good news for julian assange the wiki leaks mastermind will continue to stay under the wing of ecuadorian president rafael correa the opposition to win reelection. to u.k. chanting walks the streets of madrid as outraged. as protest against job cuts on the merger with british airways. and settled egyptian town of port side grinds to a halt in the new bout of unrest and the death sentences handed down to. fatal riots.

from moscow twenty four hours a day. can breathe a sigh of relief after president rafael correa easily won reelection in ecuador. currently under the country's diplomatic shield in london and is expected to be afforded protection for another four years. before. it's been an easy victory for referer career. voters praise him for the massive social spending programs we feel around 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 is thinking of a firm stance against the stronger simply 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 first a week as a proof of america infiltrated with those 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 u.s. even more by granting asylum to the world's most famous whistleblower julian assange he had fled to avoid being sent to sweden for question over at a station of sexual assault fearing that upon his extradition to sweden he could then you needed to be sent to the united states where he says he may face the death penalty request political asylum from ecuador so another four years in power for 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 as that weather is posed to remain one of the major leftist powerhouses in latin america. so his career is victories a proof that strong on two 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. intervention throughout the continent which explains why countries like venezuela ecuador bolivia even argentina brazil are weaker i'll go on having governments are keeping very much lou for an 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 jr son no doubt that will continue there will mean a continued support for him and these extended stay at the editorial embassy in the united kingdom or coming out we examine how the world's wealthiest countries letting down its people report finds that american students like it far behind those of other developed countries teaches

a computer playing tennis match. anti british sentiment has been apparent in madrid stuff from iberia and lines to the streets of the city venting their anger against job cuts. the outrage comes of the parent company headquartered in london decided to cut salaries and accent four thousand jobs about twenty percent of the workforce is the first five day strike which has already grounded hundreds of flights and it fears the situation get worse. merge with british airways in two thousand and eleven and to create an international airlines group that's cool analysts and gallantry on the other things it's a dream that profits from the deal. the way the the work is so high here yes see this magic that was affected between nigeria and which is there was two years ago has favored massively reduce our waste now apart from that but the fact is that it

is true that. the leadership of these holding is mostly pretty spaced and they have been unable to sue to find a compromise with hispanics were forced by land and that's the way to nice we have seen last year was mostly six story of protests health care or of education workers and 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 very prominent in the spanish media people are very angry about that and what we've seen is so actually something very new in spain a very wide and deep protest that goes far beyond the state see all the problems caused by. well the siesta spirit is being stretched to the limit in spain the iberia airlines demonstrators well the only ones protesting across the

country latest action thousands flooded the streets rallying against the government's plans to reform health care. not a few minutes freedom of speech versus anti semitism. 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 u.s. censorship debate ignites in france after a court rules twitter last monday with private users actually listing eight speech . egyptian city of port side has been brought to a standstill by mass protests initiated by football fans several thousand activists blocked access to the local railroad courts and for structures to shut down it follows a wave of unrest in january sparked by death sentences given to twenty one football

fans they were found guilty of inciting last year's riots left more than seventy people dead true has the latest now from cairo. the ultra hardcore football fans who call these acts of radiance have 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 sorry i'm as i said government growing 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 to sort twenty one scientists 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 of the security forces so the way they reacted to protest by poor following this very contentious decision saw dozens die they said that this committee 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 on 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 active disobedience possibly bringing the city to a standstill for the next week. we're going to r.t.

dot com for more stories across christianity's becoming libya. could be facing jail sentences promoting the word of christ. threat to national security details of dot com. and radioactive reality japanese researchers are painting a bleak picture of how the fukushima nuclear disaster has affected the health of almost half of the children living in the area. if. the.

french and u.s. legislation is colliding over a case of hate speech american company has been ordered by a french court to reveal personal data of users posting anti semitic messages. are examining the case to 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 but tweeter is an american company and the american constitution sets no limits to freedom of expression given the work 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 submit to messages posted under the hashtag on bones we are a good jew it was the third most popular tagged subject of the time the number of insulting jokes reached 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 authorities 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 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 the right at least one hundred ninety pan-european laws allowing authorities access to internet users personal information caps and web storage is and surveillance. it's not like would be like china tomorrow but 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 one day. but this twitter dispute has gone far beyond the borders of the us and france and any greenland reached will affect all 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 might

taste. sweet but could smell even sweeter as a palestinian company creates a perfect named after that nice rockets israel in the latest gaza conflict that's coming up. and song pieces of friday's meet your that wreaked havoc in russia more on that right after the break.

more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations are today. critic three. three. three. three. three. three. video for your media project free media r t v dot com. welcome back parts of the me to right that crashed to earth causing havoc in the

russian urals have been found by a group of scientists debris was discovered near the lake the site where initial reports suggested a landing occurred. in the region that brings us more now. scientists have confirms that the tiny pieces that they found at a 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 nasa estimates 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 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. well it's thought america's economy could soon start to suffer because of its poor teaching methods china is expected to overtake the u.s. in g.d.p. terms by twenty thirty when of ation helps drive the u.s. economy but recent report shows that students lagging behind those of other developed countries particularly in math and sciences and chicken reports. the u.s. is still home to amazing king 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 are 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 the 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 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 although technological advancement there varies from region to region but the trend 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. we'll 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 a 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. well look now at some international news in brief this hour venezuela's president hugo chavez has tweeted that he is back in his home country after undergoing cancer treatment in cuba the message is thanks to cuba's past and present leaders fidel and raul castro travels underwent surgery in havana in

december they test in a series of operations since he was diagnosed with cancer in two thousand and eleven. david cameron has arrive a three day visit to india with the largest trader location a british prime minister has ever assembled in his first in geisha and in mumbai indians to simplify visa applications for indian business people cameron lands hot on the heels of french president francois hollande who recently spent time in india also to drum up business. three suicide bombers dressed as policemen have attacked the office of a top politician in peshawar killing five people protests have been held across pakistan for more protection for the shiite minority following another deadly bomb attack yesterday which left more than eighty people dead demonstrators waved 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 people were still in

a critical condition. but that at the sixteenth has blessed tens of thousands of people in st peter's square one of his last appearances as head of the catholic church there are moments of panic as worshippers try to leave through just two exits left open by police the five year old is the first pope to resign in six hundred years stay with us for cross-talk next hour we look at his legacy and the divisions that continue to threaten the church. hierarchy that covered up the sex scandal for years the problem too isn't it. and it certainly is and they have the power yes are you ok i asked nancy jump in this is crosstalk go ahead the council of bishops says 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 real 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 why duty is to be. a true faith very catholic. 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 sweet smell of victory quite literally creating a perfect 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 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 the 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 this being that. it's

a good idea i wish all the. films it's funny it's better to love than or should now i don't think it's funny to name a perfume after. that 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 in iran on. thank tel aviv 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 intercept was fired from the over the tel aviv skyline with the 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 shield as

a. to its employees we are at the wall of. perceptions we are at the wharf media even here the media play the role of by diminishing the aggressiveness of the israeli response during the war because scenes and televisions today very 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. that said the news for now up next it's the latest in sports with kate partridge of a short break stay with us. please speak your language. programs and documentaries in arabic it's

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