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a black. live from moscow this is r t international my names you know me 30 minutes of news and views start. the french president has announced the country will enter a 2nd national locked on in a bid to turn the tide against the coronavirus. least all of them. can tell us. president mike onset in july he tweeted that in the event of a 2nd wave that we are ready that's fronts to be ready and that's clearly not the case fronts feels now it's in the middle of the 2nd wave could be 1008 colored coat bits try different ringback methods such as the curfew as the lock downs none of

them seem to work as we keep seeing or rolling them but all positive cases being which is that every day the government has said it didn't want this lockdown that despite its efforts it looks like it's back to square one when it comes to code 19 from friday we will see a closure 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 hour of 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 president machen said that this will be reviewed in 2 weeks to see how the progress

is going away or that means that they can perhaps loosen the noose slightly but as you mentioned this will be in place until december 1st mark owen said in the 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 he said that if this was on check that cross went along the route of trying to create good immediately it would see some 400000 excess deaths as a result of that now we know that the. situational code 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 weights at come back with more than 50000 people resting positive for the disease

in a 24 hour period and these measures of being brought in mainly to try and help hospitals hospitals which say they are overwhelmed by cases of cope with 19 hospital staff who have been saying commodes they are exhausted and need more assistance at present medical talks about the figures in hospitals and he said across france at the number of patients now with could be $1000.00 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 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 the worst that it would be is an excellent of a 2nd locked out and as a result of that in the last sort of couple of hours 2 people ringback have been

leaving paris in their droves at one report suggesting there was 400 kilometers worth of traffic people leaving paris to be able to not stay during a lockdown in perhaps small cramped apartments hoping to get sick stay with family or they've got holiday homes in other parts of france that didn't go down well in the 1st knock down people in rural areas extremely unhappy and accusing people in the cities of bringing the virus to their local communities reactionary people are being stocking up already on food with some supermarkets already ringback posting pictures showing the shelves are empty. said mark ana said the government will give everything possible to keep people in the means that they need to we know that long will be extended and we know that there will be more aid announced for as social ringback ringback charges and for rent and there will be a different business say 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 will take but present back on senshi saying that there was no other choice. yalit dubin ski meanwhile new restrictions are also on the way in germany but somewhat less severe than in france the infection rate recently top 13th i was in there leading angela merkel to announce a broad lock down from next week and it will last also a month at least our europe correspondent peter all of us spoke to me earlier from berlin. well this was called lockdown 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 that 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 that 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 theatres 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 in 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 subject of heated debate between chancellor merkel and the heads of the 16 states initially that wanted to make it one customer per $25.00 square metres however the fear was that that would essentially end 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 as it 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. overall. 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 ringback. well 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 kinda. 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 indeed europe as a whole once again finds itself as a major coronavirus hot spots with infection surging across the continent but this time people aren't being so compliant when it comes to the measures designed to slow the spread. several cities in italy have seen a protest break out over new restrictions the implementation of overnight curfew similar picture in spain with people making a stand against the state of emergency. in russia

where infections are also spiking the country has applied to the world health organization for an emergency license for its. although advanced stage 3 trials of sputnik v are still under way if russia gets w.h.o. approval it would mean foster availability of the show in the run the globe although there's been skepticism about the vaccine a made western claims the corners were cut to rushed into production most school ses it's confident in the drug or senior correspondent not because the it 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 tested 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 would 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 here 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 the races on the race continues and it isn't just the russian vaccine that is being fast tracked it is from all over the world in this in this race to beat covert before it does

irreversible damage. this is our team to national still ahead on rest ascends into losing for a 2nd night in the us city of philadelphia following a fatal shooting of a knife wielding black man by police or not supplement. computer communication better than human communication does a lot of things better than we do so the possibility not just of being restricted with the brains we've gone with the fine art no group growing inside but even today even just combining true human brime studio. similarly has a lovely rhythm to jews. seems

wrong. to me. to shape out this day. and indeed from. the trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. quarter of an hour into the program welcome back media tech giants in the us faced a grilling by republicans who were allegations they have been suppressing conservative viewpoints so-called content mediation has been the concern of congress before although it's intensified now with less than

a week until the presidential election artie's correspondent in new york kill up and takes 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 ever. 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 and 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. let's stay stateside because america's streets of again erupted in violence just days before the u.s. election with philadelphia witnessing a 2nd night of on rest following the police killing of a black man on the monday the protests soon descended into rioting and looting things turned violent after $27.00 new walter wallace was shot dead by police after running at officers with a new wallace was alleged to be suffering from mental health issues he'd previous multiple run ins as well with the law the national guard is now being deployed to the city buses left dozens of officers injured or the number of us with.

what are you doing yet we are 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 and 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 has 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 lawless 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 to have a father who talks and prayers with walter wallace and his family for for right now reporting in west philadelphia there in fronsac are. protests are occurring in new york as well in a car drove through a line of police in brooklyn reportedly injuring the onerous spiraled into mayhem as demonstrators upon relies police cars buying son started fires to national police association member betsy bremner smith gave us her take on wrist. 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 mr wallace is because he was about to stab one of them with a night. police officers never fire their weapons unless they are in him in a 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 unrest and violence on election night. and stories are run the world in brief starting in chile a couple were police abuse water accountant. government demonstration by cyclists the protest being called following a sharp hike in metro areas which the government has since council however demonstrators are still angry about rising living costs pension reforms and alleged abuse of power by police. in north america meanwhile in california more than

100000 people have been forced to flee their homes amid wildfires burning out of control in the region specialist planes in the blazes at least 2 firefighters have been injured or current in a critical condition. turning your attention to so i think east asia must have typhoon has made landfall just south of the vietnamese resort city of dunn leaving at least 2 people dead 2 fishing boats with 26 crew on board are also sunk more than half a 1000000 people fled the area ahead of the time for his arrival 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 $130.00 this. is how the news is shaping up for this hour we'll have more they very top but do stay close enough for more great programs beginning in moments.

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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 may seem to an operator and or maybe i'm missing something here because if we don't have fact based journalism i understand the difference between back based journalism and opinion journalism and both are acceptable but fact is 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 or 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 do you think i mean people that have tuned in to find out what joe biden had to say go ahead ron. i think you're actually right to be

a financier sasuke. 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 did for their own benefit of course they'll never do it but if. we think about your intro who is actually inside he is i'm someone who woke up one morning and had 15000 twitter followers deducted from my account. i don't know could i complain i do know i thought about it for about a minute and a half and i said. the source of all if you like idiot oh she lost the least junior followers as if they were ahead if it works the as if it is real you can play to twitter. there were no that were.