find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. france comes under attack as a knife man goes on a rampage at a cathedral in nice leaving 3 dead and several injured the mayor says his city is the victim of fascism. in this new tragedy today we see victims of islamofascism repeatedly denounced. in the city of avignon a man is shot dead shot dead shot dead after threatening people with a gun this all comes to weeks since the beheading of a teacher near paris who had shown his class controversial cartoons of the prophet mohammed meanwhile at the french consulate in saudi arabia a man has been arrested after attacking a security guard with a not. so

they get even just 5 o'clock here in moscow you're watching r t international now we're start with our continuing breaking news because 3 people are dead following a knife attack at a cathedral in the southern city of new. it . the footage you are seeing right now is of the moment when police and the cathedral after into killed 3 people early this morning one of the victims was beheaded

suspect be shocked and injured before being arrested and the terror prosecutors have launched a probe francis terror alert system has been raised to its highest level with more now on events in charlotte benson. the attack level in france has been raised in the last few hours to attack a level meaning france thinks it could be subject to other attacks following what's happened in nice where 3 people were killed inside a church inside not. in the heart of the city of nice present matt corner has arrived on the site to see what's happening and to offer his condolences 3 people dead including one we understand who was beheaded in an attack that has shocking reminiscent of that attack on the history teacher said patty less than 2 weeks ago 2 others also killed in that attack we are not exactly sure of the details of what

happened to them but they do understand that it was a mass stabbing that took place inside the church now the merest niece has been talking out about what's happened he's described this as a terror attack but in this new tragedy today we see victims of his lamb of fascism which i have repeatedly to. well the antiterrorism prosecution has taken over the investigation into what unfolded in nice and we are waiting for further developments from them to see whether they are officially considering this to be a terror attack but all suggestions would show that that is exactly what it is it has the hallmarks of islamist attacks including when the perpetrator was apprehended by the police he apparently screamed out. several times that is god is the greatest the french prime minister has been paying his own condolences this act which is barbarian as it is cowardly has plunged the entire nation into mourning

the government has just raised its terror alert level throughout the country there's been reaction as well from opposition politicians who are questioning what's happened in nice some of the strongest came from the leader of the national rally in marine le pen the dramatic acceleration of islamist erik's to war against our fellow citizens in our country demands from our leaders a comprehensive response aimed at the red occasion a visit from our soil where she did of course offer her condolences to the families of the victims of that brutal attack in the heart of nice on thursday morning and that's also been the thoughts and condolences from many of the people now of course this attack happened in a catholic church and the vatican has been speaking out about this recently suggesting that they condemn this attack and also has said that terrorism and violence is never acceptable and this does come to you doesn't it charlotte is a very tense time for france yes france at the moment is on the edge of

a knife with this anger spilling out in majority countries this comes after president going to the right to publish and to use controversial cartoons of the muslim prophet mohammed in civics lessons such as after the beheading of patti and also to be published in french magazine. and it's news papers let's take a quick reminded now of what's unfolded in the last 2 weeks. i know that one of our competitors was murdered because he taught our compassion it was the victim of an islamist terror attack. i'm.

concerned and this is the concern person of russian nationality and of chechen origin benefited from a refugee status and lived in the he was not known to the intelligence services on the judicial level he's never been convicted but was known for cases of damaging public property and gang violence while still a minor. he asked muslim children to raise their hand and leave the classroom she did it my son told me he didn't do it to discriminate or to hurt he did it to preserve the children to not shield them he explains i'd prefer if you left because i'm going to show a cartoon of the prophet of islam i don't want to shock you. i'm

even more shocked that this college is one i opened when i was the town mayor working there was nice and it was located in a neighborhood without any problems oh violence i don't think this act of terror is a crazy man but a premeditated act well following comment spy present not calling that from. as for would not step back from showing these controversial cartoons there has been this out spilling of anger in many muslim majority countries with protests in bangladesh in jordan libya and in other countries there's also been a call for a boycott of french products and we've heard the turkish president who has essentially led the charge saying that president mack or needed to have his mental health check all of this comes as the director general of the national police in france has been urging for the last few days for additional vigilance in the wake of what's happening this anti french sentiment he indeed said to people that they needed to be extra vigilant particularly around places such as religious sites

which of course this church is. reporting ok well let's bring in john he's a professor at the university you very welcome thanks for your time today as you're on. another brutal murder in france while these events are tragic do you think they are inevitable in any way given the path we've seen everything go down over the last few weeks. well you know you can never stay whether these things are inevitable but france is in a very bad situation because you must realize that the attacks have very little to those though because the people who go to the church they are certainly not people like shall we have those surveillance and a religious john the including and they get a leak so i don't think the people there have anything to do charlie edwin's for the war against not only the secular people in france but those are the ones this is a pretty bad situation but you see france have had

a completely idiotic policing on the one hand they have encouraged the worst islamists in libya and in syria they are on them they are also the capital people they also they get it it teaches secular people it's a train in there in syria that was the intervention those are bloody the chechens and use the chechens the russians but then on the at the same time there is dissent here though is kind of the most in inside the muslim population and does get public support is one thing is free speech they should be banned but you don't have to support them she had for example was phil use of shut the door and he was furious that sarkozy was a pleasing them and damocles crazing then the government can be neutral they don't have to say anything and suddenly will have to show pictures of saudi. on public money and says they do that in france and that's not that's not secularism that's taking say they're going to go on particular and didn't and then

you have the clearing wall to me a 1000000000 people a 1000000000 or have people that's not exactly smart and you're whining or diplomacy. because in fact if they had one syria thanks to the person that did not win but. they will have a state that this imported and that we. got of french public because the people on syria will be islamic fanatic the same islamic fanatics will come and kill people. entrancing she just the book. the more police being at the same time tolerant of her legion and probably preventing or maybe i don't know the situations exactly but certainly not encouraging him to was in the legion. and on the other hand being absolutely see this with the everywhere both in the washing of all the hands of the exactly the opposite. person mccrone is in something of

a bind because you know that over land in france is that you are allowed to mock religion and charlie hebdo has become a cycle of a freedom of speech and you know of course he wants to say that this country's all about freedom of speech and if he says that of course he's sort of saying what shall we have like you might like it but it's ok. yeah but. he doesn't have to say anything i mean the idea of doing is not sued you see many people assume that mean that people of mick jagger just about the holocaust and they're being sued and fine there's a hater who has written books against the jews that is anti-semitic with those in jail for 9 months so you can speak of freedom of speech because you can say anything you want about the cat and it's on the muslims and if you make fun of them . even if they had made a scene go get your of the of the prophet if they have done it with jesus of the virgin mary so that it would not be taught in schools be encouraged to d.h.

is in school they don't i mean just freedom of speech is like mean you have to teach in school you have to teach it in school a lot of anti-semitic books that are not god and school and her. study had to get as a dig dug us an example of free speech and not discuss the many many lawsuits that are being made against i mean i myself i've been banned from giving a physics i mean a year ago because of my attitude has been to free speech i've never said anything and they semitic and they were being sued or anything but just because i defend free speech. and banned from even speaking about physics so there is no free speech in france as a joke just that the. point i wanted if your point if you hear a video expressing. a point of view you hear a lot in france. so whether you're point 30 it's ok this freedom of expression but there should be tolerance and of course people are more tolerant of perhaps or clamp down on anti semitism but i say you know criticizing or

caricaturing the prophet mohammed in the same light i just wonder if that point of view is expressed often in the newspapers on the televisions in france you're doing it here in r.t. but it's an argument you hear in france a lot never in the mainstream never never you can post against censorship when it comes to the jewish community or the other girls or whatever you can put as you can have a discussion you can have any debate about that that these laws that punish that you know it's very very bizarre that many people say well i didn't study i mean one person in a t.v. said never studied this issue of the guest and just saying that he's being sued mistaken to go by the by the you know the jewish defense organization so i mean it's ridiculous this whole talk of us free speech is just a jew because there is no free speech when it come to a certain subject and then when it comes to islam not only there is free speech but

then it is almost in the beginning to worship and i don't find them funny i don't find them for never to find them funny and i certainly don't think that you have an obligation to shoot in school because just that any sensible person would gather spawn a country of cause and shock it's an excess to pornography 20 on that but nevertheless is different from saying it in school and placing them in school also when the teacher said that the muslims didn't believe you realize that what he was doing was certain enough universal as this is because you know she ditched things that and he would listen to when you hear that the with he was going to show was not going to be to the late king of western but then when the rest him come back to school with the other students in the on the left out there and on the make fun of them i mean it's obvious that it wasn't really of a smart thing to do that. it's golden months was that in a skillet and with the egg he's got just because of the dispute is on the nice words. at the same time john of course everybody. practically everybody has

condemned these brutal killings that we've seen. what is the way and i explained it at the top talking about french foreign policy but what other things can be done to tackle extremism in france you think. the 1st thing is not to push every muslim in the hands in the hands of the extremists and that this was being done because now people all all of this should the take of their fear the willing to take of their. schooling teacher has nothing to do with that woman where severe is not good of anything and yet this obsession with women's regatta not only the best there are those men but with the veil when it's completely absurd and then the other the girl for wearing it in the street and doing it and this is something. where everyone women wear surveyed as a weapon on our own we should take away our weapons permit i mean it's ridiculous that if you look at the declaration of the politicians is putting oil on the fire

all the time we should just give up and up and nothing goes this sort of attitude and try to he can say that and we can discuss with them as to my knees because of muslims all the time and they're quite willing to discuss with me and i'm totally eighty's that's not the problem but of course if you it is not discussing with them to insult them and start by insulting them and expect them to like it and then we did not like it there hold them together are there all this time is that the time and then even the left party now of the expression used a mobile she's the leftist so it was everybody on the left which places any sentiment defending you know the heights of muslim are trying to separate ordinary muslims. from the during. the east. everywhere in the in the media now and it's also in the sort of. centrist left media or the secular meaning of the party of men are standing behind in the islam will of this because this is the demonstration last year after the mosque and being attacked physically you can put

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again i france has been rocked by another horrific knife attack today this time in the city of nice 3 people were killed with at least one beheaded and several others were injured the incident took place early this morning inside a cathedral in the city center of the suspect was later arrested after being shot and wounded president macro traveled to the scene of the attack meanwhile another incident also took place in the city of abidjan where a man was shot dead after brandishing a gun at members of the public and police he was said to have repeatedly shouted god is great in arabic following today's events the country's terror threat system has been. raised to its highest level. french consulate in the year in the saudi city of jeddah also came under attack today guard was left with stab wounds after

being targeted by a man armed with a knife the attacker was arrested and the guard was not seriously injured we are told french officials so called on saudi authorities to ensure the safety of french people in the country so let's talk more about all of today's events artie's multicast if he joins me get even more to add again let's just talk about this latest attack another brutal beheading in nice this time and of course this is just 13 days after another beheading in paris well this is this is been the pattern for the last several years of attacks and terror all over france and they've been seeing 2015 the attack on sharlee headquarters a dozen people killed then same year the attacks and in paris more than 100 people killed 400 injured the next year the truck attack in nice 80 people killed 20172018 more stabbings shootings ravening then 2000

the tackler police station other shootings and stabbings this is this is a horrific. horrific pardon leading up to this year and of course 2 weeks 3 attacks and many of these attacks can be traced back to these characters charlie hebdo and this is perhaps the reason the french patience is is running out in the public both and among the government we we've seen mass rallies calling for an end to this you know enough is enough is enough these are just cartoons these are just characters and there is there is this sense in the president's reaction to the the murder of the fridge teacher 2 weeks ago that you know the french cover. is toughening up its position. but samuel was murdered for the very reason that he embodied the values

of the french republic he was killed because islamists want to destroy our future and with silent healers like simultaneity they will not prevail samuel was a victim of lies a conspiracy theory of the hatred of others of what we are on friday he became the face of the republic and our desire to bring down terrorist networks islamic states to live like a community of free citizens existence he was talking there about the beheading of the french teacher a couple of weeks ago i wanted to french government even particularly in response to that well there's a very strong reaction they went after muslim civil society shutting down some thief d n jews and charities including the collective against the slobber phobia in france which is considered somewhat mainstream nevertheless they have now gone after them more than $200.00 people are either awaiting deportation from france or have been

arrested by authorities on suspicion of being radicalized and you know the interior minister has come out and called some of these in jews enemies of france enemies of france and these are french and use these the french organizations french charities which is again in keeping with the president's own very tough rhetoric about what is happening and what is going on nevertheless what they hope to achieve with with this by toughening up rhetoric by taking a very hard stance by throwing mediation to the wind and now insisting the war going on what they hope to achieve with this. is unclear at the moment but what we do know it has provoked a strong reaction from muslim countries well there's been a double reaction this is the 1st reaction has been condolences condoning. because with regards to the murder of the teacher condolences with regards to what has happened today even even turkey coming out and saying that you know this is

completely unacceptable there is no explanation there is no reason for murder there is no justification for behaving people for killing civilians out in the streets of the city the other reaction has been not to what is happening in france but to what french authorities are saying and in the muslim world this is from north africa all the way to southeast asia in them and malaysia the reaction has been very different because they're seeing they're hearing what the french are saying not as not as condemnation of terrorism but as islamophobia bloodying islam a phobia they're seeing seeing more of the french doing what the french are saying and they don't understand that because what they see is a slum a phobia they see them going after muslims muslim charities muslim organizations. as opposed to going after terrorists and radicals france of the other hand of course saying that it is terrorists and radicals that they're going after the art of the islam of fascists i believe the latest that they've come up with. the muslim

world is increasingly upset by what the french are saying. needs a mental health treatment what else can be said to the head of state who does not understand freedom of belief and who behaves in this way to millions of people living in his country who are members of a different faith muslims are the primary victims of the cult of hatred empowered by colonial regimes and exported by their own clients insulting 1100000000 muslims and their sanctities for the apparent crimes of such extremists is not unique to abuse of freedom of speech it only fuels extremism the recent statements that the leadership level is the dence of this a creation of the holy qur'an a reflection of this increasing islamophobia that is spreading in european countries we must explain to the western world the value systems differ for different social and religious and ethnic groups in the world. so all the

politicians and the leaders coming out and you know asking for asking frogs what are you saying the ambassador was summoned in iran we also have muslims ordinary muslims all over the world people who have wanted nothing to do with terrorism we want nothing to do with these beheadings in who condemn condemn violence they're still coming out into the streets there waving banners across the muslim world even even here there's a small demonstration in moscow today. before before this incident and what people want to know is where does free speech end and where does religious tolerance begin because by by the descriptions of these characters the point of them was was to insult they are insulting the crude they're insulting and the point was to get a reaction this is what many muslims many analysts say that sharlee do which usually doesn't sell very many copies i believe in the past those around 60000 that

they feed they capitalize on the huge amounts of huge amounts of attention that they get after every publication after every major incident that they're in the limelight. this is what ordinary people are saying that you know there's been a history of this now they keep doing it and doing it and it isn't it isn't for. the defense of freedom of speech is as an act of freedom of speech which is obviously very different to the position of many logan as asians journalists the french authorities that say religion is religion and it is it is subject to free speech you can say whatever you want about religion nevertheless there has been this this pattern of protests and violence around it shyly able to. expect french president who's been in nice today saying to give a press conference in about an hour or so the what he has to say then you had many chances are he's a moderate council. where we have been hearing opinion reactions today on today's

events with a range of analysts and. tensions are mounting every day between the slimy word and france in france we have the french government saying that we have the freedom of speech we have the freedom to do any said tire about anyone who we want and on the other side we have the slimy words which says ok you can have the freedom of speech but you do you shouldn't be insulting our prophet so this 2 points of view are opposing each other and this 2 communities don't understand each other if we want to stop the radical islam here in france we should prove and we should show them that france is a neutral country that what we call here. it's no religion has the right to interfere with the with the government or the state of affairs in france this

radical muslim don't understand that and the french government regarding its freedom of speech says that we have the right to do anything you want to anyone the we want and this is our right this is our freedom of speech but in general we should understand and the viewers should understand that in france we have almost a total freedom of speech which saw 1st few exceptions and few restrictions but these restrictions never apply to muslim that's i mean that's what the muslim of the french muslim they feel that the freedom of speech is. suffers no restriction when you are attacked the muslim people and the muslim religion but not the other religion that's what they think when the charity issues were published and then there were and there was actually. the call to this to 20 teenage the main jesuit review of how delicious not only the rituals one of them will have a curated.