disturbing images here from hong kong where protesters have set a man on fire apparently for being pro china. several countries have denounced events in bolivia as a coup after president evo morales resigned apparently under pressure from the military following weeks of street violence. president bashar al assad shared his thoughts in an exclusive interview with r.t. the 1st time that he's spoken to an international channel for more than a year. of the concrete. in different ways in different free recording. or money. financial resources rights. the rights political rights.

you're watching r.t. international pressure joining us this evening. going to start with some shocking footage that emerged of a man being set on fire this is in hong kong have to got into an argument with protesters and i must warn you may find these images disturbing. was. that was taken to hospital in a critical condition earlier in the day in anti-government protesters being shot at close range by a police officer at least later said that the man who tried to grab the officers weapons. intended to hurt him while the clashes between protesters and police left 60 people injured on scale and the government process in hong kong started in june and of turn. and increasingly volatile since political analysts and journalists and

their wilczek police 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 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 of hong kong police is using some of the softest arctics there fill it with much softer than in europe much softer than in barcelona or in paris there is really no a loose loyalty is the gist it's a selfish sophie generation they don't know will be real it's actually if you analyze them their demands or would bring them more towards beijing. so they

go against beijing or while their demands are precisely what the people's republic of china is doing it grows the line in their citizenship journey one jaw you can see young everybody. bolivia is reeling from the resignation of its president evo morales announced he be stepping down on sunday after facing opposition from the military and the police at america's longest serving president has been under pressure to go since his disputed reelection last month with critics claiming that that was rigged since his announcement violent incidents have been reported in and around the capital. now these pictures here purportedly show moral as this house which was vandalized

but reports say the vice president's home was also ransacked it's not easy because dollars 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 that's what i meant that it's totally glorious for us we're very happy i did long lead good well here's 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 hayes we suggested to the president the state to resign his presidential mandate to allow for peace and stability for the good of our believe that 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. 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 sleaze that my brothers and sisters leaders thirty's 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 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 as believing 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 and 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 him to resign

you don't ask. when you're pointing out that some words. you're still her wallet they're not giving up or voluntarily. they know that the alternative was wrong her horse's sister's house was burning. members of the further. we saw that tactic used. 28 chair so all of this all of this things that are. familiar to us a little bit of scrabulous stomach radek. meanwhile the senate's 2nd vice president and his chavez who stemp really picked up the reins of power has announced elections will be held before the end of january and says several countries have spoken out against the resignation of morale this denouncing the event as a coup the bolivian opposition claims the police are currently seeking to detain

the former leader but the chief of police denies that there is a warrant out for his arrest for sure also condemned the situation in bolivia saying it looks like a directed to a view shared by former ecuadorian president rafael correa. we saw in bolivia was a coup to thai police refused to be 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 this been imposed and forced upon the tragic reality of latin america is that progressive leaders are under assault was signing off for a tarion morales enough laura terry and 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 a sense. syrian president bashar al assad has denied accusations the government

forces have been targeting civilians in an exclusive interview with r.t. is going underground present action returns he touched on the us looting of his country's oil he also shared his view on the actions of the kurds in turkey in his country. how did i says roy roth suddenly in 2014 out of nowhere after all 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 export or like the usa be interested in $30000000.00 of oil a month no things i says the started sparkling syrian oil and oil in 2014 they had to partner with her. and his coterie and their america

where the cia or others the american or with try to loot other countries in in different ways in different ways regarding peer not only oil or money or financial resources they do their rights their rights political rights every every other right the historical role at least after world war 2 and as with girlish forces are they just tired after serving the 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 kurds and arabs and others 2nd when we talk about that is the of because in the. prevent part of the kurds the measured it was 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 id the one who is being supported by the americans publicly they are

mom and their money they smuggled all together. they are american. asians to be with most of them i wouldn't hold in 30 all of them i don't know all of them but their party policy during the last few years is to invite the american kristie to be angry when the american wants to leave. and we don't want to join the syrian army simply had you saying exactly what mr herder one would say of the s.g. of all them actually they are going to have 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 they work in tandem to usher in death. but at the same time though those group. of your way to give him the excuse and the reason to invite syria that doesn't mean invasion is legal is the

illegal in every things all the world but to give him the prettiest course he has been announcing for year that he wanted to invade the northern part of syria and he wanted to clean that earlier from the terrorists and he mean the people waited because it gave him the. excuse but what happened that's why they were to blame but erdogan has invaded. and you can watch the whole interview in just under 3 hours time here on r.t. international or you can watch it any time on our website r.t. dot com. because the founder of the controversial white helmets rescue group in syria has been found dead near his apartment in istanbul the u.k. media has been quick to point the finger of blame at russia but he's been a caution of explains. this might have been a news story about alleged suicide

a former british army officer who helped start the white house miss has been found dead near his home in istanbul according to old 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 a 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. the investigation into the death of joseph lammers year hasn't started yet but the british media radio acting in their band all manner they

blame those russians for everything another highly likely media scandal has been launched but the white house is are quite controversial haleigh. 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 have really criticized by russia and now as this tweet and his staff all come in handy for any other wave of news about the hands of the kremlin. veterans across the united states are being celebrated today on annual veterans day holiday but it seems not everybody is feeling festive according to a new survey a majority of military veterans believe that america's most recent wars would worth fighting in fact almost 2 thirds of veterans polled said the iraq war had not been 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 at 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 on right to police dissent in the military is not what it once was. 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 a instrument of foreign policy and i myself was in afghanistan in december of 2001 as a diplomat 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 it's up to us civilians to say to our government stop these wars of choice stop killing people around the world 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 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. nigerian film lion has been banned from the oscars best international film category for having too much dialogue in english and it's the country's 1st submission for an academy award for 5 years english is one of the country's official languages after being a british colony for more than a century. lionheart is in severe debt and now it's time to p.r. in 30 days and risk losing everything in this great pascall every man gets a little prompting everyone lose their charts and they are depending on me and i feel like come. to qualify for the oscars international category

a film must be more than 40 minutes long of north american production and have most of his dialogue not in english but lion hearts director is furious about decision saying that english connects a country's people this movie represents the way we speak as my dear ian's 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 as ever this film and many like it is proudly nigerian. of the situation of spot disputes on live with some condemning the decision to disqualify the movie c.j.r. bassy a member of the nigerian oscar committee and co-writer of lion heart as nigeria's past wasn't taken into consideration by the academy. being inclusive is also about being nuanced also about on the stand in the cases that make different

nationalities unique in themselves so as much as you're not seen pages bring in any film as even if it's an english. you know you also have to recognize the authenticity of the things that make. each nation unique in itself so like for example when a country like nigeria we one of our lingo. lingua franca you speak in english pigeon english if you speak pidgin english you know. 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 pigeon 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 there are nuances to these things and 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. 3 u.s.

democratic senators said to request for documents on donald trump's alleged communication with attorney general william bartram visit or what did to hold a news conference to back the president over a much discussed phone conversation with his ukrainian counterpart some media site anonymous sources for those supposedly familiar with the matter alleging misconduct in job school but have provided no solid details to back that up is on the scale or more pin on a growing trend in our coverage. donald trump has been caught by the media once again this time it's for asking william barr the u.s. attorney general to hold a press conference saying the president had been cleared of any wrongdoing and abuse of power asking the department of justice to work for his own personal and political game shameful the media is denouncing this wrongdoing not surprising it's one of those trump stories where it is it is both shocking and not surprising at the same time of course of course he asked william barr he said in the past of

course president trump thinks that bill barr would come out to defend him well hold on this press conference never happened and trump says that he never proposed it the story of the emmys in washington post's of course picked up by fake news c.n.n. is totally untrue and just another fake news story with enormous sources that don't exist well the washington post says they've got him they caught him red handed and how does the washington post say that they know donald trump committed this dastardly deed prison term wanted attorney general william p. boone to hold a news conference people familiar with the mets said yeah it's another one of those stories in $29000.00 america nothing actually happened but someone overheard someone else tells somebody that there was a conversation about it is the making of a headline yes american journalists have always relied on inside sources for details and fact checking but there's

a lot more to reporting than that lately stories like that relying on hearsay and lacking any solid details have been plastered all over the t.v. screens remember the story about the snakes and alligators apparently donald trump one of the most full of them bursting all along the u.s. border with the new york times reporting it's based on interviews with more than a dozen white house and administration officials directly involved ok president had often talked about fortifying a border wall with a water filled trench. stocked with snakes or alligators prompting aides to seek a cost estimate but just like the press conference this never actually happened take your mind back to when yahoo news reported that over the war donald trump was going to scrap the sanctions on russia as soon as he entered the white house a new report tonight suggests that from the earliest days of downtimes presidency his administration was working hard to lift more easy u.s. sanctions against russia one pending question is why the trumpet ministration has

considered lifting academic sanctions on russia in fact donald trump has not lifted a single sanction against russia he's imposed more now dear a member when donald trump was planning to fire robert muller in order to protect himself from the investigation president was considering firing special prosecutor robert maher and now 7 months later the new york times is confirming april ryan's report and adding that the president actually ordered the firing he has made progress in his effort to lay the groundwork for firing well yeah that one didn't happen either this is the new normal for american media this just again inside sources say that they heard someone say that someone said donald trump is planning a voodoo witchcraft ceremony to resurrect adult hitler from the dead expect that headline tomorrow the donald trump reality show networks like c.n.n. are making more money in terms of profits than they've ever made off with the

donald trump reality show and very little of it and i speak as a former reporter for the new york times very little of it counts as news. yeah it's kind of blogs it would spur less it's a carnival it's i mean you know the problem is trump is not consistent in anything that he says or does i mean i thought both sides the media. you know doesn't really do news anymore is it and in a way it loads these kinds of. tweaks because trump that you know it's always remarkable the media is complicit but it's a kind of it's it's a non reality based television show and and trump gets a lot of air time and the media makes a lot of money preaching company the same thing this is all to international i'll be back with more headlines and often.

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other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. big tech and the political left unite 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 is changed everything. isis the most brutally violent terror group in modern history the isis now controls a broad swath of land in iraq and syria and over seas an estimated 6000000 people.

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