it was thank you thank god. thank you thank. you. and the rest activists bring turmoil to the streets of paris as the anti-government movement marks its 1st anniversary also ahead. at least 7 supporters of bolivia's ousted president are killed in a standoff with police amid widespread anger against the new leadership. and the former u.s. ambassador to ukraine testifies in the trump impeachment hearing we report on why many americans are losing interest in this saga.

will welcome you watching r.t. international with me. now this weekend marks the one year anniversary of the yellow vest movement with rallies taking place across the country $147.00 demonstrators were detained in the french capital alone on saturday police have now cleared the square in paris where the main rally was taking place a journalist suffered a facial injuries during the rest he caused all of 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 5 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 are saying. the message that one year on the universe movement is still here it hasn't gone anywhere and it does not intend to. the latest poll in france shows that a narrow majority 55 percent support the goals of the yellow best movement although 63 percent do not want to see any further mass mobilization in the street sure dubinsky looks back at a 12 month standoff. 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. my corner 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. be in the yellow verse 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 mccrone didn't the way they were and the promises that he backtracked there was a tax. this but not of the company had the resources to offer it he also promised 100 years extra for people a minimum wage but in the end we realized 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 as argue their movement had been infiltrated by extremists. it's the radicals who go out for

violence is 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 battens were 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 you know 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 in 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 british men 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 counter from the money is a protester. we almost lost one. 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 factor. but leadership in persia programs meanwhile for latisha divel the struggle continues but she's also where 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 trim the inside i also invited the other yellow vest activists with similar views to do the same if they become a counsellor or a deputy they will be inside the system and we built to change it. what ever your view on the yellow vests movement one thing is indisputable they've had a profound effect on france over the last year now could be a pivotal moment to see if they will continue to burn a torch under the current administration this weekend we may find out so much even ski r.t. paris. at least 7 people have been killed and dozens injured during a protest in bolivia according to officials supporters of the ousted president evo morales a military police opened fire on the crowd. thousands

of mostly indigenous people took to the streets in the central city of the harbor the latest tragedy brings the total death toll to end. he says the political crisis averted off the october election supporters of evo morales are demanding the resignation of self-proclaimed interim president should mean and yes raul 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. meanwhile bolivia's self-proclaimed leader has been accused of racism over and now deleted tweets she wrote some years ago where on years apparently disrespected an indigenous holy day . what a. new year saturn ists no one replaces got. we want the racist

lady who is automatically proclaimed herself president to resign that is why we have said to resign. that so-called president is usurping our country we want to respect yourself a nice website opera monday believes the new government is trying to exclude the country's indigenous people from politics there is no indigenous group that the in her cabinet i think does clothing decision sees a lot about who is hidden in the aeneas and which values and interests sheesh she is from poor us indigenous bebo most important. to ever moralities and to his party movement to socialism i think the new government to self proclaimed govt is trying to put the indigenous people out of the political game because it is necessary to boot ever more alleys of the game and

the indigenous people back to bite this new government including by the armored forces because indigenous people of 40 percent of the county and this is a conservative which have organized it 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 would create stability to the new government. a former us 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 where you have an a if it was question during the 2nd open impeachment hearing. do you have any information regarding the president tonight is states 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 and it's kind of open now reports there could be some impeachment fatigue as audience them both back in comparison to earlier trump scandals. as impeachment inquiry hearings against donald trump continue on capitol hill the new star 1 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 turned bad she started off in somalia how did that go then fast forward to ukraine with a new ukrainian president spoke on friday verbally 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 the 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 on the hill as house democrats make their case against president and attempts 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 have on a bitch you know have you ever heard of george can't. are you watching the trumpet pietschmann inquiry hearings on t.v. . does it interest you at all. why do you think fewer americans are turning into watch the speech because it's it's a fluke easy yeah sure it's fake you know i mean like 23 years since he's come into power if you like this one are you really going on and i think 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 one is just everybody's 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 cable mopp and r.t. new york. media analyst jennifer to most cities that the drop in interest on 20 comes in handy 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 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 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 well 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 that were turned in at the outset would have just tuned out or 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. so that has a nazi as the cloak takes to facebook and dominant form social media it's lashes out at the competition and details will you want to play.

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welcome back 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 local sources say the incident took place in the northern city of el bob in a residential area just 30 kilometers from the turkish border the city is being controlled by a pro turkish militia since 2017 and crew has already accused kurdish forces of carrying out the attack although no one has yet claimed responsibility for the incident. facebook chief mark zuckerberg has taken aim at the chinese social media video sharing platform tick-tock whose rapid growth could soon overshadow his brainchild. to be rival is nothing less than a threat to democracy. takes a closer look at what might be behind the animosity. social media it's

a market like anything else with it's 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 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 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 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 protesters in hong kong a using telegram to coordinate which is a russian up 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 protests content in try to but he try to smear it so now zuckerberg trying to copy it he 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 or mr zuckerberg i will say there are

a great many. americans who i think are deeply concerned that facebook and other tech companies are engaged in a pervasive pattern of bias and political censorship in may of 2016 gizmodo reported that facebook and purposely and routinely suppressed conservative stories from trending news facebook that is purged itself of conservative voices back and the naming of a trump impeachment whistleblower that sold out its community to the highest bidder information that was used by dictators to clamp down on opposition and he tells us the chinese lip sinking op is a threat to democracy. thank you chasing r.t. international we have plenty more of the day's headlines coming your way at the top of the hour.

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accelerate the transition to sustainable prize board sustainability stamer man on a more equitable and sustainable world. they claim their production is completely harmless. and got it into something companies want us to feel good about buying their products while the damage is being done far away and this is something else just as he would any minute i need money. this is the move the news to me didn't do nieminen i'm stunned seemed to be understood so when.

now imagine a time say we're going underground on the $74.00 that have a story 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 in the show a legacy of the brutal british back to provide mr 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 in 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. arm violence in the middle east involving serial u.n. resolution violates 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 lections they want to 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 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 dictatorship 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 to land society of having the military on the street is open again with this repression in human rights violation joining me now via skype is a member of the chamber of deputies of chile the democratic revolution politician jackson who is envelop ari's a city the scene violent clashes between protesters and police want your thanks for joining us before we get to the latest violence remind us way of the global south and even those in the nation countries look to what's happening in chile as a chronicle of politics for told the legacy of new liberal dictatorship stupid

machine chile. well thanks 1st of all for this interview it's very important where the sap and here in chile we within knock only because of our country but also for the region and also because as you said she was in the in the seventy's in the eighty's under the dictatorship she doesn't like an experiment of the new liberal policies without a democratic process you know under a dictatorship so it today we. we're living in the in the rules that the boys as we said to this are going to missions who passed with milton friedman's police before the newlyweds in the rest of the world she was the 1st experiment in the last 30 or 40 years os implemented to our development who is mainly focused on the concentration of our economy and.