a meteorite crashes in central russia causing panic damage and leaving over twelve hundred injured. football fans lead mass protests to the gripping egypt portside over the damning court verdict that blamed hooligans for a stadium right that left more than seventy people dead last year. and president obama secures washington's expanding counterterrorism efforts in the middle east as he lays out america's global priority plan and his state of the union address. hello this is our team you're watching or rather for the top stories of the last

seven days as me kevin owen here in moscow this morning very good to have your company and of course the big story of the week here it comes keep a look at that screen the worldwide died this last week over those dramatic images from central russia that plunging meteor that exploded with a blinding flash before crashing in the urals early on friday parts of it ended up in a lake will tell you about that in just a minute no matter how you look at it not hard to imagine the shock of the people that were in the child chelyabinsk area that witnessed all that first that blinding flash they thought was a nuclear bomb some of the people there going off there that the roof of the pressure they were describing how they kind of felt it within their bodies and then of course if you were in a building when that blast went off and the windows came in the main injuries were caused from out flying glass twelve hundred casualties plus what we're hearing tonight after a struggle to locate traces of this space visitor there was an awful lot of it left apart from the big chunks what went into a lake

a team of the russian academy of science it's have now reportedly found parts of it are going to be setting that off for testing picking up the story a big story in the week it was for us wasn't it is r.t.c. goalpost going off. it was like a scene from a site for a movie but with one exception it was real first the brilliant flash is big bright like he was shiny 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 any usual glare on the floor i thought of all lines from a car then we went to the window and saw this strange cloud and then and then this . would turn around and the wall was a gun at someone had moved it this eries 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 we were told to quickly put our clothes on 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 we 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 pete buck fires for now the immediate priority is to look after the injured and repair the damage to buildings especially. broken windows in schools and residential areas as temperatures of 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 no matter how advanced technology gets nowadays often when it comes to meter we can only watch helplessly and hope for the best. when you get over the mall you just never know it's going to have an r.t.c. go piskun off there will of course as 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 lizzie france's 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 will do 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. you may 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 mindblowing 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 pits 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 other scientists believe the last time something like this happened was in one thousand nine hundred eighty when the crash landed somewhere in siberia destroying thousands of square kilometers of forests causing acid rains to fall causing me to asians 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 meteoric 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 hundreds of 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 network of. massive us of wells cosmos and russia the european space agency others that are out there trying to detect it's record 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 isn't going to matter could actually you know do to them to 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. really 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 as they say it's no 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 from somebody who couldn't that sort of thing 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 spend ten thousand dollars on 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 have you got for us 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 streets citizens are urged to get out of the shelters lunchbox handouts power 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 i mean 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 now you've got you've got they did nearly funny stuff to the citizens of chile have been scar already checking to see which superpowers they have god knows and you know the radiation from the explosion may have caused them to have extra insulin tomorrow for you to come to our local weather reports it's negative seventeen degrees celsius in chelyabinsk there is wind and a slight meteor but our schools. yeah but really when you say really was the argot 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 on valentine's day you're certainly going to tell you that in a team of course and then you've got people. over in 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 give you get that i got mad when i saw

that but that was nice and then of course you got the photoshop action angry birds flying in on the tail of the media are coming and then you get the rush or bruce willis popular go it will go around the world dinosaurs this stuff killed my brother please don't laugh. dollars years ago yes you never know you got to have remained in what's going to just north kick in the rocket ride over there russia from the united states killed karate hero. because you know you have to go after where these friends or whatever then of course you couldn't get out of our of the rock and down to the crash site as he does you know as you do i think i know that's nice excellent lots of photos of support and well also we've got one as well a football fan was over in britain for a couple of this one football for a speculating over that much for three rushes in the england. game or 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 play sports or a loser so will let you get on with it thank you very much for coming to see a sim and for those who go to the course if you want to find more about that huge news event in the week options or must take pictures online r.t. dot com just a click away. huge event in the way it will to somehow be right now next to the egyptian city of port side brought to a standstill by protests spearheaded by local football firms to block the harbor as well as disrupting rail and telephone services well many students left close to join the demonstrations the action follows a wave of unrest in the city unleashed by a court decision to convict local soccer firms for inciting last year's left more than seventy people dead true briggs's the details no she's in cairo well good morning to what do we know about the current situation in port side.

the latest reports i have is that the scenes are pretty calm however the ultra hard core fans you call these acts that we didn't see how upset they will escalate in the next few days if their demands are not match so we're expecting tomorrow and then the following the next three days for there to be similar acts of disobedience across this very restive city what happened today is we saw about three thousand people come to the streets of port saeed basically showing mass anger against the president and the authorities they reportedly surrounded the governor building they managed to actually get government employees on the side they stopped the harbor from working and even went to the telecom buildings this however was not just the ultras the hardcore football fans who were in both other sectors got involved there were students and teachers who staged protests after the death of

a young student over the past few weeks in clashes in port sorry and as i said government glories during dinner as well so what we're seeing really is taking quite a step towards independence from the country expressing that this is stretching across different parts of the city we won all the locals so upset didn't the football fans play some role in the deadly riot last year or is there more to it than this. what happened was is that what they're saying the reason that they're angry is on twenty six january there was this court verdict the sold twenty one point site citizen sentenced to death after this deadly football massacre that happened last year in february and basically pushed i.e. to people are saying this is unfair at the time of the massacre both sides who are involved both the actually ultras who were the ones who talk and the porch light fronts said that they that the police had played a parts including removing the barriers between these very rival groups and

blocking access which led to stampede of skilled people so far no police members of the police have been found guilty in addition they're saying that the anger of the security forces so the way that they reacted to protests by following this very contentious decision saw dozens die they said because this committee forces attacked the people of poor saif with live ammunition so a lot of the anger here is also got to do with the reaction of the security forces off the protests following this very contentious verdict we've listed in the seven demands of the people who call the civil disobedience including asking the minister of interior to step down they say that he should take responsibility. for the deaths of these people they want the state to pay the medical bills of people who were injured the hundreds there were injured in this protest and basically saying they want someone to be from the counter both of the deaths speaking to people from port side they told me they feel of course are you just being used as a scapegoat that you don't see live ammunition used against protesters in other

parts of the country instead the florida keys are just hanging these twenty one defendants to make up for this this month's occur and they're bowing to the demands of the people in the capital as i said they will escalate in the next few days people are predicting violence and they want to continue to break the curfew which is on the city. continue these activists to b.b. and possibly bringing the city to a standstill for the next. but keeping a close eye on it with your help true live in cairo there thanks very much. libya's also marking the second anniversary of its anti government uprising putting security forces on high alert we talk about that soon later this hour we look at why the ousting of moammar gadhafi has brought no radical change for the better to the country and also for the people that could or choosing the next president right now we currently to rafael corona expected to stay after the break then we explain why the result could prove pivotal for whistleblower julian his son ch.

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school here on. reporting from the world talks about seventy odd p. interviews intriguing stories for you here. in troy. visit. 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 by the end of next year more than for marty's going to she can there were a correspondent 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 in extremist groups have emerged from the 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 occupying 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 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 your 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 briefly pressure on syria and it 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. 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 for structure 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 view a serious cyber attack a. yes the united states is an act of war but apparently when the u.s. carries out the attack it should not be seen as an act of war. borders closed international flights suspended security forces on high alert that is how libya is marking two years now since the beginning of the uprising that resulted in a bloody civil conflict foreign intervention and eventually the toppling of the longtime leader of one the gadhafi of his in a scenario explains where the celebrations 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 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 in 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 the not exist before the country's infrastructure has been destroyed and

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 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 in 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 ground they have no more use their. military. west countries like france so two years after the revolution for libya the only certainty is still gadhafi is gone.

in brief this morning so as a car bomb blast in baghdad left at least twenty eight people killed and left over one hundred more injured explosions have to maybe sure there is of iraqi capital a shopper's attended outdoor markets no group should admit to those attacks plus a brought the number of deaths that in the region to more than two hundred fifty since the start of the year. he said warsaw of clashed with demonstrators protesting against the independence of kosovo officers used battens against crowds who fought back by throwing flares at police meanwhile the parades being held in kosovo marking the fifth anniversary of its independence from serbia the self declared republic proclaimed its sovereignty in two thousand and eight. heading to the polls in a presidential election with incumbent ruffy a career hoping to keep his job more money spent probably rooting for him as the world's most famous whistleblower julian assange she still holed up in the ecuadorian embassy in london of to craig granted asylum there are supposed to

political analyst. earlier he predicts a shift in latin america's dynamics. this very strong popular movement trying to keep move away from you know that states is gaining momentum but it's having its problems anyway the fact that rafael look or it would gloria will undoubtedly win is a very good positive point is however the truth of life that it would be or is a relatively small country so that it does not have that much leverage but in the case of for example mr julius sons no doubt that will continue that will mean a continued support for him and his extended stay at the editorial embassy in the united kingdom public opinion throughout latin america has grown very weary with u.s. intervention and u.k. intervention throughout the continent which explains why countries like venezuela ecuador bolivia even argentina brazil who are a having governments are keeping very much aloof or of arm's length from the united states there are exceptions such as colombia for different reasons and surely which

is a traditional hello of the united kingdom however i would i would say that the opposition hardly stands a chance of winning especially since most of them to a greater or lesser degree are pro-u.s. . chief thanks for being with us tonight we do appreciate it shortly we look at the gun control debate in the u.s. whether everyone should still have the right to bear arms in a country with such a high murder rate so next program. all those north korean scamps added again another nuclear test in north korea has made all the headlines trust me nuclear missiles are something worth being concerned over but haven't we heard this song and dance before although back in two thousand and two the north koreans according to the beat.