this is our duty tonight so that libya's former rebels now officially represent the country as they get a u.n. seat despite new civilian deaths in continuing battles for the last gadhafi stronghold and got the latest for you this half hour of news also. as palestine prepares its bid for u.n. recognition israeli west bank settlers who want to leave say their government just won't let the. and a war of nerves on serbia's border with breakaway kosovo with the standoff a disputed checkpoint following the seizure by cost of a police despite warnings of pending violence now.

hello this is r.t. from moscow it's just after midnight here my name is kevin and our top story 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 good after his regime provision was also made for financial assistance from the u.n. for rebuilding the country he's going to church in canada got the details for. 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 inward diplomats insist is essentially a political operation it would give advice on restoring security but would concentrate on efforts to undertake inclusive political dialogue promote national reconciliation and generally help the government in libya organize the elections

and write a new constitution and that kind of u.n. principle action is welcomed by all members this is something that russia's and point 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 implemented 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 legal airspace in the very near future well that's a provision put forward by washer 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 consider lifting the new fly zone over libya particularly as this new fly zone is being violated arbitrary induced a new reality on the ground and ensuring the new flows whom no longer make sense

its lifting must be part of the international community's efforts to address the aftermath of the libyan crisis so. the resolution will also ease economic sanctions imposed on libya and make sure the 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 leave years you went to the national transitional council which topple moammar gadhafi although not yet controlling the whole of levy or the rebels but 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. 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 they are out for grabs is extremely worrying more because of his army left behind are 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 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 lead to a possibly has to. we're in prospect the scottish you can there in washington d.c. for us our correspondent the ground there will libya's former rebels that have been given instant official status so the palestinians who are struggling for

recognition for so long no feel about that. the sense of sorrow and loss plus an anger of a bit later in the program got more from oh we speak to palestinian politician homeland i should rather you think that people deserve a fair treatment from the international community. the folks back in 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 players alliances strikes 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 pretty silent artie's lorella picks up that side of the story. 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. with. a billion.

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 as a legacy of such a conflict that you will have human rights abuses. the rebels for a transitional council have promised to hold their own forces to account and that is a process that we will see from now it doesn't seem to be happening yet the african union and ledges that transitional forces are hunting down and killing black

africans on the assumption that gadhafi recruited them as mercenaries. that's borne out by reports by amnesty international which that is the rebels are guilty of unlawful killings and torture it takes pains to point out they could ask the forces committed some terrible atrocities but also documents of brutal killing of schools by rebel forces including the lynchings of gadhafi soldiers meanwhile could taffy's hometown is one of the last holdouts a letter purportedly from the colonel himself begs the u.n. security council to protect certain. from being pounded by nato and to tackle what it describes as crimes by the forces of the new government civilian deaths are seemingly assured. cameron and sarkozy were quick to condemn gadaffi they're killing innocent libyans in the lead up to nato as

no fly zone being imposed but no such rhetorics being aimed at the empty sea in fact it's quite the opposite britain's sponsored un resolution to ease sanctions against libya and the gates the national oil corporation in particular getting the oil flowing again your emmett's r.t. london and other top stories tonight from tensions on serbia's border with breakaway kosovo intensify following friday's takeover of two disputed border posts cause i'm pleased with the assistance of nato led forces have placed customs officers no checkpoints previously underwritten excess of control locals have tried to prevent what they call the unilateral action of crossbows albanians to syria furthur reports from near one of those seeds checkpoints. where one of the border crossings you're ready and afraid leading up to it remained bloke's by the protesters 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 ball boy and we can see some of the capel forces on the ground that we saw helicopters coming across and i was told that you like helicopters dropping off some of the police forces to these crossings also the albanian cause the police they've only actually got to. each of the checkpoints at the moment and that 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 to speak that's still amid concerns repeat of what we saw in july when violent clashes over the course think of a making of me to try and take this place resulted in the death of a policeman is actually being relatively quiet here today what we've seen is a huge number of serbian i think servants turning out at these barricades what we've got at the moment is a standoff situation is being called a war of nerves because of both the checkpoints and the barricades is the serbian

protesters and then the capel forces at the actual crossing themselves at the no one wants to make me think a full force if they want to make need to break up the barricades the fear is sparking violence and the said in protest is exactly the same reasons they they want the key side preventing violence so we have 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 are a lot of countries that were unwilling really to make a statement 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 of course will have seen this first and she recorded it with serbia's top negotiator in the e.u. mediated talks on kosovo who's also disputed points with a chorus lobster from the fitch is now calling on both sides to resume discussions of the should its views about a possible solution to the problem. wrote to full normalization of our relationship with krishna and of course that normalization. doesn't mean by any way our

recognition of independence of course so we believe that the only way out is through a dialogue actually through an agreement how these two crossings to gates will look like because right now with krishna did was a one sided attempt to change the reality on the ground which is against all the agreements before unix assisted them in this attempt and they breached their own mandate they breached their stated position over costs of war in serbia and we are really be satisfied we do similar and it's against security council resolution for all forty four it's against the mandate if you like so it's again six points going by the bank you move which was supported by the security council and that land states the those two gates should be different than the others indeed they should have only international custom presidents once you put their custom officers then you will put a flag then you will put a coat of arms then you will put a so-called kosovo laws and then people who live here will be circled by something

that looks like a state they simply cannot accept so there has to be a different solution for the specific situation. so i had this i was some down to earth question assume a pretty basic question. what body well not be able to get the basic then like ok kids it's like that since creation has it worse a better it's probably about since it was so newspapers you wouldn't have a job if this didn't happen in the streets new york find out how much it's people that are feeling the pinch of rising puppy right now. and also the bite a check of the world nor the most monument to lenin to receive flocking to a surprising relic of soviet past. decades back into. one thousand miles from the north pole. the iraqi

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the move is. just so. just so. smug. in a passionate address palestinian president mahmoud abbas has vowed to seek full state recognition at the u.n. security council next week that's in spite of a u.s. promise to veto any such period and also there's a blow to israel which may now have to give up the territories it occupied for decades from settlers no accuse the israeli government of using them as pawns in a land dispute that is part of sleep it's got the story. pretty rose 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. because. for me for my view of pinney 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 point the only catch it was an away spent sitcom and now years on he wants to leave but can't because his property has hard in value since he bought it. from the same no or because the government doesn't want the. bones of the. agreement with the we have to show that it's full of people and the people of gaza want to live he says one in two states has pointed out that the government does

everything it can to keep him in most of the land here it's there and difficult but that has. been a few months ago constructs and has begun on more than two thousand projects here in the west bank 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 there are not written anywhere in the book history it suggests prime minister netanyahu spends nearly a billion dollars a year just to keep decisions going but that has to come from somewhere and tens of thousands of israelis diplomats the answers brought them onto the streets in numbers never seen before in israel's history but netanyahu has no plans to leave the station and the goddess of what it does to his economy alter the peace process there is no political gain. in israel about whether it's right or wrong they're

just doing it and we know about many certain moments and the eastern part of the fence where you have a lot of apartments which are empty as palestinians head off to the united nations it is really army digs in around decisional minutes and with women the way the prospects of peace seem as unlikely as the rise actually leaving the west bank policy r.t. . we heard from a bit earlier on palestinian politician who i should worry says that palestine deserves recognition more than some other nations again there's were these sense of sorrow and loss less place than anger but others instantly get recognition and strangely those who weren't even as prepared as we are and who have been cleared for sixty three years under a group of military occupation get recognition the great state gets 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 in the face to see the benefits of justice i think it's about time palestine joins the community of nations as an equal and is no longer. a subhuman species have no rights. eurozone finance ministers have delayed until october the decision on another hand out of rescue cash for greece but don't think of the countries doing enough right now to cut its massive debt increase was receive the eight billion euro loan at the end of september after the social one out of money next month and being paid the interest on his considerable days the last few months have been plagued by indecision of money leaders about how best to deal with greece's debt which is now one of the half times the size of its economy of course is not alone the global financial squeeze is being felt everywhere lower half a nurse found that 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 a man back to my house in central jersey which was i abandoned two years ago. at work so basically i'm just living a day by day this is the wrong place to talk about poverty because here everything is so expensive so. it's weird but how is that in israel we have a lot of people but it's ok you get like it's getting worse there it is getting worse actually where like big manifests three thousand people make this thing because it's too expensive living in israel that's baloney what's below probably is on the rise believe it is what's poverty. well not being able to

get the basics then 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 buying it. so why would people many perhaps you're such baloney sell newspapers you wouldn't have a job it is that happened have you felt the impact on all. yes because i work with the law for profit organization. takes care of women we're seeing lots more women. do you think would happen if a middle class is that. 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. but do not you personally feel the effects of the writing poverty level the bottom line is it seems like this trend isn't going to reverse anytime soon. complete change of tactics for you if you have a curious what it was like to live in the u.s.s.r.

and times gone by there is still one place where the soviet spirit frozen in time is not even in russia it's in the town of baron spoke in the arctic circle which lies in a week in archipelago called spitsbergen third is on the map a vibrant soviet settlement grew up there after mining rights for granted back in the one nine hundred twenty s. but of course when communism collapsed so did the community now in the third of a special reports for us xander boyd finds out how an old soviet dream still provides to this day a means of survival and is also helping preserve the past. it's the legacy no one should be proud of heaps of scrap metal littering pristine arctic landscape buildings tilting 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 what was like to tell the story about back in soviet times when norwegians were visiting

barons were going to. be at how prosperous this was well. obviously i can't read this law applied to say trapped in a region tourists are barren words and without much needed cash that's why when. our goal is common as was the current here a few days ago instead of throwing it away the local administration decided to paint it in you and put it at variance work central 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 the spirit types of a bygone era we have some problems with. the use of tourists mubarak.

goes but now because you are rude. minus. the work. from. back in the nineteen eighties barons were was a burgeoning mining community though the soviet union was determined to maintain its own costs to deeply 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 use of stars westernmost outpost now it's one of the soviet union slask out country preserved relics. that is essentially a picture of the soviet union that it was culturally financial support for two decades it's a curious site for western tourists and i think it could be even more appealing for russians travelers to keep its presence on speeds bergan russia is still maintaining a coal mine here but and transit profit is far behind local supernews shops so

between memorabilia it is a big hit that it banks are in kirton still helps keep the money flowing guys it's a russian so you're sure but you can't buy the rubbles maker on us not to grow your local administration is increasingly under pressure to bring the infrastructure optimal in standards these materialization efforts are not very popular tourist help here and there's if you come into a very authentic place like bombs 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 on the fact that change even for the better is not always good for business something that even a local down has become attuned to what we try to add more than russian songs today repertoire it left the audience called they wanted to hear it was

a song perfectly familiar. sound like our scene there in order to bring out the caliber. but enjoy dogs on a special series of reports this week that wraps it up for this weekend from spitsbergen but you can still find more about it and other reports as well of the northernmost outpost in the south you know website. the story. about as well and look at the pictures this soft landing. a very warm welcome home for the team of space travelers it's just until the worth of their six month stint at the international space station our cameras are there to capture the moment they're right safely back on earth not such a safe landing here there in fights tragedy complete tragedy at an air show in the u.s. a seventy four year old stunt pilot crushes his vintage plane right into this photo is all for sitting there but we've got the pictures we've got the stories we've not seen it today.

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