but a kid even though it's going to be the normal. fear in shock among teachers and from top to one of the own was brutally murdered in the capital last week we speak to an advocate of. mine is many many things it's still. my position to be protected. problem top court found the worst of all abortions sparking a nationwide protest impacting the age old question right to life or freedom of choice. while the conflict between armenia and azerbaijan open a corner karabakh raids on a 14 year old hero saves his family dragging them out of the wall so while under fire. from fulfilling job on the economy could uncultured

a knee jerk often by so we're not coming to. a very good morning from moscow with just gone 9 am here are very happy and joined us. well to start off this hour with the horrific murder of a french history teacher last week has left many in the profession traumatized with teachers now fearful that the freedom to speak on instruct is a risk in this teacher gabriele the towns are told us the impact of the gruesome attack has hot. tragedy that happened last week to discuss a colleague of mine is many many things it's a tale of terror teachers in france are expected to do a lot and it sounds like we will be expected to even more presents many ills in society and i know my colleagues and i are ready to take on many challenges that

ish teachers are really under the threats of islamic terrorism and we should not ask ourselves here's how you will teach kids should ask ourselves serious how we will protect the school itself and the surroundings of the school samuel patz he was beheaded in a terror attack last week outside a school in a suburb of paris the suspect an 18 year old refugee of touchin origin was made to shot dead by police it's possible he was lying that the path he had showed his students cartoons of the prophet mohammed in a class on the freedom of speech has flooded educators are still reacting to the horror of the mother. when opposition is no i told myself that it could have been me and beyond that he was just going to work doing his job and he was killed for unacceptable reasons that even on the values of the public are under attack and it's also a tribute not only to this person died of him but over teachers and to test those

values $67.00 it is sometimes hard but it was important for us to be here when the french teachers union highlighted that teachers should be able to organize their work however 'd they like and free from fear and your state of the tongue so again says that his profession needs protection. yes of sentiment but it also tells the story of how as associates each you teachers we are i believe my profession needs to be respected my profession needs to be protected if the question is how do we protect the professional not just the profession weldon let's start by policing shuras when they say that something is wrong i'm not sure that we still understand how important this is i'm not sure that the french state will put enough money and people into such a huge challenge meanwhile since the death of samuel patten france has cracked out on hate speech the government ordered the closure of

a mosque accused of having links to the greece nada it's also proposed changes on the legislative level. cedar grounds the defense council has already decided to add 2 new provisions to the draft law against extremism firstly to reinforce protection for public servants by penalizing those who exert pressure on them or those who put pressure on public institutions their words or actions as happened in the case of samuel petty and the school principal secondly the possibility of sanctioning those who post personal information online that endangers someone's life as they did in the teachers' case with the issue of integration now back in the spotlight the interior minister weighed in on ethnic foods in front and was met with more mocking back class solid defense that delves into the issue. radicalization and how it happens is now once again headline news in france now while most questions are focusing on the impact of social media poverty and foreign influence the country's

interior minister has come up with this suggestion as one root of the problem i was about to get on to those of you has always shocked me to go into a supermarket and see that there would be one type of ethnic food selection here and another one next to it domino went on to say this is how community terrorism begins it's a term that loosely translates as identity and it's also used to describe those who don't comply or suspect the idea of secularism here in france that's a separation of religion and state and even though the interior minister says he doesn't want to put it ethnic food dollars in supermarkets it's comments have caused a stir with many mocking him. down

on also thinks is to big business owners to do their bit in fighting separatism so what restaurants streets like this one here in paris offer a plethora of selection from turkish to chinese italian to indian cuisine all the way to along with supermarket aisles setting people on the poll the become bad french citizens. i think it's important to respect their very city and that should be also be reflected in supermarkets this should be everything for everyone including in front of the man for something he should be then. that's one of the things are so great about france is that we do have people from lots of different countries and i'm. american and i live in france for about 5 years and i really

think. normal if i go in the supermarket i don't really think about that so i don't really see the harm behind this despite the pushback the interior minister says he doesn't want ethnic food or supermarkets but who does think it's up to big business owners to do it in fighting separatism so move though do you think domino's comments have merit and should be treated. the minister is right. is the beginning of communitarianism. should be available in the general aisles along with other food but having a dedicated doll is the beginning of communitarianism because we know that everyone who is muslim or jewish interior minister says he doesn't have one word to take back but given that perhaps his badly phrased thoughts have been made in the aftermath of the brutal terror attack. and while

a terror trial is underway over the 2015 attack on a kosher supermarket many are incensed it seems it's not so much cooking up a storm with his words but wading into some very hot water. auti paris. a sad day for women's rights that's what activists are calling a ban by poland's top court on abortions on the grounds of fetal defects the ruling has incensed many. on thursday thousands across the country took to the streets in the capital riot police were out in force using crowd control measures protesters denounced the governing law and justice party a long time to opponent of tough laws it's also been accused of packing the constitutional court with loyalist the ruling puns almost all abortions in poland

90 percent of terminations in the country are down because of severe normalities but that now will be outlawed however portions due to rape incest will threat to the mother's life are still legal the ruling will take effect once confirmed by parliament considered a done deal given the rulings ruling parties majority we put the issue up for debate. well i think the thing with human rights in general especially the right to life is that they shouldn't be dependent on what other people think slavery back in the day used to be a democratic option that didn't make it morally justified in the same goes for abortion every child deserves to be and every mother deserves to be well and mother and as we see in countries like poland as was recently for the same reasons in northern ireland that we on the one hand hear these conservatives saying that they want to protect life on the other hand and exact same governments on the exact same administrations that cut supports for disabled people cut supports for single

mothers and cut support for special education services for people with seem disabilities well i would like to clarify that no one in the pro-life camp is wanting anyone to be an unwilling mother right saying that you should have the right to abort your fetus is not the same thing as saying you must be a parent for the rest of your life adoption is always an option and one i strongly encourage if someone is finding themselves that on time pregnancy and does not want to be a mother was unprepared to be a mother but to say that because the person who conceived you doesn't want to be a parent therefore your right to life is worth that that is completely ridiculous there are many many children out there who grew up with parents that were at the best and perhaps maybe didn't want them i'm sure many of them would take issue with the idea that just because their parents weren't necessarily the most willing supporters of them that they should have been aborted or that would have been all right to do it's it's just something that's fair to say what this highlights is run by the people who make the laws because they're not preventing this from happening

what they're saying is we're ok with these abortions as long as they happen in a different legislative legislation you know they're nuts and we disapprove of your abortion to be just disapprove of that money will hold their noses against you happening in this country who reject use a citizen and make you travel to a different country and then your life back once it happens it is complete. chris i am sure that if the polish had government had implemented any measures to prevent women from traveling to different countries in order to get abortions then these pro-choice advocates would be up in arms even further of these suppose it restriction of these freedoms you know the international conversation about abortion is very interesting as well abortion is often touted as a woman's right but we don't really hear pro-choice advocates talk about the issue of sex selective abortion right there are countless numbers of female fetuses around the world who are at risk of being aborted on the basis of their biological sex where are the feminist protectors standing up for these fetuses our lives and their lives as women matter as well and what we had

a noise in ireland when we made it illegal was people who were arrested for have a number shouldn so if you want to go and arrest every single woman in poland or every single woman in america he had an abortion go ahead but that will be one 3rd of the adult woman population and nobody can support that. call for weeks off to being reclined to the tensions in the disputed region of the corner last on on saturday authorities reported aerial bombardment of the city of ma to cut by azerbaijani planes hit this week women and children were thought through a tip from the city off to the shouting of surrounding villages many civilians caught in the crossfire and now have to take the future into that own hands and as this next story shows in the youngest have right our.

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we've got to let me. make. sure not. green was a barge on 2nd largest city of down joe has come under repeated missile attacks last week and thought 100 civilians were killed and 50 injured will correspond to. reports. a few days after is a terrible tragedy people still come to the place he did by one of the wiesel's crasher used to be in the park when building just a couple of the single locals in the fields come here every day to commemorate those who died so result of the tragedy we can see flowers photographs of the victims here. a couple young man described as a small children. star couple or source for

your. country is currently at war and if there is no unity of one common thing to free our territories we will never win and this daily heroism is very important for each of us this is our homeland this is our future and we can't stand this anymore look at you calls this worthless through are looking glass to believe the few things you see this is one of those distance enjoyable sport soberly finds you total over the insolvent broken and ultimately shells were fired only presidential everyone's doing to conflict he didn't go home to do it i woke up as a herd terribly loud rumble there was dancing black smoke with stories suffocating everything around resistor we don't understand why the target a civilian town we are far from the battlefield we are all one piece we don't want war. my parents are in hospital now they were injured because

of the artillery strike everything they gained throughout the years everything was destroyed in a few minutes their houses are nothing but dust now and the key thing is that civilians were injured we don't want to live like this we want to live peacefully. while still ahead but 19 cubs continue to rile people across europe will talk about a short break. join me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see if that.

is you'll be a reflection of reality. in the world transformed. what will make you feel safe. isolation or community. are you going the right way or are you being led. by. what is true what is faith. in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the death. or inmate in the shallowness. welcome back a certain domino old political soul into democrats out of says according on the

f.b.i. not to investigate the business activities of joe biden and his son hunter they insist it will harm american democracy and it's just a smear campaign by donald trump's team with more his all teased cannibal. who can forget the russia gate hysterics and the demand from u.s. senate minority leader chuck schumer that the f.b.i. investigate allegations against trump regarding collusion that's a serious issue and needs a thorough thorough investigation we know director call me was leading an investigation and whether the trump campaign colluded with the russians serious offense. where those investigations getting too close to home for the president the dismissal of director komi establishes a very troubling pattern well it turns out that senator chuck schumer is far less interested in looking into the shady dealings of the biden family in ukraine

surprise surprise. we therefore urge you to resist pressure from president trump and other poets is an act is to take any actions intended to benefit president trump politically when the election succumbing to such pressure would deeply undermine our national security interests and could have devastating consequences for the resiliency of our democracy the democrats seem quite nervous about opening this can of worms remember hillary clinton using a private server for her e-mails similar story what's interesting this time however is that the democrats' message of nothing to see here folks just move on that message is being echoed by media outlets we don't want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories and we don't want to waste the listeners and readers time on stories that are just pure distractions and quite frankly that's where we ended up this was a politically driven event and we decided to treated that way now that was national public radio the media research center

a media watchdog that leans conservative said the biden family scandal has gotten a little almost no coverage in the aftermath of the recent trump and biden town hall events a.b.c. spend 0 seconds on hunts a budget and d.c. spend just 6 minutes 9 seconds on hundreds of scandals c.b.s. led the brule coast networks with a still measly 10 minutes and 33 seconds print media as well usa today has dropped op eds on the subject usa today didn't want to run my hunter biden column this week my regular editor is in vacation and i guess everyone else was afraid to touch it but seems like the party line of the american elite is do not discuss the biden family e-mails and the so-called free press is in full compliance once again american mainstream media shows us what it's all about what's happening right now with connor biden as they were asked to check for him a smear campaign and so he sees and between 2 candidates and their students.

not really playing out right now in america it's kind of seen as a distraction and possibly even hurting donald trump and me in the end to a degree and i would say voters have made up their mind we've watched 5 years of scandal and donald trump there's a group of voters for donald trump with joe biden as is in again the story of the allegations between eminence are not getting out there because they're not showing a quid pro quo so i don't see how this is going to factor in at the last moment so. the election season and again we call it silly season so johnson is doing. much to europe now where tens of millions are facing tough a coronavirus sections across the continent and night time cause he was in fact in

many places causing anger naples for example for police face off with residents on the street with more on how your pants off airing on to these new covert cups the telephone. while the european continent creaks under increasing cases of covert 19th germany comparatively well however as cases here past 10 files a day for the 1st time for those in charge of public health in germany preparing for the worst. the situation has become very serious but we can slow down the spread of the virus if we take precautions in a systematic way although we have to expect that the virus will continue to be transmitted in some regions of germany and the spread may be uncontrolled from saturday masks will have to be worn outside in any way you can to maintain a 1.5 meted distance from another person and that includes some of the german capital's most famous shopping districts while the infection rates have gone off so

to have the number of germans willing to go to parties back in the spring 90 percent of people said this would have been at the highest order now that's dropped to 60 percent with almost half saying they had been to a gathering with more than 10 people in the last 4 weeks it's a much different picture in france where infections cross the 1000000 mark this week making them the 2nd nation after speaking to cross that threshold seeing a curfew set to be extended. over the last few days the whole situation in our country has continued to deteriorate the circulation level of the bar is extremely high the coming weeks will be tough the number of deaths will continue to write and the hospital services will be put to test if we do not succeed collectively in whole thing the epidemic will be faced with

a dramatic situation and will have to impose more severe measures. the who has promised extra phones and testing capabilities to be rolled out across the bow. to slow down the virus we need to test as much as possible and therefore the european commission is making available 100000000 euros from our emergency support instrument with this money we can buy between 15 and 20 $2000000.00 rapid and teaching tests for the european union to spying for those charged with tracking the pandemic for brussels before from confident about the situation. we are clearly into a 2nd wave we are waiting and we are expecting to see the cases rise even more with over a 1000000 cases in france and spain things seem relatively controlled here in germany i however the fear is that this is akin to being in the attic of a building we can feel the flames yes we can smell the smoke of people

overall to believe i have some other world news if we now starting with unrest in chile police fired water cannon to disperse protesters in the capital santiago hundreds were protesting ahead of a national referendum on changes to the constitution later this month demonstrators are all signs about wizened subway and forming wages the substance of also gathered momentum heading nigeria's special anti robbery squad food was huge demonstrations against the falls were already held to nigeria earlier this month those saws has been disbanded the run is now a war against border police violence in west africa. and to round things off a set of good chere it's a time of year excited told in san marcos most presidents wish list off to lapland and while 2020 is topsy turvy father christmas says the holiday is still on some tricks for us to special wish that everyone stays safe and healthy this year. and

we can all agree with santa about how things are shaping up thanks for sticking with us hope you join us again soon up next it's going underground. world is driven by a dream shaped by. the . thinks. we dared to ask.

the imaginary fans who were going underground as unverified reports suggest hundreds have been killed or injured in africa's most populous nation nigeria whose weaponry comes from its old colonial must britain coming up in the show of notation 30 years after legendary afrobeat pioneer colonial activist fela kuti called current nigerian president mohammad who bihari an animal in a mad man's body we speak to his son femi kuti about continuing the fight and struggling for justice in the face of state violence and while nigerians stand up to the police and government how can they stand up to corporate power we oscar award winning major in playwright and poet in new york and about the legacy of ken

starr we were and his new book the actual which records with the reality of speaking truth to power all the more coming up into the. going underground of nigeria's largest city lagos has been the central hub of 2 weeks of mass protests that have turned global after a viral video allegedly showed a man being killed at the hands of an officer from the nigerian police force unit the special anti robbery squad joining me now from ogun state in nigeria is 4 times grammy nominated artist and political activist femi kuti son of ever be pioneer and the colonial firebrand fela kuti thank you so much very for coming on i know the situation is moving quite quickly different figures being given for the violence in lagos i know you were protesting the saas police squads way you are what is the situation been in recent days in my area has been very well i stay very calm water them the reason i can was the protests passed in front of my house

and then i heard gunshots and i was i was like wow this will erupt into a war in this area so i quickly got dressed and ran to the ice and medical tests and so i went to meet the d.p. or told him that it was impossible for him to kill anybody you have to stop shooting. and so i was like the intermediary between the protests as i mean the protests i said to him accusing police. and i rested some of the some of the protesters and says they are cowards and things through as if the future really is this things if you oblige as well the police accuse them or storming the police station that's why the state shooting they denied it so all i like to stand told them that it's a peaceful protest they have to be peaceful very peaceful and police you must not shoot because if you shoot them we're talking about a completely different. right now some of them some of them are sisters in ogun

said they feared for their lives in your presence save their lives i don't know whether you think that's true and whether. you think it's quite interesting i think during your funds in life during your father's life nigerian authorities imprisoned him constantly harassed him and yet now the cootie name can somehow save lives against against the government i think when we were the police were shooting we all run and when we saw the going to confidence to walk back to the police or we all walk back to the police station together. so i went police saw me ok to be kind of respects me it was my duty to con everybody down the 2nd time i went out was somebody said talks and people say it was a god makes assent talks to.