the news that dominated the week or once in a century meteo hits exploding with the force of more than twenty the regime of bombs in the skies over central russia with almost thirty hundred people injured. fresh violent clashes overshadow attempts at talks in bahrain as police fired tear gas hundreds of stone throwing activists for in the two year anniversary of the start of anti-government demonstrations. a red rag to the face of the global community north korea sparks outrage by carrying out a third nuclear test this by its u.n. ban and international sanctions. u.s. backed disarray in arab spring countries and nato has to do next in afghanistan

takes a look at the global issues president obama wasn't keen to talk about during his much anticipated state of the union address. news that he's to be the first head of the catholic church to step down in six centuries caused schork across the world the pontiff says his health no longer permits him to fulfill his duties. but they are watching artie's weekly news review with me carrie johnston well it was the meteor or that became a huge media star one of ben dominated the headlines at the end of this week shooting and flashing across the skies of central russia it's one of the few times a meet your of such size had been filmed coming to earth residents shot footage

from almost every angle possible as it fell in the urals the guest from space also stole the spotlight from an even bigger asteroid that made the record close approach to the earth 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 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 over one and the half thousand kilometers east of moscow where not just twenty years ago glare on the floor i thought of all lives from then we ran to the window saw this strange cloud and then. this.

would turn around and the wall was gone 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 clauses 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 it's small during them no however most of the sighting started out to be ordinary peed bug fires because so far officials have not found any fragments of the meteor for now the immediate priority. these two will go after the injured and repair the damage to buildings especially the broken windows in schools and residential areas as temperatures a drop below minus fifteen celsius is going to take time to clear everything out 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. witnessed a once in a lifetime event with one of the biggest me tools to hit the planet in a century basically this is what happened as it approached our planet ten thousand tonne 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 usually 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 you have been only you can see the areas that suffered the most from the for all city of the five hundred killer town explosion that's equivalent to more than twenty nuclear bombs for more on this. 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 the story isn't it carrie that pretty much had had 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 the 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 science the other and i started to realize to say 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 what is still the headlines something a little too much time on the hand angry about the know why they're angry about it bruce willis stopped calling me what seeding i had of course the film armageddon to her. you have not had. someone kicking you out of the sky i tell you what can we say well here is a man who likes the those we know that the president. it's 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 has really changed our face of news in some respects for stories like this because it's a it's a motley group 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 was still keeping their pecker up school connection up and have time for a few jokes as well as well as well as these these jokes i understand 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 if one of the but in their gardens i wonder man to man trying to promise is his girlfriend a star for valentine's day of course just twelve hours after valentine's day a man's it has its own twitter feed its own twitter feed goodness me saying how do i know i'm not hollowing it how can a meteorite have its own twitter feed but it does and what else do we have here is you how as i say news is changed there you go something that let me write astrology story for flooring injuring so many people but of course eventually there injuring

people there is a slightly more indeed more serious science and this is good that there were fantastic 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 and he could have facilities of 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 which you see more of course a rise in japan so the sonic boom that caused windows to be smashed and things like that and those where the injuries came from results yeah that's exactly the there's no evidence as of yet that the meteorite actually collided with us what it is is one of me too you'll let me explain the difference and. i'm going to try that i certainly hope it work. when 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 up into not thing if anything collides with any of those fragments they're known as meteorites 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 nine thousand eight hundred in siberia and apparently something like a little about two thousand square kilometers of forest so 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 second one was in southern russia and some about three hundred kilogram piece was found just to the friday's meteorite or meteor or 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 the 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 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 in fact we understand we have an expert who can tell us a little bit about this astrophysicist by name of pearce corbin have a look at this and see what he says question for the future must be could be predicted. i would think with more satellite and space research you could get some sort of. coming to quality and i can see the. thing is there's a lot a lot of skill out there and the speed of this the. one in the whole of times round the world in an hour that's the speed it will go where the other day is going to strike law and so it's really fast say many even if it's some way away. very slowly in the store 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 do exactly scan the scars to prepare for things like this. well there we have it when we think of the size happened here again who now is well i guess there was sort of echoing calls that have already come from russia for for a global defense system again something that they skip 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 the full stop thanks very much for that thank you. well moving on now to more news of the week in bahrain they have been fresh clashes as police used tear gas against hundreds of protesters armed and stones and firebombs becomes a form the funeral of

a teenager who was allegedly shot by or it is earlier this week in a rally marking two years since the start of anti-government under arrest in the country the violence is marred we called between the mostly shinai took positions on the sunni dominated government shiites are demanding an end to the ruling families and school domination a london based activist only. in a few signs the country's leader is 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 martyr of the uprising was killed and now two years later on the same day. another teenager has been killed and this shows and display over ten years human rights abuses the continuous repression taking place on the streets of bahrain it's good that dialogue has come back on the agenda and there is discussions happening but it.

latest escalation of 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. it's been exactly two years since libya was plunged into revolutionary chaos those who will tell me how many libyans deprived of their homes and security saying there's no cause for jubilation that. technology innovation all the developments from around russia. the future covered. you know how sometimes you see

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welcome back north korea is reportedly preparing for more atomic tests despite deep international anger after it detonated a third nuclear device on tuesday described the move as an effort to shore up its national security and safeguard its sovereignty against what it called outrageous us. well the communist state is already laboring under heavy international sanctions have been for many such activities by the u.s. a country had previously carried out two nuclear tests is believed to possess a small stockpile of nuclear warheads he went to security council unanimously condemned north korea's action and pledged to beef up sanctions against it independent news editor james corbett 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 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. it's the lunar new year in china so basically the entire country is on holiday and in the u.s. 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 the political calendar president obama to get both know may try to own side 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 from afghanistan is going to church account has been listening to what the president had to say in

a state of the union speech president obama outlining some of the external threats that the country is facing first of all pear 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. it's true different al qaeda affiliates in extremist groups have emerged from the orange reagan peninsula to africa the threat these groups pose is of all. 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 america although there was no mentioning of the word drone 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 we don't punish

people for past 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 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 risks further steering anger of their own population over foreign military presence one could sense a change maybe even a 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 pressure on syria and it 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 maybe the changes that 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. 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. that they're building in this administration said it would view 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. by pope benedict the sixteenth announced his resignation in a shock move the start of this week he says ill health forced him to make a decision becoming the first pope to resign in six hundred years his papacy has been plagued by scandal most notably accusations of a good cover up of child abuse within the catholic church parenting abuse campaign a bobber 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 showed they were still through 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 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 line if you keep this secret if you put the reputation of the church above this a city 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. chaos and confusion that's

how some libyan activists paint the situation in the north african state two years after it was first engulfed by bloody revolution for about rebels eventually achieve their goal of topping the long time here colonel gadhafi one of the now so few voices telling the demise of a dictator one season they say no way has been finding out. from our group 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 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 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 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 more because they're. getting a free ride from the military taps the west countries like crouch so two years after the revolution for libya the only certainty is still gadhafi is gone. in portugal where thousands of people have taken to the streets to voice their anger at fresh austerity measures holding banners and chanting slogans that matches program planning to reverse cuts which in place in its attempt to reduce the country's huge debt burden the union led rally also called on the government to step down if it's handing of the crisis what handouts from brussels the jobless rate is nearing seventeen percent was the third european country to receive a bailout from the e.u. . in greece the first country to get emergency loans to avoid going bankrupt more people are now

out of work any time since the financial system had trouble five years ago a quarter of greeks are now unemployed twice the european average and each day hundreds of thousands of forced to rely on food handouts and to get by a former center left greek came he never really has the da situation is hitting everyone hard in a personal level. getting worse not better and this is the famous rescue of greece from the european union this is starting to become a humanitarian crisis you see extreme quality you see people that they tried to get a plate of food from the church we have two hundred fifty thousand people every day trying to get to the church to find food we are talking about the young people that they want five jobs in greece trying to leave the country we're talking about people that don't have access to primary health services this is something that's

not only numbers it's one thousand people human beings in the european union that lose their jobs every day this is creating a human tire crisis inside the euro zone. also short break we have a special report on the mackay areas of europe in democracy stay with us. some countries want oil but that's kid stuff who needs oil when you could secure the world's largest supply of trucker dero soda located exclusively in sweden and reading sweden for absolutely no logical reason is a possible you say well supreme commander of the swedish armed forces general sphere guru and son must have watched red dawn too many times because he thinks the

russians are a common general durance and declared that if invaded by russia sweden wouldn't be able to last a week against the onslaught therefore sweden must immediately join nato he said that currently it is not quite possible to invade sweden but due to the two thousand and eight war with georgia it is possible for russia to somehow push through established european borders bring their forces up to sweden's gates putting the generals country in danger but guess what according to your own council of the european union georgia started the war so by that logic if the two thousand and one with georgia is the example of the future then don't kill russian peacekeeping troops and you'll have nothing to worry about but general goran so also made the point that president putin is rearming the russian army hinting at a threat of being heavily armed to defend yourself is a bad scary thing then joining up with nato seems to be pretty hypocritical if the people of sweden want to join nato well that is their choice but they shouldn't be tricked into having their taxpayers pay for their sons.