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 they are either in exile in hiding. Good evening thanks for joining us this is r. T. International. Has met with emmanuel in paris after the french president caused a stir in the alliance by calling it brain that. He claimed achievements. As the latest. Well indeed the 2 were emanating tension as they were trying to keep a straight face with a less than a perfect game again even as they were delivering their statements standing soldier to shoulder to each other it was obvious that one is way more optimistic about nato than the other have a less nato is a Strong Alliance but more than that we are adopting it we are agile and we are active so we are responding to a changing world and the reason why nato is the most successful launch of these 3 is that we have been able to change in the world is changing and thats exactly what we have done over the last 2 years thats exactly what we are doing to see questions i asked our open questions that we have not resolved peace in europe i never position the relationship with russia in turkey that who is the enemy so until we resolve these issues let us not negotiate whether coasts sharing a burden sharing is there sort of that maybe we need a wake up call. This is effectively the french president refusing to retract his previous comments about nato experiencing brain death this is the exact quote by him from a couple of weeks ago and that was not the only instance one of the 21 the secretary general of nato and the french president werent exactly seeing eye its why for instance young stoltenberg has retreated repeated leave that while the alliance the allies in the block do have some issues that they do have their differences he reiterated that well they agree on the fundamental issues but nato is relationship with russia is one of those fundamental issues and thats where emanuel mccrone again in on 1st of all those members of the bloc refused to have or any sort of dialogue with russia who refused to see russia as a partner this is where emanuel mccrone called on a more open and a more friendly stance on a more friendly relationship with moscow that. We want to loose it robust and demanding dog. Like with russia with neither naivety nor complacency our alliance is based on a certain common history and geography the nato secretary general he also emphasized how he believes that europe is effectively defenseless without nato that europe cannot defend itself well i talked to some of the french citizens and my colleagues in berlin did the same to find out whether or not they realize how crucial nato is for you to be honest. We dont really know what they do. Was afraid of i became ill treatment less fun i found it is not unknown and then to the Design Movement of certain countries. I dont know what all achievements were well i think it was necessary after the ball. But nowadays. Its not important anymore i think basically. No war the last. 60 years 70 years i dont know to be honest i dont know since the eastern part of course was always down i dont know she needed the nato was historically beneficial for us but of course we have a completely different situation now i should say such Public Opinion goes in stark contrast with for instance what Angela Merkel the german chancellor had to say the other day when she said that she believed that nato now is as important if not more important than it was during the cold war and by the way she was also among those who criticized mccraw on for his brain comments so clearly today young stoltenberg a nominee emmanuel mccrone didnt come any closer to resolving their differences but next week nato is celebrating its 70th birthday so well see for that parties overshadowed by all the difference is that this big family house. Spanish will be taken off air in bolivia at the start of next month thats according to the countrys top private t. V. Operator comes amid a violent political crisis in the country during which a nun elected government to seemed power by the right wing senator ginnie 9 years shes accused of suppressing the media as well as supporters of ousted president obama rollos Russias Foreign Ministry has already expressed concern at glitching yeah i dont think its a coincidence that r. T. Has been taken off air in bolivia its 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. Well no specific reasons were provided and the bolivian t. V. Operator code which pretty much excluded r t from their list of channels starting from december the 2nd explained it through some kind of order from what they called the companys administration this is a decision taken by the companys administration which talks to us with shutting down the channels broadcast says 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 ecuadors public t. V. Operator almost 2 weeks ago they cut of r t spanish as well and moscow demanded explanation for that and still hasnt got it from quito now whats 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 resigned 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 swanned we have arrived at this day with the satisfaction of fulfilling that 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 shes been up to is trying to make as many u. Turns as possible in the countrys 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 bolivias traditional allies especially under. That is with cuba and venezuela other diplomatic personnel representing major 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 thats 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 election is that gonna be with almost 50 percent of bolivians deciding not to take part. Merola step down earlier in november after weeks of violence triggered by claims that his election victory of being rigged he fled to mexico with many of his Party Members the former lead to describe the events as a coup. A voter gosselin there who resigned as Vice President minutes after all the talk to is about the people now in charge and that crackdown on the media. You know what i mean is that the socalled Communications Minister warned journalists to be careful because shes going to take down the names of those who step out of line how can you say thats a 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 we could no longer has free speech or a free press. But there was also look at 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 because we also have to build relations based on Mutual Respect equality and nonintervention in our internal affairs i hope that 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 they are either in exile in hiding mass media are gagged or threatened with accusations of subversive activity or sedition its difficult to engage in peaceful resistance against this regime its hard to say how long this reign of terror will last and how long people will tolerate it it depends on how events unfold over the next few weeks. 26 people are confirmed dead after one of the bloodiest days in iraqs antigovernment rallies. I. Was protesting against high unemployment widespread corruption and the lack of basic services the countrys military announced the creation of crisis cells as well as an Emergency Army unit to deal with the unrest and 300 people have died thousands more have been injured since the rallies began last month 7. Protesters also stormed the consulate of the round in the holy city of the jaffa and set the building on fire base what iranian flag for an iraqi one and shouts of a run out in response the authorities declared a city wide curfew. Joined on the line now by journalist and ill monitor contribute to this alley risk getting to you ali weve seen another top u. S. Military arrive in iraq this week weve seen protests the anger that supposedly raney and influence just how much foreign interference you think there is in the country. Well i think theres a lot of foreign interference from various players but its interesting when they say that you know theres when the americans say that there is a rainy and influence or any intervention you know america basically is an Occupying Force and america is miles and miles away so you know its i think its very strange to hear an american statements about iran intervening at the same time you know some of these protesters who went to book the burn the iranian consulate i mean ok what about the the americans what about the american role what about this sarah the role as well incidentally the saudi ambassador to egypt just hours ago in an interview with the old you with the Egyptian Press see. That iran could expect more more of such attacks like the one which took place against the iranian consulate so i think that says a lot about a possible saudi role when you hear that started the pledge not to making such remarks so what were seeing here clearly is you know certain anti iranian regional powers and world powers are taking advantage of we put this movement to steer this part this movement to into an antique uranium direction and basically take advantage of the some popular demand to settle some old spalls is all liable result with iran and you know all it does appear that this is going to continue for some time the on fortunately the more it does continue the more have equipment to see because if you noticed now what we have the return of the terrorist bombings in baghdad was subject to 3 terrorist bombings in the last few days in the last couple of days and that indeed does not bode well for the future of the country where exactly are we now a snapshot the day of these protests what did the protest is what would solve this overnight. Well hell i dont think there is anything which console that over annoying it to be you do have a vote legitimate demands you do have the legitimate you know protest movements are legitimate protests in general the Iraqi Government to has to do more when it comes to reforms when it comes to providing for about a large you know iraq is a huge economic oil is a huge an Oil Powerhouse and you know iraq should not suffer from any kind of poverty at a kind of economic problem. Because of you know its as i said thats got a lot of resources its also a place where many shop pilgrims go and visit there are famously religious shia shrines thats also a big big. Economic advantage or economic strength which iraq has you know these are what we would call religious tourism so iraq should not suffer from any caused the problems and it does indeed you know its problems do stem a lot from corruption now the Iraqi Government seems to want to take steps or seems intent on taking steps to tackle corruption but fail to see how burning consulates and how attacking property has anything to do with legitimate demands i mean legitimate demands are one thing but attacking consulates of other countries is a completely different issue and thats why i seem convinced or i am convinced that we do have foreign you know foreign players in there just remember the statement made all the tweet which was made by secretary. On november 6th if im not mistaken whereby he said you know iraq and lebanon iraq is a lebanese are sick of iranian influence the americans you know with everything going on in iraq and also in lebanon they only see the through the prism of anti iranian ism on t. V. You know anti iranian policies are of video anti iranian rhetoric and i think that the protesters begin in iraq are already living on should be aware of that should be aware that the americans are trying to take advantage of what is happening in order to settle scores of geopolitical schools with their rival iran. Appreciate time my guest this hour is risk journalist style monitor contributor thank you. Rally to raise awareness of violence against women in paris today has be mobbed by clashes. Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah. Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah. Several women from a feminist group called nemesis collective joined in with the march they Holding Placards that said 52 percent of rapists are immigrants is a figure that was taken in the 2014 survey the movement criticizes lax migration policies in france saying that women suffer as a result of the other demonstrators didnt like their presence though and started to. Play. The video from bash went viral leading to way the threats against the nemesis activists they were branded as fascist xenophobes and racists it later issued a statement saying the firmness want to silence them we spoke to one of the nervous activists who asked us to distort her voice to hide her identity. At all. We arrived at the demonstration with our plaid 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 message is 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 am 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 it we have questions to women who pretend to be feminists who say that they represent other women and other nervous activists we spoke to told us that rapists of migrant origin are not prosecuted enough she also asked to remain anonymous. I was in the rage we went to this demonstration because we wanted to defend womens 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 im often harassed by men and their nationalities r. V. S. Rapists of migrant origin is not prosecuted enough we need to tell the world that everyone should be punished regardless of this skin color there are several types of threats that we get in social media where kids of fascism and racism these people from the far left do not want to accept the reality they want to prevent us from speaking up. The organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons has agreed its 2020 budget despite opposition from russia and china moscow noted the budget includes funds for illegitimate activities referring to the o. P. C. W investigation and Identification Team since being founded last year has investigated chemical incidents and apportion blame countries like russia and syria point out such responsibilities politicize the organization but the u. S. Envoy says that the nations just want to cover up crowds unfortunately the Russian Federation has played a central role in this cover up russia and syria may sit with us here but they stand apart from us in a fundamental way they continue to embrace chemical weapons. Earlier a leaked internal o. P. C. W e mail shows an unnamed employee was concerned that the organization had misrepresented facts over the doman incident the supposed chlorine gas attack in the syrian city last year that us french and british missile attacks on suspected chemical weapons facilities are o. P. C. W investigators had no mandate to apportion blame a joint team all but pointed the finger of blame at the Syrian Government of damascus and moscow said from the outset that the chemical attack never occurred. And i guess we live now to alexander good news russias ambassador to the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons good evening to you alexander. That the allegation made by the u. S. Representative is that russia and syria. Cover up the use of chemical weapons by undermining the o. P. C. W. How would you respond to that. Yes weve heard this discussion this morning. And indeed the american representative. Rush. Over embrace the chemical weapons and. Of. The Syrian Government. Chemical crime seeing some kind of dark corner well what if i knew the expression embrace all the weapons we are certainly not one joule embrace chemical weapons let me remind you of that the Russian Federation has completed because the destruction of chemical arsenals we are committed to the big Chemical Weapons Convention to kill the spirit of this convention. While the question is a who surely call currently easy embrace. The weapons maybe even. See that there is only one country in the world we see you as this embrace chemical weapons. These country would use them and none of the United States despite all kinds of. Resources there is still delaying the destruction of chemical arsenals so all we call up on the United States for all of the example of the Russian Federation to destroy all chemical weapon. As i understand you have a whistleblower who says that the open c. W. Suppressed and redacted reports a whistleblower who as i understand has spoken to credible International Media they they believe this to be a credible whistleblower why are they not being listened to why are they not being taken seriously. Well in the run up to all these on the continents on the part is the cause is serious or publications lead and western media it bought to the. Within the office of w. Is regards to the duma the port more to the point on november the. Mini state plant has received. Signed by a group of scientists scoreless opinion leaders in among them was the very 1st director general of the opposition w mutable stein are. Concerned by these kind of situation these groups asked. For or the decision by the technical security it to all can wean him each unit brethen with the all the indian team sport who or participated or in this league asian. Regards or do many incident while all these in mourning. Like you said the american was so dont touch upon this you sure. He said that you know all technical secret. Over not island in the midst of this storm but up on all this to just support the technical secretary to help help help it where the. Stormy weather. But it was a he himself who dejected the deal of the britain we russians we supported this idea and we did it is soon as the 1st report has been published but still these american representative did ject at the idea of the britain saying he would he would never tolerate. What he called a new edition style in east trial. Within Community Asian and crossexamination well. I suggested to my part not at all. To talk tensions here in the hague and instead all of whom technical secret secret portrayed is an island in the midst of the storm i suggested that we consider the corpus your w. Technical secret as a crime to all of our corpsman charles as the director general or invites us to see it. Common khalsa were all street holders. Come easily. Or speak at all to the problems in corp to all to resolve them so we needed to be very constructive sure losers who problem some or not least. Within the w expressed concern the issue should be should be dealt with. Unfortunately time as the big winners for now are so ill have to say thank you very much alexander should invest as ambassador to the c. W. Thanks for your time. Ok i wraps it up of that with updates on our top story see you in 30 minutes. Banks geysers financial survival. Housing bubble. Oh you mean theres a downside to artificially low Mortgage Rates dont get carried away thats because reports. Of. The welcome to worlds apart the u. S. House of representatives may have wrapped up the 1st round the fit between hearings against President Trump but it certainly not done with trying to oust him there already plans for a new impeachment proceedings in connection with the miller report and possibly dawsons of obsoletes chums opponents hope to leverage is that a viable strategy against the 45th president of the United States or is it playing directly into his hands to discuss that im now joined by edward. President of the World Russia Forum and the frequent commentator on the u. S. Russia relations. Its good to talk to you thank you very much for your time marc pleasure now. We russians are no strangers to acrimony and rethink we know that americans while but i have to say im constantly surprised sometimes even shocked at what i see play out in the american politics the fact that a simple phone call between 2 halves of state and a pretty big now phone call of dad could trigger impeachment proceedings thats pretty mind boggling to me is it the same to you absolutely and not only to me actually it was congressman steve scullys. A republican that compared to whats whats going on. Is reminding him youre ceasar. I slightly disagree with him because in the u. S. S. R. And all leaders were saying something no one believed a single wart and actually people who said it also didnt believe what they were saying but no you see there half of the country believe it