the libyan president ever moralities resigns following weeks of protests against the results of last month's election which the opposition says. forward. the fate of spain's government remains uncertain with nearly pulled the vote counted in a general election predicting continued deadlock. story 3 years i've had to say are you with the roberts it was unbelievable what you have claimed in everything and in stories that shaped the week in the leaks video an anchor to major u.s. t.v. network claims the station washed her explosive interview linking powerful people to convicted paedophile jeffrey epstein we spoke to the founder of the investigative group taking 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 her amy amy roebuck. hello you're watching the weekly here on r.t. international i'm rosana lockwood welcome to the program. and 1st our top story bolivia is a long serving president ever morale is has announced he is stepping down from office and this follows 2 weeks of intense protests in which bolivia suffered many millions of dollars worth of damage. reports. it all began on the 20th of october the bolivian presidential election then jury vote counting president incumbent president evill morale is allegedly gathered enough votes to avoid a runoff election and the opposition cried foul at ledged irregularities voter fraud

in the way that the votes were counted and monitors international monitors agreed ventured the president morales said that he's he agrees that there be regularities that there would be an investigation and that that would be a runoff vote but he refused to resign we saw protests unfold b. saw them become more and more violent 3 people killed many others wounded injured so uniformed police officers join join the protesters during at all ever more as calling for peace for quieten for deescalation the opposition candidate khalil carlos mason to be meeting the figurehead of these protesters called on people to stay out in the streets and kill until the president either resigned or called for a new election government officials were resigning left and right these are close

allies of the president many of them citing the threats that the opposition the protesters were making towards them towards their families especially given that the protests have become more and more violent as the weeks went by on sunday ever morale has relented he resigned as president of bolivia in the interests of national stability after the chief of the military chief of the army came out and said that he should go for the sake of for the sake of believe it is unclear whether he did so with a it was his own choice to resign or whether he was forced to coerced into it by a by the military. i mean it would be 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 the union leaders. were godless will undoubtedly find out more in the days to come for now though protestors celebrating

celebrating this resignation of the 14 years ever more as is no longer president of bolivia yet. we are celebrating the liberation of believing but the people who believe there must continue to fight. we came out under the streets on the 21st of october and from that day have been defending our democracy now we are celebrating our victory. we believe in people are standing here to defend our ideas our children our democracy and our country is great for us that ever marlice has resigned it is the best thing in the world let's leave it we are free now we can see that the people are more united than ever the irony here is that carlos mesa back in 2002 he was vice president of the country. even in the president they carried out a massive crackdown violent crackdown dozens and dozens of people killed against

protesters that were demanding nationalization of gas resources in the country the president then resigned the mesa became president acting president and the year later he a year later you reside who forced him to resign was evel morales who was a union leader back then a protest leader and on a wave of public support he was to become president he has ruled the country for 14 years since and the irony here is that now the rules have been reversed that is evil morality has been forced to resign by carlos mesa who's leading leading the protest nevertheless this is this is a very turbulent time for bolivia because. there's a lot of. change that's going to happen it is unclear whether mr merrill as will his successor is going to run in the election unclear if mr mason will now be president and if he is that will be radical radical changes in the ways things are run because mr mason is unlike his predecessor ever more others

a staunch critic of the united states of its foreign policy mr mason is on the you know the opposite he says that he'll improve relations with the united states is involved in something of a scandal nice and he came back from the united states in his spokesperson declare that he just being given $10000000.00 by usaid the united states government which mr mesa denied nevertheless you know if any other country given a presidential candidate $10000000.00 there would have been election meddling in this case well nobody's saying hey this is the mesa denies that he got the money. as i said the deputy head of the senate is now in power she is going to organize elections the investigation underway to find out how exactly will the voter fraud was committed and punish those responsible neverless trying times ahead for bolivia . or several latin american countries including argentina venezuela mexico and cuba

have spoken out against the resignation of morales they denounce in the event as a coup and venezuela's president is calling on bolivia's allies to protect morales his presidency meanwhile the organization of american states together with the u.s. and canada is edging a 2nd election to be held in the country daniel schorr is a professor of latin american studies at the city university of new york and he says the removal of morale is a victory for near liberal forces. this is the leaves are still flying but it's our . this is. true for neo liberalism it's for the forces in bolivia. who want to push back this it gently that is favorite from pacino's or the workers so this quarterly call the new president. it remains to be seen but it sure seems like she will up for the agenda of the rich of those forces based incentive as we know bolivia is

a very divided country racially and class winds and as it will says the struggle will get in you. with almost all of the votes now counted in spain's general election the country looks no closer to ending months of political deadlock no party is now president predicted to win an overall majority and it's the 2nd general election this year and the 4th in as many as his shall advance 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 to 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 april 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 have been around the issue again or 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 going. to get you. to good. thank you. but. was a hard police presence as the election took place on sunday with 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 quite alone ians 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 the only one this reputation well. the results 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 roberts to find out what might come next. i think the main thing looking forward is that both the socialists you know who the acting government the more natural partners for them most between them they've actually paid the price for not reaching an agreement in the past 6 months because the seat tali 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. only bass is whether they're going to be able to reach arabs. i guess a lot of the regional nationalist parties on site at least to form some sort of a practice over wise we have yet more deadlock. now this time for some of the

stories that shaped the week the video appears to show that america's a.b.c. news channel shelved a story on disgraced billionaire geoffrey epstein 3 years ago and network anchor it was recorded ranting about the station question her explosive interview with an accuser of the convicted paedophile it is a number of powerful figures implicated in his alleged crimes. that story for 3 years i've had to say he would continue roberts the palace found out that we had her whole allegations are false andrew and threatened us a 1000000 different ways she told me everything she had pictures and everything she was in hiding for 12 years making a come out we convinced her to talk to us it was unbelievable what we had claimed we had everything. i tried for 3 years to get on to no avail and now it's all coming out and i think these new well of revelations that i'm freezing have i was so pissed right now well that video was obtained by the transparency group project

a very tough it's found a james o'keefe shared his thoughts on the footage. i have to wonder why did they not air these stories why why were they why was the sheld 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 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 were 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 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 it didn't meet editorial standards the anchor amy roback agreed explaining her comments were made in a private moment of frustration let's have a reminder of how the story developed 66 year old multimillionaire jeffrey epstein was convicted of soliciting prostitution from a minor back in 2008 and was then registered as a sex offender then in july this year he was arrested again and was to face trial over the alleged creation of a sex trafficking network charges he repeatedly denied and then a month later epstein was found dead in his cell in an apparent suicide well the founder of project veritas james o'keefe again says despite a.b.c. saying the allegations were uncorroborated the network doesn't shy away from other 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 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. all this week also saw a major shake up in the fast food world with mcdonald's c.e.o. being fired for having a relationship with an employee something strictly against company policy mcdonald's for bits romantic links between managers and both direct and indirect employees stevie superrich 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 in

a message to stuff he apologized and admitted that his dismissal was the right decision but we got the opinions of legal analyst lionel and t.v. and radio host karyn. 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 is the way it is and in today's era of me too and the like not to mention their own the history of the problems here in their 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 his golden parachutes going to be today oh my god this poor guy we're very good to

me to the body matched on commies east is too busy for that and it's funny how we read into it while it was consensual or nobody's saying it was rape nobody is a kludge it was a violent physical attack of course it was consensual but do you know the world we live in this is an era right now of matt lauer and me too i do i do know the words out all over i mean to era of over it over it. over it. i mean as a woman in america. 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 gauge in sexual conversation would you please sir. to which would you signal that yes we are entitled to one people do it every day now it's a world we live in. who signs contracts for sexuality like 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. democrats in the u.s. have failed to push through a bill to keep the identity of whistle blows secret and this comes as the president some tweeted the alleged name of the whistleblower who triggered the speak out in the u.s. . for the democrats impeachment must now seem tantalizingly close all they need is the final piece of damning evidence to seal the deal and to senate minority leader chuck schumer he has come out arguing for the protection of whistleblowers only rother of one intelligence officer whose insider info could make or break the

impeachment dream the calls to make public the whistleblowers identity are despicable whistleblowers should be protected period period that's quite the radical departure from his previous comments on those exposing government abuses and each day that snowden is allowed to room 3 is another twist to the merits snowden is a one of the few picked up by the media he chose the path of raising his voice and going close unlike the hundreds of others who chose the path of least resistance you see they quietly lodged official complaints hoping for the system to reform but they were out of luck because as a damning report from an intelligence watchdog shows the cia and n.s.a. win 189 out of 190 cases of whistleblower complaints by had to

send you the link but the report was shot down i wonder if mr schumer praised or even remembers all those whistleblowers who ruled against what the name for example rich barlow bring about now living in a trailer in remote montana with his hunting dogs back in the late eighty's bhalo worked for the cia now he found himself in a patriotic dye llama when he uncovered what he said amounted to the u.s. helping pakistan become a nuclear power including by selling band technology and though he followed protocol he became the victim of a smear come. disgraced and discredited barely able to scrape together a living i was disgustingly patriotic and i thought the government is allowing pakistan to develop and spread nuclear weapons and i got destroyed for trying to stop it what about former u.s.

marine affronts gayo he thought he'd found a way of reducing the number of u.s. troops dying in iraq as a result of improvised explosive devices all that was needed was a simple swap of patrol vehicles and given that were responsible for over 60 percent of all american losses in the country between 20032008 surely the pentagon would have been interested the response was more of an. automated response use not obeying our instructions he's he's gone off the reservation as we often say . and we've got to stop him from doing that and just as it took 7 years to restore his reputation it took just a few months to discredit peter van buren raising 24 years of loyal diplomatic service done pure and found himself on the wrong side of the table when he shed

light on state department mismanagement i'm waste in iraq. what happens when you're thrown out of the government and blacklisted and that you lose your security clearance and it's very difficult to find a grown up job in washington you have to step down a few levels to find a place where they don't care enough about your background to even look into why you washed up there the list of nameless faceless and unrecognized whistleblowers goes on and who to blame them for choosing to do to free fall their complaints because if you follow and manning will snowden's footsteps sure you might end up with your name on a packet and become the face of the fight for transparency but you might also find yourself behind bars and while you're sitting in prison think about how your brothers in arms only have a how to one and 190 chance of success whistleblowing protection should actually exist in all countries because it helps the country to have people

tell the truth about corrupt officials united states pretends to have laws that protect whistleblowers but they often either don't work or they are deliberately sordid and certainly the government officials do not want anyone ever telling about things they do illegally the governments are basically wanting to control saying who's in control public opinion they put john kiriakou in prison for telling that for instance is that the cia was torturing so they normally absolutely do not want to protect whistleblowers and they actually hate anyone who tells the truth about their illegal activities hume about him alongside the washington elite needs to clarify his position on whistleblowers if you are a whistleblower you need to accept that harassment prison self-imposed exile we've just been consigned to the forgotten pages of history are all on the cards unless

of course you happen to be that rab breed of whistle blower who finds himself in the right place at the right time with just the right exposé. the syrian president says that the west's attempt to incite a revolution in his country through sanctions has failed bashar al assad shared the thoughts in an exclusive interview with r.t. and it's the 1st time he's spoken to an international channel in more than a year. did you make of it where. the british government sent the royal navy to intercept of the iranian vessel. they said the iranian government said it was with heating oil. for syria and the sanctions from the european union are going to hit the poorest people of syria this winter. exactly 1st for this is bogus.

this is biography by the united kingdom and this is the core meaning of the word regime because regime in both in going to use something similar. yes they wanted to effect the people in syria why because those people expected to rule with against the government during the different stages all the war but they didn't they were supposed to be supporting the terrorists the moderate rebels with the angels of white helmets but the people that are in this with their government so they have to suffer they have to pay the price 1st for they have to learn that this should to do with. second this is maybe a last ditch attempt in order to push them to be against big government but they tried to try to before and they didn't work because the people you know the whole

story and they know where their interests lie. well to see that will exclusive interview with syrian president bashar al assad make sure you stay with us because we will be broadcasting in its entirety in just over 30 minutes time here on the international. the world is driven by a dream shaped by one person. who

dares thinks. we dare to ask. without ever a president 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 trap door 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 this will kill the u.s. dollar better than a doornail. well

we've undergone a corporate coup d'etat in slow motion. 35000 lobbyists in washington they write the legislation they write the bills. all it takes is one phone call from somebody on the hill to someone in the pentagon saying hey turn on the dogs the hills out to get our program the guys in the senate are on board we need you to turn on the gucci shoes guys to straighten this thing out the guy's been the lobbyist. and what this does is just lock the system up and that's the whole name of the game it's it's called political engineering and i'm like political science political engineering is real. one of the most important things done or stand is essentially creates what we call a self licking ice cream cone and it's like petrol motion machine for getting ever increasing defense budgets the way we do it is by downplaying the future

consequences to start a new weapon we over promised as performance under promise it's cost we then systematically spread dollars jobs and profits to as many congressional districts as quickly as possible so that everybody has skin in the game. the people who are invested in this day or people like the largest defense contractor in the world. they would die before they see it. going to change the world. we're probably already working. good margin basically just to put them to coles you know in all branches of the government. of the whole. and that's a great.