thirst for. french products all removed from shelves portraits of a monument drawn all burnt muslim countries is that man so i don't suspect it is limitless following the beheading in paris we get the reaction of prince. good government still goes on to divide us people plead separate groups in society and it is not so wrenching today we have to be careful not to be and then to muslim hatred. in new york supporters engage in hand to hand combat with those opposing his candidacy we look at whether the 2 contenders for the white house are really that far apart when it comes to foreign policy. is the

world 'd the grow the virus pandemic leading russian evolutionary biologist these men extensive study of the viruses genome. we can already see approximately 20 pounds meat. of what. $20000.00 versions of the same group are there is believed to have originated and. thanks for joining us here on r.t. international. first this hour the turkish president has again publicly questioned the mental health of his french counterpart as anger in the muslim world 'd over a crackdown on suspected as the mists in france intensifies this was stuff to recent beheading in paris critics say that it's driven by blatant islamophobia let's get more on the story from. paris joins us live good morning charlotte

frances response to the murder not going down too well in some places. well that's right last week at present back on as he was paying tribute to sammy and patty the teacher who was beheaded he said he wouldn't were no those cartoons controversial cartoons of the prophet mohammed now that has sparked fear is reaction from many muslim majority countries including those comments from the turkish president. who said twice over the weekend that president macron needed his mental health checked. needs a mental health treatment what else can be said to a head of state who does not understand freedom of belief and who behaves in this way to millions of people living in this country who are members of a different faith well france is incensed by those comments describing them as being an insult and as a result of that it's required. back from ankara in the

absence of any official token of condemnation or solidarity from the turkish authorities after the terrorist attack in gaza flan sent on the rain now comes hateful and slanderous propaganda against france in recent days expressing their will to stir hatred against us president words with regard to president. we call on turkey to stop this dangerous spiral of confrontation. well muslim countries are also unhappy about the closure of muslim associations and a mosque fronts in reaction to that beheading of some your party these organizations in the mosque said to have extremist sympathies there have been protests in different countries such as jordan libya and in gaza photos of president macro burned now there's also been a call for a boycott on french products with some supermarkets in kuwait already moving certain products from their shelves and the organization for islamic cooperation

which represents 57 countries around the world has described this statement by macworld what's happening here is in france as being something that is likely to harm franco muslim relations or we've been speaking to some people here in france about the current atmosphere and there is gesturing for many that there is a sense of islamophobia that's going on and that muslims in general are being punished for what the few radicalised people have been doing if the government still goes on to divide us it will create separate groups in society and it is not the solution that the. beauty of maybe some people who come in but not everybody people have the right to breath is their religion is they want so we can close a police who worship like that to pass expect our government to calm the tensions down today we have to be careful not developing and then to muslim hatred it makes

no sense and it is dangerous i don't think that there is an optimal solution there would be utopian to think the opposite but dialogue is a better solution for me muslims are not guilty for the terror attacks the government is not responsible either so precisely both have to discuss the problem find solutions and respect each other. well macro remains pretty steadfast tweeting on sunday evening that nothing will make us retreat in regards to those cartoons and the publication of them it seems that both sides are hardening down battening down the barriers and it looks like this divide is likely to get deeper charlotte thank you for the update there live from parashar the dubin scheme. in the wake of the recent attack of france the french president stressed that brother call islam islam is a major menace to the republic maybe other threats facing western democracies

release of a recently published survey by the university of cambridge is anything to go by it indicates westerners in the thirty's and twenty's are less satisfied with democratic institutions and the point in the last century researchers surveyed nearly 5000000 people from more than 160 countries to study the run for some 47 years people in their thirty's across the decades were asked about their views of democracy with each subsequent generation reporting less satisfaction and trust in the political system than the previous one when the millennial has been the most disillusioned of all we gauge people's as opinions in paris london and san francisco to see if the study's findings hold up. i don't necessarily believe that it works the way it should be struck argument i still believe in democracy but i don't have confidence in the current government for democracy is there. i door think it's being implemented properly i think

the state of democracy is more at risk than it has been before jeff a simple hard look this is dem is looking increasingly like a dictatorship to me personally i think it's true that it's all broke. that's a parent stone education enough that i can say we kind of because we're not really in. our generation is in there you see people that are. 506070 that are running the government the way that they see fit and now really taking the younger generation into consideration young people being very will be a recently written. exam grades student. not being able to afford a mortgage that kind of thing and i think that's fair to. them believing that democracy is here and i think a lot of it is just a lack of confidence that the politician has. got any integrity so actually i think

people of my generation do not trust the system we get the impression the voting in chief is nothing. will the previous presidential election in the u.s. in 2016 so nearly half of all those eligible actually not voted top so it's hard to predict the turnout this year one thing is already extreme polarization of u.s. society as it bearing witness to that violent scenes unfolded in new york's iconic times square on sunday after double trouble supporters got into a vicious fist fight the potence. was. i was. was wrong i was at. least 4 people were arrested after a driver in a cavalcade of trump supporters brawl down the street with a female and demonstrator police were also seen putting handcuffs on an injured man

who was lying on the script. on the face of it doesn't trump and joe biden are at opposite ends of the political spectrum but whichever contender gets voted into office some suggest u.s. foreign policy could end up saying pretty much unchanged artie's caleb maupin looks at why the democratic nominee may not be the alternative anti trampas are looking for. the past 4 years have proved to us that donald trump is a businessman he is not a diplomat is diplomatic failures have created a lot of tension around the world and it seems the whole world is holding its breath until november hopes for biden calling the waters might be high however you turning out all of trump's decisions might not be as easy as it looks and it might be well rather odd let's take donald trump's most recent moves the peace deals between arab countries and israel now they're hailed by some but met with fury by others biden has claimed he will move in the same direction and of course he would

not reverse the decision by trump to move the u.s. embassy to jerusalem a biden has said ministration will build on the steps challenge of the nations to keep pace and work to capitalize on these growing toni's to move forwards when a 2 state solution and a more stable and peace who region now let's move on to america's most bitter enemy iran now biden says he is an enthusiastic supporter of the iran nuclear deal he has denounced trump's move to withdraw the us a from the deal and says he's enthusiastic about the possibility of rejoining the best way to do that of course would be for president truman to rejoin the iran deal and build on but seeing as how donald trump has ripped up that deal and then murdered a top iranian general it doesn't look like iran will be back to the table any time soon we will pull you back the j c.p.o. a table still exists the u.s. left it if they want to return to it it won't be that easy they cost billions tens

of billions or maybe hundreds of billions of dollars worth of damage to our people they caused the deaths of our people they attacked our people have done and caused our great general smarter democracy if you ask for staying in the middle east's do you remember all those promises from trump about bringing the troops so we are working to finally end up. his longest war and bring our troops back home now when asked if he agreed with the president here joe biden actually responded with yes i do as bizarre as it sounds yes i do as long as there's a plan to figure out how he's going to deal with isis on to north korea where there seems to be no silver bullet to resolve the tensions donald trump tried to play the diplomat and met with the north korean leader 3 times however he was unable to break through the stalemate and it looks like biden's chances with north korea are also pretty slim as relations between the former vice president and kim jong un

have also hit rock bottom he's talked about his good buddy who's a. i would be putting pressure on china new to put pressure on korea i would not meet with the supreme leader who said joe biden is a rabid dog rabid dogs like biden can hurt lots of people of they're allowed to run about they must be beaten to death with a stick before it's too late yes on paper both candidates seem to have very different foreign policies however u.s. media admits that there will be very little chance of significant change if biden takes the oval office donald trump which himself as an outsider remember well it appears that he really did have no experience when it came to dealing with friends and foes trump has left us foreign policy in tatters he has pulled out of many key international agreements however what would change with the reins of power handed over to a potential biden as commander in chief someone who supported the u.s.

invasion of afghanistan iraq and yugoslavia probably not much able to mop and artsy new york. was benedict from the us libertarian national committee told us that the longstanding panton of aggressive u.s. foreign policy must end. you know if i had to choose between a president biden and a president trump i wouldn't vote for he threw one too many americans think that if america isn't bully in the rest of the world and policing the rest of the world that america will be weaker and it's actually the opposite what is good for america is also good for the rest of the world and noninterventionist policy by america is also good for china it's also good for russia it's also good for the middle east we don't have to always continue this who's going to be stronger and who's going to win this war have winners and losers we can all cooperate and work

together for peace around the world and without war what i'm looking for from a president is someone who will be very slow to go to war and will be looking for ways to avoid war and will help explain to the american people why going into war and getting involved in every other foreign countries personal business is a bad idea. still to come a fight on 2 fronts the pandemic rages and will to go in the car by the local side the virus is nothing compared with the armed conflict and that's the end of the season after this but.

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come back and agreed ceasefire between our media and as about john has just come into effect in the going to cover a buck 3 days of talks in washington but while there is hope that the bloody fighting will now stop there's another battle raging in the disputed region on the ground biggest looks at how not going to cut about is dealing with the pandemic. it's the 2nd coming of a familiar villain europe's new wave of covert 19 is forcing people to social distance and avoid mass gatherings but here in the mountainous region of nagorno-karabakh in the south caucasus locals have a starkly different reason to avoid crowds and shelter in basements.

while elsewhere hospitals are hoarding ventilators and personal protection equipment here in karabakh hospitals are stocking up on blood bags and painkillers the health care system is under massive strain there's a heavy influx of wounded soldiers from the front lines and civilians from shelled towns many hospitals have been bombed too but the situation is so dire some of them had no choice but to stay off aeration well despite shattered windows collapsed walls and scarse power supply the risk of covert isn't making things any easier by doing tests here is simply not a priority right now since we have. war here. our health system is a work lot is. because of that. can't

treat cases properly. show us apart from those wounded the number of coronavirus patients has multiplied over the past week among soldiers and civilians alike including doctors in our hospital almost all doctors have had coronavirus or are currently sick but we keep working we have no time to rest and recover half of our personnel have to receive constant medication but they keep doing their jobs when i ask people here if they are a tool concerned about the band demick many think you could sit. in very poor taste those who do say it's not a question they expect to hear right now. but it's weird to hear these kind of questions we have other issues to deal with right now we have no time for grown ups . first we have to get through this war coronavirus doesn't border anyone here that much less. the world health organization cares about corona virus people are dying

of it the problem is real but here people are dying for different reasons fighting bombings grown viruses taking a backseat there's no other worry here but to see sons husbands grandchildren and fathers return from the front line alive and to defend the land everyone here considers there as a virus can hardly compete with bombs raining down on people's homes donna reporting from the going to care about. tensions in the back stretch back for more than 3 decades but the fighting escalated in late september it spilled as well beyond the borders of the disputed region local journalist. dave reports from. which has become a target. presidency of total world the 1st to feel the wall here in his original almost i'm always have 1st since the beginning of the conflict and this cell 2 of

the shells have not stopped here in the c 2 of toronto in the last 2 days so why are we even forces have intensified paws origines sheltering in basement the danger of coronavirus isn't a surreal the straight or being killed by a rocket just like those on the opposite side of the conflict they want to end the war 1st on the edge of the puddle of shit as we worry about both the coronavirus and the war the same time we're trying to leave in between the 2 we have rubbing alcohol we have face masks we seem to have everything we need to go bad. it's true that the current virus has been a bit forgotten because of the war we're concerned about all about the war that's where our attention is focused we want to free our lands from enemy occupation and return their. covert 19 is nothing compared to the war the armenians are worse than the coronavirus 1st we have to take care of them we have to get rid of them and

with god's help the time has come and once we've done with that we will worry about the coronavirus know the frontline village use our sea just her again coming and they hate me artillery and rockets. that can hit here right now as a result of all 4 of their reckless smooch missile at a 16 year old teenager have died right in the garden of his home this is not the 1st time children living can differ on why would you send c.d.'s are being killed why armenian 4 years ago during april's more 16 year old through his didn't of. region have been killed despite the hey very attics local residents are still remain here do farming very slight. talk and see they didn't want intent to leave their homes. with the coronavirus situation worsening globally spoken to

a leading evolutionary biologist has conducted an extensive analysis of the coronavirus genome explain to us how it's mutated and the break should be dealt with and you can watch the full version of this interview on r.t. dot com here is a preview for you. i think it's a blessing the coronaviruses evolve more slowly than other r.n.a. viruses it's still it's a very quick process because the virus mutates every 2 weeks but then one specific lineage what is a specific lineage vassal infects musher mush infects pets in pits infix tanya in such a lineage the virus mutates but at the same time a similar process is taking place across the globe since different viruses acquire different mutations in total we see tens of thousands of mutations but we can already see approximately 20000 mutations. that is $20000.00 versions of the same corona virus that is believed to have originated and.

we now see that the common ancestor was around in december or january the genomes of all the coronaviruses we are sequencing and studying right now which show that they are all descended from one common ancestor which existed back then so it seems to me very unlikely that the parson fact that a person before that time. so. there is a widespread belief that the virus does not exist in order to kill the owner but in order to somehow perfectly adapt to a live quietly inside of the regime. actually this is not what the virus cares about the most we know a huge number of examples one of our success didn't put place for many many years many centuries and did not weaken small cults for example amazing which is fatal in a large proportion of cases if there is no treatment but generally it often happens

that the mortality rate does not change at all. so there is no guarantee that covert 19 will somehow become less dangerous. in the near future there are no guarantees of that. america has imposed pressure sanctions on hezbollah officials in lebanon and is offering a reward for information on the group's financial activities it's the latest in a series of punitive measures which washington says protect america and its allies has blair remains a threat to the us and our allies today with further exposing the terror group's activities and disrupting its operational networks all countries should work to restrict its activities and protect themselves as blair is a political party and a militant group in lebanon iran is its main sponsor us along with a number of other countries regarded to be

a terrorist group lebanon is currently facing its worst economic crisis documentary making outfit redfish has taken a look at how people there are coping you can watch guns for food in full on youtube. lebannon a small mediterranean nation surrounded by war torn syria to its east is officially at war with the us whose main ally in the region vis israel which occupies palestine to its south and as a result has been the site of turmoil for most of his recent history and as the country goes through its worst economic crisis to date life has become more bearable to those at the bottom it was economic warfare a level when we took what economic war that we don't just mean the sanctions on iran on hezbollah when the us is sanctioning hezbollah and iran which obviously provides funding for hezbollah social welfare institutions these people who have no institutional affiliation to the party are losing their social welfare benefits and

there is no state to fill this void so they're left really to start. with it's a say that we were just any of us intervention in our domestic affairs especially after imposing it would carry a dilemma not the u.s. is blockade on lebanon today this economic strangulation the aim behind it is to dislodge hezbollah from the government it's to disarm hezbollah and to basically eliminate this party altogether it's only going to turn people further away from the u.s. you know right into the arms of hezbollah that the community which already supports hezbollah is going to be even more cohesive than before so it's going to backfire. a little not close your starbucks humiliate us reus people in the song. and. those who wish to force us into choosing a tree 2 options either getting killed by weapons or getting killed by starvation i

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