the bolivians ousted president clashed with police during the funeral of a killed protester we speak exclusively to others about what is happening in his country. 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 star witness at the trump impeachment hearings claims the pressure is planning to meddle in the 2020 us presidential election we assess whether democrats can attract voters with that warning. and a new spat over secularism in france at home closes its doors to

a 70 year old catholic nun for refusing to take off the veil. but even thanks for joining us this is art. self-proclaimed interim president propose fresh elections in the 9 years wants to know the results of the last vote which were marred by allegations of fraud lead to the ousting of evo morales and deadly unrest in which almost 30 people have reportedly been killed most recently police clashed with people attending the funeral of a protest. she took charge and is caused by giving the police dealing with protesters immunity from prosecution you know morale is who was granted asylum by mexico has spoken

exclusively to us about what is happening in the 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 their fishel 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 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 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 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 serve the highest gear they surprised me i could not believe it 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 struggles 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 self proclaimed leader and this is backed by i believe his military and she's appointed her own cabinets to spot the ongoing

protests against the organization of american states says that people should support her until after the new elections. the work of the orient us the experience and expertise that is gained from other episodes in 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 it guards the democratic transition through electoral reforms and to a new free and fair elections as soon as possible on his say that she's only holding the fort until fresh elections have taken place but ship is intent on putting the country on a radical new course. they

have sent out to make it clear once again this is a provisional government that will 1st call for general elections and the legislatures assembly will have the job of clearing out the election of the members of the court to lead anything that the want to. auntie america house rick sanchez discussed the situation in bolivia with pulitzer prize winning journalist chris hedges he says that 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 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 the spanish in bolivia this is the pattern and now they found lithium it believed well they 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 that i do this in was we want to control the lithium and the multinational corporations they they set the machine in motion. but in terms former top advisor on russia has become the

star of the impeachment hearings into the us presidents by rehashing an old narrative. 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 i guess the it takes a look at how the co-author of a $500.00 page book about blood in the 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 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 season early on from the series that were going to be perhaps related to me a putin also wants you to stop sniffing strangers have but hey that hasn't stopped

yet has it joe putin kremlin moscow russia yeah we've heard it all before everyone has so 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 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 or 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 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 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 story in an arc in saw a news paper has led to more concerns of russian trolling or because of these to some rather 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 distract 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 foreign taken the correspondent gets here keep up the professional work. we use those quotation in french and italian keyboards as well so this is cool range in its least 4 languages. it had to me if i should speak up 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 explaining it indeed true so full

transparency. france's strict rules on religious displays are sparked another rally after retirement home shut its doors to an elderly catholic nun for wearing her veil biggest on off reports from paris. a nun from eastern france had been wearing her habit for 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 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. from the carbs to workers to blue keeney the muslim swimwear for women france has been through countless scandals around islamic clothing christianity has been steering clear of this controversy until now . father. in our college in paris exposes a growing fear of religion france has to work very quickly and very hard to. discover again what history and christians and has given to the country otherwise we'll end up with as this poor sister since we fear in our society in french society the place of religion we fear it because we know it's powerful it's powerful in people's mind. so any type of sign any any sign of a religious sign whereby

a christian nun is being banned we have reduced you know country the meaning of religion to a political force so i felt really sorry because it shone the point of. stupidity where we just arrived at that moment. always the media obsess over alleged ukraine ties to us politicians has been exposed in a far more disturbing international terror case a 2nd islamic state leader in 7 days has been detained in the country so taylor has 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's 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 wider clear out 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 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 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 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 drew the

attention for example of to the holes in the legal system and law enforcement to a very light 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 neighbors as we know since 2017 ukraine has enjoyed these a 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. live on the line now by chris phillips who's the former head of the u.k.'s national

counter-terrorism security office good evening to you if we if we speak 1st chris specifically about alberta's sharni who is reported to spend nearly 2 years here apparently without problems from the authorities how big a concern is that to have a terrorist large. liberty for so long well it is very concerning. he's going to be on his own. across. across a lot of. the. people that have actually been. on. analyzing the fighting. returning to countries and being able to operate there is very concerning for all countries and according to ukraine security services sunny monies to coordinate terrorist activities from kiev which begs the question why ukraine are they a soft touch when it comes to security well it certainly appears at the moment that

they've got some problems in ukraine controlling this issue and people of course are able to move across borders not really worrying this man now we're supposed to be in debt supposed have been killed in action and blown up but it's clear that he's able not only to get to ukraine which is interesting luck but actually to operate from there and and and i don't know yet the facts on how he got caught. at the cia i believe. so the intelligence. particularly slow to catch up with this man who's been away for 2 years. it also raises so many questions now given that ukraine enjoys a visa free agreement with mostly you countries the thoughts now pop up of what did the monies to war what travel was able to enjoy and shouldn't even come to be pretty concerned now well a lot yes not just in this man's case this one was a very senior person in our system but there are many others that have also managed

to escape the battlefield and go back to their countries and what we do know is that if you can if you can get rid of talk the organizers then you can prevent terrorist attacks the best way so so it's really concerning it will be interesting to know where he has gone who he's been communicating with whether or not they've been set you know. cells of terrorists dotted around europe and across the world to bring this back they know they never this is the end of ice it's this this latest battle in syria is not the end of isis they consider it part an ongoing war in a war that they're going to bring to us i think in the in the coming years ahead. if there's now a record of several terrorists getting into ukraine there's a report suggesting that it's not that difficult to buy yourself a passport there and given that the e.u.'s back door is open and does not mean the u.s. to rethink its relationship with ukraine surely there only their security is only as strong as its weakest link yet but it only gets only ukraine to go to prom with

other countries as well and of course if you have free movement across borders anywhere then you're leaving an open door for terrorists and criminals who operate so so yes ukraine will want to because they want to keep the air the visa reac c'est burst from the other countries as well so this is a worldwide problem they are there are people in the u.k. for instance fighting in syria and of combat we know that and these people need to be watched and i don't know actually how long they've been sitting not just low watching series or broken window this may well have been a part of a much bigger operation where they gained a huge amount of intelligence i don't know that fact but it's quite possible they seems like nothing happened for a long time and now there's a flurry of activity at least a couple of arrests. do you do you have any idea why it would take so long to actually apprehend people like this. well obviously he's managed

a movie he managed to claim that he was being healed so the the or thirty's were on the back foot but but as i said before there may be a lot of it they may have been watching him all these the last 2 years to see who is operating with and this is actually where terrorism sometimes is prevented stopped without anyone really knowing about it the intelligence that this man may have afforded the cia and other agencies by knowing who he was a weary was may have been very very useful to many terrorist attacks across the world it remains to be seen but certainly i kind of hope that yet sent to be dependent upon what kind of information the authorities reveal this to that is now exactly what happened appreciate your analysis chris thanks very much chris phillips is the former head of the u.k.'s national counterterrorism security office . tens of thousands have taken to the streets of colombia's capital bogota to protest against the right wing government of u.s. backed president decay started as

a largely peaceful march led to clashes with police. when students opposition parties and indigenous groups challenge the case economic social and security policies and a festive atmosphere. when a small group of people saw the hill projectiles at the police responded with tear gas a planted decays right wing government a key u.s. ally been on the wane since his election 18 months ago i placed around 200002 policy protests in several cities. nicholas o'donovan 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 center everything from students to union leaders to community leaders and indigenous people protested as we say against. 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 are 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 and in chile we had the public transport in ecuador we had the subsidies to gas

here it's not. mischa 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 legal liberal 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 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 pays government here in colombia nicolas i don't have a. professor of latin american studies daniel schorr told us all about the rallies

roots columbian masses this country of 40000000 compazine own singing 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 of iran 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 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. ok if you wonder where you are this is atienza national thanks for joining

us i will be back with updates on the top story subsidy when often that. i have concern about new technologies and i think society should and i and i try to help them get engaged in those concerns. but we also should have concerns about doing nothing doing nothing is extraordinarily risky in a world with some point 5000000000 people and a whole series of. ancient technologies that are not necessarily suitable for tomorrow. the f.d.a. is primary role isn't reagan.