worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. and to lock down protests shake you up as it passed is 10000000 a can of time to cope with cases and imposes fresh social restrictions. deepening crisis between paris and the islamic world after france is wrong by religiously motivated terror attacks we discuss the issue with our guests. religion has an opinion we are for terrorism but we also want the right for all boards to be heard in these countries. where the u.s. is gearing up to vote in the presidential election key figures are using their last chance to swing the vote by politicizing the covert crisis.

a very warm welcome it's 9 am here in moscow and you're watching r.t. international with meaning. the number of covert 1000 cases in european countries has a past 10000000 with half the cases being confirmed in the last 5 weeks alone both states reimposition of lockdown measures is bringing frustration with many taking their anger out onto the streets.

kind of a case of so let's cross live now to our correspondent peter all of us for the latest peter good to see you. yes well here in europe we have 10 percent of the world's population 22 percent though all of covert 19 infections here in germany on monday we've entered into what's have been called lockdown lite a measure in which angle america has said she wants to get infections down by 75 percent the idea being that schools kindergartens as much of the economy as possible stays open at the expense of social contacts that means that theater is james other fitness clubs beauty parlors will all have to be closed down there's

also a limit on the number of people you can meet however some of the politicians that were instrumental in bringing in these new measures have been caught not paying attention to them themselves. the focus should now be on protecting the population and at such time when we're demanding so much from people politicians need to set an example.

well the covert 19 measures that have come into place here in germany mean that bars and restaurants will have to close for normal business they will be allowed to carry out operations that take out but the 3rd that came into play one bar in the linz political quarter particularly popular with politicians from the bundestag said that a number of key officials would be barred from entry this included angle and. all of shorts the vice chancellor and the mayor of michael miller saying that because they were putting in place these measures they were no longer invited there for a drink 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 ban us from doing our jobs we are adding those poll to blacklist

immediately. well new covert 19 measures being put in place across europe in france we saw them enter into a really strict new lockdown where pretty much all of the same measures that were in place in the spring up back in force similar measures taking effect in belgium on saturday night the british prime minister boris johnson announce that the u.k. will reenter a month long lockdown from thursday number of all the countryside the introducing new measures are expected to introduce new measures over the coming weeks when country that has seen a spike in 1000 cases but isn't introducing a full lockdown yet is russia we saw 18665 new infections on sunday in russia the number of dead has now gone past the 28000 mark there

however the plan at the moment isn't to introduce a full lockdown over 60 five's in russia are being told to stay at home if they can that's one of the most at risk groups those over the age of $65.00 also when it comes to nightlife that's remaining open in moscow and of the cities the mare of moscow said it's of yunnan has said that the q.r. code system that they've got in place which case anybody going to a bar or a nightclub can flush out on their phone and they can see if they've been in contact with anybody is working so far but should that change and they still see a rise in cases well the new measures could be put in place there as well that's how it looks across europe we can really expect well most measures to come into force here in germany we're calling it lockdown lite it's for 4 weeks it will be reviewed in 2 and we'll see how far it goes after that. thank you for the update piece on if i speaking life and the lead. and you have found economist paul but

nick believes that measures should focus on kick starting the economy. the economist i 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 going to 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 seems too much school i think and towards trying to avoid infections in europe yeah 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 lot now with the 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 know is 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 streets of course and it will only increase as long as we we don't find a way to to to live or if you were with a virus. pandemic taking on a political dilation in america with officials using the issue to score political points ahead of tuesday's vote won best later on in a program. around between paris and the muslim world over freedom of expression and religion is escalating in the wake of terror attacks in france where the negatives then cement intensifying on both sides the french president called the islands unacceptable while his turkish counterpart is crying xenophobia that a phobia. so if i suspect he said 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 right think and draw. so you see the countries the teach the world about human rights and democracy take the lead on islamophobia and xenophobia a fight needs to be put up against and to move them sentiment today just as the battle was waged against and to some it isn't in the wake of the holocaust. as a muslim majority countries revolt against france's treatment of muslims protests have spread across the world along with boycotts of french products they owned was heightened by a manual mccracken's tough comments against islam following the beheading of a paris teacher who had shown his class caricature of the prophet mohammad and that's 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 it on the french demand justice who want these people to be deported to their country or like we are in a country that has witnessed atrocities great teachers being beheaded priests having left 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 here 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 can take someone who wants to kill someone else many countries especially in the middle east have taken measures against terrorists for knife attacks. or we discuss the worsening conflict with our guests. the president a french president was very right too concerned 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 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 stem and holds muslims responsible for the action of a small minority of terrorists nothing i actually know from crum 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 midst who 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 mom's treating kleefisch is against islam or telegrams what you mean by that what i mean by that is by hate speech is against the western way of living against a security way of living and 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 a lot is there nothing to take place that's 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 don't want sound 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 but 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 a superior to the loss of france which needs please no i have no answer for you and i don't look. at your father as recreate what 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 guilt that just shows you just focused on demonology a whole community we all feel the same maybe the streets that need to be dealt with and the police are having to deal with the rising right where you dream is and but at this moment today we're talking about people being beheaded jews and basilicas and things of course of course france that the issue that france is having to deal with at this moment let's be consistent let's take on the narrative the terrorist but don't do that the expense of orderly innocent muslims around the world we uphold terrorism but we also want the right you know for our boys to be heard in these countries are moderate not to be attacked in the way as being 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 lighted muslims and whom i adore we can exist all together it fell out of that the condition that our traditions and loss of secularism are respected thank you for joining us here on

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in the death. or a made in the shallowness. join me every thursday on the alex i'm unsure and i'll be speaking to us of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. welcome back with the u.s. presidential election looming health care experts are questioning the candidate's approach to dealing with the pung demick dr anthony found she director of the national institute of allergy and infectious diseases sais he prefers joe biden strong's and it appears the pandemic is being politicized for electoral gains has all senior correspondent mark gal's diff with more. 2020 was going to be trumps year stock markets breaking records the highest employment rates in

a decade and he'd finally absolve themselves 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. 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 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. know 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 risque literally doing it for political. since 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 should 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. you're getting tired of the pandemic. and. it turned out to see if you 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 a lot of 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 to bases 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 todd of politicians and duplicity for many this isn't an election about picking the best a president it's an election about making sure that the other guy loses. along with the pandemic another issue is dominating headlines in america and the us fears of imminent of foreign interference though less attention is being paid to how other actors like social media giants to influence the vote meanwhile approach trump women's group on facebook was removed at the weekend without any notice or

explanation artie's it takes a closer look at just how much sway social media companies could end up having over this election. even be a us selection of someone what's on mad men 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 their pages that hillary clinton never even stood a chance you can tell them what stories they can publish or american people what

report like and here is that right you think that people don't trust you i agree 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 all disinvited 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 the goal is to make people suspicious of elections and when it comes to deciding what counts as misleading well there's only one john. jury very sensitive is having the ultimate deciders of what is right and wrong in true and false in the world while zuck 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 backing off accusations that when it comes to some they're really not that sensitive at all big checks out to get conservatives but in truth 2025 no one is happy because on the other side of the aisle democrats including presidential hopeful joe biden think that were a bit hard done by 2 i've never been a big zuckerberg front 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. i find to new going to care about qantas a sick the 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 those lines have been trading accusations of attacks 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. so when the war started and there were calls returned to the home and we are going to help our

brothers and sisters are we currently do have. you. because we are alone in this fight we are up against a tremendous task to overcome the enemy's boardman's of 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 or you know and also it. is the enemy as a ridge 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. well that care about the

internationally recognized as part of azerbaijan aids populated mainly by ethnic amini and as these fines mean a great 3 times but shortly after each deal the truce has violated by both sides the fighting has also spilled beyond the disputed territory with the very cities also being hit that's prompted many azerbaijanis to offer help. and i feel safe my wife wanted to stop me from volunteering but my friends and i signed up anyway on september the 27th of the gross provocation by mean year we launched a military offensive to free our lands enough to my wife are 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 care about i think this war will soon be over with nationalist women relatives found out about me volunteering they too could very

well let everyone in as abidjan understands the situation and sense their close ones to war with fright i have friends acquaintances and colleagues who are fighting and care about at the moment hopefully this all one drag on because no one needs war. and if you'd like to comment on any of our stories you can get in touch by following us on social media and even your comments that we're back at the top of the hour with the latest headlines see you there. the world is driven by a dream shaped by those. who

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