the u.n. has imposed sanctions on libya as the violence continues in that country in a week that seen more protests across the arab world. 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 also for this week's news america has its wings clipped with the last flight of discovery channels are to be decommissioned soon under obama's new space program astronauts will have to rely on russian spacecraft to take them until .

they look back at the week's top stories in the latest developments this is r.t. here in moscow 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 of the one thousand people have been killed in almost two weeks of the uprising against the regime correspondent peter oliver is keeping a close developments in the region. 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 it's also being libyans trying to get out of the country as well one hundred thousand believed to have fled across the border either into chile is here or here to egypt where i am now that many of the other 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 taking care of french citizens until the french government can work out a way to get them out of the country or prime minister but out of here putin has said that the sea 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 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 with the former leader of the iranian revolution with where did he live but he lived in paris and there's a whole he was supported by the western community you work in germany now the entire western community fights against the iranian nuclear program i remember just recently our partners were very active and so going to the democratic elections. the palestinian will tell me how much one would wish and immediately they declared hamas a terrorist organization and started fighting against it we need to give people additional us into them in the future we need to give them an opportunity to take a natural way without any foreign interference to build future protestors take control of more and more of the country they're coming across the palaces of they get off the regime now one such palace just outside of i would side 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 not want them being guarded at a scale that a bunker there is designed to withstand an attack from a non conventional weapon showing 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 they've been handing out weapons troops have been 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 the latest reports that we do have suggests they are just fifty kilometers outside of tripoli the city of this 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 tunis the also violence in other arab states 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. london based author and journalist afshin returns he told me earlier that the u.s. and the european union are acting in their own interests by fueling the uprising in libya i have spoken to dissidents here in london some of whom have been rooney asli related actually to al-qaeda in the past but i think what i was more referring to is the chance that u.s.

and british and european special forces are now organizing things with certain elements of opposition groups undercover the western powers are not interested in democracy in libya what we're interested in now is the oil it's very interesting that the international criminal court have been brought into to that resolution the united states of course is not a signatory to that resolutions are gadhafi could always hide out in washington and stabilize the sea subpoena i think the americans and i don't know people like tony blair would be very very frightened of nicolas sarkozy or mr berlusconi of italy would be quite frightened about an i.c.c. trial because then then the regime and the people that are still supporting him in tripoli in their bunkers will be able to tell the stories about everything from lockerbie to how. american and british arms companies were involved in propping up that regime and then have a string of e-mail that have an e-mail trail i don't think the americans or in

london or russell's would very much want that to come out in court you. the libyan uprising has sparked fears that already high oil prices could skyrocket to levels never seen before reports that kind of the things most sabotage the country's oil pipelines and added fuel to the fire and us wait for them all of the gold approaching one hundred twenty dollars and then there's a warning of significant economic threats if the unrest spreads some experts will just follow suggesting oil prices could hit two hundred twenty dollars per barrel and steve levine from foreign policy magazine says this in our it is unlikely to develop. 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 that would create a situation in which prices would really skyrocket another country when our clients are you lost a million barrels

a day is our line from libya we have algeria which is also having trouble getting it want that will bring saudi arabia right up to its capacity to to substitute for volume then you will see i'm not sure two hundred twenty i think that's probably an arrow trying to get headlines but but maybe one hundred fifty which is still pretty high. meanwhile there are fears it's in the could drill another a wave of illegal immigration from the instability in the middle east thousands of refugees have already reached the countries are in the producer leading the government to declare a humanitarian emergency that a lot of you going to cannot report on how locals are dealing with the situation. if eighty miles off the coast of north africa the tiny italian island of has relied on fishing and tourism for its main sources or marine corps but for the first time in years the boats or and i've been there are drawing progress but as you can board

they're always out here we have been going out to sea for twenty days. since the recent uprising in tunisia the island has been flooded with work fiji's over five and a half thousand arrived in just two weeks sometimes up to three hundred refugees but grandma just one tiny pushing gold to make the journey to the mediterranean island doesn't have all the braille many of the also made it have nothing to lose turning walkaway here on its head with no money and nor jobs they have already been cases of vandalism and theft. non-thinking it was started leaving the lights on at night they always wonder around none of the locals ever used to lock their doors and now that these people are here we feel uncomfortable due to its location like 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 genuine cases is one of the biggest problems. that we're historically a free nation and we want freedom if islam we want to live like our prophet told us in holy books to live in an islamic state where i did most are housed 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 iraqis are flown to the mainland if they . don't fancy we sent four planes yesterday but on average two planes with very few gees leave every day to control any money and pollute like with. italy and to musea 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 would buy

islands continuing to spread in both north africa and the middle east italy's already war and other evil states up to three hundred thousand refugees could we libya for decades one pillow that managed to i mean i pray any isolated world of its own accord with all these lives and no one was afraid to leave their doors all . five something changed and the biggest wave of refugees may still be out there with no one this tiny island but the entire continent it was just a lot more like it was italy. a great show doesn't already from the danged institute for international studies says the 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. the prospect of massive immigration has always been

europe's wars tonight. in real terms it has never been substantial we have always been below thirty thousand. possible entries every year. clearly the overthrow of the governments poses a whole different set of issues and what europe will be able to do it depends on the ability of actually called the meeting among some of the governments that are most affected i mean imagine if in two months time coral gadhafi is not overthrown i mean business cannot proceed as usual after this so something will have to be done. we are in a few minutes here on r.t. there doesn't have to be only one the fourteen sochi winter olympics will have three mascots chosen by russians and a country wide poll stay with us three characters close also still to come. so we pony up the cash then after right on the hot but the back seat part of take the

wheel. yes americans are baffled by obama's new space program which they feel has the reins to russians in a race to the planet's. stories to overcome but first julian assange must be extradited to sweden over sex assault charges that's the verdict made by a u.k. charge earlier this week we can expand it says he will appeal the decision as the court had failed to even consider the details of the allegations and charges called the whole hearing a rubber stamping process parties can forward gives us the background. when julian assange emerged less than we've year ago with this video. showing u.s. troops going down unarmed civilians and two reuters journalists video games he was not 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 in more keeps their management from going through understand how the world actually works. in the fourth to get information about the real world. but we need sources who can get. through to the public a nomadic computer expert with the cache of two hundred fifty thousand classified cables assigned catapulted to the front page of virtually every newspaper in the country 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 a soft spoken as if there's the potential to radically reshape the geo political landscape by the people as time's man of the year our commitment to our sources is

not just to protect. it's not just to publish material 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 have been. allegations of sexual misconduct by two swedish women infighting within wiki leaks freezing fake accounts told the nation particularly the obama administration and the cia they want to stop wiki leaks they're doing all. sorts of extraordinary actions start being paid. pay pal master card and other are 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 demeaning demeaning. obviously it's the u.s. government which is really to get him makes no bones about it their knowledge of

the past made a newspaper that once eagerly used his leaks initial impressions are going to. send in a list say assigned and wiki leaks have been effectively neutral or consumed by litigation rather than leaks i think what the american government wants is to have mr assigned in custody so that ultimately he can be extradited to the united states to face charges for the release of those documents or 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 as we know as charges and even the death penalty as a science bases jail time a future of wiki leaks hangs in the balance and its ability to be a place for whistleblowers and it beacon of transparency here in fort r.t. but in the d.c. care a button a member of the european parliament for the u.k. independence party says the decision to send the we could leaks founder to sweden

is symptomatic of a flawed system. what mr sands price does is illustrates the fundamental problems with the european restaurant which i've been talking about now over since it 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 guests in our country because they are not simply not allowed to look at the prime of her she had been in case like this and take into account it's what the lawyer called to what 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 kidnapping alison 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're going to 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 been 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 by the way there's also plenty of other news and features on our website it's all our teeth dot com in addition to what you see here on screen let's have a look at what's online for you right now future for find out about an ambitious plan to upgrade the country's military and equally impressive price tag attached also. a very different but equally powerful weapon discovered in exhibits which explores the art and science behind the perfect chips. this week america's longest serving space shuttle discovery has lifted off for the

last time after a quarter of a century in service the spacecraft will be pushed into retirement on saturday the shuttle got to the international space station delivering cargo and scientific equipment upon its return to earth it will be furled off to a museum where it will soon be joined by its sister ships and atlantis it would effectively end the u.s. space flight until a new craft introduced in ten years. he's going to check on fun of 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 very. good i can even estimate exactly no long 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. but doesn't sit well with many americans how could this how. we could make it to the moon earth to build this wonderful equipment and then. and now we're 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 bit clyde revealed itself in comments by some american lawmakers astronaut scientists and former nasa official comedians in the u.s. did not miss out on poking fun at american sense of pride so reporting the cash but have the right on the hope of the backseat all the risk is take the wheel. yes you know you're not going to let us touch the radio they won't let us eat snacks or

stop to use the bathroom should have gone before we left. use ok 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 of u.s. spacecraft after the two thousand and three space shuttle columbia disaster columbia exploded during re-entry into the earth seconds here all seven crew

members died shuttles track record includes another tragedy a nineteen eighty six the space shuttle challenger broke apart seventy three seconds into its flight yaar the russians so use proved to be the safest way to deliver people can 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 u.s. are saying space is no longer a place for competition it's now a ground for cooperation but the question remains if ever were here in the u.s. ready to fully accept it i'm going to take our. well it's time now for a brief update and some other stories from around the world and first to bolivia at least one hundred fifty homes have been destroyed by massive landslide in the

capital they have been no reports of deaths but the infrastructure has been damaged forty four people have been killed in the region in recent weeks due to heavy flooding and rains the country's president has declared a state of emergency and allocated twenty million dollars for rebuilding. number of people have been detained in china across the country gathered for so-called jasmine rallies demonstrations are organized on an online forum calling for a more accountable government organized as a kind of peaceful actually encourage people to stroll watch tend to pass by the rallies inspired by uprisings in the middle east and vastly outnumbered by security forces. 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 memorial services rescues in christchurch are working to clear wreckage from the city as officials warn that many buildings may have to be demolished the earthquake was new zealand's deadliest natural disaster in eighty years and is likely to become its worst ever. they say teamwork is the

linchpin of success in the russian public seems to agree on this having chosen not one but three mascots for sochi is twenty fourteen winter olympics competition is fierce but the snow leopard polar bear and a bunny all skate took the gold in the televised vote on saturday and that is dennis blotchy reports on these latest additions to the winter olympics like. these are the first winners of the store chilling pics from now on a snow leopard polar bear and hare have won through to become the official mascots of the two thousand and fourteen winter games a ray of light and a snowflake will represent the tara lympics yes it will be a three on the prize winning places in any sports around the second and third and the main model of the olympics is not it's not victory but with a separation there is some force and eleven and the each had their strong poor and 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 the competition to devise them was also a public outward recreate 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 mascot started with hundreds of ideas and you can see some of these drawings here in sochi olympic information center eventually it came down to this style ten rate here these are the methods that made it into the finals and one of the entries are two bears snarly apart for the frost and the mayor of sochi is personal favorite of the ethanol scheme despite their cuddly appearance become petition between damascus was almost as unplanned as moral and big old traditional russian characters like father crossed melted and big heat of battle and didn't make the point of cart not even

a make over with the latest winter sports where passion was enough to sweep a rather hip set of russians much of goodall's to victory will be olympics have only one winner 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 on the. last and peak of their popularity in two dozen fourteen you can of course were counting on commercial success with three years left on still be olympics sochi will now have to get used to three new beurre 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 their three winning best kids have a hard act to follow in matching the worldwide fame one by me shot their counterpart with the 1980's most of her lympics but still she will be hoping

they'll become just as loved and will love the bosky are so cheap. well i'll be back with a recap of this week's top stories in just a few moments here on our team night in moscow stay with us. all.

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