the unsettled egyptian town of parts grinds to a halt in golf today a new bulge of protest over the death sentences handed down to footballers fans of the losses fatal riot. i could or in president rafael correa blows away the opposition the easily winning reelection for the third term possible good news for which he leads most of mine julian assange currently enjoying the latin american states protection. to tide over and you'll start to fury in spain as thousands of protesters blood in the streets while some demonstrators vent their anger directly at the u.k. .

it's eight am here in the russian capital you're watching are to live with me to bomb would say they just should city of post for you to has been brought to a standstill by a mass protest initiated by football fans several thousand activists blocked access to the local railway to and report and force factories to shut down this one as a wave of unrest in general sparked by death sentences given to twenty one football fans who were found guilty of inciting last year's riot that left more than seventy people did well true has the latest from cairo. the culture of hardcore football fans who call these acts that we didn't see how upset they will escalate in the next few days if their demands a not match the story about three thousand people come to the streets of port saeed basically showing anger against the president and the authorities they reportedly surrounded the governor's building they managed to actually get government

employees on the sign 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 involved other sectors got in there were students teachers who staged protests after the death of a young student over the past few weeks in clashes in court sorry and as i said government protests during dinner as well that so what we're seeing really is poor sign taking quite a step towards independence from the country expressing that this is stretching across different parts of the city what they're saying the reason that they're angry is on twenty six january there was this court verdict the sort twenty one citizen sentenced to death after this deadly football massacre that happened last year in february and basically poor saeed people are saying this is unfair in addition they're saying that the anger all of the security forces so the way that they reacted to protests by following this very contentious decision saw dozens die

they said that 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 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 be and forcibly bringing the city to a standstill for the next week. in a few minutes of freedom of speech of this is the end to cement his i'm. going to go through. it has nothing to do with the violation of freedom of expression it is an american concept and it cannot be applied in france in the is understood in the us a sense the ship debate is sparks in france after a court rules a twitter must hand over private data of users allegedly posting hate speech.

a landslide victory predicted by many ecuadorian president rafael correa has easily won reelection exit polls giving him a wide lead over his nearest challenger with around sixty percent of the vote the news will no doubt to be greeted with a sigh of relief from the world's top whistleblower julian asuncion who is currently under the country's diplomatic protection in london r.t. if you learn a million cheech reports from the ecuadorian capital peter. it's been an easy victory for referer career. voters praise him for the massive social spending programs he rounds despite the global financial crisis but this isn't the only thing that makes korea stand out as a leader in the international arena he has taken a firm stance against a strong u.s. influence in south america tensions reached boiling point in two thousand and eleven when he accused washington of meddling into the country's internal affairs and expelled its u.s. ambassador to korea refers to we kill its cable as

a proof of american has made it to the release force this came just six months after the country was shaken by an attempted coup by police officers who blockaded perea in a hospital and occupied the national parliament last year the president entered the us even more by granting asylum to the world's most famous whistleblower julian assange who is wanted in the states for the release of classified on diplomatic cables songes now residing in ecuador is london embassy so another four years in powerful one of the most vocal american latin american leaders is good news for sun on the other hand it will definitely have be a headache for washington is that weather is both to remain one of the major leftist powerhouses in latin america. political analyst adrian sell blue cheese says that career as a victory is for the prove that strong n.t. u.s. and meant sentiment in many latin american states if the pro washington opposition struggling for support. public opinions there are left in america is growing very weary with u.s. intervention and u.k.

intervention throughout the continent which explains why countries like venezuela ecuador believe even argentina brazil or the crowd one are having governments are keeping very much of a move for of arm's length from the united states 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. it is however a proof of life that it could or is a relatively small country so that it does not have that much leverage but in the case of for example mr jr son 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. french and us legislation have clashed over a case online hate speech twitter which is an american company that's now reveal personal data off french and users placing anti semitic messages r.t. the maria phenomena examines the cases the ever the concept of free speech should be applied to different in different countries. two democracies stumbling over the

concept of freedom a french court has called on twitter to help censor hate speech on the website in france because it violates its laws but tweeter is an american company and the american constitution sets no limits to freedom of expression given that the french word as we wired to do that the question is how can the french and for instance judge those decision when the union of jewish students of france took the issue to paris cotton october they wanted to stop away with and to semitic messages posted under the hashtag on bones reef a good jew it was the third most popular tagged subject of the time the number of insulting jokes reach thousands but these people all of whom have at least once been attacked for being a jew also wanted to punish those responsible people. we don't want to prosecute or treat these people but just to draw the attention of the northeast to such cases to

let them decide whether or not it's a case of racism. or when a special twitter agreed to remove offensive content but the authors were anonymous and punished so french jews brought the popular micro-blogging site to trial the court decision in january asked the company to divulge the names of people behind the tweets the fight against racism has nothing to do with the violation of freedom of expression it is an american concept and it cannot be applied in france in the way it is understood in the us we just wanted this part of our lives to obey this country's legislation which prohibits public racism but not everyone agrees if freedom is limited they say it's no longer freedom jeremy of jewish origins himself is one of them he says greater liberty shouldn't bring more restrictions but a different approach to controlling the internet you have twitter a private company that may be acting as

a job. citing what is legal and what is not and removing content which is censorship so i agree that this content should be combated but i don't agree that the private companies such as twitter should implement private or censorship of free speech online this is a major risk today this story has sparked rode a discussion of the violations of freedom and privacy in france the right at least one hundred ninety pan-european laws allowing authorities access to internet users personal information caption web storage is and surveillance. china tomorrow but we are concerned from the u.s. britain and some other democratic leaders are helping to produce an internet surveillance technology for china syria or libya egypt. will if they allow the governments of these countries to use it against their people is there any guarantee that france will not use it against its own people one day. but this

treaty dispute has gone far beyond the borders of the us and france and any grievance reached will affect subsequent cases skeptics warn that france may be happy to let personal freedom slide the birthday party of liberty equality for eternity france's most famous motto and three peers the country has been resting on since the french revolution and today they face new challenges with racism been one of them and it has many fearing whether both intolerance itself and the fight against it may see those hard fought principles swept aside. from paris. victory my tastes we need to bud could smell even a sweeter californian company crane for you maimed up to the hamas rockets fired at israel in the latest got the conflict with one claiming the scent of victory. and china leapfrogs the us to become the world's top trade up triggering soul

searching in america about what's holding back business the. new year's celebrations on the move without the traditional t.v. or festive food surprising meetings and new adventures stories of love found and love lost russians teach foreigners to celebrate them biggest holiday of the year for must go to st petersburg by train over you. may be miracles. we are facing a lot of problems. because no one. part .

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welcome back you're watching our team that doesn't appear to be much siesta spirit in spain thousands of protesters have flooded the streets demonstrating against the government's plan to privatized public health cape it's the first time cities outside of the capital madrid have been engulfed by protest while the capital so multiple groups are venting their anger as workers from the loss of making iberia airlines that stage a rally of their own hundreds of lives have been grounded us here with pilots and other stuff protest against the british bank parent company plans to four thousand jobs political analyst that may go on jim rogers believes as spain the social discontent is deep rooted to. the waves of the work you so far yes seeds

this magic that was affected between nigeria and we just say it was two years ago has favored massively which is a ways off from pot but the fact is that it is true that. the leadership of these holding is mostly ricci's best and they have been unable to you so you can find a compromise we despise western force and i've learned that so that's a way to use with we had seen last year was mostly security of protests health care . education workers etc now we're seeing a more generalized anger of the system not just of the government at the detailed political system and this has to do with this time those of corruption which are now very prominent in the spanish media people are very angry about that and we've seen you say actually something very new in spain very wide and deep trying to insist that it goes far beyond

a stage you know all the problems caused by this that. for the first time since of the second world war the u.s. is not the largest in. importer an exporter of goods china has taken that mental with questions being asked about why american camas seems to be swimming against the tide manage again takes a closer look at how america's current education system can affect the economy of the future. china has just surpassed the u.s. in trade according to u.s. intelligence by twenty thirty china will surpass the u.s. in the size of its economy as well the u.s. is still home to amazing can of asians into knowledge but will it be able to maintain its experts are looking to schools for the answer to that question internationally fifteen year old in the us are ranked twenty fifth among peers from thirty four countries in math while china tops the chart harvard published a study titled globally challenge our u.s.

students ready to compete it looks at how the results in math at school can affect nation's economic development they estimated that the results students in the u.s. showed today can cost the country seventy five trillion dollars over the next eighty years seventy five trillion dollars i spoke with professor eric from stanford university one of the authors of this study a leader in economic analysis of educational issues here's what he said this is a tremendous impact you can measure it. on terms of g.d.p. and it would in present value terms be over five times the current g.d.p. of the united states your improve our schools over the next two directors i asked professor henitiuk what's the main reason behind the poor results in math and u.s. schools is it that the world's wealthiest nation doesn't spend enough on education he says money is not the reason this looks like it's largely an issue of the

quality of the teachers in the classroom now there are so many issues about the curriculum and what's taught in the textbooks and so forth but what we've found is that the biggest influence on student achievement in our schools is the teacher in the classroom china now doubles down on science and technology at schools all the technological advancement there varies from region to region but the try. it is there and it's strong judging by the initiatives put forward by president obama in his state of the union speech washington recognizes the urgency will reward schools to develop new partnerships with colleges and employers and create classes that focus on science technology engineering and. the skills today's employers are looking for to fill the jobs that are there right now and will be there in the future for decades the u.s. has been a magnet for scientific genius from all over the world immigrants helped start prominent american tech companies like google yahoo intel and instagram the u.s.

can still count on the steady inflow of tolerance for more on the globe no doubt about that but experts say it does not alleviate the urgency of growing talents at home considering how much poor math results can cost the country in the future in washington i'm going to check out she could face the death penalty in her native afghanistan for converting from islam to christianity a young girl has been allowed to stay dry share as a refugee after she was just owned by have family for changing her beliefs artie's medina reports. gloria was born in afghanistan by me two thousand and eleven and she and her family arrived in russia in a small town in the prone region in search of a better life her father pleaded for asylum but it was denied because there was no evidence that either he or his family were threatened with political religious or

ethnic persecution by afghan authorities that was when rumors real hard breaking story began while living in russia she started war shipping in local churches and last november converted from islam to christianity it was a friend of my brother who showed me christianity now i go to the local church i can still be allowed to stand with the priests are seeing i read the bible in arabic but i did it because everyone has a choice she says that for her father it was a betrayal here could not overcome her family flats leaving her behind quickly she realized she was old lone in an unknown country barely spoke the language and faced deportation but going back to have vanished down would mean act as a q ssion for recounting islam under the country's shari'a based law afghanistan is one of the most hazardous countries in the world for christians in the early two

thousand and eleven a video was circulated showing to be having a christian convert. by the muslim taliban there are many more similar cases some christians are thankfully see from agassi q after international pressure others are not so lucky it's a problem that's hard to quantify royle was already in a russian deportation center when she appealed to the authorities again it's given her the chance to start a new life and find a job and hopefully leave behind the threat of being killed for changing her beliefs. let's have a look now at some international news in brief for the international defense exhibition interfacing military hardware has gotten underway in abu dhabi more than seventy defense ministers from across the world are expected to attend the exhibition over five days of french and the manufacturer has already announced sales of from the expert more than

a thousand companies from dozens of countries will display the latest inland sea and equipment. protests have been held across pakistan calling for more protection for the shia minority demonstrators wave flags chanted and held up signs calling for attacks against shia muslims to stop following a deadly bomb attack which left more than eighty people dade the blast took place in a marketplace in the north eastern city of twenty people are still in a critical condition. pope benedict the sixteen has blasted terms of thousands of people instantly to the square in one of his last appearances as head of the catholic church a moment of panic as worshippers try to leave through just two narrow exits left open by please the eighty five year old is the first pope to resign in six hundred years or so without small cross talk in about ten minutes time where we look at his

legacy and the divisions that continue to threaten the church. to great damage in the past i you know when j.p. too who was beloved in parts of latin america you know. but when he came in and closed down the seminaries that were teaching liberation theology an orientation to will. a theology of everyday life of the ology that could deal with human suffering at the ology that would be open to women and to embracing the body finding a way to love god without heeding the. created body without hating sexuality i think that's been you know the largest problem of having thank you a hierarchy that is closed ok carrie would you react to that point there's always a moral that's going to cherry what's happening there time mostly equal to yes go ahead terry the church is diverse the local parishes do reach out my own parish has

a group of a bt people that it supports strongly but the lighting a candle isn't important to our is adding here we have some support that doesn't. believe we. both israel and hamas may claim their way victorious in last year's gaza conflict but one palestinian company has taken the dia of the scent of victory quite literally creating a perfume named after a rocket artist policia has the details. the french have the eiffel tower the brits big ben and now the gazans the only symbol of. a perfect bottle with the same type of victory perfumes always make a person remember good things after we won the last war on gaza the rocket m

seventy five was celebrated we are immortalized in it by naming this perfume after it and sales have reportedly rocketed excuse the pun for five years i haven't bought israeli products the moment a palestinian product comes on the market i don't hesitate to buy it but this is something special this is a symbol of our victory. in november israel gaza war the m seventy five long range missile reached as far as television of the first time in twenty years the city came under threat which is why its frequency is far from sweet to those living here i hope it doesn't smell like like a bomb but it's funny it's nonsense. the funny side of the thing. it's a good idea i wish all the. films it's funny it's better to love than or should know i don't think it's funny to name

a perfume after. i actually i think it's sad but i think that both sides are kind of warmongers unfortunately i mean this is the way the conflict is going on and on on. things but television is hitting back not to be outdone the government is celebrating its own latest technology find the iron dome anti-missile defense system that's intercepted eighty seven percent of all rockets fired from gaza and so this is the israeli symbolic response a state meddle with three interceptors fired from the over the tel aviv skyline with a state emblem and the biblical message i will shield the city to save it. most of the medals have been bought by the company rafael that's behind the anti missile shield as a thank you to its employees we are at the wharf symbols we are the war of perceptions we are at the war of media even here the media play the role of by diminishing

the aggressiveness of the israeli response during the war because scenes and televisions are today very very vividly part of any war as opposed to war symbolism cements each side's perceived triumph over the other it's only a matter of time before this decades long conflict erupts yet again into missiles in the skies police we are to tell of it. coming up after a short break of the latest edition of peter lavelle's cross talks take the. download the official application to yourself choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorites. if you're away from your television well it just doesn't

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hello and welcome to cross talk we're all things are considered i'm peter lavelle a church in crisis or only transition the retirement of pope benedict sees catholics all over the world discussing the state of the church and its future direction is the catholic church a spent force can recover from over decades of scandal and internal divisions and how will history member the pontificate of benedict. to cross-talk the church in crisis i'm joined by jemima bay in washington she is a journalist and the host of the radio show sex politics and religion our in berkeley we have nancy shepherd hughes she is a professor. tical anthropology at the university of california berkeley and in new york we cross to terence kealey he is a professor of catholic theology and chair of the department of theology at fordham university all right crosstalk rules in effect folks i mean you can jump in anytime

you want man so you got up early as for the program so i'm going to go to you first what do you think the state of the catholic church is with the exit of benedict. well i actually think it's a moment of possible optimism. i have been extremely distressed with the. last papacies and feel that we need now to really rethink the church i don't think the church is irrelevant it has a billion members and so unless those billion members are relevant then you know the church can't be but i think it's a church that has to change radically it has to become truly ecumenical it cannot assume a theological supremacy over the rest of the world's great and little religious traditions it has to be truly catholic that is universal it has to be open to dialogue to critique to debate as we're having now it has to be

a church of love and compassion and empathy i think what we need is a pope from the south because catholicism has moved rapidly south it's become more and more distanced from the north and the secularization of the north and i am a former catholic but i still have a very strange franciscan version of kind of. a creationism that is myths and loves evolution and so forth but i think we need a southern pope i would like us to have barefoot pope i'd like the church to give up all of its pop pomp and circumstance and looking. around to the world you know but nancy i mean they've been saying that about the church for a very long time now haven't they. well they have they have. well there was john the twenty third and there was

a vatican council and unfortunately the church turned its back on that very very important moment in the history of catholicism and you know i i would like to say i'm optimistic if they the people whose names have been put up are not. potentially the ones that i would like to see i'd like to see a leonardo baf i'd like to see one of the hereto well you might you might see one tara go ahead terry go ahead and jump in there i mean disagree with what nancy had to say do you. well i agree with much of what she has to say because it's obviously true and i can't subscribe to the kind of romantic notion she has of what she'd like the church to be but i also want to suggest that the church is a multi institutional institution that is to talk about the church as if it's just

the hierarchy in the bishops is to forget that like politics all religion is local tip o'neill got it right about politics but he was right about religion too so locally the church may be a bit better off than appears to be nationally and internationally i'd too would like to see a pope from the south but i think what they will elect is somebody who contrasts the benedict in the sense that somebody who is a good administrator and can work at cleaning up of the problems that are revealed by vahey leaks and all the other nonsense that's been coming out of rome not to mention of course the mostly regional and local problems with the abuse scandals jamila in washington would you react to everything we've heard so far. you know i delighted to be on this panel because i think i fall evenly split between all that we've heard here's the thing the church is made up of it's people and while on the one hand terry is absolutely right it's not merely the hierarchy the truth as you

know as. tear it to forgive me. the person from berkeley nancy i'm so sorry to have forgot your name but nancy is right to this structural issues of the catholic church are the issues that a lot of its former members objected to the fact that you don't have women and positions of power the fact that you don't have the local ability to say well you know we don't want to take such a hard line on let's say homosexuality. those are changes that are structural indeed but the hierarchy would have to sign off on a number of us lapsed catholics now atheist and now somewhere on the continuum just can't get over that until it is a church of the people that the people are truly able to come together and worship as they see fit and you know frankly stop stop the hierarchy from in the u.s. with a cop with a conference of bishops telling people how to vote telling people that having

health care for all is a bad thing because some women might get contraceptives a lot of us disagree with that hard line that comes from the hierarchy the people don't have a mechanism with which they can rise up and take control of their church and and rule and worship as they see fit ok but nancy can the catholic church remain universal. let me go to nancy here because all these things are good and fine most people would agree with them but didn't would be the catholic church anymore. oh what's the catholic church i mean it's it's a very very old institution that has had many different i'm not a church scholar star in but the church in brazil is not the church in ireland is not the church in china is not that you know in the philippines i mean it's a church of pluralism and diversity and that has not been now we're living in a global truly global world and so that has to be you know dealt with so we need

a pope who speaks to golly go speak zulu who speaks portuguese as well as spanish you know i think that there it's the only way the only way the church can survive really i do believe is through there has to be a revolution otherwise. what's happening is that people are just simply breaking off and not paying attention in a pope has you know has followers yes you could see them you know cheering in st peter's square or whatever but the pope's did great damage in the past you know when j.p. to who was beloved in parts of latin america you know. but when he came and closed down the seminaries that would teaching liberation theology and orientation to. a theology of everyday life of the ology they could deal with human suffering at the ology that would be open to women and to embracing a body finding

a way to love god without hating the created body without hating sexuality i think that's been you know the largest problem of having thank you a hierarchy that is closed ok carrie would you react to that point as well as global that's going to carry let's have a better time mostly equal time yes go ahead terry. well there's i mean there's so much to react to. i don't agree with john paul the seconds theology of the body but at least he's paying attention to the body a liberation theology is taught in many parts of the world the churches diverse it the local parishes do reach out my own parish has a a group of bt people that it supports strongly there mentioned in the in the bulletin every weekend but the lighting can do isn't important to our is i think you would have to support that doesn't. so what you are the church we're the

generation of resupport in our local pastors do that makes the difference now i have to say one of the things that. eliminate data from our d. conversion project is showing is that people are put off by the bishops i think that's entirely correct but they don't leave the church unless they start withdrawing from the local church as well and it's the local church that holds people when if a local church goes bad people tend to leave that's preliminary data but that's what our d. conversion project study is showing so i think you know much of what you're saying is correct but you also have to look for other places of power in the church besides the hierarchy and there are places of power that threaten in the in the thirty's to withdraw their sisters from the catholic schools of the bishop didn't kowtow and guess what bishops i mean wasn't going to jump in. the nuns are are such an important effect of part of catholicism in the structure

of the catholic church as it seemed around the world however has lost its mission of making sure that those nuns are educating children that those nuns are out in the communities and being part of the communities i think that you know peter thank you for making the point that although terry's particular congregation is very open to l g b t folks that is not the vatican line and when you look at the when you look at simply from the public health perspective what does it do when the pope says that only in certain circumstances is condom use ok when there's still a doctrine that says that contraceptive is wrong contraceptive usage even within a marriage is absolutely mortal sin even in this over overpopulated planet even in the days we live in now where science teaches us that not every woman should have every baby the. her that her husband and her can create together. it's

just it's it's taking women and it's taking the heart of the church because frankly women are the heart of the church we have the babies we bring them up in the tradition and it's saying you will be subject that doesn't fly any longer i'm sorry fifty percent of the jewel in the meantime but here are your rights there's the world has let me jump in here nancy was agreeing on nancy have a word before we go to the break nancy go ahead well i think that you know it's wonderful that terri you know has i agree you know with john miller has a wonderful parish that's lively i see parishes that are just spirited and crushed by the sex abuse scandals that have. you have to jump in here we're going to go to a short break and after that short break we'll continue our discussion on the catholic church state with our take. these.

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welcome back to cross talk we're all things are considered i'm peter lavelle to mind you we're talking about a church in crisis. ok terry i'd like to go back to you on can the catholic church recover from the pedophilia scandals i mean the church itself is the center ok and it does seem to against its own congregation and horribly so how does it get out of this one it's going to take nothing but time this is a terrible scandal and the abuse of authority is just appalling and

as i don't know if it was lance nancy or leave me alone who said that the there were you know very sad and oppressed parishes in her area and especially in ireland yes i think that's entirely true and i think it is just going to take a long time and some true vigilance to get over this the one thing i'd like to add in contra comment on what was said earlier is that ninety percent of us catholics and i suspect this is true in other countries to reject the catholic churches hierarchies teaching on contraception a majority of catholics don't you don't think homosexuals were labeled they didn't really want to have the church say is why i mean i think church changing react to what's flock why not. the church the church has changed the hierarchy is stuck in the past if you love cess on the hierarchy you will think the church is in real trouble if you look at the nuns you look at the people you look at the parishes you will see

a much more mixed picture and that's where the church is religion is local it's not ok to tear out again and tear i don't want to see how it was that the hierarchy that covered up the sex scandal for years i had bats the problem too isn't it and it certainly has and they have the power has are going to pay i asked nancy jump in this is cross talk go ahead well you know i'm just saying that you know with all due respect the council of bishops has been very firm and the hierarchy about these catholic nuns who are taking. exactly the positions you're saying they should be taking and that i agree that they should be taking but it matters you seem to say that that you wrote it is a relic you know that some people would say. go ahead jump ahead some people say that the only thing that that creates a catholic church is the fact that we have

a pope that we have these bishops and cardinals who get get behind closed doors and with a little puff of smoke they tell us really what it is to be. a true faith very catholic and so what terry is saying forget it it doesn't matter this is people who are poor who are educated it makes a difference it means whether or not they can get an abortion it it's tremendously important in latin america what that pope says because it please i mean i was i want to terry to respond and then we're going to launch a chariot here no no let's go to kerry because he's the he's on leno go ahead terry . i don't i don't want to disagree but i do think again we are obsessing with the hierarchy and to be a catholic is to be in communion with those who are in communion with the bishop of rome you're a catholic until you quit and we even if you disagree with the church i also point out with regard to the.