take it back from the albanians about a third say belgrade should repair the pottery at all serbs and forget about it all the rest is split between those some suggest recognizing cost of a way and joining the e.u. and those thinking serbia should just build a wall at the border but what's your take on the story log on to r t dot com and have your say. oh in libya fierce fighting is underway for the few remaining strongholds of moammar gadhafi loyalists rebel forces claim they've watched

offensives on cigarettes and bloody well the they're backed by tanks and heavy weapons as well as a nato air shield that is many of the national is in libya with more. 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 cut off his hometown and one of the colonel's last strongholds the m.t.c. report cards 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 loyalists have been captured and sift very similar reports but this information chief dr muesli brigade would have been one of them but this information is very hard to verify quite you know we notice until gadhafi is supported by some two hundred kilometers south of the capital sheeple he continues while concerns thrown out for security safety all of civilians trapped in the cities and the areas where the clashes between the rebels and the office lord is

still continuing meanwhile the u.n. is expected to ease sanctions against libya visiting the country on thursday british prime minister david cameron and french president nicolas sarkozy has started they would introduce a u.n. security council draft resolution which expects to abolish international arms embargo and freeze leave been asses that. had been frozen as part of sanctions against gadhafi also stylish mission u.n. mission here in the country the leaders of the two nato countries but played a prominent a key role in the libyan revolution i also say that major 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 backing the rabble 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 and a separate issue prime minister departs libya after celebrating the end of gadhafi is forty two year rule anger grow. in the u.k. over the arms fair that once hosted the colonel when he was stocking up with new military hardware critics say it's one of the world's biggest weaponry sales force and that it provided libya's leader with the means to launch his deadly crackdown on the opposition and bennett has been investigating some prominent dictators have been shopping around for arms in london. 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 they government's putting its conscience aside as international delegates stop the tanks rocket launches and the missiles so long as business is being done here it doesn't seem to matter who's buying this is just 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 on an vehicles made by be a systems the u.k.'s largest pence 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 company can't change its spots it says there are countries it would 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. these raunchy sells is a risk regimes like bahrain have repressed democratic process. that will travel

because. these protesters from the stop the arms fair coalition they're angry it's going ahead despite the recent crackdowns in libya in egypt both former customers and 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 out here it's in the arab spring i think it shortsighted it's bad for this country it doesn't make money it makes walls wife material to get this year's shopping. includes 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 good figuring. david cameron is going to be walking around terriers 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 abstractedly executives but the whole purpose of the trip this trade one of the big traits or tried 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 if it does big business for britain it generated twenty two billion pounds for the economy last year and the case now the second biggest weapons exporter in the world. with money like that up for grabs turning customers away empty handed may prove difficult either bennett r.t. london. well the sale of arms is also at the heart of the conflict in syria where fears grow that the opposition might have good control of various weapons shipments or peter lavelle taxes guess on the implications of that possibility is coming your way in a few hours time but here's a preview. the syrian government has pointed out that the opposition sort of the

elements within the opposition have been armed by outside forces particularly the united states as well as israel they claim that they have a concession from a former general from syria who defected and he's going to be featured on syrian television are very soon i don't know anyone who believes the syrian government not only the syrians not only the syrian government i don't know any nation in the world who takes open syria's word to syria the syrian government said if they are telling the truth then a lot of the media to syria allow the media into the squares love a myriad media to see their troops moving down innocent people like pacifist people and all roses to soldiers if they don't allow the media in because they know they can massacre and torture and brutalize a lot more people if they don't allow the media in nobody believes the syrian government not even in fact the people the syrian government. you.

know america's missile defense plans and you're a public celebrated over the last few days poland a follows in romania and turkey's footsteps confirming that it too will host a piece of the much debated project on thursday warsaw and washington announce a parts of the shield will be deployed on polish soil by as early as twenty eighteen i was going to count has the details the police the 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 it in vision is the deployment of the land base 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.s. romania toolholders a very good land base that some three interest. on wednesday turkey and the us

signed a similar agreement but that was about deployment of an early warning radar in korea keep the shield will be unfolding fairly close to russian borders needless to say there's always been any returned 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 power for missile interceptors against a possible attack from some dangerous they usually namely ran in north korea and moscow saying why would interceptors pull weapons at those ropes they'd still. 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 it is not against us this be 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 or that russians say then give us a legally binding guarantees that the defense is the will not be used against us.

to discuss the recent progress of the u.s. missile defense plans are joined live from chicago by rick ross of international affairs expert for the stop major movement mr also russia's envoy to nato was critical earlier today of the us is timing its missile defense plans so why do you think there's such a marked spike of activity there i mean we just heard that three countries were suing this many days. is with zero viewers not over roughly two years ago in september of two thousand and nine on the same day president barack obama and defense secretary of the time crawford gates announced you know more or less simultaneously the u.s. was abandoning the previous administration the george w. bush's plans for work or ground based on the course missiles that could be reported in poland and that substitute for something that president obama referred to as the smarter swearer and stronger. which is known on a day to burden your viewers with terminology but european phase of the approach it

has to take standard missile three is that there are two of us in school simply aren't sure on what are called the just quest cruisers and will store yours and replace them on line. the fact that this could be implemented more quickly and apparently more attractive way suggests that you know for. alleviating russian concerns about the previous administration's plans we may be looking at something that is going to be implemented more quickly and more extensively you know for example has to be mounted within the us you paid for poland and romania have confirmed that each will allow the united states and nato to base twenty four standard missile three interceptors so respectable that in this country right now sitting at the same time soon it was mentioned the thirty is going to the rescue for a surgery and supportable for evidence sorry we don't know how much i don't have want to ask a lot of questions when you were speaking about wording and if there is any consistency

here they don't have the us have consistently been claiming that the shield is a purely defensive pressure it was assigned to counter possible attacks from countries a neighbor iran or north korea how real do you think are those threats from those countries and they're not i mean it's just for the most part about imaginary weapons how are they going why build and why build a missile defense if you're saying it's a fact. let me tell you something the s.m. three s that we've been talking about purple in the army are currently there is something called block one a they're projecting three additional things as the last three words will be a standard missile three a block the block to be just about a week and a half ago lockheed martin announce they're opening a new earth training facility in alabama to test that missile. and what we're seeing is the potential for a new we know that last november in the middle some of those been for several

military alliance and dorsy american missile shield and for europe whether we're talking about as a potential adjunct to a first strike so it's meaning that in the event that the united states and its nato allies would launch what they reckon it's described as a preamp and put them back or first strike against a show like russia be interfering with missile defense system is going to be and plans to ensure that any missiles surviving that in their store attack could be knocked out by a kinetic interceptor missile and this is the real danger of a system that is not the things we would talk about north korea posing a missile threat to europe and having to place forty four and some or three interceptors in poland see just a sense of geography and for there for you that is you know beyond my ability for example that paul thanks very much for your thoughts there very cross up international affairs expert from stock needs have movement talking to us like having us thank you. by european energy giants have signed up to break the law

and south stream gas pipeline a step closer to reality of a pipeline were brought in under the black sea it be another means have pumping russian gas and reckoning into europe its just like the north sea network which is almost operational artie's the need to have it at all has more from such a. gazprom has signed the shareholder greenidge 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 in the bucco pipeline which is outlined to deliver gas from central asia to europe and this has spurred concerns from europe food european or dorothy's about the security of energy in europe and we have heard a comment from. good burden go the year european energy commissioner saying that

this makes europe more reliant on russian gas and therefore this is jeopardizing energy security 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 justified 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 enough of from here victorian acknowledge the iranian president has said that suggested having the south stream go not underneath the black sea but through ukraine's territory making it cheap but gazprom has said that there's no point in doing that because the whole goal of the pipeline is to bypass transit countries have all you can find out more of that story in our business bulletin

that's coming up in about five minutes time. now 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 i fortunately not anymore it's not even a place within russia's borders it's actually on a norwegian archipelago called spitsbergen it was embodied the soviet dream a system where everyone's needs were provided for well in a series of special reports for r t x and avoid have visited what was not to be communism 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 all 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 today only instead of single cries there were children streaks and laughter this apartment

block was built specifically to house families and while adults were out working he is reluctant 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 undying infatuation with everything french. be further away he was a male dormitory also known as london to possibly 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 is lurking in that band and buildings. this settlement was called fire a myth because of the like mountains surrounding it thirty years ago it had been living standards soviet people could dream of salaries two to three times higher than in the mainland. around vibrant social lives in many ways it was

a task for the bride of the soviet people were trying to build. their rights northernmost statue of lenin is still peering into the nearby glacier. most of the parliament's 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 capitalist rivals and no resources for spirit to cut a dash a concert hall a library a rock band and even these hostiles olympic paul people here are reliving the true soviet 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 that a huge political parliament based on faulty economy and shaky ideology and if you

your is the former arctic paradise turned into desperate whole people who are used to eating caviar for breakfast how to turn to hunting to put food on the table. one option out there the families packed and laughed abandoning torah made in all its grandstanding glory this pillar was erected here with march pong on the settlements thirty of their fortieth anniversary only to become a disgrace known decades later when the last batch of coal was extracted from the local mine workers just laughed and here it was their way of raiding over the coals for the lives that always do you good to be true that's why there are sea pirate spitzbergen archipelago art i will go back with the headlines but for now it's a business of late with marina.

hello and welcome to business here on earth see the money starting to roll in as deals get struck russia's international investment form and softly represents this from thirty five countries are in the black sea resort looking for investment opportunities like near putin has had a speech up before him and art seized with images and outlines the name for us. what's been interesting about the volume of putin's speech is that it was rather upbeat despite the ongoing woes about sovereign debt in both europe and the united states creditor putin 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 lupus and said also we heard a statement from the central bank president to five 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 is 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 if the overall external situation for example of 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 cave safe access to external markets but also that if a person had this to say about what kind of investment russia's economy built 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 you should create all the conditions for so-called smart investments that are creating and producing high tech me and most importantly of course we have see the shareholder agreement between gazprom. man it's european partners being side e.d.f. winter's fall and any but also many deals within the crust adult region itself no three actually infrastructure and 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 new poil and the company's president but you don't appear upset that they are eyeing overseas investments by upstream projects in the united states and in asia and also they will be increasing production overseas aggression against you in the next ten years will concentrate on projects

like west couldna to iraq that will significantly change the structure in the 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 of the forum is in full swing we're going to have more gas later on of course so more expert opinion and commentary so do join us if you can and offer the bulletins for updates. let's take a look at the markets now brian says rise the more this lead trading of one hundred twelve dollars on these are concerns about the european banks over disappointing jobs data from the view was is limiting the gains that we know is quotes in slightly lower at the low idiot and dollars per barrel after recording at these an upturn the day before european stocks are higher for a fourth day amid speculation work that action by policy makers will be able to

ease the region's that crisis banking shares are leading the gains on the footsie and that's has advanced even further at some points actually almost one percent this hour in the second look at the russian markets they are in the red after seen some gains earlier this morning analysts also say investors in russia are hesitant to make good moves ahead of the finance ministers summit in poland the arts yes has slipped below sixteen hundred points this hour let's take a look at some of the index movers on the my sets and of the majors are on the pressure with dance moves in the one percent and banking stocks are also down because it's a b. answer about who's in or around the half a percent the sour. that's how business looks the sour buy for now.