and social system could take hold and therefore the policy would be to make. the chilean economy scream. a week of violent clashes into libya with supporters of ousted president evo morales demand his return from exile in mexico. if we can't marks one year since the birth of an iconic populist movement in france we look at how the yellow vests have been celebrated. stories that shapes the week a co-founder of the controversial why it's helmets rescue group in syria is found dead in istanbul since then his work at pedia biography has been edited dozens of times seemingly to remove anything detrimental.

very well can you watching the weekly here on r.t. international bringing you all the latest world headlines along with a roundup of the stories the shapes the week but 1st mass violence and around the clock protests bolivia boiled over this week after the country's leader either 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.

we can look at other booklets here we must recover democracy with a lot of patience and peaceful fights ago we must pacify build it and then if i'm useful in anything but can bring peace to believe that we will do it with quite different bullets after all this was ousted senator janine and yes for came to self 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 years and are now under her control artie's done of course a takes up the story. a new force has seized bolivia's political reigns 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 singing

in the constitution and i swear to undertake all the measures necessary to bring peace to the country i know as 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 there are 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 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 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. because then you have refused to coordinate with the national police or you are saying the military is being overtaken by criminal records which are destroying 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 of 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. 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 go to present 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 on is declared herself the 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 political turmoil has also given rise to questions over the country's natural resources some are predicting the wrong as his departure could now open the door for multinational mining companies now bolivia is estimated to have some

9000000 tons of lithium reserves now that's the 2nd largest in the world is significant because experts predicts that the global demand for a chemical element will triple within a decade and the increase is being driven by the rapid expansion of certain markets that use lithium for example is a key component in electric cars batteries of various possible electronic devices and military hardware chuck ousmane from the alliance the global justice things bolivia has been hit by the results. there is no question that washington is behind. the. behind regime change efforts in. every country. particularly that has resources in june of this year. that was going to.

industrialize their their lithium. it's just export of 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 weekend marks one year since from the start of the yellow vests movement protesters are now gathering in paris for the 2nd day of celebrations police detained 31 people so far 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 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 that which 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 the 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 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 year means we didn't get a political and so from our crown from dublin is 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 see on the view that you'd 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 withdrawn they had to make certain concessions to comply with least with some of the demands of 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 and 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 helmets rescue group in syria was found dead on monday in istanbul appearing to fall in from a balcony of the james serious death his life and what came under scrutiny is what kapadia profile also saw something of every right missing anything detrimental the mysteria 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 at the kremlin over his death here's our senior correspondent live. 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 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. 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 a sense and 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 with peter 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 talking. not after the break as they run supremely get that from ivan field line deadly protests send down the country but at what's behind the meeting to round up the.

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the waters in our. quest. back after a weekend of deadly riots across iran over a sudden 50 percent hike in petrol prices the nation's president said on sunday that the government will compensate people who lose out financially there's been trouble in at least a dozen cities with buildings vandalized and pictures of iran's supreme leader burned riot police responded with tear gas and water cannon darty say one person's died during the breast but local media said the number of a teletubbies is nearer 30 the surprise fuel price rise announcement came on friday

with the government saying the revenues will fund support for the core moves backed by iran's supreme leader the ayatollah come and describe the writing of sabotage and called the protesters hooligans. let's go live now to recovery after the obvious let's go scientist and author to discuss this further welcome to the program president rouhani says there will be compensation for people who lose out because of the price hike doesn't that just replace the subsidy that's been axed is it a sudden u. turn here. well not really because essentially they're in government is a populist regime that the water balk of its budgetary expenditure to social services and you know food stuff and energy really subsidized and despite this price hike. iranian consumers still you know enjoy serious

energy subsidies as a result of which they only pay like $50.00 or $0.60 a gallon something of you know tremendous and we buy their western consumers but. you know i question the way this was implemented without prior notice to the population and as a sudden measure nevertheless there's a process of rationalization given the fact that iran is and tremendous pressure of u.s. economic warfare as a result of which president rouhani has admitted that there is a huge budgetary shortfall and the government is a struggling to balance the budget and one of the means the venue's for that is to you know increase taxes or. gasoline price that in turn with a lot of them to continue their populistic measures for social services and so i

don't see that as a u.-turn a dog but rather as a continuation of the previous policies through other means now rather than having to take tough economic decisions as it struggles with crippling us like sanctions the u.s. secretary of state might pump out he's repeatedly claimed they're not targeted at a rein in civilians but rather that industrial and financial how has that though filtered down in effect in the rainy and incomes and price of goods. well unfortunately i need to disagree with secretary. of state and the intense behind that because we are hearing increasing reports not just from you know reliable iranian sources but also from the u.n. and other international organizations about the devastating effects of the u.s. sanctions on ordinary iranians particularly with respect to the import of much

needed medicine you know an increasing number of iranians are dying because they don't get the medicine that they need and you know you also have the overall economic impact that is contributing to unemployment and and so on all of which mr pearl conveniently ignores the claims to be you know in support of the rain and people are shedding crocodile tears for them while imposing these harsh and savage economic sanctions on iran that are in violation of the u.n. security council resolution 2231 as well as the international agreement that the u.s. unilaterally walked out of so you know mr popo is not in defense of the people he did he doesn't even support the iranians in the u.s. case in point one of the career diplomats in his own department has been found by

their own internal audit to have been removed by propose a system in charge of the iranian policy just because of rainy and background and i have to add that mr point barrow is also opposed to the release of you know the prisoner exchange biology ring and professor rotting in jail in the us because he purchased the 9 harmless hormones on the shelf for months and you know unjustly held and if mr paul cares about the rains and and the americans he would favor a prisoner exchange and he's not. have any friends they are replaceable scientist and author thank you for your time. and thank you for joining us here in our international we're back in 30 minutes with the latest headlines.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race off and spearing dramatic development only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. time after time corporations repeat the same mantra sustainability it's very important. transitions to sustainable transport sustainability. the more equitable and sustainable. they claim their production is completely harmless. it. companies want us to feel good about buying their products while the damage is being done far away and this is something i'll just keep going to an even as i need

money. used to do nieminen. all. alone 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 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 lucrative filled 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 and 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. 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 complimentary i mean technology is accelerating extremely fast in certain areas compete. eating and 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 i have 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 particularly 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 this

possibly gets more into the soul philosophical ethical.