the logjam protests shake europe as it passes 10000000 confirmed covert cases and imposes fresh social restrictions. deepening crisis between paris and the islamic world after france is rocked by religiously motivated terror attacks we discussed the issue with our guest. religion. we are for terrorism but we also want the right for our voice to be heard if these countries are. completely. how they want to be. for the us gearing up to vote in the presidential election

a key figure is they using their last chance to swing the vote by politicizing the covert crisis. very good morning to you which tell i am here in moscow and you are watching r.t. international with me. the number of covert 1000 cases in european countries has surpassed 10000000 with half the cases being confirmed in the last 5 weeks alone but states reimposition of lockdown measures is bringing frustration with many taking their anger out onto the streets.

we've seen that demonstrations taking place across europe against measures that are being put in place to try and stop the spread of covert 19 europe 10 percent of the world's population 22 percent roughly of the world's kovac 19 infections here in germany where i'm speaking to you from we've just entered into what's been called lockdown light from monday angle a miracle said she wants to try and get infections of kovac 19 down by around 75 percent in germany and the way that they're going about doing that is trying to keep open as many schools kindergartens and elements of business as possible at the expense of social contact so it's the it says restaurants beauty salons.

that all paying the price they're the ones that are going to be shutting down and the attempt to do this however is bringing in these meshes some politicians here in germany were caught breaking them already. the focus should now be on protecting the population and as such time when the demanding so much from people politicians need to set an example.

for 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 to take account the 3rd that came into play one ball in the ins political quarters popular with politicians from the bundestag said that a number of key officials would be barred from entry this included angle in. all of shots the vice chancellor and the mayor of michael miller saying that because they were putting in place these measures they would no longer invite them 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 new covert 1000 measures are 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 for similar measures taking effect in belgium on saturday night the. prime minister boris johnson announced that the u.k. will be enter a month long lockdown from thursday number of all the country side the introducing new measures are expected to introduce new measures over the coming weeks or one country that has seen a big rise in the number of cases is russia 18665 you confirmed infections of covert 19 on sunday the number of dead in the country has now passed the 28000 mark there are no signs of a new full lockdown coming into place in russia however over 60 five's have been told to stay at home as much as possible those in the out risk category we know the

virus attacks those who are older much harder than it does the young but when it comes to things like night life in cities like moscow that remains open mess that is so beyond in the russian with the mayor of the russian capital is said that the q.r. code system that's being used to allow people into bars and nightclubs will continue but it may be under review should cases continue to rise. and then it taking on a political dimension in america with officials using the issue to score political points ahead of tuesday's vote more on this later on in the program. the round between paris and the muslim world over freedom of expression and religion is escalating in the wake of the terror attacks in france with negative sentiment intensifying on both sides the french president called the violence an acceptable one his turkish counterpart is crying is that a phobia. if i spoke he said look i understand and respect that people might be

shocked by the character choose 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 that teach the world about human rights and democracy take on islam a phobia and xenophobia a fight needs to be put up against and to move them sentiment today just as a battle was waged against and to some it isn't in the wake of the holocaust the last of the 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 a manual mccrone tough comments against islam following the beheading of a paris teacher which showing its class caricature of the prophet mohammad 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 them on 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 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. 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 are taken measures against terrorists for knife attacks. we discussed the worsening conflict with our guests. 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 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 heard from kron 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 goes extremists 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 preaching. 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 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 sound meets sceptics 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 preaching and saying that the laws of the of the qur'an are superior to the loss of france which nice please no i have no answer for you and i do not envy you oh that's your father yes 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're just focused on demonology a whole community we all feel the same very strange that need to be dealt with and 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 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 not free 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 latent 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 where the u.s. presidential election just around the corner we take a look at what role the pandemic could play in this election after prayer break were discussed this with r.t. host no we had better stay tuned for that. american media reach nearly every last step if you want to practice journalism again ideology trumps common sense reality and after the election how many voters will say not by president. the world is driven by a dreamer shaped by the person of those. who

dares thinks. we dare to ask. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to us of the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then. welcome back now with the u.s. presidential election looming health care experts all question that come the day approach to dealing with the pung demick dr anthony fowler director of the national institute of allergy and infectious diseases says he prefers joe biden stands on to

the pays the pandemic is big politicized for electoral gains his all senior correspondent 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 is 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. stead of uniting america the pandemic divided there were

protest against everything for mosques against mosques for shut down again shut down for trump against tribe 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. on 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 maxine's are already in the final stage. joe biden's entire vaccine. here is putting a little at risk are literally doing it for political reasons 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 and they're getting tired of that then democrats. turn on c.n.n. of the 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 him 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. well let's discuss the u.s. election further now with maria bhutto who joins me live in the studio he's an

aussie russian host and member of russia's civic chamber thank you for joining me in the studio this morning. donald trump's code advisor recently appeared on our channel and then apologize later for giving an interview to a foreign agent is there now a defacto censorship in the u.s. over where you can and can't speak well i don't know what is more discussed and for me in this situation on the one hand i understand him and the reaction is so bad and everybody is blaming you and he's afraid to harm someone so he start apologizing on the other hand is that america where people do not speak freely and when they do they have to apologize and they don't have enough strengths like as a man to make a stand and say yes i said this i did it so what so this is the weakness that is formed by this censorship and i think this is discussed in this is not the united states we imagine the to be and what i do believe in the future it's not going to

get better. it seems that in that interview the adviser made some valid points is it dangerous that he's not being allowed to speak freely to who he wants even on health issues that he's an expert it absolutely this is what the united states of america based on their constitution and on the free speech but you know just by talking that he's talking to the person they like and saying not the things they like generally they just start you know media wooleen and this is what we see he needs to apologise and take his words back well this is very dangerous because who decides what is normal and what is a normal to say this is not good. it's a huge week for the united states and for all people around the world that i was going to be trained on what the outcome of this election will be but how much freedom do you think the u.s. president has to change the country's course. well i am a pacifist i don't think that the president matters that much because what we see

is mostly like a shoal so the whole world is watching 2 candidates lead this very dirty campaign the you know they talk about different personal issues not about ideas not a bar the issues that do matter for the country but i don't think that the president actually matters that much because we saw on the bomb on trump every president every other president that he wants better relationships with russia about this too and he actually made certain steps to do that and what we see nothing because i think this is not the the president is not the key figure and we're talking about big money we're talking about military complex we're talking for those about these people who are actually interested to have wars and conflicts because people who fear russia or somebody else iran or china doesn't matter people who fear they are easy to control this is i think is the fact i was speaking of little or no a changed there's this obsession with interferon in american politics what's it all

about and is it ever going to end well this is very interesting because i was studying the american university cybersecurity issues and it's so convenient to take a cyber conflict and make an attribute in which is almost impossible actually to do and nobody can see it so you can claim whatever you like this is what they do they say well even before something happens they already start claiming that russia which i know iran is trying to break the elections there's no elections yet but they're still talking about it so i think this is a dangerous thing because you can mislead the public and this is what they do why do they do why do they do it because it's just you know it's convenient it's convenient for politicians so they can blame somebody for the mistakes that almost we are inside of the country they have a crisis over these republics and republicans and democrats and this is what they should be focusing on. they are pandemic situation but instead they try to take the

focus of public somewhere else and this is very easy to say that enemy somewhere across the hall and somewhere there make people scared and to control them i feel like almost every person i meet where they come from or where they live they have a preference over who they want to win in this election how about people in russia about russia as a whole who would they prefer to win this election you know i don't think that we have an expectation at this time last time i was trying because he was very walkable that he wants to restore to between the 2 countries and to me too so i saw that there would be a change but you know we have so much disappointment in our soul now look ok he claimed a lot of things but at the very end every single day the situation gets worse and russia now is in the american boogie man and russia russians today are the most hated nation in america and in the world so this is not normal and this is the the

world of hate that actually do you are in the terms term so i don't think you have a preference because i know when they absolutely support our foreign minister lavrov who says that it doesn't matter what the russians do or they don't want because they're going to get sanctioned we're going to get hated anyway and this is very sad because it's not so long time ago we were in the we're in the horrible war where different nation was hated and we hope that they will never see people divided by race and by nation but in fact this is exactly what we see today we've seen such a significant rise in unrest in division in the across the united states is a look current u.s. instability really that bad for the rest of the world as it is i would call the united states a spy for the world because of course the world economy. it's still the u.s. the still lead in them in china somewhere close but still of course the turbulence

the instability we're going to see and we see today so what they were they have or whatever russia has or whatever china has meaning if the country is a big player is going to affect the world and so i'm not sarcastic about what is going on the united states now though i could be what i survived and what i've been through in the united states but they don't want to be because whatever happens there we're going to see and this turbulence is not good for the whole world if you have somewhere in the explosion somewhere a conflict it's bad because i like american since people have in this conflict it really affects us too so i think i'm very sorry for the nation because it's so disruptive now and it's in such a pain over the problems they haven't solved for years and they're this is that was my one of my 1st words when they came back i said that's going to be a crisis because in the place they were in the jail i wore i saw what happens with

black people and they do have a reason for protest. and you mentioned you're a pessimist and this might influence the answer to the next question but do you expect much change in the u.s. off the for lection unfortunately i don't i think there are some of the the hate of russians is going to continue because it's very convenient to have somebody across the ocean to hate and i don't sing the american politics is going to be better because every single campaign that we see it's like they're the last one into southern 16 i was actually in the united states of the time and what i saw was like it's was really a terror attack but now it's really different in steroids and they're i don't like that because we they promote democracy. leave in 2 of the countries do we like this or not that's a different question but they do it so this is the example they grant to. the counties this is how everybody should leave well this isn't this is not

a democracy this is not the country where people actually can't even speak freely so i don't think it's a good and i do expect that they're going to have a lot of problems inside and i hope that they are not going to get to the civil war point i would expect this to happen well now we have been i thank you so much for joining the studio this morning we appreciate it and thank you for joining us here on r.t. international if you'd like to comment on any of our stories then do get in touch by following us on social media and you think all your comments that we're back at the top the hour. some control for a middle class for the night most of our very hardworking people who want to get ahead either have some some health issues or have some other trick about luck the

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