in. justice. france files to take on islamic radicalism of the horrific killing of a history teacher of average muslims that's a product of the government's response. the fear that you know i will have to leave the cure for all for what the poorest of my freedom of speech as a human rights activist is literally all the ballots on did to place an issues elsewhere in europe a lebanese man is denied job and citizenship over his refusal to shake hands with a woman discrimination for justified for class opinions this. was a clear signal that he still is here to totally different value system of. the one which is established in germany this is a cultural prophecy so he doesn't shake it it's not the end of the world lost

a lot in america a prominent supporter of bolivia is ousted president evo morales triumphs in the country's presidential election according to preliminary results. it's just gone to 11 am here in moscow watching out international which i had to read a new larger picture shows also rather today well that's a dive in the need to all of a power a small apologized for publishing a video which called for a campaign against a french history teacher the same teacher who was later brutally beheaded by a terrorist for showing character shows of the prophet muhammad to his class. in hindsight given what happened we regret having published it we are now exploring how in the future we can take

a step back before getting carried away with things like that meanwhile some french t.v. channels have started airing those controversial cartoons in defiance of the freedom of speech and dozens of raids have already been carried out against suspected islamists but ordinary french muslims now fear they will be the brunt of the government's response as solid reports. in the wake of samuel patti's gruesome murder the french state wants to show that it's being quick to act police have raided the homes of islam is activists engaged on social networks more than 80 investigations for online hatred have been arrests have already taken place since yesterday around 50 associative structures will see a certain number of visits from state services all week long and several of them at my suggestion will be dissolved in the council of ministers this latest terror attack is only likely to harden the state starts until it's already led to more

accusations that muslims in the to take cover people are calling me asking me whether i was raided or not so we have wished the poor into that everybody is scared that there would be 5 or 6 o'clock in the morning i fear that you know i will have to be careful of what i post and my freedom of speech as a human rights activist is literally on the balance among still going to as ations in the crossfire or n.g.o.s including the collective against islamophobia in france also known as c c i f it describes itself as being a human rights organization whose mission is to combat islamophobia but france's interior minister says the group is linked to a parent to launched a fatwa against teacher samuel party which it thought led to his assassination it received state age we have evidence to say that it is an enemy of the republic c c says it is the victim here since yesterday we have been the target of death threats

and a companion of hatred that demands the dissolution of. face through so many smears of incredible indecency given the context our team is now receiving growing support thank you from the heart another muslim n.g.o.s under suspicion is barac at city job domino to be. saying that it didn't state islamophobia now raids following terror attacks are commonplace but for some of these purges it don't target the root of the problem this program be so widespread we're talking. literally thousands of people who are would be deemed to be in some way. to terrorist groups in the u.k. in paris in france belgium and other countries so there's just an enormous number of people on the free speaking out want to. be from the extreme and that will do some good but this is a problem not a song that's going to go on for

a long time to least a generation islam islam in france was already in the spotlight in recent weeks president emanuel might call that outlying details of a new nor aimed at protecting france's secular republic from foreign influence is not going said a minority of the country's estimated 6000000 muslims were in danger of forming around to society and accusations followed that he was trying to a price in france associations to defend the rights of muslims who are bought off by micron's police in short the message is muslims we're going to screw you up. well the french unanimously condemned the attack which led to the beheading for professor yesterday some take the opportunity to settle their scores by slipping into the most abject islam a phobia the interior minister says it's now possible to see how political islam has joined forces with radical islam and ultimately is leading to terrorism many

muslims may now feel that they are under attack with suggestions that some real parties death opens the floodgates to a political trial of those organizations say they struggle against islamophobia so let even ski r.t. paris. france and germany have the largest muslim populations in europe and they are both grappling with similar integration issues as evidence by recent case in germany involves a lebanese doctor who has been denied citizenship all because he wouldn't shake hands with a female official if the applicant refuses to shake hands for gender specific reasons which are incompatible with the constitution there is no integration into german living conditions and the man moved to germany 18 years ago he completed his medical studies that are now works as a senior physician and his citizenship test he'd got top marks in german history

and values but a court described his refusal to shake a woman's hand as indicative of fundamentalist views the lebanese denies that saying he simply vowed never to touch any woman other than his wife this isn't the 1st time that the traditional greeting has courted controversy a muslim copple was similarly denied swiss citizenship again for his own handshakes from members of the opposite sex officials then said it showed a lack of respect for gender equality but not all cases go the same way for example in sweden a muslim woman was actually compensated what her job interview was cut short because she wouldn't extend her hand twentyman we got reaction from both sides of the issue. the. procedure just showed that there was a problem with the integration process of this person and you cannot look into people's hearts and minds but that was a clear signal that he still is here to a totally different belief and value system than the one which is established in

germany since centuries and therefore i find it correct that they took this as a signal syrians and rejected the naturalisation of the live in his person rainer this is a cultural and bashes and we have freedom of belief and conscience and you're right there are limits to that i agree and i help governments in this country and elsewhere tackle radicalization extremism terrorism agendas for decades just trust me. if somebody doesn't shake hands and he is carrying out his functions as a doctor treating patients on a regular basis it's not the end of the world he's a contributing taxpaying that society and we should have tolerance if this is a sign it dad in chanterelle he regards the women as a seductive as a danger for his own behavior and then this shows that he has brought up with himself really an outdated view of women and this will create further

clashes in the future of this is a part of our culture of like that teaches let me change in no way so who cannot accept this culture you should simply not work here or long for this it doesn't ship of such a country you don't get to tell muslims what this messed up version of a stalinist at least the 8 who have put policies in place to protect dice not what is going on is about the truth what is lost in smaller liberties about things. principles general principle democrats if you want to pretend that you need to add here to some basic value systems. otherwise the society will fall apart and in the end also nation states will fall apart and maybe this is in the interest of many people but in. the normal situation in germany europe to conserve society in their complexity that we already have in their colorful mess

and keep them as open and really tolerance basis without radical views. having to believe in the preliminary count in the presidential presidential election shows socialist party candidate who is all say winning with almost 53 percent of the votes are say is a familiar face as the former economy minister before the un president evo morales was ousted after claims of rigged elections marauders praise the bolivian people's decision and that was echoed by founders wayne as president nicolas maduro who's also faced unsuccessful attempts to remove him from power. the bolivian people have given a lesson in democracy and perseverance people have managed to resist the coup a defacto government to massacres and administration of the pandemic marked by inefficiency corruption several election postponements and the worst economic crisis in our history. a great victory the bolivian people are united and consciously defeated with votes the coup d'etat that our brother abel was served

but libya has enjoyed over a year of political turmoil for out of the previous presidential vote being mobbed by u.s. backed allegations of fraud and it seems many bolivians had some people are wary of those and this protest on shakeups. you know we want to leave peacefully without roadblocks and protests and a new leader for a new believe. we want a president to help the countryside the poor people we don't want any right wingers content i feel happy happy because we want economic stability we want peace in bolivia we want bolivia to be reflected abroad again as a growing country. where if an option and discussed all the details of my colleague around your pharma this whole election is one big and unfortunately very bitter irony that to believe in people paid a very high price for their winning candidate mr r.c.a. used to be a finance minister on the morale is a he's from his party from his team he's one of his closest people i mean

supporters and that comes after almost a year of violent turbulence political repression and complete nightmare to be honest the country has been living in after the previous presidential vote the one morales one was very aggressively in loudly announced as it was in november and some studies show that november became the 2nd deadliest month in terms of civilian deaths caused by state forces since believe it became a democratic country 40 years ago. so the organization of american states and known as as was basically leading this

whole campaign to blacken last year's elections after 84 percent of the votes were counted there was an official tally saying that mr morale is. around 46 percent of the votes and he got an 8 point lead. but after. the all the votes were counted it was all over there was an official report finally and that lead increase to 10.5 points the opposition is saying look we've seen a sudden spike in favor of this right at the end of this election therefore it was obviously rigged but there were there was an explanation why wasn't very simple explanation the air is reporting later were more problem around this in this is why when the last 16 percent of the votes were counted that lead increased so dramatically and by due way that may happen and we've seen that happen in other countries with similar systems like united states of america for example in america by the way was very quick to supports their position and to welcome what they

describe as people's fight for justice and democracy let's take a listen we salute the courage and strength libyan people who have protested against a government trying to steal an election we reject this ridiculous claim that the legal modification of raja to action is somehow a coup all countries deserve free fair transparent and gretel elections the organization of american states report on believe year makes it clear that believe ins were not given this chance to stop the violence hold elections and the work with the geneva nears and the transitional government to bring democracy back. bring democracy well ok bolivia seems to have democracy now but that's not how many people have described the last 12 months to human rights watch they issued a report just this september like analyzing studying the time when the interim government in believe there was in charge of the country and there is a huge like you list of violations like many examples of how not good and

proper and democratic it was and this is why now mr r.c. says that after 11 months of this nightmare people off when the there i mean they know better what the true democracy is to the new process during last year's elections some people took to the streets calling for democracy and now 11 months have passed and we don't have democracy and even worse we have a totally destroyed economy so bolivian people can now compare the work of our government during 14 years and the so-called work of this interim government believer is now coming back to where it was back in october last year but with so many losses with destroyed economy with dad you know and the question now i think is whether those responsible for pushing the country there will ever ever respond well daniel schorr who's a senior research fellow at the council on hemispheric affairs things think u.s. backed forces could still try to overturn the wish of the bolivian people. as the

movement towards socialism never ceased to be popular but the cool mongoose the neo liberal forces with the support of. the pentagon the state department here in washington and in the right wing forces across the continent. this is an amazing victory for the overwhelmingly indigenous the vast majority of bolivians who are indigenous but we should not expect that this political victory translates overnight into an economic victory. the right wing forces supported by the us are going to do everything to push back in. i mean against during in the people's victory so this is going to continue to play out in the course of the next hour as the months see years well still to come a heartbreaking story from the u.k. where a foreign doctor who has been saving others now in favor of that and much more after this short break.

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in the death. or a made in the shallowness. welcome back now just a couple of days off to being signed his 2nd truce between armenia and azerbaijan seems at risk of collapse fighting continues across the disputed nagorno-karabakh region now spinning beyond its borders as well local journalist elmira mrs audit was actually caught up in shelling while reporting from outside and as a page on a factory. this is a good point you did notice that is the most you out of many a good one notification because she knew i could not have stood it with me in the

business capacity of the saddle for peter roebuck you. do know that that. is not so don't exist but then it does tell us is this new fastener. little smooth. fighting today was going along the entire front line heavy artillery has been walked into the direction of that suv so exploded so often and so loudly that we could heard it from the neighboring city which is so cool that is far from from flying as it only morning clear went to the top from the roof of the war. and has became an a.p. sinter of artillery and tanks from army inside still continues now and so there are 2 text. the 3 decades old tensions surrounding that disputed territory flood up at

the end of september both sides are trading accusations of attacks but a new charge up for civilian casualties and damage soldiers holding frontline positions in war torn are going to claim the azeris side is sabotaging the ceasefire. which. in reality the truce has not been upheld as for defensive positions there has been no shooting but we hear from the positions on our right and left explosions i assure you that is from the adverse reason not from us this is one of the. by the is very essential. i've been fighting against the as a response the $990.00 s. and again i fight against them so their perverted feet will not step in our clean armenian land don't pollute our homeland we won't allow it. it doesn't matter from how many countries they bring mercenaries nothing can beat an armenian soldier when an armenian soldier stand strongly on his feet he will repel anyone no one can

enter our armenian lands. now some u.s. politics as a lection day inches of close tension between bites and i'm trump supporters is palpable with emotions running so high and so much on the law and things could easily spin out of control. reports. november 3rd election day in america is edging ever closer some are not just nervous about the results but nervous about the real potential for violence in the streets over the course of the past few months amid the pandemic tensions have been at boiling point and at some point even boiling over violence has taken place at political rallies. carried last weekend it was boston that was the site of scuffles between trump supporters and left wing activists videos like this are becoming more and more common across america.

and. the country is becoming more and more polarized you have this witches brew that really hasn't happened in america's history and defeat hands it's been decades if not centuries right wing militias and are both heavily armed and both walking the streets freely in american cities. our. gun sales a record high now the year isn't even over yet but already the f.b.i. has announced that 2020 is the record year for the number of f.b.i. background checks for gun purchases tensions are being ratcheted up by both candidates were both suggesting that the other guy is rigging the vote single greatest concern this president trying to steal this election it's democrats

they're going to they're trying to rig this election. will the elections have a quick result that is accepted by everyone or will it be contested with both candidates having supporters that are armed and ready for battle things could explode very quickly. artsy new york. and find me. ok i'm the story of a foreign doctor who's fighting for life on 2 fronts called geologist. who was during the peak of the current as far as pandemic is now in critical condition with covert 900 south his family fish his current inability to walk could see them being denied the stay in the u.k. his friend dr sanjay gupta told r.t. about doctrine on these current condition. so the work was very hard he was obviously very stressed because you know he was on an immigrant visa you have to keep working he knew his contract was finishing he needed to secure his future he had another job lined up from the 1st of december but of course even that was

a lucrative job so he was trying very hard to get all of the paperwork done so that he could continue to stay and continue to work and actually take on a substance job rather than remain a locum he is brain is still functional he's still able to pull his eyes he still able to communicate with his eyes he can even sometimes speak a little bit but he cannot breathe independently and because of that what they have had to do is make a hole in his windpipe and put a ventilator through there and that is his situation at the moment so he is awake he is able to speak when he has some power but not for very long but otherwise he's paralyzed don't know since at the moment is give up viruses which is a condition which affects the nerves it can be happen with viruses. and dr not a 32nd case in the world of this happening with that doctor and any flu from

egypt to the intercity of york to help as a consultant cardiologist his colleagues describe him as a frontline fighter during that spring wave of the virus he is the only breadwinner for his wife and 4 daughters the issue is u.k. visa legislation doesn't allow any delays based on health and that puts him at risk of being kicked out of the country dr gupta has set up a crowdfunding page for his friend with this with any legal and medical bills and of course to support dropped in on his family as of now the campaign has raised over 125000 pounds. the u.k. home office claims that's why can't a viable solution for the family and our fortunate situation however dr gupta again says there have been no long term assurances doctrine and he's here entirely legally and has every right to remain in the u.k. thoughts are with his family and we will be urgently contacting them and his employer so we can help at this difficult time after that statements resume the

home office made contact with his wife misses the nanny and they gave her temporary consolation they said look you know at this point in time don't worry about this which is very nice but they don't have long term security they don't still know because the home office said for the time being forget about it don't worry we will look into it and the family have still feeling very insecure because what they want us to know that look you know what will happen let's say something bad happens to him what will happen to that and we hope to go out there he will make a full recovery and he will be able to go back to work and he will be able to do the profession he enjoys doing that he's passionate about doing which is think the people of england which is looking after their medical needs getting them better this is what he was passionate about not to rob now from i felt and the team thank you have a great day. show

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