supporters of ousted president clashed with police during the funeral of a killed protester we speak exclusively to ever morale us about what is happening in his country. i was. a dictator but this is not so these are real dictators on the other hand you generations will now understand what a real dictatorship with. the latest star witness at the trump impeachment hearings claims that russia is planning to meddle in the 2020 u.s. presidential election we assess whether democrats can attract voters with and without warning. and a new secularism in france

a retirement home closes its doors to a 70 year old catholic nun for refusing to take off her habit. international thomas glad to have you with us. i believe you claimed interim president has proposed fresh elections. wants to know the results of the last vote which were mired by allegations of fraud that led to the ousting of abel morales and deadly unrest in which 32 people have reportedly been killed most recently police clashed with people attending the funeral of a protester. she took charge on caused controversy by. giving police dealing with the protesters immunity from prosecution and the

morality who was granted asylum. has spoken exclusively to our t. about what's happening in his country. i 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 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 the bouncer 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 the indigenous populations movement which has changed a major 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 as mr alberto and i plan to set the in prices on the world market i realized that some industrialized countries are afraid to compete 1st in the field of technological development and 2nd they do not want other countries to follow the example of our economic model which is based on socialism. this is a colossal struggle i'm convinced of it i had faith in the armed forces because i thought that in the military there are patriots and imperialists however certain generals on the serve the highest gear they surprised me i could not believe it and i had a wonderful relationship with all the military leaders of course there are good soldiers and military leaders but when it comes to the 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 backed by bolivia's military and she has appointed her own cabinet despite the ongoing

protests against her 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 it has gained from other episodes in the americas have helped promote and defend the right of the bolivian people 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 guides the democratic transition through electoral reforms and to new free and fair elections as soon as possible and as it might say that she is only holding the 4 down until fresh elections have been held but she appears intent on putting the country on a radical new course. they

have 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 carrying out the election of the members of the court and they think that even. r.c. america host rick sanchez discussed the situation in bolivia with pulitzer prize

winning journalist chris hedges who believes that the us has had a hand in the crisis. this is the revolving door story of latin america of it 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 at . 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 a very the operate you know completely in the shadows and they operate on the behest 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 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 evil morality so even though he brought poverty down in a country where no one else that i do that sin was we want to control the lithium

and the multinational corporations they they set the machine in motion. donald trump former top advisor on russia has become the star of the impeachment hearings into the u.s. president by rehashing an old narrative be aware of moscow. the impact of the successful 2016 russian campaign men's evident today the nation is being told to pass she says questions are highly professional an expert create phone service is being undermined right now russia's security services and their proxies have geared up to repeat their interference in the 20 twentieth's action we're running out of time to stop them. comments now on how the co-author of a 500 page book on of vladimir 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'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 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 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 for 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 tea apparently favors told see the thing thank 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. and the story in arkansas newspaper has led to

more concerns over russian trolling all because of the use of some odd looking punctuation. my. devotion quotation marks. i'm pretty sure the publication just put in whatever looks like an error in an attempt to strut 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 whereas the other quotation. milt is the amount of current taking the correspondent does here keep up the professional work. we use those quotation in french in town in keyboards as well so this is occurring in its least 4 languages. it had

to me if i should speak up and keyboard used as a quotation mark and look like all the sloppy attempts by russian trolls to push stories i apologize for the mistake and explaining it indeed to so full transparency. france's strict rules on religious displays have sparked another rally after a retirement home shut its doors to an elderly catholic nun for wearing her habit r.t.c. watchdog of comments now. a nun from eastern france had been wearing her habit cold more than 70 if she didn't plan on changing that one 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 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 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 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. was from the carbs to workers to burqini the muslim swimwear for women france has been through countless scandals around islamic clothing christianity has been steering clear of this controversy until now . charles had been mayor president of middle east aid a group as a west christians of the east says france's immigration problem has raised tension over such issues. our country is beginning to forget isn't a christian country are on the outs with i would cut he says i'm friends with not exist at all or to serve on his results in the political debates some are using. in order to buy new religious or agents from public debate forms of critics for and

it's not a good way to deal resolve problems here in france the trouble with. a for newsday newcomers is that that turn to have some difficulties to adapt to the french curvature and you know we can understand them because prisons them the french culture is something that does not accept religion's a total it's not a good mode to assimilate themselves to the french culture and their way to assimilate it is understand and see if everybody understands that the christian heritage made this country now the trouble was 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. odd liners secularists viewpoints. living next door to germany now the german chancellor's crisis stricken christian democrats are holding their annual conference this weekend in the city of leap

league beset by infighting over the party's political direction following a series of recent election setbacks the c.d.u. will be looking for ways of winning back popular support some members believe that can be achieved by moving further to the right limiting immigration and banning the islamic headscarf for school pupils. this must the wearing of the headscarf makes small children already recognizable as outsiders such as in a pretty grounded or in the schoolyard which we want to prevent in any case we do not exclude a band as a last possible measure c.d.u. leader says that young girls risk being marginalized if they wear religious clothing and that claim is supported by some women's rights organizations which argue that unveiling girls as a form of gender specific discrimination but muslim parents and religious organizations are not happy about the proposal. these discussions lead to

a climate of fear and uncertainty muslims are experiencing every day discrimination and the number of his family phobic offenses is steadily rising a necessary discussions fuel then time muslim racism in germany and our wind in the seals of the right wing extremists an absurd debate which seems to be held for the 1000th time would lead to the denmark ation and exclusion of muslims and not sure that we have to put this debate inside this quarter so close to the kids. i think it's a good idea to ban the headscarf however we already had a ban on face masks and no one of a did everyone should wear what they want and they stand shouldn't interfere and i believe that the kids 3 have to be. at least 1518 years that they couldn't decide to themselves what they would like to wear. since september the c.d.u. party has lost support in 3 states in the east of germany with both of the anti migrant d.m. the center left s.p.d.

making significant gains political analyst rainer office told us that the christian democratic party is facing a crisis of identity and will attempt to reconnect with its conservative base. i think that this is a reaction which follows very bad election results in different eastern german states that party has a real problem it's going to lose its status as the people's party for the conservatives are of the population and as soon as turnitin for germany has started taking over this rule the hand of merkel c.d.u. is close so i guess it's. a sign of panic the c.d.u. may try and this is my observation tries to please the conservatives what

would yours maging them believe they now finally asked that you're a suspect acting their opinions and interests have returned to taking more serious the concerns of. more conservative. parts of the population. concerning the open border policy merkel government. ukrainian authorities say they have detained a 2nd high ranking islamic state leader in just 7 days breaking down the case and the security implications here's artie's saskia tale. ukraine has revealed that it's arrested a russian citizen who was on into calls wanted list and this happened on thursday into telnet 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 would defend for his arrest the man was wanted by interpol for murder according to the information we have the detained

person was a member of the terrorist organization islamic state in fact one of its leaders he lived on the territory of ukraine to escape responsibility for the murder all the information that we are getting. it's coming from police authorities in the region where he was apprehended now they say that he's called. we do not have his full name yet and he is a 30 year old male from darkest dawn 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. now he was

a top. he'd fought alongside. in syria before escaping to ukraine. last year and he actually continued to coordinate terror attacks from his house not far from 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 deputy minister of war had managed to go unnoticed or at least untouched for such a significant period of time really right under the noses some talks not just about inability to cope with this kind of high level terrace but actually it's willingness to do so critics have drawn attention for example to how. inefficiencies within the ukrainian government which facilitate these kinds of

dangerous individuals to slip through the net they drew the attention for example of 2 holes in the legal system and law enforcement to a very large fake passport trade as one of course unfortunate to corruption which is an endemic problem in. the country and which of course allows for systematic abuses of power i 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 european nations so clearly a warring and significant issue but this latest arrest hopefully a step in the right direction towards tackling the border problem. the former head of the u.k.'s counter-terrorism security office chris phillips says has never

stopped planning attacks on the west despite their defeat in syria. i don't again 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 so this is a worldwide problem obviously he's managed a movie they managed to claim they were 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 set you know. 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 go to war in

a war that they're going to bring to us i think in the in the coming years ahead. right the u.k. has defied a u.n. deadline to give back an overseas territory to militias the prime minister of the indian ocean island says london's failure to hand over the islands makes britain an illegal colonial occupier by an overwhelming majority the un general assembly voted in may to give the u.k. 6 months to return the islands but britain insists the vote is non-binding despite it being backed by a un high court ruling. the. which the international court of justice found we've no dissenting voice to be an integral part of the territory of malicious the united kingdom is not in doubt about how suffer inchy over the british indian ocean territory country to watch is being said today it has

never been part of the republic of militias russia says britain forced it to give up the islands in exchange for independence and 968 but the u.k. insists mercians agreed to the move in exchange for benefits and will see the archipelago when it is no longer needed for defense the u.s. maintains a military base there now. meters goes in 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 homeland search we

want these countries these islands to belong to us we are 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 of your concern right now we want to remain a british overseas territory we need to put pressure on them. you can't govern man just deal what he will do for us we have been fighting back in fact for a long time 50 years have passed what do you condone that men need to talk with nothing we need to find we need to see if we need to bring them to the marshes government he's backing all this together and you case back in force just

for the same cause we can't just turn we want our rights because our right has been nice we want our country back we don't know we who we've called it will be but we would like our country. wherever there's a from the back of headlines in about 31 minutes this is our team international. 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 are the elites so

much a. tirade indeed let's move. on. to discredit i. could want to think about you think about it. can they tend to want to look at him i thought. you didn't have them do eat too much haha good to be a good tone. often to get the isn't going to fail when i'm in the good children telling the thought they'd soon tire going next time you don't come.