aurum even the shallows. was. it. was. bolivia reels from a week of deadly unrest to supporters of the ousted president ever more or less demand his return from exile in mexico. or serve in the stories that shape the week a co-founder of the controversial white helmets rescue group in syria is found dead in istanbul since then his which repeated biography has been edited dozens of times seemingly to remove anything detrimental. and iran accuses the u.s. of hypocrisy for its support of a mass protest movement sponsored by fuel price hike.

rounding out some of the biggest stories from the past 7 days this is the weekly here on r.t. international i'm whereas on a lot could welcome to the program. bolivia has seen a week of deadly on the rest since the resignation of president ever morale it's the ousted leader is now in mexico where he's claimed asylum and his supporters are calling for his return and refusing to recognize the new interim leadership brutal clashes have been raging in several cities and the death toll has now reached $23.00 since the october election.

we could have a class here we must recover democracy with a lot of patience and peaceful fights ago we must pacify build it go and then if i'm useful in anything but can bring with us to believe you know that we will do it you've got one front bullets after morale as was forced from power as senators janina and yes declared herself interim president of bolivia critics say the move was illegal and goes against the constitution as she was not in line to be the next later crucially though most of the army supported anya isn't a now under her control party's done a quarter 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 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 evoked the constitution to justify getting the top job and is 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 there are 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 powerless never again will the pouch of 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 messa all but acknowledged that ever would win his constitution in january and that there was little point in taking that quick zadok 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 but it is then that 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 i stand for the crimes and you 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 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 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 anya 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 well bolivia's political turmoil has also raised questions over the country's natural resources some a prediction that morale is his departure could now open the door for the

multinational mining companies labor is estimated to have some $9000000.00 tons of lithium reserves the 2nd largest in the world and that is significant as experts predict that global demand for the metal 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 batteries for electric cars consumer electronics and military hardware chuck out and from the alliance for global justice thinks bolivia has been hit by the results. there is no question that washington is behind. the. regime change or 1st. every country. particularly that has resources in june of this year. that was going to. industrialize their their lithium. it's just export

a raw materials. 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. the british co-founder of the controversial wind helmets rescue group in syria was found dead last monday in istanbul appearing to for them from a balcony after james limousine rhea's death his life and came under scrutiny and his wikipedia profile was given a thorough rewrite emitting anything negative the assyria was a former british army soldier he was recently accused by russia of being a former m i 6 agent which is the u. case foreign intelligence service and the british media has been quick to point fingers at the kremlin over his death senior correspondent more against the of takes a closer look at the case. 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 right hand that's 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 had 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 you also find the smartest fingerprints of mr cross 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 did because considerable effort to read it in wiki pedia 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 what. idea as

a source philip cross is one of those reasons the funks is that we could 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 it and to make it appear that certain things are true that in the north and other things are not true when they are phillip krause who is a very very strange person in the sense that he's constantly changing we could beat your 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. the president of iran has moved to quell mass anger over 50 percent hike in fuel prices haasan rouhani said on sunday that the government will

compensate people who suffer financially and there's been trouble in a least a dozen cities with buildings vandalized and pictures of iran's supremely dead burned. the surprise fuel price rise announcement came on friday with the government saying the revenues will fund support for the poor the moves backed by iran supremely to the ayatollah khamenei who described the rioting as sabotage and called the protesters hooligans meanwhile washington has voiced its support for the protests a move that tehran slammed as hypocritical. as i said to the people of iran almost a year and a half ago the united states is with you i don't know. people will not be taken advantage of by outsiders who put it cannot make pressure of a nation iran. economy has been in freefall since the u.s.

reimpose sanctions after pulling out of the international nuclear deal last year the national currency has lost around 60 percent of its value on unofficial markets and inflation hit 42 percent in the year leading up to october aside from fuel prices the crisis has put a huge strain on the health care system with shortages of lifesaving medicine political scientist kaveh f.s.e. abi believes the u.s. sanctions have had a devastating impact on ordinary people we are hearing increasing reports not just from you know reliable leader indian sources but also from the un and other international organizations about the devastating effects of the u.s. sanctions on order in the rain ians particularly with respect to the import of much needed medicine and you know you also have the overall economic impact that is contributing to unemployment and and so on all of

which mr pompadour conveniently ignores 'd and claims to be you know in support of the iranian people are shedding crocodile tear for dental 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 walk out of activists armed with petrol bombs have set fire to university in hong kong will be back with that story after this short break. you know world's big partners. a lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to get the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than

ever we need to be smart we need to stop slamming the door. and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. so we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy on sunday should we let it be an arms race is on also a spear in dramatic development only really i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk.

welcome back no university in hong kong has caught fire and that's off the riots as hope petrol bombs at police who were surrounding the building and see beijing activists have barricaded themselves inside the hong kong polytechnic and it's believed they started the fire to prevent police from entering most of the blaze has now been extinguished but activists had stockpiled fuel along with bows and arrows the during the standoff one police officer was injured by one of those arrows there is still a heavy security presence on police have been using water cannon and take us to clear the nearby streets. but earlier in the wake the fallout from the arrest was felt much further afield for the 1st time since the anti-government demonstrations began activists to talk to hong kong official who was visiting london. the was.

the. hong kong justice minister to resign chang was attacked by dozens of protesters she was mobbed after getting out of a car chase down the street to chance of murder chang fell to the ground and suffered minor injuries according to a chinese government statement the minister is known for being key figure behind the now withdrawn extradition bill which triggered the hong kong protests china urged the international community to condemn the protesters who attacked miss chan the violent i'm always perpetrators so organized on one communication committed the fragrance assault on the senior official of the hong kong special administrative region it has once again prove 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 of hong kong's violent week began with

disturbing scenes of a man big set on fire after getting into an argument with protestors and please be warned that we are about to show you the moment of that attack and you might find it upsetting to watch. 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 the rioters 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 i will happily speak up to them and. every inch of the way the u.k. signed an internationally binding legal agreement in 1984 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 foursquare 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 a swarming attack by demonstrators global times journalist fuko our mobs bound and beaten in hong kong airport for his support of author. jr's home

a probe aging lawmaker falling victim to 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 is 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 unchanged so says a think tank that claims it's the country's growing ultra-orthodox population that

lies at the heart of the problem our middle east correspondent paula reports. israel's survival depends on its ability to deal with external threats right wrong a new study by news radio think tank suggests that his radio does 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 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 under include all adults only 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 dulls 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 stigmatized but many of those who study the torah have also studied foreign languages and many of the things israel has 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 policy a r t jerusalem well that's your roundup of some of the biggest stories from the past 7 days we'll be back here in around 30 minutes time with mall see them. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then.

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