closed as more expelled diplomats return home and get back online artists and activist demand the ecuadorian embassy restores internet access but we can leaks founder julian assange has been cut off financially a week. hello there the latest developments in a look back at the last seven days to you watching the weekly here on our international. now the russian president has accepted the resignation of the governor of the commander of the region over last sunday shopping center tragedy the blaze killed sixty four people forty one of them children here's a recap of that day. but. i knew why didn't i see. in years you know your skis each of the kids whether any of you should watch it if you go for service you can observe through it she knew. it was. the first of that. war. if you don't look at it it's tragic that it is a vision it's. just like to ship them to. death. first. there was no alarm no siren no sprinklers the whole fire prevention system was off fire exits blocked people in wide this shopping mall were left on their. to find out about the beginning inferno but if extension there knows

government gave julian a son she's not just ecuadorian citizenship but an ecuadorian diplomatic passport and you know is that how you treat your own citizens and your own diplomats now if they had a problem with something that julian tweeted apparently they do have such a problem then they should punish him i suppose in a way commensurate with what it was that you did he issued one tweet i think this is going a little overboard in response it sounds wiki leaks have been behind the release of thousands of confidential documents over the years that's despite the whistleblower being unable to leave the embassy in central london for nearly six years now as he would face charges in the u.k. and a possible extradition then to the u.s. john kiriakou again told me the ecuador is refusing to buckle under pressure from other countries. you know this isn't a one sided thing i'm sure that the ecuadorian government is under great pressure from the united states from the united kingdom perhaps from sweden maybe even australia which is where julian is originally from so certainly there are two sides to

dorrian government give julian a son should not just ecuadorian citizenship but an ecuadorian diplomatic passport and you know is that how you treat your own citizens in your own diplomats i think this is going a little overboard in response. hey there good morning just in one of the morning here in moscow now my name is kevin owen here with the latest thirty minute update from r.t. international and first least eight palestinians including a child of reportedly being killed by israeli gunfire on the gaza border the palestinian health ministry says more than a thousand protesters were injured in total our correspondents have been reporting from both sides of the gaza border. now maybe one hundred meters to only far away from the fence you can see the crowd you can see the protesters light and the hundreds of thousands of palestinians have been here since the morning. tensions are running high right now as the israeli army started to shoot randomly. the. more palestinians are getting injured why the ambulances are already here to british take on the injuries that we're now injured from da

closed as more expelled diplomats return home and get back online artist and activist a man the ecuadorian embassy restores internet access for a week leaks founder julian assange has been cut off in nearly a week. hello welcome the latest developments and a look back at what's been happening over the last seven days to you watching the weekly here on r.t. international now the russian president has accepted the resignation of the governor of the region over last sunday shopping center tragedy the blaze killed sixty four people forty one of them children is a recap of that. but for. nine years why didn't i see the new. years you know visualisation of the kids from other music culture you could call it was obvious you can observe through watching you. find out was. the first of that. whole to. give you a look at six hundred you take it that it is a visual. medium you. like to shift if it. does. close. there was no alarm no siren no sprinklers the whole fire prevention system was off fire exits blocked people in flight this shopping mall were left on their own to find out about the beginning

government gave julian a son not just ecuadorian citizenship but an ecuadorian diplomatic passport and you know is that how you treat your own citizens and your own diplomats now if they had a problem with something that julian had tweeted apparently they do have such a problem then they should punish him i suppose in a way commensurate with what it was that he did he issued one tweet i think this is going a little overboard in response do you think behind the scenes despite everything you've said in the past what he's been given except for that they're actually getting a bit tired of sheltering him now. i think they probably are you know this isn't a one sided thing i'm sure that the ecuadorian government is under great pressure from the united states from the united kingdom perhaps from sweden maybe even australia which is where julian is ridgeley from so certainly there are two sides to this i am sure there's a lot going on behind the scenes that we just don't know and i know maybe that's the kind of pressure you're talking about is more the reason why his internet's been cut off ra

prominent intellectuals activists at the ecuadorian embassy and its communications blackout imposed on wiki leaks founder julian assange since the start of this week. welcome to the program thank you for sharing your sunday with all of us here at this channel we have the top stories of the day the week. the russian president has now accepted the resignation of the governor of the region over last sunday's mall tragedy the blaze killed sixty four people forty one of them children here is a day. thank you why didn't i see the new. year's eve. of the kids was a music mulcher you go to signal reserves to achieve. our god first of that. hold. it is critical to this it is a vision. you. want to ship their. first. there was no alarm no siren no sprinklers the whole fire prevention system was off fire exits blocked people inside this shopping mall were left on their own to find out about the beginning inferno by the thick stench in their nose this shopping mall used to be a confectionery and in fact it conducted fire drills just last week so a lot of very. the grave and outrages flaws in those

according to sources close to wiki leaks we have learned that the ecuadorian government had police teluk tronic jammers inside vehicle dorian embassy right behind me where julian assange has been holed up for five and a half years now and the idea of this was to block him from being able to tweet as well as communicate with the outside world hold telephone conversations or have access to the internet generally speaking and apparently all of this comes following a publication in the equipe dorrian press about julian assange just tweets concerning the catalan issues specifically the detention of cattle on independence leader a carlist which demands in germany earlier this week according to this source close to wiki leaks is that julian assange and his team have been informed of having to delete a certain tweet that he had posted among others in one nine hundred forty the elected president of catalonia louis compare miss was captured by the gestapo and executed today german police have arrested the elected president of catalonia karl is put to munch at the request of spain to be extradited

dorrian government give not just ecuadorian citizenship but an ecuadorian diplomatic passport.

government gave julian a son not just ecuadorian citizenship but and ecuadorian diplomatic passport and you know is that how you treat your own citizens in your own diplomats now if they had a problem with something that julian tweeted apparently they do have such a problem then they should punish them i suppose in a way commensurate with what it was that you did he issued one tweet i think this is going a little overboard in response. in other headlines modern day slavery is on the rise in europe that's according to a report by the council are up in some countries labor exploitation has overtaken sex trafficking we spoke to a pretty mess that over who was involved in making that report there is an increase in the number of people who fall victim to this human autonomic now there are a number of countries where labor trafficking emerges as the main farm in the u.k. or to girls cyprus a few other countries there are more victims of labor trafficking now being in ninety five and section so this is a new trend and the report is actually talking about this. as many as forty seven countr

i look at this ecuadorian painter, he was the most illegal immigration i ever met because he was being put out of business by illegal immigrants were coming into maryland in that market and undercutting his costs. he says why do i bother following the rules? i could have done it legally and gotten the same thing. >> tucker: the cost to people like that is really high because this whole mess of unwillingness to restrain immigration in any way discredits immigrants, many of whom are great people and really do add to the country. how do you think they feel about this? people who stood in line to get here because they really believed in america? >> up my wife is one of them. it's a long process. it took a long time. it took a lot of money, a lot of time, and a lot of effort to do the right way. evil should have some respect and understand that waiting in line matters and that's why it should mean something to them. like disrespecting it, it shows us it means nothing. >> tucker: thanks. dan will be back at the end of the hour to respond to michelle obama's new comments. she answers her she

chinese and canadian companies have succeeded to persuade the ecuadorian government to grant licenseso open up this ground, ignoring the opposition from the native population. president rafael correa is now confronting the quechua indians after he pledged to defend their interests when he was elected 7 years ago. presidedent rafael correa has been concentrating power around his government after being reelected to a third term. now correa's leadership and popularity is threatened by grassrootots and indian movementsts that oppose his drie to make minining a main source of revenue for ecuador. >> [speaking spanish] >> ecuador faces a tough dilemma. should its natural resources be exploited on a large industrial scale? or should they be preserved for the sake of the environmental protection? according to this analyst, mineral riches are the only means to finance health, education, andnd public works, so necessary for the development of the country. >> [speaking spanish] >> [speaking spanish] ]qazñvpx] 04/02/18 04/02/18 [captioning made possible by democracy now!] as amy: from pacifica,

attorney's office cannot file any criminal charges involving the death of prince colombian and ecuadorian forces of patrolling the border in the hunt for an armed group that has kidnapped two civilians the group which has links to colombia's left wing fox rebels also killed two ecuadorian john lewis and their driver this month charlotte dallas has mall. hunting rebels in the jungle colombia had hopes these days were over. colombian an ecuadorian forces a searching for a rebel known as enemies to make should five hundred fighters loyal to his group a spinoff from the revolutionary armed forces of colombia all fuck. watches seen here refused to get behind the twenty sixteen paste deal with colombia that ended nearly fifty years of fighting the middle rank commander is one of twelve hundred fuck linked rebels still waging war with the government. is really a pretty strange you this is an effort of persistence we may not find kwacha today but it could be tomorrow or next week we're not going to restore stop this offensive. the manhunt began last friday after the group kidnapped civilians the

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yard signs and made them all say trump or bernie and julian assange right now is sitting in the ecuadorian embassy in piles of hillary yards. therefore the corrupt democrats are now suing wiki leaks trump and russia and yes the republicans are corrupt too but pointing that out feels like it was like the laughing when your senile grandpa leaves his fly down i mean it just says cruel at this point. but luckily while the corporate dems are caught up with conspiracies are. other people genuine election activists are actually fighting for a more legitimate system and this month the appellate division of the new york state supreme court affirmed the that electronic ballot images are subject to public disclosure pursuant to new york's freedom of information law this means that in yet another state the courts are finding the ballot images are public property we should all be entitled to see them which was i was writing this to make candor the election fraud a much harder to pull off which sounds good but let me let me just propose think about this if we have more legitimate elections we will no lo

then as now pretty much confined to the ecuadorian embassy in london.he paper was a joke. i'm joined now by one of the reporters who wrote the story, shelby holiday. shelby, roger stone says this isn't true, that he never dined with assange and that, quote, it's not what you say. it's what you do. this was said in jest. that's not dissuaded mueller's team based on your reporting from actually looking into it, correct? >> correct. there's an people and it says he dined with julian assange. he says it's a joke. he did not deny that he actually wrote this e-mail. he said it was all just a big joke, claiming he had been in touch with julian assange. we do know after he wrote this e-mail, he went on to tell a crowd in florida he had been in contact with julian assange, and his statements have shifted over the past year. he told the house intelligence committee according to reports that he spoke to assange through an intermediary, but when we approached him about this story, he said he never talked to assange in 2016, especially on that day, on august 3, 2016

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and he also categorically denied any trip to meet with julian assange at the ecuadorian embassy in londona lot of things that have been floated out there and by some accepted as fact because of roger stone's involvement, because he has often not been the most credible commentator on this. to you, he was categorical in his denials. now, you also saw in the interview some of the kind of classic roger stone, claiming he was poisoned, for instance, by polonium. listen, i covered the poisoning with polonium of litvinenko in london by russia in 2006. if you are poisoned with polonium, you die. this is -- a tiny speck of that stuff will kill you. this is also the man who wrote a book claiming lbj killed john f. kennedy. there are credibility issues going back but on the questions you asked, he was categorical and has been consistent in those categorical denials for some time. >> there would be medical records that if somebody really wanted to, they could obviously release. have you talked to him about this poisoning? >> personally i think it's ludicrous. whenever we talk about roger, he got a ne

. >> ecuadorian president has claimed that three newspaper boys were cap -- kidnapped. he made the announcement after they got to meet a deadline to demonstrate that the three journalists were still alive. a court in russia has blessed be messaging at telegraph after his developers refused to share encryption is with russian security services. they say they need the information to monitor potential terrorists. they're providing government with access to messages that violate privacy laws. donald trump has described his former director james comey as a truthful -- and untrue. after details emerged from a no holds barred memoir to be released next week. president trump by mr. comey last night, he was sent to be unhappy about the allegations of russian interference. mr. comey is scathing about the president on a professional and personal level, deribing him as a man who twists facts to serve his purpose. donald trump's response has been characteristically blunt and delivered in the form of a tweet that james comey is a proven leader and liar. everyone in washington thought

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intelligence officers backed wiki leaks founder julian assange and she is being forced off line by the ecuadorian embassy in long to have a comment about catalonia. for the latest on these stories head to r.t. don't call me at the top of the hour on my colleague what we say she will be here with a full news bulletin well next it's crosstalk discussing the script poisoning scandal on some quote traditional claims from the u.k.'s foreign secretary. a low in welcome across talk we're all things are considered i'm peter lavelle after weeks of media hysterics and official claims without a shred of evidence the case that russia was behind the song is very poisoning incident is falling apart transparency in the rule of law have never played a role it has always been about politics and the agenda what happens next sadly is only too predictable. across talking toxic polity. i'm joined by my guest marcus papadopoulos in london is the editor of politics first magazine also in london we have alexander the class of he is a political commentator and a former kremlin advisor and in plymouth we crossed to patric

the president of ecuador has confirmed that two ecuadorian journalists and their driver have been killed lenin moreno had given the group 12 hours to offer proof of life before security forces would take action. the three employees of ecuador‘s el comercio newspaper were kidnapped along the country's conflictive border with colombia. they had reportedly been investigating a rise in drug—fuelled violence along ecuador‘s northern border. the bbc‘s south america correspondent, katy watson is in lima, in neighbouring peru. the president gave 12 hours to give proof of life. he flew back to ecuador last night cutting short his stay in lima. is there for the summit of the americas. he gave an emotional speech, at some point thomas crying about the fact that the country was in mourning and also saying there was a need for uniting in peace —— at some point almost crying. the board a long ecuador and colombia is a difficult one ever since the peace deal in 2016 between the fast gorillas in the governed. they had been some dissident groups who did not take part in that. that area of drug traffickin

yard signs and made them all say trump or bernie and julian assange right now is sitting in the ecuadorian embassy in piles of hillary yards. therefore the corrupt democrats are now suing wiki leaks trump and russia and yes the republicans are corrupt too but pointing that out feels like it was like the laughing when your senile grandpa leaves his fly down i mean it just says cruel at this point. but luckily while the corporate dems are caught up with conspiracies are. other people genuine election activists are actually fighting for a more legitimate system and this month the appellate division of the new york state supreme court affirmed the that electronic ballot images are subject to public disclosure pursuant to new york's freedom of information law this means that in yet another state the courts are finding the ballot images are public property we should all be entitled to see this as a guy who was writing this to make candor the election fraud much harder to pull off which sounds good but let me let me just propose think about this if we have more legitimate elections we will no lon

that now the group is demanding an end to anti narcotics cooperation between the colombian and ecuadorian governments as well as the release of three imprisoned combatants who were not identified and these journalists would have known that the story that they were covering came with risks right yes the north of esmeralda us which borders colombia is one of ecuador's poorest regions and criminal gangs operate pretty freely the uncommercial team is reporting on the surge in violence since a bomb went off the police station in january since then there have been five other attacks indicating that violence is building of from southern colombia ok thanks we'll all do a story about a different genre of media now one that's come to be known in the u.k. as poverty porn take what the british call a benefit scroungers someone who's apparently milking the state's welfare system for all it's worth throw in a dash of stereotyping a little demonizing then add an element of reality t.v. celebrity culture and presto you have a television program some might find that to be an odd formular however british t

intelligence officers back wiki leaks founder julian assault issues being forced off line by the ecuadorian embassy in london over comments about catalonia. for the latest on these stories head to r.t. dot com stay with us for the big picture investigating the links between the u.s. and saudi arabia. right. teachers are striking and four states pipeline deja vu in louisiana and what's this sinclair t.v. controversy really about i'm holland cook in washington this is the big picture on r t america. in kentucky teachers' pension overhaul was tacked on to a waste water bill state attorney general andy bashir said lawmakers voted without the legally required and alice and he says he'll sue. so i'm here today to reassure you if and when the governor signs that bill into law your attorney general's office will file suit seeking to overturn as much if not all of this terrible bill as we can arizona teachers haven't walked out yet but thousands are wearing red and rallying support for a pay raise at the hash tag where red for add colorado teachers have lost the most to inflation now effectively ear

yard signs and made them all say trump or bernie and julian assange right now is sitting in the ecuadorian embassy in piles of hillary yards. therefore the corrupt democrats are now suing wiki leaks trump and russia and yes the republicans are corrupt too but pointing that out feels like it was like the laughing when your senile grandpa leaves his fly down i mean it just says cruel at this point. but luckily while the corporate dems are caught up with conspiracies are. other people genuine election activists are actually fighting for a more legitimate system and this month the appellate division of the new york state supreme court affirmed the that electronic ballot images are subject to public disclosure pursuant to new york's freedom of information law this means that in yet another state the courts are finding the ballot images are public property we should all be entitled to see this as a god who was right and this makes candor so much since broader much harder to pull off which sounds good but let me let me just propose think about this if we have more legitimate elections we will no