several latin american countries and russia have denounced him vents in bolivia as a coup after president evo morales resigned apparently under pressure from the military. also this hour syrian president bashar al assad shares his bond and in the exclusive interview with r.t. and the 1st time he's spoken to an international channel in more than a year. always try to do other countries. in different ways in different ways regarding pay and not going to avoid or money or. i mean the sources of their rights. their rights political rights. and no end to the political deadlock in spain after a general election the failed to produce

a majority when are. you watching r t international bring you your live news update from our studio here in moscow welcome to the program now 1st we start with several countries speaking out against the resignation of bolivian president evo morales denouncing the event as a coup among them argentina cuba mexico venezuela and russia the bolivian opposition claims the police are currently seeking to detain morale us but the chief of police denies there is a warrant for his arrest. i do know from of the world in the bolivian people that a police official publicly said he was instructed to execute an illegal arrest warrant against me in addition violent groups assaulted my home this coup destroys the rule of law. these pictures you're seeing now purportedly show my office house

which was vandalized his resignation falls and weeks of violent protests and pressure from the army to quit. we're now joined in the studio by our 2 thinkers donna for the details so let's begin at the beginning how did we get here well essentially bolivia has been engulfed in protests since the elections last month evo morales got the upper hand he won the election and that led a big portion of the bolivian population disenchanted so people were showing up in the streets against the results of the elections but at the same time a lot of people also showed up to voice their support to evil morale is so it wasn't like a one sided thing so that both camps were present in the streets those who were left disenchanted with the election results were saying that the vote was undemocratic and they wanted to fix that what they got instead though was the army siding with them and that kick started a chain reaction which led to

a series of resignations in the government and essentially this has led the country you know with a democratic process of transition of power but with power vacuum is how the events unfold the list. i want to denounce what is taking place before the bolivian people i mean tire world as you know brothers of the press this is a coup d'etat against democratically elected government. again. you use them in this moment it's important to say to the bolivian people

it's our obligation it's my obligation as an indigenous president and the president of all bolivians to look for peace. so morale is basically his reasoning behind the resignation he said that he did this he had done this for his country for his people he said that he hoped that protests would end and i mean protests were getting out of hand especially with the police and the army sensuous siding with the protesters there weren't too many people with the authority to well police and bring protests to justice for instance one radio chief was tied to a tree by the protesters a bolivian mayor one of one of the a mayor of one of the bolivian towns was attacked by anti-government more but she was covered in red paint and dragged through a street also there have been reports of protests setting fire to the residence of

one of the believe in government governors so morales has been saying that he hoped his resignation would kind of calm the situation down in the streets and bring dialogue and bring you the opposing sides to talk to each other so clearly there have been a lot of protests in different ways with his popularity that low then well he had won the elections by a by about a 10 percent margin but again it is not an argument that the that the protesters are going to take because they are saying that the elections the century were rigged but he had spent 14 years at the helm of bolivia he was viewed especially at the start of his political career as the voice of the poor he managed to boost the economy of the country at the beginning of his rule and now leftists he's the leftist leftist leftist powers in the country they see. the events in the country as a coup they are saying it's

a coup and they are not alone i mean argentina and other countries in the region voiced their concerns over his resignation and they were joined by russia as well. we are alarmed as who watched the dramatic developments and believe we are well waved the file and started by the opposition have prevented even more all this from fulfilling his presidential mandate we extremely concerned by the fact that your and then internal crisis their ability of the government to find constructive solutions were swept away by what looks like a directed coup so we have this official resignation what happens next well again it is not clear at the very beginning i mentioned how the country is left in a state of a power vacuum and it is essentially true because in the political system of bolivia there was a protest there was a process story. designed there in case of something of an event of a resignation but the 2 successes the 2 persons next in line to succeed to

take up his job at the resigned as well the vice president and the president of the senate so the next of kin so to speak they are no more there politically no more still right now the army looks like the most viable power like the strongest power out there and so right now it does look like the army could take the reins in bolivia and a lot of people are concerned because when the army comes to power in a latin american country there have been very few cases when that historically r.t. is it goes down of stay across the latest for us thank you. now these are pictures from the country's capital showing more ass protests this report now from local journalists of a 100 better i'll. look at them and with grown ups on us for that i am now in the southern part of law pass a few hours after the resignation of evo morales when we expected that announcement

to bring peace to the streets where the people have been rallying for 19 days even morale is claimed that there was an attempt to arrest him illegally that someone broke into his house meanwhile opposition leader louis fan and a matching reports that armed forces have confiscated evos plane so he cannot leave the country a group of soldiers is looking for morale is in his home region there are still lots of protests in the streets one of the most troubling developments is that the venezuelan embassy was taken by men in hoods who had explosives with them during the assault one man was wounded this morning after news of the resignation broke the vice president expressed concerns about the constitutional crisis the country is facing no people have taken up the presidential seat according to the constitution as the president the vice president of the heads of both chambers of the bolivian parliament resigned there is a need for parliament together to discuss these issues former president electoral

candidate carlos messer has made a plea that the constitutional order be respected so that my role is as no grounds to talk of a coup the former head of the supreme electoral tribunal and the former vice president of this body were arrested on criminal charges that's what's been happening this night and luck has. political analyst and former u.n. official francisco says the bolivian military has conducted a coup. or levy or. you know situation of almost i would say acquitted tar so one has to see who against morales we didn't have gone of american policy by and to recover their favor they didn't want to or very much. in the region i mean basically as well i mean here various north american and usa hans he just couldn't get more have i think more olives i voided through the war i mean to me a very great gesture of support of people not to sit. good people or he could have

called the un. i mean to me take a phone doctor with terrorists. and say look. here i have to prove i mean what are me especially me to resign and that's a quote but to give democracy he won the election and the american states are going to teach him by the date the. syrian president bashar al assad has denied accusations that government forces have been targeting civilians in an exclusive interview with r.t. he said the war in syria was about winning hearts and minds also touched on the syrian oil well the u.k. state mandated b.b.c. and the international of their religion your government killed 11000 people using so-called barrel bombs from 20012 that would be a violation of the u.n.

security council resolution 213000000 and indeed even rights watch is pointing to satellite imagery you're talking about you tube videos saying they're fake videos and these are some of the major nations as biggest n.g.o.s and broadcasters know war is a good war. this is self-evident truth you all with victims in any war but the talk about an army or state to go in killed 3000000000 and it's own people this is not realistic for the simple reason the war in syria was about capturing the hearts of the people and you cannot capture the heart of the people by bombarding. the syrian army was fighting the terrorist. whether there is a. fire that affected from civilian that could have happened and you can have investigations but how could the syrian people support this state and they are

president and there are me if they are killing them. the russians are saying that the us is stealing $30000000.00 of oil from northern syria is this a trump while getting chip in the geneva talks why would net oil exporter like the usa be interested in 30 $1000000.00 of oil a month no things i says the started sparkling syrian oil in oil in 2014 they had to partner with. and his coterie and the american where the cia or others so what trump did is just announced that he had the truth he didn't do it he didn't he's not talking about something new even when some of the kurds thought of looting the syrian oil the american with their partner with so it's about money in this pot over it and that what trumps it recently but it's not the new it or it's not related to the talks at all. but arguably were you not more

angry because obviously that would be a violation of the 4th geneva convention on pillaging of countries resources of course will include everything. definitely this is routine but there's no international order i should there's no international law. but this is nothing new to be frank not only during the war that america always try to do other countries in different tweet in different ways regarding p.r. not only always or money or financial resources as they do their rights. their rights political rights. you can watch the full interview here in just under 2 hours or any time on our website r.t. dot com. a joke by microsoft c.e.o.

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that. our time has come again comrades open the muscle and raise we've got some meddling to do. still to come general elections in spain fail to produce a majority winner leaving the country and deadlock that story and more after the break. join me every thursday on the alex simon shore and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. the world is driven by a dreamer shaped by one person of those. who

dares thinks. we dare to ask. big tech in the political left tonight the age of the gag order is underway and is boris johnson said to win and win big in the general election briggs it would see has changed everything. welcome back spain has just held a general election in which no party appears to have gained a majority the whole point of the vote was to break the country's political

deadlock it was the 2nd general election this year and the 4th since 2015 our correspondent charlotte devinsky reports from barcelona. socialists played this political gamble calling this election in the hope of shoring up their vote actually lost some seats compared to april's election perhaps the biggest political story of the night was the gainsbourg books another party on the right of the political spectrum this party only entered into the spanish parliament for the 1st time in april then they had 24 votes now just a few months later they've more than doubled that means that they are now with the largest party in the spanish parliament let's have a listen to what the leader of walks had to say. only 11 months ago we weren't represented in regional parliament nor in the european parliament or spanish parliament today we are the 3rd political party in spain we have 52 seats it's also

suggestion that because of this boost the party's on the right that they could also be now looking to form their own coalition and that would trigger some fear is in catalonia in particular given the vox a very hard line on how they want to deal with the independence movements across spain is now you may recall that there has been a lot of violent clashes in protests over the last few weeks this came after cattle and leaders over pro independence were given lengthy jail terms as a cold in madrid that sparked more tension here more violence we saw in the weeks leading up to this election clashes between the police and protesters. us.

we know the parties will be waking up this morning reaching out to other parties to trying to look about a coalition for this feature or forming a spanish government but those talks if they do indeed reach anything could be wreaks months before spain sees a government put in place we discussed what could come next with madrid based journalist mark roberts i think the main thing looking forward is that both the socialists you know who the acting government. more natural part of their most between them they've actually paid the price for not reaching an agreement in the past 6 months because they see tommy has actually for. that leaves them even fall 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 bass 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. the nigerian film line heart has been banned from the oscars best international film category for having too much dialogue in english it was nigeria's 1st mission for an academy award in 5 years and english is one of the country's official languages after being a british colony for over a century. and now it's time to be up in texas and risk losing everything in this. country if you want to. know depending on me and i've come. to qualify for the oscars international category a film must be more than 40 minutes long american production and have most of the

dialogue in a language other than english hearts director is furious over the decision and says english connects people in the country. this movie represents the way we speak as my dear ians this includes english which acts as a bridge between the $500.00 plus languages spoken in our country that by making us one nigeria it's no different to how french connects communities in former french colonies we did not choose who colonized us this film and many like it is proudly nigerian the situation sparked debate online with some condemning the decision to disqualify the movie c.j. abbasi a member of the nigerian oscar committee and co-writer of line hart says ages past wasn't taken into consideration by the academy. being inclusive is also about being nuanced also about the stand in the entry cases that make different nationalities unique you know them selves so as much as you're not saying hey just

bring in any film as even if it's in english just take it you know but you also have to recognize the authenticity of the things that make. each nation unique in itself so like for example would a country like nigeria. one of the lingo. lingua franca use pidgin english pigeon english if you speak pidgin english you know english speakers would understand the word but it sounds like english so in that sense doesn't qualify to be i mean should it be disqualified if i made it an entire film in pidgin english. should it be disqualified but then that is authentic to the war that i come from you know what i'm saying so like they are nuances to these things that it's not just as black and white as people are trying to make it and all kinds of conversations around it should be welcomed and encouraged i think that's our global news wrap up for now but i'll be back at the top the hour with the latest thanks

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hello and welcome to cross talk we're all things are considered i'm peter lavelle big tech in the political left tonight the age of big. ag order is under way and is boris johnson set to win and win big in the general election drags it would seem has changed everything. across talking some real news i'm joined by my guest here in moscow dmitri bob

which is a political analyst and editor in internet media project and in athens we're joined by alex who so far oh he's the editor and writer for the duran dot com all right gentlemen cross-like rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate let me go to. first i'm titling this program of gag order and i know you know what i'm talking about 1st let's we have this whistle blower which anyone that has any interest in this ridiculous do. dismal story knows who we're talking about ok it's minute in the media outlets for quite a few quite a few days at least 10 maybe 2 weeks now and now facebook and google and you tube they're scrubbing everything that's number one number 2 the epstein story is back in the news a young producer being on the left a.b.c. news and then went to c.b.s. and they claim she leaked the this interview or interview with an a.b.c.

presenter and she said she didn't do it but she's fired anyway and they don't want to follow up on it this is the age of the gag order go ahead in athens. you know peter i mean what you're seeing here is the mainstream media in collusion with social media in collusion with the intelligence agencies the deep state who are also working with the democrats in this impeachment inquiry hoax which is a whole another ridiculous matter in and of itself but what you have right now peter i mean when you look at these 2 stories which both broke around the same time on the one hand you have this person who has what i would describe as a malicious cia gossip blower there's no way he's a whistle blower that's that's without a doubt there is a water cooler food exactly exactly what you have here but you're not allowed to say this person's name even though his name was mentioned i believe it was april 20th.