the world's top whistle blower breathes a sigh of relief after a fall career gave him shelter in the ecuadorian embassy so kills another presidential term. egypt sports site is set for more on the rest as thousands of activists and also work stoppage protesting against what they call the government's injustices. and twitter trouble in france as a country that uses identities are revealed what's being seen as a threat to free speech on the steps towards cross border censorship.

there around the world and around the clock you're watching kerry just a twin victory the world's most famous whistle blower can rest easier the ecuadorian president secured his job for another term. as according to exit polls joining the. country's diplomatic shield in london and the city by rafael correa let's get more insight on the smarties and the way now who joins us here in the studio and he sits on a small carry julian assange was certainly watching the selection very closely rafael correia is pinto win and has already declared victory in this first round according to some analysts he was marked to win a third term as his performance platform is seen in ecuador and across latin america as standing up to the u.s. and friends while the opposition is more or less seen as pro-u.s. here's adrian sound founder of the second republic project. public opinion through latin america has grown very weary with u.s. intervention in u.k.

interventions throughout the continent which explains why i. believe you can argentina brazil. are having government keeping very much for of arms from the united states and latin america this very strong popular movement trying to move away from the united states well craig has benefited from the sentiment by pledging to continue down this road now gray a pretty much securing a third term as ecuador's president will be a headache for washington but is very good news for whistleblower julian assange and he was of course granted political asylum by ecuador the only country to really stand up for him a small country which doesn't have much leverage managed to do to so far make it impossible for a song to be extradited to sweden for questioning over sex assault charges even with pressure from the u.s. and the u.k.

korea has said this that there can be a problem due to asylum it's neo colonialism a silence has been holed up at the ecuadorian assembly embassy in london fearing he will be arrested if he steps outside and so far hasn't been granted safe passage while under house arrest aslan's premiered an interview show right here on r.t. and one of the guests was nonetheless correia take a listen to some encouraging words from the ecuadorian president to assad's who took out a solution is really a pleasure to meet you julian least in this way and cheer up welcome to the club of the persecuted. thank you beginning of a beautiful friendship between us sons' and ecuador this story runs and runs and they say it does indeed ok thanks a lot for that. well the full interview which during the songs on the took with the rough out there as we just heard it is available it's on the t. dot com as well as all the other episodes of his talk show which aired here on r.t.

. two other news down the protesters in egypt restive city of port side are threatening more violence after mass rallies 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 but it's the latest a show of anger against president nursing this group to the country in recent months ortiz bell through reports now from egypt. the ultra hardcore football

fans who call these acts that we didn't 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 show anger against the president and 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 were in both other sectors got involved there were student teachers who staged protests after the death of a young student over the past few weeks in clashes in port sorry and i said to a government program during dinner as well that so what we're seeing really is 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 disorder twenty

one portside citizen sentenced to death after this deadly football massacre that happened last year in february and basically pushed i.e. 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 in they said that this committee forces attacked the people of course saif with live ammunition to look at the and get 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 but break the custody which is on the city. continue these active disobedience possibly bringing the city to a standstill for the next week. now spade a scene that some of it's a largest protest in months of the usual anti austerity slogans were joined by anti british sentiment this time employees of the spanish flag carrier airline iberia

are angry it sounds to x. some four thousand jobs move initiated by bosses that the parent company is london headquarters where ground staff and cabin crew are also starting to fifteen 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 economy it in turn is in the most and i think of the country's crippling financial turmoil political analyst miguel antrim rather says the industrial action is about much more than just a merger that turned sour. 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 ways now apart from us but the fact is that it is true that. the leadership of these holding is mostly pretty spaced. they have been unable to see you to find

a compromise with his finest work force blanda that's the way to nice when we have seen last year was mostly security 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 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 that goes far beyond the standard see all the problems caused by it. now i bear is the star for not the only protesters on the streets of madrid and other cities thousands of health care workers staged nationwide rallies against budget cuts and the government's plans to part privatized public health care but just as fair that would harm the quality of

medical services for the authorities insist the public money savings are essential pulling out of recession. china is on the verge of taking the trading top spot from the u.s. its exports and imports surging only the number of bats with kids will be trying to take the race to the next level as we were poor shortly. bus rock hard evidence russian scientists discover the first fragments of the meet your that crashed in the last friday which caused havoc and left hundreds injured that's ahead. and what's acceptable in one country isn't erik a another's that's getting twitter into trouble france has ordered the micro-blogging site to reveal the personal data of users who posted what were deemed to be hate messages pay a hefty fine but twitter is an american firm operating on the u.s. laws but he's more of an exam means 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 but tweeter is an american company and the american constitution sets no limits to freedom of expression given that the french words as we quired 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 and told her 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 had at least once been attacked for being a jew also wanted to punish those responsible. 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 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 caption web storage is and surveillance. china tomorrow although 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 tweet to dispute has gone far beyond the borders of the u.s. 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 of new 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 theories whether both intolerance itself and the fight against it may see those hard fought principles swept aside. from paris i'll be back with more news after a short break. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something

else and you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. do we speak your language or not a day of. school music programs and documentaries in spanish matters to you breaking news a little tentative angles kidney's stories. for you here. then surely i'll teach spanish to find out more visit i to our.

welcome back more well news for you. russian scientists claimed they found the first fragments from the red cosmic encounter and saw a meteor crash in the central russia on friday causing shock and devastation to spray devry from miles around injuring more than twelve hundred people focused enough is in the rules for a team. time to sort of confirms that the tiny pieces that be found at lake sheba cool which is around one hundred kilometers or sixty miles away from chile i don't see 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 baby would just shows how massive the blast was since it's estimated that the media awaits from ten to fourteen tons. of the blast was equal to around thirty bombs dropped in a few shima from the media exploded while it was still high in the skies above no radiation was involved nevertheless it still damaged buildings and shattered windows the consequences of that can still be seen all across the city like on the sports arena behind me over twelve hundred people were injured including over two hundred children mostly from these pieces of glass flying around. but it's already started a genuine me to write russian and the euros and russian groups of people are now combing through the snow and ice chunks that could be worth thousands of dollars per gram is from outstrips the price of gold that dot com also there today britain's top military academy is under fire down south and west as renamed paul with me and he came into the first world war here as it is now in tribute to the

king of bahrain tell you why dot com. bust 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. the competition between the u.s. and china to be the world's foreign trade supremely tightened in recent years the two titans now are neck and neck the latest figures show washington faces a worthy trading rival for the first time since the second world war i teacher karen takes a look now at how america's early education system might affect its leading status

. 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 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. 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 free could improve our schools over the next two directors i asked professor henitiuk what's the main reason behind the poor results in math and u.s. 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 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. a quick look at some other world news for you now in pakistan militants disguised as policemen have attacked the office of the top of the station

in killing five people on sunday after protests across pakistan demanded more security for the shia minority following another deadly bombing which there on eighty people dead demonstrators wait flags chanted and held up signs calling for attacks against shia muslims to stop. a un appointed panel of inquiry says both the syrian government position of committing war crimes during killings and torture in the country's civil war mr gates is also two songs of becoming more radicalized and the standoff is increasingly turning into a sectarian conflict un report is based on hundreds of interviews with syrian victims and witnesses a brutal. place in turkey have clashed with crowds of demonstrators in front of a prison complex on the outskirts of istanbul activists gathered a bit testor a long lasting trial for almost three hundred people accused of plotting a political coup legibly linked to a terrorist network and critics see it as

a tit for tat move against the turkish army and really showing its discontent prime minister islamic the. now then the pope has blessed tens of thousands of people in st peter's square one of his last appearance is head of the catholic church eighty five year old is the first pontiff to resign in six hundred years that star lavelle looks at his legacy and the divisions that continue to threaten the church why did. the hierarchy that covered up the sex scandal for years i get back the problem too isn't it. and it's certainly they have our guests are hurting ok i asked nancy jump in this is cross talk 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 that i wrote 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 face bearing catholic. perfume creators often get that fragrant scientists from flowers or emotions but how about a cologne inspired by a long range missile it's available in gaza and

a doctor a weapon used by have nice against israel and lost his conflict honestly and now on what's behind the idea and whether israel smells a rat. the french have the eiffel tower the brits big ben and now the gazans the only symbol of the rain is 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 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 thing. it's a good idea i wish you all the. fields it's whether it's better to love than or should know i don't think it's right to name a perfume after 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 in iran on thank you tel aviv is hitting back not to be outdone the government is celebrating its own latest technology to 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 a state medal with three interceptors fired from the dome of 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 shield. as a thank you to its employees we are at the wharf symbols we are like the war of perceptions we are they wore off media even here the media play their role or 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 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 point c.r.t. television. well ahead it's the r t sports with a k. patch.

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