on r.t. tonight 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 we investigate also this hour. they would like us to offer explanations as to why we grant him asylum why on earth newly reelected ecuadorian president rafael correia tells r.t. he won't back down from the west staff to being pressured over granting asylum to whistleblower julian assange. and with reports that up to four children a day caught with weapons in british schools r t takes a look at how the worrying trend is being tackled now.

following a very good evening to futures joins us just after eleven pm here in moscow my name's kevin know in this is r.t. international first russia demanding answers tonight as to why that three year old boy died allegedly at the hands of his adoptive mother in the united states is such a sad story maxime could mean adds to the grim statistic of twenty russian children who have died after being adopted by americans only a few weeks ago a new law came into effect in russia banning u.s. citizens from bringing russian children into their families because of the worries about this very kind of abuse earlier if a national gave me the latest developments as they've come through today. although they seem died almost a month ago now investigation is still continuing in syria to say exactly what happened and i mean weeks what were the circumstances for two we're already hearing

from american investigators that the body of that scene was coverage with crashes and. allegedly he was beaten and he suffered that's what we're hearing from american doctors multiple injuries prior to his death it's also reported that mike seems parents called medics to their property but it might seem had actually died before he could be treated on that day texas children protection services received a reported maxime staff which alleged neglect and physical abuse 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 is human rights and voiceless only listen to what he has to say concerning this. he lives now with his adoptive father the mother who serving this charter is not allowed to live with the second child during the inquiry but nevertheless she can see you 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 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 duma yakovlev law. for americans from adopting russians because of this fear of this very same thing unfortunately it seems too late in this case maybe you know absolutely there is another. coincidence between these two cases might seem mean was adopted from the same often eighteen month old dmitri. 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 hate it was just too hot inside the car and the boy died adoptive father was then accused with murder and faced up to

ten years in prison but the court decided he was not guilty and slit her. they have been able to speak to children's rights on books man and has explained why russia has taken such a firm stance here ok let's take a listen to that unfortunately it's usually months after russian child has died in new ways that are the american side informs us about it and one piece 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 right tens of thousands of russian adopted children were 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 abused do of course we across developments as the inquiry into maxime's death expands. them or if a national will be there just a bit earlier well earlier the us promised to more thoroughly investigate the abuse of russian children by their adoptive american families as talked about this time with rowley posters from the foundation against child trafficking really high there

so to make it a time to be with us tonight as we were so much. weeks ago back in january what are we learning about this why are we learning about it so long after it apparently happened the month. well we can only guess the chorus but it's difficult for think. that's why when there were all those negotiations go along with us. for a while for the last hour and of course the u.s. was not. thinking. well you know. yeah but i think you have this highly political. well when one. road i'd like to know what you think about the way america's been handling this the u.s. department states refusing to get involved in the investigation that's been launched by russia but it is promising assistance of making contact with local authorities why isn't it going higher though do you think in america. well you know how to text

only because you know this is. just the station is is the national competitions i mean the u.s. state level the comfort level so it's not so over the u.s. state department can you interfere this is. actually good like any other children in the u.s. like you know the love of their parents and so state level ok how can the year of that so i guess that explains why russian officials say they learned about the tragic news from local authorities not the state department yeah absolutely because the state you know job protection is at the local level is both state department spokesman a tour of new lives so they were taking the welfare of adopted children very seriously so with that in mind i wonder where the failure of care is going so very badly wrong here. well we're not sure if you're going to rush out who are in your homes are in child protection supervised care or summarized by and by rights

out there in the face of all the safety warnings i have about school and up greatly if that sounds well private family like any other child and so there's nobody supervise you and there's nobody up for you and even you posted on wait for it will be a light sent the rest are very rough about i don't hear the choir or by the sound of a loss in a sinful. house and i love those people. who say anything we critical about who got some critics say the adoption ban that's been introduced here now in russia we're talking about just now with reflection of the live law in fact has the knock on effect of depriving everyone if you like of russian kids of maybe getting a good job because a course of thousands of thousands of russian kids have been adopted by americans with no problem at all the loving families this is all the absolutely tragic every case it is the minority do you think that law is too much or do you think at this

stage you know twenty deaths every death is a tragedy do you think it was called for. i think those goals are not only because of the tragedies and i agree every tragedy is one for miami but that's a much more general issue of you know. every country whether it's the u.s. other you work with something western european country or a russia everybody has parents or temporary of our own period one last look after the children are that their children are thinking of the care of what we got that your marriage with. this situation is not a reasonable sense going above your heart taking into care well one has to work on that you know then work with the parents and work towards reintegration into the family and and by sending children abroad it's not all countries will have we hope raised because there is no use to provide as the story of children can be adults and it will enable orphan families and rich families so there's

a lot of stories about that when we know it's not always the case and. it's not the russia you got to tell them like it's up to the u.s. thought about your post thank you so much hydration against child trafficking it members you are much appreciated. ecuadorian leader rafael carette has promised four more years of revolution after a sweeping victory secured him a third term on sunday off the spanish channel them spoke to the re-elected president as he geared up for his final four year run at the helm carette was especially vocal in helping the world's top whistleblower julian assange of course are still ensconced in ecuador an embassy in london exactly eight months on in fact . sort of yes it does in a practical 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 but 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 under twist this not about is if they really have to interrogate him that. it was never even officially presented with charges if sanchez lawyer says are guards on it's lucky at the european court and achieves a safe passage for sanchez to staying at the ecuadorian embassy the situation will be finally resolved it is all now in europe's 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 back track on our decision we will never do this it puts all of them with us welcome probably the full interview there could be reelected president just over an hour of time again here on r.t. for not calling already today of course creil upset the us britain and sweden with our decision to grant asylum to the wiki leaks founder back in august i spoke to

activist and radio show host solomon common c.r. and told me the ecuadorian president's enjoying a lot of popularity at home at the moment right now partly because of policies which do stand up to the white house. 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 is been outspoken against the neo liberal agenda and us imperialism versus quite some time folks are done with this whole all model where we're going to continue to be can you know continuously improve it's really dependent on us and it is corporate interests that those days are done hopefully careers very well aware of the fact that the u.s. uses net national in downward for democracy and the national democratic institute as their 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 three when he started the national debt endowment 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 wall of the residence and northwest of the city causing damage but no casualties earlier though a car blast near the syrian capital did claim at least two lives britain meantime failed to convince foreign ministers to ease an arms embargo on weapons shipments to the syrian rebels though the did take the surprise step of allowing other types of aid into the country ukase hailed the move as a success signal talks will come in three months time it's been struggling with france indeed for direct arms supplies to opposition forces here divest again is that yes yes they said both the rebels and the government are committing war crimes and that those guilty should face justice at the hague but the chronicle's magazine

foreign affairs had a serious blow to his thinks a criminal court is just a cover for a powerful outside 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 all the political masters so ultimately it's a political court and the foundation of the entire and if its is the ideology of unity that this political and legal culture for the whole world is defined 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 the joint enterprise so i think this is just a copy of graft us 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. coming up very soon all this channel the kids are not all right sitting on a bridge anyway we're reporting on but investigating one weapons in school bugs are becoming worryingly widespread among pupils in the u.k. these days as a study is revealed a catalogue of violence also with talking about one of the most sensitive plots of land in the west bank and israel's construction plans in a key palestinian area just a couple of the many stories of why the after this break. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world

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every parent wants to know delayed that school is safe for their kids a safe place to be but in britain a disturbing number of pupils in class are naives a knuckle dusters a recent nationwide study shows four hundred children a day being suspended because of the threatening behavior sisera first met one youth worker for whom violence in school listen every day no. 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 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 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 i had. gone. around to see this person was shot down about the fire or schools are supposed to be a safe secure environment where the focus is on education the figures of revealed 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 playground can be a dangerous place but it's not only the pupils who are subject to violence in london alone this being more than four thousand assaults on teachers by peoples over the past year is it's a shocking indication of the levels of violence in schools it becomes normal to.

get involved in this you get sucked into this last thing to violence 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 us 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 a 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

and 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 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 course 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 it's done to address the problem the children who attend these schools will continue to learn these lessons in violence so there are thirty. some stories are to dot com is covering tonight for you take

a look actually brinks getting a v p visit but not one you'd notice. a but the french president speaks about when he's there but receiving a rather quiet welcome because of media stress calls a news blackout very low key apparently all that online banking on banksy you found of his street so mysterious renowned street artist as he is which was thought stolen the resurfaced in the united states is up for auction you can read of more about that r.t. dot com. stories

eleven twenty moscow time another fatal shooting rampage in the united states this time in southern california are still the government killed three people in different locations across orange county before turning the weapon on himself in a stolen car they stole yet know whether the killer knew his victims in the currently investigating at least six crime scenes. in yemen military fighter jets crashed in the capital it killed the least twelve and injured dozens more women and children reportedly among the victims but the aircraft was on a training flight when it plunged into a building containing shots and homes setting all place on fire it happened in change square in sun our the revolution which ousted the previous leader two years ago began. in bahrain mercenaries of attack mourners who were trying to attend the funeral of a sixteen year old boy killed during anti regime protests last week government forces have been heavily deployed in the view's toxic gas against the crowds violence still plagues the kingdom even though the first peace talks between opposition and the ruling monarchy were held on february fourteenth. thousands of

rioted in the west bank's two largest cities in support of hunger strikers held in israeli jails israeli forces dispersed dozens of palestinians of blocks of road in one city with some staging a protest near un office in another demonstrators want the e.u. to take action for better treatment of the ailing prisoners and to back their release public anger flared up over uncertainty of their fate with claims that are in a critical condition and had been wrongfully detained. despite growing anger in the west bank and u.n. calls to stop settlement expansion then israel showing no intention it seems of freezing its plans late last year the israeli government pledged thousands more homes in the long disputed area known as the one the vital corridor between large palestinian areas now as our middle east correspondent paul asli reports next that that could have a big effect on construction and it could prove fatal for any potential palestinian state. it's rugged unremarkable 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 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 argue buys another change facts on the ground israel is doing exactly this while also getting people out of their lands soley for the benefit of others others at. 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. 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 martin palestinians fear it's 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 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 bed ones 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 to them and whereas 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 out of and will not make peace in the future with an 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. that's the news runner so far this hour and back again to thirty five minutes to bring you the latest in great programs lined up between now and then in a few minutes max because a look at the prospects this time of living in a post dollar world maybe so our next show. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something

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