movement marks its 1st anniversary with directed against the french government also ahead in the program. tensions rising in bolivia with supporters of the. reportedly killed in clashes with. former u.s. ambassador to ukraine test of a witness in the. hearing we report on how americans are. losing interest in the

entire site. every year you may be tuning in from right around the globe this hour welcome to moscow international my names you know. police used tear gas to disperse protesters in part this. braces for a tense weekend sunday marks the one year anniversary of the yellow fast movement rallies are expected across the country at this stage we believe 41 demonstrators have been arrested in the french capital. as there are 2 in the thick of the action . this is how the yellow 1st movement in paris is marking their one year anniversary week and now this protest for them is quite symbolic because they're here essentially making a stand to saying that their movement that the yellow vests movement one year on is

not going anywhere it is supported by the public opinion as well because some 63 percent of the people are saying that they will they indeed believe that the movement is alive and kicking and sometimes quite literally in clashes with the police because right now over there there is the police or the riot gear and so far they're standing by but during the operating protests that have been flaring up all across the french capital. they have not been allowing they have essentially been dispersing any gatherings we've been in we've had to run along with the po the riot police now the city of paris has been doing all in its power to prevent mass gatherings to prevent rioting and protesting for instance more than 20 metro stations have been closed for today some 50 bus routes have been either cancelled or redirected rerouted but the protesters well they have

a few tricks up their sleeves as well for instance they have been wrecked in barricades out of whatever they have in their disposal again all across the city now the protesters they have been taking they've been saying that their power is in their disorganization their disorganized rally they don't have a they don't have one leader or a body of leaders so it has been really easy for the protesters in the course of the past year to just appear in one part of the city flare up of protests start a protest the police would react the police would respond they would show up they would disperse one protest but then move would flare up. in different parts of the city and they have shown today how good they have become at this. basically they had a whole year of training so they've become really good at this and we've been running and driving all round paris to catch these paradip protests but what's the

general feeling about the ongoing protests well according to the latest poll more than half of those surveyed still support the elvis while 63 percent say they don't want the rallies to begin in earnest again charlotte looks back now at 12 months of protests. 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 and nation just from silis against the yellow vests paris landmarks of troy and for 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 loyalty 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 yellow. but for many yellow vests those promises were empty a little in a at 1st mccrone didn't the way they were and the promises and then he backtracked that there was a tax the onus 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 kicked 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 baton for 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 what 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 too have been left scarred by the violence there was a police car we had been this huge protest of and the topic of fire inside it there the french policeman were very very close to use their weapons to get out there was also the other the 3 of there was a charge of police officer so there are there were exhausted and there were there was a conduit from the man years the protester. we almost lost one member. 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 that was

nor the other factor. but leadership in persia programs meanwhile for latisha developed the struggle continues but she's also where the weekly protests may have lost someone very little impact so how will the universe movement adapt in the future to change the system she says you need to be inside it they said 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 west 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 vest 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. so let's

even ski. paris. from france to bolivia where 5 people have been killed dozens injured during a protest there according to local health services supporters of ousted president evo 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 previously and people being killed in clashes across the country since the political crisis erupted after a. supporters of evo morales are demanding the resignation of self-proclaimed interim president ginning brother as was forced to step down on monday after weeks of violence triggered by planes that last month's election victory was rigged by

ellen saluting bundle ism soon followed and some of his supporters say they fear for their lives. meanwhile bolivia's self proclaimed leader herself has been accused of racism over a notably the tweet she wrote some years ago or and he is apparently disrespected on indigenous holy day what a new year saturn 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 they've in her cabinet i think this is clothing decision say's a lot about him in the aeneas and reach values and interests sheesh poor

indigenous bebo the most important. to ever moralities and to his party movement to socialism i think the new goldman disallow claim that goldman is trying to boot the indigenous people of the political game because it is necessary to boot ever more oddities of the game and the indigenous people back to bite this new government including by the full 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 billeted to decide 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 ability to the new government. a former us ambassador to ukraine who's a key witness in the trump and preachment inquiry has said she has no evidence that the president engaged in criminal activity in ukraine maria was questioned 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 out all. now. caleb maupin now reports there could be some impeachment fatigue as audience numbers flood in comparison to earlier from scandals as impeachment inquiry hearings against donald trump continue on capitol hill the new star witness is marie yvonne 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 alexion 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 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 on the hill his house democrats make their case. against president an attempt to remove the president of the united states from office now you would think that that would be front pedaling news but is the u.s. public really interested not too much $13000000.00 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 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 here it's it's it's a full d.c. yeah sure it's fake you know i mean like 23 years and he's coming to power you like this one are you. going on and nothing you have. this is a big colossal waste of time. experience in which the bread here it was more so like you know sensitive to the public and this was just everybody's 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. art see new york we're just following on legal media analyst jennifer to muster sees that the drop in interest actually comes in before 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 facts but there are some

important things that have come out one of those i think is that 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 that 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 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 our become bored with that and but what the democrats in the house have done is completely turn it on and 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 still ahead this hour to you as the clock ticks for a free spirit stallman's on social media it's bold sloshes i think competition. you know world big partisan. and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smart we need to stop slamming the door. and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks.

the world is driven by a dream shaped. thinks . we fear to ask. a car bomb explosion in syria has resulted in multiple casualties with reports suggesting up to 18 people are dead and a dozen more seriously injured while local sources say the incident took place in the northern city of in

a residential area just 30 kilometers from the turkish border city has been controlled by pro turkish militia since 26 days. already accuse kurdish forces for carrying out an attack although no one of those claimed responsibility for the incident. facebook chief mark zuckerberg has taken a chinese social media video sharing platform to talk his rapid growth could soon overshadow his brainchild zuckerberg portrayed the rival as nothing less than a threat to democracy right gusty it 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 its competition is a threat to democracy went to the back to get this knucklehead is of. course. now i see 3 major threats on 2 recently the internet almost every country outside of china has been defined by american platforms with strong free expression values but there's 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 daughter l.-y. the predecessor of take stock talks collapsed facebook walked away then the chinese borders and text talk 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 protests are censored even here in the u.s. . is that the internet that we want. first off mr putin as there is in hong kong a using telegram to coordinate which is a russian app just 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 that 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 on 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 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. just a reminder for up to the moment of elegance this sunday our twitter page has you covered well worth a full season. china wants to trade russia wants to trade trump wants to trade the enemies of our conflict in a war because they love war and the same like the opposition parties in america are

the war party. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race on all fronts period dramatic to follow the only mostly i'm going to exist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. to. the west in the western mindset is in decline the us is in relative decline china is rising europe some people see it as rising over people see it is declining it's likely that the sort of western mindset and western culture will decline relative to eastern culture that's probably what's going to happen although you. know i

think anyone that says that something will or won't happen is pushing it a bit. join me everything on the all excitement and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sport business i'm show business i'll see you then. and this is boom box broadcasted around the globe covering the world of business and finance and the impact on us all and i'm picky i'm washington. here's a look at what's on that today incredible numbers of global debt has risen to $250.00 trillion dollars and there are 2 countries responsible for more than half

of the increase over the past 10 years while breaking down what tech companies want to be more than just social media and search engines they want to provide checking accounts credit card and payment services these companies trying to gain too much access. and finally just. launched this week and present one considering how just as a streaming abstains is becoming business or branch of war one joins us to talk about it changes the landscape. today so let's go and read it. and we begin with what you might call a race to the bottom as the u.s. and china have led the way it is surging global debt over $250.00 trillion that's trillion with a t dollars when we talk about numbers that high it's hard to even fathom but just in the 1st part of this year 7.5 trillion was added to global debt again just the 1st half of this year and the u.s. and china responsible for 60 percent of that the entire rest of the world more than

$140.00 other countries are responsible for only 40 percent well now this is government and private debt in fact according to the institute of international finance over the past decade global dead has ballooned by more than 70 trillion dollars which again has been driven by both governments and corporations so christine let's break this down here because we're talking about a global debt that is really equivalent to 320 percent again these numbers are so hard to even fathom 320 percent of global gross domestic product how is that sustainable on any level it's not sustained on that's why this rising debt level that has absolutely no signs of slowing down has been flagged by economists as one of the biggest risk for the economy and probably the next breaking point and right now as you point out this is a combination of both government debt public that as well as private debt and the private debt it's even. your concern even though government debt that's the most attention private nonfinancial day in the u.s. is at 27 trillion versus public debt is at 19 trillion and the reason why private

debt is so much more dangerous is because it's more problematic is because public debt has more impact on the economic and economic landscape sure right now if you look at the past the roaring twenties the japanese boom of the eighty's and most recently the us in the early 2000 what did all 3 of those have in common so huge levels of private debt low relatively low public debt but huge huge unsustainable levels of private debt that kind of just funded the incredible binge and rise you know there's also been a study in the not just of this borrowing taking place right this is really borrowing money that doesn't exist but as part of the central banks have been holding interest rates at abnormally low rates right this is nuts it only encourages it increases this behavior absolutely this is kind of what drove everybody to borrow more because it debt is cheap why not take on more debt and that's actually that's what's been happening corporates have now been issuing junk bonds at record levels.