disturbing images from hong kong where protesters have set a man on fire apparently for being pro chinese. several countries denounced events in bolivia as a. president resigns apparently under pressure from the military following weeks of street by. syrian president bashar al assad shares his thoughts in an exclusive interview with r.t. it's the 1st time he's spoken to an international channel in more than a year. quite to other countries. in different ways in different ways regarding p.r. not only always or money or financial resources they do their rights.

their rights political rights. thanks for joining as you watching r.t. international. shocking footage of a man being set on fire in hong kong have to getting into an argument with protesters i must warn you you may well find these images coming up now disturbing . was the look was. running through there was taken to hospital in a critical condition earlier in the day an anti-government protest there was shot at close range by the police officer slater said that the manager tried to grab the officers weapon and the officer didn't intend to hurt him but the clashes between

protesters and police have left more than 60 people injured. antigovernment protests in hong kong began in june and have turned increasingly volatile since political analyst and journalist checked believes that hong kong demonstrators don't really know what they want. protester was. set on fire a man who basically disagreed with him this is terrible but this is not new when i was covering hong kong recently i so that people were being beaten up. just for expressing their support for the people's republic of china just for showing chinese fire which is actually a company to which of hong kong belongs they can simply talk about all these brutality hong kong police is using some of the softest arctics there for if we watch software there in europe much softer than in barcelona or in paris there is really no loose no ideas the just is

a selfish sophie generation they don't rule the world. actually if you analyze them their demands or would bring them more towards beijing. so they go against beijing a while their demands are precisely what the people's republic of china is doing it grows the line in their citizenship journey one jaw psionic every word. bolivia is reeling from the resignation of its president evo morales announced that he be stepping down on sunday after facing opposition from the military and police america's longest serving president had been under pressure to go since is disputed reelection last month which critics claimed was rigged since his announcement violent incidents have been reported in and around its capital.

and these pictures now purportedly show morale this is house vandalized reports say the vice president's home was also ransacked auntie's you can start off takes us through the latest events from bolivia. you may have heard that bolivia has lately been celebrating a triumph of democracy. to put livia to its people to young people to women to the heroism of peaceful resistance who will never forget this unique day the end of terror and grateful as a bolivian for this historical lesson long live bolivia absolutely delighted grateful to god that this dictatorship is over this tyranny is over at the moment it's totally glorious for us we're very happy long leave democracy well here is what a triumph of democracy has looked like in bolivia president morales resigned the

vice president resigned the president of the senate the 3rd person in line for the top job you guessed it resigned. the bolivian army and security forces are the only viable force left after they renounce their allegiance to the government and took the side of the protesters hey we suggest to the president of the state to resign his presidential mandate to allow for peace and stability for the good of our believe yeah. but it's not as black and white as the anti government side might want you to think plenty of people have been supporting evo morales in the streets and it's them who have been getting the short end of the stake here to see. if it

did. in fact that was the key reason for morale is to throw in the towel he wanted the violent. to cease this. one when deciding to resign so the opposition doesn't keep pursuing my brothers and the unions we are resigning i'm resigning prefer sleeze that my brothers and sisters leaders of the socialist movements don't continue to be held hostage and threatened because in bolivia morales has no one not a 100 not a 1000 supporters he's got millions this is a tobar of 47 percent of bolivians voted for morality and while critics of the

ballot are screaming bloody murder this is specter the election fraud is within a 3 percent margin evil moralities a die hard leftist has been leading bolivia for 14 years under his rule the country's economy has been growing faster than at any period over the past 3 and a half decades morales viewed as the voice of the poor managed to drastically reduce poverty and economic inequality he significantly increased the minimum wage to an boosted social spending millions had no problem with that and all of them are now represented and protected by nobody now the military is the only element capable of filling the power vacuum and bolivia and well some experts on latin america aren't optimistic about what the army can do for the country it's

terrible it's a military coup yesterday the term that was used was asked. you don't ask. when you're pointing out that someone. you're still their wallet they're not giving up or voluntarily. they know that the alternative was evo morales sister's house was burned. members of the furtive. tactic used. 28 chan so all of this all of this things that are. familiar to us and none of them can be described as stomach craddick. several countries are spoken out against the resignation of morales denouncing the event as a coup the believing opposition claims the police are currently seeking to detain

the former leader the chief of police denies that there's a warrant out for his arrest russia also condemned the situation and believe is saying it looks like a directed view shared by former ecuadorian president rafael career. what we saw in bolivia was a coup d'etat police refused to obey the legitimate authority of the government and forces demanded the president step down what else do you expect this can't happen under the normal rule of law this is a resignation that's been imposed and forced upon the tragic reality of latin america is that progressive leaders are under assault was i a north or a terry in. sin authoritarian no the thing is that we are a menace to the system when things calm down bolivians will realize that they've been manipulated i mean they saw 14 years of the biggest growth and prosperity in the history of the country they'll come to their senses. syrian president bashar al

assad has denied accusations government forces have been targeting civilians in an exclusive interview given to artie's going underground present to action by tansy to stun the u.s. looting of this country's oil and so shared his view on the actions of the kurds in turkey and his country. how did i says roy roth suddenly in 2014 out of nowhere after nothing. in iraq and syria at the same time with american armament. the be physically the russians are saying that the us is stealing $30000000.00 of oil a month from northern syria is this a trump budgeting chip in the geneva talks why would net oil exporter like the usa be interested in $30000000.00 of oil a month no things i says the started spiking syrian oil in oil in 2014 they had to partner with her. and his coterie and the american with the cia or others the american always try to loot other countries in in

different ways in different ways regarding peer not only always or money or financial resources they do their rights. their rights political rights every every other right historical role at least after world war 2 and as for girlish forces are they just tired after so many years i mean your understanding is they took money from. the united states the cia i know you're welcoming them back you're worth 1st of all there is the if is not only could it's mix of curtain rods and others think and when we talk about that is the of because in that is the ability to prevent. the measured it all because they had good relation of the government and the measured it all because support that support the government but this which is called the people id is the one who has been supported by the americans publicly

they are men their money they smuggled oil together. they are american. agents to be with most of them. all of them i don't know. all of them but they are part of the policy during the last few years is to invite the american trustee to be angry when the american wants to leave. and to say we don't want to join the syrian army simply had you saying exactly what mr herder one would treat with a protest about them actually they are going to has his own agenda which is to part his own agenda as muslim brotherhood and the american agenda as a puppet so it's to pot but their work intended to usher in death. but at the same time though those group of people i did give him the excuse and the reason to invite syria that doesn't mean invasion is legal is

illegal in every things all the world but to give him the pretext because he's been announcing for year that he wanted to invade the northern part of syria and he wanted to clean that area from the terrorists and he mean the people why did they keep it give him the. excuse but what happened that's why they were to blame but erdogan has invaded. and you can watch the tire interview in just under 3 hours time right here on r.t. international or you can head anytime to our website and watch it r.t. dot com. coming up the apparent suicide of a co-founder of the white helmets rescue group is being blamed on russia by the british media all planned out why shortly.

join me every thursday on the alex simon sure and i'll be speaking to guest of the

world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then. welcome back veterans across the united states of being celebrated today on the annual veterans day holiday but it seems not everybody is feeling festive according to a new survey the majority of military veterans believe america's most recent wars were not worth fighting or c. thirds of veterans polled said that the iraq war not being worth the effort more than half expressed similar feelings over afghanistan the figures for the general public are around the same nevertheless after almost 20 years in afghanistan the joint chiefs of staff chairman confirmed over the weekend it's not over yet. that

efforts ongoing has been ongoing for 18 consecutive years and i suspect it'll be ongoing into the future for for several more years that mission is not yet complete . former u.s. army colonel ann wright joins from the line now places to speak to. see the survey findings is it surprising. not surprising at all u.s. military veterans from all wars are very very concerned about the propensity of the united states to continue to use warmongering as an instrument of foreign policy and i myself was in afghanistan in december of 2001 as a diplomat i helped to reopen the u.s. embassy there and that's 18 years ago and at that time we were telling washington you only have a small window of opportunity here because just like the soviet union that went into afghanistan in the 1980 s. the u.s. going into afghanistan in 2001. will ultimately suffer

a great losses and the afghan people more importantly as we've seen over these last 18 years and particularly in the last 6 or 7 years are suffering for a minute as tremendous casualties and deaths as a veteran yourself from your experience and the people that you fought alongside are they aware at the time that you know maybe they they question what that it is that they're doing or is it only after the fact that they start to realize perhaps what you know we shouldn't bring it. oh many times while. people are in the military all of us and it starts dawning on them like oh this wasn't all it was cracked up to be and in fact we do have people within the military that are desperately trying to talk to the are senior officials of course once you're in the military are kind of stuck that's why we is now civilians and i i as a better and better and for peace it's up to s.f. billions to say to our government stop these wars of choice stop killing people

around the world are people in the military have their duties there but they should we should not rely on them as the ones that are trying to stop the wars we the civilians that vote these politicians in are the ones that have to do it i would have thought is unknown extremely difficult in terms of a morale and also just trying to do your job properly if you've got members of the military questioning the legitimacy of what they're doing in a combat scenario. well indeed it is and that's why you know military officials of the higher end rank are always trying to put the best gloss on everything so that there won't be revolts among the troops as there were definitely and in vietnam in one of the reasons a vietnam war ended was because of the revolts within the military itself and now that we have all volunteer army and we have more military contractors that are

getting paid double and triple what our military are they're making lots of money off these wars. we don't have nearly as much dissent within the military as we did during the vietnam war when it was all volunteers or when it was all draftees the survey also found those deployed post on 11 were more lawyers have experienced emotional trauma do you know why that is. well i think all of every one in all these wars trauma it's just that now the veterans administration is starting to treat more of them we still have a lot you know millions of people that were in the vietnam war that are suffering and some of them are getting treatment but there are lots of them that have never been a dinna fight as having post-traumatic stress although their families can sure tell you that they have it because they have fits of anger or they are unable to really work within a family environment they may be abusive so everyone that preaches updates in

these military operations you should one should and our government should recognize that they will need lifelong help mental help and many of them physical help to and to survive lot has happened to them while they've been in the military and it's you know one more reason why these military operations these are going to wars really should be carefully thought out and they're not there the military is being used as an expendable force by politicians that are getting paid off by the military industrial complex who only makes money when we have wars. well for movies were they were much talked about in the last presidential election unfortunately as you mentioned that they all very big business and a lot of people profit from them do you think the we'll hear a lot of talk in the 2020 lection about you know foreign military campaigns probably not it's one of the things that politicians like to be away from because

if they start challenging they swore so then their opponents will say they are weak on national security that they are trying to undermine the military so most of these politicians try to stay clear of it many thanks on pretty shit you joining us here in r.t. former u.s. army colonel wright is my guest. thank you. the co-founder of the controversial white helmets rescue group in syria has been found dead near his apartment in istanbul the u.k. me just been quick to point the finger at russia he's been a coach and explains this might have been a news story about a latch to suicide a former british army officer who helped start the white house mess has been found dead near his home in istanbul according to all news sources he foul off the balcony of his home office and that would have been the end of it if not for one detail according to the british media russia pushed him well not literally of

course but if the u.k. tabloids are to be believed it happened right after the russian foreign ministry tweeted that he was an am i 6. the white house is co-founder james the mystery is a former agent of britain's am i 6 who has been spotted all over the world including the balkans and the middle east his connections to terrorist groups were reported back during his mission in kosovo the russian foreign ministry has commented on these allegations and the british press. investigation into the death of joseph lammers year hasn't started yet but the british media radio acting in their battle manner they blame those russians for everything another highly likely media scandal has been launched but the white house says are quite controversial haleigh disfigure less rescue workers by the western media the white house have been accused of associating with al qaida and other terrorist groups inside syria

photographs and videos show members of this civil defense organization posing with jihad is they have also been accused of staging chemical attacks used as justification by western nations to carry out strikes against the syrian military and its allies. white helmet to t. was how many criticized by russia and now this tweet and his staff all come in

handy for and no other wave of news about the hand of the kremlin we're watching all to international thanks for joining us this evening well can i say we're taking a break for about half an hour but i will be back with updates on our top story see that. what politicians do. they put themselves on the line they did accept the reject. so when you want to be president. or some want to. have to go right to the press this is what the local tree in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters about how. this city. is your media a reflection of reality. in

a world transformed. what will make you feel safe. high salacious community. are you going the right way or are you being led. away. what is true what is faith. in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the depths. or a maybe in the shallows. big tank in the political left tonight the age of the gag order is underway and is boris johnson said to win in win big in the general election briggs it would seem has changed everything.

time of the time corporations repeat the same mantra sustainability it's very important celery transitions to sustainable transport sustainability stay in her man. more equitable and sustainable well. they claim their production is completely hama's go do sneak. it into something companies want us to feel good about buying their products while the damage is being done far away this is again this let's keep going to an even and i mean look. this is the move him you missed me didn't. seem to me understood superman in. the do unto others yeah. lesbo.

done of the kind of you going to. do that this is want to preserve this and this is where we're all good but that is it a lot of them in. the us so we don't have all the armor of these younger there so we also see them how much to have received numbers of. down this. is it and as an incentive to keep the son with me and his son o'brien body have it but what i had in. house when i didn't let the son do a lot to do what i did a ton of good to move on. now but if so. as

well as i say i got enough. on him this. last month in philadelphia nicholas crew was the 1st move that catches those as with assume that a city that had a city county 2 because he must have been towing at this. time of course one has to get a suitable. and almost as you can. you must equal the news move a solid. as it has been. both on the. ocean ship as your husband's over the husky the summit was a committee to tell you what to do and as i would go on having bosses that you can . go through. the course one vision up. thank you so i can.

the host just. as. well that's how. long. will. it. i say to him like this cause reminder system. to. work to care but it. could mean it could mean. a whole on a good as video money to help. the sonic knob. song.

as it was a habitat. because. as. well it's. as. much i guess i think he did how much was he. was a dick. who was on it i mean for this reason. you know if you did not benefit she. was. a no no no. no no i. don't want you not even one group of.

people are.