of. a terrible choice between. mexico grants political asylum to bolivia's former president evo morales who resigned from his position and fled his country following weeks of turmoil we talked to a former leader of ecuador he calls what has happened in bolivia a. move the army commander asked him to resign what could he do to avoid more bloodshed and violence just leave but this is what we call a coup. disturbing images from hong kong where protesters set a man on fire apparently for being supportive of beijing. and the u.s. holds annual veterans day celebrations to mark the service and sacrifice of its military personnel not everybody is happy the treatment of former soldiers. u.s.

military veterans from all wars are very very concerned about that but then city of the united states to continue to use warmongering as a instrument of foreign policy. but are there good morning you're watching r.t. international is just going to moscow now the ousted bolivian president evo morales is on his way to mexico granted him political asylum he resigned on monday apparently under pressure from the military and what he described as a kid. sisters and brothers i'm leaving for mexico grateful for the openness of these brothers who offered us asylum to protect our life it hurts to leave the country for political reasons but i will stay in touch i will soon return with more strength and energy says morale this is resignation bolivia's been rocked by more

unrest there were scenes of looting in the capital with buses set on fire mass protests began over the disputed recent presidential election with opponents of morales insinuating fraud the final result gave him just enough of a lead to avoid a runoff and while some celebrate the socialist leader stepping down after 14 years in power supporters of morales have turned out in large numbers both in bolivia and across latin america hugo she done off as more you may have heard that bolivia has lately been celebrating a triumph of democracy the resignation yesterday of believe in president ever morales is a significant moment for democracy in the western hemisphere these events send a strong signal to the illegitimate regimes in venezuela nicaragua the democracy and the will of the people will always prevail to bolivia its people the young the women to the heroism of peaceful resistance i will never forget this unique day the

end of tyranny grateful as a bolivian for this historical lesson long lived bolivia. i don't know if it was a breeze in south america or if it was oblivion hurricane of democracy be here today i feel a little breeze in venezuela of freedom and justice 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. 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 here. 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 violence to cease. and when deciding to resign so the opposition doesn't keep pursuing my brothers and the unions we all resigning i'm resigning prefer sleep so

that my brothers and sisters leaders of both origins 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 47 percent of bolivians voted for morale us and while critics of the ballot are screaming bloody murder the suspected 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 morale as 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 for the former i could during president rafael correa told us that morality his resignation did amount to a coup and could have resulted in worse violence. the opposition is now enjoying its fleeting triumph i hope that this will not lead to even more violence because even more or less has huge support among the population when everything calms down most bolivians and i believe they're good people will realize that they have been manipulated to have something to compare for 1314 years bolivia has experienced the highest level of prosperity in its history there has been stability economic growth the elimination of illiteracy the reduction of extreme poverty to almost

a 3rd the question of who won the election isn't worth it everyone knows that evo morales won the only question is the margin by which he won and the right are calling for violence in the most insulin way there are considerable resources and weapons behind them if there are clashes in the streets when there are no law enforcement agencies when the police state part in riots when the military says it will not go against the people were not god the embassies the palace of government what is left evo morales to do to avoid bloodshed to avoid more violence furthermore the army commander asked him to resign what could he do to avoid more bloodshed and violence just leave but this is what we call a coup. meanwhile bolivia's political turmoil has led to speculation regarding the country's resources some predicting that morality is ousting could open opportunities for multinational mining companies that's because bolivia is estimated to have 9000000 tonnes of lithium reserves the 2nd largest in the world

and that's significant as expert experts do predict that global demand for the mineral will triple by 2027 that increases being trevon by the rapid expansion of certain markets we can have a look at some here because today it is used in electric cars batteries for various portable electronic devices and also military hardware kaufman from the alliance for global justice thinks that bolivia has been hit by the resource curse. there is no question that washington as. the coup in bolivia as it's. behind regime change efforts in. every country of the particularly that has resources in june of this year present. the view it was going to. industrialize saying there are there lithium up till now it's just explore to raw materials but

his plan was for bolivia to begin producing batteries refining the lithium ion producing batteries themselves which cuts for. transnational corporations for a profit stream. he has a message to the man being set on fire in hong kong off to getting into a dispute with beijing protesters it would have warning you might find the following. well it was one of. the scenes that you'd see in a war or disaster zone that would shock even the most hardened viewers the man in this footage hasn't been identified yet authorities have only confirmed he's 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 have police speak up for them and. every inch of the way the u.k. signed an internationally binding legal agreement in 1904 that in trying one country 2 systems rule in trying to the basic freedoms of the people of hong kong and we stand foursquare 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 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 is higher some say the situation was predictable authorities 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 and organs there will hong kong has been gripped by unrest and was initially triggered by a bill allowing extraditions to mainland china in september hong kong's leader carry the bill would be suspended but that didn't stop the demonstrations which have since become increasingly violent we heard from packing one he's a senior lecturer in politics university of bath in the u.k. and claims the intense violence is undermining the message of hong kong's protesters. i have seen a lot of media coverage you've been caught. they have be biased and they have been also all ones either be sympathetic with the protesters their cameras or some mostly focusing on how the police handle the process that is that of all those kind of fall in the same misbehavior from a computer by the protesters because the violence has already damage the legitimacy

and the popularity of the movement. the majority of the people who support it nonviolence resistance they have already this why likewise in silence the move fall 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. as somber parades and wreath laying ceremony as were held in the u.s. on monday as the country marked that for an stay however this year's commemorations also drew protests in new york where demonstrators voiced their anger over america's continued involvement in foreign wars that is after almost 20 years in afghanistan the joint chiefs of staff chairman said the conflict there is far from over. that efforts are ongoing it's been ongoing for 18 consecutive years i suspect

it will be ongoing into the future for several more years that mission is not yet complete. i also made it clear that our commitment would not be open ended and that we would begin to draw down our forces this july. tonight i can tell you that we are fulfilling that commitment. why are we continuing to train these afghanis who then shoot our soldiers in the back afghanistan is a complete waste of time to come home. recent polls do show that a majority of veterans do not believe that the conflicts in either iraq or afghanistan were worth fighting the general public is similarly unsupportive of washington's involvement in those wars the us has maintained a continuous military presence in the middle east since 2003 it's been in afghanistan since 2001 and the peace talks there which would allow the us to pull out around going wrong though has called off negotiations several times we spoke to

a number of u.s. army veterans about this they told us that america's power projection abroad has actually made it less. 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 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 the us 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 tremendously tremendous casualties and deaths we're told that it was weapons of mass destruction

that there were ties to 911 that we're bringing democracy to the people and i felt like we were doing many of those things i think our military industrial complex is profiting from war and i think that we actually made our nation less safe and less secure and we didn't defend our national security we created a lot of enemies internationally where we didn't have is as deep of enemies and it's going to create a lot of conflict and strife for the american people in our communities in the future. of the u.k. general election just around the corner the leader of the opposition jeremy colvin has been branded the head of a stalinist cult you tack comes not from a rival posse but from an interfaith charity one that is receiving government funds to combat extremism and straddling as more on the story. the u.k. government is generous in granting money to various charities and organizations and that's undoubtedly good when those organizations are against islamophobia $97.00

says of building a more friendly society take for example faith matters a charity organization norge to help faith communities working on integration dealing with hate crime and countering extremism they've also been recipients of u.k. government funding through the home offices county extremism program but with elections looming and campaigns kicking off faith matters it seems also has another agenda as they've been accused of launching a major attack on the country's main opposition labor party and its leader jeremy corbyn describing the party as being a stalinist cult of korban this country needs an effective opposition for a healthy democracy labor is now regressing into a stalinist cult of call. as a left wing muslim i cannot vote for carbons labor the truth of course is that he has backed armed conflict dozens of times he just hasn't backed by u.k. forces faith matters has been accused of tweeting about labor and mr corbyn more

than 200 times since it was listed by the home office as a recipient of it support that's 5 times more than about the conservatives boris johnson or to reason may it's hard not to notice is that the organization is targeting corba not only for alleged anti semitism but also a ray of issues including sympathy to the syrian president bashar al assad for example faith matters denies the allegations of focusing their attacks on the labor party so they also criticized the ruling conservatives who have been plagued by repeated accusations of racism and islamophobia faith matters has been and will continue to be critical of the poor way in which anti-semitism has been tackled within the labor party correspondingly we have consistently been critical of the conservative party and their lack of transparency in action around stamping out anti muslim bigotry within parts of their membership base now it's not the 1st time

organizations financed by the u.k. government have been court funding anti corben campaigns the integrity initiative a subsidiary of the institute for statecraft which has received more than 2000000 pounds of foreign office money spread defamatory content about jeremy corbyn on their twitter account later the integrity initiative was forced to apologize that was a mistake and we wrote letters of apology to jeremy corbyn where as apple a tickle as we could be and the foreign office ordered an investigation into the matter if there is any kind of organization for which we are paying which is involved in domestic politics in that way i would totally condemn it but it seems the questions will continue to rise to the extent of the u.k. government's funding for groups in. gauging such political attacks especially just before an election that could decide the u.k.'s future for many decades to come. there's a body of people particularly who take an interest in international relations

curity paulson's or who are overwhelmingly critical with the skeptical about the school policies and his past involvement and worse it seems to be far enough somebody to criticize those without hiding behind as they were charity lobel just saying this is my view these or why i think what i think if you. present yourself as really being objective then it becomes very dangerous becomes tension something that can be used again and again corrode public trust and so the issue here is less as it were we call point of view than whether any organization that's funded by the taxpayer and says it's a charity should take a party political partisan view point and i think that's a great mistake and just actually wrong in mall. the controversial use of riot control guns again made french headlines strasberg prosecutor has now dropped

a complaint made by the mother of a teenager who was hit in the face by rubber bullets in january quick word of warning they might find the following footage disturbing well the incident did occur during a gala best demonstration the teenager's jaw was broken he claims he was just passing by the rally without intending to join it we spoke with his mother about what happened she told us officials have ignored his plight. the sugars in one do commercial what is it i was told your son is badly injured through the operation lasted 6 hours after that he had to stay at home for 3 months with his jaw wired can you imagine how hard it is for a teenager not to go out anywhere for 3 months nobody helped us i dealt with everything on my own i went this is called me and offered their support but not to the government i'm disappointed because of this it's terrible i'm not a part of the universe movement i don't condemn them though they have the right to demand the things they demand but i'm definitely against the violence i was told

there was several policeman who was shooting at the same time that's why they can't identify the one who shot my son but i keep telling myself that all the governments of registered and what about c.c.t.v. they are just shutting their eyes to what happened to my son as if it's not important as if it's just a scratch but it isn't my son could have been killed or the excessive use of force by the french police during the street protests has been a focus of nationwide debate president emanuel who's called the accusations of repression unacceptable. the do not talk about repression police violence these words are unacceptable in a state of law but going to public places destroying winders threatening him please attacking the police killing of protective helmets arriving with boats that's not democracy yellow vest protesters have been venting their anger against the man you met crohn's policies for almost again and the movement began in private in protest against rising fuel prices but then broadened making

a number of social economic and political demands the protests are the most violent in recent french history with demonstrators and riot police frequently clashing. cuts. to philip we see is police violence violation of the professional code of conduct hold when order is meant to be maintained some priestman used illegal methods they pooled women's hair and tear gas people with disabilities but the cases didn't progress further i don't want to accuse all the policemen but some of the may get orders from above and that should also be investigating who gave the orders so.

finally the sack fornia has decided to spend billions of taxpayer dollars on the new high speed rail line that the trains there will run at almost 300 kilometers an hour or their critics have pointed out some major flaws. to. 'd know if you're driving from los angeles to fit to bill by the time you get there you're pretty much halfway to vegas so why would you stop and leave your car somewhere and take a train and then have to walk to where your destination is when you can just drive

your car. ready to. pay i am. going to give you the. it's in an ambiguous money ways through at a time when we have many demands on public resources. and. california has been forced to cancel the massive bullet train project after having spent and wasted many billions of dollars they owe the federal government 3 and a half $1000000000.00 we want that money back now the whole project is a green disaster. abandoning high speed rail entirely means we will of wasted billions of dollars

with nothing but broken promises we do due respect i have no interest in sending $3500000000.00 in federal funding there was allocated to this project back to president donald trump. good to have you company we're back again at the top of.

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