world's top whistleblower breathes a sigh of relief after a rough career gave him shelter in the ecuadorian embassy secure another presidential term. egypt sports set for more on the arrest as thousands of activists and force of work stoppage protesting against what they call a government injustices. and twitter trouble in france as a country demands uses identities are revealed what's being seen as a threat to free speech on the step towards cross border censorship.

broadcasting live from our studios here in moscow this is. where the twin victory the world's most famous whistle though is breathing a sigh of relief as the ecuadorian the president secured his job for another term sheet in the sun just currently under the country's diplomatic shield in london a decision by rafael korea which puts him on a collision course with the u.s. let's get more insight on this stuff marty's and the way he joins us here in the studio and he said well rafael correa is paying to win like you said this just based on exit polls but he's pretty much declared his victory in this first round according to some analysts though he was marked to win a third term with his platform seen in ecuador and across latin america and standing up to the u.s. and france that while the opposition is more or less seen as pro-u.s. here's adrian's how gucci the founder of the second republic project.

public opinion through latin america is growing very weary with u.s. intervention and u.k. intervention throughout the continent which explains why i couldn't. believe you could argentina to. government very much. from the united states. well in latin america this very strong popular movement trying to move away from the united states per se greater has benefited from that sentiment by pledging to continue now caray of pretty much securing a third term as ecuador as president will be a headache for washington but it's very good news for whistleblower julian assange and he was of course granted political asylum by aqua door the only country to really stand up for him a small country which doesn't really have much leverage managed to so far make it

impossible for a science to be extradited to sweden for questioning over sex assault charges even with pressure from the u.s. and u.k. but correia has said that there can't be a problem due to asylum it's neocolonialism he was referring to demands for a scientist safe passage by swedish judicial official in london now a sign she's been holed up at the ecuadorian embassy in london fearing he will be arrested if he takes one step outside and so far hasn't been guaranteed safe passage well under house arrest or such of premiered an interview show here on r.t. and one of his gaffes was nonetheless correia take side listen to some welcoming words from the ecuadorian president to a silent as he moved to go to salute it is really a pleasure to meet you julian least in this way and. to the club of the persecuted . thank you. and it seems that was the beginning of beautiful friendship

between of songe and ecuador there you go kerry thanks for that. well the full interview which the sons undertook with that rough career is available at r.t. dot com and of course all the other episodes of his talk show which aired hair on artie. if you. believe the. protesters in egypt her restive city of port side threatening more violence after a must rather has brought a work stoppage there several thousand activists marched to demand justice for the

deaths of dozens killed in the city's riots last month links to show bangar against his do you see those groups the country in recent months until true reports from egypt. the hard core profound call these actors to the media it's how upset they will escalate in the next few days if their demands are not max or about three thousand people come to the streets of post i.e. basically show of mass anger against the president the authorities they reportedly surrounded the governor building they managed to actually get the 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 are in both other sectors got involved there were student teachers who staged protests i'm off the death of a young student over the past few weeks in clashes in port sorry i'm as i said the

government protests during dinner while the so what we're seeing really is poor sign taking quite a step towards independence from the country expressing that this is stretching across different parts of the city what they're saying the reason that they're angry is on twenty three january there was this court verdict this whole twenty one course scientists in sentenced to death. after this deadly massacre that happened last year in february i'm basically poor sayit people are saying this is unfair in addition they're saying that the anger or the security forces so they way they reacted to protest following this very contentious decision saw dozens die they said that the forces attacked the people of course 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 activity and

possibly bringing the city to a standstill for the next week. spain has seen some of its largest protest in months the usual anti austerity slogans we're joined by anti british sentiment this time employees of the spanish flag carrier and iberia around griot. four thousand jobs move initiated by bosses at the parent company's london headquarters ground stop. days of strikes which are expected to lead to more than a thousand flights being grounded spanish officials warned that would deal a huge blow to the spanish economy. most and i think to the country's crippling financial turmoil political analysts miguel and joe miller all don't so is the last election is about much more than just a merger that's turned sour. the weight of the work is so high here yes see these magic that was affected between nigeria and we just there was two years ago

has favored massively reduce our ways 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 to to find a compromise with this finest work force and they blend them that's the way to nice where we have seen last year was mostly sick tauriel protests health care or of 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 we discount those of corruption which are now of very prominent in the spanish media people are very angry about that and what we're seeing is so actually something very new in spain a very wide and deep protest and that it goes far beyond. the all the problems caused by it was that it. various star were not the only

protesters on the streets of madrid in other cities thousands of health care workers staged nationwide rallies against budget cuts and the government's plans to part privatized public health care protest is fair that would harm the quality of medical services and the authorities insist the public money savings are essential to putting spain out of recession. china is on the verge of taking the trading top spot from the u.s. it's sex sports and bodies. wrong with a number of math risk kids being on to take the race to the next level as we report shortly. rock solid evidence russian scientists discover the first fragments of the meet your that crashed in the us last friday which caused havoc and its engine that's ahead. and what's acceptable in one country isn't ok you know this and that's getting

twitter in trouble fronts has ordered the micro-blogging site to reveal the personal data of users who posted what were deemed to be hate messages will pay a hefty fine but twitter is an american for writing on the u.s. laws. examines now the implications of a move which could open the censorship floodgates. 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 french words as we wired to do that 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 and to semitic 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 reach thousands but these people all of whom have at least once been attacked for being a jew also wanted to punish those responsible people. we don't want to prosecute or treat these people but just to draw the attention of the 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 lives to obey this

country's legislation which prohibits public racism but not everyone agrees if freedom is limited they say it's no longer freedom jeremy of jewish origins himself is one of them he says greater liberty should not bring more restrictions but a different approach to controlling the internet you have twitter a private company that may be acting as a judge. 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 road to discussion of the violations of freedom and privacy in france there at least one hundred ninety pan-european laws allowing our soldiers access to internet users personal information campaign web storage is surveillance. china tomorrow although we are

concerned that the us britain and some other democratic leaders are helping to produce the internet surveillance technology western china syria or libya egypt. will if they allow the government 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 of the. most recent but this which dispute has gone far beyond the borders of the u.s. and france and any greentree just look back in subsequent cases skeptics warn that france may be happy to my personal 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 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. well i'll be back with more international news in a few moments stay with us.

more news today violence is once again flared up. and these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations rule the day. welcome back here with. russian scientists claimed they found the first fragments from the wreck caused macon county which saw a meteor crash in central russia on friday causing shock and devastation it sprayed debra for miles around injuring more than twelve hundred people. scientists have confirms that say the tiny pieces that they found at lake sheba cool which is around one hundred kilometers or sixty miles away from chile are part

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 chile no radiation was involved nevertheless it brought 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 online for you today britain's top military academy is under fire the renowned scientist has a name for it which is dedicated to first world war heroes and it's not going to get to the king of bahrain to tell you why. 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.

competition between the u.s. and china to be the world's foreign trade supremely has tightened in recent years with the two titans about neck and neck the latest figures show washington faces a worthy trading rival the first time since the second world war going to church account it takes a look at how america's early education system might affect its leading status. u.s. is still home to amazing to innovation seem to knowledge but will it be able to maintain its experts are looking to schools for the answer to that question internationally fifteen year old in the us are ranked twenty fifth among peers from thirty four countries in math while china tops the chart harvard published a study titled globally challenge our u.s. students ready to compete it looks at how the results in math at school can affect 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 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 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. well 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 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. a quick look now at some other world news in pakistan militants disguised as policemen that attacked the office of a mission in question when five that's a day after protests across pakistan demanded more security for the shia minority in another deadly bombing which they're born into it and as traitors wave flags charted and held up signs calling for attacks against shia muslims to stop. the fish courts is holding a trial hearing for the interest and what i'm saying is being prosecuted for posting truths which incite. first emerged last year. he could face up to eighteen months behind bars the case has already sparked questions about

religious influence over turkey which is. a un pointed panel of inquiry says both the syrian government and the opposition are committing crimes including killings and torture the country's civil litigator is also warning that the two sides are becoming radicalized and the standoff is increasingly turning into a sectarian conflict un report is based on hundreds of interviews with syrian victims and this is a group. the pope has blessed tens of thousands of people in st peter's square one of his last appearances as head of the catholic church eighty five year old is the first pontiff to resign in six hundred years went to the south people of l. it looks at his legacy and the visions that continue to threaten the church. hierarchy that covered up the sex scandal for years back 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 who are taking. exactly the positions you're saying they should be taking and that i agree that they should be taking but it matters you seem to say that the guy who wrote it 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 why duty is to be. a true faith bearing catholic.

curfew me creators often get their frequent side hears from dallas or emotions but how about a cologne inspired by a long range missile it's available in gaza and named after a weapon used by a mass against israel in the last use conflict point to slant on what's behind the idea and whether israel smells a rat. the french have the eiffel tower with the brits big ben and now the gaza is the only symbol of their made up their few bottles with the same type of victory and their perfumes always make a person remember good things after we won the last war on gaza the rocket em 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 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 so the funny side of of this being that. it's a good idea i wish all the. films it's been it's better to love than or should know i don't think it's funny to name a perfume after. i actually i think it's sad but i think on both sides they're kind of war mongers unfortunately i mean this is the way the conflict is going on and on on. to tell people to turn back not to be outdone the government to 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 a state meddle with three interceptors fired from the over the tel aviv skyline with a state emblem and the biblical message i will shield the city to save it. most of the medals have been bought by the company rafael that's behind the anti missile shield as a thank you to its employees we are at the wharf symbols we are a war of perceptions we are 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 very vividly part of any war as post-war symbolism cements each side's perceived triumph over the other it's only a matter of time before this decades long conflict erupts yet again into missiles

in the skies police say r t television. well next to people of ellen his panel of guests that's what's ahead for the catholic church once the pope leaves office stay with us. all those north korean scamps added 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 to the north koreans calling for the b.b.c. rule that they have a secret weapons program and turn their young beyond nuclear reactor back on since then every once while a missile flies or people sit.