yes. wiki leaks chief julian a song has been issued an ecuadorian id cards but the country's push to resolve these long term cases being met with resistance from the u.k. government. plus the fight for power in the world of big bold leaks e-mails suggest american officials were allegedly pushing for the world anti-doping agency's independence from muslim pick chiefs so they could unilaterally apply punitive measures. and will germany get a coalition government all eyes are on the country's top politicians as they try to hammer out a deal on the final day of crunch. a

very warm welcome you are watching r.t. international with me nicky aaron good to have you with us this hour. but we can exchange has been granted an ecuadorian i.d. card and while some are seeing an attempted step towards ending his five year confinement and the country's london embassy artie's laura smith has the details but after a while of nothing no movement from inside the ecuadorian embassy there's been a series of developments in the last twenty four hours julian assange is posted a photograph of himself in an ecuadorian football shirt which gave rise to a lot of speculation about what that could mean he generally doesn't do things unless they mean something and then we thought reports surfacing from quito which said that he had received a national identity number so he's been entered into the tax register essentially which is something that will only happen to citizens of ecuador so the strong suggestion is that from this national identity number he will then possibly get a passport we went onto the streets of quito to see how people felt about it

because he does need human rights and i think that's what the government will give him there is also a health issue because we know he's enclosed in a very small space there are many things that cross my mind is he healthy enough to stay there the muslim and all of the best is to use a refugee policy and support him in this way this follows a statement earlier this week from the foreign minister of ecuador saying that the situation of afghans living here in the embassy is unsustainable and asking for the first time for a third party mediator either another country or another person to see if they could help to resolve this issue with a person can't live in those conditions or rather. we're considering the option of mediation. of said that could be done virus that country or individual. no solution is possible without international corporations or without that if the u.k. wishes expressed interest in finding one and it's no wonder that she wants

a resolution because of course it's been five and a half years since our son's first went into the embassy but. course there have been developments in his case along the line most notably possibly last year we did drop the investigation into that sex allegations against him but the u.k. authorities still say that if he sets foot outside this embassy they will arrest him because he of course jumped bail when he went into the embassy and wiki leaks still fears and onward extradition to the united states so what we're seeing at the door making moves quite concerted moves to try and resolve the situation but the u.k. government still remains intractable on the issue even after all this time it's very unclear when and what will be the ending of this. the u.k. foreign office has refused a request from ecuador to grant a son's diplomatic immunity and a letter to r.t. the f.c.s. stressed it would not discuss the matter except to say the case would only be

resolved if a thongs leaves the embassy and faces justice we spoke with wiki leaks supporter clarke stoically who believes there's no legitimate reason a song should feel the need to remain in the embassy sweden has dropped its investigation completely the u.s. apparel has. it was completely arbitrary and unlawful detention and so and that's been going on for almost two years now but they've said that and for this to continue on is only costly for the london police departments and is futile it's there's no good reason it seems now that the only reason that they would continue to. keep signs in the embassy is for fear that he would be extradited to the u.s. . and as allegedly a rift between two of the biggest organizations in the world of sports the

international olympic committee and the world anti-doping agency leaked e-mails suggest american officials were seeking waters. independents women in pick chiefs so that they could unilaterally apply sanctions to act in very good joins me in the studio now to tell us more about this so hate thanks for coming in again what new revelations have these leaks brought forth well these emails leaks by the fancy bears hacking group allegedly from officials in the i.o.c. seem to show incredibly high tensions between international olympic committee officials and wada and by extension also richard mclaren who's reports on alleged doping across russian sport started all this back in two thousand and sixteen of course so where is the blood coming from between these two organizations well according to the e-mails it looks like wada is pushing back against the i.o.c. reportedly water one point was actually making attempts to withdraw from i.o.c. jurisdiction mean they could both test and punish athletes that they found to be guilty of any sort of doping violations and apparently the i.o.c.

was strongly against the idea of water become becoming jury judge and executioner on that front and an e-mail about a meeting where such a move was discussed detailed mistrust and tension aimed at i.o.c. members and it goes on from there there's another e-mail from the i.o.c. as director general to which mclaren reportedly showing that the i.o.c. was baffled by statements that mclaren had been making to the press saying that the i.o.c. leadership had not gotten in touch with him at all according to the i.o.c. that's just one hundred percent false and they claim to have reached out to him a number of times offering help and actually seeking further cooperation with him and if that's true it becomes a question of why was mclaren making these statements what was the motivation behind that why would he make false statements about what was happening between wada his investigation and the i.o.c. and we talked about the i.o.c. was talking about what they were talking about mclaren i'm going to assume russia comes into this somewhere yes that's one of the really interesting bits according to an e-mail allegedly written by i.o.c. officials in response to mclaren's reports they believe that those reports had

a very very specific aim let's take a listen to an x. or. a further problem was created by your report seemingly being used to try and justify total burn of the complete russian olympic team from the rio games in the pyongyang chuang games when in fact the international olympic committee and the international sports federations were simply not of the view that a collective punishment should be or should have been imposed upon all russian athletes so there we have the i.o.c. concluding that the mclaren report's goal was to achieve a blanket ban against the russian team and that the email goes on to say that that was something specifically that the i.o.c. was against that they wanted to be able to go after individual athletes found to have been using doping but want to force them into a corner and put them on the path of getting the blanket bans and then also further lamented the lack of cooperation between the two are going to say sions and it really shows a pair of potentially disturbing divide between those two huge anti-doping

organizations indeed well thanks for breaking that down for us us artesia thanks for coming in. now we discussed which mclaren's role in the alleged scandal with alan moore sports radio host at moscow's capital f.m. . i don't think you had any majlis or a bad intention of trying to take all the rubbish russia but a lot of what he said including saying that plato's states sponsored one state through an state into it russia was immediately guilty of he used it and then after which he said well well you know it's just language but language as we know is very very powerful and that's what they use destroyed and it's prevented by a blanket ban which the o.c. themselves didn't want it sent back to fight against doping by five ten years because now everything get away with it and you say oh well the russians are worse it is kind of like a devoid in the world you call the anti doping business because it is big business are huge money you know you have water which overseas are supposed to overseas or

anti doping efforts in sports in the world and on the other side and you've got this new kind of breakaway group call i nardo. who which is led by the nose by usada which the u.s. started talking what it will be a takeover or see good actors with you know i know and the u.s. olympic committee they were going to take over water through the back door to take over the. iraqi security services the forcing refugees to leave camps and return to their homes despite their homes being an unsafe areas these claims saw the light of day in a reuters article fighting unnamed humanitarian workers is that more than thirteen thousand families have been forced back to dangerous things those who returned faced a whole host of problems from tribal conflicts to booby traps left by fleeing islamic state fighters it is also claims that at least fourteen people have been killed as a result of these forced returns we spoke to refugees and i count about their fears

of going back home. we moved to this camp three years ago we don't want to return to our home yet we're afraid of tribes the houses are destroyed we have no place to live but the fields with it houses the looted even the ones are torn out of the bulls and there's lots of booby traps five days ago our neighbors there started to find a woman some water something went off and now they kids are in hospital is so scary that. 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 living . it's clear that humanitarian considerations are not first and foremost in the. minds of the national authorities who are taking these decisions and so then we have to look at what are the one of these one of the interest behind that the government of iraq that is you know driving this this set of violations you have to force people back into their home areas against all security precautions and in unsafe areas as this is not is not the right way of doing things and it's a involving all sorts of violations of human rights so i think that it's for the reasons of the elections coming up and to ensure sufficient voting voters present in the each constituency. the iraqi prime minister has denied refugees are being forced to return to unsafe areas he says it is misinformation spread by his political rivals. well it's crunch time for germany's two

largest parties as they try to hammer out a deal to form a coalition government on the final day of talks here's what the two party leaders had to say before they got down to business. because there are big chunks you still have to clear out of the way but i'm sure this will take me up to you know there are still large chunks which have to be cleared out of the way it will be a tough day. now there remain a number of stumbling blocks in the way of a ground coalition as r.t. schalit duple ski reports from berlin. there is of course more than one hundred days since the german people went to the elections and since then and the merkel has been unable to form a coalition people saying this is her last chance saloon to do that with the s.p.d. that's because the talks with the coalition with smaller parties have already failed now angler merkel went into these discussions saying that her party was

ready for compromise if it was in the interests of the german people but martin short's the leader of the s.p.d. has stressed that there has to be change. on the last day of exploratory talks we will make clear above this must be a new start for the european union if we join a government could be on the condition that it makes europe strong. well there are some deep divisions between these parties notably over europe and the military but probably the most prickly division is that on the subject of refugees the social democrats would like to bring the families of those who are seeking asylum here in germany to the country well under merkel's party has look to hold the flow of refugees coming to germany the reality is that the social democrats know that anglo merkel is under pressure to form a coalition and they will you can expect be playing hardball over all of these

issues now there is a chance that this is meant to be the final day of exploratory talks they could be extended there's also the chance that these could become formal coalition negotiations in the next few weeks all of the merkel's party could decide to go it alone and for minority government there is of course still also the chance that they could scrap it all and decide to go back to the german public for fresh elections. ten years he has seen a third consecutive day of violent protests since the first rally on monday hundreds of people have been a. arrested with one killed and around fifty injured. the out. nearly killed me.

when i witness in the third day of violent protests across china as they are now the protests started peacefully but since monday night they have taken a violent nature of the army and the police have accused protesters of attacking government officials of trying to take up the shopping centers of blockading roads for example whereas the protesters in response have accused the security forces of using a heavy hand and conducting a heavy crackdown all of that is in response to the government's announcement at the beginning of january of the two thousand and eighteen budget plan and now this budget plan has seen a dramatic increase in taxes on basic goods so you have for example fuel increases you have tax hikes on food items and all of this is of course being met with fury and outrage on the streets of tunis at the same time we do witness some of the

protests happening in another country also focused on the economic situation and that of course is in iran but there is a noticeable difference while there has been international outrage against the situation in iran and the way the government is dealing with it there when it comes to tuners you're basically the international community is keeping mum so for example with iran you had the french president not calling you had the head of the european union high commission and you had the american president donald trump basically calling for regime change here in tunis the same situation and yet we're hearing nothing from the international community. and it might be because back in two thousand and eleven at the start of the arab spring the tunis here was the first country to a dictator in a move that the western world widely hailed as democratic change but since then there has been no less than governments in place internet and none of them have been able to get a grip on the economic situation there. and talk drones are becoming an increasing

threat as they can be easily assembled from parts or timeline according to the russian defense ministry but more on that after this short break. and when i was sure seemed wrong. why don't we just don't call. me. yet to shape out this day comes out today. and in detroit because betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. this is an amazing story because there were say real geopolitical impact of bitcoin on a g. twenty country g. seven countries japan actually the spending power they called it the rise of big going in the millions of people who were buying it in japan the 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 eighteen where because of the currencies how does your political influence. welcome back russia's defense ministry has warned of the terror threat posed by attack drones easily assembled from parts bought online i thought that was a failed attempt to attack two of its base in syria over the weekend by a fleet of drones launched from rebel held territory let's get more live now from easier to train because so it feels what did the ministry have to say. hello well the russian army got ahold of some of the drones that were launched to attack

russian military facilities in syria they've done some serious research and right now they are saying that on the one hand in the scenes were primitive in the sense that they could be self assembled far away from a factory but to obgyn raids and they used them as attack drones that are capable of reaching a specific target requires human expertise from people that were trained in countries that are producing and operating drones the defense ministry also says that it definitely took expertise from outside syria to make sure that the drones were able to embark on this mission to try and attack russian army facilities in syria they are also saying that the explosives came from abroad and currently russian experts are trying to determine the origin but the final thought from the russian army briefing the briefing of the ministry of defense was that currently

the threat of such attacks has extended far beyond syria and it's not only the military facilities that are going to be vulnerable globally right now so the russian military is now calling on joint international efforts to tackle this threat ok thanks for that that's not easy to train with the details on that story. now in other news 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 can pass with the old they are nothing but an organized grab asdic faces that then. you will not like they but the more you hate me the more you will learn. your views from. told the scenes and with its own family. there's always someone there to talk to or you can just make. the british army ad is part

of a campaign to attract a more diverse range of recruits here you can see the new ads compared with much older ones it's clear that the twenty first century campaign is more about emotional support for me u.k. intelligence officer philip engram doesn't believe the inclusive approach will help swell the ranks it was quite surprised to see these videos that are coming out i do understand that there's been market research suggesting that they should target more minority groups but they can't recruit enough people from the majority groups that the british military have traditionally recruited from so 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 times on its recruiting come here. but one. piece of press from the not looking after

one of the veterans or one of the current serving soldiers is enough to do 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 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. the u.s. state of north carolina has been ordered to read three drawers congressional map which shows how the state is divided into voting districts that's all to republicans that admitted to manipulating buddhist

a political gain known as gerrymandering more pins 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 a harvest of advantage over 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 remember. 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 areas man during their 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 kaleb lopping r.t. new york i'll be back at the top of the hour join me then.

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a war zone you on the idea that dropping bombs brings police to the chicken hawks forcing you to fight the battles they don't. produce offspring to tell you that but because of the public by the support. off the bad guys you tell me you are not cool enough to buy their product. of the hawks that we along with all the walking. welcome to all the party is the term crowdsourcing was coined almost

a decade ago the phenomenon has expanded from a narrow problem solving into a new way of life for millions of people who rely on it to learn a foreign language or to find a better driving with sitting individually tailored services in exchange for that own data points how far can be synergy between customization and data collection can go into shaping our world well to discuss that i'm now joined by lou's fund on fuel and falling to all of the free language application delingpole mr phone and is great to talk to you thank you very much for your time and i thank you for having me here a few years ago when i would tell people i'm self-taught and i wish there would be pretty impressed but unfortunately you know the name or the application you how to develop allows pretty much everybody to learn a foreign language without physical interaction with a human being don't you think that language instructor is the hating you for that because you are doing the employment no no fortunately where we're not aided by language and structures they're actually love us in the united states for example

about fifteen percent of all language classrooms use dual lingo. it is still the case that that a human teacher helps to motivate a lot it's very hard one of the hardest things about learning a language by yourself it is possible to learn a language by yourself with the application but it's very hard to stay motivated but on some level i think you're providing the kind of service that no teacher can provide and i think because think about your technology is that it marries assignments with instantaneous progress evaluation. no teacher could provide that kind of precise feedback to his students right yeah there are many things that we actually think that teachers and doing a combined are better teachers you know one of the big pros with teachers especially in a classroom is there's one teacher and there's maybe thirty students or twenty students and they cannot provide feedback to everybody and this is one of the great things about the lingo that it provides immediate feedback to each per each person it's personal i so so that's great but you know a lot of times you may have

a question that a teacher is better at answering or also keeping you motivated is a big big things are i think the combination of the two is most most useful i know that when you were embarking on creating you read a bunch of books on b. theory of language acquisition to figure out for example whether the cheek blue rules before adjective so by first and you all timothy ended up running those tests on your own users i wonder how does the language learning reality differ from the language learning theory it differs a lot with that's one of the things we have found before before i started the lingo i read a lot of books about how to best teach a language and i realised that a lot of them contradict each other usually it's because they're not based on much data they're just based on somebody else one person's method or something so what we did is we launch to a lingo and then because we have we have hundreds of millions of students we can watch them learn and and because we can watch them learn we can find better.