an adopted russian boy dies in the us allegedly at the hands of his american mother a month after a similar case is moscow to ban u.s. citizens from adopting russian children. they would like an explanation of why we grow the asylum why on earth they even want us to backtrack on our decision but we will never do this. after securing a third term ecuadorian president rafael correa talks to r.t. slamming the west for pressuring him for his protection of the world's top whistleblower. remains in the country's embassy in london. and the u.k. locks horns with france to secure a place among india's top trading partners as business relations between european powers turns lukewarm.

hello good to have you company watching live from moscow now a three year old russian boy has died in the u.s. allegedly at the hands of his adoptive mother the claims come 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 maxine however according to russian diplomats the u.s. state department has so far been reluctant to cooperate with an investigation artie's moving portnoy has this report. that this case unfolded in texas according to officials three year old maxime died on january twenty first at the hands of his adoptive mother the conducted by russia's investigative committee revealed that maksim was beaten by his adoptive mother who according to officials also fed him

strong psychotropic medication and investigators 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. unfortunately as usually months later russian child has done to the american side informs us about it and want. it was five years after a boy died and that's how our cooperation with us works if they do not inform us fast enough or the information is not reliable the right tens of thousands of russian adopted children are leaving 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 if you listen to what they do want to show it's an investigation into the death and that maksim is still ongoing to find out greater details. roy been author of several books on international adoption says despite washington's promise to better investigate the abuse of russian children by the american adoptive families the longstanding 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 eight cases of abuse that have resulted in the death of these twenty four hours we don't know how many other children are. living with abuse or you know that haven't died from it. i could always lead a rough day is celebrating having secured

a third as the country's president colleagues marty spanish channel spoke to the newly reelected leader and among other issues asked him about his take on the future of the world's top whistleblower and wiki leaks editor sun she remains holed up in the ecuadorian embassy in london. sort of yes it does and that but i think that's for the practical implication of julian assange the situation is up to europe to resolve it the problem will be solved if the u.k. grants or the safe passage and that hasn't been any intention to disrupt the prosecution process according to the swedish justice system in spite of the numerous misinformed allegations see 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 he. was never even officially presented with charges if a songes lawyer goes on it's lucky at the european court and achieves

a safe passage for songe to staying at the ecuadorian embassy the situation will be finally resolved it is all now in here at times but there is a lot of arrogance involved here a neo colonialist sentiment too they would like us to offer explanations as to why we granted him asylum why on earth there's more they even want us to but truck on our decision that we will never do this it puts all of them with us well activist am radio show host commish young 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 u.s. unconditionally are not going to find support from 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 the new york colonization has been an outspoken against all of the new your liberal agenda and us imperialism quite some time folks are done with this whole all model where we're going to continue to be

you know continuously emperor ritually dependent on us and it's his corporate interests that those days are done hopefully. as the u.k.'s relations with europe turn increasingly sour london appears to be seeking an alternative to turn if market to support his debt stricken economy the british prime minister is on a three day visit to the country's former top colony india in a bid to with issues and investors david cameron has called on new delhi to cut regulations and made tapes encouraged from the 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 in india to hammer and lucrative deals some of the say london will face challenges in winning ivan you debbie. the size of

the delegation certainly shows the aggressive nature all right mr cameron's drive to seek trade abroad right now prime minister cameron is not the best friends 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 all relationship with india. britain can. then perhaps first where the indian government however i would say this the historical memory of colonial rule doesn't sit very well with the indians still. reports reveal u.k. has already made a killing by selling weapons to an asian country keys to grace human rights violations trying to has allegedly bought more than three million pounds with a small arms and ammunition from london despite the country's record of mistreating

minorities and suppressing separatism antiwar activists jim brann police the u.k. is placing geopolitics over human rights. of course there's the jews to teach you 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 dutifully 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 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. discourse. about the fire. but up to four children a day caught with weapons in the u.k. schools according to latest data we look at how 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's threatening to kill off any hopes for a viable two state solution that after a short break. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images seeing from the streets of kenya that. corporations rule the day.

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i welcome back a pile of textbooks a lunch box and. the things you might find in a british school bag. parents a recent study shows an ever increasing number of people being cool with weapons in british schools sarah firth looks into the

figures and investigates the shocking trend. teaches lots of things 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 teaching them to say anything about a stark insight into the reality facing some of britain's 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 remember we're always searching the school and . gun to the. gun. and i see this first shot gun about to fire or schools are supposed to be a safe secure environment where the focus is on education the thing it's

a veil that 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 playgrounds 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 at 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 because i mean. 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 found apache gregan has been

helping young people tackle gang culture and violence a member could come. to me when a bulletproof vest underneath a school uniform. according to patrick its 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. the problem of violence in schools is nothing 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 the 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 all they teach is can now say 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. i think. with a handful of sports stadiums across the u.k. already being named after arab companies petro dollars from gulf states continue to rebranding britain on our website find out which of the u.k.'s military institutions is set to rename a building after the king of bahrain. after russia's euro's were hit by a ten thousand ton meteorite the country's scientists are rushing to develop a system that could counteract space threats more on the project at r.t.

. he thorne ministers have agreed to review the syrian arms embargo in three months time although there is 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 arms supplies to the rebels for months meanwhile u.n.

investigators say both the syrian opposition and the government are committing war crimes adding that those guilty should face justice at the hague of foreign affairs editor for chronicles magazine. things in criminal court is just cover for a powerful act side force pulling the strings of the i.c.c. is not the forum for any country to see the justice of the power of the i.c.c. prosecutor to act depends on the will of the political masters so ultimately it's a political court and the foundation of the entire and if this is the ideology of the universal political and legal culture for the whole world is the find by the post-modern west so this is really a signal which is supposed to hide the essence of this project and it is to treat bashar and his government as members of the joint enterprise

so i think this is just a choreographed pass 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 in r.t. this hour police and striking workers from spain's i bearly airlines have clashed in madrid as airport during attempts to clear a terminal protesting crowds iberia's staff announced a five day warpath against plans to cut nearly four thousand jobs the spanish carrier merged with british airways and twenty ten protesters are now claiming u.k. managers for the looming cuts the strikes have already grounded hundreds of flights and are expected to cost the struggling airline millions of europe's. the french president has been denied live coverage of his visit to greece by local journalists media employees in the stricken country have gone on a twenty four hour strike in protest of ever deepening cuts the move comes despite

a greek court ruling the strike illegal for state media the government has accused the opposition of a deliberate news blackout during a brief visit by francois hollande. relations if it be deteriorating between egyptian president mohamed morsi as muslim brotherhood and his main allies a prominent member of egypt's hardline islamist party has resigned as the president's advisor after another was five allegations of abuse of office it all comes ahead of a parliamentary election expected within months the islamist led government sees the poll as a chance to bring stability to the volatile nation however the date for the election has yet to be announced. armenian president third socks yan 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 storage fees have dismissed the

allegations it will be sarkozy and second term in office since coming to power in two thousand and eight. despite monday's anti israeli protests in the west bank the country's vowing not to backtrack from its settlement plans israel's benign 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 solution with the palestinians artie's porous lir 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 television fast track to 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 change facts on the ground of israel is doing exactly that while also getting people out of the land 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 have 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 iran and 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 negev desert from where they fled after the creation of the state in one nine hundred forty eight when a lot of them it is discrimination they give the settlers everything that they want and we're as we do not ask for anything besides laying in the land and they want to

evacuated us and our children live surrounded by war it's like being in a prison one of them that they will grow up and will not make peace in the future with the israeli side was a lot tel aviv complains the bed when 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 and 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 israeli 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 it policy r t in the west bank. coming up shortly max kaiser pulls no punches when it comes to revealing the

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