supporters of bolivia's ousted president clash with the police during the funeral of a killed protester we speak exclusively to about what's happening in his country. and what's called an employee tearing rule or 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 trump 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. and a new spat over secularism in france or retirement home closes its doors to

a 17 year old catholic nun refusing to take off. thanks for joining us this is. the livia's self-proclaimed interim president has proposed fresh elections to anyone yes wants to know the results of the last vote which were mired by allegations of fraud that led to the ouster of. deadly unrest in which 32 people have reportedly been killed most recently police clashed with people attending the funeral of a protester. when she took charge and is caused by giving the police staling with the protesters immunity from prosecution ever more as he was granted asylum by mexico has spoken

exclusively to r.t. about what's 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 the official report last wednesday around 2 pm that was the arrangements 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 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 cluster i call i'm convinced of it i had faith in the armed forces because i thought that in the military there are patriots and imperialists however certain generals on the 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 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 self proclaimed leader and he as is backed by believe his military and she's appointed to run cabinet despite the

ongoing protests against the organization of american states says people should supporter 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 along is my say that she's only holding the fort until fresh elections have taken place but to pay is that she's intent on sending the country on a radical new course. they

had a say in the battle to make it clear once again this is a provisional government that will 1st call for general elections and the legislative assembly will have the job of clearing out the election of the members of the court to lead and he's let the one. all to america how strict 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 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 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 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 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 top advisor on russia has become the star of the peace materials into the u.s. president by rehashing an 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. rogue as they are takes a look at how the co-author of a 500 page book of legitimate putin has stolen the show. you gotta 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 put there we have it 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 yet 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 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. the story in an arkansas newspaper has led to more concerns of a russian trolling because of the use of some of looking punctuation. no

diversion quotation mark. i'm pretty sure the publication just put in whatever looked like an error in an attempt to instruct readers to click on the article link which came immediately after the ira 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 correspondence that here keep up the professional work. we use those quotation in french and italian keyboards as well so this is occurring in its least 4 languages. it had jumped out to me if i should speak up and keyboard user as a quotation mark and look 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. france's strict rules on religious displays has sparked another row after retirement home closed its doors to an elderly catholic nun for wearing her veil off reports from paris. a nun from eastern france had been wearing her habit for more than 70 years 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 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 the workers to chini 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. child a bad president of the middle east a group s.o.s. christians of the east says that france is immigration problem is race tensions 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 it. in order 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 newcomers is not that done 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 footage of a total it's not a good mother to assume it adds themself 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. those secularists viewpoints so to come ukraine detains a 2nd isolated just the week will bring the details after the short break.

s. and p. 500 to a new high transparency has been obliterated. sound accounting has been obliterated all economic policy that is tied to any economic school that makes any economic sense has been ignored and obliterated the rule of law has been obliterated everything having to do with the sound society is being ignored to get . to a higher level and getting so higher level but at what cost. you know world big. and yours it's time. to dig deeper to hit the stories that midstream refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smart we need to stop slamming the door. 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 we're watching closely watching the hawks. all western media over alleged ukraine ties to us politicians kiev has been exposed in a far more disturbing international terror case the 2nd islamic state leader in 7 days has been detained in the country so this could tell a pix of 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 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 that 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 here of his detention was part of a joint operation between ukraine and 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 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 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 the counterterrorism security office chris phillips says that stops planning attacks on the west despite its defeat in syria. i don't get only ukraine that i've got

a problem with this i think other countries as well and of course if you have free movement across borders anywhere then you're you're leaving an open door for terrorists and criminals that operate this round was a very senior person who knows this but there are many others that have also 'd managed to escape the battlefield and go back to their countries this is a worldwide problem obviously he's managed a movie he managed to claim that he was being killed so the the or thirty's were on the back foot 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 setting up. cells of terrorists dotted around europe and across the world to bring this about they know they never will this is the end of ice it's this this latest battle in syria is not the end of isis they consider it part will all go to war and our war that they're going to bring to us i think in the in the coming years ahead. the u.k. has defied a u.n. deadline to give back overseas totally tomorrow the prime minister of the indian

ocean island says that london's failure to hand over the chair goes islands makes britain an illegal colonial occupier. an overwhelming majority the un general assembly voted in natick of the u.k. 6 months to return the islands but britain insists that the vote is not binding despite it being backed by a un high court ruling. which the international court of justice found weave new dissenting voice to be an integral part of the territory of militias the united kingdom is not in doubt suffer inchy over the. country to want to spin said today it has never been part of the republic if militias russia says that britain forced it to give up the islands in exchange for independence back in 1968 but the u.k. insists that malicious agreed to the move in exchange for benefits and will seeds

the archipelago when it's no longer needed for defense the u.s. maintains a military base the. leaders of groups are divided on whether to stay part of britain. we want to remain a british overseas territory and we want to be resettled in the hole and as such we want these countries these islands to belong to us we the natives of these islands this is our right and this is our homeland and we don't want it to be given to

another state our people want to be resettled 1st then we will make a decision whom we want to be governed by and in future we of course we would want to become an independent country as far as we're concerned right now we want to remain everett is overseas territory we need to put pressure on them. you can government to see what he will do for us we have been fighting back in fact for a long time 50 years have passed what did you get government did nothing we need to find we need to see if we need to bring them to the marshes government his fact the best of their own you case fact for the same cause we can't listen we want our rights because our right has been nice we want our country back we don't know we we've who we've called it will be but we would like our country but.

you know watching our to international appreciated company this evening and so from a financial thomas will be here though about taking our top stories in half. i have concern about new technologies and i think society should try to help them gauged in those concerns. but we also should have concerns about doing nothing doing nothing is extraordinarily risky you know with some point 5000000000 people. series of. ancient technology. not necessarily suitable for more. joining me

everything on the alec simon chill and i'll be speaking to a guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see that. song one speaks does testimony help or hurt the president we'll hear from some experts on this edition of politic. politicking on larry king gordon some on the u.s. ambassador to the european union and a key figure in the ongoing impeachment inquiry publicly testified before the house intelligence committee does testimony help or hurt the president or change any

minds about the impeachment process will begin there with expert panel brant toman a former u.s. attorney for the district of the saw formal legal counsel to the senate judiciary committee he joins us from salt lake city utah and in boston dick mccabe a democratic strategist who worked in the obama administration and is a former speechwriter for attorney general. will start with you who benefited the most from the some testimony the president or the house democrats. well i think both benefited you know i think certainly that democrats were looking for sideline as a key figure to come forward and help give testimony that would fit their theory of the case and i think they got that in part during the testimony throughout the day but i don't. so think that you have some issues with what

somlata knows and what he observed and in my experience larry when i presented a case a criminal case which this is no mistake it's an accusation against the sitting president of crimes that have been committed. by having having a witness you know you're going to get good and bad but what you hope is that that particular witness has information and knowledge that's going to satisfy the elements you have to prove. that you read it i think we learned a lot from someone's testimony i think one of the big takeaways is something that he said more than once which was and i'm quoting now everyone was in the loop and he said it more than once and he's talking about that what he's saying is that this wasn't some you know bunch of rogue actors who you know got engaged in something fishy he name names he said that this wasn't a back channel it was the channel it involved the president the vice president the secretary of.