part of its function to make sure that election turnout favorably to the country. more fury and from tens of thousands of yellow. fourteen straight weekend government protests with. this weekend marks three months since the protest movement began also.

has gripped the civil unrest with protesters flooding the streets of the caribbean nations there calling on the president to step down. economic mismanagement. and fourteen hiv positive children are expelled from school in indonesia. parents we speak to some of those. with the top stories from the past seven days on right up to the moment of elements well this is the weekly on r.t. international hello and welcome to our top story. yellow vests demonstrations are

again taking over the streets in paris this sunday against what they're calling fall in living standards live pictures right now by the way from parra says you can see people in those yellow vests making their way towards the arc de triomphe which has been the main point of meeting for those protesters over the past three months and that is a significant day this weekend marks three months since their protest campaign began with something saying over forty thousand people turned out nationwide to vent over president on monday will mark rowlands policy. skirmishes between activists some police broke out in a number of cities including known suddenly on the protests in part us also the send it into violence by nato charlotte dubus he was there right the day for us. i.

pursued the protest is that throwing items to its peaceful really good have to move a little bit further on because i guess it is now. coming across this. and it's really not very nice very difficult to talk sorry sir when the gas hits you but it just comes out like cleans and it's one of the methods that they used to trying to spruce the protesters these protests now have been going on for three months they have been incredibly violent at times we have seen the police also using huge amount of force against these protesters who are because somebody had been moved injured not clear what that person's injuries are put receiving medical attention now as a result of that and that is just one of the thousands of injuries you see not just from the protest is but also the police themselves.

as you can see our the anger is creeping up here quite dramatically on the streets of paris processors that now are pushing over one of those pins that you normally i close a lot of them picking up those portable assumingly with the aim of throwing it they go to warrants the police he see that tear gas now coming down to one just by the police coming in and taking over i'm just looking right now trying to apprehend some of those individuals who may have been throwing those grass portals like glass bottles now coming in the direction where we are. 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 take as you might just see a couple more of those rocks landing there towards the police forces. as the coming the protesters here thousands of them we've got some me who's burning an e.u. flag right in front of us here many of these illegals don't like the european union either but those rocks now projectiles being thrown quite forcibly against the police and you can see now others. being into wards us with what looks like here is pallets going off 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 throat through your eyes. you see people coughing. that's

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 shalit jones but this is a movement that's been going on now for three months and they have absolutely no intention of finishing it shows that you can ski r.t.e. paris another aspect to what has been happening in paris during the protests on sunday a number of yellow fests refer to her lng project out of the police. well you know there was. only this

video was posted online by a french police union to illustrate the challenges facing officers we were joined by a police representative to discuss the rallies out there why would you. 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 and on the other hand we are public servants and have to be friendly with them and even if you are tired you have to go on duty due to exhaustion we could easily make a mistake. it is estimated that a run three thousand people have been wounded since the yellow vests protests began some have suffered life changing injuries earlier this week we spoke to fury in the lynn who was hit in the head with

a stun grenade in the center she said she could lose sight in what i hear is if you are in this story. it says. policemen are called to work every saturday i understand that that time but fatigue is not an excuse for everything especially for leavin people without ice guns were on the right and i was on the left so explain to me why the policeman fired in my to breakfast and 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 common to us and there were very calm yellow vests around us then some who haven't started vandalizing the shop on another side of the street trying to set fire to it policeman started to shoot to help the firefighters to get through and it was the last then 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. well the haitian

capital this week has also been rocked by violence protesters in port au prince have been calling for an end to their country's rampant corruption and decrying the government's failure to talk the grinding poverty. some of the protesters have also been voicing their contempt for washington and it's a power in backing of the current president a number of that have emerged the demonstrators burning the american flag the u.s. national security advisor met with the haitian foreign minister on friday to discuss the riots john bolton expressed washington's and during support for the car to be a nation on call for dialogue to resolve the crisis while the u.s.

state department warned its citizens against traveling to haiti. is similar government protests continue to shake venice williams but while the u.s. was quick to throw its weight behind the opposition there it's taking a somewhat different approach with haiti. sucked up fine line that makes a lot of that elected leader legitimate. protests are turning deadly. in 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 the nation is not just poor starving i feel.

rich people want to. everything. the massive population that you. can use 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 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 that is 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 an 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. venice. not 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 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. well washington's push to overthrow the socialist government in caracas is being spearheaded by elliot abrams the new u.s. special envoy to venezuela his appointment has been criticized in parts because of a dubious track record in latin america in the one nine hundred eighty s. he was involved in selling arms to iran and funneling the profits to communist rebels waging a brutal insurgency in nicaragua he was subsequently hundred two convictions for misleading congress about the affair then in two thousand and two abrams was accused of attempting to orchestrate a coup attempt against chavez in venezuela. well. this week in a session that was interrupted several times by war activists abrams faced intense questioning in front of the hostess foreign affairs committee about his suitability for the role of special envoy 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. well at the same time the u.s. is starting to send emergency aid to venice with essentials like food and medicine already been delivered to the colombian border but president 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 we also heard from journalist mux blumenthal they say is the appointment of a burmese points to aid a possible cover up for a later invasion. we have to consider that trumps are 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 u.s. invasion. official figures show a spike in violence against farmers in south africa and we talk to some of the victims after this break. after the previous stage of my career was over everyone wondered what i was going to do next the boat the ball different clubs on one hand it is logical to sit in the home fields where everything is familiar on the other i wanted a new challenge and the fresh perspective i'm used to surprising us all why not to

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sunday afternoon a few minutes past four pm here in moscow welcome back a school in indonesia sparked controversy after it expelled fourteen positive children it reportedly took the decision following complaints from the parents of thirty plus mates 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 we took the children out of the school that now we're helping to find a new school for them. to. the

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all we also talk to the head of an ngo that helps and unease in children infected with h i. m and that's the mother for almost a week these children have been staying home and not going to school they're 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. they want to turn attention to south africa where violence against farmers in the country is on the rise according to government statistics new figures show that the number of attacks a shot up by fifteen percent that's in the past two years most of the victims are

white we spoke to a number of people who have been assaulted. i think when you see the world conditions to you thanks so much. in the living room to the activity field and insist that this is still light enough with the isotopes light up in the show and other scratch. but it's all romantic and how to come to my age. not. because i went down the great god but he produced the stick. i sourced to. be dangerous because it will give you a minute in come to this place. where people don't think you leave the room you know so the whole time they held a shotgun to my car i just want to believe that it's going to meet up and you keep

saying you mention josh watch them stocks. include all. of. his phone i'll consider. it chilling testimony there on a recently published report has revealed not electric rails blowtorches bleach as well have been used as assault weapons against farmers now over seventy percent subset africa's farmland is owned by white people with a legacy of colonialism and apartheid as a result the socialist government has pledged to redistribute love and to get shot led to fears of a mass seizure of white owned farms on all the races believed to be playing a role in the spike of attacks on their increasing brutality some commentators say it's also a question of wider social problems the luck of law and order. your highness the nature of their tax is disproportionate we're not among those claiming there is a wide genocide or a crime against humanity but it is

a serious crisis and there are signs that it is only going to get wars we are on record. as as dismissing the the what the white genocide narrative if it does not exist spreads that being said. you 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 rictus rictus racial rhetoric may be a contributing factor once again these are walls expressed as possibilities commercial foremans that tend to be disproportionately watch although. i think it's it's it's very important you can see solutions you know to what's become trapped in that racial prism we are aware of instances where we. reflect people being attacked and also i think it must be pointed out that that part of the whole form for matecumbe for mood for momentum's vulnerability of workers they pretend to

be tend to be black and they've been instances where. black people risk their lives to protect. to protect what i watch people under attack and vice versa as the case . is are long for now but more of the stories that shaped the week and just about thirty minutes with me right here and in the meantime more great program start in moments. the united states does that all the time it always tries to influence elections when. people who are running who are friendly to the united states are running against people who are unfriendly we certainly did that all through central america and south america on many many years we know that these efforts are made repeatedly

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