donald trump welcomes the resignation of the bolivian president who quit apparently under pressure from the military following weeks of street violence at the same time several countries denounce events in the latin american country as a coup. disturbing images from hong kong where protesters set a man on fire apparently for being pro chinese. and 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. or with other countries. in different in different ways regarding to and not for the oil or money or. resources legal

rights. the rights political rights. alone you're watching the international i'm words on a lot with welcome to the program now the former president of bolivia aber morales has been granted political asylum by mexico the leftist lead to resign on sunday after weeks of street on rest in the past and he accused opposition parties of staging a coup against him donald trump earlier welcome brothers decision to step down. the resignation yesterday of believin president ever more rallies is a significant moment for democracy in the western hemisphere these events send a strong signal to the illegitimate regimes in venezuela and nicaragua the democracy and the will of the people will always prevail well since morale has

announced his departure the bolivian capital has to send it into chaos with cases of looting and also. these pictures before today show morale is house being vandalized and reports say the beis president's home was also ransacked as were the residences of several cabinet ministers. several countries have spoken out against the resignation of morale is denouncing the event as a coup meanwhile the bolivian opposition claims the police a currently seeking to detain him but the chief of police denies there is a warrant out for more hours as arrest russia has also condemned the situation in bolivia saying it looks like a directive coup it goes down the takes us through the latest events 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 time and it's totally glorious for us we're very happy long leave good luck 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 you. 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. in fact that was the key reason for morale us to throw in the towel he wanted the

violent. to cease this is a little. more than one deciding to resign so the opposition doesn't keep pursuing my brothers and the unions we all resigning i'm resigning prefers leave that my brothers and sisters leaders of the socialist movement 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 under konami can equality 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 i don't think the military control is is good for but just like i don't think it's good in any country they weren't elected. we need to have an elected leader and that's even more hours and when you see a coup and the president was basically forced to resign. in the international

community needs to take a hard stance against and unfortunately that's something the united states hasn't done and. something says an intergovernmental regency hasn't done i think there needs to be independent investigation about what the oas did in bolivia. basically precipitated this crisis. and cause a loss of confidence in the election it's hard to believe somebody that could say it's a positive development for democracy when the person who received the most votes in the election is you know thrown out by the military and by an opposition that is increasingly violent and i don't think there can be a democratic transition or a transition or a solution to this crisis unless that party is able to participate in a well the situation with the libya came to a head when the organization of american states called for the country's recent election to be an old 22 regularities that's organization is made up of states from across the americas and aims to promote peace among those countries its

headquarters is based in washington and it does receive 60 percent of its funding from the u.s. but it's not been short of controversy in the past particularly the haiti elections back in 2011 back then the oas was accused of pressuring the local election authorities to overturn the 1st round is that without a recount the groups actions in haiti drew widespread condemnation meanwhile this latest statement on the libya the oas said it is against any unconstitutional means of ending the crisis and it calls for peace and the rule of law to be restored and he was activist gloria re the believes the oas is merely a tool of u.s. influence. organization american states includes or included all the states and the western hemisphere the americas the caribbean latin america including the u.s. and canada it is an instrument of the united states to meet his domination political economic military in the americans we have seen the away as

general secretary was armado who is a complete puppet of the united states. pressure than us well over and over he has tried to rally the member states of the oil to vote to censure and perhaps expel them as well in the future but he has not shied away from now attacking believe you are claiming electoral fraud. but actually manipulated things immediately at the end of the pronouncement that while ours the winner and will now require a 2nd rather than oas and our mother immediately said that there was fraud and there without any kind of argentina or any kind of the real recounting of the ballots so it is really a political instrument the countries that try to break away from us in words and domination. now turning to some other headline news shocking footage has emerged of

a man being set on fire in hong kong after getting into an argument with protestors and a warning that some of the upcoming footage is very disturbing. 5 was one of the. seams that you'd see in a wall disaster zone that would shock even the most hardened viewers today's pictures from hong kong reach new lows the man in this footage hasn't been identified yet authorities have only confirmed he is in a critical condition police say he was attacked after arguing with a variety of footage of the disorder is a regular feature on global news bulletins one could be forgiven for forgetting how and why this all began we must take action to demonstrate to president g. the united states senate stand shoulder to shoulder with the people of hong kong the people of hong kong are perfectly within their rights to be very skeptical very

anxious about proposals for extradition to the mainland so yes i do support them and i will happily speak up to them and back them every inch of the way the u.k. signed an internationally binding legal agreement in 1984 that in trying to the one country 2 systems rule in trying to the basic freedoms of the people of hong kong and we stand for square behind that agreement foursquare behind the people of hong kong all those months ago the demonstrators objectives and demands seem to be clear as time has passed and lines blurred this has changed this isn't the 1st such case of targeted violence merely another step in a pattern of escalation a middle aged unarmed man left unconscious on the ground after of swarming attack by demonstrators global times journalist food go out bound and beaten in hong kong

airport for his support of author. jr's home a probe aging lawmaker forming victims of a knife attack which could have ended far worse. amid rising arson looting and violence police are also upping the stakes that day is the 3rd time live rounds have been used by officers is another protester in critical condition an officer plowing his motorbike into a mass of people 2 of them reportedly injured thousands wounded in clashes it's almost a miracle the body count from the violence isn't higher some say the situation was predictable or claim it's of voidable the protesters that they simply out of options the truth could lie somewhere in between but as the protests reach a point of no return compromise seems to be the last priority for any side. hong kong has been gripped by arrests since june it was initially triggered by

a bill allowing extraditions to mainland china then in september hong kong's leader kerry lamb announced that bill would be suspended but that didn't stop the demonstrations which have since become increasingly violent we heard from pak no one has seen the electorate in politics at the university of bath and he told us the intense violence is undermining the message of the hong kong protesters i have seen a lot of media coverage your own can. be biased and they have been also all ones either be sympathetic with the protesters their cameras or some morsy focusing on how the police handled the protestant instead of all those kind of fall insane misbehavior can complete the by the protesters because the violence has already domi the legitimacy and the popularity of the movement. the majority of the people who supported nonviolence resistance they have

already why likewise in silence and move far from the scene and what we are only seeing in the television and the deal now these are the violent protesters. running around in a kind of. style and it's very difficult for the police to persecute them. syrian president bashar al assad has denied accusations that government forces have been targeting civilians in an exclusive interview with r.t. is going underground present afshin rattansi he touched on the us looting of his country's oil and he also shared his view on the actions of the kurds and 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 2 partners had a guy 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 oil or money or financial resources they do their rights their rights political rights every every other right of birth 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 this is not only kurds it's mix of kurds and of and others 2nd when we talk about that is the of because in their to prevent. 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 people id is the one who is being supported by the americans publicly they armament their money they smuggled oil together. there are american. agents to be with most of them i wouldn't i wouldn't 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 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 say to me about

the s.g. of all of them actually they had to go and 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 they were 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 they gave him the pretext because he's been announcing for years 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 way they dictate. gave him the. excuse but what happened 1st why they were to blame but out of the news invader.

to watch that interview in full head to our web site r.t. dot com. veterans across the u.s. are being celebrated today on the annual veteran's day holiday but it seems not everyone is feeling a festive according to a new survey a majority of military veterans believe america's most recent wars were not worth fighting almost 2 thirds of veterans polled said the iraq war had not been worth the effort a more than half expressed similar feelings over ghana stan the figures for the general public are around the same nevertheless after almost 20 years now afghanistan the joint chiefs of staff chairman confirmed over the weekend that it's not over yet that efforts ongoing has been ongoing for 18 consecutive years i suspect it'll be ongoing into the future for for several more years that mission is not yet complete well the u.s. army veteran we spoke to told us that soldiers are sent to fight in foreign wars that only benefit military contractors are served in iraq if you count them for

2005 as a sniper. you know my. my opinions about the mission in iraq changed while i was there we were told that it was weapons of mass destruction that there were ties to 911 that we were bringing democracy to the people and i felt like we were doing many of those things you're serving in in a large large extended urban area it's an occupation and you're serving under really areas of the battlefield that i fought on were you know people's houses their people back yards you know they were their children you know hours after we were done having a fire by in an area there were kids out played soccer where we were having a fire fight i think our military industrial complex profiting from or and i think we actually made our nation less safe less secure and we didn't defend our national security we created a lot of enemies internationally where we could have is as deep of enemies and it's going to create a lot of conflict and strike for the american people and our communities future. a

co-founder of the controversial what helmets rescue group in syria has been found dead in his apartment in a sample of the u.k. media has been quick to point the finger at russia medina kitchen of ahaz mole this might have been the news story about alleged suicide a former british army officer who helped start the white house mess has been found dead near his home in istanbul according to old news sources he sal 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 by. 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. 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 disappeared 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 jihadists 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 60 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 hound of the kremlin. well let's now take a look at some of the top stories from around the world starting with chile the country has entered a 5th week of unrest with demonstrations rejecting a government plan to rewrite the constitution the pinochet era legal system is

widely blamed for the high level of inequality in chile earlier the interior minister offered to redraw it and hold a referendum but critics say the proposed changes do not go far enough and will only help the ruling. yes. meanwhile from poland people across the country have been celebrating independence day around 50000 people joined a march in warsaw where people held up christian crosses red flags in the national flags many also was historical all new uniforms independence day commemorates the restoration of the polish state in 1918. catalonia activists have blocked a motorway linking spain and frogs the protest organized by the democratic tsunami campaign group came a day after the spanish general election catalonia has been gripped by restaurants middle toba that's off the record sense and several independents lead us to a lengthy prison terms. well that's your news update for now i'm. back here with

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is broadcasting around the world and covering all aspects of our global economy in the 21st century. and i'm christiane washington here's a look at what's on deck today. following a surge and stocks on trade optimism last week stocks have pulled causing concern to tear the market leadership of the euro pacific trading it standing by to break down stock traders and what this role plays in the back of the metal sector. as technology continues to speed forward should society tap the brakes just long enough to sort out the developments today we talked with you on all stern lessons from copenhagen denmark about the growth of micro chip being human and what the role controversial practice is could play in the cashless society so much on our plate today so little to the side right here. chinese e-commerce giant ali baba set

new records on singles day the world's largest 24 hour shopping event bringing in over $31000000000.00 in gross sales this was the 11th edition of the annual singles day event which traditionally exceeds the spending by consumers during any single u.s. shopping holiday such as black friday or cyber monday this year ali baba placed a heavy emphasis on live streaming to help sell goods online personalities and celebrities such as kim card ashton jet and tell us what made appearances to boost sales and up the hype factor as it faced competition from other domestic rivals like j.d. dot com and payne blog all all offering their own sales singles day is being held up as a bellwether of the chinese consumers willingness to spend in the face of a domestic slowdown amid the ongoing trade war there was some concern that american brands would suffer but that was evidently. the case american brands came in 2nd by g.m.t. in terms of countries selling to china and there was no evidence that sentiment was

on decline given this is the biggest haul in the history of singles day ali baba looks to be well positioned to weather out the trade war versus its peers with ali baba busy preparing to issue another $15000000000.00 in landmark share sales later on this month in hong kong a new single day record could help boost demand for shares as well as to lift the asian financial hub as it struggles from the continued riots. meanwhile shares everywhere else around the world fell monday as hopes for a breakthrough in the trade war between china and the u.s. diminished after president trump and washington had agreed not to gradually roll back tariffs early optimism that pushed the s.n.p. to all time high had gone too far and the market should have known better after all this is the umpteenth time that we've experienced this one step forward 2 steps back rhetoric where promises of a breakthrough fell short and talks collapsed at the 11th hour looking further ahead this week we can expect to see more fallout amid trade balance manufacturing

and industrial production as the global trade weekends germany is set to release 3rd quarter growth data thursday and after 2 consecutive negative growth quarters it is expected that germany is technically in a recession the biggest issue for the country is industrial output which actually fell more than expected in september dropping 0.6 percent on the month pointing to ongoing weakness manufacturers which are reliant on exports have also suffered from a slowing world economy and uncertainty linked to trade and the brags that while there had been hopes for a turnaround that hope is fading fast as germany's industry is contract ing due to shifting consumer trends shrinking investment spend and souring sentiment despite the slight uptick in september industrial orders the reality is structural flaws in the industrial sector will hold back in the recovery the reality is this germany is currently struggling with a rapidly aging population which constricts the skilled workers market keeping productivity grow.