understand that. the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov feels questions at an international peace forum where he's quizzed about geo political fingerpointing. the west is pretty much playing everything. no go for ever since just. grants asylum to bolivia's former president. who resigned from his position and fled his country following weeks of turmoil people across latin america been holding rallies in his support. israel kills a top commander of islamic jihad in gaza the attack prompted the palestinian

militant group to return fire with rockets. joining us this evening this is r.t. international. russia's foreign minister is in the french capital this tuesday attending the paris peace for. for voting better global governance was drawn on the subject of global responsibilities. the west is pretty much playing to be blamed for everything. no. just mistakes well very strong speech by the russian foreign minister outlining his a vision of what's happening in the at the moment and talking about some of the issues of what he sees as the way that the west is viewed itself in the past and how 'd we views itself in the presence in terms of its global domination he said

that the west needs to take responsibility for its actions it needs to understand its domination of world affairs has been melting away it said that it needs to accept that the world of the feature is a centric world in fact he even went as far as accusing the west of preventing this from taking place of course. because for more than $500.00. more than 5 centuries they don't mean that the political economic and cultural civilizational life on this planet. as the subject of. bricks well he also was talking about some of the recent events over the last few weeks he talked about catalonia he talked about things that were happening in bolivia of course the resignation of now the former president evo

morales and he talked about the fact that the intervention there wasn't at the pointed finger being pointed at russia russia hasn't been accused of meddling in any these countries but he suggested that essentially somebody else was somehow been accused of the coup in bolivia and this is strange so something discrepancy in the minds of those who normally a great job political agenda i believe that it is very unfortunate what we see in iraq it is very unfortunate. stage. you know distress but don't forget that. the people still. american invasion we also saw a little bit of humor from the russian foreign minister he was asked during the questioning session how was russia preparing for the 2020 us election he talked

a lot about the u.s. today so i wondered the presidential elections are coming up in 2020 so russia getting ready for that. we will resolve the problem don't tour. but the main thoughts of gay lover of at the paris peace conference was the fact that they had to respond to the global demands to global conflicts that countries need to work together and that means that the way forward is upon the centric way forward and not the dominance of the west. the ousted bolivian president evo morales is in mexico after being granted political asylum then he resigned on monday apparently under pressure from the military in what he described as a coup and gave a speech shortly after landing. again i'd like to say that i stepped down in order to avoid bloodshed and for the confrontation i'm grateful to mexico for saving my

life why do i say this i was my security that people would hand me in in exchange for $50000.00 and that's why i think the mexican president. of mass protests in bolivia 1st began over the recent presidential election that amid claims of vote rigging since more or less resigned at the weekend oblivious been dogged by more unrest there were scenes of looting in the capital some locals have even been forced to build barricades and stand guard over their homes. is the most honest as we are watching our homes because there's a lot of vandalism that is happening in our area this is last night he began to loot the story to surround us criminal history just surrounding area we had to come out to defend it. is there yet isn't since yesterday the looting has begun in the streets police and fire stations were torched along with shops cars buses everything was burned in my district looters began to timid it us. who are

supporters who are all as if turned out in large numbers both in bolivia and across latin america some are hailing is ouster there was a victory for democracy despite the power vacuum left behind. 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 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 for president of ecuador rafael correia believes that once the dust settles bolivians will see that they've been manipulated. but it does 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 and most bolivians and i believe

they're good people will realize that they have been manipulated they have something to compare to 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 so if there are clashes in the streets when there are no law enforcement agencies when the police state party riot is when the military says it will not go against the people we're not guard 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 it is time for us latin americans to create something of our own because we cannot continue to resolve disputes in washington or even worse in the organization of american states and bolivia's political terminals given rise to questions regarding the future of the country's resources are predicting where all his departure could now open opportunities for multi-national mining companies bolivia is estimated to have 9000000 tons of lithium reserves the 2nd biggest in the world and that's just what other sites are added the country might contain up to half the world's lithium significant as experts predict global demand for the chemical element will triple by the a 2027. now that increase being driven by the rapid expansion of certain markets that use lithium today the electric cars batteries for various portable electronic devices and even military hardware catherine from the alliance for global justice

thinks bolivia has been hit by the resource kiss. there's no question that washington is behind the coup in bolivia it's. behind regime change efforts in. every country. particularly that has resources in june of this year. that will have you it was going to be. industrialized there are there. it's just exporter of raw materials but his plan was for bolivia to begin producing batteries refining the lithium ion producing batteries themselves which cuts. transnational corporations for a profit stream. bringing the troops home has been

a frequent call of the trumpet ministration now with troops all over the world like to think they know exactly how many they're talking about but that doesn't seem to be the case i want to get out i want to bring our troops back home it's time to bring them home we're no longer the suckers folks up until recently the only way to get an accurate reading of us to the numbers was from an agency called the defense manpower data center which reports directly to the secretary of defense however it would appear that the d.m. d.c. is no longer releasing figures like easting. we learned on january the 9th 2019 that juta new security going don't d.m. d.c. can no longer report currently deployed service members this new guidance places us in jeopardy of not having the information necessary to count those who are deployed overseas despite the rhetoric troop numbers started to rise steadily under the

trump presidency until september 27th teen where the troop numbers police stopped the m.d.c. figures for afghanistan iraq syria and several african countries are simply left blank we will not talk about numbers of troops or our plans for a further military activity. ok joining me on the line now is investigative journalist and author david swanson i welcome david. clarke is what's the explanation for this is bizarre to think you would have troops around the world and not know exactly how many is this plausible deniability if you don't know how many then you say well we don't know. well i think there are people within the u.s. military who in each individual case know how many whether anyone knows the total worldwide or for the collection of the largest current wars i don't know but certainly it's not available to the public in a clear manner and we're obliged to learn from overseas reporters from journalists

on the scene where the wars are happening how many u.s. troops are there as well as what we've been obliged to learn in that same way for years how much bombing is going on by both of those measurements trump increased most of the wars he inherited and then stopped reporting the information and in some cases clearly has continued to escalate or maintain levels of troops and bomb strikes well talking about his opposition to war and being reported on in the us media as a so-called opponent of the war is it that simple because we played several clips of donald trump saying he wanted to take american troops out get him out of these these wars we don't need these wars and yet while he's been in office the number of u.s. troops overseas it's risen is it simple it's embarrassing for him so let's just stop the numbers being publicly available. well i think that's one clear explanation and

no one has offered any better one i think you've seen a recent poll swear 16 percent of the u.s. public wants these wars to continue so 84 percent of us need to shut up where we're not as likely to shut up if we're told accurate information and so we have all this us so called journalism about trump the opponents of the wars trump the bringer of the troops home as if it were happening or as if he were trying to make it happen and wasn't in charge and you know that's not acceptable then you have trump last week proposing a new war with mexico and the president of mexico to his enormous credit telling him we are beyond the barbarism of war that see a rational we don't want to keep your war but how how can someone proposing new wars threaten the nuclear wars escalating war strong magically escalating drone murders be sold at the same time as an opponent of war since it's remarkable. to

quote the actual figures a comment in too many governments want to publish numbers like this they'll quote national security and lots of excuses not to do it but when the numbers did come out they were quarterly so in that sense when they always pretty out of date with a actually a nice. although they sometimes been more frequent than that and even quarterly would be much better than nothing. you know they're not they don't always tell the whole story because of so-called special forces and various other teams of mercenaries and the support staff for the troops to often outnumber the actual troops but they give you up basis for calculating the totals and having some idea of whether things are going up or down and and that's been that's been done for many many years whether whether anyone in the government didn't like it or not that was the norm for a long long time and yet the norm not long departed and done something is fair to

say many thanks investigative journalist author david swanson my guest. thank you. said to garza now the health ministry there is claiming 7 palestinians have been killed and more than 30 others wounded amid an ongoing exchange of rocket fire between palestinian militants and israel the toll includes a leading commander of islamic jihad who was killed monday night during an israeli air raid on the gaza strip no such targeted assassinations of being occasionally conducted by tell of in recent is. truly after these really assault the palestinian militant group respond this launching a salvo of rockets over the border hitting tel aviv and surrounding cities the border between israel and gaza has been closed to television says it's continuing

to target islamic jihad locations or middle east correspondent paula slee has more . well this week the army has confirmed that its most wanted man in gaza and in fact its 3rd most wanted man internationally was assassinated just over midnight in the gaza strip now he is the leader of the islamic jihad militant group. and the strike occurred in the early hours of this morning we understand that an additional person was killed initial reports suggest that it was his wife and their 2 other people has been injured after the strike on a house in the east of gaza now dozens of rockets have been fired into israel primarily southern and central israel in a response to the situation here in israel is extremely tense the reserve units have been called up people have been told to open their bomb shelters and people living in the south and say into the country have been told to stay home and not go to work and unless they have essential jobs now the israeli prime minister benjamin

netanyahu has said that this leader was a commander who was poised to launch imminent attacks against israel take a listen in the past year this arch terrorist was the main generates of terrorism from this trip initiated planned and carried out many attacks hundreds of rockets the communities in the gaza periphery are suffering we haven't ignored he was in the midst of crossing additional attacks these very days he was taking want to clarify israel is not interested in an escalation but we will do everything necessary to defend ourselves now the islamic jihad has vowed to take vengeance on his death they've issued a statement with us and this is despite israel's warning from us not to get involved a situation there is extremely tense now all of this comes as a separate attack on the damascus home of a nother islamic jihad a political leader took place also in the early hours of the small and according to islamic jihad the son of the commander was killed in

a blaming the israeli army as of yet there's been no comment no response from the is. defense forces syrian media is reporting the attack they say that 2 people were killed and 6 people were wounded but at this stage they are not saying who was killed and who is responsible for this assassination indicates a resumption in the israeli policy of targeted assassinations. we discussed the heightened tensions with experts who have differing views of the conflict. the ceasefire is very shaky is very far john and it has been violated by israel many times and it seems to me that of we are again in the cycle of violence between israel and the palestinian resistance a groups but up until this moment i think maybe egypt will will be will succeed in bringing a new cease fire into the hold since it's only the islamic jihad who is fighting back it's the only google is retaliating back hammer so far has refrained from any

provocation has different from any. form of any rockets against israel and i believe that egypt might succeed in the coming few hours in stopping and preventing this cycle of violence from going into a broader warfare between israel and the palestinians there is a subtle reality of the catch 22 when it comes to gaza saw maybe people all soccer belt is dealing tough hand with other people with other causations but they need to see the consequences of energy that will happen because next year the gaza strip is entry into a crisis to a huge crisis so you need to think in any response will be in a strategic response to understand what will be the consequence i think both sides are trying to avoid. another war or another round of escalation. the prime minister

benjamin of the all said it think how must declare ration does not going to stop any revenge it means we are not going to interfere if you want to hit them back you should get it back but don't hit us it means they also want to avoid another round of escalation both sides actually want the same thing. in finland the politician who also works as a taxi driver has been forced to apologize after admitting he made up a case of a race hate attack dear him his saying he belongs to the social democratic party it claimed he'd kicked a passenger out of his taxi after he was racially abused. i apologize for my actions and for lying as the decision make it is my duty to be honest i depend on my voters trust and i have now broken that trust i should do everything i can to restore trust in my actions the somali born driver claimed abusive passenger had behaved in a racist manner by asking him about his reasons for being in finland and then

telling him to go back to his native country the story though collapsed under scrutiny when the taxi company he worked for found his story didn't match the g.p.s. data of his vehicle incident offends not the only recent high profile case of fake race hate us actor just told police that he was attacked by white men shouting and homophobic slurs it later turned out the incident was staged social science professor aging very low post believes that the issue of race has been politicized it's a rising immigration in europe. their main note was to highlight a question of racism injury initial sorry to now a dog doesn't excuse their disability no. learning or mainly. due soon worked on here to broaden the question ward is going on how actually if we need to start a relationship which is not race just been highlighted unbelieve decides to do a we have migration into europe it didn't seem nice due process of

this only in. europe us part of one race i would say that our growth is the key concept john that's down politics today in different nations in europe. after months of political turmoil spain finally looks set to get a government with a coalition deal between the socialists and the far left but they must party close to being inked it comes just days after the country's general election delivered a highly fragmented parliament the socialists led by acting prime minister pedro sanchez and the demo sleeve the public liz is a previously tried and failed to strike a deal following april's election that for sanchez to call yet another ballots the crisis then further deepened by the growing unrest in catalonia with the separatist region still reeling from the fallout of its bid for independence chronic unemployment the rise of the far right parties they've also fuelled growing

divisions within the country. joined now by dr alexander kid organiser the reader in spanish history at the university of newcastle upon tyne in the u.k. very good evening to this deal alexandro could have been reached several months ago after the last election could net white why are things changing now. will probably be the rice are right back to lehigh to not act not much the crews the socialist reliance whose. not trying to reach an agreement with well i would actually be to the right of the far right. with not actually reach an agreement with the socialists who await to break the law you've been and. our rights act was wrong and that could. be remembered in the socialist. did put

a scientists get greedy was he trying to get a majority and it backfired with a failed gamble. it was a gamble and. not out he he would. oppose in any sort of deal with our we were there was and he won. the election and he didn't do more for him socialist lost 700000 votes and the m. is. and now is the position in which it could have been division could have been sorted traffic months ago with the with the main difference of the far right been gotten as it is the norm what role do you think that the the right wing vox party is going to play our world they don't have. many poly are they happy and 2 women. and immigration rep 3 which

when it comes to all that they don't have much so i'm. expecting somehow some sort of. bread 3. are not is the job of the for little that. i'm comfy and no one actually would like to read and use it. in terms of them and in a punishment. are not sure they're going to. grow what are the biggest challenges facing this new government. well not a bank. will sure. oh they will have to reach an agreement with the national is part of the apple and country with a group mu are which you want to. throw it in the dict have to materialize but if it. actually materialize then. you get

the name wrong deal with the employment the economic situation and who's who and who believe in. and if we are if we do as as is reported get this coalition sanchez negligence what is there like a project going to beta was got a lot of well. thank you both and in the agreement are the bit. with this mornin the approach it's going to be our. station is going to be a bit more flexible approach to the one you. government in knowing. that it's the fact that you will have the bulk of them usually the out time to. gauge and inefficiency the find and lose. money and finally the fact that it's such

a fragmented situation if you look at the different parties that got got votes there is suggesting that the people in the country are quite unhappy they're not exactly sure what they want and what the solution is. well it's i think the electoral response. from from last sunday am from the previous elections in. the next we shall know is that an issue like through jesus christ and the traditional arches. are not to be used. i think this is sort of wrong and what is franks and general not going to. europe so there's not much of this is about the uniter not the norm they want that suit to lean upon for men to. use ok appreciate your time many thanks my guest dr alexander ok i'll get ready to respond history at the university of newcastle upon tyne thank you very much and good evening to you. and a day thank you to you always

a good evening because i bought with more than half an hour to see that. that's geysers line at the bible they say money to develop. it is it this is a subtle bugs for dying adama's good problem right now so you start to. seem wrong why don't we all just don't hold. the world yet to shape out this day. and in detroit because the trail.

find themselves worlds apart wait to look for common ground. greetings and salutation from the jubilation over the u.s. military raid that led to the suicide of isis leader abu dhabi to the buddhists raining down on president drum during his visit to game 5 of the world series it has been headline after headline for the trumpet ministration all weekend long one headline that you didn't see in the mainstream corporate news media was this curious little memorandum released last week by u.s. attorney general william barr entitled the implementation of national disruption

and early in gauge been programs to counter the threat of mass shootings in the memorandum bar outlines the new direction the department of justice will be taking regards to the threat of mass shooters writing i directed the department of justice and the f.b.i. to lead an effort to refine our ability to identify assess and engage potential mass shooters before they strike and just how will bar in the d.o.j. accomplish this bit of pre-crime crime fighting you ask well with me webb with the mint press news observes that according to the memo the most jarring aspect of the memorandum is bars frank admission that many of the early engagement tactics that the new program would utilize were born of the posture we had opted with respect to terrorist threats. you mean those really fun the mazing tactics like the shredding of due process rights you know torture i enhanced interrogation.