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more fury in france tens of thousands of. government protests with clashes erupting in the capital it has now been three months since the protests movement began also ahead. haiti is gripped. with thousands of protesters flooding the streets of the caribbean. calling on the president to step down over. economic
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mismanagement. and fourteen. children are expelled from a school in indonesia at the insistence of outraged parents we speak to some of those who. keep. our broadcasting. international i'm glad to have you with us as we recap the week's top stories. 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
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more than forty thousand turned out nationwide to vent anger over president emanuel micron's policies. but then the. skirmishes between activists and police broke out in a number of cities including non tenderly on the protests in paris also descended into violence by late afternoon devinsky was there throughout the day for. 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 not very nice very difficult to talk sorry sir when the 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
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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 war it's 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
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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 tear gas 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 illusions don't like the european union either but those rocks now projectiles being thrown quite forcibly against
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the police and you can see now other. thing into ward serious with what looks like here is pellets going off by that gas already coming in already. so we 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 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 it be the last. saturday protest of the shalit
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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 policeman. well you know he was a. video was posted online by a french police union to illustrate the challenges facing officers were joined by a police representative to discuss the rallies and the very 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
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we could easily make a mistake. it is estimated that around three thousand people have been wounded since the elevator 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 here's what furious as here is her story. it is clear is a policeman a call 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 road and i was on the left to explain 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 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
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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 doctor said it can be saying that 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
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apparent backing of the current president and number of videos have emerged of demonstrators burning the american flag 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. a 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 haiti so you're trying to comments now the fine line that makes an elected leader legitimate. protests are turning deadly. the 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
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election. but enough 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. continues 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 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
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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 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. not true. venison the drum 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
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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
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a word from donald trump so business 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 do. track record in latin america specifically 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
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a session that was interrupted several times by anti-war activists abrams faced intense questioning in front of the house foreign affairs committee about his suitability for the role of special envoy. would do 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.
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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 of 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 but president maduro has refused to allowed into the country claiming that it is a cover for the transit of weapons and 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 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
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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 u.s. invasion. a school in indonesia has sparked controversy after expelling fourteen h.m.o. you 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.
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parents strongly objected to the fourteen children to tandems because they are h.i.v. positive we tried to. but follow in their protests that we took the children out of the school and now we're helping to find a new school for them. if. that's if that's.
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what. it's all about i. guess if. we also talk to the head of an ngo that helps indonesian children in fact head with h.l.v. . family for almost a week these children have been staying home and not going to school they are 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 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
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that their disease is in their body and will not easily spread to others. violence against farmers in south africa is on the rise 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 claim they were assaulted. ethically use the pro team to make a difference to the time so much looks good in the lagoon to go out to the field and didn't think that this is the life you know what i slips like up in the toe and i was scratched by a guy but it's all my naked how to come to my age. they start. as i went
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down the great deep down they push the stick. closer to the city shortly than you first only see it will continue to come to the front. maybe older doesn't mean you're going to go to the woods you know 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 josh notch and josh got. going for the gold. yeah this case both ok let me. they recently published a report has revealed that electric drills blowtorches and bleach have been used as assault weapons against farmers and more than seventy percent of south africa's farmland is owned by white people a legacy of colonialism and apartheid as a result of the socialist government has pledged to redistribute land which has led you to fears of a mass seizure of white owned farms and although race is believed to be playing
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a role in the spike of attacks and their increasing brutality some commentators say it is also a question of it wider social problems and a lack of law and order. your highness' 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 watch the white genocide narrative if 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 foreman's. tend to be disproportionately white although. you know i think it's it's
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it's very important you know and instead you solutions you know to become trapped in that racial prison we are aware of instances where we're. back people being attacked and also i think it is good for mr pointed out that that part of the whole form. and form of phenomenon is the vulnerability of workers you know pretends to be interviewed like 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 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 her permission causing deep sorrow for 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.
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backed shah mr moore why are they condemned donald trump saying that her photo should not be you 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 come viral i took this picture under some of the thirtieth twenty seventeen during the protest of terror on university against the economic situation in the country these photos and i camaro which we should use for our 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 that as a matter of fact my protest against this tweet can be defined as
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a social aspect and it 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 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. but as a for me i'll be back in about safe thirty five and a half minutes with another look at rick we are watching our two internet.
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what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president and should. somehow want to be rich. but you'd like to be close to see what the before three in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters of the house. or should. the united 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 at all through central america and south america for many many years we know that these efforts are made repeatedly there not criminal every intelligence agency in the world she's
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a smart of its function to make sure that elections turn out favorably to the country and. after the previous stage of my career was over everyone wondered what i was going to do next the ball different clubs on one hand it is logical to go from fields where everything is familiar on the other i want of a new challenge member a fresh perspective and i'm used to surprising us all or nothing if you think. i'm going to talk about football not for you or else you can think i was going to do. by the way ways of the slide. i've been saying the numbers mean something they've
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measured us a little bit one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crime families each day. eighty five percent of global wealth he longs to be ultra rich eight point six percent in world markets closed for the city some with four hundred to five hundred three per second per second and when he rose to twenty thousand dollars. china's building two point one billion dollars ai industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only number you need to remember one one business show you know for the mid one and only boom box. welcome to max kaiser's financial survival guide. looking forward to year that's without. yanks this is what happens to pensions in britain
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be the biggest landowner in this area and of course became famous as the place for billy the kid was shot by pat garrett this is amazing that we're here probably touching my mom roots he was the largest ever private land holder in u.s. history. here it is really the kids tombstone. he was such an anti-hero they actually locked him up in prison even in death. you know they scared many times from prison and he escaped and become immortal american myth. i see that he was only twenty one they called him the boy bandit king. the boy band of the king well this is a genius isn't it lives on the all the people that we love and adore today the american characters like donald trump is kind of a boy band and king of the twenty first century. i guess the sympathy for him is
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that he was essentially orphaned thirteen and we know how. the wild west we know what the wild west was like is a very dangerous place so he had to hook up with some bad guys you know some some gun slingers and he himself was alleged to have killed eight people including a sheriff so that's what he was executed for by pat garrett right here on your ancestors property and you also see it like the actual two stone is incased in some metal a metal frame because the first time it was stolen it was taken to graham berry texas where is found twenty six years later and that town was quite interesting because it's a town where real bad guys lived real outlaws who had faked their deaths.

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