and others must be vanquished there's a state of affairs serve the public interest. i . i. parliament the government to quit the capital. new u.s. intelligence report accuses russian social media operatives of attempting to sway the 26th presidential election in donald trump's favor. and demands to sack the french interior minister over his handling of the fatal attack at the paris police h.q. last week.

q welcome to our team. for joining us on the program. a school classes remain suspended nationwide in ecuador. continue to rage earlier the government was forced to suspend parliament and relocate to the country's 2nd city demonstrators have been burning tires throwing stones and clashing with police as they vent their fury at the decision to end fuel subsidies nicholas o'donovan reports now from quito. i'm. not i am i was was ecuador remains under state of emergency off the days of protests following

president lenin merinos decision to scrap fuel subsidies on monday those protests turned into riots as students and other groups finally clashed with police forces afterwards thousands of indigenous people came here to quito and violence continued throughout the night as protesters surrounded the presidential palace the tension was so high that the president decided to move the edmonton minister to capital from here from quito to why a kill those 2nd largest city that's not done as much innocence it less. time but what's behind these protests while at the center of it all is an economic reform package that the government is implemented under a $4200000000.00 financing deal signed with the i.m.f. ecuador wants to use this money to cope with a large foreign debt and fiscal deficits parts of the package include the scrapping

of subsidies to gasoline diesel that had been in place for the $4.00 decades the rise in fuel prices has triggered the domino effect and other basic goods are going up in price to create an uncertainty among the people but many here say that fuel prices are just the tip of the iceberg and they disagree with the neo liberal agenda but in place by lenin marina the neo liberal policy of lenin marina's government which of bays and listens the international monetary fund cancels their nations and not affect students since we're all children of workers if he increases the cost of living and leave salaries of the same level this would lead to the fact that many students will not be was continue to study. let the government leave little anymore end of leave we don't want him to be president because it does too much harm to all of us now the government is also implementing measures such as tax cuts to balance the higher cost of fuel and incentivize economic growth but many here say it's too little too late meanwhile here in quito the city prepares for

more days of violence schools are closed and some businesses a closed down to public transport is down to a minimum but for some protesters here they're just using this political unrest as an excuse for violence and vandalism others this is a vital fight for the country's future nicholas o'donovan r.t. . president moron as blaming the current turmoil on his predecessor rafael correa along with the leader of another nation venezuela. is a tyrant who has acted along with career destabilization plan. there the corrupt people who have the food stamps and just disclose known and label them as usual they're the ones that are high and this is time to do who did it heart but it is telling the talking to r.t. former president ruffle career head back saying moran has no one to blame but himself. it's a difficult time for my home and this shows the politics of merino in his

government he's already been in power for 2 and a half years and he still blames korea for everything economic crisis for security for his political faults and to say these mass protests to my fault is just crazy. and then he marino is not interested in democracy for him the most important thing is to control power control the ecuadorian public so he create projects that can damage the majority would be beneficial for his goals. nor inclusive of the i.m.f. we're juggling numbers and fooled people by distorting the amount of ecuador's debt belgium's debt where i live now amounts to 100 percent of g.d.p. eventually the i.m.f. had to publicize real debt numbers i left my presidential post at the beginning of 2017 after that the debt started growing but the problem doesn't even lie with the debt it's all a sham from the start merinos government betrayed the economic program and in

general the political program to which people get their votes for they decided on a neo liberal approach to appease the powers they handed over the reins to those powers lost the elections but in the end got control because of marino's betrayal those powers aimed for neo liberalism towards a run for your life politics open up imports to support the interests of major exporters give absolute freedom to banks and minimize the government's responsibility. it is in your dreams you know that man cancelled the previous government program he thought they could create something new and better than before but they achieved only destruction we left ecuador's economy in a state of growth it was like that until 20172018 this year will see a decline unemployment's risen that lead to instability 500000 ecuadorians are facing poverty yet again and now these austerity measures they are justified by any external factors there was no abrupt drop in oil prices they were already included

in the budget there was no earthquake it's just a net economic management how is it possible to curb people's worries now the history of ecuador has seen this before which is why it's so hard for me to observe all this it's like we've gone back to the past. our system a professor of latin american studies at the university of albany gabrial outland but he's more of those trying to divert attention from his own failing domestic policies. lenora know what's a part of the career ministration of here and through his campaign several years ago that he was going to continue the progressive left of our series which were not a complete sas but were successful in many ways of the good of the administration but after money and got into office he did a complete about face and he transitioned fully to the right and so he's trying to deflect blame from the share of the policies that it's been implementing over the last several years particularly this year again it's very clear that the policies

are not working for dorrans are rising up there's no evidence of this is that it's a popular protest people in the street being very unhappy with. prospect of further austerity and making that mean as you know. the u.s. senate intelligence committee has published a new report on alleged the russian interference in the 26000 presidential election it claims a group called the internet research agency attempted to use social media to swing the vote and donald trump's favor and so distrust in democracy fronsac has the details. the senate intelligence committee they report that the agents of the russian internet research agency or ira quote sought to influence the 2016 us presidential election by harming hillary clinton's chances of success supporting donald trump at the direction of the kremlin now the senate panel cited the quote close ties of the ira's director to russian president vladimir putin as quote evidence of significant kremlin support authorization and direction of the ira's

operations and goals now the senate intel committee writes that the dissent from ation put out on social media sites like facebook twitter instagram and you tube was part of a broader sophisticated and ongoing information warfare campaign designed to sow discord in american politics and society and this activity increased after election day back in 2016 the report found that dozen from asian put out by the ira targeted specifically african-americans more than any other age group or demographic to exploit some hot button issues and even convince some people to sign petitions well earlier this year former special counsel for the united states department of justice robert muller reported how the ira designed a social media campaign to amplify political and social discord here in the u.s. favoring president donald trump over hillary clinton now a mother indicted for 13 russians and 3 businesses for information warfare this report is coming at the same way it did after election 2016 but this time it's

before election 2020 here in the states back in july however the federal judge who slammed robert mueller along with attorney general william barr for saying that was all russia when there is absolutely no evidence of that a u.s. district judge dabney frederick he went on to say that muller prejudiced a potential jury in this case of the russian firm concord management consulting l.l.c. which they're facing a legal battle with the department of justice right now the u.s. government says the concorde funded be quote social media meddling campaign but says that the. it was a lack of evidence supporting that and concluded that russian president putin and president i'll trump didn't conspire to win the 2016 election so the biggest point of judge freeh rebuke of muller was that muller tied the internet research agency to basically all of russia rather it was individuals that happened to be russian so the timing of this report it's also pretty interesting because this latest report

comes as house democrats well they've started an impeachment inquiry into president donald trump it's another chance to talk about what is dubbed here in the states as the russian collusion campaign yet again despite there being no russian collusion now it's also a chance to take a stab at the growing views that we're seeing right here on r t the report says that youtube continues to be the propaganda vehicle for russia and that the number of views are much higher than the number of actual you tube subscribers on our r t channel so to give you an idea artie's you tube now has 3.7 millions of followers and in 2017 our channel was actually accumulated it's 5000000000 not 1000000000000003 of you and has 3300000 global subscribers on its you tube channel now r t it was the 1st self described news channel to break 1000000000 views on you tube so you could say that artie's you tube is getting a little too popular for the democratic party taste. well the kremlin has given its

reaction to the report claiming it's just a rehash of old allegations the executive director of the ron paul institute for peace and prosperity daniel mcadams believes the findings prove little. well this is a house built on sand is what i would say the it's quite interesting because the report begins with the assumption that the internet research agency is an agency of the russian government that judge friedrich back in july admonished mauler and his group to stop referring to concordance to ira as. the russian government because it can't be proven here's something interesting one of the 1st sentences in the report in the summary says quote the committee's ability to identify russian activity on social media platforms was limited so here they admit the paid sick leave they have no way of identifying which groups are russian or not even though the whole report is that the russians are behind it all and you know they're just simply hasn't been any proof yet they keep repeating the same old lies hoping that

no one will know that. iran has warned against the military operation in northeast syria calling for anchor to respect the country's sovereignty to ron's was a chorus of concern voices which also include european officials but turkey's reportedly already conducted and artillery strikes in the area that's according to local media this comes hours after washington announced it was pulling its troops from the region and cross also been deploying military hardware along its border with syria on monday video emerged currently showing american military vehicles leaving their posts till recently washington had around 150 military personnel stationed there kurds in the region who are long time american allies are furious here's what they think about the trump administration's decision. google services human suitedness story lou not allow any aggression against this region when we defeated eisel terrorists as you called yourselves. and what it was saying the

coalition is letting us down we're hearing constant threats coming from complete silence on the part of the world now why you've been displaced and subtle attended by it and have until recently been relatively safe knowing it seems that only intimidation sends a part of token an acceptable is a way to keep keeps threatening us. president trump defended his decision paving america hasn't of buying them the cuts it also we should have thought warning to turkey saying it would face severe consequences if it crosses the line. we've been in syria for many years you know syria was supposed to be a short term hit just a very short term hit we were supposed to be in and out that was many many years ago and we only have 50 people in that area that's a small sector and i don't want those 50 people hurt or killed or anything i don't want anything bad to happen our people and i told that to president and i said. any of any of our people get hurt if turkey does anything out of what they should be

doing we will hit them so hard in the economy. turkey said it was bowed to u.s. economic pressure home donald trump's found himself in the water with both democrats and republicans launching scathing attacks over his latest position on syria. has the details standing in between the turkish an s.d.f. fighters was not a fight to win or a benefit for the united states why because they're both friends and allies of the usa so if you support one side you're inevitably betraying the other it's a perfect no win scenario and for his decision to abandon the kurds donald trump is already taking a hit so the current stepped up and nobody else would defy if we abandon him good luck getting any help america in the future will radical islam al-qaeda and i says the kurds will now lie about this because they have nobody to count on cause we abandon them so this is a win for on going to when prices the president's decision to withdraw u.s.

forces from northern syria as a d.p. to stopping development the betrays a cottage on eyes who have been instrumental partners in our mission to eradicate isis we must always have the backs of all and i say if we expect them to have our back the kurds were instrumental in our successful fight against isis in syria leaving them to die is a big mistake losing the reputation as a reliable partner is the main concern after all nobody wants to partner up with a backstabber so we decided to ask new yorkers if they think that donald trump is taking the right moves should the usa have pulled out of syria so suddenly i do not support anything trump supports he'll flip he'll flip flop just like you know honestly i don't think we should be there. somebody is going to suffer we stay there they suffer we leave they suffer so no we have reason to stab them in the back we've helped them as much as we possibly can and that some point they have to

be able to stand on their own 2 feet syria you think it's too soon. probably i just think there's a lot of hypocrisy political scientists. believe the pentagon's actions increasingly differ from what the white house is claiming. i don't really think that we're going to see a massive infiltration and would put. turkish army. battle hardened kurdish forces in addition to that there's a great deal of a small can mirror on the part of transpired ministration of what i consider to be a syrian shell game on mr trump's part because we had very identical statements last december and now you know couple of observation posts have been vacated by the us but u.s. still has some 18 minute terry bases an operation points including 2 air bases in

northern syria which there is absolutely no intention of drawing so let's be very careful distinguishing between. the announcement by the white house and actual policies that are in fact contradicted by the pentagon. the u.s. military is planning to hold the largest exercises in europe in a quarter of a century story and more after the break.

join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics for. i'm sure i'll see you then. welcome back to the program. has issued a rallying cry to france calling for unity and vigilance in the fight against

islamist extremism the president made the appeal as the owner of the victims of a knife attack at a paris police station last week. 1st with the always the 3 meet in the face of islamist terrorism we will find relentlessly civil servants of our police prefecture and the security and intelligence people for jobs of course an essential part of the response to security institutions alone will not suffice the government and all state services alone cannot defeat the islamist hydrogen the whole nation must unite the investigation into thursday's incident fell near talk and follow the radical version of islam a number of early warning signs were also reportedly missed that's led to calls to psychically interior minister you claimed there'd been nothing suspicious in your silence behavior shot at doing ski reports. a sponsor pays tribute to those murdered in that attack at the h.q. of the paris police by a colleague suspected of having being a radicalized questions being asked as to how it was possible and where the

problems with radicalization in the police or imbedded in. disturbing information about the attack of 45 year old bone has emerged since he killed 4 colleagues and injured several others u.s.b. sticks found at his home contained did you say executions and ah yes propaganda they also worryingly held personal details of several police officers and it turns out they were even more signs that could have signaled the attack.

despite that all tone was never flagged up to an investigation. i even had a top security clearance well thought says interior minister had initially claimed that they had been nothing to indicate a problem but. this man is known to have worked in computing he never had any behavioral problems and he never acted suspiciously. and even barras singh gas led to calls for his resignation i said very clearly christophe castor no longer has a place in the interior ministry his resignation would be an honorable action for him i am demanding the resignation of custer near because he has deceived the french he lied about the killers profile by saying he had never presented any warning sign despite the fact he was rather causation it was known after the revelations about me behavior and radicalization kasten as position that the killer did not have any behavioral difficulties is untenable he must finally take

responsibility and resign and while the interior minister has brushed off those calls anger is mounting within the police force we want him to resign but for everything he. has been nominated. he has been a very bad very very poor minister into you was he was a jew well fred the problem is much more big you know we we know that some some cops when this. is inquiry about knowing if the person can come and work in the police some scientists say no i don't think that this one is a good one and sometimes people above him say no we want this man because we think that you can do something and is not follow the decision without. taking care for the position of. the last many are now wondering how many

enemies of king within it's being reported 19 officials at the ministry of interior are currently being monitored for islam missed radicalization while around 10 others have been dismissed resigned the people who we knew. were probably very. few feel to say anything because though there was on the line. there were afraid to be said that there were. big that they were overseas that the didn't care about people was a problem. there was true then that to speak and when you you say something in french and the french british. when they say that there is a problem you become you also become a problem and part of the problem so if you don't see anything if you're not listening to anything you don't feel. you have much more chance to get promoted and

not to have any problem than to say anything the phrase yet to uncover that turn to react to the radicalization of our own has cast a dark shadow of security forces here in france eroding trust with many officers perhaps now left wondering how many more extremists are hiding in plain sight so let's even ski our. u.s. military is flying in the largest exercises in europe in 25 years drills called defend the europe 20 will take place in germany in april and may next year once again we bring to the security of our strategic reading. 37000 troops will take part including 20000 from the united states the aim is to improve the american army's ability to move its forces rapidly to europe in

response to a potential crisis. defender europe 20 is a great opportunity to demonstrate the u.s. army is unmatched ability to rapidly project forces across the globe while operating alongside their allies and partners in multiple contests to domains or germany playing host and taking a key part in the drills themselves the moves come in for some criticism from some of the country's politicians who claim germany should play no part due to political analyst the rain or office believes creating an enemy in the east is the only way to justify it nato has continued existence. west is also under pressure to show that there is an enemy in the east by the military union and nato would lose. its its reason for investing so many euro's and doris into defense and this is what needs to be sold

also to the german public in the coming years why we should spend many many billions or 2 percent of our g.d.p. in the future for defense and therefore it's self marketing and i think russia understands this very well it has to be seen. yeah really illogical it's not even absurd to assume that russia could invade the nato member state territory of europe because russia totally depends on a good economic and trade relationship with europe. coming up next the team are back in 30 minutes time with the latest global news updates will see that.

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one who's doing the. following in welcome across town for all things are considered i'm peter lavelle and the age of trump what has happened to journalistic standards and competence in the media now long ago it was generally agreed but politics was the art of the possible now one news narrative must prevail and all others must be vanquished there's a state of affairs.