she was one of time don't come fall out of the waffle quitting your. it's. been. her. bolivia's top private t.v. operator says it's been aborted takeoff for spanish. and the country's former vice president tells us it's not just the media facing the crackdown. the only thing they have achieved is to create terror in the country 2 people have been killed and there was no investigation trade union leaders are hounded either we next on live in. iraq in the french capital to raise awareness of violence against women is that . by themselves one moment clashes with another we talked to one of the women who

took part. i was in the rage we went to this demonstration because we wanted to defend women's rights the violence against women the protest raises questions and demonstration with the slogan all of us turns out not to be for all of us are doing . and the president of the russian olympic committee insists his country will keep preparing for the 2020 games in tokyo despite the new impossible ban by an anti doping body. you're watching international with me starts to ground the next 25 minutes or so as we travel around the wild covering the big stories today starting with how the spanish will be taken off at the start of next month thoughts according to the

country's top private operator it comes amid a violent political crisis in the country during which an on the elected government assumed power it's headed by right wing senator and she is accused of suppressing the media as well as the supporters of ousted president evo morales the russian foreign ministry has already expressed its concern. i don't think it's a coincidence that r.t. has been taken off air in bolivia it's a consequence of the political course there was declared in the country no reason was given for the decision with no real facts presented we were notified prior to the decision. while no specific reasons were provided and the bolivian t.v. operator cotto us which pretty much excluded our team from their list of channels starting from december the 2nd they explained it through some kind of order from what they called the company's administration this is

a decision taken by the company's administration which talks to us with shutting down the channels broadcast is a private t.v. provider and the leader and believe he is cable t.v. market we do have to remember that a similar move has been made by ecuador's public t.v. operator almost 2 weeks ago they cut of r t spanish as well and moscow demanded explanation for that and still hasn't got it from quito now what's very important here is that the interim leader janine yes was never elected in any kind of vote she basically proclaimed herself the interim president of the country when had to step down when the vice president presided and when the head of senate resigned now she says that at the moment her goal is to make sure that new elections are held in the country. that this is the law we

believe in swan and we have arrived at this day with the satisfaction of fulfilling the duty because this is the main objective of my government new elections will happen in the shortest time possible but it seems that so far her focus was absolutely different 1st of all she was accused of turning a blind eye on a violent crackdown on the indigenous protesters who are mostly in support of the former leader. but also it seems that all 'd she's been up to is trying to make as many u. turns as possible in the country's foreign policy she appointed a new ambassador to the u.s. for the 1st time in more than a decade and also severed diplomatic ties with bolivia's traditional allies especially under. that is with cuba and venezuela other diplomatic personnel representing migiro divinest while an embassy in bolivia will be allowed to leave the country for having interfered in internal state affairs i do have to say though

that eventually interim president on is pushed through a legislature in which allowed a new general election in bolivia although this is something that's going to be boycotted by almost a half of the population the supporters of this say that they are not going to take part in this vote so what kind of general is that gonna be with almost 50 percent of bolivians deciding not to take part. in a step down. of violence triggered by claims that his election victory was rigged he fled to mexico with many of his party members the 4 men described as a coup. who resigned as vice president just minutes off to step down talk to us about the people now in charge and that crackdown on the media . you know what i mean is that the so-called communications

minister warned journalists to be careful because she's going to take down the names of those who step out of line how can you say that to journalists what kind of constitutional freedom can we talk about if they are preventing journalists from doing their jobs from sharing information and telling the truth the country no longer has free speech or a free press. but there was also this insidious craze this after 11 years of the us distancing itself from bolivia the 1st thing that the coup leaders did was to bend the knee and to make overtures to the american government we need to have relations with every part of the world but we also have to build relations based on mutual respect equality and nonintervention in our internal affairs i hope the bolivia successful economic policies will not be revamped at the whim of a foreign power that would without a doubt cause an economic disaster. the only thing they have achieved is to create terror in the country 32 people have been killed and there

was no investigation no one has been held to account or jailed leaders are hounded there either in exile in hiding mass media are gagged or threatened with accusations of subversive activity or sedition it's difficult to engage in peaceful resistance against this regime it's hard to say how long this reign of terror will last and how long people will tolerate it depends on how events unfold over the next few weeks i mean. another one of our headline story is a rally to raise awareness of violence against women a passing saturday has itself been mobbed by classes. ah ah. ah ah ah ah ah ah ah. ah c ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah. ah ah several women from a feminist group called nemesis collective joined the march they were holding pat card saying that 52 percent of rapists are immigrants. that figure was taken from

the 25th. the movement criticizes a lot of migration policies in france saying that women suffer as a result some of the other demonstrators didn't like their presence though and started booing and tearing up their placards. now a video from the march went viral and led to a wave of online threats against the numbers of activists they were branded fascists and racists the group later released a statement saying other families want to silence them now we talked to one of the nemesis activists who asked us to distort her voice to hide her identity. we arrived at the demonstration with our plan cards and started to protest and within minutes other demonstrators saw a mass of sham placards it is clear it is quickly we wanted to cross in a calm way now we are free we know that our masses she's truthful but there are people who are aggressive to us the violence against women the protest raises

questions and demonstration with the slogan all of us turns out not to be for all of us at all since we have been treated like fascists i'm asking what is the basis for this do this women nor the definition of fascism i am angry about this attack being treated in that way we are feminist movement we denounce any kind of violence people speak about freedom of expression but do they mean and we have questions to women who pretend to be feminists who say that they represent other women. another nemesis activist that we spoke to told us that rapists of migrant origin are not prosecuted enough she also asked to remain anonymous. i was in the range we went to this demonstration because we wanted to defend women's rights we think not enough we said on the subject of migration and when they attacked us like we were fascists it just shows that the attack themselves it is a real problem that in france a woman cannot go out on the street where she wants because of migrants when i am

on the street i'm often harassed by men and their nationalities obvious rapists of migrant origin is not prosecuted enough we need to tell the world that everyone should be punished regardless of their skin color there are several types of threats that we get on social media were accused of fascism and racism these people from the far left do not want to accept the reality they want to prevent us from speaking out. now for some festive spirit the us president donald trump has pardoned tear tot he is saving them from being stabbed up thanksgiving the lots of birds a cold bread and butter in the partons all part of the thought the old white house tradition trump also used dictation to crack some jokes about impeachment bought while the president might be enjoying himself the us media has cost me a night on the whole thanksgiving holiday party is done of course and explains.

what i say thanksgiving what's the 1st thing that comes to mind turkey i warm hugs with seldom seen relatives well you can forget all that this year thanksgiving is cancelled or at least the media says there's too many pilgrims killing natives involved too many children appropriating indigenous culture a big carbon footprint is left behind and of course peter thinks it's on ethical thanksgiving can be the scariest time of the year if your turkey more than 40 $5000000.00 of these fascinating birds are killed to disgrace thanksgiving tables each year. turkeys you don't want to mess with them not after the toms river turkey rebellion flock of wild turkeys are terrorizing a new jersey community photo show how the 20 plus pound birds can be dangerous blocking traffic on yorktown boulevard some residents feel threatened as they walk out their door turkey might be the centerpiece of the traditional thanksgiving dinner table but p. cand pie is almost just as important too bad this year they're coming from china

even a loving embrace could now be off limits next time think twice before hugging your daughter reminder she doesn't owe anyone a hug not even at the holidays they could without you even realizing it also be a time when you daughter gets their own idea of balance concerned and physical affection and the beef gravy on top family chats going around the table and naming what we're thankful for is a great springboard into small talk but with our political climate nowadays it's no doubt a slippery slope into dinner table debates good thing we've got a former state department official to tell us what to do like every family we have people of all political stripes and somehow my loving family members find a way to keep a lid on it at family gatherings that has probably been the saving grace i will be tapping into the common power of a cocktail i would advice others to do the same thanksgiving is having a tough time finding its place in our new wolk world who knows if we'll even have

anything left to celebrate i've never thought about turkeys but they're raised for this purpose they're bred for that purpose my family is a little bit divided religiously but we usually put our differences aside despite the differences that people may have you know they come together and they say what they're thankful for you know with the other aspect of it on you know the native americans. take that down as history however in the present day modern time should be no. you know follow along the traditions of thanksgiving i can understand for some people maybe they don't feel the need to celebrate it but i am not everyone so people can do it makes them comfortable. and a big sporting story the russian olympic committee says there are no objective obstacles to the national team taking part in next games it adds that every means

a full participant in the olympic movement the statement comes as the sporting world awaits the wild anti doping agency's decision on the fate of russian athletes the agency's compliance review committee recommended that russia banned from hosting international tournaments for 4 years. but we have seen here today at the russian olympic committee is basically a display of defiance in the face of a looming possibility that not only russia could be banned from next summer's olympic games in tokyo but also a ban from hosting and participating in all major sports event across the planet for the next 4 years now the chairman of the russian olympic committee. said that despite all the ramblings happening in the media and the world of sports these days the russian olympic team will still be continuing their preparation for next summer's olympic games in tokyo let's listen i mean peacekeeping. the olympic committee of russia will continue to operate as normal for the olympic games in tokyo the olympic committee of russia is not the target of any proves or

allegations from any of the global sports organizations hence the olympic committee of russia as a full member of the olympic committee of the olympic movement who prepared the team for the games in line with the olympic charter. now responding to a flurry of questions which followed that statement was nicole also said that. russia will contest any kind of decision by the executive board of the world anti-doping agency should rule against russia on december the 9th in paris he said that russia will go to the court of arbitration force. should this decision be unfavorable but in any case he said that the matter which has been discussed by a lot of pundits should russia be banned from the olympics next summer should it compete on a neutral flag was nicholas completely ruled out that possibility. and you thought enough a neutral flag is out of the question please look it up in the olympic chance and then you can find everything related to the flags and anthems of national and pick

committees now all this follows a very turbulent week when it comes to the future of russian sports ever since the compliance of you committee of the world anti-doping agency voiced its allegations against russia that it could be banned from next summer's olympic games in tokyo and a major sporting events for the next 4 years because of allegations of tampering with . samples in the moscow a lib oratory the executive committee itself said that russia could put to separate the next summer olympics games as neutrals or any other flag at the same time some anti-doping agencies in the world particularly the u.s. anti-doping agency is calling for a blanket ban on the russian olympic team next summer water must get tougher and impose the full restriction on russian athlete participation in the olympics that the rules allow the failure to stand up to russia's 5 year flaunting of the rules would cause even more harm to athletes in and outside of russia the time for the

toughest penalty available is now clear there's a lot of pressure mounting right now the decision has not yet been made by water but there we can already already see some shock waves but secondly when it comes to the world athletes of the europe athlete of the year. who has now been officially banned from participating in next summer's atlantic championship in glasgow that is something that the british athletics association confirms to see of course we are waiting for december the 9th when that decision will be made in paris and we will definitely be on top of that story. china summons the u.s. envoy to trump signs bills backing hong kong protest has more on that story after this very short break. join me every day on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then.

welcome back nato secretary general has met with. paris and it's a palace in paris rather that's off to the french president cools a star in the alliance by calling it brain dead still to trust that he claimed one mentos achievements now covering the full story for us is. for us to go break it down what else have we heard from this meeting. well saskia should say as expected this meeting came to a bit of an awkward to me due to the very reason that you have just listed because mccrone has been the most vocal well dissident of the block but they try to keep a straight face with a much less than

a perfect game i should say for instance stoltenberg has addressed that in his opinion blade so is the most successful military block in history here is the arguments he gave for it. but he is. strong along with more than we are adopting and we are active so we are responding to a changing world and the reason why i need to use the most successful launch is that we have been able to change in the world is changing and that's exactly what we have done over the last 2 years that's exactly what we are doing. well he also talked about how nato while it does have its differences between the allies they do see eye to eye on the fundamental things but that's where the french president might have a problem because for instance where the french president thinks that the that the blockade. is failing to adapt when it comes to its relationship with russia because

it's a money el mccrone who's been saying that it is important he said at that very media conference that it is important to keep a straight and to keep a fair dialogue with russia which right now nato doesn't look like nato wants to do that and this adds up to all the divisions between france and nato for instance just to remind here's a statement by emmanuel mccrone that caused outrage within the alliance a few weeks ago. we are currently experiencing is the brain death of nato nato and you would see if the guarantor of last resort functions and so. now this did not sit well with the blog at all a lot of nations criticized france criticized the french leader for saying stuff like this young stoltenberg has repeatedly retreated and he's done that today as well that europe cannot defend itself without nato that nato is crucial for you to european stability and angela merkel she just recently stressed that nato is as

important if not more important than it used to be during the times of the cold war she had previously criticized mccrone for saying that nato is braindead as well. as say it's in our interests to preserve need to know more than during the cold war or at least as much as during the cold war. well there's plenty of other ideas that emanuel mccrone has which nato might have a problem with for instance today and stoltenberg has stressed that the european army the e.u. army that france is a big advocate of it's the same core it is just a different side of the same queen as nato sold meaning that the you army's one side and nato is the other one but you know mccrone had previously hinted that the european army could play a much bigger role in defending europe and so on well i did talk to some of the french citizens. and my colleagues in berlin did the same and to find out whether or not they also see nato as

a crucial part of the european stability and in fact whether or not they can name at least a few achievements of nato here is how it here's how it turned out. was afraid of. the treatment less fun are found it is unknown and then to the desire moment to certain countries to be honest. we don't really know whether they do no good you know i don't know what all achievements. i think it was necessary after the ball but nowadays. it's not important anymore i think basically. no war the last. 60 years 70 years i don't know to be honest i don't know since the eastern part of the us will seoul is down i don't know she needed the nato was historically

beneficial for us but of course we have a completely different situation now. well with all this said it doesn't look that france and nato have managed to resolve their differences or in fact that they got any closer to doing so today and so next week of course nato is going to be celebrating its 70th birthday and we'll see if that party is going to be mobbed that that big family does not see eye to eye at all. that's our tease stan of bring us up to speed on that latest story from paris thank you very much. meanwhile china has summoned the u.s. ambassador off to donald trump signed to controversial bills in support of the hong kong protesters beijing says that this amounts to interference and has threatened the u.s. consequences. maybe. the u.s.

has been disregarding the fact distorting the truth about it openly backed violent criminals who rampant to smash the cities starting fires which assaulted innocent civilians trample on the rule of law and jeopardized the social order its any miss to undermine hong kong stability and prosperity sabotage of the practice of one country 2 systems and destruction the chinese nations endeavor to realize the great and you'll remind the us that hong kong is part of china and hong kong affairs the chinese internal affairs where no foreign government will interfere in this act will only further expose the malicious and hedge monic nature of us intentions we urge the us not to continue going down paths with china which it countermeasures and the us must bear all consequences the hong kong human rights and democracy act opens up sanctions for human rights violations and makes it easier for arrested protesters to obtain u.s. visas it also requires an annual review of the weeds and special trade status and

hong kong will qualify only if it has enough autonomy from beijing this could potentially poses a threat to the city's position as a global financial center if hong kong special status is revoked it would be subject to the same sanctions imposed by the us on mainland china the same goes for trade tariffs and banking restrictions limits could also be placed on sensitive technology sold to hong kong hong kong's economy is already suffering as a result of the violent protests that have been raging for 6 months companies and investors are setting their sights on more stable places such as singapore tourists are also apparently staying away we discuss the situation with antiwar activists are flounders on professor of political science at hong kong city of us to joseph chang. this probably has a strong moment impaired the chinese authorities are concerned. with the donald trump administration's use of human rights issues to exert pressure

on china starting. now in hong kong and so on it's time is leadership is also concerned with the strong public opinion support for human rights issues in china including the crisis in hong kong. believe in the coming presidential here actually can be the donald from illicitly will come on come on pleasing great feeling in the united states and this luis is trying to steer them in what is c aim of the sanctions it really is an effort to totally sabotage hong kong demonstrators they're not demanding democracy imagine they're demanding sanctions on their own city sanctions everywhere in the world this economic warfare and it's strangulation why on earth

would anyone in hong kong make a demand that sanctions be passed on hong kong there is an inch and they may not be aware these are young people without a future. and that's because of what has been imposed on them from the west that's the round up for this album and that's with the very latest of course for now they're stick around for boom bust. much of the powerful and strong the stone and then you have the records and what we have done is to try and identify something coming in the brain where the explosion

of the ripples corresponds to the depths of your consciousness. you know one of the things we talk about on the show if you read the financial press about the latest scandal it's just a new name for a recurring sound like there's only 3 or 4 ways you can rip people off it changes is the name they call to rip people off. this is blue bus broadcasted around the world and covering all aspects of our global economy in the 21st century and i'm christiane washington here's what's coming up today. in the final throes of a very important deal it's going very well but at the same time we want to see it go well and hunk of. unrest continues the mid-term one and the elections in hong

kong what impact could this have in regard to trade talks we break it down today with peter schiff of euro pacific capital plus we delve into market moves around the holiday season taking on holiday shopping black friday is just over the horizon but what kind of bump of the u.s. economy see amid we are correspondent judy thomas brings us the latest on the shopping spree and how it could move and later amid a change of leadership the e.c.b. is also looking to new prone to years as the face of global finance continues to change hillary ford which of the british american business association lends us a hand to break down the central bank's move toward fin tech. we have a lot in store today so let's get right to it. united states president donald trump says a trade deal between the u.s. and china is more likely following a call between negotiators from both countries on tuesday the u.s. president added that u.s. officials are keeping an eye on the situation in hong kong as part of the talks i have a very good.