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a directive against the french government also coming up in the program. tensions rise in bolivia with 5 supporters of ousted president is reportedly killed in clashes with police. the former us ambassador to ukraine testifies as a witness in the. hearing we reported. partly losing interest in the entire 2nd. life from moscow this is r.t. international my name's you know you have 30 minutes of news and you start on. police used tear gas to disperse protesters in parts it comes to marks their

one year anniversary of the yellow vests movement with rallies expected across the country doesn't sub demonstrators have been arrested in the french capital so far. there are 2 among the crowds. well this is what southern parish looks like right now it is not a war zone it is the french capital this is placid it's a leaf and initially the protests here the yellow vests protest yeah it was sanctioned it was it was authorized by the by the local government by the municipality but now you can clearly see that they have revoked that permission and the police they have been moving in trying to disperse the protest here the police are saying that is because of the violence and because of all the bone fires and the barricades that the protesters have erected here you can see a fire truck over there dousing one of the fires right now the homes square this whole neighborhood is in tear gas in fact people here have been passing out and

volunteer medics had to carry them away from the tear gas we saw one person who had white foam coming out of out of his mouth that's how bad it is here with the tear gas right now this is one of the only sport see if not the only sport where because of the air because of the wind i can actually stand and talk to you without coughing my coughing my lungs out in fact we've seen the poll even the police had to cover their faces to protect themselves from the tear gas that they themselves launched at the protesters over there you can see there are people up on the barricade 9 and they're making they're making a stand because this protest again it is symbolic it is a one year anniversary we can tomorrow is exactly the yellow 1st movement marks

exactly one year since it was founded when you can clearly see the tear gas is getting to me so. excuse me so it is a symbolic thing for the protesters they're here to show that one year on their own move. it is alive and kicking quite literally very often. and the police in fact they are ready to ready to move. at this gathering if you try and disperse them and people you can see people are here they're very passionate about. their very excuse me they're very passionate about their cause so so far we know that more than 40 people have been detained because of the violence and the protests they have been they have been flaring up all across paris you have big crowds but what is the general feeling about the ongoing protests well according to the latest poll more than half of those surveyed still support the yellow face while this figure $63.00

that's the percentage who say they don't want the rallies to begin in earnest again show tunes he looks back now at 12 months of protest. france once revolutionary now a catalyst for a few years populist movements in a country where protests is in the blood and over the last year a nation just faceless 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. bored. 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. it's been the yellow bus lanes 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 the way they were and the promises and backtracked there was a tax the onus that 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 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 tells them money but instead of marching with us they hear the protesters. the violence made a big impression on me that the police against our guys should have been to every protest in the carriage and i saw things i should never have seen on people were hit in the back well for the forces of peace and order they have been left 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 it's been 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 counterattack from the money as a protest and though we almost lost one member 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 did our ship there was an order of the in fact to. but leadership implies a problem. meanwhile for latisha divel the struggle continues but she's also

where the weekly protests may have lost someone very national impact so how will the yellow vests movement adapt in the future to change the system she says you need to be inside it this is 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 activist 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 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. r.t. paris. yet according to your screen that's what's happening right now live in parts

but moving on to a different continent south america 5 people have been killed and dozens injured during a protest in bolivia that's according to local health services supporters of ousted president evo morales claim security forces opened fire on a demonstration with live rounds. and. thousands of mostly indigenous people took to the streets in the central city of sirte previously 10 people had been killed in clashes across the country since a political. crisis erupted after a burst of action supporters of evil rollo's are demanding the resignation of self-proclaimed interim president jeanine. row it was forced to step down on monday after weeks of violence triggered by claims that the last month's election victory was rigged violence loosing vandalism soon followed and some of his supporters know

say they fear for their lives. you all believe he is self-proclaimed leader has been accused of racism herself over and deleted tweets she wrote some years ago when un years a partly disrespected on indigenous holy day. went to a new year saturn ists no one replaces god. we want the racist lady who is automatically proclaimed to so president to resign that is why we have say to resign. that so-called president is usurping our country we want to respect the editor of the news websites opera monday believes the new government is trying to exclude the country's indigenous 'd 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 aeneas and reach values and interests sheesh poor

indigenous people most important. to evelyn morales and to his party movement to socialism i think the new goldman to south proclaim with goldman is trying to boot the indigenous people out of the political game because it is necessary to boot ever more out of these out of the game and the indigenous people back to bite this new government including by the us because indigenous people of 40 percent of the county and this conservative which have organized who did. that in order to give is that belittling you 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 recreate the

stability to the new goal from. moving the program a former us ambassador to ukraine who was a key witness in the trump and pay to intern quire he has said she has no evidence that the president engaged in criminal activity in ukraine. if it was questioned during a 2nd open impeachment hearing. do you have any information regarding the president and i did state accepting any bribes. now you have any information regarding any criminal activity that the president of the united states has been involved with at all. now. kaleb up and now reports there could be some impeachment fatigue as audience numbers flood in comparison to earlier trump scalpels. 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 each 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 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 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 headline news but is the u.s. . 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 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 into

watch the impeachment 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 nothing you have. this is a big colossal waste of time. period in which the bread here it was more so like you know sensitive to the public and this one is 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. artsy new york illegal media analyst jennifer demosthenes sees that the drop in interest actually comes in one day for 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 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 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 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 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 they 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 we

keep the news ruling this all 1000090 seconds they close. china wants to trade russia wants to trade trump wants to trade the enemies and trade our conflict in a war as they love war and the same like the trump opposition parties in america are the war. in. the west in the west mindset is in decline the us is in relative decline china reason is rising europe some people see it as rising over people see this as 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 they'll

know you you can't say for certain but i think anyone that says that something will or won't happen is pushing it a bit. join me everything on the i like simon chill and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics sport this list i'm show business i'll see you then. 20 minutes after the hour welcome back but i guess it has been parts on the back burner in the u.k. with a general election in state set for next month the focus now and it is the 1st time the country will head to the polls in december since 1923 and with a seasonal chill taking grip there's concern the weather might impact on voting.

it's about common sense and putting safety 1st look out for black ice look out for each other in times of low body temperatures if your friend is starting to look blue it's maybe time to head home those. few women add to the divorce living only to die hard men campaigning during the evenings risks perpetuating a culture import it takes when men build professional relationships with one another and women are left at the impact a few hours of daylight may seem like a minor concern but the news comes at

a time when the political discourse towards women is already talked. of europe's biggest sporting nations it's a crunch weekend off football places are up for grabs at the euro 2020 finals 2 countries that have already booked their spots are belgium and russia but they will

have to finish 1st in their group in walk just a little under 2 hours from well let's just break down in the situation for most nations this weekend will be their penultimate qualifying run while others are already done to their final fixture there's 10 groups in total with teams finishing 1st and 2nd qualifying automatically for next summer's show pace belgium number one ranked team in the world currently there in st petersburg aiming to extend their perfect group rec or. also off north for us is a ski who's been closely following the preparations could the see alexei from russia's point of view not a great result in the reverse fixture in brussels on match day one but they've been on a fine run of form apart from the day how are things shaping up there. what is an interesting match to watch certainly because some people say that this match

is real largely irrelevant since both russia and belgium have already qualified for next summer's euro 2020 championship but make no mistake about it both teams are looking to field their strongest lineups here in st petersburg at. the stadium which was known as the same petersburg arena during the world cup obviously brings back a lot of good memories i would say particularly maybe for the belgium fans which have flocked here in numbers because it was here that belgium won the bronze medal at the world cup last year which was considered a very big result for a better martinez aside now obviously this stadium is a pretty one it looks like a u.f.o. which has landed and it's only just a little over an hour remaining until the game now we spoke to several former russian national team play as over the last couple of days and here are their thoughts on what we can expect from this game going to come under both teams have already achieved their main goal was to us now they will compete to finish top of

the group i expect the game to be uncompromising in that fashion might be relaxed but they need to understand that they are playing in some of the strongest teams in the world so they need to work hard to win i. just want to wish our guys play well for the fans i don't want to make predictions we'll see what happens. so everyone is pretty careful about those predictions we'll see how the game pounds out but let's not forget this is the last home game for russia in the city all stay . at all because it will be here next some of that 4 games of the year or 2020 championship will be held now today i had an opportunity to speak with him who was the head of the organization committee for the world cup now he's automatically transferred to the organization. and he was very proud that euros will be taking part here in this northern capital. of.

the world. well it's just a little over an hour remaining until the game will soon know the starting line ups it is promising to be a really good game russia has to win by a margin of more than 3 goals to claim the top spot in this group given the recent run of results particularly a 4 nil win against scotland at home you know this not something completely impossible if you ask the fans so we'll see we'll be here and we'll be following the game and we'll bring you the update as soon as we hear the final whistle here in st petersburg yeah stranger things have happened. in st petersburg thanks very

much. lots of new stories are shaping up the newsroom just behind the camera that way the basic getting the grips with more i'll bring them to you in 30 more great programs right ahead. the world is driven by. fear and.

not after a time say we're going underground on the 74th anniversary of the establishment of unesco founded to promote justice and the rule of law and guard the holding its 40th general conference as latin american countries from bolivia to chile to ecuador face an all out fight for democracy coming up on the show a legacy of the brutal british back to. pinochet we talked to one of the most popular politicians in south america's richest country for geo jackson about overthrowing governments in latin america to washington london and brussels and award winning journalist greg palast explains our new liberalism born of western

business schools as that's a revolution wherever the people of that in america have sought freedom and justice plus the director of oscar winning film still alice wash west with a flawless faultlines at the core of his new film for netflix. coming up at today's going on the ground 0 1st it was 49 years ago this month that salvador allende was inaugurated as president of chile the latin american country today is not only in the midst of an uprising against you know the broad. president sebastian pinera but witnessing solidarity protests for palestine after more u.k. armed violence in the middle east involving serial un resolution violator israel in the past 24 hours by india would die in office overthrown and replaced by anglo american backed dictator augusto pinochet and according to some leaders fighting global neoliberalism the legacy of pinochet lives on. board they don't want to lections they want a coup d'etat and wipe us away in a pinochet style. sometimes we say these hard things and in europe and other places

they see it as an exaggeration or extremist and it's not exaggerated they want to put a pinochet in place in venezuela i mean they're not signed today democratically elected maduro may still be in power in venezuela custodian of the world's greatest known reserves of oil even after attempts by the european union to overthrow him but in chile washington's man is in trouble accused of reviving the days when u.k. companies armed pinochet to torture his people after so many years of trying to recover from a long big potato ship of almost 20 years you have an open wound in the chilean society when you have the military on the street and that's another thing that we have to take into account when understanding this crisis is that that trauma of killing and society of having the military on the street is open again with this repression in human rights violations joining me now.