i. was. nothing. more fury in france tens of thousands of yellow vest activists turned out for a fourteenth straight weekend of anti-government protests with clashes erupting in the capital this weekend marks three months since the protest movement began also. haiti is gripped by civil unrest with thousands of protesters flooding the streets

of the caribbean nation's capital they're calling on the president to step down over claims of corruption and economic mismanagement. fourteen age hiv positive children are expelled from a school in indonesia at the insistence of outraged parents to speak to some of those who were removed. the target didn't look good. the suttas police. are broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow recapping the week's top stories with our weekly program this is r t international. our yellow vests demonstrators took over the streets of paris again on sunday rallying against what people are calling falling living standards the weekend marked three months since

their protest campaign began with saturday seeing over forty thousand to turn out nationwide to vent anger over president emanuel micron's policies. then the. skirmishes between activists and police broke out in a number of cities including non-theists and the protests in paris also descended into violence and by late afternoon tea show dubinsky was there throughout the day . i. saw the protesters that throwing items to it's peaceful really get have to move a little bit further on because that gas is now. coming across this. and it's really not 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

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 you see not just from the protest is 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 towards 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 grass 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 would appear to be wrong 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 tear gas 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 now others. being into woods just with what looks like here is pallets going off by that gas already coming in pretty quick. so we just got to try and move away from makes it really just pick out your throat or your eyes. you see people coughing. as 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 ati paris during the protests on saturday a number of yellow vests were filmed hurling projectiles at a police van. well you know he was. the. video was posted online by a french police union to illustrate the challenges facing officers we were joined by a police representative and to discuss the rallies and their violent elements. 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. all right it is estimated that around three thousand people have been wounded since the protests began some have suffered life changing injuries earlier this week we spoke to. who was hit in the head with a stun grenade in december she says she may lose her left eye here is a story. it was this is 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 cold guns were on the right and i was on the left so explain to me why the policeman fired in might have actually 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 comment first and there were very calm yellow vests

around us then some who have been started vandalizing the shop on another side of the street trying to set fire to it policemen started to shoot to help 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 saved 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 protestors and port au prince are calling for an end to their country's rampant corruption and decrying the governments of 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 a number of videos have emerged of demonstrators burning the american flag 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 ward its citizens against a 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 there it is taking a somewhat different approach with. comments now on the fine line that makes an elected leader legitimate. 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 one of the nation's not just poor it starving. rich people in the country going to go. to. the massive population. continues 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 movies 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. intrapreneur has been told an entrepreneur woman's is results and therefore i hope to put everything in place to make sure we deliver for our peoples but could such words of warmth ever end up turning into something like this how. venice. on a true. venice 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 but 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 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 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 anti-communist rebels 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 anti-war 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 it as well 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. at the same time the u.s. is starting to send emergency aid to venezuela essentials 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 is a cover for the transit of weapons and it could foreshadow 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

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 us proxy forces first during the. wars on 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. well still to come this hour taking on trump over his twitter pictures we hear from an iranian photographer was not happy with u.s. president using her property on a line the back of

a short break watching the weekly international. we're witnessing something quite remarkable in the night twenty nineteen we're watching a country that's bad in the nineteenth century a bubble really four. hundred years they're going to crash into the twenty first century as if they're just being teleported into the twenty first thing. you know world of big. lot and conspiracies it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the bath 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 for watching closely watching the hawks. welcome back this is the weekly on our t.v. international now a school in indonesia has sparked controversy after expelling fourteen age hiv positive children and 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 to tandems 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 are helping to find a new school for them could if i think i think of the soul i think i.

want to. talk of last week. we also spoke to the head of an ngo that helps indonesian children infected with hiv. well 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 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 has shot up by shot by fifteen percent in the past two years vast majority being black on white crime we spoke to a number of people who have been assaulted. classically used to throw me into my delusions to be a dime so much to get in the game to go out to the field and into good could because it was the life you know what isotopes like in the dough and i was scratched by a guy. around my neck and how to come to my age. they start. as i went

down the garden be gone but he produced the stick. i was a student of snow sure we'd need a fast close to the sea when do you imagine going to the front. may be older current it doesn't leave your deductibles you know it's the whole time they held a shotgun to my far edge the one that is caught in the i can't say i mention josh notch and josh fox. confirmed all of. this case bob ok let me get. he recently published a report has revealed that electric drills blowtorches and bleach have been used as assault weapons against farmers allegedly now more than seventy percent of south africa's farmland 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 massive seizure of white owned farms and although race is believed to be playing a role in the spike of attacks and their increasing brutality some commentators say it is also a question of the wider social problems and a lack of law and order. your 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 each serious crisis and there are signs that it is only going to get wars we are on record as as dismissing the watch the white genocide narrative of it it does not exist as friends 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 may be a contributing factor once again these awards expresses possibilities commercial

foremans. that tend to be disproportionately white although. you know i think it's it's it's very important you know and and and and see you solutions you know to become trapped in that racial prison we are aware of instances where we. reject people being attacked and also i think it must be pointed out that that part of the whole form for matecumbe for mood of the moment is the vulnerability of workers and they're free to be interviewed right 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 followed the priest. the iranian photographer has lashed out at donald trump after the us president used one of her photos in a scathing tweet about the islamic republic. said that the image was used without permission causing deep sorrow for her the u.s.

president post of the tweet in both farsi and english on monday as iranians marked the fortieth anniversary of the overthrow of the u.s. backed shah wiring a condemned donald trump saying her photo should not be abused by quote men in washington our video agency ruptly spoke exclusively to the photo journalist but. i have no 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 thirtieth twenty seventeen during the protest of terror on university against the economic situation in the country these photos are like america which we should use frost society and we fast to see ourselves and think that these are our problems i'm upset as this issue is being used for other things and not to help our society this issue has bothered me for a long time. yalda mari 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 this as

a 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 four years because of a travel ban and it 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 affected 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. or that does it for me i'll be back with more of the weekly and let's say thirty four minutes or whatever to international.

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hello and welcome to worlds apart from my friends everything from economies to law this phrase has long become a byword for selective justice in authoritarian regimes but it actually belongs to a man who did post an elected president before taking his place that happened in peril a century ago could something similar be happening again this time in the united states with all the efforts to unseat president trump well to discuss that i'm now joined by alan dershowitz professor of law emeritus at harvard law school and the author of the case against 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 trump i'm a liberal democrat 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 by unlawful 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 i'm very much in favor not of president trump but in favor of the constitution now when you say that the you're in in favor of the constitution and the civil liberties is rather done motivated by any personal sympathies for president trump do people believe you are is a hard case to make in this day and age in the united states it's a very hard case to make and people either don't believe me or don't care many

friends who are a long long time friends have refused to.