oh. president clashed with police during the funeral of a killed protester we spoke exclusively to ever more or less about what is happening in this country. tearing a dictator but this is not so these are real dictators on the other hand you generations will not understand what a real dictatorship is. the latest star witness of the. claims 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 say retirement closes its doors to

a 70 year old catholic nun for refusing to take off the veil. r.t. welcome. bolivia's self-proclaimed interim president has proposed fresh elections 9 years wants to know the results of the last vote which were marred by allegations of fraud that led to the ousting of abel morale this and deadly unrest in which almost 30 people have reportedly died most recently police clashed with people attending the funeral of a protester. 7 when she took charge and years calls controlled the sea by giving police dealing with protesters immunity from prosecution ever marla's who was granted asylum by mexico

spoken exclusively to r.t. about what's happening in this 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 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 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 bonser who for 7 years will believe me as a dictator i was called an 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 mr alberto and i plan to sadly the in prices on the

world market i realize though that some industrialized countries are afraid to compete 1st in the field of technological development in seconds they do not want other countries to follow the example of our economic model which is based on socialism. this is a cluster igle 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 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 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. so up or claimed leader and is banks by believe his military and she's appointed or own cabinet despite the ongoing protests against her the organization of american states says that people should

support her until after the new elections. the work of the oh yes the experience and expertise that has gone from other episodes in the americas have helped promoted the fellow 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 the living is to support the bolivian transitional government as a god the democratic transition through electoral reforms and to a new free and fair elections as soon as possible. and his wife 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

had to send out to make it clear once again this is a provisional government that will 1st call for general elections and the legislature's assembly will have the election of the members of the court until a guy named that do you want to. see about a ghost rick sanchez discussed the situation in bolivia with pulitzer prize winning journalist chris hedges who says that the u.s.

has a 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 do this in was we want to control the lithium and the multinational corporations they they set the machine in

motion. the muslims form a top advisor on russia has become the star of the impeachment hearings into the us presidents by rehashing an old narrative that where of moscow. 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. and i guess their takes a look at how the co-author of a 500 page book complete emir putin has stolen the show. 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 are losing it a 1000000 less americans chuen been for the 2nd round of impeachment hearings and trumps ratings have gone up according to gallup i'm telling you it doesn't make any sense sue 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 c.b.s. early on from the series that was. perhaps related 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 crucified on 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. 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 it didn't work so they're doing it again only logical plants are t. apparently favors tool c. a think tank 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 have a saying goes you can't 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 the story in an arkansas newspapers lead to more concerns of a russian trolling all because of the use of some odd looking punctuation.

no diversion quotation marks. 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 free checking the correspondent did here keep up the professional work. we use those quotation in french and italian keyboards as well so this is cringe in its least 4 languages. it had jumped out to me speaker and keyboard used 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. once a strict rules on religious displays a spot another hour after retirement home shut its doors to an elderly catholic nun for wearing her veil it does start off reports from paris. a nun from eastern france had been wearing her had been told more than 70 if 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 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 the 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 the workers to do keeney the muslims when we have women france has been through countless scandals around islamic clothing that christianity has been steering clear of this controversy until now. so as the mayor president of the middle east aid group s.o.s. christians of the east says france's immigration problem is race tension over such issues our country is beginning to forget isn't a christian country or. without cutlasses i'm friends with not exist a tall order to serve on his results in the political debate some are using tours in order 'd to buy an already just or agents from privileged debate forms of projects for and it's not a good way to deal with problems here in france the troubador always. arrive are often used in the local knows is that they turn to have some

difficulties to adapt to the french curvature and you know where we can understand them because if we present them to french culture as some sings that does not accept privilege and a total it's not a good mother to assimilate themselves to the french culture and their way to assimilate it was understand and see if everybody understands that the christian made this country now the trouble is immigration in france it's so that some are getting crazy and are ready to let our is tory go in order to abide by these are. no secularists viewpoints. i stay with i'll see more stories after this break. you know world of big partisan movies lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up

to dig deeper to hit the stories that made stream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the bats and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. what politicians do something. to put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or somehow want to be preached. to the right to be press that's what the 43 in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the lawyers in the house. they sit.

back while western media obsess over alleged ukraine ties to us politicians give us being exposed to a form of disturbing international terrorism case the 2nd islamic state leader in 7 days has been detained in the country so it's good tale as the story. 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 who lived on the territory of ukraine to escape responsibility for the murder all the

information that we are getting is coming from police authorities in the region where he was apprehended now they say that he is called oh we do not have his full name yet and that he is a 30 year old male from dagestan which is a republic bordering georgia in the north caucasus it's interesting because the head of the operation said that this particular arrest was part of a wide near 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 shiny now he was a top commander he'd fought alongside. in syria before escaping to ukraine via turkey last year and he actually continued to coordinate terror attacks

from his house not far from it 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 isis deputy minister of war had managed to go unnoticed or at least untouched for such a significant period of time really right under their noses. some talks not just about inability to cope with this kind of high level terrorist but actually it's willingness to do so critics have drawn attention for example to how there are certain inefficiencies within the ukrainian government which almost facilitate these kinds of dangerous individuals to slip through the net they draw the attention for example of to the holes in the legal system and law enforcement to a very long i think 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 neighbors 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 other 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. of thousands have taken to the streets of colombia's capital bogota to protest against the right wing government of u.s. backed president. what started as a largely peaceful march led to clashes with police.

position parties on indigenous groups challenged in case the economic social security policies of atmosphere turned ugly when a small group of people began to inject police who responded with tear gas the popularity of the right wing government key u.s. allies been on the wane since the election 18 months ago police say around 200000 took part in protests in several cities. are reports. 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 much in across the country and here on the streets of bogota at this point the rain thousands are still marching

the gates the government. the city everything from students to union leaders to community leaders and indigenous people protested. against. case government this strike was announced. 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 it's a very differently to what happens in other latin american countries for instance 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 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 it's be mainly peaceful but it's sending a very clear message to yvonne do case government here in colombia nicholas o'donovan. daniel schorr

a professor of latin american studies told us more about the roots of the mass protests in colombia. the colombian masses this country of 40000000 compazine olsen in workers and indigenous who'd say they marching in flying the y. follow flag in solidarity with the people of bolivia will go a chilly 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 these 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 you know liberal agenda so the colombian people are fighting back not just for their interests but for the interests of humble people across the

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think is this is the fun that is going to come food for. thought. 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 trump gained traction for doubting foreign adventures today we're just doing the same why our view leads someone a. child's seemed wrong but all quotes just don't hold. any new poll yet to shape out these days to come to educate and engage with equals betrayal.

when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. then this is a boom bust broadcasting around the world and covering all aspects of our global economy in the 21st century and then this one and i'm christiane washington here's what's coming out of that america that has everyone in finance talking college was in the talk to buy t.d. ameritrade a bank he met with more than $5000000000.00 in combined assets all break down what this merger can mean. a legendary trader who made billions betting on the worth of clothing has had fun but take a look out why one of the in effect most prominent hedge fund is shutting down this

point is falling as we approach the end of the year is there a time for it to turn around or are we going back into a bearish cycle for the world's largest cryptocurrency we've got a lot to get to on a very busy day so let's get started. and we begin with fears that in fact there will be no phase one trade agreement between the u.s. and china at least not this year and those fears are translating into lower economic forecasts for not just the u.s. and china but really for global economic growth the organization for economic co-operation and development said on thursday that the global economy is now at risk of settling into a quote low growth rut the o.e.c.d. has now lowered its forecast for global economic growth in 2020 to 2.9 percent from the 3 percent expected in september meanwhile the c.e.o.'s said thursday that members of the g 20 continued to impose restrictions on imports in the 6 months through october with new measures affecting 460 point.