hard times are still not sold. on our seats at night kossovo says it's set up customs control of the breakaway republics border with serbia despite protests by local serbs and warnings that the move might spark new violence got the latest for. also in the wake of the british and french leaders visit to libya in a show of support for the new authority will look at how the u.k. still invites repressive regimes on a shopping spree for military hardware. the much anticipated south stream gas pipeline roof a step closer to reality is rocket science landmark agreements with top european energy giant. and russia's goes down on norwegian soil our teeth close up series takes you to what used to be the western most some period settlement didn't

involve it much of the coming. very good evening for me kevin oh you're watching r.t. it's now eleven pm here in moscow and firsts kosovo's prime minister's announced that the breakaway region has introduced customs control on its border with serbia that's a move strongly opposed by belgrade local serbs have been trying to prevent it by blocking roads leading to the two border posts and hundreds of them have protested against the move the northern city of metro it's correspondent sara first has the latest from. these two border crossings remain blogs tonight the ethnics have barricaded the rights leading up to the protesting of course the cost the government the take leave of haste and now we're here in mitzvot which is

the as neatly divided town and the bridge head it divides the north and study in parts of the town and the southern albanian parts it's a day that barricade had around three thousand serbs turned out that barricade and we saw a very similar thing happening both of the teach exploits that one would try to hit earlier we were one of the checkpoints and from the other side we could see slate became a full force is on the ground and what we heard earlier today. had a full forces and your legs were airlifted by helicopter to those checkpoints also the albanian course the police a very actually go to. each of the checkpoints at the moment and only that for the time being in an observatory role now of course the plan is for them to eventually take over control and that's what much of this to speak best now amid concerns repeat of what we saw in july when violent clashes over the course think of an

making of me to try and take these place resulted in the death of a policeman is actually being relatively quiet here today what we've seen is a huge number of. i think said it's heading out at least very cagey to what we put at the moment it's a standoff situation is being called a war of nerves because what you could hear image of it the barricades at both the checkpoints and the barricades is the serbian priestesses and then the capel forces not the actual crossings themselves ok no one wants to make me take a full force if they want to take me to break up the barricades that they're sparking violence and to set a protest is for exactly the same reasons they say would be a key side of preventing violence the united nations security council holding yesterday and in the. since you need to know that the request is. no final decisions were really made from that there were a lot of countries that were unwilling really to make a statement russia and belgrade warning this need to take a this is a thing we should good really perfect further bloodshed as a co-sponsor

a first for sports political analyst alexander provigil told me the nato led mission in kosovo assisting the breakaway republic installing customs controls is it for violating the un mandate. ok for meeting nato absolutely overstepped their mandate their un mandate is clear they're supposed to be neutral down there they're supposed to be keeping the peace they're not supposed to be taking anyone's side they're clearly taking the albanian side these the session is the government increased in the capital of course of all and so this is bound to stir trouble and openly sided with them together with the western countries the western powers that are sitting in the security council so harsh in part she has a lot to thank for as far as they're concerned we have the security council we have five states each with a veto power we have three western states and two non western states on the security council with veto power so really if the west decides to support any

unilateral action. you can't stop it and you can't give a mandate to the un to do anything about it because either the united states or great britain and france will put a veto veto to it so it's not surprising they've been sponsoring corso independence for years now and they're actually thinking that they're entering the endgame now and they're actually doing a hard push for it right now who are asking you tonight few thoughts on the story on a website called the question there is what should belgrade do about kosovo what do you think this is what you're telling us thanks taking part if you have them so far tonight by far and away the majority of those you see seventy eight percent think the best way out is to simply take it back from the albanians around ten percent if you again not spin ordering around the number all night suggesting recognising possible and joining the e.u. similar amount if you think belgrade should repay still that small minority telling

us that said be a should build a concrete wall at the border it welcomes you views we'd like to hear them r.t. dot com very much like to hear what you've got to say about the story tonight. libyan rebel forces attacking rikki gadhafi stronghold of bani walid have retreated after facing fierce resistance from the colonel's loyalists rebel units are now regrouping on the outskirts of the town and we repelled by mortar and rocket fire tonight while mcduffie's hometown searches another focal point of the latest fighting it is me if a national as the latest. we're hearing from the national transitional council here in the capital tripoli that its troops have apparently enters the city of said some five hundred kilometers east of tripoli that office hometown and one of the colonels last stronghold the m.t.c. reports that at least four of its fighters eleven and other reports have been killed during these offensive seven others and also there is information that forty could have been loyalists have been captured and see if there are still reports

that qaddafi's information chief. would have been one of them but this information is very hard to very hard you know very nervous until gadhafi support bani walid some two hundred kilometers south of the capital tripoli continues while concerns rose over security safety of civilians trapped in the cities and the areas where the clashes between the rebels and gadhafi loyalists to contain and 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 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 some place mission u.n. mission here in the country literally to 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 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 civilian so's now a little bit far from its initial go. across but roof a nationalist the british prime minister proposed to libya after he's gone. celebrated the end of gadhafi is forty two year rule anger is growing in the u.k. over the arms fair that once hosted the colonel when he was stocking up with the military hardware critics say is indeed one of the world's biggest weapon resells flaws in the provided libya as i was to lead it with a means to launch his deadly crackdown on the opposition as are these other bennett reports next some problems in taters have been shopping around for arms in london. selling weapons could be

a moral minefield and 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 short of the 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 this 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 into help driving arm and vehicles made by be a systems the u.k.'s largest defense company its products on this play here will be at home in any bond film this time can alter its temperature to change its infrared appearance but like the british government a company can't change its spots it says there are countries it won't sell to but

that doesn't include any here if a country's been invited by the british government here it's it's probably going to be on your list of countries who are it to sell to. make sense of. these right to self as a result regimes like bahrain that have repressed democratic critics. that whatever the cause of that. 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 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 had out spirits in the arab spring but they get short sighted it's bad for this country it doesn't make money it makes walls. and this year's shoppers include fourteen countries branded all. authoritarian by human rights groups

a fact the government came clean on just one day before trade began but i'm sure they're very embarrassed because of that one tragic figure e. david cameron was going to egypt walking around terrier square proclaiming his belief in human rights and freedom and democracy and the next stop was kuwait i get turned out he was traveling with eight arms properly executives the whole purpose of the trip was trade not of the big traits or tried 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 a 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 either bennett r.t. london. syria's regular demonstrations after friday prayers have turned into violent clashes tonight with police local activists say that road twenty protesters were killed the bloodshed hasn't stopped thousands though from pouring on to the streets across the country taking the uprising against president assad for into its seventh month the real story behind the syrian rage is the subject did of our debate show cross thoughts on we have very short it's not just about twenty minutes time here's a quick preview of what's in store for. the syrian government has pointed out that the opposition certainly 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 our 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 now is the syrians not by the syrian government i don't know any nation in the world who takes over serious word to syria the syrian government said if they are telling

the truth then all the media to syria allow the media into the square is a lot of myriad media to see the troops moving down 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 if they don't allow the media in nobody believes the syrian government not even in fact the people the syrian government. can. get. more than a very short even tonight small news before the european energy giants have signed up to bring the long planned south stream gas pipeline a step closer to reality program would run under the black sea and be another means of pumping russian gas to wrigley into europe just like the nordstrom network that opened earlier on this month i think the beach from ever drank has got the latest from sochi for. the fact that gazprom has signed the shareholder agreement with its

european partners companies from france italy and germany means that russia is indeed one step closer to realizing the transportation of gas from russia underneath the black sea to bulgaria and then eventually to austria and italy so directly to european consumers and this one step gives it an extreme advantage over a rival of project nabucco pipeline which is outlined to deliver gas from central asia to europe and this has spurred concerns from europe for european and 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 zero twenty to fifteen directly to european consumers means that actually energy security will be fortified as energy deliveries will be secured and russia would 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 victory in the college 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 gas promo said there's no point in doing that because the whole goal of the pipeline is to bypass transit countries. and you find out more about our stories we're in our business bulletin can we just crack ten minutes time. next merge in a community where you want for nothing life is easy and work is a plenty well one such place did once exist in a remote russian outpost not anymore it's not even indeed a place for. russia's borders here it is on them up we're talking about the

norwegian archipelago called spitsbergen it was somebody the soviet dream in its day a system where everyone's needs were provided for or exotic boy for r.t. is a special series of reports all this week and she's visited what was meant to be communism's example of a bright future. it's one of the busiest seagull colonies in the arctic. restless as the northern sun the birds cull the island in search of food for their young noisy and is the only like all big families the sequels of the last reminder of the one thousand li atmosphere that once permeated its 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 between paris given russian women's underlying infatuation with everything french for their way was a male german tree also known as london supposedly for the gentle manners of its inhabitants during its past years the settlement housed more than a thousand people a day it's a ghost town but a spirit of communism lurks in their band and buildings. this settlement was called pyramid because it become like mountains surrounding you thirty years ago it had big living standards so if people could dream of salaries two to three times higher than in the mainland we've ran a vibrant social life in many ways it was a task model for the brighter future that so many people were trying to build. snowdon most statue of man in stupid years into the near breakaway sure most of the pyramids residents were critical mind it was never really profitable here from

a team for the sake of keeping the soviet presence at least placed archipelago half way between north america and western europe. the only announced post this question settlement was also an ideological showcase for capitalist rivals and new resources for spirit to cut a dash a concert hall a library a rock band and even these half size olympic pool people here 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 pyramid realized that their perfect life was just that two political pyramid based on faulty economy and shaky ideology in a few years the parent there is turned into an island nightmare people who are used to eating caviar for breakfast have to turn to hunting to cook food on the table one of the families backed out and left abandoning pyramid in all its grandstanding

glory this pillar was erected here with march palm on the settlements thirtieth of fortieth anniversary only to become a grey stone decades later when the last batch of coal was extracted from the local mine workers just laugh and here it was their way of raking over the coals for the life that always do you good to be true. are it's the pyramid bergen archipelago. and if we enjoy a series of reports second wind see that we've got more special coverage from spitzbergen tomorrow saturday when we discover how and i will solve your dream provides a means of survival today as also more about the series as well online a couple. decades back in top. one thousand miles from the north pole. the kim is taking you on a trip to spitzbergen on google ago. where twenty years after the u.s.

the sars collapsed between life is still going strong. and the world's a long long 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 on our t.v. . america's missile defense plans in europe are exaggerated over the last few days on thursday was sort of washington announced parts of the shield would be deployed on polish soil by journeys twenty eight earlier this week the u.s. sealed the deal with romania under which land based and deceptive missiles and over one hundred military personnel will be based and that was followed by another deal with turkey on one american radio station in the country's east but the shield is said to be designed to counter possible attacks from iran or north korea but it's not run off international affairs expert of the stealth nato movement told r.t.

those threats are not what the shield is really for. but we know that last november at the nato summit in lisbon portugal where the military alliance indoors the american missile shield plan for europe where they were talking about as a potential adjunct to our first strikes of the meaning that in the event that the united states and its nato allies would launch. its described as a preemptive but in fact a first strike against an ancient like russia he inserted missile defense system is going to be in place to ensure that any missile surviving they have in their source would be not fanatical or surplus this is the real danger of this if it is not there since you know the talk about north korea posing a missile threat to the earth a parent having to place twenty four there some three interceptors in poland just the sense of geography and that there are three of those you know beyond my ability to throw its. let me take you some of the top stories in brief this friday evening

palestinian president mahmoud abbas says he'll ask me and security council for full membership next week that's despite washington's earlier promise to use its veto power to block the creation of a palestinian state meanwhile palestinians and international activists have held a protest rally in the west bank scuffles also broke out there were two people injured the fighting between israelis and palestinians took place in a village where vandals set fire to a mosque earlier this month. multiple bombings in the south of thailand have left at least three dead and dozens wounded three near simultaneous blasts targeted a hotel a police station and a cultural center on the country's border with malaysia it was the majority provinces in that part of thailand have witnessed seven years of rebellion there that have played almost five thousand lives but this attack is one of the biggest since the country's new government came to power in august. denmark's legs of its first female prime minister telephoning schmidt's victory ends the decade long leadership of the staunchly anti immigrant popular party campaign focused on the

country struggling economy stirring 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. exactly twenty three minutes past eleven o'clock at night here in moscow our debate show cross-talk coming your way very shortly tonight the crisis as i mentioned earlier syria will be debated shortly then but let's get across the latest business news now marina's here. hello and welcome to business here on our top story today is of course russia's international investment forum and saw where the money starting to roll in as get struck representatives from thirty five countries are in the black sea resort looking for investment opportunities ludmer putin made a speech at the forum and artie's dividend goal has the main points for us. well indeed the highlight of the day at the source the international investment for was

of looting of putin'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 year it was a pretty upbeat little person says that russia's economy will come back to pre-crisis state in twenty twelve that is next year that 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 four percent on average in the next three years when it comes to investment coming into russia but in a patient's best buy there's a certain type of investment that russia needs let's listen to what he had to say. he must strive not only to grow the economy but to improve economic efficiency for 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 which are creating and producing high tech. and surprisingly enough political groups and also said that russia will most likely meet its budget 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 well apart from the most important deal and that is of course the widely discussed shareholder agreements we gas promise european partners in these any france's e.d.f. and germany's winter small has also been a wide range of deals are connected with the cross and our region where sochi is located 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 but you're going to get

a new set that coral is planning to expand its operations purchasing upstream businesses in the united states and in asia and will also increase production overseas use you in the next ten years we will concentrate on projects like west could not true in 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 oil production we think that in ten years our company will increase hydrocarbon production going twenty to thirty percent. so indeed such investment form has so 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. and here's a look at the markets european stocks closed higher for a fourth day about speculation coordinated action by policymakers who would be able to ease the region's that crisis banking shares like against on the footsie class

for russia the markets and of the trading session in the red analysts say investors were hesitant to make good moves as the finance minister some of kicked off in poland and let's take a look at some of the and that's movers on the my side energy majors were under pressure with gas from just under one percent on the right financial stocks were also down was losing point six percent and bucking the trend was for back at the records as part of ties asian is still possible this year and that's how business looks the sour for the.

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