this is our t.v. glad to have you with us let's get right to your top stories in a show of support for libya's national transitional council the u.n. security council has approved a new resolution among the promised support is the easing of sanctions and the un freezing of assets for more on this story let's cross live to our correspondent going to church of cameras in washington for us live so what do the world powers want to achieve with this resolution well one of the things that the new resolution envisions is a special u.n. support mission in libya that will be set up for an initial three months to help in what diplomats insist is essentially a political operation it would give advice on good storing security but it would concentrate on efforts to undertake inclusive political dialogue promote a national reconciliation and generally help the government in libya organize elections and write a new constitution and that kind of u.n.

participation is welcomed by all members this is something that washes amboy through the united nations was talking about saying it's a u.n. responsibility to help create some kind of a law and order system that would put an end to the chaos there as a result of the failure to properly implemented the previous u.n. resolution aiming at protecting civilians the country found itself in a full scale civil war with civilians suffering most also the resolution expresses the security council's determination to lift the no fly zones over the air space in the very near future well that's a provision put forward by russia and a provision that received the support of all members take a listen. in libya by channeling the situation into political diplomatically and it's important to cancel considers lifting the no fly zone over libya particularly as this new fly zone is being violated arbitrarily and used the new reality on the ground maintaining the no fly zone no longer makes sense its lifting must be part

of the international community's efforts to address the aftermath of the libyan crisis. the resolution will also make sanctions imposed on libya and make sure hands of billions of dollars of assets frozen by the security council in february and march are available to and for the benefit of the people of libya. well the vote was not the only development concerning would be of that has taken place on friday at the un earlier the transitional government was given a seat at the un general assembly. exactly the general assembly on friday gave libya's un seat to the national transitional council which toppled moammar gadhafi although not yet controlling the whole of libya the rebels will nevertheless represent their country at the u.n. general assembly next week as for the arms embargo imposed on libya there are uncertainties whether everyone at the u.n. security council is on the same page here russia called for removing

a ban on small arms supplies to leave yet to protect u.n. pairs personnel diplomats and humanitarian staff but the essence of the french british proposal with regards to lifting the arms embargo is yet quite so there might be some pension over the issue there anyway when it comes to concerns over the proliferation of arms in libya and its potential impact on the regional peace everyone seems to be on the same page and the security council has clearly expressed those who aren't so sure now know if weapons and that are up for grabs is extremely worrying more market army left behind armories brimming with weapons and the rebels have help themselves those weapons may very well wind up in the hands of people who have other agendas then defeating could offie that's the kind of concern that russia has raised on a number of occasions saying in a chaos like the one unfolding in libya the weapons will inevitably end up in the hands of extremists and terrorists and not just with weapons but maybe it's nuclear

material that libya possibly has to. all right thank you going to church again reporting from washington d.c. . meanwhile in libya khadafi forces attacking the loyalist stronghold of a bunny walid have retreated after facing fierce resistance they are now regrouping on the outskirts of the town having been repelled by mortar and rocket fire moammar gadhafi is home town syria is another focal point of the latest fighting artie's marouf a notion of has 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 his hometown and one of the colonel's last strongholds the m.t.c. reports that at least four of its fighters eleven and other reports have been killed during the offensive seven others wounded and also there is information that forty could offer loyalists have been captured and see if there is to be reports

that. information chief muesli brigade would have been one of them but this information is very hard to verify fighting over another center of gadhafi support bani walid some two hundred kilometers south of the capital tripoli continues meanwhile concerns over security safety of civilians trapped in the cities and the areas where the clashes between the rebels and gadhafi loyalists so containing the leaders of the two nato countries that played a prominent a key role in the libyan revolution that. nature 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 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 goal or to use maria financial reporting from

tripoli more perspective on the situation in libya coming up later in the program but now on to some other stories kosovo's prime minister has announced to the breakaway region it has introduced customs control on its border with serbia 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 in the northern city of mitrovica to our correspondent sara firth brings us this report. 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 now we're here and mitch of it which is the ethnically divided town and the bridge head that divides the north and serbian possible 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 exploits no one would driving in we were one of the checkpoints and from the other side we could see. the case full force is on the ground and 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 a move 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 seven it's turning out at these barricades but what we've got at the moment is a standoff situation is being called

a war of nerves because what you could hear image of the barricades at both the checkpoints of the barricades is the serbian protesters and then the capel forces at the actual crossings themselves i've been no one wants to make me the case full force is they want to make me have to break up the barricades the fear is sparking violence and the serbian protest is for exactly the same reasons they don't want to be a key side preventing violence the united nations security council holding yesterday and i'm. the need to know is that the request. now no final decisions were really made from that there were a lot of countries that were unwilling really to make a statement russia great warning that this need to take away the sort of thing we should could really provoke further bloodshed or to sarah further reporting very now european energy giants have signed up to bring the long plan to south stream gas pipeline a step closer to reality the pipeline would run under the black sea and to be another means of pumping russian gas and directly into europe just like the nordic

stream network which was opened earlier this month dmitri medvedev has more 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 rival project in a bucco pipeline which is outlined to deliver gas from central asia to europe and this has spurred concerns from europe for european or thora to us about the security of energy in europe and we have heard a comment from. the 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 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 a lot of from kiev victory in the college of 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 that there's no point in doing that because the whole goal of the pipeline is to bypass transit countries now back to our top story the situation in libya and the new u.n. security council resolution to get to get more on the inside of the story let's now

talk to carmen russell salute chance host an analyst at the voice of russia radio station. now mr russell so the chance he thanks for joining us first question if you would mind now that the u.n. security council has pledged to its help to turn libya into a democratic state what do you think are the chances for this actually to become reality. well the chances of becoming a democratic state are you know i guess maybe fairly good but of course the problem is that you have so many disparate interest among the rebels that there is it's certainly going to be a tough road and it's kind of interesting that the u.s. really wants to get into this quite as much i mean i think that it has a lot to do with self-interest in terms of trying to keep certain elements in the among the rebels from getting any from taking any power or any real power and of course those are the the elements such as you know the more islamic elements so there might be at some point

a possibility for real democracy however the problem is is it going to be the democracy that america is going to try to help impose on and that i think is that could be the potentially the real problem how much is the united states and nato and european nations going to be meddling in that democracy now moving beyond the political aspect of it what will this move mean for the average libyan on the ground. as far as the become becoming more democratic i think you know obviously this is this is a very organic uprising they started this without any real you know like many of the arab spring countries they started this without any real impetus from the outside in fact i mean the u.s. continued to support more market awfully well into the revolution so i think that this could cause you know this is very good for the people of libya in the sense that they will begin to start to realize some of the things that they have been fighting for you know obviously it's a country where there's going to be you know they're going to have to deal with a number of issues such as the economy when they started looking at the resources

and how that is going to be divvied up but it's no longer going to be one particular family. controlling it with an iron grip and taking the country for what it's worth so you know the implications are certainly good should say the benefits there are a lot of benefits for the libyan people absolutely now the u.n. has promised to help of the n.p.c. to prepare for free and transparent elections but with the nation still torn by civil war could any particular party unite the people. i think that that's actually going to be one of the biggest problems that they have is that you know any particular interest that's going to be trying to you know trying to everybody's going to be imposing their particular interests i have unfortunate have a very i'm not very hopeful that that unity will come very easily if at all for for some period of time you know you had a number of different factions among the rebels you had those that are you know

that are looking for a true pluralistic secular government which which the n.c.c. has generally promised but at the same time they have to give you know enough support to other members of the society such as the more islamic and even some fundamentalists among them and they're going to want to you know they they've already talked about putting islamic well shari'a law really in the constitution so that's a possibility it'll be really tough to gain any unity without somebody unfortunately of somebody like moammar gadhafi who wants to try to you know impose that unity with an iron grip and using the military. it's it'll it'll be difficult well are you concerned at all i mean the the difference in terms of how the middle east is treated there at the national security council in fact right now the national transitional council was given a seat very fast at the u.n. whereas the palestinians who are about to ask for u.n. recognition are still struggling for one are you concerned at all about this

discrepancy. oh yeah i mean it's a huge you know it really just shows that the u.s. foreign policy does not actually fit with what the u.s. says it does with our with this idea that we promote democracy and so on i mean it's all political i mean frankly we the u.s. is is very closely aligned with israel and so in a way i mean we are protected protecting israel's interests there and not even really you know trying to you know to kind of build build any bridges there and create peace at least not very constructively so whereas you know again with with libya you know you have you have oil you have the fact that there is the potential for some real homegrown problems for the u.s. including such as terrorism and that kind of thing so you know it's clearly the u.s. trying to will seek its best interest not necessarily the middle east best interest

all right thank you very much for being with us that was carmen russell's the chancy host and analyst and voice of russia radio station and we continue our special coverage from spitzbergen later on saturday and i'll be back with a recap of our top stories in about ten minutes time but up next our latest edition of moscow out moscow's a pricey place to visit but you don't need to fork out for a five star hotel if you come to stay martin andrews takes a look at how to make your cash go further in the russian capital. great. journey. so to. moscow.

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sleep. dynamic. friends. two thirty in the morning live from moscow this is our. top headline. the u.n. security council unanimously approved a new resolution on libya giving support to the country's transitional government in its efforts to rebuild the nation it provides for the establishment of a un mission to the un freezing of assets of two major oil company. police to kosovo.