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now is the person behind the attack i spoke earlier to our correspondent in front of devinsky there a suspect is in custody but it's not been confirmed that this is definitely the perpetrator behind this attack which saw a 52 year old greek orthodox priest shot in the stomach now the priest who is attended to by medics at the scene was able to give a description of the perpetrator and he has been named the priest that is by the greek government is being nicolas akaka the luckiest no there is some suggestion that this may be a signal to speak but i'll tell you about more about that in a minute let's 1st of all let's have a look at what i witnessed his accounts saw and heard around the time that those shots rang out in the. morning i live in the area i heard gunshots but at 1st

i thought it was firecrackers we didn't take it seriously and then i saw the motorbikes the roadblocks and the police and i realized that it was serious because there was a church here and the priest who is 47 years old was shot. while i was just live nearby who was watching t.v. at home and suddenly i heard something like how my blues some big booming noises so it was a might be kids playing outside of i decided to figure out what was going on but then i heard someone screaming when they went downstairs i saw the police and realized what was happening but unfortunately this time it's. going to happen next that's what we are now asking. for in the aftermath of the shooting a crisis unit was set up by the interior minister the french prime minister canceled. and event that he was heading to to come back to paris and we know an investigation has now been opened into what is being deemed an attempted

assassination but what hasn't happened which would normally happen if there was any sense that this was a terror attack or terrorist related the fact that this would moony be seized by the anti terror prosecution unit that hasn't happened in this case and french media are reporting that they are hearing from the ground that this shooting moved as a result of a personal dispute apparently the priest was soon to be leaving the community in leon to go to a new station and that's because they had been some dispute in the community this is what's being reported by the french press but of course this comes at a highly sensitive time here in france where just a couple of days after a terror attack it was described by president maclin as being in islam is terror attack that saw 3 people brutally murdered in the town of nice let's just have a reminder of what unfolded that.

this new tragedy today you see victims of islamic fascism repeatedly. returned it will be the job for the siren of the firemen the police arrived weekly's really good with the 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 take refuge at the cathedral afterwards i heard a lot of gunshots. well

as a result of that brutal that horrific attack that unfolded the niece on thursday france has raised its terror alert up to the maximum level the country now deploying $4000.00 extra security personnel to troy and bolster the security situation in the country this comes as france is about to celebrate all saints' day which is a major catholic holiday in the country the country's prime minister cast dix has said that you know all french people should be able to count on the nation to be able to carry out their religious beliefs their services in full safety we know that security has been deployed to bolster churches and schools off that there was a specific threat that came out from an agency linked to the terror network al qaida that came out just a couple of days ago but the reality is france has tens of thousands of churches tens of thousands of school so no matter how many personnel are deployed you just

can't have security personnel outside every building so a huge amount of tension here in france as this major festival is about to be celebrated given the fact that france is now back at a maximum terror alert an alert that was 1st raised up to that level back in 2015 when it saw that wave of her reflect terrorist attacks. trying to do minsky in france when we got insight into the tense situation right now there are from local analysts and commentators. government doesn't know how to handle this situation this is nothing new there are 10 more 10 times more attacks against christian symbols in france than there are going to serve muslims for example not are there more attacks against persons but their kit attacks against chattels against churches or this is something which is not new a catholic before tonight's incident we're already organizing and this is the 1st time i see this their own self-defense groups there are cases there are areas as i

said before iran if you want another 1000 france where active duty christian statements are held and the government just doesn't do anything. then all of a sudden we've got these murders and we've got these attacks the field of death pretty bad and of communication is a catastrophe it is totally not there are there is i think that that is the major issue as i think the muslim community those who are who of course don't agree with this with these killings these shootings these attacks have to voice their concern and they have to be more visible in the past 2 weeks france is not being under attack of people who twist the the words and say that secularism in france is is fundamentalist an extreme and it is the way it's causing deaths this is the 1st time doubt a shotgun is do you use it's the 1st time that there was an ambush which i guess he targeted specifically that priest and not somebody else as opposed to random random people parishioners at the basilica and nice and especially because francis

delegates and now is not the time to sort of mix everything together i will say and this is a horrible and sad thing to say that we can think in front that off a duck's churches would be targets that we felt that because catheter cism is the main stream religion in france and we thought you know possibly a rolly and certainly really in this case that all the ducks churches would not be done had to but we keep making wrong assumptions about the virus of terrorism. just to go through what our guests are speaking about the shooting in leon comes 2 days after a knife attack in nice in which 3 people were killed a 3rd man has now been arrested by french counterterrorism officers on suspicion of links to the perpetrator french prosecutors are trying to establish whether this suspected killer was in contact with extremist islamic groups his family internews 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 how drove him to go as he doesn't speak the language of a know anyone there so 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 and we were all taken for interrogation we do know what happened i lost my son and i lost my life and i demand in this to geisha 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. we are his cousins we are enormously shocked we are good people we stand against terrorism and we denounce what happened once and out 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 us. the main suspect in the attack has been

identified as a 21 year old chin izzie and migrant he was not previously known to french intelligence he arrived in europe last month via italy where he claimed to be a refugee over there and he was served an expulsion notice and then dropped off the author if he's read our terror struck the southern french city in the early hours of thursday when a man wielding a knife to kill 3 churchgoers at the not best it came just 2 weeks after the beheading of a teacher in part who had shown his class caricatures of the prophet that we spoke with a priest who was inside the building in the east when the horror there unfolded. of it 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 north with numbers of close down your church they sacked a few minutes later they called again saying that 2 people had been killed and fortunately later was revealed that another person had died it all happened so

quickly mother when the i regret to see this but 1st and foremost i feel anger it is not very holy over liquid at the security forces issued a warning and tuesday by the threat of terror attacks being heartless so we all knew about that before the attack but no checks have been me 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 a bill 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 that is why it's so dramatic. let's move to another of our headlines stories today england is about to enter a 2nd locked on the british prime minister boris johnson making the other night on

saturday evening after a recent surge in covert 19 cases. we've got to be humble in the face of nature and in this country alas as across much of europe the virus is spreading even faster than the reasonable worst case scenario of our scientific advisors and so now is the time to take action because there is no alternative from thursday into the storm to december you must stay at home you merely leave home for specific reasons we're not going back to the full scale of march and april the measures that i've outlined a less brutal less restrictive but i'm afraid from thursday the basic message is the same stay at home protect the n.h.s. and save lives. yet the thursday is the 5th of november it starts then it will last

until the 2nd of december and all non essential shops will close along with entertainment venues restaurants and pubs people will be required to work from home wherever possible however schools colleges and universities will be allowed to stay open travel within the country is discouraged and overseas travel will be banned and exempt for essential business trips since the start of the pandemic the u.k. has been hit with more than a 1000000 covered 1000 cases and over 46000 deaths the highest registered toll in europe and over the past week the u.k.'s daily infection rate has exceeded 20000 localised restrictions had been rolled out in mid october with lock downs in several regions but they were met with strong public resistance but the call commentator anthony weber believes the government should be thinking more about strengthening people's immune systems instead of closing down a country. even before this lockdown responds how up out of the situation was and how much more until. we become and now are suddenly are we going to become even

more to it because we government can somehow afford to ignore the once so who which of the taxpayer will have to pay for the young people of this country will have to pay for in the future but what will they do you are going to shoot shoot while it is a great leap chris because there are big aspart country well where there's trouble it's full. but the whole foods disaster is wrong and government should be doing is the best so you know how is that beautiful to people who try to treat even any people have to pay for their prescriptions or to borrow expensive. or before the prime minister's announcement police chiefs had called in the public to inform and anyone violating the pandemic rules they'd even threaten to break up christmas from the galleries that more than 6 people are in attendance and britons are getting ever more angry as the holiday season nears its allie is alone as cove in case the

3rd 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 have threatened 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 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 the fact of the matter is i will not accept eyes on the constitutional right if i come kicking my door in that we get kicked back out into the story if police force were 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 a family immunity to visit kids deregulation and its will to keep the coded numbers down then what 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 flexible for one. because 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 sea that could be worse than in spring the inviolability of the problem must no longer be an argument for lack of control if troops abrasions 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 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 refused entry they'll be able to obtain warrants fos 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 the crackdown on gatherings of more than 10 people but we have a complete about vehicle parking in the front there will copy over 10 people in the crowd so now it's an issue where you are the police officer yes you are the most 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 it's not always easy to get them back. scotland's great his film star sean connery has

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the story. one of the key things you need to know to understand how presidential elections work in the united states swing states the nomination process the electoral college and since 26 the foreign meddling with tally atory measures against russia for its meddling in the us presidential election a pervasive campaign by russians to interfere in this year's midterm elections russia in the 2020 us presidential race despite much of the heavily redacted evidence proving tenuous in establishing just how alleged meddling affected the 26000 election 4 years on its meddling saga 2.0 this time with multiple suspects potentially involved 1st and foremost is russia the classics and arya and it's deja vu for the democratic presidential nominee under trump's republican administration russia's faced the biggest different expulsions since the reagan era plus asset

freezes as well as sanctions under the countering america's a diverse aris through sanctions act but biden and the democrats are confident moscow wants more of the same we know from before and i guarantee that i know now because now i get briefings again the russians are still engaged in trying to deal just to mizar electoral process fact next it's china because beijing is a economic and political adversary therefore must be up to no good except according to intelligence officials they're rooting for the other team so i guess that makes it $11.00 we the china prefers that president trump. has and predictable there's not a real action lastly it's iran because it's a rogue state and with the u.s. sanctions crippling its economy and u.s. missiles assassinating its officials and clearly it must want some revenge on the samina straight force who is operating from the around has continued to attack the personal accounts of people associated with drowned president complain. so this is

the main threat to us elections coming from abroad apparently the problem is closer to home as more than half of election related this information about the 2020 vote this year has been of domestic origin as we've conducted our unfortunate actions over the past several years at facebook about how these operations we see using these deceptive tactics are domestic in nature we're seeing that trend increase as time goes on yet both politicians and the media focus more on the other half hyping up theories about russian interference while young people on the conservative side of the u.s. political divide are trying to influence things their way apparently making those very same russian interference tactics they're even using social media with facebook and twitter forced to shut down accounts with allegedly misleading claims that's another one in favor of the republicans then there's the billionaires some

of them like mike bloomberg alongside some celebrities have been paying off fines for felons to allow them to vote but only for joe biden so that's the winning point to the democrats and while bloomberg said its campaign is strictly in the name of democracy his advisors see things more through the paradigm of real polity mike wanted to get this done for 2 reasons one because it's the right thing to do for the democracy and 2 because it immediately activates tens of thousands of voters who are predisposed to vote for joe biden the closer this vote approaches the more the question arises is there anyone who hasn't yet interfered in this election. rescuers in turkey are continuing the search for survivors from friday's earthquake which has so far klyn the lives of 39 people this is mere province in the west of the country where numerous buildings collapsed and bring more than 800 people the shock waves impacted nearby greek islands too in

a tragic way including some us where. 2 teenagers were killed by falling rubble while walking home from school also. this is stunning footage of an explosion ripping through a hospital in the russian city of chelyabinsk a nearby residential building was also damaged and at least 13 people were left severely injured according to the emergency services the blast occurred after oxygen tanks caught fire in a hospital storage room. and heading to the u.s. where hundreds of protesters filled the streets of philadelphia on saturday after a night time curfew was imposed in the u.s. over the move followed 2 consecutive days of mass protests writing and looting in response to the fatal police shooting of a black man who was alleged to have been armed with a knife wooden 170 people have been arrested.

legend of the screen sean connery has passed away at the age of 90 a man widely described as the definitive bond and often as the world's great the scot died peacefully in his sleep his home in the bahamas the scottish actor rose to global stardom in his role as double 07 in the 162 blockbuster dr no that kick started a hollywood career spanning 5 decades from indiana jones on the last crusade to the hunt for red october much much more as well we spoke with connery's friend former scottish 1st minister alex salmond and shed some light on the man behind the agent to merely great qualities because apart from this theme and this sort of standing career he was also. steady a loyal friend he was a wonderfully fully human. state 1st the virtual he was a great human being. the oldest there are listen this as well as the. other

a terrific sense of humor of the midwest. shoot sample sean connery's touch of irony then you haven't heard of the humor well deployed he was a dying giraffe monotheism on the stroll conventions and he was on the stand braves so a great actor sample it but also a fantastic human being clear on the show in cali playing new james bond this yes of course it was the jokes but you always knew he would kill you know sean cole in life was a way that's all he was a gentleman in every sense of the weren't and that had barely compassionate human being he believed in scotland and scotland potential famously scotland full have a right to the need for doubt but more importantly it was imprinted on his soul is shown as a baiting to sentiment scotland and its people he he believes that scotland could do better with the belief that the scottish people had enormous potential with significant little seans bit sharky were pretty hot that was full of it was for a nation of the scottish international education trust not an organization which

the last 50 years was it was funded from the the money thrown my diamonds are forever one of these look at them and see if the money to an educational trust them and not trust us help those in so scottish children achieve the potential over the last half century. rest in peace to the iconic sean connery and if you'd like to have your say on any of those stories this hour to make your way to our teens facebook page and leave a comment always good to know what you're thinking there my friend. what a wonderful trip this says. they call in a dollar 2011 breaker a prize or a car we told you to buy it was going to compete with call to take over the world and was in fact perfect money and still this animal for evermore. be.

gone after times are we going underground 2 days to go before an election in a country which has been militarily involved in 1008 percent of all countries on earth having invaded $84.00 of the un's 193 countries coming up in the show will trump lose in tuesday's presidential election thanks to coded killing hundreds of thousands of us citizens we go to the white house to speak to one of the only 2 men the us president apparently listens to on the pandemic white house going to virus top school survives a professor scott atlas he tells us why he thinks lockdowns mass testing in mosques go to hold up all of them all coming up in today's going on the ground 1st with

just days ahead of the u.s. presidential election which will have a global impact as a global coronavirus pandemic continues to take lives not least in the united states itself let's go straight to the white house and speak to one of president trump's closest coronavirus advisors professor scott atlas thank you so much god for coming on you interpret the data how bad is covidien in the usa i'm sure you know that the democrat leaning mainstream media says it's corona virus that could spell the end of the trump presidency ok well thanks for having me well i mean it is a it's a it's a deadly plant down but there's no under stating that we've had you know 230000 lives. lost and from that from the virus and certainly many many loss.