no one could argue on archie. the u.n. is impose sanctions on libya as the pilots continues in that country in a week that see more protests across the arab world. also in the news this week as turmoil in the region drives thousands of north africans from their homes italy is calling on the e.u. to help you cope with waves of immigrants. 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 him to the u.s. for a quick trial. and america has its wings clipped with the last flight of the discovery

the shuttles are to be decommissioned soon and on to obama's new space program after north will have to rely on russian spacecraft to take them into orbit. but the headlines of today and of this week he would r.t. well the u.n. security council has a slap sanctions on libya's leader moammar gadhafi and ordered an investigation into crimes against humanity following the bloodshed in the country over one thousand people have been killed in almost two weeks of the uprising against the regime our correspondent peter oliver is in the region and he has the latest for us . 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 acid

free zone could be out is in a circle the sixteen names on this list is also an arms embargo placed upon libya now the resolution it was brought forward by france the u.k. germany and the united states also come tains 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 now governments around the world have been doing the best to get their citizens out of the country but it's also being libyans trying to get out of the country as well one hundred thousand are believed to have fled across the border either into china is here or here to egypt where i am now many of the nations around the world being called so suspending their diplomatic ties with tripoli we heard today on sunday that france suspend their diplomatic ties with tripoli the russian embassy in the capital of libya will be taken care of

french citizens until the french government can work out a way to get them out of the country or prime minister vladimir putin has said that the sick country libya should be allowed to determine its own future once this bloody violence has died down it was because of today we saw you were concerned about things happening in libya please note the following the north african cell 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 bittersweet a former leader of the iranian revolution where did he live but 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 and similar to the democratic elections. palestinian autonomy and how much one would wish and immediately they declared hamas a terrorist organization and started fighting against it we need to give people who chose to see them in the future themselves we need to give them an opportunity to

take a natural way without any foreign interference to build their future 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 discovering some interesting things the been going through these palaces and that one them being guarded discovered a bunker there is designed to withstand an attack from a non conventional weapon showing me the security consciousness the security paranoia if you will that was in place in colonel gadhafi mind now we are hearing that tripoli remains in control of loyalists to colonel gadhafi now they've been handing out weapons troops to be handing out weapons to civilians on the streets of tripoli and in the district about six kilometers outside of 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 fall in 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 also violence in other arab states and north african states now the. violence here though fast passing anything that we've seen elsewhere at least one thousand people believed to have been killed so far. but he's bitter over the reporting meantime political journalist anthony while says the western style democracy is

a tool of abuse rather than freedom and shouldn't be applying to 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 real change and a change that reflects democracy that actually benefits of people's today's democracy is nothing more than a mainstream control mechanism through which the vast majority of the public and 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 look at what they're doing in the building bases in hundreds of whole over a 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 in some perpetrated on western societies if that's democracy and what. well the libyan uprising has sparked fears that already high oil prices could skyrocket to levels never seen before reports that moammar gadhafi may have sabotaged the country's oil pipelines of other fuel to the fire this week for the barrel of the black gold now approaching one hundred twenty dollars and lists a warning of significant economic strengths of the honest spreads some experts went as far as to suggest that oil prices could hit two hundred twenty dollars per barrel but steve levitt from the foreign policy magazine says this scenario is unlikely to develop. saudi arabia has gone around and 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 and get another country when our wind so you've lost a million barrels a day it is our line from libya if algeria which is also having trouble if it was up front that would bring saudi arabia right up to its capacity to to substitute for volume and then you would see i'm not sure two hundred twenty i think that's probably an admiral trying to get headlines but but maybe a hundred if that which is still pretty high meanwhile there are fears it's only good drown under way for illegal immigration from the instability in the middle east thousands of refugees have already reached the country's island of lampedusa leading the government to declare a humanitarian emergency that. is going off of course now how the locals are

thinking with the situation. if eighty miles off the coast of north africa the tiny italian island of luggage has relied on fishing and tourism for its main sources of income for the first time in years the boats or and the mets are drawing . the best of a secure border there 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 great fiji's 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 perilous journey to the mediterranean . doesn't have all of the frail medial bills for me to have nothing to turning local life here on its head with no money and no jobs they have already been cases

of. that ft nothing to me it will start to believe in the lights on at night they always wonder around 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 won't give it was he's familiar with refugees but never so many in such a short period of time and with many voicing strong beliefs official say identifying the way he says is one of the biggest problems that. we historically a free nation and we want feed and i desire we want to live like a prophet told us and will 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 all financed from the state budget is designed to house only eight hundred people so ordered tight security hundreds of feet g.'s are flown to the mainland big so i think we're going to go off and see we sent four planes yesterday but on

average two planes with refugees leave every day. tony and a little. bit early and to music a used to have an agreement under which most were fiji's were intercepted before even reaching the island but now that the government has been overthrown the floodgates have opened i would while it's continuing to spread in both north africa and the middle east italy's already warned other evil state three hundred thousand refugees could we leave here alone for decades limp you know that manage to i mean i've heard any isolated world of its own political when called the snow line and no one was afraid to leave their doors all the time something changed and the biggest wave of refugees may still be out there not this tiny island but the entire continent you want to follow or

you want to do that italy. meantime fabricio tyson are from the danish institute for international studies says the political changes in the middle east have always had a major effect on european nations and not just in times of illegal immigration even before these are prized things the prospect of massive immigration has always been europe's wars tonight and in real terms it has never been substantial that 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 that are most affected i mean imagine if into a month's time coral gadhafi is not overthrown i mean business cannot proceed as usual after this so something will have to be done. you are with r t live from

moscow and coming up in just a few minutes there doesn't have to be only one but two thousand and fourteen sochi winter olympics will have three mascots chosen by russians in a country wide polls stay with us to meet the characters up close also. so we. don't have to write on the health of the backseat all the take the wheel job yes americans are baffled by obama's new space program which they feel hands at the reins to russians in the race to the planets. what you saw and shit must be extradited to sweden over sex assault charges that's the verdict made by a u.k. judge that we're hearing is found and says he will appeal the decision as the court would fail to even consider the details of the allegations a song called the whole hearing a quote rubber stamping process can afford has more on the background of this.

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 game style he was lauded as a hero of transparency. in an anti war ally a human rights defender r.t. america interview decides on the day of collateral murders release what keeps people in your keeps so i think you'll hear as you understand how the world actually works. in the fourth grade used to get information out about the real world and the second comment i think about. sources can get. out of the public eye no matter computer expert with the cache of the two hundred fifty thousand classified as such kind of full page is the front page of

virtually every newspaper in the country is working with wiki leaks wiki leaks wiki leaks wiki leaks to his foes julian assange is a cyber terrorist and work time he's guilty of sabotage espionage crimes against humanity he should be killed but to his fans as soft spoken as if there's the potential to radically reshape the geo political landscape goodies by the people as time's man of the year our commitment to our sources is not just to protect the family of the lost it's not just the promise that it is to get the maximum impact possible but it's our city it's the political impact of the leaker and not the leaks that has gripped the. allegations of sexual misconduct by two swedish women infighting within wiki leaks for his infected house the nation particularly the obama administration and the cia they want to start with the leagues they're

doing. all sorts of extraordinary actions start being paid leaning on pay pal master card and other private corporations to to allow donations to be made to wiki leaks but once heroic figure now hawking mugs bumper stickers and t. shirts to pay his legal bills who profits from demeaning demeaning truly and you know obviously it's the u.s. government which is really out to get him makes no bones about it then under the basket by the newspaper that once eagerly used his leaks initial impressions of. some words some in a list say assigned and wiki leaks have been effectively neutralized consumed by litigation rather than leaks i think with the american government wants us 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 and 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. espionage charges and even the death penalty as the sun chases 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. . gerald button a member of the european parliament for the u.k. independence party says the decision to send the wiki leaks founder to sweden is symptomatic of a flawed system. what mr sounds christ does illustrates the fundamental problems with the european restaurant which i've been talking about now if he was introduced in two thousand and four he's an australian citizen they want to actually go to sweden but this effects 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 guests in our country because they are not simply not allowed to look at the problem of facial evidence in

a case like this and taking into account it's what the lawyer called tip top justice and i would now so i've been saying now for some time that extradition which is now called judicial surrender has been reduced to a bureaucratic formality and now i'm saying that it's actually nothing better than legalized kidnap going on that's been going on for months 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 they don't use a very very rarely used mechanism here to try this case in secret so we won't even be able to hear what's being said what the allegations are 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 with r.t. live from moscow this week russia's republic of congo did you know about korea was in the spotlight after a number of militant attacks in the region a group of up to twelve men carried out similar ten years attacks in several locations in the rubble republic's capital of null check on friday a few hours later shouldered gas station earth an explosion was averted thanks to

the quick response by local firemen the incident has caused some damage with no fatalities and this is upon transfer last week three three were killed in an attack on a tourist bus heading to a resort where a few hours later a ski lift was blown up local authorities say the militants are going trying to interfere with anti terror operations in the mountains of the republic. well there's always a plenty of other news and features on our website that's our thought qabalistic a brief look right now is what is our wedding. and future force find out about a plan to upgrade the country's military and the equally impressive price tag it's . also. a very different going to equally powerful weapon discover an exhibit which explores the art and science behind the chaos.

just approaching forty minutes past the hour here in moscow now america's longest serving as special discovery has lifted off for the last time this week after a quarter of a century in service the spacecraft will soon be put into retirement on saturday the shuttle docked at the international space station was delivering cargo and scientific equipment upon his return to earth it will be off to a museum wearing a suit be joined by its sister ships the endevor and atlantis before the focus of the end of manned u.s. space flight with a new craft a decade away and as our team is going into japan found out the loss is not sitting too well with many americans. by the end of the 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 get there 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 have a pretty good 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 you. 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. but doesn't sit well with many americans how could this happen we could make it to the moon first build this one. and then. and now we're we're reduced to being passengers on a russian ship and that's that's sort of it's zero zero going to writing pliant we'll be solving comments by some american lawmakers astronaut scientists and

former nasa official comedians in the u.s. there's not me soured on poking fun at american sense of pride so reportedly up the cash then have to write on the hope of the backseat take the wheel. yes you know you're going to lose touch the radio they want to eat snacks or stop to use the bathroom should have gone to fully left. use 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 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 that we had in the past it's not the first time americans have to

rely on the russians to take their crew can 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 track record includes another tragedy a 1980's. the space shuttle challenger group apart seventy three seconds into its flight was 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 has long since become a global collaboration the leaders of both russia and the us are saying space is no longer a place for competition it's now a ground for cooperation remains here in the us ready for fully accept it i'm going

to say that are to washington d.c. . time now for a brief update on some other stories from around the world and eight people have been killed in two blasts in southern afghanistan they were attending an illegal dog fight on the outskirts of kandahar five policemen who were turned up to break up the competition were injured in the blasts illegal dogfights are targets for insurgents and the taliban are coming to them as the practice. the death toll from the earthquake in new zealand has now reached one hundred forty seven with still two hundred missing residents across the country are honoring the dead at memorial service as rescuers in christ church are working to clear wreckage from the city as officials warn that some of the buildings may have to be demolished entirely the earthquake was new zealand's the deadliest 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 anti-government protests in the arab world the looneys carrying information about the uprisings were released by activists on friday the north's response smarts the latest strain relations between the two countries military level talks aimed at improving ties between pyongyang and seoul collapsed earlier this week. but they do say that teamwork is the lynchpin of success on the russian public seems to agree having chosen not one but three mascots for sochi is two thousand and fourteen winter olympics competition was fierce but a snow leopard polar bear and a bunny on skates took the gold in the nationwide it televised vote at least in this particular ports on this latest additions to the winter games lineup. these are the first winners of the four children pics from now on a snow leopard polar bear and the hare has 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 the minister for on the prize winning places in any school so burns first second and third and the main model is that it's not a victory because it's a patient that has some balls and a leopard the hair and the bear they're strong. that's why i think creating the teen was a smart choice for 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 upward the creations are the result of a nationwide competition launched last year with ideas the special website and brochures artists amateurs and professionals so why rush to the challenge the election of the olympic mask and 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 stuff ten rate here these are the best ones that made it

into the finals among the entries are bears snarly acquired through frost and the mayor of sochi is personal favorite of the open on skis despite their card lee appearance the competition between the mascot's 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 final cut not even that make over with the raiders' winter sports where passion was enough to sweep a rather hip set of controls to victory will be olympics have only one winner the competition organizers for the mascot circles on three mill dealt with the knights of commercial possibilities to see who should do it the breath you can journey is ahead for all the still shows in the games they're just making their first steps in the. after the peak of her popularity in two thousand and fourteen and of course it was counting on commercial success with three years left on still be olympics so

she will now have to get used to three new jury honorary citizens at least 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 the three winning best kids have a hard act to follow in matching the worldwide fame want to buy them a shot their counterpart for the 1980's most grueling pics but sochi will be hoping they'll become just as lot and will know the ball ski are seen sochi. and in just a few moments with their recap of the week's top stars. is

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