she found it a good. cleaning. was . the libyan president ever morales resigns following weeks of protests against the results of last month's election which the opposition said was tainted by fraud. the fate of spain's government remains uncertain with nearly over votes counted in its general election predicting continued deadlock. that story of 3 years perhaps interview with virginia roberts it was unbelievable what we had with everything and in stories that shaped the weekend a leaked a video an anchor at a major u.s. t.v. network claims the station quashed her explosive interview linking powerful people

to convicted paedophile jeffrey epstein we spoke to the founder of the investigative group which obtained the footage. the only conclusion i can draw is that a lot of these network executives are very close to the people they were hanging out with jeffrey epstein per amy amy roebuck. hello you're watching the weekly here on r.t. international i'm rosana lockwood welcome to the program now we start with this bolivia as a long serving president evo morales has announced he is stepping down from office and this follows 2 weeks of intense protests in which bolivia suffered $170000000.00 worth of damage. well to get some more on this are now joined live in the studio senior correspondent. has been a turbulent time into. politics these past few days he just took us through what's

happened when it all really began last month during the elections presidential elections then eval moralez claims he won outright so there would be no runoff the 3 candidates apparently gathered 10 percent more than the next leading candidate meaning no runoff the opposition disagreed there was a big investigation and they found irregularities in the way that the votes were counted this led to the opposition count candidate saying that you know the vote was for dell and that people should come out and protest and in the end as you mentioned huge protests for weeks 3 people killed party officials and government officials resigning left and right some fearing for the safety of their families because of because of the threats that pewters this had been making against them and eventually it appears that even the chief of the army joined in urged mr marla's to quit to resign which he eventually which eventually did yeah well

morality himself has touched on some of the reasons why he's choosing to leave let's listen some of his remarks. i mean proceedings. i resigned the presidency why did i decide to resign so that carlos mesa and luis fernando camacho do not continue to persecute my brothers but union leaders. what do you think you meant by that or at well there's no love lost between mr more and more as and carlos mesa the opposition candidate the leading opposition candidate that it's very ironic because it was mr morales back in back at the turn of the last decade that led protests street protests against carlos mesa who was then acting president he was elected as vice president 2002 and he presided over a massacre where dozens and dozens of indigenous peoples were murdered by security

forces while protesting against privatization on that wave mr morale is was then elected president he used that as a sort of trampoline to catapult in the presidency since then he's been very popular 14 years in power and even in this election even given regularities a huge portion of locals voting against voting for him bolivians nevertheless carlos made. the veterans i said it was the vice president he resigned eventually over protests street protests led by morales and he's gone quiet since eventually mr murat has reached out to him back in 2015. to sort of head a case against to get bolivia water rights rights access to the pacific ocean on that wave. returned the power became a leading opposition candidate the opposition vested all it had in him and it

appears it paid off he gathered some 30 percent of the vote and he has been leading these protests seen as the figurehead him himself as a historian and he was never a public person that. now apparently changed he's given some very impassioned speeches he's also a very pro-american man he's said that if he comes to power unlike mr morality as an opponent of u.s. foreign policy that colors miscible improve relations with the united states as a scandal recently when he came back from the united states his spokesperson who he then immediately fired said that the u.s. government gave him gave the presidential candidate carlos mesa $10000000.00 which you know if anyone else had done it with him out the election meddling nevertheless. ties between the united states and carlos mesa he is the american candidate in this election our senior correspondent erica as you know you can we

stay across this is plenty of moving parts when i'm going to get a bit more insight because joining us live is francisco color and he is a political analyst and former you an official. high francisca very well thanks for joining us now the resignation of ever moralities official just tell us what's next for bolivia. well there are more. that would be a lot of tension in the region. and your correspondent was very very precise in detail in this situation but one think it was also mention that american states are going to sation bali dated. the election in a way a measure of rejected that validation so with that information is very important thing into account the american lawyers from the american spectator individual or yes you can sort of spanish the acronym in spanish with their regional

body called american state are going to switch invalidated the election laws were earlier where he won by 10 percent over measure now i mean let's be clear on this their region is the stubbly facial very clearly chile is on their to step it is a very unstable situation in chile now bolivia. into you know situation of almost i would say a coup d'etat. argentina's in a transition towards a new precedent assuming you know for now this pretty soon luda. free. ecuador it will quiet calm it had never been quite and we have the situation in venezuela and we have this equation in peru which is not quite either so one has to see the school against morales we did in that context of american policy trying to recover their failed germany or primacy in their in the region i mean

basically to. hear north american and us say hantz this could it get more that it is absolutely clear i mean i mean you don't have to have a physical proof i mean the proofs in intelligence is the results prove in terms of. military intelligence is the objective which was the source of morality so out of power why because morally was always against american us policy your correspondent said very clearly i mean tired like really that i mean the usa now particularly the south combined own equipment which they construct of the southern countries of the southern hemisphere is very clear about recovering american primacy in the region and this is their a very clear they will stray ssion this is a message that the us

a very clear and a very i would say adamant very concrete you know to recover their primacy we have been you know i threatened from venezuela from ecuador during korea's time when they were more or less with pretty different on this of well and with the government of lula so now that you say he's trying to recover the lost primacy of sale failed promises i mean i have to see this yes you've mentioned that all the different kinds of unrest that we've been seeing in latin america over the past couple of weeks and we've been think what you know seems a quite serious unrest in a lot of places including bolivia do you think that these violent protests we've been seeing in bolivia going to quieten down now that morales aside he's going to step down. i don't think so i think morales avoided the civil war i mean he made a very great gesture as

a politician not to insist because he would have he could have called the u.n. i mean he even take the phone talk to terrorists. and say look here i have to prove. i mean there were army is telling me to resign and that's a coup d'etat the forgive democracy he won the election and the american states are going to switch invalidated so your question where they would be a rational country i don't think so i think now we are opening up she's full of violence in the entire region because this will have an impact on the rest of the country will have an impact in elko the will how many of the name borrower and also in chile. politically because. it's going to be easy to predict an american intervention in a foreign country i mean there's no question about that and the dutch sense would be you know here and there about bolivia unspecific that civil war that she

averted and he resigned you know providing a very. you know dramatic and interesting gesture of resigning by not creating more conflict of out find the violence that i'm seeing here in our we have it in chile but he treated the pressure to resign because the military did tell him please resign i mean that's the only thing for the children believe i'm a believer toll when i was resign and that's very strange that the military didn't support. it will morales i think he was i mean basically he was a teacher who this army there's no other way to one of us francisco color and political analyst a former u.n. official we thank you for your time and insights thank you very much.

now with 95 percent of the votes now counted as spain appears no closer to finding a solution to months of political deadlock counting is now underway in its 2nd general election this year and the 4th in as many years but no party is predicted to win an overall majority. with more from barcelona. well it does feel a little bit like deja vu as those final votes on now being counted what we do know is that no one party has been able to gain a majority here to be able to form a majority government it does look like spain will have to go into coalition talks if it's to form a government in the next few weeks even months possibly what we know is the political gamble that was taken by paid for their son just the leader of the socialist party hasn't quite paid off for him it looks like his party has lost seats in this election however there were some big gains for all the parties

including the people's party you saw the number of seats rise as well as the populist party vox which in a pool less stormed into the congress with just over 20 seats and now it looks like they'll have more than 50 seats in the vase particular parliament but again a very fractured political landscape here in spain and here in catalonia some of the tensions recent weeks of being around the issue again of independence and not came off the spanish call to madrid sentence some of the pro independence leaders leading into that referendum here in catalonia back in 2017 jail sentences for sedition some for up to 13 years that sparked tensions in the sparked problems in the lead up to this election with clashes between protesters and the police.

are here. was a high police presence as the election took place on sunday the spanish place as well as the local catalan forces out and present as those votes were being put through into the ballot boxes many people here in spain seem to have a lot of voter apathy with the fact that this wasn't just the 2nd election this year this was the 4th general election spain in 4 years this is what some of the voters had to say you know we are a bit tired but i hope that they understand that there is no other option but to take us catalonians into account there is no way out if they think that with the

repression they will achieve something we are stronger than ever well i think the parties to reach an agreement so that we don't have to vote again and that the situation in spain and kind of see some progress in repeating everything too much very tired i think i'm not only one this reputation will. be the same as in the past the last vote in any way hopefully there will be no more elections so it's clear no party will be able to form a government a majority government on their own this is a case now of parties talking to each other but most of 2019 was spent with parties trying to talk to each other to try and form a coalition will they be able to see succeed this time well that's not clear but what is possible is that spain will be without a government until 2020. 40 barcelona well we discussed the elections with independent journalist martin robertson find

out what may come next. i think the main thing looking forward is that both the socialists you know who the acting government the more natural partners there most between them they've actually paid the price for not reaching an agreement in the past 6 months because they see tully has actually for them. that leaves them even far short of the you know the magical majority of them than they were you know just 6 months ago so i mean the big question again looking forward is whether they're going to be able to settle their differences with each other not only the us is whether they're going to be able to reach out and. get a lot of the regional nationalist parties on site at least to form some sort of a pact overwise we have yet more deadlock now leaked video emerged this week of a u.s. t.v. network claiming the station quashed her explosive story about convicted paedophile geoffrey epstein will be back with that on after this short break.

what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure. some want to be preached. to the right to be close to see what the fuck 3 of the people are. interested in the why. should. anyone else seem wrong. just don't all. get to see how it just comes down to. and in detroit equals betrayal.

when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. now turning to some of the stories that shaped the week a leaked video appears to show that america's a.b.c. news channel shelved a story on disc rights to billionaire geoffrey epstein 3 years ago and network anchor was recorded ranting about the station quashing her explosive interview with an accuser of the convicted paedophile in it a number of powerful figures implicated in his alleged crimes. i have a story of 3 years i've had to serve you with 'd virginia roberts then and the palace found out that we have her whole allegations about prince andrew and

threatened us a 1000000 different ways she told me everything she had pictures everything she was in hiding for 12 years we convinced her to come out we can bring. i tried for 3 years to get on to no avail and now it's all coming out and it's like these new well of revelations and i freaking have all of it i am so pissed right now well that video it was obtained by the transparency group project veritas its founder james o'keefe shared his thoughts on the footage. i have to wonder why did they not air these stories why why were that why was the shelled now this came to us from an insider within the network an insider who currently works at a.b.c. news leaked us this tape she says there seems to be some type of network of people that you know that that is covering up for this and she says she has a she thought all of it quite telling that this insider leaked this tape to project their it's us and not the washington post the new york times c.b.s. or c.n.n.

because they seem to want to protect the people that we're working with jeffrey epstein again amy robach saying that steam was blackmailing people there's a lot of powerful people on those airplanes that amy is 100 percent certain that he did not commit suicide i don't know why she won't say that publicly but there she is in the leaked tape on the set of the program saying these things when nobody is looking well a.b.c. news has defended its decision not to broadcast the story stating that it didn't meet editorial standards the anchor amy robach agreed explaining her comments were made and a private moment of frustration let's have a reminder of how this story developed 66 year old multimillionaire jeffrey epstein was convicted of soliciting prostitution from a minor in 2008 and was then registered as a sex offender in july this year he was arrested again and was to face trial over the ledge creation of a sex trafficking network challenges he had repeatedly denied but a month later epstein was found dead in his cell in an apparent suicide. well the

founder of project farah tast james o'keefe again says despite a.b.c. saying the allegations were uncorroborated the network doesn't shy away from of a high profile claims you can see how frustrated amy robock when you listen when you watch this tape it directly contradicts what a.b.c. news is saying publicly now about not having enough corroboration there they're fine airing the allegations against maybe brett kavanaugh for or trump or anybody else but when it comes to bill clinton and some of these folks 'd that are mentioned by amy in this hot mike tape they say they just didn't have enough corroboration i'm not sure how a.b.c. news defines a corroboration when it comes to credible witnesses talking about sexual assault but the only conclusion i can draw is that a lot of these network executives are very close to the people they were hanging out with jeffrey epstein per amy amy roebuck's. this week's or a major shakeup in the fault food well with mcdonald's c.e.o.

being fired for having a relationship with an employee something strictly against company policy the company forbids romantic links between managers and both direct and indirect employees stevie's to probe took over as chief executive in 2015 after working his way up through the company he's been widely credited with revitalizing the fast food chains restaurants and menu and in a message to stall he apologized and admitted his dismissal was the right decision and we got the opinions of legal analyst lionel on t.v. and radio host karen took the fact that the best c.e.o. that they've had in a long time is now going to be out of a job because of a personal issue is really sad i mean it's just the state of how we look at things today in america and this was a consensual relationship there was really nothing a licit that he did it's the way it is i did today's era of me too and the like not to mention their only history of. problems here and there what are they going to do

it's their law he knew what he was executive he violated and that's it you know it's hard to meet people these days i'm sure it's hard to be single i'm married but you know as a single person in america you know being a c.e.o. i don't know how much time this guy had on his hands to meet people you know what is golden parachutes going to be today oh my god this poor guy we're very good to me to the bloody match dot com east is too busy for that and it's funny how we read into it well it was consensual nobody's saying it was rape nobody's a kludge it was a violent physical attack of course it was consensual but do you know the rule that we live in this is an era right now of matt lauer and me too i do i do know the rules out all over i mean see the era of over it all over it over it could i mean as a woman in america you are not in charge of i should judging people i'm tired of us judging you everybody is wrong in a relationship no i'm not and you know why if i was if i was in charge i think the

world might be a better place because we're going to sirt some logic into this minutia that has become so consuming in today's journalism and in today's america perhaps the company could have some sort of agreement where you know we allow consensual relationships with some sort of agreement between the parties before our eyes and you can gauge in sexual conversation would you please sign this here to it would you signal that yes we are entitled to one people do it every day that was a world we live in and ship. who signs contracts for sexuality what are you talking about who does it might you might have to you might have to you might have to have a contract to protect yourself. that's your up they would be more in 30 minutes time see them.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy foundation let it be an arms race off and spearing dramatic to follow only mostly i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. there are good tennis and. the bad news in yemen the united states deems to be a threat the good. lord in syria the cia and the us military were engaged in covert actions really throughout the world. where they were assassinating populist leaders they were backing up right with military imposed funding an army just was there's no anymore because there's always a small. really good. profit.

without the president and a constant dread. of the free money. we would have a day of reckoning and prices would revert back to reflect supply and demand. and there would be a catastrophic trapdoor opening underneath the u.s. economy because the u.s. won't do it for itself china will do it for the in the form of announcing as a surprise $20000.00 tons of gold and the introduction of a gold backed crypto currency just will kill the u.s. dollar better than a doornail. the

welcome to worlds apart it's one of the cruelest and the most avoidable and reversible diseases of our times is the prize human space for progress in abundance and you frankenstein created by the collusion of industry and science obesity or rather die obesity has been making life miserable for millions of people mainly because they follow the advice of their doctors should they want to discuss that i'm now joined by jason fung it canadian you for all a just and a best selling author dr fung it's so good to talk to you thank you very much for your time oh thanks for having me it's great to be here now for starters i have to

say that i am a huge and very grateful fan of yours but for those of our viewers who are not familiar with your work how do they keep me dr like yourself and on this subject off obesity or rather diabetes as you like to call it yeah so kidney disease in north america is largely related to type 2 diabetes so we've had a big. mix since the 1970 s. and since the 1980 s. we've had more and more type 2 diabetes so as i started practice i started seeing more and more of these type 2 diabetics who were developing kidney disease and that's why i really developed a very strong interest in the treatment of type 2 diabetes so standard treatment as most doctors do consists of really just giving medications but that doesn't really make a lot of sense to me. because if you think about type 2 diabetes it's actually a reversible disease that is if people lose weight then very often the type 2

diabetes also goes away and as it goes away you can't develop the kidney disease any further so to me that was the most important thing was to try and reverse this type 2 diabetes and part of that involves trying to get people to lose weight and that's how i became interested in this topic now most of your books and lectures built around the premise that obesity is horror moral dysregulation a fad it's driven by hormones rather than calories and we have i'm sure many of the viewers watching us right now strongly believe that in order to lose weight they have to eat last and actually sizemore why do you think this it vies is so persistent and so pervasive despite being seen effective. it's a good question and it's because it's been greened into all of us since we were young about this this idea of calories in calories out that is all calories are fattening it's just the number of calories in north america sometimes people say

a calorie is a calorie and the point is that really misses. how the human body actually works so the human body works on hormones so if you grow taller or shorter or if you build muscle or don't build muscle everything depends on the hormones our bodies respond to hormones and body fat is the amount of body fat that we carry is really no different so we can isolate the hormones that make us gain weight for example insulin is a hormone that makes us game weight so certain foods are going to stimulate those hormones more than others so the idea is that if you take 2 equal portions in terms of calories of 2 food so you have 100 calories of cookies versus 100 calories of say spinach the instant that you put it in your mouth the body responds completely differently in.