in the week just gone a meteor crashes in central russia causing panic damage and leaving over twelve hundred inches. of fresh seams of violence in bahrain this weekend with stone throwing protesters hit with tear gas and stun grenades in clashes which threaten attempts to ease two years of anti regime unrest in the gulf kingdom. and president obama secures washington's expanding counterterrorism efforts in the middle east as he lays out america's global priority plan in his state of the union address.

hello there in a very good morning to you if you just joined us sits kevin owen here at r.t. h.q. in moscow with our top stories of the last seven days and of course the big story as we can see on the screen the worldwide died this last week over those dramatic images from central russia plunging meteor exploding with a blinding flash before crashing in the urals early on friday what a wake up call that was for the local inhabitants of chelyabinsk wasn't it they went out of bed by nine twenty five that morning they certainly were after that i want to shocking thing to happen as well first they described that intense bright light the best a lot of people could describe it as was big like a nuclear bomb going off maybe there was a lot of worry then came the bang the whoosh the pressure blew they said they could feel it inside shocking and in the last hour as well a development two scientists now looking for traces of the space visitor one report suggesting that a an expedition of academy of sciences might have found some of them and that will be interesting as well they'll be taking that back for analysis i guess here in

moscow trying to find out where that came from anyway on top of the story here is he got his gun off. it was like a scene from messiah for a movie but with one exception it was real first the brilliant flash this big bright like he was sharing across the sky you know blinding brighter than the sun the skies were lit up by a meteor streaking across the skies above the russians. over want to marry have thousand kilometers east of moscow we're not just an unusual glare on the floor i thought it was lines from a car then we went 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 this use of massive explosions rocked the entire city damaging buildings and shattering windows

. nasa said the explosive force of the media or 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. windows just exploded i saw one girl he did her head and a growing his hand were told to quickly put all closes on her and run out so many were able to film the other three 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 miss 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 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 temperatures are married drop below minus fifteen celsius is going to take time to clear everything else but for now science like this collapsed factory or a clear reminder of how advanced technology gets now days often work of some each or we can only watch helplessly and hope for the best. when you get up in the morning you just never know what's going to have his skin off there will of course it is this happened at the pictures that were being flashed around the web almost instantly so much chatter as you'd expect going on about it lindsay france is across all that for us lindsay. a lot has been hitting the internet in recent days regarding the media or some from the merely factual all the way to the out right out rageous such as president putin writing the power of the rock all the way to earth i am getting updates on this right now in the newsroom we'll bring you the

very latest in the studio just a couple of minutes good stuff. of course one startling alarming to all who says that nobody actually saw it coming we always think we've got the telescopes trained on the heavens part of this rock was too small with insight into the earth is a really good for me wonder why the scientists haven't seen this thing coming after all it was quite a doozy was really large as a matter of fact buzz at the same time the scientists are saying that there's way too many things flying out there in outer space and although this one was a big one they can't really keep track of everything that's coming but seriously this thing weighed more than ten thousand tons when it was approaching earth so the scientists say of course when it entered the atmosphere it mind blowing the speed of thirty kilometers per second that's really really fast when it entered the atmosphere it broke into several pieces and those went scattering all over the region this is the region that we're actually concerned with but it actually when

all around the place we're only going with what the scientists and the emergency ministries are saying and they're saying that this icy pit this is a crater where the fragment one of the fragments has fallen of course we have to understand that this actually has been the biggest thing to hit this planet in over a century or so this scientists believe the last time something like this happened was in one thousand nine hundred eighty when the your crash landed somewhere in siberia destroying thousands of square kilometers of forests causing acid rains to fall causing me and plants and forest but it's also one of the biggest mysteries in the universe because nobody has ever found a crater from the meteor or no. no fragments of the meteor have been found so this is kind of a big mystery that a lot of people are trying to cash in on this the even even today hundred years later but back to reality back to present date i've been to

a region of course there has been plenty of damage you have seen the pictures of the damage to plants and buildings but actually a lot of people are saying it could have been a lot worse if history is any indication there are telescopes networks of. nasa the u.s. it was kosmos and well sure the european space agency others that are out there trying to detect it's work 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 oaklawn that is. could actually you know do two into the dinosaurs and another thing to have been scraped in is actually something of a nuclear hotspot in russia in fact during the soviet era this was the place for nuclear research so it has at least seven nuclear facilities that are located in the region and a lot of people are saying that if at least one of them was hit with one of the

fragments from an asteroid we would have been dealing with complications infinitely worse than we're having on our hands right now we would be dealing with a nuclear disaster but thankfully that did not happen and although this entire event was rather frightening and quite damaging still things could have been a lot worse and it's a good thing that everything turned out the way it did. reporting there was a brain surgeon this meteor blast went viral be catching up with lindsay from suggest a minute or two to see exactly what came in and out slowly so it's know when the blows nobody any good there's always somebody willing to cash it in there for a little fake some even troy selling what they claim to fragments of the crush of the most expensive was on offer i don't know whether anyone took it up was an offer for ten thousand dollars of course it was going to be an interest and so you'd have no way of setting out a way to see if it was tested it was actually a right for me to you could just been sent something for somebody. so i think you'd be very awards to part with your money for the lives of frauds but was one bizarre

specter of it do you know did anyone actually spent unfrozen dollars and you know i have no idea but i would really like to see that sample of rock they spent that kind of money what else we got for this is pictures just yes the twitter sphere is blowing up with the internet is just chock full of funny outrageous just odd things people are posting with maybe a little too much time on their hands you know all this video is great and wonderful but then you hit twitter and you see posts like this tanks are passing down the street citizens are urged to get out of the shelters lunchbox handouts palin has been arranged only if the end you realized ok this is not really happening this is not the same guy sits there and starts tweeting about what's happening in town saying we're being given chemical protection and gas masks the city is almost entirely evacuated we're setting up barricades and njt in islam you know we're joking about the know the power of these things and it was a frightening event if you didn't know what was happening at the time if you're reading this it could spread it would startle you everyone else why is he why does it have so much time to tweet about all of this happening and then i you've got

you've got to did nearly funny stuff to the citizens of chile i've been scar already checking to see which super powers they have god knows if you know the radiation from the explosion may have caused them to have extra gear and so when tomorrow what i'm going through when you come to our local weather reports it's negative seventeen degrees celsius in chelyabinsk there's wind and a slight meteor but our schools. yeah. i think so ok and then you know who is the guy who you know it's that one liner that happens around valentine's day pluck a star from the sky who is that you know what who promised to pick a star from the sky and valentine's day you're certainly going to tell me that in a team of course and then you've got people from all over you know english speaking countries tweeting about breaking news baby found in the middle of a meteorite crash that he's miraculously unharmed wrapped in what seems to be a red cape and allusion to superman if you get that i got when i saw that thought that was nice and then of course you've got the photoshop action angry birds flying

in on the tail of the media are coming and then you've got the russian or bruce willis popular boy are going around the world dinosaurs this stuff killed my brother please don't laugh. as years ago yes you never know you got to have a man don't know what's going to just norris kick in the rocket ride over there russia from the united states field karate hero. because you know you have to go as a way out of these friends or whatever then of course put an hour of the rock down to the crash site as he does you know as you do i think i'm going to go that's nice excellent lots of photos of his well also we've got one as well a football for was over in britain for a couple of this one football for a speculating over that much for three rushes in the. hall just a day before he said it could be read snow for a meteor or a meteor shower would come down and. what did he know that we didn't when i saw this i was thinking you know what i want to know when the red snow is. you place

bets on that or at least i will let you get on with it thank you very much for coming to see us and phyllis in again of course if you want to find more about that huge news event in the week got sensor matic pictures online r.t. dot com just a click away. more the big stories now for the last seven days as well the volatile situation in bahrain has been exacerbated by the latest clashes between anti-government 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 violence broke out when the protesters tried to make their way to the funeral of a teenager who was allegedly killed by security forces earlier this week during a rally marking two years of the anti-government uprising that incident of the term or that followed it is jeopardize talks them between the sunni dominated government

of the most insured opposition which is no stall and the activists say there are no signs of either progress or 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 the fourteenth of february another teenager has been killed and this meeting shows and displayed the lokpal bill for continuous 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 seems that you know 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 the violations on the street. and libya too is also

marking the second anniversary of it sound to government uprising putting security forces on high alert late to this we take a look at why the ousting of one look at duffy how slow brought no but it could change for the better to the country and the people that could or choosing the next president right now with the current leader rafael carette are expected to stay after the break we explain why the results could prove pivotal for whistleblower julian assange which. is based on. you know i can read. i'll just take. you to the place which is being. told. to just. stop the bloodshed i

just want to take. is that my concept of. let's focus on spain over the next couple of minutes engulfed in protests right there with thousands gathering in madrid and several other cities and civil taney as marches over quite different issues employees of the spanish airline iberia

first of all angry at its british based parent company's plans to layoff almost five thousand workers a quarter of its staff and then in a separate rally thousands marched against government proposals to partly privatized public health care it's called life madrid now where political home rather is there hi good to see you let's start off with the health care issue a lot of people feeling very strongly that demonstrators seeing the government's plan as politically motivated rather than one to simply cut costs other suspicions justified. well i think they are justified to some extent because it is true that the otti now in goa and when it was in your position and there was no economic crisis they were saying that they wanted to downsize the public health sector and favor the private health sector so now yes there's a crisis bed there are reasons to believe that it's also ideological that they simply want a different model for the health care system in spain the other rally against

layoffs that flag carrier iberia is more anti british than anti spanish government at the moment isn't it why is that only the airlines everywhere in the cutback at the moment is think about italians in trouble too. well the way the work is so high here he has seen these magic that was affected between nigeria and we did say was two years ago has favored massively reduced their ways they accused me to say we're so actually. taking advantage and eaten into the the markets of iberia particularly of flights to latin america not far from us but the fact is that it is true that the leadership of these holding is mostly pretty spaced and they have been unable to to to find a compromise with the spanish west force and they land them but that's the way to use was there any reckoning that the spanish workforce should share is there ways

maybe maybe to unionize except through within that. needed to be made. well that they look to work to say they are ready to make sacrifices to reduce the cost of our salaries to say they are ready to drop some of the some of the line some of the flights but basically what they fear is that behind these jobs taxi next decide again dismantling of the truck carrier and he's not just that is the fact that well they are they are being told that they cannot compete with the low cost companies with with high speed trains so when they are told basically it's not that this is the only adjustments but to basically they are not no longer wanted in the in the holy so that is why they are so worried and they're going to be a lot more demonstrations as well from our beer employees in february a much fifteen days of strikes planned it's going to have a huge knock on effect for travelers. yes actually is a is the most serious strike ever happened in nigeria yes it will have

a huge effect on for at least back well measures are being taken already to to soften these impacts and i reassessed that it can relocate eighty percent of these seventy thousand people which are supposed to be affected and then in spain of there is always the very high level of what is known as many months services that is that by law they have to even if there is a strike there has to be a certain level of service for example the canary islands but while the atoms in general that we want to spain they will have a hundred percent service and then fifty percent service for international flights so it will be of course it will affect lots of people but maybe not as massively as we feel now but we want is that but as we head into another year a lot of witnesses the girl on the madrid say it's one of the biggest demonstrations have been sitting there for years as we head into a new year what is the feeling for protests what is public anger like in space at

the moment. well it has been calm more generalized let's say because we have seen last year was mostly signatory of protests health care or education workers and cetera now we're seeing a more generalized anger of the system not just of the government but of the whole political system and this has to do with the with the scandals of corruption which are now very prominent in the spanish media people are very angry about that and what we've seen is so actually something very new in spain a very wide and deep protest and that it goes far beyond. the all the problems caused by the girlfriend through a program to undergo a number out of their lives from madrid. borders closed international flights suspended security forces on high alert that's how libya is marking two years since the beginning of the uprising that resulted in a bloody civil conflict foreign intervention and the toppling of the longtime

leader of one the gadhafi out is innocent explains next why any celebrations that are being overshadowed by desperation with the current government and fears of more unrest. 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 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 the militias in 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 the result of stalled economic activity and discontinue a. and of 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 abuse there they're basically getting a free ride from the military to. the west countries like france so two years after the revolution for libya the only certainty is still gadhafi is gone. and if you get a minute we've let you check out our web site for more analysis of the consequences of the nato about regime change in libya that much more of course don't call. during the state of the union speech president obama said america needs to boost its help for libya and its neighbors to bring security to the rest of region defending its counterterrorism framework he talked about the fate of arab spring countries and outlined plans to end america's afghanistan military mission to by the end of next year more from ours he's going to count on in washington in his

state of the union speech president obama outlined some of the external threats that the country spacing first of all paired 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 arabian peninsula to africa the threat these groups pose is a ball. 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 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. 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 he 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 spearing 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 for us cannot dictate the course of changing countries like very very briefly pressure on syria there was a change of. remember how the u.s. was cheerleading for revolutions in those countries just a year ago with radical forces gaining momentum in places like syria like maybe the changes that we've now in the region are not much to their liking among other

threats america faces the president talked about. he said he had issued an executive order to protect government agencies. 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 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 going to shoot you can in washington more international stories right after this break. wealthy british. out of. the.

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adding to the polls the presidential election with incumbent. to keep his job one man who's most probably rooting for him to is the world's most famous whistleblower julian his son he's still holed up in ecuador embassy in london after craig granted him asylum that i spoke to political analyst predicts a shift in latin america's dynamics. you will become increasingly important especially the specially now that we are in a bit of a crisis regionally because of the illness of the mystics have is in that as well or so this very strong popular movement trying to keep move away from the united states is gaining momentum but it is having its problems and the way the fact that ruffo that carried out will carry a one hundred thousand women is a very good point them positive point it is however a truth of life that it will do or is a relatively small country so that it does not have that much leverage but in the case of for example mr julia songs no doubt that.