in libya colonel gadhafi has grip on power appears to be slipping away as anti-government protesters claim to have control over most of the country's major cities. as violence spreads throughout the whole rich middle east the world faces a surge in fuel prices threatening to drag economies into a new meltdown. that we can it's failed as british justice for handing him over to sweden sparking accusations of hypocrisy over how the u.k. has those facing far more serious charges. not one but three mascots will be the symbols of the search the twenty fourteen winter olympics with the snow leopard getting the most votes to be accompanied by there and

a poll of their. life from our studios in central moscow this is our team twenty four hours a day continues to spread across libya as antigovernment protesters are back on the streets demanding an end to his rule reports also suggest that in the capital tripoli security forces are arming civilians loyal to the regime that comes after scores were killed on friday as army forces once again opened fire on rioters bring in the death toll to over one thousand nine hundred nations of the skies to draft resolution on sanctions against libya lottie's people of getting across the governments 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 camp. i now under the control almost under the control of

anti-government protesters libyan soldiers are joining the protesters defecting away from it's our feet and we're hearing from those protesters same protesters that this is a scene repeated in cities across the country now in tripoli the loyalists are 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 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. this result of protests where shots were fired by security forces at protesters now we're also hearing some very troubling geo comments coming out of tripoli suggesting the security forces will suit 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 his favorite son saif these mouthpiece 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 perform 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 goods out the 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. . people over there and president of the british based arab lawyers association

says any sanctions against the country are just an attempt to put libya under control in the future. sanctions are. absolutely meaningless this is. a move the world community wanted to deal with that would have at least mentioned in my name could have. threatened. his family to be put on trial to try to kill against him if he had been threatened right from the outset he personally as opposed to did it because i think what's been the moment is to control the future of libya as a government like we were lift the sanctions if we don't like ruby the sanctions. he's going to. rest should have been made. and he's doing the killing.

journalist in peril a 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 there is very little army there it's mainly the police. and he is just also in this season where people think he has. to be very strict and social security for future. same as 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 there is a possibility that they would be seen as very very very very forthcoming to such a job. a little revolt in support 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 another so warning of significant economic threats if the bread's exhaust you know explains how the president is playing out in the u.s. . oil 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 drill. and with those three words you got yourself a political entrenched power house will drill new wells sure we'll drill them 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 rally 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 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 sake's to cast sunstein no new permits have been issued 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 a process 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 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 tea. living from the magazine foreign policy believes the oil markets are likely to collapse anytime soon he says there are stable countries like saudi arabia that can fill the gap created by disrupted

supply. 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 added the value difference that would create a situation in which prices would really skyrocket if another country. so you lost a million barrels a day it is our run from libya you have algeria which is also having trouble getting it. that would bring saudi arabia right up to the two to substitute volume and then you would see i'm not sure two hundred twenty i think that's probably an animal trying to get headlines but but. maybe a hundred. which is still pretty high. and we've got plenty more for you this hour including our weekly snapshot of opinion on the streets of new york. middle class

are responsible at all for where the economy is 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 there are about high taxes. your innocence is prepared to appear in a london court's ruling that he be extradited to sweden on sex assault charges the founder of the whistle blowing we could fix website says the allegations are baseless and if it is handed over he would not get a fair trial a lot easier and it has been looking at why a silence is being extradited from a country which is home court many wanted on for 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 lawyer is it. a nonprofit three feet active well three hundred and sixty thousand dollars. why is it.

under electronic powerful read. 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 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 me because we won. i mean with their money and therefore it's not particularly that russian magnets and all the gox are welcome here. shakes. may have

a jubilee it's criminal record as it were of torture yet they're allowed to swan around london and knightsbridge bayswater 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 and he tortured 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 e.u. the always of bringing these people to it can't 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 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 a 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. i 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 on 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 terrorists and war criminals remain at large in the u.k. under the protection of the state's your anecdotes he. will still to come the program the race is on but something other than mobiles has been won today. the results are in and we now know the mascot or the mascot who'll be represented russia in the twenty fourteen olympic games coming up we'll tell you all about. the first police in russia's southern republican. all the roads after a series of attacks in the capital. the situation is under control. 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 at the station and a deadly blast was prevented only 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 up to twelve people soon i'll tell you honestly attacked several locations including a traffic police post and the if there's a federal forces but the plans to cause havoc in that actually 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 that volatile group probably summertime going to rest many of us last saturday left three people dead and two injured further sells a cable tower it is skill leave in a resort was blown up and home tells in the villages nearby back a ways in when a car bomb was discovered earlier incidents forced their story just to close an anti terror operation on the region in their time and terrorist forces have already

created a base with weapons supplies and a makeshift explosive device now but in iraq our allies in the world little north caucasus police says the 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. and is growing in the u.s. over these super sized tax burden for the middle clause this quickly come to a head as thousands have been protesting and one more than state over plans to cut public sector workers collective benefits well this recall to your people in new york how they feel when they're required to make sacrifices and not 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 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 a member of this week's middle class and we say. evening we work for the all those and first same friday we work for ourselves but think that spinx do you think that people in the middle class are responsible at all for where the economy is that right now no 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 because the government would prefer to buy their pay or muffin and bail them out the upper class probably pays ninety percent of the taxes or 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 is paying for it paying to keep the government moving so why are there isn't one while i was up then 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 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 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 at this stage of the. world update the death toll from an earthquake that struck new zealand has risen to a hundred forty five with many as many as two hundred still missing rescuers on the chance of the funny any more survivors under the rubble in christchurch are slim

emergency services are trying to restore power and clean water in the aftermath of the country's deadliest natural disaster eighty police are also on high alert amid reports of looting and morning maybe more tremors can. tackle a nato supply vehicle terminal in pakistan has left five people dead innocents far apart vehicles destroyed eleven oil tankers in peshawar the group has claimed responsibility but the pakistani taliban has carried out such several such assaults on nato vehicles in the past three years the bulk of supplies required by foreign troops in afghanistan are shipped through. seven people were killed and dozens wounded in clashes with security forces during anti-government protests in yemen port city of aden the death toll is now it's at least twenty four since the protests started over a week ago against president ali abdullah saleh thirty two. loyalists in a province of the sixty eight year old leader help rival demonstrations in the capital sanaa after friday prayers. 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 the psychological operations known as soil used to get more money and troops for the war buddies military contributors says this further reveals just how much the u.s. operation in afghanistan is being hidden from the public. and advertently these latest revelations about the psyops scandal in afghanistan regarding their american leadership back in washington d.c. has also revealed their hypocrisy regarding their public coverage of the american occupation in afghanistan and this by the fact that half a year ago this psychological operations has been rebranded into the military information support a peroration in essence the whole american global information war to be

precise this information campaign remains the say that is the most important and under reported card over these growing and unfolding drama regarding the american general unauthorized psychological operations against its political and military leadership back in washington d.c. . it is easy. to. see.

the official policy allocation. called talk from the. video. feeds. on the. russians of course their votes to choose the sochi twenty fourteen winter olympics and ask it to show and tell us 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 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 two thousand and fourteen 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 snow leopard coming in first becoming the mascot the symbol of the twenty fourteen olympic games and what that means is is that the winner the actual winning mascot will become the property of the olympic committee the international olympic committee that symbol will go on merchandising it will become not just a symbol of the olympic games what do you 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 what's that contest was announced six months ago. all sorts of fun and fanciful ideas that 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 i guess there's also one idea to gain some popularity a psychedelic toad if you will but. massive massive amounts of entries that came in those were narrowed down by a committee of celebrities politicians as well. the entrepreneurs who brought it down to this it 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 four thousand games now we also remember michoud a bear from the one nine hundred eighty s. and this was a very important character as well so now our snow leopard will join this this

historical group of characters now also we have the fire boy and snow girl 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 twenty four to. welcome back with the headlines for in less than five minutes from now stay with us knife here in moscow.

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