That a lot of these Network Executives are very close to the people they were hanging out with Jeffrey Epstein her amy amy roebuck. Youre watching the weekly here on r. T. International im Rosana Lockwood welcome to the program. First our top story bolivias long serving president ever morale is has announced he is stepping down from office and this follows 2 weeks of intense protests in which bolivia suffered many millions of dollars worth of damage on tees maar against you for reports. It all began as a result of the election president ial election on the 20th of october livea choosing between mr evill Moralez Carlos Mesa the opposition candidate and a 3rd a 3rd party. The initial vote count put mr morale as where had almost 10 points ahead and that is when monitors and organizations the opposition said well regularities that they had spotted fraud that the vote could have been couldnt have been correct and mr carlos mesa called for the massive protests for people of millions to walk out into the streets to protest the results of this election and since the 20th of october weve weve seen causes that have gradually more and more violent 3 People Killed many many more injured many more Wounded Police in uniform joining the protesters so the country became very divided that is not to say that mr moralism enjoyed a whole lot of support in the country believe it nevertheless mr marlas agreed with the irregularities he said that theyre worth investigating but initially he refused to resign he refused to resign until the day when with half his government god the Vice President resigned the head of the senate resigned many other officials some fearing for the safety of their families who had been threatened by protesters nevertheless now that its done many believe in the streets celebrating. We are celebrating the liberation of believing but the people believe there must continue to fight you know we came out under the streets on the 21st of october and from that day i have been defending our democracy now we are celebrating our victory. We believe in people are standing here to defend our ideas our children our democracy and our country. Its great for us that eprom r us has resigned it is the best thing in the world lets leave it we are free now we can see that the people are more united than ever what will means for discussion is the rule of the military played in all of this because many many officials many protest leaders of the majlis that reside there that it was when the chief of the army came out and said enough is enough youve got to go that he resigned it is it is as of yet unclear whether he did so as own choice or whether he was forced to resign by the military which would make it a coup. I mean proceedings i resigned the presidency why did i decide to resign so that carlos mesa and Luis Fernando camacho do not continue to persecute my brothers the Union Leaders theres a lot of violence as i said aimed against against both sides both sides accused each other of for many that violence of enabling it nevertheless many officials from his party from the government to threaten their families would threaten many resigned as i said because of that the irony here is that carlos mesa back in 2002 he was Vice President of the country. Him and the president they carried out a massacre a crackdown violent crackdown dozens and dozens of People Killed against protesters that were demanding nationalization of Gas Resources in the country the president then resigned mr mesa became president acting president and the year later he a year later you reside who forced him to resign was ever morales who was a union leader back then a protest leader and on a wave of public support he was to become president he has ruled the country for 14 years since and the irony here is that now the rules have been reversed that is evil morality has been forced to resign by carlos mesa whos leading leading the protest nevertheless this is this is a very turbulent time for bolivia because. Theres a lot of change thats going to happen it is unclear whether mr morale is or his successor is going to run in the election unclear if mr mason will now be president and if he is there will be radical radical changes in the ways things are run because mr mason is unlike his predecessor ever more out as a staunch critic of the United States of its Foreign Policy mr mason is on the you know the opposite he says that hell improve relations with the United States is involved in something of a scale. Recently came back from the United States and his spokesperson the clear that he just being given 10000000. 00 by usa the United States government which mr mesa denied nevertheless you know if any other country given a president ial candidate 10000000. 00 to be in election meddling in this case well nobody is saying anything is the mesa denies that he got the money. As i said the head of the senate is now in power she is going to organize elections the Investigation Underway to find out how exactly will the voter fraud was committed and punish those responsible never those trying times ahead for bolivia or several latin american countries including argentina venice where there mexico and cuba have spoken out against the resignation of paralysis and the denouncing the event as a coup venezuelas president is calling on bolivia of allies to protect morale as his presidency while the organization of american states together with the u. S. And canada is edging a 2nd election to be held in the country Daniel Schorr is a professor of latin american studies at the City University of new york and he says the removal of morales is a victory for near liberal forces. Are. Who its are. This is. A jury for your liberalism for the forces in bolivia. Want to push back this ijebu this favorite scene or the workers so this quarter called new president. It remains to be seen but it sure seems like she will of the agenda of the rich of those forces basically. As we know bolivia is a very divided country racially and class while as it will says the struggle. Well with almost all of the votes now counted in spains general election the country looks no closer to ending months of political deadlock and their party is now predicted to win an overall majority and it is the 2nd general election this year and the 4th in as many years is charlotte you can ski with more from barcelona. Well it does feel a little bit like deja vu as those final votes on now are being counted what we do know is that no one party has been able to gain a majority here to be able to form a majority government it does look like spain will have to go into Coalition Talks if its to form a government in the next few weeks even months possibly what we know is the political gamble that was taken by paid for their son just the leader of the socialist party hasnt quite paid off for him it looks like his party has lost seats in this election however there were some big gains for other parties including the Peoples Party you saw the number of seats rise as well as the populist party vox which in a pool less stormed into the congress with just over 20 seats and now it looks like theyll have more than 50 seats in the this particular parliament but again a very fractured Political Landscape here in spain and here in catalonia some of the tensions recent weeks of being around the issue again of independence and not came off the spanish call to madrid sentence some of the Pro Independence leaders leading into that referendum here in catalonia back in 2017 jail sentences for sedition some for up to a. Year is that sparked tensions in the sparked problems in the lead up to this election with clashes between protesters and the police. Are going. To. Was a hard Police Presence as the election took place on sunday with spanish place as well as the local catalan forces out and present as those votes were being put through into the ballot boxes many people here in spain seem to have a lot of voter apathy with the fact that this wasnt just the 2nd election this year this was the 4th general election spain in 4 years this is what some of the voters had to say you know we are a bit tired but i hope that they understand that there is no other option but to take us quite alone ians into account there is no way out if they think that with the repression they will achieve something we are stronger than ever well i think the parties to reach an agreement so that we dont have to vote again and that the situation in spain and kind of see some progress in repeating everything too much very tired i think im not the only one this reputation well. The results will be the same as in the past the last vote in any way hopefully there will be no more elections so its clear no party will be able to form a government a majority government on their own this is a case now of parties talking to each other but most of 2019 was spent with parties trying to talk to each other to try and form a coalition will they be able to see succeed this time well thats not clear but what is possible is that spain will be without a government until 2020. 40 barcelona and we discussed the elections with independent journalist Martin Robles to find out what might come next. I think the main thing looking forward is that both the socialists you know who the acting government the more Natural Partners for them most between them ive actually paid the price for not reaching an agreement in the past 6 months because the seat tali has actually for them. That leaves them even far short of the you know the magical majority of them than they were you know just 6 months ago so i mean the big question again looking forward is whether theyre going to be able to settle their differences with each other. Only bass is whether theyre going to be able to reach arabs. Get a lot of the regional nationalist parties on site at least to form some sort of a pact over why we have yet more deadlock. Now turning to some of the stories that shaped this week a leaked a video appeared to show that americas a. B. C. News channel shelved a story on disgraced billionaire Geoffrey Epstein 3 years ago and that what was recorded ranting about the station quashing her explosive interview with an accuser of the convicted paedophile in is a number of powerful figures implicated in his alleged crimes have a story of 3 years ive had to say he would continue roberts the palace found out that we had her whole allegations about Prince Andrew and threatened us a 1000000 different ways she told me everything she had pictures everything she was in hiding for 12 years making sure to come out we convinced her to talk to us it was unbelievable what we had we had everything. I tried for 3 years to get on to no avail and now its all coming out and i think these new well of revelations that im freezing have i am so pissed right now well that video was obtained by the Transparency Group project vera tath its founder james or keep shared his thoughts on the footage. I have to wonder why did they not air these stories why why were that why was the shelled now this came to us from an insider within the network an insider who currently works at a. B. C. News leaked us this tape she says there seems to be some type of network of people that you know that that is covering up for this and she says she has a she thought all of it quite telling that this insider leaked this tape to project their its us and not the Washington Post the New York Times c. B. S. Or c. N. N. Because they seemed to want to protect the people that were working with Jeffrey Epstein again amy robach saying that f f c was blackmailing people theres a lot of powerful people on those airplanes that amy is 100 percent certain that he did not commit suicide i dont know why she wont say that publicly but there she is in the leaked tape on the set of the program saying these things when nobody is looking well a. B. C. News has defended its decision not to broadcast the story stating it didnt meet editorial standards and the anchor amy wrote back agreed explaining her comments were made in a private moments of frustration lets take a reminder of how this story has developed 66 year old multimillionaire Jeffrey Epstein was convicted of soliciting prostitution from a minor back in 2008 he was then registered as a sex offender then in july this year he was arrested again and was to face trial of the alleged creation of a sex Trafficking Network charges he repeatedly tonight and then a month later sting was found dead in his cell in an apparent suicide. Well the found a project very test james okeefe again says despite a. B. C. Saying the allegations were uncorroborated the network doesnt shy away from other high profile claims. You can see how frustrated amy robock when you listen when you watch this tape it directly contradicts what a. B. C. News is saying publicly now about not having enough corroboration there theyre fine airing the allegations against maybe Brett Kavanaugh for or trump or anybody else but when it comes to bill clinton and some of these folks d that are mentioned by amy in this hot mike tape they say they just didnt have enough corroboration im not sure how a. B. C. News defines a corroboration when it comes to credible witnesses talking about Sexual Assault but the only conclusion i can draw is that a lot of these Network Executives are very close to the people that were hanging out with Jeffrey Epstein per amy amy roebucks. Democrats in the u. S. Have failed to push through a bill to keep the identity of whistle blows secret it comes as the president s son trump jr tweeted the alleged name of the whistleblower who triggered the impeachment inquiry saskatoon a report on the fate of those who recently to speak out in the u. S. For the democrats impeachment must now seem tantalizingly close all they need is the final piece of damning evidence to seal the deal and to Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer he has come out arguing for the protection of whistleblowers only rather of one Intelligence Officer who is insider info could make or break the impeachment dream the calls to make public the whistleblowers identity are despicable whistleblowers should be protected period period thats quite the radical departure from his previous comments on those exposing government abuses and each day that snowden is allowed to room 3 is another twist to the merits snowden is a one of the few picked up by the media he chose the path of raising his voice and going clone ball unlike the hundreds of others who chose the path of least resistance you see they quietly launched official complaints hoping for the system to reform but they were out of luck because as a damning report from an intelligence watchdog shows the cia and n. S. A. When 189 out of 190 cases of whistleblower complaints by descend you the link but the report was shot down i wonder if mr schumer praised or even remembers all those whistleblowers who ruled against what the name for example rich barlow bring about now living in a trailer in remote montana with his hunting dogs back in the late eightys bhalo worked for the cia now he found himself in a patriotic di lemma when he uncovered what he said amounted to the u. S. Helping pakistan become a Nuclear Power including by selling Band Technology and though he followed protocol he became the victim of a smear come. Pain disgraced and discredited barely able to scrape together a living i was disgustingly patriotic and i thought the government is allowing pakistan to develop and spread Nuclear Weapons and i got destroyed for trying to stop it what about former u. S. Marine affronts gayo he thought hed found a way of reducing the number of u. S. Troops dying in iraq as a result of improvised explosive devices all that was needed was a simple swap of patrol vehicles and given that were responsible for over 60 percent of all american losses in the country between 20032008 surely the pentagon would have been interested the response was more of. An automated response hes not obeying our instructions hes hes gone off the reservation as we often say. And weve got to stop him from doing that and just as it took gail 7 years to restore his reputation it took just a few months to discredit Peter Van Buren raising 24 years of loyal Diplomatic Service from pure and found himself on the wrong side of the table when he shed light on state department mismanagement im waste in iraq what happens when youre thrown out of the government and blacklisted is that you lose your security clearance and its very difficult to find a grown up job in washington you have to step down a few levels to find a place where they dont care enough about your background to even look into why you washed up there the list of nameless faceless and unrecognized whistleblowers goes on and who to blame them for choosing to do to free fall their complaints because if you follow and manning will snowdens footsteps sure you might end up with your name on a plaque card and become the face of the fight for transparency but you might also find yourself. Bars and while youre sitting in prison think about how your brothers in arms only have a how to one and 190 chance of success whistleblowing protection should actually exist in all countries because it helps the country to have people tell the truth about corrupt officials United States pretends to have laws that protect whistleblowers but they often either dont work or they are deliberately sordid and certainly the government officials do not want anyone ever telling about things they do illegally the governments are basically wanting to control saying and control Public Opinion they put John Kiriakou in prison for telling that for instance is that the cia was torturing so they normally absolutely do not want to protect whistleblowers and they actually hate anyone who tells the truth about their illegal activities schumer about him alongside the washington elite needs to clarify his position on whistleblowers if you are a whistleblower you need to accept that harassment prison selfimposed exile just being consigned to the forgotten pages of history all on the cards are less of course you happen to be that rab breed of whistle blower who finds himself in the right place at the right time with just the right expose. The syrian president says that the wests attempt to incite a revolution in his country through sanctions has failed Bashar Al Assad the thoughts in an exclusive interview with ulti and its the 1st time hes spoken to an International Channel in more than a year. What did you make of it when. The British Government sent the royal navy to intercept in the iranian vessel. They said the iranian government said it was with heating oil for syria and the surgeons from the European Union going to the poorest people of syria. This winter. Exactly 1st for this is by oversee. The biography by the United Kingdom and this is the core meaning of the word regime called regime in both in going through with something similar. Yes they wanted to effect the people in syria why because those people expected to rule with against their government during the different stages or the war but they didnt they were supposed to be supporting the terrorists the moderate rebels with the angels of white helmet but the people didnt this would with their government so they have to suffer they have to pay the price 1st for they have to learn the lesson but you should. With version the 2nd this is maybe the last ditch attempt in order to push them to be against Big Government but they tried to plow through winter to try to before and they didnt work because the people knew the whole story and they know where their interests lies. Where you can watch that full interview here on r. T. On monday as well as on our website r. T. Dot com. This week also saw a major shake up in the fast food world with the c. E. O. Of mcdonalds being fired for having a relationship with an employee so. Thing strictly against Company Policy mcdonalds forbids romantic links between manages and both direct and indirect employees stevies to probe took over a chief executive in 2015 after working his way out through the company and hes been widely credited with revitalizing the false a few changes restaurants and menu in a message to stop the apologized amid his dismissal was the right decision but we got the opinions of legal analysts and t. V. And radio host current the fact that the best c. E. O. That theyve had in a long time is now going to be out of a job because of a personal issue is really sad i mean its just the state of how we look at things today in america and this was a consensual relationship there was really nothing a licit that he did is the way it is and in todays era of me too and the like not to mention their own the history of problems here and there what are they going to do its their law he knew what he was executive he violated and thats it you know its hard to meet people these days im sure its hard to be single im married but you know as a Single Person in america you know being a c. E. O. I dont know how much time this guy had on his hands to meet people you know what his golden parachutes going to be today oh my god this poor guy wears a good immediately buddy match dot com me shes just too busy for that and its funny how we read into it while it was consensual nobodys saying it was rape nobodys a kludge it was a violent physical attack of course it was consensual but do you know the rule that we live in this is an era right now of matt lauer and me too i do you know i do know the rules out all over i mean here are ill over it ill over it. Over it good for literate i mean as a woman in america you are not in charge of us judging people im tired of us judging your every what is wrong in a relationship no im not and you know why if i was if i was in charge i think the world might be a better place because were going to sirt some logic into this minutia that has become so consuming in todays journalism and in todays america perhaps the company could have some sort of agreement where you know we allow consensual relationships with some sort of agreement between the parties before i and you and gage in sexual conversation would you please sign this here to wit would you signal that yes we are n people telling people to do it every day now its a world we live in and ship staff. Who signs contracts for sexuality like what are you talking about who does it you might you might have to you might have to you might have to have a contract year to protect yourself well of the latest news and around up of the stories that shape the wake will be back here in 30 minutes time with will see them. What do. You put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. So when you want to be president. Want to be. The 2 going to be cross with the white woman for free in the morning cant be good. Im interested ols in the waters of. Course. You know world of big partisan law and conspiracy its time. To dig deeper to hit the stories that Mainstream Media refuses to tell more than we need to be smart we need to stop slamming the door. And shouting past each other its time for Critical Thinking its time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. Without. Ever a president constant dread. Of the free money. 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