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Ethiopia - England - Ecuador

Reality Check takes you on an E-Trip today as we go from the death of an Ethiopean Prime Minister to the quest for one man to get from England to Ecuador.

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A file photo dated 28 November 2011 shows Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi

The Death of An Ethiopean PM

One the one hand, he really did good things for the economy and the infrastructure of his fragile country. On the other hand, his track on human rights--not so good.

Just who was Meles Zenawi and how will the Ethiopean Prime Minister's death affect his land?

Friedbert Ottacher of Licht für die Welt
has travelled extensively in Ethiopia and he gave us his first-hand knowledge of the situation the country has been left in now that its PM has passed away...

Getting Assange to Ecuador

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Pro-Assange demonstrators outside Government Palace, in Quito, Ecuador

Takeaway meals every night in a small room with a treadmill and a vitamin D lamp--it's been a long two months for Julian Assange. The Ecuadorian Embassy in London, which he has called home, is at turns defiant about granting Assange asylum and at turns equally defiant about the UK having no legal jurisdction over its premises and all persons in them. So, the One Million Dollar Question is: How does assange get from the embassy to Ecuador without setting foot on British soil where the London authorities have EVERY right to arrest??
FM4 correspondent based in London, Ivor Gabor, gave us some insights...