it's so good. we're. just seeing. him. come out. the news that dominated the week here on r.g.p. a once in a century meteor hits the earth exploding with the force of more than twenty year russia bombs in a disguise of central russia leaving almost thirteen hundred people injured. fresh of violent clashes overshadowed time said talks in bahrain as police fired tear gas and hundreds of stone throwing activists pulling the true year anniversary of the start of and to government demonstrations. in red rag to the face of the

global community north korea's swats outraged by carrying out a third nuclear test by the un ban and international sanctions. a u.s. backed mass in the arab spring countries and nato's to do list in afghanistan r.t. takes a look at the global issues president obama wasn't keen to talk about during his much anticipated state of the union address. and news of the pope is to be the first head of the catholic church to step down in six centuries cool shot across the world the pontiff says that his health no longer permits him to fulfill his duties. it's a midday yeah in a mosque are you watching our tease of the weekly with me to bomb and say it's good

to have your company with us it was the media that became a huge media star and no one event that dominated the headlines at the end of this week shooting and slashing across the skies of central russia it's one of the only times a major of such a size has been captured coming to earth residents. took photo footage from every angle possible as it fell in the year rolls the guest star from space also stole the spotlight from an even bigger stride that made a record close approach to earth on friday which is you got a piece cannot has been tracking the shooting star. it was like a scene from a science fire movie but with one exception it was real first the brilliant flash this big bright like he was shining across the sky you know blinding brighter than

the sun the skies were lit up by a meteor streaking across the skies above the russian city of or want to have thousand kilometers east of moscow where not just unusual glaring flaws i thought of all lines from a cockpit then we went to the window saw the strange cloud and then and then this. way we turned around and the wall was gone and someone had moved it the series of massive explosions rocked the entire city damaging buildings and shattering windows . nasa said the explosive force of the media were breaking up was the equivalent of two one to hear oshima bombs over twelve hundred people were injured including over two hundred children mostly from pieces of shattered glass. the windows just exploded i saw one girl he then had and

a bring his hand we were told to quickly put all clothes on and ran outside and many were able to film the owner of the phenomenon later flooding the web with footage as rumors spread of what it might have been a stricken airplane a satellite that fell out of orbit even the beginning of the and of the world would mrs reported seeing fragments of the crashing all across the region. i saw a small can there was a weird smell but it was not a fire so i think it's a piece of meteorite and the small during them know however most of the sighting started out to be ordinary pete buck fires because so far officials have not found any fragments of the media or for now the immediate priority. to look after the injured and repair the damage to buildings especially the broken windows in schools and residential areas as temperatures at marriott's drop below minus fifteen celsius it's going to take time to clear everything out but for now science like this collapsed factory or a clear reminder no matter how advanced technology gets no days often when it comes

to meter we can only watch hopelessly and hope for the best. the area to witness a once in a lifetime event as it has become the biggest me today hit of the planet in a century basically there you can watch how it approach our planet the ten thousand ton fireball and to the atmosphere at the speed of twenty kilometers per second before igniting and finally breaking apart not such objects entering the atmosphere are relatively common but usually they don't make it to the surface instead burning up in the atmosphere it was of course of visible from at least four russian regions but it's made appearance was right here in chile she had been ski region where it was on the map you can see the areas that suffered the most from this a fiercely five hundred kilo ton explosion equivalent to more than twenty nuclear

bombs that's how big it was so today here with me is our cheese a postcard who's going to shed some much more needed light to end what's been going on around the world in terms of who's saying what. paul this has been a media frenzy this i mean the story when it when it went viral it went crazy went worldwide what do you make of it it's the story that has everything is there and it's because of these pictures these dramatic pictures that we can see here that has everything it's got the dramatic lights in the sky and it went worldwide it went global almost instantly it's the nature of modern news in the twenty first century you can see here some of the headlines from all over the globe because as t.v. . yes we love good dramatic we love drama we love good pictures and we love stories with human interest and something that's out of the ordinary this happens once every one hundred years we've got the pictures there's human interest angles to it has absolutely everything that's why from germany to the u.s. to south africa it was a truly global story to say you can see some of the headlines that made the world

the new york times on the screen now you know what's interesting is that it not only was the dramatic headlines they captured us as an audience but it was also how everybody used the smartphones and a social media to actually make fun of what was going on a sense of fun there's a sense of fun i think we're going to see some of the pictures and then you can talk through some of the i mean you know there you go there we go not every reason as we have a bruce willis there that however gathered you know that film that he did i don't even want to say what that is but you know they've killed everybody i mean everybody just taking just like kick out of everything and making this even older. to be taking a hit to add to the i have no idea what rightly say about that we can say you the truth he's a man of the outdoors very much so it look at these images these pictures that people have talked to date have gone viral instantly that's the nature of say twenty first century news and twitter was the way for eyewitnesses people who were

there on the scene who were witnessing those bright lights in the sky who were having their windows smashed who were seeing you know their house is literally rocked and they went to twitter as you can see here and again showing a slight sense of humor in that loss because of losing adversity in the face of travel minus seventeen in chile and others went on a slight meteor shower so there was a there was a sense of camaraderie and spirit in amongst the four regions that you've mentioned here as a people taking to twitter and that particular story and of course you're right some of yes even aged yes it did do you think that people would have taken the advantage to go out to the site and actually pick up some of the pieces that were thrown out by the meter. and sell them well we wouldn't have wanted out of the moment but in a very very shortly but the media itself talking about social networking staying with that for the second has its own twitter page as you can see here. you were talking about people selling pm buying pieces the meter has its own

twitter page as well so it's a truly all encompassing story you know there you go so every story literally become a star on its own here and. putting the fun you know to one side is really good that the people of chile have in school are able to you know see the the bright side of this of your friends despite twelve hundred people injured it could have been a lot worse i mean we can see the the image is that. it was the it was the shock wave that caused the damage could have been a lot worse because chile happens is a region that's known for its nuclear facilities there are dozens of nuclear facilities one in particular the my atomic waste storage and treatment center which is hard a catastrophe a couple of catastrophes in the past one hundred fifty seven there was one in particular an explosion and the fallout is still being felt from that so there was a real fear among residents in china be honest that this could have led to something but thankfully we have

a spokesman from also tom saying that. the levels of radiation are a normal level last time that a meteorite of the day scale collided with one also coincidentally had to be in russia happened to be in russia in nineteen zero eight it took a decade for research is to visit this area after nine hundred ten years later and the research was it wasn't found maybe it was that world war one of the civil war the russian revolution but whatever research was was discovered was lost along the way so the importance of friday's meteorite can't be underestimated let's hear from one of our i guess that we speak to you on our way asteroids come from and all kinds of fascinating things that will what happens next let's listen to this. question for the future must be could they be predicted. i would think with more satellite and space research you could get some sort of warming over all of these coming provided they can see the two most soon enough thing is there's

a lot lot of sky out there and the speed of this thing was it was goes. one on the whole of times round the world in an hour that's the speed it will go about it is going to strike law and so it's just really fast you see i mean even if it's some way away it's clearly very slowly in the sky then but the question is when a long way away they look very small but i mean that's an issue might be there should be an international effort to exactly scan the scars to prepare for things like this that's incredible all right well we'll leave it right there i'm sure a lot of people still be talking about this meteorite for it's another one so we have the absolutely. right here in the studio with me. in bahrain have been fresh clashes as police used tear gas against hundreds of

protesters armed with stones and firebombs this comes following the funeral of a teenager who was allegedly shot by going to these earlier this week during and. antigovernment and arrests in the country the violence is model week old talks between the mostly shiite muslim opposition and the sunni dominated government. demanding an end to legal families political domination but london based activists domini cover cap says there are a few signs the country's leaders generally one reform. we're looking at two years in which we've seen no reform we've seen nothing change i mean we started this uprising two years ago. and on that day the first martyr of the uprising was killed and now two years later on the same day forty two separate another teenager has been killed and this really shows and displays the lack of reform the continuous human rights abuses the continuous repression taking place on

the streets of bahrain it's good the dialogue has come back on the agenda and there is discussions happening but it seems that you know this latest latest escalation of the security against the people is going to possibly put dined in jeopardy within the ruling family i think of course there are those who simply want to please the international community to say look we're having this dialogue and there is not a great thing was continuing the violations on the streets. it's been exactly two years since libya was plunged into revolution chaos while the e.c. brought the change behavior their right. many libyans deprived of their homes and security claim there's no cause of jubilation that's off the shelf play.

technology innovation all the developments from around russia. because you have heard. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm sorry welcome to the big. news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. during operation through the day.

welcome back you're watching our north korea is reportedly preparing for more atomic tests and despite deep international ngo if they detonated a third nuclear device on tuesday described the move as an effort to shore up its national security and say you've got it so venti against what it called outrages us hostility the communist state is already laboring under heavy international sanctions and has been banned from any such activities by the un a country had previously carried out two atomic tests and is believed to possess a small stockpile of nuclear warheads the u.n. security council unanimously condemned to north korea's action and pledged to beef up sanctions against it asia based independent news editor james covered says the timing of the test raises many questions. really i think we fall into

a lot of diplomatic pressure on china to use its leverage with north korea and its environment. that officials in beijing must have known that this this was coming probably in the next few days and it certainly is it couldn't have happened at a worse time internationally speaking it's the lunar new year in china so basically the entire country is on holiday and in the u.s. you there is no confirmed secretary of defense or central intelligence director so it's a very interesting time because through that through into that the wild card of xi jinping we don't know much about him or how he's going to lead china and the fact that kim jong un is a relatively new leader as well you also have the new all big government in japan and there's a lot of wildcards in this mix to see how this is going to shake out but i think on the question of china specifically if they have a lot of pressure that they can put on north korea a new group takes center stage in egypt the street violence appealing to young focus doesn't encourage violent tactics or fears the so-called black bloc could end

up joining any possibility of a peaceful resolution to the country's political life that's coming up in a few minutes time. and the most important speech in the american political calendar president obama to get both lawmakers and the the electorate on side in the for a state of the union address since his read lection obama talked about the fate of arab spring countries and expensive plans to bring home troops from afghanistan his gannets which again has been listening to what the president had to say. in his state of the union speech president obama outlined some of the external threats that the country is facing first of all her spreading to different parts of the world for what he said although the u.s. is pulling troops out of afghanistan america's war on terror will continue to listen to this true different al qaeda affiliates and extremist groups have emerged from the orange ribbon peninsula to africa the threat these groups pose is evolving

. but to meet this threat we don't need to send tens of thousands of our sons and daughters abroad occupying other nations we will continue to take direct action against those terrorists who pose the greatest threat to americans although there was no mentioning of the word drones everyone knew that's what the president meant when saying direct with no us troops involved what he did not talk about was the limits for this war that they'd ministration his waging with the remote control the justification that the administration gave john brennan's words. don't punish people for past guilt strike before they take action that offers a very broad scope for the use of drones to afghanistan president obama wants to leave some troops on the ground perhaps twenty four thousand when they're supposed to be all out in the speech you mentioned ongoing negotiations with the afghan government on that issue and it's going to be a hard bargain because the afghan government wrists further spearing anger of their

own population over foreign military presence one could sense a change maybe even your concern as the president on the results of the revolution in the arab world he said it's quote unquote messy he said the u.s. cannot dictate the course of changing countries like very cautiously very briefly on syria there was a change of. remember how the u.s. was cheerleading for revolutions in those countries just a year ago with radical forces gaining momentum in places like syria like libya maybe the changes that we've now in the region are not much to their liking among other threats america faces the president talked about. he said he had issued an executive order to protect government agencies for structure from cyber attacks but he did not mention is how the u.s. government itself is carrying out acts like the reported cyber attack on iran's nuclear program while there's no proof that they're building them on this administration said it would be a serious cyber attack

a. against the united states is an act of war but apparently when the u.s. carries out the attack it should not be seen as an act of war. and to all activists you says it's not clear whether anti cyber attack measures would be used to protect the public or invade their privacy when we look at what's going on here with the information sharing between the department of defense the government and others private corporations i think it raises significant concerns over whether the issue of defense is actually defending us or weakening us i mean we see recently the three largest papers in the united states washington post new york times wall street journal all had major scandals over the issue of cyber security now if they're sharing information with the government i think that raises a potential question well what about journalist e-mails and things of that nature would that have a chilling effect on whistleblowers in the government and so i think we have to ask ourselves is generalize obviously generalized cybersecurity defense is important but ultimately is the way the obama administration is approaching it expanding

department of defense type programs and not having safeguards that are very well explained to the people regarding civil liberties and place is that something that actually decreases our security by for example having a chilling effect on whistleblowers or just giving the government more of a big brother overview and really reducing our privacy and on a it's way for you here on our iran says it may finally allow u.n. inspectors into a military base suspected of hasten the country's alleged nuclear activities however i doubt the u.s. so would ease the way dozens of them the country as an example of them is just the tip of the. come so international pressure on iran. pope benedict the sixteenth announced his resignation and a sharp move at the start of the week he says ill health forced him to make the decision becoming the first pope to resign in six hundred years as papacy has been

plagued by scandal most notably his asians of a broad cover up of child abuse within the catholic church and to abuse campaign abubakar as says of the pope didn't do enough to address paedophilia during his eight years in the position. we believe that he of words he showed there was filthy lucre stirred he apologized to the victims but he took no action he didn't discipline a single church official for hiding enabling children to predators for you know moving them from country to country from dies used to diocese so until he does that nothing has changed and we believe the words were just empty empty promises we have a bishop in the united states that was convicted of child endangerment and is still being allowed to run a diocese the message is clear if you follow the company line if you keep this secret if you put the reputation of the church above this of the children then you will be promoted what

a terrible message to send many people no longer trust church officials like they did in the past and that's a very sad statement that you can't trust your bishops. footballer wagner's love has come clean on why he wasn't always that it is best on the pitch the brazilian spent seven years the major moscow club says too much time between the sheaves was to blame for his moments on the field to get the details online about dot com such . a plan to rebuild or replica rather over the top of the titanic and save the recreate the transatlantic voyage has caused as some people offering more than a million dollars for it take it you can find out how the ship builders plan to avoid the fate of its pretty says up on our website. chaos and confusion that's how some libyan activists are paying the situation in the north african state two years after it was first in golf by the bloody

revolution for in baghdad rebels eventually achieve their goals of toppling the longtime leader colonel gadhafi but why they are now so few voices hailing the demise of a dictator. has been finding out from our gadhafi has lost legitimacy to lead and he must leave the shoot at their feet what back to you is impossible to imagine a future for libya with good geoffrey still in power he must go. well gadhafi is long gone and we don't need to imagine but can take a close look the revolt which began in benghazi was followed by an eight month nato bombing campaign costing thousands of lives and left libya torn apart drowning in conflict and suffocating in stagnation still rich in oil libya economically is a mess despite rampant unemployment and an overwhelming housing crisis huge construction projects are on hold and violence reigns if you look at the country

before the bombardment and the invasion by nato and nato supported militias. the country now you can clearly see that the country is suffering from the front problems the not exist before the country's infrastructure has been destroyed and you have militias running. free on the streets attacking people killing people and doing whatever they want so yes a lot has changed but not for the better amnesty international describes tribalism post gadhafi as armed militias acting completely out of control hundreds of them across the country arresting people without warrant detaining them incommunicado and torturing them all these points gadhafi was accused of by the rebels and the west now the watchdog says this is happening while the government is unwilling or

unable to rein the militias in another problem is the south in december libya closed off its borders without niger chad and sudan citing a deterioration of security and declared the region a military zone well recently a video has emerged of representatives of the south libyan tribes declaring independence for the region the federation of south libya they claim the government has failed to secure the inside of the country and borders and this is a result of stalled economic activity and discontinue a. and of essential infrastructure projects that have been driven by international partners well it's still not clear how that news is being taken in tripoli but it can bodes well for any chance of stability and finally who is reaping the fruits of this revolution well some analysts say it's an economic powerhouse putting lots of money into the region that the west just doesn't have while at the same time benefiting from their military efforts it's china the chinese have no boots on the

ground they have no army is there and they're basically getting a free ride from the military a chance at the west countries like crouch so two years after the revolution for libya the only certainty is still gadhafi is gone the other an expert on the country. and that has been speaking to r.t. about lawlessness and insecurity in post gadhafi libya the people in this moment is only thinking only only thinking about the safety of the country and trying to bring to people there have to be able to people go back to their houses can you imagine a country of six million people two of them to millions are outside their houses far away some with no money nothing far and they cannot do anything and there was are inside libya there is no safety at all i have friends they have been stolen their houses four times. the houses when you are in the street you never know.

if you will be shut because always you listen to shots for a problem place to another. check out our website for more on this story the timeline of the nato backed revolution in libya and its consequences as well as more expert and that misses it's all there at r.t. dot com. this week a new force emerged in the latest wave of unrest in egypt the black bloc targets young people to join them encouraging the use of violence to bring down the government after the two year anniversary of the toppling of housing mubarak of the group set up a facebook page giving advice and street fighting members of the group say it was started as a response after they have peaceful demands we know what political activists men make of such a violent actions may open the way for the military occupation of the country. the

true anger behind it it's the frustration from the lack of social justice egyptians by nature not violent and these are tactics being employed so that egyptians grow desperate all the time with all the crises economic crises and all sorts of photos all around the country so that egypt should have collectively people start thinking that the muslim brotherhood is doing a lousy job which more or less they are doing a lousy job however it's to push people to beg the military council for a cool so that they can kick out the muslim brotherhood to justify the military overtake of of the government israel is forced to face some embarrassing revelations information on the back of an alleged secret agent has emerged force in tel aviv to lift the veil of secrecy about the now infamous prison max that's a hate.