france fouls to take on islamic radicalism after the horrific killing of a history teacher but average muslims fear they will be better but brunt of the government's response. not fear that you know i will have to be be careful off of what the force of my freedom of speech as a human rights activist is literally all the balance. and integration are issues elsewhere in europe a lebanese man is denied german citizenship by the his refusal to shake hands with a woman discrimination or if justified requests opinions differ. but was a clear signal that he still is here to a totally different value system. the one which is established in germany's this is

a cultural and political process and is the leadership not the end of the world. and e.u. countries including germany roll out drastic measures to counter a 2nd wave of covert 19 as case numbers surge beyond the peak seen back in spring. low and welcome you watching r.t. international with me nicky aaron it's great to have you with us this hour. the french government has ordered the closure of a mosque accused of inciting violence the place of worship outside paris have posted a video calling for a campaign against a history teacher they showed caricature was of the prophet muhammad to his class well in october the 16th samuel pastor who was beheaded by terrorists they both plead early apologized for posting the clip but denounce the shutdown hoarder. everybody knows that i am

a so-called moderate muslim that i call for tolerance open mindedness i've got the impression that they just need to throw someone under the bus the mosque will be closed for 6 months starting on wednesday its leaders have been given 48 hours to appeal the decision in court and members of the congregation believe they shouldn't be punished for the teacher's murder. we have a very kind of mom who speaks to us in a rabbit convention and doesn't tell people what to do she never gathered our us together to tell us to do anything bad. for george orwell i don't know if i told people you should go and buy weapons and then they go and buy weapons and kill someone i'm not responsible for that. i am not happy about the mosques closure i mean just what happened to the teacher i condemn it i do not agree with those who committed the crime but for the mosque it's a shame. well since the murder several french t.v. channels have started airing the controversial cartoons in defense of free speech

and dozens of raids have already been carried out against suspected islamists but law abiding muslims now say they will suffer from the government's response shola dubinsky reports. in the wake 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 opened 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 to it's already led to more accusations that muslims need to take cover or 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 maybe 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 o f 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 rates following terror attacks are commonplace but for some of these purges don't target. the root of the problem this program be so widespread we're talking to people 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 in 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 and a song that's going to go on for a long time to count the 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 peril to society and accusations followed that he was trying to a price is low 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 islamophobia 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

charlotte even r.t. paris france and germany have the largest muslim populations in europe and are both grappling with similar integration issues as evidenced by a recent case in germany it involves a lebanese doctor who has been denied citizenship there 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 the man who has not been publicly named moved to germany 18 years ago he completed his medical studies that now works as a senior physician and his citizenship test he got top marks in german history and values but a quarter scribe his refusal to shake a woman's hand as indicative of fundamentalist views but dr denies that saying he simply vowed never to touch any woman other than his wife well this is not the 1st time that the traditional greeting has courted control over see

a muslim couple was similarly denied swift citizenship again for her for refusing handshakes for members of the opposite sex while official survey showed a lack of respect for gender equality but not all cases go the same way for example a muslim woman in sweden was compensated when her job interview was cut short because she wouldn't extend her hand to a man we had some contrast in views on 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 passions and we have freedom of belief and conscience and you're right there are limits to that i agree about health governance in this country and elsewhere radicalization extremism terrorism audience for decades just trust me. if somebody doesn't shake hands and he is carrying out his actions 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 it 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 life that she didn't need to 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. policies in place to protect not what is going on is about the truth what it's lost in smaller liberties and that means. 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 all the nation states will fall apart and maybe this is in the interest of many people but in my dreams and it's just normal is that we should ensure europe to conserve society in that complexity that we already have in their colorful ness and keep them as open and really tolerant spaces without radical fuz. just a couple of days after being signed the 2nd tryst between armenia and azerbaijan seems that risk of collapse fighting continues across the disputed nagorno karabakh

region spilling beyond its borders as well local journalist was designed there was caught up in shelling while reporting from outside and as a by johnny factory. let's not forget what you did notice about those almost a lot of men you. vision because you know you know absolutely with me of the girls those capacity of desire for peter roebuck you. know. don't go do it but there are stars tell us is this new admins that past. move. girls fighting today was along the entire france 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 seem to which is 30

kilometers far from from flying as it only morning when does a. close day of the war this has became an a.p. so in terms of artillery tanks from army and side why is still continues now and so that to text. the territorial feud stretches back more than 3 decades and flagged up at the end of september both sides are blaming each other for civilian casualties and damage soldiers on the karabakh front line clearly as if i genocide this subatomic received. on the road in reality the truth has not been not held 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 these areas. 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. you will repel anyone no one can enter our armenian lands. a 2nd wave of covert 19 is gathering pace across europe case numbers are now far higher than during the peak spike in spring piece all of the reports from berlin. lots to get through different measures being taken in different countries across europe will start from where i'm talking to you from here in germany while most of germany has got off pretty lightly compared to its european neighbors what we've seen on tuesday is a full red alert announced in the back this god no region of bavaria in the south of the country 2 and a half 1000 tourists being told you've got to go and they have to go immediately that says the berchtesgaden a region goes into this full lockdown what that means is that schools are going to

be closed all of them are going to be counselled restaurants are only open for takeout and people have been told only to leave their homes if there's a good reason to do it now those good reasons do include business and also exercise but it is a serious step being taken by the authorities in bavaria there and in poland which is one of those countries that fed reasonably well in the spring when we 1st saw over 19 ripped through europe it's not doing so well now what the government there is put in place a series of measures which includes things like closing gyms however we have seen some fitness clubs attempting to get round that one in crack of in particular has relaunched itself as a church of the healthy body in an attempt to circumvent ban on gyms places of worship are allowed to open but while they are doing that the authorities in poland

taking things a little more seriously in fact they've turned the national stadium in warsaw into a makeshift hospital as the jew the polish government prepares for the worst she moves the chinese we must also think about darcus nauru's if we are not able to stop the pandemic in our country temporary hospitals will be necessary we opened the 1st field hospital here we are ready to open a network of similar hospitals around the country in the near future in spain more . more cities going into lockdown for 2 weeks nevada the latest to do just that that's around $650000.00 people will be locked down they join parts of madrid as well as. areas in the castiel and leon area that have also been put into into lockdown that means bars restaurants won't be able to open it supposed to last for around 2 weeks but that could roll on depending on infection rate spain saw 25000 extra infections of covert 19 over the weekend moving north and the island

is heading into 6 weeks of what's being called extreme lockdown the prime minister of ireland mikko martin said that households would not be allowed to mix with one another and your not supposed to go more than 5 kilometers from your own home in measures that will last until the beginning of december now in introducing this extreme lockdown the irish prime minister said he did see a light at the end of the tunnel i understand and i feel very personally i prefer. the sense of disappointment the feelings of loneliness perhaps even this the despair the dissonance and will bring for many if we pull together over the next 6 weeks we would have the opportunity to celebrate christmas in a meaningful way or last week belgium puts itself into a lockdown whereby. restaurants would be closed for

a couple of weeks however despite that politicians are still warning about the threat of a tsunami of infections is how they are calling it and also if we look in italy the l'ombre the region has seen a huge spike in infections that's prompted the introduction of a nighttime curfew hospitals they're concerned that they may become overwhelmed as they did back in the spring and the 1st wave of code. 19 doctors saying that the reason for this curfew the reason they believe is behind this spike is people well people going about their daily lives and trying to get back to normal as much as possible going on respiratory viruses do not have legs it is people who spread them long body is a very dynamic region very active with a lot of focus elation and then a large concentration of the population in the cities doing a lot of things seen a lot of people having a lot of work in a meeting activities and facilitates the spread of the virus the overall it's

a pretty bleak picture here in europe one big question that nobody seems to be able to answer though is why countries like germany sweden and denmark bearing the brunt as much as their neighbors so the canvas out of the mer of manchester is locking horns with the u.k. government over an upcoming lockdown for the area and so most 3000000 people without story and more coming up after the break stay with us.

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welcome back to the u.k. is new code 19 restrictions have sparked a political firestorm the mare of grantham the mare of greater manchester has lashed out at the government saying it is pushing people into policy with an upcoming lockdown the british prime minister boris johnson has put the region home to almost 3000000 people on the high alert following a spike in corona virus infections. we made a generous and extensive offer to support his business didn't accept this unfortunately given the public health situation i must marry proceed with moving greater manchester as i say to the very high level no point today where we offered in order to protect the poorest people in our communities through the punishing reality of the winter to come even now i am still willing to do a deal but it cannot be on the terms that the government offered today because on

those terms i could not meet the commitments i made to people on the lowest incomes i now look to palm and to be make a judgment on a fair financial framework for 3 hours what's really striking about this latest disagreement is the politicized nation of it as seen by. with the labor. i'm holding out saying that the city with its falling number of cases since its peak in september shouldn't be going into 3 lockdown not at least without some kind of sufficient financial package from the central government now initially the mayor had said that his team had to close around $90000000.00 pounds as part of our package the government's figure was around $60000000.00 but they just couldn't seem to come to an agreement eventually the government put forward only 22000000 pounds a figure seen as somewhat of an insult vindictive by me here in manchester of

course speaking to some of the locals on the street the majority of them backing the position of the mayor and really proud of andy burnham the mayor of manchester for really they were the way the b.b.c. put it was bending them the government over a barrel and really sticking hard on this one and defending those people because that the economic package they announced just it work keep people alive i do think it's very good that he's holding. for financial measures because we do need that and it hasn't been done enough. but also there is a point where you cannot hold human lives as a live rich or any more very big place and to think about giving people the correct by not just to voice people are going to be able to survive a bit. like this very stupid standoff against a backdrop of falling cases and yet the government still insisting this part of the country should be going into 2 or 3 lock down what that means for those especially the lowest paid in the cities well it's going to be a long dark winter ahead. with some of the world news in brief now starting with

denmark where a convicted killer has been recaptured after breaking out of prison peter manson is serving a life sentence for the murder of swedish journalist can war back in 2017 he briefly managed to get out of jail after threatening a guard with what he claimed was a homemade bomb. and the government clashes a broken out in chile protesters said find a barricades and burned in effigy of president sebastian pinera at a rally calling for a dictatorship era constitution to be overturned monday's unrest marked exactly one year since a police crackdown in which 30 demonstrators dying a. devastating wildfires continue to spread through the u.s. state of colorado these are the latest images from boulder county where dozens of homes have burned down in total more than 430000 acres have been destroyed in the colorado wildfires since august making them the worst in the state's history.

the u.s. election is just 2 weeks away and all eyes are on the final debate between donald trump and joe biden it will take place in nashville tennessee on thursday and after the chaotic 1st round the moderators have introduced mute button to prevent interruptions what is shaping up to be one of the most ill tempered votes in u.s. history supporters have held rallies in may. to seize this one calling for a boycott of china and that has been much knowledge of gatherings across america denouncing the president with more on the build up to the election his kind of more pain in new york. 7 nov 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. and.

arab 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. was. the country is becoming more and more polarized you have this witches brew that really hasn't happened in america's history and defeat has it's been decades if not centuries right wing militias and are both heavily armed and both walking the streets freely in american cities. and our current. gun sales are record high now the year isn't even over yet but already the f.b.i. has announced the 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 my single is for 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. r.t. new york thanks for joining us aeronauts international will be back again and just have a 30 minute. you know when i'm going to be out there so i don't think about love i don't mean

a grown man now or. kind of where i wonder. if i'm not good now i think it's higher than our. members who are sick of mafias always them safe and quick passage to europe but once they. leave the cult speech util. will not some of them leave your mom on an accident you know. this you need to get it out i mean. they sold the. core of the. phone all.

there is a saying in washington don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good this appropriately describes the political sphere all right another stimulus package and to center of this standoff is who wins or loses just prior to the election in the meantime tens of millions are suffering with no end in sight. greetings and salyut those are right while the race to the white house continues

its 3 ring circus act featuring the flailing tantrums of u.s. president donald trump and the. yawning energy of joe biden elsewhere in the world citizens are putting their energy and votes towards a more progressive. dare i say socialist future in new zealand labor party leader and current president just in the ardor crushed her right wing political competition with the resoundingly reelection win anchored on her mature science based public health 1st corporate greed last response to the covert 19 pandemic meanwhile down in south america and one of the united states favorite playgrounds for political manipulation the people bolivia appear to be saying corporate greed u.s. backed coup d'etat was no more as the washington post reports that exit polls issued early monday showed bolivia's socialists taking a seemingly insurmountable lead in the country's bitterly fought presidential elections this comes just a year after the organization of american states or oas threw bolivia's electoral

process into chaos with unproven accusations of vote rigging against then sitting president evo morales the country's 1st indigenous born president this as you remember helped trigger a military coup that eventually saw the installation of right wing christian zealot and u.s. state department behavior on the 9 yeahs as interim president and forced morales to flee for his life to mexico and then argentina while now is the numbers continue to pour in showing a major victory for morales his former finance minister louis r. c. the former president tweeted out quote brothers and sisters the will of the people has been asserted this is an overwhelming victory we are going to give dignity and liberty back to the people to major progressive socialist winds coming on the eve of one of the biggest u.s. presidential elections in history should the corporate powers that be here.