well i'm sure that's true. that's really very. least 7 people are reported dead in a shooting near a synagogue in central vienna which has been declared a terror attack. also protests and sweep them looked him while the against the french president's crackdown on hardline islamic after a series of terrorist attacks i guess cables that you saw in the growing rift. region is that we hope for terrorism but we also want the right for all. these countries on the street. how they want to just be you. know trying to cope that advisor is forced to apologize for giving an interview to

ought to be up to being rounded on by the mainstream media has got at this with brown today russian propagandist for warning against tough containment measures. the argument is undeniable the lockdowns are killing people. bringing you the big stories of the day this is out international a very warm welcome from myself and the whole team here in moscow while we start with breaking news from 7 people are reported dead in a shooting near a synagogue in the city center also at the same time a separate hostage situation in a restaurant has been reported police all still searching for the attackers and also some people to stay off the streets the incident has been declared a terror attack well we're going to cross live now to peter all of us who is in but then he's covering this for us peter we know this is

a developing in fact an ongoing situation but what do we know specifically. there are a lot of reports out there at the moment i think it's well worth sticking to what the official statements are so far because reports that are coming from local media at the scene as as well as social media are painting a very different picture is what we know from the austrian authorities so far is a health ministry of health spokesperson has said that 3 people have been taken to hospital suffering from injuries an interior ministry spokesperson says that a police officer is in a serious condition after having been shot with a rifle now some of the videos that have been circulated online paints a horrific picture of an ongoing situation that is still a credibly unclear as to what has happened it was thought so at one point that this

had been an attack on a a synagogue in the austrian capital. choose the president of the local jewish community has said that the synagogue itself also the jewish community center were closed at the time it seems that this shooting has taken place on the street outside now we've also seen videos and heard reports from those that are in bars and restaurants nearby people have been locked in there and police are still searching still carrying out an active manhunt it's on loan how many people took part in this particular attack the interior ministry have said that this is either a terror attack or a rampage is how they described it now sebastian cortes the austrian chancellor is currently chairing a meeting of the emergency committees and you can see some of the videos that have been circling online now they paint a horrific picture one of them in particular which shows a police officer. shot after confronting one gunman is

particularly distressing images that are are out there of what happened on monday evening. we are trying to get a better picture of exactly what's happened they said at the moment the health ministry there are only confirming that 3 people had been taken to the hospital police saying the. people there has been injuries encouraging people to stay off the streets in central vienna this is very much an ongoing incident an ongoing investigation to find out what has happened well pete thanks for bringing us up to say i'm sure we're returning to you throughout the course of the evening as more information that comes to light. now we're going to crow live to karen can use of her as former minister of foreign affairs now karen i want to ask you just 1st off what's your initial reaction to all these reports of the shooting. well 1st of all. and proceed to all the families it's shock i mean when

i go to find out what text messages from different brand. new martin i want to go. it's a it's a shock about what is going on because we don't yet know what's followed tonight and what exactly it's all about what my 1st impression is it's not cooperation and it looks more like an orchestrated i would say on the group it's karma rather well prepared operation even still. when you need my close you locked down people are not fools to be in the street after 8 o'clock anymore but it seems to be orchestrated i want to also ask you your local media so claiming the shooting happened near a synagogue now let's look back at what's been happening over the past couple of

days and weeks we've seen for example how a knee on that was a shooting attack on a greek orthodox priest we also saw those washed in the basilica. nice being attacked do you think it's a coincidence that we're seeing perhaps may be jewish people targeted. people who were targeted in france where churchgoing was raised as you mentioned in the case and attacking me and that apparently it all started 1st talking to synagogue in yemen which is which is rather well guarded because it as being the target of terrorist attacks already back to the 980 s. . it's a fairly well guarded this straight. apparently i mean it's really too early to say anything about the motivation but yes the 1st talking because we speak well as a hostage taking as your colleague has already reported in another district to 1st

target apparently was really the temple to synagogue. we also just talked about the way the auster deals with terrorist attacks you could say that also has been quite fortunate and that it has managed to avoid serious incidents particularly and really and modern history do you think the police and the authorities are ready for something like this. hj well i think. the police especially. been trained here it's not only that trained on the national level. there's a rather. into service agency corporation but of course this is something. if it continues and we see more techs popping up in the end or another part of last year that seems to be excluded. and it's a different it's a different quality. i also want to just look at the why it's our picture here

because as we were talking about the attacks in france not just a knee all we had nice we had paris as well as the absolutely gruesome beheading of samuel patty and. do you think that more fronts increased its terror level we know but do you think this is not just a french problem this is actually an e.u. wide problem. with it is that it's a larger broader because. we know was looming attacks that you preempted. tool efficient police. thanks to last really. identification of potential terrorists or you cannot preamp each and every attack but to. index case carry the do. to detect simply have them. go overseas saying also in recent days we're going to show hope help us later about this heightened tension and a lot of hostility from the muslim world towards my new or mock role when he came

out and defended sort of the freedom of speech he defended the caricature as a prophet mohammed what i want to ask you is do you think in visit this wider fallout something that potentially we obviously don't know this is speculation but a kind of a wave of terror that could extend beyond france's borders. what you have seen in france where when you may compare it now to the to the ongoing massacre that is aren't happening in the end it is it's of a different quality we had in france or the reason there is attacks but as far as we know right now from what is investigations people acting on their rather isolated level yes they had. was a kind of social media corporation but my 1st feeling and i see it from what is

happening right now here in yanna it's it seems to be more chris treated it seems to be a larger group it's not just one person and maybe his brother and brother in laws are acting here and there it's a bit more and i would need between what has happened in france and today indiana we have seen over the last 25 years a rise in terrorism. the russian federation various public transport systems where harshly attacks require a member of their. musical theater in moscow or november 2003 so it's the list is long it's long all over europe stretching from from moscow to all . railway station in 2000 floor i dodge up and it's it's nothing new we all know that it can happen each and everywhere but of course when it down

happens it still comes as a shock and it always gains in your momentum and it's a kind of quality we have seen through all sort of liberation organizations for all over the world to the middle east when they started debt terrorism in the sixty's and seventy's there was a programmatic again. behind it they wanted to get something you have seen over the last decade. or glow kind of needlenose them it's just lying loons for the sake of violence there's little to detect in terms of program it's really just the bolt reading yours reading tarot. we also mentioned how this is the 1st night of the curfew or i want to ask you this do you think the pandemic could be exploited for these kinds of attacks obviously the government is so focused on the hospital and resources on making sure people are staying safe maybe they let their guard down in

other areas and see where we're going and watch them and i think it's if if if you put yourself into the shoes of anybody you can learn something like that to me as you rightly pointed out exploit such a situation in terms of attention sources. public services security services having to deal with care on time. with lockdown. yes i could imagine that your question was pointing out one of to deeper problems. and i also want to ask you we know that this is now it seems rob that there are so many conflicting reports that it's a coordinated attack potentially a hostage situation in a restaurant then we've got this we've got one attacker allegedly has been injured then we've got another one who's still on the run how difficult is it for forties to get a handle on a situation that maybe they don't comprehend the scale off yet. then apply

them to fire and penetrate such a milieu is difficult it's much more difficult to penetrate many of those which. left wing right wing extremists when i think back off the terrorist activities in germany and italy in the might in seventy's eighty's you could get connection people police forces to penetrate this kind of troops where you have to deal with this kind of radicalize groups it's a different story because it's very difficult to to luke root people in order to really get into the 1000000 and if there is something that i may add from what i remember also from my own lecture us and british things that i have been doing. terrorism over the last few years was it before becoming a minister let us there in mind that it's now in the 2020 deaths and number of

people who are imprisoned arrested back in 2014 back in 2015 because they where on the way for instance to fly jihadist action into syria they wanted to try and. and they were preempted to do so will come down to they were put into prison the radicalized maybe themselves even more and some of them have been released here and there are all over the european union so this is something that several terrorism experts also over the past week you weeks have been pointing out that it's an animal it's a mix of their religious factors that as i said is 180 something up with new quality teachers and that's the 1st from walk we have seen back in 2015 back in 2 results and 56 still the list is only getting along well more complex more gruesome. and finally what i just want to ask you regard to obviously we

know that this has been the interior ministry has said that this a terrorist attack but we don't know if that was religiously motivated whether there are ideological implications that has not been ascertained yet but i want to ask you generally about how origins deal with terror attacks we know that there are people on watch yes but in your opinion your experience obviously as someone who's been an government and knows it from the inside is enough being done can more be done and what is what is that if so. it's a continuous difficult time roll call. in terms of you strike that balance and this is a topic that we have been discussing. whether it was in academia on politics at least ever since 911-2001. how can you strike a balance and in austria the balance being struck in a different way from the united kingdom them. both from the russian federation it's a. also maybe for the reason they're saw this far on t.v.

tonight over the last 3 decades we have been really wanting to show that we were not in the limelight we were definitely not subject number one target like france but certainly a really complex issue and not reiterating what you said of course our thoughts are with those who are suffering many thanks that was caring for form austrian minister of foreign affairs thanks for taking the time to speak to us in your movie. where the shooting in austria comes as france is dealing with a spate of violent attacks of its own in the last few weeks the french president has announced a clamp down on radical islam following a wave of terrorist incidents and it sparked a war of words with turkey. if i spoke with what 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 the lead on islamophobia and xenophobia a fight needs to be put up against to move them sentiment today just as the battle was waged against and to some it isn't in the wake of the holocaust. along with turkey muslim nations including pakistan and bangladesh have called for a boycott of french products that had been major rallies in those countries and also in yemen with the french flag and satellite now this comes after the french government shut down muslim aid groups on a major mosque following a series of stoppings and shootings. that.

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 legs so 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 have been able to come in with a knife to do his deadly deed 0 risk does not exist you know 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. on r.t. we discussed this was an in conflict with a number of aga. 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 kron is really

attacking. 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. francis probably not for them we need to deport foreigners who preach islam on our grounds we have radical in mom's preaching. against us and also rans what you mean by that are what i mean by that is they 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 are listening to certainly the penn. vet is

a lot is there nothing to take place to stop tonight is to be and i'm not talking about you know what are you talking about you just sound like as if you're talking from the national front i'm here gender of the far right we as muslims recognize we have a problem there. 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 put this 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 least please no i have no answer for you and i don't know any of you oh that's your father has restricted 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 your vocabulary that just shows you're just focused on demonology the whole community we all feel the same really the streets that need to be dealt

with and the police are having to deal with the rise in 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 of terrorists but don't do that at 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 to be attacked in the way as slight 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 at france of the condition that our traditions and loss of secularism are respected. one of the headline story donald trump said 5000 kopechne 1000 has apologized for giving an interview to us to our team after a wave of criticism from mainstream media outlets speaking on going underground

scott at their flag the use of lockdowns to contain the spread of the virus. dr house has been one of the one of will go down as an attic failure of our policy by people who refused to accept they were wrong were wrong words used to exact they were wrong the didn't know they didn't care and became a frenzy of stopping cold like 980 says at all costs and those costs are massive and what's happened here is that the argument is undeniable a lot of downs 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 logic coming from c.n.n. . they went absolutely nuts saying how can 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. adler's did it on his own without seeking approval from white house senior aides have raised concerns that atlas would it be on the russian outlet the scots atlas is having an interesting week here he is on the russian propaganda network occy which casually opens the segment with some facts about u.s. imperialism when he was 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 who are the democrat functionaries officials appeared about t. to talk about you know various topics regarding the bad demick the economy foreign relations and suddenly when this guy trump of trump follow a close adviser of trump appears on r.t.

all hell breaks loose mind. election and everybody should to squeeze every little bit of a. advantage that they can out of the situation they managed to successfully you know to get him to back down and apologize for a reason you didn't interview without seeing was on a with registered foreign agents i regret doing the interview and apologize for learn whistle to be taken advantage of when 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 no 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 even bigger than from you know even the economy. so his views were challenged by action retards you know that the democratic 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 certainly. reporting out not. because of 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 you or 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 numerous enormous damage to the economy the social 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 themselves of any ties to russia it was going so

well nobody you know except one country can be held accountable for whatever. and it was easily 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. it was failing 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 pad demick 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 that there were protest against everything for mosques against mosques for shut down again shut down for trump against tribe against china against democrats the democrats are politicizing the coronavirus you know.

they're politicizing it we did one of the great jobs you see house preserved from doing to go home. he's given up. on you couldn't your family couldn't america of course the democrats didn't do any better look at new york which ranks 10th in the world by 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 after any emergency room doctor he or she will tell you that it's the common flu it's concerning that 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 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. fear is putting a little. literally doing it for political reasons it's very foolish if 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 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.