it went into the into a very noteworthy patient corey haas two thousand and seven and then after ten years of clinical trials it's now available so it really is a warm process and many brothers continue to inspire through their research and their personal funding in finding a cure for blindness reporting from washington d.c. david miller r t america. you know. you're be like this is the great i'm not you know make an advertisement for this drug but i think that the fact that we're at a stage where through gene therapy and the fact that science has brought us to a point where we can actually sit and say hey we might release this particular sort of blindness in the circle or you know because of the thousand or two thousand people that are affected by this we might have a cure that's amazing i love living in a time that has a flip side i don't like living in the time we're four hundred thousand dollars per . what the cost of the cure is ludicrous but that's the point if you if they can't profit from it it's going to be very expensive and if they can profit from it from

a lot of people the same thing you see in cancer drugs is that certain forms of cancer or not as popular as other forms of cancer so the drugs and everything and so they can figure out a way to use this on all people to be very tight i think that's foul because yeah but i have a thing about i don't think people should make money off of. profit should not decide the cost of life saving our life altering technology is and i'd like to see more rich people paying for it if i had a billion dollars i'd be buying my site for anybody who's give this woman a billion dollars and please. are you level headed and clear thinking while handling unusual incidents in situations such as severe weather conditions turbulence delays due to weather or mechanicals hijacking or bomb threats most importantly are you really really going to keeping secrets well you might be the flight attendant classified airline jemmett. looking for the

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this special project reveals what was missed in the media coverage. of the panama chronicles. ecuador grants citizenship to wiki leaks chief julian assange the country's embassy in london for more than five years. called the stage with nuclear weapons nuclear weapons and long range missiles the only way to make the country abandon its nukes would be security guarantees that's president putin's take on the ongoing crisis. the u.s. army wants to help but develop software that can read social media accounts and even

respond to them. and live from moscow with me. tonight thanks so much for joining us this. now it has officially granted citizenship to wiki leaks chief julian assange who's been holed up in the country's embassy in london for more than five years now. joined live by and should have this report. unfortunately for julian assange continues to be quite complicated as this long winded saga continues if you remember the rumors were spread last night following him tweeting a picture of himself wearing a t.

shirt with the ecuadorian national colors stirring lots and lots of rumors online and in the press about the possibility of him potentially having received ecuadorian citizenship now tonight we have got a confirmation of this from the foreign minister of ecuador. this naturalization was granted on the twelfth of december twenty seventeen they quit or in government is empowered to crunch nationality status to the protected person in terms of whether or not this is actually going to open any doors for him remains to be the big question here of course as we all remember he has been holed up inside the ecuadorian embassy in london fearing coming out onto the street and leaving the place in fear of being extradited to the u.s. and the big question remains what happens in terms of the british officials reaction's who have been clear over and over again that if he does walk out of the embassy they would still arrest him because of him having breached his bail conditions at the time of when he initially went into the embassy so we do know

that ecuadorian officials have requested that britain allow for julian assange to have diplomatic immunity or diplomatic status and this has been a big no from the u.k. who said they're not going to go ahead with this kind of plan we did hear from the officials of ecuador that they're going to continue and have been negotiating with britain still to try to find a solution as we know also the foreign minister has said that the situation with julian assange has become unsustainable and it's time to move his case along now we here at r.t. have spoken to the people in ecuador about what they think of his case let's take a look at them with your level of 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 so. that crossed my mind is he healthy enough to stay there. supermodel in a level of the best is to use a refugee policy and support him in this way. all eyes are now going to be on what it seems the outcome of these talks between ecuadorian officials and officials here

in britain is going to be and all of this of course despite the fact that the initial case carried out by sweden and followed by sweden in terms of sexual allegations made against him has been dropped so the reaction there would be that that would potentially open the gate for him to have more freedom ability in this whole case but that hasn't happened obviously of course we saw bodies such as the united nations see that have been holed up inside the ecuadorian embassy here in london could be seen as arbitrary detention so certainly it's a very complicated case of course that has been going on for years and years but it seems that this is a step forward arbitrary and unlawful detention and so for this to continue on is only costly for the one 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 sons in the embassy is for fear that he would be extradited to the u.s. . now the crisis that recently escalated on the korean peninsula has been grabbing the world's attention recently president putin believes the one and only way out is dialogue no matter how hard it may seem the russian leader expressed the thought while talking to a panel of russian journalists but i guess the if was listening at the latest. you were listening carefully what else did the president have to say exactly competition between trump you know when the north korean leader has his nukes he has his thirteen thousand can hit anyone he would want to hit and to top it all of the now has his peace talks is negotiations to defuse the situation smart. john has definitely won this round he's achieved his strategic goal he's got

a nuclear payload a long range missile that can reach any place that he sees as an enemy now he wants to come the situation he's a world grounded and intelligent politician there were plenty of other questions including about of course the upcoming russian presidential election and vladimir putin was asked what he thought about that being the record number of candidates and he said well it's good russians to choose a candidate that best represents them too to express themselves better so long as everything happens to a cord into russian law and that there is no outside interference so long as russians decide who their next president is and he have lied to me a putin remarked on foreign interference on certain countries let's not beat around the bush the united states lecturing other countries on how to vote and who to vote for vladimir putin sees that is somewhat to face because we've seen what happens when the united states believes someone interfered in their own elections and.

putin said that russia is open to restoring relations with the united states but the ball is on the side of the united states to take to take the first step he also talked about credibly resonant event in the russian republic on television here he talked about the drone attack on the. base on the port of tartus in syria several more than a dozen drones that were launched from. held by syrian rebels that targeted the russian airbase and the russian port number of them were shot down a number of them were landed by the russian air force by the russian military sorry in syria and the number and the number were recovered and what they saw when they. examine these drones is that they're incredibly sophisticated the technology behind them they may look crude and sort of do it yourself but when you look at the

technology in them satellite navigation preplanned routes incredibly advanced systems to release the bombs well it also says that the rebels had outside help and here russia says that now this technology can be exported out of syria and that every country interested in stopping this should join with russia unite their forces. and they were provoked played but it wasn't the turks we know who they are as regards the attacks themselves we have no doubt they'd been well prepared beforehand and those drones were made to look makeshift but in actual fact they clearly contain high tech elements that couldn't possibly have been assembled on the ground in syria. we're learning more details as they further examine these drones and try to try to identify how they were made where they came from and who helped the rebels put them together who exactly but we

expect more details in the coming weeks. guys if they're reporting on that press conference by the russian president. and the u.s. army's looking for help to access and respond to foreign social media platforms with a system so sophisticated it can even understand slang discover the out online for more details let's cross live to. the store what more do we know about this potential software. well the advertisement is on the website of government opportunities and it's calling for someone to create software on behalf of the u.s. army intelligence and security command now they're essentially asking for software that would be able to monitor social media interpret the sentiment within posts and determine the positive and the negative and they are targeting specifically korean

farsi and russian language activity on social media and they want the software to be able to you know monitor posts interpret their sentiments and then provide replies in a similar tone now it's quite interesting especially when you keep in mind that all throughout the media there have been accusations that russia has deployed an army of bots or troll farms or something to try and influence the usa through social media these allegations have surfaced all throughout u.s. media but it appears that there is an apparent call for software to be created by the u.s. military to do exactly that targeting specifically social media activity in those three languages now at this point the questions are being raised about that and.