in a couple years you know we've introduced you to many instances of bankers preying on folks but this is this is really happening. i. protest in ecuador seeing the government relocate from the capital the country's former president tells r.t. though that economic mismanagement is to blame for the. cancel the previous government programs he thought they could create something new and better than before but they achieved only destruction. as the u.s. is roundly condemned for abandoning its kurdish allies in syria we look at how the decision was somewhat predictable and also to a new u.s.

intelligence committee report contradicts the findings of the mole a probe into alleged collusion between donald trump and the kremlin by claiming moscow did help him in 26 states. hello there is a day here in moscow you watching international thousands are protesting against the stairs seen ecuador's capital for a 6th consecutive day the government in kiev relocated to the country's 2nd city it made arrest 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 with more reporting now from keith is nicholas donovan. 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 it will be a government is a traitor underline what we want is good or not and we do not have power and we will ask them with all we have without any shame we want to get rid of the traits

we will fight till the end we could die we will do it we will fight till the end just 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 who drew has activated along with korea destabilization plan. they're the corrupt who have held the food stamps and just disclose in the end 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 were. talking to r.t. the former head of dorian president did say that the government is trying to shift the blame for the current unrest. it's a difficult time for my homeland 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 are my fault is just crazy. and then he 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 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. russia's foreign minister has accused the us of being one reliable casting doubt during a joint media conference with his kazakh counterpart and donald trump promised to draw american troops from northern syria libya trenker as more. just as earlier this week the russian foreign minister was traveling around iraq talking to officials in baghdad and also the kurdish autonomy region in this country things that we kept on hearing from ankara and washington really put the region into panic mode the turkish president bared one hinted that his army is just one step away from entering syria to start an offensive against the kurdish militias there however there is one big obstacle to u.s.

troops on the ground however a little later donald trump tweeted that his soldiers are ready to get out of there and that was really something that baffled the kurds they called it a stab in the back although donald trump eventually pedal back and said that they were only relocating several dozen troops and in fact we kept on hearing mixed messages from the state department pentagon and the president himself so i asked the russian foreign minister what he thinks about these kind of contradictions and how it's possible to work with the americans when this is the case. with news it's hard to say what's wrong with america's actions in syria but they are riddled with contradictions and exhibits the impossibility of negotiating with washington donald trump claimed he would withdraw u.s. troops from syria and other countries but after taking office he's gone back on those promises and my guess is it will be the same this time around such

a frivolous approach can aggravate tensions in the entire region and so must be avoided as we've repeatedly told the u.s. this week thought they'd understood but nothing's changed another important point that the russian top diplomat made was the fact that at the end of the day everything will have to be agreed with the government in damascus which is a difficult task for all the parties on the ground but it will be up to them not up to those. who are leaving syria if we are to believe the american president now when it comes to the tricky relationships between the americans and the kurds there was a history of real ups and downs and here's a report by my colleague don of on that it seemed impossible sounded like crazy talk and yet it happened a moment of unity between republicans and democrats as they both condemned america's disloyalty to its kurdish allies the 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 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 but the new ruler wasn't a big fan of ideal of kurdish independence so he bombed them into submission bombed

with napalm kindly provided by the united states. the kurds seem to either have a short memory or a forgiving heart because in the 70s the u.s. was back on their good side iraq and iran were involved in a border dispute and washington was covered please supplying the minority with weapons once again pitching them against baghdad but then you. going to run 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 even 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 umma dawn and m.t.v. for the kurds it was well just another decade of more u.s. betrayal in the late eighty's saddam hussein unleashed his chemical arsenal against them an 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 full 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 such goals with a pinch of salt the kurds have every reason to believe i think that they will be betrayed again by the united states or softening the purse contractors' spectacle of our inviting turks in to this war you're trying to bribe them into it could not have been reassuring to the kurds even under the turks before trial against betraying the kurds that is your point yeah surely your point isn't. because we've betrayed them in the past we should betray the list type that the rich should trust 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 you 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. alice turn to france where farmers in the rwanda have been banned from selling their produce after a major fire at a local chemical plant their farmers there are now seeking compensation from the government. the idea we've been affected by the cloud of smoke from the lubrizol factory at the moment we've suspended the production harvest of the vegetables because of this

cloud because we don't know what substances infiltrated the soil. was a list of the day of the blaze they told us that there was no danger that all would be fine and there was no problem 3 days after i found the local governments to carry banning all sales and commercialization of our products in the specific so. you could i saw after the blaze of lubrizol 6 of them it went to 6 i throw away between 10 and 1800 liters of milk every day where demanding this is related to liberals might be covered by the states or their insurance.

bashed in the head feet we look at how diminishing supplies of the element phosphorous could actually lead to food shortages in the coming decades that's the monks stories to come just off. in the age of trump what has happened to journalistic standards and competence in the media not long ago it was generally agreed that politics was the art of the possible no one news new. must prevail and others must be vanquished there's a state of affairs to serve the public interest. in a world of big partisan movies a lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to

stop slamming the door. and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. again that the u.s. senate intelligence committee has published a new report on alleged russian interference in the 2016 presidential election the documents. based internet research agency attempted to use social media to swing the vote in donald trump's favor more broadly to sow distrust in american democracy

. the committee found that internet research agency sought to influence the trying to 16 u.s. presidential election by harman hillary clinton's chances of success and supporting donald trump at the direction of the kremlin however no evidence is provided in the 85 page report to back up the allegations earlier this year the miller probe also pointed the finger at the internet research agency but in july a federal judge ruled there was no evidence the ira was connected to the russian government has branded the new intelligence committee report as just a rehash of old and they gave us executive director of the reporting c.g. done with condoms from the masses the report proves nothing. now 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 good drugs friedrich back in july admonished more and

has grew to stop referring to concordance to ira as. the russian government because apparently 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 more load of. intelligence committee's new report also raises the alarm to over the growing popularity of r.t. it accuses the channel if using you tube to spread propaganda says that r.t. is a far wider reach the suggested by the number of subscribers than you mcadams again told us why he us has a beef with a lot. americans are sick of hearing the same garbage whether it's on rachel maddow

on m.s.n. b.c. or on fox news on the right it's always the russians someone's always ready to get us we've always got to go to war americans are sick of it they're sick of the never ending wars and so they turn to our t.v. because they want to hear something different the united states government and the new york continent of us would like nothing more than to absolutely destroy the that's why they for a start the american to register as a foreign ain't shit they don't want alternative voices to get out. the russian national dubbed by the west is the merchant of death from whose story inspired a hollywood film was told r.t. that he believes he is a political prisoner of the us in exclusive interview convicted oms trafficker to boot said he has nothing else to do but to fight for his innocence until the very end the u.s. claims he supplied weapons to the revolutionary armed forces of colombia recognized as a terrorist organization by washington but boot denies all the allegations against

him he was detained in thailand at the request of the us and extradited 2 years later in 2012 a cooler than sentence him to 25 years in jail and a $50000000.00 fine last month 7 years into his sentence his family was allowed to visit him for the very 1st time because of more pain but spoke exclusively to the jailed russian national. award of the war and the merchant of death that's how western media describes viktor boot from moscow he's a political prisoner rejecting his case as unfounded and biased from the start of his trial he pled not guilty and he called the accusations against him a bunch of the lies 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 very poorly. because by some reason b.o.p.'s deciding to tarmon

a special risk group for whatever i missed the laos has a different treatment for my emails different treatment for my email jacket a limit yes i'm a general population but on the under very strict supervision and control victor boot describes himself as a political prisoner i asked him what that means this is a 100 percent qualify as a political prisoner because i'm kill all my nation ality and i'd really be nice to call theresa put aside and i'm gay and think i got the didn't do anything else and i will fight for my innocence i think i was a trial like a litmus test or law they you know this option could come out of how we can go after us russians and the status argument couple years ago all the various military is going to keep him as example as a mall thought was a blissful whippings lot of russians would be mobilized to cooperate with us when they go off to their iraq through regime and so on i asked victor about the fact

that he's just had his 1st visit with his wife and daughter thanks to the embassy there for 2 very good at that even additional visits are very grateful and you know it's really good i asked victor about other russian citizens that have been picked up in 3rd countries and taken to the united states in order to be locked away i asked him what the motivation to go after him and other russian citizens really was america just trying to get enough to do you know to suppress the you know russian the most egregious wonderlust around on their wrist it's an eatery one of the government's actual official who is a commercial director of the russian engine manufacturer be shown by the state looks like we're coming back to the medieval ages where the mediterranean pirates from the coast of the algiers and tunisia of all go in just to hijack the people and doesn't fit and wait until somebody common threads. i asked him about deals

that have been offered to him in the past and currently well they've been doing period trial on during the trial would have been through the republican birthday approach and we're going to get through it oh you're probably green car concerts or you're there if you you know internal some dirt about putin or how corrupt those regimes are and so on i said i have nothing to do through or to know about what is so i have no dirt or no you can't go there on the 1st one little tour of the deal that's why i went to the trial i asked victor if he thought there was any hope for him getting out of prison before his 25 year sentence was up they didn't know what i should do in this political climate creature america is what you'll have to the 1st or i'm sure something is under me occurring and i'm sure something is coming my way through victor boot offered up a pretty strong and consistent critique of the us legal system and how he says it is being used against russian citizens moot points to what he calls conspiracy laws as a method of imprisoning people not for actually committing crimes but for offhand comments

made to undercover officers boot says he's not the only political prisoner being held and that the efforts of the russian embassy have definitely improved his circumstances. r.t. new york. climax face in the u.k. have caused major as disruption in the capital as part of what's planned to be 2 weeks of action have been blocking major roads and business obs in the center of london the activists part of the global extinction rebellion movements that they won't disrupt business as usual in a bid to force environmental issues to the top of the agenda some of the stunts are also planned in some 60 cities world wide. and i won't climate change does seem to dominate current concerns about the human foreign meant a new report does predict another potential catastrophe on the horizon a shortage of phosphorous. right 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 of phosphorous is essential for all life it does take many fundamental by chemical processes for example creating d.n.a. but it also has a commercial applications to it is why i think he says a fertilizer phosphate compounds are used in steel production demand for the element has been soaring among the concerns they raised in the report is the lack of mines to cope with this demand existing mines will be depleted in 1000 years it says and there are also worries too regarding the lack of substitutes for the chemical as lies as polluted water like asked andrew gave us his ideas and have to avoid shortages. phosphorus is an essential essential nutrients for

plants for us to grow enough food to feed even today's world to lead millions of tons 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 the 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 you know 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 up so i don't forget that we've got

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