take outlander mass arrests the yellow vests movement marks its 1st anniversary with anger directed against the french government also ahead. tensions rise in bolivia with 5 supporters of ousted president raul is reportedly killed in clashes with police. and a former u.s. ambassador to ukraine testified that the witness of the trump impeachment hearing we report on how americans are now apparently losing interest in the whole saga.

very well welcome to you watching r.t. international with minichiello. well this weekend marks the one year anniversary of the yellow vest movement with rallies taking place across the country $113.00 demonstrators have been detained in the french capital alone so far police have now evacuated the square in paris where the main rally was unraveling earlier one journalist also suffered facial injuries during the protests artie's equal standoff was there among the crowds. it is not a war zone it is the french capital this is placid it's ellie and initially the protests here the yellow face protests here 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 now as the police has lately become more

aggressive they've been using an extensive amount of tear gas they have been using flash bangs as well to disperse the crowds now for instance what i'm holding right now this is one of the canisters from from the tear gas launched by the police at the protesters it's things like these there are hundreds of these gathered all over this square now some people have been injured and we saw at least 2 people with blood on their faces probably with busted noses some people have been passing out because of the sheer amount of tear gas in the air and the police now as you can see they're using water cannons to disperse the crowd to disperse the protests it makes it really difficult to breathe so you can see all of the people with the breast paraders like these with masks like these because well they came prepared they've been saying that their strength is a in numbers and b. in the fact that they don't have an organizing body so they can organize

a sporadic protest in any parts of paris to which the police would have to eventually respond but this has been so far the most massive the most violent protest in paris to date now this is a symbolic of course this is a symbolic date. this is a symbolic day for the protesters because it's the one year anniversary weekend so they are kind of celebrating in their own way and for them it's it's a message they're sending a message that one year on the all of us movement is still here it hasn't gone anywhere and it does not intend to. but what's the general feeling about the ongoing protests in france well according to the latest poll more than half of those surveyed still supports the best while 63 percent say they don't want the rallies to begin in earnest again sharjah bensky looks back now at 12 months of protests. france once revolutionary now a catalyst for

a few years populist movements a country where protests 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 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 planned carbon tax hike was abandoned he opened a state purse to boost low income households back or even he said he was there kindred spirit. has been the yellow burst means being 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 mccraw ended in the way they were and the promises and that he backtracked there was a tax the onus 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 in 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 extremist. it's yeah. 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 and i think the government owes them money but instead of marching with us they hear the protesters what given the violence made a big impression on me 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 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 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 a lot of the tee off there was a charge of police officer so so have they were exhausted and they were there was a counter from the money is a protest and though we almost lost one member. and according to this police seeing in the problems were compounded from the very top. it was a mess. it was a mess. we had but then. we had but the ship there was an order of the fight for. blood leadership in persia 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 vest 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 drum the inside i also invited the other young lest 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 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 jollity r.t. paris. 5 people have been killed and dozens injured during a protest in bolivia according to local health services supporters of ousted president evo morales claimed security forces opened fire on a demonstration with live rounds.

thousands of mostly indigenous people took to the streets in the century city of chicago previously 10 people have been killed in clashes across the country since the political crisis erupted last october's election supporters of evo morales are demanding the resignation of self proclaimed interim president. wrong as 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 soon followed and some of his supporters now say they fear for their lives. and meanwhile bolivia's self-proclaimed leader has been accused of racism are over and now deleted tweets you wrote some years ago where on years apparently disrespected an indigenous holy day. what a new year certain 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 respect. and that is how on the news web science monday believes the new government is trying to exclude the country's indigenous people from politics there is no indigenous group replace empathy is in her cabinet i think this is clothing decision to place a lot about who is hidden in the aeneas and which values and interests shish shifts from poor us indigenous people the most important super poorest to ever moralities and to his party movement to socialism i think the new government to south proclaim that government is trying to put the indigenous people out of the political game because it is necessary to put evermore ollie's of the game and the indigenous

people being backed by this new government including by the arm of the full force because indigenous people of 40 percent of the county and this is a conservative which have organized it the. 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 stability to the new government. a former u.s. ambassador to ukraine who's a key witness in the impeachment inquiry has that she has no evidence that the president engaged in criminal activity in ukraine but were given over to his question during the 2nd open impeachment hearing. do you have any information regarding the president tonight is states accepting any groups. you have

any information regarding any criminal activity that the president of the united states has been involved with at all. yeah and is caleb maupin now reports there could be some impeachment for teeth as audience numbers flag in comparison to earlier trump scandals. as impeachment inquiry hearings against donald trump continue on capitol hill the new star 1 witness is marine 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 every women reopen the which when turned bad she started off in somalia how did that go then fast forward to ukraine with a new ukrainian president spoke on favorite play 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 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 had line 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 speech because it's it's a full d.c. yeah sure it's fake you know i mean like 23 years since he's come into power i feel like this one can fire you for the way it's going on and nothing you have that this is a big colossal waste of time. in which to breath 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. artsy new york legally media analyst and if it to mouth and 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 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 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 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 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. still ahead this thursday on on the clock take the facebook dominant phone social media it's bull knock it out of the competition. china wants to trade russia wants to trade trump wants to trade the enemies of our conflict in a war as they love war and this seems like the trump opposition parties in america

are. joining me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics. i'm show business i'll see you then. the west in the western mindset is in decline the us 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 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 something will happen is pushing it a bit. welcome

back facebook chief mark zuckerberg has taken aim at the chinese social media video sharing platform tic toc whose rapid growth could soon overshadow his brainchild look about to trade the rival is nothing less than a threat to democracy. takes a look at what might be behind the on the most city. 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 knucklehead is of.

course. don't ask me who are beyond. me to do. and i see 3 major threats i want to 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 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 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 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 protestors in hong kong a using telegram to coordinate which is a russian app just to 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 protests content in try to but try 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 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 but 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. is by the delays and false starts britain is plowing ahead preparing for life after greg's it the home office has even released an app that help either citizens stay in the country but researchers are warning that is 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 luck to 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 the app is meant to replace a lengthy bureaucratic application form 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 phone numbers and addresses where searchers found however the app lacks protection from mel where attacks which could allow cyber criminals to fill personal information there's also high risk that hackers could alter data in the app however worrying it sounds to carry out all that devise would already have to be vulnerable privacy activist and technology expert bill new told us more. the company in question didn't actually find any vulnerabilities 'd and we do not know whether there are particular vulnerabilities with supplication what they did find however was that the correct procedures and safeguards hasn't necessarily been implemented this means that if the phone was already vulnerable in some way the application wouldn't be able to detect this it wouldn't be able to protect users

who may be vulnerable there's an element of scare mongering here but potentially the scaremongering isn't such a bad thing because it can plant towards the importance of having certain tests and certain briger within the development of certain applications that have really sensitive data you don't get much more sensitive than passport numbers and photo id these are the kinds of pieces of information and data that is if it falls into the role hands it can be used very effectively in order to cite your identity and steal your identity. elected for a 2nd consecutive term russians are like nativity scene has been reappointed president of the international university sports federation known as faith you well that was announced at the organizations general assembly in italy early this saturday but if in got the support of all 174 member state delegations the official

stressed the same has been taken vital steps to develop university sports and bolstering ties with the international olympic committee and the world anti-doping agency the president has also initiated a 10 year strategy to continue to expand around the world and integrate international camps for volunteers. and thank you for joining us here on r.t. international we're back at the top of the hour with the latest headlines. what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure. for some one of the rest. it's a going to be for us to see what the 43 in the morning can't be good for. i'm interested

always annoys him our. case should. now imagine 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 currently 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 provide good stroke pinochet we talked to one of the most popular politicians in south america's richest country chile for

geo jackson about overthrowing governments in latin america allied to washington london and brussels and award winning journalist greg palast explains our new liberalism born of western business schools has led to revolution wherever the people of latin america have sought freedom and justice plus the director of moscow winning film still alice wash westmoreland on the plus fold lines at the core of his new film for netflix. oliseh more 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 the liberal 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 i into 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 lecture and they want to cool 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 exciting. 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 almost 20 years you have an open wound.