garble with the body. as low. supporters of bolivia as ousted president clashed with police during the funeral of a protester we speak exclusively to you both about what's happening in this country . i was told and probably terror in brutal 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 hearings claims that russia is planning to meddle in the 2020 us presidential election recess whether democrats can attract voters without warning. and

a new feud over secularism in france and local retirement home closes its doors on each time a new year old catholic nun for refusing to keep her religion to herself. a very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at our teacher in moscow thanks for joining us this hour. olivia's a self-proclaimed interim president has proposed fresh elections joining us once 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 almost 30 people have reportedly been killed most recently in police clash with people attending the funeral of a protester. when she took charge of the controversy by granting police dealing with protesters

immunity from prosecution evo morales who was granted asylum by mexico i spoke an exclusively to r.t. about what's happening in his country. 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 presidency in the there is 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 round to be ample 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 moderate

opposition 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 coop who is in charge of everything now people from the us and whore here to talk with all got a follower of hugo bonsa 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. 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 his economic system upon the successful creation of a developed lithium industry mr alberto and i plan to set lithium prices on the world market i realized that some industrialized countries are afraid to compete 1st in the field of technological development and 2nd 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 the imperialists however certain generals on the serve 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 cost struggles 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 has nothing to do with being indigenous or not. after morales resigned joining us

proclaimed herself interim president she is backed by bolivia's military and she's appointed her own cabinet and despite the ongoing protests against her the organization of american states says people should support her and tell the new elections have been seen through. the work of the orient us the experience and expertise that is gained from other episodes of the americas have helped promote and 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 a god's the democratic transition through electoral reforms and to a new free and fair elections as soon as possible on years might say but 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

had to say in fact to make it clear once again this is a provisional government that will 1st call for general elections and the legislature of assembly will have the job of carrying out the election of the members of the court to lead and he's let the one.

party america hosts rick sanchez discuss the situation in bolivia 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 lived in bolivia the spanish in bolivia this is the powder and now they found lithium it believed 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 needed to do this in was we want to control the lithium and the multinational corporations they they

set the machine in motion. bolivia. this is the only latin american country in the grip on rast later in the program we report on the anti-government protests that are currently taking place in colombia. i. don't know terms impeachment inquiry has so far focused mainly on the us president but when his former top advisor on russia took to the podium an old narrative became the new focus the impacts of the successful 2016 russian company remains evident today our nation is being told a pos she says questions a highly professional expert create phone service is being undermined right now russia's security services and their proxies have geared up to repeat their insta ference in the 2020 alexion we are running out of time to stop them. rob van dam takes a look at how the co-author of

a 500 page book on vladimir putin has become the democrats' 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 doesn't make any sense the guy seems to metabolize scandals feed off of them soothe 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 are 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 instinct i found out that vladimir putin doesn't want me to be president so i learned a lot of these early on from the series that was being held perhaps relayed to me a putin also wants you to stop sniffing strangers have but hey that hasn't stopped you has it joe putin kremlin moscow russia. we've heard it all before everyone has so desperate of a 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 one of the foreign leaders you mentioned meeting was. 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 tea apparently favors tool see things tagged analyzed 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 yet khan teach an old dog new tricks and add seems to be the problem with

a democrat sticking to old tricks to cliches well i can say is fellows good luck winning that election. in france the clash between secularism and religion has sparked another feud after a local retirement home shut its doors on an elderly catholic nun for not keeping her religion to herself your style of reports from paris. a nun from eastern france had been wearing her habit cold more than 70 if she 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 it services because she in turn refused to take off 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 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 brooklyn eat 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 think he that she should not be allowed to go we don't really unduly damon holland but you see. you see this is a bit gummy go because they stay about the very obviously against the muslims now they get an equal and the 1st be good eating the after play the symbols to everybody and then they overstated their holes because the secular has not imply that uganda we didn't really know he daemon the whole market didn't he should be open minded you see things should be say ok i want to live their lives i mean that's not the public oh isn't this a problem. there is a problem they're looking into possibly 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 there is a room for us 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 tents and orthodox whatever you what's unless you respect the law the only thing that is forbidden is to claim religious. fruit political actions because people are afraid of what can be a terrorist attack very are mixing. the ideas are not respecting the law. still ahead in the program ukraine detained a 2nd i saw leader in a week details after this short break.

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welcome back to the program while western media obsess over alleged ukraine ties to u.s. politicians care of has been exposed and i far more disturbing terror case a 2nd islamic state leader in 7 days has been detained in that country saskia taylor joins us live with the details saket take us through. what ukraine has revealed that it's arrested of russian citizen who was on interpol's wanted list and this happened on thursday injured told me which is a city in the northwest of the country and now let's just take a very quick listen to the exact reasons that were given for his arrest. the man

was wanted by interpol for murder according to the information we have the detained person was a member of the terrorist organization islamic state in fact one of its leaders he lived on the territory of ukraine to escape responsibility for the murder. what details do we have on that individual what the moment does little and all the information that we are getting is coming from police authorities in the region where he was apprehended now they say that he's called oh we do not have his full name yet and that he is a 30 year old male from dhaka staun which is a republic bordering georgia in the north caucasus. what's the context around this arrest that you can give us well it's interesting because the head of the operation said that this particular arrest was part of. their route of potentially dangerous individuals which by implication means that this is not

a one off case and we can actually look to recent events for confirmation of that just last friday for example ukrainian authorities announced that they had detained a georgian national by the name of shawnee that he was a top. he'd fought alongside. in syria before escaping to ukraine. last year and he actually continued to coordinate terror attacks from his house not far from kiev and his detention was part of a joint operation between ukraine georgia and the u.s. and it was following. the shawnees arrest the questions were raised how it was possible that a man who had allegedly held the role of deputy minister of war had managed to go unnoticed or at least untouched for such a significant period of time really right under the noses some talks not just about inability to cope with this kind of high level terrace but actually it's

willingness to do so critics have drawn attention for example to how. inefficiencies within the ukrainian government which almost facilitate these kinds of dangerous individuals to slip through the net they tool the attention for example of 2 holes in the legal system and law enforcement to a very large for the fake passport trade as one of course unfortunately to corruption which is an endemic problem in the country and which of course allows for systematic abuses of power and just as a final point it's worth noting that this is not just an issue of concern for ukraine but also for its neighbor. as we know since 2017 ukraine has enjoyed visa free travel regime with e.u. countries so if it continues to apparently offer an undisturbed refuge for such people it could potentially be exploited as an ideal stepping stone for those who

want to harm european nations so clearly a warring and significant issue but this latest arrest hopefully a step in the right direction towards tackling the broader problem are to sofitel and thank you for bringing us that report. tens of thousands have taken to the streets in colombia's capital to protest against the right wing government of the us back to present. what started as a largely peaceful march led to clashes with police. ah. kwame and trade unions students opposition parties and the south american countries indigenous organizations turns to chaos economic social and security policies a festive atmosphere and the faucet turned ugly when x. mas people began hurling projectiles at police responded with tear gas the popularity of decay as a 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 protests in several cities nicholas o'donovan 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 among across the country and here on the streets of bogota at this point the rain thousands are still marching the gates the government to the city center everything from students to union leaders to community leaders and indigenous people protested as we say against it on case government this strike was announced before the full the protests in other latin american countries like chile. people here 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 just protected 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 accounts. 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 also 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. has produced this state of discontent among colombians so as we say the protest has been massive it's be mainly peaceful but it's sending a very clear message to paise government here in columbia nicholas donovan. daniel shaw a professor of latin american studies told us more about the roots of the mass protests the columbian masses this country of 40000000 compazine own singing in workers and 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 colombia so we shouldn't forget that this 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 neo liberal agenda so the colombian people are fighting back not just for their interests but for the interests of humble people across the world. that's our world news wrap up for now but i'll be back at the top of the hour with the latest thanks for tuning it.

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what explains the bipartisan commitment to ending wars in foreign military interventions recent polls show the majority of veterans in this century's foreign wars wasn't worth it in 2016 game traction for doubting foreign adventures today. doing the same. welcome to. genetics and biology are promising to bring about revolutionary changes in the way humans lead and as we learn today how to change our d.n.a. i mean the possible implications are just mind blowing from getting rid of diseases

to programming unborn babies today i sit down with revolutionary scientists and molecular engineer dr george church to talk about that. professor george church thank you very much for being on our program today so genome sequencing and gene editing is something like the internet in the eighty's on the brink to explode those are your words so do you mean to say that soon gino maddening will be just like surfing the news on a sunday morning with a cup of coffee. it's possible i mean it's hard to. like they're really. drugs. without prescription. but might be one of them right. there. pharmaceuticals that. without thinking about that much so when you say that you know managing is on the brink of explosion what exactly do you mean.

well it's is it is it is both reading and writing of genomes which are intimately connected are on an exponential brink of explosion they are literally explode if you follow the cost curves there they're doubling in in months not years other way faster than the internet. and computing is. and that change in cost structure and the impact it has on things that we care about you know or the health of our children that ourselves that. probably means that will it's also going to ignore well i mean i heard that you could actually conduct genome engineering at home you don't even have to be a scientist to do that right you can just order a desired d.n.a. sample over the internet it's like $10.00 get it delivered i don't inject it if that's the case why don't people a lot of themselves time to time. well you can also order all sorts of chemicals at home too but most people don't have the the know

how or.