how would prince certain discipline the hotel in touch with the hotel who taught your group the coach of a good girl how would international flood achieve every green told. 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. also in the news this week as the turmoil in the region drives thousands of north africans from their homes calling on the e.u. to help me cope with waves of immigrants. that we're going to be extradited to sweden on six crimes allegations appealing to the song says the case is simply a pretext to get into the u.s. for a long. term america has its wings clipped with the last flight of discovery shuttles have to be decommissioned. new space program astronauts will have to rely on

russian spacecraft to take them into. back in a week's top stories in the latest developments this is r.t. in moscow the un security council has slapped sanctions on libya as need out mama 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 correspondent peter oliver is keeping a close developments in the region. the u.n. security council voted unanimously to impose sanctions on the get africa regime that will 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 there's 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 there's also been libyans trying to get out of the country as well one hundred thousand are believed to have fled across the border either into tunisia or here to egypt where i am now that many of the nations around the world being called 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 but out of here putin has

said this isa country libya should be allowed to determine its own future once this bloody violence has died down it was because today we know you were concerned about things happening in libya please know the following the north african soil 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 which the former leader of the iranian revolution with where did you live when he lived in paris and there's a whole he was supported by the western community he would get religion out of the entire western community fights against the u.k. a program i remember just recently our partners were very active in some of the democratic elections. palestinian autonomy and how much one would wish and immediately declared hamas a terrorist organization and started fighting against it we need to give people the chosen to see 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 gulf the regime now one such palace just outside of i would side of benghazi has become the command center the center of operations for the movement against the libyan government against colonel gadhafi and they've been discovering some interesting things is that in going through these palaces and not want them being guarded or 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 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 civilians were manning checkpoints looking it cars searching cars there

and checking identification papers now many of the citizens of tripoli have remained inside their homes locked indoors 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 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. he's peter all of a veteran political journalist anthony wiles 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 a 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 that they're voting for or approving and if you think that democracy which is supposedly what the u.s. is out there pushing and driving home for these people who need so much the philosophy of what they've developed and put together in in the u.s. for example take a look at what they're doing i mean building bases in hundreds of whole over a hundred different countries you know basically putting at the end of the 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 would want to. live in uprising a small fears that already high oil prices could skyrocket to levels never seen before reports that colonel gadhafi may sabotage the country's oil pipelines and added fuel to the car this week the barrel of the black gold approaching one hundred twenty dollars and it's a warning of significant economic threats if the under arrest spreads some experts but as far as suggesting oil prices could hit two hundred twenty dollars a barrel instead of being from foreign policy magazine says this is unlikely to develop. saudi arabia has gone around and quietly assured everyone we not only can add more violence to the market but we have added the following different that would create a situation in which prices would really skyrocket if another country when

our clients are huge loss and million barrels a day is offline from libya if algeria which is also having trouble or if it was our client that would bring saudi arabia right up to its capacity to to substitute the valley and then you would see i'm not sure two hundred twenty i think that's probably an analyst trying to get headline but but maybe one hundred fifty that that which is still pretty high and then well 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 countries out of their producer needing the government to declare a humanitarian emergency but easier piskun of reports of how locals a dealing with the situation there. eighty miles off the coast of north africa the tiny italian island of lampedusa has relied on fishing and tourism for its mean sources of income but for the first time in years the bolts on hold and

the mets are drawing. board there always are here we have been going out to sea for twenty days now since the recent uprising in tunisia the island has been flooded with refugees over five and a half thousand arrived in just two weeks sometimes up to three hundred refugees crammed on just one tiny fishing boat to make the perilous journey to the mediterranean. doesn't have already ground many of those who meted have nothing to lose turning local right here on its head with no money and no jobs they have already been cases of vandalism and theft. not to me we start to believe in the lights on at night they always wonder around and none of the locals ever used to lock their doors now that these people are here with a long comfortable due to its location lumpy doozies 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 historically a free nation and we want freedom of islam we want to live like a prophet told us and we'll leave books to live in an islamic state. most or herald 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 send four planes yesterday but on average two planes with refugees leave every day to crew turnley mari and pollute. 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 but 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 lump you know that manage through i mean i've plenty isolated world of its own accord with all these lives 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 before this tiny island but the entire continent you know what this is all for what you know about. italy. and probably 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 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 chord the 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. live from the russian capital coming up in a few minutes this hour doesn't have to be one twitter search you winter olympics will have free mascots chosen by russians in a country we're told stay with us to meet the characters up close also. so

we pony up the cash and then after right on the top of the back seat take the wheel . oh yes americans are baffled by the bombers new space program which they feel hands the reins to russians and the race to the planet's. story still to come first the founder of the we can exe website julian assange has to appear in a london court decision to extradite him to sweden on sex charges which were earlier dropped saying he won't get a fair trial he also believes the court proceedings in stockholm will bring him closer to prosecution in america in connection with the leak of a vast tranche of top secret u.s. diplomatic files what he's calling for ducks in the case and right many think it has more to do with politics than justice. when julian assange emerged less than a year ago with this video. showing u.s. troops getting down unarmed civilians in two reuters journalists video game style

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washington d.c. . general out of button a member of the european parliament for the u.k. independence party says the decision to send the we could expand it to sweden is symptomatic of a flawed system. what mr science cries does is illustrates the fundamental problems with the european restaurant which i've been talking about no decision was introduced in two thousand and four he's an australian citizen they want to action 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 course to protect its own citizens and guests in our country because they are not simply not allowed to look at the problem of facia evidence in the case like this and take into account it's what the lawyer called tip top justice and i would now so i've been signed now for some time that relation 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 allums is 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 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. by the way always plenty of other news and features on our web site r t v dot com in addition to what you see here on screen let's have a look at what's on live for you right now the future. find out about him and pushes him to upgrade russia's military and the impressive price tag attached. to a very different but equally powerful weapon discover an exhibit which explores the art and science behind the perfect kiss on one of our team dot com.

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 put into retirement on saturday the six member crew arrived at the international space station delivering cargo and scientific equipment upon its return to work and will be ferried off to a museum where it will soon be joined by its sister ships in the ever and atlantis you look at to be the end of u.s. space flight until you cross a reduced in ten years. he's got a judge can find out the loss isn't sitting 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 it's going to be the only means for people to reach the international space station which is perfectly fine with the leaders of russia and u.s. the. yes but this isn't sit well with many americans how could this happen we could make it to the moon ersten 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 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 me sound poking fun at american sense of pride so reportedly up the cash

then after right on the hope of the backseat take the wheel. yes you know you got to let us touch the radio they want to eat snacks or stuff 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 a two year grounding of u.s.

space craft 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 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 to space and now with the shuttle retiring it will be the only way we're no longer racing against an adversary we're no longer competing to achieve a singular goal like reaching the moment 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 comparable it's now a grounds for cooperation but apart from remains it's never worth hearing the words . that. are. time for

a brief update now and some other stories from around the world enough that they can believe your hundred fifty homes have been destroyed by a massive landslide in the capital have been no reports of deaths at 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 present even without its declared a state of emergency and located twenty eight million dollars for the building. in china a number of people are being detained across the country are gathering for the so-called jasmine rallies the demonstrations were organized on an online forum for more accountable government building ises a plan of peaceful action and encouraged people to stroll watch or pretend to pass by the rallies and uprisings in the middle east have been 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 dead at memorial service and rescuers in christchurch are working to clear the wreckage from the city as officials warn that

many buildings may have to be demolished we have great was new zealand thirdly its natural disaster in eighty years and is likely to become its worst ever. well they say teamwork is the lynchpin of success and the russian public seems to agree having chose not one but three mascots for sochi twenty fourteen winter olympics competition was fierce but a snow leopard a polar bear and bear on skates to be called in the televised vote on saturday in his blog reports on these latest additions to the winter games lineup. these are the first winners of the four children pics from now on a snow leopard a poor bear and a hare have won through to become the official mascot of the two thousand and fourteen winter games a ray of light and a snowflake will represent the paralympics and yes they will be a three on the prize winning places in any sport sunburns first second and third and the main model will be lympics is that it's not victory but participation there is some balls and

a leopard the hand of their each have their strong points and 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 become petition to devise them was also a public outward 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 mascot started with hundreds of ideas and you can see some of these drawings here in sochi and we can permissions that are essentially a games out of this star ten rate here these are the methods that made it into the fryer notes and on the entries are two bears snarly acquired for the frost and they were absolute cheese personal favorite of the open on skis despite their carly appearance the competition between damascus was almost as intense as for olympic gold traditional russian characters like father crossed melted in the heat of

battle and didn't make a point of cart not even it may call her with the latest winter sports where fashion was enough to sweep her rather hips out of russia and much russia goodall's victory will be olympics have only one winner become petition organizers for the mascot settled on three nil doubt with a nyquil commercial possibilities to see who's doing the breath you can journey is ahead for all the symbols chosen for the games they're just making their first steps in the. the peak of their popularity in two thousand and fourteen and of course we're counting on commercial success with three years left until the olympics so she 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 you home at the local wildlife preserve the three winning best kids have a hard act to follow in matching the worldwide flame won by misha their counterpart

for the 1980's moscow lympics but still she will be hoping they will become just as lot and will know this ball ski team sochi. i'll be back with a recap of this week's top stories in a few moments stay with us life here in moscow this is i want to. go. to. all.

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