media that's also been tweeted by trump you'll know what's really going on. a rift in scotland's largest political party is emerging as the country's former first minister is being investigated over accusations of sexual misconduct and is accused of two cases of sexual harassment the current first minister nicola sturgeon a close ally of salmon said the situation is incredibly difficult for her. for my party this will be extremely upsetting to members of the s.n.p. up and down the country it's a difficult situation but what is important is that completely our treaty seriously regardless of who the person complained about is i can confirm the scottish government received two complaints in january in relation to and examined mr sam and was notified of the complaints in march and forms to sam and the people involved on wednesday august twenty second of my conclusions and that i was

considering the public interest in making the fact of the complaints and the investigation publicly known scotland's police have refused to confirm whether an investigation has been open the allegations of sexual harassment date back to two thousand and thirteen alex semin denies any claims of mr conduct and says he is taking legal action against the scottish government we spoke to him about the allegations he's facing. i think few to the complaints that were made against me and i have sued deny any semblance of criminality so when you have such things you need a process which is both confidential and fair and most reasonable people will understand and what i'm not frightened of going to the highest court in the land to establish that it seems the scottish government looks a bit shaky in their position these investigations depend on could very convey the confidentiality if you don't have that then how and there are people going to have the confidence to complete in future because not just about the person complained

of oh it's the confidentiality of the complainants and the scottish government the breaking of that confidentiality so we told them to not make that statement because we were taking the action in the court session but of course somewhere from in the bowls of the scottish government a tabloid newspaper was briefed so the story got out therefore we revealed a legal action and events of taken of course but it's an extraordinary situation when the scottish government starts to break its order confidentiality after the shooting everybody connected with this that that was going to be absolutely protected for the process. french police have described the city of grenoble near the alps as the french chicago they've expressed grave concern about the rocketing crime rates which has seen some politicians even trying to avoid the area.

too many things we're not told now we are bringing you breaking the law. why we can steal your jewelry grab your bag we have never seen anything like the elites used to be more tough but now. they're afraid. for their lives if the crime rate is significant in grenada compared to cities of the same size the city is plagued with drug trafficking there's not a single week without a knife attack the criminal settling their schools. in the fact that interior minister came to visit for cool in the region we thought he

would visit grenoble even for a shoulder. in the future and we will of course make additional efforts to syria. they could have sold told he preserve crazy because their agenda is a book deal and he would just come and grab them any broad daylight so no one even moves because they're scared to do something the police are afraid of those currently still because they have clashed you know they're on to the teeth with the weapons of war and the municipal police have nothing to get there by the national police i believe christian music school that is the criminals who are the law in this city. dozens of palestinians have been wounded in a protest along the gaza border that's according to the local health ministry israel has responded saying it was defending its border and accuses hamas of using

demonstrators as a cover to breach the border fence and what are the reports from the protest. today is the twenty second friday of the great march of the cherone mass demonstrations today palestinians are are protesting in solidarity with the palestinian pat medics and journalists that have been killed in the past few weeks of the great march a great journey. as you see this is the jeep that chose tear gas canisters on the policy and protesters to distract them and to keep them away from the front you can also hear live ammunition work only one hundred meters away from the fence edwards very close and it's very very dangerous here. why don't you just tell us how many.

french property owners using the online renting service air b.n. b. are facing legal action for refusing prospective hall the tenants based on their ethnicity french journalist mo and me haji because of north african descent claims that when he tried to book an apartment in march say his reservation was canceled without explanation but when he got a friend who he describes as having a quote good french name to try and book the same property he was told it was available for hire after posting his story online he says hundreds came forward saying they've been treated the same by other landlords air b.n. b. responded saying it's sorry for what happened and underlined that it does not tolerate any form of discrimination we discussed the incident with a french lawyer and a pair of space political commentator i think there's a problem with. this form committee you would say in the larger sense today entranced which has got a bad image and some people would rather not read that rents to people who got this bad image and particularly within the north african community music giving some

argues to racist people who don't want to see enough african coast in their house lot of people will be people coming from north africa. and so the terrorism and these are some of the reasons why we speak a lot of the north african community today i don't agree with the thing that. we can sum up the reality of people acting or having delinquent behavior just by giving the roots of these people but this has nothing to do this has nothing to do to explain the behavior again i'm not saying the anti or north african community each so a lot of this is a suggestion that i work with interests and they're not he's let me answer to i'm just telling you there is a problem which has to be settled i know people from the north african community ashamed of what other people in their community you know and you can see just unfortunate on a daily basis imagine the french person who has no contacts with the north african

community who read the press on a daily basis and weeds people who have been committing crimes who have been terror who are terrorists who are advocating death to france or that they hate tracks and every time to read this unfortunately i'm the first to say unfortunately unfortunately see that they're often associated with the name from north africa now if there are people who are considering that the route the original behavior the. asian or the face on the known face is. good. to discriminate they are wrong there are not respecting the law this is what we have to remind in. the states which is the state of low. washington has hinted it could hit turkey with sanctions over its decision to buy a russian made air defense system the u.s. has also warned against other nato allies having similar ideas in the past. you

know it goes against our policy to have a nato allies such as turkey use an ass four hundred system part of the problem with that is that it is not in iraq robel with other nato systems and so we are against the having some of our partners and allies around the world potentially purchase s. four hundred sixty trigger cats is not going to get into that but we have made very clear what could trigger sanctions for other countries and entities around the world the russian made s. four hundred missile system is capable of hitting multiple high speed aerial targets within a range of four hundred kilometers the deal signed by turkey in russia last year is worth two point five billion dollars and the first systems will be delivered next year has been looking to bolster its air defenses since the u.s. withdrew its patriot missiles from the syrian border where huge and back and two thousand and fifteen that russia has long time military trade partners from all over the world as the head of the state arms export or explains this you think is

that i'm looking at the s four hundred is the most advanced missile defense system in the world countries are already lining up to purchase we have gained a firm food hold and. our contras the result of the ship with india and china. and the collective security drew to organization also work with the military industries on more denies and forces. but it's not only turkey going against the grain when it comes to the defense trade and america the outspoken president of the philippines has dismissed an offer to buy u.s. made f. sixteen fighter jets saying buying them would be utterly useless. we do not need him sixteen it would be totally useless by you but they need a little closer and smaller things would be done. roderigo to territory made the offer assigned by washington's top brass public during

a military ceremony the president then highlighted that the letter from u.s. defense and state secretaries came after officials in washington had made humiliating comments about his country's crackdown on drugs security analyst charles bridge the u.s. is pushing arms sales for political leverage point we thought from the operational military perspective of sixteen's are not much use in the immediate threats that he perceives the philippines faces and he perceives as good reason but there is i think more today what we're talking about here is trying to use this as a means of leverage to control the fallen policies of other countries and that's exactly what the philippine president regardless of whether one likes him or not always policies he has correctly identified that america uses this to pressure its allies into staying as allies after all that's the philippines president objected to basically said don't forget the this is about more than capability it's also

about a relationship you buy american weapons you're investing in a relationship. in the u.s. state of louisiana for anti pipeline activists and journalists have been arrested and charged under a controversial new law the remaining activists say they're now facing increased police repression including the use of tasers let's take a look at the pipeline at the center of the story.

that new law took effect on august first and lists pipelines as critical infrastructure which makes trespassing on the ground they're being built illegal those disobeying at risk a hefty fine or as long as five years behind bars activists say that a number of off duty police officers were also working for a private security firm to protect the construction site but they're no longer working in that capacity activist ted hall believes the new law goes against america's core principles really think it is the right word to death a city as well as the desperation because companies disclose these legislatures. trying to hide how pathetically an american this kind of

a law is privatization unconstitutional actions that have not been held up in the supreme court and clearly don't measure up to the law of the land the constitution this needs to be understood as something that should be contained it is so that it doesn't spread throughout the united states and so it does not spread throughout the rest of the worlds. ted hall the activists you just heard from also took part in the dakota pipeline protests that project face opposition over fears that drinking water would be polluted and indian heritage sites destroyed. on numerous occasions the protests there turned violent with state law enforcers as well as the national guard and gauging in standoffs with the activists officers who use force to disperse crowds and water cannon in freezing temperatures hundreds of people were injured some seriously and police defended their actions saying the

activists were trespassing and writing this crime in them as very aggressive here's had hall again with his take on that. i believe that any kind of perceived violence if that would ever occur we need to be under incredible scrutiny because it's doubtful that sees the advocates for farmers rights advocates for landowner rights to actually kids for safety and see in the climate future are going to resort to that kind of to set it in a civilized approach. a former nurse who's lived in britain since she was a baby is facing deportation batal us who was originally born in the caribbean and whose father served in the royal air force is one of hundreds caught up in the so-called wind rushed scandal a government policy which wrongly targeted commonwealth citizens immigration status charan's been telling her story to r.t. . i had to stop work i lost my job i was

a registered nurse i went into financial difficulties i lost my dad in twenty two or my brother to suicide i ended up stealing monies from patients. have ended up in person getting a prison sentence everything accumulators it was just like a knock on effect people are dying people have literally died of stress people have committed suicide because of this it's been a tough road for sharon a former n.h.s. nurse who's facing deportation despite having lived here most of her life while waiting for an update on her status she was told she could no longer work and was advised to seek charity help in order to feed her kids if they can just allow me to go to work at least i'm not allowed to claim benefits and the person said not you're not allowed to claim any benefits you have no status so i said to her home i suppose to feed my child he's twelve he didn't do anything wrong and she said well

go online and seek charity the forty six year old was born in germany while her father was deployed during his service in the r.a.f. her family moved back to the u.k. months after her birth i mean our family has been connected to to england for years everyone was proud of him being a soldier saw because of my dad's service i shouldn't work my children should starve and i should be pushed into destitution thats it. and i should be proud that he was serving the queen in the force. that's a punishment has siblings who were born in the u.k. have never faced problems with their status but sharon has been told she is not british on the grounds that she was not born within the nation's boundaries sharon believes she has rights to citizenship because of her father's service there's a document called the queen's rules and regulations of the armed forces and this control is everything you do wasn't as an army personnel wherever in the world you are and it says in black and white any children children should not suffer from

their citizenship nationality problems anything were when they were born they should be treated as born on british soil if there was one the home office said inaccurate legislation summary of legislation so history in the queen's document is wrong one of the girls said well i'm not nationality trained i said so well where you dealing with me but you give me a british but at the cricket so you have me on your numbers that i was born in britain but then i'm not british the home office has previously said that there is no guarantee for children born abroad to non british citizens to claim british nationality even if their parents served in the armed forces sharon now has no choice but to wait for an appeal decision on october the fourth sharon is just one of dozens of descendants of the wind rush generation who have had their lives turned upside down by the government's hostile environment policy to clamp down on illegal immigrants i just think it's a racist thing i don't like to preterism but. who is it happening to

is a minority groups because i met my mother to group then i put it on to. that's our breakdown of the world's top headlines for this hour but don't forget you can always find us on many of your favorite social media platforms or head to our website argue dot com for up to the minute reports thanks for tuning it.

feet shevardnadze islam in europe has long been viewed with suspicion by the majority of not representing european values is that really true and can it be changed well i ask sharing han khan denmark's first female. islam in europe is a magnet for controversy used by the right wing to start fear of feared by the

people in the wake of their attacks and the refugee crisis with the extremists inside the muslim community resisting integration mistrust come to vicious circle in hatred. is there a way to measure europe's ultimate liberalism and the ancient traditions of islam and how for the is the past me it. gon denmark's first female in mom welcome it's really great to have you with us and excited to ask you all the questions that i want now you call yourself an islamic seven ist being denmark's first female among do using a woman could ever lead a mixed mosque in prayer in islam not just female only and would you like that to happen actually i had the vision of a mosque with female humam so many years ago back in one thousand nine hundred nine i was inspired when i did my thesis in syria and sufism an islamic activists and and back then i was my admission to

a mosque with female in moms leading the prayer actually for both men and women because i always pray together men and women so it's very natural to me i was always you know i was always working against the say creation with indifference fear. yes so when i started the mosque we recruited it. other people for our team for the group and like any group like any community you have to vote and it's a democracy and the majority of the committee they voted for a women's mosque only so i had to accept that and i think now when i look back on the really happy about the decision because i realize that having a mosque with women or female in my sleep the prayer for only women it's not controversial at all so we're actually able to do other revolutions that i consider more important but do you feel like when you pray it's about but do you feel like

your vision of having a mixed mixed mosque could ever come true is this something would want to see in the future it is already happening because we have the first mosque in scandinavia with female moms but there there are mosques all over the world in china since the eighteen twenty in the u.s. and canada and germany and especially in germany and canada and us there are mosques with mixed prayer so it's already happening many places in the world i do hope that in the future we could have a mosque with both male and female you moms and and i hope that in the future we could have mixed prayer also because we have so many young men who tells us that we would also like to come to the money a mosque and to pray with you and we would like to come as a family without children and so i think it will happen maybe in the future but right now i'm quite happy about a women's mosque so islamic states extreme take on islam still attracted

a lot of women to go and volunteer and join its costs you as a female spiritual leader how do you explain that why would people why would women volunteer to be so horribly oppressed. by isis i mean i think that people tend to become radicalized or attracted to read to collide communities because they don't feel a part of the existing communities that they live in often and if you don't feel a part of the existing community i mean you have nothing to lose and you try to seek other communities where you feel at home and where you feel that you are validated so unfortunately these communities that are very extreme and to try to i mean they sometimes you know they they focus on all these political issues of today and they use all these political tensions in order to recruit very vulnerable

young people who maybe do not feel at home in their existing european communities or where they might live and that's why it's so crucial that that we try to include our minorities in the existing countries in order for everybody to feel at home and to feel a part of the community that you believe that the koran at its basics considers man and woman equal so all they have to arkell oppressive parts of traditional islamic societies where do they come from if not religion i mean in the koran there are one hundred fourteen chapters and more than six thousand six hundred verses and there are six more says that could be interpreted as discriminatory against women but they could also be interpreted over differently with a focus on women's rights and gender equality and that's actually what we're trying to do in the area mosque we try to read these verses in order to create

gender equality so and this is actually happening all over the world we have a male and the end male and female scholars who try to rewrite the koran in our times in our society. yes within islam we have a patriarchal structure within religious institutions and that patriarchal structure of course it has affected the interpretation of the koran so this is also what we would like to challenge these pay trickle structures patriarchal readings of the koran and and i think that female you moms has something to contribute in that context because we have a specific focus on gender equality and we are in need of that so you're not wearing job shoot i had or face cover be a choice and this is a sign of oppression what do you think of course it i mean we are born free and we are born free so of course every single human should choose for themselves how

they want to live their life and muslim women have different interpretation of what it means to be a modest woman this is my interpretation of modesty to me the scarf is a metaphor for sincerity towards god and sincerity in the relationships that you find yourself in it could be a friendship or a marriage or whatever so but i also respect women who choose the way that he jav and see it as a part of the islamic identity we have to accept and respect that women have these different interpretation of what it means to be a modest woman in the koran there are two verses come searching the scarf and concerning the covering one of the verses is specifically. related to the wife of the prophet and the other verse is more universal. like you said he jap to burka it's all based in their requirements to be modest for women in islam didn't she is

he that as another the of the pattern arky that you are resisting like a woman has to sing about how a man sees her and worry whether she is judged modest or not by a man. that's not my interpretation of modesty i use the term more in the sense of the. in the sense that you choose how you want to present yourself in the sense of a more spiritual sincerity so i have the same respect for a woman who was wearing a ministers and a woman who is fully covered i mean it's up to any woman to choose how she wants to dress and how she feels comfortable and i mean it's stated clearly in the declaration of human rights that any human being has the right to practice his or her religion in the private sphere and in the public sphere so i mean we cannot we can decide that women should not wear the hijab i mean it's

a human right it's freedom of religion and freedom of religion is is just as important as freedom of speech so as not of course what happens in iraq what happens in iran where women are forced to wear the scarf of course i condemn that and i fight fight against that and i wouldn't i also condemn anyone we are i can damn whatever is going on in europe right now where were countries are trying to. fool he jobs on women in the streets. i mean if a woman if a woman chooses to wear the he or the board it's her own individual decision and we shouldn't i mean fights against that we have to support the i mean any person's right to practice his or her religion i mean we signed the contract was signed the declaration of human rights so it's actually stated that every keeley that this is a possibility so i will fight for any woman's right to wear the hijab and not to

whether he is your. position you're quite an interesting mix of absolute european democrat and a spiritual leader in islam. when you try to fight islamophobia and open up your religion open up islam from a different angle how do your fellow believers see you i mean do you think you are a true muslim in their eyes and a must live of the clerics from egypt or iraq or maybe don't even care what they think actually i do not seek the recognitions of of other people i seek the recognition of. but of course it means something to me what people think. actually we had a visitor it's was the granny mom from the third largest mosques in the indonesia. it's called the mosque the granny mom he has two hundred thousand muslims.