the u.n. has imposed sanctions on libya as the violence 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 it's and he is calling on the e.u. to help it 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 into the u.s. for a quick trial. and america has its wings clipped for the last flight of discovery shuttles have to be decommissioned and under obama's new space program pastorals

will have to rely on russian spacecraft to take them into orbit. of a look back at the week's top stories and 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 one thousand people have been killed in almost two weeks of the uprising against the regime. all over escaping across developments in the region. the u.n. security council voted unanimously to impose the sanctions on the kid after regime now 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 either into tunisia or here to egypt where i am now many of the nations around the world being called so suspending diplomatic ties with tripoli we heard today on sunday that france suspends 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 well prime minister vladimir putin has said

this the sick country libya should be allowed to determine its own future once this bloody violence has died down it was because today we saw you were concerned about things happening in libya please note the following the north african cell of al qaeda is also concerned about what is happening in libya do you think this is a coincidence because i'd like to go back in history a little bit with the former leader of the iranian revolution with where he lived but he lived in paris and there's a whole he was supported by the western community we will now the entire western community fights against the iranian nuclear program i remember just recently our partners were very active and signal to the democratic elections in. punished and you know what i mean and how much one wish and immediately declared how much a terrorist organization and started fighting against it we need to give people who chose to do them in the future themselves we need to give them an opportunity to take and 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 i would side of benghazi has become the the command center the center of operations for the movement against the libyan government the against colonel gadhafi and they've been cut discovering some interesting things as the been going through these palaces and that one and being guarded are discovered a bunker there was designed to withstand a unit 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 obviously in district about six kilometers outside of the the center of the capital and 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 his fall 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 chain is here 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 be killed so far. peter all of a very london based author and journalist afshin rattansi 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

a really 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 after being brought into a resolution united states of course is not a signatory to that resolutions are graphic it always hide out in washington escape an i.c.c. subpoena i think the americans and i don't know people like tony blair would be very very frightened of nicholas sarkozy or mr berlusconi of italy would be quite frightened about an i.c.c. trial because then then we could have the regime and people that are still supporting him in tripoli in their bunkers would 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 all of a string of e-mails eleven e-mail trail i don't think the americans or an under nora brussels would very much want that to come out in court you. they live in uprising as fault is it already high oil prices could skyrocket to levels and never seen before reports of colonel gadhafi may seventh the country's oil pipelines have added fuel to the fun this week and the barrel of the gold approaching one hundred twenty dollars and there's a warning of significant economic threats if the unrest spreads some experts went as far as suggesting prices could hit two hundred twenty dollars a barrel but steve levine from 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 following the difference that would create a situation in which prices would really skyrocket is there another country when

our lines are you lost a million barrels a day is our line from libya you know algeria which is also having trouble or would it front that would bring saudi arabia right up to its capacity to to substitute for volume then you would see i'm not sure two hundred twenty i think that's probably and trying to get headline but but maybe one hundred fifty. which is still pretty high. meanwhile there are fears italy could drill 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. reports and help locals are dealing with the situation. at eighty miles off because of north africa the tiny italian island of lampedusa has relied on fishing and tourism for its means sources of income for the first

time in years the balls on hold and then there are dry but that's because you can't work there always are here we haven't gone out to sea for twenty days now since the recent uprising in tunisia has been flooded with work we g.'s over five and a half thousand arrived in just two weeks sometimes up to three hundred refugees want just one tiny fishing boat to make the perilous journey to the mediterranean. dozens have already brown many of those who meet it have nothing to lose. year on its head with no money and no jobs they have already been cases of. not to me who started leavin the lights on at night they always wonder ronde none of the locals ever used to lock their doors now that this people i'm here would 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 officials say identifying genuine cases is one of the biggest problems. that we are historically a free nation and we want feedom of islam we want to live like a prophet told us in holy books to live in an islamic state. most storehouse 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 around eight hundred people so under tight security hundreds of refugees are flown to the mainland each day. we sent four planes yesterday but on average two planes with refugees leave every day to crew tony mari and political leaders. italy and tunisia used to have an agreement under which most with the g.'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 warns other e.u. states up to three hundred thousand refugees could we leave me alone for decades once you know that managed to remain a tiny isolated world of its own level where he still lives and no one was afraid to leave the work on the wall five something changed and the biggest wave of refugees may still be out there on this tiny island but the entire continent you are the small force you want to go back. italy. and for british person ari 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 are prized 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 untruths 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 time coral gadhafi is not overthrown i mean business cannot proceed as usual after this so something will have to be done. or coming up in a few minutes there doesn't have to be only one. of the twenty four teams sochi winter olympics will have three mascots chosen by russians in a country wide poll stay with us to meet the characters up close also. so we

pony up the cash then after a while on the whole but the back seat take the wheel. oh yes americans are baffled by a bombers new space program which they feel and the reins to russians in a race to the planet. those stories told a kind of first two minutes must be extradited to sweden ever sex assault charges that's the verdict made by a u.k. charge earlier this week the wiki leaks founder says he will appeal the decision as the court had failed to even consider the details of the allegations assange has called the whole hearing a rubber stamping process he's coming forward gives us the background. when julian assange emerged let's leave year ago with this video. showing u.s. troops gunning down unarmed civilians in two reuters journalists video games he was

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shirts to pay his legal bills who profits from demeaning demeaning. asli it's the u.s. government which is really. makes no bones about it thrown under the bus by the newspaper that once eagerly used his leaks initial impressions are going to. stand up some red flags some 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 u.k. court ruled that julian assange should be extradited to sweden but his attorneys say even next stop for the thirty nine year old computer programmer could be here in the united states where science could pay for espionage 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 here in fort r.t.

but in fifty. a london court a move to extradite assange to a spot of criticism of the british judicial system the country known to grant asylum to many fugitive criminals some say the case is an example of the u.k.'s hypocrisy 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 the mean because we want them in with their money and therefore it's not particularly that russian not minutes and only got so well compere out of shakes. who may have a jew be a criminal record as it were of torture yet they were allowed to fly around london and knightsbridge bayswater wherever and no problem whatsoever. by the way there's also plenty of other news and features on our website r.t. dot com in addition to what you see on screen that's a quick look at what's online there for you right now future for spying 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 discover an exhibit which explores the art and science behind the perfect kit. this week america's longest serving space shuttle discovery has lifted off for the last time after a quarter of a century and service the spacecraft will be put into retirement on saturday the shuttle docked at the international space station delivering cargo and scientific equipment on its return to worth it will be ferried off to a museum very soon be joined by its sister ships endeavor and atlantis will effectively be the end of the u.s. space flight until the new crop introduced in ten years and as our team is going to

touch can 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. 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 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 us but doesn't sit well with many americans how could this happen we could make it to the moon earth to build

this wonderful equipment and then. and now we're were reduced to being passengers on a russian ship and that's that's sort of it it's zero zero going to right thing one big 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 we pulled me up the cash but after right on the hope of the backseat take the wheel. yes you know you got to lose touch the radio there were letters each snacks or stop to use the bathroom should have gone before we 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 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 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's atmosphere all seven crew members died shuttles track record includes another tragedy in one thousand nine hundred six the space shuttle challenger broke apart seventy three seconds into its right. it 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 is long since become a global collaboration the leaders of both russia and the west are saying space is no longer a place it's now a ground operation but the question remains here in the us except that. our. time now for a brief update on some other stories from around the world at the start of the day the world updates in bolivia at least one hundred fifty homes have been destroyed by a massive landslide in the capital of powers 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 evo morales is declared a state of emergency and allocated twenty million dollars for rebuilding. people are being detained in china people across the country out of the so-called jasmine rallies and demonstrations are organized on the online forum on the corner for more

accountable government as a kind of peaceful action and encourage people to stroll. past by and uprising in the middle east i think 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 day that memorial services rescues in christchurch are working to clear wreckage from the city as officials warn that many buildings may have to be the knowledge of great this new zealand's deadliest natural disaster in eighty years and is likely to become its one stone. 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 but a slow leopard polar bear and a bunny on skates took the gold in the televised vote on saturday and he's done a lot of good reports on these latest additions to the winter games lineup. these

are the first winners of the sochi olympics from now on a snow leopard a polar bear and a hare has won through to become the official mascot of the two thousand and fourteen winter games a ray of light and no weight will represent the paralympics and he is the we have thrown the prize winning places and the least will soon first second and third and the main model will be linux is that it's not victory because it's a patient it is important the leopard be here and the band can be a strong points that's why i think creating a teen 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 be creations are the result of a nationwide competition launched last year with ideas submitted to a special website and brochures artists amateurs and professionals a wife rushed 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 europeans out of this top ten rate here these are the meskins that made it into the finals and one of the entries are two bears snarly acquired for the frost and they have so cheese personal favorite address in all skeet despite their cobley appearance a competition between damascus was almost as intense business for olympic gold traditional russian characters like father crossed melted in the heat of battle and didn't make the point of cart not even the make over with the latest winter sports where fashion was enough to sweep a rather hip set of russians much rush goodall's to victory will be olympic several rewound winter the competition organizers for the mascot circle con three will go out with a night to commercial possibilities to see who's doing the breathtaking journey is ahead for all the symbols chosen for the games they're just making their first

steps on the. last of the peak of their popularity in two thousand and fourteen you can of course was counting on commercial success with three years left on still be olympics sochi will now have to get used to three new theory honorary citizens at least one of them is no stranger to the southern russian city as for real snow leopards have recently found a new home at the local wildlife preserve the three winning best kids have a hard act to fall in matching the worldwide fame won by misha their counterpart with the 1980's more schoolin picks but still she will be hoping they'll become just as large and well known. as bosky are seen sochi. will be back with a recap of this week's top story that's in just a few minutes stay with us live here in moscow.

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