it was it was and. it was thanks. to. the week of violent clashes in bolivia in support of the bounced of president evo morales demand to his return from exile in mexico. this weekend marks one year since the birth of an iconic populist movement in france we look at how the yellow vests have been celebrated. also in the stories that shaped the week that co-founder of the controversial white helmets rescue group in syria is found dead in istanbul since then his wicked pedia biography has been edited dozens of times seemingly to remove anything detrimental.

to. a very warm welcome to you you're watching the weekly here on r.t. international bringing you all the latest world headlines along with a roundup of the stories that shape the week but 1st a mass of violence and around the clock protests bolivia boiled over this week after the country's leader either morale is 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 and hundreds injured. weeks think of at least.

you know i'd like to say that i step down in order to avoid bloodshed and for the confrontation i'm grateful to mexico for saving my life would say this i was my security that people would hand me in in exchange for $50000.00 and that's why i think the mexican president. has to move all this was ousted senator jeanine anya has proclaimed herself interim president of bolivia many experts say the move is illegal and goes against the constitution and she wasn't in line to be the next lida crucially though most of the army supported and yes and are now under her control of course it takes up the story. a new force has seized bolivia's political reigns her name is janine 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 i guess has long been a critic of her socialist predecessor of all 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 is former home.

but these trespassers weren't just a bunch of thieves they were searching for a more spiritual experience here's come on showing 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. again.

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 nicaragua the democracy

and the will of the people will always prevail but the situation on the ground police you are saying the military is being overtaken by criminal records which are destroying to capital as a bolivian do your job we do not want more blood you would be responsible for everything that happens if after my word or which i make as president to stand it for the crimes don't end 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 why go who presents himself as sort of a book a ship dapper yuppie but we. i'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. well bolivia's political turmoil has also given bias to questions over the country's nuttall resources some are predicting that morale is his departure could now open the door for multinational mining companies now bolivia is estimated to have some 9000000 tons of lithium reserves that's the 2nd largest in the world now

by significant as experts predicts that global demand for chemical elements will triple within a decade not the increase is being driven by the rapid expansion of certain markets that use the it's a key component in electric cars for example batteries for various portable electronic devices and military hardware now chuck ousmane from the alliance for global justice thinks bolivia has been hit by the results. there is no question that washington is behind. the. behind regime change efforts and. every country. particularly that has resources in june of this year. was going to be. industrial their their lithium.

it's just exporter of raw materials. his plan was for bolivia to begin producing batteries refining the lithium and producing batteries themselves which. were. transnational corporations for a profit stream. this weekend marks one year since france saw the start of the yellow vests movement protesters and now gathering in paris for the 2nd day of celebrations police have already detained 20 there were rallies nationwide on saturday most remained peaceful but not in the french capital. thank you.

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 sci fi 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 that we should they call the 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 year 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 sean's and he say if they want to this is the movement's birthday and a birth or 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 here means we didn't get a political and so from our crown from dublin he's just as usual they used tear gas

against us for no reason to shoot us for no reason nothing's changed it's always the city on the us should be ready to reap the fruits of our labor which we've been cultivating for a year if the government doesn't get it and here 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 rioters and of the protesters for instance they froze the whole to the hike in fuel taxes for about a year but people here are clearly saying that that is not nearly enough to come to and that is them down to make them happy this saturday the protests were much more violent for instance the rioters occupied 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 in the streets so far here it has been again today more peaceful but well it's just has been very very vocal. the british co-founder of the controversial white house mix rescue group in syria was found dead on monday in istanbul appearing to a fallen from a balcony after james the messy areas of exit death his life and work came under scrutiny is what a pity price follow so still something of a rewrite and missing everything that $2.00 mental. mysteria was a former british army soldier who was recently accused by russia of being a former m i 6 agents the u.k.'s foreign intelligence service and the british media has been quick to point the finger at the kremlin over his death well here's our senior correspondent mark. 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 fill it 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 white washing 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 delimits. 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 can 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 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. dia 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 that and they're not and other things are not true when they are philip cross who is a very very extraneous 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. to come this hour forecast looks bleak for the israeli economy in the coming decades and the think tanks pinning the blame on ultra orthodox jews thanks again for the details on that after the break.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race in this spear in dramatic development only. i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical. to sit down and talk. west on the western mindset is in decline the us is in relative decline china is rising your some people see it is rising other people see this as 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 although you can't say

for certain but i think anyone that says that something will or won't happen is pushing it a bit. welcome back the biggest flare up of violence in gaza in months took place this week that occurred after an israeli airstrike killed a senior commander of the islamic jihad militant group on tuesday a palestinian militants retaliated by firing hundreds of rockets into israeli territory israel in turn continued hitting targets in the enclave in the early hours of the day one strike leveled an apartment building and burying the residents under the rubble 8 people were killed all from the same family with 5 children among the victims and israeli military spokesman confirmed the strike noting though

that the head of the family was a senior islamic jihad commander here's how a local health official described the off them. the bodies were distributed as a result of heavy bombardment from israeli f. 16 aircraft. think there are still people under the rubble right deliberately targeted civilians in the hostilities subsided later on thursday after a ceasefire was agreed with intermittent an exchange of fire continuing into the weekend local media say dozens of palestinians were killed in israeli airstrikes since the start of the week claiming half of them were civilians we heard from human rights and political commentators based in the region. if israel responds to defending israeli citizens and anybody got hurt 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 of course must to be got must be neutralized god down here's the real needs to protect tak our peace for all and civil cities our settlements in the south we want to leave there if we had attacked by this logic jihad or by the hamas army duty is to protect a legitimate target does not give the israeli authorities that are to attack civilian probert these civilian houses they can distinguish and they are supposed to according to international law to discriminate between civilian and

months of 1000000000 targets between combatants and noncombatants and in this case even claiming that a targeted person if it proves to be a legitimate target cannot be an excuse to justify and on a number of residents over places or areas where. civilians are there even according to the martial law in case of doubt the breyer at the and the opinion with the go go in for a civilian rather than military so in all cases that it has been no excuse to this building. israel is facing the threat of economic to mice studies of current demographic trends continue unchanged so says a think tank it claims is the country's growing ultra-orthodox population which lies at the heart of the problem on middle east correspondent for ports. israel's survival depends on its ability to deal with external threats right wrong

a new study by news radio think tanks 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. alls or the dogs on the whole are not scientists but 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 the high birth rate so that by 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 unemployed who are adults and they are exempt from core curriculum they don't know english as adults 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 but that is a mistake quality of life is not just about living standards religious people don't need. an expensive car they don't need a huge house they're happy with the modest things in life religious people often

stigmatizes but many of those who study the torah have also studied foreign languages and many other 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 thanks for joining us here on r.t. international and that that you can have your say on all of our stories by following goes on social media we're back at the top of the hour. i'm going to fulfill the repeated promises apologise to the people and promise to be you know we've all pots to. be. pretty.

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