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with the top stories from the past 7 days and right up to the moment. this is the weekly international hello and welcome. protests bolivia boiled over this week for the country's leader evil morale is step done 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 and hundreds injured.

well after morale as was senator origine 9 years proclaimed herself interim president of bolivia many experts say the move is illegal and goes against the constitution as she was and in line to be the next leader crucially though most of the army supported. are no under her control artie's don't quarter to tell 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 seen in the constitution and i swear to undertake all the measures necessary to bring peace to the country on us has long been a critic of her socialist predecessor more 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 relinquished 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's 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 powerless to live is for christ but you didn'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.t. it's also a purveyor of right wing ideology how far to the right well it doesn't get much farther than this and you. see any. a sizable 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 messa all but acknowledged that ever would win his constitution in january and that there was little point in taken that quake 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 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 records which are just entering the capital as a bolivian do your job we do not want more you will be responsible for everything that happens if after my order which i make as president of the sanity for the crimes john 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 the presidential palace holding a gigantic bible is. actually more flamboyant than what we've seen anything we've seen from one y. dove who presents himself as sort of a bookish and dapper yuppie but we've also seen her seize power in violation of the constitution of bolivia in 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 you essentially have a right wing dictatorship a military regime in power now in bolivia with no constitutional authority. i want to talk about another big aspect here bolivia's political turmoil has also given rise to questions over the country's natural resources some are predicting up morale as his departure could no open the door from multinational mining companies bolivia is estimated to have some $9000000.00 tons of lithium reserves the

2nd largest in the world that significant experts 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 that use lithium it's a key component in electric cars batteries for various portable electronic devices and also military hardware kaufman from the alliance for global justice thanks but libya has been hit by the resource curse. there's no question. the. regime change efforts in. every country and. particularly that has resources. this year. was going to be. industrialized or there are no.

it's just exporter raw materials. his plan was for bolivia to begin to produce and batteries refining the lithium ion producing batteries. which cuts were. transnational corporations for a profit stream. this weekend marks one year since france saw the start off the yellow vests movement protesters are now gathering in part for the 2nd day of celebrations police have already attained 20 there there are rallies nationwide on 'd 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 1st 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 see if i may say so also we've seen the police in full riot gear in shopping mall in

paris shopping mode because protesters they had promised to occupy one of the trade centers of the for in the french capital and that which they called a temple of consumerism some of their chance have been very anti capitalistic so this is the this is one of the banners and to which they've been rallying for the past yes 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. beyond showing that 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 thing because one year after the movement started the fact that we're still here is a victory but i spin you means we didn't get subpoenas going so from our crown it.

was just as usual they used to guess against us for no reason for no reason nothing's changed it's always the see on the view they could be ready to reap the fruits of our labor which we've been cultivating for you if the government doesn't get it then he you have it people will speak out as a result of the protests the french government and president mccrone they had to make certain concessions to comply with least with some of the demands. of the riots hasn't of the protesters for instance they froze they halted the hike in fuel taxes for about a year but people here are clearly saying that that is not nearly enough to calm down that them down to make them happy this saturday the protests were much more violent for instance the riots as all the italian square. in southern paris and we've seen a lot of tear gas to people like journalists some journalists were injured and some

people were passing out because of the sheer amount of the tear gas in the streets so far here it has been again today more peaceful but well it's sad has been very very vocal. the british co-founder of the controversial white helmets rescue group in syria was fun dead on monday in istanbul appearing to have fallen from a balcony after james limousine death his life and work came under scrutiny as what kapadia probe also saw something of a rewrite a missing anything detrimental in missouri a was a former british army soldier he was recently accused by russia being a former m i 6 agent the u.k. foreign intelligence service and the british media has been quick to point the finger at the kremlin over his death here's our senior correspondent were outcasts . 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 wiki pedia 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. 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 who 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. as wiki pedia 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 then they're not and other things are not true when they are philip cross who is a very very strange person in sense that he's a constantly changing wiki pedia articles about controversial figures and he seems to be working round the clock search 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 more of the week's big news stories when we return.

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depths. aura made in the shallowness. 20 minutes. after a weekend of deadly riots across iran the sudden 50 percent hike in petrol prices the nation's president said on sunday that the government will compensate people who lose financially there's been trouble in a least a dozen cities with. pictures of iran's supreme leader burned riot police responded with tear gas water town and the authorities say one persons died during the unrest but local media say the number of fatalities is nearer 30 big surprise.

came on friday with the government saying the revenues will fund support for the poor the moves by iran's supreme leader the ayatollah how many who describe the routing us. on call the protesters. to new york president really in hooshang amirahmadi you're very welcome to the program us who are standing there president rouhani say there will be compensation for people who lose side because of the price hike doesn't that just replace the subsidy that's being x. though it is a sudden you turn. well 1st he is lying he has said this before. a very corrupt government and they have never really compensate the dippy put dig they got over it at $100.00 a $1000000000.00 for them to us on the case e.p.o. nobody knows what led that money is so again this is just. a

lie what they are doing god trying to increase deprive us of gasoline to pay for the government operating expenses not even development expenses operating expenses so again. people don't believe him anymore and he can say anything he want but the fact is that that people have lost complete confidence in this man how do you see these protests going. well i think dick butkus will continue again fortunately at this moment but doesn't have a leader and doesn't have a set idea. but i think it's sort of like very much like a span 10 years and it's but it is very significant what. a good number of people have died we have no particular number from 7 to 30.

8 on by that i think. the protests will continue because this is not just about gasoline prices that people are fed up. they have been patient with discover him and put a large long time to have put up with their for their war and sanctions fight in that region let me just talk about the sanctions sorry for interrupting but but on the sections themselves i wanted to get your view because just a number of weeks ago human rights watch concluded that the u.s. sanctions harm iranians rights to health care and essential medicines what do you think especially in your position are the chances of anyone in washington listening to bell and perhaps doing something about it. no i don't think that medicare will change anything and the sanctions side in fact even the government itself say a sanction is only 20 percent responsible for what is going on be dania the economy

dania economy has been totally mismanaged its all star corrupt government it has been you know lots of this money and basil they know the stone and no i don't think that the us will change all the daytime action is the key in fact even my own organization. that public opinion polls on this matter how believe it or not only 20 percent update on us believe that sanctions are responsible for what's happening today dania economy only to the players said they largely blame that supreme leader. and the government and i said rouhani ok well thank you very much for your time and your thoughts this hour for coming on the program this sunday life from new york city hooshang amirahmadi founder and president of the american iranian consul. thank you thank you modern environmentalism in the dock next

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