it's just after five pm here in the russian capital this is r.t. good to have you with us now our top story tensions are running high in a northern kossovo on the border with serbia where the breakaway regions authorities are planning to seize control of two crossing points later on friday well 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 mcveigh it's out to protest against kosovo's plans police and nato led troops have been deployed to the two sites but serbia claims international representatives are siding with kosovo authorities here's artie's but in a point night. the united nations security council gathered behind closed doors for hours to debate and discuss growing tensions in northern kosovo kosovo has an

announced plans to send its custom officials and security forces to the border to to take it over 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 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 could become operating with the plans of the kosovar albanians rather than venting danger from breaking out we have serious concerns about where we're all this is going. to get made it very clear that. the entire proposition of european union playing this mediating role in a daze. between between priest and great is maybe put in question.

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 but eventually. 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 well serbia won't jeopardize its un bishan support service living in kosovo that's a view of what his mother gorski a serbian filmmaker who's made several documentaries about kosovo. it's very naive

to think that you lex and k. four are actually helping the pristina government know it works ok for just continue their policies. under the banner of protecting peace and stability but with the establishment of kosovo customs at these checkpoints the budget of kosovo is being pulled up and the finances and economy in kosovo are controlled by international forces and international powers so she 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 united international 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 well you're invited to share your thoughts on

the story to log on to r.t. dot com where the burning question is what should build a do about the possible so far the majority of our viewers think the best way out is to take it back from the albanians about a fifth say belgrade should have freed all serbs and forget about it all the rest is split between those who suggest recognizing kossovo and joining the e.u. and those thinking serbia 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. and now in libya fierce fighting is underway for the few remaining strongholds of moammar gadhafi loyalists rebel forces claim they've launched offensives on syria ted bundy well they've backed by tanks and heavy weapons as well as a nato air shield largest many if an option 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 sip some five hundred kilometers east of

tripoli cut off his hometown and one of the colonel's last strongholds the m.t.c. report that at least four of its fighters eleven on the 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 since there are several reports that this information chief dr muesli brigade would have been one of them but this information is very hard to verify fighting over another center opened up his support some two hundred kilometers south of the capital of people he continues meanwhile concerns over security safety of civilians trapped in the cities and the areas where the clashes between the rebels and the russians 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 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 even 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 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's more loops right now like backing the rabble and helping them take control over the rest of the country rather than protecting civilians so 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 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 fair and a massive earner for the british economy the government's putting its conscience aside as international delegates shop for tanks rocket launchers and the missiles so long as business is being done here it doesn't seem to matter who's buying this is guest list includes countries like saudi arabia and bahrain both regimes that violently suppressed demonstrations earlier this year bahrain was accused of opening fire on its own armed citizens in february saudi arabia sentence 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 but light the british government the company can't change its spots it says there are countries it will 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. the thing is right to sell to say was regimes like bahrain that have repressed democratic process. i don't have a call that's all that. these protesters from the stop the arms fire coalition they are angry it's going ahead despite the recent crackdowns in libya in egypt both former customers of britain using their purchases against their own people we're paying the price now in the mediterranean because we sold weapons deny all the

countries that are now experiencing the arab spring i think it's short sighted it's bad for this country it doesn't make money it makes walls wife material to get this year's shoppers include fourteen countries branded all. thora tarion by human rights groups in fact the government came clean on just one day before trade began i'm sure they're very a barest because. david cameron was 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 travelling with eight probably executives but the whole purpose of the trip the straight one of the big trade to try to make was weapons straight to the middle east the government says it's tightening restrictions on who can buy weapons that could be used for oppression and 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 to 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 for bennett r.t. london for 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 peter lavelle talks as guests on the implications of that possibility is coming your way into our style but here's a preview. the syrian government has splintered out that the opposition certainly elements within the opposition have been armed. forces particularly the united states as well as israel are they claim that they have a confession 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 now

is the syrians now by the syrian government i don't know any nation in the world who takes over the serious word the syrian the syrian government said if they are telling the truth then allow them maybe into syria allow the media into the squares allowing myriad. to see the troops moving down innocent people like pacifist people and all roses to soldiers if they don't allow the media because they know they can massacre and torture and brutalize a lot more people if they don't allow the media and nobody believes the syrian government not even in fact the people the syrian government. and. the. america's missile defense plans in europe have accelerated over the last few days all thursday warsaw and washington announced that parts of the shield will be deployed on polish soil by as early as twenty eighteen and earlier this week the u.s. sealed the deal with remain yonder 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 on the deployment of an american radar station in the country's east well the shield is said to be designed to counter possible attacks from iran or north korea but as mark rose off international affairs expert at the stop nato movement told r.t. those threats are not what the shield is really for. we know that last november at the nato summit in lisbon portugal that the military alliance and dorsy american the so shield plan for europe whether we're talking about as a potential jump to a first strike so it's meaning that in the event that the united states and its nato allies were to launch but they would do it's described as a preemptive but in fact the first strike against that they should like russia the intercalary that missile defense system is going to be in place to ensure that any missiles surviving that in their store could be knocked out by it going to get us

up there most of this is the real danger of the system that is not their friends you know talk about north korea posing a missile threat to europe and having to place twenty four of us some three of their suckers and poland so just a sense of geography and project worry that is you know beyond my ability it's. watching our team and still to come in the program it too good to be true we report northern ireland as a test model of the brighter future that the soviet people were trying to build but also. an emotional welcome a team of space travelers returns home after almost six months in orbit and all that and more coming our way here on our team in just a few moments. and european energy giants have signed up to bring the long planned 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 north stream network which is almost operational all artes dimitri medvedev go has more from

such a. gazprom has signed the shareholder agreement with the european partners companies from france it's in the 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 rival project in the bucco pipeline which is outlined to deliver gas from central asia to europe and this has spurred concerns from europe for european or 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 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 it by 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 from kiev victory in the college the president has said suggested having the south stream go not underneath the black sea but through ukraine's territory making it cheap but gazprom and said there's no point in doing that because the whole goal of the pipeline is to bypass transit countries. where you can find out more in that store 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 well 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 a norwegian archipelago called spitsbergen it wants and body the soviet dream a system where everyone's names were provided for well in a series of special reports for r t x 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. restless and sun the brits called the island in search of food for their young noisy and disorderly like old big families the seagulls are the last reminder of the warm family atmosphere that once permeated this arctic island 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 then banging doors local residents usually referred to this building as the crazy house across the street was a dormitory for single female workers nicknamed paris given russian women's undying

infatuation with everything french further away what 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 the band and buildings. it was called pyramid because of the cone like mountains surrounding it thirty years ago it had the highest living standards soviet people could dream of salaries two to three times higher than in the mainland free food free around vibrant social life in many ways it was a task for the brighter future that soviet people were trying to build. different snow than most of the land in still piers into the nearby glacier most of the pyramids residents work in a coal mine that was never very profitable to get montane for the sake of keeping

the soviet presence at 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 resources were spared to carve a dash a concert hall a library a rock band and even this half size olympic pool people here reliving the true salvia dream you have the best hopes the almost overnight when the soviet union fell apart all of a sudden people of parliament realized that perfect life was just that a few political party made based on faulty economy and shaky ideology if you here is the former arctic 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 of to now that the family stacked up and left abandoning pyramid in all its

grandstanding glory this pillar was erected here with much pomp on the settlements thirtieth of fortieth anniversary only to become of the 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 i thought of going to our tea pyramid spitzbergen archipelago and we continue our special coverage from spitzbergen attorney and on saturday to discover how an old soviet dream provides a means of survival today and also helps preserve the past and you can also watch reports from the archipelago any time online that's at r.t. dot com. back in. one thousand miles from the north pole. the arche team is taking you on a trip to spitzbergen archipelago. where twenty years after the us is ours

collapsed the soviet way of life is still going strong. when the world's northernmost statue of lenin presides over a goes. to so it. has become a tourist site for those overcome by the cold war in the style of. the close up special edition. now there's been a warm welcome haul for a team of space travelers who just returned from orbit a russian man spacecraft landed in kazakhstan a bringing three members of the international space station crew back to earth peter all over is at mission control in the moscow region. the crew of soyuz t.m.a. twenty one a back on earth aleksandr some of could have. run and gun and have been up there on the i.s.a.'s 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 months baseplate fifty years since you're a good car and first went into space. they were also up there for the last at the docking with the i s.s. and the last of a flight in fact of nasa space shuttle 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 went up here not just among the family members also emotional control the training 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 arts and we start this hour with russia's international investment form and saatchi where the money is starting to roll in as deals get struck representatives from thirty five countries are in the black sea resort looking for investment opportunities that were put in has had a speech at the form and r.t. is that some of the outlines the main points for us. what's been interesting about the volume of putin speech is that it was rather upbeat despite the ongoing woes about sovereign debt in both europe and the united states that it appears and 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 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 and next year it's expected to be around one and a half percent we're going to see a deficit of no 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 be ensured 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 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. most importantly of course we have to see the shareholder agreement this week in gas from and its european partners being side. winters hall and any but also many deals within the crust the dollar region itself notably actually infrastructure and production projects and also this investment so for a mere and so she is a great platform for companies known companies to promote themselves as developing and expanding and we earlier talked to luke oil and the company's president like you to look that up said that they are. overseas investment by upstream projects in

the united states and in asia that also they will be increasing production overseas or actually use your move in the next ten years will concentrate on projects like west 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 in production we think that in ten years the company will increase hydrocarbon production by twenty to thirty percent before it is in full swing we're going to have more guests later on of course more expert opinion and commentary so do join us if you can and offer the bullets and spoil updates. and a second look at the markets now brian says rising modestly exciting at one hundred twelve dollars on these and concerns about they were pinned down however disappointing jobs data from the us is limits in the gains the w.t.r. is closing slightly lower at the low eighty nine dollars per barrel after recording

a decent upturn the day before. european stocks are higher for a fourth day and that speculation a quarter later action by policy makers will be able to use them to inspect quizes banking shares all even the gains of the floats and the facts has advanced even further at south one point two percent higher this hour. here in russia the markets are and the red after seen some gains earlier this morning analysts also say investors in russia doesn't sense and made good moves as the finance ministers summit kick. soften poland's the r.t.s. has slipped below sixty one hundred points losing one and a half percent this hour. let's take a look at some of the index movers on the why sex energy majors are on the pressure with gas from lucent 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. and also the business news for now for

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in two thousand and ten especially konami exulted for industrial production 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 land and transport taxes as well as an income tax reduction to fifteen point five percent. the special economic zone operates as a free custom zone which enables manufacturers to market their products in russia free of employed duties to some our region is currently witnessing a sewage infrastructure construction the smaller region special economic zone promises exceptional opportunities for developing fuel business in russia will come

to the small regions for more information log on to invest in somalia the all you. stories on our t.v. you want seems powerless to prevent pending violence and service border with breakaway costs of open and some security council members refused to support bush's call for talks possible appears determined to seize two checkpoints with local serbs to stop them by walking the roads leading to the border first. fierce fighting is underway in libya where former rebels claim they're advancing on two of the few remaining gadhafi strongholds the offensive on certain by the will lead are backed by tanks and heavy weapons as well as as well as a nato air field. also the much anticipated south stream gas pipeline moves a step closer to reality as russia signs a landmark agreements with top european energy giants with a project the state of the liberated russian gas and directly to european consumers .