Violent. Protests in ecuador force the parliament to suspend its work down the government to relocate from the capital. And calls for the French Interior minister to resign for saying the radical islam sympathizer who murdered 4 Police Station last week showed no suspicious behavior. Coming live from moscow to the world this is our international my names you know neal a very warm welcome to the program ok lets start this hour in france where a month issued a rallying cry to French Society calling for unity and vigilance in the fight against islamist extremism the president s made the appeal during a sermon and to honor the victims of a knife attack Police Station last week. 1st with the always me throw me in the face of islamist terrorism we will fight relentlessly Civil Servants of our Police Prefecture and the security and intelligence for jobs of course an essential part of the response to security institutions alone will not suffice the government and all state services alone cannot defeat the islamist hydra no the whole nation must unite. Investigation into thursdays atrocity far enough to hear and to what prosecutors call their radical vision of islam the authorities of also admitted that a number of Early Warning signs were missed thats led to calls for the resignation of the countrys interior minister who claimed to in the aftermath of the assault there have been nothing suspicious in the assailants been trolled dubin ski has been following developments. Thats part of pays tribute to those murdered in that attack at the h. Q. Of the paris police by a colleague suspected of having being a radicalized questions being asked as to how it was possible and where the problems with radicalization in the police in. Disturbing information about the attack of 45 year old bone has emerged since he killed 4 colleagues and injured several others u. S. B. Sticks found it his home contained did use of executions and propaganda they also worryingly held personal details of several Police Officers and it turns out they were even more signs that could have signaled the attack. Despite that all pony was never flagged up to an investigation and even had a top security clearance well thought says interior minister had initially claimed that there had been nothing to indicate a problem with me this man is known to have worked in computing he never had any behavioral problems and he never acted suspiciously. And in paris seeing gas led to calls for his resignation i said very clearly christoph castor no longer has a place in the interior ministry his resignation would be an honorable action for him i am demanding the resignation of custom there because he has deceived the french he lied about the killers profile by saying he had never presented any warning sign despite the fact he was rather causation was known after the revelations about me behavior and radicalization kasten as position that the killer did not have any behavioral difficulties is untenable he must finally take responsibility and resign and while the interior minister has brushed off those calls anger is mounting within the police force we want him to resign but for everything he has done. Has been nominated he has been a very bad very very poor minister of interior you was it was a joke we are afraid that the problem is much more bigger we we know that some some groups when this. Is inquiry about knowing if the person can come and work in the police some so this is a no i dont think that this one is a good one and sometimes people above him know we want this man because we think that to do something. Is not follow the decision without. Taking careful. The position of. The last many are now wondering how many enemies of king within its being reported 19 officials at the ministry of interior are currently being monitored for islam missed radicalization while around 10 others have been dismissed or resigned the people who we knew. Were probably very. Few feel to say anything because though there was on the line. There were fred to be said that there were. Big that they were versus them the didnt care about people who were a problem. There was 3 of them that to speak and when you Say Something in french and french what is. When the suv of those a problem you become you also become a problem in front of the problem so you dont see anything if youll notice something anything you dont see in a sling you have much more chance to get promoted in the program than to sit in the thing the face yet to uncover to react to the radicalization of all people has cast a dark shadow of Security Forces here and problems it will trust with many offices perhaps now left wondering how many more extremists are hiding in plain sight so lets even ski see paris. The u. S. Senate Intelligence Committee has published a new reports on alleged russian interference in the 2016 president ial election the documents or through claim the Internet Research agency attempted to use social media to swing the vote in favor of more broadly so distrust in american democracy. For and look for for more in this shes been dipping into this scores of pages what else is alleged in the report for. Now you know and so the senate Intelligence Committee they report that the agents of the russian Internet Research agency or ira quote sought to influence the 2016 us president ial election by harming Hillary Clintons chances of success supporting donald trump at the direction of the kremlin now the senate panel cited the quote close ties of the iras director to russian president Vladimir Putin as quote evidence of significant kremlin support authorization and direction of the iras operations and goals now the Senate Intel Committee writes that the dissent from ation put out on social media sites like Facebook Twitter instagram and you tube was part of a broader sophisticated and ongoing Information Warfare campaign designed to sow discord in. In politics and society and this activity increased after election day back and 2016 the report found that dozen from asian put out by the ira targeted specifically africanamericans more than any other age group or demographic to exploit some hot button issues and even convince some people to sign petitions well earlier this year former special counsel for the United States department of Justice Robert muller reported how the ira designed a social Media Campaign to amplify political and social discourse here in the u. S. Favoring President Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton now muller indicted 13 russians and 3 businesses for Information Warfare so its interesting you know because this report is coming at the same way it did after election 2016 but this time its before election 2020 here in the states back in july however the federal judge who slammed Robert Mueller along with attorney general william barr for saying that was all in russia when there is absolutely no evidence of that u. S. District judge Dabney Frederick he went on to say that molar prejudice was prejudice and it actually prejudiced a potential jury in this case of the russian firm Concord Management consulting l. L. C. Which theyre facing a legal battle with the department of justice right now that the u. S. Government says that concord funded the quote social media meddling campaign but judge friederich says that there was a lack of evidence supporting that and concluded that russian president putin and President Donald Trump didnt conspire to win the 2016 election so the biggest point of judge friedrichs rebuke of muller was that muller tied the Internet Research agency to basically all of russia rather it was individuals that happened to be russian so the timing of this report its also pretty interesting you know because this latest report comes as House Democrats well theyve started an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump its another chance to talk about what is dubbed here in the states as the russian collusion campaign yet again despite there being no. Collusion now its also a chance to take a stab at the growing views that were seeing right here on r t the report says that youtube continues to be the propaganda vehicle for russia and that the number of views are much higher than the number of actual you tube subscribers on our r t channel so to give you an idea arties you tube now has 3. 7 millions of followers and in 2017 our channel was actually accumulated its 5000000000 not 1000000000000003 of you and has 3300000 global subscribers on its you tube channel now r t it was the 1st self described news channel to break 1000000000 views on you tube so you could say that arties you tube is getting a little too popular for the Democratic Party taste right you know thank you very much for breaking all the talking for us lloyd this hour from washington d. C. Arties foreign friends like. Moving to south america where is the protests continue to convulse ecuador the governments been forced to relocate from the capital to the end fuel subsidies transport workers and indigenous groups alike of launched a campaign thats seen transport networks really crippled across the country ortiz Nicholas Donovan reports now from quito. Was. God was. Little remains on the state of emergency off the days of protests following president lenin merinos decision to scrap fuel subsidies on monday those protests turned into riots as students and other groups finally clashed with police forces. Thousands of Indigenous People came here its a key to and by then its continued throughout the night as protest is surrounded the president. Callus the tension was so high that the president decided to move the edmonton minister to capital from here from quito to why a kill those 2nd largest city thats done at the last moment did not. But whats behind these protests well at the center of it all is an economic reform package that the government as implemented under a 4200000000. 00 Financing Deal signed with the i. M. F. Ecuador wants to use this money to cope with a large foreign debt and fiscal deficits parts of the package include the scrapping of subsidies to gasoline and diesel that had been in place for for decades the rise in fuel prices has triggered a domino effect and other basic goods are going up in price to create an uncertainty among the people but many here say that fuel prices are just the tip of the iceberg and they disagree with the neo liberal agenda but in place by lenin marina now the government is also implementing measures such as tax cuts to balance the higher cost of fuel and incentivize Economic Growth but many here say its too little too late meanwhile here in quito the city prepares for more days of violence schools are closed and some businesses a closed down to public transport is down to a minimum but for some protesters here are just using this political unrest as an excuse for violence and vandalism others this is a vital fight for the countrys future nicholas odonovan. Well lets break down another big aspect of this story president lenin moreno has blamed ecuadors former leader rafael career as well as the venice wheelin leader for the current turmoil. The tyrant with the rule has activated along with career destabilization plan. There the corrupt people who have the food stamps and just disclose known to make them feel theyre the ones behind this is tempted to target because its themselves so there are the allegations while talking to r. T. Former ecuadorian president Rafael Correa it back refuting the accusation against them and saying lenin merino as no one to blame but himself. Its a difficult time for my home and this shows the politics of merino in his government hes 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 that these mass protests of my fault is just crazy. And then he 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 but be beneficial for his goals. Nor inclusive of the i. M. F. Were juggling numbers and fooled people by distorting the amount of ecuadors debt belgiums debt where i live now amounts to 100 percent of g. D. P. Eventually the i. M. F. Had to publicize real debt numbers i left my president ial post at the beginning of 2017 after that the debt started growing but the problem doesnt even lie with the debt its all a sham from the start merinos government betrayed the Economic Program and in general the Political Program to which people get their votes for they decided on a neo liberal approach to appease the powers they handed over the reins to those powers lost the elections but in the end got control because of marinos betrayal those powers aimed for neo liberalism towards a run for your life politics open up imports to support the interests of major exporters give absolute freedom to banks and minimize the governments responsibility. It is in your dreams you know that man cancelled the previous Government Program he thought they could create something new and better than before but they achieved only destruction we left ecuadors economy in a state of growth it was like that until 20172018 this year will see a decline unemployments risen that lead to instability 500000 ecuadorians are facing poverty yet again and now these austerity measures they are justified by any external factors there was no abrupt drop in oil prices they were already included in the budget there was no earthquake its just a net Economic Management how is it possible to curb peoples worries now. The history of ecuador has seen this before which is why its so hard for me to observe all this its like weve gone back to the past. Thoughts of the former leader of ecuador well were joined live now on the program by gabriel headland gabriel is assistant professor of latin american studies out the State University of new york albany good to have you on the program how would you assess president morenos claim that rafael korea Nicolas Maduro of venice will of course are largely to blame for the people in ecuador i dont see any real basis for that i think its just a deflection from the agreement you signed with i am which is basically imposing drastic austerity im good or the type that we saw fail miserably in the ninetys and ninetys throughout latin america including it went over and so i think because he doesnt want to take responsibility for the negative consequences of that hes trying to deflect blame without any proof whatsoever that venezuela or even that could involve in the current disturbances if hes called them. He also accused them of many things but also a coup of attempting to orchestrate a coup career we know supported merino before he came to power what has changed enough dynamic. Well marino basically abandoned just that farm that he had campaigned on several years ago and is now completely opposed to everything that he stood for. And so hes trying to you know just like blame from the shell you of the policies that hes been implementing over the last several years particularly this year again its very clear that of policies are not working dorrans are rising up theres no evidence of this is a coup its a popular protest people in the street being very unhappy with. The prospect of further austerity and making that being us known as something loosely categorize and it was a shift from the left to the right do you see the voters portraying as a betrayal of do you do you think that this is going to hurt him at the at the ballot box i think absolutely it is a betrayal i mean i think if you look at the mandate that he had when you were selected it was a mandate to continue our series i mean you was in the career ministration used to live in t knew that you needed a complete one complete about face so theres nothing other than a betrayal to sort of make sense of that its harder to bring dick to exactly how that might play out were going to change the landscape oh and look toward the specifically way out were in a changing landscape within that american politics now the right has risen in brazil certainly theres an election coming up very soon and believe. Venezuelas credibly destabilize sort of the way in which things will play out is a little unpredictable but currently theres a lot of evidence that lenin merino its not popular within it but or at least a month significant sectors of the population a big factor in all this is the International Monetary fund do you think the i. M. F. Is going to be responsible for inflicting serious hardship on ecuador. Yes thats exactly what theyre doing you know very little doubt about. Some sort of weird sense of deja vu trying to also use that in the 1980 s. And ninetys and which had led in many ways to the left turn with in latin america can somehow be resurrected now and succeed where they didnt in the past but theres really no evidence its just not magical thinking will actually work or write the thoughts of get real headline carol is assistant professor of latin american studies joins us live on the program. Rather is now warning turkey against a military operation in northeastern syria calling for an carette to respect syrias sovereignty to run joins a chorus of concern voices which also includes european officials lets go through what we know here turkey has reportedly already conducted artillery strikes in northeastern syria that is according to local media it comes hours after washington announced that was pulling its troops out of the area also being deploying military hardware along its border with syria on monday a video emerged apparently showing American Military vehicles leaving 2 of its i post also recently washington how to run 150. 00 military personnel stationed there kurds in the region long time American Allies are furious with some leaders saying they will quote curse the u. S. As traitors heres just a taste of what they think about the trip administrations decision. Will serve as a human shield of necessary but will not allow in their aggression against this region when we defeated. As you called yourselves our allies and what it was seen as the coalition is letting us down were hearing constant threats coming from turkey and complete silence on the part of the world now why do you have been displaced and suffered and can abide and have until recently been relatively safe. Only intimidations and part of talking about its an acceptable as a way turkey. Keeps threatening us. Well we send a dollar to a human rights lawyer on middle east expert for their thoughts d on washingtons withdrawal from Northern Syria. We have to remember that in the 99. 00 days turkey with the substantial u. S. Military support by the way really carried out a genocide against it per kurdish population killing about 3000000. 00 kurds so we know about turkeys tip of the towards the Kurdish People and one has to be very concerned. That in Northern Syria and sure turkey is trying everything you can not to have it happen because obviously if it incurred the military went to the United States that would be devastating but you know mistakes happen and that is the risk of whats happening here so the u. S. Is a horribly unruh high level for for the kurds it has no friends only interests and the u. S. Which is size all the time opposes outside it in support so all right you see this over and over i think the turkish adventure in syria is going to create another bloody conflict in the middle east or did the middle east is blowing up is on the verge kanal and i think david going to vote is going to erupt very soon the u. S. They have betrayed the kurds and this term but the question is now how can we limit the damage. And the war the bloody war that is going to cost thousands of lives. And regards the will on the side as well as on the 3rd site where president from post stridently defended his decision to withdraw u. S. Troops from Northern Syria claiming america has in no way happened in the kurds he also issued a stark warning to turkey saying it would face severe reprisals if it commits abuses during the operation. Weve been in syria for many years you know syria was supposed to be a short term hit just a very short term hit we were supposed to be in and out that was many many years ago and we only have 50 people in that area thats a small sector and i dont want those 50 people hurt or killed or anything i dont want anything bad to happen our people and i told that to president early on i said dont hared any of any of our people get hurt if turkey does anything out of what they should be doing we will hit them so hard in the economy. Turkey has responded to those threats saying it wont bow to u. S. Economic pressure and out home donald trump fun them self in hot water with both democrats and republicans launching scathing attacks on him over his latest decision on syria has killed. Standing in between the turkish an s. D. F. Fighters was not a fight to win or a benefit for the United States why because theyre both friends and allies of the usa so if you support one side youre inevitably betraying the other its a perfect no win scenario and for his decision to abandon the kurds donald trump is already taking a hit so the current stepped up when nobody else would defy if we abandon him good luck getting any help america in the future will radical islam alqaeda and i says the kurds will now lie about this because they have nobody to count on cause we abandon them so this is that they planned for on going to when prices the president s decision to withdraw u. S. Forces from Northern Syria as a d. P. To stop the development the betrays a cottage on eyes who have been instrumental partners in our mission to eradicate isis we must always have the backs of all and i say if we expect them to have our back the kurds were instrumental in our successful fight against isis in syria leaving them to die is a big mistake losing the reputation as a reliable partner is the main concern after all nobody wants to partner up with a backstabber so we decided to ask new yorkers if they think that donald trump is taking the right moves should the usa have pulled out of syria so suddenly i do not support anything trump supports hell flip hell flip flop just like you know honestly i dont think we should be there. Somebody is going to suffer we stay there they suffer we leave they suffer snow we have reason to stop them in the back with help them as much as the possibly can and that some point they have to be able to stand on their own 2 feet of syria you think its too soon. Probably i just think theres a lot of hypocrisy. A senior doctors in the u. K. Were aware that donated blood from the United States in the 1970 s. And eightys could have been infected with hiv or hepatitis it was revealed when the minutes of meetings of high level doctors from that period were obtained by several british Media Outlets recently no we talked to the founder of a Victim Support Group who shared his story. My father was born with hemophilia which is a manageable bleeding disorder and he like thousands of others was given this factor 8 medication he himself was infected with both hepatitis a and hiv when i was 4 years old in 1903 he died of those infections and so thats kind of been the thing thats me into beginning to campaign on this issue and to research into it well i 1st asked for these documents from the darby emberton n. H. S. Trust many many months ago and initially the trust refused to provide me with the document in question so i had to go to the Information Commissioners Office who stepped in and the i. C. A. O. Did promise them to eventually release the document to me however the 1st time the trust gave me the document i know is that 2 pages were missing from it so then had to go back to the i. C. A. O. Saying you know theyve theyve missed out 2 pages here and i did eventually get those 2 missing pages and i was told by the trust that that was due to an admin error if we choose to believe thats true and it was on those 2 pages that were originally missing that this revelation was in that. In 2017 jason initiated a Public Inquiry into the case he claims key files are still missing the latest u. S. U. K. Government statistics say 30000 people were infected with hiv and hepatitis through donated blood from the u. S. In the seventys and eightys it led to hundreds of early deaths the exact figure is still not clear on the pritish government describes the scandal as a tragedy that should never have happened the Health Department also says its committed to being open and transparent with the inquiry but jason evans again diets that there will be any real assistance from the state. I dont think the government the department of health of really move this forward at all in recent times the bizarre situation were in now is of course victims and families say this is a scandal lawyers say its a scandal Civil Servants ive spoken to say its a scandal weve got to form a Health Ministers this is a its a cobra the important point here is the department how the opening hearings of this inquiry said theres been at best a lack of candor and at worst a cover up yet they still will not accept their legal liability despite saying that so were in a situation where they kind of make the right noises but the action just isnt there to back up what theyre saying and i think its time for that to change