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oh god. the answer the old egyptian town of port saeed grinds to a halt and gulped in a new part of protests over the death sentence handed down to football fans after last year's fatal ride. ecuadorian president rafael correa blows away the opposition easily winning reelection for third term possible good news for we can make most of mine julian assange currently enjoying the latin american state of texas. plus eight kind of entry alternative you read in spain as thousands of protesters flood the streets some demonstrators spend their anger directly at the u.k. .
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twenty four hours a day seven days a week and this is r.t. . they different city. has been brought to a standstill by mass protests initiated by football fans several thousand activists blocked access to the local railroad and ports and forced factories to shut down as well as a wave of andras in general sparked by death sentences given to twenty one football fans they were found guilty of inside thing last year's riot that left more than seventy people date well true has the latest from cairo. the ultra 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 are not match the story about three thousand people come to the streets of poor saeed basically show anger against the president and the authorities they reportedly surrounded the governor's building
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they managed to actually get government employees on science they stopped the harvest 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 student teachers who staged protests after the death of a young student over the past few weeks in clashes in port sorry i'm as i said government protests during dinner as well the so what we're seeing really is course taking quite a step towards independence from the country expressing their anger and 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 saw twenty one side citizen sentenced to death after this deadly triple massacre that happened last year in february and basically poor sayit people are saying this is unfair in addition they're saying that the anger of the security forces so the way they reacted to protest by poor following this very contentious decision saw dozens die
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and he said that this could be forces attacked the people of course with live ammunition to look at 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 possibly bringing the city to a standstill for the next week. in a few minutes of freedom of speech of verses and to so much as i'm. referring to. racism has nothing to do with the far wish no freedom of expression it is an american concept and it cannot be applied in france in the week it's understood to be a censorship debate ignites in france court rules twitter must hand over private data of users allegedly posting hate speech. a
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landslide victory predicted by many adoring 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 but is all no doubt be greeted with a sigh of relief from the world's top whistleblower julian a son is currently under the country's diplomatic protection in london r t z l n i mean chicha reports from the ecuadorian capital of jeter. it's been an easy victory for referer career. voters praise him for the massive social spending programs he laos 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 the 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.
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ambassador korea referred to we as a proof of america infiltrated acworth police 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 was wanted in the states for the release of classified on the dramatic 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 a sunshine on the other hand it will definitely be a headache for washington as that weather is both to remain one of the major leftist powerhouses in latin america. political analyst adrian saul well she says that korea's victory is proof that strong n.t. u.s. sentiment in many latin american countries needs a pro washington opposition struggling for support. public opinion throughout latin
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america has grown very weary with u.s. intervention and u.k. interventions throughout the continent which explains why countries like venezuela ecuador bolivia even argentina brazil are the crowd who are having governments are keeping very much of a move for the 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. china leapfrog the u.s. to become the world's top trade up triggering soul searching in america i don't want to hold him back but the thing that's coming up in just ten minutes time.
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french on you is legislation is colliding with a case of online hate speech twitter an american company has been ordered by a french court to reveal personal data of users posing and to sematic messages artist maria for national exam in some cases see if the concept of free speech should have different boundaries in different countries. two democracies stumbling over the concept of freedom the french court has called on twitter to help censor hate speech on the website in france because it violates its laws the tweeter is an american company and the american constitution sets no limits to freedom of expression given that the word the french word as we wired. the question is how can the french enforce this judge those decision when the union of jewish students of france took the issue to paris cotton october they wanted to stop away with anti semitic messages posted under the hashtag on both
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a good jew it was the third most popular tagged subject at the time the number of insulting jokes reached thousands but these people all of whom. act 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 social tweeter 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 life to obey this country's legislation which prohibits public racism but not everyone agrees if
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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 judge deciding 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 there at least one hundred ninety pan-european laws allowing authorities access to internet users personal information caps and web storage is and surveillance. is not like china tomorrow but we are concerned that france the us britain and some other
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democratic powers are helping to produce internet surveillance technologies for china syria libya egypt and tunisia will. 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. with this tweet to dispute has gone far beyond the borders of the us and france and any greenland reached will affect subsequent cases skeptics warn that france may be happy to my personal freedom slight. liberty equality fraternity of 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 when one of them and it has many theory and whether both intolerance itself and the fight against it may see those hard fought principles swept aside. from paris.
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victory mind a swede could smell even sweeter a fellow sitting company create a few named after the hamas rocket fired at israel in the latest gaza conflict with some claiming it's the center of victory that's in a few minutes. but doesn't appear to be much siesta spirit in spain thousands of protesters have flooded the streets demonstrating against the government's plans a two privatized public health it's the first time cities outside the capital madrid have been engulfed by protests well the capital itself multiple groups of venting their anger as workers from loss and making liberia and one stage a rally of the hundreds of flights have been grounded as hewitt pilots and other stuff protest against the british planes parents company plan to around four thousand jobs political analysts to go under marauder believes spain's a social discontent is deeply rooted. in one of the work you
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so value. that was affected between if you really which is it was two years ago how stable mushy fleet which is. the fact is that. the leadership of these holding most. and they have been unable to so you to find a compromise with the spine is where force and they land them but that's the way to the east where we had seen last year was mostly signatory of protests health care or education where it isn't set right now is seen 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 see they said actually something very new in spain
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a very wide and deep protest and that it goes far beyond. the all the problems caused by it was that it. losing her religion could mean the death penalty for an avg and girl back at home although loyal to the russian authorities prevented from what appeared to be uncertain debts off to the very. wealthy british. it's. right on.
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the. market. what's really happening to the global economy for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines. is a report. you're watching on t.v. it's good to have you with us well the first time since the second world war the us
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is not the lodge's imports and exports of goods china has taken that mantle with questions being also about why american camas seems to be so mean against the tide janish again takes a look at how america's current education system can affect the economy off 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 olds in the u.s. 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.
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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. the 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 that you are 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
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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 talents for more on the globe no doubt about that but experts say it does not alleviate the urgency of growing talents at
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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 of ghana stunt for converting from islam to christianity but now a young girl has been given the green light to stay in russia as a refugee after she was just owned by her family for changing how beliefs are to caution about it paul. gruel was born in afghanistan by me two thousand and eleven 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 horror story began while living in russia she started
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a 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 as a queue ssion for recounting islam under the country's shari'a based law of gunnison is one of the most hazardous countries in the world for christians in early two thousand and eleven a video was circulated showing the be having a christian convert. by the muslim taliban there are many more similar
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cases some christians are thankfully see from agassi q after international pressure others are not so lucky that's the problem is hard to quantify where 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. part of the major right of the questioner is causing havoc in the russian new year olds have been found by a group of divers debris was discovered in a lake of the site away initial reports suggest that the landing happened the major exploded in the years the atmosphere on fridays setting off a sonic boom which shattered windows and rocked buildings the impact of the blast was equal to about thirty two russian more bombs it is a lot of us all get to fall on earth in more than a century. that's now have
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a look at some international news in brief the international differences showcasing military hardware has got underway in abu dabi more than seventy defense ministers from across the world are expected to attend the exhibition over five days a french arms manufacturer has already announced sales of from the acts were more than a thousand companies from dozens of countries all display of the latest inland sea and equipment. protests being held across pakistan calling for more protection for the shia minority demonstrators waved flags are chanted and held up signs calling for attacks against shia muslims to stop following a deadly bomb attack which left more than eighty people did the blast took place in a marketplace in the northeastern city of quitter twenty people are still in a critical condition. pope benedict the sixteenth
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has blasted tens of thousands of people in st peter's square in one of his last appearances as head of the catholic church there were moments of panic as worshippers tried to leave through just too narrow exits left open by police the eighty five year old is the first pope to resign in six hundred years stay with us of all cross talk makes our way we look at his legacy and the divisions that continue to threaten the church. what a cheery help it was the hierarchy that covered up the sex scandal for years ok it backs the problem too isn't it and it certainly is and they have the howard years are asked nancy jump in this is cross talk go ahead the council of bishops has been very firm and the hierarchy about these catholic nuns for taking. exactly the positions you're saying they should be taking and that i agree that
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they should be taking but it matters you seem to say that the road is a relative you know that some people would say 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 face bearing catholic. both israel and hamas may came there were victorious and losses gaza conflict but one palestinian company has taken the idea of the scent of victory quite literally creating a perfect named after a rocket artist policia has the details. the french have the eiffel tower the brits
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big ben and now the gazan is the only symbol of that made a perfume bottle with the same type of victory and the perfumes always make a person remember good things after we won the last war on gaza the rocket m seventy five was celebrated we were 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 as israel gaza war the m seventy five long range missile reached as far as television 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 this being that. it's
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a good idea i wish all the. fields it's whether it's better to love than or should now i don't think it's funny to name a perfume after. actually i think it's sad but i think on both sides they're kind of warmongers unfortunately i mean this is the way the conflict is going on in iran on. thank you tel aviv is hitting back not to be outdone the government is celebrating its own nature to. 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 to a state of metal 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 say that most of the medals have been bought by the company rafael that's behind the anti missile
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shield. as a thank you to its employees we are at the wharf symbol as we are of perceptions of yell at the war of media even here that media play the role of by diminishing the aggressiveness of the israeli response during the war because scenes and televisions are today very. vividly part of any war as opposed to all 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. television. right stay with that so-called stock which is coming up after this break.
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all those north korean scamps are at it 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 all the way back in two thousand and two the north koreans according to the b.b.c. ruled that they have a secret weapons program and turned their young beyond nuclear reactor back on since then every once in a while a missile flies and people see the war is coming and silence then another test of some sort shock horror and then silence again with great just uses this is a bargaining tool to get what they want and rather how wacky the north korean state may seem they understand that launching one or two missiles against united states means they probably won't even hit their target and in return their entire country would turn into ash instantly this situation really isn't cause for concern until something big changes like the u.s. not being in a position to support south korea japan or some other dramatic event that changes the game like china giving up their support for the north korean side but for now the cycle just keep going.

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