eleven am in moscow i metros are good to have you with us here on r.t. our top story libya's national transitional council is lighting 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.t.s.c. isn't yet fully in control of the country the u.n. has also agreed to lift some of the sanctions that imposed on the khadafi regime artie's guide to chickie on has more 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 they claim it 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 the elections and write a new constitution and that kind of u.n. participation is welcomed by all members this is something that washes amboy to 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 implement 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 received the support of all members take a listen. in libya but chumming 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 now in view of the new reality on the ground maintaining the new 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 would also ease economic

sanctions imposed on libya and make sure 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 general assembly on friday gave libya's u.n. 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 and 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 you to protect u.s. 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 the regional peace

everyone seems to be on the same page and the security council has clearly expressed those concerns the amount of weapons in libya that are up for grabs is extremely worrying more khadafi its army left behind armories brimming with weapons and the rebels have helped themselves those weapons made 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 care 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 libya possibly has to. although many seem to be moving toward a new era of law and freedom well affairs analyst carmen russell's chance king from the voice of russia isn't so optimistic about the country's democratic prospects. the problem is that you have so many disparate interest among the rebels that. 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 you know the more islamic elements so there might be at some point a possibility for real democracy however the problem is it going to be the democracy that america is going to try to impose on it 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 democracy on the ground in libya fighters backing the new leadership continue to pound what's left of the old regimes remaining holdouts civilian casualties still a very real possibility but country is quick to condemn cut off these assaults on the rebels back in march seem to have gone quiet as artie's laura reports. david

cameron and nicolas sarkozy surveyed their handiwork the most senior leaders to visit tripoli since that country's began the naysayer intervention in libya they say their work is not yet we mourn with the navy. and the billions. and. he's right civilians are still being killed but now that gadhafi is virtually powerless the people increasingly doing the killing the national transitional council full together with nato as they attack bani walid and all that gadhafi strongholds all not cameron and sarkozy are silent to paraphrase george orwell. in animal farm some civilians are more equal than others nato insists there are 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 there's a legacy of such

a conflict that you will have human rights abuses taking on both sides the rebels the national transitional council have promised to hold their own fighters to account and i think that 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 gets half the forces committed some terrible atrocities but also documents a brutal settling of scores by rebel forces including the lynchings of gadhafi soldiers meanwhile daffy's 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 and to tackle what it

describes as crimes by the forces of the new government civilian deaths are seemingly assured. cameron and sarkozy were quick to condemn gadaffi for killing innocent libyans in the lead up to nato is no fly zone being imposed but no such rhetoric spearing aimed at the n.t. sea in fact it's quite the opposite britain's sponsored a draft u.n. resolution to ease sanctions against libya and against the national oil corporation in particular getting the oil flowing again your emmett's altie london. western enthusiasm for liberty and independence faces a tough test next week as palestinian leaders prepare to go all out for getting u.n. recognition although a yes vote is by no means certain israel is already cracking down on its less than dedicated settlers as it looks to solidify its position in occupied territory.

one thousand miles from the north pole. the ark is taking you on a trip to spitzbergen on google ago. where twenty years after the u.s. was ours collapsed. life is still going strong. for the world's northernmost statue of lenin presides over a goes where the sewage. has become a tourist site for those overcome by the cold war in the style of. the close up special edition. of kosovo police assisted by e.u. forces have taken over two border crossings with serbia in the north of the breakaway region locals are mostly ethnic serbs and they've been trying to prevent the takeover by blocking roads to the checkpoints and staging protests r.t.

sarraf earth has been close to the border where the seizure happened. where one of the border crossings you renny and the road leading up to it remain bloke's by the protest is now we actually kong at the much place when you go up to the front of that cross thing you stop by the bubble and we can see some of the quay full full says on the ground there we saw helicopters coming across and i still did you like helicopters dropping off some of the police forces to these crossings 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 rests on now amid concerns of a repeat of what we saw in july when filing clashes over the course think of the 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 servants 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 at both the checkpoints at the barricades is the serbian protest is and then the case full force is at the actual crossings themselves but no one wants to make me think a full force is they want to make a move to break up the barricades to fair sparking violence and to set a protest is for exactly the same reasons they don't want to be. violent so we had the u.n. security council calling an emergency meeting at the request of serbia and russia and no final decisions were really made from that there were a lot of countries that were unwilling really to make a statement take a few of these control points going ahead despite the warnings from belgrade i'm from russia that this could really lead to further agitation political analysts scholars under-powered it is the nato led mission in kosovo assisting the republican installing customs controls maybe violating the u.n.

mandate. ok for meeting nato have 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 i mean one side they're clearly taking the albanian side these the session is the government increased to the capital of kosovo and so this is bound to stir trouble and be openly sided with them together with the western countries the western powers that are sitting in the security council so caution toci has a lot to thank for as far as they're concerned we have the security council we have five states each with veto power we have three western states and two non western states in 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 u.n.

to do anything about it because either the united states great britain and france will put a veto veto 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 passionate address palestinian president mahmoud abbas has vowed to seek full recognition at the u.n. security council next week it's a blow to the u.s. which leveraged its diplomatic weight to do rel the bait and which now promises to veto but that's not stopping worries from growing in israel with the very real possibility it may soon have to return to the lands it's occupied for years artie's policy or has more. he was wanted to meet us here in one of israel's bustling cities he wants to talk but not in his own sitcom and where he's seen as a troublemaker they are afraid to talk because they're for.

the for me for my drove but beneath won't be 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 in a way spanks his home and now years on he wants to leave but can't because he's property has hard in value since he bought it for. the world from the same no or because the government doesn't want the people of the west bank of the. agreement with the who have to show that it's full of people and the people doesn't want to live baby says one in two settlers point out but the government does everything it can to keep them in most of the land here it's there and difficult but that hasn't stopped building on it in the long two months constructs and has begun on more than two thousand projects here in the west bank municipalities get extra money from the ministry of education for extra teachers or

extra money from the ministry of infrastructure for more infrastructure means less payment by the surplus these were the biggest incentives that are not written anywhere in the book is to me it suggests prime minister netanyahu spends nearly a billion dollars a year just to keep the statements going but that has to come from somewhere and tens of thousands of israelis did the math the answers bought them onto the streets in numbers never seen before in israel's history but now twenty are who has no plans to leave the statements the goddess of what it does to his economy alter the peace process there is no political debate. these are about whether it's right or wrong just doing it. we know about many certain moments and the eastern part of the fence where you have a lot of apartments which are empty as palestinians head off to the united nations the israeli army digs in around the city hall minutes and with them in the way the

prospects of peace seem as unlikely as binney was actually leaving the way spank pully c r t. politician says palestine deserves sovereign recognition more than some other nations who want it more easily. sense of sorrow and loss not station anger that others instantly get the recognition instantly those who want even as prepared as we are and who haven't lived for sixty three is on that route to the military occupation get the recognition get statehood get support get an understanding from the international community and yet we constantly prevent things from getting these things by the israeli occupation by an american administration that they used to see the benefits of justice and so even when when southern sudan was declared the state in the field days they got membership in a few days and here we are one vacates trying to get that minimal requirements

minimal tonights 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 there's no longer treated as a subhuman species that have no rights. eurozone finance ministers' meeting in poland say they're delaying a seven billion euro bailout payment to greece they feel they were left with no choice after athens missed several important deadlines but economists around the world are far from happy excusing the move 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 you leaders on how to deal with greek debt which is now one of the times the size of its economy but it's not alone as the effects of the global financial squeeze are being felt everywhere as laurie harshness found out when she took opinion on the streets of new york. well.

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 back to my house in central jersey which was i abandoned two years ago. out of work so basically i'm just living a 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 that in israel we have a lot of people but it's ok you feel like it's getting worse there it is getting worse actually where the. big manifests three thousand people manifesting because it's too expensive they're living in israel that's baloney what's baloney properties on the rise you don't believe it is what's poverty. well

not being able to get the basics in life ok it's been 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 manufacture such baloney sell newspapers you wouldn't have a job if this didn't happen have you felt the effects and all. yes because i work with the law for profit organization that takes care of women and we're seeing lots more women who don't have insurance from you know what do you think would happen if a middle class disappeared. i don't think that's ever going to happen i think things are going to get more expensive and there's not going be any more american dream there's no more white picket fence and not everyone to be able to own their own home whether or not you personally feel the effects of a rising poverty level the bottom line is it seems like this trend isn't going to reverse anytime soon.

in this news walker. 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 near the arctic circle it's not even into russia it's in the town of baron spurred which is on a norwegian archipelago called spitsbergen viber in the soviet neighborhood grew up there after mining rights were granted in the one nine hundred twenty s. even today russia operates a consulate there making it the world's northernmost diplomatic mission but when communism collapsed so did the community there and little change since as artie's on a boy discovered. it's the legacy no one should be proud of heaps of scrap metal littering pristine arctic landscape buildings still going 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 of the guiding principle here is the worse the better locals like to tell the story that back in soviet times when norwegians were visiting baron's words they also want to express. how prosperous this settlement was

well times have obviously kenya where they saw a black is still attracting a region tourists are barons word cons of cash that's why when. our goal is common as was uncovered here a few days ago instead of throwing it away the local administration decided to paint the new and at variance work central square communism had long stopped being a lifetime goal but is rapidly becoming the means of livelihood the rusty soviet heritage has suddenly become a hot tourist destination for 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 with. you so tourists to me about this thing but now we have new roof. line of.

work. from. back in the nine hundred eighty s. daryn's work was a burgeoning mining community the soviet union was determined to maintain at all costs strategically located halfway between north america and western europe the spitzbergen 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 u.s. is sars westernmost outpost now it's one of the soviet union's last preserved relics. barons but it is essentially a picture of what would have happened to the soviet union if it was cut off from any financial support for two decades it's a curious site for western tourists and i think it could be even more appealing for russian travelers to keep its presence on spitsbergen russia is still maintaining a coal mine here but trams of profit is far behind local souvenir shops.

memorabilia is a big hit the defunct are incurred and still helps keep the money flowing guys it's a russian so you know what your parents but. you are the local administration is increasingly under pressure to bring the infrastructure up to more than standards these modernization efforts on not very popular with tourist operators if you come into a very authentic place like. it should stay the way it is that would be my wish i mean that's the part of the a little you know authentic tradition here. i should not i would not like to have it in a shiny condition to be honest the fact that change even for the better is not always good for business something that even a local band has become attuned to when they try to add more than russian songs to their repertoire the audience called all they wanted to hear was

a song comfortably familiar. sound like ours see downes board spitzbergen archipelago. and sticking with a musical theme we made a multi grammy winning musician who took jazz to a new and hugely popular level the father of fusion coming your way shortly but first the business news with you. hello and a very warm welcome to the business update three e.u. energy majors have agreed to take a fifty percent stake in russia sol stream project the natural gas link will go on to the black sea and then on to italy and austria it's aimed at meeting europe's growing energy demand italy's and he will get a twenty percent stake while germany's winter's haul and the french from e.d.s. will each get fifteen percent to two are doing coke or top but the deputy head of gaspar all men ask him how significant the deal is. but finalize the company

heads if you need to study you know the south in project that the law was novel when the ball is a court but it took him inside place though and the normal way of it is a shallow is a bit bad logic with the action plan and it's not simply put it doesn't put eliza project into you time as a field of gas will stop the flow to your job or via black sea in two thousand and fifteen does this actually mean that the project the south stream project is happening but here we live here l.q. issuance and those a company consider his ability to study demonstrates that this project is feasible because let me put it justifiable at this special didn't you observe recent changes since if you build natural gas in the euro it will means that russia will be the by this of the audience is guess what i believe customers how would you comment the european energy commissioner going to. remarks that south stream now presents a threat to european energy security i was really surprised as well as well as my

colleagues because when never never. did it never consider the level because i come budget to project for a very simple reason because this projects have different names of a project is not a good time to diversify transit through it's old fashioned guess was the problem markets because customers would have loved less but you need technical experience to do those of use to you and my book says i need to diversify as a sources all supply but i still don't see why this applies but never was a list that gives this project will help but it could help to me that you showed a month of so you want to be in the economy is. in the brightest minds in russia celebrating five years since the opening of this school of a business school the poor texas aimed at creating leaders and help them build businesses that will become international powerhouses more in

a closer is there for us. i was banking on this place as it's seen as the platform to breed the next generation of on super nors it all began when the russian business elites got together and decided to create a project that would rival the most famous business schools in the world like harvard well hundreds of millions of dollars later and their idea is now a reality it's no secret that countries like in high fliers and instead of importing them this school is trying to teach russians how to think outside the box and that's where their approach comes in the organizers believe in students taking part in real projects and analyzing business exhibits these in countries with rapidly growing economies. is convinced the project is exactly what russia needs to meet his goals of water so that the anniversary celebration is not only an opportunity to show the world how far skulk of all has come but so unite the business elite once again and the stars how to make it even better. artie's maureen

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eleven thirty am in moscow these iraqi headlines as libya's new government gets ready for its un seat and reaps the old regime is cash there's fear is that unwavering support for the former rebels may lead to more civilian out of. kosovo policing peacekeepers sees two checkpoints on the northern border with serbia ignoring locals protests and warnings of escalating violence. palestinian leaders to fire u.s. pressure and vow to launch their un recognition did the sparking israeli government move to silence dissent and the now holder of all occupied territory settlements. up next artie's spotlight meets a jazz pioneer whose background in the blues gave him the.