supporters of ousted president clashed with police during the funeral of a protester we speak exclusively to more or less about what is happening in this 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 the. latest star witness at the impeachment hearings claims that russia is planning to meddle in the 2020 us presidential election we assess whether democrats can attract voters with that warning. over secularism in france as a retirement home closes its doors to a 17 year old catholic nun for refusing to take.

things for joining us here. bolivia's self-proclaimed interim president has proposed fresh elections and yes once to a knoll the results of the last vote which was marred by allegations of fraud that led to the ousting of a deadly unrest in which almost 30 people have reportedly been killed most recently police clashed with people attending the funeral of a protester. she took charge. by giving the police dealing with protesters immunity from prosecution able morale as he was granted asylum by mexico spoken exclusively to r.t. about what is 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 president 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 hugo bunsen 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 realize though 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 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 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 plainly than yours is backed by bolivia's military and she's appointed her and cabinet despite the ongoing protests against the organization of american states says people should support her until after the new elections. the work of the euro yes 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. and his might say that she's only holding the fort until fresh elections have been held but she is intent on putting the country on a radical new course. they

had sent out to make it clear once again this is a provisional government that will 1st call for general elections and the legislature is assembly will have the job of carrying out the election of the members of the court and i think that the one. automatic host rick sanchez discussed the situation in bolivia with pulitzer prize winning journalist chris hedges who says that the u.s. has a hand in the crisis. this is the revolving door story of latin america that as soon as a populist figure like evo morales appears the knives come out on the part of the

empire and on the part of those corporations that hold especially the natural resources in a place like bolivia hostage there's been a constant conflict between. these corporations and evo morales let me stop you there because you just said something that's very interesting there may be a reason for the united states government the government of chris hedges and rick sanchez for the country where we live to do things from time to time in other places right but it seems like what you just described is something where no one asked chris no one asked rick no one talked to our media no one talked to our congress it just happens out of thin air we go and destabilize 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 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 would i do this in was we want to control the lithium and the multinational corporations they they set the machine in motion. terms former top advisor on russia has become the star of the impeachment hearings into the us president by rehashing old narrative beware of

moscow. the impact of the successful 2016 russian campaign remains evident today our nation is being torn apart truth is questioned 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 closer look at how the co-author of a 500 page book on 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 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've learned a lot about these early on from the series that were. 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. we've heard it all before

everyone has so desperate are they that they turning to the spiritual the democrats are making a sacrifice crucifying one of their own to beat trump it's unfortunate that we have someone on a stage who is attempting to be the democratic nominee for president united states . criticizing people on this stage affiliated with the democratic party let's also talk about judgment 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 plus

r 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 well i can say is fellows good luck winning that election. still in arkansas newspapers lead to more concerns over russian trolling all because of the use of some odd looking punctuation. i.

no diversion quotation mark my 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 for taking 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 place for languages. it had jumped out to me speaker 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.

germany is planning to set up fake child pornography videos to catch paedophiles investigators will be able to use computer generated images in the future if crimes cannot be detected another way we are now laying the legal foundations and we must never forget that behind child pornography images are terrible acts of abuse against children are thought to say that that will give investigators all the means available to find criminals but the proposal has divided politicians supporters insist that the news will help kill off the so-called darkness of illegal websites however the green party has come out against it warning crimes cannot be solved by creating new crimes. internet watch foundation charity groups report on child sexual abuse imagery found europe has the biggest problems with child pornography the continent hosts around 2 thirds of all confirmed cases with the netherlands having the most offenders or legal counsel the u.k.

based christian legal center spoke to his about that early work as to that sound bite just now but even better we will discuss it with 2 guests let's bring in former u.k. police officer peter kirk a political commentator under walk a very good to see you both. first and we just heard it there are some people objecting to the concept of child pornography even if it's kind of sin to synthesise or fake being used to catch criminals is that a crime in itself or not it would be in the u.k. for a long time now the sexual imagery indecent imagery laws have included pseudo photographs which are would include computer generated imagery and footage so it would normally be an offense the difficulty is that the. the really serious paedophiles

operate on the dark web have now started operating in groups or whatever the platform might be where to gain access to it they require new people to provide imagery or footage to get in and so that's the best the reason the police think that they may need in some circumstances to use it and just to clarify if someone's clicking on fakes but to all intents and purposes looks real child pornography that would that that we would be illegal yes it would ok let's bring it over to why the anger do you think that these plans it seems like you know it's pretty sensible what they're doing at the aim is to catch some of the the worst human beings on the planet paedophiles. yeah look i don't think this are against this proposal but i think it's important with any policing policy to examine them properly i think that the concern is and i'm pizza made this point in

the united kingdom these sorts of images and videos would be illegal and the reason that they're illegal is not because there's a victim of them because clearly there is and to a simulated image but what there it what it has the potential to do is to excite offenders and what we don't want to do is have a government in your up producing material that can potentially excite people into offending in real life or outside the virtual world i also think there's another more general concern about the issue of entrapment and i think my 3rd comment would be very simply days look you know the american government partly for months or browse which facilitates the dark web and actually you know we need to make a decision as to whether we are as the west interested in supporting these sorts of technology or whether we're going to crack down on it a lot from what i can say the dark web is largely used by people buying illegal

material without pain drugs whether that be pornography whether that be weapons and there's a significant concern by the way in the united kingdom about the sale of weapons through the dark web i think look you know we shouldn't be supporting the dark web in general and i think putting more material on to the dark web seems instinctively to me to be making the problem potentially far worse so now we've established what will the legal situation is peter is there a precedent for this for a government to break the law itself in order to catch criminals is that justifiable. it's not usual on this sort of scale of seriousness. book for instance for a very long time in the. the police have used informants who have participated in the commission of crimes in a minor role. classically getaway driver. in

a bank robbery. would be able to be off for oysters a participating informant in the crime. there was mention of entrapment this wouldn't be entrapment and entrapment is unlawful it would be a means of getting into a closed close space and i have to say that i agree i'm not sure what the point of that or website is appears to me to be solely used by the very worst in our society and why we facilitate that i really don't know and the question that some people who might be thinking about is if we're talking about fake videos and. that there is no victim in the situation so how can there be a crime. well i think i think the significant concern these days look you know you are talking about on the ground a murky world so we don't necessarily have as much research as perhaps we would

like boortz it seems to me but there's something which peter will know more about than i which is called an escalator offense which is basically you start by smoking pot and you end up smoking marijuana nobody goes straight to heroin i think the significant concern is that people who starts on child pornography will begin offending against children in real life if you like and so in terms of being a victim of this crime i just don't think that's necessarily the case and equal they equally i think it's hard to imagine anybody saying i'm only willing to consume fake child pornography i should the genuine stuff i just don't see that anybody would would delineates in that way if they were a sex offender and what do you think about that peter i mean is there. the bait to catch the criminals directly with or is it to then follow the trail and catch them on something else. there may be all the ways of getting into. the platforms onto

the platforms into the chat rooms or whatever that the really bad guy is a using but if there isn't and this may be the only way in. it would obviously have to be used very carefully and will be used sparingly. there are various things that could be done to minimize the risk of it being spread further but if the aim is to close down and arrest all those using the particular platform or chat room that you are gaining access to then in a way it's sort of self destructs to a certain extent anyway within the u.k. the reason it's unlawful is because the law specifically says it is not only unlawful to have real footage but also to have sued photographs which would include computer generated footage. placing in these sorts of areas is a dirty business and sometimes you have to get your hands dirty to a certain extent to take out the really bad players. i think that's what the german

place is struggling with here i think pretty much every place officer will have a slightly different view on the subject ranging from don't go near it yet if it takes out the bad guys then go for it. it will be interesting to say if they pursue what the outcomes are you can say you want to respond go ahead and cannot. yeah i can i can i make comments i mean look my understanding is that u.k. police that deal in this area have regular psychological assessments because obviously the imagery that they are forced to look at can be deeply upset say look my issue with what peter is sad is not that i disagree with him necessarily i think there is always going to be an enormous force rage and by police officers when they see bad guys getting away with it you don't go into professionally in law enforcement if you wish to see victims you know not get justice the problem here is that we as a society have to protect our society from police going too far and i think that

this potentially is a bridge too far port's let me just be clear on absolutely but the police are doing this with the best of intentions and obviously it must be soul destroying to watch paedophiles and child rapists i'm producing child pornography go unpunished for however long they manage to get away with it i'm sure an awful lot of people have understood the point that you've made that you know you have to get your hands dirty to catch the very worst criminals out there but other people will sit there and they just look at this on face value seeing that you know law enforcement are accusing if the most disgusting offensive material and adding to the amount that is out there in order to go about their jobs and they might think that that's an unethical way to do it can you see the problems that some people would have. i can understand that view but the amount of child sexual imagery that's out there is absolutely enormous anything added by the german police will be an absolute drop in

the ocean the fundamental problem isn't actually anything to do with child sexual imagery it's to do with having that saw system which was developed and i understand is a sort of soul to people to prevent the state interfering with your communications and finding out your information the bottom line is no normal person doing normal things in this world certainly in the open democracies of the west needs that saul browser nobody's going to be interfering with all your communications and all your stored materials and from the west's point of view it is purely and simply a tool for the really worst types of criminals i'm sure it's really disturbing to serve many of our viewers to find out if they didn't know that so much of the world's most offensive child pornography material comes from european based every

is i want to ask a final question to both of you is this a battle that we can win that this can be cleaned up. from from my perspective i see it i see it. i say it is very similar i says very similar to the drugs. you're you've got something that so many people are involved in so many people get whatever sick enjoyment they get out of it and they share it so moche it's like trying to hold back the tide it's not something that we're going to be able to the rest of within the u.k. the numbers of people coming to notice for accessing child sexual imagery using credit cards and things is just enormous flooding the place services ability to deal with them and under. my concern these exact key pieces

concern the issues potentially available and so clearly there are a percentage of the population that will consume this material if it's available but always remember if you go back to the 98 season 1970 s. when they said material wasn't available then there's a large category of those offend those who didn't bother seeking it out when it wasn't easily available i just want to tell and from what's commis sad about the top i was a most viewers and i include myself and i and i include peter in this i'm going to think about this and say what on earth is they say i've never accessed their i have no interest in oxy access today i don't have the technological know how to access it and yet i can pick up a smart phone and download it to my phone or download its my computer relatively easily and access drugs goldens on pornography within minutes that has got to be a crazy situation and actually if we start dealing with thoughts then we deal with

the availability problem much better than they solve half cocked idea of creating child pornography ourselves in order to hold down offenders bases well meaning but it is a nonsense idea. yeah i really just want to add that you know obviously it's a horrific situation that we've been talking about and i really appreciate the points you've made i hope we've added something a used to the conversation here many thanks for the u.k. police officer peter let's go commentator under a walk appreciate it. francis strict rules on religious displays are sparked another hour after retirement home shut its doors to an elderly catholic nun for wearing her veil on these niggas down off reports from paris. a nun from eastern france had been wearing her habit for more than 70 years 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

its services because the she in turn refused to take off her religious clothing and that hasn't gone well with the religious community here i do not see how our nuns veil can be described as offensive it is not a symbol of submission but a symbol of consecration but the nursing home says there will be no appeals the case is closed they say all religious apparel is banned at the facility to abide by france's more than a century long reign of secularism a small chain with a cross there was the only bit of faith the nun was allowed to physically take with her into the home shedding the rest at the gates the nun refused the place we offered her and didn't want to accept the house rules that are the same for everyone within our homes our residents may have preferences and beliefs and they should be respected with regard to secularism all ostentatious religious symbols cannot be allowed in order to guarantee everyone's tranquillity. christianity

phobia is a relatively new phenomenon born out of france's strict secularism there's another one you might be moved from illegal with islamophobia the muslim community in france has been fighting for the right to wear their religious clothing in public for a long time. 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 . president of the middle east aid group s.o.s. christians of the east says france is immigration problems race tension over such issues our country is beginning to forget isn't a christian country or. without qataris ism friends will not exist at all or to serve on his results in the political debate some are using it. in order 'd to buy

an already just or agents from privileged debate forms of critics 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 aren't you know where we can understand them because prisons them to french culture are some things that does not accept privilege and told it's not a good mother to assimilate themselves to the french culture and their way to assimilate it is 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. those secularists viewpoints ok watching out international lots of places you can be i know this friday evening so grateful to have your company stick around for

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