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justice. if. one minute past 9 pm here in moscow this saturday night hope you're having a good weekend wherever you're joining us from today welcome to our to international we begin with breaking news from the french city of a greek orthodox priest who has been shot and injured his church the gunman fled the scene on the large scale manhunt is underway with our correspondent in

charlotte charlotte this occurred a number of hours ago no details emerging as to what happened. yes just a few more details emerging now of course ringback that massive manhunt is all the way following this incident that sort of greek orthodox priest being shot just as he was apparently closing up the church for the evening on saturday evening this took place around 4 pm local time in new york which is a city in the center of france now we understand from eyewitness reports that 2 gunshots were fired and then there were cries that came out now the priest who was attended to by medics at the scene was conscious but we are in stand that he is in as serious condition following that shooting now he's been able to give more details about the attack at soon to police when said that we still didn't know the attackers assembly unknown to him and he said to been shot with a sort of shotgun but more explosion also being given as well that the perpetrator

pints attack appeared to be a mediterranean type of person was around 1.9 meters tools that were 6 foot so a very tall individual who was dressed in a long black type of trench coat with a black cap so as you can imagine that model manhunt operation is underway in leon at the moment. people are being told to avoid the area of leon specifically the 7th out of the snow where this attack took place and while at the same time ministry of interior has set up a crisis unit in paris to discuss what's happening there we know that the prime minister who is or on his way to an engagement ringback has now says circled back and is heading back to paris and he's been talking at about the issue regarding religious sites saying that you know security forces will be deployed to religious

sites because there has been that's threat and. anything that's related to christianity that's come from a crescent agency close to al qaeda and he said that french people can count on nation to allow them to practice their religion in full safety this comes of course as france is about to celebrate a major festival all saints day on sunday and of course comes in the weight of that attack in nice just a few days ago we don't know that there is any link to that nice we don't know what the motivation was behind this shooting in new york but many people will be thinking possibly there is something between the 2 given the fronts there is that this maximum terror alert and the attacking nice saw that being the 3rd terror attack an islamic terror attack according to president macros one country has seen

in about 5 weeks let's just take a look back it had events in nice unfolded. but in this new tragedy today you see victims of islamofascism child repeatedly denounced. the original who descended. from the siren of the farm and the police arrived quickly isn't 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. those

horrific events in nice cool the nation a nation in shock and grief there to the people of that city in the south of france but going back to what's happened all sat and ate in this shooting that's taken place in libya all of orthodox priest is said to be in a serious condition after he was shot apparently it seems at close range by somebody with a mediterranean types in over a 6 foot tall around 1.9 each is not to places around pm local time in france the police by saying people to stay away from the areas that large scale manhunt continues thanks very much for giving us all the very latest updates on the developing story from front. well let's continue with the developments

with political analyst nicolette markovitch nick always good to see you you're currently in aren't you where the shooting took place we've been hearing there's a major security operation underway what more can you tell us what is the situation like there. well situation is extremely tense and you can imagine these past few weeks past few days of the belief is it is a very tense situation there is confinement since since yesterday we haven't had the beheading of the professor's history professor so no patty 2 weeks ago the massive killings again any in. the church of rome today nice this incident is just increasing the extremely tense situation with the police are absolutely searching and they're going to man we don't have much more information so all we know one. person shot twice we don't know if he's got people working with the round up so the whole center of you is now practically knocked out who has been searching for this

person but the situation is definitely tense and all over social media and your main street you're talking about the situation and you want to know i appreciate of course the details are sketchy but we do know the victim is an orthodox priest a partly a greek citizen so there for i would assume not a symbol of the french establishment at all could we perhaps speculate as to why anyone would want to target such an individual have there been tensions beef between specific groups or is this looking increasingly like just a church any church as a target. it's difficult to say and if we don't want to jump to conclusions here now because we don't have more information that then we just said of course it will come to the minds of many people are these attacks against against the church in the last days people can say oh is there a global attack on churches there have been just past days we see in different towns. in disini in vienna terrorists. hordes of young

turks looking out for armenians this is something which has been going on mainstream media has been covering about it ask them good going on in this town could it be that going to be really what is going out with drawings of mohammad and the situation with back row $100.00 part of the most of the role we don't know of course this comes to mind because the situation the religious situation in france is very tense and people are thinking about that however we do not know i think it's important to understand under 9 that france attacks against christian symbols is extremely important there are 10 more 10 times more attacks against christian symbols in france than there are going to muslims for example not all the more attacks against persons but their kit attacks against chapels against churches and this is something which is not new interest coming into under the spotlight today and it's been very very i'm going to be curious subject this task to days where

it's not new at all is it we remember in rwanda where the elderly priest was beheaded a number of years ago and we've got. the nice terror attack in one of the city's most important catholic churches the basilica there this is happening before all saints day tomorrow an important date in the christian calendar are french christians nicolette did it feel as if they're being actively targeted. yes definitely did that and also i think they definitely feel that they've been abandoned it's such a paradox that today this afternoon. states the prime minister of france was insulted. where father who had been beheaded in his own church celebrating mass drunk aspects was there to show a symbol that the french authorities that the french government was there to protect the christians and at that same time a christian priest was was shot at i can tell you this i know that catholics tomorrow before tonight's incident were already organizing and this is the 1st time

i see this their own self-defense groups we've seen these past years military defending churches and protecting churches were big feast like all saints day christmas easter there were military outsiders and this is something new or shocking to see this in france which is the darker the catholic church. the catholic faithful and now for the 1st time tomorrow before tonight's incident there will be groups of catholic catholics organizing their own protection before each and after each mass is this is something which is of course getting the whole town of g.-d. and quite. quite surprising. tense that comes as well as president mccrone promise to urgently ramp up security at churches across france after what happened in nice and yet you've got what seems to have happened today perhaps for a similar reason we can't speculate but we do know that this person was shot in

broad daylight right outside his church as he tried to close it in the late afternoon what do you do here does the government have questions to answer or is it a case of he simply can't defend every church. i think that the just the government doesn't know how to handle this situation this is nothing new don't forget that in the ninety's your was already up at close not terrorism not not saying that today's today's incident was related to some terrorism but how you want is a hotbed was a husband in the ninety's we've had attacks in france these 5 times for last year's practically 300 french people or people living in france actually have been killed by terrorism and the tax against the church again are not something new over $1000.00 attacks against $1000.00 attacks against the church each year we don't but for different motivations it's not always seems to this kind of terrorism and dish that christians are saying that they're not presented any more and that here and you see on the social network or discussing with the people that they feel that

they've been abandoned they don't understand that the police the military not only are going to anything to protect them but aren't doing anything. to quell the organizations the association of these movements which are radically anti christian and there are cases there are but as i said before iran you want another 1000 france where active christian statements are held and the government just doesn't do anything and then all of a sudden we've got these murders and we've got these attacks they feel the definitely about it and don't understand that in a country like france which is majority christians you know people would listen to them be used in this situation is making people very unhappy but it's not new again it's fast governments from the right after they have all been and capable of handling this situation which is getting out of hand do you think that the government what president mccraw misspoken recently on a her has spoken more dramatically more stringent plea

a bite hard line islam islam is and in effect. is the right thing to do to go on the hard line or to try and get perhaps those moss those people spreading hate to go off to them in a more specific way nicholas because it seems as if you've got muslims who think that they're being attacked that islam is on here that the message is not clear the communication simply isn't there. well the communication is a catastrophe it is totally not there at all and there is i think that is the major issue as it isn't major problems that communication is not there i think there on behalf of the government saying that they're going to attack radical islam and not doing things assuring that nobody believes that that they're there to help them anymore so they've lost their credibility i think it's important to understand under 9 or so that within the muslim community those who who of course don't agree with these with these killings these shootings these attacks have to voice their concern and they have to be more visible because

a lot of french people don't see the moderate muslims and then of course they will be patient to say well of all of these if the muslims who are drawn to the muslims which are not buying it they don't do anything when the radical the muslims attack them that is they are all together and here they are at least and so i think also in the muslim community it's important to show that they despise this and they themselves are going to keno it in their community now of course the 1st of the response of these is to the french government why are these over $500.00 mosques in france which have been targeted officially outs have been identified as radical mosques why are they still open why is translating then asked with that's what in france against a professor and in the church notre dame in east were conducted by immigrants who recently arrived in france so imagine how can a man or woman what is the screening done by men or metro and the french government with these foreigners coming in there over $200000.00 for most coming into france legally each year rather than from muslim countries with screening is done with

controls or gotten what are what are the checks being. undergoing to make sure that they speak french that they're adapting and there is no competition or as i think is a big issue concerning immigration as well massive immigration not just immigration massive immigration talking about 200 to 300000 people per year all right in france and we have not french are saying that who are these people who are living here in what are their real intentions and a lot of these are men you. no more war torn countries a nice. i mean from tunisia which is not a war torn country one of the really tensions really a lot of these people and this is something that we want for us a lot of these people are grassroots more at what we did you just have to look. thanks for going through all i would just ok getting short time thanks very much though for giving us a sense of all that's happening especially where you are in leon where breaking news is from today nicholas markovitch political analyst indeed the shooting in the city comes 2 days after a knife attack in nice in which 3 people were killed

a 3rd man has been arrested by french counterterrorism officers on suspicion of links to the perpetrator french prosecutors are trying to establish whether they suspected killer was in contact with extremist islamic groups his family in tunisia have also come under scrutiny they deny any involvement in the murder. if you could them i started crying when he told me that he travelled to france 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 all taken 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 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. the main suspect in the attack has been identified as a 21 year old is he an migrant he was not previously known to french intelligence he arrived in europe last month where he claimed to be a refugee over there he was served in the expulsion notice and then dropped off the authorities radar terrorist truck the southern french city in the early hours of thursday when a man wielding a knife attacked and killed 3 churchgoers. came just 2 weeks after the beheading of a tittering horus who had shown his class caricatures 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 that a terror attack has been committed in the north were non basilica 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 on 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 that is why it's so dramatic. 20 minutes and still ahead britons who want to celebrate christmas with more than half a dozen people who could be in violation of the new pandemic regulations on that base could be after the well explained all that stuff to the brick.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. very dramatic development only. i don't see how that strategy will be very critical. when you start back in poland where tens of thousands of people flooded the capital

on friday night protests against the top court ruling to ban almost all abortions are going 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 not to laws abortions on the grounds of fetal defects which were the reason for 98 percent of terminations last year however abortions due to rape or incest are still legal the national prosecutor earlier threatened criminal charges against those organizing the protest movement citing

risks posed by the mic but protesters are ignoring it and. the time to reach a compromise has passed women have seen their rights taken away and now they want them back and 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 in force seriously. u.k. police chiefs have called on the public to inform on anyone violating the latest anti pandemic rules adding that they are ready to break up christmas family gatherings if more than 6 people are in attendance or week the u.k.'s daily infection rate has exceeded 20000 new restrictions were ruled out in the middle of october with lockdowns varying by region depending on the infection rate the system has been slow and confusing and britons are getting ever more angry as the holiday

season years reporting from london is sourly. 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 his 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 getting creative in finding loopholes one innovative britain says he's beaten the restrictions on private gatherings and it only cost him $6.00 pounds by creating a company and listing family members a stuff 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 ice on constitutional and if i 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 the 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 little choice do we have that 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 just go cheap 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 the rules are being followed. we are in the national emergency that could be worse than in spring the inviolability of the public must know not be an argument for lack of controls if true sort of regimes in

apartments and houses in danger public health and safety your thirty's must be able to intervene of course after the court of public opinion had to say on twitter tried walking his comments back breaking up parties would also be on the canadian cops to do list in quebec officers are authorized to demand proof of residency and homeowners will tell you it's refused entry they'll be able to obtain warrants false the through a new virtual system and intervene while in new york police were accused of invading a private home when targeting a jewish family during a crackdown on gatherings of more than 10 people but we have a complete about a vehicle parked in the front now look up you know over 10 people in a crowd so now it's an issue where you are the police officer you almost you know the rules. tell me that it's 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 not always

easy to get them back. a recap of our breaking news today a greek orthodox priest is in a critical condition after a shooting outside his church in the french city of leone the suspect is at large local police describe the shooter as amount of mediterranean appearance who is hiding a song off shotgun under his coat he apparently fired in the direction of the priest then fled there's no heavy security presence as you can see in central leone on local prosecutors say they're working closely with counter terrorism services it comes just 2 days after an islamic extremist stopped 3 people to death outside a catholic church in the southern city of nice we're keeping track of developments all throughout the evening here on our to international to stay with our social media channels for updates as well.

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