political criminal response sounds of justice. was it an attempt to repent. or just to skate a fair trial. the other line. on r.g.p. . the u.n. does impose sanctions on libya as the violence continues in the country you know we could see more protests across the arab world. also in this week's top stories here fear is turmoil in the arab world will lead to a surge in uncontrolled immigration from the region which is always the first to feel the effects of an influx of refugees. plus as a u.k. court rules julian assange must be extradited to sweden over sex crime alleviations but we can expound our says it's a step towards his prosecution in the us and. states for a longer appraisal comparable sure it's now

a grounds for cooperation with the remains is everyone here in the west ready to believe that. americans are split over the term a nation of the u.s. space shuttle program and future reliance on russian rockets to get crews to the international space station. and if any of the russian capital you're watching r t joshua will come the u.n. out has imposed sanctions on libyan leader colonel gadhafi and his inner circle freezing assets and restricting international travel it comes as violence continues to ravage the divided country in what's been the bloodiest of the uprisings in the arab world our correspondent in the region peter oliver has the latest developments . now over the past seven days we've seen violence flare across libya now the protest is the one to get daffy forces if you will are in control of the

majority of the country now they have their main foothold their base was the city of benghazi in the east of libya that from there they close a swathe across the country toppling get out the forces in say all major cities apart from the capital tripoli now we're hearing that inside the capital tripoli that gadhafi forces proca duffy forces have been handing out weapons to civilians and that the majority of the citizens of. all of tripoli are remaining indoors inside their homes in order to avoid gangs of civilians that have been armed who've been setting up checkpoints there so there's a lot of violence continuing in the country we've also heard some some troubling audio commentary that came out of tripoli from. a lady who was inside the city now this came after friday prayers where gadhafi delivered a message to his supporters in the country the protesters the ounce of gadhafi

protesters then took to the streets they were fired out by gadhafi forces killing many people there the number of dead straight to be well over a thousand in libya the most troubling or as you described protesters fleeing to their homes being pursued by gunmen who sort of they could be killed inside their own homes also stories coming out that we can't exactly confirm just yet but we are hearing from protesters that the forties of the days i'll being very very very quickly to cover up the atrocities that have been taking place in the country now prime minister russian prime minister vladimir putin made a comment on the situation there and across the whole of the arab world suggesting that these countries that have had revolutions must be allowed to determine their own future it was going to. so you were concerned about things happening in libya please note the following the north african cell of al qaeda is also concerned about what is happening in libya do you think this is

a coincidence i'd like to go back in history a little bit the former leader of the iranian revolution where did he live he lived in paris and there's a whole he was supported by the western community now the entire western community fights against the iranian nuclear program i remember just recently our partners were very active in supporting the democratic elections in the palestinian autonomy and how mass one and immediately they declared hamas a terrorist organization and started fighting against it we need to give people a chance to determine their future themselves we need to give them an opportunity to take a natural way without any foreign interference to build their future we have seen some violent protests across the region in iraq on friday there was extremely violent demonstrations taking place in many cities across the country against the current regime the current government there. invited in it is continued as well yemen also suffering problems with their with violence on the streets and protests but to get back to the most violent that you have seen appears to be. if you course

was one of the the first of the arab states personal to african cities throw off their dictator their leader followed by egypt now in two days you would have seen many many people taking to the streets to protest against what they see as the incompletion of. the revolution if they wanted not just the figurehead of the dictator out they wanted the rest of the government out now here in cairo a similar scene it must protest on friday here at play here square which was the at the center of the revolution that toppled phones in the back no protesters were back out there on friday to call for the resignation the standing down of key members of the cabinet who were. former members of the mubarak regime. you know over there now we've been gathering a wide range of perspectives on the crisis unfolding in north africa and the middle east but it will journalist anthony while told r.t.

that western countries are advocating the spread of democracy across the region to control the politics of the arab world western style democracy in its current state is far from what i would consider to be something that we should want in any of these countries i think i think if there's going to be democracy it should be democracy with a real change and a change that reflects democracy that actually benefits the people today's democracy is nothing more than a mainstream control mechanism through which the vast majority of the public who do not think are emotionally engaged in in situations that they don't even really realize what it is that they're voting for or approving and if you think that democracy which is supposedly what the u.s. is out there pushing and driving home for these people who need so much the philosophy of what they've developed and put together in in the in the u.s. for example take a look at what they're doing in a building bases in hundreds of whole over one hundred different countries you know basically putting at the end of a gun the word democracy and shoving it down their throats to me this is not

democracy this is abuse this is nothing more than a system that is doomed to failure and as long as central banks continue to stand side by side in a democratic system like we have printing endless amounts of money which is devalued by devaluing by the minute we're not going to have anything more here than chaos that is used to mask that devaluation process and hopefully distract people from the overall fraud that's been perpetrated on western societies if that's democracy who'd want it the turmoil in libya has sparked fears of oil prices jumping to new highs with the cost of a barrel reaching one hundred nineteen u.s. dollars this week alison warned of the dire consequences for the risers might have for food prices transport costs as well as national economies stephen from a foreign policy magazine says that oil might reach an old time peak if the end rest in libya spreads to other countries in the region. markets have been calm down over the last twenty four hours saudi arabia has gone around and quietly assured everyone we not only can add more volumes to the market but we have added these the

volume difference that would create a situation in which prices would really skyrocket if another country went on line so you lost our million barrels a day is offline from libya if algeria which is also having trouble it is one 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 analyst trying to get headlines but but maybe one hundred fifty that that which is still pretty high meanwhile there are fears in italy it could buckle under the pressure of a possible influx of immigrants fleeing the trouble in libya and elsewhere thousands of people from unstable countries have already reached its shores in the last few weeks alone the government has estimated a possible one and a half million that could try and seek refuge there as well as greece and malta

artistic work that's going on as a story. eighty miles off the coast of north africa the tiny italian island of has relied on fishing and tourism for its means sources of income but for the first time in years the boats on and the nets are drawing the best but i think you there always are here we haven't gone out to sea for twenty days now since the recent uprising in tunisia the island has been flooded with with fiji's over five and a half thousand arrived in just two weeks sometimes up to three hundred refugees crammed on just one tiny fishing boat to make the perilous journey to the mediterranean. doesn't have already brown many of those who need it have nothing to lose turning. on its head with no money and nor jobs they have already been cases

of vandalism and theft. you know thinking it would start to believe in the lights on at night they always wonder ronde none of the locals never used to look their doors and now that these people are here we feel uncomfortable due to it's vocational and people who is familiar with refugees but never so many in such a short period of time and with many voicing strong beliefs official say identifying genuine cases is one of the biggest problems. that we are historically a free nation and we want freedom of islam we want to live like a prophet told us and will lead us to live in an islamic state. most our house at this refugee center where they're provided with food water clothes and medical aid all financed from the state budget is designed to house only around eight hundred people so under tight security hundreds of refugees are flown to the mainland each day so i think we're going to go off and we sent four planes yesterday but on

average two planes with refugees leave every day to crew tony barry and political leaders. italy and tunisia used to have an agreement under which most with fiji's were intercepted before even reaching the island but now that the government has been overthrown the floodgates have opened i put violence continuing to spread in both north africa and the middle east it was already warned other evil state after three hundred thousand refugees could we libya alone for decades lump you know their marriage through i mean i think maybe isolated world it's all the locals with all the supplies and no one was afraid to leave their doors all. five something she said the biggest new wave of refugees may still be out there one this tiny island but the entire continent it was just

a lot more like it was you know he. returned to sanaa right from the danish answer here for international study says the european union should bring in urgent measures to stop immigration. even before all these. things the prospect of massive immigration has always been europe's wars tonight. in real terms it has never been substantial we have always been below thirty thousand. possible entries every year. clearly the overthrow of the governments poses a whole different set of issues and what europe will be able to do it depends on the ability of actually cordy meeting among some of the governments most affected i mean imagine if in two months time coral gadhafi is not overthrown i mean business cannot proceed as usual after this something will have to be done. washing out you

live from moscow so i have for you this hour three other cars i've trio characters are chosen as well as cards for the sorkin twenty fourteen winter olympics after the results of the live t.v. vote across russia learn more about their and why they were paid peanuts time. now and thursday along the court ruled julian assange should be extradited to sweden over sex abuse allegations that we found or to appeal says the court had failed to even consider the details of the allegations against him describing it as a rubber stamping process artie's killing for it looks into the background of the case. when julian assange emerged less than a year ago with this video. showing u.s. troops going down unarmed civilians in two reuters journalists video games he was lauded as a hero of transparency. and anti war ally and human rights

defender r.t. america interview decides on the day of collateral murders release and what keeps people who want to see more people i managed to produce what i think i'm going through understand how the world actually works. in the fourth grade used to get information about the real world. to comment on it and to think about it but sources can't get. out of the park i know matt a computer expert with a cache of two hundred fifty thousand classified cables. catapulted to the front page of virtually every newspaper in the country within weeks the leaks wiki leaks wiki leaks wiki leaks to his foes julian sarge is a cyber terrorist and work time he's guilty of sabotage espionage crimes against humanity he should be killed but to his fans a soft spoken as the person with the potential to radically reshape the geo

political landscape voted by the people as time's man of the year but our commitment to our forces is not just to protect them we've never lost it's not just to publish the material to get the maximum. possible. today it's a political impact i believe and not the leaks that has gripped have been. allegations of sexual misconduct by two swedish women infighting within wiki leaks frozen bank accounts stone donations the obama administration and the cia they want to start wiki leaks they're doing. all sorts of extraordinary actions stop being paid or leaning on pay pal master card and other private corporations to to allow donations to be made to wiki leaks they once heroic figure now hockey nags bumper stickers and t. shirts to pay his legal bills who profits from the meaning of meaning.

obviously it's the u.s. government which is really out to get him makes no bones about it through the end of the passage by the newspaper that once eagerly used his leaks initial impressions of doing. some interviews say assigned and wiki leaks have been effectively neutralized consumed by litigation rather than leaks i think what the american government wants is to have mr assigned in custody so that ultimately he can be extradited to the united states to face charges for the release of those documents i give a court ruled that julian assange should be extradited to sweden but his attorneys say the next stop for the thirty nine year old computer programmer could be here in the united states where science could face espionage charges and even the death penalty as the sun spaces jail time the future of wiki leaks hangs in the balance and its ability to be a place for whistleblowers and it beacon of transparency killing for an artsy washington d.c. campaigner affair and war it claims the case against the son just trumped up and

says sweden wants him behind bars as much as the u.s. does. we think that this is more like a school in charge are holding charge to get them into sweden which has been known to be quite complicit in helping people back to the us it's happened in egypt for example to egyptians in the past so we do believe that this is actually a school in charge and we're much more concerned about what's going to happen with the u.s. so we're very concerned that if he goes sweden he will then be rendered to the u.s. when he leaks has embarrassed the swedish parliament because there have been some cables that have come out recently which show that sweden was having some complicit arrangements with the american government with their antiterrorism arrangements that they didn't want the swedish public to know about and they were trying to keep it under the radar so as the public and sweden couldn't scrutinize what they were doing so they've already been embarrassed by wiki leaks so i think it is in their best interest to try and shut wiki leaks down. and we've got more on this story on

our website r t v dot com but there is also plenty of other news and features let's have a look at what they are now. an ambitious project find out what the price tag is on the play and upgrade of the russian army as a budget for the next ten years he's unveiling plus. he look at why nato continues to function twenty years after its initial enemy ceased to exist. america's longest serving space shuttle discovery has docked at the international space station it's said to be the ship's last trip to space as the u.s. retires it's a quarter of a century old fleet the shuttle delivered ten tons of cargo and scientific equipment to the ice says it's also president of the rarer a photo opportunity as six different spacecraft are docked at the ice as upon its

return to earth it will be ferried off to a museum where it will soon be joined by sister ships and ever and atlantis it will effectively and manned us space white and as archie's guy needs to come around out the last isn't sitting too well with many americans. by the end of this year nasa will no longer be able to send humans into space according to obama's plane responsibility will go to private companies which are expected to come up with cheaper ways to ferry astronauts to low earth orbit they know that they have a big step to take when they if they're thinking about putting humans into space and that's going to take a you know the next phase of their development so i have a oh gosh i. can't even estimate exactly no one can say for sure when the private american companies will come up with a new spaceship for years to come it will be the russians so use that's going to be the only means for people to reach the international space station which is perfectly fine with. years of russia and the u.s.

but doesn't sit well with many americans how could this how. we could make it to the moon earth to build this wonderful equipment and then. and now we're were reduced to being passengers on a russian ship and that's that's part of it it's going to right thing one day clyde revealed itself in comments by some american lawmakers astronaut scientists and former nasa official comedians in the u.s. did not miss out on poking fun at american sense of pride so we pony up the cash but after right on the hope of the backseat take the wheel. yes you know you got to let us touch the radio there want to eat snacks or stop to use the bathroom should have gone before we left. you used but those the nasa who now actually work with the russians like astronaut sunny williams have different

sentiments i couldn't imagine when i was growing up walking through red square or going to a russian company and working hand in hand with my russian colleagues or going to their families homes and having dinner with them and likewise when they come to the u.s. and so i think. maybe we're not competing but we're working together i think it's more of a time of joint cooperation and learning from one another that's just as healthy as the competition we had in the past it's not the first time americans have to rely on the russians to take their crew to space they depended on russian rockets during the two year grounding of u.s. spacecraft after the two thousand and three space shuttle columbia disaster columbia exploded during re-entry into the earth's atmosphere all seven crew members died shuttle's track record includes another tragedy a nine hundred eighty six the space shuttle challenger broke apart seventy three seconds into it's right there. are the russians so use proved to be the safest way

to deliver people to space and now with the shuttle we carrying it will be the only way we're no longer racing against an adversary we're no longer competing to achieve a singular goal like reaching the moon. in fact what was once a global competition is long since become a global collaboration the leaders of both russia and the us serve saying space is no longer a place for contribution it's now a ground for cooperation with the remains inseparable and here in the words ready to fully accept that i'm going to take on our close watch of. russia's volatile north caucasus has been in the spotlight all week as a spike in militant activity raged in the republic of coverage a noble caria a group of up to twelve militants simultaneously attacked several locations in the republic's capital now on friday a few hours later several gunmen shelled a gas station but an explosion was averted thanks to the fire crews are quick to

rival the incident caused some damage but no fatalities the turnaround from last week for america tapped on a tourist bus that left three people dead local authorities say the plots were an attempt to distract and a terror force was from special operations in the mountains of the republic and they say it is she too asian is now fully under control. so take a look at some other stories from around the world and the confirmed death toll from the earthquake in the on has risen to one hundred forty six with more than two hundred still missing residents across the country have said prayers for the dead and missing but mergence the services in christ church are working to clear wreckage from the sea as officials warn that many buildings may have to be demolished for earthquake was new zealand's deadliest natural disaster in eighty years as likely to become its worst ever. silent opposition party has claimed victory in the country's general election counting it's still going on going but as the polls suggest the ruling party could have been dominant for decades is heading

for crushing defeat it's been widely criticized for wage cards tax hikes and loss of financial solvency for a last two years sixty seven billion you will be allowed from the e.u. and i.m.f. you would as a national humiliation. now there's usually just one but russians of choosing three characters to be mascots for sochi is twenty fourteen winter olympics i q polar bear or a snow leopard i have figures gating bunny overcame some intense competition to get a live t.v. but as archie's dennis blocky reports it's just the latest piece in the jigsaw ahead of the games. these are the first winners of the four children pics from now on a snow leopard a polar bear and the hare have won through to become the official mascots of the two thousand and fourteen winter games a ray of light and a snowflake will represent the paralympics he is around the prize winning places in

any sports or burned in the third and the main model will be lympics is not it's not victory but it's a patient that has some thoughts and the leopard and the bear each have their strong points that's why i think creating a team was a smart choice the winners were selected by members of the public from across russia in a phone televised on saturday the competition to devise them was also a public outward we creations are the result of a nationwide competition launched last year with ideas submitted to a special website and brochures artists amateurs and professionals alike rushed to the challenge the election of the olympic mascot started with hundreds of ideas and you can see some of these drawings here in sochi is a we can from asian center eventually it came down to this stuff ten rate here these are the methods that made it into the finals and won the entries are two bears snarly appointed father frost and the mayor of sochi is personal favorite of

the ethanol ski despite their card li appearance the competition between the mascots was almost as implants as for olympic gold traditional russian characters like father crossed melted in the heat of battle and didn't make the point all caught not even and make over with greatest winter sports where passion was enough to sweep a rather hip set of russians much rush goodall's to victory will be olympic separately one winter the competition organizers for the mascot circle gone three will go with a night to commercial possibilities to see who's doing the breath you can journey is ahead for all of the symbols chosen for the games they're just making their first steps in the. asked at a peak of their popularity in two thousand and fourteen and of course we're counting on commercial success and since these mascots and elected by a general vote we're counting on everyone to be willing to buy souvenirs in order licensed products and which they are included which will help finance the games sure three years left on still be olympics sochi will now have to get used to three

new theory honorary citizens a place one of them is no stranger to the southern russian city that's for real snow leopards have recently found a new home at the local wildlife preserve but three winning best kids have a hard act to follow in matching the worldwide fame one by me shot their counterparts with the 1980's most grueling picks but still she will be hoping they'll become just as lot and will love the bosky argy so she. bought a brain that they hear in r.t. and every cap of the week's top stories will be coming your way shortly.

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