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philadelphia's shaken by violent protests following the fatal shooting of a black man by. tuning in to the program from across the globe welcome to moscow onto r.t. international my names. we begin with breaking news within the past hour french president money will mccrone has announced the country will enter a 2nd national lockdown in a bid to turn the tide against the coronavirus the new restrictions will come into force from friday are expected to last until the end of november the earliest people will only be allowed to leave their homes for essential work groceries or medical reasons. let's cross live to our correspondent. in charlotte the news that people in france did not want to hear. absolutely and it's

the news that the government didn't want to give only that i just want to remind you of president michel and said in july he tweeted that in the event of a 2nd wave there we are ready that's front city ready and that's clearly not the case front spiels now it's in the middle of this 2nd wave could be 1008 colored coat bits try different methods such as the curfews the local lockdowns none of them seem to work as we keep seeing or roys ing number of positive cases being registered every day the government has said it didn't want this lockdown but despite is efforts it looks like it's back to square one when it comes to code 19 from friday we will see a tosha of bars and restaurants all essential or non-essential shops will be closed and those forms that people in france needed during the 1st lockdown to leave home

is at his desk they will be back the suggestion is that once again the french will only be able to leave their home if they have to do essential shopping if they have to go to the doc says or if they need their one of our old daily exercise sent back to those really restrictive measures the one thing that is different this time around there is the fact that schools will remain open and we know the present mackle said that this will be interviewed in 2 weeks to see how the progress is going and whether that means that they can perhaps loosen the news slightly but as you mentioned this will be in place until december 1st circle all the way through the month of november mark owen said in his speech that the virus is circulating in france at a speed that even the most pessimistic person did not foresee and he said that the 2nd wave would be more deadly than the 1st that he talked about something as he said that if this was unchecked that faults went along the route of trying to

create. who had immunity it would see some 400000 excess deaths as a result of that now we know the situation with it at the moment we have seen 523 code related deaths in a 24 hour period up to the last day or so that is the highest they get that france has registered it since april and in the last few days we have seen the test placed at come back with more than 50000 people registering positive the disease in a 24 hour period and these measures are being brought in mainly to try and help hospitals hospitals which say they are overwhelmed by cases of coke 19 hospital staff who have been saying for months they are exhausted and need more assistance at present that will talk about the figures in hospitals and he said across france at the number of patients now with could be 900 intensive care units is around 58

percent of the capacity of those units so that gives you a sense but if you look at certain areas we know that at capacity is saturated up to about $7080.00 in some places even lanty percent full up with could get 1000 patients now we know that this had been expected by many people it fearing worse that it would be this in a it's meant of a 2nd locked out and as a result of that in the last sort of couple of hours people have been leaving paris in their droves at it one report suggesting there was 400 kilometers with all traffic people leaving paris to be able to not stay during a lockdown in perhaps small cramped apartments hoping to go to stay with family or they've got holiday homes in other parts of france that didn't go down well in the 1st lockdown people in rural areas extremely unhappy and accusing people who in the cities of bringing the virus to their local communities religion or people be.

stocking up already on food with some supermarkets already ringback posting pitches showing the shelves are empty but present mcconnell said the government will give everything possible to keep people in the means that they need soon we know that long will be extending it and we know that there will be more aid announced for as social ringback ringback charges and for rent and there will be 8 businesses so france going into its 2nd lockdown a lockdown that's now expected to last until at least december 1st it's not what the government wanted but present back on senshi saying that there was no other choice but news just coming in within the past hour or so and charlotte dubinsky in paris taking us through thank you. involved new restrictions are also on the way in germany be dealy infection rate has recently top $13000.00 they're leaving angela merkel to announce a broad lockdown from next week last thing

a month so not dissimilar to what is happening in france peter all of earth's got the details he shared with me earlier. well this was called lock down lights in the build up to it we knew it was coming what we didn't expect is how soon these new measures would come in place there was talk about the 4th of november or later next week it's going to be monday the 2nd of november that this new lockdown light comes into play then the idea behind it is to keep schools and kindergartens open what that means is that other areas are going to have to make way younger merkel was speaking to the press earlier she said the social contact is going to have to essentially suffer in order to try and get over this hump over this autumn spike in corona infections now what we are going to see is a limit put in place on meeting meeting in public and meeting with members from of

the households one of the household a maximum of 10 people you're allowed to meet with all theaters concert halls operas any that was still open they're going to be closed on the sport that's going as well as fitness clubs swimming pools joking and cycling will still be allowed anything you can do pretty much by yourself shops are going to only be allowed one customer per 10 square metres it's understood this was a a subjective heated debate between chancellor merkel and the heads of the 16 states initially they wanted to make it one customer per $25.00 square metres however the fear was that that would essentially a and small businesses across the country the reason the chancellor merkel said they've gone through with this and they've put this in place for initially one month it will be revised in 2 weeks' time but i. stands at the moment where the models this new lockdown will be in place for the reason is because if they didn't the health care system was at risk of just being overwhelmed if you can. see him if

the current rate of spread of the coronavirus in germany continues the health care system will collapse within a few weeks things can get out of control in the blink of an eye so that is why we are taking decisive action. over in germany. it's wrong to say welcome but that being understood however there is still a small dedicated. group of the population who are opposed to all coronavirus measures we've seen demonstrations all over germany some of the. clashes with police there have been arrests made and you would be hard pushed to think that these people won't be outraged by this move put in place by the chancellor we won't see more scenes like this. earth.

with. the message from angola merkel as she introduces what's being called block down light is sacrifice your social lives in order to keep schools kindergartens and essential businesses alive and keep the economy ticking over its preparations to try and stop a spike in coronavirus cases here in germany we'll be looking to see if the lock down light works. and peter over going through developments in germany before that

we heard about france indeed europe as a whole and once again finds itself as a major krone virus hotspot with infections surging across the continent but this time people aren't being so compliant when it comes to the measures designed to slow the spread. of. several cities and it's only small protests over a new restrictions such as the implementation of overnight curfews a similar picture in spain with people making a stand against the state of emergency as they should. in russia where infections are also spiking the country is applied to the world health organization for an emergency like since for its covert job although advanced stage 3 trials of sputnik v are still underway in russia gets w.h.o. approval it would mean faster availability of the shots around the globe although

there's been skepticism about the vaccine a made western claims that corners were cut to rushed into production most schools say it's confident in the drug our senior correspondent morocco's the if picks up the story. well this is the 1st application filed will do with the world health organization about a vaccine so a vaccine and the russians are pretty confident you know it's now up to the world health organization to run this vaccine sputnik through through the gauntlet tested for efficacy test it for quality for safety but as i say the russians are pretty confident this wasn't a vaccine that was built from from the ground up so it's a match trials are already underway prominent russian officials as well as medics journalists have already had their job thousands of people involved in these trials but as i say this this wasn't a vaccine that was developed from the ground up it was based on an existing vaccine

platform that was merely adapted updated. so this is one of the reasons why they're confident that this is safe that this is going to work nevertheless obviously you have to test it you to meet criteria and it is now up to the world health organization. we have submitted an application for emergency use listing and prequalification of the vaccine by the world health organization which will allow sputnik the to be included in the list of medical products that meet the leading quality safety and efficacy standards we express our gratitude to the world health organization for its active cooperation and look forward to the successful completion of the prequalification process at all major stages look the 2nd wave is well and truly here it is proving exceptionally damaging exceptionally painful view records being set all over the world in russia on tuesday

a new record in daily deaths from. 30350 people also killed yesterday so you know the situation is it is desperate all of these restrictions at kemah coming back into force in russia they aren't quite as draconian as they were back in the spring but now we're seeing you know mandatory mosques everywhere no public spaces no all public transport quarantines isolations . there's all manner of restrictions it's obviously of the there the race is on the race continues and it isn't just the russian vaccine that is being fast tracked it is seen from all over the world in this in this race to beat covert before it does irreversible damage. still to come on rest ascends into looting for a 2nd night in the us city of philadelphia in the fatal shooting of a knife wielding black man by police after the break.

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. we dare to ask. let's start the program back in the u.s. where media tech giants have faced a grilling by republicans over allegations they've been suppressing conservative viewpoints so-called the content mediation has been the concern of congress before although it's intensified now less than a week until the presidential election artie's correspondent in new york came up up and talks us through the hearing. it was a tense morning on capitol hill as the heads of u.s. tech giants were called before the u.s.

congress and a senate committee to answer questions about an alleged conservative bias now the c.e.o.'s only agreed to appear after they were threatened with a subpoena and they answered questions from u.s. senators about the allegations of bias in their handling of news and their ability to oversee what shows up on twitter on facebook and on google now there was an awkward moment towards the beginning of the hearing where it appeared that mark zuckerberg the head of facebook wasn't answering the phone but when the hearing finally did get going one of the main things was a new york post article that reported critical information about joe biden and his son hunter biden and their alleged business dealings they were essentially being asked why this article had been suppressed on facebook and on twitter here's how the questioning went to the f.b.i. contacts you see the new york post troops senator know about that story specifically nicholas i mean why did why did you straddle back video alerted us of

it to be on heightened alert around a risk of can we go. around to release your proof if you're making appointments you know just to be clear on this we didn't censor the content we flagged it for fact checkers to review and pending that review we temporarily constrained its distribution but. it's not up to us either to determine whether it's a russian interference nor whether it's true we relied on sort of you know because it's. now the article from the new york post seemed to indicate that hunter biden the son of joe biden was involved in some shady business dealings in ukraine and china and when that article was suppressed by facebook and twitter donald trump the u.s. president was furious media and the big big tech desperately trying to cover up. everything they don't want to hear speeches like this they don't want to hear it and think about it this is a massive scandal that they're trying to suppress now donald trump has long been

facing off with the tech giants who gave views as oppositional to his presidency he has called them out for allegedly shadow banning his tweets in the tweets of his supporters furthermore donald trump signed an executive order that was intended to roll back some of the protection from lawsuits that the tech monopolies seem to enjoy under the telecommunications laws of the united states now the tech monopolies were not thrilled about that move by the white house now the democrats have argued that today's hearing was simply a political ploy by u.s. president donald trump to portray himself as a victim of tech monopolies going after him in the lead up to the vote coming up on tuesday however it was quite a tense moment on capitol hill as we saw u.s. senators challenging and confronting top c.e.o.'s from silicon valley.

america's streets home again erupted in violence just days before the u.s. election with philadelphia witnessing a 2nd night of unrest following the police killing of a black man on monday the protests in descended into rioting and looting things turned violent after 27 year old walter wallace was shelled dead by police so they are running at officers with a knife while this was alleged to be suffering from mental health issues on to a previous multiple run ins with the law the national guard has not been deployed to the city flushes left dozens of officers injured and a number of arrests were made. the over here what are you doing that we're outside the 18th precinct here this is

the closest police station to where walter wallace was killed protesters literally moments ago just clash with police they are going up in their faces yelling no justice no peace and also profanity this is all stemming from a suiting of a black man in broad daylight around 4 pm monday afternoon now we've seen across the city looting that happened as far as a mile and a half all the way to 5 miles away from the city i talked to business owners earlier today who say that they saw this months ago during the george floyd protest however they never imagined this in their city one business even saying that they lost a total of $500000.00 in damages so again businesses really rallying together trying to even hire their own security guards knowing that when the police get called to go somewhere else who's going to be there to save them now again this also i mean from the shooting of walter wallace you have the mayor and the police commissioner now saying that they want to meet with the wallace family and the police headquarters actually releasing a statement saying that they're asking everyone to be patient as they investigate

this situation and also asking for those who have by the hearts and prayers with walter wallace and his family for for right now reporting in west philadelphia there in fronsac are. also protesting in new york a car drove through a line of police in brooklyn reportedly injuring wall the on respondents and they have demonstrators pongal eyes police cars bank song started fires national police association member betsy bruckner smith you know us her take on the unrest. he chose to attack 2 police officers with a large knife he was asked to stop the police officers created distance they tried to get away they asked him to drop the knife instead he chose to attack them reason that they shot this to wallace is because he was about to stab one of them. with a knife police officers never fire their weapons unless they are in him in

danger but if we don't have the political will in those left leaning cities to do that the violence will continue as cities and jurisdictions throughout the united states are preparing for on rust and violence on election night. police in chile's capital have used water cannons to break up an anti-government demonstration by cyclists the protest had been called following a sharp spike in which the government distanced themselves from over demonstrators are still angry about rising living costs pension reform and so on alleged abuse of power by police. in california more than 100000 people have been forced to flee their homes amid wildfires burning out of control in the region specialist planes. the blazes at least 2 firefighters have been injured on are currently in a critical condition. asia where

a muscle. made landfall just some of the vietnamese resort city have done 9 leaving least 2 people that 2 fishing boats with 26 crew and. more than half a 1000000 people fled the area ahead of the typhoon arrival and it's believed to be the strongest storm in vietnam in 20 years and comes as the country continues to recover from severe flooding which killed more than 130 this. is your news for novack to remember to give her twitter page some of your time today if you want to keep in the know and you can and there every few minutes or so live from moscow this is our international. i am i. am.

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bell and the length of. the mccain. is all i see. hello and welcome to cross talk we're all things are considered competing about nominally speaking the role of the media is to inform the public this mission is now on hold large parts of the media landscape particularly big tag actively

intervene to determine what the public can know and from whom has controlled speech replaced freedom of speach. discuss the media and more i'm joined by my guest in los angeles kim iverson she is the host of the kim iverson show and in nashville we cross to roger simon he's an award winning novelist and academy award nominated screenwriter who is now the senior political analyst for the big times all right crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate the oh ok let's go to los angeles they always go to the guess they got a earliest for this recording that you'd be sheeted can you know something i've noticed and that's happening over a number of years but equally well since the advent of the trump presidency we're

of facts going in journalism they seem to end up operated or maybe i'm missing something here because we don't have fact based journalism i understand the difference between back based journalism an opinion journalism and both are acceptable but fact based journalism seems to been suspended let's put it that way go ahead yeah i mean it's really difficult to figure out where we can find the actual fact based journalism these days and you know it's really interesting to me that so much of the journalists that are out there right now are the news organizations are in the entertainment news organizations are so against and so obviously biased again for byte and you know one of the interesting things about that is that they make so much money off of the trump and ministration being in the white house and so it's interesting that they blatantly they overlook facts or they don't even they don't report on them they don't give the full story and it's all it's just head scratching to me that they would be this way when it seems

beneficial for them actually that trump is in the white house yet you know roger is going to be something called the trump hangover in media if he loses on the 3rd because they're going to just they will miss him dearly they're going to miss him for his spot for their bottom line you think i mean people that tune in to find out what joe biden had to say go ahead ron. i think you're actually writing to be a financial censor. his act is kind of funny to think about it because if they're fools they should now suddenly back up by you know 8 days before the election and try to get trouble like they get for their own benefit of course they'll never do it but since. we think you've got you're in trouble. and so to be is i'm someone who woke up one morning and i had 15000 twitter followers have ducked into my account. how i don't know could i complain i did only i

thought about it for about a minute and a half when i said. source of all if you like idiot oh she lost lose to new followers as if that were a hit if it were the as it is we do play to twitter. no we don't know that we're going to hit me but that's the point here you know camp why should a woman what universe are we living in where facebook and twitter determine what news we can consume and where we can consume it here i don't know i mean i'm not a shareholder in these companies i i don't know of anybody elected them where they elected to anything except maybe boards from their shareholders i mean this is an unconscionable situation and an unprecedented one why should these private individuals be able to determine the the media landscape and and we're basically as citizens we we were told we're given the right to determine our political destiny but we're not.