breaking news this hour. dead. on the terror investigation. coming up in the program with. the race for the white house the words the finish line republicans are crying foul twitter facebook. joe biden.

by. before they even go up there trying to project. this is election interference in the attempt to rig an election which is what we're seeing here. unprecedented in american history. terminally ill children to become legal. patients who are suffering so much.

to the globe this is your r t international 30 minutes of news and views start and. we begin with breaking news from the french capital this evening where a teacher has reportedly been capitated in an attack near a school in a suburb of paris the suspect has been shot dead by police and the terror investigation launched let's go straight. to our key charlotte charlotte gruesome details emerging. yes indeed we understand that the man who was dick capitated in this gruesome horrific attack is said to have been a history teacher at a local school in a region to the northwest of paris we understand that the background to this attack is that the teacher had shown a class of students in late september early october some caricature some cartoons of the muslim prophet mohammed as part of

a lesson on freedom of speech now we understand that some of the parents had reported the teacher for that action in class what we understand that happened today is that reports in the french media that an 18 year old suspect capitated this teacher close to the school in the afternoon of friday some people say around 5 pm local time we understand from french media that he then tweeted did an image of that decapitation before police came to the area saw a suspect brandishing a knife and apparently shot him we understand the alleged perpetrator has been shot dead by the police this incident has been taken over by the national anti terror prosecutor so it is being dealt with as a terror offense here in france and we also know that the interior minister has cut short a trip to morocco this is the latest tweet from him back in

paris i'm being informed directly by the crisis unit that i have opened in conjunction with the president of the republic and the prime minister. so that crisis unit has been hope and we know that the president of the republicans president matt gone and the prime in this star are staying a breast of this just to put this in some context that history teacher has apparently showing the characters of the prophet mohammed that was around the same time that sharlee the controversial magazine really published the images of the prophet mohammed to coincide with the terror trial that's taking place in france at the moment now that republication prompted another terror attack that happened 3 weeks ago when an 18 year old man was arrested after stabbing 2 individuals outside the formal offices of sharia there really is quite a lot in the mix that's going on at the moment france of course has been under this

nightmare of terror since 2015 when charlie hebdo was attacked itself for publishing those cartoons of the muslim prophet mohammed originally following that there was an attack on a jewish supermarket later that year we had those horrific events on the night of the battle and then there was nice and since then there have been many many smaller attacks here in france but the latest on this is that we understand a history teacher has been to capital by an 18 year old man a history teacher who had recently been reported by parents for showing class children pictures caricature of the muslim prophet mohammed that teacher has been to capitated on friday here in paris and it is being treated as a terror investigation just a brief word this comes a fortnight after president mcraney here nonstop. defending france against islamic

radicalization. yes that's right he has been working on this plan for many many months he finally announced it this idea that no longer will children be allowed to be homeschooled in france that's many people think directed primarily at perhaps children of islam mix of religion and want to teach their children at home he also announced they would be why did controls on terms of funding from mosques here in france and he basically said that it was no longer ok for the secular values of the republic to be put 2nd to somebodies religion that has angered quite a lot of people not just here in france but there was also anger from other muslim countries as well in regards to that but france feels it's very necessary just to give you some background on that in the last few months there were polls published when charlie hebdo republic those carty tunes of the prophet mohammed which showed

that the majority of the young muslims here in france thought it was wrong to show those types of images and that many of them would put the values of their religion above the values of the french republic and that is something that is really worried the authorities here in france and that's part of the reason why president on made the big sweeping announcement 2 weeks ago which he says will defend that secular nature of france charles thanks very much for taking us through all the serb breaking news today from the french capital charge of devinsky. coronaviruses once again tightening its grip on europe france spain the u.k. there are serving new infection records on a daily basis for excluding those seen during the initial wave however when it comes to tackling the health crisis it seems political unity is in short supply or europe correspondent peter oliver reports. cases of coronavirus skyrocket across

europe e.u. leaders bringing back hardcore restrictions and we have made a decision to impose a curfew it will be enforced in the paris region and 8 other french officers dust in the city the situation over the bend them it is serious because we record rising infection numbers almost everywhere the reason is that fear is a 2nd autumn winter wave of the virus would be worse than the 1st appear to be coming true back in march france was in lockdown with around 7 and a half 1000 daily cases the latest figures show that is high and now the same picture is repeated in spain and in the u.k. while all those countries were in lockdown in the spring now politicians are trying to strike a balance between safety and personal freedom for many the potential economic damage of another lockdown outweighs concerns of

a public health. and. since the virus was 1st detected in europe different countries of opted for different tactics the swedish government went for a hands off approach relying on people following precautions without them having to be made the rules that worked at least for a while but now restrictions are in place in sweden as well the disjointed approach among member states has caused public frustration a poll of e.u. citizens found that just over half of french people counsel to their walls unity in the block when it came to tackling coronavirus however 60 percent of italians and almost 3 quarters of those here in june. any thought the approach lacked solidarity

as our anchor lariam security the measures that confusing i have no idea where i can and can't go there's just simplify the rules i'm worried about a 2nd law down especially the impact it will have on restaurant owners and the self-employed it's not clear if there is a right strategy but there must be a better way to explain the strategy where supposed to be when can we know the hot spots as large family gatherings politicians maybe care homes and retirement homes that's where they should focus this is just chaos one thing that was agreed upon this week was a unified set of travel rules for the european union we welcome the agreement reached today by the member states on uy coordination of measures restricting free movement related to the corona virus pandemic it will have a single set of colors to categorize the different regions based on risk with a single set of rules to follow so citizens can see more clearly what the situation

is the german chancellor says that means to be more cooperation across europe to help calm attain a virus that doesn't care whether it's in brussels bremen things we have also experienced that european corporation is not limitless leave resilient i tell you the south critically especially in the beginning of the pandemic inveterate specht we focus too much on the problems of our own country but this experience once again makes it clear that we need each other we need close european cooperation in order to must agree challenges which can only be achieved together with the citizens and not working above their heads so far unified approach to tackling cove it has been lacking from european leaders these are all of our asti. we spoke to a sweeter 70 a lot just on one big point that's continually being debated he believes it's

almost impossible to have those 0 coba debts that it seems many nations are striving for while saving economies at the same time. if you are to be. your face in front of me the 1st thing you have to see is where there are groups where it goes. so it does not help that they say well that was that gordon from right before he should have been taken into account indep learning. to face. that was not the so this is this year i do know. you do. i don't see it but the. others you know where your prayers are not to save their lives. with your prayer it is hard to say. ok we have it most are going to be doing this me and they come to look down. there we suffered much more so we're going to have

a better position than they have been if you have those ideas you have of course you are going to sacrifice. but that is against the human rights. well as the situation across europe russia is also witnessing a rapid rise in on friday the number of daily cases top more than 15000 the day before that saw a record number of daily deaths 286 new restrictions are now being rolled out in the capital and other cities. and states side with the u.s. election fever nearing its peak the mudslinging from both sides has gone up a gear but republicans believe they're being specifically targeted by big tech that's after twitter and facebook censured explosive article on the reportedly shady business dealings of joe biden and his son hunter the social media giants claim they were merely trying to prevent misinformation with more here's our taste

. the election is just 3 weeks out and the new york post the daily conservative tabloid of new york city says it has a bombshell and they've allegedly got e-mails from joe biden and his family now the e-mails are said to have come from a laptop that was left behind at a computer repair shop in delaware there are some images of joe biden's son hunter smoking crack and an alleged sex tape the e-mails show hunter biden introducing his father joe biden and the vice president to the board of barista a natural gas giant from ukraine that actually paid hunter biden $50000.00 a month to sit on its board. i did home to thank you for inviting me to d.c. and giving an opportunity to meet your father and spend some time together it's really an honor and pleasure critics say this proves that joe biden when he was vice president knew about his son's business deals in ukraine and helped them republicans see this is damaging the biden campaign team of course they didn't i

everything so why has this story gotten so big well social media got involved well they will intentionally not link to the new york post i want to be clear that this story is eligible to be fact checked by facebook's 3rd party fact checking partners in the meantime we are reducing its distribution on our platform on facebook you couldn't even share this story in a direct private message it was blacked out gone twitter even shut down the new york post account and the account of the white house press secretary when she tried to share a screenshot so many this looks a lot like tech giants meddling in american politics so how did twitter explain it . the paulson stablish in 2018 perhaps to use of our service to distribute content obtained without authorization well that's interesting because the recent story from the new york times similarly unconfirmed about donald trump's tax returns

which was based on personal data that was somehow collected which the new york times never bothered to explain where they got it from that story it's still up on both platforms so cue the republicans with biden today they take a negative post down own those before they even go up there trying to protect him they tried to project by the tech monopolies that control american media feared this story might hurt that candidate when they favor this is election interference in the attempt to rig an election which is what we're seeing here by monopolies is unprecedented in american history now twitter says this is all just a big. miscommunication well the damage has already been done the story of joe biden and his son and their business dealings is probably not going to have a big impact on the election results however the move by the tech giants to censure him after they've already had

a long history of anti-conservative bias that very well could. r.t. new york just on this story twitter has since announced it will revise its hacked materials policy to label tweets instead of blocking them however the new york post article about will remain blocked for the time paying as at this place images they say containing private information we got some reaction to this including from public policy professor mark abrams he say silicon valley has gone full political actor both twitter and facebook are very clearly in the biden camp and so this bombshell story by the new york post is damaging to joe biden and so both twitter and facebook for political reasons are trying to restrict viewership of this incriminating information of course

the social media platforms can't come out and say that explicitly they can't say that we're in cahoots with you know the biden team and we didn't like it for political reasons it reasons instead they need to make up other reasons for restricting viewership what is cleaner is that this was a very pro biden move. coming back to europe now the dutch government has approved plans to a lot of the euthanasia of terminally ill children aged between one and 12. the research shows there is a need for the possibility of active life terminations among doctors and parents of terminally ill children who are suffering hopelessly and i'm barely and will die in the foreseeable future you know let's just go through the details current dutch law permits youthen is here for babies under one year until then older than 12 consent from parents is mandatory while children aged 16 or 17 need only inform their

parents of their decision the new rules will also require parental consent on the approval of 2 doctors youthen is here for adults meanwhile was legalized in the netherlands almost 2 decades ago. the euthanasia cons for a sizeable number 4 percent of the total number of deaths in the netherlands ots of more than $6000.00 cases the majority involve terminal conditions we put the government's new plans for the bait. there's 2 things that have got to find one is how long someone's got to live and the other is how unbearable the suffering really is and both of those things get watered down over time or in oregon for example terminally ill has been watered down to you know you require some medical treatment to sustain your life which means even diabetes is classified as terminally ill where people can live for decades with diabetes this is what essentially is on the edge that's absolutely announce the definitions of what causes what is terminally ill what is unbearable and this kind of thing and that the fact they will think it

down now to children as well shows exactly the slippery slope that happens when you legalize euthanasia in this kind of way it's absolutely nonsense what you say it autumn patient with having diabetes will not be helped in his suicide just because he has to die if there is a diabetes it by suffering which is certainly not the reason and this is to wait opposed a preachin is talking about i think even the suggestion to young children maybe dying is the right option is just going to very very very disturbing for their children and and just provoke anxiety i think children what you have what will happen here is children will feel pressured to die pressured to allow people to kill them what an awful thought that is and then parents as well feeling pressured to kill their children or allow their children to be killed i think if you don't want to have euthanasia you're not going to ask 3 you won't get it will get absolutely perfect health care in the netherlands and in oregon it is nonsense to

say that it is suggested to patients that they should make a choice for death it is not one of the nicest thing for a doctor to do to help his patient die but sometimes it's the only way out it's not monsters at all are many reported cases where patients have felt pressured you know because doctors have said you know we can't maybe we can't treat you for this and so you should think about euthanasia have you thought about euthanasia and dots of repeatedly said that to patients and they felt the pressure of it give me a quote to that article i have never read. what you set it is still something you think or you believe which is happening and maybe there have been cases where this has happened and i must say that we are sacred but it is certainly not the general our outlaws practice in the netherlands how would this practiced in oregon how does practice in belgium in luxembourg right now i mean what we've found consistently in surveys of doctors is that people who are actually policy of care doctors do not support euthanasia they're the ones who know that pain can be alleviated euthanasia

is is not the right way round everyone agrees that this is a wrong thing to do to terminate life in this kind of way you are perseverant in saying something which is not right if there are a situation to alleviate pain by periods of care how doctors do that but we are talking in this kind of cases of patients who are suffering so much where the suffering can not be alleviated. it is much more humane to help somebody die peacefully by yes of course by the hands of a doctor by giving medication. you originally targeted covert dress trick shin's cause i'd rage in the north of england out story broken down after the break.

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hello again a rebellion is brewing in the north of england after the government brought in regionally targeted cold restrictions but faced with growing opposition prime minister barak pleaded with the mayor of greater manchester to engage constructively if not action could help and he says if agreement can't be reached i would lead to intervene in order to protect men just as hospitals and save the lives of matched his residents well the prime minister's words come. in opposition labor party politician accused downing street of using the north canary in the coal mine he sally reports. the mayor of manchester has

been speaking today and he's been lashing out at the government's attempts to implement this so-called 3 system on certain parts of the u.k. or at least putting certain parts of the country into those higher brackets and mr burnham saying that those parts of the country suffered enough economically there are certain sectors of the economy that have suffered enough economically throughout this crisis and if the government is going to pull these measures out then they have to extend some type of financial support to those regions last night the deputy chief medical officer told great amongst the leaders to bring the infection rates down any regional lock down would require widespread closures way beyond pulps to stand any real chance of working and that would have to be done in tandem with all the neighboring regions and even then it would not be certain to work. but here's the point the government is not giving city regional

city regions like ours and the liverpool city region the necessary financial backing full full lock downs of that kind. that is why we have unanimously opposed the government's plans for tier 3 they are flawed and. now there are other leaders in the north east of the country council leaders who have also lashed out in places like sunderland and you cause that against these government measures here in the capital london we are expecting to go into the high from saturday on words and on the streets of the city there are mixed feelings as to whether that is the right way forward i think it's kind of been thrown a lot of people people weren't expecting it necessarily but it seems like it's the logical next step that i should shut down rather than something that we just don't know when it might and it's just. well look right but look at the damage that's

been doing to the economy 2 tier 3 everyone suffering now we've reached a point where this there doesn't seem to be any light at the end of the tunnel i take the view that the this the reaction to this disease is. more unfortunate and terrible it is being grossly exaggerated and we need to. try and regain normality soon as possible and i guess i feel whatever is going to stem the spread is a good thing i think it probably needed to happen a while ago and maybe we would have had to do it a bit less dissin know it is gone forever and i know it's in the public interest and we should be safe but. i don't know i'm really tired of my work and everything just being disrupted all the time you do i have to do it. or in this for the long term. the us city of portland is counting the costs of another night of vandalism

last weekend after a block lives matter protest descended into rioting one business targeted was a restaurant owned by a military veteran john jackson we experienced some and all this i'm and vandalism in the form of what i would call domestic terrorism on sunday evening by a faction group that hasn't yet identified themselves jury even in the head a march here in portland which turned into a riot and that's they meaning they targeted heroes american. and proceeded to shoot through the windows with what we believe was a 9 millimeter pistol. the hero's american cafe is known for supporting veterans police firefighters and other public servants according to the website some profits are donated to support local heroes the restaurant was attacked during

the so-called day of riots in portland protesters top of statues of former presidents raided the oregon historical society building portland described the actions of john jackson again believed some groups intentionally escalated the situation. it was a planned attack not just random because there's other buildings all around me that weren't touched they toured multiple statues a statue of teddy roosevelt abraham lincoln and they destroyed a museum a historic museum at the same time the chatter on the internet indicates that they believed that we were pro police and they believed that we were anti like lives matter which. is makes no sense because you can see that i happen to be an african-american business owner portland is a community of relatively peaceful people and i think that the people from portland that are protesting are protesting peacefully what's happening is there's

a faction that are being paid to come to portland and to antagonize and to escalate trouble. before we go a reminder of our breaking news this hour a teacher has reportedly been dick capitated near a school in a suburb of paris the suspect was shot and killed by police or a short time later in a nearby village his identity has not yet been released on terror investigation has been launched and it's reported that the victim had parents after showing his plus the cartoons of the prophet muhammad which were initially published by the shirley abdul magazine some years ago the french president is said to be on his way to this scene it comes exactly 2 weeks since the money will mccrone gave a speech saying the french republic is be becoming increasingly threatened by radical islam we'll keep you updated on the latest developments of this story.