leachate mom. you know you look are so sad i'm not going to much to you mom it's just that. oh. god. i. stare at the protests in ecuador saying the government relocate from the capital the country's former president tells us say that economic mismanagement is to blame for the unrest. council the previous government programs he thought they could create something new and better than before but they achieved only destruction. also this hour a new u.s. intelligence committee report contradicts the findings of the mind of christ into

alleged collusion between them will trump the kremlin by claiming that moscow did help him in 26 states and the u.s. is roundly condemned for abandoning its kurdish allies in syria we look at how the decision of some more predictable. hello there is 10 in the morning here in moscow you're watching international the thousands are protesting against the sterett see an ecuadorian cop pull for a 6th consecutive day of the government in quito we located to the country 2nd city in the rest and violent clashes. was. was.

the protests were triggered by the removal of fuel subsidies as part of a loan deal with the international monetary fund many of the demonstrators come from poor and indigenous communities from all across ecuador nicholas o'donovan reports now from. yet another day of violent clashes between protesters and police forces here in ecuador what we've seen today is the indigenous communities thousands and thousands of people that came from different parts of ecuador here to the capital to protest there was a moment of tension when they stormed the national assembly the 1st few moments after that they were dispersed and we saw massive clashes between rioters and police we spoke to some of the people here and this is what they had to say let's take a listen. the government is a traitor underline what we want is for the good we do not have power and we will

ousted with all we have without any shame we want to get rid of the traitor we will fight till the end we could die we will do it we will fight till the end. at least one person has died and there's been dozens of injured among protesters and police officers president moreno who is in quiet kill said that the violence was instigated by his predecessor rafael career and venezuelan president nicolas maduro the tyrant madeira has activated along with korea the destabilization plan. there the corrupt who have held the food stamps of just disclose and then to make them they're the ones behind this attempted coup de tat but this is the merino also said that he is willing to negotiate a solution to the crisis with the indigenous movement the government has also ordered a curfew in areas close to government buildings insta t.j. can still ations the order prevents public access to these areas between 8 pm and 5

am local time while the national state of emergency remains the indigenous people that are protesting here very clear they won't move until lenin merino suspends the economic measures that hurt him so. so much they say that will they will stay here they will protest and they won't. while talking to r.t. the former echoing president did say that the government is trying to shift the blame for the current unrest. that's 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 that these mass protests to my fault is just crazy it's. not even there's a mini 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 but 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. 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 risen that lead to instability 500000 durians are facing poverty yet again and now these austerity measures they are justified by any external factors. the russian national dubbed by the west is the merchant of death and whose story inspired a hollywood film has told r.t. he believes he's a political prisoner of the u.s. in an exclusive interview convicted arms trafficking of it to boot said he has nothing else to do but fight for his innocence until the very end when the u.s. claims he supplied weapons to the revolutionary armed forces of colombia recognized as a terrorist organization by washington denies all the accusations against him he was detained in thailand at the request of the us an extra died 2 years later 2012 court sentenced him to 25 years in jail and a $15000000.00 fine last month 7 years into his sentence his family was finally

allowed to visit him for the very 1st time for the mop in spoke exclusively to the jailed russian national. a lord of war and the merchant of death that's how western media describes victor boot from moscow he's a political prisoner rejecting his case as unfounded and biased from the start at his trial he pled not guilty and he called the accusations against him a bunch of the why the court decided otherwise and jailed him for 25 years he's now served a 3rd of that sentence and he's agreed to talk to me from prison because your case is highly political are you being treated differently well of course i've been treated differently because by somebody there and be able to deciding that on ministers will various groups or whatever term agenda open pollution but on the under very strict supervision and control victor boot describes himself as a political prisoner i asked him what that means chris is

a 100 percent always fine as a political prisoner fickle farmer he'll oh my nation. and i think everything i to cooperate criticize and i'm sorry and think i've got to you didn't do anything else and we'll fight for my innocence in the state department couple years ago i think you have to make a candidate good to keep him and example and remain till the boys who we think saw the russians would be mad to want to cooperate with us wonder go off to their car up through regime i asked him about deals that had been offered to him in the past and currently well they've been doing to you trial on during the trial where they've been through the public defender and their approach and we're going to get through it oh your family green car concerts will you there if you you know eternal some dirt about putin and how corrupt this regime taunts owners are you know you're going to the wrong person we don't fear of the deal that's why i went to the trial victor boot offered up a pretty strong and consistent critique of the u.s.

legal system and how he says it is being used against russian citizens who point to what he calls conspiracy laws as a method of imprisoning p. . people not for actually committing crimes but for offhand comments made to undercover officers boots says he's not the only political prisoner being held and that the efforts of the russian embassy have definitely improved his circumstances it would mop and r.t. new york. the u.s. senate intelligence committee has published a new report on the alleged russian interference in the 2016 presidential election the documents authors claim an organization known as the internet research agency basis and pages attempted to use social media to swing the vote in don't know trump's favor but on prozac is more on the story. 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 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 that concord funded the quote social media meddling campaign but judge friederich says that there. was a lack of evidence supporting that and concluded that russian president putin and president onil trump didn't conspire to win the 2016 election so the biggest point

of judge friedrichs 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 3.7 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 the kremlin has given its reaction to the report claiming it is just a rehash of old allegations the executive director of the rome portages cheap meanwhile john mcadams believes the findings prove nothing. 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 mohler and his group to stop referring to concordance to ira as part 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 basically 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 woman noticed it without a single comfy this and we look at how diminishing supplies of the elements phosphorous crudely made sure she's in the coming decades that story and more stuff to the press. but politicians do you ship to. put themselves on the line they get accept or reject. so when you want to express an injury. or some want to be pushed. to the right to be crooks that's what the 3 of them will be good. i'm interested

in the law is it. should. seem. just don't. let me. get to. just be executed. engagement equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground.

again now the russian foreign minister has just held a joint media conference with his kazakh counterpart among the topics touched upon was the recent u.s. decision to withdraw from northeast syria so let's find out more about this it has been covering the conference force good morning to you really i want to mr lavrov say that. well 1st of all i just want to explain that just as the russian foreign minister was traveling around iraq talking and having conversations with officials in baghdad and also with the iraqi kurdish autonomy region a number of things that we kept on hearing from the turkish capital and also from washington really put the region in panic mode because there were fears that an escalation of violence could start in northern syria. hinted that the turkish army is just one step away from entering the syrian territory to start an

offensive against the kurdish militias there but there is one big obstacle that is the u.s. troops on the ground however bit later donald trump tweeted that his soldiers were ready to get out of there the kurds were about folds and really they called it a stab in the back although donald trump did pedal back eventually and said that they were only moving a few dozen soldiers so i asked the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov about these contradictions and mixed messages from washington asked him how it was possible to cooperate with the u.s. on syria when this is happening and simply what's wrong with the u.s. policy now here's on that. these actions. and they reflect the fact that it's hardly possible

to reach agreement with the u.s. this is clear for me this is a fact donald trump said it would be withdrawing forces from syria and other countries right after he came to office but after some time the promises were not implemented on the ground probably now we're seeing the exactly same thing search for. treatment of a very sensible issue issue which can flare up the whole region and that should be avoided we'd been trying to get that message across to the americans we hope that they guarded but don't practice we haven't seen any changes. so mixed messages from the pentagon donald trump the state department and it doesn't look like a united one is going to shape out of shape out any time soon moscow's not even hoping for that like we heard from sergei lavrov and i can also tell you that there

have been difficulties in relations between washington and kharaj specially on this and also there's a history of strained relationships between the kurds and the americans and my colleague dan off is going to take a look at that right now. it seemed impossible sounded like crazy to all and yet it happened a moment of unity between republicans and democrats as they both condemned america's disloyalty to its kurdish allies a person who united states is in danger of losing the mandate of heaven this is that. which allies in syria or elsewhere in the middle east will fully trust the word of president trump in the future of the thing all of these politicians pundits and channels seem to forget though is that the kurds i used to waking up to a groundhog day of american betrayal the only difference is that it's been going on

for more than half a century and hasn't been funny at all. in the fifty's and early sixty's the cia pushed the kurds to revolt against baghdad as part of the efforts to overthrow their leader a bill karim kasim eventually he was toppled by a coupe but the new ruler wasn't a big fan of ideal of kurdish independence so he bombed them into submission bombed with maple kindly provided by the united states. the kurds seem to either have a short memory or a forgiving heart because in the 70s the us was back on their good side iraq and iran were involved in a border dispute and washington was correctly supplying the minority with weapons once again pitching them against baghdad but then iraq and iran kissed and made up

and all of a sudden the kurds were on their own being blown to pieces as they are supposed transatlantic guardian angel was watching idly even the americans at the time admitted that keeping their involvement under wraps was simply no excuse this policy was not imparted to our clients who were encouraged to continue fighting here in the context of covert action ours was a cynical enterprise hoovered action should not be confused with missionary work. fast forward to the eighty's and for the us it was the golden decade of big hair metallic amadan and m.t.v. for the kurds it was well just another decade of more us betrayal in the late eighties saddam hussein unleashed his chemical arsenal against them and atrocity looking bound to draw the wrath of the world's policeman but it was still

a long time before saddam was to turn from friend to foal so american wrath didn't go further than statements like these we want to maintain good political and economic relations with iraq but the issue of chemical weapons gets in the way of that. in 2003 it looked like the u.s. was finally ready to make amends for its decades of forsaking the kurds helping them was among the pretexts for the invasion of iraq but then even in washington many took so. gall's with a pinch of salt the kurds have every reason to believe or think that they will be betrayed again by the united states or so often in the past contracts a spectacle of our inviting turks in to this war earlier trying to bribe them into it could not have been reassuring to the kurds under the turks before trying to get to train the kurds that is your point yeah surely your point isn't that because we

betrayed them in the past we should betray them this time and i think we should just we will we will not will not yes they did in 2007 the us let turkey have its way with the kurdish rebels in iraq as ankara launched a lethal bombing raid against them this is of course nowhere near a full list by 2019 america had left the kurds for dead a few more times both in iraq and syria. american traditions go beyond partisan lines america loves having turkey on thanksgiving going to the pumpkin patch for halloween and launching fireworks on the 4th of july screwing the kurds over is nothing but a decades long political tradition for america and they will abide by it be the democrat or republican there's a great deal of a small can mirror on the part of trump administration in what they consider to be

in syria and shared game mr trump spot because we had very identical the statement last december and now you know a couple of observation polls have been vacated by the us but the u.s. still has some 18 minute 30 bases and operation points including 2 air bases in northern syria which has absolutely no intention of drawing so the list be very careful distinguishing between you know. the announcement by the white house and policies that are in fact contradicted by depended that. now when it comes to environmental threats climate change currently dominates the debate but a new report does predict another potential catastrophe on the horizon a shortage of phosphorus. the continued supply of forthright 1st lies is that underpin global food production is an imminent crisis the rogue phosphate deposits

on which the world depends not only finite but some of contaminate it and many located in geo politically unstable areas where phosphorous is essential for all of life it takes part in many fundamental biochemical processes for example creating d.n.a. but it also has commercial applications to it is why did he says a fertilizer phosphate compounds are also used in steel production demand for the element has been soaring that among the concerns raised in the report is a lack of mines to cope with this increase in demand 16 mines will be depleted it says in 80 years time there are also worries too regarding the lack of substitutes for the chemical as lies as polluted water well our guest andrew revkin gave us his ideas on how to avoid shortages. of phosphorous is an essential essential nutrients for plants for us to grow enough food to feed even today's

world who lead millions of tonnes of the rock where i think is important in cases like this is to understand the way we've used this mineral in the past is incredibly inefficient and crosses pollution when it leaves of fields in agricultural fields so it's sort of a no brainer to me to focus ever more on more precise use of the fertilizer if there's a way to just precisely target for each plant the amount it gets that's very different than having it so abundant that it's and running into the ocean it's pretty well known uncharted where the phosphate rock exists on the surface if the supplies going to tell enough that we were worried about global agriculture people get pretty inventive pretty quickly about finding you know either more efficient ways to use it or new ways to extract it that would make the shortage look silly in the long run. and that brings you up to date here not see we're back again though

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