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a roundup of the biggest stories from this week and stay with us for going underground next here on r t international. now about $200.00 times here we're going underground on the $74.00 that have a story of the establishment of u.s. cofounded to promote justice and the rule of law and garvey 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 stroke in the sherry we talked to one of the most popular politicians in south america's richest country surely gorgio jackson about overthrowing governments and not in america or washington london and brussels and award winning journalist greg palast explains our new liberalism born. 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 you know 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 at israel in the past 24 hours i and 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 i mean sino 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 shape 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 the trauma of q. and 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 who are here jackson who is in valparaiso 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 why the global south and even those in the nation countries look to what's happening in chile as a chronicle of politics foretold the legacy of new liberal dictatorship stupina shane chile. well thanks 1st of all for this interview it's very important where the sap and here in chile we within not only because of our country but also for the region and also because as you said she lost in the seventy's in the eighty's under the dictatorship she doesn't like an experiment of the no liberal policies we doubt our democratic process you know under a dictatorship so it today we. are leading. in the rules that the colored

boys as we said to this academicians who passed with milton friedman's policies before the newlyweds in the rest of the world to worst their 1st experiment in the last 30 or 40 years has implemented to our development who is mainly focused on the concentration of our economy and the trickle down economy. ideology this demonstrations have relieved or release some energy who was very tied up in sight of the people who said mind of the people hearts that it wasn't able to get to the end of the months without having to spend with credit so i think that when everything is privatized you can not access to the basic rights that should be granted where anted so i think this is one of the main issues whom people in the streets are protest protesting on if the privatization chicago

privatization model is the same can you really look at the dead the wounded and the tamed in chile today and compare it though premier as policies and positions policies. i think that the context of course are different between dictatorships not only that human one. but the only dictator city in the seventy's and eighty's are different that their soft dictatorships are a different kind of the greater schieber are totally since in the 21st century so i think we are living today a lot of repression. different marlo's that. advocate the democratic whistle lucian's in order to change things for example this constitution this model and today we're discussing except that how the policies are not.

enough for the population and the country is very polarized but the majority want to change the constitution's once a tool how to get higher wages went to heart more social security that we don't have because he's privatized so i think that yes but he says. the population is not . it's not enough that what he's putting on the table you know but it has to be said that in the era like the former british backed dictator british a claims he has we need to comic lee successful he said he's reduced poverty route 65 percent to 8 percent according to what he said while the british state mandated b.b.c. . so let's be clear the net has been successfully not because i mean he's one of the most billionaires people here in chile one of the top 5 billionaires and he like to make us one of the top 10 or 20 probably but our country.

is not about democracy numbers today they are in employment it's high it's a day. numbers of economic growth are not what was expected to be with it would be yes promises on campaign but more than that people cannot get into the end of the month people have asked to to to have credit in order to buy in the supermarket the basic incomes i mean a bit of the basic thanks to good to eat our economical elite house and get that didn't get the message until these days ok but then for you and your movement the trade unions and premier they're supporting a new constitution presumably an updated version of that new liberal pinochet 1980 constitution do you feel it's not enough you want to constituent assembly plebiscites. this is what the u.s.

set a few days ago in national television. he said that he wants also new constitution but in terms of what is the mechanisms he didn't say anything new because the current constitution the constitution puts quinlan's in order to change the continuation there are 2 thirds of the members of the of the house in order to change it until you know that the prop the proposal of pineda it's only rhetorical because they don't want to put a democratic constitution that doesn't pass describes so it's like a trap it's like a retake track but people are. informed people are reading the constitution people are starting to understand what are these locks that are from 981 from the communist mind in pinochet's. constitution and

our people are starting to realize that we doubt a process does a constituent process could be named assembly or wherever you want to call it but we doubt this locks that very very tight it's impossible to have a democratic constitution ok your movement has shut down the apec conference where trump was supposed to sign a new u.s. a trade deal with china which he didn't bring also there was a climate overdue shutdown and what next because obviously the world news chile because of copper the world's largest copper production copper mines are in chile have you got the workers the copper miners on your side because according to financial news wires your movement is not affecting the copper commodity prices which presumably could be crucial. 1st of all it's i don't feel this is my movement i feel that i don't river send exactly the movement of course we're on the streets

but the movement. it doesn't have like i head over to the us leading it it's quite more decentralized and morally quick but i think that the demands of course are not to take down the cop conference or the opic because that's not the subject of the movement your question about the coverage workers there's a lot of support and there's a little bit of. strikes on the on the minds but has not been until now a massive strike on demining sector if the government said there's going to be a referendum in order to choose their paths or for how we change the constitution probably did movement. celebrated as a victory ok but any expectation the international dock workers council may get a solidarity campaign going on 5 continents like when the liverpool strikes run

here in 1905 is that the kind of where we're going and do you fear military reprisal. well sadly the 1st days of opinion as response were military were a state of emergency and we have suffered 5 people dead killed killed by the state agents we have more than 4000 people detained there has been people chartered there has been more than 200 people without and i because of the shots that the police do today money to stations to the demonstrations so we're very worried about this spiral of violence that to take place on the streets because in the 1st place doesn't have a tradition of riots there are so high like this but when the. police. act in their way get out they have been acting this weeks of course people started to response

and that's not something that we want we just want to taking that political path but the government refuses so strictly we're having violation of human rights by the agents of the state and that's something that to get rejects. in other territories in a no region but here in any mean you know domestic land. decided to send the repression in today's demonstrations to create a bigger gap between the demand and the response so people are politicized and yesterday and probably without the political decision of the referendum it's difficult to get into a solution or you're jackson thank you after the break award winning journalist greg palast on the return of the pink tried surging across latin america from chile to brazil to ecuador and we explore the global tremors of the new ridley scott's

produced netflix film of quake bird with the film's award winning director watch what's going on over the more coming up in part 2 of going underground. that's geysers financial survival guide liquid assets now does it you can convert music that's quite easily. to keep in mind no assets mean to the place of. work. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race is on often scary dramatic. probably the only way i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very chaotic at a time time to sit down and tom. welcome

back in the 1st half we heard from one of chile's most popular politicians about the struggle to free the country from the constitution of u.s. u.k. back dictator augusto pinochet but for more of that and other fights for democracy taking place enough america i'm joined now ask i by award winning muckraker greg palast who's in los angeles california greg thanks so much for coming back on so we heard from a chilean politician you've been one of the world's greatest communicators about bubble ization what sit made you feel seeing violence say in chile could be the cradle of neo liberalism look this is old story we've now had 4 decades of battles back and forth between the neo cons and globalization free market liberalization which basically means allowing u.s. and european companies to grab the resources of latin america they do it under the

cover of free markets democracy which oddly doesn't involve respecting elections so i've seen this i was you know reporting on the ground out of venezuela out of peru out of argentina out of chile and so you know i've seen this again and again where then you have popular uprisings you know you have popular elections putting in people like john is you have a morale us you have the kitchener's in argentina you had progressive in it in. in chile and of course the neo cons the banks the big companies cannot stand it so they have so-called popular uprisings which are very popular because they can actually win elections and basically seize power gets a coup d'etat because you have a trumpet ministration they're obviously fueled by a feeling that they have complete backing of the u.s. state department of government you mentioned morale is the media here and you also

mention resources talking not about resources b.b.c. it said he resigned amid turmoil cook caused by his reelection widely seen as 41 bloomberg said he quit c.n.n. that he resigned washington post resigned the new york times the end of tyranny what can you call it a clue. ok 1st of all there was an election and he won ok there's a dispute over whether there is no question there's a big dispute over whether he won enough to avoid a runoff but he won by a plurality of 10 percent ok i mean 10 percentage points is a landslide in any nation but it wasn't clear that the dispute was whether he wanted to avoid a runoff and instead this. dispute over whether he quote whether you want by a landslide in one clear or not resulted in an opening for foreign interests and of course the the right wing to try to seize power once again in the

santa cruz area the rich area which basically the white you know you don't forget racism in this he was the 1st. indigenous person ever elected the head of bolivia which is an indigenous nation and there's a lot of racism and also his you know opposition to his progressive agenda so they seized power they were going to try to say let's have an election because he even offered and that wasn't good enough they literally seized the presidential palace guys who weren't elected an ultra right wing organizations that were that seize the presidential palace and now they see you know they're trying to overwhelm the elected and i want to underline that the elected congress which are from the party of evil morales and so there it's about overturning democracy and you know this is become a new trope i see this in in venezuela where the british and german and of course the trump government. has endorsed this guy why do you as the so-called

president of venezuela he didn't even bother running for office and by the way in all these cases you will notice something very very important the candidate is the president picked by foreign powers and again chosen by foreign powers not by the people are all white and racism is a gigantic part of the story of the control of latin america well i'm sure brussels and washington would deny racism but arguably they have failed in their attempts to overthrow the government of my doro of course because you know the world's largest known oil reserves tell me about the school of the americas because 6 of the key plot is in bolivia went to the school of the americas what is that well as cool the americas as a kind of. it's a training ground basically for coup plotters what it is it supposed to be in place to to show latin american military how to behave properly you know

that this is suppose it was started because latin american military was simply killing its citizens who were going to tell them how to control the population and do it politely without killing people in fact it became a school for coup plotters and of course encouraging the takeover of latin nations because the truth is that the us government and us corporations are quite unhappy with the idea of democracy in latin america and with venezuela oil was obviously an important element tell me about lithium because otherwise bolivia is just one of the poorest of the poorest country in latin america do we all carry a possibility here with us in our mobile phones and is that part of a crew yeah i mean one of one of the problems we've had this is all over the world live is not a special case it has lithium just as the democratic republic of congo has. cold hand and also lithium and uranium it's a resource grab it's the old game that. we had in the 19th century in the early

20th century of grabbing resources except we don't do it nakedly anymore we have to cover it up saying oh we're restoring democracy by removing elected officials let's face it if venezuela's main export were broccoli instead of oil they wouldn't care who's president there don't forget that in the case of venezuela to give you a clear example. of them and during government refused a request by the british government and british petroleum to turn over what was the french concession in venezuela to british petroleum to b.p. now have them endure a government that was 2 years ago of them endure a government simply handed b.p. the french concession in venezuela there would be no problem with them in your own government but madeira said no we're keeping it we're going to give it to the to the venezuelan oil company paid a basin and and it was at that point that the british government and of course all

the other european governments said well then in that case you're not a legitimate president he would have been quite legitimate if you turned over the oil to b.p. well as you know b.p. and european union governments will deny that and say it's all about human rights act show me and we could also talk about the optimism of the return of the pink tide maybe the late today i want to ask you now though about voter suppression you're an expert on it will the 2020 election in the united states be fair. no not a chance america is a great imitation of democracy but we remove in the last 2 years are you ready for this united states as the various states have removed 14000000 voters from the voter rolls it's called purging and they're removed you know it's like a and i'm up for the voter rolls to put in the crudest terms and they're removing mainly voters of color black people hispanic and a lot of young people and they use all kinds of of tricks and it's usually

involving what we call jim crow or racist tactics but always with black voters and that's not just one state that's happening in 25 states in america greg thank you very welcome. well themes of national identity surveillance and globalism are explored in the new ridley scott british netflix film earthquake bird which is just premiered on the service in the past 24 hours then the owner while detective story comes from the director of oscar winner still alice wash westmoreland and stars another oscar winner x. magners alice you have a calendar i went to meet the director in central london tell me about earthquake but earthquake bird is a story about a young woman who's living in japan in the 1980 s. and she's working as a translator and she gets drawn into a love triangle and becomes a prime suspect in a horrific murder so it's kind of a tokyo nor and it's going this civic and exact produced by ridley scott the whole film is would you say very global let alone the lead actress or to speak

in japanese it is a global film we had a korean d.p. we had a mainly japanese crew we had an australian producer alyse is from sweden and i'm from leeds i mean how global is art and they all have jobs like this don't we're all going underground he said there's always an awareness of plus an economic in the midst everything they're all having to put joy over all while they're going through mental trauma yes they are and you do get like clues into what their background has been and you know how they've arrived at that economic position in japan why they're there and what their struggles are you think there is an element and the theme of the film i know it's from from a novel but of. getting to grips with grief there is absolutely a theme of going to get grips with grief i think ultimately it's a psychological thriller and you don't expect it to come through but it's about survivor's guilt it's about someone who's come into contact with a lot of death and is trying to process it in a way a lead character has p.t.s.d.

she feels like she's a death magnet that so many you know traumatic events have been around her in the past and she's taking the guilt and the blame for so people watching. we'll learn something from within the not to blame themselves well there is a certain catharsis in the film yes that i feel people my connect to when they see it but obviously it's a super personal issue for anyone who's struggling with that this is just this one character and how she breaks through very important you know i do oriental japan in the film given takes waves that well yeah i mean you know it's a story of a westerner living in japan last thing i wanted to do was to like another exotic size ation of japan or have sort of stereotypes just kind of been used over and over in western cinema so i really sort of my own approach was to avoid that i

believe that the novel was written from that point of view too but also work very closely with japanese collaborators and all my crew was japanese and we very much formed a kind of very open communication about how to make this authentic and respectful to japanese way of life these are the people i want to hear from i don't want to hear it like after the films made i want to hear it before the film's making what is the earthquake or is it in the eyes of the viewer well i think earthquakes are events that unsettle you i think anyone's been like you think everything's normal and then suddenly everything around you start shaking so i think they are something that shows you that the reality that we perceive is actually fragile and our earthquakes are quite real because the sets were built on hydraulic platforms and there were bill in japan to test furniture and buildings for earthquakes and actually the earthquakes we use in the film are real of quakes

like they have to yokohama earthquake and the one that happened in the going up programmed into the hydraulic platform so there were real earthquakes that we saw has nothing to do with the 2 a. godzilla of earthquake there's no right there's no like is shaking the legs of the table and watching the ornaments wobble this is like the whole was actually physically having an earthquake and of course there was grief obviously in still alice in collette the grief as opposed as the bay tree hockey in the media this is a big theme for you well here really the 3 films that i made most recently still alice color and earthquake bird are all very different genres but they have similarities are all about women struggling against things in their life. you know . how and is struggling against disease and her future and collette is struggling against her husband and the patriarch in her present tense and you know the

character of lucy fly is really struggling to deal with her past of everything that she's brought with her from her home country and she's trying to forget about it in japan you sailors in orbit the way it's directed is nothing like forty's or fifty's in a war or maybe but the way to make someone you is not for everyone to pretend to be humphrey bogart you know that is just a pastiche what to me is a crime drama with elements of psychology and style and that's what the true great wars were throughout history is really influenced by in war called out of the past by shock turner that's kind of you know considered one of the our all time classics but also a contemporary neo nor are made by curiosity chorus our call the cure that was made in the ninety's that had a big influence on the style and the town of the piece so i thought to do something new with norah be interested to do a gender inversion usually it's a guy who's escaping from the past and they have

a. kind of dark and alluring and this would be a woman who's escaping from the past and she meets this guy who's an arm fatale who has a real attraction but also carries a real danger for you know the. mailer's known for modeling yeah well yeah the guy who plays stacey is called my okie kobayashi and he's known into power as a pop star. and he's just started doing acting work with plays t.v. so really it was a huge sort of jump for him but he had so many qualities that worked so well for the character you have this intensity in this charisma and this intuitive understanding of the character so i found he did this sort of amazing portrayal of tell you she worked very well with willesee heart their chemistry and so it was terrific. wash thank you thank you wash west berlin director of earthquake bird speaking to me there in central london and the film is available to stream on

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