i. was. more fury in france tens of thousands of yellow vests turned out for a fourteenth straight weekend of anti-government protests with clashes erupting in the capital it has now been 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 nation's capital they're calling on the president to step down over claims of corruption and economic mismanagement.

and fourteen hiv positive children are expelled from a school in indonesia at the insistence of outraged parents we speak to some of those who were removed. from the. fight it is three zero one in the morning on february eighteenth here in moscow and whether it's your birthday or any other day of the week and you're watching us we're glad to have you with us. now yellow vest 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 turn out nationwide to vent anger over

president a man who micron's policies. then the. skirmishes between activists and police broke out in a number of cities including not only on the protests in paris also descended into violence by late afternoon parties charlie dubinsky was there throughout the day. we 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 a huge amount of force against these protests as you were because somebody here being moved injured not clear what that person's injuries are 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 to warrants the police he see that tear gas now coming down to wounds 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 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 cats 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 yes 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 throats in 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 and this is now back to fourteen thousands of people came out to paris many people had thought that this pup's it be the last. saturday protest of the shirley

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 her in projectiles at the police for. well you know he was a. 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 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 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 which. is estimated that around three thousand people have been wounded since the yellow mass protests began some have suffered life changing injuries earlier this week we spoke to fury in a league near who was hit in the head with a stun grenade in december she says she may lose her left eye yours if your story. if it is. policemen are 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 hooligans were on the right and i was on the left who explained to me why the policeman fired in my to breakfast when 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 elisi it was comment first and there were very calm yellow vests around us then some hooligan started vandalizing the shop on another side of the street 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 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 protesters in port au prince are calling for an end to their country's rampant corruption and a 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

a number of videos have emerged of demonstrators burning the american flag and 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. 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 in haiti parties group are trying to go comments now on the fine line that makes an elected leader of the. protests are turning deadly. in crowd once the president to get the hell out of his office. the next moment. they lowered his government for corruption for all kinds of cheating at the election. but enough that i thought the nation is

not just poor it's starving. rich people in the country. don't. earn everything and yet the massive population that comes to do something 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 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 in 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 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 two printers many old and entrepreneur ones is results and therefore i hope we'll 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. offs venison. 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 show of nomo 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 you 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 specifically 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 that 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 the front of the house 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. of same time the u.s. is starting to send emergency aid to venezuela essential is like food and medicine have already been delivered to the colombian border and by president maduro has refused to allow it into his country claiming that it is a cover for the transit of weapons and could foreshadow u.s. military intervention you 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 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. still to come this hour taking on trump over his twitter pictures we hear from an iranian photographer who's not happy with the u.s. president using her property online will be back after a short break this is our to international of the week.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race in this spearing dramatic development the only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. 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. 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.

welcome back this is our team international now a school in indonesia has sparked controversy after expelling fourteen eight 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. follow in their protest with the children out of the school and now we're helping to find a new school for them if they think of sick of the so called think of.

it's a book of classics. we also talked to the had of an ngo that helps indonesian children infected with h m's . 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 that the number of attacks has shot up by fifteen percent in the past two years and according to south african police statistics the majority is black on white crime we spoke to a number of people who claimed that they were assaulted. classically you see brought me in to make little sense to you thanks so much to be in the living room to go up to the field and. this is would still like you know when i sleep slumped in the towel and have a scratch guy. around my neck and how to count my age. as i went down the garden we've gone but he produced the stick. as a student of the new first only she will continue to come to the front this boy.

may be old and curtis is the leader. of the whole time they held a shotgun to my far edge the one that is called in the. notch and that. conflict oh. yeah. i'll consider any. recently published report has revealed that electric drills blow torches and bleach have been used as assault weapons against farmers over 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 mass 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 wider social problems and a lack of law and order. the 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 it serious crisis and there are signs that it is only going to get wars we are on record as is dismissing. the the what the white genocide narrative of if it does not exist spends that being said. you do get into it into issues of what 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 farmers. tend to be disproportionately white although. you know i think it's it's it's very important you know and it's easy 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. in form of phenomenon is the vulnerability of workers to pretend to be interviewed right 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 at donald trump after the u.s. president used one of her photos in a scathing tweet about the islamic republic yelled out miree said that the image was used without permission causing deep sorrow for her u.s. president posted the tweet in both farsi and english on monday as iranians marked the fortieth anniversary of the overthrow of the u.s. backed shaw. condemned donald trump saying her photo should not be used by quote men in washington our video agency ruptly spoke exclusively to the photojournalist

. but he denied it at the annual 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 protests trying to seventeen during a protest a tear on university against the economic situation. in the country these photos are like a mirror 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 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 as a matter of fact my protest against this tweet can be defined as a social aspect and a 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 the 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 and has affected our society on the other hand the economic and social impact of sanctions that 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. either does or for mailbags more than weekly and thirty four minutes this is argentina. tough and finding another school in paris to mccown when you're both excessive

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