as libya's new government gets set for its un seat and reach the old regimes cash there are fears that unwavering support for the former rebels may see more civilian casualties. kosovo police and e.u. peacekeepers sees two checkpoints on the northern border with serbia ignoring locals protests and warnings of escalating violence. it's about time that i understand that community of nations as an equal and there is no longer is something. that knows how skinny and leaders defy u.s. veto threats and vowed to launch a statehood recognition bid with the u.n. security council next week.

ten am in moscow i'm out try as it good to have you with us here on r.t. our top story libya's national transitional council is lining up for its place at the united nations a new resolution paves the way for them to take over libya's seat at the general assembly although the n.c.c. isn't yet in full control of the country the u.n. is also agreeing to lift some of the sanctions imposed on the khadafi regime or he's got a young has no. one of the things that the new resolution invasions is a special u.n. support mission in libya that will be set up for an initial three months to help in what the climate insists is essentially a political operation it would give advice on restoring security but would concentrate on efforts to undertake inclusive political dialogue promote 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 russia's envoy to the united nations was talking about saying it's the 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 zone over the levy an airspace in the very near future well that's a provision put forward by russia and a provision that we see to support our members take a listen. in libya very charming the situation into political diplomatically and it's important the council considers lifting the new fly zone over libya particularly as this new fly zone is being violated arbitrarily induce the new reality on the ground and intervening the new flows whom no longer make sense it's

lifting must be part of the international community's efforts to address the aftermath of the libyan crisis. the resolution would also ease economic sanctions imposed on levy and make sure the pains of billions of dollars of assets frozen by the security council in february and march are soon available to and for the benefit of the people of libya the general assembly on friday gave libya's un seats to the national transitional council which topple moammar gadhafi although not yet controlling the whole of levy or 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 calls for removing a ban on small arms supplies to levy or to protect u.n. person personnel diplomats and humanitarian staff but the essence of the french british proposal with regards to lifting the arms embargo is yet quite vague so

there might be some tension over the issue there anyway when it comes to concerns over the proliferation of arms in libya and its potential impact on regional peace everyone seems to be on the same page and the security council has clearly expressed those concerns the amount of weapons in the that are up for grabs is the stream lee worrying more productive army left behind armories dreaming with weapons and the rebels have help themselves those weapons need very well lined 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 weapons but maybe nuclear materials that lead to a possibly has to. although many see libya moving toward an arrow law and freedom world affairs analyst carmen russell such as king from voice of russia isn't so

optimistic about the country's democratic. the problem is that you have so many disparate interest among the rebels that there's 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 elements such as the 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 impose on it and i 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 on the ground in libya fighters backing the new leadership continue to pound what's left of the old regime sphere remaining holdouts civilian casualties still a very real possibility of what the country is quick to condemn khadafi as assaults

on the rebels back in march seems to have gone quiet as archie's lawyer and it explains. david cameron and nicolas sarkozy surveyed their handiwork the most senior leaders to visit tripoli since their countries began the nation to intervention in libya they say their work is not yet done. with. a billion. and. he's right civilians are still being killed but now that gadhafi is virtually powerless the people increasingly doing the killing are national transitional council forces together with nato as they attack bani walid and other good athletes strongholds on that cameron and sarkozy are silent to paraphrase george orwell in animal farm some civilians are more equal than others nato insists they're targeted attacks but there are reports of m.t.c. reprisals against suppose it could duffy supporters clearly there are real problems

on the ground it's a legacy of such a conflict that you will have human rights abuses on both sides the rebels for a transitional council have promised to hold their own forces to account and i think that is a process that we will see from now it doesn't seem to be happening yet the african union alleges that transitional forces are hunting down and killing black africans on the assumption that gadhafi recruited them as mercenaries that's borne out by reports by amnesty international which that is the rebels are guilty of unlawful killings and torture it takes pains to point out that kids afy forces committed some terrible atrocities but also talk events of brutal settling of scores by rebel forces including the lynchings of gadhafi soldiers meanwhile could ask these hometown is one of the last holdouts

a letter purportedly from the colonel himself begs the u.n. security council to protect sirte from being pounded by. nato has to tackle what it describes his crimes by the forces of the new government civilian deaths all seemingly assured. cameron and sarkozy were quick to condemn gadhafi the killing innocent libyans in the lead up to nato is no fly zone being imposed but no such rhetoric spin aimed at the end t.c. in fact it's quite the opposite person sponsored a draft un resolution to ease sanctions against libya and against the national oil corporation in particular getting the oil flowing again your emmett's all see london western fears he has done for liberty and independence faces a tough test next week as palestinian leaders prepare to go flat out and getting un recognition of the yes vote by no means certain israel's already cracking down on

its less than dedicated settlers as it looks to solidify a position in occupied territories. if back into the one thousand miles from the north pole. the iraqi t.v. mistake you're on a trip to spitzbergen archipelago. where twenty years after the us is harsh climate to get the subregion way of life is still a growing stronger player in the world so long as the statue of lenin presides over a goes. to sleep it. has become a tourist site for those overcome by the cold war in the style. of the close up special edition on our. kosovo police assisted by e.u. forces have taken over to nato are two border crossings with serbia in the north of

the breakaway region the locals are mostly ethnic serbs and they've been trying to prevent the takeover by blocking roads to the checkpoints and staging protests as r.t. sarah firth reports she's been close to the border where the seizure took place. well where one of the border crossings you're ready and of roads leading up to it remain bloke's by the protest is now we actually can't get the much play so when you go up to the front of that crossing you're still by the balls blown we can see some of the k. full forces on the ground there we saw helicopters coming across and i saw the you like helicopters dropping off some of the police forces to these crossings also the albanian cos the police they've only actually got to each at each of the checkpoints at the moment and that but 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 just the rest still and now amid concerns of

a repeat of what we saw in july when filing clashes over the course the government making of me to try and take these posts resulted in the death of the policeman is actually being relatively quiet here today what we've seen is a huge number of the serbian i think serbians turning out at these barricades but what we've got at the moment is a standoff situation is being called over with knows because the place the checkpoints of the barricades is the serbian protesters and then the capel forces at the actual crossings themselves ok no one wants to make a move the capel forces they want to make and it's a great cut the barricades that there is sparking violence and the serbian protest is for exactly the same reasons they don't want the prevailing violence that we had the un security council calling an emergency meeting at the request of serbia and russia and no final decisions were really made for not there were a lot of countries that were unwilling really to make these statements take a group of these control points going ahead despite the warnings from belgrade i'm from russia that this could really to further agitation political analyst alexander

poundage says nato led mission in kosovo assisting the breakaway republic and installing customs controls as violating the un mandate. ok for the 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 baby inside these to session is the government in the capital of course so and so this is bound to stir trouble and they hope and we sided with them together with the western countries the western powers that are sitting in the security council so. she has a lot to thank for as far as they're concerned we have the security council we have five states each which we have three western states and two man was two states on the security council with lethal color 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 even the united states great britain and france would put a veto to the people to it so it's not surprising that they've been sponsoring kosovo 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. and i'm passionate if you're as palestinian president mahmoud abbas has vowed to seek full state recognition at the un security council next week it's a blow to the u.s. which has leverage its diplomatic weight to do you relevant bit and which right now promises to veto but that's not stopping worries from growing in israel with the real possibility that may soon have to return the lands that it occupied for years he's parsley or hasn't. he was wanted to meet us here in one of israel's busting cities he wants to talk but not a new zone signalman where he's seen as

a troublemaker they are afraid. because. the former drove pinney won't shut up he says he's tired of being used as a pawn by the government fifty years ago the state made it easy for him to buy a house he didn't have the money so they offered him a cheap one the only catch it was an away stencil home and now years on he wants to leave but can't because his property has hard in value since he bought it for. so no more because the government doesn't want the people. who have to show that it's full of people doesn't want to live he says one in two states has one out but the government does everything it can to keep him in the land here is barren and difficult but that happened. in

a few months ago the constitution has a ban on more than two thousand products here in the respect the pallet these extra money from the ministry of education for extra teachers or extra money from the ministry of infrastructure for more interest means less payment by the settlers these were the biggest incentives there are not written anywhere in the book history it suggests prime minister netanyahu spends nearly a billion dollars a year just to keep the stations going to pat has to come from somewhere and tens of thousands of israelis did the math the answers brought them onto the streets in numbers never seen before in israel's history but netanyahu has no plans to leave the statements the goddess of what it does to his economy alter the peace process there is no political big. these are about whether it's right or wrong they're just doing it and we know about many certain moments and the eastern part of the fence

where you have a lot of arguments and seen as palestinians head off to the united nations he's really only digs in a van decisional minutes and with him in the way the prospects of peace seem as unlikely as the rise actually leading we stand police here are. palestinian politician he says palestine deserves a sovereign recognition more than some other nations who won there is more easily sense of sorrow and loss not less they sin than anger that others instantly get recognition and instantly those who weren't even as prepared as we are and who have been cleared for sixty three years under brutal military occupation get recognition great state get support and get an understanding from the international community and yet we are concerned constantly preventing from getting a response by the israeli occupation by an american administration that really

hates to see. other kinds of justice and so even when southern sudan was declared the state in a few days the exact numbers have been a few days and here we are certain decades trying to get the minimum requirements of the rights that other people take for granted and yet we are constantly being rejected i think it's about time that palestine joins the community of nations as an equal and is no longer treated as a subhuman species thanks for another some of the stories making headlines across the globe aries has ended in tragedy in nevada after world war two era plane spectators killing at least three people including the pilot dozens of others were injured many of them in critical condition the eighty year old pilot of the mustang if you want to start with lost control of his aircraft i think event in real. a storage facility holding about twenty gas tanks has exploded in the capital of

peru no serious injuries were reported though and authorities believe that a leak may have caused the blast a firefighter at the scene said he was shocked that the site had a license because it was in appropriately located in a residential area gas tanks are rightly used improve in homes for cooking. euro zone finance ministers meeting in poland say they're delaying a seven billion euro belo payment to greece they feel they were left with no choice after i missed several important to have lines but economists around the world are far from the accusing the e.u. of needlessly jeopardizing greece and pushing it into default the struggling country says it will run out of cash next month and will be unable to pay the interest on its debt the last few months have been plagued by indecision among new leaders on how to deal with greek debt which is now one of the half times the size of the country's economy but it's not alone as the effects of the global financial squeeze are being felt everywhere as laurie harford's found out when she hit the

streets of new york. as the global economy continues to struggle poverty levels continue to rise are you feeling the effects this week let's talk about that. well let me see i moved out of manhattan to my house in central jersey which was i abandoned two years ago. at work so you know basically i'm just living the day by day this is the wrong place to talk about poverty because here everything is so expensive so. it's weird but how is it in israel we have a lot of people but it's ok you feel like it's getting worse that it is getting worse actually with like big manifests three thousand people maybe fifty because it's too expensive to live in israel i suppose let's pull out he probably is on the rise you don't believe it is what's poverty. wow not being able

to get basic then life ok it's that's like that since creation is it worse or better it's probably about the same as it always was so you're not buying it. so why would people many patches such baloney sell newspapers you would have a job that is that have you now. the impact. yes because i work with the for profit organization that takes care of women and we're seeing lots more women who don't have a choice when you know what do you think would happen if the middle class disappeared. i don't think it's ever going to happen i think things are going to get more expensive and there's not to be any more american dream there's no more white picket fence and not everyone to be a little nearer home but they're not even personally feel the effects of the rising poverty level the bottom line is it seems like this trend isn't going to reverse anytime soon.

if you're curious how it felt to live in the u.s.s.r. there is one place where the soviet spirit is frozen in time in the arctic circle and it's not even in the russia it's in the town of parents berg which lies on a norwegian archipelago spitzbergen a vibrant soviet neighborhood grew there after mining rights were granted in the twenty's and even today russia operates a consulate there making it the world's northernmost diplomatic mission when communism collapsed the community collapsed with it and a little change since as archie's acts on a boy co-founder. it's a legacy and no one should be proud of heaps of scrap metal littering pristine arctic landscape building stilton over their foundation pipes spewing black smoke over the snow covered peaks the traces of the soviet industrial activity on the spitzbergen archipelago don't make a pretty picture if big guiding principle here is the worse the better locals like to tell the story about back in soviet times when norwegians were visiting barons were they often expressed amazement. at how prosperous this was

well. obviously i can't read the sign it's still attracting a region tourists are bearing the word i would. watch it in cash that's why when. our goals common is what the current here a few days ago and started throwing it away the local administration decided to paint it in you and put it at various works found where communism had long stopped being a lifetime goal but is rapidly becoming the means of livelihood the rusty soviet heritage has suddenly become a hard to reach destination for the older generation of western tourists and while the tour guides are too young to have any memories of the cold war they're more than happy to cash in on this theory of types of a bygone era where you could have some problems where because of the use of tourists from iraq this thing goes but now we have you remove.

my. work. from. back in the nine hundred eighty s. there was a burgeoning mining community there the soviet union was determined to maintain it all cost to a degree located halfway between north america and western europe bergen archipelago is part of norway but a special status that allows other countries to set up industrial bases here. in the middle of the cold war it served as the use of czars westernmost outpost now it's one of the soviet union slask preserved relics. it is essentially a picture of what would have happened to the soviet union if it was comes up from any financial support for two decades it's a curious site for west interested i think it could be even more appealing for russian trains to keep its presence on spitsbergen russia is still maintaining a coal mine here but in terms of profit it's far behind local seventy or shops so

between mirabelle it is a big hit that it banks are in kirton still helps keep the money flowing guys it's a russian so in your words you can't put in rubbles you're on the ground you know the local administration is increasingly under pressure to bring the infrastructure optimal than standards these madonna zation are for it's not very popular with tourists operators if you come into a very authentic place like non-sport or think it should stay the way it is that would be my wish i mean that's the part of the you know authentic tradition here. i should not i would not like to have it in a shiny condition to be honest the thing to change even for the better is not always good for business something that even a local band has become a kin to when they try to add the morning russian songs to their repertoire the audience called all they wanted to hear was

a song that with familiar. sound like ours see their export spitzbergen archipelago. in a few minutes or a few reports on the bank roll tours were dealing in the debt misery with others next though we have good business news with you stay with us. hello and a very warm welcome to the business desk three e.u. energy majors how to create to take a fifty percent stake in russia south stream project the natural gas link will go on to the black sea and then on to eataly and austria it's aimed at meeting europe's growing energy demand italy's any will get a twenty percent stake germany's winter's haul and the french e.d.s. will each get fifteen percent richer don't get caught up with the deputy head of gas prom and ask him how significant the deal is. we finalize the company because

if you need to study in the south in project then the below was not on when the poles apart but it took him inside place though and the normal way of it is issue that was a big bear project with the action plan and it's not simply the prevent us but eliza project into you time as a fill the gas will stop the flow to europe via black sea in two thousand and fifteen does this actually mean that the project the south stream project is happening may be related calculations and goes a complete can see if you need to study demonstrate that this project is feasible they've got limited justifiable at this passion in the eurozone recent changes since as you put natural gas in the euro will means that the national be the by the billions is ghastly going to be a customer how would you comment the european energy commission is going to give. remarks that south stream now presents a threat to european energy security i was really surprised as well as the as well

as my colleagues because when never never. did it never consume the book as a competitive project somebody simple reason because this new projects have different names of a project just starting to put diversify transit through its old fashioned this was a problem markets become past the most populous you need physical experience including of the new stadium and not boca because i aim to diversify the sources for supply and i still don't see why this applies but nevertheless i gave this project will happen it's called the help to me that you show the amount of leeway to be in the economy is. well the latest turmoil in the stock markets concerns over russia's prize ation plans the sale of seven point six percent of specter to happen this year is in the balance some. says it will all depend on the markets.

the one we're currently waiting for a window of opportunity as recommended by off financial consultants and situation is very flexible and the local markets have recovered so this gives some positive indications but what's most important for us is a stable trend. privatization is possible this year if the situation is right. but perhaps not the business goes and join us for another business update in less than one last time so just stay with us. we'll. bring you the latest in science and technology from around. the cupboard.

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