is some of the big stories that shape the news week just supporters of the ousted bolivian president clashed with police for a 2nd week against his resignation the senate approves a new election but exclude same. prosecutors dropped their almost 10 year rape investigation against. sufficient evidence it's believed the decision clears the way to speed up the wiki leaks founder is extradition to the united states. the u.s. pulls the plug on a key element of the iran nuclear deal by halting the sanctions on an atomic facility as the secretary of state support for ongoing mass protests.

in moscow welcome to the weekly some of the biggest stories of the last 7 days as reported by us to you my name is kevin i would hope you stick around for maybe the next 30 minutes or so 1st amid weeks of deadly violence in bolivia in the week lawmakers move to hold a fresh presidential election there but they. from standing his supporters have caused widespread disruption menwith protests in the capital and other major cities and the recently took 8 soldiers hostage to. with i. update on those soldiers who fought his latest said 7 of the men released but there's still no information on the remaining officer as for even morales he was forced to resign after that wave

of protests since october selection amid allegations of fraud but it's loyalist supporters largely among indigenous groups who are behind the current unrest during which more than 30 people have died and then self-proclaimed interim president jimmy mess has his self sparked controversy by giving police dealing with protesters immunity from prosecution even royalists is currently in mexico after being granted asylum and in the week he spoke exclusively to this channel about what's 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 that 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 center of 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 even raul is talking exclusively to our tape there also in the way to get more perspective r.t. american news anchor rick sanchez discussed the situation in bolivia with pulitzer prize winning journalist chris hedges who told us 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 b. 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 and spanish in bolivia this is just

a pattern and now they found lithium believe well i did apparently and that is a huge it is the moral 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 of the right i do this in was we want to control the lithium and the multinational corporations they they set the machine in motion. on choose to swedish prosecutors dropped the 2010 rape investigation against wiki leaks founder julian assange citing a lack of evidence the case was shelved 2 years ago but was reopened again after his son was forcibly dragged out of the ecuadorian embassy in london in april to the country terminated the 7 year asylum there so sunday is currently being held in belmarsh prison in london where he says serving a 15 week sentence for breaching his bail conditions in 2012 separately is songes fighting a u.s. extradition request over wiki leaks publishing classified information on u.s.

political and military dealings reporting next wrapping all that up. what i mean is judy the songes face that uncertain future in the u.k. it all started with a sex crime charges in sweden that could have seen the wiki leaks co-found the being extradited back to the scandinavian country he himself said he would then be handed over to the u.s. for releasing classified information but sweden has now dropped the rape case against the songe after dinner issue investigation and investigative steps taken over the summer in the autumn is now clear that the oral statement testimony and support given by the injured party has weakened their source i have come to the conclusion that additional interviews with julian assange would not alter the average in cherry basis in a decisive manner as such i have decided not to hold an interview with him up until now sweden could have still lost the extradition now the no longer

a threat that ironically means other than the impending hearing there's nothing standing in the way of mr saunders extradition to the us. that is now focused on the threat mr science has been warning about for years the belligerent prosecution of the united states and the threat it poses to the 1st amendment the swedish sex crime allegations led to the ecuadorian embassy in august plenty of. face with the drugged out of april this year and he's currently in prison now swedish charges have been dropped all attention time says extradition trial scheduled for february next year but some are concerned about whether he'll get a fair hearing i think it's absolutely fair to say that politics does come into play. in extradition proceeding it was not designed to be a political or say that politics absolutely positively should not come into play

but should be treated as any other. perceiving where the us are seeking to have someone extradited from u.k. to us or u.k. seeking to have one extradited from the u.s. back to you. but i think it's cruel ish for one to assume that politics will not come into play in this particular matter and if he is eventually sent to the u.s. he may not ever that leave with a potential of 175 year sentence if he's found guilty of the 18 counts the u.s. has charged him with.

but i think. i. the pursuit of julian the science is that the fear is about how whistleblowers are treated by washington although not every whistleblower is treated the same not if they're protected by the cia whistleblowers should be protected protecting

whistleblowers who is she wrong dealing of any kind and that government is the shanshu is basically on the verge of not only revealing the identity or getting somebody else to reveal the identity of the whistleblower but also bringing harm to that person everything's politically motivated at the trumpet ministration as absolutely no credibility and no principles whatsoever when it comes to these things. whistleblowers should be protected were so blowers should be lauded their heroes. whistleblowers do the sort of thing not for personal gain not for their ego they do it for the public good and it's proof to me that donald trump doesn't care about the public good he cares about self and no one else more thought so wiki leaks supporter and british rock musician roger waters believes the whole extradition cases got nothing to do with the legal process. somebody banged up in

belmarsh for 23 hours out of every $24.00 being slowly murdered by the state cause he told uncomfortable truths about war crimes committed by the united states of america. exposure will be purely political this is a political prisoner he's been hung out to dry as a warning to others others who might decide that they might be journalists that they might fulfill that function as journalists by informing the public and the electorate of what goes on secretly in their name so this business objects tradition has nothing to do with the legal process. always big stories ahead including the u.s. counseling a key element of the dwindling iran nuclear deal as the country wrestles with fuel price protests spurred by old ready publishing sanctions live from moscow with our

team international. join me every thursday on the alex simon sure and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. i do object now and i will continue objecting to people. who never one agrees those in power and their position but he must not become a nato member under any circumstances our reason is clear nater the public has nothing but it bombed us using depleted uranium munitions. and that still is

killing our children today. and if we decided to become a nato member. we would give it a moral right to believe that he did the right thing this way we would betray the memory of those who died as a result of the bombing operation called the angel of mercy can you imagine that. by their you watching the weekly or not international next the u.s. secretary of state might pay 0 announced on monday that washington will end sanctions waivers on iran's folder nuclear facility a key component of the last market tomic deal itself to turan said it had resumed uranium enrichment at the plant also reiterated his support for the ongoing protests in iran which the country slanderous hypocritical the. syrian people enjoy

a better future when their government begins to respect. basic human rights a bit it's revolutionary. and it's destabilizing foreign policy in the region to be simply like. if you strange the united states and its officials who have committed the greatest of crimes by imposing much pressure and the tougher sanctions on iran are communicating to the iranian people that they support these protests we don't expect anything else from mr disgracefully defense the maximum pressure regime and imposition of sanctions on iran. after a surprise 50 percent hike in fuel prices earlier this month the reading government said the revenue would be used to help the less well off but they cause the anger to boil over in at least a dozen cities with buildings around the laws and pictures of iran's supreme leader he described the rioting as sabotage the protest. reports.

the trumpet ministration seems jubilant about the recent protests in iran said the people of iran almost a year and a half ago the united states is with you now the protests are being driven by the economic situation g.d.p. growth projections are down by 9.5 percent inflation is it 40 percent and unemployment is at 16 percent and rising but it was a 15 percent increase in the price of fuel that sparked the recent turmoil. now an economic squeeze like that is bound to get people upset but why is iran in such poor shape well donald trump has a lot to do with it in 2015 the international community agreed to lift a decades old sanctions in response to an agreement that was reached about iran's

peaceful nuclear energy program but then along came donald trump. he decided to pull out of the nuclear agreement he says that iran broke the spirit of the deal however international observers say that iran fully complied as of today i can state that iran is implementing its. commitments after pulling out of the deal the trojan ministration began imposing sanctions on iran intended to wreck their economy accusing iran of quote destabilizing activities around the region the usa even threatened to impose sanctions on other countries that dared to buy iranian oil anyone doing business with iran will not be doing business with the united states i'm asking for world peace nothing less. weare ready to impose sanctions on any activity subject to restrictions after the iran nuclear deal in 2015 iran was exporting roughly $2500000.00 barrels of oil per day now that number

is down to roughly 200000 in a country where the economy is centered around state run oil exports that's a pretty big financial loss and it has been detrimental cuts in fuel subsidies and other benefits for the population had to be made so i don't know top iranian officials have sat down and made a decision for the country based on expert assessments his decision must be executed. but according to donald trump working to economically ruin iran makes him the best friend of the iranian people nothing says i love you like bleeding someone dry as cool nations to support iran's people as they struggle to reclaim. their religious and rights is just today i want to deliver a message to the long suffering people of iran. the people of america stand with you will be arrayed in people return to the nations proud roots as

a center of civilization culture and wealth where their people can be happy and prosperous once again the united states throughout the reigning in history has always been against which the i mean the united states was the country together with britain instigated that $1000.00 we were against democratically elected mohamed mossad there right now it's no different i mean the united states has imposed a very severe sanctions on iran which is worth a lot of ordinary people so coming out and say that they support these people is hypocritical but 20 posts right now this sunday this been a record turnout in hong kong was 1st local elections since the protests began in. it's being seen as a barometer of popular opinion after 5 months of violent unrest and growing calls for universal suffrage for the 1st time the government's position police at all

polling stations. protests in several cities across israel saturday with thousands calling on the prime minister to resign but even that you know has been charged with bribery corruption and breach of trust in the 1st criminal cases reported against a sitting israeli premier in jerusalem there was a rally in support of the embattled leader who claims he's the victim of which aren't an attempted coup elsewhere this too. i feel troubling columbia witnessing a 3rd consecutive day of demonstrations saturday over alleged government corruption and the possible introduction of austerity measures more than a quarter of a 1000000 people have joined the protests since the day of the proposed changes to the minimum wage pensions and taxes rallies have seen sporadic clashes with police have led to 3 deaths. ok let's light is

a bit and. finally is the single best news programs in some of the news the last 7 days a little bit offbeat to round off with yet another week a trump impeachment saga in the us nothing new there but it did start with an embarrassing incident during a t.v. interview with a democratic lawmaker which that instantly went viral as these things do and it's in its own bizarre way it's highlighted to the divisions in american politics is saskia taylor. more so than at the washington is thick with intrigue contriver see the public hearings in the latest trump impeachment saga into their 2nd week and everyone wants to know has he done it will this be the straw that finally breaks the camel's back the president used taxpayer dollars to ask the ukrainians to help with an election that can't be right guys i think we've got the wrong sound bite in. what really

ok no apparent need that is right. what gate is on everyone's lips democratic representative eric was weighing in on the ongoing impeachment hearings when he dropped dropped an explosive bomb on m s n b c you'd think though that while one world human stuff happens move on and to the president of the united states of america could possibly be impeached potentially just the thought in the country's history but no the scandal over that quick moment is refusing really. to blow over and mainstream media is leading the charge trying to get to the bottom of it i'm really sorry about the but i have to ask if this was you or someone in the studio it was not me and i didn't hear it when i was speaking you look like you heard it and. i guess i did

not hear it even politicians have jumped on to the bandwagon even to show off the shop where it. could really mean i'd love. if you me. cruz made a rookie error and forgot that he too had been involved in the story that also rippled far and wide to show you senator and thank you for keeping it clean you know without tracing out more so let's see what all the conspiracy theories on the table are the program on which i happened hardball tried to cover up its tracks and said it was just the presenter scraping his mug across the table to which swalwell took a leaf out of trump's book and breathed a sigh of relief but let's test that one out neal over to you.

not sure so maybe another one the cameraman was to blame they were ways think they're safe just because they're in the shot but guys is that even possible you know. neither of the theories held up to scrutiny though viewers smelt a rat pluto was demoted as a planet but eric swallow is now secure among the gas giants. is not a candidate that you can stand behind the cover of is own worries worse than a crime so while iran faces protests bolivia it faces a coup trump faces possible impeachment and the u.k. faces and not the string of practice that delays the media follows it's very funny excellent nose for stories let's see when this one runs out of gas ok thought this is ridiculous i mean i don't know who can talk about this serious. reporting

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