yes but even. with. the countries push to resolve cases are being met with resistance. iraqi refugees are being forced to return home by the country's security forces. that are still dangerous. to. the people behind the infamous dossier after the release of an interview with one of the men behind the file an alleged collusion with russia and we discussed the issue with. a russian attorney whose mention of the interview and who is accused of being a broker between moscow and.

joining us on this. here at moscow it's also international with the latest world news. a new development in the julian assange case the wiki leaks co-founder has been granted an ecuadorian id card as a step towards ending his five year confinement in ecuador said london embassy correspondent. has details the mystery of what happens next in this ever complicated tricky and internationally spanning case of julian assange 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. shirts with the ecuadorian national colors parking lots of debate and questions online about where. 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 a son 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 change his status when it comes to this very complicated case that has now spans over several years what we do know as 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 forever. considering the

option of mediation with this intercept that could be to virus that country or individual. no solution is possible without international corporations or without that if the u.k. 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 obviously be watching this very closely in terms of what is this going to mean for songes status not just within ecuador but potentially his case beginning to move forward a little bit more. on top of that the u.k. foreign office has reportedly denied a request from ecuador to grant a sanjeev diplomatic immunity. the foreign office to comment on the situation but so far no comment now if sondra steps out from the embassy he potentially faces

a rest for breaching bail in the u.k. as well as a possible extradition to the united states and we discussed the situation surrounding us with our guests 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 in the u.k. authorities are not wanted to discuss this they have just made clear that they regard him as somebody who can be branded and even now when the swedish extradition request has been withdrawn that's why it's so wise so they could organise or it is to try to sort this out. to make sure that the u.k. authorities do what clearly is that under international law to let. a song free. iraqi security forces reportedly forcing refugees to

leave and return to their homes to spite these being an unsafe areas that's according to a new report by the un refugee agency it says that more than thirteen thousand families were forced to come back to dangerous zones those who returned first a number of problems from tribal conflicts to booby traps left by fleeing islamic state fight has the report also says at least fourteen return knees have being killed we spoke to people in one refugee camp about their fears of going back home . alex we moved to this camp three years ago we don't want to return to our home yes we're afraid of tribes the houses are destroyed we have no place to live the fields with it houses a looted even the ones are torn out of the bulls and there's lots of booby traps and five days ago our neighbors there started to find

a woman some water something went off and now they kids are in hospital has some scary. but here there are very few people from a village or returned home there's nothing left no electricity the water supply doesn't work we may return in the future but only when the area season from having . two point six million internally displaced people at this point recently entered internally displaced this is not counting iraqis outside the 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 their corpses lying in the streets and there are explosives and mines 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 spring as so p. . they are is taking precedence over substantive aid to human beings both within iraq and with. well the iraqi prime minister has denied that refugees are being forced to return to one safe areas he says that is misinformation spread by his political rivals. and yet another twist in the stateside russia saga donald trump's lawyers say they intend to sue the people behind the infamous dossier on alleged collusion with russia that's after

a transcript of an interview with glenn simpson one of the men behind the dossier was made public his group fusion g.p.'s commissioned the report on the alleged russian ties and some republicans say it led to the whole f.b.i. investigation despite containing salacious details that trump himself describes as fake news a large part of simpson's testimony is devoted to the meeting of juneau with a russian lawyer one of the key moments for those who supported the whole russian collusion theory. lawyer nataly of us on to discuss the latest details. this night you. know the person behind this testimony glenn simpson for quite a while now tell us more about how your relationship came about. this we met for the first time in twenty fifteen during my first visit to the united states before that we exchanged e-mails were introduced by lawyers who were hired in new york to

represent a client a russian businessman in a case initiated by then a tourist mr browder in two thousand and thirteen and during our cooperation you showed excellent information gathering and analytical skills 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 year i found out about the connection of glenn simpson to the trial dossier i could hardly believe it we've utilises the image of the term cock you've mentioned a discrepancy between the quality of simpson's work that you used to and the quality of the infamous trump dossier why did simpson allow something like that to come out under his name you mean what. the charm does here is an anonymous report if people who have been working on it did not admit that publicly we would have

never known the authors of the report what raises questions is that the sources of this authors are not named why did worse by unnamed and unverified sources from a basis for an investigation conducted by this four different government bodies of the united states not only does this investigation distract politicians from real issues but it's also wasting taxpayers' money nicholas mueller was his ago off going back to simpson's testimony some media outlets have pointed out his account of events contradicts us regarding whether or not you two met in july two thousand and sixteen did that meeting take place. news might be on of his ago here despite all the headlines i see no contradiction now with testament is in my written testament to the senate i stated that i didn't mean grand simpson that day on the ninth of june look at his testimony he says i'm not sure may be but this statement is not treated as completely affirmative on the ninth of june two thousand and sixteen the u.s.

court of appeals for the second circuit called a hearing on mr brown just keys he demanded of a loris was dropped from the keys after they called her him to be questioned later that day i had a meeting with truong jr i asked him to look into this case and to encourage congress to investigate mr brown this actions aimed at manipulating public institutions in the united states you learn simpson who worked in our team former russian client also happened to be connected to the dossier the congressman investigating the case obsessed with this date because they hoped to prove they had a meeting with glen simpson that day and this caused the meeting was trying jr assuming that my main goal was to blackmail donald trump. 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 his attempts to lobby against russia was one of the main talking points between president sky and trump jr. because goto believe

world anymore that among the talking points disclosed in the memo besides the russia trump collusion of course bill browder in it simpson slams the former businessman on several occasions with using him of being obsessed with russia while being actively implicit in tax avoidance schemes and even money laundering can you give us your judgment on the situation. but all that but much of that won't punish browder is obsessed was russia he started to russia not only by his desire for revenge but also mentally here in russia he got mad it's a russian woman he has half russian children his ties to russia and the list strongest line after all his crimes he should be grateful to russia for love throwing him behind bars while it was still possible condition us to board of congress he will not withstanding the gravity of the allegations mr brough did to testify before the us congress during the summer of twenty seventeen mainly talking about the alleged complicated collusion scheme. mr rather you have given us

a firsthand 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 who is your colleague i want to join my colleagues and thanking you for being here today and admiring your courage and tenacity awkward moments of us but do you think the u.s. perception of mr browder will change following the publication of simpson's testimony. yeah i can use the weapons mislead you i don't want to sound naive but i really hold this to will end with a victory for common sense to me because i knew that i knew how come all this time people like simpson and browder got congress through time while you 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 four questions

after starting the testimony members of congress were supposed to make a decision on whether to subpoena me to testify in person so far no such subpoena has been the shit i don't know the reason but if i want to speculate i would assume that the answers i might give would not suit their interests. the british army is trying to keep up with the times by recognizing that its soldiers have emotional needs here's a look at how the new approach compares with the all you know nothing about only organized classic base it doesn't fit in well not like me but the more you pay me the more you will learn. the army is from. told the things i want to tell my family there's always someone there to talk to. even just me. the british army that is part of a campaign to attract a more diverse range of recruits and you can see the new ads compared with much

older ones a former u.k. intelligence officer philip ingram says he doesn't hold out much hope that the more inclusive approach will boost recruit numbers. it 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 in targeting 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 because the british army spent until september last year ten million pounds on its recruiting come pins 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 the 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 as veterans and veterans come out with a good experience of not just how they've been looked after when ever they served but how that set them up to go into civilian life are still to come on the program here on our senators in the united states are named vladimir putin the number one threat to democracy in europe and america are more on that after the break.

this is amazing story because that we're seeing real geopolitical impact of that going on a g. twenty country g. seven countries japan actually the spending power of the culture the rise of big going in the millions of people of buying it in japan multi billion dollars that they've appreciated in value is causing a genuine effect in their economy and this is going to be the year twenty eight. the currencies have this geo political influence.

that it's good to have you with us today the u.s. state of north carolina has been ordered to redraw its congressional map which shows how the state is divided into voting districts that's off the republicans there admitted to gerrymandering manipulating borders for political gain. and takes a closer look. here's an old political hack courtesy of us 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 the federal courts have stepped in and said that they rial aid in the us constitution we. to the extent of going to use political data to draw in this manner it is to gain harvest of advantage when the man. gerrymandering runs contrary to numerous

fundamental democratic principles and individual rights. 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 party over another. imagine 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 a 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 cable glop and r.t. new york. by the may putin is the number one threat to democracy in europe and the us according to a new report published by u.s. senate democrats it took more than a year for its all those to compile the two hundred page document the report collects 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 meddling for example it proposes the creation of an international coalition to deal with any interference from moscow and suggests spending millions of dollars to help europe in your age or protect themselves we discuss the whole report with

political analyst charles otoh. 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 won i don't think that that committee reflects. the will of the american people or even indeed the will of congress i think 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 you know 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 fire

after police officers used a stun gun and at the same time and warning you may find the upcoming images disturbing.

and this is all the international police in vienna have charged three men with provocation away thing an israeli flag pro palestinian demonstrators at a rally in december was in response to donald trump decision to recognize jerusalem as the israeli capital now activist the israeli activist deny they were being provocative claiming they only produce their flag after having anti semitic abuse poulder. it all started with slogans in english like down down usa or down down israel then we heard them shouting intifada child murderer israel and death to israel the president of the belgian league against anti-semitism says action should have been taken against the pro palestinian demonstrators. police. arrested those people in the. israeli the months worth meeting

slogans we saw so frightened into those last weeks and months in europe following the direction of the us president under now from regarding terrorism and . even more for those last few years in several countries in our release in. brussels and other places in the. work because there were so we are facing a violent way of semitic actions and even to killing of jews in europe today. germany has been closely watching the coalition talks between angola and martin schulz throughout the week in the meantime a group of researchers from does hold off university have file but there's a relationship between politicians appearance and the vote they get so they asked

people to rate different german politicians from zero unattractive to six very attractive here at the scores.

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this is boom bust broadcasting around the world from washington d.c. i'm part chilton. coming up we take a look at north american free trade agreement and the foreman will come to me in light of president trump speak to the farm bureau this week plus our data wrangler pam peck citron the c.e.o. of bendo system is in the house to talk big data in twenty eight and ashley banks looks at the new owner of essence magazine but first let's take a look at the business and financial headlines. china is quietly closing down the mining operations that produce bitcoin another digital currencies roughly three quarters of these operations are believed to take place in remote areas of china due to the cheap electricity in cooler temperatures last week the chinese regulators ordered local officials to create an orderly exit for mining operations the group said mining has used quote huge amounts of resource. and stokes

speculation local authorities have been encouraged to use things such as electricity prices and taxes to suppress the mining the order did not specify a deadline but does require monthly progress reports because mining operations are rewarded with payments and digital currency is and are also needed to approve transactions in the currency analysts say the chinese policy could dent the price and supply of digital currencies for weeks or even months chinese regulators banned new initial coin offerings those icy o's last september and the energy that gave the order is led by the people's bank of china which previously predicted the death of bitcoin not so fast. kodak is having a moment share values shot up dramatically after the company announced that they will make an initial coin offering themselves later this month it's called kodak coin of course and the currency will be used for all transactions.