harsh winter makes it even more original. and well trained to be just. a small. brush it lives up. in libya colonel gadhafi grip on power piece to be slipping away as anti-government protesters claim to have control over most of the country's major cities. has popular uprising a graduate of political turmoil turmoil the cause much of the arab world already or a crisis of the russian economic instability but there are fields. also we could find to do that are found in the slums of british justice for ordering his extradition to sweden on france abuse charges which could prove his control sparking accusations of hypocrisy over how the u.k. give shelter to people facing more serious crimes. russia chooses its

mascot not one but three characters that chosen to be the symbol of a soldier twenty fourteen winter olympics but it's no not for the getting there was but to be accompanied by part of their. peers from russia and around the world this is an see with me like thanks for joining us violence continues to grieve libya's opponents of colonel gadhafi is regime phrases as they demanded densities of forty one year old reports suggest the dictator's forces are all being civilians loyal to his regime in the capital tripoli other towns claim the authorities are removing bodies from the streets and hospitals that are essential to mask the death toll though witnesses say more than a thousand have been killed since friday u.s. president barack obama said gadhafi has not. after using by. the

country for teachers and counselors trying to vote on a resolution to impose sanctions on or not is according to them. or if. 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 by now under the control almost under the control of anti-government protesters libyan soldiers are joining the protesters defecting away from good southie 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 harming civilians and they're setting up roadblocks at the moment it does appear that the camp until it 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. this resulted of protests where shots were fired by security forces that protesters now we're also hearing some very troubling geo 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 dead 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 there was a comment from kind of these 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 put forward sanctions in the next week in the coming. week

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 us 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 us. please get the president of the british based out of north association looked. actions were denounced and attempt to control the. sanctions. is absolutely meaningless this is imposed on libya. the world community wanted to deal with that we would have at least mentioning my name they would have. to be put on trial to threaten 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 were lift the sanctions if we don't like the sanctions. that he's taking place. so he and his people are doing the killing. and journalist in barrel a former deputy editor of the british paper the independent says leaders neighbors cousins of being to have a mere colonel qadhafi. if you just stay there if the plug should continues if the gaze turned into weeks i do think there is a case where it's possible that we might look to some of his her neighbors to see if it's possible to come in there is very little army it's mainly the police or the main power and if he is just holed up in this. as he's aware people think he has. very strict incursions here if and with egypt. is seen as people who claim they put

the role in getting rid of mubarak and. they would be treated i think if they came in to try and get rid of it there is a possibility that they would be seen as a very very friendly force to come and do such a job. and the uprising in part of that oil crisis gets out of control spending transport and costs with prices approaching one hundred twenty years dollars a barrel this week and that's one of the significant economic threat of their breath spread to explains how the shock waves from being felt on the. oil three little letters. could have dire consequences on any economy and here in the united states the oil is sometimes also accompanied by three big words drill baby drill baby drill. and with those three words you've got yourself a politically entrenched powerhouse will drill new wells sure we'll drill them

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 has once again rallied the base and its spokespeople perhaps for the wrong reasons i 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 coffee 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 is lifted the moratorium in the gulf for drilling oil thanks to care 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 surprises and this will cause a lot of discomfort to a lot of people who don't need those 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 who are our friends and who are our enemies for archie the microsoft's. steve levin from foreign policy magazine believes the oil market is unlikely to say crisis anytime soon so a stable produces like saudi arabia can fill the gap caused by any disruption in supply. the markets have been calm 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 added these the volume the difference that would create a situation in which prices would really skyrocket if another opec country ran off line so you lost a million barrels a day it is offline from libya if algeria which is also having trouble if it goes offline that would bring saudi arabia right up to its capacity to to

substitute for the ali and then you would see i'm not sure two hundred twenty i think that's probably an animist trying to get headlines but but maybe one hundred fifty that that which is still pretty high. i have got plenty to come this hour including our weekly snapshot of opinion from 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. their president is on the streets of got from to find out what people think about the tax man in america. we collate founder julian assange has turned people along to the court ruling ordering his extradition to sweden on sex assault charges so in their baseless and that he was not a proud trial that he's lawyer and that of looking at why he's being sent for trial while foreign citizens want the broader more serious charges have been allowed to

stay that. 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. an old problem free speech after a while three hundred and sixty thousand dollars bail. why is it. kept. under electronic alpharetta. when i have a lot 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 are basic tradition relating to asylum is that anybody can come here provided via load it provided i 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 all the gods are welcomed here. shakes. may have a jew be a criminal record as it were of torture yet they were allowed to swan around london and knightsbridge bayswater wherever 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 he is fission evidence found for prosecution it should

be prosecuted in the e.u. the always of bringing these people to account 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 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. 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 think from ptrace just yet he may not have billions in a bank. by himself out of trouble so he'll just have to hate his friends in high places have influence so 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 top troops terrorists and war criminals remain at large in the u.k. under the protection of the state you are and it's all to be counted. so to come in the program rush appears as the face of the twenty fourteen olympic games. the results are in and we now know the mascot or the mascot who will be represented russia in the twenty fourteen olympic games coming up we'll tell you all about.

police in russia southern republic of congo scene of a car you have blocked all the roads after a series of violent turns in the capital no trick we'll courses in are saying the situation is under control i'll sing that song and have children says the latest from the region of the. 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 signs 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 up to twelve people simple tenuously attacked several locations including a traffic police post and the office of federal forces but the plans to cause havoc 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 fall of child republic

gruesome attack on the tourist minibus last saturday left three people dead and two injured for all the cells a cable tower it is skill leave in a resort was blown up and hotels in the village nearby vacuum waited when a car bomb was discovered where all the incidents force this story just to pose an anti terror operation on the region in their time and to terrorist forces have already created a base with where ground supply is and the range to explosive device now you know about her 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 heat in several locations at the same time follows the pattern used by islamists operating internationally. and that's the hard lucas of a major headlines from around the world for you to have talk of an earthquake that struck new zealand and tuesday has risen to one hundred forty five with another two

hundred still missing rescuers the chances of finding any more survivors under the rubble in christ church are slim and matches the services are trying to restore power and. some are the water might be the country's worst ever disaster and he's also on high alert with reports of looting and. things that may be more tremors to come. what are givens and most prominent tribal chiefs has resigned from the ruling party and joined the opposition in developing an excuse me demanding you are staff president ali abdullah saleh stands down the death toll has now reached at least twenty four with as daily anti-government protests started over a week ago the leaders of the two year rule of the tribal leaders have also been abandoning the dictator listening his grip on power tens of thousands of loyalists and opponents of the six to eight year old president held rival to answer actions in the capital sana'a friday. and in tunisia at least three people have been killed in fresh clashes between protesters and police violence erupted after several

hundred people gathered outside the interior ministry demanding changes to the interim government demonstrators are saying the your sources don't depart from the previous government of former president ben ali he was ousted in a general revolt that has sparked similar protests in other countries in the middle east and north. island ruling party feeling the fall is heading for crushing defeat of the country's finest general election since two thousand and seven counting underway indicates this isn't a ride it's been a good deal for leading the coalition government with the left of center labor party irish voters have punished the local wage cuts tax hikes and loss of common short sovereignty after last year's sixty seven billion euro bailout from the. dude as a national free nation huge bank and so on to the public shoulders has plunged the country's largest party for n.z. gave into a third place in its worst ever election to. anger is growing in the us with

a super sized tugs burden for the middle class it has quickly come to have as thousands have been protesting in one northern state over plans to cut public sector workers collective benefits this week we also people in new york how they feel when they're required to make sacrifices and not the separate. people across the u.s. are protesting proposed legislation intended to slash benefits for the middle class i think really protesting the fact that every day people are being asked to make that professes while wall streeters continue to profit even more this week let's talk about bad i'm a member of the squeezed middle class and we say. we work for the all those and first then friday we were for ourselves let's think. 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 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 is that one whiles up then 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 to 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. we it would not be neither of these things either the middle east things or the things going on with the states would be quite

a sight to see your mother 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. u.s. military officials in afghanistan have ordered an investigation into claims that. the lurk an army unit psychologically manipulated the visiting high officials but instead of being published her of these psychological operations that style so are used to that normally i'm troops sort of war also with military contributors that's both that reveals just how much they dress operational in afghanistan is being given from the public inadvertently this latest revelations about 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 support operation in essence the whole american global information war to be precise and this information campaign remains the same there is the most important and under reported hard to hold these growling and the unfolding drama regarding the american general unauthorized psychological operations against its political and military leadership back in washington d.c. but. it's.

the official altie allocation. called touch from the i.q. sam still. says feed now in the palm of your listening. the russians have compromised the cheese the something trying to from senior winter olympics mascot thomas has been funding unexpected. 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 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 here 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 of the actual winning mascot will become the property of the olympic committee be 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 let me to 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 sensible 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 the last that was one idea and there's also one idea that these popularity a psychedelic toad if you will. but all those 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 four to eight now we also remember mischa the 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 forty. well here up to date on the back with a headline shortly sets their way on.

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