After 3 years in hiding, momo kadhafis son is back in tripoli behind bars. He fled to need share and as been extradited, awaiting trial, accused of fueling up buddy crackdown. Fueling a bloody crackdown. Brazilsng up, carnival parade winners will find out more about the colorful costumes and the glitz and glamour. And the latest sports news, with the france and netherlands gaining. Lets go to our top story. The Crimean Parliament has voted in favor of holding a referendum on whether crimea should remain part of ukraine or join russia instead. The autonomous region is planning to vote on the 16th of march. One person is in front of the Crimean Parliament, where dozens of prorussian protesters have gathered. It is a slight technical problem. Orry about that we will come back to that letter in the bulletin. Lets go to the controversial phone recording that is emerged on the internet, and it is not good news for the ukrainian authorities bitte snipers accused of killing thousands of protesters have long been thought to be proyanukovich. But the conversations between the foreign minister and the eu Foreign Policy chief is spreading out. A week ago, ane exchange between estonias diplomat and the Foreign Policy chief. Ashton asked for his thoughts. He echoed a rumor going on in kiev relate to him by a doctor who treated sniper victims. It was disturbing. The evidence shows that they were the same snipers killing people from both sides. It is really disturbing that they dont want to investigate what exactly happened. A stronger and stronger understanding that behind snipers it was not yanukovich but somebody from the new coalition. We do want to investigate. During a protest at the end of february, snipers were identified on roofs in tf, some branded as please. Nearly 90 people were killed, maybe by their own side. Russian state television says he feels has words have been misinterpreted. I clearly stated that this kind of story is going around and expressed concern that if the rumors continued, it could damage the new government and situation in ukraine. The European Union hasnt commented on the content of the recording. Thewhile, the eu has frozen assets of the former ukrainian. Overnment ousted president yanukovich from his son, and his closest aides are on a list accused of embezzling state funds and of violating human rights during the threemonth protest. The eu decision comes as the leaders are holding an emergency meeting in brussels, and british Prime MinisterDavid Cameron and french president francois aland francois aland talk about what will be on the agenda. We have got to make sure we get russia and ukraine talking to each other. Second, we have been to demonstrate here in the European Union that we will help the ukrainian people in their hour of need. Third, and just as vital, we need to send a very clear message to the russian government that what has happened is unacceptable and should have consequences, and were further action indicating, that would be even want acceptable and require even more wesequences but that is what will be discussing today and i hope for a positive outcome. There is the possible use, ut pressure to do what . It could raise tensions even higher. On the contrary, opening the way for dialogue. We go live to brussels. , and thetlantic action dish diplomatic action, and the e to be rolling out the cup it for the lots of diplomatic beion, and the eu seems to rolling out the carpet for the new meter. The move carries huge political significance because moscow refuses to recognize the new interim government in the ukraine. That is not all. For once i decided to think big about ukraine. First, i man a Financial Aid package will be put on the table today. Europe since europeans are not going to stop there. Theres a proposal to speed up negotiations on visa liberalization deal and a Free Trade Agreement. There will be strings attached, of course, to the Financial Aid package. The imf is going to be involved. And the Free Trade Agreement will take time to negotiate. But the political single that is being sent out today by european leaders is that they chose their camps and that russia will be isolated against the new ukrainian authorities. , concretely, what could come out of this meeting in terms of eu sanctions . All the options are currently on the table and will depend heavily on the evolution of the situation on the ground. European unity is somewhat fragile. Some countries are more heavily dependent on others on european gas imports. Think of the european use countries and germany in particular. There was also great determination shown this morning by the european leaders as they arrived for the summit. You heard David Cameron speaking this morning, saying that the russian actions in crimea were an act of aggression that should not remain unpunished. If you let that russia have its way in crimea, other countries could follow suit. Was hammered down by the lithuanian president as she arrived for the council meeting. Thank you very much for that. We will come back to you as soon as this story develops right here on france 24. Rome, the Russian Foreign minister and the u. S. Secretary of state john kerry are holding talks today. The Ministerial Conference was supposed to focus on the situation in libya, but it has been overshadowed by the crisis in ukraine. Both men did meet in paris yesterday but no concrete agreements had been reached. We will see how this goes today. Moammar gadhafis son is currently behind bars in tripoli. That is according to the libyan government. After his fathers death, saadi fled to niger. He is awaiting trial, accused of shooting registers when he was leading the Libyan Special forces. He was known as the libyan dictator football playing son. Saadi gadhafi has been brought home to face trial. Gadhafi of saadi getting his head shaved shortly after arriving in prison. He had been living in the sahara and country since fleeing upon the fall of his fathers regime in september 2011. The 40yearold was known for having a decadent late boy lifestyle playboy that he fancied himself a professional footballer, running the Libyan Football Federation as he pleased. He managed to get himself contacted several italian clubs but played only 2 games in five years. He is not wanted by the International Criminal court at the hague. Inis likely to be tried libya for misappropriation of property and armed intimidation. According to authorities, a Usled Coalition destroyed a Usled Coalition destroyed the military post with the drones could nato has offered its condolences to afghanistan on administration is currently underway to determine what happened exactly. The incident could worsen already strained relations between washington and kabul. Visiting karzai has tirelessly denounced the u. S. Use of drones, which have reportedly killed dozens of civilians, but which the u. S. Says is necessary to crush the taliban insurgency. A ship allegedly carrying thought togaza is port in israel on saturday. Israeli naval forces intercepted the ship 2 days ago and they said that dozens of rockets were found on board. The weapons were reportedly made in syria. They somehow found their way to iran and were allegedly shift of two palestinian merchants in gaza. Staying with tehran, authorities there are due to receive 550 million from south korea after iran one access to its oil revenues that had been frozen abroad. The deal is between powers on the controversial nuclear program. The trial of al jazeera journalists in egypt has been adjourned until the 24th of march. Until then, the defendants will remain in jail. They have been held for the past 2 months, accused of spreading false news and supporting the former ruling party, the muslim brotherhood, that is now been banned. More about their Second Court Appearance on wednesday. Tortured and denied medical care, the claims that al jazeera journalists were supporting ousted president Mohammad Morrissey and the muslim brotherhood. Mohammad morrissey and the muslim brotherhood. It follows the militarys july 3 overthrow of morsi. The rest of fled or are abroad. By a descending my understanding of todays events is that there definitely wasnt anything i was incriminating from them. The officer that arrested him and his witness testimony, you feel that he is reading out what he memorized. L ishe journalists tria increasingly seen as a litmus test of egypts media freedom. Relationsmid strained to train cairo and doha. The gulf state of qatar, which funds al jazeera, backs the thatm brotherhood, a group ajax military installed government has gone to Great Lengths to crackdown on. Said in venezuela clashed with dozens of antigovernment protesters right police in venezuela clashed with dozens of antigovernment protesters could this is the country marks the First Anniversary of hugo chavezs death. During the commemoration, president maduro said he was breaking diplomatic links with panama. Anniversary seeped intention seeped in tension. One year after to go chavezs passing, diplomatic discord brewed. President maduro severed diplomatic and economic ties with panama. Given the open conspiracy of panamas a messenger, i have decided to break lyrical and diplomatic ties with panama and to sever all commercial and economic relations from this very moment. Maduros position follows panamas request for a private meeting with the organization of american states, and the tackling antigovernment protests in venezuela. Oasonsiders the washingtondominated could addressing leftist leaders, including rail car struck him he discussed a conspiracy to topple including growl castro, he discussed a conspiracy to topple his government. To take placenued across the state. They vow to stay put until president maduro resigns. For those of you who have just joined us here on france 24, here is our top story. The primary parliament has voted in favor of holding a referendum on whether crimea should remain part of ukraine or join russia instead. Caps on was region is planning to vote on the 16th of march. Dozens of prorussian protesters have gathered. What is going on . Not a very big crowd of people. They are dancing to russian pop music and waving russian flags showing enthusiasm for the decision by the crime. Crimean parliament towards the idea of joining the russian federation. Whether that will be reflected crimeawide, we dont know. We dont know if it is possible to organize a referendum on such short notice. We imagine it would be extreme the difficult. In the united kingdom, the preparations for the referendum in scotland were underway for a very long time indeed. In crimea, it is a time of national tension, when much of the Crimean Peninsula is occupied by russian forces. To hold a referendum scenes the height of madness. To hold a referendum seems the height of madness. One has to say, it is extreme the doubtful. Whether it is even legal, given moment of the crimea is a subject of the ukraine, authority of the ukrainian parliament. It seems extremely doubtful. For the moment, it looks as though this may very well go ahead 10 days from now. Do you have any information on how the Central Government in key have reacted in kiev . Was that this is illegal. You hold a referendum like that requires the approval of the ukrainian parliament. There has been no such discussion. Clearly it is illegal. Inside crimea as well, there is a lot of discussion among the , very resistant to the idea of separation and joining russia. The council will be holding a meeting today to discuss what their reaction should be. Will they boycott the vote, for instance . There are many questions that will be discussed over the next few days, and this decision to put this issue to a vote and to appeal to president putin of russia to accept the appeal of the Crimean Parliament, really ups the tensions. Thank you for that update. More analysis on the this story, lets bring in our International Affairs editor. Eu heads of state are currently meeting in brussels, and is a highlevel meeting. What could actually come out of this . Particularly highlevel given that we had setbacks on the diplomatic front yesterday, when foreign minister lavrov refused to meet his ukrainian counterpart. What is happening in brussels today is that basically we will can hammer the eu out the joint response to the crisis. Whatever this response would be, this is going to be closely watched by Eastern European members of the eu. Some of these countries have ethnic russians among their population. They are looking for a very strong stance from the of. On the other hand, you have the interests of the eve the other eu members. It is a 28member bloc. Countries like germany, their economies are closely down in the Energy Sector and they are hesitant on things like sanctions. There is strong rhetoric coming from washington. On this side of the atlantic, the rhetoric is considerably toned down. As the leaders arrive today for the meetings, we have what we call on the press the verbal warmups. They make the comments and sometimes that gives you the temperature of what the talks are going to be like. It seems like, from what i am could read, that sanctions will be on the table but they are really pushing for some sort of dialogue, some sort of negotiation. On idea is not to egg putin into such a position that he has to take a tougher stance. He wants to allow putin to enter negotiations and dialogue. One of the leaders who did mention sanctions is german chancellor angela merkel. She has been seen as the most reluctant so far. She actually said that we will talk about sanctions in a different kind of form, but whether we enter into force or not depends on how far the diplomatic rss goes how for the diplomatic process goes. They will try to work out how to from this content group that france and germany are so keen on. The Contact Group would include representatives of russia and ukraine. That is going to be a very tough sell to moscow. All right, thank you very much for that analysis. For those of you who have just joined us on france 24, a reminder of our top stories. Freezes the assets of ousted ukrainian president yanukovich and 17 other officials, including his son, his former Prime Minister, interior and justice minister. Ins is the eu leaders meet brussels to discuss the crisis. The town was region of crimea plans to vote on whether to break away from ukraine the autonomous region of crimea plans to vote on whether to break away from ukraine and join russia. The clever the kremlin says that Vladimir Putin is discussing the issue with his security council. Ismmar qaddafis son saadi back in tripoli behind bars. Following the uprising, he fled to niger and has now been extradited, awaiting trial accused of fueling the bloody crackdown. And now it is time for the weekly rest review weekly press review, starting with the situation in ukraine. Fight amir putin is playing with fire. You can see this little drawing of him to take it as a vulture. In thes a huge disparity versions of the events that are being put forward on one hand by the ukrainian media and on the other hand by russian media. They have extract of articles from various papers from ukraine and from russia. This is due to starkly different conceptions and assumptions about just what is happening in on the ground. One thing everyone can agree on is that there is a feeling of deja vu all of this feels like a step back into the cold war. , theon the front page issue of abortion and how there is a return of conservatives. Just 40 years after most western countries recognized the rights for women to have abortions, that right is under attack in many parts of the world such as spain, the u. K. , and especially in the u. S. , where antiabortion lobbyists are trying to make it harder for women to have an abortion. When it comes to womens rights, nothing is written in stone. This comes as we celebrate International Womens went. Day, rather. Absolutely. And also, men. The brink of this ageold debate, what are the differences between men and women . There will be an how much is due to nature, how much is due to nurture, are reborn men and women or are they social constructs, and gender theory that scientific stories, and an inventory of the latest conventional wisdom. What a fascinating topic. Gender theory is a debate that is caused quite a ruckus in france. A lot of people dont believe in gender theory. They think it is a bad word. There has been outrage over a new School Program that many andle, especially Muslim Catholic organizations, claim actually teaches gender theory to little kids. Teachers say it is not gender theory. What it is doing is trying to do away with stereotypes. As you can see, the School System in general is in the crosshairs this week, and not all to do with gender theory. Les are bad, according to point, and pulls out statistics. 40 of people without diplomas are unemployed. According to them, all this is that despite the huge budget that the state has put forward for schools, 65 billion euros. It asks the question, can we entrust our children in the public School System . A lets move onto this feminist magazine. It is invested in Sexual Violence in the army. Extracts from a book called the invisible war, written by 2 journalists after a 2year investigation. The french army often brags about being the most feminist army in the world because 15 or center for grids are women. But the magazine points out 15 of workers are women. But the magazine points out that 39 cases have been officially recognized but there are some 196,000 troops. Tte, the to cause investigation is bearing fruit because the military is decided to eat lunch an official investigation has decided to launch an official investigation. The military has decided to launch an official investigation but never before has the army the african much on policy. Talks about a silent coup detat, and how the army took over, and this illustration of Francois Hollande as a soldier. Striking illustration. Lets move onto glitz and glamour from hollywood. A 28yearold somaliamerican start of captain phillips nearly won the prize but didnt. When hes a limo driver was cast for the role. He was nominated for the oscar. But the new yorker says it is not a hollywood ending for him. It is more like hardship in hollywood. He says he is having a really hard time making ends meet, and he says that he has moved to hollywood to try and get more jobs. But he is having a hard time finding work. One actress who is not having a hard time finding work is the pageh actress on the front this week. She has gotten a lot of attention because she allegedly had an affair with president Francois Hollande, and she was nominated for the french equivalent of an oscar for her second role. Gg99nnwcca7guc