welcome your chin r.t. with me kevin owen it's midnight here in moscow now and first kosovo's prime minister's announced that the breakaway region has introduced customs control 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 are protested against the move in the northern city of misrata it's our correspondent sara firth has the latest from there. those two disputed border crossings remain blogs tonight the ethnics have barricaded the roads leading up to them protesting of course the cost the government the take over the place and now we're here in mitch of it which is the ethnically divided town and the bridge head that divides the north and serbia in parts of the town and the southern albanian parts today that barricade

had around three thousand serbs turned out to man that barricade and we saw a very similar thing happening both of the teach eight points no one would try being in a we were one of the checkpoints and from the other side we could see. the k. full forces on the ground but now what we've heard is that earlier today. ok for forces and your legs were lifted by helicopter to those checkpoints also the albanian cause the police they've only actually got to. each of the checkpoints at the moment and that only for the time being in an observatory role now of course the plan is for them to eventually take a the control and that's what much of this dispute vests on now amid concerns of a repeat of what we saw in july when violent clashes over the course think of a making of me to try and take these posts resulted in the death of a policeman is actually being relatively quiet here today what we've seen is

a huge number of the serbian i think so it's turning out at these barricades but what we've got at the moment is the standoff situation is being called a war of nerves because what you've got hair image of it at the barricades at both the checkpoints of the barricades is the serbian protest is and then the capel forces at the actual crossing themselves ok no one wants to make me the case full force is they want to make me have to break up the barricades to fears sparking violence and the serbian protest is for exactly the same reasons they will be preventing violence the united nations security council holding us today and in the . we need to know that the request of belgrade and. now no final decisions were really made from that there are a lot of countries that were unwilling really to make a statement russia and belgrade warning that this need to take away this repatriation could really prefer a further bloodshed our correspondent sara first seen there now we're inviting you've been inviting you all night tonight to tell us what you think about this

developing story the questions on our web site the question is what do you think belgrade should do about kosovo this is what it's telling you so far let's take a look at the map again the majority of you saying the best way is to simply take it back from the albanians it was the majority seventy eight percent last year has gone down a tad this is still around ten percent of you suggesting recognizing cos the vote in jordan the e.u. again a similar amount think the belgrade should repair trade all service and still the smallest amount of in the minority saying said we should build a concrete wall of the border what's your take on this big story let us know r.t. dot com is the place to do it. libyan rebel forces attacking the key gadhafi stronghold of bani walid have retreated tonight after facing fierce resistance from the colonel's loyalists rebel units and i regrouped on the outskirts of the town having been repelled by mortar and rocket fire moamar gaddafi his hometown of sirte is another focal point for the latest fighting artist rif notion has got the latest for you. 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 duffy's hometown and one of the colonel's last strongholds the m.t.c. reports that at least four of its fighters eleven and the other reports have been killed during offensive seven others wounded and also there is information that forty could often loyalist have been captured and since there are several reports that. information chief moose a brigade would have been one of them but this information is very hard to verify quite you know very nervous until gadhafi is supported by anybody 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 continue 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 said that they would introduce a u.n. security council draft resolution which expects to abolish international arms embargo and freeze been asses that. had been frozen as part of sanctions against gadhafi also stylish mission u.n. mission here in the country 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 our correspondent based in tripoli with the latest for you and i was the british prime minister departs libya of to.

celebrating the end of gadhafi is forty two year rule is growing in the u.k. over the arms fair that once hosted the colonel when he was stocking up with new military hardware critics say it's indeed one of the world's biggest weapon resells flaws and that it provided libya's ousted leader with the means to launch his deadly crackdown on the opposition as we've witnessed results of a ben it's been investigating some prominent dictators have been shopping around for arms in london. selling weapons could be a moral minefield but not here this is the world's biggest arms 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 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 to changes infrared appearance but like the british government the gum pany can 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 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 with. these protestors from the stop the arms fair 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 is short sighted it's bad for this country it doesn't make money it makes wars by here to get this use shoppers include fourteen countries branded all. authoritarian 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 china did factory. david cameron was going to be walking around terrier 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 arms company executives but the whole purpose of the trip the strayed one of the big traits or tried to make was weapons straight to the middle east the

government says it's tightening restrictions on who can buy weapons that could be used for oppression and he claims an invite here doesn't guarantee an export license but defense 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 r.t. london. where european owns 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 just like the nord stream network which opened earlier on this month what is the need to have a drink you've got the latest on this story from sochi. 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 rival project in the bucco pipeline which is outlined to deliver gas from central asia to europe and this has spurred concerns from europe european and of dorothy's about the security of energy in europe and we have heard a comment from. the european energy commissioner saying that this makes europe war 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 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 deliveries to europe in the past also we have heard an offer 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 by gazprom and said there's no point in doing that because the whole goal of the pipeline is to bypass transit countries to be from ever doing their magic community where you want for nothing life c.z. works aplenty but one such place did once exist in a remote russian outpost but not anymore it's not indeed even place within russia's borders these days it's actually on a norwegian archipelago called spitsbergen there it is on the map in one symbolic the soviet dream system everyone's needs were provided for in a series of special reports for r.t.

this week it was on the visit had what was meant to be communism as example of a bright future. it's one of the sea gull colonies in the arctic. restless as the olden sun the birds called the island in search of food for their young. like old big families the sequels of the last reminder of the one thousand li 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 and 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 ondine infatuation with everything french a bit further weight was a male dormitory also known as london supposedly for the gentle mentors of its inhabitants during its best years the settlement housed more than

a thousand people today it's a ghost town with a spirit of communism lurks in the band and buildings. this settlement was called pyramid because of become like mountains surrounding you thirty years ago it had the highest living standards so many people could dream off salaries two to three times higher than in the mainland free food vibrant social life in many ways it was a task for the brighter future that soviet people were trying to build. statue of man in steel piers into the nearby glacier most of the pyramids residents worked at a coal mine it was never really profitable he had maintained for the sake of keeping the soviet presence at this place 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

cut it. a concert hall a library a rock band and even this half size olympic pool people here are reliving the true salvi a dream you have the best hopes tanked almost overnight when the soviet union fell apart all of a sudden people of pyramids realized that their perfect life was just that a jew political pyramid based on faulty cotton me and shaky ideology in a few years the film that arctic paradise turned into an island nightmare people who were used to eating caviar for breakfast had to turn to hunting to put food on the table one of the families back down and left abandoning pyramid in all its grandstanding glory this pillar was erected here with much pomp on the settlements thirtieth or fortieth anniversary only to become with the gravestone 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 some boys are at sea pyramid spitzbergen archipelago. of reports so for example this week we continue our special coverage from spitzbergen later tomorrow saturday to mean time about with every couple of our top stories about ten minutes time next though on our to your late edition of moscow and it being the weekend is a pricey place to visit but don't worry about that too much you don't always need to for a five star hotel if you come and stay modern andrews explains boy next. great

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hello and welcome to the show no i think september is one of the best months to visit moscow people on bikes in the summer holidays the city is relaxing the last of the late summer sun tries to shine down on the capital but want to stay in one of the most expensive cities in the world not everyone can afford the jury's five star hotels so with that in mind on this week's program i'm going to be exploring the subject of hostels starting off here at. the old. chocolate factory. if you want an example of modern day moscow former red brick confectionery complex is it's one of the main centers of contemporary culture in the capital here is bustling with the bars restaurants and my clubs of course moscow's development doesn't stop that every year you hotels open up in the russian capital nonsense it's the low price bracket that needs attention in a city full of luxurious accommodation with russian and foreign entrepreneurs

seeing a gap in the markets lots of budget accommodation has opened in the past decade. in the play of you might. even. have. men and women and you can purchase food. very groovy and affordable prices.

they have fourteen rooms inside here ranging from six to king size private accommodation prices range from seven hundred fifty rubles to three thousand four hundred amazing prices for the high standard. as well as private rooms. and furnishings. is popular with.

a private room. provide anything. and for those who are. closed to the public. accommodation. and. you know i've been walking out. here i enjoy. very. pretty and. so. we think. we have a place to stay. way too expensive because so far from the nothing. as well so it's ideal to go far and.

clean and functional and. well equipped. and. it looks more like in. the future. tell me how to get involved. more years to go. to. this. because it is a problem here in the us. can be a problem. getting better. very interesting.

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basically it's getting more. and more. thank you so much for. coming. in the. building which was constructed before the revolution. they can provide you with any information. storage safety deposit box. free of charge. the. situation.

including. such international chains as starbucks i'm i don't know for the most but just to be traveling the fights back you choose well. and accommodate up to forty people but no one is available which includes a mix store with temp featuring male and female only ropes. based because it wasn't my guy look. they say it was good it was. interesting place it's in the center of the city it's practical. i'm really really happy to be here in the downtown area. there's a lot of cool. it's too much free rooms with up to forty beds can accommodate more than seventy people and there are also several small rooms including private room. and satellite t.v.

this room costs three thousand rubles around eight hundred dollars a night prices for a place in the top five hundred roubles around twenty dollars. travelers here so we have the same passion for trolling and discovering new places and people all over the world so we have no limits in age or nationalities or guests so everyone is welcome here. for the first time. there's a trance iberian. beds in it storms and double rooms in the breakfast is included in the price of your stay you can also use the kitchen any time of day to cook your meals and a free internet connection including wireless is also available to hostels gets. to explore the world. in doing this it's not easy for me because the english is not good for all the rest people who are trying to help you out.

so. the final location i'm visiting is called. previously named him from home it was renamed to the celebrated russian author. the first floor has been recently renovated and the rooms are bright and contemporary as one of the first hostels in moscow is situated in the metro stop smiling. to fourteen a regional rooms for more than private suites and comfortable six bed dorms the hostel provides accommodation for more than fifty people the matter if they're businessmen students it's worse in comparison to the large hotels office excellent service a comfortable location a living conditions up to european standards are the best thing about this place is its location it's situated right next to the popular street. and the hostel is also full of character with its. a moderate designs there are two floors of various

rooftops here and best of all some of the cheapest accommodation in the capital. i think our. name me means. he's famous for must learn. to recognise its emerging the building was popular with various rights is in the early part of the twentieth century the action of various novels even takes place in this house. in some of the rooms you can still see the original doors ornaments or in serious. forests and business travelers coming to the russian capital every year the hotel industry knows it's the aspiring local middle class and three star foreign markets that moscow needs to focus its attention on. don't waste hundreds of dollars on underpriced do some research and explore the cities the real bargains to be found.

and with the. health. facilities and services you perceive anywhere else. well of course. the same time next week. from a. very . dynamic.

month. twenty four seven live from moscow this. tonight. despite protests by local. news. of a developing story. giving support to the country's transitional. but. also. south stream gas pipeline moves a step closer to reality is russia. with. the project russian gas directly to european consumers.