it's just after three pm here in the russian capital you're watching our t.v. and 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 seat at the general assembly although the m.d.c. is not yet in full control of the country or the un's also agreed to lift some of the sanctions imposed on colonel gadhafi regime r.t.s. game and to check out explains. 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 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 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 no 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 it can serve 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 u.n. seat to the national transitional council which toppled moammar gadhafi although not yet controlling the whole of libya the rebels 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 levy a 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 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 me 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 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. well on the ground in libya fighters backing the new leadership continued to power what's left of the old regimes few remaining holdouts or civilian casualties are still a very real possibility but the country is quick to condemn get off its assaults on the rebels back in march seem to have gone quiet floor and that 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. born with. civilians. 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 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 daffy 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 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 says the rebels are guilty of unlawful killings and torture it takes pains to point out the forces committed some terrible atrocities but also documents a brutal strictly. it's caused 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 a short. 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 laura emmett's altie london. oh western and there's yasmin for liberty and independence faces a tough test next week as palestinian leader is prepared to go flat out and getting un recognition i don't vote yes vote is by no means certain israel's already cracking down on its less than dedicated settlers as it looks to solidify its

position occupied territories. decades back. one thousand miles from the north pole. the arche team is taking you on a trip to spitzbergen on capella go. where twenty years after the us is ours collapsed the soviet way of life is still going strong. for the world some northernmost statue of lenin presides over a ghost where the sewage heritage has become a tourist site for those overcome by the cold war in the style of. the close up special edition. the cost of and police assisted by forces have taken over two border crossings with serbia in the north of the breakaway region where the locals are mostly ethnic serbs and they've been trying to prevent the takeover by blocking roads to the checkpoints and staging

protests or to surf earth has been close to where the border seizure took place. where one of the border crossings renny and the roads leading up to it remain blogs by the ethnics a 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 stopped by the bug blow and we can see some of the k. full force is on the ground there we saw helicopters coming across and the you like helicopters dropping off some of the police forces to these crossings also the albanian cars than police they've only actually got to. each of the checkpoints at the moment and only for the time being in an observatory role now of course the plan is for them to eventually take over control and that's what much of this dispute rests on now amid concerns of a repeat of what we saw in july when violent clashes over the course think of a king or me to try and take these places 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 protesters and then the case full force is at the actual crossings themselves but no one wants to make a move the case full force if they want to make a move to break up the barricades fear is sparking violence and the set in protest is for exactly the same reasons they don't want to be preventing violence so we had the un 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 the ten. ok first these control points going ahead despite the warnings from belgrade i'm from russia that this is that could really to further agitation. political analyst alexander pov it says the nato led mission impossible assisting

the breakaway republic and installing customs controls is violating the un 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 the secessionist government in prishtina the capital of course of all we have the security council we have five states each with veto power we have three western states and two 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 kosovo independence for years now and they're actually thinking that they are entering the endgame now and actually doing a hard push for it right now well in a passionate address palestinian president mahmoud abbas has vowed to seek full

state recognition at the u.n. security council next week and it's a blow to the u.s. which leveraged its diplomatic might to derail the bid and which it now promises to veto but that's not stopping worries from growing in with a very real possibility it may soon have to return once it has occupied for years archy's policy or takes up the story. jimi was wanted to meet us here in one of israel's bustling cities he wants to talk but not in his own city home and where he's seen as a troublemaker they are afraid to talk because. for. the for me or for my drove but beneath won't be shut up he says he's tired of being used as a pawn by the government thirty 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 west bank settlement now years on he wants to leave but can't because he's property has halved in value since he bought it.

from the same no or because the government doesn't want the people. the west bank after the. agreement with the we have to show that it's full of people and the people doesn't want to live baby says one in two statements point out but the government does everything it can to keep him in most of the land here it's there and difficult but that hasn't stopped the building on it in the two months constructs and has begun on more than two thousand projects here in the west bank melissa polities 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 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 brought him onto the streets in numbers never seen before in israel's history but not on yahoo 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. we know about many certain lands and the eastern part of the ferns 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 women the way the prospects of peace seem as likely as binney rising actually leaving the west bank policy r.t. . palestinian politician had an usher always says hello started to serve sovereign recognition more than some other nations who want there more easily the sense of

sorrow and loss not restoration and anger that others instantly get recognition instantly those who won't even as prepared as we are and who haven't lived for sixty three years under brutal military occupation get recognition get statehood get support get an understanding from the international community and yet we are constantly preventing from getting these things by the israeli occupation by an american administration that really has to see the imperatives of justice 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 right. now euro zone finance ministers meeting in poland say they're delaying an eight billion euro bailout payment to greece well they feel they were left with no choice after athens missed several deadlines but economists around the world are far from happy accusing the e.u. of needlessly jeopardizing greece and pushing it into default while the struggling

country says it will run out of cash next month and will be unable to pay the interest on its debts for the last few months have been plagued by indecision among e.u. leaders on how to deal with greece's debt which is now one and a half 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 in 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 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 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 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 at all. 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 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. only if you're curious as to how. what 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 russia it's in the town of balad spork which lives on a norwegian archipelago called spitsbergen a vibrant soviet neighborhood grew there after mining rights were granted in the one nine hundred twenty s. and even today russia operates a consulate there making it the world's northernmost diplomatic mission but when communism collapsed the community went with it and little change since i discovered . it's the 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 if the guiding principle here is the worse the better local life to tell the story about back in soviet times when norwegians were visiting barons word they don't want to express that amazement. at how prosperous this stuff was well times have obviously kenya where they saw a black guy say it's still attracting a region tourists are bearing the word i would now cons watch native 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 bin you. had baron'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 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. the tourists from here both this thing goes but now we have a new roof. minus. the 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 . well of the cold war it served as the u.s. is sars west in most outpost now it's one of the soviet union's last preserved

relics. burned spirit 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 in terms of profit it's 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 thing you know but you can't play rivals here on the ground 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 bond sport i think it should stay the way it is that would be my wish i mean that's the part of the letter 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 the morning russian songs to the repertoire the audience called all they wanted to hear was a song comfortably familiar. sound like our scene there in support for going out to telegraph. on the way for your team mates the multi grammy award winning musician whose genius said jazz to a higher plane but before that it's business with. cologne very well welcome to your business update three e.u. energy majors have agreed 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 italy and austria it's aimed at meeting europe's growing energy demand interlace any will get a twenty percent stay while german is went to school and the french e.t.s. will get fifteen percent richer or the tank of course up with the deputy head of gas from and asks him how significant the deal is. with the finalize the deal but if there's a visit we need to start you know the south in project the below was not over when the poles accord but it took them inside place though and there's a lot more will for it is a shallows a bit by a project with the actual plan and it's not soup which but but it doesn't put eliza project into your time as a fill the gas will stop the flow to europe via black sea in two thousand teach it does this actually mean that the project the south stream project is happening but here we live here well fuel efficiency that goes a bit but it comes to visit really just study demonstrates that this project is feasible because let me put it justifiable that this person in the us that he saw

the changes is if you look at the natural gas in europe it will means that there will be the by this of the audience is guess what i believe customers how would you comment the european energy commission is going to in his. remarks that south stream now present a threat to european energy secure was a surprise as well as the as well as my colleagues because when never never. did it never consider that level because i come budget to project for a very simple reason because it projects have different aims of a project you start to get to diversify but is it true it's both rational guess because the problem markets with customers. well. you need technical experience to know the real story in my book as a diversify as a source is also why i still don't see why this applies but nevertheless it gives us pause it will help but it felt to me that you saw there was also you would have

been the economy is the latest turmoil in the stock markets but concerns over russia's friday zation plans the sale of seven point six percent of expected to happen this year is in the balance central banks and examiner says it will all depend on the markets. we're currently waiting for a window of opportunity is recommended by off financial consultants the situation is very flexible and global markets have recovered so these give some positive indications but what's most important for us is a stable trimmed. privatization is possible this year if the situation is right. and the brightest minds in russia are 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 were in a course or is there for us. a lot is banking on this place as it's seen as the

platform to breed the next generation of on super nor is it all began when the russian business elite got together and decided to create a school that would rival famous business schools like harvard all hundreds of millions of dollars later and their idea is now a reality it's still secret the country is like in the high flyers and then sort of imports and 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 if it sees in countries with rapidly growing economies president to meet in madrid of his convince 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 elite 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 rappaport the former chairman of alpha bank and current board member of financial corp and this is again to show that the school values a different opinions and styles of leadership and the strive to become the best in the industry. that's all a business is for not more stories you can log onto our website r.t. dot com slash business.

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welcome back here's a look at the headlines on our t.v. as libya's new government gets ready for its u.n. seed to reach the old regime's cash there are fears that unwavering support for the former rebels may lead to more civilian casualties. call seven police and peacekeeper seize two checkpoints of the northern border in serbia ignoring locals protests and warnings of escalating violence. palestinian leaders defy u.s. pressure and a valve to launch their you want recognition sparking an israeli government will decide was deceptive in that now vulnerable occupied territory settlements. and up next our spotlight needs a jazz idol who's your date for experimentation gave birth to.