maybe it colonel gadhafi his grip on power of peace to be slipping away as anti-government protesters claim to have control over most of the country's major cities. and has fallen spreads from the oil rich middle east the world faces a surge in fuel prices threatening to drag economies into a new. also this hour r t the wiki leaks founder slams a british justice for having him over to sweden spot near his ations of hypocrisy over how the u.k. harbors those facing for more serious charges. plus it's a race for the hearts and minds of the olympic fans as russians are set to choose the basket for the twenty fourteen winter games in search of.

blood from a studio in central moscow this is r t with you twenty four hours a day and violence continues to spread across libya as anti-government protesters are back on the streets demanding an end to colonel gadhafi as 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 to over one thousand. peter one of the he's keeping across the violence from neighboring egypt's has this report. it appears that colonel gadhafi is losing his grip on power in the country we're hearing from inside libya that most of the major cities outside of the capital are now under the country. almost under control of anti-government

protesters libyan soldiers are joining the protesters defecting away from kids out the and we're hearing from those protesters same protesters that this is a scene repeated in cities across the country now in tripoli gadhafi loyalists are arming civilians in is setting up roadblocks at the moment it does appear that the capital is quiet most of the residents of tripoli are remaining indoors afraid to go out onto the streets where those checkpoints manned by armed civilians are now on friday there was mass protests in and must violence in tripoli now this followed a address by colonel gadhafi to his followers in the capital and this resulted of protests where shots were fired by security forces at protesters there were also hearing some very troubling comments coming out of tripoli suggesting that security forces pursued protesters to their homes in order to kill him and also that the

bodies of the days have been very very very quickly in order to cover up any atrocities that are taking place there now the number of days expected to be well over a thousand in the violence that we've seen in that country now on friday as well as a comment from colonel gadhafi favorite son saif these mouth piece if you will to the english speaking media he said that his family will die in tripoli if necessary they will live and die in libya the e.u. have said that they will put forward sanctions in the next week in the coming week now this is from the this message from the e.u. they said that they will do this they will put forward sanctions in coordination with the united nations and the u.s. in order to try to squeeze the gadhafi regime and freeze their assets but also to freeze the assets of senior figures in the gadhafi government it follows unilateral sanctions that were put forward by the u.s. . he's peter over there and. the president of the british based arab lawyers

association says the west is going to impose sanctions to control libya in the future. is absolutely. this goes on in libya after the move the world community wanted to deal with that they would have at least mentioning my name would have taken steps to threaten. his family to be put on trial to try to take action against him if you have been threatened right from the outset he personally as opposed to libya because i think what's been the moment is to control the future of libya so libya has a government like we were lift the sanctions if we don't like the sanctions but. let's looking at the second case rest should have been made so that he shows in his people who are doing the killing. they give you

a revolver sparked fears of skyrocketing oil prices that may affect the cost of everything from transport to food by the barrel of the black gold approaching one hundred twenty dollars this week and it's a warning of significant economic threats if the turmoil spreads further to exhaust he explains how the problem is playing out in the u.s. . boyle 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 drill. and with those three words you've got yourself a politically entrenched powerhouse will drill new wells are sure it will drill and the crisis in the middle east has only inflamed it 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 skyrocket and so a vicious cycle begins for many americans a reality that is once again it rallied the base and its spokespeople perhaps for the wrong reasons and whenever there's a crisis either here at home or abroad it usually exploited politically i did government or the media 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 sales to cass sunstein no new permits have been issued the permits and backup plans

aside what's really going to happen in an already ravaged economy are 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 this bad news in terms 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 our enemies for our teeth dina kosofsky. steve eleven from the magazine foreign policy believes the oil market is unlikely to collapse anytime

soon he says there are stable countries like saudi arabia that can fill the gap of those stuck in turmoil. the markets have calmed down over the last twenty four hours saudi arabia has gone around and cry at least assured everyone we not only can add more value to the market but we have added these we value the difference that would create a situation in which prices would really skyrocket if another country when our clients or you'd lost a million barrels a day it is our line from libya you have algeria which is also having trouble we're in it. that would bring saudi arabia right afterwards capacity to to substitute the law and then you would see i'm not sure two hundred twenty i think that's probably an anorak trying to get a headline but but maybe one hundred fifty that which is still pretty high. and that we've got plenty more for you this hour including our weekly snapshot of

opinion on the streets of new york. the plaza responsible at all for where the economy that right now now it's it's wall street numbers. the president is in the big apple to find out what people think about high taxes. but still to come first here in the soldiers preparing to appeal a london court ruling that he extradited to sweden on sex assault charges the founder of the whistleblower wiki leaks website says the allegations a baseless and if he's handed over he will not get a fair trial lawyer and it has been looking at well songes been extradited from the country which is home for many wanted on far more serious charges. wiki leaks founder julian assange 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 act of two or three hundred and sixty thousand dollar bail. why is.

i'm going to electronic. when i have not even been charged in any country he's not the only one asking that particularly as the british government has a history of granting asylum system fairly controversial parrott says recently the immigration minister admitted one hundred thirty nine suspected 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 are 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 the main because we want them in with their money and therefore it's not particularly the russian magnets and all the gods are welcome here our shakes. may have

a jew be a criminal record of torture yet they're allowed to swung around 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 this allows 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 the is fission evidence found for prosecution it should be prosecuted in the u.k. they always are bringing these people to account these suspects but it seems very little is being on 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 a ledge chechen terrorists are. was granted political refuge the same year asylum was granted to russian tycoon buddies but 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 mafia 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 are stars looks set to be cast from the safe harbor of the u.k. into choppier waters it's unlikely he'll think for 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 passengers 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 top terrorist war criminals remain at large in the u.k. under the protection of the state's your average r.t. . well still to come on the program this hour the olympic race is on but something other than medals will be won today people across the country are prepared to use their sochi winter games i mean it's going to be a close race among all creatures great and small. first police in russia's southern republic of. all the roads after a series of violent attacks in the capital no chick thought is analysing the situation is under control. over brings us the latest from the region in the

caucasus. we're here at the back of the gas station that was attacked early on saturday morning armed gunmen reportedly shot the station and the deadly blast was prevented only signs 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 say military asli attacked several locations including traffic police prose 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 one policeman injured shows that there has been a turnaround from the last week's dramatic events in the volatile republic gruesome attack on a tourist minibus last saturday left three people dead and two injured further south a cable tower is keely and in a resort was blown up and hotels in the village near gone back a ways are going to car bomb was discovered and all the incidents force their

soldiers to pose and i am to tell operation on the region in their time and to terrorist forces have already created a base with less than supplies and a makeshift explosive device now given as you know about her allies in the world a trial north caucasus islamist terrorists operating in the region could be behind the latest attacks some experts say the way they were carried out heat in several locations at the same time follows the pattern used by islamists operated internationally. anger is growing in the u.s. over the super size tax burden for the middle class that has quickly come to head as thousands of been protesting in one more than state over plans to cut public sector workers collect benefits this week go to ask people in new york how they feel when they're required to make sacrifices but the super rich don't have to.

people across the u.s. are protesting proposed legislation intended to slash benefits for the middle class and they really protesting the fact that everyday people are being asked to make that a fight as well wall streeters continue to profit even more this week let's talk about that i'm from a member of the middle class and we say to where instead evening we work for the obvious and first then friday we work for ourselves but stakes. do you think that people in the middle class are responsible at all for where the economy is that right now you know it's 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 because the government would prefer to buy their pay or muffin and bailing out the upper 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 isn't one riles up there and 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 word 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 the middle class to relinquish benefits it's only fair to ask the same of the upper class as well. competition for such is twenty fourteen winter olympics promises to be fierce but another race is on the way well before the games let you to begin and people all across russia casting their vote to choose that mascot. thomas takes

a closer look at the candidates road to the finals. back at the beginning of september when the winter olympic committee announced that there would be a contest the next mascot for the olympic games would be designed 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 of course to try and create the next popular winter mascot now of course this is a really big deal the 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 nature of the bear from the one nine hundred eighty summer games from right here in moscow a very popular character and so now the question is will this next character be just as popular as those final designs it's been narrowed down to the top ten the top ten was chosen by the judging panel of celebrities politicians as well as entrepreneurs and now voting is under way and that last vote for that top ten will

be cast tonight at nine o'clock and then the winner will be announced shortly thereafter at nine thirty now there are many different designs for more on this we actually go to our source of course wanted to just watch. the olympic race but no medals up for grabs it's the search for a mascot and these children while the snow will pour to be the symbol which sums up the world people are allowed to decorate the statue in one of the city's parks to show their support for a species on the threat but he's a sister honest animal and the one animal. this is because it's very special and you know the only four slowly imports living in full cheez wildlife preserve the drawings of these animals have appeared in dozens of entries in the national contest to find the mascot for the two thousand games and sold in 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 looking into

this stuff so great here the. these are the meskins that made it into the finals and one of the entries are two good years slowly acquired father frost and the mayor of sochi his personal favorite of girls and all skeet special hotline was set up and saatchi to answer all kinds of questions about the two thousand and fourteen winter games and right now mascots are one of the hottest topics. our colors are people from all walks of life and many of them are locals who would like to support their citizen rules one of the mascots for instance represents the black sea and the snow and the mountains in the few previous email poor years and another couple of candidates reflect the famous russian stereotype with peers from a poor making the final shortlist brings back fond memories of michel the beer the mascot for the nine hundred eighty moscow lympics remains an icon and russia but

its creator victor to shake up says it wasn't easy for misha to become a legend in news so i had a call from the organizing committee and they said your bed has 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 plot was selected by a special jury consisting of celebrity sponsor for you or some politicians the winner will be chosen by the people of russia during a televised jenna's lot. and will bring you live coverage of how that vote goes at six pm g.m.t. this saturday evening and remember you can always visit our website r.t. dot com for the latest on the twenty fourteen winter. we bring you special interviews with the mascot candidates that's all our website r.t. dot com you can watch the trisha dolls practice their team dance and find out what father frost does in his spare time. for those that didn't quite make it with the

which these. terrible furry for his mascot aspirations didn't quite fit the bill all that dot com. is. the official ulti allocation. called touch from the. shoulder see. the.

smiling. now in the palm of your. on the. u.s. top military officials in afghanistan avoiding an investigation into claims that an american army unit psychologically manipulated visiting high officials rolling stone magazine published tell these psychological operations known as soil ups were used to get more money and troops for the war when all these miniature contributors says this further reveals about how much the u.s. operation in afghanistan is being hidden from the public. inadvertently the salacious revelations about the psyops scandal in afghanistan regarding the american leadership back in washington d.c. has also revealed their hypocrisy regarding the public outrage over the american occupation in afghanistan despite the fact that half

a year ago their psychological operations has been rebranded into a military information support operation in essence the whole american global information or to be precise this information campaign remains the same that is the most important and under reported part of this growing and unfolding drama regarding the american general unauthorized psychological operations against its political and military leadership back in washington d.c. . now let's have a quick look at some other major headlines from around the world to me and the death toll from an earthquake that struck the country has risen to one hundred forty five with as many as two hundred still missing rescuers warn that the chances of finding any more survivors under the rubble in christchurch

a slim chance he said this is a try to restore power and clean water and the aftermath of the country's deadliest not for the south of eighty years police are also on high alert amid reports of looting and mornings that maybe more tremors to come. an attack on a nato supply vehicle terminal in pakistan has left five people dead innocents found it parked vehicles destroying eleven oil tankers in peshawar no group has claimed responsibility but the band of pakistani taliban has carried out several such assaults well nato vehicles in the past three years about supplies were caught by foreign troops in afghanistan a ship through peshawar. and seven people were killed in gaza. he's wounded in clashes with security forces during antigovernment protests in yemen's port city of aden the death toll is now he said he's twenty four since baby protests started over a week ago against president ali abdullah saleh thirty two year rule loyalists and opponents of the sixty eight year old leader held rival demonstrations in the capital sanaa after friday prayers. brings up to date for the moment that

with the summer of i'm a new stories in just under five minutes from now so do stay with us live here in moscow.

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