i. front steps up security measures and braces for a surge in protest the yellow vest movement marks its 1st anniversary also ahead. tensions rise in bolivia where 5 supporters of ousted president reportedly killed in clashes with police. and a former u.s. ambassador to ukraine testifies as a witness in the from hearing reports on how americans are using investable drugs. saturday morning a day in moscow welcome to you both from international we're going to start in

france which is braced for a tense weekend because saturday marks the one year anniversary of the yellow vest movement thousands are expected to rally in paris later despite the numbers predicted for the weekend there has been a general dip in support for the movement the number of activists that show up for the regular demonstrations has dropped significantly a year ago many have the anniversary there will be a new interest in the course according to the latest poll more than half of those surveyed still support the yellow vests 63 percent don't want the movement to do that you know it's back to the protests that are broken from for the past 12. prongs once revolutionary now a catalyst for a few populist movements in a country where protests is in the blood and over the last year and nation defenseless against the yellow vests paris a lot of the marks of triumph are left defaced and it's iconic street. smashed and

looted it even left the most jaded well shocked. makower it come to power with his own no idea of a french revolution it was one of reform he would not to fall on his sword as others before him by not giving in to protest movements but even he was forced into a treat the primed carbon tax hike was abandoned he opened a state purse to boost low income households mark or even he said he was there kindred spirit. if being the yellow verse means being in favor of higher salaries

and the more effective parliament than i am yellow. but for many yellow vests those promises were empty a little in a at 1st mccrone didn't give away they were in the promises and that he backtracked there was a tax bonus but not to be company had the resources to offer it he also promised 100 years extra for people a minimum wage but in the end we realised it was only for those on social security . the anger continued to spill out onto the streets while some yellow vests were caught up in the violence for the most part to protest his argue their movement had been infiltrated by extremists. it's the radicals who go out for violence it's an adrenaline kicks for them it makes them feel good i suppose but there are also people who become violent because they are being attacked by tear gas and police battens discouraged they've tried to discredit the movement by showing images of burning trash cans and cars and also to make sure that the rest

of the population don't join the movement the police don't understand anything the government tells them money but instead of marching with us they hear the protesters. the violence made a big impression on me and the police against our guys i have been to every protest in paris and i saw things i should never have seen people were hit in the back from the forces of peace and order they have been left so scarred by the pilots there was a police car we had been this huge protesters and that type of fire inside it there the french but his men were very very close to use their weapons to get out there was also the out of the 3 of there was a charge of police officer so there are they were exhausted and they were there was a counter from the man years apart that. we almost lost one man.

and according to various police union the problems were compounded from the very top. it was a mess. it was a mess. we had but. we had bedded a ship there was an order of the factor. but leadership in the program meanwhile for latisha divel the struggle continues but she's also aware the weekly protests may have lost some of their initial impact so how will the yellow vests movement adapt in the future to change the system she says you need to be inside it that it was when i decided to join the local team because if we can find the problem from the outside we should do it from the inside i also invited the other yellow vest activists with similar views to do the same if they become a counsellor or a deputy they will be inside the system and we built to change it what ever your

view on the yellow vests movement one thing is indisputable they've had a profound effect on france over the last year now could be a pivotal moment to see if they will continue to burn a torch under the current administration this weekend we may find out jollity r.t. paris. 5 people have been killed and dozens more injured during a protest in bolivia according to medics there supporters of ousted president over morales claim security forces opened fire on a demonstration with live rounds. thousands of mostly indigenous people took to the streets in the central city of the car but since the political crisis erupted after an election in october at least 10 people

have been killed in clashes across the country. supporters of ousted president evo morales are demanding the resignation of self-proclaimed interim president janine annus mirabilis was forced to step down on monday after weeks of violence triggered by claims that last month's election victory was rigged violence looting and vandalism followed and some of his supporters now say they fear for their lives. meanwhile bolivia's self-proclaimed leader is being accused of racism over a tweet she wrote 6 years ago but has since deleted. what i am wearing a new ear satin ists no one replaces god. we want the racist lady who is automatically proclaimed herself president to resign that is why we have said resign. that so-called president is usurping our country we want to respect the editor of the news website opera monday believes the new government is trying to exclude the country's indigenous people from politics. there is no indigenous

group that the it's in her cabinet i think this is clothing decision say's a lot about him in the us and reach values and interests sheesh she is from poor us indigenous people most important. to everyone moralities and to his party movement to socialism i think the new government to south proclaim. is trying to put the indigenous people out of the political game because it is necessary to boot ever more ollie's of the game and the indigenous people being backed by this new government including by the us because indigenous people of 40 percent of the county and this is a conservative which have organized the who did know that in order to give step billet doux does new government they have to put the indigenous

people protest out of the streets they need to control indigenous people they need to violate their rights in order to give i would create stability to the new role from. a former us ambassador to ukraine who's a key witness in the trump impeachment inquiry has said she has no evidence that the president gauged in criminal activity in ukraine reihana vege was questioned during the 2nd open impeachment hearings. do you have any information regarding the president and i did states accepting any groups now you have any information regarding any criminal activity that the president of the united states has been involved with out all. now. on despite that those kind of open now explains that it could be some impeachment for team kids audience numbers flag in comparison to earlier trauma scandals. as impeachment inquiry hearings against

donald trump continue on capitol hill the new star witness is marine given of it and she is a former u.s. ambassador to ukraine who was removed from her post 6 months ago now donald trump definitely does not hold her in high esteem that's what he actually tweeted during her testimony everywhere marie over no bitch when turned bad she started off in somalia how did that go then fast forward to ukraine with a new ukrainian president spoke on favorably about her in my 2nd phone call with him it is a u.s. president's absolute right to appoint ambassador has now she testified that she was not part of the biden family scandal regarding natural gas in ukraine and furthermore she was not part of any effort to leak information from ukraine during the 2016 election furthermore she testifies that donald trump is intimidating her and that he's responsible for all the wrongdoing and so is what amir putin well i

mean president putin must have been aware that there were concerns in the u.s. about russian meddling in the 2016 elections and what the potential was for russian meddling in the future. you know classic for an intelligence officer to try to throw off the scent and you know create an alternative narrative that maybe might get picked up and get some credence yes fitting in the name of the russian president is what you do if you want to catch the headline and the media is keeping up the hype the calm before the impeachment storm washington is bracing for a blockbuster day washington on edge all day for this 2nd day of impeachment hearings it was a story day on capitol hill with the 1st public impeachment hearing of president tonight history of the hill his house democrats make their case against president trump an attempt to remove the president of the united states from office now you would think that that would be front headline news but is the you. last public

really interested not too much 13000000 americans watched the 1st round of testimony according to the nielsen ratings now that's one in 20 certainly sounds like a lot but compare that to when former f.b.i. director james coleman got up to testify about how he was fired by donald trump 20000000 americans watch that that's roughly the same number as tuned in when brett kavanaugh was being confirmed as a supreme court justice amid sexual assault allegations you would expect americans to be glued to their t.v. screens now there is an actual impeachment inquiry open after all articles of impeachment could be drawn up the senate could be faced with the choice of whether or not to convene an impeachment trial and the stakes are significantly higher but the american public seems far less interested i wonder how many americans know or even care about the key witnesses you never heard of the master you've been a bitch you know have you ever heard of george can't. are you watching the trumpet pietschmann inquiry hearings on t.v.

. does it interest you at all. why do you think you are americans are turning in to watch the speech because it's it's a fluke easy yeah sure it's fake you know when they get to 3 years and she's coming to power if you like a good one for the party after all the way it's going on and i think you have. to break here it was more so like you know sensitive to the public and this one is just everybody is either this or they're so yes it seems that the donald trump is a bad guy a show has been airing from capitol hill for a few seasons already but americans are now yawning and saying haven't we seen this episode before. art see new york. a legal and media analyst jennifer demands to says that the drop in interest actually comes in handy for the us democrats. the american public i think the public in general is getting bored with some of the narratives that have been pushed against donald trump have been shown to either be completely false or unfounded in fact. there are some important things

that have come out one of those i think is the fact that well what for one thing she didn't have any firsthand knowledge of what this is about and she wasn't even in her post for several months and so the fact that she was there was just to showcase her as somebody who could say things that would maybe paint on a trumpet a light i think a lot of this has really been planned i mean after the you know these hearings started out with 45 minutes of the democrats of adam schiff and the democratic attorney being able to question her now again when we hear these questions what is this is just praising her and talking about her roic life story and her parents after that they're supposed to be there is theoretically generally a 5 minute recess or a break which turned into 3040 minutes and even if you were as it were turned in at the outset would have just tuned our become bored with that and but what the democrats in the house have done is completely turn it on turn it on its head they think the public is dumb they think the american people are dumb and so they just keep saying these things they're making up their own elements of legal facts that are absolutely already solidified within the american justice system. climate

change is being blamed for the devastating floods that are continuing to search through the italian city of you know school will have a choice of the assessment of the mess the other officials call the woods crisis there in half a century a blow to the heart of italy. because the basilica is at risk i prayed a lot i tried my best last night and the basilica is a huge worry for me as well as through our cities and people's lives and security are my top priority now. we risked our lives thank god we had

a security plan which was quickly implemented. on nicaea and discuss the issue with a panel of environmental experts and journalist. well i think that there's a don't ongoing problem with all this which is that it's because it's sinking rather than talking about climate change in general it's about providing the infrastructure it's true that this isn't strictly tend to climate change is a series of different events it's very high tides coupled with the storm it's a climate change has to be exacerbated some of this in the fact that sea levels have risen about 20 centimeters in the last 100 years so that's going to have a big effect look fundamentally freak weather patterns will happen they continue to happen and they have historically happened what i'm concerned about is

a very shrill why it which freak event site makes a trade said my concern about the way that we're traumatizing young people by telling them that the world is going to end imminently i have to seriously disagree with that there at the level and that's the end to rice that we're seeing now is unprecedented as are the rates of rice you talk about this. in any event that happens and you know regularly in terms of history and the last 12 to get we're seeing 14 here on this level 6 times who are who are there is in the last 20 years so the rate of change is happening it's happening faster and faster you know you can have better all sorts of better infrastructure the fact is there's a huge risk from climate change then yes isn't necessarily the best example of something which may have happened there was a huge risk in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere when the point so i think is really important to get across here is the way that a lot of these climate activists oppose improvements in technology that actually

are going to save the planet it's they do not want to allow was the time to move to a low carbon economy what they want to do instead is cut off net carbon to 0 by what in the next 20 years that would mean no more cars no more electric stay no more heating of your homes it returns it returns britain to the stone age you're talking about exaggerating the risk of climate change which is a genuine risk and then every time you mention going back to you couldn't bear to stone age back to the dark age that's not going to happen he does need to be a change in how we look at the economy and it needs serious thinking but just trying to guess because in terms of the dark ages tony just complete nonsense there is no alternative put forward really except we're going to change the economic system become explained how they're going to change the economic system in the ones that allows people to carry on living the decent lifestyles and improve their lives styles over time gratify appears on television and says we need to end the myth of

perpetual economic growth that's easy to say if you're from sweden i can ride around the 4000000 pound yachts harder to do that if you're subsistence farming nigeria we have lifted a 1000000000 people out of poverty in the past 10 years and what you guys want to do is condemn those people to medieval poverty over your own how because pocus. just repeating words like hocus pocus about climate change is very very dangerous language we've been mapping this data to the years and years we've been predicting what's happening we have a matter that never seen the rise of change of c o 2 levels at the rate of change that we see now so what are you going to do to replace fossil fuels over them as those living in the dark ages you know you're going to replace those is going to have a plan stood up so just declaring that we're going to cut c o 2 is not the answer i think we can cut c o 2 and then we can cut c o 2 quite drastically by reducing the amount of energy that we use and we do have

technology to capture this and we have technologies and new people because when we got away from marine technologies and things that haven't been exploited because of economic reasons and if we can invest in those shoes then we can our massive change this whole situation and we can reduce the waste massively. facebook chief mark zuckerberg taken aim at the chinese social media video sharing platform to talk who's rapid growth could that soon overshadow his own brainchild took a book pro-trade the rival is nothing less than a threat to democracy americans they have takes a look at what might be behind the animosity. social media that's a market like anything else with its own competition the difference is coca-cola doesn't come out and say that pepsi is for nazis and b.m.w. doesn't come out and called mercedes satan worshippers they're a little more what's the word grown up facebook however says its competition is

a threat to democracy went to the park to get to school knucklehead. like you. were. forced. onto recently the internet almost every country outside of china has been defined by american platforms with strong free expression values but there is no guarantee that these values we went out a decade ago almost all of the major internet platforms were american today 6 of the top 10 are chinese and we're beginning to see this in social media 2 1st things 1st you know dad's wondering how exactly a lip sinking app threatens the more crecy but just think about it

a little longer. another has changed it still doesn't make any sense so why would he say this. now it does make sense facebook is eating dust in 2016 zuckerberg tried to buy musical dot l.-y. the predecessor of take stock talks collapsed facebook walked away then the chinese boarded and take stock exploded leaving facebook envious of the numbers that were being pulled in so as would any businessman zuckerberg smears it why are services like what's up are used by protesters and activists everywhere due

to strong encryption privacy protections on tick tock the chinese are growing quickly around the world mentions of these same protests are censored even here in the u.s. . is that the internet that we want. first off mr zuckerberg protesters in hong kong a using telegram to coordinate which is a russian app yes they have fired before you say something stupid again but serious accusations could it be could take talk really be censoring lip sinking in hong kong the chinese government does not request the tick-tock tons of content and would not have jurisdiction regardless and stick stock does not operate there to be clear we do not remove videos based on the presence of hong kong process content in try to but he tried to smear it so now zuckerberg trying to copy it and has facebook has launched

a virtual kloden of take stock. now that we've established what's what we can ask ourselves if there's any cause left the zuckerberg won't use to get his hands on more money i don't know if he knows i mean do you think he knows what it looks like to everyone outs the c.e.o. of facebook complaining about censorship mr zuckerberg i will say there are a great many. americans who i think are deeply concerned that facebook and other tech companies are engaged in a pervasive pattern of bias and political censorship in may of 2016 gizmodo reported that facebook and purposely and routinely suppressed conservative stories from trending news facebook that is purged itself of conservative voices back and

the naming of a trump impeachment whistleblower that sold out its community to the highest bidder information that was used by dictators to clamp down on opposition and he tells us that the chinese lip sinking op is a threat to democracy. despite the delays and false starts britain is plowing ahead preparing for life after bracks it the home office is even released an app to help e.u. citizens to stay in the country but research is warning that it's vulnerable to hackers. the tools we used to typically very easily accessible and require very little technical skill to use it means any type of bad actor could perform this attack without sophisticated technical knowledge very personal and sensitive information is being handled and millions of people using it so you would expect stringent protection measures similar to banking apps they absent to replace an

$85.00 page long bureaucratic application for u.k. residency as of now it's been downloaded by more than a 1000000 people it allows applicants to submit passport photos and check the validity of biometric information it also requires they submit more personal data like names of phone numbers and addresses the researchers found the out blacks a protection from el where attacks that could allow cyber criminals to steal personal information there's also a high risk that hackers could also alter data within the app of a boring it sounds to carry out all this a device should already be vulnerable privacy activist and technology expert bill move told us more about. the company in question didn't actually find any vulnerability and we do not know whether there are. supplication what they did find was that the correct procedures and safeguards hasn't necessarily been implement it this means that if the phone was already vulnerable in some way

the application wouldn't be able to detect this i wouldn't be able to protect users who may be vulnerable there's an element of scare mongering here but potentially the scare mongering isn't such a bad thing because it can cling to wards the importance of having certain tests and certain brick. within the development to certain applications that have really sensitive data you don't get much more sensitive than possible out numbers and photo i.d. these are the kinds of pieces of information and data this is if it falls into the wrong hands it can be used very effectively in order to cite your identity and steal your identity that's how it looks from moscow so far this satellite thanks for watching preparing for the absolute worst next as we meet the americans determined to be ready come what may.

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