i was. among stories that show the u.n. expert on torture says that the way jr has been treated in recent years of psychological torture. failed to appear in court will help. the poor person who has been exposed to psychological crew over. time. case closed all sides get something from special counsel robert millis final say on the trump russia collusion with. redrawing the map of the e.u. elections. parties making major gains as europeans crave a shake up of the polity. thanks

very much for joining us you're watching the weekly here international. on friday are you an expert on torture claimed the way julian assange has been treated amounts to psychological torture and he doesn't think the wiki leaks co-founder will get a fair trial if extradited to the united states. is that urgent an assumption bill maher crews who together is to medical experts specialize in i don't define and don't document new symptoms of physical and psychological torture until treatment mistral sanctions all the symptoms that are typical for a person that has been exposed to psychological torture over a prolonged period of time we're speaking of severe stress and chronic inside to you at severe psychological trauma what i have never seen is several democratic

states going up in order to prosecute them is an isolated single out particular individual without granting him the protection that actually is accorded to him battle of britain was quick to hit back with the country's foreign secretary branding the experts assessments wrong and inflammatory as well as saying assad shared always being free to leave the ecuadorian embassy in london the controversy came just a day after sunday's extradition hearing was postponed this ill health meant the wiki leaks co-founder failed to appear in court with the details is artie's police . dude the sound was actually meant to be here in person he was meant to pass via video link but he's not even well enough to appear via video link 10 minutes on she's been moved to the hospital waiting all belmarsh prison that's up to a maximum security prison where 7 out of $53.00 eccentric specific details that he went into the ecuadorian embassy back in 2012 and wiki leaks

a whole range of concern about the face of his health what we know is that he was put on the the medical board at belmont and the fact that they did this and it may put him on the board speaks speaks plenty and that's how you know being in a higher security max a maximum security prison is difficult for anyone but julian spent 7 years confined in the ecuadorian embassy before but without medical treatment without a hospital medical treatment the attorneys for him in other words states that most people might think this was going to be the 2nd hearing about this on just the extradition it will have to be a fairly procedural affair well there wasn't any major arguments from a scientific team or the prosecution the official start of it has been moved to the 12th of june essentially the question of what's meant to be all cute and hair boils down to 2 fundamental things it is take to get us on to act as a journalist when he published those slow news that secret u.s.

materials and information and crucially for him is the u.k. going to allow him to be handed over to the u.s. also as he is where he could face up to hundreds and 75 years behind bars who turned 17 counts on the espionage act and one commentator just about richard in his face a 175 years in prison which is outrageous the idea that a publisher can be. prosecuted and persecuted for the publishing the truth and face of lifetime and in a prison in another country is. this espionage act has never before been used against a journalist only against government officials who leaked secrets in the past of course washington's argument is that a sound isn't such on the list that he's at. his publications but the lives of informants for the u.s. . for its allies around the world in grave danger although what's interesting here

is that with the charges unveiled against. a lot of people even his critics of which there have been many many press freedom organizations and just journalists and whistleblowers around the world say that what is with this exhibition case could have serious implications for the freedom of the press in for journalists around the world which is why. so much attention. and all the songs waiting for a 3rd extradition hearing for the 12th of june reports are appearing that the u.s. justice department decided to drop some of its charges against those apparently include the songs exposing the cia's secret spying tools. u.s. special counsel robert mueller has handed in his resignation 2 years after reopen this probe into alleged collusion between donald trump and russian speaking to the public for the 1st time since the investigation he sought to clarify the major findings of his report but this explains now both camps in washington interpret in

his words in their own ways. robert mohler is all done the special counsel's office is closing and he's going to retire and to celebrate 35000000 dollars and 2 years worth of work he decided to address the media there's an old psychological test they call the war shack and basically it's a set of ambiguous ink blots it's up to the mind of the patient to determine what to see and the 10 minute presentation of robert muller seems a very much be in the eyes of the beholder 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 it's not that different from what he said at the end of his report but the democrats certainly took a lot from the statement of the mother was essentially referring impeachment to the united states congress. statement makes it clear congress has a legal and moral obligation to begin impeachment proceedings immediately miller's

statement makes clear would those who have read his report know it's an impeachment referral and it's up to congress to act they shewed given the special counsel was unable to pursue criminal charges against the president if the congress threw stones of the crimes and other wrongdoing of president trump and we will do so i think it was very clear if you could clear the president he would have but he couldn't makes clear well muller said the report speaks for itself a special counsel found no collusion by any americans in ira's illegal activities now trump or the opposite from robert mueller he says he's in the clear nothing changes from the mother reports there was insufficient evidence and therefore in our country a person is innocent the case is closed thank you then the white house press secretary clarified with the statement there was no real news and there he reiterated the points that he'd already made in the report. that we agree with them

there was no collusion there was no conspiracy 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 the report has been published the investigation is long over but the saga continues both sides are sticking to what they said all along so you have to ask yourself if everyone was just going to keep saying what they've said the entire time impeached or no collusion why did we have the investigation to begin with. r t a new york. t.v. host political commentator steve told us that the democratic leadership understands that be able to get trump impeached. nancy pelosi knows that it's politically and unpopular and she would be the 1st to go it sure in the senate he knows that even if the house impeach is donald trump then it goes to the senate and they have to convict him and they need 2 thirds of the senate to convict him and schumer knows

that's never going to happen it didn't happen with bill clinton when they impeached bill clinton he won reelection so nancy pelosi is been around long enough to understand that the public doesn't really care about this and they're fed up with this whole russia nonsense and so they know that even if they have pictures of the house it's going to fail in the senate and donald trump i believe really wants to be impeached he's kind of egging them on you know hey do it if you want it's a horrible word it's a terrible thing but he's kind of prompting them to i dare you to do it because i think and i think nancy pelosi knows it will help trump. europeans have taken to the polls in what's considered the most face like contested e.u. parliamentary elections for years so anti establishment parties win big is longer established center sponsors lost the grip reflecting the power and appetite for

change voter turnout was the highest for 20 he is above 50 percent. election so green and liberal parties are making significant gains while anti establishment movements came out on top in countries like italy france and belgium right wing populist groups now hold about a quarter of the seats in the new parliament designed to show the dubiously explains why the results might be surprising there was no shortage of political drama in the run up either. for months pundits have been predicting a rise in anti establishment parties ahead of the e.u. elections afterwards they were right but across the bloc in the weeks leading up to the vote panic was setting in. take

martin 10 days before france headed to the polls the e.u.'s top court ordered her to pay back 300000 euros to the european parliament this followed a case in which the national rally had been accused of paying an 8 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 pens 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 by the russians well at least the alleged russians. it was of course if. 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. 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 own 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 calling it out warning the populous parties wanted to destroy europe we are haring to deal with populist movements that in many areas are contemptuous of our avail use 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 or. 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 europeans who are afraid of tea many migrants coming i think this is the primary cause of this vote. in part. parties had a disastrous defeat in my opinion it was high time for it and now we'll see whether the european results can influence our national politics all be implemented here on

. the truly 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 for 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. israel lashed out at syria on saturday night in response to what it claims was a missile attack will be looking further into that story after this break. standardized testing. it's

a very well done and you know to say we shouldn't have standardized testing would be like saying well we shouldn't have our blood pressure checked or or even or wait . to see the doctor those are standardized instruments that you need to be able to know how children are doing right from when they start school. china is not a partner number one for us yet. and countries are trade partners number one with us and. i cannot share the. those who are those who say that it's the turn of russia he supported no russia i hope will never turn eastwards. you know russian egoless is looking to both sides west towards in the east towards.

welcome back turning to some of today's news now and scuffles broke out between palestinian worshippers and israeli security forces in east jerusalem after soldiers that entered the holy site of the al aksa mosque during ramadan. was. i was. footage shows worship was fleeing after israeli forces had raided the compound the

violence came amid calls by jewish groups to converge on the site to mark jerusalem a national holiday where israelis marked the end of the arab israeli war security measures have been tightened to thousands of israelis are expected to march through jerusalem including the muslim quarter of the old city to commemorate the anniversary. i. the israeli army target is syrian territory on saturday night killing 3 soldiers and wounding 7 it says that it's been responding to 2 missiles fired from syria paulus lear reports. well that's where 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 to meet 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 not only in the week jared krishna who is the son in law and also the senior advisor to the american president donald trump was in jerusalem 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 mount 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 when netanyahu was at the white house in washington this has. been denounced by the international community who consider the area occupied territories 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 at so-called 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 we discussed the overnight hostilities with middle east thanks but the risk on political analyst mitchell barak. i think that what happened also before up and there is that there was which will last from the syrians is quickly want to respond that i believe the syrian army is trying to give a clear message about sort of recognizing that there is over the old writes this or it is your place for him to give a clear message that they're all of us is if the syrians they were boy if we don't recognize any decisions or trouble anyone else there's no real threat that syria will pose when it comes to borders at this point because israel has annex that that territory many of those people are citizens in israel and every

israeli almost every israeli believes that the golan heights are part of israel belong to israel and protect israel the prime minister of israel has you know a lot of backing from both sides of the aisle from both left and right on how he handles israel's security and how he defends the state of israel and people of israel you all watching our team to national thanks for staying with us and do join me for updates on the top stories the top of the. 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 the key economic issues facing russia emerging markets the world thousands of business community members attend a forum to address today's and vital issues. watch a special forum coverage on r.t.

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clone of welcome to worlds apart there are few things more polarizing in education than standardized testing has no divided teachers into those who believe it leads to substandard educational results and those who see that as the means of providing not just the quality but also the quality of education but this some groups of students consistently batted down now they say how does one tell the quality of 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. that's good to talk to you thank you very much for a few very much now we're recording this interview very stressful time for many families in russia and i'm sure around the world when there are children. 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 blood pressure checked or 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 4 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 that 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 task or is

deserved 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 piece that test the program of international student assessment those results come out and there's a big who are 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 science in reading skills at the expense of some of the arts certainly there's there's a worldwide trend to have kids graduate with global skills we need kids who can handle very complicated texts nowadays the literacy requirements for even the most basic jobs to be a carpenter a welder you need very high levels of literacy skills no and so.