maybe you could look at duffy's grip on power to be slipping away as antigovernment protesters claim to have control over most of the country's major cities. as violence spreads throughout the oil rich middle east the world faces a surgeon fuel prices threatening to drag economies into a new meltdown. the wiki leaks founder slams british justice for handing him over to sweden sparking accusations of hypocrisy over how the u.k. has those facing far more serious charges. plus it's a race for the hearts and minds of olympic fans as russians are set to choose the mascot for the twenty fourteen winter games in sochi.

live from our studios in central moscow this is r.t. with the twenty four hours a day of violence continues to spread across libya as anti-government protesters a back on the streets demanding an end to colonel gadhafi is rule of course also suggests 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 since peter all of those keeping across developments from neighboring egypt. 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 control almost under the control of the. antigovernment protesters libyan soldiers

are joining the protesters defecting away from gadhafi 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 arming civilians in they're 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 and manned by armed civilians are now friday there was must protests and must violence in tripoli now this followed a an address by colonel gadhafi to his followers in the capital this resulted in a protest where shots were fired by security forces at protesters now we're also hearing some very troubling comments coming out of tripoli suggesting that security forces suit protesters to their homes in order to kill him and also that the bodies

of the data have been very very very quickly in order to cover up any atrocities that are taking place there now the number of dead expected to be well over a thousand in the violence that we've seen in that country on friday as well there was a comment from kind of his 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 perform sanctions in coordination with the united nations and the u.s. in order to try to squeeze the get out the regime and freeze their assets but also to freeze the assets of senior figures in the gadhafi government that follows unilateral sanctions that were put forward by the u.s. . parties peter all over there and while the united nations is in talks to impose

sanctions on libya as. president of the british based arab lawyers association says that's just an attempt to put the country under control in the future. what i wrote was absolutely meaningless this is. a move world community wanted to deal with that they would have at least mentioning my name they would have taken steps to threaten. his family to be put on trial to threaten to take action against him if he had 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. as a government like we will lift the sanctions if we don't like the sanctions but. let's just get replaced the rest should have been made. in his people who are doing

the killing. the libyan revolt the spark fears of skyrocketing oil prices that may affect the cost of everything from transport to food with a barrel of gold approaching one hundred twenty dollars this week i don't know said warning a significant economic threat spreads further because also explains how the problem is playing out in the u.s. . boil three little letters. that 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 are sure it will be thrilled 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 it's spokespeople for perhaps for the wrong reasons and whenever there's a crisis either here at home or abroad it's usually exploited politically by the 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 cast 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 this bad news concerns of violence spreading to other well 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 tea dina kosofsky. well steve levine 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 assured everyone we not only can add more value to the market but we have. the be different that will create a situation in which prices would really skyrocket is there another country when our clients we lost a million barrels a day is our line from libya you have algeria which is also having trouble it in its client that would bring saudi arabia right to risk two to substitute for volume then you will see i'm not sure two hundred twenty i think that's probably and trying to get headline but but maybe one hundred fifty that which is still pretty

high. and we've got plenty for you this hour still to come including our weekly snapshot of opinion on the streets of new york. the class are responsible at all for where the economy is 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 tech suits. so that's still to come for you but first joining us are just preparing to appear at the london court's ruling that he be extradited to sweden on sex assault charges the founder of the whistle blowing wiki leaks website says the allegations of baseless if he is handed over he will not get a fair trial nor ever has been looking at where someone has been extradited from a country which is home for many what had been 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. sixteen thousand dollars. why is it. 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 counting asylum system fairly controversial carrot 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

men because we want them in with their money and therefore it's not particularly the russian magnets and the welcome here our shakes. i have a jew b.s. criminal record i think were torture yet they're allowed to swan around london and knightsbridge 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 campaign is redress so far nothing's been done people like that should be investigated by the u.k. police authorities. and if the is fishing 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 alleged chechen terrorists akhmed zakayev 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 from ptrace 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 of preventing his extradition meanwhile some of the world's nastiest people suspected top terrorist and war criminals remain at large in the u.k. under the protection of the state's your average r.t. . on the program the olympic race is on but something other than medals will be won today people across the country of occurring will russia to choose their sochi winter games and it's going to be a close race among all creatures great and small. the first police in russia's southern republic of carb you know dog caria have blocked all the roads off to a series of violent attacks in the capital no chip in storage 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 a deadly blast was prevented only thanks to the fire crews. 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 similar tenuously attacked several locations including traffic police closed and the office of federal forces for 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 to a new round from the last two weeks dramatic events in the volatile republic on the tires on the two wrist minibus last saturday left three people dead and two injured further south a cable tower it's kiely it's in a resort was blown out and home sales in the villages nearby vacuum when

a car bomb was discovered well the incidence forced their soldiers to impose an anti terror operation on the region in their time and to terrorist forces have already created a base with weapons supplies and a range fifty explosive device now you have a general car realize in the world of trial north caucasus that 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 sized tax burden for the middle class and has quickly come to a head as have been protesting in one northern state over plans to cut public sector workers collective benefits well this recall to people in new york they feel when they're required to make sacrifices not the super rich.

people across the u.s. are protesting proposed legislation intended to slash benefits for the middle class are they really protesting the fact that everyday people are being asked to make sacrifices while wall streeters continue to profit even more this week let's talk about bad i'm from a member of the suisse middle class and we say. we work for the all those and first and friday we work for ourselves but think. do you think that people in the middle class are responsible at all for where the economy is that right now now 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 a muffin and bail them 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 wiles' out 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 were not for the news coverage and or the social media and i'm not saying it's bad but we're 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 hard 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. competition for sorties twenty fourteen winter olympics promises to be fierce but another race is underway well before the games are due to begin people all across

russia are casting their vote to choose their mascot and l.t. shawn thought was takes a closer look at the candidates road to the finals. that 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 for mascot will be a big part of the branding of the olympic games that loss will be a big part of the merchandising for the olympic games and we may all remember the beloved 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 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 under way and that last vote for the 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 last year. in the olympic race but no medals up for grabs it's the search for a mascot and these children while the snow little part to be the symbol which sums up the whole cheechoo world people are allowed to decorate the statue in one of the city's parks to show their support for a species on the stretch but he's sister on this animal and the animal. this is because it's a very special annual growth only for slowly imports living in full cheese wildlife preserve but drawings of these animals have appeared in dozens of entries in the national contest to find the mascot for the two thousand two hundred games unsold 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 essentially who came to this top ten rate here the. these are the meskins that made it into the finals and one of the entries are two good years slowly acquired for the frost and the mayor of sochi is personal favorite of girls and also special hotline was set up unfortunate 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 wells one of the mascots for instance represents the black sea and the snow and the mountains can be the issue the real poor just another couple of candidates reflect the famous russian stereotype with piers roman for making the final shortlist it brings back fond memories of michel that they're the mascot for

the nine hundred eighty more for lympics remains an icon and russia but its creator to chicago says it wasn't easy for misha to become a legend you know so i had a call from the organizing committee and they said your prayer has just been approved by the central committee of the communist party so i mentioned how scared the poor creature was passing that test at this time is up to the public to decide on the mascot although the clock term 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 just pull off our t.v. . and we'll bring you live coverage of how that vote goes that's at six pm g.m.t. this saturday evening and also on our website at www dot com we're bringing you special interviews with the mascot candidates yes you can log on and look at those interviews watch the goals practice their team and also find out what the frost does in his spare time. on websites those that didn't quite make it

to the satirical fairy frog mascot aspirations didn't quite fit all that. don't call. it. is a it's. the official policy allocation. called touch from the. video. now in the palm of your.

on the dot com. u.s. top military officials in afghanistan avoided an investigation into claims that an american army unit psychologically manipulated visiting high officials rolling stone magazine published these psychological operations known as psyops or used to get more money in troops for the war what is going to contribute it says this further reveals just how much the u.s. operation in afghanistan is being hidden from the public. inadvertently these latest revelations about of the psyops scandal in afghanistan regarding the american leadership back in washington d.c. has also revealed their hypocrisy regarding their public coverage of the american occupation in afghanistan despite the fact that half a year ago their psychological operations has been rebranded into the military

information supporter peroration and the essence of the whole american global information or to be for size this information campaign remains the say that is the most important and under reported a hard hold these growing and unfolding drama regarding the american general unauthorized psychological operations against its political and military leadership back in washington d.c. . time not have a quick look at some of the major headlines from around the world in our world update this hour and the death toll from an earthquake that struck new zealand 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 all slim emergency services are trying to restore power and clean

water in the aftermath of the country's deadliest not for disaster for eighty years police are also on high alert and with reports of looting a morning's 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 one has claimed responsibility but the pakistani taliban has carried out several such assaults on nato vehicles in the past three years the bulk of supplies required by foreign troops in afghanistan shipped through peshawar. seven people were killed and dozens were injured in clashes with security forces during anti-government protests in yemen's port city of aden the death toll is now it's at least twenty four since daily protests started over a week ago against president ali abdullah saleh thirty two year rule and listen opponents of the sixty eight year old leader held rival demonstrations in the capital after friday prayers. were to bring us up to date for the moment but with

a recap of our main stories in less than five minutes from now stay with us live here most going on r.t. .

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