[000:00:00;00] i . boil and. force the suspension of parliament on the government to quit the capitol. also coming up a new u.s. intelligence report accusing 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 its handling of the fatal is the most attack at the

paris police h.q. last week. live from moscow thanks for joining us on r.t. international and daniel hawkins welcome to the program. a school classes remain suspended nationwide in ecuador is and there was you protests 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. 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 them dead in the city who 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 the only 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 has implemented under a $4200000000.00 financing deal signed with the i.m.f. 'd 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 and diesel that have been in place for the for decades the rise in fuel prices has triggered a 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 able to continue to study. let the government leave little anymore and 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 are closed down to public transport is down to a minimum but for some protesters here are just using this political unrest as an excuse for violence and vandalism others this is a vital fight for the country's future nicolas o'donovan r.t. . president has blamed the current turmoil on his predecessor rafael correa along with another leader of neighboring nation venezuela. is the tyrant who during his activated along with career destabilization plan. they're the corrupt people who have the food stamps and just disclose and maybe. they're the ones behind this attempted coup to target but this is the speaking to r.t. former president rafael correia hit back saying moran has no one to blame but

himself. it's a difficult time for my home and this shows to 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. i mean there isn't any merino 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 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 all 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 thirty's 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. assistant professor of latin american studies at the university of albany gabrial at lund believes more of those trying to divert attention from his failing 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 progress of leftist alesis 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 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. the prospect of further austerity and making that mean us you know. the u.s. senate intelligence committees published a new report on alleged 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 in donald trump's favor and so distrust in democracy from zach has more. 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 and 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 muller indicted 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 concord funded be quote social media meddling campaign but says that there. 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 this 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 $3.00 millions of followers and in 2017 our channel was actually at 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 the commons given its reaction to the report claiming it's just a rehash of old allegations either roach with a roomful institute of peace and prosperity that no mcadams believes the findings lacks substance. 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 the judge friedrich back in july admonished mauler and his group to stop referring to concordance to ira as more of 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 says 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 turkey against the military operation in northeast syria calling for and grow to respect the country's sovereignty to iran joins a chorus of concerned voices which also includes european officials and 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 also been deploying military hardware along its border with syria on monday video emerged apparently showing american military vehicles leaving their posts until recently washington had around 150 military personnel stationed 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 shield a nice story lou not allow any aggression against this region when we defeated

eisel terrorists you called yourself allies and what are we seeing now known as the coalition is letting us down we're hearing constant threats coming from turkey in complete silence on the part of the world now why you've been displaced and suffered. 10 abidin have until recently been relatively safe knowing reject only intimidation sounds a part of token it's an acceptable is a way to keep keeps threatening us. president trump fended his decision claiming america hasn't of buying the kurds he also issued a stark warning that he's 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 don't. 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 we'll talk you said it to us economic pressure. trumps found himself in hot water as well both democrats and republicans are launching scathing attacks over his latest position on syria kaleb open has this 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 kurds still nobody else would defy the police abandoned good luck getting anybody to help america in the future will radical islam ok that and i says

the kurds are now aligned with the stars because they have nobody to count on cause we abandon them so this is a win for on going to start a bit when prices the president's decision to withdraw u.s. forces from within syria as a d.p. to stop 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 donald trump supports he'll flip he'll flip flop just like you know honestly i don't think you should be there. somebody is going to suffer please

stay there they suffer we leave they suffer the snow we have reason to stab them in the back with help them as much as the possibly can and that's some point they have to be able to stand on her own 2 feet syria you think it's too soon. probably i just think there's a lot of hypocrisy political scientists to cover for c.r.-v. 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. a big 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 mr transpired because we had very identical statements last december and now you know couple of observation posts have been vacated by the u.s.

but you're still has some 18 military bases and operation points including 2 air bases in northern syria which there is absolutely no intention of drawing so the let's be very careful distinguishing between you know. the announcement by the white house and actual policies that are in fact contradicted by the pentode that. the u.s. military is planning the largest military exercises in europe in 25 years the drills called defend the europe 20 will take place in germany in april and may next year. once again we go to the security you are running out. of 37000 troops will take part including 20000 from the u.s. 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's unmatched ability to rapidly project forces across the globe while operating alongside their allies and partners in multiple contested domains with germany playing host and taking a key part in the drills themselves the moves come in for criticism though from some of the country's politicians they claim germany should play no part geopolitical analyst the inner office believes creating an enemy in the east is the only way to justify nato has continued existence. the west is also under pressure to show that there is an enemy in the east by the military union and nato would lose. its reason for investing so many euro's and doris into defense and this is

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 each. member state territory of europe because russia totally depends on a good economic and trade relationship with europe. has issued a rallying cry to france calling for unity and vigilance in the fight against islamist extremism the president made that appeal as he on 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 fight relentlessly civil servants of our police prefecture in the security and intelligence for water jobs of course an essential

part of the response to security institutions alone will not suffice the government alone all state services alone cannot defeat the islamist hydra no the whole nation must unite. and investigation into thursday's incident found the attack or follow the radical vision of islam a number of early warning signs were also reportedly missed was led to calls to the interior minister who claimed that been nothing suspicious to me so his behavior should have been skewed 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 are imbedded in. disturbing information about the attack a 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 use of 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. even had top security clearance well thought says interior minister had initially claimed that there had been nothing to indicate

a problem i mean this man is known to have worked in computing he never had any behavioral problems and he never acted suspiciously. i mean barras singh led to calls for his resignation i said very clearly christoph 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 killer's profile by saying he had never presented any warning sign despite the fact his radicalization 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 everything he has done. has been nominated he has been

a very bad very very poor minister of interior you was it was a job well for that 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 so this is a no i don't think that this one is a good one and sometimes people above him know we want to because we think that's something. is not followed that their decision without. taking the position of. the last many are now wondering how many enemies are working within it's being reported 19 officials at the ministry of interior are currently being. monitored islam missed radicalization while around 10 others have

been dismissed resigned the people we knew. were probably. feel the same the thing because though their career was on the line. they were afraid to be said that there were. big that they were overseas that they didn't care about people were a problem so there was 3 of them not to speak and when you do see something influence in the french police. when they see that there is a problem you become you also become a problem and part of the problem so if you don't say anything if you're not listen to anything you don't feel in a sling you have much more chance to get promoted and not to have any problem than to say anything the failure to uncover earn to react to the radicalization of our poll 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 see paris. and u.s. forces of reportedly killed the top taliban commander with an air strike in the east of afghanistan this follows donald trump's withdrawal from peace talks with the militant group last month and a series of terror attacks which of rocks the country in recent days at least 10 people were killed and 27 wounded when a bomb struck a minibus carrying all the recruits from jalalabad on monday was not clear who was behind the attack with both the taliban and islamic state active in the area last month a u.s. drone strike targeting islamic state in the province killed at least 30 civilians. now what are the interests were not with islam. they went to war without any weapons and were killed that we can accept their body parts in

a discount. not the day after that on the 2nd night the us was just launched a bruising and bought all of these in my family members graves 2 of them from my brothers and 5 from my contacts at the corner of the. globe my father went to harvest pine nuts but drones killed him my little brothers crying for him all the time. but i'm a native my co workers were killed and i was left injured there were over 200 people all workers could come to earn money i still knew the taliban or not the slum except militants but they don't just. do that when i did what i got to do not want the americans here in afghanistan they should leave because they are liars they see they can see small things from the year so why couldn't they tell on the militants from the workers the good men who

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