and russia no facts necessary in fact those claims now suffice. the french interior minister tells the country to brace for more attacks after a night man rampages through a basilica in the east leaving 3 dead and several injured in some. fronts as it was we were with the enemy from within i'm from within we are not with any religion we are with islamist ideology. protest group muslim countries over a manual micron's defense of the right to parody religion and his previous remarks on islam and sold to the messenger of god prophet muhammad under the pretext of democracy is not considered democracy we demand the man of the. road. that. is playing with fire on the street trusting.

the debates on the freedom of expression was sparked 2 weeks ago in france after the beheading of a teacher near paris and showing his class caricature of the prophet muhammad. and twitter sets its sights on our t.v. and labeling one of our reports on the us election potentially misleading. a very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at r t h q in moscow thanks for joining us this hour. we start in france which is reeling from yet another tragedy after a killing spree in the church in the southern city of nice the country's interior minister has warned the nation that it has to expect further atrocities. i mean the sun is on our front as it warms and we are at war with an enemy from within and from without we are not at war with any religion we are war with islamist ideology

islam islam is a form of 21st century fascism teaching the church knife rampage happened 2 weeks after the beheading of a teacher in paris who had shown his students caricature of the prophet mohammad here's how the thirst is tragedy unfolded in the us. it will be but in this new tragedy today you see victims of islamofascism child repeatedly denounced. resend it will be the job for the siren of the farm and the police arrive to the weaknesses really with bikers and everything that follows then they set up

a security system i went down with my scooter and i saw the guy come in take refuge in the cathedral afterwards i heard a lot of gunshots. the anti terror prosecutors said on thursday evening that they were still exploring lines in regards to the perpetrator behind the brutal attack it tack that took place just 24 hours ago in the pacific up behind me not to go down basilica in the heart of nice with 3 people were brutally murdered i just want to take you through some of the details we know about the victims of this latest terror attack air france one was a 60 year old woman who had gone to the church for press for the 1st mass of the morning we heard from the anti terror prosecutor that she was almost beheaded by the perpetrator a 2nd was a man

a 55 year old man who's been named this of all saw as a father of 3 who also worked as a sexton at the church he'd been here for 10 years and the 3rd person was a woman he was said to be around 44 she's be named in the brazilian press as being . she was stabbed she managed to escape from the church to raise the alarm. as a result of her heroic actions the police were informed and able to come and apprehend the perpetrator she succumbed to her injuries last words were apparently tell my family that i love them president mark on has warned france's once again attack but when he visited nice on thursday he remained defiant that freedom and france would continue to up hold its valleys and some said think if we were attacked once again it is for our values for our taste of freedom for this possibility on our

soil to believe freely and not to give in to any mind of terror i say with great clarity once again today we will not give in this morning we decided to increase the vigilance everywhere in france to adapt to the terrorist threat i've decided that our soldiers will be more mobilized in the coming hours and we will up the mobilization within the framework of operational sentinel from 30027000 soldiers on the ground there referencing operations sentinel this is not ration that was set up back in 2015 when that 1st terror wave really hit france following the attacks it sharlie abdo and then later in the year in paris which saw the the battle plan attacked in very many people who were killed in coordinated attacks by terrorist $4000.00 extra security personnel now deployed across france particularly at sites like this church and also at schools and one of the reasons that religious sites

are getting the priority when it comes to security is because there was a release earlier this week from a thought but which is a press agency linked to the terror network al qaeda which suggested that christian symbols should be attacked in mrs already been subjected to terror attacks in the past including that her. back in 2016 that sort 86 people lose their lives when a truck plowed into a crowd of people who were celebrating the july 14th bust the day celebrations and nieces already had its fair share of terror people here disbelief shock once again that this could hit the heart of the city but there is also anger to. the french the man justice who want these people to be deported to their country ok in security there is no safety 3 people are dead what will america didn't build another mosque and sums up each we are in a country that has witnessed atrocities teachers being beheaded priests having

their throats slit people are beheaded in a church that's not france and even if we take in all possible security measures have been able to come in with a knife and do his deadly deed 0 risk does not exist and that's perhaps the most shocking thing for most people is that this is 3 people who are inside a church and they're in a place where that should have been sanctity this should have been safety instead they met there and now people have been coming to the church in lame true peace since that attack took place but the reality is that this is a community that is still in complete shock over what's happened since those attacks back in $2815.00 which started this wave of terror in france we saw all those huge attacks and that this is but since then every few months there is another attack just in the last 5 weeks france has been subjected to 3 separate terror attacks it started with a stopping outside the form offices of shirley able to that followed the fact that

the magazine reprinted controversial cartoons of the prophet mohammed angering muslims across the world 2 weeks later we saw the beheading of history teacher patti who had used those images as part of a civics lesson to discuss freedom of speach. and now we have this attack here in nice there have of course the anger spilling out on the streets too not just in this protests we've seen over the last few days in muslim majority countries but in the song thursday night there was a demonstration held by the anti immigrant group. identity they came out to the streets calling for islam to be out of europe so the really is a huge sense of anger here on the ground to. further details have emerged about the suspect a 21 year old tunisian initially arrived on the a tiny island of lampedusa just over a month ago claiming to be a refugee and lee has yet to comment on the case but the mayor of lumber has

appealed for stricter migrant policies the suspect was reportedly carrying a document issued by the italian red cross after being processed at a refugee center on lampedusa italian authorities were reportedly going to expel him but lost track of his whereabouts the case is causing are poor in rome where calls are growing for the interior minister to step down we discussed the background to the tragic events in the east with a panel of experts when you see what goes on with the stream of speech is a little. and the people that sharing our terrorist attack they're not doing it because of charlie of doing it because of what's going on there they use it serves as a useful way of giving what they're planning to do anyway legitimacy you know there are a lot of people who disagree with charlie or do this all just thousands of what you would call is list is a big stick streamers. it's very few more terrorists there's very few people who

actually do deal if he is surely it was so offensive it was so horrible surely there could be thousands of people on the streets starving while another it's not it's a tiny tiny minority what is it about the chinese minority that distinguishes them from all the rest of them and that's why you have to look at this individual level when one starts it almost gives legitimacy to the others so the reason that france has raised its terrorism level is because it takes one and it's kind of like a rally around the flag now we're all going to go because it becomes rational you know when you think you will get legitimacy for it. 6000000 muslims living in france you have a certain percentage who are killed the radical in the last and then spent a whole business branch has developed on the model of as well that from seminars school security act. what france needs right now is so much more.

cohesion or sort of reconciliation and more polarized and here i would observe that things have been going more in a polarizing but again he is supported by the majority of the french muslim countries are indignant over france a stance on freedom of expression protesters say they are offended by present micron's remarks on islam as well as by his defense of the right to mock religion the latest rallies took place in the. in an israeli capitals as the islamic world celebrated the birthday of the prophet muhammad demonstrators carried banners condemning the french president earlier this month mccrone called said that islam was in crisis. in libya one local business has gone as far as to place images of the french president on his shop floor for customers to stand on and there are calls from muslims across the world to boycott france as you see here in the

country. it's a little bit because of what happened. in seoul during the messenger of god prophet muhammad under the pretext of democracy is not considered democracy and as for friends honestly we want to tell you that your statements are offensive to every arab muslim and to the whole world that we demand the man on. the road. that. is playing with fire in this case things that 'd we do know as friends for a friend in the prophet therefore we denounce and believe quote every people do anything from france that comes to us. i mean all the french satirical magazine charlie abdo has upped the ante with a cover featuring a cartoon of the turkish leader that's after president aired on lashed out at emanuel necron over the french crackdown on hardline hardline islamist angra has slammed the publication as disgusting. takes

a closer look at the french government's policy towards muslims. something in france is broken and it is france nowhere else in europe is there this much terror killing and a complete breakdown and mutual respect and understanding these latest attacks there just that the latest. clearly it's inhumane it is highly reprehensible and i hope that justice will be served this attack and who deserves it i do have words as a matter of fact it's really shocking. that when i feel sorrow it makes me crazy so crazy it's impossible to see this i'm speechless i don't know what to say. a year ago macro and warned against stigmatizing muslims we're all one people he said since then something has changed now he's talking about islam of separatism shutting down dozens and dozens of muslim charities and organizations and has

unveiled a plan to domesticate is lot. of our citizens of the islamic faith must be protected against the evil of radical islam i say it here because the will of the islamists of its ideologues is precisely to turn a part of our citizens against the republic using their religion and we cannot let that happen. macro involves forbidding french moms from training overseas restricting foreign funding for religious organizations giving the government control over religious subsidies and you loon you get money if you sign a contract saying you respect french values he even has a name for this new french islam the islam of in light moment although everyone is challenged about macros little cult and specifically his cracked out on muslim charities and then geos if the government still goes on to divide us it will create

separate groups in society and it is not the solution of the muslim mosques in associations and i'm guilty maybe some people who come in but not everybody people have the right to practice their religion as they want so we can close a police who worship like that us expect our government to calm the tensions down today we have to be careful of not developing and then to muslim hatred it makes no sense and it is dangerous i don't think that there is an optimal solution it would be utopian to think the opposite but dialogue is a better solution for me muslims are not guilty for the terror attacks the government is not responsible either so precisely both have to discuss the problem find salute. and respect each other it is incredible how simple cartoons can cause this much bloodshed and hated misunderstanding one side sees these cartoons as nothing but an insult in the public since the stunt which essentially they are

intended only to insult and offend more than a 1000000000 people the other side including the french government sees it as an expression of free speech. than any god and free speech is a constitutional right of any french citizen. and we will not give up caricaturists or drawings even if others retreat started this freedom and look at caricature not necessarily of mohammad but we look at caricature has to show freedom of expression frankly i think it's horrible what happened where hampering our freedom of expression the freedom to learn to know for 14 years charlie has reprinted these cartoons at regular intervals a magazine with a very modest circulation has now found a cash cow people's feelings and beliefs for which they themselves have paid a high price.

for. not grown swore never to give up these characters and during. so even if everyone else does only further angering muslims. needs a mental health treatment what else can be said to a 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 in something 1100000000 muslims and their sanctities for the apartheid crimes of such extremists is an opportunistic abuse of freedom of speech and 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 backgrounds tough talk has so far completely failed to have seen as an enemy in the muslim world islamophobia boycotts protests and all that has been his little project his plan to essentially domesticated islam in france be the most admissions thing has undertaken. still had twitter flags and are to report on the u.s.

election as potentially misleading for american voters a look at why after this part.

join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics or business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. welcome back r t has asked social media giant twitter to explain why one of our reports on u.s. election fraud was labeled as potentially misleading earlier i discussed the story with my colleague here. thank you what's behind this decision by twitter well jacki as we know leading pretty much all the news cycles around the world right now as

the upcoming us presidential election is just days to go and reporters all over analyzing the process the polls and everything to do with this major political events and here at r.t. we've been doing pretty much the same but now for the 1st time one of our team's reports has been red flagged as a civic integrity label from twitter there is a warning if you like for readers that the reports might be disputed that the details might be misleading on closer inspection which is failing to see what it is about this report that is wrong alarm bells for the guys at twitter and the reporter our correspondent basically highlights all of the concerns that have already been discussed about voter fraud ahead of the election challenges that the sea has already raised itself and we quoted that in the report take a listen overall office for democratic institutions and human rights needs assessment mission interlocutors 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 due to new measures in response to covert 900 pandemic and expressed concerns over their ability to overcome them now the r.t. news agency has subject to broadcasting standards which means that every report must be balanced and fair and this report kaleb our correspondent has it here to those rules ensuring to use key words like allegedly and sharing to keep it analytical yet balanced and referencing all reports and official channels now what we like to do here at r.t. is we like to bring a range of reports together dig a little deeper try to salvage some accuracy and call out any hypocrisy is why our tug line here is questioned more but twitter did say earlier this month that it was going to be ramping up its use of these warning labels on tweets to help curb any misinformation ahead of the election. take a lesson you may not use to it is it services with the purpose of manipulating or interfering in elections all of the civic processes this includes posting sharing

content that may suppress participation will mislead people about when where or how to participate in the civic process we believe we have a responsibility to protect the integrity of twitter conversations from interference and manipulation now as part of this twitter has announced that disputed claims in the election process would be flagged or removed tweets that include any premise your claims will be labeled as and used as what we directed to the official us election page to tweet same to inciting interference in the election process and all the results such as calls for violent action may be removed and as we've seen recently it's not just r.t. that has raised red flags for the guys at twitter this comes just a week or so ago since twitter on facebook i decided to remove links to a story being run by the new york post regarding alleged e-mails on an old laptop of hunter biden now this is a story that was rubbished by his father joe biden and yet you know it could have cast a shadow over his chances in the race to the white house but twitter wasn't the only

one to shun this story and after this twitter as well as other major internet companies have come under intense scrutiny and faced a grilling in the senate your position is that you can sit and hear your time and. you can tell them what stories they can publish or you could tell the american people what reporting they can hear is that right. out. agrees to its terms of service you're still blocked me to post right now you're blocking their posts now the senate hearing as you can see was pretty intense they saw the republicans and democrats interrogate the heads of twitter facebook and google and it really exposed this deep distrust in the power of silicon valley to police that web. now this isn't the 1st time that r.t. has received a twitter label those who follow us on the platform will know that our account has been branded as state affiliated media tell us about that you're right yet twitter

has previously labeled artie's editor in chief margarita simonyan as russian language twitter account russia's state affiliated media which struck many as a little bit unfair considering that other news groups that are also state finance such as the b.b.c. and n.p.r. were not given similar titles facebook has also labeled dieties account of state affiliated media again failing to do the same for other foreign state media such is the voice of america. facebook's position back then is stated was to provide greater transparency into publishers that combine the influence of a media organization with the strategic backing of a state so i think the double standards are quite apparent that nonetheless whether it's stories being run by the new york post by r.t. or anybody else questions are increasingly being raised over how much power social media hasn't it to mean what people read or don't read and what they trust now we have requested comment from twitter and we will bring it to you when we get it.

when i bring in line internet law expert and so also me a solicitor in york and for more on this now do you think that twitter was justified in thinking out this report by r.t. . this is really getting ridiculous now. there are 2 important points in the 1st one is that there really is a billionaire bird again sitting there in silicon valley and decides we teach facts should be checked for accuracy before they are presented to millions and millions of people but this is only one aspect of it the 2nd thing which is even more ludicrous is the quality of the fact checking between there is pope ordering 2 to 2 to conduct this so to do it there of course is keep getting it wrong 1st it decides that the only fact checking there is going to carry are or or nearly the entire fact checking going to it going to carry out.

relates to to one side of the book of a political spectrum but more importantly twitter hasn't gotten the ability the quality of the people the experience the journalistic experience the legal experience to fact check and to very rigid to recent examples are the new york post story details been suppressed because people in treated decided that it wasn't sufficiently accurate or verified it now we have got it with another story that did the twitter decided it. should be suppressed to induct this in relation to postal voting now there is ample evidence that postal voting coup to create fraud there is evidence from the u.k. there's been a commission in the u.k.

to. conclusive that concluded already that postal voting is susceptible to fraud you don't need to be a genius to understand that but no for twitter. you know you'd be you have to be really really you cannot say good for be they a postal voting is susceptible to fraud because why because through the said so absolutely ridiculous well there's issues when it comes to any type of reporting any type of voting but another thing to note is the fact that people social media feeds tend to be sort of an echo chamber of what their own ideas are just being reflected back at them so are these tags that they're putting on accounts and reports really going to change anyone's mind i think the what they're probably trying to do is to create an image so it is very easy for. a popular social media site such as twitter to put trace someone is

a liar ain't old to portray another person is an angel and this is precisely what we are seeing in the selection regardless who is right and always wrong we are seeing. a president trump being portrayed as the devil and we are seeing a conscience effort to put tray. of former vice president biden is pretty much an angel and the way they do it is not simply by pumping up information and give you more and more nice stories but rather by suppressing bad stories about about certain people and certain politicians which is which is very very dangerous very dangerous thing to do. all right we're going to have to leave it there you're cohen internet law expert thank you for finding the time to join us on the program today and that's all for this hour news wise but if you're looking for more ahead on over to our web site r.t. dot com for countless articles and interviews entertaining.

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