the news that has the reach over an hour to be a once in a century of meteor hit the earth exploded with the force of more than twenty hiroshima bombs in the skies over central russia leaving almost thirteen hundred people injured. fresh violent clashes overshadow a time said talks in buffalo aimed as police fired tear gas at hundreds of starting throwing activists following the tree and it was real the start of anti-government demonstrations. a red rag to the face of the global community in north

korea sparks outrage by carrying out a third nuclear test by the u.n. ban and international sanctions. a u.s. backed mess in arab spring countries and natures to do list in afghanistan odd to you 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 called shot across a world of hundreds says his health and medicine to fulfill his duties. oh. it's a one o'clock here in moscow whether you're watching from saw any way in the world

it's good to have you with us it was the media that became a huge media star and the one event of that dominated the headlines at the end of this week shooting and flashing across the skies of central russia it's one of the only times images of such a size has been captured coming to earth the residents shot footage from. every angle possible as it fell in the your rolls together so from space also stole the spotlight from an even bigger asteroid that made a record of close approach to earth on friday art is the gold piece going up has been tracking the shooting star. it was like a scene from a 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 russians. over want to have thousand

kilometers east of moscow where not just unusual glare on the floor i thought of all lights from a car then we went to the winder i saw this strange cloud and then and then this. world would turn around and the wall was gone like 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 had and a bring his hand we were told to quickly put our 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 me to write a nice small during there no however most of the sightings turn out to be ordinary peter buck fires because so far officials have not found any fragments of the meteor for now the immediate priority. he's 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 so it's going to take time to clear everything out but for now going to 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 helplessly and hope for the best. the areas that witness a once in a lifetime event as it has become the biggest meteor to hit to the planet in a century basically there you can watch how it approached our planet the ten thousand ton flyable 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 the visible from at least four russian regions but it's made appearance was right here in. the 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 had 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 and so 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 they're you know there we go not every reason as we have a bruce willis there that whole ever get in 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 would go these images these pictures that people would talk today have gone viral instantly that's the nature of this a 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 and laughing in the various adversity in the face of travel minus seventeen insurance 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 a summer yes the aged yes it did do you think that people would have taken the advantage to go out to the side and actually pick up some of the pieces that were thrown out by the meter. and sell them well we would come on to that in a moment but very very shortly but the media itself talking about social networking starting with that for the second has its own twitter page as you can see here. he was talking about you know people selling p.s.y. in pieces the meter has its own twitter page as well so it's

a truly all encompassing story you know they go so every story literally become a star on its own here and. putting the 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 it 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 beatus that this could have lead 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 scale collided with planet earth 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 one of the the civil war the russian revolution but what the research was was discovered was it was lost along the way so the importance of friday's meteorite can't be underestimated let's hear from one of the i guess that we speak today on our way asteroids come from and all kinds of fascinating things you know what happens next let's listen to this. question for the future must be could they be predicted and i would think with more satellite and space research you could get some sort of warning over all of these coming provided they can see them to the most soon enough thing is there's

a lot the last guy out there and the speed of this thing was it was goes. one and a half times around the world in an hour that's the speed it will go about it is going to strike law and so it's really fast you see i mean even if it's some way away basically into a 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 maybe 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 we have the absolutely. right here in the studio with me. in bahrain they're in fresh clashes as police used tear gas against hundreds of

protesters armed with stones and firebombs this comes find the funeral of a teenager who was allegedly shot by authorities earlier this week during a rally marking. anti-government and rest of the country the violence was muddled resulting towards between the mostly shiite muslim opposition and the sunni dominated government. demanding an end to lean's a family political domination but london based activities from an economic collapse few signs the country's leaders generally wanting reforms. we're looking at two years in which we've seen in 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 the fourteenth of february another teenager has been killed and this really shows and displayed the lack of reform continuous human rights abuses the continuous repression taking place on the streets of bihari 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 predominate 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 what's continue in the violations on the street. it's been exactly two years a since libya was plunged into revolutionary chaos well those who brought the change i hate their rise to power many libyans deprived of the pains and security is no cause for jubilation that's off the shelf break. technology innovation all the developments around russia we.

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welcome back you're watching our team north korea is reportedly preparing for more atomic test despite deep international ngo detonated a third nuclear device on tuesday long and described the move as an effort to show up its national security and save this so venti against what it called a dre just u.s. hostility the communist state is already laboring under heavy international sanctions and has been banned from any such a civil teams by the u.n. the country had previously carried out two atomic test and is believed to possess a small stockpile of nuclear warheads the u.n. security council unanimously condemned north korea's action and pledged to beef up sanctions against it asia based independent you said to james called it 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 it's

and i imagine that officials in beijing must do. knowing 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 throw 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 in the most important speech in the american political talent president obama look to get both lawmakers and the electorate onside in the first state of the union addresses his reelection obama talked about the fate of arab spring countries and expended plans to bring home

troops from afghanistan damaged as you can has been listening to what the president had to say. in a state of the union speech president obama outlined some of the external threats that the country is facing first of all pair of 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 iraq reagan 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 u.s. troops involved what he did not talk about was the limits for this war that they've

ministration his waging with the remote control the justification that the administration gave in 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 fourteen 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 . he said it's quote unquote messy he said the u.s. cannot dictate the course of changing countries like very 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 and key infrastructure from cyber attacks but he did not mention is how the u.s. government itself. 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. yes 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. pope benedict the sixteenth announce his resignation in a move at the start of this week he says it will help force him to make the him becoming the first pope to resign in six hundred years his papacy has been plagued by scandal most notably ikea's ations of

a broad cover up of child abuse within the catholic church and to abuse campaign about broad doris's the pope who didn't do enough to address paedophilia during his eight years in the position. we believe that he order of words he showed there were still from the priesthood 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 guys used to dies 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 like 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. care zone confusion that's how some libyan activists pain the situation in north african state to two years after it was first single by a bloody revolution foreign backed the rebels eventually achieve their goals of toppling the longtime leader colonel gadhafi but either now also a few voices hailing the demise of a dictator archies a new syria and now it has the details. margaret i think has lost legitimacy to lead and he must leave the shoot at their feet it's impossible to imagine a future for libya with gadhafi 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 support of 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 in the militias and 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 other 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't bode 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 they're basically getting a free ride from the military. the west countries like crouch so two years after the revolution for libya the only certainty is still gadhafi is gone. a scandal has erupted in israel after the country's government was forced to acknowledge the death of a prisoner into israel secret service the admission follows a report in australian media which revealed a melbourne man hanged himself in prison in twin ten the man was reportedly held in such secrecy not even prison guards knew his name it's reported that the so-called prisoner x. was involved in israeli espionage in neighboring countries so he had been originally hushed up in the israeli media with the order reportedly coming very

tough columnist and senior correspondent for israel's i read newspaper i made it over and says the entire situation is a source of embarrassment for the country. on one level it's an espionage story and mystery regarding the foreign intelligence service mossad and the tragic. circumstances under which one of its operatives apparently found his death on another level the government press story and the press here has been struggling against various government agencies and gradually has been able to leave at least some of the secrecy surrounding this story even though the israeli press is far from being lazy for the last two years it has waited passively for someone abroad in this case australia to break the story iran

announced this week that it may allow inspectors from the u.n. nuclear watchdog into the parchin military base the facility suspected of housing the country's alleged nuclear weapons development program something strongly denied by to run the visit is scheduled for wednesday he some jebat of the director of the center for middle east studies believes the reasons behind international pressure run deeper than just concern about iran's nuclear program. problem in iran is that the nuclear program whether it's civilian or a military problem is the position of iran and their national. scene and the policy the foreign policy. and support on the palestinians and. if one day to morrow and he and i knew and. say that we are not going to means iran we are not going about any conflict and the middle east not against

israel like egypt. i think the next day the americans will be and. of the sanctions and they will add that on the. program we don't have to forget that the first the first reactor nuclear reactor which was implemented in the. early seventy's with. americans. up next our special report on whether americans she stands a by their constitutional right to run and ship following a string of deadly shootings to stay with us in the. helicopters flying through the air day and night two rounds of assault rifle ammo

popping as the choppers buzz over the land now this unique form of hell of terror is no longer restricted to those in vietnam in the middle east now houston miami residents of the good old usa can get in on the fun houston residents in terror called nine one one and scramble for cover and even to schools put on lockdown as a military helicopters participate in a multi-agency training for ill in miami at night in the middle of downtown onlookers quote video on their telephones of blackhawk helicopters pumping loud blank on to the people below and maybe even as i speak a flexibly scheduled military drill could be happening in jesper county south carolina you know when i was a kid they tell us about how that ye old soviet union would parade their tanks around how there were soldiers all over their oppressed country even in one thousand nine hundred four or world made a point to describe our military helicopters would eternally be overhead and a dystopian nightmare world now we're living the nightmare the united states is

a huge country there's plenty of room on remote army bases to do your training also last time i checked afghanistan evil which is don't look like downtown miami just who are you training the kill anyways knock off the terror training but that's just my opinion.