the news that are dominated the retailer n r g 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 and. fresh violent clashes over a time said talks in buffalo aimed as police fired tear gas at hundreds of starting throwing activists following the two year anniversary of 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 cause shock across the world but hundreds says his health no longer in medicine to fulfill his duties. 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 roles the gesso from space also stole the

spotlight from an even bigger ass strike that made a record a close approach to earth on friday you got a 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 was 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 over one and a half thousand kilometers east of moscow where not just the usual glare on the floor i thought of all lights from a cockpit then we ran to the window saw this strange cloud and then and then this. 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 did her head and a bring his hand we were told to quickly put all clothes on and they ran out so 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 it's small during there no however most of the siding started out to be ordinary fires because so far officials have not found any fragments of the media or for now the immediate priority is to look after the injured and repair the damage to buildings especially the broken windows in schools and residential areas as sand burgers at night drop below minus fifteen celsius is 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 nowadays often when it comes to nature we can only watch helplessly and hope for the best. the area to 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 approach our planet the ten thousand ton fireball and 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 a 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 g.'s a pulse guard 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 the it

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. journalists 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 dream. to get 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 you can talk through some of the i mean 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 they're rightly say about that we can say is it true that he's a man of the outdoors very much so you look at these images these pictures that people have talked 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 in a lot of lazy versed 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

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 right 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 it has its own twitter page as you can see here. you were talking about you know people selling thing here buying pieces the meter has its own twitter page as well so it's a truly all encompassing story you know they go so literally become a star. and it's not like you and i are good. putting the fun you know to one side it's really good that the people of chile up in school are able to. 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 chelyabinsk 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 hardly 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 unsure of the audience that this could have led to something but thankfully we have disposed. from what 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 the civil war the russian revolution but whatever 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 that 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 warning over all of these coming provided they can see them to the most soon enough thing is there's a lot lot of sky out there and the speed of this thing which is 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 to see i mean even if it's some way away it's clear in that it may 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 do 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 i know you can see 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 violence was muddled we called and told between the mostly shiite muslim opposition and the sunni dominated government. demanding an end to lean's that family political domination but london based activities company come

a cab few signs the country's leaders generally wanting reforms. 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 before today they're bringing 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 basra and 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 was continuing the violations on the streets. it's been exactly two

years us since libya was plunged into revolutionary chaos while those who brought the change i hate the rise to power many libyans deprived of the pains and security is no cause for jubilation that's off the shelf break. well. technology innovation. developments around russia we've got the future covered. 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 realize that everything you thought you knew you don't know what i'm charging welcomes a big. 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 so venti against what it called a drape just a 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 cause us a small stockpile of nuclear warheads the un security council unanimously condemned north korea's action and pledged to beef up sanctions against it asia based independent you said into 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 the worst career in this 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 army 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 his 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 it's true different al qaeda affiliates in extremist groups have emerged

from the already been 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 america although there was no mentioning of the word drones everyone knew that's what the president meant when saying direct action 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 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 a concern as the president touched upon 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 very briefly pressure on syria there was a change of tone 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 cyber attacks 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 is carrying out cyber attacks like the reported cyber attack on

iran's nuclear program while there's no proof that they're building a bomb this administration said it would view a serious cyber attack to. 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 than 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 here views campaign above 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 dies she 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 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 cares and confusion that's how some libyan activists paint the situation in north african state 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 why they're not so few voices hailing the demise of a dictator is

a new see now it has the details. margaret i think has lost legitimacy to lead and he must leave the shoot at their feet what party it is impossible to imagine a future for libya with get daffy 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 that the not exist before the country's infrastructure has been destroyed and you have militias running. freely 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 with algeria 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. obvious 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 cambodia 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 grown they have no more abuse they're. getting a free ride from the military. the west country 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 two thousand and ten the man was reported to be 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 from the very top columnist and senior correspondent for israel's how to read newspaper media older then 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 versus 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 these really 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. the whole problem in the

iran is that the nuclear program whether it's civilian or military problem is the position of iran and the national. scene and especially the policy the foreign policy will feel down and have the support of the palestinians and i because i guess if one day tomorrow and he and i knew and. would say that we are not going to said we means iran we are not going about any conflict and the middle east not against israel like the egyptian the the i think the next day the americans will be into iran and there was the cause of the sanctions and they will add and nuclear program we don't have to forget that the first the first reactor nuclear reactor which was implemented in iran was in the early seventy's with and build up by the americans. up next our special report on whether americans she stands

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