bolivia reels from a week of deadly unrest to supporters of the ousted president ever morales demond his return from exile in mexico. also in the stories that shaped the week a co-founder of the controversial white helmets rescue group in syria is found dead in istanbul since then his work a pedia 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 sparked by a fuel price hike.

this is the weekly here on r.t. international law time was on a lot quit thank you for joining us. now bolivia has seen a week of deadly unrest since the resignation of president ever morales the ousted leader is now in mexico where he's claimed asylum and his supporters a calling for his return and refusing to recognize the new interim leadership brutal clashes have been raging in several cities in the death toll has now reached 23 since the october election.

because of other book that we must recover democracy with a lot of patience and peaceful fights we must pacify build it go and then if i'm useful in anything but can bring peace to bolivia we will do it but without bullets well off tomorrow others was forced from power us senators jenae 9 years to clear herself interim president of bolivia critics say the move was illegal and goes against the constitution and she was not in line to be the next leader khurshid though most of the army supported and yes and are now under her control on a quarter 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

a scene in the constitution and i swear to undertake all the measures necessary to bring peace to the country imus 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 his call for new elections but on his 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 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 oppositions 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 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 going 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 of the sanity for the crimes don't end 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 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 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 this is 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 and bolivia's political turmoil has also raised questions over the country's natural resources so a pretty team that moronic his departure could now open the door for multinational mining companies bolivia is estimated to have some 9000000 tonnes of lithium as the

2nd largest in the world and that is significant because experts predict the global to mom for the metal will triple within a decade the increase is being driven by the rapid expansion of certain markets that use lithium and it's a key component in batteries for electric cars consumer electronics and military hardware 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 coup in bolivia. behind the regime change or firsts 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 and producing batteries themselves which cuts for. transnational corporations for a profit stream. now in other news the british co-founder of the controversial white helmets rescue group in syria was found dead last monday in istanbul appearing to fall than from a balcony off the james limousine his death his life and what came under scrutiny and his work a p.t. a profile was given a thorough rewrite a meeting anything negative the missouri a was a former british army soldier he was recently accused by russia of being a former m i 6 agent that's the case of foreign intelligence service and the british media has been quick to point the finger at the kremlin over his death senior correspondent more it gets do you 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 so i can involve the 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 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 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 banned for life for this philip cross there because considerable effort to read it in wiki pedia entries for world known british anti establishment journalists bloggers authors and academics philip krause may be a pseudonym for a group of like minded individuals acting in concert there are reasons teachers tell students never to use wikipedia. here is the source philip cross is one of

those reasons the funks 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 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 philip cross who is a very very strange person in the sense that he's a 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 have found rouhani said on sunday that the

government will compensate people who suffer financially there has been trouble or at least a dozen cities with buildings vandalized have pictures of iran's supreme leader and . the surprise of fuel price rise announcement came on friday with the government saying the revenues will fund support for the poor the move is backed by iran's supreme leader the ayatollah khomeini who described the rioting as sabotage and called the protesters who libyans meanwhile washington has voiced its support for the protests a move that tehran slant is hypocritical. as i said to the people of iran almost a year and a half ago the united states is with you i will not hire people will not be taken advantage of by outsiders who put economic pressure of our nation your iran's economy has been in freefall since the us reimpose sanctions after pulling out of

the international nuclear deal last year the national currency has lost around 60 percent of its value on the 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 life saving medication political scientist kevin f.s.e. r.p. believes that us sanctions have had a devastating impact on ordinary people. we are hearing increasing reports not just from you know reliable sources but also from the u.n. and other international organizations about the devastating effects of the u.s. sanctions on ordering the particularly with respect to import much needed medicine and you know you also have. the overall economic impact that is contributing to and employment and and so on all of which mr

perle conveniently ignores 'd and claims to be you know in support of the 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 walk out of. a university in hong kong has caught fire after wyatt has holed petrol bombs that police who were surrounding the building and beijing activists had barricaded themselves inside the home calm polytechnic and it's believed they started the fire to prevent police from entering most of the place has now been extinguished but activists had stockpiled fuel along with both is an error it's a jury in a standoff one police officer was injured by one of those arrows there is still a heavy security presence and police have been using water cannon and take gas to

clear nearby streets. or in the weeks of fallout from the unrest was felt much further afield for the 1st time since the anti-government demonstrations began activists attacked a hong kong official who was visiting london. the. world. hong kong justice minister to raise a chain was attacked by dozens of protesters she was mocked after getting out of a car chase down the streets a chance of murder a chain fell to the ground and suffered minor injuries according to a chinese government statement the minister is known for being a 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 checking 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 hong kong's violent week began with disturbing scenes of a man big set on fire after getting into an argument with protestors please people they're about to show you the moment of the attack which you might find upsetting to watch. 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 ryan says the 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 back them 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 for square 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 of swarming attack by demonstrators global times journalist food go out bound and beaten in hong kong airport for his support of authorities junior's home a probe aging lawmaker forming victims of 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 to 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 issue middle east correspondent paula slayer 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 and they 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 more modest things in life religious people often stigmatize but many of those who study the torah have also studied foreign languages and many of the 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 policy a r.t. jerusalem. that's the weekly and that's it for me andrew pharma will be here with

you next as take you through all the latest news from around the world and stay with us for crosstalk next here on r.t. international. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. what politicians do you should. put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president and you. want to. have to go right to the press this is what the 43 in the morning can't be good. i'm

interested always in the why. should we move. time after time if you were going underground as pictures continue to emerge of alleged atrocities committed in gaza before the signing of a temporary cease fire agreement coming up in the show we go to ramallah to hear from the former palestinian prime minister nabil shaath now senior advisor to president abbas plus what is netflix's the crown season 3 telling you about the british monarchy u.k. former home office minister and privy councillor to the queen norman baker reveals old if you won't hear from the mouths of the libya coleman and helena bonham all this of all going up in today's going underground the 1st this month marks 45 years

since yasser arafat became the 1st so-called on state leader to address the united nations general assembly in his speech he claimed optimism based on the attitude to human rights of the un chacha. this attitude heightens the hypes all the world attached to the un contribution in defending the issues of peace and justice. and it's to create a new world free from colonialism imperialism neo colonialism and racism in all its forms including zionism he went on to offer israel an olive branch but 15 years ago last monday he would be dead israel still continuing to violate un security council resolutions and in the past few days fighting has intensified between the so-called largest prison camp in the world gaza and illegally occupied israeli settlements israel's ambassador to london has not got back to going underground and successive representatives have never been available for interview on this program joining me now from ramallah is senior palestinian official and former chief negotiator and

prime minister of palestine neville shaath now bill thanks for coming on the program so the idea if says they attacked underground rocket launchers elite launching stations underground terrorist infrastructure and military forces of the islamic jihad organization your reaction to the renewed violence in gaza and the occupied territories and israel this is a pure cold blooded murder this is an assassination i mean this is this is not this is not a warfare this is a deliberate assassination of of people in their homes. with them that wives the brothers their children. this is the specialty of these raney's so who. and his wife were they not terrorists as the israeli says and whether or not therefore justifiably killed by

the israeli government there is no justification for a cold blooded murder of somebody in his home and his wife they did they if if he if he were to be caught in israel the red handed he would have gotten a maximum of 20 years of prison not a and not assassination and murder with his wife were you surprised. israel also shot missiles into damascus to kill. sun jury as well yes the designation continues i mean that it goes to. to gaza and then from gaza to damascus and vice versa and you need don't see the international community oust by this by this murder you don't see a quick a condemnation and some sanctions imposed upon israel this killing really

has taken some highlight because it hits leadership but daily this israelis are killing individuals are killing people and killing brothers sisters wives husbands. and continuing it there are keep the illegal occupation of our land and. building colonial settlements on our villages maybe you don't see that international condemnation because european governments and the united states believe that islamic jihad is a terrorist movement dedicated to destroying the state of israel well the reality is that israel is a terrorist government that is that they catered to destroying the palestinian homes rights people you wonder who i mean really who is the murderer and who is the victim i mean they are the occupiers we are not occupying their country they're occupying ours well britain and the united states continues to.