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the possible to the standoff between. government it's being reported that the wiki leaks co-founder has been ecuadorian id card as a step towards. diplomatic immunity. the foreign office to comment on the situation. our correspondent. picks up the story the mystery of what happens next in the.

really continues with some developments trickling in this evening here in london where we are in fact outside the ecuadorian embassy and some of the confusion of some of the reports that have been coming out seems to be stemming from first of all it tweets that julian assange had posted on his twitter page wearing a t. shirt with the ecuadorian national colors parking lots of debate and questions online about whether or not this could potentially mean that he has either has been or is on his way to being granted citizenship those questions of course are yet to be specifically answered by either julian assange himself the founder of wiki leaks or ecuadorian officials what we do know so far is that assange seems to have been issued some sort of national ecuadorian identification number which is easily seen on the ecuadorian web site where this particular number coincides with his full name now the questions there are whether or not this is an i.d. that could potentially be used for him to apply for it with dorian citizenship or

somehow changed his status when it comes to this very complicated case that has now spanned over several years what we do know is this comes following earlier statements from the ecuadorian foreign minister saying that it's really time to move on with his case let's take a listen with the peasant companies in those conditions have a good outlook considering the option of mediation that will put this into said that virus that country or individual solution a solution is possible is without international corporation. which has expressed interest in finding one well there are lots of questions now about who this potential mediator could be because obviously when it comes to the complications of julian assange being able to actually step out of this embassy behind us revolves largely on what his status is in the u.k. but so certainly lots of questions we're going to obvious. we be watching this very

closely in terms of what is this going to mean for a songes status not just within ecuador but potentially his case beginning to move forward a little bit more if a song steps out from the embassy he potentially faces a rest for breaching bail in the u.k. as well as possible extradition to the united states and former cia analyst john kiriakou told us the decision by the foreign office if confirmed is an attack on all whistleblowers. i think that this is really a continuation of a very dangerous and wrongheaded policy to target whistleblowers julian is one of the biggest international whistleblowers and i think that they really want his head on a platter it's the worst kept secret in washington that julian is likely slated to begin working his way through the u.s. judicial process if you ever leave the embassy and i think that the americans have told the british under under no terms julian be allowed to leave the embassy of his own free will and then move on he should be snatched up in extradited to the united

states. the u.s. state of north carolina has been ordered to redraw its congressional map after republicans there admitted to joke about during a kind of takes a closer look. here's an old political hack courtesy of u.s. politicians redraw the voting districts in order to favor your party that's what the republican party did in north carolina in two thousand and sixteen but they went too far in the federal courts have stepped in and said that they were violating the u.s. constitution we. to the extent of going to use political data to draw in this manner it is to gain support of some advantage on the man. gerrymandering runs contrary to numerous fundamental democratic principles and individual rights. but let's take a look at how the twelfth congressional district in north carolina was drawn now that's clearly not exactly a random sampling of the population but that's not the only place that happens all

across the country this is an old trick in u.s. politics and even has a name gerrymandering the process of redrawing district lines to give an advantage to one puts you for another a matter that we have a state of fifty people twenty of them are democrats thirty republicans blues living on one side the state and reds on the other now the state needs to be divided into districts with each sending one representative to the house first option to divide them into five separate districts horizontally with three republican representatives and two democrats but if the republican party in the state is more powerful it can be divided in the reds favor with each district getting six republicans and four democrats which means that all the representatives will be republican and vice versa say the democratic party controls the state then its territory can be divided into districts in quite a chaotic way in order to give more house representation for democrats so even though the state has a republican majority democrats win three seats and republicans only two it's

constitutionally infirm you know parties are not supposed to redistrict in order to give any party political advantage again we know that happens the courts are tired of these gerrymandering they're tired particularly of racial gerrymandering which everyone knows is happening and they want it to stop and i think therefore that a lot of this redistricting in any case even aside from what happened here is going to be looked at more closely by the court but usually it's done in more subtle ways here they did in very blatant way there was evidence that they did it for political reasons and so. i think it was easy for the court to reach the decision they did the founding fathers of the united states extolled the virtues of representative government but it looks like a loophole in the constitution they created as unable to situation to come into existence in which instead of people choosing their politicians politicians get to

choose their voters. r.t. new york. well another twist in the state side russia with the release of an interview with one of the people behind a dossier on alleged could luzhin between team trump and moscow the us president has tweeted that this testimony was made public in quote an underhanded and illegal way the interview transcript reveals of the dossiers author decided to cut ties with the f.b.i. because he believed the bureau was being manipulated by trump the dossier itself wasn't the only topic of the interview the name of russian attorney natalia came up almost as many times as the dossier she was accused of being involved in trump russia collusion after she met with donald trump jr in two thousand and sixteen. met on the sky to discuss the latest revelations. this night you. know the person behind this testimony plant simpson for quite

a while now tell us more about how your relationship came about. that for the first time in twenty fifteen during my first visit to the united states before that we exchanged emails i got were introduced by lawyers who were hired in new york to represent a client with a russian businessman in a case initiated by then a tourist mr brough that into silence a team of businessmen during our cooperation excellent information gathering and analytical skills it is including the ability to distinguish truth from gossip i was very excited about reading the testimony he delivered back in august this long documents of almost three hundred pages because two different topics the first is the so-called charm das here the second is about his relations with me when last here i found out about the connection of glenn simpson to the tram dossier i could hardly believe it we've seen him as the term kharkov mentioned a discrepancy between the simpsons work that you used to and the quality of the

infamous trying to see a disease have as you're going to allow something like that to come out under his name or you. don't see it is an anonymous report probably people have been working on it i did not give me the publicly we would have never known the waters of the reports that a complaint raises questions in the sources of this also a lot of blame why did worse by unnamed unverified sources from a basis for an investigation conducted a basis for different government bodies of the united states not only does this investigation distract politicians from real issues but it's also wasting taxpayers' money through this music was his ago off can only brag. outlets are going to doubt his account of events contradicts us regarding whether or not you two met in july two thousand and sixteen did that reason. takes place after the new smoke alarm of his ago despite all the headlines i see no contradiction now with

this to mean these are in my written testimony to the senate i stated that they didn't mean glenn simpson that the only nine so. look at his testament he says i'm not sure maybe but this statement is not treated this completely from a business who june two thousand and sixteen the u.s. court of appeals for the second circuit held a hearing on mr brown this case you know he demanded almost was drawn from the case after the call for him to be questions later that's how the media is stronger now ask him to look into this case and to encourage congress to investigate mr brown this actions watch aimed at manipulating public institutions in the united states because there was less simpson who worked in our team for my russian clients who also happened to be connected to. the congressman investigating the case abscessed with his deed because they hope to prove i had the meeting was going simpson that day and this caused the meeting was time junior assuming that my main goal was to blackmail down the drunk when he. said that's guy has just mentioned bill browder

who is also mentioned by simpson he was an investor in russia and later was accused of masterminding a large scale tax evasion scheme. that's guy defended a russian company accused of money laundering occasion which browder gave testimony and she pressed proud as a come clean about his activities in russia. because going to be. among the talking points disclosed in the memo besides the russian trump collusion of course bill browder in it simpson slams the former businessman on several occasions accusing him of being obsessed with russia while being actively implicit in tax avoidance schemes and money laundering can you give us your judgment on the situation. but all that but much of the browser is obsessed was russia he said to russia not only but his desire for thanks i'd also mentally can russia he got one it's a russian woman he has caught russian children ties to russia and the only strongest line after all his crimes he should be grateful to russia for love throwing him

behind bars while it was still possible condition as to border of. withstanding the gravity of the allegations mr brown has testified before the us congress during the summer of twenty seven mainly talking about the alleged complicated collusion. mr rather you have given us the first and insight into putin's russia you may have done more to fight corruption worldwide than any other individual and i appreciate what you have done thank you for uncovering the facts and i'm sure how i can tell it's difficult to talk about the life and tragic death of your friend and someone with your colleague i want to join my colleagues and thanking you for being here today and admiring your courage and tenacity i could only. think the us perception of mr browder would change for the publication of simpson's testimony. i don't want to sound naive but i really hold this history will end with

a victory for common sense to me here because i knew that i knew how come all this time people like simpson and browder got congress flu time while the person accused of being involved in the alleged collusion scheme never got any on this forum because. i submitted a written testimony to congress where. answered one hundred seventy questions after starting the test so many members of congress most opposed to make a decision on whether to subpoena me to testify in person so far and also subpoena has been issued i don't know the reason but even i want to speculate i would assume that they also some of gave would not. have a good. iraqi security forces are forcing refugees to leave camps and return to their homes despite these being in unsafe areas that's according to a new report by the un refugee agency it says more than thirteen thousand families were forced to come back to dangerous zones and those who returned faced

a number of problems from tribal conflicts to booby traps left by fleeing islamic state fighters the report also says at least fourteen returning is have been killed i spoke to people in a refugee camp still waiting to return home. we are going to move to this camp three years ago we don't want to return to our home yes we are afraid of tribes houses are destroyed we have no place to live but the fields without houses the looted in the wires the torn out of the walls there's lots of booby traps and five days ago our neighbors there started a fire to warm some water but something went off and now the kids are in hospital she so scary again. there are very few people from our village returned home there's nothing left there

no electricity no water supply doesn't work we may return in the future but only when the area will be suitable for living. two point six million internally displaced people at this point recently interviewed internally displaced this is not counting iraqis outside their country and many of them being forcibly returned to places they don't want to go to that they don't think are safe if your home is rubble and there are corpses lying in the streets and there are explosives and minds and improvised explosive devices littering your former home no you shouldn't be compelled to return that's not humanitarian aid that's further humanitarian abuse the allegation seems widespread in iraq that the prime minister is seeking to get sunni's back to their homes to allow an election to proceed this parade is so p.r.

is taking precedence over substantive aid to human beings both within iraq and with. the iraqi prime minister has denied that refugees are being forced to return to unsafe areas he says it's misinformation spread by his political rivals. the army is seen by some as a place to show strength courage and self-sufficiency however the british military also now sees potential recruits as emotional and sensitive individuals here's a look at a difference in the approach. they are nothing but only organized grab asdic faces now then. you will not like me but the more you hate me the more you will learn. told the things. you can just make.

in a series of similar. talk it's known christians and gay people he can see how the military recruitment drives have changed over time and according to a recent government report the british army is experiencing difficulties finding recruits and former u.k. intelligence officer philip ingram says that despite the amount of money being spent on it this new campaign won't be successful. i was quite surprised to see these videos that are coming out i do understand that there's been market research done suggesting that they should target more minority groups but if they can't recruit enough people from the majority groups that the british military have traditionally recruited from i don't see what the senses and targeting of these minority groups but i think the whole program the advertising campaign is flawed because they're spending an awful lot of money on this year the british army spent on till september last year ten million pounds on its recruiting come here and

but one. piece of press from the not looking after one of the veterans or one of the current serving soldiers is enough to undo that ten million pound company and the best people to recruit are the soldiers themselves and if they can come up with positive stories to say what it is that they've achieved their academic achievements their training achievements the adventurous activities that they get involved in the team spirit that they build up and then they can take that and reflect whenever they come back into society again and as veterans and veterans come out with a good experience of not just how they've been looked after when ever they've served but how that set them up to go into civilian life. a lot of men put in as the number one threat to democracy in europe and the u.s. that's according to a new report published by u.s. senate democrats it took more than

a year for its authors to compile the two hundred page document there's hardly anything new in it reportedly from porter the most frequently voiced allegations against russia everything from political assassinations to state sponsored doping and cyber attacks it also contains a wide range of proposals aimed at protecting american democracy from alleged russian battling for example he proposes the creation of a special unit to deal with any interfere. from moscow and suggest spending millions of dollars to help europe and eurasia protect themselves the report also suggests preemptive sanctions against so-called state hybrid threat actors and we discussed the report with political analyst charles alltel. it's really shameful it's fake accounting of history it's not objective it doesn't really have a proper context and i think serious objective people when they look at this and they try to weigh up the various ways in which we could spend money this won't be one i don't think that that committee reflects. the will of the american people or

even indeed the will of congress i think the democrats tend to vote as a bloc and this this report which must have been in preparation for many months is yet another tool really used to continue to sell the anti russian look there and there are to have an end to sell the russian collusion delusion when a new senate is seated perhaps with a stronger republican trop led majority you're going to see very different reports coming out of the committee. a video has gone viral of a young man in paris resisting arrest and bursting into flames his body caught on fire after police officers at the same time used a stun gun and tear gas and warning you may find the upcoming images upsetting.

police in charge waving an israeli flag at a rally of palestinian demonstrators in the protest was

a part of the world wide anger that followed. the capital of israel the police said the display of the flag was extremely provocative and now the men face one hundred euro final two days in jail however one. told us that he got involved in a confrontation only palestinians started to yell anti semitic slogans and. after the activists were confronted by the police protestors were allowed to continue the rally the president of the belgian league against anti semitism has raised concern over the wave of violence that broke out after the controversial decision. both run police. arrested people in the east and israel in the months region worshiping anti-semitic slogans we saw several

incident talk during those last weeks and months in europe following the direction of u.s. president on the night regarding terrorism and. even more. those last few hours in several european countries in the diaries to. brussels and other places in company on soldiers working because there were jewels so we are facing a violent way of the semitic actions and even to killing of jews in europe today. germany has been closely watching the coalition talks between anglo merkel and martin schultz throughout this week in the meantime a group of researchers from a dust off university have found that there's a relationship between politicians appearance and the votes they get and they ask people to rate different job on politicians from zero unattractive to six very

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