as an excuse for violence and vandalism others this is a vital fight for the country's future nicolas o'donovan r.t. . president has blamed the current turmoil on his predecessor rafael correa along with another leader of neighboring nation venezuela. is the tyrant who during his activated along with career destabilization plan. they're the corrupt people who have the food stamps and just disclose and maybe. they're the ones behind this attempted coup to target but this is the speaking to r.t. former president rafael correia hit back saying moran has no one to blame but himself. it's a difficult time for my home and this shows to politics of merino in his government he's already been in power for 2 and a half years and he still blames korea for everything economic crisis for security for his political faults and to say these mass protests to my fault is just crazy. i mean there isn't any merino is not interested in democracy for him the most important thing is to control power control the ecuadorian public so he create projects that can damage the majority would be beneficial for his goals. nor

nicolas o'donovan r.t. . the leader of the french national rally party marine le pen has called for an immigration freeze claiming the french ship is sinking r.t.s. road to rescue has more. as the immigration question that once again stirs up heated debate in france the reality on the ground remains shocking. them for. for answers asylum system is saturated today it's as if we're only now feeling the effects of the 20152016 crisis the data is clear indisputable and $2800.00 france registered 123000 asylum applications. you have chosen to make migrants a scapegoat for the country's problems the migrants rather than the financier who ponders our country for the tax evader. all around you can get a sense of the number of people who are living here this is sultani a commune in the northern suburb of paris and it's estimated that there are around 3000 migrants currently living in the northern parts of paris many are living in these makeshift tents that are provided by association they rely on food handouts just to

their breath hoping for a dialogue peaceful solution to the country's worst crisis in decades nicolas o'donovan r.t. . now the international monetary fund has weighed into the debate over climate change it's advising nations to increase carbon taxes to limit global warming to 2 degrees or less the level deemed safe by science large emitting countries need to take ambitious action for example they should introduce a carbon tax set to rise quickly to $75.00 a ton in 2030. added though that it will be the public you have to foot the majority of the bill they say that electric bills could go up on average by 43 percent over the next decade or so energy costs would go up most in coal country so let's have a quick look then at how are europeans in particular will be affected by all of this well on average british people would pay $83.00 pounds a month buy 2030 that's up from $58.00 today the french will see their monthly bills go up by $28.00 euros and then in germany the extra cost will be something like $22.00 euros per month we asked people in germany france and the u.k. if they were willing to pa

their breath hoping for a dialogue peaceful solution to the country's 1st crisis in decades nicolas o'donovan r.t. . simon. book a former n.b.c. news employee details the difficulties he faced trying to get the network to run a sexual abuse exposed and found the channel of trying to kill his 2017 investigation into the 9 disgraced hollywood producer harvey weinstein and claims too that even hillary clinton tried to get in the way of reporters harvey weinstein the man who triggered the me too movement. even the former 1st lady couldn't stay away because women stick together i was shocked and appalled i was just sick i was shocked i was appalled the issue really is how terrible his behavior was and finally women have come forward to speak out about it this almost became a story that could have been because the investigation into weinstein and the rape allegations was almost killed by a channel that considers itself to be a beacon of women's rights there has been no clear example this year of journalism's ability to change the world training films do almost nothing to stop the harassment when it

nicolas o'donovan r.t. . more than 200 people were arrested in central london on monday as a 2 week. amid protests by extinction rebellion activists got underway the group has said it intends to paralyze westminster by blocking roads and transport networks hundreds of people have been chaining themselves to vehicles and are protesting outside government departments it is part of a worldwide campaign spanning 60 major cities protesters have also disrupted traffic in central amsterdam madrid and berlin dutch police say they made 50 arrests and near a popular tourist attraction while in berlin around a 1000 people blocked a busy intersection meanwhile in australia and new zealand dozens of activists have been arrested their extinction of rebellion has been in the headlines throughout the past year. the types of actions that we want to engage with are disruptive to business as usual but disruptive in a way that is not repellent to observers or outsiders people who may not even consider themselves to be environmen

unconstitutional there's been a groundswell of popular support for him in lima as artie's nicolas sanchez o'donovan now reports. these protesters took to the streets of lima to say this is a full president martinelli starwars decision to dissolve congress earlier this week the president and the opposition led congress have been tied up in the battle with widespread corruption at its poll actually martin discoverer has seen most of the anti craft reforms be improved by congress and many they say that this is because lawmakers have been protected and same party politicians and businessmen that have ties to corruption this specially to the brazilian construction company the bridge that has allegedly spent millions of dollars in bribes here in peru as we've heard many here support the president but others demand general elections and they say the peru needs fresh air i mean the president martin discovers appointed * a new cabinet with many new ministers as well it's going to be a few difficult months for them and but the truth is that until we have a new sit in congress in peru the president is going t