This Week in Pictures: 16-22 November

On 18 November, protesters blocked the entrances to the parliament building in Georgia’s capital, Tbilisi, prompting riot police to use water cannons to disperse them. According to Georgia’s Interior Ministry, 37 people who took part in the protest were detained, while four people, including two police officers, were injured.

Russian President Vladimir Putin attending the Russia Calling! investment forum, organised by VTB Capital in Moscow on 20 November. VTB bank head Andrey Kostin is on the right, Moelis & Company CEO Ken Moelis is on the left.

Victoria Sinitsina and Nikita Katsalapov (Russia) perform at the 2019–20 International Skating Union (ISU) Grand Prix in Moscow.

Training and preparation for the winter open water swimming competition for members of the Megapolus cold swimming centre in the Yenisei River in -20 degree weather in Krasnoyarsk.

Models present creations from Lithuanian designer Juozas Statkevicius' Spring-Summer 2020 fashion collection in Vilnius, Lithuania, Wednesday, 20 November 2019.

Supporters of former President Evo Morales stand next to soldiers guarding the road leading to the state-own Senkata fuel plant, in El Alto, on the outskirts of La Paz, Bolivia, 19 Nov. 2019. At least one person was killed when security forces launched an operation to supply gasoline from the plant that had been blockaded by Morales’ backers.

Giant panda Bei Bei rests at the Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington, DC on 14 November 2019. - Bei Bei will depart the Zoo for China on 19 November 2019 as part of the zoo's cooperative breeding agreement with the China Wildlife Conservation Association where all cubs born at the zoo move to China when they are 4 years old. Bei Bei turned 4 on 22 August 2019.

Rally participants in Athens commemorating the Athens Polytechnic uprising that occurred on 14-17 November 1973.

Demonstrators are sprayed with water during clashes with security forces at a protest against Chile's government in Santiago, Chile, 15 November 2019.

Schoolchildren gesture through the window of a cycle rickshaw on their way back home in the old quarters of New Delhi on 20 November 2019.

Athletes before the start of a race at the Novosibirsk Region Open Sailing Championship.

Russian President Vladimir Putin attended the launch of the first routes of the Moscow Central Diameters, the new surface metro lines. The first central diameter, Belorussko-Savelovsky or MCD-1, runs for 52 kilometres between Odintsovo and Lobnya. The second diameter, Kursko-Rizhsky or MCD-2, connects Nakhabino with Podolsk 80 kilometres away.

Moored barges and cafes on the Ob River in Novosibirsk.

Cheerleaders from BC UNICS perform during a break in the 2019/20 FIBA Europe Cup between BC UNICS (Kazan, Russia) and BC Nantes 92 (Nanterre, France).

Hamburg's "Swan Father" Olaf Niess sits in a boat with swans on the river Alster in the city centre of Hamburg, northern Germany, on 19 November 2019. - The swans are being moved to their ice-free winter home.

People walk as smoke billows from burnt waste alongside a road in Howrah on the outskirts of Kolkata, India, 19 November 2019.

St Mark's Square in Venice. On 14 November, Italy declared a state of emergency in Venice, a UNESCO World Heritage cite, after the city recorded on Tuesday a high-water mark of 1.87 metres (6.13 feet), the highest tide since 1966.

An Iranian woman walks past an artistic mural in Tehran on 19 November 2019. - Three security personnel have been killed by "rioters" in Iran, the latest deaths in protests showed no sign of subsiding 19 November despite a wave of arrests and shutdown of the internet. The deaths take to at least five the number of people confirmed to have been killed in the nationwide demonstrations that erupted on 15 November against a shock decision to impose petrol price hikes. The situation on the streets remains unclear largely due to the government-imposed internet outage.

Participants during the Tatler Debutant Ball at Pashkov House.

Police in riot gear move through a cloud of smoke as they detain a protester at Hong Kong Polytechnic University in Hong Kong, Monday, 18 November 2019. Hong Kong police fought off protesters with tear gas and batons Monday as they tried to break through a police cordon that is trapping hundreds on the university campus.

Brightly coloured animal-shaped figures are on display during the "Ocean en voie d'illumination" exhibition at the Jardin des Plantes (Botanical Garden) in Paris, France, 15 November 2019. Artisans from Zigong in the Chinese province of Sichuan assembled the fabric-covered lanterns made from silk and lit by thousands of LED lights.

Passengers on a Moscow Central Diameter train. The first central diameter, Belorussko-Savelovsky or MCD-1, runs for 52 kilometres between Odintsovo and Lobnya. The second diameter, Kursko-Rizhsky or MCD-2, connects Nakhabino with Podolsk 80 kilometres away.

Pole vaulter Sandi Morris poses for a portrait during the Team USA Tokyo 2020 Olympics shoot on 19 November 2019 in West Hollywood, California.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un posing with members of the Air and Anti-Aircraft Force of the Korean People's Army during airborne insertion training at an undisclosed location.

Illegal migrants stand near a fire under a tent, on 20 November 2019, at the "Vucjak" camp, on the outskirt of the city of Bihac, in northern Bosnia. - Caught in "limbo" between local and international politics, migrants remain stuck at this improvised camp with inadequate living conditions. Living conditions at the camp have deteriorated past the brink of a health hazard in recent days, meals are scarce, medical care is limited to emergencies while winter has almost arrived and the Bosnian central government has neither a plan nor the capacity to handle the crisis.

A man wearing a monk suit holds a placard reading "Macron get out this body " as he walks on 16 November 2019, in Nantes, western France during clashes on the sidelines of a demonstration marking the first anniversary of the "Yellow Vests" (gilets jaunes) movement. - French "Yellow Vests" protesters are planning a series of nationwide demonstrations this weekend in a bid to show the government they can still muster support on the first anniversary of their movement. Numbers attending the protests and levels of violence have sharply diminished in recent months from the height of the movement, which began on 17 November last year with a giant Paris protest that drew almost 300,000 people.

Indian paramilitary soldiers detain a Congress Party supporter during a protest against the withdrawal of the Special Protection Group (SPG) cover to party president Sonia Gandhi, her children Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Vadra and former PM Manmohan Singh in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, 20 November 2019. The move to remove SPG security, an elite force that protects prime ministers and their immediate families, led to sharp reactions from Congress, which accused the government of having a personal vendetta.

San Francisco 49ers cheerleaders perform before an NFL football game between the 49ers and the Arizona Cardinals in Santa Clara, Calif., Sunday, 17 Nov. 2019.

Anti-government protesters draped in Iraqi national flags walk into clouds of smoke from burning tyres during a demonstration in the southern city of Basra on 17 November 2019, as protesters cut-off roads and activists call for a general strike. Iraqis flooded the streets of the capital and southern cities in a general strike that bolstered a weeks-long movement demanding a government overhaul. Protesters blocked off roads in the oil-rich port city of Basra by burning tyres and in Hillah, south of Baghdad, students and other activists massed in front of the provincial headquarters.

Pigeons sit on a wire during a foggy day in Moscow on 19 November 2019.