it's. more a fury from tens of thousands of yellow face to face turned out for a fourth straight weekend of government protests with clashes erupting in the capital further demonstrations are expected this sunday. haiti is gripped by civil unrest with protesters flooding the streets being nation's capital they're calling on the president to step down over it claims of

corruption and economic mismanagement plus. fourteen children with aids are expelled from a school in indonesia. parents we speak to some of those who were. with the top stories for the past seven days and right up to the moment of elements as well this is the weekly here on our international law and welcome our top story this brace for another wave of yellow vest demonstrations against falling living standards today sunday this weekend marks three months since there were protests

campaign began on saturday so over forty thousand people turned out nationwide to vent their anger over president. policies. then they moved clashes between activists and police broke out in a number of cities including north suddenly all the protests in paris had also descended into violence by late afternoon charlotte twopence he was there throughout the day for us. you might just be able to see in the distance that we've got protesters who are throwing what appear 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 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. being 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 fern up and you can see the tear gas now all across the floor hey just in front of all the leads in this center of paris that casts all round us in fact take all or look around in

circling where we are the idea to move these protesters away some of them have been seeing the police getting closer. closer to them 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 and i want you to take a look around now you can barely see down to would only lead as that smoke just envelops this well 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. as a result of that to go. through all. of. the work.

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 chalet jones but the ones i've spoken to say that's not the case many unhappy about the thousands of people who've been arrested this result of. this protest movement we've had 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 leaders of the movement so we just bring you back to where that police line is you can see there that is one of the water cannons that they use and has actually been deployed during that huge plume of gas that we saw that just in the last few minutes now the government has offered

this relations many concessions including a rise in the simic which is the minimum wage and saying that those who over time or have been issued pay social contributions or tax there's also this big debate going on but one thing this government has done to really anger many people out in the streets particularly this year asians is this motion at the moment that'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 cool doing not able to face up to a year in prison or a fine of several fire. doesn't pants i say that's really and get this relations and they've 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. paris well during the protests on sunday a number of yellow vests were filmed hurling projectiles on a police for. the

video was posted online by a french police union to illustrate the challenges faced by officers we were joined by a police representative to discuss the violence the protests. i have colleagues who work throughout the weekends who during the week 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 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. while some startling numbers it is estimated at around three thousand people have been wounded since the protests began some have suffered life

changing injuries while earlier this week we spoke to. lynn who was hit in the head with a stun grenade in the summer she say she could lose sight in one eye here is some story. it was his all clear as a policeman i called to work every saturday i understand that they're tired but fatigue is not an excuse for everything especially for leavin people without ice hooligans were on the road and i was on the left to explain to me why the policeman fired in my to berkshire 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 were on the seans elisei it was comment first and there were very calm yellow vests around us and then some who have been started vandalizing the shop on another side of the street trying to set fire to it 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 a 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. ok across the atlantic now the haitian capital has been rocked by a week of violence the looting protestors in port au prince have been calling for an end to their country's rampant corruption and a cry in the government's failure to tackle it grinding poverty. the protesters have also been voicing their contempt for washington and then. up to the current president a number of cities have merged demonstrators burning the american for. the u.s. national security advisor met with the haitian foreign minister on sunday to

discuss the riots john bolton expressed washington's enduring support for the current be a nation call for dialogue to resolve the crisis well that statement comes. to government protests continue to shake ben this week but the u.s. was quick to throw its weight behind the opposition there it's taking a somewhat different approach with haiti where the president is also seen by many as lucking legitimacy and brings us. protests are turning deadly. crowd once the 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 the nation is not just poor starving i feel.

rich people want country running. everything that the american population that you. can use to be like a bit of polling from the poorest country in the caribbean the last presidential election. had to be rerun after claims of fraud but the follow up which put president more ease and 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 an iowan to put an old an 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. 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 simply about someone saying nice things about donald trump this is the nature of what 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 a oh 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 u.s. has been attempting to deliver aid to venezuela in an effort to ease the desperate humanitarian situation there but president nicolas maduro has refused to allow it into his country claiming that it's a cover for the transit of weapons and could foreshadow a u.s. military intervention washington's pushed over through the socialist government in caracas is being spearheaded by elliot abrams the new u.s. special envoy to the in a suite his appointment was of concern to many people given his dubious truck record in latin america. if we go back to the one nine hundred eighty s. he was involved in selling arms to iran and funneling the process to communist

rebels waging a brutal insurgency in nicaragua he was subsequently hundred two convictions for misleading congress about the affair then two thousand and two abrams was accused of attempting to orchestrate a coup attempt against chavez in venezuela journalists mux blumenthal told us nicolas maduro is right to be skeptical about washington's intentions. we have to consider that trump's 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. 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 us invasion. on wed and stay in a session that was interrupted several times by anti war activists abrams faced intense questioning in front of the hosts foreign affairs committee in a series of venomous exchanges he was quizzed about his suitability for the role of special envoy on the united states' efforts to install opposition leader one why do as 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 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 latin american politics expert michael durham sees abrams appointment as designed to send a clear message to venezuela he's arrogance in the testimony to congress he's 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 the two thousand and two and he's absolutely shameless his appointment gives a message to venezuela people he else in latin america that the united states is in charge of the leader of the world that have this fear 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. there's been a spike in violence against farmers in south africa we talked to some of the victims are it's horrifying stuff i have to tell you after the break. you know world's big partners. lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up

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just approaching twenty minutes into the program welcome back a school in indonesia has caused controversy after it expelled fourteen children with hate chile be under eight so it reportedly took the decision following complaints from the parents of their classmates we heard from some of the youngsters who were removed.

parents strongly objected to the fourteen children sometimes and it's because they are h.i.v. positive we tried to. follow in their protest with the children out of the school and now we're helping to find a new school for them was if i think i think of the soul i think i. went. to my classroom

a. poll we also spoke to the head of an ngo that helps indonesian children infected with hiv. for almost a week these children have been staying home and not going to school they are very upset about it and really want to play with other kids again big keep asking me when 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. to a story that's starting to get talked about more globally violence against farmers

in south africa is on the rise according to government statistics new figures show that the number of attacks has shot up by fifteen percent in the past two years and that most of the victims are white we spoke to a number of people who've been assaulted. classically use the road to make a difference to you so much here in the lagoon to go up to the feel that this is still light enough with the isotopes lined up in the door and other scraps. but it's all my naked how to come to my age. i. mean. when they start. it is not. on my. as i went down the garden the beyond the head with with the stick. and. obviously the short between you first only she will continue to come to the front.

doesn't mean you're going to go. the whole time they held a shotgun to my father and the one that is caught in the. natural. conflict all. this case found ok let me. just some of the masses of reports we saw over the past week well recently published report has revealed at electric drills blowtorches and bleach been used as assault weapons against foreigners now over seventy percent of south africa's farm land is owned by white people the legacy of colonialism and apartheid as a result the socialist government has pledged to redistribute lunt which has led to fears of the seizure of white owned farms on the races believed to be playing a role in the spike in attacks on their increasing brutality many commentators say

it's also a question of wider social problems or lack of law and order. the nature of the attacks is disproportionate we're not among those claiming there is a wide genocide or a crime against humanity but it is it serious crisis and there are signs that it is only going to get. wars we are on record as as dismissing the watch the watch in a side narrative if it does not exist as friends that being said. you you do get into into issues of what what motivates these crimes and an argument could be made that in certain instances. the rictus rictus racial rhetoric may be a contributing factor once again these awards expresses possibilities commercial foremans. tend to be disproportionately watch although. you know i think it's it's it's very important you know and he solutions you know to become trapped in that

racial prison we all are aware of instances where we. reflect people being attacked and also i think it is it must be pointed out that that the part of the whole form for matecumbe for mood for a phenomenon is the vulnerability of workers they pretend to be tend to be black and they've been instances with. black people or is that loves to protect. to protect. people under attack and vice versa as the case. we've got more of the stories that shaped the week and just about thirty minutes from and i'll be right here but in the meantime to sit tight more great programs read a. lot

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