now libya's national transitional council now has a seat at the united nations which officially recognized the former rebels in a new resolution easing the sanctions imposed during get off his regime a provision was also made for financial assistance from the un for rebuilding in the country are good education has the details. 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 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 it cans 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 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 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 leave go 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 libya that are up for grabs is

extremely worrying more more could be left behind brimming with weapons and the rebels have helped themselves those weapons may 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 of nuclear materials that libya possibly has to. palestinians are determined to have their state officially recognized so how do they feel about libya's former rebels being given instant official status. the sense of sorrow and loss of my frustration and anger later in the program to speak to palestinian politician who thinks her people deserve a fairer treatment from the international community. the no fly zone over libya

remains in force as nato and former rebels back the new leadership's push into the few remaining gadhafi alliance airstrikes reportedly hit residential buildings in the town of sirte but the countries that were quick to condemn attacks by the colonel's troops back in march seem to have gone a silent as artie's laura and that explains. david cameron and nicolas sarkozy surveyed their handiwork the most senior leaders to visit aaa since their countries began the nato intervention in libya they say their work is not yet. born with. the billions. 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 that targeted attacks but there are reports of m.t.c. reprisals against suppose it could be supporters clearly there are real problems on the ground there's a legacy of such a conflict you will have human rights abuses taking both sides the 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 all 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 home town 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 gadhafi for killing innocent libyans in the lead up to nato is no fly zone being imposed but no such rhetorics being aimed at the n.t. sea in fact it's quite the opposite britain's sponsored un resolution to ease sanctions against libya and against the national oil corporation in particular getting the oil flowing again your emmett's altie london. ethnic tensions

on serbia's border with breakaway cost of zero intensify following friday's takeover of two disputed border posts kosovan police with the assistance of nato led forces have placed customs officers at checkpoints previously under ethnic serb control well locals have tried to prevent what they called the unilateral action of course albanians r.t. surfer of the ports now from near one of the seas checkpoints where one of the border crossings you're reading and the roads leading up to it remain bloke's by the protesters we actually can't get much closer when you go up to the front of that cross thing you're stopped by the bob blow we can see some of the k. four forces 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 cos the police they've only actually got to. each of the checkpoints at

the moment and they're 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 just now amid concerns of a repeat of what we saw in july when violent clashes over the course the government 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 ethnic serbians 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 crossing themselves ok no one wants to make it be the case they want to make a move to break up the barricades the fear is sparking violence and the serbian protest is for exactly the same reasons they don't want to be. provoking violence so we had the un security council calling an emergency meeting at the request of

serbia and russia. no final decisions were really made from that there were a lot of countries that were unwilling really to make a statement they take a first these control points going ahead despite the warnings from belgrade i'm from russia that this could really lead to further agitation. alexandre pato political analyst from belgrade thinks that the nato led mission in kossovo is violating the un mandate by siding with christian are on the border crossing issue ok for 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 i mean one side 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 in 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

of course you 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. well there's a lot more to come for you this hour including down to earth answers with a very basic question. what's probably. not be able to get the basics then 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 newspapers you wouldn't have a job if you did we had the streets of new york to find out how much it's people are feeling the pinch of rising property. and who expected to find a statue of lenin in the arctic tourists are flocking to a surprising relic so it's. now in a passionate address palestinian president mahmoud abbas has vowed to seek

a full state recognition at the u.n. security council next week and that's in spite of a u.s. promise to veto any such bit it also deals a blow to israel which may now have to give up the territories occupied for decades while some settlers now accuse israeli government of using them as pawns in a land dispute here's our policy or. baby 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 people are afraid to talk because of the talk there for him away from the for me for my job 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 spanx a home and now years on he wants to leave but can't because his property has harbored in value since he bought it so. going to help. form

the said no or because the government doesn't want the people of the west bank after the ones who have agreement with the who have to show that it's full of people and the people doesn't want to live maybe says one in two states has one town but the government does everything it can to keep them in most of the land there and difficult but that hasn't stopped. in the long two months no construct has begun on more than two thousand projects here in the west bank community polities 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 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 settlements 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 certain lands and the eastern part of france 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 hall minutes and with women the way the prospects of peace seem as likely as binney was actually leaving the west bank police fear r t. palestinian politician says palestine deserves recognition more than some other nations that gave their. sense of sorrow and loss

not station and anger that others instantly get recognition instantly those who weren'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 here we are constantly preventing from getting these things by the israeli occupation by an american administration that clearly is to see 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. euro zone a finance ministers have delayed until october the decision on another handout of rescue cash for greece where they don't think that the country is doing enough to cut its massive debt and greece was scheduled to receive the eight billion a year alone at the end of september athens says it will run out of money next

month and won't be able to pay the interest on its considerable debts the last few months have been plagued by indecision among e.u. leaders on how to deal with who says debt which is now one and a half times the size of its economy but it's not alone the global financial squeeze is being felt everywhere as laurie harford has found out in the uk. 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 on to manhandle back to my house in central jersey which was i abandoned two years ago. out of work so you know basically i'm just living a day by day this is the wrong place to talk about 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 there it is getting

worse it's actually where the. big manifests three hundred 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 be 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 a. for profit organization that takes care of women but we're seeing lots more women don't have insurance. 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. if you're curious as to how it felt to live in the u.s.s.r. there is one place where the soviet spirit is frozen in time and it's not even in russia it's in the town of barons bergen the arctic circle which lies on a in a region archipelago called spitsbergen a vibrant soviet settlement grew there after mining rights were granted in the one nine hundred twenty s. but when communism collapsed so did the community there and the third of her special reports sought a book of finds out how an old soviet dream still provides a means of survival and is also helping preserve the past. 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 if the guiding principle here is the worst the better local like to tell the story about back in soviet times when norwegians were visiting barons word they don't want to rise. and how prosperous this settlement was well times have obviously a change when they saw a black guy say it's still attracting new religion tourists or barons word commerce 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 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 we have some problems with. here so tourists come here but look this thing goes but now we have a 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 it a low cost 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 . all of the cold war it served as the u.s. is sars west and most outposts 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 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're sure you can put in rubbles. 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 tourist operators if you come into a very authentic place like non-sport 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 fact the 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 their repertoire the audience called all they wanted to hear it was a song listen there were. some like r.c.u. downs board pittsburgh an archipelago. all that wraps up our special coverage from spitzbergen we can always find other reports we had on the northernmost outpost of the soviet you know all about dot com and also online for you a soft landing of warm welcome home for a team of space travelers return to earth after six months at the. national space station. and air show tragedy in the u.s. as a seventy four year old pilot. and just spectators get the full story at all to call

. in a few minutes i'll be back with a recap of the headlines but first a business update 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's 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 italy's any will get a twenty percent stake while germany's whole and the french firm will each get fifteen percent. and the signing will three sol stream pipeline deal spells bad news for you crane when completed russian gas supplies to europe will bypass ukraine and reduce its ability to leverage just counts and with the possibility of no gas to transfer to europe he says it might have to close part of this network

separately has reportedly agreed to buy gazprom trick latest on as an alternative to russia whether the only way for kiev to get deliveries from aaa to stand is via russian pipelines. all 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 helped them build businesses that will become international powerhouses but of course is there for us . i want to spank you on this place as it's seen as the platform to bring this generation on super nors it all began when the russian business elite got to gather and decided to create a school that would rival the most famous business schools in the world like a harvard or hundreds of millions of dollars later and their idea is now a reality it's no secret the country is like in the high fliers and instead of imports in them the school believes in future russians how to think outside the box

and this is where their approach comes in the organizers a believe in students taking part in the real projects and analyzing. business activities in countries with rapidly growing economies president with that image is convinced that this project is exactly what russia needs to meet his goals of modernization and a lot of international companies are already backing the project we intend to continue to remain to be committed to skolkovo because we think it has an important role to play in transforming the business environment in russia in combination with . the innovation city. be a major. source of renewed innovation and growth for russia so the fifth anniversary celebration is not only a good opportunity to show the world how force spoke of what has come but so unite the business elite once again and discuss how to make it even better and one of

these ways is how to attract more foreign investors they can gain main components first became really participate. in russia in the process of helping russia become more international and more be part of the world economy the second a killer more was going on russia using the school the key players they can learn about. the business and the third i think we can know better each other from business people internationally. have been better than yahoo has just announced that he will be stepping down as the president of skolkovo and fill his shoes it will be under a rock the board a former chairman of alpha bank and current board member of the great tail financial good and this is again to show that skolkovo values different opinions and different styles of leadership and this trying to become the best in the industry in corso free anniversary events of school of a business archie spoke to the head of russia's second largest still make

a similar style look similar to shove explains how the current market turmoil is affecting his business in the u.s. . you know all the rules in the united states and other parts of the company is full at the moment even managed to increase prices sly's the united states and so far the pretty optimistic situation of course me getting signals from capital markets which really warn. be able can for. you to see that it is a low of the problems but we will forward his opinions and that's all the business news for now from all stories you can log onto our website r.t. dot com slash business.

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of damage that are done not just human damage but damage to the physical environment in which the battlefield takes place tremendous amounts of damage done by aerial bombs by napalm boy come for certain whether it's hard sonic booms are tracked to marine mammals or it's the burning oil fields here in iraq or it's destroyed coral reefs in the pacific for planning purposes the list just goes on and on the geneva conventions of nineteen forty nine states that they are shall be taken in the war to protect from violence against widespread. true and severe damage the united states although it is accepted almost all of the previous. one has taken exception to that.

welcome back here's a recap of the main stories we're covering today on our team libya's national transitional council is given to see. the security council of the new resolution but also. pose during his regime. new authorities are still fighting for control over some cities including gadhafi is home town of syria. meanwhile there's another bid for u.s. recognition with the palestinian president vowing to launch a bid for statehood despite a u.s. promise to veto it as some israeli settlers say they're ready to leave the area but that their government will not. growing tension at service border with breakaway costs a vote with a standoff that disputed.