the news that dominated the week a once in a century meteo hit exploding with a force of more than twenty years shame a bombs in the skies over central russia leaving almost nine hundred people injured. fresh violent clashes. talks in bahrain as police fired tear gas at hundreds of stone throwing activists ordering the two year anniversary of the start of anti-government demonstrations. red rag to the face of the global community north korea sparks outrage by carrying out a nuclear test despite a u.n. ban and international sanctions. u.s. backed disarray in arab spring countries and nato to do this 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 the pope has to be the first head of the catholic church to step down in six centuries of course shock across the world the pontiff says his health no longer permits him to fulfill his duties. but are you watching weekly news review with me carrie johnston well it was the meteor that became a huge media star and one of vent that dominated the headlines at the end of this week yes shooting and flashing across the skies of central russia it's one of the few times a meteor or of such size have been filmed coming to work residence shot footage

from every angle possible that fell in the year olds on the guest from space stole the spotlight on an even bigger asteroid that made the record close approach to the on friday. has been tracking this 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 of the half thousand kilometers east of moscow where not just unusual glare on the floor i thought of all lines 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

a gun like someone had moved it this use 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 growing his hand were told to quickly put all clothes on and then 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 that 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 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 of married 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. indeed while the earth a witnessed a once in a lifetime event with one of the biggest meeting was to hit the planet in a century basically this is what happened as it approached our planet ten thousand ton fireball enter the atmosphere at the speed of twenty kilometers per second

before igniting and finally breaking apart well such objects entering the atmosphere are relatively common but you should they don't make it to the surface instead burning up in the atmosphere but this was visible from at least four russian regions but its main appearance was around the industrial city of cho yeah on this map a you can see the areas that suffered the most from the for all city of the five hundred killer ton explosion and that's equivalent to more than twenty nuclear bombs. well for more on this. paul scott is with us her now in this to you tell us a little bit more about this a bit of a media frenzy hasn't it very much so it's a story isn't it carrie that pretty much had had everything everything the dramatic pictures that we've seeing the rarity value once in every one hundred years this sort of story happens human interest angle of course a fairytale love lives and news across the world and rightly so for those reasons the dramatic pictures and just the simple rarity of it once every one hundred years

and dramatic headlines to go with it what makes a spacewalk a killer who knows. i think it's the pictures the pictures that make it it's like a science fiction films like something from hollywood i know you're a big fan of side all the other and i started to realize how silly well there's also been of course an internet boom because of this as you'd expect with this kind of kind of story can see what kind of stuff has been coming up on the internet which is still the headline something a little too much time on their hands angry by the why they're angry about it bruce willis stopped calling me what seeding i'm going to have cost the film armageddon to her. you know it's not about me and someone kicking it out of the sky i tell you what can we say well here's a here's a man who likes the doors we know that the president is extraordinary isn't it because all of these pictures and all of these jokes would have gone viral they would have gone around the globe instantly because of twitter which is really change of face of news in some respects for stories like this because it's a it's a mildly ripped remote part of russia well here instantly i witness accounts can go

up almost spontaneously as the news is developing and you can see here by some of the tweets that people in chelyabinsk despite what was happening in the dramatic nature of what was happening there were still keeping their pecker ups and they. have time for a few jokes as well as well as well as these these jokes i understand that some people are making some money out of this or trying to trying to say that they're selling pieces of space rock who knows if it really is spacewalker disappear from the boat in their gardens i mean. mantra on a promise is his girlfriend a star for valentine's day of course just twelve hours after valentine's day man's it has its own twitter feed its own twitter feed goodness me saying i don't know i'm not knowing it was going to me to have its own twitter feed but it does and what else do we have to show you how as i say news is changed there you go something that let me write a story of your story for falling injuring so many people but of course eventually

there injuring people there is a slightly more indeed more serious side to this it's good that there were sometimes there were no fatalities so we can have a sort of a bit of a play around with it but chelyabinsk is a region with nuclear facilities right he could have facilities a dozen or so so there was a real danger i suppose the sonic boom caused by this meteor or entering the earth's atmosphere could cause danger to those nuclear facilities and lead to some sort of nuclear fallout we saw it in so if you see more of course you know it's in japan so it's a sonic boom that caused windows to be smashed and things like that those where the injuries came from results yet that's exactly the there's no evidence as of yet that the meteorite actually collided with what it is one of me two you'll let me explain the difference and. i'm going to try that i suppose i hope it works on a meteor enters the earth's atmosphere it is known as a meteor right and burns up and breaks up into smaller fragments and usually just burns out into nothing if anything collides with any of those fragments they're known as meteorites and that's what makes contact or collides with but there's no

evidence as of yet there was any any collision with earth there is a lake there's a bunker but they haven't found any evidence as of yet they say colliding with of course this isn't the first time this has happened when these things happen all the all the time but big ones we understand at least four times in russia russia seems have its fair share of these things for some reason we don't know his country and this is some very old footage we have here of something that happened back in the good results in siberia as well i understand there with the figures say it was ninety nine. eighteen in siberia and apparently something like a little bit about two thousand square kilometers of forest so it's quite a meteorite quite a smash especially for that time who knows what people would have would have made of that. another two decades later after that event in the third one i should mention that the second one was in southern russia and that three hundred kilogram piece was found just to put the friday's meteorite or meteor into into

context this when this happened in one thousand nine hundred eight it took researchers and scientists a decade to go to the site because it was so remote it came back in order g. and investigate the site so we're talking about people divers already searching the bottom of the lake where they think friday's may have landed instantly again whereas this took ten years later to get to the side but scientists are very excited about the possibility of finding fragments of friday's me to write because it might provide some answers to what else is out there indeed it might and in fact we understand we have an expert who can tell us a little bit about this astrophysicist by name of pierce corbin is have a look at this and see what he says 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 overall coming aboard and i can see the two most soon enough thing is there's a lot

a lot of skill 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 a lot and so it's really fast you say are many even if it's some way away was 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 maybe this should be an international effort to exactly the scars to prepare for things like this. where we have it with anything of that size happen here again you know is well i guess there are sort of echoing calls that have already come from russia for for a global defense system again something of a skit china the usa russia all working together don't waste time on our missile defense system exactly when we could all have to unite and see what they are not in the interest i would say or at impulse thanks very much for that thank you.

moving on now to more news of the week in bahrain there have been fresh clashes that police used tear gas against hundreds of protesters on stones and firebombs it comes from the funeral of a teenager who was allegedly shot by forties earlier this week during a rally marking two years. unrest in the country. week old talks between the most the opposition and the sunni dominated government shiites saddam are being an end to the ruling family domination london based activists. there are few signs the country's leaders genuinely want 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 monster 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 week shows and displayed the lokpal bill for continuous human rights abuses the continuous repression taking place on the streets of basra and it's good that dialogue has come back on the agenda and there is discussions happening but it seems that 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 with the violations on the street. holding back with more news in a theme of that statement. i . technology innovation

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welcome back to north korea is reportedly preparing for more atomic tests this despite deep international anger after it detonated a third nuclear device on tuesday scribed the move as an effort to shore up its national security and safeguard its sovereignty. called outrageous us. state is already laboring under heavy international sanctions being banned from any such as it is by the u.n. the country had previously carried out to new kit new features a small stockpile of nuclear warheads u.n. security council unanimously condemned north korea's actions and pledged to beef up sanctions against it laser based independent. but 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 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 us there is no confirmed secretary of defense or central intelligence director so it's a very interesting time to 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. pope benedict the sixteenth announced his resignation and a shock move at the start of the week. ill health forced him to make a decision coming the first pope to resign in six hundred years privacy has been

plagued by scandal most notably accusations of a broad cover up of child abuse within the catholic church and to abuse campaign above or doris says the pope didn't do enough to address paedophilia during his eight years in the position. we believe that he uttered words he said there was filth in the priesthood he apologized to the victims but he took no action he didn't discipline a single church official for hiding enabling shielding to predators or you know moving them from country to country from diocese 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 the s.d. 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. well this week a new force about the latest wave of unrest in egypt the so-called 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 hosni mubarak the group set up a facebook page giving advice on street fighting members of the group say it was started as a response to their peaceful demands were ignored let's go back to this. such violent actions open the way for a military occupation of the country. the true anger behind it it's the frustration from the lack of social justice egyptians by nature not violence and these are tactics being employed so that egyptians grow desperate all the time with all the crises economic crises and all sorts of course 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. one line today of all the volcano love has come clean on why he wasn't always at his best on the brazilian they spent seven years with him in moscow as much time between the sheets was to blame for his performance on the field details online a call. to build a replica of the titanic and safely recreate the transatlantic voyage in schools to stir some people offering more than a million dollars for a ticket how the ship builder is to avoid the ranks of it's.

in the most important speech in the american political calendar president obama looked at both. sides in the first state of the union address since his reelection he talked about the fate of arab spring countries and expanded plans to bring home troops must gonna start going to church account has been listening to what the president say. in his state of the union speech president obama outlined some of the external threats that the country is facing first of all care 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 kind of affiliates of extremist groups have emerged from the peninsula to africa the threat these groups pose is involved but to meet this threat we don't need to send tens of thousands of our sons and daughters abroad occupy 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 inspiration is waging with a remote control. which in john brennan's words is we don't punish people for past guilt with 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 that change maybe even a concern as the president pushed upon the result of the revolution in the arab world he said it's quote unquote messy he said the u.s.

cannot dictate the course of change in countries like egypt very very cautiously very briefly touched on syria and there was a change of tone for those who 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 ministrations he's 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 against the united states as 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 talking more

about american issues and concerns are able to foster in his own musical manner targets one of the most painful programs for the u.s. gun policy that's in juice knees coming up. united states is based on. you know i care rest that you'll never have the false job. oh the news is welcome to the show today come on out to sing we've just got a studio upgrade like i'm on the system is devoted to the debate which is built to be devoted to the united states has to work for a great big mass shootings from the repeated to sandy hook school while some want to kill them and to stop the bloodshed on this one tom stupor big album is coming

is there a concept of the steam past we can song exploit kids from opposing factions the military response see is a representative of the black panthers problem is you know white missing to be on judgment preach peace compassion in abundance the elite we are to see some anonymous i agree but why ban guns what you're launching random you kidding the second amendment is a sacred law beyond gun guns are evil people are just sick suggested john crimes a mask only happen when people don't have access to semiautomatic weapons and we were given this precious right to bear arms not for hunting bears but to protect just you don't farm for leaks of americans who are defending the land from the colonists no property from our own freaking government respects the winter when it comes to pay to try to take power they take the people look at hitler stalin still come on our chests listen chavez george the third in fact is that a brit accent in the seventy seventy six look up this appliance if you can't tell him what comes try to tell god he's ok let's hear from general but it's the first

time we've had you both in the studio together frankly i'm shocked by what this loss of valuable american lives is a tragedy eleven thousand gun murders each can be truly we need to stop this insanity what do you suggest to start the citizenry leave guns to the criminals smugglers in the military with mission is the key. we need a war on drugs in the workplace like our war on drugs was done from my cold and far general place i understand the respect the second amendment to you but can you provide events like the overseer. when temperance joining to do same shooting no longer called a gun you've been taking your meds the feds will go away to warn you david koresh of the school shooting up that incident in connecticut was a deliberate orchestrated staged like set up with aim to take our weapons and leave us the best some batteries in place to come and sometimes they can find. someplace sane or waiting to take the united states and to get

a creative take or ship in this car the only one standing in the way of it if the slaves want guns let them be our supremacy doesn't depend on weaponry with skulls meet your money in it we control every aspect of your life why the logical examination if you think you can just stop to read what you're waiting for the authorities strip you of your liberty for the civil rights and ticket if you won super bowls. globalists.

well i guess that sums it up and brings us to point to the end of our report on guns in the divided stakes of america to me it's not our place to pass judgment but listen with a question and a last comment if your passion for the second amendment were missed by down the budget and then independent of the bonus media. the free internet were prevalent today wouldn't it be always be forbidden to tell the day if it's in the beach in a big number it's the journey begins so what follows the first and best line of defense license being seventy gone with guns with the truth stay safe everyone.