thank you chris. thank you. it was i was supporters of bolivia's ousted president clashed with police during the funeral of a killed protester r.t. speaks to even morale is about what's happening in his country also this latest star witness at the trump impeachment hearings claims that russia is planning to meddle in the 2020 us presidential election and benjamin netanyahu was charged with bribery fraud and breach of trust it is the 1st indictment of a sitting israeli prime minister and looks set to deepen the country's political crisis.

good morning welcome just here in moscow are you watching r.t. international i believe is self-proclaimed interim president has proposed fresh elections and wants to know the results of the last vote which were marred by allegations of fraud that led to the ousting of president evo morales and deadly unrest in which 31 people have been killed so far most recently police clashed with people attending the funeral of a protester. when she took charge and i caught the prophecy by granting clearly stating a protest is immunity from prosecution even morale is he was granted asylum by the spoken about what's happening in his country with the r.t. host and former ecuadorian president rafael caray.

i would say that some of the groups in whose hands are going to make power is concentrated in not forgive us for creating social movements especially if the indigenous populations movement which has changed the image of our beautiful country they also cannot forgive us for nationalizing our natural resources and strategic companies which has improved believe me as economic system upon the successful creation of a developed lithium industry mr alberto and i plan to settle at the in prices on the world market i realized that some industrialized countries are afraid to compete 1st in the field of technological development and seconds they do not want other countries to follow the example of our economic model which is based on socialism. i've learned in my life that you never choose a position it finds you this applies from the position of trade union had right up to the post of presidents there's an official report confirming i won the 1st round this is a very extensive report you can check it and any time you can see the election

results but there is an important point to be made there was an agreement that the organization of american states was supposed to publish the official report last wednesday around 2 pm that was the arrangement but unexpectedly on sunday morning they called us and informed us that the preliminary report was ready we requested this report and there was complete confusion one part of it said that i won and that carlos massa came 2nd but this did not prove that i won the election in the 1st round i ordered that i be put in touch with lewis and margaret but i was not connected the report was published on sunday morning i spoke with a representative of the organization of american states and told him verbatim if you do not double check your report it will cause unrest and believe me and there will be victims by publishing its report their organization of american states actually supported the kook who is in charge of everything now people from the us and whore here to talk with all got a follower of hugo bonser who for 7 years will believe me as a dictator i was called an employee tarion ruler

a dictator but this is not so these are real dictators on the other hand new generations will now understand what a real dictatorship is shinee nanay proclaim their self-interest in president after morale is resigned and if he's made free backs and she's appointed her own cabinet despite the ongoing protests against her the organization of american states says that people should support or until the new elections have been saying 3. the work of the orient us the experience and expertise that is gained from other episodes in the americas have helped promoted the fed the right of the bolivian people to democracy from a president apparently willing to maintain his power by non democratic means including through electoral fraud we call on all bolivians to support the bolivian transitional government as it guides the democratic transition through electoral reforms into new free and fair elections as soon as possible now the acting

president jean jeanine and they may say she's only holding the fort until fresh elections have been held but she does appear intent on putting the country on a radical new course. but i see america house rick sanchez discuss the situation in bolivia with the pulitzer prize winning journalist chris hedges who says that the u.s.

has a hand in the crisis. this is the revolving door story of latin america that as soon as a populist figure like evo morales appears the knives come out on the part of the empire and on the part of those corporations that hold especially the natural resources in a place like bolivia hostage there's been a constant conflict between. these corporations and evo morales let me stop you there because you just said something that's very interesting there may be a reason for the united states government the government of chris hedges and rick sanchez for the country where we live to do things from time to time in other places right but it seems like what you just described is something where no one asked chris no one asked rick no one talked to our media no one talked to our congress it just happens out of thin air we go and destabilize a government this isn't that seems crazy yeah but that's you know decades of

practice of the you know the so-called invisible state was the but it's how the cia operates they operate you know completely in the shadows and they operate on the be hast of the business interests i mean united fruit didn't want arbenz around before they got rid of them so on and on and on this goes back decades and decades and decades it of it's about the maintenance of empire and that's what we're seeing in bolivia where i lived in bolivia and spanish in bolivia this is the pattern and now they found lithium it believed well i had apparently and that is a huge it is the oil of the future and guess who wanted to control it and guess who they didn't want to control it even more out exactly evil morality said even though he brought poverty down in a country where no one else would i do this in was we want to control the lithium and the multinational corporations they they set the machine in

motion. will. libya is the only latin american country in the grip of unrest later in the program we report on the current anti-government protests taking place in the colombian capital. doldrums impeachment inquiry has so far focused mainly on the u.s. president but when his former top adviser on russia took to the podium an old narrative became the focus. the impact of the successful 2016 russian campaign remains evident today our nation is being told to pass through his questions our highly professional expert career foreign service is being undermined right now russia's security services and their proxies have geared up to repeat their interference in the 2020 alexion we're running out of time to stop them more against the takes a look now at how the co-author of the $500.00 page book on blood to me putin has become the democrat star witness the impeachment hearings. you go to give it to the

democrats they've tried everything to get rid of trump take him seriously you look like an idiot ignore him you look like an idiot criticize him and his ratings go up doesn't make any sense the guy seems to metabolize scandals feed off of them sue the democrats fed him poison impeachment. that trump the president has used his office for his own personal gain the president got caught it's pretty simple question is now who would benefit from an investigation of the funds i assume president trump would there we haven't seen a thing is for impeachment to work you need momentum and they're losing it a 1000000 less americans chewed in for the 2nd round of impeachment hearings and trump's ratings have gone up according to gallup i'm telling you it doesn't make any sense soo confused are they that they've reverted to their base behavior

animal instinct i found out that vladimir putin doesn't want me to be president so i learned a lot about the early on from the series that was. perhaps relayed to me a putin also wants you to stop sniffing strangest hair but hey that hasn't stopped you has it joe putin kremlin moscow russia yeah we've heard it all before everyone has so desperate are they that they turning to the spiritual the democrats are making a sacrifice crucifying one of their own to beat trump it's unfortunate that we have someone on a stage who is attempting to be the democratic nominee for president united states . criticizing people on this stage affiliated with the democratic party let's also talk about judgment on. foreign leaders you mentioned

meeting. that i would not have sat down with a murderous dictator like that. that should do it that should beat trump smearing a fellow democrat and alienating her voters they did the same thing to bernie in 2016 remember even rigged a primary against him didn't work so they're doing it again only logical plants are see apparently favors tool see things that analyzed thousands of pages on the the dot com bill to graphs and charts and plots and came to the conclusion that russia would prefer a u.s. president that wouldn't want to launch missiles at moscow you know have a saying goes you can't teach an old dog new tricks and add seems to be the problem with a democrat sticking to old tricks to cliches all i can say is fellows good luck

winning that election. israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu has been indicted on charges of bribery fraud and breach of trust this comes amid an ongoing political crisis but the prospect of a 3rd general election this year looking increasingly likely at me are who has vowed to appeal the indictment a political witch hunt israeli prime minister had hoped to avoid a change the charges by passing special legislation however that proved impossible after his failure to form a coalition government following september's election this is the 1st time a serving israeli prime minister has been indicted and netanyahu has been serving is the israeli prime minister since 2009 although it's not his 1st time in the job because previously he held the top position from 1906 until 1909 he is known for his close relationship with donald trump and with the help of the u.s. president has achieved a number of his scopes. 1st

of storage for. the ball before the march or 5th for general. president ladies and gentlemen this is. truly our storage 3rd. degree he has the ability to ask the knesset the israeli parliament for immunity but it doesn't seem likely there will be a majority in the current make over knesset to give him immunity from prosecution and if he fails to receive their immunity then he's good to go to the core level 5 for use in a sense and in the israeli legal system of course you are innocent until going otherwise it's the most duty of anything but he is the 1st every very prime

minister to be indicted while he's. literally corruptions that he talked while serving in office and i think in terms of his long term legacy this is something that will be remembered about being a minute by the hour for many many years to come this is a game changer this is a big deal i think changes the political calculations of all of the players and used. tens of thousands have taken to the streets in colombia's capital pockets to protest against the right wing government of the u.s. backed president even take a what started as a largely peaceful march led to clashes with police. ah. colombian trade union students opposition parties and the south american countries indigenous organizations challenge to his economic social and she cares he policies furnished after an initially festive atmosphere in the past or

a small group of people began holding projectiles up police who responded with take gas popularity in case right wing government a key u.s. ally has been on the wane since his election 18 months ago police estimate 270-207-2070 extension 00 people took part in protests in several cities outings nicholas and just i don't have them reports now from bogota . what started as a normal union strike has morphed into one of colombia's biggest anti-government protest in recent times tens of thousands of people marching across the country and here on the streets of bogota at this point the rain thousands are still marching the gates the government towards the city center everything from students to union leaders to tributes to leaders and indigenous people protested as we say against.

case government this strike was announced all the time before the full the protests in other latin american countries like chile it could all but people say here but telling us that they've been inspired by those movements 5000 police officers here we've also have members of the military but the government says that we can't say that colombia is militarized because these soldiers are just rejected strategic buildings so that's the picture of the ground what about the reasons what's behind this massive strike well it's a very. it lead to what happens in other latin american countries for instance and in chile we have the public transport in ecuador we had the subsidies to gas here it's not a specific mission it's more of a wide range of actions being taken by the government that people here do not like it all started with the tax reform and in the. intention to reform the pension

system but it's not only the neo liberal neo liberal austerity measures this so so the handling of the peace process or the failure in handling the peace process that has led to more violence in the country recently we had 8 miners being killed in the government led attack and all of this cocktail has produced this state of discontent among colombian so as we say the protest has been massive is the mainly peaceful but it's sending a very clear message to yvonne to kay's government here in colombia nicholas o'donovan. professor of latin american and caribbean studies at the scene of. more about the roots of the mass protests in colombia. says this country of

40000000 compazine olsen in workers in indigenous who are today marching in flying the y. follow flag in solidarity with the people of bolivia ecuador chile haiti everywhere that there are things not just to go up against the colombian state. they're up against the u.s. sponsored colombian state the $265000000.00 in u.s. military aid that was sent this year under trump even more in past years with a plan colombia so we shouldn't forget that there's 9 u.s. military bases over a 1000 u.s. military soldiers stationed in colombia 12 u.s. military bases in panama with the way there's also protests scheduled for later today against the same neal liberal agenda so the colombian people are fighting back not just for their interests but for the interests of humble people across the world. in france the clash between secularism and religion has taken center stage again after a local retirement and gave an elderly catholic nun an ultimatum kick keep your

religion to yourself or find another place to stay done of picks up the story now from paris. a nun from eastern france had been wearing her habit for more than 70 years he didn't plan on changing that when he decided to cash in her retirement plan and move into a nursing home that didn't happen because the facility refused to provide her with its services because the she in turn refused to take off her religious clothing and that hasn't gone well with the religious community here i do not see how our nuns veil can be described as offensive it is not a symbol of submission but the symbol of consecration but the nursing home says there will be no appeals the case is closed they say all religious apparel is banned at the facility to abide by france's more than a century long reign of secularism a small chain with

a cross that was the only bit of faith the nun was allowed to physically take with her into the home shedding the rest at the gates the nun refused the place we offered her and didn't want to accept the house rules that are the same for everyone within our homes our residents may have preferences and beliefs and they should be respected with regard to secularism all ostentatious religious symbols cannot be allowed in order to guarantee everyone's tranquillity. christianity phobia is a relatively new phenomenon born out of france's strict secularism there's another one you might be moved from illegal with islamophobia the muslim community in france has been fighting for the right to wear their religious clothing in public for a long time. was from the carbs to workers to burqini the muslim swimwear for women france has gone through countless scandals around

islamic clothing christianity has been steering clear of this controversy until now i don't i hate that she should not be allowed to go into a daemon the whole image of seeing. you see this is the only go because they stay about the very obviously against the muslims now they get a league one but the 1st be good eating the after play the symbols to everybody and then the over stage the halls because the secular who is not implying that uganda we didn't really know he daemon the whole market he should be open minded you see they should be. relieved i mean that's not the public oh isn't this a problem. there is a problem they're looking into parliament but these little problem we do see you see this is just the most superficial and the most unimportant but there is difference between. that clings secure risible france and the

philosophy of sickle or ism you can be also a believer. a secure person that means that you can be a muslim a jew a buddhists a protest an unorthodox whatever you want unless you respect the law the only feeling that is forbidden is to claim religious idea. political actions because people are afraid for what can be a terrorist attack very or mixing all the ideas and so on that respecting the. german city of leipzig is hosting a major conference bangle in the conservatives this weekend high on the cd use agenda are ways to win back people support following a series of setbacks in recent regional elections among the proposals is pushing the party further to the right and i sip sas as more. germany is pushing to become

more german chancellor angela merkel's christian democratic union party is meeting this weekend discuss a new basic agenda for one reason the german flag in public. schools in the other a possible bad on a headscarf in primary schools the city you says that girls that are wearing religious clothing risks alienating them as much of the wearing of the headscarf makes small children already recognisable as outsiders so it isn't a play ground or in the schoolyard which we want to prevent in any case we do not exclude a band as a last possible measure the party says it's all about protecting the kids and it has the backing of some influential figures headscarves in schools are the enemy of integration because they already establish external boundaries in kindergartens and primary schools some woman's rights organizations also want this ban they say that the growing number of the older girls is growing in primary schools and it

represents gender specific discrimination but it's not sitting well with mosul parents and religious organizations these discussions lead to a climate of fear and uncertainty muslims are experiencing every day discrimination and the number of his family phobic offenses is steadily rising a necessary discussions fuel then time muslim racism in germany and our win in the seeds of the right wing extremists an absurd debate which seems to be held for the 1000th time would lead to the demarcus and exclusion of muslims plus this ben could be legally tricky some question of whether it's unconstitutional claiming that the government should not interfere into domestic and religious affairs here is what people in portland have to say. pray share of lunches or and they have nothing to do we've such a big discussion so. we've all read though it's says to be children in trying to take great evil those children cannot show that we have to put this debate

inside this court of supposed is a is a kids i know mine and i think it's a good idea to put on the headscarf of power. we already had a ban on face masks and new innovative everyone should wear what they want and the state shouldn't interfere in that i believe that's the case they have to be at least 1518 years that they couldn't decide to themselves what they would like to wear so i wouldn't give my daughter something to wear without she knows why to have this like she has to know why while some people say that this band could help integration others argue that it should ultimately rest with the families instead of the state this initiative is clearly and driven by cultural is us interests the e.c.u. is under pressure to follow their will or tours which are turning their

backs more and more on a cd you wish has shifted. merkle to words that lashed. in the past years we have seen we have witnessed a strong rice those that 254 germany since 2017 for germany is the leading opposition party and the german parliament. in the most recent state election and the c.d.u. has even stolen the high end 254 germany showing that there is a real. likeliness scenario that the alternative for germany could take over the role of the conservative. people's party in germany watching i think just coming up to half past 8 in the morning here in moscow we're back with more news at the top.

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little while going to worlds apart in the last 3 decades the european union has been seen with a large meant as a way of killing at least 2 birds with one stone helping its eastern neighbors to democratize while also keeping them firmly in your political and diplomatic orbit why the big fail to be the batter one to discuss that i'm now joined by the ocean publication associate professor at the faculty of political science and add the university of belgrade professor always good to talk to you thank you very much for your time thank you for having me on the show now you wrote a lot about the need for a new approach to enlargement and europeanization at least in the western balkans long before it became such a trendy and emotional topic do you think there is something wrong with the model per se or do you think it's the peculiarities of the western balkans that make it

difficult to implement well i think definitely it's a peculiarity of western balkans these countries are somewhat. central europe your greece the european countries such for a long hard very czech republic slovakia but i think when we speak about the. model itself which was basically a conditionality model and which analogy means you didn't did they say give you that price so that is taken care of it's a basic choice approach or you will do this if i offer you something if you don't believe there won't be any towards where you are and that's how it's been working for. 20 years now it was that is successful in the countries from central europe which were all over the i spy ring naturally to be members of the opinion doesn't really work here that well this is the 1st thing the 2nd thing is it's not applied. consistently here so i would say the major problem with european

is asia and the e.u. enlargement process in the west and balk and is the application of the model and we . want to build on both sides european officials don't apply as they did in the ninety's for example but also the western balkans leaders tried to escape when they ever day and the kind of rule that would make them follow the line now 1st of all let's agree on the times you mentioned here a piano zation what is it specifically what values what. make up the poor of the european athens in whose image they are there is have to be remade well it's it's been set up all of the in the beginning of the ninety's and it's still like that night in 93 copenhagen create tyria establish are all over law functioning market economy or democracy and.