france steps up security measures and braces for a surge in protests as the yellow vest movement marks its 1st anniversary also ahead. of president reportedly killed in clashes with police. in ukraine testified as a witness in the trump impeachment hearing a report later on how americans are now apparently losing interest in the whole.

this is. a morning at 11 here in the russian capital here's what we got for you this weekend we're keeping watch on france which is braced for a tense weekend as saturday marks the one year anniversary of the yellow best movement thousands are expected to rally in paris where there have been calls online for an illegal gathering on the show and also to block the capital's ring road more than 20 metro train stations will stay close this saturday rallies are also planned in dozens of other cities across france as well but despite the large numbers predicted for this weekend there has generally been a dip in support for the movement of late but ember of activists that show up for the regular demonstrations has dropped significantly compared with a year ago organizers hope that the anniversary will bring renewed interest in the cause and inject life back into the movement according to a poll out this weekend more than half of those surveyed still support the yellow vests while 63 percent say they don't want the protests to begin in earnest again. look back at the 12 months of protests that have rocked the country. france once

revolutionary now a catalyst for a few years populist movements a country where protest is in the blood and over the last year a nation defenseless against the yellow vests paris landmarks of triumph are left defaced and its iconic streets 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 him for i 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. it's been the yellow versus leans been in favor of higher salaries and the more effective parliament than i am a 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 extra. the mists. it's the radicals who go out for

violence it's an adrenaline kick 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 so 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 owes them money but instead of marching with us they hear the protesters . what you're looking at the violence made a big impression on me the police against our guys i've been to every protest in paris and i saw things i should never have seen people were hit in the back for the forces of peace and order they have been left scarred by the pilot yes there was a police car we had been this huge protestors and that type of fire inside it there the french but it's very very close to use their weapons to get out

there was a lot of the tee off there was a charge of police officer so there are they were exhausted and they were there was a counter from the man years a protester. we almost lost one man there. and according to this police union the problems were compounded from the very top. it was a mess. it was a mess. we had but. we had but did our ship there was an order of the referred to. but leadership implies a problem please 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 decided it was when i decided to join the local team because if we can find the problem from the outside we should do trim the inside i also invited the other young leicester 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 will ski r.t. paris. 5 people have been killed and dozens of others injured during a protest in bolivia according to medics there supporters of ousted president over morality claim that security forces opened fire on a demonstration with live rounds.

thousands of mostly indigenous people took to the streets in the central city of. 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 the self-proclaimed interim president jeanine anas brawlers 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 live in fear for their lives. meanwhile bolivia's self-proclaimed later is being accused of racism over a now deleted tweet she wrote 6 years ago where it is apparently disrespected an indigenous holy day. what a new year saturn ists no one replaces god. we want the racist lady who is also

magically proclaimed 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 operate monday believes the new government's trying to exclude the country's indigenous people from politics. there is no indigenous group that they've in her cabinet i think this clothing decision say's a lot about him in the us and which values and interests sheesh she has some poor us indigenous people most important. to ever moralities and to his party movement to socialism i think the new government to south. is trying to boot the indigenous people out of the political game because it is necessary to boot evermore ollie's out of the game and the indigenous people are

being backed by this new government including by the army. 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 repeat. to the new government. the former u.s. ambassador to ukraine who is a key witness in the trump impeachment inquiry has said she has no evidence that the president engaged in criminal activity in ukraine maria you've got a virtuous question during the 2nd open impeachment hearing. do you have any information regarding the president tonight is states accepting any groups.

now you have any information regarding any criminal activity that the president of the united states has been involved with at all. now. and despite that is kind of open now explains that could be some impeachment for taking his audience numbers flag in comparison to earlier trump 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 every whim or even though of it when 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 vladimir 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 a 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 storied 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 had line news but is the you. yes 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 evanovich 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 trying 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 6 come into power if you like this one are you really going on and i think you have. to break carefully 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 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. artsy new york legal or media analyst jennifer damascus says that the drop in interest could actually come in handy for the u.s. but across. 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 facts. but there are some important things that have come out one of those i think is the fact that well one 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 you know these hearings started out with 45 minutes of the democrats of adam schiff and the democratic attorney being able to question her and again when we hear these questions what is this is just praising her and talking about her heroic 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 out we were 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. you know without today as the clock ticks for facebook's dominance on social media it's ball slashes out to the competition. in. the west and the western mindset is in decline the u.s. is in relative decline china reason is rising europe some people see it as rising

other people see this as declining it's likely that the sort of western mindset of western culture will decline relative to eastern culture that's that's probably what's going to happen though no you can't say for certain i think anyone that says that something will or won't happen is pushing it a bit. the world is driven by a dream shaped by one person if there is. no dares thinks. we dare to ask.

welcome back facebook chief mark zuckerberg has taken aim at the chinese social media video sharing platform to talk his rapid growth could soon overshadow his brainchild so the rival is nothing less than a threat to democracy but i guess they have takes a look at what might be behind the animosity. social media it'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 say these satan worshippers they're a little more what's the word grown up facebook however says it's competition is a threat to democracy went to the park to get to school knuckleheads out there.

are systems. don't ask me who are beyond this something to do. and i see 3 major threats until 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 will 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 your new dads wondering how exactly a lip sinking app threatens the more crecy but just think about it a little longer. another is 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 dog 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 simmias 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 putas

there's in hong kong a using telegram to coordinate which is a russian app yes they have 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 you try to smear it so now the bugs trying to copy it and yes 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 purposefully and routinely suppressed conservative stories from trending news facebook that is purged itself of conservative voices banned 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

the chinese lip sinking op is a threat to democracy. climate change is being blamed for the devastating floods that are continuing to surge through the italian city of venice that's the assessment of the mare as other officials call the worst crisis there in more than half a century a blow to the heart of italy. and . the basilica is at risk i prayed a lot i tried my best last night the basilica is a huge worry for me as well as for all our citizens people's lives and security are

my top priority now if you will we risked our lives thing god we had a security plan which was quickly implemented. here on our tina guerin discussed the issue with a panel of environmental experts and journalist. well i think that the on going problem with all this which is that it's. doing rather than talking about climate change in general it's about providing the infrastructure it's true that this isn't strictly done to climate change this is a series of different events this very high tide coupled with the storm so climate changes could 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

top and they have historically happened what i'm concerned about is a very shrill why it which freak events like this are treated by concerns about the way that we're traumatizing your own people by telling them that the world is going to end imminently i have to seriously disagree with their level and that's the end to ice that we're seeing now is unprecedented at the rate of rise in talk about this being an event that happens you know regularly in terms of history and the last 1200 years we're seeing here on this level 6 times who who are those in the last 20 years so the way to change is happening is 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 mean happens there's a huge risk i'm pumping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere when the parts i think's 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 saw 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 us exaggerating the risk of climate change which is a genuine. and then if the time you mention going back to you could make a stone age back to the dark age that's not going to happen 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 to 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 and the wiser people to carry on living the decent lifestyles and improve their lifestyles over time gets

a film 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 are subsistence farming nigeria we have lifted a 1000000000 people out of poverty in the past 10 years and what you guys what's there is condemn those people to bad evil poverty over your own house because focus really just gives one piece in with like hocus pocus about climate change is that we very dangerous language we've been mapping this day to the years and years we've been predicting what's happening we haven't met the maddest 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 time as those living in the dark ages you know you're going to replace those is going to have a plan so just declaring that we're going to cut c o 2 is not the answer and i think we can call it c n n i think we can cut c o 2 quite drastically by reducing the amount of energy that we use and we do have

technologies to capture this and we have technologies and we knew noble when we got away from our marine technologies and things that haven't been exploiting because of economic reasons and if we can invest in those shoes then we cannot massive change this whole situation and we can reduce the waste massively. ok that's it for now i'll be back here with your next update in just over half of that. time of the time called her asians repeat the same mantra sustainability it's very important it's accelerate the transition to sustainable prize board sustainability stay in her manner a more equitable and sustainable well. they claim their production is completely harmless followed the coming of. the greek god to congress and the

models and got it done this on the companies want us to feel good about buying their products while the damage is being done far away and this is a canal this must be going down even as i made much of. the salmon and you missed me doing the nieminen einstein theme that may be best understood so when in. good food descriptions sound up to tell using even for the owners so how to choose his pet food industry is telling us what to feed our pets really more based on what they want to sell us than what's necessarily good for the pet turns out that food may not be a sophie people believe we have animals that have you know diabetes in arthritis they have auto immune disorders they've got allergies we are actually creating

these problems it's a huge epidemic of problems all of them i believe can be linked to very simple problem of diet and some dog owners so heartbreaking stories about their pets less treats the larger corporations are not very interested in proving or disproving the value of their food because they're already making a $1000000000.00 on it and there's no reason to do that research. stars are this is a kaiser report you know in every human d.n.a. is the need to trade travel trade communicate and over the millennia we've all figured out that being transparent being open and having an obvious store of value to trade with is what has kept the species going are toward journey and progress oh

what does it all mean stacey of course open trade and free trade throughout the millennia has relied on honest money now that we no longer have honest money you prefer a transparent readable knowable sort of entity on the other side of the otherwise dodgy trade deals and fiasco and i turn to this headline here china's top trade negotiator we want to get reelected the mid to endless levitation of stocks with incessant a trade deal is close headlines china's long young to former vice minister of foreign trade and point man during china's 15 year talks to join the w t o told an audience during credit suisse is china investment conference and chen's and that quote we want to be reelected we would be glad to see that happen specifically long explains that the us president's daily twitter posts broadcast his every impulse.