in brazil. as well that's happening almost all. our do so since going to busy doing nothing is going to do the population because it's going to take people on a zone. the . israeli missiles hit the syrian their base in homs province reportedly killing one soldier and injuring 2 of this it's the 2nd deadly strike in 2 days. in the week's top stories here on r t a un official voices concern over the u. case treatment of julian the songs after the wiki leaks founder failed to appear in

court for an extradition hearing due to ill health. mistral some shrooms all the symptoms that are typical for a person the president goes to psychologically to recruit over a prolonged period of time. and from pietschmann to case goes through all sides get something from special counsel robert mueller has final say on the trump russia could lucian report. you election see anti establishment parties making major gains as europeans crave a shake up of their policies it's. good to have you with us you're watching the weekly here on r.t. international. some news just in israel has reportedly bombarded syria's largest ad base in homs province killing one soldier and. during 2 of this that's according to

syrian state media citing a military source this comes the day after an israeli missile strike killed 3 syrian servicemen let's go live now to middle east correspondent mohammed ali is in damascus mohammed what do we know at this stage about this latest missile strike. yes the official news that came out from syria's military was that yes it was in its radiate aggression and that the syrian air defenses were able to confront and intercept 2 of the israeli missiles that tried to hit that he 4 military airport which is some full tens of kilometers actually east of the city of homs and santos syria according to the syrian military source that stated bags of the incident more and more details it said that 2 of those israeli missiles were actually intercepted and down but there were other israeli missiles that actually hit the airport so killing one syrian soldier and injuring 2 others there was also

a i mean actually i mean just in depot that was hit and several other buildings were also damaged around the airport itself israel does not have to comment on that issue yet so this moment and it's definitely not the 1st time that this quite sick there t. for military airport is targeted my israel since the start of the crisis in syria in 2011 but this is however the 3rd is radie attack on syria and less than 24 hours just 22 hours before there were 2 israeli attacks one on damascus southern countryside and the other was and the eastern countryside effect on a friend southern syria and in that timeframe 2 hours ago that attack that the killing of 3 syrian soldiers and the injury off 7 others usually the foreign ministry here in the damascus. sense that are on such sacks that the united nations complaining and saying that those attacks are actually against international law undermining syria's sick sovereignty and are aimed at boosting the morale of the

remaining terrorist groups in syria by p.x. so this moment the foreign ministry did not send any similar letters it. that's middle east correspondent mohammed ali bring is the latest there live from damascus thank you. on friday u.n. expert on top claimed the way julian assange has been treated amounts to psychological torture adding that he doesn't think the wiki leaks founder will get a fair trial if extradited to the united states. is that it's really an assumption bill maher cruz who together is a medical expert specialist when i don't find and and document symptoms of physical and psychological torture and all treatment mistral sanctions all the symptoms that are typical for a person that has been exposed to psychological torture over a long period of time we're speaking of severe stress chronic severe psychological trauma what i have never seen is several democratic states going up in

order to persecute them is an isolated single out particular individual without granting him the protection that actually is accorded to him battle of the u.k. foreign secretary condemned the u.n. assessment as wrong and inflammatory while saying assad chad always been free to leave the ecuadorian embassy in london and on sunday jeremy hunt added that the government will not stand in the way of assad's use extradition but will leave it up to the courts. earlier in the week an extradition hearing for a science was postponed on health grounds artie's police has details. 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 eccentric specific details when he went

into the ecuadorian embassy back in 2012 and went to the state of the brain and about the face of his health what we know is that there was a push from the the medical board of. the fact that they did this and that may put him on the board speaks speaks pentagon style you know being in a higher security mikes a maximum security prison is difficult for anyone but julian spent 7 years confined in the ecuadorian embassy before but without medical treatment without hospital medical treatment attorneys for him in other words states that most people might think this was meant to be the 2nd hearing about this on just 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 boils down to 2 fundamental things it is to get us on to act as

a journalist when he published those phrases that secret u.s. materials had no information and crucially for him is the u.k. going to allow him to be handed over to the u.s. so far as he is where he could face up to hundreds and 75 years behind bars they will turn. 17 counts on the espionage act and one commentator just about richard in his face a constant 75 years in prison which is outrageous but the idea that a publisher can be. prosecuted and persecuted for the publishing the truth and face a lifetime and in a prison in another country is. it's outrageous this espionage act was never this full of india used against john certainly against government officials to keep secrets in the pasta of course washington's argument is that a son isn't such on the list that he's a cad and that his publications put the lives of informants by the u.s.

. 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 some whistleblowers around the world say that the news with this exhibition case could have serious implications for the freedom of the press in france and those who are around the world which is no i gonna tell you much attention. there's been a new development in this case with the u.s. justice department reportedly dropping some of the charges against the wiki leaks founder relating to the leak of cia spying tools. u.s. special counsel robert mueller has resigned 2 years after he opened his probe into alleged collusion between donald trump and russia speaking to the public for the 1st time since the investigation he sought to clarify the major findings of the his reports but this auntie's killable put explains now both camps in washington are

interpret 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 $35000000.00 in 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 with those who have read his report no 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 miller 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 a statement there was no real news and there he reiterated the points that he'd already made in the report. 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 impeach trump or no collusion why did we have the investigation to begin with. our new york. t.v. host and political commentator steve told us that the democratic leadership understands it won't be able to get 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 the most fiercely contested e.u. parliament election in recent history sort of for man to establishment movements all centrist parties lost ground 0 to turn out that was the highest for 20 years

that more than 50 percent. the election so green and liberal parties making significant gains while anti establishment movements they came out on top in countries like italy france and belgium right wing populist groups now hold around just above a quarter of the seats in the parliament to show duplicate reports the results won't be surprising there's 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 topped the polls here in france other scandals that were rife in the media included one by 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 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 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 are 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 the spurt. in parts. 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.

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 he wants and therefore they're hunting around for something out spa things to some extent is probably a protest just trying to engineer a tory vote to go more with. it wasn't unexpected as an outcome i would say kind of the level of division i would have expected across the country clashes have erupted at a holy site in jerusalem a lot more on that story after the break. 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 and the world thousands of business community members attend a forum to address today's a vital issues. watch a special forum coverage on r.t. . gemini's testing. very well done. and say we shouldn't have standardized testing would 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.

welcome back palestinian worshippers have clashed with israeli security forces in east jerusalem after soldiers entered the al aqsa mosque compound during ramadan. i was i i. i. i i i i. i. really forces closed in the muslim protests the unrest broke out after more than $100.00 jews entered temple mount jerusalem day which commemorates the end of the arab israeli war thousands of israelis marched through jerusalem including the muslim quarter of the old city for the anniversary. of

the fall of this are liverpool today celebrating the 6th time they lifted the champions league trophy after beating spurs in last night's footballing final in the. was. was. here not a former manchester united manager is a marine has been covering the highs and lows of the tournament in his show on the touchline it's the last episode of the season with marino summing up the results you can watch the full version of the program little later on monday for now though

here's a preview. what is the most important thing in football east to win on the liverpool wanting. a bit confusing tension to knowing. close to your body. in a position that is not a natural position like it happened and of course the human being needs the arms to keep the balance i think he was nervous because he's not the super penalty taker i seem he made the right decision the quality of the game was not good the quality of passing was not good we didn't play like we like we normally do i didn't really

normally like i do i didn't think that normally i do i think that must be a very bad very bad feeling of course it even had on his mind we are going to be losing one you love to 50 seconds and probably was thinking. even game game and the control doesn't play and the result is the same everyone will be saying crane has to pay even with one leg we. sorted the world we manage as we the kids affordable in my team my best friends the ones the poor closer to me are the ones that were not starting players the only thing that i didn't enjoy was my then sink on in moscow.

and you're watching out international pressure you sticking with us stay a long bit longer if you can you care and have updates for you at the top of the hour. 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 deiced on what they think you should be see if they have this kind of power then democracy is an illusion the free and fair election doesn't exist the more growth we give them the sooner we are all pain. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy people in foundation let it be an arms race is on offense very dramatic development only closely and going to exist i don't see how that strategy will be successful at very critical times to sit down and talk.

to. clone a while. 2 worlds apart there are few things more polarizing in education standardized testing has long divided teachers into those who believe it leads to substandard educational results and those who see them as the means of providing not just the quality but also the quality of education but this some groups of students consistently batter that 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 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 when there are children a taking exams that will determine their future and i think there is a renewed debate about 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. the standardized testing. period well done no that is to say we shouldn't have standardized testing to be like saying well we shouldn't have our blood pressure checked or even are we going to see the darker. instruments you need to be able to know how children are doing. right from when they start school but you know that's 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 want to kind of skew the educational process towards a more mechanistic and more authoritarian the pros. 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. the start of 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 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 their test scores 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 i i don't know what it's like in russia but in united states tests like the pisa test of program of international student assessment those results come out and there's a big poor per 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 than 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 same with the math skills and skills it's not that's changed in the last 20 years i think it's not only about which subjects to choose concentrate on but how they are doing that and i heard you say that given the diversity of student population is the teachers can no longer be expected to teach within any particular grade that they should be teaching on skills on the pathway helping those who fall behind and stimulating over achievers at the same time can they realistically it chief that when they're still being charged by that class is test scores so the wooden when children are entering school when they're age 5 most 5 year olds will have the skills of a 5 year old to pre-literacy skills.