joint t.v. shows a movie that's the case we go to the grand imperial truly the top western coast coral until you can a listener till close literally to see don't need to go and. read this and the colonel was so chill as a retreat. pulling up our. forces and strike against government protesters they're doing it again now bringing the overall death toll in the raging on dressed in libya to now over a thousand. kind of violence a spreads throughout the old rich middle east the world of faces a surge in fuel prices threatening to drag economies down into a meltdown. the wiki leaks founder british justice by handing him over to sweden sparking accusations of hypocrisy about how the u.k. those facing more serious charges. plus it's

a race for the hearts and minds of all the olympic athletes as russians are such a choose the mascot for the two thousand and fourteen winter games in sochi. very well welcome to you this is our live from sky. well libya is worst for more violence as anti-government protesters are back out on the streets they are demanding an end to colonel gadhafi his rule reports also suggest that in the capital tripoli security forces are arming civilians loyal to the regime it comes after scores were killed there on friday as army forces once again opened fire on rioters bringing the death toll now we went over one thousand and with the government to losing control of most of the total the country may soon fall as items that will explain. how to get daffy forces on it

a few protesters have of arrested power away from arrest and control away from gadhafi of most of libya they are in control of the majority of the country starting out in the in the east of the nation in benghazi that's where they have a main stronghold they've spread that influence across the country leaving really only tripoli the capital in the hands hold it up the loyalists now there are those gadhafi loyalists there that have been firing the protesters and it's a billion using live rounds also mercenaries in the capital who would be using violence against these people want to get their feet out of power now the son of colonel gadhafi saif has said in a television broadcast that he and his father will not leave tripoli a life they will not leave libya a little i while they were alive so would because they are trying to make a final stand as it were against these these protesters who want to see kind of the

step down now tripoli at the moment is ringed by tanks there are there are soldiers on the streets there now these soldiers have been told have been warned by the united kingdom today that if they don't defect from gadhafi they could face was crimes charges also hearing from a former u.s. diplomat but the country is descending into chaos gadhafi has made sure that no there is no other power source the army is not power all the army is not a force for. it was a very small book less very few were educated people in egypt so we were looking at a prospect godor chaos in libya there we were into the in egypt and now it's a very fearful thing if it continues to get worse and worse and. not just a few thousand but tens of thousands of people were killed. we're looking at the complete disintegration of a country well if the country does completely collapse then the big question becomes of what next for libya could look at the was no weak means

a friend of the west in the past few years he had developed relations with countries like the united states and countries in the e.u. however he was stable now if he is talking what comes in his place could it be a rather radical islamic state could we see something else there could we see another dictator a military dictator take place and get take power again so really if colonel gadhafi is removed from power a lot of questions arise about the future hold libya the united states imposed sanctions on colonel gadhafi and his family and other libyan officials now it's being condemned by the international community however that condemnation is being criticized in some circles is coming far too late and it's only words. artie's peter all of a point in time a journalist beryl a former deputy editor of the british newspaper the independent says the armies of libya's neighbors could soon intervene to topple gadhafi. continues if the days

turn into weeks i do think there is a case where it's possible that we might look to some of its arab neighbors to see if it's possible to come in there is very little army it's mainly the police over at me. and it for years just holed up in this in a season where people think years it's forceful do very swift incursions get rid of some goofy egyptian army they are no seen as people who clearly a pivotal role in getting rid of mubarak and they would be treated i think if they came in suits trying to get rid of there is a possibility that they would be seen as a very very friendly force to come and do such a job. libyan revolve has sparked fears of a skyrocketing oil prices that may affect the cost of everything from transport to food or the barrel of the black gold approaching one hundred twenty dollars this

week analysts are warning of significant economic threats if the tar or spreads further. explains how the problems are playing out in the united states. oriel three little letters. could have dire consequences on any economy and here in the united states or oil is sometimes also accompanied by three big words drill baby drill and dream and with those three words you got yourself a political entrenched power house will drill new wells sure it will drill there and the crisis in the middle east has only inflamed so what we have now are soaring gas prices and fears of a relapse in the already weak economic recovery and on the heels of the unrest crude is heading for the biggest weekly increase in two years and when oil prices soar the price of food also skyrockets and so a vicious cycle begins for many americans a reality that is once again rally the base and spokes people perhaps for the wrong

reasons and whenever there's a crisis either here at home or abroad it's usually exploited politically i did government or the media it loves to hate khadafi is now threatening to burn up the oil fields experts are predicting a worst case scenario of two hundred twenty dollars a barrel if that happens i don't believe that this this particular interruption of oil supplies will last very long so if you're trying to tie drilling offshore with what's happening in libya i think it's a bit of a stretch a stretch that some are all too willing to make the oil fields are on fire and we have no backup plan. well he has lifted the moratorium in the gulf for drilling oil thanks to cass sunstein no new permits have been issued but permits and backup plans aside what's really going to happen in an already ravaged economy where we see this in the middle east. and this in our very

own midwest. so the last thing you need is the people who are. in the worst economic shape are the first ones to get hit by gas prices and this will cause a lot of discomfort to a lot of people who don't need it's bad news concerns of violence spreading to other oil producing nations in the region have been overshadowed and instead of asking how americans will cope with this are asking the question that never gets answered but at the same time seems to never get old who are our friends and who are enemies for our tea. well stephen from that magazine foreign policy believes the oil market is unlikely to collapse anytime soon he says there are stable countries like saudi arabia other can fill the gap of those that are stuck in turmoil. the markets have been calm down over the last twenty four hours

saudi arabia has gone around and quietly assured everyone we not only can add more volumes to the market but we have as he's been calling it different that would create a situation in which prices would really skyrocket in another country when our clients are you lost a million barrels a day is our line from libya algeria which is also having trouble it is front that would bring saudi arabia right up to its capacity to to substitute for volume then you would see i'm not sure two hundred twenty i think that's probably an anarchist trying to get headlines but but maybe a hundred fifty that which is still pretty high you know with the live from moscow plenty more for you this hour including our weekly snapshot of opinion on the streets of new york. that's

a responsible at all for where the economy that right now now it's wall street president in the big apple is going to be finding out what people think about high taxes. now if you're going to saunders preparing to appeal it doesn't court's ruling that he'd be extradited to sweden on the sex assault charges the founder of the whistle blowing wiki leaks website says the allegations are baseless and if you handed over it will not get a fair trial lawyer and it has been looking at why a song which is being extradited from a country which is home for many wanted on far more serious charges. wiki leaks founder julian our songs learns the court has ordered his extradition to sweden to face questions over rape allegations and he's got some interesting questions of his own why is it. that i am subject. to nonprofit free speech activists who are three hundred and sixty thousand dollars bail. why is it

that i am kept. under electronic house arrest. when i have not even been charged in any country he's not be only one asking not particularly as the british government has a history of granting asylum system fairly controversial characters recently the immigration minister admitted one hundred thirty nine suspected war criminals have been given the right to settle in britain permanently that thought to include former henchmen of saddam hussein an afghan official who tortured prisoners and rwandan genocide perpetrators basic tradition relating to asylum is that anybody can come here provided they are loaded provided i've got lots of money we will let i mean because we want them in with their money and therefore it's not particularly the russian my peanuts and i only got so welcome here i would shakes. my how the

jew be a criminal record of torture yet they're allowed just want to round london and knightsbridge but it's water where ever since the second world war the u.k. seen only two successful convictions for war crimes and despite recent retrospective laws that allow suspects to be brought to justice in this country according to anti torture campaigners redress so far nothing's been done people like that should be investigated by the u.k. police authorities. and if this fission evidence found for prosecution. should be prosecuted in the you know the always the bringing these people to account to these suspects but it seems very little is being done the list of the rich and powerful on interpol's wanted list resident in the u.k. is long and around forty people wanted by russia alone living here in two thousand and three alleged chechen terrorists. was granted political refuge the same year

asylum was granted to russian tycoon but he still is not ski convicted of embezzlement in russia it shows here the hypocrisy of the british courts. he is quite clearly been involved in the matter your over the years all sorts of very serious offenses which he may actually quite literally equate with terrorism and yet he is not being extradited and yet we see here what appears to be anyway a trumped up charge of rape which hasn't actually even come to charges in sweden this certainly does appear to show political interference in the court system here in britain and total hypocrisy from the british justice system while julian assange looks set to be cast from the safe harbor of the u.k. into choppy waters it's unlikely he'll think from trace just yet he may not have billions in the bank to buy himself out of trouble so he'll just have to hate his friends in high places have influence as does this defense team has vowed to now

take his case to the highest courts in the land in the hague preventing his extradition meanwhile some of the world's nastiest people suspected torture is terrorists and war criminals remain at large in the u.k. under the protection of the state's your emmett's r.t. . still to come in the program here on our olympic race is on with something other than medals today people across the country had to choose their winter games icon it's going to be a close race among all creatures great. well the police aggression is something republic of congo if you don't have blocked all the rights after a series of violent attacks in the capital non-church it already is now saying the situation is under control. producers are the latest from the region and the caucasus. we're here at the back of the gas station that was attacked early on

saturday morning armed gunmen reportedly shot at the station and a deadly blast was prevented almost thanks to the fire crews arrival this follows a series of similar militant attacks here in the capital of russia's republic of korea just a few hours earlier that could have resulted in a major bloodshed after twelve people simultaneously attacked several locations including traffic police post and the office of federal forces but the plans to cause havoc in that you have clearly failed the fact that there were no fatalities and just long policeman injured shows that there has been a turnaround from the last week's dramatic events in the volatile republic most of the time going to rest minibus last saturday left three people dead and two injured further sells a cable tower it is he'll leave in a resort was blown up and hotels in the village near gone back you waited when a car bomb was discovered all the incidents force this all it is to close and and

to deter operations on the region in that time and terrorist forces have already created a very useful work on supplies and a makeshift explosive device now but in iraq our allies in the world little north caucasus islamist terrorists operating in the region could be behind the latest attacks some experts say the way they were carried out he did several locations at the same time for those the pattern used by islamists operating internationally. that is oksana literature of reporting right there well i think it was growing in the united states so with a super sized tax burden for the middle class it was quickly come to a head as thousands have been protesting in one northern state over plans to cut public sector workers collective benefits others week and r.t. asks the people in new york how they feel when they're asked to make sacrifices but the super rich don't have to.

people across the us are protesting proposed legislation intended to slash benefits for the middle class and they really protesting the fact that every day people are being asked to make sacrifices while wall streeters continue to profit even more this week let's talk about that i'm a member of persuasive middle class and we say. we work for the all those and first same friday we were for ourselves that state that's being do you think that people in the middle class are responsible at all for worth it connelly's that right now you know it's wall street and bush. so why isn't wall street paying more and why aren't they being asked to contribute more to health plans the government would prefer to buy their pay him often and bail them out the class probably pays ninety percent of the taxes and more in new york city and new york state it's probably the same thing in wisconsin i don't know the numbers but i

think everybody's paying for it paying to keep the government moving so why are there is that one riles up that if it if it seems like so clear cut to you why is everyone so in a fit right now where people don't want to give up what they've got were it not for the news coverage and or the social media and i'm not saying it's bad but were it not for the that type of coverage. we it would not be neither of these things either of the middle east things or the things going on with the states would be quite as hot as they are no matter who you think should be paying for the distressed economy the bottom line is that if you ask a middle class to relinquish benefits it's only fair to ask the same of the upper class as well. now competition for softies two thousand and fourteen winter olympics promises to be fierce but another race is underway well before the games are due to begin people all across russia casting their vote choose their mascot outings

transformers things are a closer look at the candidates and road to the finals. back at the beginning of september when the winter olympic committee announced that there would be a contest that the next mascot for the olympic games would be desired by russians and it would be chosen by russians and so children and adults and artists from all over the country started putting their ideas forth to try and create the next popular winter mascot now of course this is a really big deal and winter mascot will be a big part of the branding of the olympic games it will also be a big part of the merchandising for the olympic games and we may all remember the beloved we showed the bear from the one nine hundred eighty summer games right here in moscow a very popular character and so now the question is will this next character be just as popular now those final designs it's been narrowed down to the top ten that top ten was chosen by judging panel of celebrities politicians as well as

entrepreneurs and now voting is underway in that last vote for that top ten will be cast tonight at nine o'clock and then the winner will be announced shortly there after at nine thirty now there are many different designs for more on this we actually go to our source of course wanted tennis was. an olympic race but no medals up for grabs it's the search for a mascot and these children want to snow little torch to be the symbol which sums up the two worlds they were allowed to decorate the statute in one of the city's parks to shoulder support for a species under threat but he's is the strongest thing on usable they want this animal as a caucus is because it's very special and you know the only force in the leo courts living in full cheese wildlife preserve but you always of these animals have appeared in dozens of entries in the national contest to find the mascot for the two thousand and fourteen winter games in salt and russia the election of the olympic mascot started with hundreds of ideas and you can see some of these

drawings here in sochi olympic information center eventually it came out of this stuff great here the. these are the mascots that made it into the finals and now the entries are two beers slowly acquired for the frost and the merits of cheese personal favorite of the all financed special hotline was set up and saatchi to answer all kinds of questions about the two thousand and fourteen winter games and right now mascot one of the hottest topics along with our colors are people from all walks of life and many of them are locals who would like to support their citizen bulls one of the mascots for instance represents the black sea the snow and the mountains here be the issue the middle boarders another couple of candidates reflect the famous russians tiriel tried with beers roman court making the final shortlist it brings back fond memories of michel the beer the mascot for the nine hundred eighty moscow olympics remains an icon russia but its creator victor to

chicago says it wasn't easy for misha to become a legend you know so i had a call from the organizing committee they said your parents just been approved by the central committee of the communist party so imagine how scared the poor creature was passing that test at this time is up to the public to decide on the mascot although the top ten will select a place special jury consisting of celebrities entrepreneurs' and politicians the winner will be chosen by the people of russia during a televised jenna's velocity r t which. bring you live coverage of how the vote goes that's at six pm g.m.t. on saturday and i do remember you can always present our website article com for the latest on the two thousand and fourteen winter we'll bring you a special interviews with the mascot candidates watch the bowling pins practice their team guards and find out what father frost likes to do in his spare time.

and for those that didn't quite make it and meet such things if you recall the frog who's now. aspirations didn't quite fit the bill. you without the live from moscow u.s. top military officials in afghanistan have ordered an investigation into claims that an american army unit psychologically manipulated the visiting high officials rolling stone magazine published how these psychological operations known as psyops were used to get more money and troops for the war and a true contributor says that this further reveals how much about the u.s. operation and afghanistan is being hidden from the public inadvertently these

latest revelations about the psyops scandal you know if again a state regarding the american leadership back in washington d.c. has also revealed their hypocrisy regarding the public outrage over the american occupation you know get it straight despite the fact that half a year ago this psychological operations has been rebranded into the military information support duration in essence the whole american global information or to be precise this information campaign remains the same there it is the most important. under forty. all these growling and unfolding drama regarding the american general unauthorized psychological operations against its political and military leadership

in washington d.c. . there are time now to look at some other major headlines from around the world this hour the death toll from a quake that struck new zealand has now risen to one hundred and forty five with as many as two hundred still missing rescuers war but the chances of finding any more survivors under the rubble in christ church are slim emergency services are trying to restore power and clean water in the aftermath of the country's deadliest natural disaster in eighteen years police are also want to be reports of looting and warnings there may be more tremors to come. for people were killed and. wounded in clashes with security forces during antigovernment protests in yemen support city of aden protests or has now reached everest twenty one since the day you protest started over a week ago against president ali abdullah saleh thirty two year rule loyalists and opponents are sixty eight year old believed to have held

a rival demonstrations in the capital sanaa they did so right after friday prayers . islands and made a ruling party if enough fool has suffered a huge election defeat this is according to exit polls the party was knocked into third place after reeling from the backlash of the financial meltdown and its subsequent bailout by the e.u. and the i.m.f. the pheno goal what party will form the next government without an overall majority . hot on the back of the headlines in just a few minutes stay with us. all .

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