the french interior minister country to brace for more attacks after a night. in the slaying. slaying 3. fronts as if we were at war with the enemy from within and from without. any religion with islamist ideology. protests gripped muslim countries are. friends of the right. in his previous remarks and. the messenger of god prophet muhammad the pretext of democracy is not considered democracy yet.

but it. is playing with fire. and also ahead on the program twitter. a reports on the u.s. election is potentially misleading right after senators accuse the social media giant itself can serve the. very warm welcome to our to international my names you know neal good to have you with us. our top story this reeling from yet another tranche of a killing spree in a church in the southern city of nice the country's interior minister has warned the nation that more attacks are likely. france is at war

we're at war with an enemy from within and from without and we're not at war with any religion we are war with islamist ideology islam islam is a form of 21st century fascism teaching on the church knife from page happened 2 weeks after the beheading of a teacher in paris who had shown his students caricatures of the prophet muhammad here's how thursday's tragedy unfolded in these. it will be but watching this new tragedy today you see victims of islamofascism child repeatedly denounced.

as a good witness and it will be the job for the siren of the farm and the police arrived quickly she says really with the bikers and everything that followed then they set up a security decision 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 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 at the 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 been 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 an 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 from their referencing operation sentinel this is not ration that was set up back in 2015 when that 1st terror wave really hit france following the attacks it surely abdo and then later in the year in paris which saw the the battle plan attacked in very many people who were killed in those coordinated attacks by terrorists $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 nice is already been subjected to terror attacks in the past including that horror. 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 celebration so nice is already had its fair share of terror people here disbelief shock once again that this could hit at 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 or some such beach we are in a country that has witnessed atrocities teachers being beheaded priests having the throats slit people are beheaded in a church that's not france and even if we taken all possible security measures you'd 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 they 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 the stopping outside the form offices of charlotte 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 a nice that have of course be angus spelling out on the streets hate to not just in this process we've seen over the last few days in muslim majority countries but hey in the song thursday night there was a demonstration held by the anti immigrant group. i didn't it says they came out to the streets calling for islam to be out of europe so there really is a huge sense of anger here on the ground to. charlotte devinsky and

a swell the french government mean all has told its embassies to tighten their security after a wave of protests by muslims in several countries. in libya one local business went as far as placing images of the french leader on his shop floor for customers to stand on on the recalls for muslims across the world to boycott french goods. as you see here in the company.

it's a little bit angry because of what happened. in seoul doing the messenger of god prophet muhammad under the pretext of democracy is not considered democracy and as for france honestly we want to tell you that your statements are offensive to every arab muslim and to the whole world we demand. back. and. that. is playing with fire in this case interesting to see that 'd we denounce francois offending the prophet therefore we denounce and bully quote every people do anything from france that comes to us. against mr mccrone has been seen here in moscow earlier on friday a crowd gathered outside the french embassy for a 2nd day in a row the protestors could be heard shouting go on to is greatest in order back police moved in to break up the rally and several people were detained the embassy

has asked the russian government to ramp up security for french diplomatic staff. meanwhile the french satirical magazine surely had the ante with a cover featuring a cartoon of the turkish leader after president. manual mccrone over his crackdown on hard line islamists. and their publication as this thing our senior correspondent picks up the story. 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 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 macworld 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 an lightman all everyone is challenged about macros little cult and specifically his cracked out on muslim charities and n.g.o.s if government so goes on to divide us it will create separate groups in society and it is not the solution for 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 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 is not necessarily of mohammad but we look at kind of pictures to show freedom of expression frankly i think it's horrible what happened where hampering our freedom of expression the freedom to learn snow for 14 years charlie has reprinted these

cartoons at regular intervals a magazine with a very modest circulation has now found a cash cow for people's feelings and beliefs for which they themselves have paid a high price.

on 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 apparent crimes of such extremists is not eunice took 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 francis now seen as an enemy in the muslim world islamophobia boycotts protests and all that as for his little project his plan to essentially domesticate islam in france may yet be the most add bishes thing macron has undertaken. r.t. has asked social media giant twitter to explain why one of our reports on u.s. election fraud was labelled as potentially misleading let's cross to kill my pen the arche correspondent in fact at the center of the story came up take us through all this well it's very interesting that this report has been labeled misleading by twitter in regards to a civic matter because if you look at it none of the material is original to ourselves right i mean the report that i put together i simply drew from what's

being said by international bodies as well as what was said by u.s. president donald trump this is what we included in the report from trump. this election will be the most rigged election in history this is going to be a fraud like you've never seen now we also included highlights of what us media itself us mainstream media outlets have been saying take a listen to that east texas official is in jail accused of committing voter 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 $98.00 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 loser and county that now we also made a very important point of being balanced we did not only highlight the claims of republicans and trump supporters we also highlighted the concerns of democrats

about voting irregularities and about polling places voter suppression etc take a listen to what we included from democrats who are also expressing concerns. if congress and steet don't act immediately our country could face a new electoral tour noble this fall now you know when twitter says that this report is possibly misleading about a civic matter that would make you think that we were giving people incorrect information about how to vote or something like that we did nothing of the kind take a look at the report it was simply pointing out the situation in the united states where there is widespread you know anticipation of this election widespread fear according to polls that there could be violence in the streets and rioting after the elections and you know and the fact that if such an election were taking place in another country there would be statements from u.s. officials expressing concern and that there would be there would be talk you know that somehow such an election may not be taken seriously and there would be you

know criticism of that electoral process if it was in another country we showed hypocrisy on the part of u.s. leaders in the up plus up lead in the leading to this election coming up in the united states so i'm looking for anything in the report that they say is misleading there was nothing in the report that was misleading we quoted other sources we showed what is the reality on the ground in the united states is which is that people are very nervous before this upcoming vote on november 3rd. and none has caused a twitter storm for what reason i'm not quite sure killam i've been live in new york thank you. very near my colleagues here in the studio. and nuclear and discuss twitter's action against arent you. not a news agency has subject to broadcasting standards which means that every report must be balanced and fair and this report kaleb our correspondent has a hit to those rules ensuring to use key words like allegedly and sharing to keep it on a little yet balance 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 elections take a listen you may not use to it is 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 premature claims would be labeled as and used as what we directed to the official u.s.

election page and 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 and 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 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. that you could. but you can tell them what stories they can publish or american people what report like and here is that. our.

true terms of service you're still glad. you're blocking them now this senate hearing as you can see was pretty intense it's all 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 the 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 here twitter has previously labeled artie's editor in chief margarita simonyan as russian language twitter account as 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 artie's account of state affiliated media again failing to do the same for other foreign state media such as the voice of america or al-jazeera 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 has and to terminate what people read or don't read what they trust now we have that requested comment from twitter we will bring it to you when we get it. well in fact this question you just saw has also been flying by twitter potentially misleading content. let's cross live now to piers robinson piers maturity politics society and political journalism at the university of sheffield in the u.k. piers always good to have you on the program. we're no longer. sure

absolutely yeah no sorry about how piers there was r t report twitters to the sky by thought that we just ran is not going a little too far do you think. well i think there are several questions which immediately come up when you have effectively taxes and control and prevention in a way that twitter is doing with these red flags seen on i mean the 1st question is who is making the decision of information and misinformation. and it's not clear exactly what rationale is being applied the 2nd thing is is it they are censoring what they believe to be misinformation is being applied consistently across different outlets and so on and i suppose that the norm the usual or the obvious question theresa's where there's some kind of ideological bias going on that sort of some media outlets will be subjected last one had

a sentence applied to them cetera. and i think maybe the biggest concern is and i have about any of these attempts to sort of control the misinformation. is that you're really no longer trusting the euros and readers to actually use their own intelligence and judgment to assess and commission and goodness and much safer better open democratic turn wrote their returns to go down don't censor don't try and go to this possible terror if you're deciding what is this information what is not what you actually are allowable classes put out there serial requirements etc you can trust people in need trust the intelligence and judgment of people to about how you eat and commotion that's a much safer rope to go down and you know risk pool problems or ideological bias and inconsistent but that's linked piers to to my next point in fact is there

a danger that over use of these fact check labels in fact undermines their entire purpose will readers simply start ignoring them. well probably happens already. back in 88 i mean there was the red triangle thing for us to do t.v. programs in britain which work to please the latino risk even in terms of sexual content and so on and it became this and wish people don't watch those programs because it's a literary triangle and communities you know it's the same with this kind of things that some people may actually sort of their work and it's got a warning i want to go and read it so it's not. intended to keep who apply it to the label. and i think more in general i mean does the i think a wider crack. amongst people which i think is probably increasing now that you know information is being censored we've seen it in so many different round so many

different issue areas and of course you know code 19 remote control to see you know scientists being blocked from you shoot and so on is just creates an overall sense of distrust in media and yeah well what on the other 11 other one was that highly publicized case just there earlier this month when a new york post article on hunter biden's business dealings was blocked by twitter there's been no comparable action really taken against anti trump articles in fact if anything there's been an uptick as we got closer to the election what's your what's your take on consistency here. well i think that's the big problem i mean we know little communication scholarship tells us about biases across mainstream media alternative media your etc you know this is a very very well established that there are tendencies in orientations mainstream media tend to be very closely located to political and economic power for example

and so since you have big tech johnson a-q. to twitter etc i mean these are big organizations they have overlapping interests who cover businesses and also dissenters of political power and that leads alternate distortion and so i think that can serve in consistency to kind of concerns we always had about mainstream media and it's close to eat less on that point our applies here and so again it becomes you know. without wanting to make too bold a plan you know the criticism would be that each you twitter etc facebook are seen and controlling information flow which really is going one direction which is actually politically biased national x. a late news this is part of the bias itself. which is why it's such a dangerous road to go down so what with out in mind we've got the election just a few days ago and we have republican senators accusing twitter or other platforms

you've got going through of and taken service by it's kind of have a say in the election. these things can impact it's notoriously difficult to actually establish where the influence is and we do of course exist in an environment where the media environment where there's quite a diversity in a sense of that people go to impact and affect it is always difficult to assess in the broadest sense because of because of the kind of reach and power of twitter and facebook and you tube today yes the things can't have an impact on political outcome. certainly and that's why it's so such a dangerous territory to have any kind of any formal sense you know that appears to be well intentioned and sort of get misinformation absolutely of liquor are kept and go out piers as always thank you for your time in speaking to piers robinson independent research your life on the program thank you thank you if you feel like

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