french anti-terrorism officers arrested a 3rd man suspected of links to the perpetrator of the knife attack in nice as the investigation zeroes in on the killer's ties to extremists groups and on his family they deny any involvement my son does not do such things he come to hama cheek and i want the truth we are enormously short good people we stand against terrorism and . also this hour twitter sets its sights on our t.v. flagging one of our u.s. election reports as potentially misleading us after the social media giant got cut off and they censorship scandal. and police in the u.k. urged the public to report violations of new coronavirus rules and warn that they

are ready to crack down on any offenses are. to get reaction. if police force what's a column in and try and break up to this celebration and to get the names it just loses a lot of that whole element in london the family and you can see it by computer more of the original be doing trick barcoding to destroy. a very warm welcome to the program from all of us here in moscow thanks for joining us this hour. if 3rd man has been arrested by french counterterrorism officers on suspicion of links to the perpetrator of the knife attack in the east on thursday it tossed a left 3 dead french prosecutors are trying to establish whether the suspected killer was in contact with extremist islamic groups as family in tunisia have also come under scrutiny though they deny any involvement in the murders. how do you get them i started crying when he told me that he travelled to friends and i asked him

about what drove him to go and he doesn't speak the language or even know anyone there asked his brothers to call him and his phone was switched off and we tried to call him repeatedly but his phone was switched off until the day came when suddenly we were raided by the police we were old seeking for interrogation we do know what happened i lost my son and i lost my life and i demand an investigation about who stands behind this incident and i want to know who recruited my son my son does not do such things he can't even home a chicken i want the truth. we are his cousins we are enormously shocked we are good people we stand against terrorism and we denounce what happened and what we know about him is that he is a more room well raised person and we do not believe that he has suspicious connections and this is. the main suspect in the attack has been identified as

a 21 year old tunisian migrant he was not previously known to french and teligent arrived in europe last month via italy where he claimed to be a refugee of our he was served an expulsion notice and then dropped off the authorities radar terror struck the southern french city in the early hours of thursday when a man wielding a knife attacked and killed 3 churchgoers at the metrodome silica it came just 2 weeks after the beheading of a teacher in paris a teacher had shown his class caricaturists of the prophet muhammad we spoke with a priest who was inside the church in nice when the horror there unfolded. who was it i was in that church of the time of the attack it was almost 9 am i get a call from the police and was told the detector attack has been committed in the know to a number close down your church they said a few minutes later they called again saying that 2 people had been killed and fortunately later it was revealed that another person had died it all happened so quickly. i regret to say this but 1st and foremost i feel anger it is not very holy

only the security forces issued a warning and tuesday by the threat of terror attacks being high so we all knew about that before the attack but no checks have been make the intelligence services haven't done enough people have died that's why i am angry. i feel confused it's unfair because christians and their feet they have nothing to do with this what people don't know is that charlie a bill has made more caricatures about christians and catholics than muslims the problem is not that these people are muslim the problem is that these people who commit these crimes are fanatics and that is why it's so dramatic if you will go to muslims across the world have voiced their anger over president micron's or marks on islam and freedom of expression as also his defense of the right to mock religion demonstrations on fridays on muslims burning portraits of the president and calling for boycotts of french products are to charlotte damon's game delves

into how mccrum the latest stance on radical islam has put him into a corner. the last few weeks have seen anger whipped up in a frenzy once again with france and its secular values sparring with islam the tide continues to rise following the brutal attacks that took place here inside this church in the center of nice where 3 people were stabbed to death the french interior minister has said that france is that. enemy from within and from without we are not with any religion we are with islamist ideology islam islam is a form of 21st century fascism 3 attacks in france in 5 weeks have raised the temperature here but even before the college president might call had

finally outlined his vision to stop the rot. that we have to confront islamist separatism radical islam isn't least a rejection of the laws of the republic and that in time leads to a normalization of violence which is driven some of us it is nice for children. to consider the worst to be. already many had suggested that this clump time wasn't just about dealing with a long standing problem but it was politicking that's because president my 1st term in office is edging closer to the end now he entered the eliseo on a platform of being noida from the left nor from the right but he's been accused of adopting right wing policies including being tough for political islam ist in a bid to shore up voters his detractors say that despite his efforts he fails to

understand the enormity of the issue. is the war against islamist ideology really been implemented other measures announced by the government sufficient when we are attacked on our territory i'm sorry to see the answer is no. at the same time that corn has angered many muslims who feel that the current crackdown punishes all muslims not just the radicals all while france is facing tough questions about migrants the last 3 attacks were carried out by migrants one anti migrant group identity has already held rallies calling for islam to be kicked out of europe. as the shock of thursday's horrific attack sinks in sadness is turning to anger and the government is reacting once more with promises. i think in these troubled

restless times which so much worry so much does a research on my change or our political responsibilities to peace to explain and to bring together somebody might call him to his being defiant saying france will not step down that it must be united in the face of islam is terror attacks but these words have been spoken before not just by president macron but by previous french presidents for many they may ring hollow when the terrorism threat has spiked again all while the nation mourns the latest victims. r.t. nice we spoke with the executive vice president of the eurasia center or us me isn't it all those mccrone should focus on finding a new policy when it comes to the muslim community and friends. think the move with the crack. basically step to show that he's taking some type of action.

and i think it's more appealing to his political base and some of the interaction i don't think they're going to be effective and i think i think it's more a political move than it actually is the move to secure the country i think you'd be better a better direction. would be to not be so anti muslim in an interaction i think this is bad for the country and it's bad for the create divisiveness and i think it's also bad for his future political perspective as well. to pull in now where tens of thousands of people flooded the capital on friday night protests against the top court's ruling banning almost all abortions had been ongoing for over a week that this was the largest rally yet in warsaw clashes broke out when the crowd was met by a nationalist counter protest. thanks

. the constitutional tribunals decision outlaws abortions on the grounds of fetal defects was the reason for 98 percent of terminations last year abortions due to rape incest or a threat to the mother's life are still legal and national prosecutor earlier threatened criminal charges against those organizing the protest movement fighting risks posed by the pandemic protesters are determined to make their voices heard. time to reach a compromise has been have seen their rights taken away and now they want them back

one more ranks i am devastated i'm going to demonstrate as long as there is no new law or referendum the best solution would be early elections. we are in the middle of a pandemic this shows how much emotion is involved that we feel this is the time to come out and fools seriously. u.k. police chiefs have called on the public to inform on anyone violating the latest anti pandemic rules adding that they were ready to break up christmas family gatherings if they involved more than 6 people all week the u.k.'s daily infection rate has exceeded $20000.00 new restrictions were rolled out in the middle of october with partial regional lockdowns depending on the infection rate the system has been slammed as confusing and brits are getting ever more angry as the holiday season nears our correspondent ali reports from london. with cases around europe authorities looking for ways to stem the tide and some of the measures are pretty

drastic here in the u.k. police in some areas of threats and to write family christmas that is if they feel people are breaking the rules the grinch himself would approve. if we think there's large groups of people gathering with the shouldn't be the police will have to intervene the idea of police dragging grandma away in handcuffs might seem farfetched but some taking any chances and of getting creative in finding loopholes one innovative britain says he's beaten the restrictions on private gatherings and it only cost him 6 pounds by creating a company and listing family members of staff some police chiefs to have other ideas and smashing your doors down while you watch the only fools and horses christmas special including informing on neighbors who were breaking the rules leading to fears of a so-called snitch culture being encouraged we also people in london for their thoughts on a possible christmas crackdown but i'm sure we're not the only nation with these measures but the fact of the matter is i will not accept eyes on constitutional but if i come kicking my door in that we get kicked back into the story if police force

went to come in and try and break up the celebration and to get the names it just loses a lot of that whole element in london the family i mean it see if it's against the regulation and its will to keep the covert numbers down then we'll choice do we have that going to get clear guidance in what we are exactly allowed to do not to i think probably the government could be fixed before one. otherwise people just go to the months of being miserable person in germany to health authorities have been calling on security forces to go into people's homes to check whether rules are being followed. we are in the national emergency that could be worse than in spring the inviolability of the problem is no longer be an argument for lack of controls if troops abrasions in apartments and houses in danger public health and safety the authorities must be able to intervene of course after the court of public opinion i did say on twitter lots of tried walking his comments back breaking up parties but

also be on the canadian cops to do list in quebec officers are authorized to montreux for presidency and homeowners will tell you it's refuse entry they'll be able to obtain warrants false the through a new virtual system and intervene while in new york police work use of invading a private home when targeting a jewish family during a crackdown on gatherings of more than 10 people but we have a complaint about a vehicle parked in the front there looked up you know over 10 people in a crowd so now it's an issue where you are the police officer yes you lost you know there was no one to tell me that is ok and beyond the immediate concerns of violated privacy invaded homes and lost civil liberties there's always the question of what happens when this is all over once your freedoms have been surrendered it's not always easy to get them back. still had twitter flags that are to report at a time when the platform is being accused of censorship details on that story and more after the break.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy going from day shouldn't let it be an arms race is also a very dramatic development only really. i don't see how that strategy will be successful in a very critical time to sit down and talk. welcome

back social media giant twitter has flagged in our to report on the u.s. presidential election as potentially misleading label means users cannot comment on the post or share it r.t. has asked twitter to explain its actions but so far we've received no reply and the report our correspondent looks at potential fraud and the upcoming vote including glitches at u.s. polling stations and the drawbacks of mail in voting during the pandemic that information was already widely available and politicians including double trump

himself have warned the 2020 a lecture and could have problems. this election will be the most rigged election in history this is going to be a fraud like you've never seen if congress and state don't act immediately our country could face intellectual tour noble this fall overall office for democratic institutions and human rights needs assessment mission into look 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 new measures in response to covert $900.00 pandemic and expressed concerns over their ability to overcome them according to recent polls that europeans also have low confidence in the freedom and fairness of the upcoming vote as a stress in the flag r.t. report meanwhile ours isn't the 1st media publication targeted by twitter recently the new york post had one of its articles flagged it conserves linked e-mails allegedly found on the laptop of joe biden's son and exposing biden's links to

ukraine it was both restricted by twitter and facebook that has led to the senate grilling the c.e.o.'s of both networks the social network has recently expanded its election integrity policy post containing disputed claims or unverified information on the us election are to be flagged or removed tweets that could mislead people about voting results also fall under the restrictions earlier we put the company's content policy up for discussion. well i think twitter's motive is very simple their motive is to control what people see what people think and what people believe i know that sounds dystopian but i think that's what we're seeing across the board with social media companies right now in tech companies their goal is not simply to create fairness that's not what they're trying to do they say they're trying to preempt prevent election interference when in fact those tech companies are creating the most election interference right now that we've seen at least in a generation in terms of affecting how people would vote the information they see

before they vote vote or should be able to make up their mind whether it's a new york post story whether it's an r.t. report people have the right to information and then make up their minds but tech companies and media companies have colluded together and what's really shocking here with intelligence companies to kind of create a perfect storm of we will decide what you see and what you hear when jack dorsey says well everyone who uses twitter signs up for terms of service they don't agree to have you decide whether or not people can think things about them and by the way every time one of those reports is labeled misleading untrue untruthful or essentially a lie that's actually libel against the journalist who's publishing it in the 1st place any content that has that has a whiff of controversy it comes across our t. is interpreted by twitter by facebook who are taking their lead from the cia from the f.b.i. from the n.s.a. who have publicly said that russia is interfering in the u.s.

election the irony is that even the head of twitter is said twitter's capable of influencing the u.s. election so this has everything to do. heavily anti russian stance of the united states and nothing to do with the actual content. it's been it's been since if you want to look for logic in twitter's decision making venue can compare it to somebody being chased by a gigantic flop. b.s. they aren't they have been running away from the idea that in 2016 they were charged by many in the mainstream media and on their own platform as being complicit in in a election result that they were not happy with and now they are kind of flying willy nilly and just making things as they go along in the hope that people will not be mad at them this time my wrong to say that twitter is effectively having to decide what's true and what's not and is it in any way qualified to do that they

have no inherent ability to ascertain what is dissent from ation what is misinformation or what is accurate information that they're just not equipped trained staffed to do this but they presumed better or by doing this they were exposing themselves as being nothing more than a partisan platform not only is twitter facebook you tube incompetent to be able to fact check but they've actually hired people who are funded by special interests to do it for them and that in and of itself is a huge problem the real power that lies in here is that most of the media lives on twitter despite the fact that most people in america and around the world don't go to this website almost every reporter an editor does so if you are able to wag the dog by posting something that is totally outlandish or at least abnormal and every single reporter is going to see it because they're obsessed with

it then that's just going to be the reality of what our $360.00 coverage is this is been a capitulation of mainstream media and a declining ad market that they are chasing whatever heat they can the absolute shubra arrogance of these of these companies to believe that they are my guardian a are my jeep or they're not i'm going to american voter i go to wait. it will be used on the information that i gather that i use says that i don't need twitter this year is a joint for me and it's deeply insulting to me and believe me to millions of other americans and this is where twitter may ultimately pay the price. now some global news in brief starting with the deadly earthquake that's rocked the a-g. in seaside the tremor on friday night claims 25 lives in western turkey and injured more than 800 and these are live pictures showing a search operation is ongoing with many people reportedly trapped under the rubble

2 teenagers were also killed on the greek island where the shock waves were felt. a massive explosion has ripped through a hospital in central russia damaging a nearby residential building as well authorities say no one was hurt the blast was caused by a fire at a storage room housing oxygen tanks. and here are some images from along that usually bustling streets that are now completely deserted at night amid the coded $1000.00 curfew imposed in the city the north of italy remains the hardest hit area in the country with a total of more than 200000 factions reported. the international space station is celebrating an anniversary it's been hosting the only permanent human presence beyond earth for 2 decades now our correspondent

richard knox caught up with a former i asked this occupant. 20 years ago the 1st person entered the international space station. and today here with me is that very person. can you remember the 1st seconds when you enter the i assess. and then you start to install communication of the ground you're like hotel owners i don't know preparing rooms for 1st gas problem or way. to assemble some systems together we need to install new equipment was there any surprise waiting for you up there when we came there was no table at all the biggest problem was not only to design this

table and build it but build it in such with use only material. and actually make. cutting in drilling the metal like sleeping sides ready for you there or you had to organize it. and we can get in the you can see how it looks to you can use the sleeping books everywhere on the ceiling on the wall and when it came to the station 2 crew members were sleeping here living and working in close quarters together with other people and mabel to leave exams so familiar right now for every human being on earth with all these chronic virus lockdowns did your space experience help you survive all this madness i think the majority of people have a problem with being locked in a compartment because they didn't have anything to do we had more than enough

things to do here and never was bored do myspace what do you miss exactly view from . worthlessness difficult. to so. many things it's kind of. 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 thanks for tuning it. the maturity to. go in and you may never get out some sort of the most of.

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