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priority plan in his state of the union address. more nuclear test shock waves from north korea which designates a device despite u.n. and international sanctions. you're watching artie's weekly news if you're with me kerry johnston well the world was why died this week of a dramatic images from central russia a plunging meteoric splinted with a blinding flash before crashing in the urals early on friday and of course it's hard to imagine the shock that residents must have felt when they saw this increase . radical coming over the top of their heads and of course it took

a while for people to realize what was actually happening the meteor blast set off a powerful shockwave smashing windows in buildings injuring and bewildering those inside and out is a go person off takes a closer look now at how it all happened. 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 they have thousand kilometers east of moscow where not just unusual glare on the floor i thought it all lights from a car 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 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

not as 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 media or 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 are married drop below minus fifteen so it's going to take time to clear everything else 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. are to go pissing off reporting from the year olds there well the meteors dramatic strike fired up reaction online almost instantly the video being shared and local

speculating without the front has been keeping an eye on things for us what's been happening on the world wide web then you can share find all sorts of material relating to this meeting our online i'll bring you some of the most entertaining you can find coming up in just a few minutes ok thanks very much for that. well in the meantime one startling aspect to this is that no one seemed to see it coming together one by surprise ridiculous crews here to tell us a bit more about that one of the sit well they do say that even though it's a rather large flying object now identified it's actually still there's still too many of them to actually see what's happening and so it's really hard to predict when exactly something is going to fly really close to earth especially when it's not as big as you would think it was i mean this was this was actually a doozy i don't know we can see it right here it was actually ten thousand tons when it was approaching earth but then of course it entered the atmosphere broke into several pieces and apparently they did they say they have found in the places

where these pieces have apparently for one they found the supposed craters but when they started to actually look for the pieces of the museum where they couldn't find them so i guess we have to trust the scientists on that one or the emergency ministry workers whoever is actually looking for them yes this is exactly this is this these are the holes where supposedly the pieces from the media were are now i guess securely stored under all this icy water anyhow but it does seem like actually siberia and the region are actually sort of a magnet for all sorts of flying things that are just come bursting out of space and a ball of fire this this happened to be actually the largest object to have hit our planet in over a century the last time something as tremendous has happened was in one thousand eight with. the event yes when a humongous meteorite has also flown into i had flown from outer space apparently that was this this is not the obviously this is what's happening in these their

youth. but anyway the event was actually a was actually a lot more drastic than this one has damaged more than two thousand square metres of forest it has fallen in siberia so nobody was hurt like in this instance at least. we don't know what he had dashboard cameras at that point a back in one thousand eight. that that event was actually also incredible for humanity you can say first of all there's actually no crater to be found from that secondly it has caused tremendous mutations. in trees and the life doubt entire wiped out entire. areas of forest again nobody can find a crater actually was a big fan of all sorts of mysteries like this one that actually google didn't try to find any pictures of the crater whatsoever people are saying yes the meteor has fallen but what exactly happened nobody knows but again that was the we're talking about this is now the consequences however we've been talking to people obviously

trying to figure out what would have happened if the meteor has not hit for example the think plant but instead has hit something like one of the many nuclear facilities to actually syria absolutely there's seven nuclear facilities in the and in fact the entire region was kind of a hotbed for nuclear research back in the soviet era and they do have several very important uclear facilities nuclear storage facilities and one of them has actually come really close to becoming a second trouble twice already and the fact that it wasn't hit by the many falling mature pieces is just amazing so thank goodness that didn't happen absolutely absolutely but still there are some people who are saying that if history is any indication it could have been worse there are telescopes and networks of. nasa the u.s. that was kosmos and well sure the europeans those are just the others that are out there trying to detect a truck and afterwards but honestly there's

a lot of there's hundreds of thousands and their biggest focus is on the really large ones ones that are hundreds of meters in diameter or kilometers in diameter that could potentially you know do do all this work up into the dinosaurs. of course you have to understand the power of the blast of the of the sonic boom when the meteor has entered the atmosphere it was actually twenty times that of the russian unimagined i know not all of this is how getting on friday and where else in russia of course i don't know so. i guess this is i mean we all just have to be thankful that even though there have been numerous numerous people getting wounded from the shuttle everything i guess we still should be thankful that nothing more serious accident or a lot worse could have been a lot worse yes ridiculous chris thanks for that for now thank you well now as we've been saying the meta blast went viral online within minutes some enterprising locals taking the chance to cash in would you believe that some tried selling what

they claimed were friends of the crashed meteo the most expensive being offered for ten thousand dollars but of course how you know you're getting if someone was willing to dip into their pocket for this there's no way of knowing if you were buying a piece of meteoroids or just a lump of stone from someone's garden well i think the front has been gauging the mood on the web so it's a bit more about this. tell us a bit more what's happening it has been absolutely a very busy weekend for the internet regarding this media are not just the city. now first things first and there's been a lot of very amazing hoaxes online well first we've got all of the dramatic video that's been coming and that just shocked the world and it was just such high quality video and even the audio that was coming through was just it was very very capturing and then you've got these these hoax tweets tanks have passed down the street citizens are urged to get into a shelter

a lunch box handouts have been arranged and then we've got the same guy actually saying we're being given chemical protection masks and gas masks the city is almost entirely evacuated barricades are being put up an invasion is looming so you've got these things that may seem sort of serious but actually they they're it's a complete hoax and then you've got a lot of funny things coming across the internet. such as you know posts like this the citizens of chelyabinsk are already checking to see what super powers they may have. other people posting it's negative seventeen degrees celsius in chelyabinsk there's wind and a slight meteor shower and then the person who decided to post a valentine's post says who's that guy who promised to pick a star from the sky on valentine's day because obviously apparently did a very good job of it and then of course aside from twitter which has seen an

astronomical no pun intended amount of traffic because of this you also see a lot of very hilarious photos and things being posted online a lot of photoshop happening there with angry birds writing the tail of the meteor through the air into the city then of course you go to the russian favorite bruce willis stop calling me then there's the dinosaurs that stuff killed my brother next thing you've got is chuck norris why didn't the media hate america chuck norris kicked into russia and then the nature loving president president putin harnessing the powers of the media or writing it's right to earth that's a very popular thing to do with pictures of him being involved with the natural world and things like that so it's something that everyone enjoys over here and we're definitely keeping a close eye on it to see what develops later on the internet regarding this meteor because the president is a man of the outdoors isn't he so you'd expect something like that i suppose there was one thing incredibly that predicts and i should tell you regarding war which is

supposed to explain why this happened someone she tweeted a friend speculates about a match between then and england liverpool. was the day before the strike in your rules he said the victory would be as incredible as crushing to earth and they did win so who knows you never know what's going to hit the internet regarding absolutely hilarious ok thanks for that these are thank you you thank. well i just remind you if you missed anything we've been showing on r.t. concerning the meteor was a dramatic display you can always find it on r.t. dot com fascinating images as we've seen the from that crash reaction and first hand accounts are just a click away. volatile

situation in bahrain has been exacerbated by the latest clashes between antigovernment protesters and security forces this weekend scores were reportedly injured when riot police used tear gas and stun grenades against demonstrators throwing stones and petrol bombs the violence broke out when the protesters tried to make their way to the funeral of a teenager who was allegedly killed by security forces only this week during a rally marking two years of the anti-government uprising that instant and the term of which follow it is jeopardized also between a sunni dominated government mostly shiite opposition stronghold not to say there are no signs of legal progress any pending 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. another teenager has been killed and this

shows and display. for continuous human rights 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 seems that you know this latest latest escalation of the security against the people is going to possibly put 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 continuing the violations on the street. or similar scenes echoed in libya the protests there also marking two years since the deadly uprising by the sound we take a look at why the ousting of moammar gadhafi has got no radical changes for the better for the country. last well that could or are choosing their next president with current rare expected to stay off the brake. explain why the group

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more news today. these are the images. from the streets of canada. operation. welcome back. borders closed international flights suspended security forces on high alert. since the beginning of the uprising that resulted in a bloody civil conflict foreign intervention and the toppling of the longtime leader. explains why any celebrations are overshadowed by desperation the current government fears of more unrest.

from all going off he has lost legitimacy to lead and he must leave the shoot at their feet is impossible to imagine a future for libya with get daffy still in power he must. 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 you have militias running. free on the streets. 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 with 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 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 no boots on the ground they have no army use their. military. the west country so two years after the revolution for libya the only certainty is

still gadhafi is gone of course you can check out our web site for more analysis of the consequences of the nato about regime change in libya that and much more on dot com. now during his state of the union speech president obama said america needs to boost its help for libya and its neighbors to bring security to the restive region defending his counterterrorism framework he talked about the fate of arab spring countries and plans to end america's afghanistan military mission by the end of the next year or more from artie's going to chicken in washington in his state of the union speech president obama outlined some of the external threats that the country speccing 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 to listen it's true different al qaeda affiliates and extremist groups have emerged

from the 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 america although there was no mentioning of the word drones everyone knew that's what the president meant when saying direct with no us troops involved what he did not talk about was the limits for this war that they'd ministration his waging with the remote control the justification that the administration gave john brennan's words 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 past 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 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 the administration sees 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. 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 them on this administration said it would be a serious cyber attack a. it was an act of war but apparently when the u.s. . should not be seen as an act of war. i could dorian's heading to the polls in a presidential election the incumbent. hoping to keep his job one man who's most probably rooting for him is the world's most famous whistleblower joining the sun who still holed up in the ecuadorian embassy in london granted him asylum there. and then she reports. as voters have to prove their president rafael correa looks set to win a third term in office according to the latest who's the left wing economist the heart of the seven other presidential candidates with approximately sixty percent of people backing the incumbent his closest challenger is the right wing. with twenty percent after promising lower taxes for job creating companies one person

who is especially interested in the outcome of sunday's elections is julian assange the founder of wiki leaks whose fate in some way depends on the results last year after the was involved in the center of the international dispute allow the whistleblower to take refuge in its embassy in london where he had fled to avoid being sent to sweden for question over accusations of sexual assault fearing that upon his explanation to sweden he could immediately be sent to the united states where he says he made plays the death penalty question political asylum for the world although seiler was granted the wiki leaks founder still remains at the embassy as the u.k. refused to allow him to leave the country after his earlier in two thousand and twelve korea featured t.v. show the world tomorrow but aired on r.t. in the interview to merge that the two men had something in common both songe and korea had on the washington. is really a pleasure to meet you julian. to the club of the persecuted.

thank you. park outrage in d.c. after releasing thousands of classified u.s. diplomatic cables and footage of american pilots ruthlessly killing journalists in iraq while back in two thousand and eleven accused washington of meddling with only fares and expelled the u.s. ambassador after citing a week as a proof of the country's police have been infiltrated after saans lost his last legal battle against the tradition to sweden it did not came a surprise. to apply for asylum and that is why in this election one of rough strongest supporters is an australian whistleblower seething with the london embassy. of the more of today's international news for you. a series of car bomb blasts in baghdad have killed at least twenty eight people and left dozens more injured explosions occurred in mainly shiite areas of the iraqi capital shoppers

attended outdoor markets no group has yet to admit to the attacks the blasts have brought the number of deaths in the region to more than two hundred fifty since the start of the year. police in warsaw have clashed with demonstrators protesting against the independence of kosovo officers used patterns against crowds who fought back by throwing flares that police or even started as a march back to this very ng same cost of those serbia the slogan that was popularized by the serbian government after the softer cat republic trained sovereignty in two thousand and eight. that's a portugal where thousands of people have taken to the streets to voice their anger at fresh austerity measures holding banners and chanting slogans the march has called on parliament to reverse this cut securing place its attempts to reduce the country's huge debt. union led rally will serve in the government to step down over

its handling of the crisis despite handouts from brussels the jobless rate is nearing its seventeen percent. was the third european country to receive a payout from the e.u. . one in greece the first country to get emergency loans to avoid going bankrupt or people are now out of work than at any time since the financial system to trouble five. a quarter of greeks now unemployed twice the european average and each day hundreds of thousands are forced to rely on food and perhaps even to get by. center left greek m.p.'s really so the dire situation is hitting everyone hard on the personal level. while it seems that it's 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 poverty you see people's out 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 to people that they won't find a job in greece the 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 use their jobs every day this is creating a few months crises inside the euro zone. or the week's news of the great.