the israeli army launches air strikes on syrian territory killing 3 soldiers the i.d.f. claimed it was a response to an earlier period. and among the stories that. the way julian assange has been treated in recent years amounts to psychological torture. how. to proceed with. the. case closed all sides get something from the special counsel. on the trump collusion reports. and redrawing the map of the.

parties make the major gains as europeans crave a shake up of politics. is 9 o'clock here in moscow you're watching weekly on r.t. international line from us with me. welcome to the program. the israeli army targeted syrian territories killing 3 soldiers and wounding 7 it says it was responding to 2 missiles fired from syria policy of reports. well this way the defense forces the i.d.f. has confirmed that it hit a number of targets in syria overnight saturday and it says that this was in retaliation to 2 missiles that were fired from syria at the israeli part of the golan heights there were no reports of injuries or damage on the israeli side but

we are hearing from the israeli cabinet that it was the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu who posts in the ordered these retaliate tree strikes now it comes as the israeli army issues a statement in which it says its planes and helicopters hit 2 artillery batteries and a defense battery and also a number of observation points along the israel syria border syrian state media is reporting at that 3 syrian soldiers were killed and an additional 7 injured this happening in the eastern part of the connector country side all of this is happening as tensions between israel and syria escalate particularly in the area of the golan heights now earlier in the week jarrett krishna who is the son in law and also the senior advisor to the american president donald trump was introduced to them where he gifted netanyahu with a map that had been personally signed by the american president and there clearly showed the golan heights as part of israeli territory netanyahu held

a press conference in which he acknowledged and thanked the american president. brought me something from the u.s. presidents in the state department there is an official map of the states which had not been updated since the sixty's well now it's been up to it's. brought me the new maro which includes the golan heights is part of israel it's signed by president trump who writes. so i would like to say that's very nice. and now this follows trumps a full recognition of israeli sovereignty over the golan heights back in march that happened during a meeting between the 2 leaders we met on yahoo was at the white house and washington this has. did not inspire the international community who consider the area occupied territory and that is the status they have accorded it ever since israel took over the golan heights back in the 1967 war at the same time we are hearing from the syrian side they say that the aerial defense systems were

activated to strike a chord enemy targets in the southern damascus countryside so certainly the situation between the 2 sides remains tense and both sides on a state of high alert. on friday u.n. expert on torture and inhumane treatment said the way joining us are has been treated amounts to psychological torture adding that he doesn't think he's found or will get a fair trial if he's extradited to the u.s. . this is. crucial to go to medical experts. and document symptoms all physical and psychological courtroom to treat. all the symptoms to the poor person who has been exposed to psychological torture over . time speaking of severe stress chronic severe psychological trauma

would never see. several products. in order to prostitute and isolate single well particular individual without granting the protection that actually is according to the law. and so the experts assessment as wrong and inflammatory and jeremy hunt went on to claim that should hold himself up in the ecuadorian embassy of his own accord and had been free to leave miles ahead banks saying that he was quote as free to leave as someone sitting on a rubber boat in a shark pool on top of that the expert accuse u.k. courts of not showing due impartiality. and objectivity. the only rapper turned on torture also accused australia of abdicating responsibility for the protection of a sars canberra responded by saying it had provided him with the adequate consular support on thursday the day for the torture assessment science failed to appear in

court due to ill health it was outside the westminster magistrate's court where the hearing was supposed to have taken place. extradition hearing isn't taking place any longer today the sound was actually meant to be here in person but he's not even well enough to buy a video 10 minutes on she's been moved to the hospital all belmarsh prison to a maximum security prison where he. said to expect. that he went into the ecuadorian embassy back in 2012 and which is. really. about the status of his health. the medical. system that may put him on the world speaks speaks. you know being a higher security. person it's difficult for anyone to spend 7 years confined in the ecuadorian embassy for. medical treatment but the medical treatment

this is going to be the 2nd hearing on just the extradition the official start of it has been moved to around about the 12th of june we think we've already had a fuss terri earlier this month. consents to being extradited to the us the hearing the songs failed to show up was washington's extradition request if sent stateside she could face up to 175 years with over a dozen challenges we could lead says song brain child to hit the headlines in 2010 when it released thousands of u.s. secret documents on blogs relating to the wars in iraq and afghanistan those publications featured among other things videos depicting u.s. soldiers indiscriminately shooting civilians a year later wiki leaks revealed the extent of the torture at guantanamo bay including alleged prison the deaths due to mistreatment and in trying to 16 we can

leaks have exposed a pro hillary clinton media bias in the u.s. presidential campaign detailing attempts to push her rival bernie sanders out of the race we're now documentary filmmaker john. told us a song is facing jail something every journalist does. but what these new charges really ought to strike. ring a bell at the very least did not strike fear into many investigative journalists who have been have been with wiki leaks and i mean with julian assange through this whole i would say just being would step aside. for releasing the truth about government secrets and how they affect all of us to warn the system so those people should be very very concerned they could all be targets of their own old. newspapers the guardian the new york times or spiegel.

u.s. special counsel robert mueller handed in his resignation on wednesday 2 years after he opened his investigation into alleged collusion between president all chomp in russia before announcing the decision he sought to give clarification on the report's key conclusions. if we had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime we would have said so. we did not however make a determination as to whether the president did commit a crime we chose those words carefully and the work speaks for itself. and the report is my testimony some have likened the report to the rorschach test in psychology where patients give interpretations of what an interesting represents in a similar way both camps in washington all interpret well as final speech very differently. mahler was essentially referring impeachment to unite its congress the

special counsel has demonstrated that president is lying i think it was very clear if you could clear the president he would have but he couldn't it was to be the same as the report. you know it struck you what we're saying is no obstruction just don't go there is no nothing and we consider this case closed he completed his investigation now he's closed his office and it's time for everybody to move on legal and media analysts lionel told us the entire moon a private was senseless. if you can't end dive there if those were the rules why did you investigate him in the 1st place did you know these rules before did you know the rules before that so you can indict them or charge him then well where you were investigated ah you were investigating collusion and by the way did you notice such a paltry

a de minimus amount of time there was that was given to the reason for this what was this rush in colo should explain this more meanwhile donald trump is questioning the origins of the moon investigation demanding that u.s. intelligence declassify information relating to this guy's deference that higher parts of the media have shifted their stance on whether the us president can question the activities of the intel services. the thing with spies with all this secrets and power and egos is that it really seems to goo to their heads and honestly how can you blame them they are literally beyond public scrutiny anyone tries to stick their nose in you just stamp everything that's classified and loudly denounce them as unpatriotic see it as a very very serious and outrageous move on the part of mr trump once again

trampling upon the statutory authorities of the director of national intelligence and the heads of the independent intelligence agencies how dead trump what true american would ever question why they're being wiretapped and spied upon good thing america has m.s.n. be she true patriots hired mr brennan full time so he can vent his frustrations for everyone to hear of course to do that m.s.n. b.c. had to sacrifice their principles and integrity president obama said today he still stands by his cia chief john brennan even though it turns out the cia was indeed spying on the senate and some senators are calling for brennan to be fired now just to be clear that was in 2014 when they weren't on the same side and spying on everyone your own elected leaders included was considered dubious these is

2019 and the word spying is now considered politically incorrect it offends people who say people who secretly eavesdrop and record and film everyone agents the good guys. a talking point from the president and those around him telling congress buying her on the trump campaign it's a loaded word stupid. the implications of using that word has now gone trump's favorite new word and the trump media's favorite new word. senate intelligence chair dianne feinstein accuse brennan cia of secretly tracking the senate's investigation into one of the worst abuses in recent cia history and now factor in this huge new scandal the fact that brennan cia was spying on members of congress the cia was spying on the senate intelligence committee basically busting into their computers but i give m s n b c too much credit or others to washington post gave brennan

his own column where he publishes pieces with nubile noble titles i will speak out until integrity returns to the white house promises well done washington post it takes courage to set aside what you believe in to go back on your word but again it's been 5 years who remembers things like that right the guardian same thing. cia director john brennan lied to you on to the senate fired him. why is donald trump attacking the us intelligence community surprisingly brandon isn't working for the guardian yet one by one though the pundits and the seeing wrong from right the question is are they going to demand brennan's resignation or

accountability within the cia patriotic answer by the way is no holding the cia accountable would be sure to put secret agents do top secret stuff and drink martinis and add things and carry out special secret missions i didn't see anything improper on lawful and yes james clapper brennan's former boss is now a c.n.n. employee i'll tell you this every true american can be proud. they're a brave brave people watch over you and record everything you do or say they and night whether you want that or not and if times all politics change in 5 years or one moon remember it ever happened. on saturday multiple balls rocked to an explosive plant in western russia dozens

injured. but the blast on my balcony was blown away and it's the same vocals and floods everything is smashed up people ran out on the street they couldn't understand what was happening to look and when you have never seen anything like that the windows were shattered and that call no smoke was terrifying it looked like it was to kilometers high heeled up on all the windows are smashed from the top floor down wearily. i heard

a massive band the windows were knocked out and i was looking on in shock wondering what was going on then they heard another band and ran home in the living room all the furniture was scattered around. the european parliamentary elections so green and liberal parties make significant gains while anti establishment movements came out on top of countries like italy france and belgium and the shah and reports. there was no shortage of political drama in the run either. for months pundits have been predicting a rise in anti establishment parties ahead of the e.u. elections for once they were right but across the bloc in the weeks leading up to the vote panic was setting in. take martin pen days before france headed to the polls the e.u.

top court ordered her to pay back 300000 euros to the european parliament this followed a case in which the national rally leader had been accused of paying an aide incorrectly but the timing felt off it was almost as if it was a way to tell voters that her party just couldn't be trusted that came hot on the heels of accusations that former trump strategist steve bannon was actually the one pulling all the pen strings yet the public didn't seem to care and the national rally still talked the polls here in france other scandals that were rife in the media included one russians well at least the alleged russians. it was of course. the party which was in coalition. people's party found itself under the spotlight not for its potentially dubious

policies but for a good old cash influence gambit. revici's . he says there was even an attempt to drag le pen's name into the thick gate as it became known a few months ago marine le pen was singing the praises of austrian vice chancellor heinz christian straka saying how formidable he was struck as being forced to resign we find out why he was trying to sell his services to foreign forces behind this nationalist movement is a submission to foreign forces despite this the f p o still managed to pick up just over 17 percent of the vote in austria. there was also of course the elections very. 2 moment one swedish democrats

candidate accused the other of sexual harassment and even though this scandal washed away it didn't hamper the anti immigration party's performance they increased their share of the vote to more than 15 percent. and despite merkel not cuomo warning the populous parties wanted to destroy europe we are haring to deal with populist movements that in many areas are contemptuous of our values and want to destroy the europe of the values we represent we have to stand up to this these parties significantly increase their representation in many parts of the e.u. sex money the long arm of washington reaching for controlling europe nothing seemed to put voters off seeking something new what is clear from the results of these elections is that the old guard could no longer count on the masses to support them

in blind faith what europeans want is something different it seems but godless what that is what i think why you're skeptics because of the migrants people are skeptical because they do not know what it's going to get them they're afraid of migrants. the reason is the decline in the number of elites compared to the rest of the people as well as the quality of the democratic representation. spouse because . i think it is because of immigration all have opinions who are freed of team many migrants coming i think this is the primary cause of this vote. in part. parties had a disastrous defeat my opinion it was high time for it and now we see with the european results we can influence our national politics all be implemented here on a standard us lift i think that brings the debate in england has made many people here in germany think about it this discussion has turned many citizens against the

u. . i think people feel as if the existing political parties are giving them what they want and therefore their hunting around for something else i think says some extent is probably a protest just trying to engineer the tory vote to go more with. it wasn't unexpected as an outcome i would say that kind of a level of division i would have expected across the country. any frustration over the delay in pranks that so they nearly formed a private party stolen into poll position in the new elections banking on the results in westminster hands allie the newly formed breaks the party we should point out in fact they've won by far the most seats in those european elections for the u.k. and as you mentioned they're getting more than the conservatives and labor combined and their lead for raj he's somebody who has been a really a figurehead not just in these elections but in the push leading up to that

referendum in 2016 for the u.k. to lead the youth and he believes that the boards of quality control can go on and be successful in general elections if we do not leave the european union all october 31st then just as we've surprise people in these european elections we will go forward absolutely stunned them in the next general election there's a big wake up call here to westminster let's see whether they listen now the fortunes of the brags that party in exact opposite to the decimation of ukip and they went see the full 2014 elections having won 28 piece but since then they'd suffer the number of defections not a number of votes counted it's shifting over to the briggs and polity and in fact we can have a breakdown of some of the more prominent leadership of that bread party.

regs that has been dominating the political sphere in the u.k. to the point that perhaps. fed up with it all and just want the politicians to get on with it. the founder of the movement to eventually evolve independence party says the rise of the brags that party is due to terry's amazing phone. to resume just resigned as prime minister she was one of the worst prime ministers in british history the party she led was obviously demoralised resignation since the conservative party in government had failed to take the european union on the day we were supposed to come on the 29th of march the voters a big stream the angry and the coffee would be high in the polls is

a lose all which is what is the significance of the vote in britain and indeed in every other country in europe is how it effects the major parties in the standing in domestic policy and politics. back around 30 minutes time an update. this in petersburg international economic forum is a unique event in today's business world. over the last 21 years the forum has become a leading global platform for discussing a key economic issues facing russia emerging markets the world thousands of business community members attend the forum to address today's financial issues. watch a special forum coverage on r.t. .

facebook and google started with a great idea and great ideals unfortunately it was also a very dark so. they are constructing a profile of you and that profile is real it's detailed and it never goes away turns out that google is manipulating your opinions from the very 1st character that you type into the search bar it will always favor one dog food over another one comparative shopping service over another and one candidate over another they can suppress certain types of results based on what they think you should be see if they have this kind of power then democracy is it an illusion the free and fair election besan exist the more we give them the sooner we're all.

clone of welcome to worlds apart there are few things more polarizing in education than standardized testing has long divided into those who believe it leads to substandard educational results and those who see that as being means all for providing not just the quality but also the quality of education but there's some groups of students consistently bad at that now they say how does one tell equality from an inbuilt cultural advantage. well to discuss that i'm now joined by

a canadian educator and president of the international academy of education dr whelan so it's good to talk to you thank you very much thank you very much now we're recording this interview very stressful time for many families and russian i'm sure around the world one there are children a taking exams that will determine their future and i think there is a renewed debate again about whether their standardized tests are a comprehensive fair and reliable measure of academic achievement where do you stand in that debate. i think this is very evil. standardized testing is its period well done no days and you know to say we should have standardized testing to be like saying well we shouldn't have our blood pressure checked or even are we going to see the doctor those are standardized instruments you need to be able to know how children are doing. right from when they start

school but you know that one of the consistent criticisms of standardized tests is that they tend to stifle creativity they don't measure it while enough and that they tend to kind of skew the educational process towards a more mechanistic and more authoritarian approach. and the other thing that people often mention is that it makes. student oriented teaching which i know you are a big advocate of much more difficult do you share that concern. i want to see. started to measure kids' development through to grade 3 or grade for make sure children learn to read well but i had one indicator would be how wells of society bringing its children from not just from birth but from conception up to age 8 or 9 and being successful readers in the whole process of course you can have room for creativity in art and so on it's not about. i think

the big creates these very polarized extremes that are just just not the case but it's one thing to see how the child is doing on the developmental. scale and it's another thing to use this task force to evaluate his entire academic performance or the performance of his school do you think that the deserve the way that society is gave to them. you know and i don't know what it's like in russia but in united states tests like the pisa test the program of international student assessment those results come out and there's a big poor 3 or 4 days and then the teachers go on about doing the business same as usual now where it's different is when they have state tests and so on where schools are being held accountable for test scores and so on so so the argument is that. teachers are being forced to spend more time on mount syon.