stix mo king writes a french company sued egypt because egypt resists minimum wage democratic choice over trump cool britain joining us as we try to fund. the french satirical magazine charlie hebdo reprints its controversial islamic cartoons of the brig knighting the debate over whether they crossed the line or not that as a trial of 14 people accused of involvement in the 2015 terrorist terrorist attacks which targeted the publication gets underway. also this hour europe showing end zone countries struggle to find a common approach to travel restrictions during the pandemic as hungry unilaterally slaps an entry ban on all foreigners. and with the u.s. deeply divided ahead of the presidential election in november thousands of americans are desperate for an alternative to the 2 main runners and the country's

2 party system. a very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at r t h q and moscow let's get started with your life news update this hour. a trial relating to the 2015 paris terrorist attacks got underway on wednesday 14 people stand accused of involvement in the wave of terror that shook the french capital this a terrible magazine charlie abdo was one of the main targets of the attacks alongside a jewish supermarket or has the details. well charlie hebdo is back in the spotlight here in france and that's because as that trial is underway that important trial it's decided to take a bold decision according to some some of described it perhaps as being more idiotic and that is to republics some of its most controversial cartoons which depict the prophet mohammed the muslim prophet now it was those types of cartoons

that were published by the magazine that initially put a target on its back and led to that attack back in 2015 in which 12 people were murdered now back then the world came out in support singh's use 3 sharlee saying they supported the right of the magazine its freedom of speech to publish cartoons like that but by republishing these cartoons again today a montage of them it has reignited the debate here in france over whether or not it's ok to blast fim now there has been some polls done with the news that charlie hebdo was reprinting some of those cartoons and it's really interesting the results that have come out this is a poll that's been done by the french institute of public opinion now it found when it asked french people in general what they thought was this the right thing to do and that the majority of people supported the decision supported the freedom of

speech of charlie hebdo but when you narrow that field down and only asked that question to french muslims there was a very different response with 69 percent responding that they didn't think it was right to publish those cartoons in the 1st place now everybody seems to be getting involved in this issue from the president right the way across through social media everybody has an opinion and those opinions are polarized there isn't from a freedom to blast fim which is attached to freedom of conscience i'm here to protect all these freedoms and why would you allow a publication to wreck your kid. trees harmony all i see these games this is not freedom of speech this is disrespect in the sentiments of all the muslims around the world still pined in behind freedom of speech it doesn't give people the right to say whatever they want to choose decency and their ticket so freedom of speech will again be used as an excuse to hurt muslim sentiments and our beliefs and while

we condemn these actions openly vehemently no heed will be paid because who cares about muslim sentiments anyway now this trial is hugely important not just because it's about the attacks on charlie hebdo but it's also about the attacks that took place a few days later on a kosher supermarket here in paris where more people were killed and what the national anti terror prosecutor here in france are said while this might not be about the men that carried out those attacks because they are dead this is about that why do web individuals who supported them who perhaps finance them or shielded them in the aftermath of those attacks and this also comes as font says interior minister warns that while this trial is about the historical event an event that is still something that is poignant in french memory there is also something that we must remember he talked about and that is the fact that there is still a huge threat of terror here in france it is the internal threats within our

walls which has become the most significant and the strongest one which mobilizes the most attention of the intelligence services are now also talked about more than $8000.00 individuals still being on a french database of suspected islam ists that could potentially pose a security threat here in france and he said that their full attention was needed on those individuals talking about the resilience of networks such as islamic state and he also mentioned the number all. of individuals in prison that are connected to islam is threats and talked about the radicalization in prisons he said that the majority of those individuals who were radicalized in prisons have then gone on to commit their own terror offenses when they've been released now the trial is about those 2 massacres it surely abdo and the kosher supermarket here in paris and they

heralded in a new wave of terror that has and compassed france now for more than 5 years. so while many people thought the focus would be on the trial starting in paris many people are now looking at what surely there was done with the republication of those controversial satirical cartoons of the muslim prophet mohammed with many people questioning whether this was the right decision was this about sort of standing up for freedom of speech was this about remembering those who was slain at its offices or is this something that could really radicalize islamists across the

world and incite a new wave of terror earlier we spoke with the former head of friends of a leap tactical police unit raid he told us the trial should have started much sooner. some calls and going this case has lasted more than 5 years even 5 and a half affecting only the accomplices not those who carried out the attack because they are alive and can testify if for example we draw parallels with the terrorist attacks in christchurch new zealand which happened a year and a half ago the process there has ended the punishment already determinative a year and a half it took there and in france 5 and a half years this is a real problem and i can't explain it or rather i can because there are reasons for this but that's not the point there is a serious problem here in france regarding the speed of the judicial system and the process for imposing criminal sentences i was ahead in the r.a.

id an elite tactical unit and experienced the attack in real time these events left a horrific imprint on from and historically our memory of it needs to be preserved . and countries are struggling to come up with a common approach to travel restrictions currently different european states are using different strategies to battle the spread of coronavirus hungry for example has just unilaterally reintroduced travel restrictions on all foreigners germany we're told the presidency of the european council is convening a meeting on wednesday to address the lack of cooperation between states r.t. as your correspondent you're all over reports. coronavirus is providing some of the biggest challenges ever seen to the european free travel area known as the shang and so its member states cast an eye on what their neighbors are doing to stop the spread of the fire risk and see whether they want to close down or remain open to travel germany says there needs to be a unified response

a coherent response is crucial to avoid mantis approach as we saw early in the year and to preserve the integrity of the schengen area. sounds great but that unified response is needed. because the current situation is reading rather chaotic brussels center of e.u. power capital of belgium and an absolute nightmare when it comes to travel to corona those who want to come from brussels to germany which currently holds the e.u. presidency need a negative corona test all 2 weeks of quarantine on arrival that includes all you and diplomatic staff who have quite a lot of business going on right now what with developing a united covert strategy attempting to stave off a crippling recession and break that which is still on resolved and raises more questions than answers the netherlands has pretty much the same rules france is

a bit more laissez faire in its approach though belcher bans all parisians from entering denmark doesn't allow belgians in at all unless they have what's called a worthy purpose hungry isn't singling anyone out budapest says if you're not a resident you're not getting in there is a risk of bringing the disease into the country most infections originate in other countries solidarity means common success you cannot be successful together if you are not success but successful one by one this is being seen by home gary and prime minister victor all buns not inconsiderable number of critics as another example of the use political and farm to table air and farm table they're just not wanting to play well with others there which we underline very much is the need to replace blanket restrictions to free movement by more targeted measures which are limited

in time or in geographical scope and meaning for example that you have a certain restrictions to visitors from specific areas and maybe the border closure i don't know is just another provocation of the europe. union i think mr or bunch of really really consider if he wants to be a member of the european union if you're a member of the team you play by the rules the problem is that the rules would draw up with corona in mind and the virus has no regard for national boundaries governments of member states are put into a quandary whether to shut down and put freedom of movement on the back burner or to stick with one of the founding principles of the union and risk it becoming a vector of infection as we head towards an almost inevitable rise in covert cases in the autumn and winter months peter all of her r.t. . now to the us where donald trump has ignored calls to say away from the

violence stricken city of can no ship arriving on tuesday he praised the police his visit has aggravated tensions between trump supporters and black lives matter protesters nasha is the latest u.s. hot spot for rallies against racism and police brutality that's after a black man was shot several times in the back by officers last month 2 people were killed in the protests that followed the shooting with the city suffering massive damage to personal property and businesses however when asked the u.s. president said police violence is not systemic. i think the police do an incredible job. and i think you do have some bad apples i think you'd agree every once in a while you see something and you do have the other situation to. under this tremendous pressure in the they don't hill it well trumps main rival joe biden for his part has posted a video of him and his running mate calmly harris having a socially distance chat where they discuss trump's alleged inability to deal with

the coke crisis you know you think of all the people today who because of the negative way in which this president's walked away with dealing with the covert crisis my god the way it's been responded to meanwhile many americans are getting fed up with their 2 party system and are looking around for alternatives and burgeoning movement is the new people's party and it's hard to thousands of americans to it's a virtual convention over the weekend been as more. deep divisions in america and dissatisfaction with centuries of 2 party rule have forced many americans so look for alternatives on the heels of the democratic and republican conventions 8 people's convention was held a gathering of hundreds of thousands of disappointed left wingers and the people must have been this. president we don't need a. rally cry for a new major party going to be attendees of the people's convention feel that

neither candidate really represents a choice for the working class instead they want political leaders who will stand up to wall street and the political elites long. as you. can tell the criteria of integrity wall street was certainly delighted when joe biden was nominated as the democratic candidate perhaps this is because joe biden has admitted that not much is really going to change when speaking to his wealthy donors i mean we may not want to demonize anybody has made money no $1.00 standard of living will change nothing would fundamentally change another theme at the people's convention was the constant expansion of us wars and the expanding presence of u.s. military forces overseas as soon as i take office i will ask congress to fully eliminate the defense sequester and will submit a new budget to rebuild our military it is so to play dead we will prevail.

we're going to have the strongest military we've ever had by far we're increasing arsenals of virtually every weapon we're making our military stronger and more powerful than ever before attendees of the people's convention called for free college for all a green new deal and an end to mass incarceration they slammed joe biden for not supporting medicare for all even during the pandemic. with all due respect to medicare for all you have a single payer system in italy it doesn't work there and has nothing to do with medicare for all that would not solve the problem at all protests against systemic racism and police brutality and gulf the country now have both candidates throwing gasoline on the fire this president long ago forfeited a moral leadership in this country he can't stop the violence because for years he's fought management here so who are all here supporters and they are your

supporters and did shut a young gentleman ho and killed him now with paint over the bullet. and i think it's disgraceful people's convention attendees voted at the end of their convention to form a people's party that would sweep the us elections in 2021 and hopefully take control of the white house and the us congress by 2024 3rd parties have always existed in america but they generally get marginalized and pushed aside while the 2 major parties dominate the political stage however the people's party is hoping to reverse that trend and become a new force in american politics seizing the spotlight it will mop and artsy new york comedian ron clark own says neither of the 2 main parties truly reflect the views of the majority of americans. it's been a very very very long time since there was a new viable political party in the united states but if you kind of look at what's

going on right now contemporarily i now seems like the time for history to repeat itself and the bigger issue at hand here is just how far the op really is the pandemic has shown that we have a corporate coup for a government we have a banana republic we have a government that not only doesn't give a hoot about public opinion but works actively against it and this is by design republicans are only able to be as horrific as they are because of how ineffective democrats are similarly democrats are only able to be as ineffective as they are because of how rich republicans are. just not reflect the people who live here the largest voting bloc in the united states are people who don't vote and people who don't associate with either political party. up next clashes erupt in the west bank over israel's plans for a new industrial complex details after this break. the

world is driven by a dream shaped by one person of those. who dares thinks. we dare to ask. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy on sunday shouldn't let it be an arms race is often spearing dramatic development only

loosely i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. welcome back dozens of palestinians have clashed with israeli soldiers in the west bank as television steps up its drive to build a new industrial zone there. 'd several people were reportedly injured during the confrontations the israeli forces have been tasked with protecting heavy equipment including bulldozers these will be used to clear the way for the new industrial zone which will be located near the

city of toll car meanwhile this year the israeli authorities have intensified the demolition of homes in east jerusalem that's despite the make and the ongoing economic crisis in the area and many cases it is the residents who have to destroy their own houses due to the high cost of demolishing work is really the in jerusalem insists palestinian homes are only torn down if built illegally without a special permit or human rights groups say there's little real chance of obtaining such a permit for palestinians locals told us they won't give up. as you can see i was forced to demolish my own home because of the fines i worked to build this house for my family and then these really authorities surprised us by calling of the 2nd dave telling us that the house had to come down they didn't even care about the holiday or the coronavirus situation the actions of the israeli government tried to make us leave this land but no matter what we won't go. we saw

what happened with them and we've seen this happen time and time again the municipality destroyed my shop income i needed to feed my family the municipality won't allow us to build houses which forces the palestinian people to do it without a permit or. some global news in brief now angry parents burnt face masks outside of the ministry of education and sophia they don't like the idea of their kids having to wear them to school and even not claim that it's harmful for children's health. firefighters are battling forest fires in brazil these are the worst in the world's largest tropical wetland in 15 years and it's fear the fires will damage the region's biodiversity. and artists in jakarta have painted a river on the streets of the city it took months to complete and is about $300.00 metres long a team of 60 artists worked on it. violent

protests have once again erupted in the lebanese capital over the appointment of the country's burl an envoy as the new prime minister the demonstrations also have coincided with the french president's visit to the country among a 2nd trip since the deadly port explosion in beirut back in early august. my thanks. to. the lebanese president greeted mccrone at his residence on tuesday with an aerial display jets really smoke in the colors of the lebanese flag but despite the warm

welcome the french leaders visit has drawn allegations of interference in the country's politics france has been leading calls for reform and lebanon since the beirut port explosion last month the tragedy was blamed on corruption and triggered the collapse of the government of iran is now demanding credible commitments from officials including a new election political commentator mara osman gave us her views on the french role in lebanon. strong interest is a very really short and small word to express the absolute engagement the french engagement in the news politics if we are celebrating levanon and 70 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 visits with the constance visits of in mind when monk wrong because he's dealing with the 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 who should be saying sanctioning the elite 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 above the government controlling everything from institutions to public and private ones to the point 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 dargon these people if anyone should target them it should be us the people specially after the tragedy that happened the explosion the devastation that took over being in our midst or because of corruption and it might

be because of other cause of russian is the main cause and by seen 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. facebook has announced a radical change to its terms of service has or is have started receiving out of occasions 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 to kill it with the government's using 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 allowing it did you see the new facebook terms of said this smells like election interference and censorship to me as you just heard there's already been a strong negative reaction to the new rules which take effect on the 1st of october this all comes despite facebook boss mark zuckerberg has repeated pledge not to censor political content. you know we've tried to distinguish ourselves as. probably being one of the tech companies that is the most protective of giving people a voice and free expression overall content is newsworthy we also won't take it down even if it would otherwise conflict with some of our standards it 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 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 they intend to basically not only control news but own it but only if say that somebody is threatening to sue them for a search for such and such a content so basically it is a car launch license to remove any content whatsoever without explanation and 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 mom leave so they can basically they're suggesting they can do whatever they want. that's been our breakdown of the day's top headlines for now thanks for tuning in wherever you may be. throughout its history to harvest with the self-proclaimed islamic state terrorist

group have recruited up to 30000 foreigners from all over the world to fight for the. sounds of russian citizens left their country to join the terrorists often bringing wives and children with them. as. hundreds of children and widows were held captive all disappeared. in russia those children families wait search for.

during the vietnam war u.s. forces also. there was a secret war. and for years the american people did not know. our. country per capita. millions of unexploded bombs still in danger lives in this small agricultural country. even today kids and loves fall victim to bombs dropped decades ago is the u.s. making amends for that tragedy and what help to the people need in that little.