thinks. we dare to ask. donald trump the covert advisor is forced to apologize for giving an interview to r t after being rounded on by the mainstream media outlets was branded a russian propagandist for warning against tough containment measures. argument is undeniable the lockdowns are killing people. shutdowns are met with civil unrest across europe following a record surge in copa confection. and protests sweep the muslim world against the french presence crackdown on hardline islam after a series of terrorist attacks our guest give us their views on the growing. region

as opinion we'll poll terrorism but we also want the right. to give these countries a. previous time a completely different view that's how they want to be. watching our to international bring your live news update this hour welcome to the program. donald trump's advisor uncovered 1000 has apologized for giving an interview to r.t. after a wave of criticism from mainstream media outlets speaking on going underground scott atlas slammed the use of lockdowns to contain the spread of the virus the lockdowns has been one of the one of them will go down as an epic failure. by people who refuse to accept they were wrong were wrong words used stuff they were wrong you know the. they didn't care and became

a frenzy of stopping calling 980 says at all costs and those costs are massive and what's happened here is that the argument is undeniable the lockdowns are killing people this is a very controversial fellow his views are controversial he has a lot of power has a lot of enemies in the united states and what happened when his opponents and we can call them that because this is largely the criticisms logically coming from c.n.n. . they went absolutely nuts saying how they appear now on the eve of the elections on a russian propaganda channel senior white house official tells me dr scott atlas did not have approved from the white house before going to see adler's did it on his own without seeking approval from white house senior aides to raise concerns that that was would it be on the russian outlet the scots at least is having an interesting week here he is on the russian propaganda network occy which casually

opens the segment with some facts about us imperialism on the heels of an interview with russian propagandists talk to school to supporters and radiologist who has the president's ear spitefully sub tweets dr anthony fauci an actual expert on infectious diseases you know there was never this sort of outrage when adam schiff war or other democrat functionaries officials appeared about t. to talk about you know various topics regarding bad demick the economy foreign relations and suddenly you know when this guy a trump of trump follow a close adviser of trump appears and r.t. all hell breaks loose we've got a bear in mind almost election time and everybody should to squeeze every little bit of advantage that they can out of the situation they managed to successfully know to get him to back down and apologize for i recently did an interview with r.t. and was unaware their registered foreign agent. i regret doing the interview and

apologize for a loan whistle to be taken advantage of well especially apologize to the national security community who's working hard to defend us this was a tough interview tough and rough there's no mollycoddling new frills about it these were challenging questions his views as i said very controversial avoid in the he's against the locked out he's against shutdowns economic restrictions he wants the economy wide open he says that the damage from from a shut down economy will be the bigger than from you know even the economy. so his views were challenged by action right that you know that the democrat leaning mainstream media says it's coronavirus that could spell the end of the trump presidency and i think there's a gross distortion that is certain. reporting you know i'm not. the risks to younger people is extremely low the university of washington study that says there will be 500000 dead by february kind of contradicting the your your

lack of correlation between cases and deaths here the situation with covered in the united states is absolutely catastrophic the highest number of infected in the world it enormous enormous damage to the economy the sushil fabric of the united states and this is something i put together a report on on how these elections aren't so much about the economy and so much about foreign policy there now more than anything else about the pandemic 2020 was going to be trumps year stock markets breaking records the highest employment rate in a decade and he'd finally absolve himself 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 either 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 u.s. choose to ignore it the virus is just another flu official said had officials urged old 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 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 trump doing to go home. he's given up he's quitting when you. know your family has quit 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. are already in the final stage.

joe budden 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've taken i'm not taking it is a spectacle of absurdity the coosa to 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 mark you're getting tired of that then democrat. you turn on c.n.n. the saw the cover covered covered 10 democratic coverage of the town you know why they're trying to talk everybody out of voting people aren't buying it see dumb

bastards stood idly and did what could only be described as monumental acts of duplicity and hypocrisy they warned 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 salt 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. for more on this we bring in live geo political analyst patrick having said that as we heard major outlets rounded on trump's coveted visor scott atlas for daring to speak to r.t. on the eve of an election now i think i can safely assume that their reaction was not a surprise to you no not at all not at all i mean from a public relations point of view is probably a mistake by scott atlas because it's just a reality that anybody connected with the u.s. government going on r.t. is going to get the 3rd degree and the opposition is going to use that as much as they can so i mean if i was caught out as i would have apologized i would have just let the media burn itself out and this would probably get washed away within 24 hours because in fact it is on the eve of the election so but at the end of the day

it does bring a lot of attention to what he actually said and his views on lockdowns for instance are very much mainstream in the sense that a lot of the top epidemiologists in the world including the center for evidence based medicine in the u.k. they are very much on board with everything that he's saying right now so it's not a fringe his position is not a fringe view by any means about interview ongoing undergrown lasted a full half hour but he later claimed in his tweet that he didn't know what our team was and that he had actually been taken advantage of does that sound plausible to you. well like i said is probably. unwise p.r. fumble on his part but at the end of the day he's not a politician he is a public health administrator and he works in the medical industry with regards to public health and policy and he's more from an academic background so he's not he's

not a politician so i and plus he's been shut out of every major mainstream media outlet bar one or 2 like possibly fox he might even be too hot for fox i'm not sure but because of that people like scott atlas are not getting their voice heard so when when their people get contacted say come on our show you know he's very eager to come on he's been on even alternative media programs in the last couple of months so you know he just wants to get his voice out so you know probably over looked at from a p.r. standpoint that it was in our t.v. show but you know what what can you do at the end of the day it's going to get probably give him a little more attention the ad hominum as well just the ad hominum you can't avoid those in the way you're touching on earlier what he actually said and interview calling lockdowns an epic failure of public policy saying they're actually killing people i think any of his message is going to get get across or is it all just going to get buried and the outrage. well actually you know scott is talking about

lock down deaths and so is professor sinatra group trust so is karl head again at oxford university you know some of the top scientists in the world at harvard as well stanford so you know this this idea or the orthodoxy that was sort of mainstream orthodoxy in terms of science and public policy back in april in march things have moved on substantially since then and if you look at the opinion polls in the united states and especially states where there were legal challenges to lockdowns i'm talking about michigan also in pennsylvania where the courts overturned the governor's calls for lockdowns this issue is on the ballot this year this is locked down in covert policies even mask mandates are on the ballot this is a wedge issue all like abortion like guns like mitt many other wedge issues that sometimes determine close elections in the united states in history now you have

won a new one in 2020 it's locked down in covert policy so the majority the american people it seems in terms of swing states it seems like they're leaning against locked down and they want to open up their economy and as the data comes in we realize that it's not a general risk to the population according to all the major data sets even from the c.d.c. in the world health organization that a more targeted approach is more prudent which is what scott atlas was saying this is a main this is becoming a mainstream view in the united states and it will be reflected probably at the ballot box tomorrow i've been speaking with geo political analyst patrick hanks and thank you for joining us on the program today welcome. after months of relative normality countries across europe are going back into lockdown following a surge in corona virus infections his numbers have doubled in the past 5 weeks to reach 10000000 and this time around the containment measures are being met with strong public resistance.

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 called said she wants to try and get infections of

covert 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 is bars restaurants beauty salons james that are paying the price they're the ones that are going to be shutting down in the attempt to do this however in bringing in these measures some politicians here in germany were caught breaking them already. the focus should now be on protecting the population and at such time when the 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 to take out well new covert 19 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 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 or one country that has seen a big rise in the number of cases is russia 18665 new 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 are not 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 may said it 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. we heard from journalist

and economist paul b. a think he believes some countries need to rethink their priorities when dealing with the pandemic as an 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 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 seems too much could 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 the 1st lot now with a relatively mild summer did the worst was over but now we started a 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 strict measures but of course when we see the unemployment rise we see more bankruptcies there will probably be a point where people say ok no more and that's something you really seems trees are forcing the only increase as long as we we don't find a way to to to live or deal with with a virus. the french president has infuriated many and the muslim world with his clampdown on radical islam following a wave of terrorist attacks that sparked a war of words with turkey. 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 there we see the countries that teach the world about human rights and democracy take the lead in islamophobia and is in

a phobia 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 is more in the wake of the holocaust. and along with turkey a muslim nations including pakistan and bangladesh have called for a boycott of french products arab and major rallies in those countries are us all young men but the french like set alight that's after the french government shut down muslim groups and a major mosque accused of inciting extremism as measures have been ramped up since the beheading of a teacher and parents who showed her students caricature of the prophet muhammad and they follow a series of terrorist incidents in france i. think

. 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. don't want the french demand justice we 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 less throats slit people are beheaded in a church that's not france and even if we take in all possible security measures peter's been able to come in with a knife will do is deadly deed 0 risk does not exist yourself 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 have taken measures against terrorists for knife attacks. we discussed the worsening situation 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 the urges in which he tarnishes every single muslim and holds muslims responsible for the action of a small minority of terrorists nothing i actually heard 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 then 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 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 think it is certainly the pen. it 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 among some it's 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 are superior to the loss of france which nice please no i have no answer for you and i don't love 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 can brewery that your shows are just focused on demonology the 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 of right wing extremism but at this moment today we're talking about people being beheaded jews and basilicas and things of course of course 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 the terrorist but don't do that the expense of orderly 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 in the way it has been 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 lated muslims and whom i adore we can exist all together at france under the condition that our traditions and loss of secularism are respected. that's been our breakdown of the day's top headlines for this hour thanks for tuning in wherever you may be.

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