the role of islam in the country. absolutely there is so much going on at the moment we don't know if this attack is connected to anything else that's going on but just to give you a sense of the situation here in france at the moment the director general of the national police force just a few days ago for vigilance he said that the terror attack was still high the threat of that was still high here in france and that came following a press release from an agency close to the terror group al qaeda now this all has been playing out in the context of the last 2 weeks following the beheading of teacher patti on october 16th less than 2 weeks ago he was decapitated because he had showed controversial cartoons of the muslim prophet mohammed in a civics class about freedom of speech since then president machen has defended several times the use of showing caricature as like this and the fact that caricature is like that can be published in france because it's not illegal and

that has caused a huge wave of anti french sentiment in muslim majority countries we have seen protests with tens of thousands of people taking place in places such as bangladesh they have also been protests in jordan in libya in gaza people burning effigies of president matt corn and calling for a boycott on french goods i mean this anti french sentiment this anger has been boiling and bubbling over and it's not far to suggest that there is perhaps a link between what's happening there in the wake of samuel patti's murder over these controversial cartoons and this attack that's taken place in east today 3 people dead including one who is said to have been beheaded. as you mentioned charlotte i mean there's heavy indications this was a terrorist attack we wait confirmation if all the reports to pan out to be true this will be the 1st time that noose is as felt tragedy at the hands of terrorism.

that's right france is really used to terror attacks since 2015 there have been regular attacks taking place of course those huge attacks the batek land here in france but then in nice the following year in 2016 as you mentioned nice is no stranger to terror attacks that was when a lorry caray did in 2 people who were celebrating the july 14th of festival here in france it killed 86 people in that attack more than $400.00 people were injured so many people will now be wondering whether since the republication of those muslim those prophet cartoons by shyly at the beginning of september to coincide with the terror trial that's going on in france at the moment relating to the 2015 attack on charlie abdo whether this is just the restarting of another wave a 2nd wave of terrorism and whether those dark days that france had hoped were over

are actually still in front. ok sure do skipping is the latest on today's attack in these live from paris thank you. all of this happening as france proposed to go into a national lockdown again as the pandemic spirals out of control it seems across europe and president ammonia chrono said that the tough measures will start from friday and last at least one month france's daily covert death count is at its highest since april the country registering more than $30000.00 infections per day for an citizens will no need special certificates to move around the cities we are speedball in stroudsburg how they feel about going into lockdown again. of us if they are going to close the restaurant it's not going to be easy for us we'll find a way to get we adopted last time during take hours to do when the best to survive . we learn the lessons of the 1st lockdown which we are and is somewhat in haste without really thinking about the consequences for the economy but we saw that we

can let people work while in lockdown. i'm quite worried about all the businesses shops bars restaurants where we are it's quite worrying i don't know how long it will last i hope that there will be an effect and that they can ease things afterwards and say even if it annoys everyone i think it's pretty good of everyone it's annoying but we don't have much choice so we'll do it. germany has also announced a 2nd lockdown starting from monday won't be quite a district as france's but that doesn't stop people coming on to vent their anger with burn in playing host to an anti long march they're worried certain sectors of the economy including entertainment ones survive into our live reports. it's being called lock down lights essentially what the aim is is to prioritize keeping schools and kindergartens and as much of the economy open as possible at the expense of social contacts what you're not going to be allowed to do is go to any

well leisure activity basically see it is james a mature sports all of that is closing down professional sport will continue but those fans that have been allowed into bonds legal football games know what they are going to be played behind closed doors angela merkel the german chancellor in announcing this lockdown light said that these moves were necessary to stop the german health care system becoming overwhelmed if you can do on those legs and that's a theme if the current rate of spread of the crooner virus in germany continues the health care system will collapse within a few weeks these can get out of control in the blink of an eye so that is why the taking decisive action for the german finance minister or less sure said that no ben there is a crucial month when it comes to germany tackling the coronavirus also put forward the potential of a huge financial impetus we're hearing reports that it could be as much as 10000000000 euro that's going to be put into paying the wages essentially of people

who've had to not go to work because of this new lockdown light while the majority of germans have supported the measures so overall that have been put in place there is a small but vocal minority that ranges really from conspiracy theorists to those who are concerned they won't survive and. canonically who have been protesting against the measures and the actions taken by angela merkel and the german government. the measures that have been put in place by the german government are expected to

run through until nearly the end of november they will be reviewed in 2 weeks time though but what that does is it brings us into christmas market season what we already know is the christmas market in nuremberg one of the most popular ones in germany isn't going ahead there's also been christmas market closures announced in frankfurt cologne and others there are some that are still scheduled to go ahead we'll have to wait to see how these new measures of the new lockdown affect that opening economist alexander counted says restrictions in europe too early. you know that the trick. that has been applied for example in some asian countries like korea. they wind up this strategy has not been implemented in france or in other european countries or because the people. are not you know 'd socially as responsible as induced groceries where they

apply the law and in the play that. was a premature and now we see the consequences. nobody was really prepared for this 2nd with. a return to our breaking news coming this hour from france 3 people have been curved firm dead in the southern french city of nice following a knife attack you are the 1st pictures to come from the scene several other people were left injured according to latest reports incidents occurred in the early hours of the morning in the city center authorities say suspect has been arrested. let's meet our guest now and elizabeth mutasa columnist at the sunday telegraph joins me live on the line welcome in very sad circumstances the details coming in about this incident unconfirmed but even the marigny saying that this bears all the

whole hallmarks of a terrorist incident what do you think of what you've heard so far in the context of recent events in france. what we know about this is it happened in the largest church and nice enough a dumbass silicate and that a man with a knife attacked version of inside the church killing 2 another where and has got his grievously injured and he was shouting allahu above throughout so he was making his motivations plain he was arrested by the pretties he was wounded by bullets we know that he's in his thirty's we don't know what nationality is whether he's french or not under the antiterrorist section of the french judicial inquiry body has already been put directly on the case it is very obviously linked to recent terror attacks against frogs including the beheading of the professor said

betty. we could go 2 weeks ago. the city of nice which is about to go into medical love down tomorrow is now in terrorist lockdown with churches and church and children kindergartens and schools all being shut well the police is trying to control that there aren't more acts being prepared right now and he says the city where in 4 years ago there was a truck attack with a truck. plowing into a crowd on bestie all day so it's it's a city that has been harmed by such acts before obviously islamic terrorism is a global problem and many nations are felt the brunt of its hatred but if it's like france's border maybe more than others why france again do you think. well people will say there's the publication of the character to us by sharia do but actually france is again tree that has known terrorism nonstop for 40 or 50 years in the

seventy's you had a palestinian terrorism and then you had to rein in terrorism when the regime changed and. they had agreed a b. and b. for the french regime because the french regime would not honor a contract that they'd meet with a shot providing a nuclear plants and then we had that we france became the learned of the very very bloody civil war in algeria between during all the ninety's between 922000 they had a quarter 1000000 dead in the algeria and that's of the war that few people talk about and there were regularly very bloody attacks in france as well libya played a game as well there was a plane down by. the by order of khadafi in $98.00 we had terrorism we had that islamic terrorism homegrown but we've almost never stopped which is. which is something that the french i'm not saying that it's new

normal but i'm saying that it is something that the french are used to it although they now are beginning to really act to all those organizations and fronts that say that they're not terrorists that essentially print they're provided the intellectual and the ideological interland that justifies quote unquote acts of terrorism against the french and probably more n.g.o.s and islamic charity organizations which are fronts for. trying to sort of attack french civilization are going to be bound by the by order of the government in the coming hours there was a beheading in paris just 2 weeks ago some your party teacher who showed cartoons of the prophet mohammed to his pupils and then you have charlie hebdo publishing just recently a caricature of the president of a predominantly muslim country a lot of people jump to the conclusion and make the direct link is that a fair or unfair connection to make you think between the attacks and and how much

islam has been in the news over these characters. islam has been in the news because it's not only because of shall you do but essentially in the past 10000 years the all notion of islamophobia has been used by islamic organization to shut down any kind. of discussion about the fact that in a sense you have groups small groups who compared to the general loss from population in france which is quiet and is also harmed by those attacks but small groups who want to live separately who want to who do not want to be the laws of the republic and that goes from other killings of daughters who quote unquote misbehave to. sort of organizing separate networks or sending people to fight in syria. it's i mean there's been no end to it and it was been well covered it had become very difficult for teachers for decades and they were talking about

it and nobody was doing much to. teach history to teach civics in some classes because there was a majority a few girls coming from those families and they would not listen to it about the equality of men and women about discrimination against anybody else and what they perceived themselves etc it's i mean it's all going and it's certainly linked to this that it's also linked to the fact that they do not recognize that french law and shrines of freedom of expression and especially freedom of character cure and freedom of criticizing your religion it's a french secularism means that the the the the state guarantees freedom of religion but also free to not to really yeah as you said among your micron he's he's made it clear france is a secular country at the same time though it has been reaching out with intent it seems to me to show that france wants to include on the most

positive level it's muslim population he's talked about his plans for reform for teaching arabic islamic culture in schools do you think it's becoming more difficult for him to push forward with those plans with us that with the public support given the recent events. you know a small minority can make the most noise and terrorize people it's a it's a it's a very old tradition of russia know something about it but the truth is that the miss majority of the french muslim population is doing better i'm not saying that they were not always doing well but there has been considerable effort over the years to integrate it in society and we have we have great successes we have former justice minister was was a muslim were the former education a cert was a muslim woman the carrot in this government the government spokesman is a muslim it's not as if there wasn't a great deal of effort something that is not called

a thurmont in action but certainly there have been targeted efforts toward muslims to help them do it as long as they're french citizens and they recognise the rules of the republic they are part of french either city. it was the cartoons of charlie hebdo that originally were the starting point for a terrorist attack charlie and i haven't backed down they republished they've continued in the same vein they've been defended by the country's leader the you know the freedom of speech the freedom to use characters to do you see any change in approach from them given what follows when they do their business. i think it's a difficult one but i think the country left and right is complete here light on this and there's also a very french tradition of character tours and sometimes very rude character tours that is not always understood or brought which is something broadly accepted when the caricature was themselves were how delish in the mid north to their work in this one it organization tried to sue against this and the last and it was

fascinating that politicians of all 3 made parties came in person to the court house to defend the right of the character to yours and shall have do is a very left wing setter it all weekly and those politicians are not being well treated by them and still stuck with the cigarette and the centrist for being who all came to bear evidence that france was all about freedom of speech and that freedom of speech is freedom of speech you don't like this so that is something i think on which the country will not back down and i'll give you another example when the character shields were published and then there were it and there was the attacks against the cartoonist in 2015 the main jesuit a review in france published that not only the mohammed jacket years one of the 100 yoga just but many shadier do a character tears that were much ruder against the catholic church the pope priests

nuns you can imagine it and they ran those on that website precisely to make the point that not even though this was an insult they were doing the christian thing in and you know showing the other cheek but also respecting the idea that he does not exist in brussels i mean you said it very clear the the government the people of france they support the principle of freedom of speech political satire they're not backing down on but and clearly the. islamic extremists are not are not backing down and there's been years now of terrorist incidents in france how can you possibly see a way forward from this. you know how does america see a way forward from 911 and america is not a country to publish those characters you've got your show abreast on television in america i think if they do not find offense to this they will find offense and something else salman rushdie you had to live in hiding for years and he still is protected and his book was was a sort of secure

a dream adventure and had nothing to do with character as yours it was somebody who wants to feel insulted they will feel insulted but the thing is they can feel insulted but they cannot change the law because they feel insulted thank you so much for joining us my guest this hour is elizabeth mood today he's a columnist for the sunday telegraph thanks so much. thank you. now let's turn to the u.s. presidential elections now the run up to which has been mobbed by concerns over widespread voter fraud the white house has been leading unsupported claims that voting could be rigged in favor of joe biden but while the u.s. has long denounced foreign elections and them across now questions are being raised about the legitimacy of its own process at morgan expense you have won over your party and your people you now stand as the new leader of a nation and at this point your primary goal is to repay the voters and please your citizens but all of that depends on what you and your country have to offer

washington the guardian of free and fair elections fail to please washington and your grip on power might fade and fast we condemn the hong kong government's decision to postpone for one year its legislative council elections nicolas maduro is a dictator with no legitimate claim to power the probe conducted uncovered proof of massive and systemic fraud on the live in people's courageous demand for free and fair elections and for democracy well what goes around comes around and in 2020 there are big international concerns about america's election overall office for democratic institutions and human rights needs assessment mission in tilak it is noted that the conduct of these elections will be the most challenging in recent decades they expect that election officials will face serious challenges prior to and on election day measures in response to covert $900.00 pantomimic and expressed

concerns over their ability to overcome them so let's break down what those concerns are. covert 19 has forced many parts of the country to go to mail in voting now the concerns there have been laid bare ballots rigged. jack did huge delays and some ballots discarded so there's no surprise that some are raising concerns of fraud including donald trump himself this election will be the most rigged election in history this is going to be a fraud like you've never seen here's why donald trump and the public have some serious concerns even more than just a few months ago east texas official is in jail accused of committing boger fraud manatee county supervisor of elections mike bennett says wiggins requested a mail in ballot for himself and his wife meanwhile the state election board is asking george's attorney general to look into 98 outstanding cases of voter fraud

d.o.j. announced at the f.b.i. in the pennsylvania state police are investigating fraud in mail in ballots in a loser in county ok so what about good old voting in person them. if you are polling places long lines last minute relocations of polling places and a lack of international observers not convincing either especially for one democratic senator who's gone slightly over the top with this comparison if congress and states don't act immediately our country could face an electoral tour noble this fall and if you think the vote challenges will be over as soon as the polls close. so now the media is ramping up what if donald trump loses but refuses to leave office do you commit to making sure that there's a nice little worries for all of the want to get rid of the ballots and you have a very transfer will have a very peaceful there won't be

a transfer or frankly there will be a continuation of the ballots to control you know it all of this has got americans bracing for the worst polls show that americans expect riots in the streets after the results are announced no matter which way it goes potential ballot fraud lack of international observers leaders potentially refusing to accept the. results and the specter of violence none of this sounds like an atmosphere in which one can have a free fair and transparent election and a quick look across the atlantic shows that only one in 10 europeans think that the election's going to be free and fair sanctions condemnation appeals to the united nations and endless grandstanding perhaps the results if this kind of election was seen by the united states happening in another country illegitimate they might call it well perhaps it's time that the united states trump and biden realize that sometimes it's just as red white and blue on the other side of the fence. r.t.

new york. and here's a reminder of our breaking news story 3 people have been confirmed dead in the southern french city of nice following a knife attack here the 1st pictures coming in from the scene several of the people reported to be left injured in this incident which occurred in the early hours of the morning in the city center the authorities say that they suspect has already been arrested i do stay with r.t. for coverage and updates on this story more to come for you at the top of the hour . in the 1920 s. and thirty's several 100 african-americans moved to the soviet union and many of their descendants still live in russia. i mean at the risk of no nobody but us throw up at us just to be truthful on things on your way. back home

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in the depths. of the shallowness. a knife attack at a church in the french city of nice leaves 3 dead and several more injured the government is holding a crisis meeting. the rage felt in muslim countries over emanuel defense of the right to mock islamic shows no signs of dying down and opinion in the streets of paris is divided even if you have the right to use blasphemy you have no right to mock religion i find it important to reaffirm the values in which we are firmly established in france the caricature is the 1st of these. and the debate on the freedom of expression was sparked a 2 weeks ago in france after the beheading of a teacher near paris he showed his class caricature of the prophet mohammed.