church in new delhi who took the most they be which is clear in connection with the closing of the ladies' regional. park the movie the radisson was punished but the protest. is on our t.v. ability but it appears powerless to prevent the threat of violence on the surface water with a breakaway cossotto as the self declared republics of sub customs controls despite local serbs protesting against them and. in the wake of the british and french leaders visiting libya in a show of support for the new authority to look at how the u.k. still invites repressive regimes on a shopping spree for military hardware. the much anticipated south stream gas pipeline moves a step closer to reality as russia signs landmark agreements with top european energy giants. to russia's goes talent on the region so will our

g.'s close of team series takes you to what used to be the westernmost soviet settlement and the bottom end of the economy the stream on the spitzbergen archipelago. is just after seven pm here in the russian capital this is our team now to our top story prime minister announces that the breakaway region has introduced customs control on the border with serbia a move strongly opposed by belgrade a local serbs have been trying to prevent the move blocking roads leading to the two border posts and hundreds of them are staging a protest in the northern city of mitzvot sought to protest against kosovo's once e.u. police and nato led troops have been deployed to the two sites but the serbian claims international representatives are only making the situation worse because they are siding with authorities. while the bush

a historian who specializes in the balkans believes that the movie violates the u.n. mandate which is meant to be a force i keep peacekeepers who are actually supporting it. there is an economic component to it is there have been theories did countries government needs all the revenue would can possibly get but there's also a political component to this instead he had framed this as a chance to establish sovereignty as he calls it already entire province and this is this has been the interpretation it's been backed by ok for and this support quint to the group of five countries of. the world independence this is a major violation of the u.n. mandate by the u.n. troops and nobody in new york she should be interested in doing anything about it. we do have a correspondent at the border there in serbia we will try to get in touch with her

later in the program and of course you're invited to share your thoughts on the story you can log on to r.t. dot com where the body question is what should belgrade do about kosovo and the looking at the chart so far the majority of our viewers think that the best way out is to simply take it back from the albanians ten percent so just to recognizing kossovo and joining the e.u. a little less they get delegation for patrick at all serbs and just forget about it and the minorities say that serbia should just build a concrete wall at the border a what's your take on this story log on to r.t. dot com and have your say. now in libya fierce fighting is underway for the few remaining strongholds of walmart get off his loyalists rebel forces claim they've launched offensives on cigarettes and bani walid backed by tanks and heavy weapons as well as a nato air shield obviously if a national is a 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 that off his hometown and one of the colonels

last strongholds the n.c.c. report 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 offer loyalists have been captured and since we are receiving reports that. information chief dr muesli we have been one of them but this information is very hard to verify you know when us until gadhafi is supported by anybody some two hundred kilometers south of the capital tripoli continues while consoles rose over security safety of civilians trapped in the cities and the areas where the clashes between the rebels and gadhafi loyalists so containing 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 started they would introduce a your security council draft resolution which ex-pats to abolish international

arms embargo and freeze leave in asses that. had been frozen as part of sanctions against gadhafi also sublist mission u.n. mission here in the country leaders of the two nature countries. played a prominent a key role in the libyan revolution and also 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 base mission as it's more loops right now like backing the rebels and helping them take control over the rest of the country rather than protecting civilians so it's now a little bit far from its initial go and as a british prime minister departs libya after celebrating the end of coffee's forty two year rule that. who grows in the u.k. over the arms fair that once so said the colonel when he was stocking up with new military hardware well critics say it's one of the world's biggest weaponry sales

force and it provided libya's leader with the means to launch his deadly crackdown on the opposition as archy's ivor bennett has been investigating some prominent dictators up and 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 shop for tanks rocket launchers and the missiles and so long as business is being done here it doesn't seem to matter who's buying this is b.s. 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 play here would

be a home in any bond film this tank can alter its temperature to change its infrared appearance but light the british government the company can't change its spots it says there are countries that were silting 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 the list of countries where it sell to. make sense of. these rights sells is a rich regimes like bahrain that have repressed democratic process. that will travel 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 are using their purchases against their own people we're paying the price there and of israeli and because we sold weapons deny all the

countries there it out here is in the arab spring i think it shortsighted it's bad for this country it doesn't make money it makes walls. that this year's shoppers include fourteen country. 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 of the one child did figuring. david cameron was going to be walking around terriers square trick leaving his belief in human rights and freedom and democracy and the next stop was kuwait and it turned out he was travelling with eight oh it's probably executives but the whole purpose of the trip was trade one of the big traits or try to make was weapons straits the middle east the government says it's tightening restrictions on who can buy weapons that could be used for oppression and he claims an invite here doesn't guarantee an export license but the

fence is big business for britain it generated twenty two billion pounds for the economy last year and the case now the second biggest weapons exporter in the world with money like that up for grabs turning customers away empty handed may prove difficult after bennett artsy london. well going back to our top story corps supposed prime minister has announced that the region has introduced customs control of the border in serbia which is a move that has been opposed by belgrade and he seemed local serbs who were trying to prevent it by blocking roads leading to the two border post so let's get more now from our correspondent sara firth who was there after the border sara if you can hear me. so you have can you hear me yes ok well the constable authorities plan has been implemented what do you see around you right now with any reaction from the serbs. who are one of the border crossings that you're reading and the roads leading up to it main blogs by the protesters we actually can't get much

closer when you go up to the front of that crossing your scope by the blow we can see some of the capel forces on the ground there in a bit i'm not sure how much of it you can see you can also see see of course the smoke in the background now we go to places we could and it does look like there's some sort of fire happening on the other side of that but we couldn't get any information from the cable forces that with earlier today we saw helicopters coming across and it's cool that you like helicopters dropping off some of the police forces to these crossings but it's very unclear as yet whether any of the people being dropped off there are actually the ethnic albanian cause of a police forces we haven't been able to confirm. this of course all going ahead with the trial of the clashes that we saw in july when the course of a government tried to take control of the post following prime minister. ban

on imports from serbia that resulted in the death of the policeman and also very concerned not to see a repeat of that violence so we had the u.n. security council calling an emergency meeting yesterday at the request of serbia and russia and take a view of these control points going. despite the warnings from both great i'm from russia that this could really to further agitation all right thanks. right sarah thanks very much for that update sorry for us reporting there for the border crossing in northern cross about. european energy giants have signed up to bring bill gone. a step closer to reality but our client would run under the black sea and be another means of pumping russian gas directly into europe just like the north stream network which was opened earlier this month ariz the music movie there girl has more now from sochi. 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 pipeline which is outlined to deliver gas of 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. 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 fortified as energy deliveries will be secured and russia won't have to deal with transit countries like ukraine which have created problems with the live raise to europe in the past also we have heard an offer of 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 gas promise said that there's no point in doing that because the whole goal of the pipeline is to bypass transit countries. you can find out more on that story in our business bulletin coming up in about ten minutes time. how america's missile defense plan said europe had accelerated over the last few days on thursday warsaw and washington announced parts of the shield will be deployed on polish soil as early as twenty. eighteen hour earlier this week the u.s. sealed the deal with romania under 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 and the shield is said to be designed to counter possible attacks from iran or north korea does microsoft international affairs expert at stop nato movement told r.t. those threats are not what the shield is really for do we know that last november there were who may go some of those but were to go the military alliance and the worse the american the social plan for europe where the we're talking about as a potential adjunct to our first story meaning that in the event that the united states of its. were to launch. its described as a preemptive but in fact the first strike against that they should like russia the integrated missile defense system that is going to be in place to ensure that any missiles surviving that in their shorts could be north going to the other

supplements this is the real hero of the surface it is not their guns you know the talk about north korea posing a missile threat to the earth care and having it please thirty four of us or for yourself was a poll and see just the sense of geography and the character of you that is beyond our ability for us. let's have a look at some of the world's other main news right now palestinians and international are held a protest rally in the west baghdad ahead of a statehood bid by the palestinians at the u.n. next week scuffles have also broken out in other parts of the west bank with two people injured the fighting between israelis and palestinians took place there a village where battle set fire to a mosque earlier this month the palestinian leadership says it wants to ask for recognition because decades of talks with israel have failed now israel and its allies in the west are softening against the. mark has elected its first female prime minister thorning schmidt's victory and so decade long

leadership of the staunchly anti immigrant popular party her campaign focus on the country's struggling economy public anger at the previous government it was a close run election though she now faces the tough task of forming an effective government with a very slim majority. now there's been a warm welcome home for a team of space travelers who just returned from orbit a russian most spacecraft landed in kazakhstan are bringing three members of the international space station crew back to earth peter all over is that mission control of the moscow reach him. the crew of soyuz t.m.a. twenty one back on earth alexandra summer could have andrea and ron garden 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 manned spaceflight fifty years since you get ghar and first went into space. they were also up there for the last of the docking with the i s s and

the last over flights in fact of nasa space shuttle now the so yes 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 assess 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 here not just the most value members also most the controllers they knew that the job well. our national community where you want for nothing life is easy and work is active or one such place that exists in a remote russian outpost but not anymore it's not even

a place within russia supporters it's actually on a norwegian archipelago called it was somebody the soviet dream a system where everyone's needs were provided for in a series of special reports for r.t.s. out of work of this event but was meant to be communism's example of a bright future. it's one of the disease seagull colonies in the arctic. restlessness the northern sun burnt skull the island in search of food for their young noisy and disorderly like all the families siegel's of the last reminder of the one family atmosphere that once permeated this arctic island this apartment block was built specifically to house families and while adults were out working kids roll up to their own devices running down hallways and banging doors local residents usually referred to this building as the crazy house across the street it was a dormitory for single female workers weakness in paris given russian remains on dying

infatuation with everything french a bit further weight was a male dormitory also known as london supposedly for the gentle manners of its inhabitants during its casts years and housed more than a thousand people today it's a ghost town but the spirit of communism lurks in their brand and buildings it was called pyramid because of the cone like mountains surrounding it thirty years ago it had the highest polluting stand there is 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 model for the brighter future that soviet people were trying to build. man in steel piers into the near breakaway sure most of the pyramids residents work in a coal mine it was never really profitable he had been trained for the sake of keeping

the soviet presence at the strategically placed archipelago halfway between north america and western europe. only an outpost this westernmost soviet settlement was also an ideological showcase for capitalist rivals and no resources for spirits to cut a dash a concert hall a library a rock band and even this hostile olympic pool people here are reliving the true salvi a dream you have that best hopes almost overnight when the soviet union fell apart all of a sudden people of pyramids realized that their perfect life was just bad too political pyramid based on faulty economy and shaky ideology in a few years arcs occurring there is 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 the families packed up and left abandoned in clearing it in all its

grandstanding glory this pillar was erected here with march palm on the settlements thirtieth or fortieth anniversary only to become a grave stone decades later when the last batch of coal was extracted from the local mine workers just laughed and here it was their way of raking over the coals for the life that's always been too good to be true. or if the pyramid spitzbergen archipelago. we continue our special coverage from spitzbergen schumann on saturday to discover how an old soviet dream provides a means of survival today and it also helps preserve the past but you can also watch our reports from the archipelago any time online that's r.t. dot com. back in. one thousand miles from the north pole. the young team is taking you on a trip to spitzbergen on to tell ago. where twenty years after the u.s.s.r.

collapsed between life is still going strong. other worlds are no longer known statue of lenin presides over a ghost. the soul it. has become a tourist site for those overcome by the cold war and the sounds. of. the close up special edition on our. own it's time again for the business update with marina. hello and welcome to businesses here on art see the monies so to answer all in as deals get struck out russia's and for national investment form and salting represents says from thirty five countries are in the black sea resort looking for and best with opportunities and ovarian dividend cut as in the salary resort and he joins us now.

hardly true warnow it's been a long day there were lots of events including the speech by prime minister vladimir putin so what can you tell us what did he have to say. well indeed the highlight of the day at the sochi international investment forum was of that in a person's view on the macroeconomic situation and what's interesting is that despite the ongoing turmoil on the markets and sovereign debt woes in europe and the united states this view was pretty upbeat that if there's a sense that russia's economy will come back to pre-crisis state in twenty twelve that is next year russia will see inflation of no more than seven percent this year according to the central bank inflation will actually gradually decrease by around half a percentage point over the next three years and that russia will see a gross domestic product increase of four percent on average in the next three years when it comes to investments coming into russia but in the future specified

that there's a certain type of investment by washings let's listen to what he said to say that you know what you. mean we must strive not only to grow the economy but to improve economic efficiency to 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 should create all the conditions for so-called smart investments which are creating and producing high tech. and surprisingly enough political person also said that russia will most likely meet. to have a balanced budget by the end of the year so we have a zero budget and next year the deficit might be one and a half percent but if the macroeconomic situation changes for example world prices grow we might see a balanced budget next year to. go on retreat this is one of the brass platforms for deals what's been done in that aspect. well apart from the most important deal

and that is of course the widely discussed shareholder grievance we gas problem and its european partners italy's any france's e.d.f. and germany's winter sport has also been a wide range of deals are connected with the cross and our region where sortie is located and it was widely discussed as an agreement between a french bank they could they didn't cause you know it's your or c.d.'s which has signed it is basically about to sign a deal with the results of northern caucuses that's a mistake zones tourism. providing it with ten billion euros to build five ski resorts in the northern caucasus region but also the sochi investment forum is a perfect platform for companies to present themselves as developing and expanding and earlier business r.t. talked to the head of lukoil by developing out of new said bed lukoil is planning to expand its operations purchasing upstream businesses in the united states and in

asia and will also increase production overseas. recipes here in the next ten years we'll concentrate on projects like west could to iraq that will significantly change the structure and 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. so indeed such investment form has a once again proven to be a perfect platform to talk about the macroeconomic situation in russia but also sign major deals and make new contacts and share ideas. right retreat sounds like lots of us exciting stuff going on there thank you so much for that update that was a correspondent with an example reporting to us live from russia's resource city of sochi. i don't we have a little bit of time left so let's take a look at the markets brants is rising modestly trading up one hundred thirteen

dollars on easing concerns about the european debts cover this points in jobs that are from the u.s. this limits in the gains we thought we'd see on its coating slightly lower just below eighty eight dollars per barrel and that's after recording a decent after the day before over in the u.s. markets are extending weekly gains and that's ahead of a measure of consumer confidence that could show better results and september than last month european stocks are higher for fourth day amid speculation word that it action by policymakers will be able to ease the region's that crisis banking shares are leading the gains on the footsie and the dax has advanced even further it's carrying over two percent this hour and here in russia the markets and of the trade in session in the red despite gains in the morning let's say investors are rochelle were hesitant to make big moves as the finance ministers summit in poland's the r.t.s. live below six hundred points losing over a one and

a half percent this hour. and that's all business looks the sour the headlines are next with us sir.