on our team tonight libya's former rebels now officially represent the country as they get a u.n. seat despite new civilian deaths and continuing battles for the last gadhafi stronghold we got the latest on that story tonight. meanwhile as palestine prepares its bid for u.n. recognition the israeli west bank settlers who want to leave say their government won't let them. in the war of nerves because border with breakaway kosovo with a standoff a disputed checkpoints following this seizure by calls of the police despite warnings of pending violence.

welcome this is r.t. from moscow it's ten pm here now my name is kevin owen and first libya's national transitional council now has a seat at the united nations which officially recognized the former rebels in a new resolution also easing the sanctions imposed you're in good half his regime provision was also made for financial assistance from the u.n. for rebuilding the country he's going to teach you can has the details. one of the things that the new resolution inventions is a special u.n. support mission in libya that will be set up for an initial three months to help in word because most insist it is essentially a political operation it would give advice on restoring security but it 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 you and participate in is welcomed by all members this is something that watches and points of 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 also the resolution expresses the security council's determination it will 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 our members take a listen. in libya very charming the situation into political diplomatically and it's important to cancel consider lifting the new fly zone over libya particularly as this no fly zone is being violated arbitrary and induced a new reality on the ground and intervening the new fly zone no longer makes sense it's lifting must be part of the international community's efforts to address the aftermath of the libyan crisis so. the resolution would also ease economic

sanctions imposed on libya and make sure it pains of billions of dollars of assets frozen by the security council in february and march are soon available to and for the benefit of the people of libya the general assembly on friday gave libya's you one seat to the national transitional council which toppled cormac mccarthy although not yet controlling the whole of libya the rebels 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 levy or 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 the and its potential impact on regional peace everyone

seems to be on the same page and the security council has clearly expressed those concerns the amount of weapons in the that are up for grabs is extremely worrying because russia's far on the 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 could offie that's the kind of concern that russia has raised on a number of occasions saying in a chaos like the one unfolding in libya the weapons will inevitably end up in the hands of extremists and terrorists and not just weapons but maybe nuclear materials that possibly has to. worryin prosper got his gratitude for counting the so libya's former rebels that have been given instant official status so how do the palestinians who are struggling for recognition feel about that. sense of sorrow and loss. and then anger later in the program we'll be speaking to palestinian

politician you saw her there she thinks people deserve para treatment from the international community or from her a bit later. focusing back in on libya the no fly zone over the country remains in force as nato and former rebels back the new leadership push into the few remaining gadhafi young planes alliances strokes 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 into gone silent i did laura emmet reports. david cameron and nicolas sarkozy surveyed their handiwork the most senior leaders to visit tripoli since their countries began their names which eventually in libya they say their work is not yet done. until a billion. he's right civilians are still being killed but now that kidnapped me is virtually powerless the people increasingly

doing the killing are national transitional council forces together with nato as they attack lead 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 be supporters really there are real problems on the ground there's a legacy of. human rights abuses on both sides i think the rebels the national transitional council have promised to hold their own forces to account and that is a process that we will see now it doesn't seem to be happening yet the african union and the edges the transitional forces are hunting down and killing black africans on the assumption that we recruited them as mercenaries. that's borne

out by reports by amnesty international which there is the rebels are guilty of unlawful killings and torture it takes pains to point out that could ask the forces committed some terrible atrocities but also documents of brutal settling of scores by rebel forces including the lynching of gadhafi soldiers meanwhile hometown is one of the last holdouts a letter purportedly from a colonel himself begs the u.n. security council to protect thirty. 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 sponsored un resolution to ease

sanctions against libya indicates the national oil corporation in particular getting the oil flowing again laura and it's r.t. london in other news tonight ethnic tensions on serbia's border with breakaway costs of intensify following friday's takeover of two disputed border posts from police for the assistance of nato led forces of place customs officers at checkpoints previously and resnik served control the locals were proud prevent what they call the unilateral action of course of those old brain eons i'll take sarah furthur ports over near one of those cities checkpoints. where one of the border crossings you're ready and afraid leading up to it remain bloke's by the protest now we actually can't get much closer when you go up to the front of that cross thing you're stuck by the boat load we can see some of the k. four forces on the ground that we saw helicopters coming across and the you like

helicopters dropping off some of the police forces to these crossings also the albanian cause the police they very actually got to. each of the checkpoint at the moment and they're only that 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 that's still now amid concerns of repeat of what we saw in july when oil and clashes over the course think of the making of me to try and take these posts resulted in the death of the policeman is actually being relatively quiet here today what we've seen is a huge number of serbian i think so it's turning out at these barricades that what we've got at the moment is a standoff situation is being called a war of nerves that is the basic checkpoints of the barricades is the serbian process and then the capel forces at the actual crossings themselves ok no one wants to make these the castell forces they want to make need to break up the

barricades the theories about violence and to set in protest for exactly the same reasons they say will be the side and provoking 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 for not there were a lot of countries that were unwilling really to make a statement 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 and. further correspondence on the border very well xander probably you know he's a political ammunition grady told me he thinks the nato led mission in kosovo was violating the u.n. mandate by siding with prishtina on the border crossing. ok for meeting nato have absolutely overstepped their man being their un mandate it's 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 kosovo we have the security council we have five states each with veto power you have three western states and two man 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're entering the endgame now and they're actually doing a hard push for it right now. so still to come this hour on oxy including down to earth ounces for a very basic question. what's poverty while not being able to get the basics then life ok it's it's been like that since creation is it worth the bet it's probably about the same as it always was sell newspapers you wouldn't have a job if this didn't happen the way the streets new york find out how much shit

their people a feeling the pinch of rising poverty right now as you see some questions turned back on our resident to also. check out the world's northernmost monuments and then tourists flocking to surprising prelate of the song be it congress go take a look for you. decades back in chalk one thousand miles from the north pole. the our team is taking you on a trip to spitzbergen archipelago. where twenty years after the us was sars collapsed the suv between my life is still going strong. for the world synonymous statue of lenin presides over a ghost town near the summit. has become a tourist site for those overcome by the cold war and the sounds.

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and watching r.t. and a passionate address palestinian president mahmoud abbas has vowed to seek full state recognition of the un security council next week but in spite of us promise to veto any such period it also deals a blow to to israel which may now have to give up the territories it's occupied for decades some settlers accuse the israeli government indeed of using them as pawns in a land dispute these poor sleep as the details. wanted to meet us here in one of israel's busting cities he wants to talk to the nazi news on social mint where he's seen as a troublemaker. for the record. for me for my group 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 an away stand sit home and now years on he wants to leave but can't because his property has hard in value since he bought it for. so no more because the government doesn't want the. bones of the. agreement with. the show that it's full of people who doesn't want to live in peace is one into status pointed out that the government does everything it can to keep him in most of the land here barren and difficult. about what they've been building on in a few months no constitution has been done on more than two thousand projects here in the west bank and 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 is to me it suggests prime minister netanyahu spends nearly a billion dollars a year just to keep the system is 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 netanyahu has no plans to leave decisions regardless of what it does to his economy all to the peace process there is no political gain. baiting israel about whether it's right or wrong just doing it and we know about many certainly the eastern part of the event where you have a lot of arguments which are empty as palestinians head off to the united nations he's really only digs in around decisions and with him in the way the prospects of

peace seem as unlikely as binney was actually leaving with stank pully c r t. the palestinian population has told palestine deserves recognition more than some other nations the game is reduced to sense of sorrow and loss but not frustration 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 a 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 of an american administration there clearly is to see. justice i think it's about palestine joins the community of nations as an equal and is no longer. a subhuman species

rights. eurozone finance ministers have delayed until october now the decision on another handout of rescue cash for greece i don't think the country's doing enough to cut its massive debt greece from the eight billion euro loan at the end of september athens says it will run out of money next month and won't be able to save . that last few months have been plagued by indecision of money you need is about 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 global financial squeeze is being fought everywhere of course is a reaffirmation of 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 to manhandle back to my house in central jersey which was i abandoned two years ago.

that 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 you feel like it's getting worse there it is getting worse actually where like big manifests three thousand people manifesting because it's too expensive they're living in israel as belonging much below poverty is on the rise you don't believe it was poverty. well not being 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 know. so why would people many patcher such baloney so you wouldn't have a job this is that happened have you about the fact that i'll. yes because i work

with the law for profit organization that takes care of. women 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 to be any more american dream there's no more white picket fence and not everyone's 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. things over the spot of sight seeing shall we and if you have a curious is what it felt like to live in the u.s.s.r. there is one place still where the soviet spirit is frozen in time it's not even in russia we talk about the turn of baron here is a map in the arctic circle which lives on a norwegian archipelago called spitsbergen it's a vibrant soviet settlement the grew up there after miley rights for granted in the one nine hundred twenty s. but when communism collapsed so did the community so when a third of

a special reports for r.t. for example we can finds out now how an old soviet dream still provides a means of survival and is also helping preserve the past. the legacy no one should be proud of heaps of scrap metal littering pristine arctic landscape building stilton over that foundation being black smoke over the snow covered peaks the tree says 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 what was like to tell the story about back in soviet times when norwegian for visiting barons were going to rise. and how prosperous this government was well times obviously changed by the so proud of good trapping a region tourists are barons word i would watch. that's why when.

our goal is common is what i'll call it here a few days. it's part of growing in a way. where communism had long stopped being a lifetime goal but is rapidly becoming the means of livelihood the rusty soviet heritage has suddenly become a hard to reach destination for 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. a few years of tourists. but now we have euros. minus. only one work. from. back in the nineteen eighties barings work was a burgeoning mining community though the soviet union was determined to maintain at all costs. half way between north america and western europe the spitzbergen

archipelago is part of norway with a special status that allows other countries to set up industrial bases here in the middle of the cold war it served as the use of sars westernmost outpost now it's one of the soviet union slask preserved relics. of the soviet union if it was cut off from the financial support for two decades it's a curious interest and i think it could be even more appealing for russia. to keep its presence on spitsbergen russia is still maintaining a coal mine here but in trance of profit it's far behind local supernews shops. is a big hit the defunct are in curtain still helps keep the money flowing guys it's the russians who in your words you can't rubbles promise not to grow euros

the local administration is increasingly under. pressure to bring the infrastructure optimal in standards these materialization efforts are not very popular but tourist help your readers if you're coming from 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 you know authentic tradition here. i should not i would not like to have it in the shiny condition to be on it's the fact that change even for the better is not always good for business something that even a local band has become attuned to let me try to add morning russian songs today repertoire it left the audience called if they wanted to hear it was a song comfortably familiar. something i already see them in order to bring out the calendar. a great series of reports. indeed wraps up our special coverage from spitzbergen this weekend getting

still find more about it and other reports we've got on the northernmost outpost of n. soviet union. our website of course was a chance to have your say and all the stories you see and want to take in these if you've not called them already today they are soft landing in a warm welcome home for a team of space travelers and returned to earth after six months into the international space station our cameras caught the moment they arrived back on terra firma also a landing that didn't go at all well very tragic story this in a show tragedy in the u.s. a seventy four year old stunt pilot crashed his vintage plane into the spectators there all four story details are com if you want to get the pictures as well online for you.

you want your tea loving rage cue in central moscow my name's kevin and i would like to become pretty of the rest of the march this weekend but we're back in a moment with a recap of the latest news headlines from moscow then it being weekend this time for a week an arts and leisure guide moscow out plus the weekend sport coming up too in about twenty minutes kate's got news of a stunning first ever rugby world cup victory for ireland over australia so the next half hour pans out and the here on our team from moscow.

this was a city. of about one hundred ninety thousand people and we had eighty thousand people working for general motors. or a job that depended on general motors. general motors says if it's not relations you it might be your neighbor or somebody you knew so it's kind of

a family run business you know myself i'm third generation my father was working there and you have a lot of two three and four generation families are there first let's understand it is this is if a man doesn't work. and he said. it is gone who are they. then to work with. i think for a long time this notion in america that bigger was better was simply an undisputed fact in the twenty first century smarter going to be better general motors simply became too large for their own good it's so many brands that they couldn't even keep up with they just basically became a dinosaur. it was. just. awful.