china the 1st city strap is upon us. just gets more and more evidence coming in. the latest anti pandemic measures in europe are aggravating divisions italians are among those. who can unite time curfew and venting fury on the streets. as you can see italy is rebelling this government has decided to suppress the italian people to starve them. to frictions in the u.k. forced pubs and bars to serve substantial meals with any drinks they sell without specifying which dishes amount to want to get reaction from the pub owner. we did we think we finally got to albany and by the time we get the last little company in the plate driving everyone. in this new york city becomes a battleground for fans and haters place but reportedly is poised to begin for its

moderation tools to combat election related violence so the system has been slammed into failure in the past when trials in other countries. are you watching r t international good to have you with us. there is growing resentment in europe over the latest anti pandemic rules the infection rates are soaring countries are reluctant to return to full lock downs but it hasn't stopped people flouting the new measures anyway for example there were riots in the spanish city of boston alone or hundreds gathered in one of the main squares of the catalan capital to condemn the state of emergency imposed across the country people violated a nighttime curfew that came into force on sunday they also overturned rubbish bins near the local parliament and set them on fire. it was similar scenes in italy

where several cities saw protests getting out of hand in cheer in smoke bombs were let off and bottles hurled at the police in milan riot officers resorted to using tear gas on these people. reports on europe's latest response to cove it and how it's being received. 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 only for people allowed at a table while they're allowed to be open they are allowed to continue serving takeout after that vote 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 it simply won't work . as you can see italy is rebelling this government has decided to. press the italian people to starve them to death we hope that this government will force in this or that it was a 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. yakety bay and i am ashamed to be talian because the government is carrying out psychological terrorism we traders will 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 lockdown it's a look down by harv's here in germany we recently passed 10000 cova 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 hours no less help 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. you know russia's also toughening up its covert response without going into full lockdown as of wednesday masks will be compulsory in all public places and regional heads have been advised to close cafes and restaurants as well as to ban mass

entertainment activities. to the u.k. now where for more than a week daily new corona virus infections have exceeded $20000.00 among the new restrictions being rolled out in high risk areas is the pubs and bars have to serve meals with drinks if they want to stay open many owners so criticize the rule saying it doesn't even make sense and they're looking for ways to get around it we spoke to one owner who told us things are hard enough as the pandemic has driven away customers we spent so much trial human effort not just learning the rules and not just by eating by them but what we did to a pirate in the actual effort into screens and you know like this awful distance in the everything we've done and that we prepared to open we did everything we finally got to all in and by the time we go and to recoup the losses little rules keep coming in the plate and it's driving everyone mired in now all of sudden we had to close it and we lost 60 percent turnover when we had to close at 10 and then we could see that part now and then which will cause because. we don't serve food

doesn't make any sense this is a this was me i had nothing to lose no it wasn't for having nothing to lose this when it happened no this happened we've got overwhelmed or and everyone's backing us it's been ridiculous and it's more than just the wins because he's huge. gatherings of more than 6 both indoors and out are banned in high risk areas residents are also asked to avoid any trouble that's not absolutely necessary and only those places that serve substantial meals can remain open but it is that term substantial meal that's raising the questions the guidelines define it simply a main lunchtime or evening meal there's no other criteria provided but it's created confusion both among bar owners and officials who are unsure how to check compliance so we asked people in manchester what they think defines a substantial meal. there i think today what i've.

found with only all i can even without it i would class a sustainable meal at what most people would class as a main meal so for example i'm just hard sausage by. a substantial male to male you might be classed a lot bigger than a lot of the people who must wear the differences because people don't know. what can you say because i'm not some which is not told me oh ha ha me. forms a potato me. i don't see how someone just. on having a drink is different between just having a drink and. so is beneficial in what ways but not on the whole a don't think so no why should the problem. is not that sets in anybody any more

than it was previously previously to service most of the tables we were allowed to go to the bar where you must go and. going into the venue to cleanse your hand was . to go around the one way system you don't want to people travelling from pole to pole thinking constantly in the end. and that's when all the idea of social distancing is. think about it will behave more reckless. with election day just around the corner in the u.s. tensions are running high between the 2 opposing camps in new york jewish pro trump activists and those opposing his candidacy came to blows at the weekend motorcade waving american flags to the ends of the metropolis known for being a democratic stronghold to distribute opposing camps threw rocks and drugs at the convoys and one point they blocked the progress of fistfights and arrests and suing against this bank social media giant facebook is reportedly preparing to ratchet up

its content moderation all these get more looks at the platforms trying to record elsewhere when it comes to preventing violence now we haven't even had the election yet here in the united states but already concerns are going to its aftermath and the potential for anarky on the streets however don't panic facebook is on the case we need to be doing. everything that we can to reduce the chances of violence civil unrest in the wake of the selection the social media giant is reported to already have a slew of emergency measures that are being planned facebook has already promised to slow the spread of viral content to lower the standards of what's considered an inflammatory post and get suppressed to tweak the newsfeeds of what users see and furthermore to suppress dangerous posts in such circumstances there's some content that needs to be removed and there's some content that needs to not have access to

the facebook tools that created my reality facebook does not have the best record when it comes to this kind of thing these are the same tools that were deployed in me and mar facebook was accused of inflaming hate speech in the country that was back when forces cracked down on rohingya muslims and it got very ugly. that. the united nations has actually called out facebook for not stopping the widespread calls for violence and the hate speech that it encouraged and in all those who are ready to kill i'm afraid that facebook has now turned into a beast and not what it originally intended it has substantially contributed to the level of acrimony and dissension and conflict if you will within the public he

speech is certainly of course a part of that in 28 thing facebook was once again called out for inflaming anti muslim riots this time in sri lanka. facebook has apologized for both circumstances saying that they were wrong and man maher and in sri lanka but now facebook's approach to american politics is being scrutinized facebook decided to suppress the reports about hunter by his shady dealings in ukraine drawing anger and outrage from republicans i think they're a threat to democracy when you can shut down the flow of information when you when you can censor what millions of americans would see that's

a threat to democracy they say well it says this was all done in the name of fact checking so with a controversial election and fears of violence in the united states will facebook repeat its pattern of behavior and fan the flames making things worse or will its newly discovered art of censorship save lives and restore call well they are set the ship in a big good morning it's up to this for a very long time it's not only censorship at this point this is them letting us know that they are going to decide how the conversation goes they are going to we shouldn't trust our power into them because they're going to protect all of us from mina posts that they i guess believe are going to violence in the aftermath of the election so it even goes beyond just the censorship we're used to this is them saying we're going to control the conversation we're going to control what happens in this country what you see what you hear and what gets out there it's next level one of things about these organizations is they look down on the american people we

know they think the american people are stupid and violent and they think that they have to protect us from ourselves because we have the happy protect us from our own speech of our neighbors our friends our coworkers and the public figures and news organizations that we want to hear from so they're nannying us they think that they're doing some sort of ultimate good and of course anyone who thinks that they are capable of doing such a good that's classic like dick cheney. ality is that figure that you know it's best for everyone else and you were use every tool at your disposal to make sure that your idea of what's best and your and what's appropriate is the only thing that gets out and and shaping how people think and speak ok will be looking at possible nepotism in the race for the white house after the break.

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a mate in the shall i say. welcome back trump as again taking aim at this democratic rival joe biden accusing him of having received millions of dollars from abroad in shady deals. he gets $3000000.00 from russia and from the right of the mayor of moscow. is what did he do for that he had doing no job done. and then. he got i was doing 5000000000 different china i said to a friend of mine the biggest on wall street very smart guy said is that possible to get that he said it's not possible for my for to get it and this was the big $110000000.00 a year for her introductory purposes. so i'm sure months come in the wake of

bombshell reports featuring leaked materials which point to corruption and conflicts of interest in the biden family similar allegations around the trump family today and he gently vigor asked just how widespread is nepotism in american politics. no matter who wins the election in november both biden and trump are big names in politics now and their families will continue to cash in on that but hey they can't help who they're related to right take biden's son hunter if you don't live in a cave you've likely heard that he once served on the board of a ukrainian energy company while his dad was a v.p. now it's not exactly clear how much he pulled in there but reports say somewhere around 50 k. a month or more that point on his resume has cost his dad a never ending headache and he's both admitted that taking the position was probably a mistake and that he likely would have never gotten it if he wasn't biting there's a lot of things that would happen in my life to that if my last name was implied did i make a mistake well maybe in the grand scheme of things yes but that's probably not the

only business decision he regrets there's also the time he flew to china with his then vice president father on air force 2. i which didn't raise any eyebrows at the time biden brought family on foreign trips all the time but that's because back then that no one knew that hunter was forming a chinese private equity fund or that hunter met with a chinese banker who was his partner in the fund during the trip spokesperson says it was a social visit but that scheme was approved by shanghai authorities just days later and $100.00 didn't see any money from that until after his dad was out of office when he did it was over $400000.00 hundreds business ties to china don't stop there but well let's move on to joe's brother james there's plenty to say about him but if we focus on one thing back in 2011 while joe was leading the obama administration's iraq policy james was executive v.p. of a construction firm that landed a 1500000000 dollars contract to build houses in iraq the company denied that the

vice president's position had anything to do with the deal but what do you make of this deja perot this is his name helps him get in the door but it doesn't help him get business people who have important names tend to get in the do easier but it doesn't mean success if he. the name the bomber he would get in the door easier to be fair those contracts did fall through but it's things like that that makes trump jr say things like this the biden family is the most corrupt political family in american history i'm pretty sure that video is what pops up when looking for the meaning of the phrase the pot calling the kettle black because the trump kids are too and just fine control of the trump organization was handed to don jr and his brother eric by their father when he took office due to conflict of interest issues but in 2017 promotional materials from trump tower mumbai were not boasting a connection to quote u.s. space real estate tycoon celebrity and potest donald trump the office of the president can't be used for personal benefit guys so the ads which are said to have

been unapproved were pulled trump also put her fashion line into a temporary trust before taking a role in the white house and yet reports of her company having trademarks fast tracked keep cropping up she rubbed shoulders with xi jinping and the same day several new ones are approved and speaking of her fashion lines right after an appearance on 60 minutes alongside her father after his election it was jewelry company sent out a blast promoting a $10000.00 bracelet from the line she was wearing during the interview it was promised that things that the company were still being sorted out after the election but it wasn't the 1st time that mix politics and business she previously used a speech at an r. and c. convention to her clothing line and there's also the fact that while trump was in the midst of an election his kids opened up trump international hotel in d.c. it's an honor to stand before you today and officially welcome to trump international hotel and tower washington d.c. and that has led several foreign dignitaries to come visit the president paying his

kids for their accommodations all this nepotism and what looks like selling access to powerful men runs a fine line when it comes to legality but man it's got to be great from their perspectives. well out election. nearing donald trump has vowed to straighten out the conflict between armenia and azerbaijan over the disputed new going to a buck region he spoke about it at length with his supporters on sunday and the problems that they have and that they're fighting and everything else will get that straightened out that's going to be i call that it is you one ok we'll get that go back and tell your people i mean i it's easy if you know what you're doing you know what you're doing it's like that if you know what you're doing it's easy or that easy case done from mentioned stretches back more than 3 decades the disputed region is populated mainly by ethnic armenians which azerbaijan calls an illegal occupation the fighting there escalated

in late september now the sides have agreed to pause hostilities a 3rd time and you ceasefire was agreed in washington and announced on sunday night just an hour after donald trump's speech in new hampshire. so far as we heard again in the capital of the disputed region despite the new agreement with both sides again trading accusations of truce violations just minutes after it came into effect we discussed the ceasefire with international affairs expert paul robinson who says that donald trump's just pushing his own interests in this is just domestic politics it's. very often the case politicians will play to diaspora groups and the more organized diaspora group the more likely it is that the politicians will pander to them in one way or another and this is really just. repeating about mean americans are sort of trying to.

resurrect. the problem here is both sides have really pretty irreconcilable red lines the azerbaijani president. has said that is red line is that all of their territory must be returned to it which includes both going to carve out in various as a republic says which under control on the other hand the prime minister actually you know has said that his red line is that the self-determination of the people are not going to come about must be respected those 2 guidelines are completely incompatible this is something which is sort of easy enough for both sides to sign but probably without a great deal of intention of keeping to. a palestinian teenager has died after allegedly being attacked by israeli soldiers the incident happened in the west bank on sunday an 18 year old and his friend with chased by troops the victim's father claims the soldiers bring to son to death. my son the

martyr was killed in cold blood when he wasn't going to fight israelis or anything his friend's car broke down and he went to help him then the israeli soldiers followed him my son didn't know anything about the area he went to so he was driving around looking for his friend so the soldiers followed him and then started beating him until they killed him without any reason he wasn't carrying a weapon or anything else to fight them with he was a peaceful citizen going to help his friend and israeli army claims the teenager fell over and hit his head during the foot chase they argue that death was caused by a head injury the soldiers were sent to the area following reports of stone throwing at an army vehicle other times health ministry confirmed the teenager had been severely beaten before arriving in hospital the only other eyewitness to what happened was his friend who reportedly fled the scene when the israeli soldiers gave chase a palestinian authorities are demanding an international probe base the families say that their last 'd son played a key role in the lives. of the have on this area euthanize

a peaceful and stable area everyone is occupy over their work and their own business given the your martyr armor argument is a tragedy he was the only help in the aid to his father who has multiple health issues. because our son's life isn't worthless and i spent my life and lost my health raising my son to be a man and to feed his family then i lose him and attend his funeral that doesn't make any sense. 100 speech notes by hitler have sold at the munich auction house 434000 euros significantly more than the starting price the money scripts are believed to been penned by hitler in 1939 they were the basis for speeches to nazi organizations and referred to germany's war preparations and the quote jewish problem as a sale that has outraged jewish groups. i cannot get my. and around the sheer irresponsibility in insensitivity and such

a fee brawl climate of selling items such as the ramblings of the world's biggest killer of jews so the highest bidder fears neo nazi groups might bid for the documents as a trophy the auction are selling the lot claim to taken precautions to ensure the notes did fall into the wrong hands. we have made special arrangements for the bias to ensure that we are not selling any of it to right to bring to radical collectors they will have to hand in written assurances that is for investigate if a demick work investigation by historians and literature purposes. the editor of online magazine history central told us he's concerned such documents could spark interest among certain groups this is a particularly difficult time because of the growth of neo nazi ism in germany and we always had a beef we always worried about that since world war 2 ended whether you're from the west of the east everyone's always worried about the reemergence of naziism and we certainly know don't want to give them tools to enhance their movements and by

allowing these documents to hopefully not but may have landed in their hands we're giving them tools to enhance their movements and that's very bad and i'm sorry that the german government didn't find a way of seizing them buying them do whatever was necessary to bury them because that's what needed to be done these documents had to be buried in an archive and not sold to the highest bidder. and finally this hour calling favors classical composers by their last names has been deemed sexist and racist us slate magazine is urging the public to use their full names only to counter systematic prejudice and exclusion though the proposal has been found online. just.

from. what you saw once last names a short turn to when there's no possibility of confusion. maybe it's because beethoven is so well known and doesn't need to be accompanied by his 1st name the same with people who are so famous they can go by their 1st say. i want to sit in on one of your peach meetings the stories that don't make the cut have to be better than what he published. i have no idea what that means. reagent why we don't say. the 1st name of

wolfgang amadeus mozart is because we know mozart it's it's shorthand it's deference it's the fact that we are lazy sometimes we see bush tromp biden. i normally can at least see the root of the concern i don't understand it but if you say for example miss mozart and miss chopin image if there were women and you never said mr maybe you could say how come you call one miss and the other one by one name maybe just maybe the reason why we're hearing this is to have a bit to eat and condition and get this used to in sanity so that we don't react to it anymore where we are hit with the most pastors

crazy lunacy you think there was anybody in colleges or schools or musicology who were saying they did it every time they see mozart again they're promoting white racism and homophobia i don't understand next thing with his latest news headlines coming your way in half an hour. you know we've broken a lot of stories over the years the hoax that is the fracking industry we broke the global destruction against banker occupation. a bunch of other ones that we were in the lead covered it nobody else i think now we've got a tiger by the tail here i think we're in the midst now heading of the torch from the us to china the 1st that it is trap is upon us.