agency in the world she's a part of its function to make sure that elections turn out favorably not to potentially. leave. was. it was. at. least. more fury in france tens of thousands of yellow best activists turn out for us the fourteenth straight weekend of anti-government protests with clashes erupting in the capital this weekend marks three months since the protest movement began also ahead.

haiti is gripped by civil unrest with thousands of protesters flooding the streets of the caribbean nations capital recording on the president's to step down over claims of corruption and economic mismanagement. fourteen h.i.b. positive children are expelled from a school in indonesia at the assisted insistence of outraged parents we speak to some of those who were murdered. but. good. luck. with top stories in the past seven days and right up to the moment developments as well this is the weekly on r.t. international follow and welcome now our top story yellow vest demonstrations are again taking over the streets of paris this sunday. against what people are calling

for wing living standards this weekend marks three months since their protest campaign began with saturday seeing over forty thousand turn out nationwide to vent anger at the president emanuel mccrone his policies. it's going to shift between activists and police broke out in a number of cities including north and live on the process jim paris also descended to violence by late afternoon solid defense he was there throughout the day for us . i. was the only. issue of the protesters start throwing items towards peace really good i have to move a little bit further on because i guess it is never. coming across this. and it's really not very nice very difficult to talk sorry sir

when that 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 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 to see not just from the protest is right but also the police themselves. as you can see they are 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 am just looking right now trying to apprehend some of those individuals who may have been throwing those across 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 would 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. 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 to wards 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 illusions don't like the european union either but those rocks now projectiles being thrown quite forcibly against the police and you can see no other. thing into war just with what looks like here this pallets going off well that gas already coming in pretty quickly. so we just got to try and move away from it because it really just pick out your throat through 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 back to 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. paris during the protests on saturday a number of yellow vests were filmed hurling projectiles at a police van. on a video was posted online by french police union to illustrate the challenges facing officers who were joined by a police representative to discuss the rallies on their violent elements. 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 on the other hand we are public servants and have to be friendly even if you are tired you have to go on duty due to exhaustion we could easily make a mistake. was estimated at around three thousand people have been wounded since the yellow vests protests began some have started life changing injuries earlier this week we spoke to theory near libya he was hit in the head with a stun grenade in december she says she could lose the sight in one eye his theory in a story it was his whole career 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 guns were on the road and i was on the left who explained 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 a leisurely it was common to us and there were very calm yellow vests around us and then some who haven't started vandalizing the shop on another side of the street as trying to set fire to it policeman started to shoot to help firefighters to get through and it was the last then 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. haitian capital was also rocked by violence this week protesters in port au prince are calling for an end to their country's rampant corruption and decrying the government's failure to tackle grinding poverty. you.

well some of the protesters have also been voicing their contempt for washington and its apparent backing of the current president a number of videos have emerged of 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 enduring support for the caribbean nation and called for dialogue to resolve the crisis while the u.s. state department warned its citizens against traveling to haiti similar anti-government protests continue to shake venezuela but while the u.s. was quick to throw its weight behind the opposition that is taking a somewhat different approach with haiti it looks at the fine line that makes an elected leader legitimate. protests are turning deadly.

in crowd once the president to get the hell out of his office. at eight o'clock 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 starving. rich people in the country. going through. everything and then the mr police. come to a new city 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 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. venice and the trump government is not going to side with the

haitian people because they need that 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 movie 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 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 times been criticized in pods because of a dubious track record in latin america. in the one nine hundred eighty s. he was involved in selling arms to iran funneling the profits to anti communist

rebels waging a waging a brutal insurgency in nicaragua he was subsequently handed to convictions for misleading congress about the affair then in two thousand and two abrams was accused of attempting to orchestrate a coup against hugo chavez in venezuela. on wednesday in a 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 ask 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. at the same time the u.s. is starting to send a motion see aids to venezuela essential as like food or medicine have already been delivered to the colombian border first as president president durham has refused to allow it into his country claiming that it's a cover for the transit of weapons and could force either way us military

intervention we heard from journalist months blumenthal who says the appointment of abrams points to aids being 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 well still to come this hour there's been a spike in violence against film as in south africa we have from some of the

victims of this very short break stay with us. after the previous stage of my career was over everyone wondered what i was going to do next the multiple 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 a fresh perspective i'm used to surprising people and i saw one on t.v. . i'm going to talk about football not the or else i just think i was going to go. by the way what is it that's like here. join me every thursday on the alex simon

chill and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics small business i'm show business i'll see you then. i. doubt. welcome back a school in indonesia has sparked controversy after expelling fourteen hiv positive children it reportedly took the decision following complaints from the parents of their close mates we heard from some of the youngsters who were removed.

among parents strongly objected to the fourteen children to town that it's because they are h.i.v. positive we tried to first but follow in their protest we took the children out of the school and now we're helping to find a new school for them. if they think of the exits sick of.

thinking it's a pack of six. but we also talks to the head of an ngo that helps indonesian children infected with hiv. and i am a fan of the 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 they 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. violence against farmers in south africa is on the rise new government figures show that the number of attacks is shot up by fifteen percent in the past two years the vast majority being black on white crime we spoke to a number of people who've been assaulted classically usually brought me into my canvas and spirit i'm so much interest in the lagoon to go out to the field and didn't think that this is the still life you know with the ice cubes lined up in the top and i was scratched by a guy but he spun me around my neck and how to come to my age. it's not. because i went

down the great god but he produced the stick. i stood up with knew first only if you will continue in my income to the fact that this boy is. going to be older doesn't mean you didn't do those you know the whole time they held a shotgun to my far edge one of the legion discordantly i kept saying on the edge just watch them stashed. in full golf. yeah this case both alcohol. recently published report has revealed that and that trick drills blow torches and bleach have been used as assault weapons against thomas over seventy percent of south africa's land is owned by a white people a legacy of colonialism on the part time as a result of the socialist government has pledged to redistribute land which has led to fit is of a mass seizure of whites own songs and although race is believed to be playing

a role in the spike of attacks and the increasing brutality some commentators say it's also a question of why does the social problems and a lack of rule and or woulda. 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 spends 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. of reckless richest racial rhetoric by maybe a contributing factor once again these awards expresses possibilities commercial farmers. tend to be disproportionately white although. you know i think it's it's

it's very important you know and in and see the solutions you know to become trapped in that racial prison we are aware of instances where we're. black people being attacked and also i think it is it must be pointed out that that part of the whole form for matecumbe for murder for a phenomenon is the vulnerability of workers to pretend to be tend to be black 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 the. exhaustive probe that's already spanned over two years has failed to find any direct evidence of collusion between donald trump and russia during the twenty sixteen us presidential campaign the admission came from the senate intelligence committee's chairperson. to remain static before we have no factual evidence. in. the so-called trump russia investigation has drawn

vast attention from the media which expected to find a smoking gun. the walls to feel like they're closing in on the trip administration 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 that 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 a truck 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 emmis 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 nurse if we've been spin on endlessly for two years it 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 a senate senator burr coming out and saying there was no direct evidence and that kind of conspiracy that also really struck me because prosecutors almost never how

to direct it our state intelligence committee came out and said they found no direct evidence of criminal conspiracy but that's not the senate intelligence committee is really that 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 going to move. in a woods hole quash these are 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 thanks for joining us on the outing international we will be back in thirty minutes with along to see that. we're witnessing something quite remarkable in the night twenty nineteen we're

watching a country bred testbed in the 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 time. in twenty forty you know bloody revolution of you tube the demonstrations going from being relatively peaceful political protests to be creasing the violent revolution is always spontaneous or is it you know lawyer who could do it but i mean you know liz put it. the dream in the new bill is that i knew the split needle of the former ukrainian president recalls the events of twenty four g. and. it invested over five billion dollars to assist ukraine in these and other goals that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic. in

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