then the bigger question if you dream is and for. the. french president emanuel macron calls the beheading of a teacher in paris on friday and islamic terror attack the suspect was shot dead by police. and washington rejects russia's proposal to extend a major nuclear arms treaty between the 2 nations due to expire next year. also with coronavirus numbers now surpassing the peak from earlier this year curfews and restrictions are being reimposed across europe. and pre-election madness of the us as republican slam social media giants for banning an explosive article on democrat joe biden. by. they take negative posts down almost before

they even go up there trying to protect him they're trying to project 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. just after 2 am here in r t international's headquarters in moscow i'm donald quarter welcome to the program . now our top story french president emmanuel macron has confirmed the beheading of a teacher in paris on friday evening was quote an islamist terror attack the suspect was shot dead by police shortly afterwards charlotte dubinsky updated us from the french capital earlier but we understand that it's a 47 year old history teacher who has been decapitated in this particularly

gruesome brutal attack that took place in a northwest area just signed in 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 byt 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 allahu akhbar 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 as that perhaps had been shown in the class just a few weeks ago the image of the decapitation very gruesome the face mask

that the teacher had been wearing so completely in blood now we understand that the teacher the police then. turned up that the 18 year old alleged attack 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 all the 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 a magazine say like charley 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 there have been 2 incidents one including this deadly gruesome decapitation

of a teacher on friday here in paris all over it seems the republic shing of cartoons of the prophet mohammed and we discuss the possible repercussions of the attack with a number of political commentators. there's definitely links to the trial of the people who could lie did in the murder of the journalist the cult us judie had to watch and the casualty of do is so french there's a great tradition in for a lot of political. cartoons and others and offensiveness in a sense subtle and i think that is not something on which the french need to yield it's something that is bringing them to unfortunately this continue to happen every month we have another gruesome story those who preach hatred those can be they 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 mcchrystal king 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 decapitation of the person i mean there's no there's no room for for for discussion. has decided to talk about it and that's a good thing however in terms of acts i think we're far from what should be done in one of the major issues that you know that can describe the situation we're in right now it's mess of immigration and that's an uncontrolled. washington and moscow are at odds over the extension to a major nuclear arms control treaty after the u.s. pushed back against vladimir putin's proposal to continue it without preconditions for another year nikky 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 mosco 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're used to losing 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 the strategic arms reduction treaty. but things between the say seem to have escalated quite quickly with the us even responding with threats 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 $1550.00 deployed nuclear warheads and $700.00 deployed missiles and bombers and in visit is sweeping on site inspections to verify compliance too but the treaty is set to expire in feb 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 u.n. it is imperative that the russian for the nation 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 wars nuclear these are months now as you may remember last year saw the breakdown of the 987 intermediate range nuclear forces treaty says 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. in other news france spain and the u.k. are setting new daily infection records exceeding those seen during the initial wave of the coronavirus however when it comes to tackling the health crisis it seems political unity is in short supply our europe correspondent peter all over reports. cases of coronavirus skyrocket across europe e.u. leaders are bringing back hard core. actions and we have made a decision to impose a curfew it will be in force in the paris region and 8 other french officers dodged in this situation over the pandemic 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 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 consultant thought there was unity in the block when it came to tackling coronavirus however 60 percent of italians and almost 3 quarters of those here in germany thought the approach lacked solidarity as i grew lariam security measures that confusing i have no idea where. i can and can they should simplify their 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 one we knows the hot spots knowledge family gatherings politicians maybe care homes and retirement homes that's where they should focus this is just chaos it goes with the 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 uighur 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 limitlessly 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 r.t. . we spoke to a swedish epidemiologist who believes trying to save both lives and economies has been made incredibly difficult by bad planning. if you are happy to feel it is time to enjoy our face at the outbreak of plundering the 1st thing you have to see is whether they are a group aware of those little bit interest so it does not help that they say well that was their golden from long before it should have been taken into account in

diplomat of this strategy to face the pandemic and that it was not the done so this is this year i do know. over incapacity. i don't see it purpose but your priorities are others you know where your prayers are not to say that i feel that it will be with your prayer to start to say the economy will even think that we have a nice economy doing this pandemic and the tempted would look down that we have there we suffered much more so we're going to have a better position than they have if you have those ideas you have this month's edition of course you're going to sacrifice the. but that gains the human rights. more news after the break.

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welcome back with us election fever nearing its peak the mudslinging for both sides has gone up a gear but republicans believe they're being specifically targeted by big tech that's after twitter and facebook censored an explosive article on the reportedly shady business dealings of joe biden and his son the social media giants claim they were merely trying to prevent misinformation here's our tease caleb been. election is just 3 weeks out and the new york post the daily conservative tabloid of new york city says it has a bombshell 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 son's business deals in ukraine and helped to the 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 in 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 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 establishment 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 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 whom 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 in 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 it after they've already had a long history of anti-conservative bias that very well could. r.t. new york twitter since announced it will revise its hacked materials policy to label tweets and start of blocking them however the new york post article remains blocked as it displays images containing private information public policy professor max abrams believes 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 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 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. a rebellion is brewing in the north of england after the government brought in regionally targeted covert restrictions but faced with growing opposition prime minister boris johnson has pleaded with the mayor of

greater manchester to engage constructively however he threatened action if ignored . if agreement can't be reached i will need to intervene in order to protect men just as hospitals and save the lives of manchester's residents the prime minister's words come after manchester's mayor an opposition labor politician accused downing street of using the north as canaries in the coal mine 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 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 full full lock downs of that kind that is why we have unanimously opposed the government's plans for tier 3 they off lord and on for. 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 pilot. 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 the reaction to this disease is. more unfortunate and terrible it is being grossly exaggerated and we need to. try and regain normal as you soon as possible again i feel whatever is going to be out of this

stand 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 was fairly it's 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. we're in this for the long term so you can find more of your latest news stories on our website r.t. dot com and on all our social media channels from everyone here at r.t. international thanks for watching. actually it's very interesting times over the phone then because introverts there's no way of life this social experiment if you don't. know. their numbers tonight if you condition one is that people become more reflective and say

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oh and welcome to crossfire all things are considered i'm the confirmation process that will most likely see judge bear become the next supreme court justice is in full swing. in their liberal media doubt over the proceedings legally there are doubts don't have any merit whatsoever however this is not what's in play simply said the supreme court has been politicized maybe forever and packing the court is a real possibility. cross talking the supreme court i'm joined by my guest we'd enables he is a presidential historian and a former white house advisor to 2 american presidents his latest book is inside trump's white house the real story of his presidency and in washington we cross to

robert but hell is an attorney as well as executive director of the rainbow push coalition are joining hospitals in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it ok robert let's go to you in washington. what are your what is your assessment so far of the proceedings that it will see most likely judge bear become an associate justice of the supreme court i was very troubled to be honest with you the number of times the democrats said shameful shameless i mean what is shameful about the legal process that we're seeing right now i understand fully well that there's a lot of issues that divide people here but the proceedings themselves are pretty straightforward and it's not the 1st time it's happened but the media doesn't give you that impression so what are your thoughts are on these proceedings. 26 to 16 remember ministration. lindsey graham and

ever sort of it's sort. of a bit of. a mess. but some rooms are better parents and. bring the. numbers are. so that. their cards are better than the benefit that i request of the veterans there but they were once our best. estimate that was announced well you know that's what republicans said they were. him and amy want it done here but they voted for these senators and they're sent to senators it's their job. as you said in the constitution to to advise. and eventually vote here. i agree with robert here i but i don't really care what lindsey graham says who carry the mcconnell i don't care what they say about this i care what it says in

the constitution i care what is legal and what is not legal here and so when a politician says it's neither here nor there in this issue ation go ahead. yeah. it's legal and it's constitutional there's a big difference between this year and 2016 the democrats couldn't get the votes in the senate to get their nominee it's. that simple they have the opportunity and they have the presidency but you have to have the senate to this time the republicans have the presidency and the senate and as you may know 29 times there's been a vacancy during an election year the business of the government has to could go on has to continue. ok let's talk about the substance here. obviously to mean that the entire proceedings of our has been turned into a democratic.