we dare to ask. them to lock down protesters shake europe as it passes 10000000 confirms covert cases and imposes fresh social restriction on. the french and turkish president's low call into the deepening crisis between paris and the islamic world in the wake of france's crackdown on his muslim population we discussed the issue with our. religion in the p.d.f. we'll resume but we also want the right for our boys to be heard in these countries are. completely. how they want. to be us gearing up to vote in the presidential election

a key figures are using their last chance to swing the vote by politicizing the covert clients this. is. a very warm welcome it's 8 am here in moscow and you're watching aussie international with me. have a number of covert 1000 cases in european countries has surpassed 10000000 with half the cases being confirmed in the past 5 weeks alone but states israel position of lockdown measures is bringing frustration with many taking that anger out onto the streets.

well as clowns live now to our correspondent piece at all if i paid to can you bring us up to speed on the latest place well yes we saw there some troubling scenes those demonstrations against the lockdown measures that are being put in place across europe but the reality is look down measures are being stepped up across the continent here in germany new lock down all locked down light as it's being called comes into play on monday this will see bars restaurants gyms other businesses such as beauty salons have to close down but the idea is to try and keep open schools and as much of the schools and kindergartens and as much of the economy as possible however in putting in place these new measures

a number of german politicians were caught some some cases just a few moments directly after telling the population what to do or they were caught breaking their own rules. the focus should now be on protecting the population and such a time when it's money and so much from you can petition its need to set an example .

well as part of the new lockdown measures here in germany balls and restaurants will be forced to close for a well known business they will be allowed to do take out but that's going to severely. cause problems for the takings of many establishment is one of their most popular in the linz political quartet very popular with politicians has said that well in the lead up to this lockdown a number of key figures who were involved in it were barred from the premises uncle a medical vice chancellor or left sure it's the mayor of michael miller all told they weren't welcome there so all the owners of the bar spoke to us and told us exactly what they thought about the new measures the government has done nothing since april to prepare people for winter and the 2nd wave of the pandemic it's known that many politicians come to us as guests some of those politicians decided

yesterday to shut down catering business is again to us from doing our jobs we are adding those potiche and black least immediately. lockdown does seem to be the order of the season though last week france and belgium went into really quite severe lockdowns on thursday we're going to see the united kingdom and its 2nd lockdown for a month until the beginning of december bars and restaurants they're going to be closing and people told that they're only allowed to go out for for really important reasons only also shopping non-essential retailers it's called also going to have to close down germany as i said we vented our 2nd lockdown on monday and in russia there's no announcement solve any kind of new lockdown measures but what they do have in russia is a rise in cases in fact just on sunday 800665

new cases of covert 19 confirmed in russia the number of dead in the country has passed the 28000 mark piece our thank you for that the grim update and thought is that peace to all of us thank you. journalist and economist paul but nick believes that measure should focus on kick starting the economy. an economist there look at trade offs and to be honest measures taken in most of europe like the lockdowns do seem too much focused on trying to avoid infections at all costs rather than trying to find a balance between debt and other goals such as keeping the gong you live in poverty and maintaining individual liberties so i understand it's difficult for any government right now to take the right decisions but it seemed too much school i think and towards trying to avoid infections europe year we will most likely see

civil unrest in crees over the next few months because of the lockdowns will be a harsh winter everyone hoped after 1st lockdown with a relatively mild summer that the worst was over but now we started the new episode off of another lockdown and god knows how long this will take so what will be very challenging for the rest of the year and also early next year for no if you look at the polls in holland most people still support the law and the strict measures but of course when we see unemployment rise we see where bankruptcy is there will probably be a point where people say ok no more and something you really seem st of course and it will only increase as long as we we don't find a way to to to live or if you with with a virus. a pandemic taking on a political dimension in america with officials using the issue to score political points ahead of tuesday's vote on this later in the program.

the route between france and the muslim world over freedom of expression and well it is escalating with both anti french and anti muslim sentiments intensifying its own country's leaders are doubling down on what's become a very undiplomatic spat. he said look i understand and respect that people might be shocked by the caricature was but i will never accept that someone can justify physical violence because of them i will always defend my country's freedom to speak to write think and draw so you can see the country the teach the world about human rights and democracy and islamophobia is in the food the fight needs to be put up against to move them sentiment today just as a battle was waged against and to some it is more in the wake of the whole cause. a lot there's a muslim majority countries revolt against france's treatment of muslims protests have spread across the world along with boycotts of french products the anger was heightened by emmanuel mccraw tough comments against islam following the beheading

of a paris teacher who had shown his class caricature was that the prophet mohammed also become the motive for a series of attacks on french soil. we are at war against terrorism terrorism can always strike there is no 0 risk and the state is doing its utmost to protect the french people passing the french demand

justice who want these people to be deported to their country like we are in a country that has witnessed atrocities great teachers being beheaded priests having less throats slit people are beheaded in a church that's not france and even if we take in all possible security measures we have been able to come in with a knife to do is deadly deed 0 risk does not exist. there are i think 40000 churches in france we could put a 1000000 and a half soldiers there but that would not change the problem we counted someone who wants to kill someone else many countries especially in the middle east are taken measures against terrorists for knife attacks. we discussed the worsening conflict with our guests on a regional council for the national party in france a chris phillips former head of britain's counter-terrorism security office and mohamed schiff it the chief executive of britain's around the downed foundation. the president a french president was very right to confirm that we stand for

a secular state and for the freedom of speech in the secular state of france religion is seen as an opinion we need to address radical islam in france and we are in a war against radical islam and i don't think mr micro is going far enough you can never justify terrorism or violence of any sort so what is the issue with the president micro on his war in islam is that is the terminology that he's adopted which is and then murder has in which he tarnishes every single system and holds muslims responsible for the action of a small minority of terrorists nothing i actually heard from. it is really attacking islam and moderate muslims in france what what i think he's trying to do is say look we have a country here we have laws and regulations that we've built up over centuries and this is how this country works and actually go 3 minutes to have

a completely different view of how they want life to be and maybe separate into their own type of society. france is probably not for them we need to deport foreigners who preach islam on our grounds we have radical in moms preaching. against telegrams what you mean by that what i mean by that is by hate speech is against the western way of living against a securely way of living we have men not shaking women's hands we have most preaching for separate swimming 0 is we have young girls going being told to put on the veil this is not what we are listening to certainly the pen is approved but it is still not is there nothing to take place to stop tonight is to be and talking about you know what you talking about you just sound like as if you're talking from the national fruit and here gender of the far right we as muslims recognize we have a problem there are. people want some meets i said this there's

a problem with people who are involved in terrorism he want to bring people decent people who are against terrorism come together let's do that we'll just do away with this rhetoric that we're hearing tonight mr shafiq you oughta know that many mosques in france are preaching and saying that the laws of the of the qur'an are superior to the laws of france which maurice please no i have no answer for you and i didn't know any of you oh that's your father francis crick what about your colleagues in the far right what about the colleagues in the far right not a single word about the far right near nazis far right extremists or which is totally out of kilter carbery that your shows are just focused on demonizing a whole community we all feel the same very strange that need to be dealt with the police are having to deal with the rise in right wing stream ism but at this moment today we're talking about people being beheaded jews and basilicas and things of course because france that's the issue that france is having to deal with at this

moment let's be consistent let's take on the narrative of terrorists but don't do that the expense of innocent muslims around the world we are poor terrorism but we also want the right you know for our boys to be heard in these countries are not free not to be attacked or without speaking tonight france is a country where all religions can peacefully live together and i live together with millions of muslims i have many muslim friends who are and latent muslims and whom i adore we can exist all together it felt about the condition that our traditions and laws of secularism are respected. but the u.s. presidential election looming health care experts are questioning the candidate's approach to dealing with the pandemic dr anthony found che director of the national institute of allergy and infectious diseases they taper 1000 joe biden's starts and it appears the pandemic is being politicized for electoral gains here's our senior correspondent live with more. 2020 was going to be trumps year

stock markets breaking records the highest employment rate in a decade and he'd finally absolve themself of any ties to russia it was going so well nobody you know except one country can be held accountable for what happened it was ease in america's achilles heel the health care system paid health care where people can be billed hundreds of thousands of dollars for hospitalization and we're talking here about a pandemic this was a system wide collapse they couldn't even agree on how to count the dead and he said we're in deep the world is and we need to act it was failure from the get go while much of the world hunkered down shut borders went into quarantine the us choose to ignore it the virus is just another flu official said had officials urged people to potentially sacrifice their lives so the economy

could keep running let's get back to work let's get back to living let's be smart about it and those of us who are 70 plus what will take care of ourselves but don't sacrifice the country reality he to whom hod what emergency ward cartoons were lined with beds when hospitals had to pack bodies into freezer trucks because the morgues were full worse and worse and worse until even trump fell ill and his opponents his opponents saw the pandemic saw all the mistakes as a miracle but a tremendous opportunity we're just so lucky we have to use it well that is god's gift to the last. instead of uniting america the pandemic divided there were protest against everything for mosques against mosques for shut down again shut down for trump against trump against china against democrats now the democrats are politicizing the coronavirus you know.

they're politicizing it we did one of the great jobs you see house president drew from doing to go home. he's given up he's quitting when you couldn't your family could in america of course the democrats didn't do any better look at new york which ranks 10th in the world by hoover deaths among countries as many as in all of france or in all of spain whatever they now say however better they claim they could have handled this pandemic they didn't good news in the sense that it may not be as serious an illness in the vast majority of people that that's something that we'd want to see we have heard a lot about the coronavirus spread at any emergency room doctor and he or she will tell you that it's the common flu that's concerning them if they are positive and they didn't know they were positive they're found by surveillance that means that

they weren't that sick the vast majority of people aren't going to get sick from this and this nonsense has continued for the whole year states shutting down and reopening based not on infection statistics but political affiliation a week of arguing between the reds and the blues about stimulus about couvade relief for ordinary folk they even managed to politicize the one thing that will end this the vaccine exchanges are already in the final stage. joe budden vaccine. fear is putting a little at risk are literally doing it for politico. the reason is it's very foolish if the doctors tell us that we should take it i'll be the 1st in line to take it absolutely but if donald trump tells us i said to him that we take it i'm not taking it is a spectacle of absurdity the coosa the election we got the more ridiculous it became they were arguing not about who to vote for her but about how to do the

actual voting democrats people to malin their votes while republicans are in their boots to go vote in person pandemic you're getting tired of the pandemic on. you turn on c.n.n. just saw the cover coverage of the 10 democratic coverage of the town you know why they're trying to talk everybody out of voting people aren't buying it see a dumb bastard stood idly and did what could only be described as monumental acts of duplicity and hypocrisy they would warned each other but also politicize the pad demick the same people that brought you all of these the bungled response the in a name celts and accusations had the gall to say this this is become a political thing and that's sort of crazy that it's become a political thing this is not

a time to score political points through baseless commentary it is a time for facts unfortunately it's become very clear the democrats are more interested in keeping the coronavirus as a political issue than actually fighting the virus we all know about the memes about 2020 what a catastrophe it's been and it has but no matter who wins this election no matter how they win they will inherit a country riddled with division and infection a population seeking tod of politicians and duplicity for many this isn't an election about picking the better president it's an election about making sure that the other guy loses. along with the pandemic another issue is dominating headlines in america the face of imminent foreign interference the less attention is being paid to how other oxes like social media giants influence the vote meanwhile approach women's group on facebook was removed at the weekend without any notice or

explanation artie's taylor takes a closer look at just how much sway social media companies could end up having over this election. even be a us election of someone what's an imagining we know that there are people 'd you know overseas the timing is the iranians the russians others who would like to interfere with our democracy or the american people need to know what the russians are doing in this case and the american people believe that they should decide who the next president is not the latter or putin you know it's china we know it's russia russia is active late 24 seventh's interest in our elections back in 2016 when the unthinkable happened and the star of the apprentice won the highest seat in the land social media giants got a serious scolding accused of letting so much russian descent from ation slip through the pages that hillary clinton never even stood a chance you can tell them what stories they can publish american people what

reporters like and here is that what you think that people don't trust you i agree that we don't trust you are about a 100 years foreign forces have been trying to influence us policy and us elections now they're on to your platforms mr going to see who the hell elected and to avoid having his uncomfortable face become a meme again in 2020 mugs up about did a full 180 and went from everyone welcome to you'll disinvite it we start preparing people now if someone tries to prematurely declare victory whether it's in a presidential election or announce the context of the label to that post i think it's important to have extra restrictions were going to block new political issues in the last week of the campaign labelled block restrict more like was lifted from a how to guide on censorship then the policy of a platform built for communication not to be outdone though twitter also said it will now be flogging and removing any tweets with misleading information especially

if that end goal is to make people suspicious of elections and when it comes to deciding what counts as misleading well there's only one. jury very sensitive is the ultimate deciders of what is right and wrong and true and false in the world was thought about might be sensitive to being the sole content shape but social media platforms new found love of the removed parts and has left them batting off accusations that when it comes to some they're really not that sensitive at all big checks out to get conservatives but in true 2020 fashion no one is happy because on the other side of the aisle democrats including presidential hopeful joe biden think that are a bit hard done by 2 i've never been a big zuckerberg from i think he's a real problem congressional democrats have just released a bumper $439.00 page report slamming tech giants for playing a greedy game of monopoly and even included

a nice little section at the end on how to move towards breaking up their empires an idea that republican counterparts also quite like 2020 never ceases to amaze facebook has made history by bringing together the reds and the blues and by not getting a single like. as fighting in a go no care about qantas a 6 week volunteers are coming forward from both sides of the conflict the 3 decade long dispute between armenia and azerbaijan over the region still violence erupt in september the signs have been trading accusations of attacks at civilian casualties and destruction the armenian diaspora in israel is calling for national unity. like most armenians when the war began we were all glued to our phones following the news and had this helpless feeling useless feeling and so when the war started and there were calls to return to their homeland we he did that all come and help

our brothers and sisters fighting we currently do have a new wave of rest. because we are alone in this fight we are up against a tremendous task to overcome the enemy bombardments both civilian infrastructures and civilian towns but we shall overcome and we are overcome coming to it with the unity that you see. in the streets of armenia and also. if the enemy has a rage on thought that they would break us with this aggression against the armenian people where they were awfully wrong it has had the opposite effect we are more united than ever and it is in that spirit of togetherness that we will win and we will overcome these times of crisis for our nation. although carob i can't

internationally recognised as part of azerbaijan is populated mainly by ethnic media and i think spies made a great 3 times but surely all of the each deal the truce was violated by both sides the fighting has all this build beyond the disputed territory with the sorry cities also being hit prompted many of the by johnnie's to offer help. my wife wanted to stop me from volunteering but my france and i signed up a new way on september the 27th of the gross provocation by a mean year we launched a military offensive to free our lands and after my wife were usually doesn't pay any attention to the news started to follow the vans and she fully supported me i can't comprehend how the conflict hasn't been solved for 30 years i was watching my son grow up and he started to ask questions and i couldn't answer them it all has to stop we're hopeful even sure this confrontation won't drag on for years more like the previous one and terrible i think this war will soon be over with.

nationalists when my relatives found out about me volunteering they took it very well that everyone is understands the situation and sense they're close ones to war with fright i have friends acquaintances and colleagues who are fighting and care about at the moment hopefully this one dragged on because no one needs war. as spanish judge has dropped his accusations that russia played a key role in catalonia political crisis by offering military support to separatists the official had claimed the mosque a pledge to provide the region's president with 10000 soldiers in 2017 to fight the catalan independence. my.

media reports are incomplete you need to add 2 zeros to the number of soldiers. i. might just be pietrusza doraine german syndrome how would russia transport $10000.00 troops to spain and why would moscow want to do this to kidnap messi the claim that russia offered $10000.00 troops to catalonia to support his independence

from spain is truly insane in the implausible sense. 2 pathetic her words and the battalion of much russia could all see. well those are the headlines here on r.t. international this morning and join us again in 30 minutes for the latest.

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