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french products are stripped from stalls while portraits of president macron go up in flames as anger over some was in countries over a crackdown on suspected islamists following the killing of a teacher impacts if the government still goes on to divide us it will create separate groups in society and it is not the solution today we have to be careful of not developing and then to muslim hatred. i while pre-election tensions erupt into violence in times square it does seem that the main rivals in the race for the white house have a lot more in common and their supporters may think or take a look also to come the south the many faces of the enemy russian evolutionary
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biologist claims there are around $20000.00 taishan of the coronavirus. i think it's a blessing the crown of our says appalled more slowly than other r.n.a. viruses but still it's a very quick process. they get anything you're watching r.t. international just gone 7 o'clock it morphs. turkey's president has once again lashed out at his french counterparts and islam stands claiming it is a threat to his country's security his words continues to build in the muslim world as a crackdown on suspected is amiss in france intensifies following the recent beheading of a teacher near paris dubinsky reports. president macron has said he won't to announce the publication of those cartoons and that has spiked furious reaction from many
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muslim majority countries including from the president of turkey president one who said twice over the weekend that he thought macron needed his mental health checked . needs mental health treatment what else can be said to a head of state who behaves in this way to millions of people living in his country who are members of a different faith. as i said yesterday he is a case and therefore he really needs to have mental checks france has been incensed by that and described it as an insult in reaction its also recalled its ambassador from ankara it's also been condemnation of those comments from the e.u. president words the regard to president are on the ball we call on to stop this dangerous spiral of confrontation all muslim countries are also angered by some of the other crackdowns that are happening here in france that includes the closure of
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a mosque and the closure of muslim associations although they're said to have links to extremists now there have been protests in many countries including in libya and jordan against what's happening here in france and the guards are photos of president macron were burnt there's also been a boycott of french products in some countries and a call for a boycott in others now the organization for islamic cooperation has hit out at the comments that president mack all made saying that they are likely to harm franco muslim relations that we've been chatting to people here in france about what they make of the current situation with many people feeling that this provokes islamophobia and a concern that muslims in general are being punished for the actions of a few radicalized individuals. that the muslim mosques and associations are not guilty maybe some people who come in but not everybody they punish the entire
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muslim community for what an isolated person did to do you have to be careful of not developing and then to muslim hatred if the government still goes on to divide us it will create separate groups in society and it is not the solution 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 president marc. on has being steadfast about this tweeting on sunday night that nothing will make us rich treats in regards the publication of those cartoons of the muslim prophet mohammed it seems that both sides are hardening their stance and the divide is likely to only whiten well germany's foreign minister is also weighed into the round calling the turkish president's remarks about a man you're mad crum a new low he added to that germany does stand in solidarity with france in the fight against islamist extremism middle east experts and also journalists who gave
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us their opinions on the french government's measures and the reaction to them. these people that are boycotting french products they don't understand the french way of life the french muslim community must stop them take this very easily and they understand that because more stuff the french muslim population are in good accord good relationship with french values in france are let's saying the words there. for it are in the united states we have this freedom of speech in france you can't criticize jesus you can create zones moses and you can't and they want to be able to. profit what their laws must have been that have been lost and that they are mosques that are funded by foreign countries that are preaching in these mosques are sent in there by more awkward turkey and saudi arabia are kept out and
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they are paid by the government and french government doesn't want that any more prince must be absolutely clear with the muslim countries that they have not to interfere with the laws of the french republic i don't think it should be a middle ground for the freedom of the press for freedom of ideas that's very important that is what the west is built on our western democracies are built on and we should not accept any discussion on this they have the right to be offended maybe they don't like it there are some things i don't like and what shall you know it's funny shit sometimes starker that's the freedom that's the freedom in europe they must understand that they can be angry ok but not to the point of beheading people you know this is possibly unacceptable and speaking of islamophobia is completely crazy there is no real islamophobia in france i mean it's slamming terrorism. new york's iconic times square was the scene of a violent brawl art
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a truck supporters got into a fight with opponents. was was was fire was at least 4 people were arrested following the clash police were also saying putting handcuffs on say when injured man was lying on a stretcher despite trump and biden being presented as powder offices it does saying when it comes to foreign policy there's not a lot between them with more details his caliber more pay. 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
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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. 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 peaceful 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
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a top iranian general it doesn't look like iran will be back to the table any time soon. about the j c.p.o. a table still exists the us 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 and caused our great generals martyrdom as for staying in the middle east do you remember all those promises from trump about bringing the troops so we are working to finally end a man. 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
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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 phone. 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 heard lots of people have 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 emits 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
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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 u.s. libertarian national committee member benedict does believe that biden's approach to foreign policy might look more sophisticated but at his heart is not all that different from trump's. president biden would be more diplomatic he'd be more polite but when you look at his actual policies i don't think they would be what i'm looking for i think what you have is a change in personalities but not a change in policies biden's foreign policy is almost going to be the same as trump's although there may be a risk that he would start a new war trump trump is talk tough he's talked tough with iran china and even
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russia but it was president obama and vice president biden who started a new war in libya they continued bombing in germany and other places so i don't think that foreign policy will be better with biden it might actually get worse. not with kind of a tightening its grip on the world we've heard from a leading he evolutionary biologist who has conducted extensive analysis of the virus he explained how it's mutated into say a high price can be dealt with in the future you can watch it in full but here's a quick taste of what he said. i think it's a blessing the coronaviruses evolve more slowly than other r.n.a. viruses but still it's a very quick process the virus mutates every 2 weeks but in one specific lineage what is a specific lineage well vassie infects mush mush infects pets or pets infects tanya
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in such a lineage the virus mutates once 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 versions of the same corona virus that is believed to have her region aided and will one where. 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 show that they are all descended from one common ancestor which existed back then so it seems to me very unlikely that the virus infected 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
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order to somehow perfectly adapt to it and live quietly inside them. actually this is not what the virus cares about most we know a huge number of examples one of our success didn't put play sions for many many is many centuries and did not weaken smallpox for example on measles 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. meanwhile in europe the coronavirus on the rampage once again countries are further tightening restrictions as they attempt to hold back the invisible enemy but many are now suffering covert fatigue after months of measures impacting their lives the new moves aren't going
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down particularly well peter all over as more. italy and spain are the latest nations to put in place new restrictions on their populations in an attempt to try and get the number of covert 19 infections down in italy they've seen the number of cases double each week over the last 3 weeks in spain they vented what's being called a state of alarm that's putting in place a curfew for the next 15 days people not allowed out on the streets from 11 at night until 6 in the morning now politicians there also wanting to extend a state of emergency in the country for a further 6 months now in italy what we've seen is new rules come in place regarding restaurants and dining out all restaurants are going to have to shut their doors to customers from 6 pm at night on the 4 people allowed at a table while they're allowed to be open they are allowed to continue serving
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takeout after that but there is a strict rule against any food consumption or drinking on the streets or in public areas after 6 pm these new rules well there's been pushback against them in both naples and in rome. well not everybody has gone to those extreme levels that we just saw in naples and rome but italians in general and people in spain as well and happy about the measures that have been put in place on them with some saying simply won't work as i thought it was it's a disaster it will be devastating for many people and many families that work in the nightlife industry going to be uncertain you know. this makes me suspect that in the end the problem will transform from a cemetery issue into an economic one and that is where the real problem lies.
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yakety. i am ashamed to be talian because the government is carrying out psychological terrorism we traders be forced to shut down one of. these are quite drastic measures but they are kind of in the middle it's not a real look down it's a look down by hobbes here in germany we recently passed 10000 covert deaths while each one of them is a tragedy in its own right germany has fared considerably better than many of its neighbors in fact almost all of its neighbors despite that performance though there are those that are extremely unhappy with the way the german government has handled the pandemic in fact on sunday we saw protests on the streets here in berlin there were some clashes with police and arrests were made cases of covert 19 of also being rising in russia as well over 17000 new infections in the last 24
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hours no letup in sight it seems as the world continues to try and fight against covert 19 but it's keeping that balance between trying to keep populations healthy and trying to keep economies of float that seeing tensions rise in areas. so people in their thirty's around the world have less faith in democratic institutions than previous generations that's according to a survey by cambridge university researchers did quiz nearly 5000000 people in 160 countries the study ran for nearly 5 decades and throughout canvass people around the age of 30 about their views on democracy will each subsequent generation of 30 somethings reported less satisfaction and trust in political systems we asked people in paris london and also san francisco if they think that democracy is fit for purpose where they live. i don't
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necessarily believe that it works the way it should. i still believe in democracy but i don't have confidence in the current government for democracy is there but i don't think it's being implemented properly i think the state of democracy is more risk than it has been before so this is tim is looking increasingly like a dictatorship to me personally i think it's true that it's all broke. parents don't educate him enough that i can say kind of because we're not really in and many more our generation isn't there you see people that are. 506070 that are running the government the way that they see fit and now only taking the younger generation into consideration young people being very will be able recently with their. student.
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not being able to hold a mortgage that kind of thing and i think that's fair i didn't see them believing that democracy is the story 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 nothing. does believe. in western countries or for a matter of touch with the public. if you just. cannot be sure but. so what we are dealing here. in the main. in billy d. of. democracy doing it used to function there is
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a land there are again probably being your own insurance simply escape route and the duration of it is that we don't get fairly clear way. how do we bring the do together i've seen people in tunisia to change in the democracy chests we should always remember that liberal presentation of democracy is not a neutral screen in the only struggle east is there a group. including the morrow going there already. and it's sad. no matter how just. misses some day means. we was going to find. a state. which can even be formally less democratic
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moral. why not but we somehow they actually interact with dog obedience even as the insults not strong enough to leave those new well listen i didn't dare try it in the future is not democracy or. it is. no use in sounding it's. the rest of the world war torn region of nagorno-karabakh is stating with rising interactions and he ceasefire between our mania anticipation has given some hope for the local health system is still overwhelmed because down of reports. 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 the going
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to camp back in the south caucasus locals have a starkly different reason to avoid crowds and shelter in basements. 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 oh our health system is a work lot is. because of that deceased can't treat cases properly in the showers 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
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almost all doctors have had coronavirus or are currently sick but we keep working we have no time to rest and recover when i ask people here if they are a tool concerned about the band demick many think it's a joke in very poor taste. first they have to get through this war or on the wires doesn't bore their anyone here that night i. was there with a lot of my world health organization cares about coronavirus 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 donna reporting from the go in a cab back. well tensions in the going to cut it back to stretch back more than 3 decades but the fighting escalated in late september and yet a van have agreed to pause hostilities for
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a 3rd time now while though they do accuse each other of violating the troops fighting it's also spilled to be on the borders of the disputed region local journalists desire day reports now from me as a vision the city of tire which has become a target. almost a mall was her 1st since the beginning of the cold looked in this cell 2 of the shells have nots up here in the city of toronto for the region is sheltering in basement the danger of coronavirus isn't a surreal threat or being killed by a rocket. so it's true that the coronavirus has been a bit forgotten because of the war we're concerned about are about the war this we're all 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
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and with god's help the time has come and once we've done with that we will worry about the coronavirus no faultline villages or seizures so again coming and heavy artillery in. here right now as a result of all 4 direct costs near me so 16 year old teenager have died in the garden of his home despite the heavy attics local residents are still remain here do farming priests livestock and so they didn't want him turned to leave their homes. in other news tonight washington to slap new sanctions on his but our officials in lebanon is also offering a reward for information on the group's financial activities and is the latest in a series of measures that washington claims are needed to protect the united states and its allies has blah remains a threat to the u.s.
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and our allies today with further exposing the terror groups activities and disrupting its operational networks all countries should work to restrict its activities and protect themselves as is a political party and the militant group in lebanon iran is its main sponsor and the us along with other countries to do class it as a terror group been and is currently facing its worst economic crisis in decades at the moment an r.t.s. redfish documentary project has been looking at how people they're surviving you can watch guns for food in full online but here's a taste of what you can see. rather than on a small mediterranean nation surrounded by war torn syria to its east is officially at war with the u.s. his main ally in the region this rule which occupies palestine to its south and as a result has been the site of their moral for most of his recent history and as the country goes through its worst economic crisis to date life has become more
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bearable to those at the bottom if you want his economic warfare a lever when we took more economic warfare we don't just mean the sanctions on iran on hezbollah when the us is sanctioning has one 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 starve. so we're here today to say that the rejects any u.s. intervention in our domestic affairs especially after imposing it would carry a dilemma not the us 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 his beloved the community which already supports
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hezbollah is going to be even more cohesive than before so it's going to backfire. and then not lead to us. reus people on the song. and. those who wish to force us into choosing between 2 options either getting killed by weapons or getting killed by starvation i tell them we will continue to carry our weapons and we will not starve and we will kill you. and you can find that documentary in full online are you watching our say thanks for your company tonight we're back again with the headlines and more stories at the top of the.
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now imagine her times are we going underground is the u.s. senate votes on president nominee judge amy kone barrett to the supreme court who could tip the balance in upcoming votes on criminal justice including claims against excessive police force coming up in the show as brilliant as well from rises to over 10 trillion dollars amid the making coronavirus pandemic we investigate the global police state as it seeks to protect private profit at the expense of humanity and those bills passed through the u.k. parliament that seek to immunize soldiers and undercover police from facing just as we investigate a new.
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