yellow vest 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 take killed in a standoff with police amid widespread anger against the new leadership. and a former u.s. ambassador to ukraine testifies in the trump impeachment hearings we report on why many americans are losing interest in the saga.

you're watching altie international i'm rise on a low quick and thank you for joining us. now this weekend marks the one year anniversary of the yellow vest movement with rallies taking place across france $147.00 demonstrators were detained in the capital alone on saturday police have now cleared the square in paris where the main rally was taking place in a journalist suffered facial injuries cheering the on rust off he goes down of was there for us. it is not a war zone it is the french capital this is placid itself and initially the protests here the yellow face protests here it was sanctioned it was it was authorized by the by the local government and the municipality by 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 is 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 protest as 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. your message that one year all the other 1st movement is still here it hasn't gone anywhere and it does not intend to well the latest poll in france to shows that a narrow majority 55 percent support the goals of the yellow vest movement although 63 percent do not want to see any further mass mobilization on the streets charlotte he looks back at the 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 and 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 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 back or even he said he was there kindred spirit. it's been 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 give away they were in the promises and that he backtracked there was a tax bonus but not to be company had the resources to offer it he also promised $100.00 euros 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 owes them money but instead of marching with us they hear the protesters what you're looking at the violence made a big impression on me the police against our guys i've been to every protest in paris and i saw things i should never have seen people were hit in the back for the forces of peace and order they have been left scarred by the by let us there was a police car we had been this huge protesters and that type of fire inside it there the french but it's very very close to use their weapons to get out

there was a lot of the tee off there was a charge of police officer so there are they were exhausted and they were there was a contact from the man years apart that. we almost lost one. according to various police union the problems were compounded from the very top. it was a mess. it was a mess. we had but. we had but did our ship there was an order of the referred to. but leadership implies the program feed meanwhile for latisha developed 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 that 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 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 will ski r.t. harris. at least 7 people have been killed and dozens injured during a protest in bolivia that's according to officials supporters of the ousted president ever moralists a military police opened fire on a crowd. thousands

took to the streets in the central city of sick however the latest tragedy brings the total death toll to $21.00 since the political crisis erupted after october selection a protester who was injured during the clashes described what we saw. yesterday during a peaceful march we were trying to reach the city of cochabamba when we were stopped they told us to wait for 20 minutes before we could march to the city center and then they didn't let us through while we are waiting they started to launch tear gas at us and then the clashes began after that they fired bullets out of us as if we were dogs many people were killed. ever morales was forced to step down last sunday after weeks of violence triggered by claims that last month's election victory was rigged scenes of looting and vandalism quickly followed and on tuesday

opposition senator janine onions declared herself interim president however supporters of morale is most of whom are indigenous bolivians reject the new leader and accuse her of an illegal power grab of the editor of the news website oprah monday believes the new government is trying to exclude the country's indigenous people from politics. there is no indigenous group at the age in her getting it i think this is clothing decision shay's a lot about him in the us and which values and interests shish shushan pours indigenous bebo most important. to rallies and to his party movement to socially is i think the new self-proclaimed. is trying to put the indigenous people out of the political game because it is necessary to. ever moralities of the game and the indigenous people be at the

acted by does new government including by the armored forces because indigenous people of 40 percent of the county and dis conservative forces which have organized it dick 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 recreate the stability to the new government. and other headline news a former us ambassador to ukraine who's a key witness in the trunk of preachments inquiry has said she has no evidence that the president engaged in criminal activity in ukraine marie event of it was questioned during the 2nd open impeachment hearing. do you have any information

regarding the president tonight is states accepting any bribes. now do you have any information regarding any criminal activity that the president of the united states has been involved with at all. now. and is caleb maupin now reports that could be some impeachment teak as audience numbers flagging comparison to earlier trump scandals. as impeachment inquiry hearings against donald trump continue on capitol hill the new star witness is marine given of it and she is a former u.s. ambassador to ukraine who was removed from her post 6 months ago now donald trump definitely does not hold her in high esteem that's what he actually tweeted during her testimony every women. 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 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 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 nielson 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 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 in to watch the beach 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 i feel like this one can fire you for the way it's going on and i think you have you know 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

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. r.t. new york well legal and media analysts jennifer demands to sense that the drop in interest comes in handy for us step 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 as it 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 that 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. and the news for a spirit chief mark zuckerberg has taken a chinese social media video sharing platform tick-tock who's rapid growth could soon overshadow his brainchild so to trade the rival lose nothing less than a threat to democracy my guess steve takes a look at what might be behind that 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 called let's 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 back 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 you know dad's wondering how exactly a lip sinking app threatens the more crecy but just think about it a little longer. another is changed it still doesn't make any sense so why would he say this. now it does make sense facebook is eating dust in 2016 zuckerberg tried to buy musical daughter l.-y. the predecessor of tick tock talks collapsed face book 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 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 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 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 you try to smear it so now the bugs trying to copy it and yes facebook has launched a virtual kloden of take stock. now that we've established what's what we can ask ourselves if there's any cause left the zuckerberg won't use to get his hands on more money i don't know if he knows i mean do you think he knows what it looks like to everyone outs the c.e.o. of facebook complaining about censorship by mr zuckerberg i will say there are a great many. americans who i think are deeply concerned that facebook and other

tech companies are engaged in a pervasive pattern of bias and political censorship in may of 2016 gizmodo reported that facebook and purposefully and routinely suppressed conservative stories from trending news facebook that is purged itself of conservative voices banned the naming of a trump impeachment whistleblower that sold out its community to the highest bidder information that was used by dictators to clamp down on opposition and he tells us the chinese lip sinking op is a threat to democracy. well despite the delays and false starts britain is plowing ahead preparing for life after bricks it the home office has even released an app to help a citizen stay in the country but research is a warning that it is fun rable 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 could 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 but researchers found that the app that protection from malware attacks which could allow cyber criminals to steal personal information there's also a high risk that hackers could alter data in the app however warring it sounds to carry out all of that a device would already have to be vulnerable pretty 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 secular. 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 wouldn't be able to protect users who may be vulnerable there's an element of scare mongering here but potentially the scare mongering 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. well stanger breaks it it's been put on the back burner in the u.k. with a snap at general election set for next month now stealing the focus and is the 1st time the country will head to the polls in december since 1923 when the seasonal chill taking grip there's concern the weather might impact voting. 'd 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 it's maybe time to head home those

. few women add to the divorce leaving only the die hard men complaining during the evening risks perpetuating a culture imported text 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 wants women is already talked.

well british people certainly do like talking about the weather that's your news update on a lot could not be back here with a roundup of the headlines in about 30 minutes time. i don't want 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 top opposition parties in america are the war of. the west and 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 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 happen is pushing it a bit. 'd 'd wrong through jackson not just a comedy show we're americans in america covering american news are called foreign agents. there's

a little quiz for you the 1st indigenous president and latin america cut poverty by 50 percent decreases the influence of the i.m.f. in the world bank in his country and spreads the wealth of the oil and gas industry to the people do you happen to a person like that. if you answer don't posed by us back to military coups then they didn't take them you are however. games you know. this past weekend abel morales president of bill. livia stepped down following the u.s. backed coup he is now in mexico to avoid threats on his life and yet he had just won reelection by over 10 points right mainstream media bolivian president evo morales has resigned morales announced he was stepping down sunday afternoon after the military asked him to leave office and audit indicated there was a clear manipulation in the country's elections last month yes exactly the election

morale is one what i just asked mark weiss brought director of the center for economic and policy research you can look at any website for any major news organization in the world and no one has yet presented any evidence and that's because there isn't any but i think the media split as you drooled by simply repeating over and over again this allegation which is really nothing at this point more than an unfounded conspiracy theory oh oh why it's one of the conspiracy theories we're. so that means it's totally true. man just fled the country on a bold premise that he rig the election here in the us hillary clinton stuck around even after. the d.n.c. admitted in court they rigged with their 2016 primary.