disease mantra pure resort to city to barracuda building a magical which ok renaissance hotel ok grill sweeter to brown pacific sovereign resort and spa. in israel blue cheese available in some of the tell tale of various hotels a recent. look at downbeat grip on power appears to be slipping away as anti-government protesters claim to have control over most of the country's major cities. and is violence spreads throughout the oil rich middle east the world faces a surge in fuel prices threatening to drag it colonies into a new meltdown. also this hour the wiki leaks founder slams british justice for handing him over to sweden sparking accusations of hypocrisy how the u.k. has those facing serious charges. not one but three mascots will be the symbols of the search he twenty fourteen winter olympics with the snow leopard getting the

most votes to be accompanied by a polar bear and i have. heard from our studios in central moscow this is our team with 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 as rule reports also suggested in the capital tripoli security forces are simply and loyal to the regime it comes after scores were killed on friday as army forces once again open fire on rafters bringing the death toll to over one thousand. draft resolution on sanctions against libya parties be it all over is giving across developments from neighboring egypt. it appears that colonel gadhafi is losing his grip on power in the country we're hearing from the. inside libya that most of the major cities outside of the

capital are now under the control almost under the control of anti-government protesters libyan soldiers are joining the protesters defecting away from its our feet and we're hearing from those tests the same protesters that this is a scene repeated in cities across the country now in tripoli gadhafi loyalists are arming civilians in a 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 and violence in tripoli now this followed a address by colonel gadhafi to his followers in the capital this resulted of protests 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 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 have taken 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 good at least 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 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 get down the regime and freeze their assets but also to freeze the assets of senior figures in the gadhafi go. it follows unilateral

sanctions that were put forward by the us. i think peter all of a very tardy president of the british based arab lawyers association says any sentients against the country and just an attempt to put libya under control in the future. sanctions are. absolutely meaningless this is on libya. and more than world community wanted to deal with but we would have at least mentioned in my own have taken steps to threaten. his family to be put on trial to. action against him if he had been threatened right from the outset he personally has of course the navy because i think what's i mean the moment is to control the future of libya so as a government we like we were lift the sanctions if we don't like the sanctions but as far as. looking. rest should have been made. and

his people who are doing the killing. journalist in peril the former deputy editor of the british newspaper the independent says the armies of libya's neighbors could 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 its main you know police. and if he is just pulled up in this season where people think use it for a certain person spirit of. seeing people who play a pivotal role in getting rid of mubarak and they would be treated i think if they came in to try and get rid of three there is a possibility that they would be seen as a very very friendly force to come into such a general. the libyan revolt as part fears of skyrocketing oil prices that may

affect the cost of everything from transport to food with a barrel of the black gold approaching one hundred twenty dollars this week and a lesser warning of significant economic threats if the unrest spreads it goes off skid row explains how the problem is playing out in the u.s. . oil 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 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 skyrockets and so

a vicious cycle begins for many americans a reality that is once again it rallied the base and its spokespeople but 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 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 because 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 this process and this will cause a lot of discomfort to a lot of people who don't need this bad news and turns 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 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 created by disrupted

surprise. the markets have calmed down over the last twenty four hours saudi arabia has gone around and rightly assured everyone we not only can add more volumes to the market but we have. the difference that will create a situation in which prices would really skyrocket if we have another country run up by so you've lost a million barrels a day is our line from libya yes algeria which is also having trouble getting it or got run that would bring saudi arabia right after the two to substitute and then you would see i'm not sure two hundred twenty i think that's probably and trying to get a headline but but maybe one hundred fifty that which is still pretty high. and we've got plenty more for you here in our to 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 it's wall street and bush the president is in the big apple to find out what people think about high taxes. that's still to come for you but first you're in the sergeant preparing to appear london courts ruling that he be extradited to sweden on sex assault charges the founder of the whistleblower wiki leaks website says the allegations a baseless and if he is handed over he will not get a fair trial but he is more and it has been looking at what has been extradited from a 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. will i am subject. anon drug free speech act of two or three hundred and sixty thousand dollars bail. why is it.

on the electronic out. 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 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 alone provided i've got lots of money we will let me because we want them in with their money and therefore it's not particularly the russian magnets and welcome here i would shakes. my have

a judaeus criminal record of torture yet they're allowed to swan around london knightsbridge bayswater wherever 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 should be prosecuted in the u.k. the always of bringing these people to account these suspects but it seems very little is being done a 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 are commits a kyra. was granted political refuge the same year asylum was granted to russian tycoon but he's berezovsky 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 assigns looks set to be cast from the safe harbor of the u.k. into choppy 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 than just 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 you're at it r.t. . well still to come on the program the race is on but something other than medals has been won today. the results are in and we now know that nascar or the mascots who'll be represented russia in the twenty forty eight olympic games coming up we'll tell you all about it. but still to come first police in russia's southern republican. block all the roads after a series of violent attacks in the capital you thought is analysing the situation is under control but is excited discover 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 signs to the fire crews arrive on 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 up to twelve people singletary tacked several locations including traffic police prose and the office of federal forces but the plans to cause havoc in have clearly failed the frappe the people 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 many of us last saturday left three people dead and two injured further sells a cable tower at a skill leave in a resort was blown up and home sales in the village near gone back you waited when a car bomb was discovered and all the incidents force their story just to close an

anti terror operation in the region in that time and terrorist forces have already created a base with preference appliance and a makeshift explosive device now but as you know about her allies in the world the tile 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 operating internationally. growing in the u.s. over the super size tax burden for the middle class and has quickly come to a head have been protesting and one i will pose to cut problem sector workers collective benefits with this recall to people in new york how they feel when they're required to make sacrifices and what the super rich. people across the us are protesting proposed legislation intended to slash benefits

for the middle class are 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 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 why aren't they being asked to contribute more to health plans 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 than if it if it seems like so clear cut you why is everyone so in a fit right now where people don't want to give up what they've got work 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. it would not be neither of these things either 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 the middle class to relinquish benefits it's only fair to ask the same of the upper class as well. let's have a look at some of the major headlines from around the world to be seen. the death toll from the earthquake there 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 is slim emergency

services are trying to restore power and clean water aftermath of the country's deadliest natural disaster in two years police are also on high alert amid reports of looting a morning that there may be more tremors to come. and attack of a nato supply vehicle terminal in pakistan has left by people dead militants from out of parked vehicles destroying eleven oil tankers in peshawar a group has claimed responsibility but the band pakistani taliban has carried out several such assaults on nato vehicles in the past three years people and supplies required by foreign troops in afghanistan to ship through oppression. seven people were killed and dozens were injured in clashes with security forces during anti-government protests in yemen port city of aden the death toll has now reached at least twenty four since the protests started over a week ago against president ali abdullah saleh is thirty two year old alyson opponents of the sixty eight year old leader held rival demonstrations in the capital sanaa after friday prayers. u.s.

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

or to be precise this information campaign remains the say that is the most important and under reported part of these growing and unfolding drama regarding their american general unauthorized psychological operations against its political and military leadership back in washington d.c. . he. thinks he can.

be official tea allocation. i pod touch for me i'll choose i'm still. on the go. the. streets now in the palm of your. machine on the. russians of course have votes to choose the sochi twenty fourteen winter olympics mascots and the show in thomas has been following the ballots with some unexpected results. we now know the official mascot or in this case the official mascots of the twenty fourteen olympic games in sochi in fact the snow leopard has won the majority of the vote so he is the clear winner that was also a lot of your prudence favorite but also the polar bear came in second and also after that the rabbit came in third so we now have three mascots who will be

representing at the winter olympic games in twenty four teams in sochi as we know this was a process where the mascot was designed by the people of russia and it was voted on by the people of russia as well so of course the still up were coming in first becoming the mascot the symbol of the twenty fourteen olympic games and what that means is is that the winner of the actual winning mascot will become the property of the. committee the international olympic committee that symbol will go on merchandising it will become not just a symbol of the olympic games but it will become a symbol of russia as well and people internationally will become to identify this character as part of the olympic games and is part of russia's heritage and culture but meets retraces just a little bit and tell you how this whole process went about six months ago the russian winter olympic committee said that they're going to open up a contest they're going to have the next mascot to be designed by russians for

russians and chosen by russians once that contest was announced six months ago. all sorts of fun and fanciful ideas came out of the woodwork children were a big part of it they got involved in the race all sorts of different mascots and ideas were thrown out there in fact some of the ideas that were thrown out almost immediately was a skiing shot glass that was one idea there was also one idea to give some popularity a psychedelic tote if you will of the massive massive amounts of entries that came in those were narrowed down by a committee of celebrities politicians as well as entrepreneurs who brought it down to this this is a very small group this top ten group at that point in time an internet voting began and it was basically put to the russian public to say who do we want to be the next mascot to represent us in the twenty fourteen games now we also remember mischa the bear from the one nine hundred eighty s. this was a very important character as well so now our snow leopard will join this. historical

group of characters now also we have the fire boy and they are also have been chosen to be the mascots of the para olympic games and so important night tonight as the mascots are chosen and now russia knows who will represent them in two thousand and fourteen. will be back with the headlines in less than five minutes from now say don't go away this is. all. the.

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