these stunts on t.v. don't come. into the movie. the u.n. has imposed sanctions on libya is the pilot's continues in that country in a week that see more protests across the arab world. also in the week's top stories europe fears turmoil in the arab world will lead to a surge in uncontrolled immigration from the region with it's really the first to feel the effects of an influx of refugees. busses or u.k. court rules that giuliano saundra must be extradited to sweden over sex crime allegations that wiki leaks founder says it's a step towards his prosecution in the united states and. states over

a longer appraisal comparable it's now a grounds for cooperation but the question remains if everyone here in the u.s. ready for believes that the americans are split over the summer nation of the u.s. the space shuttle program and future reliance on russian rockets to get through to the international space station. with the top stories of today this week this is our take now the u.n. has imposed sanctions on libyan leader colonel gadhafi and his inner circle freezing assets and restricting international travel that comes as the violence continues to ravage the divided country and what so far been a bloodiest uprising in the arab world our correspondent in the region is peter oliver and he has all the latest developments. well over the past seven days we've

seen violence flare across libya now the protesters the anti 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 present swathe across the country toppling duffey forces in say all the 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 the majority of the citizens of tripoli are remaining indoors inside their homes in order to avoid gangs of of civilians that have been armed who have 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 protesters then took to the streets they were fired up by gadhafi forces killing many people there the number of dead straight to be well over a thousand in libya the most troubling or do you describe protesters fleeing to their homes being pursued by gunmen to 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 all of the days are being very very very quickly to cover up the atrocities that have been taking place in the country now russian prime minister vladimir putin made a comment on the situation there on the cross the whole of the arab world suggesting that these countries that have had revolutions must be allowed to determine their own future. it was good and today we saw we 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 he lived 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 democratic elections in the palestinian autonomy and how much one and immediately they declared him as 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 a rock on friday there was extremely violent demonstrations taking place in many cities across the country against the current regime government there in in but then it is continued as well again and also suffering problems with there with

violence on the streets in protest but if you get back to the most violent that we have seen appears to be in tunisia if you course was one of the the first goal for the arab state was not african state is throw off their dictator their leader followed by egypt now in two days here we've 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 a 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 attack here square which was the at the center of the revolution that toppled funds in the budget now 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. he's bitter over voting that now we have been gathering and just a wide range of perspectives on the crisis unfolding in north africa and the middle east political journalist i'm thinking while holdouts who are not seeing that

western countries are advocating the spread of democracy across the region with one sole purpose in mind to control the politics of the arab world and 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 strategies i think i think it is going to be democracy it should be democracy with a real change and a change that reflects democracy that actually benefits the peoples 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 who need so much the philosophy of what they've developed and put together in any in the u.s. for example take a look at what they have what they're doing any building bases in hundreds of little over one hundred different countries you know basically putting at the end

of a gun the word democracy and shoving it down their throats i mean 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 training 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 evaluation process and hopefully distract people from the overall fraud that's been perpetrated on western societies if that's democracy who want it. now the toll in libya has sparked fears of all prices jumping to a new high as the cost of a barrel reaching one hundred nineteen u.s. dollars at this week list of one of the dire consequences further rises might have food prices transport costs as well as national economies steve level from the foreign policy magazine says that oil might regional time peak if the unrest in libya spreads to other countries in the region the 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 volume to the market but we have added these calling it different that would create a situation in which prices would really skyrocket if another country went off line so you lost a million barrels a day it is offline from libya if algeria which is also having trouble if it weren't that would bring saudi arabia right up to its capacity to to substitute the volume then you would see i'm not sure two hundred twenty i think that's probably an anarchist trying to get headlines but but maybe a hundred fifty that that which is still pretty high. meanwhile other affairs and italy 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 over

the last few weeks alone the government has estimated a possible one and a half million could try and seek refuge there as well as in greece and. i think this girl has the story. eighty miles off the coast of north africa the tiny italian island of one has relied on fishing and tourism for its mean sources of income for the first time in years the bolts on hold and the mets are dry. but that's because you can't work they're always out here we haven't gone out to sea for twenty days now since the recent uprising in tunisia the island has been flooded with refugees over five and a half thousand arrived in just two weeks sometimes up to three hundred refugees crevel just one tiny fishing boat to make the peerless journey to the military. doesn't have all of braille media or build so media have nothing to loose turning

right here on its head with no money and jobs we have already been cases of bad girl isn't that just nothing that we start to believe in the lights on at night they always wonder around and none of the locals there we used to lock their doors and now that these people are here we feel uncomfortable due to its location like people who is familiar with refugees but we never saw me in such a short period of time and with many voicing strong beliefs official say genuine he says he's one of the biggest problems. that we are historically a free nation and we want freedom of islam we want to live like our prophet told us and will lead bullets to live in an islamic state. mall store. herald's 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 if the people are going to go off and we sent four planes yesterday but on average two planes with refugees leave every day to prove to me and pollute. italy and tunisia used to have an agreement under which most wifi keys were intercepted before even reaching the island but now that the government has been overthrown the floodgates have opened i could why was continuing to spread in both north america and the middle east it was already war and other evil st up to three hundred thousand refugees could we leave a little for dead kids limp you know that managed to remain i pray any isolated world of its own accord with all these lives and no one was afraid to leave their doors all the while five something changed and the biggest wave of refugees may

still be out there on this tiny island but the entire continent you want this is all for the love you know about italy. where you are with are to live from moscow still ahead for you this hour three of the trio of characters are chosen as mascots for the sochi two thousand and fourteen winter olympics comes after the results of a live t.v. vote all across russia uncover more about them and why they were picked that's coming your way in just a few minutes. julian assange lost his legal battle on thursday against his extradition to sweden that we found her is wanted there over rape allegations made by two swedish women but a sense the accusations and nonsense believes the case against him is politically motivated i think it's a killing for investigates. when

julia decided to merge less than of year ago with this video. showing u.s. troops going down unarmed civilians into reuters journalist video games he was lauded as a hero of transparency. and anti war ally and human rights defender r.t. america interviewed his sons on the day of collateral murders release what keeps people and more keeps the management of civilization going if you understand how the world actually works. in the fourth is to get information out about the real world and the second is the comment i don't think. sources can get. out of the public eye no magic computer expert with the cache of two hundred fifty thousand classified cables assigned. to the front page of virtually every newspaper in the country within weeks wiki leaks wiki leaks wiki leaks wiki

leaks to his foes is a cyber terrorist and war time he's guilty of sabotage espionage crimes against humanity he should be killed but he was stance soft spoken as if there's 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 sources is not just to protect we've never lost it's not just the published material used to get the maximum. possible. today it's the political impact of illegal and not the leaks that has gripped have been. allegations of sexual misconduct by two swedish women infighting within wiki leaks frozen bank accounts the nation the obama administration and the cia they want to start with you leagues they're doing. all sorts of extraordinary actions stop in pay pal or lean on pay pal master card and other are private

corporations to to allow donations to be made to wiki leaks the ones heroic figure now hawking mugs bumper stickers and t. shirts to pay his legal bills who profits from the meaning of meaning truly about science you know obviously it's the u.s. government which is really out to get him makes no bones about it through under the bus by the newspaper that once eagerly used his leaks initial impressions are going to. set up some red flags some in a list say assigned and wiki leaks have been effectively neutralized it's consumed by litigation rather than leaks i think with the american government wants as they 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 u.k. 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 became of transparency and ford r t washington d.c. . well the extradition decision has drawn criticism towards the u.k. justice system and not only from a staunch supporter of foreign policy expert william springs says the controversial verdict has exposed the country's kapok recy when dealing with requests to hand over citizens to foreign governments. the basic tradition relating to asylum is that anybody can come here provided they are loaded provided they've got lots of money we will let them in because we want them in with their money and therefore it's not particularly the russian magnets and only god can hear. it shakes. who may have a jew be a criminal record i think. yet they're allowed to fly around london and

knightsbridge bayswater wherever they are no problem whatsoever. gerard batten a member of the european parliament for the u.k. independence party says the decision to send a sergeant to sweden is symptomatic of a flawed system and what mr sounds case does illustrates the fundamental problems with the european restaurant which i've been talking about no evidence was introduced in two thousand and four he's an australian citizen they want to actually write to sweden but this affects every british citizen and anyone who is a guest in our country and what it does it removes the fundamental rights of the english courts to protect its own citizens and us in our country because they are not simply not allowed to look at the problem of. case like this and take into account it's what a lawyer called to proper justice and i would now so i've been saying now for some time that which is now hold your dish or surrender has been reduced to a bureaucratic formality and now i'm saying that it's actually nothing better than

legalized kidnapping alan system going on or it's going on for a month and i haven't figured out what the charges are you an interest if i can say about what's going to happen in sweden play going to a very very rarely used mechanism get to try this case in secret so we won't even be able to hear what's been said gratian so what the charges are and all the full evidence because that's it's going to be done in a secret hearing which is absolutely astounding. and we've got plenty more on this story on our website that's artie dot com and many other stories for you as well and features let's take a look at what's waiting for you on my. defense in force we examine the state of the art equipment set to help modernize the russian army over the next ten years and of course it's hefty price tag plastic was expected to just plan but instead expanded particularly to nato struggled to redefine its mission twenty years after its original rival disappeared.

america's longest serving special discovery has an hour talk to the international space station it's said to be the ship's last trip to space as the u.s. retires it's quarter of a century old fleet the shuttle delivered ten tons of cargo and scientific equipment to the ice as it's also presented a rare photo opportunity as six different spacecraft an hour dr the i assess upon his return to earth it will be ferried off to a museum where it will soon be joined by its sister ships and definitely atlantis it will effectively end manned u.s. space flight and its artes and gaia nature can find out the loss is not 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 you know the next phase of their development so i have a oh gosh i. can 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 the leaders of russia and the u.s. doesn't sit well with many americans how could this happen we could make it to the moon first build us one. and then. and now we're we're reduced to being passengers on a russian ship and that's that's part of it it's going to right thing clyde

we'll be itself in comments by some american lawmakers astronaut scientists and former nasa official comedians in the u.s. there's not many sound on poking fun at american sense of pride so we point to the cache then after a light on the hope of the backseat take the wheel. yes you know you got to let us touch the radio you want to eat snacks or stop to use the bathroom should have gone before we left i used to 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 were to 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 path it's not the first time americans have to rely on the russians to take their crew can space they depended on washing rockets two year grounding of us 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 nineteen eighty six the space shuttle challenger broke apart seventy three seconds into its right oh are the russians so used 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 rice are saying space is

no longer a place not comparable for it's now a ground operation but the question remains if they were working here in the us ready to believe sept that i'm going to take on are to washington d.c. . to live from moscow now russia has a volatile north caucasus has been in the spotlight all week as a spike in the militant activity raged in the republic of congo not all korea and group of up to twelve minutes of simple taney asli attacked several locations in the republicans capital now on friday a few hours later several government shelled a gas station but an explosion was averted thanks to the fiacre it's quick arrival the incident caused some damage but no fatalities it's a turnaround from last week's dramatic attack on a tourist bus that left three people dead local authorities said the plots were an attempt to distract and see the terror forces from special operations in the mountains of the republic they now say the situation is fully under control.

so i was have a look at some of the major headlines from around the world and the confirmed death toll from the earthquake in new zealand has now risen to one hundred forty seven of those still three hundred missing residents across the country have said prayers for those still not found emergency services in christ church are working to clear records from the city as officials in the many buildings may have to be demolished the earthquake was new zealand's deadliest natural disaster in eighty years and it's likely to become its worst ever. north korea is threatening a military action against the south over a leafletting campaign telling people about the anti-government protests in the arab world. karen information about the uprisings are being released by the army up over the northern border into the sea off state by state voters straining relations between the two countries military level talks aimed at improving ties between chung and seoul collapsed earlier this month but there's usually just one good

russians have chosen three characters to be mascots for such as two thousand and fourteen winter olympics there's a cute polar bear a snow leopard and figure skating and bunny they all overcame some intense competition so went to live t.v. you vote and it's artie's things promotes good reports it's just the latest piece in the jigsaw ahead of the games. these are the first winners of the four children picks from no one a snow leopard a polar bear and a hare has won through to become the official mascots of the two thousand and fourteen winter games a ray of light and it will represent the paralympics yes the throne the prize winning places in any sports a grand second and third and the main model of the olympics is not it's not victory but it's a patient was and a leopard be here and the bear each had their strong. 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 firm who televised on saturday become petition to devise them was also a public outward be creations are the result of a nationwide competition launched last year with ideas submitted to a special website and pressures artists amateurs and professionals like rush 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 olympic information center eventually it really came down to this top ten rate here these are the meskins that made it into the finals and one of the entries are two beers it's normally a part for the fast and the mayor of sochi is personal favorite of the ethanol scheme despite their commonly appearance become petition between damascus was almost as unplanned as poorly gold traditional russian characters like father crossed melted in the heat of battle and didn't make the point all caught not even to make over with the latest winter sports where passion was enough to sweep

a rather hip set of russians much rush for dogs to victory will be olympic several re one winter the competition organizers for the mascot circle gone three will go with a night to commercial possibilities to see who should do a breathtaking journey is ahead for all of the symbols chosen for the games they're just making their first steps in the. and a peak of their popularity in two thousand and fourteen you can of course we're counting on commercial success and since these mascots have been elected by a general vote we're counting on everyone to be willing to buy souvenirs in order licensed products in which they are included which will help finance the games. with three years left on still be olympics sochi will now have to get used to three new furry honorary citizens at least one of them is no stranger to the southern russian city as for real snow leopards have recently found a new home at the local wildlife preserve the three winning baskets have a hard to follow in matching the worldwide fame one by misha their counterpart for

the 1980's moscow lympics but still she will be hoping they'll become just as lot of world of the ball ski sochi. let's take a look at the week's top stories in just a few moments. the

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