in israel. 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 a turmoil in the region it drives thousands of north africans from their homes italy is calling on the e.u. to help it cope with waves of immigrants and. the wiki leaks founder is it should be extradited to sweden on sex crimes allegations appealing the ruling julian assange says the case is simply a pretext to get him to the u.s. for a trial. and america has its wings clipped with the last flight of the discovery the shuttles are to be commissioned soon and under obama's new space program astronauts

will have to rely on the russian spacecraft to take them into orbit. broadcasting around the world from our studios in central moscow this is r.t. the u.n. security council has unanimously agreed sanctions against the libyan leader moammar gadhafi and his loyalists and has ordered an investigation into possible crimes against humanity after attacks on protesters opposed to the regime over a thousand have died in nearly two weeks of unrest procrit often groups have been confronting rebels and now in control of large areas of the country including that the city of zawiya thirty miles west of the capital tripoli the opposition wanting to end could out these forty one year rule have appointed former justice minister

mustafa abdel julio to head a provisional government he has expressed frustration at the lack of support from other nations as good off these forces attempt to suppress the popular uprising was a brutal violence more than one hundred thousand people have fled to neighboring country. in the turmoil along with many foreign nationals correspondent peter oliver is following developments from that story. 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 and asset freeze on khadafi on 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 are believed to have fled across the border either into cheers here 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 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 well prime minister but out of here putin has said this country libya should be allowed to determine its own future once this bloody violence has died down it was because. you were concerned about things happening in libya please note the following the north african so of al-qaeda is

also concerned about what is happening in libya do you think this is a coincidence but i'd like to go back in history a little bittersweet the former leader of the iranian revolution where did you live but he lived in paris and there's a whole he was supported by the western community you would enjoy it now. the entire western community fights against the iranian nuclear program i remember just recently our partners were very active and said no to the democratic elections in the published and you know for me and hamas won and immediately declared how much a terrorist organization and started fighting against it we need to give people have chosen to 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 outside of benghazi has become the command center of the center of operations for the movement against the libyan government against colonel gadhafi and they've been cut

discovering some interesting things as the been going through these palaces and that one them being guarded or discovered a bunker it was designed to withstand a you know an attack not a 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 slim 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 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 zawiya as fall in to the

opposition forces now this violence in libya has been the bloodiest across the region we've seen revolution here in egypt where i am and she 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. are these people peter oliver reporting for us from cairo now a london based author and a journalist afshin rattansi says western powers are being driven by their own interests in fueling the uprising in libya i have spoken to dissidents here in london some of whom have been rudeness lee 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 they're interested in is the oil it's very interesting that the international criminal court after being brought into to the resolution united states of course is not a signatory to that resolutions or give up we could always hide out in washington a stable eighty three subpoena i think the americans and i don't know people like tony blair would be very very frightened of nicolas sarkozy or with the berlusconi of italy would be quite frightened about my 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 there are a string of e-mail that have an e-mail trail i don't think the americans or london or brussels would very much want that to come out in court you. and as unrest to

grips in the middle east are fears spread that oil prices could keep rising even further reports that colonel gadhafi could it sabotage his country's oil pipelines have fanned the flames of concern this week with prices hitting their highest level in two years there are major concerns of the global economic consequences if unrest hits other top oil producers in the region some analysts claim prices could rocket as far as two hundred twenty u.s. dollars per barrel analyst a man a share talking a warns of that nearly the fear of more on rest spreading could drive up oil prices people in the financial markets have a fear they look not at the present time dr there is still separation oil in the immediate rainy and basin that say but they fear that this might expand and there would be disruption etc etc and a thing in a few weeks not a few months ahead and if you're for that is what has caused the price go up i think the basic behind it is defeated that there would be

a disruption of the supply of oil and so people who are in that market. and take positions for higher prices in order to cover themselves they provide paging and if it is only confined to stop him from libya they're all industry the world market can manage it with a he can't be the difficulty of. disruption for a few weeks or maybe a month or two and in the europe italy fears being swept under a wave of illegal immigrants fleeing instability in the middle east the italian government has declared a humanitarian emergency as thousands of refugees from it's a former colony libya and other parts of north africa have landed on the island of lampedusa from where r.t.c. toward peace reports. it's eighty miles off the coast of north africa the tiny italian island of what it was a has relied on fishing and tourism for its main sources of income for the first time in years the boats or harbor have been that's are drawing. the best of us you

can't board it always out here we haven't gone out to sea for twenty days now since the recent uprising in tunisia the island has been flooded with way fiji's over five and a half thousand arrived in just two weeks sometimes up to three hundred refugees but grab on just one tiny pushing boat to make the perilous journey to the mediterranean island doesn't have already brown medial bills for me to have nothing to lose turning local right here on its head with no money and no jobs they have already been cases of bad bill ism and that nothing in it was started leaving the lights on at night they always wonder ronde none of the locals ever used to lock their doors now that this people on here would feel uncomfortable due to its location one people's he's familiar with refugees but remember so many in such

a short period of time and with many voices strong beliefs official say identifying the way he says is one of the biggest problems. that. we are historically a free nation and we want feed and physically that we want to live like a prophet told us and who leave much to live in an islamic state you know i did most of our house at this refugee center where they were provided with food water clothes and medical aid all financed from the state budget is designed to house only eight hundred people so under tight security hundreds of iraqis are flown to the mainland if they see how many people are going to the gulf and we sent four planes yesterday but on average two planes with very few g.'s leave every day it's . tony mari and a little. 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. could while it is continuing to spread in both north africa and the middle east it is already warned other eve state up to three hundred thousand refugees what we libya a little four decades limpid those are managed to i mean i've heard any isolated world of its own political when called peaceful lives and no one was afraid to leave before the five some peace and the biggest wave of refugees may still be out there but not this tiny island but the entire continent you've got this little or you know italy. fabrizio tussin ali from the danish institute for international studies says political change in the middle east affects europe much more than just illegal immigration and even before these. things the prospect of

massive immigration has always been europe's wars tonight and 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 cordy 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 but. coming up in a few minutes who says there are only has to be one. the two thousand and fourteen sochi winter olympics we'll have a free mascots chosen by russians in a country wide all stay with us to meet up with the characters plus also.

so the pony up the cash but after a while on the hope of the back seat all the risk is take the wheel job. this americans are baffled by obama's new space program which they feel hands to brings to russians in the race to find. the founder of the wiki leaks website julian assange is to appeal 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 a vast leak of top secret u.s. diplomatic files archies kalen ford looks at the case and why 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 going down unarmed civilians in two reuters journalists video games he was

lauded as a hero of transparency. in anti-war ally human rights defender r.t. america interviewed on the day of collateral murders release what keeps people in war keeps the civilization going through understand how the world actually works. in the fourth is to get information out about the real world and the second is the comment on it and to think about but we need sources that can get. out of the public eye no magic computer expert in the cache of two hundred fifty thousand classified. capital data is the front page of virtually every newspaper in the country working with wiki leaks wiki leaks wiki leaks wiki leaks to his photos julius is a cyber terrorist in wartime he's guilty of sabotage espionage crimes against

humanity he should be killed but to his fans a soft spoken after this with a 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 and we've never lost it's not just to publish the material it is to get the maximum political impact possible. today if the political impact of the leaker and not the leaks that has gripped. allegations of sexual misconduct by two swedish women infighting within wiki leaks frozen bank accounts stone the nation particularly the obama administration and the cia they want to start with the leaks they're doing. all sorts of extraordinary actions stop being paid or leaning on pay pal master card and other private corporations to to allow donations to be made to wiki leaks the once heroic figure now hawking mugs bumper stickers and t.

shirts to pay his legal bills who profits from the meaning of meaning. obviously it's the us government which is really out to get him makes no bones about it thrown into the past by the newspaper that once eagerly used his leaks initial impressions of. set up some red flags some analysts say assigned and wiki leaks have been effectively neutral or consumed by litigation rather than leaks i think would be american government wants us to have mr assad in custody so that ultimately he can be extradited to the united states to face charges for the release of those documents you can't court rule that julian assange should be extradited to sweden but his attorneys say the next stop for the thirty nine year old computer programmer could be here in the united states. espionage charges and even the death penalty as 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 and ford r.t.

washington d.c. . a member of the european parliament for the u.k. independence party says that the decision to send the we can leaks founder to sweden is symptomatic of a flawed system. what was the sound of christ does this illustrates the fundamental problems with the european restaurant which i've been talking about now ever since it was introduced in two thousand and four he's an australian citizen i want to actually write to sweden but this affects every british citizen and anyone who's a guest in our country and what it does it removes the fundamental rights of the english courts to protect its own citizens and guests in our country because they are not simply not allowed to look at the problem of. 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 extradition which is now called judicial surrender has been reduced through bureaucratic formality and now i'm saying that it's actually nothing better than legalized kidnapping going on that's been going on for

months and i haven't figured out what the charges are you an interesting thought and 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 it's going to be done in a secret hearing which is absolutely astounding this week america's longest serving space shuttle discovery has docked with the international space station on its last ever mission after almost thirty years in service to the spacecraft to be retired and put out to pasture in a museum on saturday and six member crew delivered supplies and the first humanoid robot to fly in space all together there are now twelve people on board the space craft representing the u.s. russia and italy discovery's sister ships and devore and atlantis are scheduled for their final of wages within six months marking the end of the manned u.s. spacecraft until the next generation fleet is ready in around ten years time but

archie's. found out that not everyone is happy in america with the new space program. by the end of the year of 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 agree that i can 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 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 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 a wounded pride thing one day 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 pony up the cash but after a ride on the hope of the backseat welcome take the wheel. yes you know you got 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. us 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 were 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 path 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 shuttle's track record includes another tragedy a nineteen eighty 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 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 us are saying space before a longer a place more comparable for its now a ground operation with the remains clear of the ones. that are going to take our. let's take a look at some other headlines from of the around the world right now. a massive landslide in the bolivian capital pi's has swept away at least one hundred fifty homes there have been no reported deaths but there's been widespread structural damage across an entire neighborhood in the mountain city president avril moralities declared a state of emergency to cope with the flooding and landslides damage that's hit much of the country and killed forty four in recent weeks. several people including

bystanders have been arrested in china as so-called jasmine rallies took place across the country for the second sunday in a row the demonstrations were organized anonymously online to call for more accountable government organizers have urged peaceful action and encouraged people to stroll watch was a chance to pass by one rally was however the first by squads of policemen with dogs and members of the people's police a provision of the army international police will warn you not to conduct interviews without prior permission of several he slots to a photo site in beijing this morning. the death toll from the earthquake in new zealand has reached one hundred forty seven with more than two hundred people still missing the moral services across the country have been remembering the day rescuers in christchurch are working to clear wreckage from the city as officials warn that many buildings may have even knowledged the earthquake is thought to be new zealand's worst ever natural disaster. they say

that teamwork is the lynchpin of success and the russian public seems to agree having chosen not one but three mascots for so she's two thousand and fourteen winter olympics competition was fierce but a snow leopard polar bear and a bunny on skates took the gold in the televised vote on saturday he's dense blonsky reports on these latest additions to the winter games lineup. these are the first winners of the still chilling pics from now on the snow leopard the polar bear and hare has gone through to become the official mascots of the two thousand and fourteen winter games a ray of light and a snowflake would represent the paralympics he is the minister through on the prize winning of places early school surround second and third and the main motorcycle to the olympics is not it's not very pretty what it was a super there is an awful lot of it with the leopard and the champ they're strong. that's why i think creating that scene was a smart choice award winners were selected by members of the public from across

russia and televised on saturday the competition to devise them was also the public eye for the creations are the result of a nationwide competition launched last year with ideas for the two a special website and brochures artists amateurs and professionals the 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 it came down to this top ten rate here these are the methods that made it into the finals and won the entries are two bears snarly acquired for frost and the mayor of sochi is personal favorite of finance. despite their cobley appearance the competition between damascus was almost as an plans as for olympic gold traditional russian characters like father crossed melted to them because you talked pavel and didn't make the final cart not even the make over with the latest

winter sports where fashion was enough to sweep a rather hip set of russians much to victory will be olympics have only one winner the competition organizers for the mascot circles gone three no doubt with nigel commercial possibilities to see who should do a breathtaking journey is ahead for all the series shows and really games they're just making their first steps in the. does he consider marley later she doesn't just teach because of course it was counting on commercial success that the three years left on still be olympics so she will now have to get used to three and he's very young already citizens at least one of them is no stranger to the southern russian city a for real snow leopards have recently found a new home at the local wildlife preserve the three winning best kids have a hard act to follow in matching the worldwide fame by misha the counterpart of the 1980's most grueling picks but soon she will be hoping she'll become just as lot of

well known. as bosky archie sochi. and i'm sure that michelle is happy to have some extra company now i'll be back with a recap of this week's top stories in just a few moments. of . the brand new trisha's and this is product on the price of healthy eating. we need

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