one pm in moscow i matter as a 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.p.c. is not yet in full control of the country the u.n. also has agreed to lift some of the sanctions imposed on the khadafi regime artie's guy has more from washington. 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 lections and write a new constitution and that kind of u.n. participation is welcomed by all members this is something that washes and going 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 implemented 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 called forward by russia and a provision that received the support of all members take a listen. to in libya by channeling 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 induce 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 the general assembly on friday gave libya's you went to the national transitional council which toppled moammar gadhafi although not yet controlling the whole of libya the rebels nevertheless represent their. entry at the u.n. general assembly next week as with 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 levy a 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 pit that are up for grabs is extremely worrying more production is hardly left behind are brimming with weapons and the rebels have helped themselves those weapons mean very well wind up in the hands of people who have other agendas then defeating khadafi 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 libya possibly has to be on the ground in libya fighters backing the new leadership continue to pound once left of the old regimes few remaining holdouts civilian casualties still a very real possibility but the country is quick to condemn cut off these assaults on the rebels back in march seem to have gone quiet as artie's laura made explains

. david cameron and nicolas sarkozy surveyed their handiwork the most senior leaders to visit tripoli since their countries began the nato intervention in libya they say their work is not yet done. 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 gadhafi strongholds on that cameron and sarkozy are silent to paraphrase. 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 daffy supporters clearly there are real problems on the ground. you will have human rights abuses taking on both sides

rebels the national 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 killing and torture it takes pains to point out that gadhafi forces committed some terrible atrocities but also documents a brutal settling of scores by rebel forces including the lynchings of gadhafi soldiers meanwhile gadhafi is 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 name. to tackle what it

describes as crimes by the forces of the new government civilian deaths all seemingly assured. cameron and saul crazy were quick to condemn gadhafi the killing innocent libyans in the lead up to nato has no fly zone being imposed but no such rhetorics being aimed at the end t.c. in fact it's quite the opposite. un resolution to ease sanctions against libya and against the national oil corporation in particular the oil flowing again . western enthusiasm for liberty and independence faces a tough task. even if it. means a certain.

territory stay with us. on a trip to spitzbergen archipelago. where twenty years after the first collapse. life is still going strong. for the world. where it. has become a tourist site for the. other. the close up special. 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 checkpoints and staging protests. as more. where

one of the border crossings you're reading and the roads leading up to it remain bloke's by the protest is now we actually can't get too much play so when you go up to the front of that cross thing you're stuck by the bow blow and we can see some of the k. full full says on the ground there we saw helicopters coming across and. you like helicopters dropping off some of the police forces to these crossings also the albanian cause the police they very me actually go to. each of the checkpoints at the moment and. for the time being in an observer role now of course the plan is for them to eventually take over control and that's what much of this dispute now amid concerns repeat of what we saw in july when violent clashes over the course the government making of me to try and take place 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 serbians turning out these barricades but what we've got at the moment is a standoff situation is being called a war of nerves because of both the checkpoints at the barricades is the serbian protesters and then the case full force is at the actual crossing themselves but no one wants to make it be the case they want to make a move to break up the barricades the fears sparking violence and the serbian protest is exactly the same reasons they will. prevail in violence 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 to take a verse these control points going ahead despite the warnings from belgrade i'm from russia that this could really lead to further agitation. political analyst alexander pavitra says the nato led mission in kosovo assisting the republican

installing customs controls may be violating the u.n. mandate. ok for meeting nato has 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 tonight in the capital of course of all we have the security council we have five states each with veto power we have three western states into non western states so really if the west decides to support any unilateral action. you can't stop it so it's not surprising they've been sponsoring the course of the 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. in a passionate dress palestinian president mahmoud abbas about to seek for state

recognition at the u.n. security council next week it's a blow to the u.s. which leverage its diplomatic weight to darrelle the bid and which is now promising to veto but that's not stopping worries from growing in israel with the very real possibility it may soon have to return lands its occupied for years artie's possibly reports to me was wanted to meet has been in one of israel's bustling cities he wants to talk but not home and where he's seen as a troublemaker people they are afraid to talk because if the their for them away from the job the for me for my job but beneath it 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 an away spanx fisherman and now he is on he wants to leave but can't because he's property has hauled in value since he bullshit so the. going to help me to go out from the set no one. because the government

doesn't want the people of the west bank after the ones who have agreement with the for the seriously we have to show that it's full of people in the people who doesn't want to live in peace is one in two states has one town but the government does everything it can to keep them in most of the land and difficult but that hasn't stopped the building on it in a month to month no construct 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 interest means less payment by the settlers these were the biggest incentives that are not written anywhere in the book istomin 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 brought 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 open political debate in israel about whether it's right or wrong just doing it and we know about many settlements and the eastern part of the fence where you have a lot of arguments which are empty as palestinians head off to the united nations the israeli army digs in around the city moments and with them in the way the prospects of peace seem as light as binney was actually leaving the west bank policy r.t. . palestinian partition we says power stein deserve a sovereign recognition more than some other nations who one there is more easily. sense of sorrow and loss not station anger that others instantly get the

recognition instantly those who want event. and who haven't lived for sixty three is blue to them and that their patients get directly gets they get support get an understanding from the infamous and to. constantly prevent things from going to these things by the israeli occupation by an american administration that the place to see. that if that's the justice i think it's about time that i understand the community of nations as an equal and there's no longer treated as subhuman species it's 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 othman's missed several important deadlines but economists around the world are far from happy about the turn accusing the e.u. of needlessly jeopardizing greece and pushing it to default the struggling country says it will run out of cash next month and be unable to pay interest on its debts

the last few months have been plagued by indecision among leaders on how to handle the greek debt with their children which is now one of the half times the size of its economy but it's not alone as the effects of the global financial squeeze are being felt everywhere and it's also known as the resident found out on the streets of new york. as the global economy continues to struggle poverty levels continue to rise are you feeling that this week let's talk about. me well let me see i moved out of manhattan back to my house in central jersey which was i abandoned two years ago. been out of work. so you know 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 it in israel we have a lot of people but it's ok do you feel like it's getting worse there it is getting

worse actually where like big manifests three training a thousand people manifesting because it's too expensive they're living in israel that's baloney what's baloney is on the rise you don't believe it is what's poverty . well not be able to get the basics in life ok it's 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 by not so why would people manufacture such baloney sell newspapers you wouldn't have a job this is didn't happen have you felt the effects and all. yes because i work with the for profit organization that takes care of women but we're seeing lots more women. 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. finally in this news block if you're curious how it was to live in the u.s.s.r. there is one place where the soviet spirit is frozen in time in the arctic circle it's not even in a rush it's in the town of barren spur that lives on a norwegian archipelago called spitsbergen a vibrant soviet neighborhood grew there after mining rights were granted in one nine hundred twenty even today russia operates a consulate there making it the world's northernmost diplomatic mission but when communism disintegrated the community there collapsed with it and little changed since as artie's oksana boyko discovered. it's a legacy 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 the guiding principle here is the worse the better local like to tell the story that back in soviet times when norwegians were visiting barons work they don't want to express amazement. at how prosperous this stuff was well times have obviously a change when they saw a black guy say it's still attracting new region tourists or barons work i would then cons watch native cash that's why while. our goal is common as was uncovered here a few days ago instead of throwing it away the local administration decided to paint the venue and put it at barron's 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 hoc 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 we have some problems with. here so tourists. this thing goes but now we have a new room. minus. the work. from. back in the nine hundred eighty s. daryn's work was a burgeoning mining community of the soviet union was determined to maintain it a low cost degree located halfway between north america and western europe the bergen archipelago is part of norway with a special status that allows other countries to set up industrial bases here in the middle of. cold war it served as the us is sars western most 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 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 still maintaining a coal mine here but trans of profit is far behind local souvenir shops. memorabilia is a big hit the defunct are in curtain still helps keep the money flowing guys it's a russian. you can't but if. you're on the. euros the local administration is increasingly under pressure to bring the infrastructure up to more than standards these modernization efforts and not very popular with tourists operators if you come into a very authentic place like bond it should stay the way it is that would be my wish i mean that's the part of the let 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 morning russian songs to die repertoire the audience called all they wanted to hear it was a song comfortably familiar. sound like a car seat down support pittsburgh an archipelago. away max keiser and stacy herrera look at how it's the big banks turn to be told they're not credit worthy report coming your way after the headlines and business stay with us. that's right time to delve into the world of business and three e.u. energy majors have agreed to take a fifty percent stake in russia's salt 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 he believes any will get a twenty percent stake while germany's winters hall and the french from e.d.s. will each get fifteen percent which would be genco court up with the deputy head of gas problem and ask him how significant the deal is. to become finalized the company has if you need to study you know the saws that in project the below was not whole when the balls are going but it took him inside place though and the normal way of it is a shallows a project with action plan and that's not so which would prevent us but eliza project is a good time as a field of 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 but here in the here gulf elations at those a company can save his ability to study demonstrates that this project is feasible because let me put it justifiable at this specially in the eurozone recent changes

since as you know natural gas in europe will means that russia will be the by the show the audience is ghastly would it be a pessimist 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. never considered noble because i come by to project for very simple reason because this projects have different names of a project it's not a good thing to diversify transit through it's all for russian gas because the have a market it's because customers with the populace with your new technical experience includes a new stadium and my book has an aim to diversify the sources all supply but i still don't see why this applies but nevertheless i give this project will help but it's good to tell me that you showed

a month of that you would have be in the economy is the latest turmoil in the stock markets press concerns over russia's privatization plans the sale of seven point six percent of spare bank expects to happen this year is in the balance central banks and see who cut says it will all depend on the markets. we're currently waiting for a window of opportunity as recommended by our financial consultants the situation is very flexible labor markets have recovered some positive indications but what's most important for us is a stable trained. privatization is possible if the situation is right. one of the brightest minds in russia celebrating five years since the opening of the school of a business school the project is aimed at creating leaders and help them build businesses that will become international powerhouses are in a closer is there for us a lot of us banking on this place as it's seen as the platform to breed the next in

the ration of entrepreneurs it all began when the russian business elite got together and decided to create a school that would rival famous business schools like harvard for hundreds of millions of dollars later and their idea is now a reality it's no secret the country is like in the high flyers and then sort of imports and then 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 activities in countries with rapidly growing economies president dmitry medvedev is convinced the project is exactly what russia needs to meet his goals of modernization so the fifth anniversary celebration is not only the opportunity to show the world how for skolkovo has come but so unite the business lead to once again and discuss how to make it even better and one of these ways is apparently to rotate presidents out of the neon has announced that he will be stepping down and filling the shoes will be

under way of rapoport the former chairman of alpha bank and current board member financial corp and this is again to show that the school values different opinions and styles of leadership and the strive to become the best in the industry. morgan of course very fortunate that brings us up today brings you up today for more stories you can head to a web site archie dot com slash business. wealthy british style.

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one thirty pm in moscow these are the headlines as libya's new government gets ready for its new when the old regime is passion there are fears that unwavering support for former rebels may lead to more civilian casualties. in kosovo police in the e.u. peacekeepers seized two checkpoints on the northern border with serbia ignoring locals protests and warnings of escalating violence. in the palestinian leaders defy u.s. pressure and vow to launch their un recognition sparking an israeli government move to silence dissent and now vulnerable occupied territories. kaiser report coming up next stay with us here on r.t. .