breaking news on the program a terror investigations launched after a teacher is to be headed in an attack near a school in paris the suspect has been shot dead by police so the head of the program washington rejects a russian proposal to extend for a year the major nuclear arms control treaty between the 2 powers. with the infection rates now racing above those said during the spring. curfews and restrictions are imposed across europe. while as the race for the white towards the

finish line republicans are crying follow twitter on facebook. hopeful joe biden. they take negative posts down almost before they even go up there trying to protect them they tried to protect but this is the election interference of the attempt to rig an election which is what we're seeing here monopolies unprecedented in american history. just after 11 at night in beirut in bucharest and here in moscow this friday a warm welcome to be our team use our my name is you know we begin with breaking news from the french capital a teacher has been dick in what police are probing us

a potential terror attack near a school in a suburb of paris the suspect was shot dead by police shortly afterwards president mccrone is currently at the scene with all the details here charlotte. well we understand that it's a 47 year old history teacher who has been decapitation in this particularly gruesome and brutal attack that took place in a northwest area just outside of paris and we understand that it was perpetrated by an 18 year old man to give you some background on this we understand that the teacher had been just a few weeks ago giving a class on freedom of expression and in that class had apparently shown the students caricature cartoons of the muslim prophet mohammed now we understand that some of the parents were unhappy about that and they actually reported the teacher at the time we understand that on friday he was to capitated by this

18 year old and the attack took place just outside the school at around 5 pm local time here in france this is being treated as a possible terror attack and we understand that shouts of bar would heard it just before that attack was carried out the interior minister here in france has cut short a visit to morocco and is back in the country where he is heading up a crisis unit 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 we understand that the perpetrator of this attack then tweeted some of the most of gruesome images i have seen of late all of the decapitation of 47 year old teacher in the tweet that was posted in this now apparently been removed from

social media the 18 year old said that he did this in the name of allah and he said he executed the 47 year old history teacher because he had belittled the prophet mohammed relating back to those caricature is that perhaps had been shown. the class just a few weeks ago the image of the decapitation very gruesome the face mask that the teacher had been wearing soaked completely in blood now we understand that the teacher the police then turned up that the 18 year old alleged attacker at threatened them with a knife and they then shot him dead president mark or unhealed this is a long awaited speech that's been in the works for months about the problem with separatism here in france he said that he wanted to fight back against separatism in this d.v.d. or ation away from the secular nature of france now this is because the french authorities had been fearing for a long time that children were learning arabic in

a setting that was organized by religious associations and in mosques and that they were at risk of being indoctrinated by radical islamists as a result of that president mark on announce that they would be no more home schooling unless there were situations such as health concerns he announced that there would be closer scrutiny of religious associations and schools that served religious communities he talked about liberating france from a foreign influence and this all came around a time as well that we saw a poll of 3 quarters of respondents or who were muslims under the age of $25.00 saying that they would put their faith ahead of the republic and many also saying that they are unhappy with the idea of magazine say like charley do we publishing the controversial cartoons of the prophet mohammed which it did just

a few weeks ago and to bring this into context again just 3 weeks ago we also saw another terror attack related to the images of the prophet mohammed here in paris when an 18 year old stabbed 2 people outside the former offices of charlie abdo so very. worrying developments that within less than a month they have been 2 incidents one including this deadly gruesome decapitation of a teacher on friday here in paris all over it seems that we publish ing of a cartoons of the prophet mohammed. well happy to welcome on to the program to neat francisca who is the representative for the french gathering party broad thanks for coming on the program. thank you the attack then he comes as you know essentially 2 weeks to the day i believe after president mccrone speech on radical islam where he called it a crisis for france what impact do you think this will have on his plans if at all

. well a huge impact but unfortunately it is continued to happen every month we have another gruesome story. has decided to talk about it and that's a good thing however in terms of acts i think were far from what should be done one of the major issues you know that can describe the situation we're in right now it's mess of immigration and that's not uncontroversial when we have this massive immigration and when where we have been told you know people for the past 3040 years now that you know you come to this country to france and you do whatever you want you leave the same way you want you know i was used to live in different countries and forgetting about the principle of a simulation then now we arrive to a situation we had up to a situation of war utopia of multiculturalism is now over it's almost like a gruesome if an evocation of his words dony today micron's plan to come but

islamist separatism was through education what we believe happened this evening was a man beheaded a middle school history teacher somebody who actually is teaching these pupils what's the solution here. what the solution is the law exists in france ok if you if you threats if you if you decide to live in a country not respect the laws you know there's consequences the promises of the government that we having for the past 40 years have decided for political agenda you know to forget about the principles so. it's actually on the school should it be on education right now. yes i think what happened with this teacher and i think it's you know it's happened with many many teachers and friends as they are put in difficult schools and it's very hard to cope you know as a teacher and teach kids you know the values of the republic the 1st republican

friendships tree when and you're facing and you have children in front of you that are out of home indoctrinated with a different with different values so there's like a clash so to speak and when this teacher is showing pictures for you know i'm not sure exactly what happened in that case but instead of just like talking about it and having the debate then the result is that people get upset and to kill the teacher i mean this is this is just inconceivable pictures where were reported to be about this shirley abdu cartoons of the prophet muhammad which i suppose will not again in france open up the issue of freedom of speech and how it can be protected while while not putting the lives of people who decide to talk about such things in jeopardy. those who preach hatred you know correctly call him for instance those can be can be sent back to different countries they can

be put in jail i mean again we have laws to protect the french citizen from those things to happen and whatever if christ looking about it now and again that's a good thing but if he doesn't have the courage to implement the rules and regulations then we will continue to see the situation i mean when we have someone you know does say that it's ok to you to decapitate another person i mean there's no there's no room for for for discussion you know the law must of play and you know things must be done you would go beyond what present a crown it is is planning absolutely i mean prison micronesia stating facts does not go to the roots which is you know massive immigration and also the abandon of the very principle of you know immigration in france for the past year or 2 or 3 you know centuries which is a simulation going to france great you know you do whatever you want you know on

a personal level but as part of the community you need to embrace the french culture and french history speaking on what is a terrible night in paris dinny francisco from the french gathering party abroad thank you thank you. to another big story of the day washington's rejected a proposal from vladimir putin to extend the last major nuclear arms control treaty between the u.s. and russia nicky aaron has more. well as the clock ticks on the last remaining u.s. russian arms control treaty the united states and russia remain locked in what seems to be a stalemate swan most co is suggesting an unconditional 5 year extension of the treaty the us wants quite extensive changes which moscow has called it quite simply unrealistic now speaking earlier on friday the russian president made a strong call it to save the remaining pact when you used to listen i have a suggestion to prolong the existing treaty without any conditions for at least one

year in order to have the opportunity to hold talks on all the matters regulated by such treaties and not to leave all the countries in the world interested in the preservation of strategic stability without such a fundamental document as district reduction treaty. but things between that say seem to have escalated quite quickly with the us even responding with the red sea if they say that conditions are not met. president putin's response today to extend new stance without freezing nuclear warheads is a nonstarter the united states is serious about arms control that will keep the entire world safe we hope that russia will re-evaluate its position before a costly arms race ensues now the issue is that washington wants a framework for a new trial lateral treaty that covers all nuclear warheads and includes those of china in the future and that's something which russia has objected to now the new strategic arms reduction treaty otherwise known as the new start treaty was signed in 2010 by the us president barack obama and russian president dmitry medvedev the

pact limits each country to no more than 1550 deployed nuclear warheads and 700 deployed missiles and bombers and in visit is sweeping on site inspections to verify compliance too but the treaty is set to expire in february 2021 so time is really of the essence here and the lack of an agreement and of course the tone of rhetoric between the 2 sides has raised concerns within the un it is imperative that the russian federation and united states of america extend with. the new start treaty for the duration of 5 years for the sake of all of our security the world must return to a common past towards nuclear these are months now as you may remember last year saw the breakdown of the 987 intermediate range nuclear forces treats us so the new stars is really the only nuclear arms control pact between the 2 sides that remains so needless to say the stakes are high. the coronavirus is once again tightening

its grip on europe front spain and the u.k. are setting new infection records on a daily basis far exceeding those seen during the initial wave however when it comes to tackling the health crisis it seems political unity is in short supply for europe correspondent peter all of our report. 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 this 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. 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 we know the hot spots 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 day by the member states on you wide 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 or bremen things we have also experienced that european corporation is not limitless lee 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. but we spoke to a swedish epidemiologist who believes the joint aim of saving lives on economies has been made incredibly difficult by planning. if you're going to be. facing. it 1st then you have to see where there are groups where it goes. so. they say well that was that gordon from right before he should have been taken into account indep learning. to face. what's not so this is. i dunno.

i don't see it but the. others you know where your prayers are not to save their lives. with your prayer it's hard to say. ok we have it most are going to be doing this but it didn't make them to look down. there we suffered much more so we're going to have it better than they have been if you have those ideas you have of course you're going to sacrifice. but that goes against the human rights. russia is also witnessing a rapid rise in numbers on friday the number of daily cases top more than 15000 while the day before that saw a record number of daily 286 new restrictions are now being rolled out in the capital and in other cities. with u.s. election fever nearing its peak the mudslinging from both sides has gone off like your republicans believe they're being specifically targeted by big tech twitter

and facebook censored an explosive article on the reportedly shady business dealings of joe biden and his on the social media giants claim they were merely trying to prevent misinformation you're starting to kill up and. 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. 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 sons a 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 when 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 screen shot so many this looks a lot like tech giants meddling in american politics so how did twitter explain it

. the policy established in 2018 prevents to use a 1st 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 omo just 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. since announced it will revise its huck materials policy to lead to its instead of blocking them over the new york post article remains blocked that this plays images containing private information public policy professor monk's abrams believes silicon valley has gone fole 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 your viewership of

this incriminating information of course the social media platforms can't come out and say that explicitly they can't say that were 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. the rebellion is brewing in the north of england after the government brought in regionally targeted covert restrictions but faced with growing opposition prime minister barak's johnson has pleaded with the murder of greater manchester to engage constructively however he threatened action if ignored if agreement cannot be reached i will need to intervene in order to protect men just as hospitals and save the lives of manchester's residents in the prime

minister's words come after munch esther's mare and opposition labor party politician a curious downing street of using the north as canaries in the coal mine report. 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 year to 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 he 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 for full lock downs of that kind that is why we have unanimously opposed the government's plans for tier 3 they off lord and. now there are other leaders in the northeast of the country council leaders who have also lashed out in places like sunderland the new cost of against these government measures here in the capital london we are expecting to go into the height from saturday all the words 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 i would prefer a sure shot down rather than something that we just don't know when it might. just keep rolling right back look at the damage that it's been doing to the economy to a 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 is the reaction to this disease as. more unfortunate and terrible it is being grossly exaggerated and we need to. try and regain normality soon as possible again i feel whatever is going to. 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

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