thinks. we dare to ask. a week of violent clashes in bolivia supporters of ousted president evo morales demand his return from exile in mexico. this weekend marks one year since the birth of an iconic populist movement and from the ticket how the other vests have been celebrated. in the stories that shaped the week co-founder of the controversial white helmets rescue group in syria is found dead in istanbul since then his wiki pedia biography has been edited dozens of times seemingly to remove anything

detrimental. a very warm welcome you're watching the weekly here on r.t. international bring you all the latest world headlines along with a roundup of the stories that shape the week but 1st the mass violence and around the clock protests bolivia boiled over this week after the country's leader even merola's 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.

our political advocacy we must recover democracy with a lot of patience and peaceful fights we must pass if i believe and then if i'm useful in anything but can bring peace to bolivia we will do it but without bullets . after all as was ousted senator janine anos proclaimed herself interim president of bolivia many experts say the move is illegal and goes against the constitution as she wasn't in line to be the next leader crucially though most of the army supported and yes and are now under her control artie's donald cortez 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 seen in the

constitution and i swear to undertake all the measures necessary to bring peace to the country 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 evoked 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 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.t. 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 sizable number of the opposition's activists may be

a bit unhinged but it's the political arm that is far more presentable carlos mesa was president before moralists 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 staying the military's 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 order which i make as president of the sanity for the crimes john and it will be your responsibility and 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. i mean on years declare herself president in 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 dove who presents himself as sort of a bookish dapper 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 is 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. but libya's play took to more and has also given rise to questions over the countries not actual resources and some are predicting that morales his departure

could now open the door for multinational mining companies but livia is estimated to have some 9000000 tons of nifty in reserves that's the 2nd largest in the world's best significant as i expose predicts that global demand for the chemical element will triple within a decade now the increase has been driven by the rapid expansion of so some markets that usually for example i think key components in electric cars in batteries for various portable electronic devices and military hardware as well took our men from the alliance will global justice things bolivia has been hit by the results coasts . there is no question washington is behind the. behind regime change efforts and. every country. particularly that has resources in june of this year.

was going to. industrialize saying they're there lithium. it's just exporter raw materials but his plan was for bolivia to begin producing batteries refining the lithium ion producing batteries themselves which cuts for. transnational corporations for a profit stream. as we can marks one year since the start of the yellow vests mees mint protest is the now gathering in paris for the 2nd day of celebration police have detained those who want people so far the rallies nationwide on saturday most remained 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 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 call that 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. to be on sean's and he's a 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 year means we didn't get a political and so from our crown from dublin it'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 done here you have it people will speak out as a result of the protests the french government and president were thrown 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 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 rescue group in syria was found dead on monday in istanbul appearing to have fallen from a balcony after james limo serious death his life and what came under scrutiny is because pedia profile also saw something of a rewrite missing anything detrimental that is syria was a former british army soldier he 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 lara. 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 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 antiwar 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 sneering 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 banned 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 fight says 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 their attempts to manipulate a sense and make it appear that certain things are true than the notes and other things are not true when they all slip across who is a very very extraneous person in the sense that he's constantly changing with kapadia articles about controversial figures and he seems to be working around the clock so it's looks to me as if he's working on that manipulating information in real time. confident especially violent week with some of the was done rest yet we'll take you through what happened when the weekly returns and it's been a few moments.

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welcome back hong kong's endured course being described as one of the most violent weeks yet after months of anti beijing processed now police are saying they'll have to use live rounds if the protesters continue to use violent tactics on sunday the anti-government movement used bows and arrows to shoot at police protesters also threw petrol bombs saying it was to stop the authorities from charging at them riot officers again deployed tear gas and tried dispersing the clouds with water cannon we have here around the renowned polytechnic university where protesters have built barricades has become a site of some of the most fierce pitched battles

a bridge connecting the university buildings was also burnt the word. for that from the unrest was felt much further afield on thursday evening for the 1st time since the anti-government demonstrations began activists attacked a hong kong official who was visiting london. the. was was. justice minister to raise a chunk was attacked by dozens of protesters she was mobbed after getting out of a car and chased down the street to chants of murderer chiang fell to the ground and suffered minor injuries according to a chinese government statement the minister is known for being a key think a behind the now withdrawn extradition bill which triggered the hong kong protests china urge the international community to condemn the protesters who attacked mr the violent and most perpetrators who organized on one communication committed

a fragrant assault on the senior official of the hong kong 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. their action deserves to be condemned not always by the entire chinese people including the hong kong compatriots but also by the british public and the international community unanimously. ok well that brings us to the end of it this rundown will be back at the top of the hour.

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