Youre watching R T International bring you your live news update from our studio here in moscow welcome to the program. Bolivias selfproclaimed interim president has proposed fresh elections 29 years ones to know the results of the last about twitch were marred by allegations of fraud that led to the ousting of evo morales and deadly unrest in which almost 30 people have reportedly been killed well recently Police Clashed with people attending the funeral of a protester. Think she took charge on years caused controversy by giving police dealing with protesters immunity from prosecution evo morales who was granted asylum by mexico has spoken exclusively to r. T. About whats happening in this country. Ive 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 theres 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 their baby 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 coop who is in charge of everything now people from the us and whore here to talk with all got a follower of hugo bonser who for 7 years will believe you as a dictator i was called an employee 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 realized that some industrialized countries are afraid to compete 1st in the field of Technological Development and 2nd they do not want other countries to follow the example of our economic model which is based on socialism. This is a colossal struggle im 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 and 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 self proclaimed leader on years is backed by bolivias military and shes appointed her own cabinet and despite the ongoing protests against her the organization of american states says people should support her until after the new elections. The work of the orient us the experience and expertise it has gained from other episodes of the americas have helped promote and defend the right of the bolivian people to democracy from a president apparently willing to maintain his power by non democratic means including through electoral fraud we call on all bolivians to support the bolivian Transitional Government as a gods the democratic transition through electoral reforms and to a new free and Fair Elections as soon as possible on us might say that shes only holding the fort until fresh elections have been held but she appears intent on putting the country on a radical new course. They had to say in fact to make it clear once again this is a provisional government that will 1st call for general elections and the legislature of assembly will have the job of carrying out the election of the members of the court to lead and the things that the wanted. Are to America House rick sanchez discussed the situation in libya 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 theres been a constant conflict between. These corporations and evo morales let me stop you there because you just said something thats 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 doesnt that seem crazy yeah but thats you know decades of practice of the you know the socalled invisible state was the but its 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 didnt 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 its about the maintenance of empire and thats what were seeing in bolivia where i lived in bolivia the spanish in bolivia this is the pattern and now they found lithium it believed well and apparently that is a huge it is the oil of the future and guess who wanted to control it and guess who they didnt 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. Olivier isnt the only latin American Country in the grip on rust later in the program we report on the antigovernment protests that are currently taking place in colombia. Dollar terms former top adviser on russia has become the star of the impeachment hearings and to the u. S. President by rehashing an old narrative be aware of moscow the impact of the successful 2016 Russian Company mens evident today nation is being told a pos she says questions all highly professional and expert create phone service is being undermined right now russias Security Services and their proxies of egypt to repeat their interference in the 20 twentieths action were running out of time to stop them. Takes a look at how the coauthor of a 500 page book on bottom reporting has stolen the show. You go to give it to the democrats theyve tried everything to get rid of trump take him seriously you look like an idiot ignore him you look like an idiot criticize him and his ratings go up doesnt make any sense that the guy seems to metabolize scandals feed off of them sue the democrats fed him poison impeachment. That trump and president has used his office for his own personal gain the president got caught its Pretty Simple question is now who would benefit from an investigation of the funds i assume President Trump would there we havent seen a thing is for impeachment to work he need momentum and they are losing it a 1000000 less americans chuen been for the 2nd round of impeachment hearings and trumps ratings have gone up according to gallup im telling you it doesnt make any sense soo confused are they that theyve reverted to their base behavior animal instinct i found out that Vladimir Putin doesnt want me to be president so i learned a lot about the season early on from the series that was being held perhaps relayed to me a putin also wants you to stop sniffing strangest hair but hey that hasnt stopped you has it joe Putin KremlinMoscow Russia yeah weve heard it all before everyone has so desperate are they that they turning to the spiritual the democrats are making a sacrifice crucifying one of their own to beat trump its unfortunate that we have someone on a stage who is attempting to be the democratic nominee for president United States. Criticizing people on this stage affiliated with the Democratic Party lets also talk about judgment. Foreign leaders you mentioned meeting. That i would not have sat down with a murderous dictator like that. That should do it that should beat trump smearing a fellow democrat and alienating her voters they did the same thing to bernie in 2016 remember even rigged a primary against him didnt work so theyre doing it again only logical plants are tea apparently favors tool see the thing thank analyzed thousands of pages on the dot com built graphs and charts and cloths and came to the conclusion that russia would prefer a us president that wouldnt want to launch missiles at moscow you know how the saying goes you can teach an old dog new tricks and add seems to be the problem with the democrats sticking to old tricks to cliches all i can say is fellows good luck winning that election. A story and an arkansas newspaper has led to even more concerns are russian trolling due to some odd looking punctuation. No diversion quotation mark. Im pretty sure the publication just put in whatever looked like an error in an attempt to instruct readers to click on the article link which came immediately after the hour if they meant to use it to indicate a russian quotation mark where is the other quotation. Milt is the amount of start taking the correspondent gets here keep up the professional work. We use those quotation in french and italian keyboards as well so this is occurring in a place for languages. It had to me every speaker and keyboard used as a quotation mark and look like other sloppy attempts by russian trolls to push stories i apologize for the mistake and am explaining it in the interests of full transparency. While western media ops us are alleging cream ties to us politicians care has been exposed and a far more disturbing International Terror case a 2nd Islamic State leader in 7 days has been detained in the country i discussed the issue with ask you taylor. Crain has revealed that its arrested of russian citizen who was on interpols wanted list and this happened on thursday injured tom which is a city in the northwest of the country and now lets just take a very quick listen to the exact reasons that were given for his arrest the man was wanted by interpol for murder according to the information we have the detained person was a member of the terrorist organization Islamic State in fact one of its leaders he lived on the territory of ukraine to escape responsibility for the murder what details do we have on that individual what the moment theres a little and all the information that we are getting is coming from Police Authorities in the region where he was apprehended now they say that hes called oh we do not have his full name yet and he is a 30 year old male from dagestan which has a republic bordering georgia in the north caucasus. Whats the context around this arrest that you can give us well its interesting because the head of the operation said that this particular arrest was part of a wider clear out of potentially dangerous individuals which by implication means that this is not a one off case and we can actually look to recent events for confirmation of that just last friday for example ukrainian authorities announced that they had detained a Georgian National by the name of shawnee that he was a Top Commander he fought alongside. In syria before escaping to ukraine. Last year and he actually continued to coordinate terror attacks from his house not far from here of his detention was part of a joint operation between ukraine georgia and the u. S. And it was following. The shawnees arrest the questions were raised how it was possible that a man who had allegedly held the role of deputy minister of war had managed to go unnoticed or at least untouched for such a significant period of time really right under the noses some talks not just about inability to cope with this kind of high level terrace but actually its willingness to do so critics have drawn attention for example to how. Inefficiencies within the Ukrainian Government which almost facilitate these kinds of dangerous individuals to slip through the net they drew the attention for example of to the holes in the legal system and Law Enforcement to a very large for the fake passport trade as one of course unfortunately to corruption which is an endemic problem in the country and which of course allows for systematic abuses of power and just as a final point its worth noting that this is not just an issue of concern for ukraine but also for its neighbor. As we know since 2017 ukraine has enjoyed a visa free travel regime with e. U. Countries so if it continues to apparently offer an undisturbed refuge for such people it could potentially be exploited as an ideal stepping stone for those who want to harm european nations so clearly a warring and significant issue but this latest arrest hopefully a step in the right direction towards tackling the border problem. Protests spread across colombia against the countrys president that story and more after the break. What explains the bipartisan commitment to under ending wars in Foreign Military interventions recent polls show the majority of veterans who fought in this centurys foreign wars say it wasnt worth it in 2016 trying to gain traction for doubting foreign adventures today told c gabbert is doing the same why are the elites someone of. You know world of big partisan movie lot and conspiracy its time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that made history media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter 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 were watching closely watching the hawks. Welcome back and friends the clash between secularism and religion has sparked another feud that after a local retirement home shut its doors on an elderly catholic nun for not keeping her religion to herself reports. A nun from eastern france had been learning how to hold more than 70 if he didnt plan on changing that when he decided to cash in her Retirement Plan and move into a nursing home that didnt happen because the facility refused to provide her with it services because she in turn refused to take off her religious clothing and that hasnt gone well with the religious community here i do not see how a nuns veil can be described as offensive it is not a symbol of submission but the symbol of consecration but the nursing home says there will be no appeals the case is closed they say all religious apparel is banned at the facility to buy to buy friends is more than a century long reign of secularism a small chain with a cross that was the only bit of faith the nun was allowed to physically take with the into the home shedding the rest at the gates the nun refused the place we offered her and didnt want to accept the house rules that are the same for everyone within our homes our residents may have preferences and beliefs and they should be respected with regard to secularism all ostentatious religious symbols cannot be allowed in order to guarantee everyones tranquillity. Christianity phobia is a relatively new phenomenon born out of frances strict secularism theres another one you might be moved from illegal with islamophobia the Muslim Community in france has been fighting for the right to wear their religious clothing in public for a long time. From the carbs to workers to blue keeney the muslim swimwear for women france has been through countless scandals around islamic clothing christianity has been steering clear of this controversy until now. Were now joined live by a child the myer president of middle east a group ask us questions of the now what do you make of the nuns treatment. Yes my point is that the french believe or. Up until this nuns is still still parts of affliction for friends 1st is ignorance our country is beginning to forget isnt a Christian Country or. Without cutlasses im friends with not exist. As a 1st born to serve on his results in the political debates some are using towards in order d to buy an already just or agents from public debate forms of projects for and its not a good way to deal with problems here in france the qataris is him as big as this country we want to be there was always the charge was owed to our christian heritage and misnamed spots our friends our new commerce. The roads should be different for this 2 parts of the populations so youre saying that its not a fair argument that if muslim veils are banned in france that a christian symbol should also be banned. I dont believe that its a crude creation of christian symbol or misleading symbol you know French Republican knows who are fighting against christians in especially fighting against scatter makes a son therea go. For example has it been somewhat dangerous order at this time so we have been used to fight for religious freedom for every tahj for courage for the troubador with. The arrival of the news the new comos is that they turn to have some difficulties to adapt to the french curvature and you know where we can understands them because if we prisms them to french culture or some things that does not accept privilege and told that some sings that is not what coming for Freedom Freedom of conscience its not a good mode i sings have to adopt to assimilate themselves to the french culture and they will assimilate it was understand and see if everybody understands that the christian made this country do you think its possible that france is actually moving towards a complete ban on religious clothing and public places. I sings out some are open for the what i believe thats a wrong way to deeds with current situation. They were in understands that everybodys agreeing that a musician will falter french is not acceptable but we wont let our leader choose goal because of what was shown to these 2 different crowd the whole french density to make our french to be loved by everyone to be strong the news to see is that we are pulled out of the story of our Christian Culture then we would be a better may be to assume that a tiny part of newcomers now is a troll but was immigration in france its so that some are getting crazy and are ready to let our is tory go in order to abide by these are. Those secretary states viewpoints shall them are asked to ask questions ive been a thank you for joining us on the program. Tens of thousands have taken to the streets and colombias capital to protest against the right wing government of the u. S. Backed president even decay what started as a largely peaceful march led to conscience with police. Oh. Training in students opposition parties and indigenous groups challenge to his economic social and Security Policies a festive atmosphere turned ugly when i small group of people began hurling projectiles at police who responded with tear gas the popularity of decay is right wing government and key u. S. Ally has been on the wane since his election 18 months ago police say around 200000 took part in protests in several cities donovan reports. What started as a normal union strike has morphed into one of colombias biggest antigovernment protest in recent times tens of thousands of people among across the country and here on the streets of bogota this is the rain thousands are still marching against the government towards the city Center Everything from students to Union Leaders to Community Leaders and Indigenous People protested as we say against it on case government this strike was announced on the full song the full the protest in other latin american countries like chile it could all but people here are telling us that theyve been inspired by those movements 5000 Police Officers here weve also have members of the military but the government says that we cant say that colombia is militarized because these soldiers just protected strategic buildings so thats the picture of the ground what about the reasons what spare hind this massive strike well its a very differently to what. Happens in other latin american countries for instance and in chile we have the public transport in ecuador we had the subsidies to gas here its not a specific mission its more of a wide range of actions being taken by the government that people here do not like it all started with a tax reform and an intention to reform the Pension System but its not only the neoliberal austerity measures its so so the handling of the Peace Process or the failure in handling the Peace Process that has led to more violence in the country recently we had 8 minus being killed in the government led attack and all of this cocktail has produced this state of discontent among colombian so as we say the protest has been massive is the mainly peaceful but its sending a very clear message to yvonne do case government here in colombia nicolas odonovan. Daniel shaw a professor of latin american studies tell us more about the roots of the mass protest. The colombian masses this country of 40000000 compazine own sin in workers and indigenous who would say they marching in flying the wife allah flag in solidarity with the people of bolivia ecuador chile haiti everywhere that there are things not just to go up against the colombian state. Theyre up against the u. S. Sponsored colombian state the 265000000. 00 in u. S. Military aid that was sent this year under trump even more in past years with a plan colombia so we shouldnt forget that theres 9 u. S. Military bases over a 1000 u. S. Military soldiers stationed in colombia 12 u. S. Military bases in panama with the way theres also protests scheduled for later today against the same you know liberal agenda so the colombian people are fighting back not just for their interests but for the interests of humble people across the world that are global news update for this hour but dont forget you can always had to our website r. T. Dot com for the details on all those stories and many more. Hello and welcome to cross talk were all things are considered im Peter Lavelle what explains the bipartisan commitment to an ending wars and Foreign Military interventions recent polls show the majority of veterans in this centurys foreign wars say it wasnt worth it in 2016 trying to gain traction for doubting foreign adventures today. Doing the same why are the elite out of touch. And ending wars im joined by i guess daniel shaw in new york he is a professor of latin american and Caribbean Studies at City University of new york and but that is that we have peter because nick he is a professor of history and director of the Nuclear Studies institute at American University as well as coauthor with all of her stone of the untold history of the United States and in washington we cross to camp he is the host and head writer of the comedy new show redacted tonight on our t. V. America all right coming cross talk rules in fact that means he