tonight on r t russia demands justice for the tragic death of a three year old russian boy allegedly killed by his adoptive mother in texas but the u.s. state department seems reluctant to cooperate with the investigation with exhibit examine that more fully coming up also this hour too. they would like us to offer explanations as to why we granted him asylum why on earth newly reelected ecuadorian president ruffo correia tells r.t. he won't back down from the west started being pressure is over granting asylum to whistle blow julian the sun. and with reports that up to four children a day a court with weapons in british schools arctic takes a look at how the worrying trend is being tackle.

in a very good even if you just joined us this is r.t. international from moscow i'm kevin when well our top story there as you just heard russia now demanding answers as to why that three year old boy allegedly died at the hands of his adoptive mother in the united states might seem cosmin adds to the grim statistic twenty russian children have died so far after being adopted by americans course only a few weeks ago that new law came into effect in russia banning u.s. citizens from bringing russian children into their families because of the potential maybe of abuse across developments this warring story artie's maria for national now maria this story broke twenty four hours ago it was on shift here then the details were coming through so sad so sad you see his picture there absolutely a full creators of a short life what do we know about what what about what happened bring us up to date more details have been coming through today and we know that makes him was the eldest of two brothers born in russia's western. small town. and not far from the

border with this torn in both he and his younger sibling whose name is real were adopted by the chateau family from the united states have been reportedly been abandoned by their russian mother both real and maksim flew with their new family from russia to texas in october after which actually little almost nothing was heard about the boys until monday when it seems terrible tragic death was over we heard about this yesterday we didn't have the twenty first of january. as you know with the circumstances of it do we know any more although maxime died almost a month ago now investigation is still continuing in syria to say exactly what happened and i mean we what were the circumstances to we already hearing from american investigators that the body of scene was covered with crashes and bruises allegedly he was beaten and he suffered this is what we're hearing from american doctors multiple injuries prior to his death it's also reported that mike seems

parents called medics to the property but mixi had actually died before he could actually be treated on that day taxes children protection services received a reported maxime's death which allege alleged neglect and physical abuse so you look at the picture when they couldn't know what's to come could he know he's got a brother of course kirill believe his name is what we know about. the theory that it's impossible to say right now russian authorities are saying that this second boy could also be in danger but this is the question was asked russia's foreign ministry as human rights and voiceless only listen to what he has to say look at that almost. concerning this. he lives now with his adoptive father the mother who surname is chateau is not allowed to live with the second child during the inquiry but nevertheless she can see here i think at least once a week this decision was taken by the u.s.

authorities if the investigation proves the mother is guilty in the death of the child the question will be really about the future of the second boy richardson's new. clearly russian authorities are very much concerned about their welfare health care real and they're right now saying that the boy could still be in danger and then sustain that real should come back to russia where he has they say some relatives and we will we're also hearing from dozens of families from the boy's native scoff region that they've expressed readiness to adopt carol as well and of course the double tragedy the double irony here is that this just before the new law was introduced we were talking about a lengthier in this channel of the law to prohibit americans from adopting russians because of this the fear of this very same thing fortunately it seems to in this case may be you know absolutely there is another. coincidence between these

two cases might seem mean was adopted from the same often eighteen month old dmitri. lived before he was adopted in two thousand and eight and another tragic story he died just three months after he was adopted because his adoptive father just forgot he was in the car live in him in a parking lot for nine hours in fifty degree heat it was just too hot inside the car and the boy died they've adopted father was then accused with murder and faced up to ten years in prison but the court decided he was not guilty and let him walk free also. some very strange decision we have been able to speak to children's rights on boats man and he's explained why russia has taken such a firm stance here ok let's take a listen to this latest. bit of unfortunately it's usually russian child is going to be american so it informs us about it and once he said it was five years after

we do it that's how our cooperation with us works if they do not informants fast enough or the information is not reliable there are tens of thousands of russian adoptive children living in the us and we haven't got a clue about the lives of most of the information that they're all right and they're not being able to do what if you want to show it's emotional. well as i said this geisha nice continue you know we have more details will emerge but of course. that's made much more important that the second point the prado same correll will also be site of course will as this no doubt twists and turns will of course be following on a website as well thank you for motion much appreciate it so sad. well earlier the us promised to thoroughly investigate the abuse of russian children by their adoptive american families but mr riba news written widely on international adoption told us there is no protection for adoptive children in the us no control over preventing abuse that's this adopted children are no more protected here

in the united states whether they're internationally or domestically adopted no matter what country they were adopted from once they are adopted into a family they are treated as if they are the same as they were born into that family and there is no greater protection afforded any adopted child than there is any other child so it's only if abuse is reported there is a high demand for children for adoption and the demand is great for russian children in particular because they are cool cation and most often blond haired and blue eyed and they are them they are desirable children for adoption since most of those adopting are core cajun and they simply prefer a child that looks like them so there there is hard demand but russia need not commodify children and yield to that demand russians and any country can protect

children better within their own country. well the day's headlines not a career as promised four more years of revolution after a sweeping victory secured him a third term on sunday the spanish channel spoke to the re-elected president does he get up for his final four year one of the helm career was especially vocal on helping the world's top. of course he's been ensconced in the ecuadorian embassy in london for exactly eight months now sort of yes it does in a practical sense for the practical implication of judicial standard situation is up to europe to resolve this problem will be solved if the u.k. there is a passage of more of them hasn't paid any attention to this from the prosecution process according to the swedish justices in spite of the numerous misinformed allegations see if they send the prosecutors and it was embassy in britain so the recording interrogation video in which they can do it would not feel that is if

they really had to interrogate julian assange and was never even officially presented with charges if you start his lawyer as our guards on it's lucky in the european court and achieved a safe passage for son you're staying in the actual remember seeing the situation we finally resolved it is all now in your hands 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 but at the why on earth there's more they even want us to backtrack on our decision we will never do this with this all of them with us. and we invite you to watch out his full interview that was newly reelected on air here at six forty five pm tonight. upset the u.s. now sweden of course with that decision to grant asylum to work in expanded you know back in august activist radio show. spoke to me says the dorrian president's enjoying popularity at home right now partly because of the policies which stand up to the white house. it's been 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 where has been outspoken against us in new york colonization is a been an outspoken against 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 in perpetuity dependent on us and it is corporate interests that that those days are done hopefully the career is very well aware of the fact that the u.s. uses net national indomie for democracy and the national democratic institute as organizations they go in and they're their primary role is to destabilize democratically elected governments and so it's and to topple them as ronald reagan said in one thousand and three when he started the national debt in dollars for democracy he said he wanted them to operate like the cia but just overtly and

covertly. a syrian official says two mortars have exploded near one of president assad's three palaces in damascus the blast struck the southern war of the residents in the northwest of the city didn't call it did cause that we didn't cause any casualties earlier a car blast near the syrian capital kind of least two lives though britain meantime failed to convince e.u. foreign ministers to ease an arms embargo on weapons shipments to syrian rebels although they did take the surprise step of allowing other types of aid into the country the u.k. held the move is a success saying more talks will come in three months time it's been striving with france for direct arms supplies to opposition forces u.n. investigators though yes they say both the rebels and the government are committing war crimes and that those guilty should face justice at the hague for the chronicle's magazine for an offense that if they spoke to us thinks a criminal court is just a cover for a powerful outside force pulling the strings. the i.c.c. is not the forum or any country to see the justice and the power

of the i.c.c. prosecutor whacked 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 the whole world is defined 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 joint enterprise so i think this is just a choreographed farce concealed 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. coming up the kids are not all

right so they go to break anyway we investigate why weapons in school but exam becoming more of a worry and becoming more widespread among pupils in the u.k. as a study reveals a catalogue of violence with folks and all that just ahead also to reporting from one of the most sensitive plots of land in the west bank israel's construction plans in a key palestinian area so off the break. he . says.

you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else 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. again very good to have you with us tonight struggling to get its economy. and the u.k. is now knocking on india's trade doors promise david cameron is in the british former

colony urging it to open up for more investment the u.k. delegation includes business leaders more than one hundred companies several ministers and m.p.'s to him what he said in fact to be the biggest ever team taken abroad by a prime minister cameron claimed there in britain were on track to double trade between them by twenty fifteen and that he wants the u.k. to become the new delhi part of choice as he put it well investigator investors rather have been there craving for india the free regulations for years as a lot of money at stake here a professor. from the jindal school of international affairs in new delhi is skeptical of cameron's promise of huge trade growth and his description of relations with india is quote special. what we would like to see here. and you get a good relationship that is on a level and based on mutual interest between india he's been seen as the water in terms of france or long was here recently and it is almost like

a bee line of our major force they're trying to call going into europe especially because of the risk to consumption based economy most of us in europe as you know has been completely suffered by austerity so on one hand they're trying to bring more financial trigger experiment on the other hand you know the shrinking of the steam out of these conservative policies is not going to help them revive brought in in the absence of brought you don't have these corporations going to manufacture and export goods or services so i think we have to be realistic i mean the governor of the bank of england service said that we're only halfway through the global economic crisis if doubly so then we're looking at two thousand and eighteen. the only statement we're going to come out of this crisis so until then i think most of these targets are mostly aspirational and i won't be surprised if these are not meant. go to the saying business school should be a safe place but in britain

a disturbing number of pupils in class it seems are armed with knives and knuckle dusters these days a recent nationwide study shows four hundred children a day are being suspended because of the threatening behavior artist sarah ferguson went to talk to one youth worker whom violence at school was an every day no. 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 parents going after it is not fun no for teaching them 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 with weapons in persists cools guns knives and knuckle dusters just some of the items confiscated by police are. searching the school and. gone to the school. gone turn around and i see this first shotgun about to fire or

schools are supposed to be a safe secure environment where the focus is on education the figures have revealed that hundreds of weapons are being seized in schools every year with the 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 there's been more than four thousand assaults on teachers by peoples over the past year is it's a shocking indication at the levels of finding the school it becomes normal to. get involved in this you get sucked into this last laugh into violence the best approach. is it's just about 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 founder patrick regan has been helping young people tackle gun culture and violence a member could come. to me when a bulletproof vest underneath a 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's 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 to gun and knife crime and you can't put a cost on that so we have to address it earlier 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 country's deprived in a city for 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 really give the information so i guess the problem is significant or they teach it can now say people's if they suspect they're carrying a weapon then he thiel politicians are still failing to sit up and take notice and until more it's done to address the problem the children who attend these schools will continue to learn these lessons by. r.t. . more the stories we want to show you are to dot com as well right now there were covering a story about greece getting a very pretty busy. notice the french president receiving rather a quiet welcome because of media strikes because of you people who are located more about that online get

a minute is what you might want to check this one out banking on banksy. the mysterious renowned street artist which was thought to being stolen from their plans while back in the u.k. now turned up in the united states to top it off its approach and to hear more about. the mystery on our web site r t dot com. busy news no to let me take you through some headlines internationally will start with yemen for sure the military helicopters crashed in the capital it's killed at least nine people and injured dozens more the aircraft is on

a training flight when it came number of casualties is expected to rise to seven because that helicopter plunged into a building containing shops and how has it have been changed square in so now with the revolution which out of the previous two years ago began. the sheer community in pakistan college stand province's agreed to end a sit in protest now allow the burial of those killed in the most recent sectarian attack because the government's arrested suspects alleged to have targeted the minority muslim group in saturday's bombing that claimed the lives of eighty nine people blasted the same city about a month ago in a snow cone haul killed more than ninety people there and. thousands of rioted in the west bank's two largest cities in support of hunger strike is held in israeli jails israeli forces dispersed dozens of palestinians suit blocked a road in one city some staging a protest the u.n. office another demonstrators want the e.u. to take action for better treatment of prisoners and their release public anger flared up over uncertainty about the fate of claims are going to critical condition

of being wrong for those attending the first place. despite growing anger in the west bank and u.n. calls to stop settlement expansion where israel is showing no intention of freezing its plans late last year the israeli government pledged thousands more homes in the long disputed area known as one it's a vital corridor or between large palestinian areas middle east correspondent paul astaire reports next them on how the construction could prove fatal for any future potential palestinian state 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 which states that when one country occupies another change facts on the ground israel is doing exactly that so we'll also get people out of the land. 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 martin palestinians fear was part of a long term strategy to extend the one 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 a 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 when a lot of them it is discrimination was though they give the settlers everything

that they want to them whereas or we do not ask for anything their science is laying in the lands of the city and they want to regulate us children and we are surrounded by walls and what was like being in a prison one of the that they will grow on and will not cannot or will it is really not i who was a lot tel aviv complains the bad when camps were set up illegally 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 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 us policy on t.v. in the west bank. lined up going to show you max going on the rails to celebrate

new year in a few minutes that we invite you to meet the russians so it's a trade. all of 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 all the way 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 while a missile flies people say the war is coming and silence then another test of some sort of shock horror.