violent anti austerity protests in ecuador see the government relocate from the capital the country's former president tells our team that i can all make mistakes is to blame for the unrest. not mine council the previous government's program to create something new and better than before but they achieved only destruction. also this hour as the u.s. is wrongly condemned for abandoning its british allies in syria we look at how the

decision was somewhat predictable. and deja vu a new u.s. intelligence or board accuses russia of meddling in the 2016 presidential election but fails to offer any supporting evidence. a very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at our church here in moscow thanks for joining us this hour. thousands are protesting against austerity and capital for a 6th consecutive day earlier the government in quito relocated to the country's 2nd city amid unrest and violent clashes. was. was there. 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 a donovan reports from quito. 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 the government is a traitor and aligned with what we want is a good idea not only do not have power and will ask them with all we have without any shame and when we want to get rid is a traitor you'll fight till the end we could die. in this fight till the end of

each of us 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 correia and venezuelan president nicolas maduro the tyrant who drew has activated along with korea the destabilization plan. there the corrupt who have held the food stamps and just disclose and then to make them on each of the the ones behind this attempted coup to top of this is things handled marino 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 much they say that will they will stay here they will protest and they were. talking to r.t. former ecuadorian president rafael correa said that the government is trying to shift the blame for the current unrest. it's a difficult time for my home and the sjostrom 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 say these mass protests to my fault is just crazy and he's not doing this in the name or a no is not interested in democracy for him the most important thing is to control power and control the ecuadorian publicly earlier so he create projects that can damage the majority will be beneficial for his goals and.

nor inclusive on 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 that number and. 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 fall. 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 dorian's 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 unreliable casting doubt during a joint media conference with this cause a counterpart on donald trump's promise to withdraw american troops from northern syria are reports. 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 includes 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 peddle back and said that they were only able to 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. to produce it's hard to say what's wrong 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 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 thought they'd understood that 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. leaving syria if we are to believe the american president now when it comes to the tricky relationship between the americans and the kurds there was a history of real ups and downs and here's a report by my colleague donald 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 kassim 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 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're a. 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 or think that they will be betrayed again by the united states or softening the person contractors' spectacle of are 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 is and the. 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 u.s. 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. now to france where farmers in iran have been banned from selling their produce at after a major fire at a local chemical plant the farmers are now seeking compensation from the government . with everybody affected by the cloud of smoke from the movers all factoring at the moment we've suspended the production of eastham of vegetables because of this cloud because we can't tell you know what substances infiltrated the soil.

is that misleading to do the glazing they told us that there was no danger with the only people like that there was a nice after i found a local governments to create banning all sales and commercialization of our food products in the specific so. you could die soft of the blaze of lubrizol 6 of them a 26 i throw away between 10 and 1800 liters of milk every day where demanding that losses related to lube results may be covered by the status or their shorts. still to come russian meddling is making headlines once again that story and more after the break.

you know world's big partisan movie 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 on the bats 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 for watching closely watching the hawks. make this manufactured to send to the public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the flame of merry go

round be the one percent. we can all middle of the room sick. real news. welcome back russia's justice ministry has classified a prominent anti-corruption angio as a foreign agent there in a station was founded by opposition figure head. during a check of the foundation's activities the russian ministry of justice established that it performs the functions of a foreign agent. that one quarter joins us live in the studio to break this down for us now let's start the beginning what does this foreign agent label really mean

well jacki a foreign agent is basically any organization that is both politically active as well as funded and endorsed by one or more foreign entities and that's according to a bill moscow passed back in july 2012 and since then n.g.o.s listed on this list of foreign agents have been subject to more audit's and they also have to declare their status on any official statements they make ok so what exactly does novelli is organization do then well so far we don't know why the justice ministry exe exactly has put them to corruption foundation on the list of foreign agents but what we do know is that this organization is based in moscow it's a nonprofit and was funded by the influential opposition figure. in the end it receives the majority of its funding from online donations but they've also been suspected of laundering around 1000000000 rubles back in august and there's still an investigation going on into that but we're still not sure if that's exactly what's connected to this justice department declaration and has there been any

reaction from the organization itself we saw we heard several reactions one from the foundations director ivan just on of who made a facebook post saying that his organization never received any money from overseas and of all the also echoed that sentiment on twitter with a couple twitter posts and he even accused vladimir putin of being the one who directly ordered this. well this is too much the ministry of justice has just included the anti corruption foundation on its list of foreign agents the anti corruption foundation has never received a cent of foreign funding the anti corruption foundation is funded entirely by you the citizens of russia the justice ministry actions are legal and would clearly by putin. so what we're reading for now is any sort of reaction from the just a part justice department to these heavy accusations don't quarter say across the latest for us thank you. u.s.

senate intelligence committee has published a new report on alleged russian interference in the 2016 presidential election the documents authors claim the st petersburg based internet research agency attempted to use social media to swing the vote in dollar terms favor and 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. of or no evidence is provided in the $85.00 page report to back up the allegations earlier this year the miller probe also pointed the finger at the internet research agency said in july a federal judge ruled there was no evidence the irate was connected to the russian government the kremlin has front of the new intelligence committee report not just a rehash of old allegations executive director of the ron paul in which didn't make

out and says the new report proves something. 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 good judge friedrich back in july admonished bowler and his crew to stop referring to concordance to ira as for the russian government because it can't be proven and 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 pay 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 notice the intelligence committee's new report also raises

the alarm over the growing popularity of r.t.e. and accuses the channel of using you tube to spread propaganda and says r.t. has a far wider reach than suggested by the number of subscribers to make items again told us why the us has beef with r.t. . americans are sick of hearing the same garbage whether it's on rachel maddow on a miss in 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 neo cons and interventionist would like nothing more than to absolutely destroy our that's why they for a start he americans to register as a foreign ain't shit they don't want alternative voices to get out. a russian national dubbed by the west as the merchant of death and his story inspired a hollywood film has told r.t. he believes he is a political prisoner of the us an exclusive interview a convicted arms trafficker victor boot said he had nothing else to do but fight

for his innocence until the very end the u.s. claims he supplied weapons to the revenue revolutionary armed forces of colombia recognized as a terrorist organization by washington who denies all the accusations he was detained in thailand at the request of the u.s. and extradited 2 years later in 2012 a court sentenced him to 25 years in jail and a $15000000.00 fine last month 7 years into his sentence he was his family was allowed to visit him for the 1st time and 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 his spiritual group or whatever i mean. you know different treatment feel by e-mail different through truthful by e-mail you're going to limit yes sir magento 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 always fine as a political prisoner because of time he'll oh my nation now lutie and i did everything i to call 3 criticize and i'm very and think i've got to you didn't do anything else and a little slice of my innocence i think i was a trial blocker latecomers there's oarlock a you know this option to trial how we can go to russia and the state department

couple years ago. is going to keep him i think that apple has a mole hill before we think so are the russians would be mad to want to cooperate with our swim to go off to their crew regime i asked victor about the fact that he's just had his 1st visit with his wife and daughter thanks to the embassy here for the very good at the moment the soldiers it's i'm very grateful to know it's you it's really good and 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 good enough to do you know it took to press their russian the most egregious wanderlust on their if it's an eatery one of the government's actual official 4 is a commercial director of the russian engine manufacturer but shown by this face looks like we're coming back to the medieval ages where the mediterranean pirates from the coast of the algiers and tunisia of all golan just to hijack the people

and then 5th and wait until somebody common tried to write some i asked him about deals that have been offered to him in the past and currently well they've been doing to you trial i'm during the trial where the been through the public defender that i approach and said well we're going to go through it all your time of a green card to settle you there if you you know it's a little some dirt about putin and how corrupt this regime times although i said i have nothing to to do or to know about putting so i have thought through a tornado you're going to there are 1st one little for of the deals that's why i went to the trial i asked victor if you thought there was any hope for him getting out of prison before his 25 year sentence was up they never know it especially in this political climate which i'm erica is a lot you'll have to 1st i'm sure something is on the making and i'm sure something is coming my way through their booth 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 people not brashly committing crimes but for offhand comments made to undercover officers says he's not the only political prisoner being held and that the efforts of the russian embassy have definitely improved just circumstances it will mop and argy new york. before we go we bring you breaking news from germany where 2 people have been killed in a shooting in the german city of hala in. that reportedly occurred outside a synagogue and police say the suspects are armed and still at large locals have been advised to stay at home will be bringing you more on that and your headline news at the top the hour.

why a paradise with some ground turned into a round the experimentation field but agricultural chemicals we know that these chemicals have consequences they are major irritants there's no question otherwise why would that the chemical company workers themselves be geared up that suited up locals attempt to combat the on regulated experiments but often in day you have many of these people who have one foot into the biotech pharma and the other foot in the government regulatory bodies this kind of collusion is reprehensible while the battle goes on the chemicals continue to poison hawaii and its people so one has to ask the question whether there is a form of environmental research going on in hawaii whether these companies feel they can get away with this because the people have less political power.

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