A worldwide News Headlines live from moscow this is international a very warm welcome to you. And a new development in the Julian Assange case the wiki leaks cofounder has been granted an ecuadorian i. D. Card as a step towards ending his five year confinement in ecuadors London Embassy lets get details on this. Joining me live from just outside the Ecuadorian Embassy laura its been an interesting twenty four hours for mr assange. Is that he has after a while of nothing no movement from inside the Ecuadorian Embassy theres been a series of developments in the last twenty four hours. A possible. The first sign of this was. An ecuadorian. About what that could mean he generally doesnt do things unless they mean something and then we thought reports surfacing from quito which said that he had received a National Identity number so hes been entered into the tax register essentially which is something that will only happen to citizens of ecuador so the strong suggestion is that from this National Identity number he will then possibly get a passport citizenship nationality of ecuador we went on to the streets of quito to see how people that felt about it they are. Human rights and i think thats what the government would give him someone who is also a Health Worker you know hes enclosed in a verse or many things that cross my mind healthy and i will. Use a refugee policy and support. This statement earlier this week from the foreign minister of ecuador saying that the situation of living here in the embassy is unsustainable and asking for the first time for a third Party Mediator either another country or another person to see if they could help to resolve this issue here she is with a person cant live in those conditions. Were considering the option of mediation. I dont have said that could be done fire resistant country or individual. No solution is possible with House International corporations or without that if the u. K. Wishes expressed interest in finding one. And its no wonder that she wants a resolution because of course its been five and a half years since i first went into the embassy behind me here in knightsbridge just down the road from harrods of course there have been developments in his case along the line most notably possibly last year we didnt drop the investigation into sex allegations against him. But the u. K. Authorities still say that if he sets foot outside mysie they will arrest him because he of course jumped bail when he went into the embassy and wiki leaks still fit on which extradition to the United States so what were seeing at which you are making moves quite concerted moves to try and resolve the situation but the u. K. Government still remains intractable on the issue even after all this time its very unclear when and what will be the ending of. What our teams are lower smith right outside the Ecuadorian Embassy there in london thank you. Laura was alluding to one top of all of this the u. K. Foreign office has reportedly denied a request from ecuador to grant Us Diplomatic immunity. To the Foreign Office to comment on this so far weve received no comment if a song steps out from the embassy who potentially faces a rest for breaching bail in the u. K. As well as possible extradition to america earlier i spoke with wiki leaks supporter clock stukely who says its in no ones interest if the situation drags on. Acqua door has been trying to find every solution possible to help julian get out it is been detrimental to his health its been detrimental to the work that wiki leaks does and and also you know i have to assume that its not good for ecuadors relations with the u. S. The u. K. And even sweden for this to continue on is only costly for the London Police departments and is futile its theres no good reason so all of the seems very hypocritical it seems like theyre kind of using it as some kind of diplomatic currency. Iraqi Security Services are forcing refugees to leave some or tons of homes just by these areas being deemed unsafe thats according to a new report by the Un Refugee Agency and it says more than thirteen thousand families were forced to come back to dangerous zones and those who returned faced a number of problems from tribal conflicts to booby traps left by fleeing Islamic State fight has the report also says at least fourteen knees have being killed and we spoke to people in and want to refugee camp about the famous overtightening home. You know we moved to this camp three years ago and we dont want to return to our home yes were afraid of trying a house is destroyed we have no place to live thats the fields with it houses the looted even the ones are torn out of the bills and theres lots of booby traps five days ago our neighbors there started to find a woman some water something went off and now they kids are in hospital is so scary. There are very few people in my village returned home theres nothing left no electricity the water supply doesnt work we may return in the future but only when the area season from living. Two point six million internally displaced people at this point recently entered internally displaced this is not counting iraqis outside the country and many of them being forcibly returned to places they dont want to go to that they dont think are safe if your home is rubble and there are corpses lying in the streets and there are explosives and mines and improvised explosive devices littering your former home no you shouldnt be compelled to return thats not humanitarian aid thats further humanitarian abuse the allegation seems widespread in iraq that the Prime Minister is seeking to get sunnis back to their homes to allow an election to proceed this spring has so p. R. Is taking precedence over substantive aid to human beings both within iraq and without the iraqi Prime Minister has denied that refugees are being forced to return to unsafe areas he says its old misinformation being spread by his political rivals. Another twist in the stateside russia saga Donald Trumps lawyers say they intend to sue the people behind the infamous dossier on alleged collusion with russia thats after a transcript of an interview with Glenn Simpson one of the men behind the dossier was made public his group fusion g. P. s commissioned a report on the alleged russia trump ties and some republicans say this led to the entire f. B. I. Investigation despite it all containing salacious details that trump himself describes as fake news now a large part of simpsons testimony is devoted to the meeting of junior with the russian lawyer and one of the key moments for those that was indeed for those who support the whole russian collusion theory well artys. Lawyer. To discuss the latest revelations. Night you. Know the person behind this testimony Glenn Simpson for quite a while now tell us more about how your relationship came about because at the moment. We met for the first time in twenty fifteen during my first visit to the United States before that we exchanged emails we were introduced by lawyers who were hired in new york to represent our client a russian businessman p. D. P. In a case initiated by the notorious mr browder in twenty thirty and during our corporations and he showed excellent information gathering and analytical Skills Including the ability to distinguish truth from gossip about and i was very excited about reading the testimony he delivered back in august as only you will this long document three hundred pages covers two different topics possibly the first is the socalled troubles here the second is about his relations with me when last year i found out about the connection of Glenn Simpson to the trouble i could hardly believe it. As the term kharkov mentioned a discrepancy between the simpsons work that you used to and the quality of the infamous strong dossier does yours have as youre going to allow Something Like that to come out under his name. The trunk is an anonymous report and if people who had been working on it did not admit that publicly he would have never known the authors of the report is not what raises questions is that the sources are not named and why did words by unnamed and unverified sources form a basis for an investigation conducted by at least four different government bodies of the United States not only does this investigation distract politicians from real issues but it is also wasting taxpayers money it focuses on many Different Things well failing to establish who actually said them. Of us all this guy has just mentioned bill browder whos also mentioned by simpson he was an investor in russia and later was accused of masterminding a larger scale types invasions. His attempts to lobby against russia was one of the main talking points between of us on it and Donald Trump Jr because going to. Be talking points disclosed in the memo besides the russian trump collusion of course bill browder in it simpson slams the former businessman on several occasions accusing him of being obsessed with russia while being actively implicit in tax avoidance schemes and even Money Laundering can you give us your judgment on the situation. At all that much of the. Browder is obsessed with russia to russia not only by his desire for revenge but also mentally here in russia he got married to a russian woman he has half russian children his ties to russia strong as mine after all his crimes he should be grateful to russia for not throwing him behind bars while he was still possible was really a condition as to a board of. Withstanding the gravity of the allegations mr brown is to testify before the us congress during the summer of twenty seven mainly talking about the alleged complicated collusion. Mr rather you have given us the first an insight into putins russia you may have done more to fight corruption worldwide than any other individual and i appreciate what you have done thank you for uncovering the facts and im sure how i can tell its difficult to talk about the life and tragic death of your friend and someone who is your colleague i want to join my colleagues and thanking you for being here today and admiring your courage and tenacity i could only. Think the us perception of mr browder would change following the publication of simpsons testimony. I dont want to sound naive but i really hope this hysteria will end with a victory for common sense. The british army is trying to keep keep up with the times by recognizing that its soldiers have emotional needs heres a look at how the new approach compares with the old. I dont think that are going to. Go all the way but the more you pay me the more you all are. Told that. Theres always someone there to talk to. Even just me. The british army it is part of a campaign to attract a more diverse range of recruits and you can see the new ads compared with much older ones a former u. K. Intelligence officer Philip Ingram says he doesnt hold out much hope that the more inclusive approach will boost the numbers of recruits. It was quite surprised to see these videos that are coming out i do understand that theres been Market Research done suggesting that they should target more minority groups but if they cant recruit enough people from the majority groups that the British Military have traditionally recruited from i dont see what the senses and targeting of these minority groups but i think the whole program the Advertising Campaign is flawed because theyre spending an awful lot of money on this because the british army spent until september last year ten Million Pounds on its recruiting come pins but one. Piece of press from the not looking after one of the veterans or one of the current serving soldiers is enough to undo the ten Million Pound company in the best people to recruit are the soldiers themselves and if they can come up with positive stories to say what it is that theyve achieved their academic achievements their training achievements the adventurous activities that they get involved in the team spirit that they build up and then they can take that and reflect whenever they come back into society again as veterans and veterans come out with a good experience of not just how theyve been looked after when ever they served but how that set them up to go into civilian life. Quarter past the hour here in the russian capital still to come on the program it is the third day of violent protests in tunisia now resulting in more than two hundred forty arrests details after the break. The dropping bombs brings peace to the Chicken Hawks forcing you to fight the battles. To socks for the tell you that will be gossip and tabloid but. That doesnt tell me you are not cool enough to buy their product. All the hawks that we along the border will watch. This is an amazing story because now were seeing a real geo political impact of bitcoin on a g. Twenty country g. Seven countries japan actually the spending power they called it the rise of big going in the millions of people who are buying it in japan the multi billion dollars that theyve appreciated in value is causing a genuine effect in their economy and this is going to be the year twenty eight where bitcoin crypto currencies have this geo political influence. It is good to have you with us today tunisia has seen a third consecutive day of violent protests since the first rally on monday more than two hundred forty people have been arrested with one killed and around fifty injured. Well. Thousands of two museums are rallying against rising prices unemployment and tax hikes police have been using tear gas to disperse the protesters the rest erupted at around the same time as the demonstrations in iran but have largely gone and noticed. The u. S. A state of North Carolina has been ordered to read droll its congressional map which shows how the state is divided into voting districts it comes off to republicans there admitted to gerrymandering manipulating borders for political gain. Takes a closer look heres an old political hack courtesy of u. S. Politicians redraw the voting districts in order to favor your party thats what the Republican Party did in North Carolina in two thousand and sixteen but they went too far the federal courts have stepped in and said that they were violated the u. S. Constitution we. To the extent were going to use Political Data to draw in this manner it is to gain support of some advantage on the man. Gerrymandering runs country to numerous fundamental democratic principles and individual rights lets take a look at how the twelve Congressional District in North Carolina was drawn now thats clearly not exactly a random sampling of the population but thats not the only place that happens all across the country this is an old trick in u. S. Politics and even has a name gerrymandering the process of redrawing district lines to give an advantage to one party over nothing. Imagine that we have a state of fifty people twenty of them are democrats thirty republicans blues living on one side the state and reds on the other now the state needs to be divided into districts with each sending one representative to the house first option to divide them into five separate districts horizontally with three republican representatives and two democrats but if the Republican Party in the state is more powerful it can be divided in the reds favor with each district getting six republicans and four democrats which means that all the representatives will be republican and vice versa say the Democratic Party controls the state then its territory can be divided into districts in quite a chaotic way in order to give more house representation for democrats so even though the state has a republican Majority Democrats win three seats and republicans only two its constitutionally infirm you know parties are not supposed to redistrict in order to give any Party Political advantage again we know that happens the courts are tired of these man during their tired particularly of racial gerrymandering which everyone knows is happening and they want it to stop and i think therefore that a lot of this redistricting in any case even aside from what happened here is going to be looked at more closely by the court but usually its done in more subtle ways here they did in very blatant way there was evidence that they did it for political reasons and so. I think it was easy for the court to reach the decision they did the Founding Fathers of the United States extolled the virtues of Representative Government but it looks like a loophole in the constitution they created as unable to situation to come into existence in which instead of people choosing their politicians politicians get to choose their voters caleb lobban r. T. New york. Law to me putin is the number one threat to democracy in europe and the United States thats according to a new report publish