the unsettled egyptian town of port side grinds to a halt and gulped in a new bout of protests over the death sentences handed down to football fans after last his fatal ride. back adoring president rafael correa blows away the opposition easily winning reelection for a third term possibly good news for we can exhaust the mind julia sanchez currently enjoying the latin american states interaction. that a tide of entry will start to fury in spain as thousands of protesters flood the streets while some demonstrators vent their anger directly at the u.k. .

whether you're watching from more london to washington this is our chief for international news analysis and reporting my name is to obama say. they have since it. has been brought to a standstill by mass protests initiated by football fans several thousand activists blocked access to the local railway and port and forced fractures to shut down there's a follows a wave of unrest in general sparked by the death sentences given to twenty one football fans they were found guilty of inciting last year's riots that left more than seventy people did has the latest from cairo. the ultra hardcore football fans who call these that disobedience house said 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 poor 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 science 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 student teachers who staged protests after the death of a young student over the past few weeks in clashes in port sayit and as i said government protests during dinner as well that so what we're seeing really is taking quite a step towards independence from the country expressing their anger 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 course sciences and 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 they reacted to protest by poorly following this very contentious decision saw dozens die in a said that this committee forces attacked the people. 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 b.b. and possibly bringing the city to a standstill for the next week. in a few minutes of freedom of speech verses and the metis of. the fight. 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's understood in the us a sense of ship debate ignites in france after a court rules twitter must hand over private data of users allegedly posting hate

speech. a landslide victory predicted by many i can dorian 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 be greeted with a sigh of relief from the world's top whistleblower julian assange who is currently under the country's diplomatic protection in london are to the eleven million cheechoo reports from the ecuadorian capital keiter it's been an easy victory for referer career. holders raise fuel for the massive social spending programs the rounds described the global financial crisis. 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. ambassador to korea first as a proof of america incorporated police force this came just six months after the country was shaken by an attempted coup by police officers who blockaded korea in a hospital and occupied the national parliament last year the president entered the u.s. even more by granting asylum to the world's most famous whistleblower julian assange whose wanted in the states for the release of classified up diplomatic cables scientists now residing in ecuador's london embassy so another four years in powerful one of the most vocal american american leaders is good news for a sunshine on the other hand it will definitely be a headache for washington is that weather is posed to remain one of the major leftist powerhouses in latin america. political analyst adrian said korea's a victory is proof that strong n.t. u.s. sentiment in many latin american countries is the pro west washington opposition

struggling for support. public opinion throughout latin 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 current war are having governments are keeping very much of a move or 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 will do or is a relatively small country so that it does not have that much leverage but in the case of for example mr jr son no doubt that will continue there will mean a continued support for him and his extended stay at the editorial embassy in the united kingdom. china leapfrogs the us to become the world's top but trader triggering still flourishing in america i don't hold what holding back up of the

claim that coming up in just ten minutes time. french and u.s. legislation is colliding over a case of online hate speech twitter an american company has been ordered by a french court to reveal personal data of users posting and to sematic messages artist maria phenomena examines the case of see if the concept of free speech is should have different boundaries 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 force this judge those decision when the union of jewish students of france took

the issue to paris court in october they wanted to stop away with end to semitic messages posted under the hashtag on bones we are 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 had at least once been attacked for being a jew also wanted to punish those responsible we pulled. 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 it was all. over when as official 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 life 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 jeremie 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 the. 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 broda discussion of the violations of freedom and privacy in france there are at least one hundred ninety pan-european laws allowing authorities access to internet users personal information campaign

web storage is and surveillance. that we are concerned that france the us britain and some other democratic powers are helping to produce internet surveillance technologies for china syria libya egypt and tunisia 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 want. this to to dispute has gone far beyond the borders of the u.s. and france and any grievance reached will affect all subsequent cases skeptics warn that france may be happy to my personal freedom slight. liberty equality for eternity france's most famous motto and three pillars 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 in my days we did but could smell even sweeter a palestinian company creates a crow view maimed up to the hamas rockets fired at israel in the latest gaza conflict with some claiming it's the land of victory in a few minutes. but doesn't appear to be much the us is spirit. in spain thousands of protesters have flooded the streets demonstrating against the government's plans a two privatized public health cape it's the first time cities outside the capital madrid have been engulfed by protest while the capital itself multiple groups are venting their anger as the workers from the loss making iberia airlines say to a rally of hundreds of flights have been grounded s.q. with pilots and other stuff protest against the british based parent company plans to add four thousand jobs political analyst and miguel until morocco believe the

main social discontent is deeply rooted. in the waves of the work is so high yes see this magic that was affected between nigeria and we just say it was two years ago has favored massively which is a ways not far from us but the fact is that it is true that. the leadership of these holding is mostly rechy spaced and they have been unable to so you can find a compromise with the spanish were forced by land them but that's a way to use when we have seen in the last year was mostly sick tory of protests in health care or of education where jason said right now we're seeing a more generalized anger of the system not just of the government but of the whole political system and this has to do with the with the scandals of corruption which are now of very prominent in the spanish media people are very angry about vast and

what we've seen is so actually something very new in spain a very wide and deep protest and that goes far beyond the state see all the problems caused by. using her religion could mean the death penalty for an afghan girl back at home when all the loyalty of the russian authorities prevented from what appeared to be certain death after this break. new year's celebrations on the move without the traditional t.v. all festive food surprising meetings and new adventures stories of love and love lost all russians teach foreigners to celebrate them biggest holiday of the year for must go to st petersburg by train over you may be miracles.

more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images go and seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations are today. you're both of us here on our team for the first time since the second world war

the us is not the largest importer and exporter of goods china has taken that mantle with questions being asked about why american commerce is seems to be swimming against the tide then it is you can 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 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.

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. 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

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 trend. 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 from around 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 but now a young girl has been given the green light to stay in russia as a refugee to she was disowned by a family for changing her police. 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 aggers a-q. sion 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

cases some christians are thankfully saved from agassi q sion after international pressure others are not so lucky it's a problem that's hard to quantify will 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. and the crackdown on christianity is becoming more vivid in libya a group of foreign mossad could be a thing jail sentences for promoting the word of christ something of which you see as a threat to national security all the details at our home. and a radioactive reality japanese researchers are painting a bleak a big. focus on nuclear disaster as

a fact of the health of all of the children living in the area. both israel and hamas may claim they were victorious in last year's gaza conflict but one palestinian company has taken the idea of the scent of victory quite literally creating a pro few named after a rocket. has the details. the french have the eiffel tower the brits big ben and now the gazans the only symbol of pride

a perfume bottle with the saint 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 are immortalizing 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 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 of the being of the us it's 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 going to maim a perfume out of the rocket. 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 and on on. thanks to tell of it 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 to a state of metal with three interceptors fired from the over the tel aviv skyline with the state emblem and the biblical message i was shelled the city to say that most of the medals have been bought by the company rafael that's behind the anti missile shield as. q. to its employees we are at the wharf symbols we are the war off 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 the decades long conflict erupts yet again into missiles in the skies policy r.t. television. part of the major ride they crashed to earth causing havoc in the russian year olds has been found by a group of divers debris was discovered in a lake of the sideway initial reports suggest that the landing happened the meteor exploded in the earth's atmosphere on friday set an office monica broom which shattered windows and rock and dropped to buildings the impact of the blogs to was equal to about thirty three russian more bombs it's the largest object of four on earth in more than

a century. let's take a look now at some international news in the international defense exhibition showcasing military hardware that's gotten underway in abu dhabi 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 from the expo more than a thousand companies from dozens of countries will display the latest in land sea and equipment. david cameron has arrived in india with the largest trade to delegation the british prime minister has ever assembled these are hoping to seal both military and business contracts but a bribery scandal involving a joint british entirely and helicopter deal threatens to overshadow the trip cameron lens heart on the heels of french president francois long recently spent time in india also to drum up business.

protests have been held across pakistan calling for more protection for the sheer minority of demonstrators waved flags or 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 bluster took place in the market place in the northeastern city of quitter twenty people are still in critical condition. pope benedict the sixteenth has blessed 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 lead through just two narrow exits left open by police the eighty five year old is the first pope to resign in six one hundred years stay with us for cross talk next hour where we look at this his legacy and the divisions that continue to threaten the church. or to help you with the hierarchy that covered

up the sex candle three years ok it backs the problem too isn't it and it's certainly. 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 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 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.