these and other goals that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic. more fury in france tens of thousands of yellow visit activists turn died for a fourteenth straight weekend of government protests with erupting in the capital this weekend marks three months since the protest movement. the scenes in haiti which is gripped by civil unrest with. protesters flooding the streets of the caribbean nation's capital calling on the president to step down

over claims of corruption and economic mismanagement. and over a dozen positive children are expelled from a school in indonesia. bridge parents we speak to some of those who were. with they tell stories from the past seven days and nights son right up to the moment developments as well this is the weekly r t international law and welcome to our top story. yellow vest demonstrations are again taking over the streets of parra space sunday against what people are calling falling living standards this

weekend marks three months since their protest campaign began with saturday seeing over forty thousand people turned out nationwide to vent over president a manual mccollum's policies. then that. skirmishes between activists on police broke on a number of cities including nonce on the on the protests in part this also descended into my list by late. charlotte dubinsky was there right right that. i. was. pursuing the protest is that throwing items to its peaceful really good have to move a little bit further on because that gas is now. coming across this and it's. really know it's very nice very difficult to talk stories or

when the gas hits you but it just comes out like planes and it's one of the methods they used to trying to suppress 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 here being 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 towards the police he see that tear gas now coming down to wounds us 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 price up bottles 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 nice 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 as they come in the. testers here thousands of them we've got some me who's burning in the

e.u. flag right in front of us say many of the jle asians don't like the european union either but those rocks now projectiles being thrown quite full simply against the police and you can see now other. thing into woods just with looks like tear gas pellets coming off that gas already coming in already. so we've got to try and move away from makes it really just pick out your throat through your eyes. you see people coughing. beds of result of that to go. where your. heart beats is really pretty nasty when it gets in just right this is now act fourteen

thousands of people came out to paris many people had thought that this pops be the last. saturday protest of the chalet jones but this is a movement this been going on now for three months and they have absolutely no intention of finishing it so that you can ski. paris is something else to show you on the day during the protests a number of yellow vests were filmed hurling projectiles of the police. the u.s. he was. going to. the video was posted online by a french police union to illustrate the challenges facing officers while we were joined by a police representative to discuss the rallies and their violent. 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 and even if you are tired you have to go on duty due to exhaustion we could easily make a mistake. well it is estimated at around three thousand people have been wounded since the protests began some have suffered like. changing injuries earlier this week we spoke to lynn yea who was hit in the head with a stun grenade back in december she say she could not lose sight in what i hear is fewer in the story. it was this is a policeman i called to work every saturday i understand that there are times but fatigue is not an excuse for everything especially for leavin people without ice cold 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 elisa it was common to us and there were very calm yellow vests around us some of them some who have been started vandalizing the shop on another side of the street as trying to set fire to it policemen started to shoot to how life i just to get through and it was the last then that i remember because after that i fell and the grenade hit my hand my eyes still in great pain and will be removed in the next operation talked to said it can be safe it is painful to touch it i can't move it and i can't read. the haitian capital was also rocked by violence this week protesters in port au prince are calling for an end to their country's rump and corruption and the crying the government's failure to tackle grinding poverty.

but some of the protesters have also been voicing their contempt for washington and it's apparent backing of the current president a number of it was just like beings have emerged the demonstrators burning the american flag the u.s. national security advisor met with the haitian foreign minister and. to discuss the riots john bolton expressed washington's enduring support for the current be in nation and called for a dialogue to resolve the crisis while the u.s. state department warned its citizens against traveling to haiti. with similar government protests continue to shake venice we are but while the u.s. was quick to throw its weight behind the opposition there it's taking a somewhat different approach with haiti. with that fine line but mix on the

elected leader legitimate. protests are turning deadly. in crowd wants to president to get the hell out of his office. the next. they load his government for corruption for all kinds of cheating at the election. but enough that one of the nation's not just poor it's starving. rich people in the country. going through. everything and yet 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

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 show 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 spent 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. asks.

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 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 eighteen 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. and the epa tranquil washington's push to overthrow the socialist government in caracas is being spearheaded by this man elliott abrams the new u.s. special envoy to venezuela his appointment has been criticized in parts be because

of a dubious truck record in latin america in the one nine hundred eighty s. for instance he was involved in selling arms to iran and funneling the profits to anticommunist rebels waging a brutal insurgency in nicaragua he was subsequently hundred two convictions for misleading congress about the a for then in two thousand and two abrams was accused of attempting to orchestrate a coup against chavez in venezuela. if we go to this witness the end of session that was interrupted several times by antiwar activists abrams faced intense questioning in front of the houses 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 court 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. the same time the u.s. is starting to send emergency aid to venice we allow essentials like food medicine already being delivered to the colombian border but president maduro has refused to

allow it into his country claiming that it's a come for the transit of weapons and could foreshadow a u.s. military intervention we heard from journalist max blumenthal who saves the appointment of abrams points to aid being a possible cover up for a later invasion. 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. 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. there's been a spike in violence against farmers in south africa we've got the details and speak to some of the victims of this. we're witnessing something quite remarkable in the night twenty nineteen we're watching a country for a test bed and a nineteenth century bubble really for. almost two hundred years they're going to crash into the twenty first century as if they're just being teleported into the twenty first century. in

a world of big partisan lot and conspiracy it's time to wait to dig deeper to hit the stories that made history media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the back and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. get back with feet weekly and are to international a school in indonesia sparked controversy after expelling fourteen h.l.v. positive children 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 tandon it's because they are h.i.v. positive we tried to. but 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 south pole if.

that's all. that's. all we also talk to the head of an ngo that helps indonesian children infected with each. other 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 too. 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 and. violence against farmers in south africa is on the rise officially new government figures show that the number of attacks to shut up by fifteen per cent in the past two years with most of the victims being white we spoke to a number of people who've been assaulted. classically usually brought in to make a difference to the time so much to do just to be in the lagoon to go out to the field and. this is from still life you know when i slip slide up in the door and i

scratch i cry but it's all romantic and how to come to my age. it's not. because i went down the great we've gone but he produced the stick. closer to the scene of the song that we knew first only she will continue to come to this boy. maybe you'll do this if we didn't do those you know so the whole time they held a shotgun to my far edge the one that is caught in the i can't say you'll dance just watch them stocks. in football. yeah this case both i'll consider any. well recently published report has revealed i left trick drills blow torches and bleach were used as assault weapons against the

farmers. family over seventy percent of south africa's farm land is owned by white people a legacy of colonialism and apartheid as a result the socialist government has pledged to redistribute land which has led to fears of a mosque seizure of white owned farms and 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 a wider social problem and a lack of law and order. your 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 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 is fence 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 rictus rictus racial rhetoric they may be a contributing factor once again these awards expresses possibilities commercial farmers. that tend to be disproportionately white although. you know i think it's it's it's very important you know in d.c. you solutions you know 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 that part of the whole form taken for mood for a moment of vulnerability of workers you know pretends to be interviewed like and they've been instances where. people abuse that loves to protect. to protect what i watch people under attack and vice versa as the case. we follow the priest. and extensive probe ready spend over two years has failed to. any direct evidence

of collusion between donald trump and russia during the twenty sixteen us presidential campaign the big mission coming from the senate intelligence committee's chairperson. well i'm not sure how to cure him and i've said it before we have no factual evidence of collusion between the computer. or the so-called trump russia investigation has drawn attention from the media which expected to find a smoking gun to the wall so feel like they're closing in on the trumpet ministration right now and i'm not sure they can hold them off for much longer the walls are closing in and everyone is freaking out the walls are closing the wheels are coming off. the walls are closing in on president trump the walls are closing it with trump on the walls are closing in on the trump white house. all of the walls are closing in at this point the walls are closing in fast after two years two hundred

witnesses and three hundred thousand documents if we were to report based upon the facts that we have then we don't have anything that would suggest there was collusion between the trim campaign and russia democrats have now confirmed this to n.b.c. on conditions of anonymity to send investigators have access to highly classified intelligence so for example if there was an intercept between some russian intelligence officers suggesting that they were conspiring with the trump campaign they would see that that has not emerged so that evidence does not exist and trump will claim vindication so donald trump has spoken up the it twitter. the senate intelligence committee there is no evidence of collusion between the truth campaign and russia while the twitter sphere lit up because for two years n.b.c. has been pushing the trump russian narrative now they're saying the opposite. be seen use and n.b.c. have been telling us for two plus years that there is always evidence of collusion to the russians hacked their accounts. breaking news the narrative we've been spin

on endlessly for two years that was based on zero evidence it seems that it wasn't lost on n.b.c. themselves who did everything to walk back their affiliation but on the very same day we heard this on the very same channel you know as soon as senator byrd coming out and saying there was no direct evidence of that kind of conspiracy that also really struck me because prosecutors almost never how to direct it i wish the intelligence committee came out and said they found no direct evidence of criminal conspiracy but that's not the senate intelligence committee is read it it is the f.b.i. in a special counsel's team to do the criminal investigation so he doesn't have any evidence but he somehow just knows it's there mr trump's good he means. you know that whole question is the claims of a former cia director who previously called doubts on allegations of collusion he is not alone in speaking up and saying that what can't be proven somehow must unquestionably be true. ok nikki's here at the top with more of the news that

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