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the top stories from the past 7 days and right up to the moment. this is the weekly international a little unwelcome. protests bolivia boils over this week for the country's leader. stepped down on monday and fled to mexico thousands of his supporters have since then been protesting against his resignation clashes with police have left more than 10 dead hundreds injured.

well after more oil is was always stated sedentary janine proclaimed herself interim president of bolivia many experts say the move is illegal and goes against the constitution she wasn't in line to be the next leader crucially though most of the army supported on the is under no under her control or t's dole quarter takes up the story. a new force has seized bolivia's political reins her name is janine is and she's just declared herself interim president but if you did as president of the senate i immediately take on the state presidency for a scene in the constitution and i swear to undertake all the measures necessary to bring peace to the country i mean as has long been

a critic of her socialist predecessor of omar alice who was forced to resign several days ago after the army dropped its support she invoked the constitution to justify getting the top job and has called for new elections but i guess herself wasn't actually elected she was just next in line after the president vice president and head of the senate all relinquish their posts even the legislature itself didn't really elect her because morales supporters boycotted that session now the real people who put her in power they're a colorful bunch. meet mr camacho he was part of a gang that wasted little time ransacking morales is former home. but these trespassers weren't just a bunch of thieves they were searching for a more spiritual experience here's camacho and his buddies praying with

a bible after breaking into the house one of their supporters praised it as christ's return to the bolivian government the bible is returning to the government palace never again will the pacha mama goodness return today christ is returning to the government palace live it is for christ but you don't see that 2nd coming but then again come on shows long had a unique take on the lord's work he spent years leading a religious fundamentalist organization called the santa cruz youth union aside from its reputation for p.d. it's also a purveyor of right wing ideology how far to the right well it doesn't get much farther than this when you. get. a sizeable number of the oppositions activists may be a bit unhinged but it's the political arm that is far more presentable carlos mesa was president before morales and lost another election to him in october the think

tank inter-american dialogue lists him as an expert on its website it's d.c. based and u.s. government funded but may says connections to washington run far deeper than that according to wiki leaks he was corresponding with the u.s. embassy in bolivia for years discussing the details of his political strategy no less in a meeting with the charge on october the 27th messam all but acknowledged that ever would win his constitution in january and that there was little point in taking that quick zone think of trying to defeat it of course that makes the white house pretty happy the resignation yesterday of bolivian president evo morales is a significant moment for democracy in the western hemisphere these events send a strong signal to the illegitimate regimes in venezuela or nicaragua the democracy and the will of the people will always prevail but the situation on the ground is becoming increasingly unstable especially now that the military isn't being 100

percent cooperative right now. then you have refused to coordinate with the national police or you are saying the military is being overtaken by criminal courts which are destroying the capital as a bolivian do your job we do not want more you would be responsible for everything that happens if after my word or which i make as president of the sanity for the crimes done and it will be your responsibility on his may have gotten to the top sticking to the letter of the law but it's going to take a lot more than that if she wants to patch up latin america's latest political vacuum what we've seen in bolivia with hi nina on years declare herself president and march into the. presidential palace holding a gigantic bible is. actually more flamboyant than what we've seen anything we've seen from one why go who presents himself as sort of a book or a yuppie but we've also seen her seize power in violation of the

constitution of bolivia a complete violation and today vote was rammed through in which anya has declared herself president but the majority of the senators who would have rejected her from his mosque party were not able to take part in the vote because their lives were threatened they basically had guns to their head their families were threatened if they showed up they could have been arrested or killed and so essentially you have a right wing dictatorship a military regime in power now in bolivia with no constitutional authority while bolivia's political turmoil has also given rise to questions over the country's not troll resorts says some are predicting that morale is the parser could know when the door for multinational mining companies bolivia is estimated to . some $9000000.00 tons of lithium reserves that's the 2nd largest in the world and

it is significant. predict that global demand for the chemical element will triple within a decade the increase is being driven by the rapid expansion of certain markets the use lithium it's a key component in electric cars box reason as well for various portable electronic devices on military hardware to kauffman from the alliance for global justice things but libya has been hit by the resource curse. there is no question that washington is behind the. behind regime change efforts in. every country of the particularly that has resources in june of this year. was going to be. industrialised there are there lithium.

it's just explore to raw materials but his plan was for bolivia to begin to produce and batteries refining the lithium ion producing batteries themselves which cuts for. transnational corporations for the profit stream. this weekend marks one year since france saw the start of the yellow vests movement protesters are gathering in paris for the 2nd day of celebrations place have already detained we believe 20 there were rallies nationwide on saturday most remain peaceful but not in the french capital.

well we're here in central paris and it feels like there's about a few 100 of yellow vest protesters here and they're being very very loud right now as you can clearly hear and they do have a very good reason for that they're marking their officially they're marking their 1st birthday the 1st birthday of their movement that started here in france and inspired thousands if not hundreds of thousands of people all over the world now today that has been largely peaceful and well more celebratory rather than riot sci

fi i might say so also we've seen the police in full riot gear in shopping mall in paris shopping malls because protesters they had promised to occupy one of the trade centers of the for in the french capital and they called it a temple of consumerism some of their chance have been very anti capitalistic so this is the this is one of the banners and the which they've been rallying for the cause yet we have to look to some of the protesters to get their opinion as to how they think their movement has shaped and developed in the course of this past year . i called on the yellow vests to come to republic square and join the march and specially to have the right. to be on sean's and he's a if they want to this is the movement's birthday and a birth to should be celebrated in a good mood even if it's a sad birthday because one year after the movement started the fact that we're

still here is a victory but a spin year means we didn't get a police car and so from our crew from dublin he's just as usual they used to guess against us for no reason the shoot us for no reason nothing's changed it's always the sea only you have to be ready to reap the fruits of our labor which we've been cultivating for a year if the government doesn't get done here you have it people who will speak out as a result of the protests the french government and president of prawn they had to make certain concessions to comply with least with some of the demands. of the riots has and of the protesters for instance they froze they halted the hike in fuel taxes for about yeah but people here are clearly saying that that is not nearly enough to prompt and add them down to make them happy and this saturday the protests were much more violent for instance the rioters on the italian square.

in southern paris and we've seen a lot of tear gas people like journalists some journalists were injured and some people were passing out because of the sheer amount of the tear gas industry so far it has been again today more peaceful but well it's john has been very very vocal. the british co-founder of the controversial white helmets rescue group in syria was found dead on monday in istanbul appearing to have fallen from the balcony after james the missouri a death his life and work came under scrutiny as well kapadia profile also saw something of a rewrite of missing anything detrimental in missouri it was a former british army soldier he was recently accused by russia of being a former m i 6 agent the u.k.'s foreign intelligence service and the british media has been quick to point the finger up the kremlin over his death here's our senior

correspondent. 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 limits series 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 wikipedia activity is astonishing if it is one individual before a day has passed since limits 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 that dylan is. area 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 a 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 there 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. here is the 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 wiki pedia 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 on kong suffered an especially violent week with some of the worst on rest yet

we'll take you through what happened when the wiki returns home. the world is driven by a dream shaped by. thinks . we dare to ask. the west and the west mindset is in decline the us is in relative decline china

reason is rising europe some people see it as rising other people see it is declining it's likely that the sort of western mindset and western culture will decline relative to eastern culture that's probably what's going to happen though. i think anyone that says something will happen is pushing it a bit. 20 minutes past the hour welcome back hong kong was injured what's this crime does one thing most violent weeks yet during months about to beijing protests on sunday protestors reportedly used pose and they also threw petrol bombs saying it was to stop police from charging at them right officers again deployed tear gas tried this person in the college with watercolors the area around there were polytechnic

university where protesters a bill all right kate snow has become less. of some of the most fierce pitched battles a bridge connecting university buildings will see. burnt fruit. will fall out from the arrest without much further afield on thursday evening for the 1st time since the anti-government demonstrations began activists to hong kong official who was visiting london was. god. yet what you're seeing here is hong kong justice minister trees it chang dozens of protesters surrounding it or she was essentially mobbed after getting out of a car and chased on the street we heard chance of murder as well chang fell to the cross and suffering minor injuries that was according to a chinese government statement the minister is known for being a key figure behind the withdraw an extradition bill which triggered the hong kong

protest china urged the international community to condemn the protesters who attacked exchange the violent and more with perpetrate to sue organized online communication committed the fragrance assault on the scene if the poem called special administrative region it has once again proved that their rule intention is to destabilize hong kong now they're taking such violence abroad and into the u.k. the action deserves to be condemned not always by been tied chinese people including the hong kong compatriots but also by the british public and the international community unanimously hong kong's violent week began with the stabbing scenes of a man being set on fire after getting into an argument with the protestors please be warned what we're about to show is the moment they attack you may find it upsetting to alt. well it was one of.

the scenes that you'd see in a war or disaster zone that would shock even the most hardened viewers pictures from hong kong reach new lows the man in this footage police say he was attacked after arguing with a variety of footage of the disorder is a regular feature on global news bulletins one could be forgiven for forgetting how and why this all began we must take action to demonstrate to president g. the united states senate stand shoulder to shoulder with the people of hong kong the people of hong kong are perfectly within their rights to be very skeptical very anxious about proposals for extradition to the mainland so yes i do support them and have police speak up for them and. every inch of the way the u.k. signed an internationally binding legal agreement in 1904 that in trying to the one country 2 systems rule in trying to the basic freedoms of the people of hong kong

and we stand for square behind that agreement foursquare behind the people of hong kong all those months ago the demonstrators objectives and demands seem to be clear as time has passed and lines blurred this has changed this isn't the 1st such case of targeted violence merely another step in a pattern of escalation a middle aged unarmed man left unconscious on the ground after of swarming attack by demonstrators global times journalist food go out with bound and beaten in hong kong airport for his support of author. jr's home a probe aging lawmaker forming victims of a knife attack which could have ended far worse amid rising arson looting and violence police are also upping the stakes live around. have been used by officers yet another protester in critical condition an officer plowing his motorbike into

a mass of people 2 of them reportedly injured thousands wounded in clashes it's almost a miracle the body count from the violence isn't higher some say the situation was predictable or thirty's claimants of voidable the protesters that they simply out of options the truth could lie somewhere in between but as the protests reach a point of no return compromise seems to be the last priority for any side. israel is facing the threat of economic demise that is if current demographic trends continue on change so say as a think tank which issued a stark warning claiming its the country's growing ultra orthodox population at the heart of the problem or middle east correspondent policy or explains. israel's survival depends on its ability to deal with external threats right wrong a new study by news radio think tank suggest cities radiators have been barking up

the wrong tree when it comes to questions of existential crises one of the biggest problems to face this country in the coming years will come from the country's ultra orthodox community certainly changes the character of the zionist jewish state as we know it. will towards the next on the whole are not scientists they don't serve in the army today 9 percent of israelis are ultra-orthodox in the next quarter of a century that figure will almost quadruple because of their high birth rate so that the 2065 some 35 percent of the population will be ultra religious the implications are huge but thank god the number of religious people is growing in this country and more jews want to be religious people are realizing that they need to take care of their souls not just their bodies so they're turning to religion so there have to be afraid of anything still the effect on israel's future economy is clear only a tiny percentage of ultra orthodox male high school students study subjects like

english math and science and with more than one in 3 i'm educated in 6 or less subjects israel's future economy looks bleak some little chores in the us are actually under include all adults and they are exempt from core curriculum they don't know english is adult if you don't know the word injured you can't operate a computer so israel if you leave here 2020 a quarter of your student body will be kids who are not study these basic skills and will become unemployed donalds this is a major threat to israel's economy and its israel's future yes graham is that it may look like religious people are not working and they're not providing for their families that is a mistake quality of life is not just about living standards religious people don't . an expensive car they don't need a huge house they're happy with the modest things in life religious people often stigmatized but many of those who study the torah have also studied foreign

languages and many of the things israel is one of the world's most dangerous regions it requires a 1st world economy to sustain a modern effective army just so that it can continue to exist the challenge really is one of life and death. r.t. jerusalem. we continually hear the question what does the future hold well the upcoming guest on worlds apart makes his living from predicting it but injury or slow. hello and welcome to world the part 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 companies and people from paying sometimes

big bucks to get a sneak peek into the future and hopefully a happy start in handling it is it worth it while to discuss that i'm now joined by u.k. based futurist and author 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 lucrative filled but how is it different from being a philosopher or 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 but 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 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 invent use well it's everything i think one of the mistakes a lot of technologists make is to is to purely look at technology in a very linear fashion and you have to consider the entire system the psychology the history everything everything that with a.