ancient technology. not necessarily suitable tomorrow. there's little. supporters of bolivia the ousted president clashed with police during the funeral of a killer protester we speak exclusively to evo morales about what's happening in this country. i was called an employee terrorist group the dictator but this is not so these are real dictators on the other hand you generations will not understand what a real dictatorship is. also this hour the latest star witness at the trump impeachment hearing the claims that russia is planning to meddle in the 2020 us presidential election we assess whether democrats can attract voters without warning. and a new spat over secularism in france and local retirement home closes its doors on

a 70 year old catholic nun for refusing to keep her religion to herself. they're watching are to international coming to you live from the russian capital where it's just turned 3 pm welcome to the program. a self-proclaimed interim president has proposed fresh fresh elections 29 years wants to know the result 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 almost 30 people have reportedly been killed most recently a police clash with people attending the funeral of a protester. when she took charge on yes cause controversy by granting police dealing with

protesters immunity from prosecution evo morales who was granted asylum by mexico has spoken exclusively to our teeth about what's happening in his country. i 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 presidency in the 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 there bade him 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 who for 7 years will believe you as a dictator i was called and tory 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. 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 and mr alberto and i plan to settle it 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. this is a colossal struggle i'm convinced of it i had faith in the armed forces because i thought that in the military there are patriots and imperialists however certain generals on the center of the highest gear they surprised me i could not believe it and i had a wonderful relationship with all the military leaders of course there are good soldiers and military leaders but when it comes to the class struggle with some forget about their ideological stance and their patriotism consequently their interests are affected they lost part of their power and cannot forgive us for this but it has nothing to do with being indigenous or not. after all it's resigned janine i guess proclaimed herself interim president she is back by bolivia as

military and she's appointed her own cabinet despite the ongoing protests against her the organization of american states says people should support her until the new elections have been seen through. the work of the oh yes the experience and expertise that has gone from other episodes in the americas have helped promoted defend 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 guards the democratic transition through electoral reforms and to a new free and fair elections as soon as possible and years might say that she's only holding the fort until fresh elections have been held but she appears intent on putting the country on a radical new course. they

have a say in the battle to make it clear once again this is a provisional government that will 1st call for general elections and the legislature of the assembly will have the job of carrying out the election of the members of the courtly i may be one of. our team america hosts rick sanchez discussed the situation in libya with pulitzer

prize winning journalist chris hedges who says the u.s. has a hand in the crisis. this is the revolving or 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 the government

doesn't that seem 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 live in the spanish in bolivia this is the pattern and now they found lithium in bolivia well and apparently 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 evo morales said even though he brought poverty down in a country where no one else that i do this in was we want to control the lithium and the multinational corporations they they set the machine in

motion. bolivia isn't the only latin american country in the grip of on the rest later in the program we report on the anti-government protests that are currently taking place in colombia. donald trump's impeachment inquiry has so far focused mainly on the u.s. president but when his former top advisor on russia took to the podium an old narrative became the new focus. the impact of the successful 2016 russian campaign remains evident today our nation is being torn apart she says questions are highly professional an expert create phone 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 and goddamn takes a look at how the coauthor of a 500 page book on bottom important has become the democrat star witness at the

impeachment hearings. you go to give it to the democrats they've tried everything to get rid of trouble take him seriously you look like an idiot ignore him you look like an idiot criticize him and his ratings go up does it make any sense that the guy seems to metabolize scandals feed off of them soon 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 buns i assume president trump would but there we have it see thing is for impeachment to work you need momentum and they're losing it a 1000000 less americans chuen been 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 the way that they 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 were being held 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 back. for everyone has sue desperate are they that they're 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 the stage who is attempting to be the democratic nominee for president the united states. criticizing people on this stage affiliated with the democratic party let's also talk about judgment for the

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 flaws are see apparently favors told see things that are lies that thousands of pages on dot com built 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 how the saying goes you can teach an old dog new tricks and add seems to be the problem with the democrats sticking to old tricks to cliches all i can say is fellows good luck

winning that election. a story in an arkansas newspaper has led to more concerns over russian trolling all because of the use of some odd looking punctuation. my. no diversion quotation mark. i'm pretty sure the publication just put in whatever looked like an error in an attempt to instruct readers to click on the article link which came immediately after the hour if they meant to use it to indicate a russian quotation mark where is the other quotation. milt is the amount of fried chicken the correspondent gets here keep up the

professional work. we use those quotation in french and italian keyboards as well so this is occurring in at least 4 languages. it had jumped out to me. and keyboard user as a quotation mark and looked like other sloppy attempts by russian trolls to push stories i apologize for the mistake and am explaining it in the interests of full transparency. in france the clash between secularism and religion has sparked another feared that after a local retirement home shut its doors on an elderly catholic nun for not keeping her religion to yourself your style of reports from paris. a nun from eastern france had been learning how to hold more than 70 if she didn't plan on changing that when she 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

it services because 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 a 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 buy to buy friends is 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 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. from the carbs to workers to burqini the muslim swimwear for women france has been through countless scandals around islamic clothing christianity has been steering clear of this controversy until now i don't take heed that she should not be allowed to go we don't really unduly damon hold on but you see. you see this is a bit good we go because they stay about the very obviously against the muslims. now they get only one but the 1st because the king the after play the symbols to

everybody and then they overstated the holes because the secular who is not implying that uganda we don't really know he daemon the whole market he should be open minded you see they should be. live their lives i mean that's not the public oh isn't this a problem. there is a problem they're looking into parliament but they slow problem we do see you see this is just the most superficial and the most unimportant but there is difference between. the low that clings secure areas of 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 songs and orthodox whatever you what's unless you respect the law the only thing that is forbidden is to claim religious.

political actions because people are afraid of what can be. terrorist attack very are mixing all the ideas and so on that's respecting the. still to come israel's political crisis deepens as prime minister benjamin netanyahu is charged with bribery and fraud the details on that in the 2nd half of the program. most people think just stand out in this business you need to be the 1st one on top of the story or the person with the loudest voice of the biggest race in truth to stand the news business you just need as the right questions and demand the right answers.

questions. seem wrong. just don't all. get to shape out these days to educate and engagement equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. welcome back tens of thousands have taken to the streets and colombia's capital to protest against the right wing government of u.s.

backed president yvonne decay what started as a largely peaceful march led to clashes with police. colombian trade unions students opposition parties and the south american countries indigenous organizations challenge their case economic social and security policy it's a festive atmosphere in the positon ugly when i small group of people began hurling projectiles a police responded with tear gas the popularity of right wing government a key u.s. ally has been on the wane since his election 18 months ago police say around 200000 people took part in the protests in several cities nicholas out on reports. what started as a normal union strike has moved 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 this is the rain thousands are still marching the gates the government to 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 on don't tell the full song the full the protests and other latin american countries like chile it could all but people here are telling us that they've been inspired by those movements finest hour. some 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 protecting strategic buildings so that's the picture of the ground what about the reasons what spare hind this massive strike well it's a very differently to what happens in other latin american countries for instance

and in chile we had 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 a tax reform and an intention to reform the pension system but it's not only the neoliberal 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 minus 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 do case government here in colombia nicolas

o'donovan. daniel shaw a professor of latin american studies tell us more about the roots of the mass protests. says this country of 40000000 compazine olsen in workers and indigenous who are today marching in flying the y. father 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 trial even more in past years with 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 and panama where there are the way there's also protests scheduled for later today against the same meal 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 israel the opposition is demanding that prime minister benjamin netanyahu step down after he was indicted on charges of bribery fraud and breach of trust the pm there remains defiant dubbing it a political witch hunt with a little bit this is a dirty presupposing and we need to put an end to it people ask how dare he say this he's undermining the rule of law but it's not like that's because if you have a sequence of events like the one we're seeing here you need to demand that the investigators be investigated i wouldn't let the lies we will continue to leave the country according to the law that was responsibility to the cation and can. the israeli prime minister had hoped to avoid the charges by passing special legislation however that impossible after his failure to form a coalition government falling september's election this is the 1st time a serving israeli prime minister has been indicted israeli journalist amir to many

things that you know his indictment will have major repercussions. he has the ability to ask the knesset the israeli parliament for unity but it doesn't seem like there will be a majority in the corridors medico the knesset to give him the community from the prosecution and if he fails to receive that if he's going to google it if i'm for using a sense and these really go system of course you are. going otherwise it's the mobutu you anything but he is the 1st every israeli prime minister to be while he's. allegedly corruptions that he was serving you know face and i think in terms of he's long term legacy this is something that will be remembered about being in a time you know for many many years because this is a game changer this is a big deal i think changes the political calculations of all of the players and use . that yahoo has been serving as prime minister since 2009 and it's not his 1st

time in the job he previously held the top position from 1906 to 999 he is known for his close relationship with the trump and with the help of the u.s. president is achieved a number of his goals. this is the story of. the book before our tour for general because. this president ladies and gentlemen this is. truly no story there. that's our global news update for this hour but don't forget you can always had to our website r.t. dot com for the details on all those stories and many more. tough

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a compliment. what explains the bipartisan commitment to an ending wars in foreign military interventions recent polls show the majority of veterans who fought in this century's foreign wars say it wasn't worth it in 2016 trying to gain traction for doubting foreign adventures today is doing the same why are the elites somewhat of . songlines speaks does says only help or hurt the president we'll hear from some experts on this edition of politic. politicking on larry king gordon some on the u.s.

ambassador to the european union and a key figure in the ongoing impeachment inquiry publicly testified before the house intelligence committee does testimony help or hurt the president or change any minds about the impeachment process will begin there with expert panel brant told me former u.s. attorney for the district of the saw formal legal counsel to the senate judiciary committee he joins us from salt lake city utah and in boston dick mccabe a democratic strategist who worked in the obama administration and is a former speechwriter for. will start with you who benefited the most from the some testimony the president all the house democrats. well i think both benefited you know i think certainly the democrats were looking for sideline as

a key figure to come forward and help give testimony that would fit their theory of the case and i think they got that in part during the testimony throughout the day. i also think that you have some some issues with what somlata knows and what he observed and in my experience larry when i presented a case a criminal case which this is make no mistake it's an accusation against the sitting president of crimes that have been committed. by having having a witness you know you're going to get good and bad but what you hope is that that particular witness has information and knowledge that's going to satisfy the elements you have to prove. that you read it i think we learned a lot from someone's testimony i think one of the big takeaways is something that he said more than once which was.