as a surprise $20000.00 tons of gold and the introduction of a gold backed currency just will kill the u.s. dollar better than a dollar. mexico granted political asylum to bolivia is former president even as he resigned from his position and fled his country following weeks of turmoil we speak to a former leader of ecuador who says the bolivia has seen and illegal power. asked him to resign. void of more bloodshed and violence just leave this is what we call a coup. the man is left in the critical condition in hong kong after being set on fire following it to speak up and protest. and veteran's day celebrations in new york and met with protesters demonstrate his voice over the ministrations foreign policy and continued involvement and we hear from

a number of former soldiers the u.s. going into afghanistan in 2001. will ultimately suffer the great losses and the afghan people more importantly as we've seen over these last 18 years. good morning just going to 11 o'clock am moscow you watching international our top story the 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 coup. 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 since marlice is resignation bolivia has 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 maryland's claiming fraud the final result gave him just enough of a lead to avoid a runoff however supporters of morality have turned out in large numbers here and across latin america yet some are hailing his ousting as a victory for democracy despite the power vacuum it has left behind because darn 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 that democracy and the will of the people will always prevail 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 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. we suggest to the president of the state to resign his presidential mandate to allow for peace and stability for the good of our the livia. 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 us to throw in the towel he wanted the violence to cease this is that and why am i deciding to resign so the opposition does not keep pursuing my brothers and the unions we are resigning i am resigning precisely so that my brothers and sisters leaders and authorities of the socialist movement don't continue to be held hostage chased 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 morale is 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 really for a daily sort of a moment that 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 memory and i believe they're good people women will realize that they have been manipulated and they have something to compare the 13 to 14 years bolivia has experienced the highest level of prosperity in its history has been stability economic growth the elimination of illiteracy the reduction of extreme poverty to almost a question of who won the election isn't worth it everyone knows that even realize we're the only question is the. by which you were in the right are calling for violence in the most insulin way there are considerable resources and weapons behind them so if there are clashes in the streets when there are no law enforcement agencies when the police tape part in riots when the military says it will not go against the people we're 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 the organization of american states not only allowed this but is also part of this coup the organization of american states has always been a tool in the hands of the us but it never acted so brazenly as under the leadership of luther micro who sold himself to the us it is time for us latin americans to create something of our own we cannot continue to resolve a dispute in washington or even worse in the organization of american states. meanwhile bolivia's political turmoil has given rise to questions regarding the future of the country's resources some are predicting that rollitt is the part you could now open opportunities for multinational mining companies and that's because bolivia is estimated to have something like 9000000 tons of lithium reserves the 2nd largest in the world and that's significant to as experts are now predicting that global demand for the chemical element will triple by 2027 that increase is

being driven by the rapid expansion of certain markets that use lithium for example today the used by electric cars batteries for various portable electronic devices and also military hardware kaufman from the alliance for global justice does think that bolivia has been hit by the resource. there's no question the washington is behind 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 a president. that will 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. a middle aged man he set on fire by protesters in hong kong is in a critical condition in hospital he's reported to have been attacked for expressing his support for beijing would forney my funny upcoming footage disturbing. 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 the 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 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 fuko our mobbed 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. also upping the stakes an officer plowing his motorbike into a mass of people 2 of them reportedly injured with 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 at this 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

hawkins there will hong kong has been gripped by unrest in steen it was initially triggered by a bill allowing expeditions to mainland china in september on kong's leader kerry lamb then announced the bill would be suspended but that didn't stop the demonstrations which have since become increasingly violent we heard from pagnell he's a senior lecturer in politics at the university of bath in need kay and claims the intense violence is undermining the message of the hong kong protesters. i have seen a lot of media coverage you've been caught on. 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 handled reporters there is that of all those kind of fall in the same misbehavior can complete the by the protesters because the violence has already damage the legitimacy and the popularity of the movement. the majority of the people who support 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. from the parades and wreath laying ceremony as were held in the u.s. on monday as the country marked veterans day although this year's commemorations did draw protests here in new york where demonstrators voiced their anger over america's continuing involvement in foreign wars that came is the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff said that the conflict in afghanistan is far from over despite all of the promises of pulling troops and. their efforts ongoing it's been ongoing for 18 consecutive years i suspect it'll 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. 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 show that the majority of veterans do not believe that the conflicts in either iraq or afghanistan were worth fighting the general public is really 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 on in afghanistan since 2001 the peace talks there which would allow the us to pull acts are ongoing although dong trump has called off negotiations several times we spoke to a number of us army veterans about this they told us that america's power projection abroad has actually made it less safe. 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 for mendez tremendous casualties and deaths we're 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 that 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 has come up to a quite a pos level here in moscow this morning we're going to take a quick break we're back they intimidate. you today. president cost. of the free money. we would have a day of reckoning. and prices would revert back to reflect supply and demand. and there would be a catastrophic trap door opening under the u.s.

economy because the u.s. won't do it for itself china will do it for the in the form of announcing as a surprise $20000.00 tons of gold and the introduction of a gold backed crypto currency just will kill the u.s. dollar better than a dollar. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. and spearing dramatic. only. exists i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical. to sit down and talk. hello again now with the u.k. general election just around the corner the leader of the opposition jeremy cool

and has been branded a stalinist comes though not from a rival party but from an interfaith charity receiving funding from the home office to combat extremism he has more. the u.k. government is generous in granting money to various charities and organizations and that's undoubtedly good when those organizations again says i'm a phobia and i see semitism 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 corbett. 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 corbin 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 the organization is targeting corbin not only for alleged and he 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 saying 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 been court funding anti corben campaigns the integrity initiative a subsidiary of the institute for statecraft which has received more than $2000000.00 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 as to the extent of the u.k. government's funding for groups engaging in such political a tux especially just before an election that could decide the u.k.'s future for many decades to come. there is a body of people particularly who take an interest in his national security policies or who are overwhelmingly critical and susceptible of corbin's policies and his past involvement and worse it seems to be far enough or 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 attention to 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 party viewpoint and i think that's a great mistake and just actually wrong more. of a teenager who was injured in january by a rubber bullet fired by french riot police who suffered a setback in his quest for justice a quick word of warning there you might find the following for teacher upsetting the incident occurred during a yellow vest demonstration the teenager's jaw was broken he claims he was just passing by the rally without intending to join it however strasbourg prosecutor has now dropped the case saying the probe could not identify the shooter it had been brought by the mother of the teenager we spoke with her about what happened she claims officials have ignored her son's plight that she was in one to them oh shit what is it i was told your son is badly injured 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 would this is called me and offered their support but not 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 with the excessive use of force by the french police during the street protests has been a focus of nationwide debate president and i know mark from those called accusations of repression unacceptable. the do not talk about progression the

police violence these words are unacceptable in the states of law but going to public places destroying windows threatening m.p.'s it's knocking the police killing of protective helmets and driving with boats that's not democracy. best demonstrators have been venting their anger against the monument crohn's policies for almost a year the movement began against rising fuel prices but then broadened my king a number of social economic and political demands the protests of the most violent and recent french history with those involved sustaining severe injuries. the tough tough tough tough. tough. tough. tough on the

see is police violence violation of the professional code of conduct whole 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. i don't want to accuse all the policemen but some of them may get orders from above and that should also be investigated gave the orders. and that is how the news is looking. back again there at the top of the hour with headlines and more stories. to my harvester i dash. dash.

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required increasing escalating interventions into the repo market that's the overnight cash market you see quantitative easing more q.e. needed you see interest rates that were cut again this week for that top one percent so we have a tale here of 2 economy without the president constant drip. the free money. we would have a day of reckoning. and prices would revert back to reflect supply and demand and it would be a catastrophic trap door opening underneath the u.s. economy because the u.s. won't do it for itself china will do it for the u.s. in the form of announcing as a surprise $20000.00 tons of gold and the introduction of a gold backed cryptocurrency this will kill the u.s. dollar better than a doornail and it will be a harbor type event and it's coming in the next 6 to 9 months but the domestic

situation here and of course we're in new york city so that means everybody knows we wash the cable news you see it culturally and politically the top one percent who are represented on the cable news are having a breakdown about the political situation that it's all doom and gloom and yet on the rest of the world if the rest of the country if you drive across the country you'll see nobody's hysterical like them nobody's constantly triggered like them so again we come back to the economy in the tail of the 2 economies this is ben there's been a discrepancy between the stock and the bond markets for the past year and a half 2 years that we've been noting that bond markets are pricing in and looking like there's total disaster on the horizon stock markets are at all time highs so which is that right u.s. treasury says it is gearing up.