you. know. thank. god. supporters of the ousted bolivian president clashed with police for a 2nd week against his resignation the senate approves a new election but excludes even the list from sunday. swedish prosecutors dropped their almost decade long rape investigation against julian assange fighting insufficient evidence it's believed the decision clears the way to speed up the wiki leaks founder of the extradition united states from the u.k. where he's currently imprisoned. also in the stories that shapes the week washington pulls the plug on a key element of the iran's nuclear deal by holding the stanchions waiver on an atomic facility as the secretary of state rounds home his support from ongoing mass protests.

a warm welcome in watching the weekly here on r.t. international bringing you all the latest world news and a roundup of the stories that shape the week but 1st amid weeks of deadly violence and lawmakers have moved to hold a fresh presidential election but have barred ousted beaver morales from standing his supporters have caused widespread disruption with protests in the capital and other major cities and recently took 8 soldiers hostage to. was i. thank you authorities latest that the 7 afghan men were released but there's still no information on the remaining officer even morale as was forced to resign also a wave of protests following october's election amid allegations of fraud but it's his loyalists supporters largely among indigenous groups who are behind the current

unrest during which more than 30 people have died and self-proclaimed interim president janine arnaz has herself spock's controlled by giving police dealing with protesters immunity from prosecution if the rollers who is currently in mexico after being granted asylum spoke exclusively to r.t. 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 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 center of the highest bear 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 r.c. american news anchor nick rick sanchez discussed the situation in bolivia with pulitzer prize winning journalist chris hedges who says 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 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 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. tuesday 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 after songe was forcibly dragged out of the ecuadorian embassy in london in april that came about after the country terminated his 7 year asylum there a song is currently being held in belmarsh prison in the british capital where he's serving a 50 week sentence for breaching his bow conditions in 2012 separately the australian is fighting a us the extradition request over wiki leaks is publishing of classified information on american political and military dealings with 40 next is the ali for 9 years

judy the science is free from uncertain future in the u.k. it all started with sex crime charges in sweden but could have seen the wiki leaks co-founder being extradited back to the scandinavian countries 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 silent 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 therefore i have come to the conclusion that additional interviews with julian assange would not argue or d. evidence sherry basis in a decisive manner as such i have decided not to hold an interview with him up until now sweden could have still off to assign to the extradition now that votes 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 28th from where he was famously dragged out of april this year and he's currently in prison now swedish charges have been dropped all the time sometimes his extradition trial scheduled for february next year but some are concerned about whether he'll get a fair hearing i think that is absolutely fair to say that politics now is coming to. an extradition proceeding it was not designed to be a political or say that politics absolutely positively should not come into play this should be treated as any other. perceiving where the

u.s. 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. the pursuit of julian the silence 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 see wrongdoing of any kind and that government is essential 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 that of the trumpet ministration as absolutely no credibility and no principles whatsoever when it comes to these things. whistleblowers should be protected whistleblowers should be lauded their heroes whistleblowers do the sort of thing now 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. we can export and british rock musician roger waters told r.t. the whole extradition case has nothing to do with legal process. belmarsh for 23 ounce out of every 24 being slowly murdered by the state because he

told uncomfortable truths about war crimes committed by the united states of america. its exposure will leave 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. of the week's big stories ahead think hitting the u.s. canceling a key element of the doing dealing evonne nuclear deal at the country wrestles with fuel price protests bug bio ready punishing sanctions life among you with international.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race is often very dramatic development only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. you know world of big part of the lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media 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

troops the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. welcome back now polls in hong kong of close this sunday where there's been a record turnout in local elections the 1st since the mass anti beijing protests began in june springsteen there's a litmus test for home kind of chief executive carrying around the house he's handled months of violence on breath counting is underway with the results expected to be officially announced early on monday early we spoke to benjamin shower from the shanghai international banking and finance institution is there is the vote has provided much needed breathing space from the person. that they used and most.

quietly more so on one hand the security measures or the police to. wreak words on the other hand both sides can actually call for you cease fire to these encouraging that law and order back to the city at least for what today people have dot com clearly lost their mind. that the actions and reactions of the rioters are highly coordinated contrary to the cream having no mastermind behind you or people breaching lost most of the seats of this election is not directly impact much the majority of the council for a long weekend nor that election for me for the next chief executive so i expect why you could still go on respect of the you actually results expression of ultimate intention of the right is really not just about the welfare of hong kong but wanted to get global political competition between powerful nations. u.s.

secretary of state mike pompei announced on monday that washington will end sign sions waivers on iran's for don't nuclear facility a key components of the landmark atomic deal comes off the to run said it had resumed the process of uranium enrichment at the plant pompei also reiterated his support for the ongoing protests in iran which the country has slammed has as hypocritical. people enjoy a better future when their government begins to respect. basic human rights abandons its revolutionary. posture and its destabilizing foreign policy in the region and behave simply like. it is strange that the united states and its officials who have committed the greatest of crimes by imposing much pressure on the toughest 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. on respire account after a surprise 50 percent hike in fuel prices earlier this month the iranian government said the revenue would be used to help the less well off but boiled over and at least a dozen cities with buildings vandalized down pictures of iran's supreme leader burned he described the rioting as sabotage and branded the protests as hooligans his aussie scale of. the trump administration seems jubilant about the recent protests in iran as i said to 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 50 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. pullout 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 this 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 yes call nations to support iran's people as they struggled 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 democracy i mean the united states was the country together with britain instigated the 1000 who were against democratic the effect that mohamed right now it's no different i mean the united states has imposed very severe sanctions on iran which is worth

a lot of ordinary so coming out and saying that they support these people is hypocritical. yet another week of the trump impeachment saga in the us started with an embarrassing incident during a t.v. interview with a democratic lawmaker which instantly went viral and in its own bizarre way it highlighted the divisions in american politics his thoughts. 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 him choose an election that can't be right guys i think we've got the wrong sound bite in the. what really. ok no apparently that is right. fought 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 2 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 needing 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 didn't did not hear it even politicians have jumped on to the bandwagon keen to show off the shop

wit cutely and i'd love. if human. cruz made a rookie ara 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. him 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 swore well 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 view was smelt a rat pluto was demoted as a planet which 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 in the u.k. faces and not the string of pranks it 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 are you know you can talk about this seriously on. things just not international we're back at the top of the hour with the latest.

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