was. was i was . asleep. was. all fury in france tens of thousands of yellow vested interest turned out for a fourteen straight weekend avanti government protests with clashes erupting in the capital this weekend marks three months since the protest movement began also ahead .

haiti's gripped by civil unrest with thousands of protesters flooding the streets of a car being nation's capital the calling on the president to step down over claims of corruption and it cannot make mismanagement. fourteen h.i.v. positive children are expelled from a school in indonesia is the insist at the insistence of outraged parents we speak to some of those who were made. to look. at the top stories in the past seven days and right up to the moment and this is our take their weekly on r.t. international hello and welcome our top story this hour here live as demonstrations are. and taking over the streets in paris this sunday against what people are

calling fulling living standards this weekend marks three months since their protest campaign began with saturday seeing over forty thousand turned out nationwide to vent anger at the president emanuel mccrone policies. then the. number of cities including knowledge and live on the protests in tahrir is still slow descent into violence by late afternoon charged and skewed was that throughout the day for. the e.u. . for sure the protestors are throwing items towards peace really going 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 spurs 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 amounts 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 to warrants 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 across 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. 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 other. thing into woods just with looks like here is pallets coming off by that gas already coming in pretty quickly. 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. forward with. the force. 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.e. paris. during the protests on saturday a number of yellow vests were filmed hurling project cells at a police van. leeuwen he was. the video was posted online by a french police union to illustrate the challenges facing officers who were joined by a police representative to discuss the rallies and their violent and. i have colleagues who work throughout the weekends 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 even if you are tired you have to go on duty due to exhaustion we could easily make a mistake. it's estimated that around three thousand people have been wounded since the yellow vests protests began some have suffered life changing injuries earlier this week we spoke to theory in a linear he was hit in the head with a stun grenade in december she says she could lose sight in one eye his theory in a story. it was his will clear as a former 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 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 only easy it was common to us and they were very calm yellow vests around us the world then some who then started vandalizing the shop on another side of the street as trying to set fire to it policeman started to shoot to help the 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 head my eyes still in great pain and will be removed in the next operation talked to said it can be seen it is painful to touch it i can't move it and i can't read. haitian capital was also rocks by violence this week protesters in puerto prongs were calling for an end to their country's rampant corruption and decrying the government's failure to tackle grinding poverty.

some of the protesters have also been voicing their contempt for washington and its apparent backing of the current president and number of videos of emerged of demonstrators burning the american flag the u.s. national security adviser 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 it citizens against travelling to haiti. similar anti-government protests continue to shake venezuela first while the u.s. was quick to throw its weight behind the opposition there is taking a somewhat different approach with haiti if you are trying to look at the fine line there makes and i liked it leader let's just summit. protests are turning deadly.

in crowd once the 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 it's not that i'm one of the nation's not just poor it's starving. rich people in the country. don't. earn 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 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 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. else. on a true. venice 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 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 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 washington's push to have a third of the socialist government in caracas is being spearheaded by elliott abrams the new u.s. special envoy to the his way into his appointment has been criticized in pots because of a devious track record or did not in america. in the one nine hundred eighty s. he was involved in selling arms to iran and funneling the profits to anti communist

rebels waging a brutal insurgency in nicaragua he was subsequently hounded to convictions for misleading congress about the lead in two thousand and two abrams was accused of attempting to walk a straight 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 disability for the role of special envoy. would you support an armed faction within venezuela that engages in work 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 parents actions in iran contra are permanently impaired 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 courtroom 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 emergency aid to venezuela essential like food and medicine have already been delivered to the colombian border but president maduro has refused to allow it into his country claiming that it's a cousin for the transit of weapons and could a u.s. military intervention we heard from journalist max blumenthal who says the

appointment of abrams points to aid being a possible cover up for 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 still to come this hour taking on trump of his twitter pictures we have from an iranian photographer who is unhappy with the u.s. president using her property online we'll have details on that after the break.

join me every first week on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see a. few days 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 for many many years we know that these efforts are made repeatedly they're not criminal every intelligence agency in the world sees as part of its

function to make sure that elections turn out favorably to the country. and. welcome back those school in indonesia has control of a sea off the expelling fourteen h.i.v. positive children and reportedly took the decision following complaints from the parents of the close 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 proceed but following their protest we took the children out of the school and now we're helping to find a new school for them because if you think of the excellent the public eye.

if it's a book of classics. i also spoke to the head of an ngo that helps indonesian children infected with hiv. but only 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 but 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. 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 have been assaulted. classically you see closely interlinked in the conspiracy time so much interest in the game to the activity field and to think that this is would still life you know with the ice cubes lined up in the top and other scraps. but it's all my naked how to come to my age. not. as a window on the great deep down they push the stick. my sister to

be the new first only she will continue in my income to the newsboy. revealed it doesn't mean you're leaving to those you know so the whole time they held a shotgun to my car i just can't believe that this quarter lida you can't say you bench toss a trench just. confirmed old. baseball ok let me. a recently published report has revealed that electric drills blowtorches and blades have been used as assault weapons against foam most of us seventy percent of south africa's farmland is owned by white people the legacy from colonialism colonialism and apartheid as a result the socialist government has pledged to redistribute land which has led to fears of a mass seizure of white owned farms and alone race is believed to be playing a role in a spike of attacks and they're increasingly tell us

a some commentators say it's also a question of why just social problems and a lack of will and the will to. 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 is just missing the what to watch genocide narrative. it does not exist suspense 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 reckless ritter's racial rhetoric may be a contributing factor once again these awards expresses possibilities commercial farmers. tend to be disproportionately white although. not entirely you know i think it's it's it's very important you know you can 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 must be pointed out that that part of the whole form for matecumbe form of 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 priest. and iranian photographer has lashed out a donald trump off to the u.s. president's used one of those photos in a scathing tweets about the islamic republic the old i'm aware he said the image was used without permission causing deep sorrow for her they were as president posted the tweets in both fall say and english on monday as a rainy and small to the fortieth anniversary of the overthrow of the u.s. back saw miss moare condemns donald trump saying her photo shouldn't be abused by

quote men in washington video agency ruptly spoke exclusively to the photo journalist but to deny that but you know if i have new twitter account and someone sent the picture to me i did not expect this picture to become viral i took this picture on to some of the twenty seventeen during the protest attack on university against the economic situation in the country these photos and i commend. which we should use for our society and 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. has also issued a lengthy statement in response to donald trump's tweet she says that u.s. sanctions are devastating the lives of ordinary iranians. in that as matter of fact my protest against this tweet can be defined as a social aspect i mostly relates to families past my life my family is in the us

and we haven't seen each other for 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 our society on the other hand the economic and social impact of sanctions are suspected people including those who are not interested in political issues caused me to show a symbolic protest it was not something like a legal complaint or anything else. well thanks for joining us on our international this sunday we will be back at the top of the hour with all the latest headlines and see them. back and panel of the full of hours to myself the way both decisive. ballot itself

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rejected. so when you want to be president and should. want to be rich. but you'd like to be close it's like the fourth tree a boy can't be good. i'm interested always in the water out. there should. still be a game. that didn't have ten miles from us to the independent us with me to that day in the club with. the counselors if i went up at a saw me today. i would wish to set my limit was speculation to me or the here now with jeremy as a hunk on the road it's. now at the pride of the last scene but because hell i've known him for that matter. i see less him to make the point you have made or the

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but it actually belongs to a man who posed. with something similar be happening again the united states. joined by. the author of the case the democratic house impeaching trump mr dershowitz it's such a honor and such a pleasure talking to you thank you very much for that well thank you so much as you probably know i voted against president. i worked hard to see that hillary clinton would get elected but i'm very much opposed to efforts to remove this president who i voted against wall for means whether by invoking the twenty fifth amendment to the constitution which was written for presidents who are incapacitated by medical or psychiatric reasons or whether by impeachment that requires high crimes and misdemeanors so.