like here in the big problem for us. and for those new with. our still another because it. is on our t.v. to both tiger the un seems powerless to prevent violence on the surface border with breakaway costs about a self-defense or public appears determined to scenes of checkpoints. in the wake of the british and french leaders visits and then to show what support for the new authority look at how the u.k. still invites repressive regimes on a shopping spree for military hardware. the much anticipated south stream gas pipeline means a step closer to reality as russia signs landmark agreements with top european energy giants. to russia's goes down on the region soil artie's while seventeen series takes you to what used to be the western most soviet settlement in

the bottom of of the common history of the spitzbergen archipelago. it's just after five pm here in the russian capital this is our good to have you with us now our top story tensions are running high in northern cos of zero on the border with serbia where the breakaway regions of ortiz are planning to seize control of two crossing points leader on friday a 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 at the northern city of the it's up to protest against calls of those plants police and made to lead troops have been deployed to the two sites but serbia claims international representatives are siding with kossovo authorities here's archy's getting a fortnight. the united nations secure. the council gathered behind closed doors

for hours to debate and discuss growing tensions in northern kosovo closeable house and plans to send its customs 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 are brought to bear in july that violence killed one person and wounded several others russian ambassador vitaly churkin says that nato peacekeepers in the area he believes could become operating with the plans of the consumer how being in rather than preventing danger from breaking out we have serious concerns about where the little this is going and the minister made it very clear that the. entire proposition of european union

playing this mediating role in a dialogue between between priest and i and belgrade is 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 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 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 any further. serbia won't jeopardize its e.u.

investments to protect serbs living in kosovo that's the view of what is not of course the serbian filmmaker who's made several documentaries about possible but it's very naive to think that you lex and k. four are actually helping the person in government no it works ok for just continue their policies. under the banner of protecting peace and stability but with establishment of course in the customs of these checkpoints the budget of course was being pulled 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 that international forces work with 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. well you're invited to share your thoughts on the story to log on to argue dot com or the burning question is what you build a do about possible and so far the majority of our viewers think the best way out is to take it back from the algerians but if it say go gratian patter it all serves and forget about it all the rest is split between those who suggest recognising possible and joining to you and those thinking servia should just build a concrete wall at the border what's your take on the story you can log on to r.t. dot com to have your say. now in libya fierce fighting is underway for the few remaining strongholds of mortgage off these loyalist rebel forces claim they've launched offensives on syria ted bundy welded backed by tanks and heavy weapons as well as a nato air shield marquees many if it 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 four meters east of tripoli the fees hometown and one of the colonel's last strongholds the m.t.c. report 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 loyalists have been captured and see if there are still reports that gadhafi is information chief dr muesli brigade would have been one of them but this information is very hard to verify fighting over nervous until gadhafi is supported by the body some two hundred kilometers south of the capital if you will it continues while concerns rose over security safety of civilians trapped in the cities and be areas where the clashes between the rebels and the russians lord are 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 have said

that they would introduce a your security council draft resolution which expects to abolish international arms embargo and freeze leave in asses that. had been frozen as part of sanctions against gadhafi also sublist mission u.n. mission here in the country leaders of the two nato countries but played a prominent a key role in the libyan revolution they also say that nato mission here on the ground will continue for as long as it is necessary to protect civilians here in libya meanwhile some are skeptical about the real end of this mission as it's more loops right now like backing the rebels and helping them take control of the rest of the country rather than protection civilians so it's now a little bit far from its initial go. and as the british prime minister departs libya after celebrating the end of gadhafi he's forty forty two year rule anger

grows in the u.k. over the arms fair that once host of the colonel when he was stocking up with new military hardware and critics say it's one of the world's biggest weaponry sales floors and that it provided libya's leader with the means to launch his deadly crackdown on the opposition as bennett has been investigating some prominent dictators have been a 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 the government's putting its conscience aside as international delegates short the tanks rocket launches 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 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 this plane here would be at home in any bond film this tank can alter its temperature changes infrared appearance light the british government a company can 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 was regimes like bahrain have repressed democratic process . or whatever because. these protesters 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 now in a bit strained here because we showed workers deny all the countries that are dow experiencing the arab spring i think it shortsighted it's bad for this country it doesn't make money it makes walls here and 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 embarrassed because i've got one good figure. david cameron is going to be walking around carry a square for claiming his belief in human rights and freedom and democracy and the next stop was kuwait i get turned out he was travelling with eight zero obstructively executives at the whole purpose of the trip this trade one of the big traits or tried to make was work straits that been reached 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 u.k.'s now the second biggest weapons exporter in the world. with money like that up for grabs turning customers away empty handed may prove difficult i'd have been it r t london. the sale of arms is also at the heart of the conflict in syria where fears grow that the opposition may have gained control of various weapons shipments were bitter lavelle talks as guests are the implications of that possibility is coming your way into our society as a preview. the syrian government has pointed out that the opposition so 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 confession from

a former general from syria who defected. 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 over the syria's war the syrian the syrian government said if they are telling the truth though maybe to syria allow the media into the squares loving myriad media to see the truth innocent people like pacifist people and the roses the soldiers if they don't allow the media because they know they can massacre and torture and brutalize a lot more people and they don't allow the media in nobody believes the syrian government not even in fact the people the syrian government. keep. america's missile defense plans and europe have accelerated over the last few days

authors say warsaw and washington and nonstop parts of the shield will be deployed on polish soil as early as twenty eighteen and earlier this week the u.s. sealed the deal with remain yaddo which land based interceptor missiles and over one hundred military personnel will be based in the country this was followed by another deal with turkey are the deployment of an american radar station in the country's east while the shield is said to be designed to counter possible attacks from iran or north korea reza marco's off international affairs expert at the stop nato movement told r.t. those threats are not the shield is really for. we know that last november who made those some of those but words ago that the military alliance and the wars the american missile shield plan for europe where 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 were gets described as a preemptive but in fact the first strike with insulation like russia the

integrated missile defense system is going to be in place to ensure that any missiles surviving that are in their stores are being knocked out for it tonight it gives up their missile this is the real danger of the system and it's not their friends you know talk about north korea posing a missile threat to europe and having to place twenty or there's some three interceptors in poland so just the sense of geography introductory that is you know beyond my ability or it's. watching our team and still to come in the program and too good to be true we report on the northern island as a test model of the brighter future of the soviet people who are trying to build but also. at emotional welcome a team of space travelers who returns home after almost six months in orbit all that and more coming your way here on our team in just a few moments. and european energy giants have signed up to bring the longtime south stream gas pipeline

a step closer to reality the pipeline would run under the black sea and be another means of pumping russian gas directly into europe it's just like the noise free network which is almost operational but artie's the music method and co has more from such a. the fact that gazprom 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 in the bucco pipeline which is outlined to deliver gas from central asia to europe and this has spurred concerns from europe because european of dorothy's about the security of energy in europe and we have heard a comment from. 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 a twenty fifteen directly to european consumers means that actually energy security will be wanted by as energy deliveries will be secured 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 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 by gazprom and said there's no point in doing that because the whole goal of the pipeline is to bypass transit countries. where you could find out more of that story in our business bulletin coming up in just five minutes time. now imagine

a community where you want for nothing life is easy and work is plenty but one such place did exist in a remote russian outpost but not anymore it's not even a place within russia's borders. it's actually on norwegian archipelago called spitsbergen it wants and body the soviet dream a system where everyone's names were provided for or in a series of special reports for r.t.f. sort of like 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. russians there's the northern sun the brits call the island in search of food for their young noisy and disorderly like old big families seagulls are the last reminder of the one camel the atmosphere that once permeated this arctic island this apartment block was built specifically to house families and while adults were out working he is reluctant out own devices running down hallways then banging

doors local residents usually referred to his building as the crazy house across the street was a dormitory for single female workers need named paris even russian women's ondine infatuation with everything french for the raid 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 to date it's a ghost town but the spirit of communism lurks in their band and buildings. this government was called pyramid because of the calm like mountains surrounding it thirty years ago it had been living there is soviet people could dream of salaries two to three times higher than in the mainland. around vibrant social life in many ways it was a task model for the broader future that people were trying to build. you want snow than most that your flat in steel piers into the nearby glacier most of the

pyramids residents were critical mind it was never very profitable to get maintained for the sake of keeping the still the presence of the strategically placed archipelago halfway between north america and western europe. not only an outpost this western most soviet settlement was also an ideological showcase for capitalist rivals and no risk. to car to dash a concert hall a library a rock band and even the hostiles olympic poor people here were living 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 that that perfect life was just bad a few political party made based on faulty economy and shaky ideology if you years the former r.c. paradise turned into an island nightmare people who are used to eating caviar for

breakfast have to turn to hunting to put food on the table one or two now that their families back out and laughed abandoning pyramid in all its grandstanding glory this pillar was erected here with march pong on the settlements thirtieth fortieth anniversary only to be commons greystone decades later when the last batch of coal was extracted from the local mine workers just laughed and here it was their way of raging over the coals for the life that always do you good to be true . aren't the pyramid spitzbergen archipelago and we continue our special coverage from spitzbergen attendant on saturday to discover how an old soviet dream provides a means of survival today and also helps preserve the process you can also offer reports from the archipelago any time on why that's r.t. dot com. it's back in.

one thousand miles from the north pole. the. mistake you want to try to spitzbergen archipelago. twenty years after the lucky stars. will be my sister. the worlds. the statue of lenin presides over and those. who say it. has become a tourist site for those overcome by the cold war and the still. the closer special edition an arche. now there's been a warm welcome home for a team of space travelers who just returned from orbit a russian manned spacecraft landed in kazakhstan a bringing three members of the international space station crew back to earth artist peter all over is at mission control the region the crew of soyuz t.m.a. twenty one back on earth aleksandr summer could have andreea and run on an

airplane up there on the i assess almost six months what a six months they've been they were up in space for yuri's night the celebration of fifty years of month space life fifty years since you're a kid daryn 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 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 the most calm and the

cold so much the cold callers they knew that if they'd done their job well. it's time again for the business update with marina. hello and welcome to business here on art see we start this hour with russia's international investment forum and saatchi where the money starting to roll in as deals get struck representatives from thirty five countries are in the black sea resort looking for investment opportunities like we have roots in has had a speech that performs an art seized with limited sciatica outlines the main points for us. what's been interesting about the value of putin's speech is that it was rather upbeat despite the ongoing woes about sovereign debt in both europe and the united states but it appears and says russia's economy is slowly 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 saying the way 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 is the prime minister expects by the end of the year and next year is 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 to know 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 game safe access to external markets and also letting a person had this to say about what kind of investment russia's economy but he 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. most importantly of course we have seen the shareholder agreement between gastro manage european partners being side. the. winds as a whole and any but also many deals within the crust of the region itself notably 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 the new coil and the company's president may get a bit upset that they are eyeing overseas investments upstream projects in the united states and in asia and also they will be increasing production overseas especially eastern europe in the next ten years we'll concentrate on projects like west cannot to iraq but 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. the floor is in full swing we're going to have more guests later on look also more expert opinion and commentary so do join us if you counted all the pollutants go up that. let us take a look at the markets now brants is roy's immodestly trading at one hundred twelve dollars on easing concerns about the group mendax however disappointing jobs they

don't from the u.s. is nimitz in the gains the w. zero is close or the slightly lower at the low eighty nine dollars per barrel after recording a decent altar in the day before. european stocks are higher for one day amid speculation quarter native action by policymakers and will be able to ease the illusion strathclyde says banking shares are leading the gains of the footsie and the tax has advanced even further it's out one point two percent higher this hour. here in russia the markets are in the red after the seen some gains earlier this morning analysts also say investors in russia are puzzled since i'm a good move as the finance ministers summit kicks off in poland's the r.t.s. has slipped below six hundred points losing one and a half percent this hour. a second look at some of the index movers on the why sites energy majors are on the pressure with gas well muson under a percent banking stocks are also down would be to be losing around a half

a percent this hour and bucking the trend as burbank after reports its privatization is still possible this year. but also because this is one apple martin had so our websites are to dot com slash business in the meantime states and for the headlines with. wealthy british style rolls are not on that list. of. market financed scandals find out what's really happening to the global economy for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines to name two kinds of reports. claimed mission free credit taishan free loans for charges free. range once the free risk free stooge high priests download free blog counseling video for your media

projects and free media gone to r t dot com. in two thousand and ten especially konami exulted for industrial production it was established in russia somalia region with a total area of six hundred sixty ect as. its investors are granted exclusive tax and customs benefits which includes the five exemption from property lands and transport taxes as well as an income tax reduction to fifteen point five percent. the special economic zone operates as a free customs zone which enables manufacturers to market their products in russia free of in for duties to some our region as he said his cause.