Last week. Live from moscow watching our team from here with you tonight thanks for joining us this hour i was and yes there were 2 protests continue to rage in ecuador the governments been forced to relocate to the countrys 2nd city and suspend Parliament Furious at your thought to end fuel subsidies demonstrators have launched a campaign that seemed transport networks crippled across the country Nicholas Odonovan reports now from. The im was i. Am i i. Was ecuador remains under state of emergency off to 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 afterwards thousands of them did in the city who came here to quito and violence continued throughout the night as protesters surrounded the president ial palace the tension was so high that the president decided to move the atman to minister to capital from here from quito to why a kill those 2nd largest city thats not the absolute innocence it less. Time but whats behind these protests while at the center of it all is an economic reform package that the government has 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 the 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 the neo liberal policy of lenin marinas government which of bays and listens the International Monetary fund cancels their nations and not affect students since were all children of workers if he increases the cost of living and leave salaries of the same level this would lead to the fact that many students will not be was continue to study. Let the government leave little anymore end of leave we dont want him to be president because it does too much harm to all of us 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 are closed down to public transport is down to a minimum but 1st 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 r. T. Well president morano has blamed the current turmoil on his predecessor along with another leader of one as another leader of another nation venezuela. Is a tyrant who has acted along with career destabilization plan. There the corrupt people who have the food stamps he has just disclosed no and has made an issue of theyre the ones that are high and this is time to do who did his heart but this is that or talking to r t for president Russell Correia hit back saying more has 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 these mass protests to 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 would 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. Our system professor of latin american studies from the university at albany gabrial outland believes more and i was trying to divert attention from his own domestic policy. Lenora know whats a part of the career ministration of and through his campaign several years ago that he was going to continue the Progressive Left of our series which were not a complete sas but were successful in many ways of the quality and ministration but after money and i got into office he did a complete about face and he transitioned fully to the right and so hes trying to deflect blame from the share of the policies that its been implementing over the last several years particularly this year again its very clear that the policies are not working for dorrans are rising up theres no evidence of this is that its a popular protest people in the street being very unhappy with. The prospect of further austerity and making that an outing as you know. The u. S. Senate Intelligence Committee has published a new report led to russian a difference in the 26 the election claims a group called the Internet Research agency attempted to use social media to swing the vote in dog trumps favor and so distrust in democracy foreign friends are the details. 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 american 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 discord here in the u. S. Favoring President Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton now a mother indicted for 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 your federal judge who slammed Robert Mueller along with attorney general william barr for saying that it was all russia when there is absolutely no evidence of that a u. S. District judge Dabney Frederick he went on to say that muller 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 the u. S. Government says the concord funded quote social media meddling campaign. But the traitor says that there was a lack of evidence supporting that and concluded that russian president putin and president john will trump didnt conspire to win the 2016 election so the biggest point of judge 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 this states as the russian collusion campaign yet again despite there being no russian 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 at 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. Crimmins given its reaction to the report claiming its just a rehash of old allegations executive director of the un Paul Institute for peace and prosperity Daniel Mcadams believes the findings prove little. Well this is a house built on sand is what i would say the its quite interesting because the report begins with the assumption that the Internet Research agency is an agency of the russian government that gudge judge friedrich back in july admonished moore and his crew to stop referring to concordance to ira as for the russian government because it cant be proven heres Something Interesting one of the 1st sentences in the report in the summary says quote the committees ability to identify russian activity on social media platforms was limited so here they admit to pay sick leave they have no way of identifying which groups are russian or not even though the whole report says that the russians are behind it all and you know there just simply hasnt been any proof yet they keep repeating the same old lies hoping that no will notice. Or on has warned against a military operation in northeast syria calling for ankara to respect the countrys sovereignty the wrong joins a chorus of concerned voices which also included european officials. Turkeys reportedly already conducted and also lose strikes in the area thats according to local media it comes hours after washington else that was pulling its troops from the region anchor was also been deploying military hardware along its border with syria on monday video emerged the powerfully showing American Military vehicles leaving their posts until recently washington and around 150 military personnel stationed kurds in the region who are longtime American Allies a few reus years what they think about the trumps administrations decision. Who will serve as a human soon nice story lul not allowing the aggression against this region when we defeated terrorists as you called yourselves our allies and what were seeing now as the coalition is letting us down were hearing constant threats coming from turkey in complete silence on the part of the world now why youve been displaced and suffered. By. Have until recently been relatively safe reject only intimidations and the heart of token an acceptable is a way to keep keeps threatening us. President trump has defended his decision claiming america hasnt abandoned the. Thought warning to turkey saying it would face severe consequences if it crosses the line 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 i said. 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. Well turkey said it one bowed to u. S. Economic pressure on home troubles found himself in hot water with both democrats and republicans launching scathing attacks over his latest decision took in syria as kind of morbid reports 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 and nobody else would defy the police abandoned good luck getting anybody to help america in the future will radical islam alqaeda and i says the kurds are now aligned with us because they have nobody to count on cause we abandon them so this is a period when for on going to when prices the president s decision to withdraw u. S. Forces from Northern Syria as a d. P. To stopping 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 so no we have reason to stab them in the back weve helped them as much as we possibly can and that some point they have to be able to stand on their own 2 feet syria you think its too soon. Probably i just think theres a lot of hypocrisy political scientists believe spending actions are increasingly differing from what the white house his claims. I dont really think that were going to see a massive. Infiltration and would put. Me. Battle hardened Kurdish Forces in addition to that theres a great deal of a small can mirror on the part of transpired ministration of what i consider to be syrian shell game mr trumps part because we had very identical Statement Last december and now you know couple of observation posts have been vacated by the us but u. S. Still has some 18 military bases and operation points including 2 air bases in Northern Syria which there has absolutely no intention of drawing so lets be very careful distinguishing between. The announcement by the white house and actual policies that are in fact contradicted by the pen to the u. S. Military is planning to hold the Largest Military exercise in europe in a quarter of a century more on that other stories after the break. You know world big partisan movie lot and conspiracy its time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that made stream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the bats 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. With manufactured consent of the public wealth. When the ruling classes protect themselves. In the final merry go round lifts only the one percent. We can all middle of the room sick. Real news is really. Much the program in mind all micron has issued a rallying cry to france calling for unity in vigilance in the fight against the most extremism the president made that appeal to see all of the victims of a knife attack at a paris Police Station last week. 1st with the always the 3 meet in the face of islamist terrorism we will fight relentlessly Civil Servants of our Police Prefecture in 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. All of us to go into thursdays incident from the attack and fall of the radical version of islam a number of Early Warning signs were also reportedly missed thats led to calls to sark the interior minister claim and been nothing suspicious in this and its behavior Charlotte Dubinsky has more. A strong 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 are imbedded in. Disturbing information about the attack 45 year old bone has emerged since he killed 4 colleagues and injured several others u. S. B. Sticks found at his home contained did you say executions and yes 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 tone was never flagged up to an investigation. 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 he knew 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 custer near 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 for that the problem is much more big you know we we know that some some. 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 to because we think thats something. Is not the true decision without. Taking care for the position of. The last many are now wondering how many enemies working within its being reported 19 officials at the ministry of interior are currently being moved. Islam missed radicalization while around 10 others have been dismissed resigned the people who knew. Were probably very. Few fear to say anything because though their career was on the line. They were afraid to be said that there were. A big that they were overseas that the didnt care about people were a problem. There was through them that to speak and when you Say Something in france in the french police. When they see that there is a problem you because you also become a problem and part of the problem so if you dont say anything if youre not listened to anything you dont see in a sling you have much more chance to get promoted and not to have any problem than to say anything the phrase yet to uncover earn to react to the radicalization of our poll has cast a dark shadow of Security Forces here in france eroding trust with many officers perhaps now left wondering how many more extremists are hiding in plain sight so lets even ski ati paris. U. S. Military is planning the Largest Military exercises in europe in 25 years the drills called defender europe 20 will take place in germany and i pull in maine next year. Once again we bring to the security of our strategic reading level. U. S. Army. 37000 troops will take part of getting 20000 from the u. S. The aim is to improve the american armys ability to move its forces rapidly to europe in response to a potential crisis. Defender europe 20 is a great opportunity to demonstrate the u. S. Armys unmatched ability to rapidly project forces across the globe while operating alongside their allies and partners in multiple contested domains with germany playing host and taking a key part in the drills themselves the moves come in for some criticism from some of the countrys politicians they claim germany should play no part in your political analyst Writer Office believes creating an enemy in the east is the only way to justify nato his continued existence the west is also under pressure to show that there is an enemy in the east by the military union and nato would lose. Its reason for investing so many euros and doris into defense and this is to be sold also to the german public in the coming years why we should spend many many billions or 2 percent of our g. D. P. In the future for defense and therefore its self marketing and i think russia understands this very well it has to be seen. Yeah really illogical its not even absurd to assume that russia could. Member state territory of europe because russia totally depends on a good economic and trade relationship with europe. Boom bust coming up in just a few bob its time were back in 30 minutes with the latest headlines. In the age of trump what has happened to journalistic standards and competence in the media not long ago it was generally agreed that politics was the art of the possible now one news narrative must prevail and all others must be vanquished theres a state of affairs serves the public interest. The world is driven by shaped by. The day or thinks. We dare to ask. And its community there are people who believe that its ok. Its really hard there are no jobs and you see that ive got kids and ask and as a parent. I can come up with lots of arguments theres a lot of conflict within the game and between the teams most of the conflict i would say revolves around money and most of them money is made. 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This is broadcasting around the world and covering all aspects of our Global Economy in the 21st century im christiane washington daniel guidos out on assignment today we begin in china where as silly tensions between the 2 global superpowers have spilled over into a new realm the fast ball court professor Richard Wolfe is standing by to break down the reactions by the Major Players in the controversy and what this could mean for the future of u. S. Kind of trade talks. Despite behind a recent roller coaster at the future of what the currency may be brighter given