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in the final. we can all middle of the room six. another we can do another lot of trouble in front of tens of thousands of yellow vest activists turnout for a fourteenth consecutive weekend of anti-government protests and clashes erupting in the capital all may be expected later for the demonstrations will be taking place. also. review the week haiti gripped by civil unrest with thousands of protesters flooding
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the streets of the caribbean nation's capital calling on the president to step down over claims of corruption and economic mismanagement. plus fourteen children with a child eight expelled from a school in indonesia and the insistence about rage parents we speak to some of those guys who were kicked out. of. the school. by the welcome you're watching weekly or not international is something with me kevin i would it's a roundup of the big stories that make in the headlines the last seven days one happening across the weekend france again making top headlines again that country brace for another wave of yellow vest demonstrations against falling living standards later today this weekend marks three months now since the protests
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campaign began and saturday saw over forty thousand turnouts nationwide to vent their anger over president emanuel mccrum policies. move. clashes between activists and police broke out in a number of cities away from paris including no it's only in paris those protesters said that the violence by late afternoon yesterday is of course. you might just be able to see in the distance that we've got protesters who are throwing what appeared to be rocks towards if you just turn the camera around towards this line of security forces over here this is being a pretty much a cat and game cats and mouse game going on between the two with the police responding then with tear gas you might just see a couple more of those rocks landing there to wards the police forces as they
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coming the protesters here thousands of them we've got some me he's burning an e.u. flag right in front of us here many of these illusions don't like the european union either but those rocks now projectiles being thrown quite forcibly against the police and you can see now the. thing into would surface with what looks like here this pallets going off if i know you don't like to be grenades coming from the protesters this is now the tear gas that's coming into the protest group from the police you can see those canisters being distributed in the air fruen up and you can see the tear gas now all across the floor hit just in front of the leads in the center of paris that gas only run just in fact take all or look around in circling where we are the idea to move these protesters away some of them have been
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seeing the police getting closer and closer to. then some of the protesters they calling. to resign that's a call we get quite a lot for people out on the streets in the yellow vests in particular i want to take a look around now you can barely see down to woods' own village as that smoke just envelops us by that gas already coming in already. so we've just got to try and move away from it because it really just pick out your throats in your eyes. you see people coughing. that's a result of that to go. through all. of. the work.
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is really pretty nasty when it gets into a story this is now act fourteen thousands of people came out to paris many people had thought that this pup's be the last. saturday protest of the shalit jones but they want to have spoken to say that's not the case many unhappy about the thousands of people who've been arrested this was all just this protest movement we've heard about eighteen hundred people who have gone through the court system so far including a couple of high profile cases including by the book suggested earlier in the week and every queuing is one of the so-called medias over the movement so we just bring you back to where the police line is you can see there that is one of the water cannons that they use it has actually been deployed during that huge plant of tear gas that we saw there just in the last few minutes now the government has offered this relations many concessions including
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a rise in the simic which is the minimum wage and saying that those who would over time will have been. issue contributions are tax there's also this big debate going on but one of the things the government has done to really anger many people out in the streets particularly this year asians is this motion at the moment it's going through that would make it illegal to come to a protest like this and to cover your face with some people if they were caught doing not able to face up to you in prison or a fine of several thousand pounds so that's really and get this. he just said to me that this is a movement that's been going on now for three months and they have absolutely no intention of finishing it so that you can ski r.t.e. paris well during those protests that have a number of yellow verse were filled hurling projectiles at the police. well you know he was. i was taken from
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inside the videos posted online by a french police union to illustrate the challenges faced by officers in fact we're joined by police rep to discuss the violence of the protests. i have colleagues who work throughout the weekends during the week i have to perform extra duty the police are exhausted and can't take it anymore because the working conditions are inhuman on the one hand we have to be in place to guarantee the security of the rallies and on the other hand we are public servants and have to be friendly and even if you are tired you have to go on duty due to exhaustion we could easily make a mistake. it's estimated around three thousand people have been injured since the yellow first protest began some of suffered life changing injuries earlier this week michelle he. spoke to us she was hit in the head with a stun grenade in december seriously she says she may lose her eyesight in one eye here's a bit of a story. it is for. policeman
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a call to work every saturday i understand that they're tired but fatigue is not an excuse for everything especially for leavin people without ice cordons were under varied and i was on the left so explain to me why the policeman fired in might have actually it is not normal france is one of the oldest democratic countries in the world it is not normal that this is happening here we will run the shans elisa it was comment first and there were very calm yellow vests around us then some who had been started vandalizing the shop on another side of the street trying to set fire to it a policeman started to shoot to help firefighters to get through and it was the last one that i remember because after that i fell and the grenade hit my head my eyes still in great pain and will be removed in the next operation talked to said it can be saying it is painful to touch it i can't move it and i can't read. a page in capitals been rocked by a week of violence and looting protestors import
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a process of dividing the president step down over claims of rampant corruption that is failure to tackle the country's grinding poverty nine people have been killed dozens injured during the unrest. was i was supposed to test as a whole voicing their contempt for washington and its apparent backing of the current president of the number of videos. of emerge the demonstrators burning the american flag the u.s. national security advisor met with the haitian foreign minister of saturday to discuss the riots jabal to express washington's enduring support for the caribbean nation and called for dialogue to resolve the crisis know that statement comes of course a similar antigovernment protests continue to shake venezuela but while the u.s. was quick to throw its weight behind the opposition there is take it as i want to for the approach with haiti where the president is also seen by many is like. you
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just have missy patrolling kid explain protests are turning deadly. in crowd wants to president to get the hell out of his office. they loathe his government for corruption for all kinds of cheating at the election . but enough that i thought the nation is not just poor it's starving. rich people in the country. don't. everything. the massive population. conquered and used to be like a bit of polling trivia from the poorest country in the caribbean the last presidential election had to be rerun after claims of fraud but the follow up which
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put president maureen's in power wasn't exactly a model of democracy the turnout was only a fifth every tenth ballot sheet was never counted for different reasons and some cases that would be more than enough to set off what i call the legitimacy radar alarm and washington not this time trump sent his people to congratulate the new leader his diplomat said they were proud of haiti the haitian people deserve to have democratically elected leaders today's inauguration of a democratically elected president and allows haiti to return to democratic and constitutional rule so what do you do with that kind of rapprochement show that you're a big fan of the man in charge there president trump and i own troops and old and entrepreneur ones is results and therefore i hope to put everything in place to make sure we deliver from peoples but could such words of warmth ever end up turning into something like this how. venison.
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donna true. venison the drum government is not going to side with the haitian people because they need the haitian government for its project of overthrowing the venezuelan government so back to news from haiti several days of protests put the capital on the brink of chaos a furious haitians are on the edge a group of you when powers including america came up with the communique i.e. condemnation of the escalating violence they want the president to speed up reforms well the only thing that came out of the state department in four days was this travel security alert haiti security alert the security situation remains very unstable if you hear gunfire or protest groups seek shelter inside your house immediately and stay away from the windows and no one's yet picking a substitute for the elected leader but of course this relative silence isn't
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simply about someone saying nice things about donald trump this is the nature of we can say american power in the world today it is filled with hypocrisy in haiti it is the vast majority of the population which is turning out to demand a job no mo uses a departure and yet not a word from mike pence not a word from pump aoe the secretary of state not a word from donald trump so this double standard this hypocrisy is typical we can say u.s. foreign policy and venezuela neighbors on the map but it looks like they're nowhere near each other in the minds of those gurus of real democracy. since the end of january the josefina tempting to deliver a developer's whaler in an effort to try to ease the desperate humanitarian situation there nonetheless president nicolas maduro has refused to allow it into his country claiming it's a cover he says for the transit of weapons and could overshadow
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a foreshadow rather a u.s. military intervention and washington's push to overthrow the socialist government in caracas is being spearheaded by this man. the new u.s. special envoy to venezuela his appointment was a concern to many people get this dubious track record in latin america let me tell you about that in the one nine hundred eighty s. he was involved in selling arms to iran and funneling the proceeds to anti communist rebels waging a brutal insurgency in nicaragua it was subsequently handed to convictions for misleading congress about the affair then in two thousand and two bruce was accused of orchestrating attempting to orchestrate a coup against chavez in venezuela again journalist most blumenthal told us nicolas maduro is right to be skeptical about washington's intentions. we have to consider that trump czar who is in charge of his venezuelan policy right now is elliott abrams who pioneered the strategy of using humanitarian aid as a disguise for delivering weapons to u.s.
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proxy forces first during the. wars and central america the proxy wars during which elliott abrams was overseeing several death squads and their genocidal humanitarian violations the venezuelan see this aid delivery especially in the in the light of abrams history of using aid as a cover for delivering arms to proxy forces as a violation of venezuelan sovereignty as an actual us invasion of venezuela and so in many ways this is seen as a trojan horse for u.s. invasion or wednesday in a session that was interrupted several times by antiwar activists ever has faced intense questioning in front of the house foreign affairs committee in a series of venomous exchanges he was quizzed about his suitability for the role of special envoy and the united states to install opposition leader one guy doe's venezuela's president would you support an armed faction within venezuela that engages in war crimes as you did in guatemala el salvador and nicaragua i am
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not going to respond to that kind of personal attack which is not a question you feel that your past actions in iran contra permanently impair your ability to fairly and transparently deal in the region my question is whether you're aware of any transfers of weapons or defense equipment by the united states government to groups of venezuela i asked this question because you have a record of such actions nine hundred ninety one you pleaded guilty to two counts of withholding information from congress regarding your involvement in the iran affair i fail to understand why members of this committee or the american people should find any testimony that you give today to be truthful i don't think this entire line of questioning is meant to be real questions and so i will not reply. that's american politics expert michael told us abrams appointment is
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designed to send a very clear message to his way that he's arrogance in in the testimony to congress is it just shows that he's super confident he knows that nothing is going to happen to him the government should never have gotten involved with things he's been involved with venezuela before in the two thousand and two coup and he's absolutely shameless his appointment gives a message to venezuela and to everybody else in latin america that the united states is in charge of that area of the world that have a sphere that latin america really is the united states is part yard and that whatever they decide to happen will happen. i don't think it's meant to to frighten venezuela and to frighten unimpressed the rest of the continent of the subcontinent . the school in indonesia has caused controversy over it expelled fourteen children with hiv and aids it reportedly took decision following complaints from the parents
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of their classmates we heard from some of those who were kicked. parents strongly objected to the fourteen children tandems because they are h.i.v. positive we tried to proceed but following their protest we took the children out of the skull and now we're helping to find a new school for them. to. say let's get.
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the money. that's all i think that's something. we also talk to the head of an ngo that helps into these in children infected with hiv and that's the mother for almost a week these children have been staying home and not going to school very upset about it and really want to play with other kids again big keep asking me when
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they'll be allowed to go back i think children should be treated equally they should all have the right. to go to school these children have faced so many obstacles since entering school after kindergarten it's become the norm but we will stay strong and i think there is no need to hide the location of the next school for these children if we are open it will be easier to explain to the public that their disease is in their body and will not easily spread to others. this is the way to international coming out there's been a spike in violence against farmers in south africa we talk to some of the victims after the break. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy one foundation let it be an arms race is on all sides very dramatic development only
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personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. countries gone into a nihilistic fever that's why i think and they've got to hit the road and get out the travelling across america to find what makes america take them to charlotte is the genius of this place especially american hero this is it we've come a point around which alan would have done so we always are on the verge of something. called the culture listening party. where starting last with this is the beginning heading east into the swamp we're going into the belly of the beast and i think i want to leave now doesn't get any more gondo than the need may be completely different by the end of this.
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again how we can is going good violence against farmers in the south africa is on the right according to government statistics new figures show the number of attacks a shot at by fifteen percent in the past two years and that most of the victims are white we spoke to a number of people have been assaulted i think will use this to make any difference to you so much. in the let them do given if you think this is the life you know what it is looks like from the top and other scraps. but it's all my naked how to count my age. i. mean. in this start. it is now i'm. on my. as i went down the garden began the hit with with the stick. and. obviously the short big new first only if you will continue even when you come to the front.
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doesn't mean you're going to go. the whole time they held a shotgun to my far edge the one that is called leader and you keep saying you'll dance just watch and start. looking for the gold. you know this. case both ok let me small for stories of recently published reports reveal that electric drills blow torches and bleach have been used as assault weapons against farmers over seventy percent of south africa's farmland is owned by white people a legacy of colonialism and apartheid as a result the socialist governments pledge to redistribute that land which has led to fears of a mass seizure of white owned farms over the race is believed to be playing a role in the spike in attacks and their increasing brutality many commentators say it's also a question of why does social problems and lack of law and order. the nature of their tax is disproportionate we're not among those claiming there is
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a wide genocide or a crime against humanity but it is it serious crisis. there are signs that it is only going to get wars we are on record as as dismissing the white the white genocide narrative if it does not exist dispense that being said. you do get into it into issues of what of what motivates these crimes and an argument could be made that in certain instances. the recluse ritter's racial rhetoric may be a contributing factor once again these are all expressed as possibilities commercial farmers. tend to be disproportionately white although. you know i think it's it's it's very important you know and it's easy solutions you know to not to become trapped in that racial prison we are aware of instances where we. reflect people being attacked and also i think it must be pointed out that the part of the whole form for matecumbe form of phenomenon is the vulnerability of workers you
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know pretend to be interviewed by and they've been instances where. black people abuse that loves to protect. to protect what i watch people under attack and vice versa as the case. we followed increased. iranian photographers lashed out at donald trump part of the u.s. president used one of our photos in a scathing tweet about the islamic republic you know there were a says the photo was used without her permission and she said it brought a great shot in the american later published a tweet in both farsi and english on monday as a rainy and marked the fortieth anniversary of the overthrow of the u.s. backed shah the photographer condemned donald trump saying a photo shouldn't be abused by quote men in washington as she put it a video agency ruptly spoke to a. but there in all i have no twitter account and someone sent the picture to me i did not expect this picture to become viral i took this picture under some of the thirtieth twenty seventeen during a protest
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a tear on university against the economic situation in the country these photos are like a mirror which we should use for our society and we fast to see ourselves and think that these are our problems i'm upset as this issue has been used for other things and not to help our society this issue has bothered me for a long time so long as welsh issued a lengthy statement in response to donald trump's two inches says that u.s. sanctions are devastating the lives of ordinary iranians. in that as a matter of fact my protest against this tweet can be defined as a social aspect i mostly relates to family it's past my life my family is in the us and we haven't seen each other for four years because of the travel ban and i felt like my family was in a prison because we could not even visit each other in another country this is an issue that has happened almost every family has affected all society on the other hand the economic and social impact of sanctions affected people including those who are not interested in political issues caused me to show
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a symbolic protest it was not something like a legal complaint or anything else. does not show the similar stories it helps show the world around us this last week for all is happening right now check out our two dot com people what will be happening in france later on in power especially this weekend kevin i was saying thanks for watching and have a great rest of the something. i do think the numbers mean something they matter to us is over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white card current campaign debt. eighty five percent of global wealth belongs to the ultra rich elite with six percent of the world market thirty percent some would say one hundred five hundred three per second per
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