headline story. for students across the world but classroom life is a whole lot different before tough new rules. authorities in berlin get strict about the wording of mosques during public protests following a series of demonstrations against germany's coronavirus measures also ahead. again in lebanon with hundreds voicing their anger over the appointment of a new prime minister it's happening during a visit by the french president who's promising a. warning possible such as. your

tuning in from across the world this hour welcome. international my names you know me hello a warm welcome schools reopened after the break through most of the world but classrooms are taking on a very different look with 19 measures in place let's see what some countries are doing in germany the rules vary from state to state but include the use of mosques regular disinfection premises and smaller. spain is rolling temperature checks on schools face being quarantined if there is a night break in france schools are focusing on ensuring pupils wash their hands and. treat both students on for teachers here's what people in paris think about the new reality. the only good is

a fault we're happy that the children are going back to school it's important for them to go back people are nervous but that's life will find solutions believe us i'm not going to so my child is deaf so we're in the compulsory mask creates inconvenience because it's impossible to leap read the teacher or the other cross mates but i think the teachers will come up with a solution for example where in a transparent mask or advisor. the moment when the teachers have have their faces covered it's not clear how well the teachers can observe the reactions of students these a difficult conditions to put. people are scared because a very thing we've been hearing but no one really knows what's going on i know we have to be careful but the children have to get on with their life so we need to somehow deal with it. all our t's double quarter paid a visit to a russian school to take a closer look at the new measures against infection. well it's that time of the

year again time for students all over the world to go back to school and many of them won't be sitting in virtual classrooms just because of the coronavirus in russia september 1st is a very important holiday everybody usually gets dressed up parents and grandparents personally see off students to their 1st day of school but this year the celebrations have been canceled because of the normally large crowds that gather around this time and on top of that students not all of them will be going back to physical classrooms parents are be being given the option to keep their kids learning remotely because of the fact that many are still afraid that schools are going to be closed down after the 1st cough or sneeze there the new measures that have been inactive here in russia don't allow parents to enter the premises of schools classes will be starting at abnormal times to keep the sizes down and masks will be mandatory even the authorities have said that it's possible that the entire country will return to a real. of of remote learning now in the u.k.

it's a different situation measures have already been implemented to keep sick students at home although the masks are not mandatory in schools right now minimizing contact has become a top priority there now these are only a couple of the long list of measures that the u.k. government has implemented but for months they've been trying to convince parents that schools are safe instead of putting together a plan to make sure that they can be safely reopened in fact it was just several days before the beginning of school in the u.k. that the government began recommending that students over the age of 11 wear masks in hallways and public areas and that secondary students be able to stay home every other fortnight in the event of a local lockdown now this could these kind of last minute guidelines have really upset a lot of teachers in the u.k. we've been asking for months and months and months wolf yes susan to close down because of. that's been seen as a kind of act of heresy and yet here we'll be for

a bank holiday weekend school it really isn't the government funding and then there's france where the education minister has said there shouldn't be any hesitation in sending back the country's 13000000 students back to school although he did admit that not all classrooms could be guaranteed to be safe by the time students return to those schools and even president said that the country could be facing another lockdown soon because of the fact that the country still facing an exponential rise in the amount of coronavirus cases there and as you can probably imagine teachers in france weren't too happy either as soon as they'll be in contact with one another re going to try and get them to our stair hands but let's not fool ourselves we know that with 25 pupils we won't always be able to keep an eye on them so it seems like here in russia the 1st of september is just as important for the authorities as it is for the students and their parents will life

return to normal or will another wave of the coronavirus cause another lock down only time will tell. quarter of the school gates well we spoke with the world health organizations representative to russia who say yes you can never eliminate all risk you have to say that this means a part of the by the community and they have to be seen so so if there is good control in the wider community their insurance spiked a lot for the schools and we have to take that into consideration however there is no 0 risk we have to think about that but with the knowledge we have about call it over the last practically 8 months and with all the efforts that are being put into place we do believe that this is the right moment of the skill set to move on to return children to schooling but in a safe mode in the beginning of this year then a number of measures have already been announced by various countries and maybe

various schools but the most important thing is what to do if a child test positive ory basically if a child develops symptoms or to start as well most likely that class who go on learning it bending on the number of cases in the school who tested positive we have of course learned a lot about the virus but not everything and. i said to my person and asked him to have children and spreading and how much and how more remain very very helpful it will however require quite a lot of discipline by the lot of strong capacities for detection and 1st need reaction but as i said there is no. anyone thinking of protesting in berlin will now have to wear a mask if at least 100 people show up that is the decision of the state senate it comes after a number of rallies occurred in the german capital over nationwide restrictions to

try to make your sorry europe correspondent peter all of our. protests and demonstrations of more than 100 people in berlin and now on the list of events that require those in attendance to wear a mask the berlin senate has voted this through their protests it means joins the list of public transport shops and supermarkets and school buildings though not necessarily inside classrooms the berlin senator for the interior and their skies has welcomed this move saying it's an important measure to stop the spread of the corona virus and also to show public health responsibility it's the responsibility that certainly was not on display on saturday authorities say 38000 people were on the streets of berlin protesting against government. measures in fact they were some times quite ugly scenes in the demonstrations at one point try to enter the

reichstag building. thanks. thanks. thanks. seems almost certain that the scenes we saw on saturday were behind this measure being pushed through requiring masks to be worn at future demonstrations but those scenes were also behind some condemnation from politicians about the actions of those who took part on saturday the extremists disapprove of violence and the extreme rage during last saturday's demonstration in berlin rightly frightened outreached many people will not tolerate such excesses jesus a vegetable feature should have the right to demonstrate peacefully it is of course

a very valuable asset even during a pandemic this right was clearly violated at the weekend. the results was shameful unacceptable scenes at the really stark anti democrats trying to make themselves heard on the steps of our democratic harlem it's all unlikely that anybody taking part in further protests of this kind will pay a lot of attention to this new ruling about musk wearing some of those who have turned out to these demonstrations don't believe the coronavirus is actually a thing that exists in the 1st place still numbers out these demonstrations has been growing a similar protest back at the beginning of august didn't draw me as many people as the almost 40000 who took pass on saturday just go on we are expecting another demonstration to take place at the beginning of october be having to keep an eye out to see if people will wear masks. the french president is in

lebannon on the official visit speaking on choose the he offered to host an aids conference for the country's devastated economy but also warned of sanctions against officials if urgent reforms are not carried a 100 lebanese president michel you and greeted emanuel mccrone at his residence on tuesday with an aerial splay jets really smoke in the colors of the lebanese flag but the spike the warm welcome the french leaders visit her drawn allegations of interference in the country's politics france has been leading calls for reform in lebanon since the bay report explosion last month the tragedy was blamed on corruption and triggered the collapse of the government is now demanding credible commitments a quote from officials including a new election meanwhile fresh antigovernment protests have unfolded in beirut.

what you see here is then tense confrontation between protesters and security forces and the lebanese capital activists hurl rocks at the parliament building trying to storm the gates tear gas was used to disperse the crowd many demonstrators voiced their anger over the newly designated prime minister saying he represents the same ruling class as the previous government. well let's get some insight into all this with political commentator. live from beirut today good to have you on the program our way it's a money well 2nd visit since the explosion no other world leader has taken such strong interest in the situation in lebanon is mr goal solely a philanthropic. strong interest is a very really short and small word to express the absolute engagement the french

engagement in the news politics specially on the 100th year lebanese. country i mean we are supposedly celebrating but not in a very celebratory mood the 100 years of the creation of the lebanese state and ironically enough we have french jets celebrating that by going in our skies and giving us colorful small whatever they want to call it but i mean come on if we are celebrating levanon and 17 years 100 years of founding levanon 70 years of being free and independent from the french mandate we are here having the french president with his planes telling us what to do i'm not saying that's bad or not bad i'm just saying that this is not an interest this is another mandate in the me king maybe

a mild one with the business with the constance business of in mind when monk wrong because he's dealing with same political elites we're not talking about officials when he said sanctioning officials i don't think that this is the right way to see it he should be saying sanctioning leet because the governing body in lebanon is not might the warlords that have been governing from behind the offices the official offices of the government for the past 32 years this devastation of a country because when you really sanction the people who are in the government you're doing nothing because the people of bought the government controlling everything from institutions to public and private ones to the port to the airport etc you name it then what are you doing if you're not targeting these people but at the same time who are you to target these people if anyone should target them it should be us that people stay. yeah that the tragedy that happened the explosion

that there the station that. missed or because of corruption and it might be ok. well action is the main cause you've summed it up really what i was going to say but you've got a money one mccrone promising aid but also threatening sanctions if reforms don't happen you're talking about the the elite but what about the people of the lebanese public viewing this approach from a foreign leader is it viewed as interference or is it seen as a friendly gesture. it depends who's seeing it because if you're a court of the 14th march bullish and then he's a friend if you part of the 8 march coalition that he is interfering i mean let's just imagine together this is the bonnie and president doing all of this community mansion drama that we have a we would have drawn in our 1st state let's say it's the russian president doing all this oh my god what will happen to the mainstream media and other non it would be in russia trying to meddle in russia trying to occupy et cetera et cetera but i mean look the french our president has the french passport the new prime minister

or the new person designated to form a government has the prince ask what we're talking about a culture of a certain amount of people who are elite in this regime in lebannon that are fully part of the french in little system they are french citizens to begin with so we really never went out of the a french mandate it was just all the show and by see what mike brown has been doing for the past 2 visits you can see that france is just diving more and more into the lebanese politics under a certain point when the lebanese public will maybe not not take it in can we just briefly touch on another point while you're on the program. we saw a large protest against the prime minister designate stuff a deep who's been serving up to now i think as ambassador to germany why do people object to his appointment. because he is really good friends with all the in the. regime in levanon who the people are trying to dismantle i mean really we're

talking about a regime that is a police to terry in one morning to the tough work signed in there in the light used by all the lords who are part of the civil war in lebanon we have still the same regime the people are tired of this regime but at the same time have figures like for example most of our who is the new price was in the new prime minister who was. also happened part of this regime by being and. 11 he's a master at several countries lastly there is a master at germany and he's very well connected with the lebanese speaker and with the with the former prime minister as one had a union with other members of the elite in the finance so when you tell the people that means these very provocative names most definitely you will see them in the streets protesting just finally do think a new election is going to to resolve or go any way to resolving what is happening because clearly you've got to challenges for lebanon not just the rebuilding effort

in beirut but they the entire state of the economy public services which have been the source of protests since last year. the unity but i don't think any election will solve it we need a new torah law and this will be maybe an opening to a new civil war people don't get on the table and talk to one another you just imagine with the new electoral law could lead the country into a civil war it's that drastic in the not what we need is a fully nonstick interior regime and what i see in the attic there and it's simple if one civil regime need to write rewrite our constitution we need to make our constitution based on a nationality and citizenship instead of secretary innocent why can't i live in me is muslim she our woman be a president because my constitution does not allow me the traditions in lebanon does not allow it has to be and maronite what kind of a system is that and there you go again with the public with the speaker and with the prime minister as well we need to abolish the system or nothing will change

that a new election and even with a new electoral law we need to start thinking about building a new constitution institutionalized regime instead of a stick a tear in some very interesting thoughts thank you very much for coming live on the program political commentator mario osman from the lebanese capital. facebook has told users. it will start blocking any. harmful to the company we delve into walk it means after the break.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race in this on off and spearing dramatic development the only really i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk.

21 minutes into the program welcome back facebook has announced a radical change to its terms of service users have started receiving notification saying the social media giant will start removing or blocking any content that could expose the company to legal action we can also remove or restrict access to content services or information if we determine that doing so is reasonably necessary to avoid or mitigate adverse legal regulatory impacts to facebook disturbing near addition to facebook terms of service that could be used to justify online censorship but with the government's use in restrictive national laws to order social media platforms to censor information critical of the government or more narky in violation of online freedom these books terms of service update

translated to plain english will remove content not because it is incorrect misleading illegal or spreads dangerous misinformation but because removing it might help prevent us from getting caught a lowing it did you see the new facebook terms of said this smells like election interference and censorship to me yes demonstrated there there's already been a strong negative reaction to the new rules which take effect on the 1st of october this all comes the spike facebook boss mark zuckerberg has repeated pledge not to censor political content. you know we've tried to distinguish ourselves out as. probably being one of the tech companies that is the most protective of giving people a voice and free expression over all content is newsworthy we also won't take it down even if it would otherwise conflict with some of our standards what i believe is that in a democracy it's really important that people can see for themselves what politicians

are saying that they can make their own judgments i don't think it's right for a private company to censor politicians or the news in a democracy that doesn't fit in with facebook practices in general which have been censoring and biased and completely draconian in terms of how they treat content and it's very prejudicial it's well they have a member been really for free speech and they have now with facebook news the intent to basically not only control knows but own it can only say that somebody is threatening to sue them for a search for such and such a content so basically it is a car watch life to remove any content whatsoever without it. the users are now you know they're a captive audience it's very hard to move from one social network to another you have a whole network of friends and followers that you have that you are counting on communicating to and now they know that their virtual mark leave so they can basically they're

suggesting they can do whatever they want. protesters gathered in southern los angeles on monday after a black man was shot dead by law enforcement and it's alleged the manas salted a deputy sheriff who was trying to arrest them officers also to say he was in possession of a handgun it comes amid brutal scenes in cities across america deadly shootings have left some parts of the country starting to look like a war zone the situation has fed into the 2020 presidential campaign with joe biden blasting donald trump. for refusing to condemn coyote written has a 17 year old is facing murder charges after shooting dead 2 people who were chasing him during a black lives matter protest in wisconsin last week. that was an interesting situation you saw the same tape as i saw and he was trying to get away from them i

guess it looks like and he fell and then they very violently attacked him and it was something that we're looking at right now and it's under investigation but. i guess he was in very big trouble he would have been i he probably would have been killed tonight president trump declines to rebuke violence he wouldn't even repudiate one of his supporters who was charged with mudda he's too weak to scared of the hatred he has stead to put an end to it the elections that take place every 4 years in the united states generally polarized the country to some degree or other but 2020 is taking things to a much higher level clashes on the streets between black lives matter activists praised by democrats and from supporters are starting to look almost like civil war .

a member of the right wing patriot prayer group was shot dead in oregon and that's just days after a 17 year old was charged for shooting 2 anti-police brutality protesters in can no show wisconsin now some on the right hailed the shooter in. notion as a hero meanwhile some on the left have celebrated the death of the trump supporter . donald trump has taken a heavy handed approach to the protesters with 0 tolerance and joe biden has also denounced the violence but early on you had

a different message i said in the right to be fact angry and frustrated and more violence for any more people is the kind of answer the question but are totally correct the deadly violence we saw were of a night in portland is unacceptable shooting in the streets of a great american city is unacceptable i condemn violence of every kind by anyone whether on the left or the right and i challenge don't trump to do the same both candidates feel the situation has gone too far and both candidates now blame each other for the chaos. here gas was used to remove these testers people to read about it is happening under donald trump's watch where not safe in donald trump's america the hard truth is. you won't be safe in joe biden's america donald trump is running as the quote law and order candidate now that's an

unpopular position in some circles meanwhile biden is on the defensive as conservatives label the unrest the biting riots with the election just 2 months away and the country spiraling out of control it's unclear if either candidate really has any idea how to fix the situation it will mop and artsy new york. more great programs coming your way in moments here in order to international find out what's on offer wherever you are across the globe today in moments goodbye for not. was a pandemic no certainly no borders just blind to nationalities. as americans we don't observe the we don't look like seem to be just sick. people.

judge you. come in every crisis please listen to my times we can do better we should. everyone is contributing each or own way but we also know that this crisis will not go on forever the challenges create the response has been masked so many good people are helping us. it makes us feel very proud that we are in it together. so all this insider trading in the press policy saying we're going to extend quantitative easing indefinitely as you are saying that's the worst kept secret in the history of the world because there is only one thing they can possibly do they can only print you can only you can't taper a ponzi scheme as they go off and some before they can only print then they can

only expand printing exponentially like any ponzi scheme you need a bigger base of the pyramid scheme has to get bigger and bigger and bigger it is showing up in prices commodity prices and we do see people now reporting back and saying hey i can't afford food i'm starving on the street. join me everything on the alex so i'm unsure when i'll be speaking to guest of the world the olympics business i'm show business.