i would print certainly the splinter in tight you tell me touch your girl the peach of a good girl i would international house to change every green little chill into. 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 with thousands of north africans are fleeing from political upheaval italy has declared a humanitarian crisis as refugees flock who it shores. the founder of the wiki leaks website julian assange is to appeal a london court decision to extradite him to sweden he says he won't get a fair trial in a process he believes is intended to ultimately get him to america to face prosecution over a vast leak of u.s. diplomatic files. and america says goodbye to discovery as the spacecraft

performs its last ever mission before nasa retires its route three remaining shuttles later this year american astronauts will now have to rely on russian rockets to take them into orbit before the next generation of spacecraft is ready. for moscow bringing you the top news and the top stories from the past week and this is our team the u.n. security council has unanimously agreed for sanctions against 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 off the groups have been confronting rebels. now in control of large areas of the country including the city

of zawiya fifty kilometers west of the capital tripoli where opposition forces have tanks and anti-aircraft missiles the opposition wanting to cut off these forty one year rule have appointed a former justice minister mustafa abdel jalil to head a provisional government he's expressed frustration at the lack of support from other nations as could offer his forces attempt to suppress the popular uprising with brutal violence more than one hundred thousand people have fled to neighboring countries in the turmoil along with many foreign nationals but he's correspondent peter oliver is the following developments from next door in egypt the u.n. security council voted unanimously to impose these sanctions on the gadhafi regime and they'll take the form of a travel ban against colonel gadhafi himself as well as others close to him an acid free zone khadafi on is in a circle a sixteen names on this list there's 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 come tames 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 into tunisia or here to egypt where i am now many of the nations around the world have been 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 taken care of french citizens until the french government can work out a way to get them out of the country. minister vladimir putin has said that the

sick country in libya should be allowed to determine its own future once this bloody violence has died down it was given today we know you were concerned about things happening in libya please know the following the north african cell of al qaeda is also concerned so what is happening in libya do you think this is a coincidence because i'd like to go back in history a little bit quickly the former leader of the iranian revolution with where he lived because he lived in paris and there's a whole he was supported by the western community you would get religion out of the entire western community fights against the iranian nuclear program i remember just recently our partners were very active in signal to their democratic elections in the palestinian autonomy and how much one bush and immediately they declared him as a terrorist organization and started fighting against it we need to give people a vision was new to them in the future themselves we need to give them an opportunity to take the natural 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 get out of the regime now one such palace just outside of outside 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 cut discovering some interesting things that been going through these palaces and that one in being guarded are discovered a bunker there is designed to withstand a that an attack on 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 abu salim district about six kilometers outside of the center of the capital civilians were manning checkpoints looking at cars searching cars. they're checking identification papers now many of the citizens of tripoli

have remained inside their homes locked in doors scared of these these armed militia that are patrolling the streets there with the latest reports that we do have suggests there are just fifty kilometers outside of tripoli the city of his fall in it to the opposition forces now this violence in libya has been the bloodiest across the region we've seen revolution here in egypt where i am and also violence in other arab states and north african states now the. violence here though far surpassing anything that we've seen elsewhere at least one thousand people believed to have been killed so far london based author and journalist rattansi says western powers are being driven by their own interests in fueling the uprising in libya. i have supported the 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 under cover the western powers are not interested in democracy in libya what they're interested in now is the oil it's very interesting that the international criminal court after being brought in due to their resolution united states of course is not a signatory to the resolutions or get african 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 or nicolas sarkozy or mr berlusconi of italy would be quite frightened about an i.c.c. trial because then then we get our fear regime and the people that are still supporting him in tripoli in their bunkers will be able to tell all 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 brussels would very much want that to come out in court you. unrest grips in the middle east fears spread that oil prices could keep rising even further reports that colonel gadhafi could 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 global economic consequences if unrest it's other top oil producers in the region some analysts claim prices could rocket as far as two hundred twenty u.s. dollars per barrel analysts manage shared tarkan warns that merely the fear of more unrest spreading could drive oil prices are. people in the financial markets have a fear they look not either prison try and there is still separation oil in the mediterranean basin that say but they fear that this might expand and there will be

destruction etc etc and the thing you did 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 will be a destruction of the satellite of oil and so people who are in that market a bit and take positions for higher prices in order to cover themselves they provide pages and if it is only confined to disruption from libya they're all industry the world market can manage it with a he can't be the difficulty of. destruction for a few weeks or maybe a month or two and in europe italy fears of being swept under by a wave of illegal immigrants fleeing instability in the middle east the italian government has declared a humanitarian emergency as thousands of refugees from its former colony libya and other parts of north africa have landed on the island of lampedusa from this is where excuse me this is where are you going to piece going off reports. eighty

miles off the course 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 bolts are in harbor and the mets are dry but that's because we can't work they're always out here we haven't gone out to sea for twenty days now since the recent uprising in tunisia the island has been flooded with with the g.'s over five and a half thousand arrived in just two weeks sometimes up to three hundred refugees but credible just one tiny fishing boat to make the perilous journey to the mediterranean island doesn't so 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 battle ism and theft nothing will start to believe in

the lights on at night they always wonder ronde none of the locals ever used to look their doors and now that this people i'm here with will uncomfortable due to its location one people who is familiar with refugees but never saw me in such a short period of time and with many voicing strong beliefs official say identifying again when he says he's 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 holy books to live in an islamic state. most are heralds 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 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 totally mari and pollute. italy and tunisia used to have an agreement under which malls with fiji's were intercepted before even reaching the island but now that the government. has been overthrown the floodgates have opened i put violence continuing to spread in both north africa and the middle east already warns other e.u. states up to three hundred thousand refugees could we leave me alone for decades limpid those are managed to remain a tiny isolated world of its own little with. the slums and no one was afraid to leave their doors all the time some chiefs and the biggest wave of refugees may still be out there before this tiny island but the entire continent you're still on board you want to do about italy fabrizio tasa not even from the danish

institute for international studies says that political change in the middle east affects europe much more than just illegal immigration. even before all these. things 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 cordy needing among some of the government stood are most affected i mean imagine if in true months time coral gadhafi is not overthrown i mean business cannot proceed as usual after this something will have to be done. coming up in a few minutes there doesn't have to be only one. to two thousand and fourteen sochi

winter olympics will have three mascots chosen by russians in a country wide stay with us to meet the characters our clubs also. so we pony up the cash then after right on the hope of the back seat bottle brewskis take the wheel. yes americans are baffled by obama's new space program which they feel the hands of the reins to russians in the race to the planets. the founder of the wiki leaks website to join a songes 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 archy's killen ford looks at a 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 gunning down unarmed civilians and two reuters journalists video games he was lauded as a hero of transparency. and anti-war ally and human rights defender r.t. america interviewed a sign on the day of collateral murders release and what keeps people almost more keeps the management of civilization going to understand how the world actually works. in the form of use to get information out about the real world and if they can focus their common problem to think. sources can get. out of the public eye nomadic computer expert with a cache of two hundred fifty thousand classified cables assigned catapulted to the

front page of virtually every newspaper in the country within weeks wiki leaks wiki leaks wiki leaks wiki leaks to his foes is a cyber terrorist and war time he's guilty of sabotage espionage crimes against humanity he should be killed but to his stance a soft spoken activist with the potential to radically reshape the geo political landscape voted by the people as time's man of the year our commitment to our sources is not just to protect the never lost it's not just published material used to get the maximum political impact possible but it's our city it's the political impact of the leaker and not the leaks that has gripped heavily. allegations of sexual misconduct by two swedish women infighting within wiki leaks frozen bank accounts stalled donations particularly obama administration and the cia they want to start with the leagues they're doing ah. sort of extraordinary

action star been. leaning on pay pal master card and other private corporations to allow donations to be made to wiki leaks but once heroic figure now hawking mugs bumper stickers and t. shirts to take his legal bills who profits from the meaning of meaning. obviously it's the u.s. government which is really out to get him makes no bones about it thrown into the past by the newspaper that once eagerly uses leaks from those who. send in a say assigned and wiki leaks have been effectively neutralized 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 i 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. espionage charges and even the death penalty as a science faces jail time the future of wiki leaks hangs in the balance and its ability to be a place for whistleblowers and it beacon of transparency and ford are washington d.c. . a member of the european parliament for the u.k. independence party says that the decision to send the wiki leaks founder to sweden is symptomatic of a flawed system. sounds price does illustrates the fundamental problems with the european restaurant which are been talking about nobody since it was introduced in two thousand and four he's an australian citizen you want to actually go 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 problem of facie evidence in a 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 vision which is now called judicial surrender been reduced to a bureaucratic formality and now i'm saying that it's actually nothing better than legalized kidnapping how long it's been 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 don't 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 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 the spacecraft had 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 after getting there are now twelve people on board the spacecraft representing the u.s.

and russia and italy discovery's sister ships endeavor and atlantis are scheduled for their final voyages within six months marking the end of manned u.s. based craft until the next generation fleet is ready in around ten years time but argues you can't found out that not everyone is happy in america with the new space program. by the end of this year nasa will no longer be able to send humans into space according to obama's plane 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 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 klyde revealed itself in comments by some american lawmakers astronaut scientists and former nasa officials comedians in the u.s. did not miss out on poking fun at american sense of pride so we pony up the cash but after a ride on the hope of the backseat all the risk is take the wheel. yes you know you got to lose touch the radio they want to eat 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 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 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 a nine hundred eighty six the space shuttle challenger broke apart seventy three

seconds into its flight with. the russians so use proved to be the safest way to deliver people constraints and now with the shuttle 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 us are saying straits we're a longer a place for comparable for it's now a ground for cooperation across the remains if ever wanted here in the west ready to pull the except that i want us to take our cool washington d.c. let's take a look at some other headlines from around the world a massive landslide in the bolivian capital look pas 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 evo morales 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 had urged a peaceful action and encouraged people to stall watch or pretend to pass by one rally was however dispersed by squads of policemen with dogs and members of the people's armed police a division of the army international reporters were warned not to conduct interviews without prior permission several he flocked to a protest site in beijing swarming with police were arrested. the death toll from the earthquake in new zealand has reached one hundred forty seven with more than two hundred people still missing from the oil services across the country have been remembering the dead rescuers in christ church are working to clear wreckage from

the city as officials warn that many buildings may have to be demolished the earthquake is thought to be in new zealand that worst ever natural disaster. tunisian prime minister mohammad has resigned something to stop the violent new protests in the country his retirement wasn't like he demanded. the demonstrators as she was seen as too close to x. president ben ali was ousted last month at least five people were killed in the latest clashes between hundreds of protesters and security forces in tunis on saturday another former government minister has been named as the new premier. they say teamwork is the lynchpin of success and the russian public seems to agree having chosen not one but three mascots for sochi is 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. blonsky reports on these latest additions to the winter games lineup. these are the first winners

of the store chillin pics from now on a snow leopard a poor bear and a 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 paralympics he is there on the prize winning places in any sport so grand first second and third and the main moral of the olympics is that it's not victory but participation there is some balls and the leopard and the bear each have been strong. that's why i think creating the teen was a smart choice the winners were selected by members of the public perma cross russia in a phone booth televised on saturday the competition to devise them was also a public outward the creations are very salt of a nationwide competition launched last year with ideas submitted to a special website and brochures artists amateurs and professionals alike 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 methods that made it into the finals and one of the entries are two bears snarly appointed father frost and the mayor of sochi is personal favorite of the ethanol scheme despite their commonly appearance the competition between damascus was almost as unplanned as poor olympic gold traditional russian characters like father crossed melted and the heat of battle and didn't make the point all part not even the make over with the latest winter sports where passion was enough to sweep a rather hip set of russian dolls to victory will the 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's doing the breath and you can journey is ahead for all the symbols chosen for the games they're just making their

first steps on the. the peak of their popularity in two thousand and fourteen and of course we're counting on commercial success with three years left on still be olympics so she will now have to get used to three new furry honorary citizens at least one of them is no stranger to the southern russian city as for real snow leopard submissively 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 won by me shop their counterpart with the 1980's small school lympics but still she will be hoping they will become just as lot and will love the bosky art scene sochi and i'll be back with a recap of this week's top stories in just a few moments. renewed

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