the u.n. has imposed sanctions on libya as the violence continues and not country in a week that seen more protests across the arab world. also on the news this week because turmoil in the region dries thousands of north africans from their homes it's really is calling on the e.u. to help it cope with ways of immigrants. the wiki leaks founder has 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 of the discovery the shuttles are to be decommissioned soon and under obama's new space program

astronauts will have to rely on russian spacecraft to take them into orbit. with a look back at the week's top stories and the latest developments this is r.t. here in moscow the un security council to slap sanctions on libya as leader colonel gadhafi and ordered an investigation into crimes against humanity following the bloodshed in the country of a one thousand people have been killed in almost two weeks of the uprising against the regime. of people all over is getting across developments in the region. the u.n. security council voted unanimously to impose these sanctions on the gadhafi regime 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 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 it's also been libyans trying to get out of the country as well one hundred thousand believed to have fled across the border into tunisia or here to egypt where i am now many of the nations around the world in call so suspending 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 taking 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 this the libya should be allowed to determine its own future once this bloody violence has died down it was because. we were concerned about things happening in libya please note the following the north africa. 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 would the former leader of the iranian revolution which would if you live but he lived in paris and there's a whole he was supported by the western community you would get religion out of the entire western community fights against the really you could program i remember just recently our partners were very active in signal to the democratic elections. palestinian would probably be how much one would wish and immediately they declared hamas a terrorist organization and started fighting against it we need to give people who've chosen to do this for them and their future themselves we need to give them an opportunity to take a not true 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 the center of operations all the movement against the libyan government against colonel gadhafi and discovering some interesting things that been going through these palaces and not one of them being guarded or discovered a bunker there was designed to withstand a 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 and they've been handing out weapons troops to be handing out weapons to civilians on the streets of tripoli and in the abu salim 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 there are just fifty kilometers outside of tripoli the city of this fall in it 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. peter oliver there and political journalist anthony while says western style democracy is a tool of abuse rather than freedom and it shouldn't be applied 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 it 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 a devoted 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 any in the u.s. for example take a look at what they're doing and building bases in hundreds of 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 evaluation process and hopefully distract people from the overall fraud that's been perpetrated on western societies if that's democracy who wanted. the libyan uprising a spark fears that already high oil prices could skyrocket to levels never seen before reports that kind of an effort may sabotage the country's oil pipelines of added fuel to the fall of this week the barrel of the black gold approaching one hundred twenty dollars and then this a warning of significant economic threats if the under arrest brits some experts went as far as suggesting oil prices could hit two hundred twenty dollars per barrel but steve levine from foreign policy magazine says this it is unlikely to try to. saudi arabia has gone around and quietly assured everyone we not only can add more volumes to the market but we have to be different and that would create a sense. ways in which prices would really skyrocket if another opec country

fine 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 for bali and then you would see i'm not sure two hundred twenty i think that's probably an animist trying to get headlines but maybe one hundred fifty that which is still pretty high. meanwhile there are fears italy could drown under a wave of 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 what is your piskun of reports now on how locals are dealing with the situation. eighty miles off the cost of not perfect the tiny italian island of one has relied on fishing and tourism for its main

sources of income but for the first time in years the boats on. meds 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 has been flooded with with fiji's over five and a half thousand arrived in just two weeks sometimes up to three hundred refugees but grandma just one tiny fishing boat to make the perilous journey to the mediterranean. doesn't have all the brown menial bill so made it have nothing to turning local or if you wanted to head with no money and nor jobs we have already been cases of bad will isn't that just. 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 one 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 genuine he says is 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 holy books 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. all financed from the state budget is designed to house only around eight hundred people so under tight security hundreds of a few g.'s are flown to the mainland each day. we send full planes yesterday but on average two planes with refugees leave every day. and. 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 my own spin team to spread in both north africa and the middle east already warned other e.u. states up to three hundred thousand refugees could we libya alone for decades limp you know that manage to i mean i think any isolated world of its own accord with. the like and no one was afraid to leave their doors on wall street and the biggest wave of refugees may still be out there with you on this tiny island but the entire continent you're still on board with italy. and if i but it's an area from the danish institute for international studies says political changes in the middle east have always had a major effect on european nations not just in terms of illegal immigration even

before these. things the prospect of massive immigration has always been europe's wars tonight. 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. among some of the governments that are most affected i mean imagine if time choral gadhafi is not overthrown i mean business cannot proceed as usual after this something will have to be done. this is r.t. live here in moscow coming up in a few minutes there doesn't have to be only one. twenty four teams sochi winter olympics will have three mascots chosen by russians and

a country wide poll stay with us to meet the characters up close also. so we pointed. that out right on the heart but the back seat of the wheel. yes americans are baffled by obama's new space program which they feel runs the reins to russians in the race to the. first two massage must be extradited to sweden never sex assault charges that's the verdict made by a u.k. judge and we can its founder says he will appeal the decision as the court had failed to even consider the details of the allegations called the whole hearing a rubber stamping process parties came in ford gives us a background. when julian assange emerged less than a year ago with this video. showing u.s. troops going down unarmed civilians into reuters journalist videogame style he was

not 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 on earth and more people on some rotation going if you understand how the world actually works so. in the fourth period is to get information out about the real world and the second is the common for them to think about it but we need sources who can get. through pretty good i know matt a computer expert with a cache of two hundred fifty thousand classified cables has so much catapulted to the front page of virtually every newspaper in the country with weeks wiki leaks wiki leaks wiki leaks which leads to his photos julius sargent is a cyber terrorist and war time he's guilty of sabotage espionage crimes against

humanity he should be killed but to his stance a soft spoken at the first 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 sources is not just to protect we've never lost the story it's not just the published literature used to get the maximum. possible but it's up today it's the political impact of illegal and not the leaks that has gripped headlines. allegations of sexual misconduct by two swedish women infighting within wiki leaks frozen bank accounts stalled donations particularly in the obama administration and the cia they want to start wiki leaks they're doing all. so it's an extraordinary action stop in pay pal or lean on pay pal master card and other private corporations to allow donations to be made to wiki leaks the once heroic figure now hawking murders 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. makes no bones about it they're under the bus but the newspaper eagerly used his beaks special impressions of your. son in a list say assigned and wiki leaks have been effectively neutralized consumed by litigation rather then leaks i think what the american government wants is 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 and u.k. court ruled that julian assange to 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 as you know his charges and even the death penalty as the science faces 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 and ford r.t.

watching to d.c. . london courts move to extradite and so on should sport criticism of the british judicial system with the country known to grant asylum to many fugitive criminals some say the case is an example of the u.k.'s hypocrisy and 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 therefore it's not particularly the russian markets and so welcome here i would shakes. you may have a judicious criminal record as it were of torture there were allowed to swan around london and knightsbridge pays. wherever and no problem whatsoever. this week russia's republic of carpet in a bad car was in the spotlight after a number of militant attacks in the region a group of up to twelve men carried out similar terrorist attacks in several locations in the republic capital on friday a few hours later

a government shouldered gas station brought an explosion was averted thanks to the quick response by local farmer incidents of course and damage with no fatalities and is in contrast to last week when three people were killed in an attack on a tourist parts they were heading to a resort where a few hours later a ski lift was blown up with an authority so the militants have been trying to interfere with anti terror operations in the mountains of the republic. oh wait plenty of other news for him features on our website our teeth in addition to what you see here on screen and some a quick look and see what's online know the moment future force find out about a membership plan to upgrade the country's military equally impressive price tag attached also. a very different but equally powerful weapon discovery exhibit which explores the art and science behind the perfect kiss.

america's longest serving space shuttle discovery has lifted off of the last time this week after a quarter of a century in service the spacecraft will be put into retirement on saturday the shuttle got to the international space station delivering cargo and scientific equipment upon its return to earth it'll be ferried off to a museum where it will soon be joined by its sister ships endeavor and atlantis and effectively ended manned u.s. space flight with a new craft a decade away and he's got a church car and find out the loss 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 plan 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. don'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 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. in 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 we're going to write one declined 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 reportedly up the cash but after a lot on the hope of the backseat take the wheel. yes you know you got to let us touch the radio there were letters each snacks or stop 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 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 the 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 shuttles track record includes another tragedy a nine hundred eighty six to space shuttle challenger broke apart seventy three seconds into its right yahoo. 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 them all in fact what was once a global competition has long since become a global collaboration the leaders of both russia and the u.s. are saying space is no longer a place for comparable it's now a ground for cooperation with the remains if there are one clear in the words ready

to fully accept it. 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 there attending an illegal dog fight on the outskirts of kandahar five policemen who turned up to break up the competition were injured in the blasts illegal dogfights and targets for insurgents as the taliban condemns a practice in. which the death toll from the earthquake in new zealand has reached one hundred forty seven with more than two hundred people still missing residents across the country are honoring the dead at memorial services rescuers in christchurch are working to clear wreckage from the city as officials warn that many buildings may have to be demolished with quake was new zealand's deadliest natural disaster in eighty years and is likely to become its worst ever. and is threatening military action against the self ever leafleting campaign telling people about the anti-government protests in the arab world could use current information about the uprisings released by activists on friday the north's

response what's the latest strain in relations between the two countries are they treat level talks aimed at improving ties between pyongyang and seoul collapsed earlier this week. well they say teamwork is the lynchpin of success and the russian public seems to agree having chosen not one but three mascots for such is twenty fourteen winter olympics competition was fierce from a snow leopard a polar bear and a body on skates to the gold in the televised vote i do there is a lot of reports on these leases additions to the winter games lineup. these are the first winners of the sochi olympics from no one will work heard paul or 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 prepare olympics and yes it will be a three on the prize winning places in any sports around first second and third and the main model of the olympics is that it's not victory but with

a separation those samples and elope and the band 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 phone booth so avoid them saturday become petition to devise them was also a public outward the creations are the result of a nationwide competition launched last year with ideas submitted to a special website and brochures artists amateurs and professionals like rush to the challenge the election of the olympic method 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 meskins that made it into the finals and one of the entries are two bears it's normally acquired through frost and the mayor of sochi is personal favorite of the ethanol scheme despite their connally appearance become petition between damascus was almost as unplanned

as moral in big old traditional russian characters like father crossed melted and the heat of battle and didn't make the point of cart not even the make over with the latest winter sports where passion was enough to sweep a rather hip set of russians much rushford dolls to victory will be olympics have only one winner become petition organizers for the mascot circle gone three will go with a night to commercial possibilities to see who's doing a breathtaking journey is ahead for all the symbols chosen for the games they're just making their first steps on the. passing the peak of their popularity in two thousand and fourteen you can of course were counting on commercial success with three years left on still the olympics sochi will now have to get used to three new very honorary citizens at least one of them is no stranger to the southern russian city as for real snow leopards have recently found any home at the local wildlife preserve their three winning tickets have

a hard act to follow in matching the worldwide flame won by misha their counterpart for the 1980's more schoolin pics but sochi will be hoping they'll become just as lot and will learn this bosky are keen sochi. i'll be back with a recap of this week's top stories in just a few minutes stay with us life here must go on to. the.

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