see. the french. is. just 2 days after a terrorist fade. in weeks. to extremist groups his family deny any involvement. my son does not do such things. i want the truth. also coming up twitter said. reports being potentially misleading

it's happening after the social media. censorship. police in the u.k. urged the public to report violations of the new coronavirus rule they're ready to crack. this reaction. if. it does. then the family and see if they come pick it might go back to the story. around the clock across the world this is r t international from the team and myself you know neal hello and welcome. we start with breaking news from the french city. an orthodox priest who has been. shot and

injured i'd signed his church and the suspect we believe at this stage is large let's cross live to our correspondent in front charlotte dubin ski what are we learning what is known to bite this incident at this stage well this is still a pretty fresh incident it took place at all pm local time here in france and it took place in the 7th arab decent of leon in the center of the country now we understand the rules the docs priest was injured in what appears to be a shooting just outside the church we understand that the priest reconnection ality was closing up the church when he was approached and shot at people in the area eyewitnesses say they heard 2 gunshots and then they heard christ now the orthodox ringback priest is it still alive against that that his injuries parts serious he has been taking tossed around to be treated for those he was conscious when he was taken away and he said that he did not know the perpetrator behind this attack now

the perpetrator is all around so there is an alert in least for people to stay inside and to the area as police forces and security forces combing through the area in attempts to find the person behind this attack a perimeter has been set up and a crisis unit is being opened at the interior ministry here in paris now the prime minister was actually traveling is due to return back to paris to take part in terms of crisis talks so the latest we know is that rules that out places the injured in shooting them stand to use a sort of shotgun and they were 2 shots fired the orthodox priest is being 'd treated injuries from your time that he is in a serious condition now this of course there is no information as to what at started this what the reason is behind the motive but of course many people will be thinking. what happened just 15 days ago with 3 people stabbed to death

to them almost that had it one with the throat cut a secular almost entirely beheaded in what president that was described as an islam is terror attack let's take a reminder of those horrific events. it will be because of this new tragedy today you see victims of islamofascism child repeatedly denounced. the original descended. under the siren of the firemen the police arrived quickly he's a really good with bikers and everything that followed then they set up

a security system i went down with my scooter and i saw the guy come in and take refuge in the cathedral afterwards i heard a lot of gunshots. well that's plenty of people and situations in nice but back to what's happening in leon in the sense of crowds you know the docks priest has been injected he was shot with a soft shotgun and the hope betrayed is still at large. charlotte what is the sense in the country you've been traveling around you've been there for quite some time. that christian were worshippers field up there being personally targeted by what is happening we know that in nice the basilica was only due to open to the public i believe at tomorrow for all of us as saints day which was

a day of celebration is there a sense that this pattern has been emerging more and more so on people are aware of it. well of course florence is now at a maximum terror alert being that that alert since the start of that weight terrorism back in 2015 and shortly after it was attacked and we know the director general of the national police just said earlier this week that christian symbols would be a target that was after a press release spiked up at which is an agency that is close to the terrorist cell al qaeda so we know the christian symbols are potentially being targeted we don't know that what's happening in new york at the moment is related to that this could be something else however security has been stepped up across churches in france because of the fact that there is this threat as you mentioned all saints day on sunday is a national holiday here in france and there is this concern that that could lead

and see more text as we get closer to that festival of sunday now the president met on the set that $4000.00 additional security personnel have been moved the lines to keep part secure but the reality is that people and security personnel cannot be in outside every church cannot be at site every area that has christian symbol cannot be outside every school and i think people are now very concerned that what we've been seeing in the last weeks which are 3 confirmed terror attacks now what's unfolding in the all that really for us is going back to those dark days of 20152016 trying to miscarry live from front thank you. well as charlotte just mentioned there the incident in the un comes 2 days after a knife attack in nixon which 3 people were killed a 3rd man has been arrested now by french counterterrorism officers on suspicion of

links to the perpetrator french prosecutors are trying to establish whether the suspected killer was in contact with extremist islamic groups his family intern is here have also come under scrutiny they deny any involvement in the murders. of them i started crying when he told me that he traveled to france and i asked him about what drove him to go and he doesn't speak the language or even though anyone there i 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 all taken for interrogation we do know what happened i lost my son and i lost my life and i demanded the misty geishas 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 harm a chicken i want the truth and. 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 all. of just what is known about the person they're speaking about it the main suspect is a 21 year old tunisian migrant he was not previously known to french intelligence he arrived in europe last month via basically where he claimed to be a refugee however there he was served an expulsion notice and then dropped off the authorities radar. terrorist struck a southern friends city in the early hours of thursday when a man wielding a knife attacked and killed 3 churchgoers at the naacp. it came just 2 weeks after the beheading of a teacher in paris who was showing his class carcass of the prophet muhammad we spoke with a priest who was inside the church in nice when the horror there unfolded was that

i was in that church of the time of the attack it was almost 90 m. i get a call from the police and was told the deterrent tac has been committed in the not numbers in close down your church they set 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 in fear because christians and their feet they have nothing to do with this what people don't know is that charlie hebdo has made more caricatures about christians and catholics and 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. ok let's move the program on to poland where tens of thousands of people flooded the capital on friday night protests against the top court's ruling to almost all abortions have been ongoing for over a week but this was the largest rally yet in warsaw clashes broke out when the crowd was met by a nationalist counter protest. the

constitutional tribunals decision outlaws abortions on the grounds of fetal defects that was the reason worth 98 percent or so of terminations last year over abortions due to rape or incest or as the legal the national prosecutor earlier threatened criminal charges against those organizing the protest movement citing risks posed by the pandemic but protesters are determined to make their voices heard. even time to reach a compromise has passed women have seen their rights taken away and now they want them back one more writes 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 anyone violating the latest anti pandemic rules adding that they're ready to break up christmas family gatherings if

more than 6 people are in attendance all week the u.k.'s daily infection rate has exceeded 20000 new restrictions were rolled out in the middle of the tober where clocked unsparing by region depending on the infection rate there the system has been slammed does confusing and britons are getting ever more angry as the holiday season nears he reports from the. as covert cases around europe authorities are 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 raid family christmas dinners 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

that only cost him $6.00 pounds by creating a company and listing family members a stuff some police chiefs do have other ideas and smashing your doors down while you watch the only fools and horses christmas special including informing on neighbors who are 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 a fact of the matter is i will not accept eyes on the constitutional right if they come kicking my door in that we get kicked back out into the story if police force went to come and try and break up the celebration and to get their names it just loses a lot of that whole element in london a family immunity to visit against the regulation and its will to keep the covert numbers down then choice do we have that what we see going to get clear guidance in what we are exactly allowed to do not to do i think probably the government could be fixed before one. because otherwise people are just going to be 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 sea that could be worse than in spring the inviolability of the public must no longer be an argument for lack of control if troops abrasions in apartments and houses in danger public health and safety the authorities must be able to intervene of course off of the court of public opinion i didn't 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 demand proof of residency and homeowners or tenants refuse entry they'll be able to obtain warrants false the through a new virtual system and intervene while the 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 will come over 10 people in

a crowd so now it's an issue where you are the police officer yes you are the most 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 as was 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 ahead on the program twitter floods and our t.v. report how to tell you when the plot forms being accused of censorship we've got that story and more after the break.

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minutes into the program welcome back r.t. has fallen follow all of the twitter censors one of our latest reports on the u.s. election has effectively been blocked for containing potentially misleading material we're now trying to establish what the offending information was so far the social media giant has not responded to our request for an explanation in the video or a correspondent look at potential fraud in the upcoming vote including glitches u.s. polling stations on the possible drawbacks of meal in voting during the pandemic that information was already widely available but having been flying the report can no longer be commented on or shared that's the spy politicians including donald trump warning that the voting process is far from watertight 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 a no electoral 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 detainee measures in response to covert 900 pandemic and expressed concerns over their ability to overcome them. well according to recent polls europeans also how of low confidence in the freedom and fairness of the upcoming vote no that was stressed in the flagged r t report meanwhile earth isn't the 1st media publication targeted by twitter recently the new york post had one of its articles red flags it concerned leaked e-mails that allegedly found on the laptop of joe biden saw him on exposing biden's links to ukraine it was restricted by both twitter and facebook and led to the

senate grilling the c.e.o.'s of both networks twitter has recently expanded its election integrity policy post containing disputed claims or on verified information on the u.s. election are to be flagged or removed tweets that could mislead people about voting results also fall under that restriction earlier i 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 twitters and people who

have influence in 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. of b.s. they aren't they have been running away from the idea that in 2016 they were a charge by many in the mainstream media and on their own platform as being complicit 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 were assumed better role by doing this they're exposing themselves as being nothing more than 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 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 won't based on the information that i gathered that i used and i don't need twitter to this year is a giant 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. rescuers in turkey who are searching for survivors after friday's earthquake which killed at least $35.00 people in the west of the country this is is mere province where numerous buildings collapsed injuring more than $800.00 people the shock waves also sure nearby greek islands including some us where 2 teenagers were killed by

falling rubble while walking home from school also. incredible photos here from footage from chelyabinsk the russian city where an explosion ripped through a hospital or a nearby residential building was also damaged at least 13 people are believed to be severely injured according to emergency services the blast occurred after oxygen tanks caught fire in a hospital storage room. and the legend of the screen has passed away sean connery who rose to fame in the role of james bond has died at the age of 90 on his home in the bahamas the scottish actor starred in 7 ball movies launching a hollywood career spanning 5 decades scotland's 1st minister has responded to the news saying the nation is mourning one of its best loved song.

let's get a recap of our breaking news this hour a greek orthodox priest is in a critical condition after a shooting outside his church in the central french city of lille the gunmen fled the scene on a manhunt is ongoing there is a heavy. security presence in the city center it comes 2 days. 3 people to death. church in the southern city of nice we are keeping track of developments we'll of course keep you updated on all the latest updates. all those updates on a busy saturday 2 at the top of the hour hope you join me for them.

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