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with the top stories from the past 7 days and right up to the moment developments as well this is the weekly international hello and welcome. protests bolivia erupted this week after the country's leader evo morales stepped on monday and fled to mexico. his supporters have since then been protesting against his resignation with police left more than 10 dead and hundreds injured.

well after morel his will as i stood some heard jeanine is proclaimed herself interim president of bolivia many experts state that was against the constitution she wasn't in line to be the next leader crucially though most of the army supported anya is. her control r t z takes us through the evidence. you may have heard that bolivia has lately been celebrating a triumph of democracy the resignation yesterday of believe in president ever morales is a significant moment for democracy in the western hemisphere these events send a strong signal to the illegitimate regimes in venezuela nicaragua that democracy

and the will of the people will always prevail i don't know if it was a breeze in south america or if it was oblivion hurricane of democracy be here today i feel a little breeze in venezuela freedom and justice well here is what a triumph of democracy has looked like in bolivia president morales resigned the vice president resigned the president of the senate the 3rd person in line for the top job you guessed it resigned. the bolivian army and security forces are the only viable force left after they renounce their allegiance to the government and took the side of the protesters. we suggest to the president of the state to resign his presidential mandate to allow for peace and stability for the good of our believe yet. but it's not as black and

white as the anti government side might want you to think plenty of people have been supporting evo morales in the streets and it's them who have been getting the short end of the stake here. in fact. that was the key reason for morale us to throw in the towel he wanted the violence to cease there's usenet and why am i deciding to resign so the opposition does not keep pursuing my brothers and the unions we are resigning i am resigning precisely sort of my brothers and sisters leaders and authorities of the socialist

movement so you don't continue to be held hostage chased and threatened because in bolivia morales has no one not a 100 not a 1000 supporters he's got millions this a tobar of 47 percent of bolivians voted for morality and while critics of the ballot are screaming bloody murder the suspected election fraud is within a 3 percent margin evil moralities a die hard leftist as believing bolivia for 14 years under his rule the country's economy has been growing faster than at any period over the past 3 and a half decades morale us viewed as the voice of the poor managed to drastically reduce poverty and economic inequality he significantly increased the minimum wage to an boosted social spending millions had no problem with that and all of them

are now represented and protected by nobody this is a race is killed it is now turning very violent by the police indigenous population who are accused or else been well documented in the western press it goes to germany the western press supports the coup against morales this is a classic you know media manipulation situation the chance you know about meaning there. where you know our courses mean the us is our allies when they take power we play with democratic even if it may be a right will indicate. well bolivia's political turmoil has also given rise to questions over the country's natural resources some are predicting that morale is the partner could now open the door for a multinational mining companies bolivia is estimated to have 9000000 tons of

lithium reserves that is the 2nd largest in the world and it's significant experts predict that global demand for the chemical element will triple within a decade but increase is being driven by the rapid expansion of certain markets that use lithium it is a key component in electric cars for various portable electronic devices and military hardware to kauffman from the alliance for global justice believes bolivia has been hit by the resource curse. there is no question that washington is behind the the. behind regime change efforts in. every country of the particularly that has resources in june of this year. that was going to be. industrialized there are there lithium up till

now it's just exporter of raw materials but his plan was for bolivia to begin to produce and batteries refining the lithium and producing batteries themselves which cuts. of transnational corporations for a profit stream. co-founder of the controversial white helmets rescue group in syria was found dead on monday in istanbul appearing to have fallen from a balcony after james the misery is death his life and work came under scrutiny the britain's wiki pedia profile so when something of a rewrite emitting anything detrimental to the misery a was a former british army soldier he was recently accused by russia of being a former and i 6 agent the u.k.'s foreign intelligence service and the british

media has been quick to point the finger at the kremlin over his death our senior correspondent murat gaz the of looks at the circumstances surrounding the misery is that with the dubious wiki page at it it's. a tragic death for a man who made a living on tragedy james limits syria spent his life doing what he believed in which was remarkably similar to that what the british foreign office and nato believe it almost point for point so naturally before anyone even knows how many bones were broken in his body after he fell from his apartment balcony that they dogpile russia it's like an evolved limbic system fight flight or blame russia did russia kill white how much founder james the mysterious co-founder of white helmets found dead days after russia claimed he was a spy did russia drive here a british aid boss to his death the missouri crowding achievement was undoubtedly

the creation of the white helmets politically charged rescuers who went to battle alongside islamist terrorists even al qaida is winning in syria called them brothers you know the phrase you want to know how man lived his life look at who his friends were and they were relentless pro-government propagandists bent on censoring everything they don't agree with 133612 edits to wikipedia have been made in the name of philip cross over 14 years that's over 30 edits per day 7 days a week and i do not use that figuratively wiki pedia edits the times and if you plot them the time card for philip crosses wiki pedia activity is astonishing if it is one individual before a day has passed since lim a series death his friends began scrubbing his wiki pedia page the history of his life of all controversy whitewashing his biography philip cross the busy bee that

he is really went to town making james as we keep pedia page all nice and pretty you read it now it was a st the times reported the dilemma. syria was the subject of an intense black propaganda campaign for years my promise that activists and russian diplomats the new york times reported that the group and there would be syria were the target of unfounded conspiracy theories when he isn't rewriting history 247 go figure philip likes to watch television all sorts of channels and then go in low lying or try to discredit anyone he doesn't agree with such as government critics and he war activists and people who don't believe that the world is black and white if you peruse the added history on the wiki pedia page on can livingstone you also find the smartest fingerprints of that mr krause clearly if we could p.d.

allows the person who reveals their political agenda see attached to edit pages there is a huge problem this is clearly visible on my entry which has been overwhelmingly edited by cross and which is clearly unbalanced of course a much more probable explanation is that philip cross is a group of individuals paid to further the interests of the british government than malign anyone that criticizes it or its policies they have no problem smearing and degrading others yet philip or phillips ashar i see they're fine with doing it to others but talking about them is a no no back in 2018 someone wrote an article about philip cross and for his troubles the article was deleted and the author was bad for life for this philip cross did because considerable effort to read it in wikipedia entries for world

known british anti establishment journalists bloggers authors and academics philip cross may be a pseudonym for a group of like minded individuals acting in concert there are reasons teachers tell students never to use wikipedia. idea as a source philip cross is one of those reasons the fact is that wiki pedia is not an independence organization it's basically been set up by those who are very close links to western intelligence services there are attempts to manipulate it and to make it appear that certain things are true than they're not and other things are not true when they are philip cross who is a very very strange person in the sense that he's a constantly changing we compete your articles about controversial figures and he seems to be working around the clock so it's looks to me as if he's working some kind of intelligence a service and in any case he might not even be a real individual so one of the problems we've got with dealing with any

information like this is that people are out there manipulating information in real time indeed we've got more now on the situation in syria earlier this week in an exclusive interview with r.t. president bashar al assad talked about the militias actions of some foreign countries in saree you can watch that rare interview any time on our website r.t. dot com or on our you tube channel. how did i says roy roth suddenly in 2014 out of nowhere after nothing. in iraq and syria at the same time with american armament. the be physically the russians are saying that the us is stealing $30000000.00 of oil a month from northern syria is this a trump budgeting chip in the geneva talks why would net oil export or like the usa be interested in $30000000.00 of oil a month no things i says the started spiking syrian oil and oil in

2014 they had to partner with her. and his coterie and the american with the cia or others the american always try to loot other countries in in different ways in different ways regarding peer not only oil or money or financial resources they do their rights. their rights political rights every every other right birth their historical role at least after world war 2 and as for girlish forces are they just tired after so many years i mean your understanding is they took money from. the united states the cia i know you're welcoming them back you're worth 1st of all there is this is not only kurds it's mix of kurds and of and others 2nd when we talk about that is the of because in there to prevent. the measured it was because they had good relation of the

government and the measured it all because support that support the government but this which is called the people id is the one who is being supported by the americans publicly they armament their money they smuggled oil together. there are american. agents to be with most of them i wouldn't i wouldn't 30 all of them i don't know all of them but they're probably policy doing the last few years is to invite the american kristie to be angry when the american wants to leave. and to say we don't want to join the syrian army simply had you saying exactly what mr herder one would say to be a d.s.d. of all of them actually they had to go and has his own agenda which is to part his own agenda as muslim brotherhood and the american agenda as a puppet so it's to pot but their work intended this to us in death. but at the

same time though those group of people why did they give him the excuse and the reason to invite syria that doesn't mean invasion is legal is the illegal in every things all the world but they give him the pretext because he has been announcing for years that he wanted to invade the northern part of syria and he wanted to clean that area from the terrorists and he mean the people id because it. gave him the. excuse but what of it that's why they were to blame but the news in favor of. going green is proving a headache for german farmers and they're making their government i were some on our story still ahead on the program.

the world is driven by a dream shaped by. saying . we. ask. the west and the west mindset is in decline the us is in relative decline china is rising europe some people see it is rising other people see it is declining it's likely that the sort of. western culture will decline relative to eastern culture

that's probably what's going to happen though. i think anyone that says something will happen is pushing it a bit. 90 minutes into the program welcome back the biggest violence in months was witnessed this week. it occurred after an israeli airstrike killed a senior. militant group on tuesday palestinian militants retaliated by firing hundreds of rockets into israeli territory israel inturn continued hitting targets in the enclave in the early hours of thursday one strike leveled on apartment building burying the residents under the rubble 8 people were killed all from the same family with 5 children victims on this really military spokesman

confirmed the strike noting though that the head of the family was a senior. gee commander here's how a local health official described the. bodies were disfigured as a result of heavy bombardment from israeli f. 16. s to go on the rubble of. deliberately talk to do its work well the hostility subsided later thursday after a ceasefire was agreed with intermittent exchanges of fire continuing into the weekend local media say dozens of palestinians were killed in israeli airstrikes this week claiming half of them were civilians we heard from human rights political commentators based in the region. if israel responds to defending israeli citizens and anybody got hurt and in gaza who is to be blamed the terrorists who

attack israel not so when you hit the target with the terrorists who hide behind women and children who wish to be blame the terrorists are to be blamed who actually have their families then they they have them as hostages they target our civilians and they know they are of course mosque to be gotten last be neutralized god down israel needs to protect protect our peaceful and civil cities. sad to mans in the south we want to leave there if we had attacked by they slimy just by the hamas army duty to protect a legitimate target does not give the israeli authorities that are civilian a problem that these civilian houses they can distinguish and they are supposed to

according to the muslim model to discriminate between civilian and months of duty and targets between combatants and noncombatants and in this case claiming that i thought. it could prove to be a legitimate target must be an excuse to just sit by and a. number of presidents over places order areas where. civilians are out of them even according to the mission law in case of doubt. the the and the opinion with the go go include a civilian that then military so it. has been used to build. a friendship but of german farmer protests par lies the country's 2nd largest city this week follows and all farmers on tractors drove into bourke on thursday to vent their anger at the government's new cultural policies traffic was brought to a halt as the city played host to

a conference of the country's federal regional environment ministers who were discussing among other things imposing restrictions on the use of pesticides many farmers say the new stricter regulations would stifle the sector among the measures provoked i try or a bomb and some pesticides and regulations to protect water from nitrates artie's a bunch of those steps and this was with the farmers convoy that satellite for homburg. it is early and the morning that they should be working on their lands but instead of these german farmers have hopped on their tractors and will be rolling into amber to make a big point. as

the country's regional and environmental ministers are meeting here in hamburg the farmers want to make it clear that the shifting balance between ecology and argue culture is putting them out of business the ever tightening and national regulations on the use of chemicals from wheat killers and fertilizers to roots now we've become from the german government is so hard for us that we cannot drag on our farms we cannot have good crops. have followed her for that for their photo dairies at the root of their rigorous restrictions is the protection of wildlife and habitat the farmers agree that looking after nature is the core to the job but what infuriates them more is how they were shot out of the conversation of how to go about implementing fundamental changes in their life put on this today we are staying here and spending a shoulder. minister for environment here in germany and we invited here to come

here but she is staying involved and she don't speak to us and we needs a communication lemus the biggest problem is that the politicians don't talk to us we would like to have a dialogue with them and participate in the decision making process so that's what we're here cool to be hurt. the government insists that germany's farmers are not a bad though i expect something from farmers yes they do and that is change but i don't do some of them supports in them financially what is important is that we together was our european partners have direct payments as an instrument to support small and medium sized farms and this is a very important and signal for many foreigners that they have certain insurance against fluctuations but the german government is under pressure itself by the european commission over its sluggish and environmental protection record there is even the prospect of huge fines and legal actions if they do not do more having

tried time and again to quietly highlight their problems germany's farmers are now having to be more tough with ever public protests while they might be outflanked by the increasingly influential green lobby and the e.u. pushing the government for more reforms they're determined not to lead generations of farming families wrought in the process eventually success for r.c. . we continually hear the question i asked them what does the future hold while the upcoming guest on worlds apart makes his living from predicting it the big issues are raised in moments. we're.

going to welcome to well the parts the more things change the more they stay the same this pronouncement by and 19th century french journalist has long become an international truism but it doesn't stop compass. people from paying sometimes big bucks to get a sneak peek into the future and hopefully i have been handling it is it worth it well to discuss that i'm now joined by u.k. based futurist and off their retreat watson mr watson it's good to talk to you thank you very much for making the time thank you for having me on now being a futurist these a very trendy preoccupation it's also an increasingly competitive field but how is it different from being a philosopher a historian or any kind of analyst for that matter well from my perspective it's not it's not very different i mean i acquired this and i still think slightly

ludicrous job title since having written a book about 11 years ago about what i thought would happen in the in the future and i've always used the future as an excuse to engage with people about what they're doing right now and what they might like to do next so i'm i'm somewhat cynical about a lot of the stuff that surrounds the so-called industry but i think it is quite a useful thing to do i know that you believe that the next 50 years of human history will be determined by our relationship with the machines and i think this is a very popular notion nowadays but it strikes me as a little bit far i isn't human history always altimetry determined by our relationship with ourselves rather than the tools we use well it's everything i think one of the mistakes a lot of technologists make is to look at technology in a very linear fashion and you have to consider the entire system the psychology the

history everything everything that within that there's a great quote i use in my book from wilson who's an american evolutionary biologist which is that we have fucking number we have the brains of the page the institutions of the medieval and the technology of the gods and he wasn't being terribly complementary i mean technology is accelerating extremely fast and so. there is computing in genetics primarily we still essentially have the same brains that we crawled out of caves with and there is a problem emerging that we either have to merge with the machines or reject or restrain some of this technology but the previous industrial revolutions also happened very quickly in a matter of day kids and to some extent they were far more dramatic in terms of changing people's lifestyles and their values i agree technology is advancing very quickly but so is our taishan to it aren't we overdramatizing the fact of the digitalisation the internet and other phenomena brought on by the 4th industrial

revolution well well we don't really know i mean it's a bit like things like demographics where you've got rapidly aging societies we're not entirely sure what's going to happen because it's never happened before and yes people point to the industrial level revolution saying it's all happened before but equally in the context of losing jobs and other jobs being created but it does seem slightly different this time i mean it's more than just ways of making things ways of living it's a bit broader than that potentially this time and i think we need to be quite careful about things and the thing i'm very disappointed at the moment is possibly get more into the so philosophical ethical area is there's very little discussion about what all of this technology is ultimately for it seems to be an end in itself a lot of the time now i've seen you write recently that the future has essentially been stolen by a tiny slice of society essentially man in that twenty's thirty's and forty's pushing certain forms of communication and certain channels of communication on toss.