i'm. 11 people have been arrested in france following friday's brutal killing of a history teacher the suspect shot dead by police was an 18 year old chechen. also ahead on the program yesterday so armenia and azerbaijan signed a 2nd ceasefire but before the ink out even dried there were accusations of new attacks in the disputed region of. shells rain in areas surrounding the disputed territory with civilian casualties reported in. the largest city we hear from both sides of the conflict. started the

war that was. clearly. a race. with the big stories from the past 7 days and right up to the moment of elements as well this is the weekly r t international hello and welcome to the program the program. 11 people have been arrested following the brutal slaying of a history teacher in friends it's believed some your party was targeted for showing karaka churches of the prophet muhammad to his pupils large crowds gathered in central park to pay tribute to the murdered man many came carrying flowers and holding signs proclaiming just we prof. several other vigils have been taking place

across france hundreds gathered in legal in toulouse to decry violence and support freedom of speech a national tribute for mr party is planned for whedon's day. the prosecutors say a beheading was carried out by an 18 year old of chechen origin who was born in moscow his family moved to france 12 years ago seeking political asylum in russia say in such cases citizenship is usually withdrawn meaning the country has no link to the incident a witness filmed the moment police confronted the suspect. the god. in national antiterrorism prosecuting in france has been putting details about what exactly happened in the days leading up to that brutal capitation almost 47 year old history teacher he's been named is this samuel patsy now the assailant was shot

dead all state capital. the concern person of russian nationality and of chechen origin benefited from a refugee status and lived in your average in the he was unknown to the intelligence services on a judicial level he's never been convicted but was known for cases of damaging public property and gang violence while still a minor el is eating up to that atrocity he went to school in ospel to put. check out some real patty warts so it does appear that he didn't know the victim himself before her and the national antiterrorism prosecutor also outlined the details of the individuals who've been arrested in connection with this terror attack they in 2 parents and grandparents and the younger brother all the 18 year old assailant and also a parent older student 2 had apparently post debate here on facebook in the last

few weeks calling for the teach it to be dismissed as a result of showing those characters of the prophet mohammed to do that because stream we end this stand that in the days leading up to this decapitation there were many threats that were being made against at the 47 year old teacher we've been speaking to some of the parents all children who are also 'd in senegal patti's cost to them of you. he asked muslim children to raise their hand and leave the classroom he did it my son told me he didn't do it to discriminate or to hurt he did it to preserve the children to not shock them he explained i'd prefer if you left because i'm going to show it could turn of the prophet of islam i don't want to shock you because i think if you were an attack here normally nothing ever happens here and now it teaches been decapitated our children on safe we don't know

what to do you know the rector of great great mosque here in paris has said that he was horrified by what's happened and he said that condemnation just isn't enough anymore that action needed to be taken and also it was culmination from the immoral of the great mosque in. whatever the thought the believe even the insult the caricature of the other nothing justifies the fact of killing the so it is the mortal capital soon to kill a person like that to cut his throat like that all because it showed caricature. of the prophet there have been there been 2 terror attacks here in france in the last 3 weeks and both of those attacks related to the images of the slim profit might have made their present medical at line was he wants to do the drop through d.t. percentage before the end of 2020 he said that any deviation away from france's secular values wouldn't be tolerated he talked about liberating from from foreign

influences we know that drove through is going to see closest scrutiny or schools and associations serve religious communities and that arabic will now be true in mainstream schools rather than in mosques that law is sent to you by the end of the year but it comes as polls have been giving us and in planning all walked many muslims feel one poll recently showed that almost sweet crude says that those who responded who are under the age of $25.00 said that they would put their religion above that of the republic this attack has unleashed a huge fear now particularly amongst teaches you may have to give similar classes to that of samuel patton and this is even raised more questions about what's being done at the moment with that is actually enough to prevent this sort of radicalization that leads to such extreme brutality r.t. spoke to the former mayor of the time where the atrocity happened. shoot.

first i'm shocked and angered because this is complete madness a teacher doing their job giving food for thoughts about freedoms and republican values he was beheaded it's horrendous he's a victim of madness i'm even more shocked that this college is one i opened when i was the town mayor and it had a good reputation working there was nice and it was located in a neighborhood without any problems or violence it's time for us to take a tough stance on the issue on how people intrude into france while being deemed as refugees and surprisingly given resident cards to 2030 i don't think that this act of terror is a crazy man's deed but a premeditated act at this point we must prosecute for any violation of the republic's laws in particular for the pressure being put on teachers and journalists to keep them silent. bass political analysts nickel america vegetable

leaves the deadly incident highlights the refugee crisis all falling in from. because too early to see now what type of check was done when these refugees code come into france what kind of check does france do have with divisions why are they coming here. do they belong to any specific organizations i think this definition shows that france does not do that in any case it doesn't do it correctly and it's hitting people which shouldn't be here if you are good to let people into your country what is your ground are you going to help them integrate are you going to do you have jobs with them are you going to help them to learn french are you going to help them to great in the culture to appreciate the culture to earn the culture there definitely is a major 1st number one problem which is the integration 20 people are coming in and there's not enough means to help them integrate but also the. muslim community has a responsibility has to come these people down it has to show them that there's another way to them or else we know small minorities take over me you move

majorities and then this is where the future of this could be if people if people within the muslim community don't do anything. just minutes after a new humanitarian cease fire was reached between armenia and azerbaijan both sides were accusing each other of violating it this latest truce was negotiated after a powerful explosions rocked the capital of nagorno-karabakh on saturday fighting also went on in other parts of the disputed region as well you go shut down the reports now from an historic cathedral that was hit by shelling. the war in the going to care about has not just about trivial territorial gains it's a long lasting it with lots of bad blood between both sides and recently it has spilled into a new turf religious this 19th century only savior cathedral was a place where soldiers and volunteers alike used to come and pray before heading into battle that made it a target but it wasn't just soldiers who would come to this church the as area

military was battering the town of shushi at that time so our lawn and her family decided to hide from the bombs in the cathedrals crypt one place they thought that was safe from the shelling but they were wrong. does not have to now and there were 7 of us including 2 children when the shell hit the cathedral it was deafening there was destruction everywhere masonry fell from the searing that's all they can remember 2 strikes have literally eating everything in their path the altar the benches and one of the domes have been completely destroyed no place is sacred no place is safe in this war not only was this church hit twice but the 2nd strike injured 3 russian journalists one of them is still in intensive care after spending several days in a coma he believes the hit on them was intentional the streets of shushi bear a striking resemblance to those in other towns of nagorno karabakh it's

a place of desolation and despair those who can fight are already on the front lines those who had somewhere to run already have done but alone or doesn't have any choice but to stay another story. we have to fit in this small shelter with a kitchen and badger in the same place we are too scared to go with doors when we hear the sound of the sirens we are rushing here to hide every even in the reason alarm we can hear the shelling people seem to be unfazed by the story state of the cathedral there's plenty of candles still burning. the hoff destroyed the church people for peace to return to this land sooner rather than later because of reporting from. 3 decades of tensions between baku and you're of no where the territory boiled over at the end of september the 2 sides have been trading accusations of attacks blaming each other for civilian casualties and

damage inflicted although the region is legally part of azerbaijan it's populated mainly by ethnic armenians the azerbaijani foreign ministry insists it belongs to buck adding though that it does not exclude self-determination of sorts and i'm going to go to a race. that wasn't really part of the internationally recognized that was the brics not going to be armenians living in these. nations so nation does not meet her at the session. does not mean independence so what we say of course we can ratchet up the threat of a nation where we are being. supported you know if every group of people would declare that they have the right medication can you imagine what kind of. conflict spilled beyond 'd the confines of the disputed territory claims 13 people were

killed and more than 50 injured during shelling of the city of ganja in the early hours of saturday morning the country's presidency said was a war crime to respond militarily a local journalist sent this report from the area. ganja the 2nd biggest city. 60 kilometers far from the phone line again came under attack for me near as a result of 4 to certain civilians were killed including 3 children and more than 40 others injured more than 20 homes destroyed according to azerbaijan national engines to pour my neck sion missiles fired at ganja initially identified as scott operative tactical ballistic missile it is worse to mention that they're all could sloan's from armenian side. areas around while i am after the midnight obviously residents were sleeping here we can see their fragments. this has been

consecutive attack only ganja diprivan to play with lives of 11 residents many dozens were injured as a vision of government officials together with members of the diplomatic corps today was it at the scene as well they held their prison briefing according to their vision a few shows armenia continues to covert war crimes even on the declared moscow cease fire. this is not the 1st time the city of ganja has been shelled in the last few weeks meaning president has denied any involvement from his side saying it was surprised that initially broke the 1st ceasefire he spoke exclusively to r.t. . clear information from my government from ministry of the. foreign minister and former minister of spoken about that already it's definitely not i mean you know that we should not. forget. in this account the real

fact who started this war that was the other side clearly. people of nagorno-karabakh a republican guard. so why allusions are there there are fortunate and i think all parties have to put a lot of firsts in order to stop it. for an hour into the program this is r t international we keep the news going the review of the week right after this. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then.

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him back to the program controversy over whether transgender athletes should be allowed to compete against female competitors has been reignited comes after british t.v. personality piers morgan applauded a decision to ban trans women from taking part in international women's rugby his words the bait. how can they even be a debate about transgender women playing women's rugby it's so old this li wrong unfair and equal and dangerous to women want to smaller less powerful female biological bodice we all know this woman will get seriously hurt to this insanity that prevails pierce morgan is a hate and a danger to the l.g. bt q i hate community he doesn't believe in equality and human rights for all or he does but he's paid to pretend not to which is worse is one problem with your opinion is that there are many trans women who likely produce much less to starts to rain and some 6 women so where do you go from there do you have to check

everyone's testosterone to see if they're allowed to compete well this all comes after world rugby a very sports global governing body rule there are worse safety unfairness concerns about letting transgender athletes take part it's said women would be putting their health at risk competing against someone born as a male although it's ruling only applied out elite international level or transgender people have been fighting for their rights to participate in sports for years since 2004 the i.o.c. has allowed their participation in the olympic games and other sports organizations are increasingly following suit let's debate this as you know and bring in a number of guests and friends of the program and say peter tatchell human rights activists and joan collins radio host columnist welcome to you both peter can we kick off with you please a person born as a meal the advantages that brings in speed and power going up against the female in

a combat heavy sports such as rugby injuries and potentially serious ones are going to happen. let's be very clear. trans women. there's no real scientific evidence but they have an advantage what science there is is disputed and the degree of advantage is very minimal if we look at women athletes or women rugby players in general lots of them have other advantages over other players so for example some woman rugby players have fast twitch muscle fibers which enables them to run faster with a better chance of scoring a goal others have a longer legs which enables them to jump higher to grab the ball others have extra large hearts and lungs which means that they have greater resilience and energy and

power but not all of these biological allman have been penalized it's only the trans women who are being penalized new fact the scientific evidence does seem to suggest that those trans women will actually be at a disadvantage competing against non trance moment because. they will find that the non trans women have muscles that are more fatigue resistant and recover faster and then for havoc age over the trans women in the sport ok enough of what i make is that those of us going to injury but there are rules and also among trans will not be players some are small some are large already women are at risk of injury this is quite an aggressive sport and the fact is that some trans woman will

be quite picky and will not now be pretty bored bored bored male ok heat and even the transition they would be had huge talking bodies at all john if a trans woman. is legally recognized as a woman has testosterone levels more comparable to a woman and a man and wants to represent women in rugby is it wrong to stand in their way as absolutely ridiculous and to check my diary that it's not april the 1st there's women's rugby which is at a very high standard now and it's coming to its own and i applaud it and enjoy watching it and there's my old rugby as well i'm afraid if you're ball and born a man you should play with men not with women i mean peter's knowledge of rugby seems to be very slight he says it's about scoring goals it's about scoring tries his net and also he talks about smaller women smaller man ever since the

introduction of people are jonah lomu the great new zealand maori player rugby for men particularly has got bigger and bigger these men are huge in. rugby league i'm a similar way going now in female rugby if you now put a man so i thought logically born man into female piers morgan is absolutely right this time will get mass injuries it's a ludicrous suggestion it will only affect a couple of people anyway it shouldn't be allowed and what's very interesting about this today debate is that the world rugby union is against this england it's the english rugby union who are being really politically correct and saying it's ok but not at international level up to international level they're saying that this nonsense can carry on and this is just a trysting the gender issues move trying to move the agenda on i'm sorry it's a nonsense it shouldn't be entertained women will end up getting injured why can't

women have their sport without biologically born men trying to interfere with their it's just more of this or radical men's movement which is what the trans movement is all about i'm with the biological women on this. i have a bit of experience because my school blue coach in coventry was one of the 1st schools in the country to pioneer female rugby and i think it's a great sport and we need to encourage it and developing if you're born logically born a man go and play with the men simple as that peter what do you say to women who come out and say we simply don't want this we are fearful for what this could bring not only in rugby we've seen swimmer olympic swimmers also coming out and saying this is this is against what we went into sport for because we don't want somebody just transitioning essentially over a number of months and coming in and breaking records as they have done in other sports protecting college sports in the us are are the rights of women not worth as

much as trans women well everybody's rights are important and i understand concerns are biologically boredom and there are concerns that total just myths and i sympathize and empathize with them but we have to go with the evidence and if the evidence suggests that trans women do not have a significant advantage and the nursing advantage they were born. it's no more an advantage than are logically born woman you know fast twitch muscle fibers long legs or extra large parts that i don't think they should be you know are. peter it says physical sport more physical than football it's of sports which you excel at the big a you are so if a biologically born man who's trans in into a woman plays they will have a massive advantage the best example is to look at jonah loner and the way he

changed the male game is that the biologically born male will have a massive advantage there is no need for this this is just the radical trans movement trying to push their agenda and let's be honest peter many many female ruby players and trans people don't want this this is just the radical arm the militant arm again trying to get some headlines what we need to acknowledge that not all trans woman full of particular body shape or size there are plenty of trans women who are pitied and feminine who are comparable in weight and size to their biological born female counterparts as long as it's a little bit have a rule we should never blanket rule we shouldn't assume that trans will are going to be 6 foot 5 at $200.00 pound monsters that you seem to suggest we need to assess

i agree we need to ask you what they have you want true better it's the same with women but sharon davis talks about this but honestly born women now are at a disadvantage world records are being set by people who were born as men this is just plain wrong one of those women biologically born women who have dedicated their life to their sport and then some fella who possibly could make it in men's room but it wasn't that level. trans big is a trans person and then complain when we drive but it's not right peach or it's not right and then there's the physical thing as piers morgan says there will be injuries it's that self physical game even today as ok john just little peter said ok and just gently there are reaching we'll just let peter respond but peter while you do perhaps would you concede that it perhaps looks a little strange that it all seems the direction of traffic all seems to be in one

where you've got biological men going into yes women's sports but it's very rare if at all that i've seen in professional sports for biological women moving into men's sports. but i don't agree that the case does not fall or sustain on that basis as i mentioned earlier. but i want you to born women have an advantage in sport because they are more resistant to muscle 30 i'm a you recover faster so actually going to be born women athletes has an advantage over a trans woman athlete yet no one is complaining up that. route. that of course requires the stone sustainability of strength their insurance over a long period of time for the whole game of the match it it also that it also

relies on it relies on physical presence presence it relies on weight most rugby players are not about men for a moment in the men's game they're technically if you look at their b.m.i. obese of course they're not obese it's all muscle it's mostly about muscle and white peter even the backs when i played rugby i was a forward because the size of me nowadays the backs of built has same kind of solace and it's the same in the women's game i'm sorry if a man comes in a man a bird of curly born man who became born man who becomes a woman who is attempting to make and let's remember it in no in your limp aches you don't even have that to a full transition you can just identify and then as a boy logically before man you can then compete in women's sports no one is thinking about the women here and this is why i say the militant arm of the trans movement is actually a all radical mearns men's movement it's nothing to do with the women you are

treating women own equally peach on your men to being human rights and equality you are treating women and women sports people as 2nd class citizens here in the last 20 seconds here but i just say that you know lots of different athletes will have advantages because of various physical attributes why should be singled out the potential advantages of trans woman have while ignoring the other advantages that other women have that is not fair jon you want your last 10 seconds. they're men that bottle biologically men born as men they're men they've got a huge advantage over women in the women's is a brilliant sport it's coming into each other and it's different in many ways to male rugby but it's equal equal but different but i'm sorry preacher people like you and people at the radical men's movement trans-am the militant they're trying

to demean women and they're trying to devalue the female sports it's unfair it's wrong and it shouldn't be allowed john galt talk show host columnist peter tatchell human rights activist thank you both for a spirited discussion this evening. live from moscow this is our to international more great programs get going and moments to stay close. to. the tank biathlon is a unique competition between army tank teams from around the world.