this is. where imposes sanctions on colonel gadhafi as more of the country comes under the control of forces opposed to the libyan regime. and as crisis in the region drives thousands of north africans from their homes italy is calling on the e.u. to help big cope with waves of immigrants. and the wiki leaks founder is to be extradited to sweden on sex crimes allegations appealing the ruling julian assange says the case is simply a pretext to get into the u.s. for a quick trial. and america has its wings clipped with the last flight all the space shuttle discovery the shuttles are to be decommissioned soon. obama's new

space program astronauts will have to rely on russian spacecraft to take them into orbit. with r.t. as we highlight the stories that made headlines this week now the un security council has slapped sanctions on libya's leader moammar gadhafi and ordered an investigation into crimes against humanity following the bloodshed in the country for one thousand people have been killed in almost two weeks of the uprising against the regime let's not live to watch he's correspondent peter all of us who is keeping of course the relevance for us in the region and so talk to us about what exactly measures were taken by the u.n. could happen here actually. well the u.n. security council voted unanimously to impose these sanctions on the gadhafi regime

that they'll take the form of a travel ban against colonel gadhafi himself as well as others close to him an asset freeze on khadafi and is in a circle a sixteen names on this list is also an arms embargo will be placed upon libya now the resolution it was brought forward by france the u.k. germany and the united states also contains a referral to the hague to the international criminal court there so that they can look into allegations of crimes against humanity committed during the two weeks of violence that we've seen in libya governments around the world have been doing the best to get their citizens out of the country but there's also been libyans trying to get out of the country as well around one hundred thousand are believed to have fled across the border into tunisia or here to egypt where i am now that many of the nations around the world been called so suspending their diplomatic ties with tripoli we heard today on sunday that france will suspend their diplomatic ties

with tripoli the russian embassy in the capital of libya will be taking care of french citizens until the french government can work out a way to get them out of the country well prime minister but i did hear putin has said that the country libya should be allowed to determine its own future once this bloody violence has died down. it was given today we said we were concerned about things happening in libya please note the following in the north african sound of al qaida is also concerned about what is happening in libya do you think this is a coincidence because 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 you will now the entire western community fights against the iranian nuclear program i remember just recently our partners were very active and so. which of the democratic elections in the palestinian autonomy and how mass won't wash and immediately they declared how mass

a terrorist organization and started fighting against it we need to give people the chosen 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. up here keeping a close eye on what's going on in libya just from across the border so what is the latest you can tell us. but i can tell you that in the eastern city of benghazi that's been the the heartland of this revolt against the gadhafi regime a sense of normality is being returned to the streets there now the pro democracy supporters pro-democracy protesters have being trying to reopen shops amongst the rubble of those buildings that were destroyed in fighting in that city a food distribution programs in place in the city as well. the opposition have begun printing their own newspapers as well as setting up a radio station broadcasting in being well protesters take control of more and more

of the country they're coming across the palaces of the gadhafi regime now one such palace just outside of outside of benghazi has become the command center of the center of operations for the movement against the libyan government against colonel gadhafi and they think discovering some interesting things is the been going through these palaces and not want them being guarded or discovered a bunker there was designed to withstand the an attack from a non conventional weapon showing me the security consciousness the security paranoia if you will that was in place in colonel gaddafi mind now we are hearing that tripoli remains in control of loyalists to colonel gadhafi and they've been handing out weapons troops have been handing out weapons to civilians on the streets of tripoli and in the abu salim district about six kilometers outside of the the center of the capital civilians were manning checkpoints looking at cars

searching cars there and checking identification papers now many of the citizens of tripoli have remained inside their homes locked in door scared of these these armed militia that are patrolling the streets there with the latest reports that we do have suggests they are just fifty kilometers outside of tripoli the city of zawiya as for. and to the opposition forces now this violence in libya has been the bloodiest across the region we've seen revolution here in egypt where i am and she also violence in other arab states and north african states now the. violence here though fast the passing anything that we've seen elsewhere at least one thousand people believed to have been killed so far are. up to date on this not is pretty relevant i think kyra thank you. all political journalist anthony while says a western style democracy is

a tool of abuse rather than freedom and it shouldn't be applied so 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 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 and in the u.s. for example take a look at what they're doing any building bases in hundreds of the 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 from perpetrated on western societies if that's democracy who would want it. the libyan uprising has sparked fears that already high oil prices could skyrocket to levels never seen before of course the main sabotage of the country's oil pipelines of added fuel to the fire this week for the barrel of the gold approaching one hundred twenty dollars warning of significant economic threats if the owners spreads some exports went as far as suggesting that oil prices could hit two hundred twenty dollars per barrel steve all of it from the foreign policy magazine says this scenario is unlikely to develop. saudi arabia has

gone around and rightly assured everyone we not only can add more volumes to the market but we have added the difference that would create a situation in which prices would really skyrocket another country when our clients are you lost a million barrels a day it is our run from libya we have algeria which is also having trouble getting it goes up front that would bring saudi arabia right up to its capacity to to substitute good value and then you would see i'm not sure two hundred twenty i think there's probably an arab trying to get headlines but but maybe a hundred fifty that which is still pretty high. meanwhile there are fears that it's really could drown under a wave of illegal immigration from the instability in the middle east thousands of refugees have already reached the countries island of lampedusa leading the government there to declare a humanitarian emergency you got it was kind of reports on how locals are

struggling to deal with the situation. if he miles off the coast of north africa the tiny italian island of lampedusa has relied on fishing and tourism for its main sources of income for the first time in years the boats or. bats are drawing. the best of us to kill more but 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 quite a few g.'s were five and a half thousand arrived in just two weeks sometimes up to three hundred with these what grabbed one just one tiny fishing boat to make the perilous journey to the mediterranean island doesn't have what would you drown medial bills for me to have nothing to lose turning local life here on its head with no money and no jobs they

have already been cases of vandalism and best not to start leaving the lights on at night they always wonder ronde none of the locals ever used to lock their doors now that this people out here would feel uncomfortable due to its location of good movies for me with refugees but never saw me in such a short period of time and with many voicing strong beliefs official say to franklin what he says is one of the biggest problems carol. that. we historically a free nation and we want freedom i desire that we want to live like a prophet told us and who leave much to live in an islamic state. most are housed at this refugee center where they are provided with food water clothes and medical aid or financed from the state budget is designed to house only eight hundred people so under tight security hundreds of e.c.g.'s are flown to the mainland you

didn't see how many people are going to go on for t.v. we sent four planes yesterday but on average two planes with very few gees leave every day it's. and a little. bit only had to use a used to have an agreement under which mostly a few days were intercepted before even reaching the island but now that the government has been overthrown the floodgates have opened i put what i was good t.v. to spread in both north africa and the middle east you already reward other states up to three hundred thousand refugees which we leave alone for decades lumpy those are managed through i mean i think maybe isolated world of its own rubble with peaceful lives and no one was afraid to leave their doors on the wall find some peace and the biggest wave of refugees may still be out there with more on this tiny island but the entire continent you want this along or you want to do that

italy. meantime a great c.e.o. thorsten ari from the danish institute for international studies says that political changes in the middle east have always had a major effect on european nations and part just in terms of illegal immigration even before these are cries sings the prospect of massive immigration has always been europe's was the nightmare in real terms it has never been substantial and 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 needing among some of the governments that are most affected i mean imagine if into months time coral gadhafi is not overthrown i mean

business cannot proceed as usual after this so something will have to be done. without a live from moscow coming up in just a few minutes it doesn't have to be only one two thousand and fourteen a sochi winter olympics will have a greet mascots chosen by russians in a country rowing to be fair with us to meet the carriages of clubs. so we pony up the cash after one of the back seat bottles brewskis take the wheel. oh yes so americans are told why obama's new space program which they feel hands ructions the reins in the race to the planet's. truly innocent show must be extradited to sweden for sex assault charges that's the verdict made by u.k. charge but wiki leaks founder says he will appeal the decision as the court had failed to even consider the details of the allegations such as quote the whole

hearing a rubber stamping process he's coming forward gives us the background. when julian assange emerged less believe year ago with this video. showing u.s. troops gunning down unarmed civilians and two reuters journalists videogame style he was lauded as a hero of transparency. and anti war ally a human rights defender r.t. america interviewed as such on the day of collateral murders release what keeps people and more keeps i managed to survive i think from the earlier ones are understand how the world actually works. in the fourth grade used to get information about the real world and the second comment. but sources can't get. through to the public

a nomadic computer expert on the cache of two hundred fifty thousand classified cables assigned catapults ages the front page of virtually every newspaper in the country within weeks wiki leaks wiki leaks wiki breaks wiki leaks to his foes julian assange is a cyber terrorist in wartime he's guilty of sabotage espionage crimes against humanity he should be killed but to his fans a soft spoken as is the potential to radically reshape the geo political landscape voted by the people as time's man of the year our commitment to our sources is not just to protect we have never lost it's not just the published literature used to get the maximum. possible but it's our city it's the political impact of the leaker and not the leaks that has gripped. allegations of sexual misconduct by two swedish women infighting within wiki leaks frozen fake accounts told the nation

particularly the obama administration and the cia they want to start wiki leaks they're doing. all sorts of extraordinary actions start being paid or leaning on pay pal master card and other are private corporations to allow donations to be made to wiki leaks that once heroic figure now hocking murders stickers and t. shirts to pay his legal bills who profits from the meaning of meaning through an obviously it's the us government which is really gets him makes no bones about it then under the basket by the newspaper that once eagerly used his leaks special impressions. up some send in of his say assigned and wiki leaks have been effectively neutralized consumed by litigation rather then 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 now you can't court rule that julian assange to be extradited to sweden but his attorneys say the next hour for the thirty nine year old computer programmer could be here in the united states. as you know his charges and even the death penalty as a sound basis 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 for an artsy but d.c. corner london's courts move to extradite assange spot criticism or for british traditional system the country known to grant asylum to many fugitive criminals some say the assigned case is an example of the u.k.'s ocracy. 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 me because we want them in with their money and so therefore it's not particularly. so welcome here i would shakes you may have a jew be

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with r.t. live from moscow it's now or twenty minutes past the hour america's longest serving space shuttle discovery has lifted off for the last time this week after a quarter of a century in service the spacecraft will be put into retirement on saturday the shuttle docked at the international space station delivering cargo and scientific equipment upon his return to earth it will be ferried off to a museum where it will soon be joined by its sister ships and atlantis it will effectively end the u.s. space flight with a new craft a decade away and as artie's a guy in a church can found out the loss is not sitting too well with many american cities major q.b. is complete by the end of this year nasa will no longer be able to same 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 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 to say oh gosh i. could. that 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 it'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. but doesn't sit well with many americans how did this how. we could make it to the moon earth to build this wonderful equipment and then. and now we're we're reduced to being passengers on a russian ship and that's that's sort of it it's so a wounded pride thing one big clyde revealed itself in comments by some american lawmakers astronaut scientists and former nasa officials comedians in the u.s. did not miss out on poking fun at american sense of pride so reporting the cash

then had to write on the hope of the backseat of the take the wheel. yes you know you got to lose touch the radio they want to eat snacks or stopped to use the bathroom should have gone before we left. 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 joint cooperation and learning from one another that's just as healthy as the competition that 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. base craft after the two thousand and three space shuttle columbia disaster clump. exploded during re-entry into the earth's atmosphere all seven crew members died shuttles track record includes another tragedy in one thousand nine hundred eighty six the space shuttle challenger broke apart seventy three seconds into its right was the russians so use proved to be the safest way to deliver people to space and now with the shuttle retiring 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 are saying space is no longer a place for congress it's now a ground cooperation with the remains if everyone here in the us except that. article. well they do say that teamwork is the lynchpin of success and the russian

public seems to agree having chosen not one but three mascots or so cheese or two thousand and fourteen winter olympics competition it was fierce but a snow leopard a polar bear and a bunny on skates or took the gold in a televised to fight parties ten years polaski reports on these latest additions to the winter games lineup. these are the first winners of the four children pics from now on a snow leopard a polar bear and the hare has won through to become the official mascots of the two thousand platoons winter games a ray of light and a snowflake will represent the paralympics he is the mr on the prize winning the places in the least second and third and the main motivation of the olympics is that it's not a victory lap but it was a separation and it is unfortunate that the leopard and the champ they're 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 phone booth televised on saturday become petition to devise them was also the public outward creations are the result of a nationwide competition launched last year with ideas submitted to a special website and russia's artists amateurs and professionals alike 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 the games out of this stuff ten rate here these are the meskins that made it into the finals among the entries are two bears snarly had poured for the frost and the mayor of sochi is personal favorite of girls and also. this point they're currently appearance at the competition between the mascots was almost as intense 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 let me call her with the

raiders winter sports where passion was enough just we are rather hip set of russians much rush controls to victory will be a limp except only one winner the competition organizers for the mascot circles on three will delve with the knights of commercial possibilities to. do a breathtaking journey is ahead for all the series shows and really games they're just making their first steps in the. as it is he could remotely or in all she does appear to you of course it was telling in commercial success these three years left on still be olympics which you will now have to get used to three and it's very honorary citizens at this one of them is no stranger to the southern russian city that's for real snow leopards have recently found you know at the local wildlife preserve that three willing baskets have a hard act to follow in matching the worldwide fame by michelle their counterparts in the 1980's most grueling picks but still she will be hoping to become just as

lot and will learn the skill of ski are so cheap. and time now for a brief update on some other stories from around the world here on arts here the number being detained in china as people across the country got a summer so holding jasmine rallies the demonstrations were organized on an online forum calling for a more accountable government organized as a plan of peaceful action and encourage people to strongly want all tended to pass by the rallies inspired by uprisings in the middle east have been vastly outnumbered by security forces. the death toll from the earthquake in new zealand has now reached one hundred and forty seven with more than two hundred still missing presidents approached the country are honoring their morals services rescuers in christ church are working to clear wreckage from the city as officials from getting many buildings may have to be demolished the earthquake was new

zealand's deadliest a natural disaster in eighteen years and is likely to become its worst ever. north korea is threatening a military action against the south over a leafletting campaign telling people about the antigovernment protests in the arab world the loons carrying information about the uprisings were released by activists on friday the north's response marked the latest strain in real. actions between the true countries to try to hold talks proving ties beyond between what upon going on and saw collapsed under the sun. a recap of the week's top stories and in just a few moments right here. in

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