good news for juliana songe though we could weeks months of mind will continue to stay under the wing of a dorian president rafael correa who's blown away the opposition to win reelection . and team u.k. chanting robs the streets of madrid as outrage i bury our airlines work as protests against job cuts by the british parent company. the unsettled egyptian town of port saeed grinds to a halt and gulped in a new balls of andress over the death sentences handed down to football plans after last year's fatal one.

you're watching r t live from the russian capital with me to bomb a day it's good to have your company this midday. julian a son can breathe a sigh of relief after a key ally president rafael correa easily won reelection in ecuador a son just currently under the country's diplomatic shield in london and is expected to be afforded protection for another four years as are to c.n.n. a million cheats reports. 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 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 korea refers to we as a proof of america infiltrated 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 who is wanted in the states for the release of classified up 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 sunshine on the other hand it will definitely be a headache for washington is that with or is posed to remain one of the major leftist powerhouses in latin america. political analyst adrian. korea's victory is proof of that strong n.t. u.s. sentiment in many latin american countries leaves the pro 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 crowd who are having the governments are keeping very much of new for 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 truth 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 julius 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. the world's most wealthy country is lessened on its young people a report to find that americans. fall behind those of other developed countries and teaches can be to blame stay with us for that. and

to british sentiment is on the rise in spain pilots and i bear and one stop trip to the streets of madrid venting their anger against the u k. the outrage comes after the british parent company decided to cut salaries and access some four thousand jobs which is about twenty percent of the workforce this is the first the five day strike which has already grounded hundreds of flights and here is the situation will get worse iberia measure with the british airways in twenty eleven political analyst amy gallo until more rather believe it's the u.k. company that profit from the deal. the way the the work is so high here you see this magic that was affected between nigeria and we just there was two years ago has favored massively reduced waste not far from that but the fact is that it

is true that. the leadership of these holding is mostly british based and they have been unable to sue to find a compromise with hispanics were forced by wyndham but that's the way to nice we had seen last year was mostly security of protests health care or of education workers and said to us 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 with the scandals of corruption which are now of very prominent in the spanish media people are very angry about vast and what we're seeing 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. well this yes this period seems to be gone and i bear airlines demonstrators were supported by thousands of protesters who flooded the

streets railing against the government's plans to privatized public health care it's the first time thirteenth outside the capital madrid have been engulfed by protests. in a few minutes of freedom of speech of verses and two semesters i'm. referring to racism has nothing to do with the foreign relations of freedom of expression it is an american concept and it cannot be applied in france in the way it is understood in the u.s. a censorship debate ignites in france after a court rules twitter must hand over private data of users allegedly posting hate speech. they jefferson city of port has been brought to a standstill by mass protests in a sheeted by football fans several thousand activists blocked access to local railroad ports and forced factories to shut down this follows a wave of unrest in general sparked wide death sentences given to twenty one

football fans they were found guilty of inciting last year's rise that left more than seventy people did belcher 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 show anger against the president and the authorities they reportedly surrounded the governor's building they managed to actually get government employees on science they stopped the hobbit 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 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 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 sold twenty one citizen sentenced to death after this deadly football massacre that happened last year in february and basically poor saeed that 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 protest by poor following this very contentious decision saw dozens die they said that this committee forces attacked the people of poor sorry we 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 actions to b.b.

and possibly bring the city to a standstill for the next week. right ahead to come for more stories of the crackdown on christianity is becoming more vivid. in libya a group of foreigners could be facing jail sentences for promoting the word of cries of something else orgies see as a threat to national security all the details at odds dot com and while you're there you can also look out for radioactive reality japanese researchers painting a bleak a picture of how the fukushima nuclear disaster has affected at the health of all was hot all the children living in the area.

french anew with legislation is colliding over a case of online hate speech which an american company has been ordered by a french court to reveal personal data of users placing and to symantec messages arches maria for national examines the case to see if the concept of free speech is 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 the word 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 and to semitic messages posted under the hashtag on both 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 people at home. 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 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 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 privatise 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 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 to more on that we are concerned the us britain and some other democratic governors are helping to produce an internet surveillance technology for china syria or libya or egypt. will if they allow the governments of these countries to use it against their people that there isn't any guarantee that france will not use it against its own people one day. but this twitter dispute has gone far beyond the borders of the u.s. and france and any green intrigued with the fact subsequent cases skeptics warn that france may be happy to let personal freedom slide the birthday party at 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. but could small even sway to a palestinian company creates a purpose you named up to the hamas rockets fired at its rabies in the latest gaza conflict with some claiming it's the scent of victory that's coming up.

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have been found by a group of scientists debris was discovered nearly at the site where initial reports suggest that the landing happened for more on that i'm joined live by our g.'s you've got to be scared of who's in the region so you got each a group who has had to spend days a to find this guest from outer space when i was. well scientists have confirms that to the tiny pieces that they found at lake sheba cool which is around one hundred kilometers or sixty miles away from chile or parts of that exact meteor which sparked apocalyptic fears in several russian regions on friday they say that the pieces are just around one centimeter in size or less that's like a penny well just shows how massive the blast was since it's estimated that the media weight from ten to forty tons to me is that the blast was equal to around thirty bombs dropped on hiroshima so thankfully it exploded while i was still in the in the skies above and no radiation was involved nevertheless it broke it

damaged damaged buildings and shattered windows the consequences can still be seen across the city like that sport arena behind me over twelve hundred people were injured including over two hundred children mostly from these pieces of glass flying around and for now the biggest goal and challenge is to restore the damage especially as windows in residential areas and schools since temperatures here drop below minus fifteen at night now it's already been established that this was the biggest media to hit the earth in the last one hundred years and also luckily it didn't damage any nuclear facilities in the region since that could have led to much more devastating consequences. in there thank you for that update a you've got of of that visitor. ride for the first time since the second world war the u.s. is not the largest importer an exporter of goods china has taken that mantle with

questions being asked about why american camas seems to be swimming against the tide and she 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 the 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 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's 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 math 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 lent instagram to 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. let's have a look now at some international news in brief the international difference showcasing minute hardware has gotten underway in abu dhabi more than seventy different ministers from across the world i'd like to attend the exhibition over five days a french arms manufacturers has already announced sales of from the export more than a thousand companies from dozens of countries will display the latest inland sea and eight equipment. david cameron has arrived on a three day visit to india with the largest trade delegation a british prime minister has ever assembled in his first engagement in mumbai he announced he'll simplify visa applications for indian businessmen cameron learns are hard on the heels of french president francois long who recently spent time in

india also should run the business its business economy. three suicide bombers dressed as a policeman have attacked the office of a top politician in kashmir walk into five people protests have been held across pakistan calling for more protection for the shia minority following another deadly bomb attack yesterday which left more than one thousand people did demonstrators away flags chanted and held up signs calling for attacks against shia muslims to stop the blast took place in a marketplace in the northeastern city of quieter twenty eight people are still in the critical condition. pope benedict the sixteenth has blessed tens of thousands of people in st peter's square in one of his loss appearances as head of the catholic church there were moments of panic as worshippers tried to leave through just two narrow exits left open by police the eighty five year old is the first pope to resign in sixteen in six hundred two years stay with us for

crosstalk in a few minutes where we look at his legacy and the divisions that continue to threaten the church. or to thank you with the hierarchy that covered up to three years or get back to problem two isn't it. and it certainly is and they have our guests are good chaos just nancy jump in this is crosstalk 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 but 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 faith

very catholic. because. 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 perfume named after a rocket artist policy here as the details. the french have the eiffel tower the brits big ben and all the gazans the only symbol of that might appear from 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 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 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 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 laugh than or should no i don't think it's funny to name a perfume after. i 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. thank the television is hitting back not to be outdone the government is celebrating its own latest technology. 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 the state emblem and the biblical message i was 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 their 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. coming up after a short break the latest edition of peter lavelle's crosstalk to stay tuned for that. 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 although back in two thousand and two the north koreans according to the b.b.c. ruled that they have a seeker.