an adopted russian boy dies in the u.s. allegedly at the hands of his american mother a month after similar cases prompted moscow to ban u.s. citizens from adopting russian children. they would like us to offer explanations as to why we grant him asylum why on earth. and after securing a third term ecuadorian president rafael correa talks to r.t. spamming the west for pressuring him for granting asylum to the world's top whistleblower julian sun she remains under the country's protection in london. and the u.k. looks holmes with france secure a place among india's top trading partners his business relations between european powers.

are you watching r.t. live from moscow good to have your company now our top story a three year old russian boy has died in the u.s. allegedly at the hands of his adoptive mother claims a month after a new law came into effect banning american citizens from adopting russian children following similar cases moscow is demanding severe punishments for the death of maxime cruz mean however according to russian diplomats the u.s. state department has so far been reluctant to cooperate with an investigation. as this report that this case unfolded in texas according to officials three year old maxine died on january twenty first at the hands of his adoptive mother the pro conducted by russia's investigative committee reveal that maksim was beaten by his adoptive mother who according to officials also. so fed him strong psychotropic

medication and investigator say that the boy allegedly died before medics arrived at the scene but that it was his adoptive mother who had called the medics to begin with an autopsy reportedly show that maksim suffered multiple injuries to his head his abdomen and internal organs prior to his death officials say the three year old boy's arms legs and head were also covered in scratches and bruises this is just one of twenty cases when a russian adopted child dies in the custody of an american family here in the states some examples include back in two thousand and eight a russian boy died after spending nine hours in a car with temperatures reaching up to thirty two degrees celsius but his adoptive father faced up to ten years in jail for manslaughter however he was found not guilty and walked free there was a case in which an american mother. boarded her adoptive russian son on a flight to moscow and giving him just

a note saying she doesn't want to be his mother anymore in the few weeks past few weeks russia did adopt legislation banning u.s. adoptions of russian children it was criticized by many saying that it prevents russian children from having a better life in american families russian officials say that the new law it's targeting the u.s. legal system that according to russian officials has been treating cases of russian children of cruel treatment or manslaughter with it admissible leniency. given to the unfortunate leads usually months of the russian child has done to the american side informs us about it and one case it was five years after a boy died and that's how our cooperation with us works they do not informants fast enough or the information is not reliable there are tens of thousands of russian adopted children living in the us and we haven't got a clue about the lives of most of them there is no confirmation that they're all right and they're not being to be able to do. an investigation into the death of

maxime is still ongoing to find out greater details. several books on international adoptions says despite washington's promise to better investigate the abuse of russian children by that american adoptive families the long standing problem still hasn't been properly addressed this is been the ongoing problem and what russia has been demanding from from the u.s. for years is follow up but the united states is not set up to follow up on adoptions once they're finalized that's been a thorn in the side of russian officials for good reason with these now twenty cases of abuse that have resulted in the death of these twenty four children and we don't know how many other children are. living with abuse you know that haven't died from it and it could always lead to rafael correia is celebrating having

secured a third of the country's president colleagues marty spanish channel spoke to the newly reelected leader and among other issues i asked him about his take on the future of the world's top whistleblower and wiki leaks editor june is sun she remains holed up in yes we go in embassy in london. sort of yes he does see him in that but i think that's for the practical implication of julian assange the situation is up to europe to resolve the problem will be solved if the u.k. grants a safe passage of money that hasn't been any intention to disrupt the prosecution process according to the swedish justice system in spite of the numerous misinformed allegations if they send a prosecutor to ecuador's embassy in britain and record the interrogation on video which they can do it would on twist this not about is if they really have to interrogate him that julian assad was never even officially presented with charges if a songes lawyer goes on it's lucky at the european court and achieved a safe passage for songe to staying at the ecuadorian embassy the situation we

finally resolved it is all now in here at times but there is a lot of arrogance involved here a neocolonial sentiment to say they would like us to offer explanations as to why we grant him asylum wouldn't they why on earth there's more that they even want us to but drunk on our decision we will never do this he put his will put up with us meanwhile activist and radio show host on commission says it's courageous opposition to the white house that could keep him in office for quite some time the sentiment on the ground with most ecuadorians as well as the growing sentiment throughout latin america is that those who continue to align themselves with the us unconditionally are not going to find support on the people of people who eventually are the ones who are going to be casting their ballots during these elections has been outspoken against us on your colonisation it's been an outspoken against all of the neo liberal agenda and us imperialism for so quite some time folks are done with this whole all model where we're going to continue to be can

you know continuously improve ritually depended on us and it's it's corporate interests that those days are done hopefully. now as the u.k. its relations with europe turning creasing lease out of london appears to be seeking an alternative market to support its debt stricken. british prime minister is on a three day visit to the country's former top colony india in a bid to with officials and investors david cameron has called on new delhi to cut regulations and red tape to encourage stronger trade ties with the u.k. pm says britain wants to become india's economic partner of choice the visit comes as france also seeks to expand its ties with the rapidly growing asian economy just last week president francois hollande was an india to have. creative deals some observers say london will face challenges in winning over new delhi the size of the delegations certainly show the aggressive nature or far from mr cameron's drive

to seek trade abroad right now prime minister cameron is not the best friend and all the rest of the specially france and germany so i think the interests of the two countries france and britain are quite separate britain feels that because of the historic call relationship with india. britain can. then perhaps first with the indian government however i would say this the historical memory of colonial rule. doesn't sit very well with the indians still. meanwhile reports reveal the u.k. has already made a killing by selling weapons to an asian country to gross human rights violations franker as allegedly more than three million pounds with small arms and ammunition from london despite the country's record of mistreating minorities and suppressing

separatism antiwar activists jim brann believes u.k. is placing geopolitics over human rights. because there's the geostrategic questions because sri lanka occupies a very strategic position. in the indian ocean you have the united states what they call the pivot toward asia which britain is due to paly going along with good relations with sri lanka would be very valuable in that context also because this whole idea that britain abides by human rights criteria in arms exports simply doesn't make sense and generally should be discounted the answer trade is a very hard. profitable geo politically important business and that's the business which gauged in arms sales in general and in. particular. still to come this hour playing with fire. go on.

the fire a. with up to four children a day with weapons in u.k. schools according to latest data we look at high the worrying trend is being dealt with. and as israel continues its push for more settlements we report from a controversial area of land known as the one that is threatening to kill off any hopes for a viable two state solution. he is easy. to.

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live. live. live. live live live live live . alone again now a pile of textbooks a lunch box and a knuckle dusters how is that for things you might find in a british school bag all sadly for u.k. parents recent study shows an ever increasing number of pupils are being caught with weapons in british school sarah firth now looks into the figures and

investigates the shocking trapped. settlings you probably end up in a dead end job or in prison you'll be lucky to be alive when you're sixteen. you know our parent is gone our courage is not for no for the teaching going to say anything about a stark insight into the reality facing some of christian schoolchildren despite having one of the best education systems in the world the latest research estimates that up to full peoples a day a court with weapons in persists cools guns knives and knuckle dusters just some of the items confiscated by police are men who are always searching the school and. gone to the school. and i see this person was shot down about the fire schools are supposed to be a safe secure environment where the focus is on education the thing as it were built hundreds of weapons are being seized in schools every year with

a number of violent incidents on the rise the reality for many schools across the bay is that your classmate can quickly become your enemy and the school playground can be a dangerous place but it's not only the peoples who are subject to violence in london alone this being more than four thousand assaults on teachers by peoples of the past year is it's a shocking indication of the levels of violence the school becomes normal to. get involved in this you get sucked into this last thing to violence is the best approach. is it's just waking up in the morning and going for run yeah after a while it becomes normal to you stephen is now working with the charity x l p thirty nine hundred ninety six after school stabbing founded patrick regan has been helping young people tackle gun culture and violence

a member could come. me wearing a bulletproof vest underneath his school uniform he said i'll be dead by thursday according to patrick it's early intervention which is key prison is forty thousand pounds a year young person's secure unit is one hundred sixty five thousand pounds a year a murder can be a million pounds a year to investigate so actually you know if we intervene earlier keep kids in education keep that sense of a safe place an environment where they can grow and flourish then it is far better that doesn't take into consideration the emotional course you know i have to deal with people who've lost their sons and their daughters the gun and knife crime. so we have to address it earlier the problem of violence in schools is not a new one it's not something you're likely to read about in a school prospectus and it's particularly acute in the countries deprived in a city. schools on the whole do not want the public to know that they have a problem with children bringing weapons onto the premises so they do not readily

give the information so i guess the problem is significant or they teach it can now search people's if they suspect they're carrying a weapon many theel politicians are still failing to sit up and take notice and until more is done to address the problem the children who attend these schools will continue to learn these lessons. r.t. . now with a handful of sports stadiums across the u.k. already being named after companies petro dollars from gulf states continue to rebrand britain on our web site find out which of the military institutions is set to rename a building after the king of bahrain and also online after russia's yours were hit by a ten thousand ton meteorite the country's scientists are rushing to develop a system that could counteract space threats or find out more on the project at our dot com.

e.u. foreign ministers have agreed to review the syrian arms embargo in three months time although there was no decision on whether to loosen the embargo to allow weapons into syria the ministers have taken the surprise step to allow greater non-lethal aid into the country that alone was enough for britain to hail the move as a victory along with france they've been striving for direct supplies to the rebels for months meanwhile un investigators say both the syrian opposition and the government are committing war crimes adding that those guilty should face justice

at the hague foreign affairs editor magazine. things and criminal court is just cover for a powerful force pulling the strings. the i.c.c. is not the forum for any country to see the justice the power of the i.c. prosecutor to act depends on the will of the political mostest so ultimately it's a political court and the foundation of the entire and if its is the ideology of the union the bissell political and legal culture for the whole world is the find by the post-modern west so this is really a fig leaf which is supposed to hide the essence of this project and it is to treat bashar and his government as members of joint enterprise so i think this is just

a cardio graft process to conceal the fact that the decision in washington has already been made but luckily bashar is proving to be a much tougher nut to crack than they expected. more news now on r.t. this hour police and striking workers from spain's iberia airlines have clashed in madrid airport during attempts to clear a terminal for protesting crowds iberia's staff announced a five day walkout against plans to cut nearly four thousand jobs the spanish carrier merged with british airways and twenty ten and protesters are now blaming u.k. manages for the looming cuts the strikes have already grounded hundreds of flights and expected to cost the struggling airline millions of europe's. relations appear to be deteriorating between egyptian president mohamed morsi the muslim brotherhood and his main allies a prominent member of egypt's hardline islamist party has resigned as the president's adviser after another raid was fired for allegations of abuse of office

it all comes ahead of a parliamentary election expected within months these are misled government sees the poll as a chance to bring stability to the volatile nation however the day of the election has yet to be and i just. i mean president sox fan has been reelected with over fifty eight percent of the votes but a former foreign minister who officially came second claims he was the winner and accuses the government of mass electoral fraud authorities have dismissed the allegations it will be a second term in office since coming to power in two thousand and eight. despite monday's anti israeli protest in the west bank the country's vying not to backtrack from its settlement plans israel has been eyeing a disputed area of land known as anyone for years even though building there might drive a stake through the heart of any future peace solutions but the palestinians are to . investigates its rugged and remarkable landscape largely empty but full

of meaning this is one of the west bank's most sensitive pieces of real estate for fourteen years plans to build here have existed but were kept on hold but all of that changed last. november less than twenty four hours after the u.n. general assembly recognize palestine is a nonmember observer state tel aviv fast tracked construction plans here prompting the palestinian government to call it a slap in the face of the entire world. this plan to build here is not legal according to international law which states that when one country occupies another it can and change facts on the ground israel is doing exactly this while also getting people out of their lands soley for the benefit of the settlers. known as the one this controversial patch of earth exists between east jerusalem where palestinians aspire to establish the capital of a future palestinian state and the huge israeli settlement of ma'ale adumim it is the last remaining corridor between the large palestinian cities in the west bank

and if plans go ahead in the israelis extend this area it would cut into a big chunk of the west bank effectively driving a wedge into the middle of any potential palestinian state critics have warned that filling the space with jewish homes amounts to a doomsday scenario effectively striking a fatal heart attack to the two state solution but for now the plan is to build a garbage dump in this valley with the waste that comes from jerusalem and then in about twenty to thirty years when it's full to build a park on top of us here you can see that palestinians fear it's part of a long term strategy to extend the one and to build new israeli settlements it's not surprising this is not the first time that such a plan is submitted it is a part of ongoing policy that has been growing for years now in at the end to grab palestinian lands but first the israelis need to get rid of the people who live here among them around three arab jerusalem neighborhoods and one hundred fifty

bedouins for whom this has been home for nearly half a century mohammad cushion is angry he says tel aviv doesn't want him and his tribe here but it also refuses to allow them to return to their original village in the make of desert from where they fled after the creation of the state in one nine hundred forty eight. it is discrimination they give the settlers everything that they want we're as we do not ask for anything besides laying in the land and they want to evacuated us our children live surrounded by walls it's like being in a prison one of them they will grow up and will not make peace in the future with the israeli side. tel aviv complains the bedwyn camps were set up eagerly without permits. and stand in the way of urban planning but critics say this is just an excuse for a land grab it makes me furious this dump site is going to harm the environment and it's going to harm the health of the people and they make it harder to find

a solution for the situation demolition orders have already been issued threatening to destroy the last remnants of bedwyn life in these hills and while these radio officials say the construction anyone if it happens at all is many years away it cuts to the heart of the israeli palestinian conflict which fundamentally is about the land and the fate of the people who live on us policy on t. in the west bank. stay with us because coming up next a look at those who celebrate new year on a train rather than. 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 secret weapons program and turned their young beyond nuclear reactor back on since then every once a while a missile flies and people say the war is coming and silence then another test of some sort shock horror and then silence again north korea just uses this is a bargaining tool to get what they want and rather how wacky the north korean state may seem they understand that launching water two missiles against united states means they probably won't even hit their target and in return their entire country will be turned into ash instantly this situation really isn't cause for concern until something big changes like the u.s. not being in a position to support south korea japan or some other dramatic event that changes the game like china giving up their support for the north korean side but for now the cycle just keep going on and on and about two years the same headlines will be back with the same fear will be back a lather rinse repeat but that's just my opinion.

the. science technology innovation all the least developed from around russia we've dumped a huge earth covered. most people are rushing home to get ready for new year's celebrations but when a hurry to leave their new year's eve priority is not to miss the train. each one of these passengers is expecting miracles from this festive trip. this is like the first time we're celebrating on the train we've waited so long to do that we bought tickets a month ago.