we'll see the success. of. an ongoing terror situation in the austrian capital with shootings at several locations including your synagogue several people have been killed and police are searching for at least one perpetrator. also protests sweeping the muslim world against the french president's crackdown on hardline islamic after a series of terrorist attacks our guests gave us their views on the growing rift. we'll call terrorism but we also want the right. if these countries on the streets . and.

adviser is forced to apologize for giving an interview to r t after being criticized by the mainstream media scott atlas was branded a russian propagandist for warning against containment measures. the argument is undeniable a lot chilling people. are broadcasting live to moscow this is our to international i'm sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us now we start with an ongoing manhunt in vienna at least one attacker is at large following gunfire in the austrian capital which starred near a synagogue several people have been killed 15 others are injured in gunfire that happened in 6 different locations austrian chancellor sebastian kurtz has called the violence a repulsive terror attack authorities are asking people to stay off the streets

here are some of the images of chaos. multiple gunmen opened fire at 6 different locations across the austrian capital colony hama the austrian interior minister has said that this is being investigated as a terror attack the austrian military has been deployed to the streets he has described the gunman as heavily armed and incredibly dangerous in fact the ongoing manhunt is due to the fight it's unknown exactly how many gunmen took part

in the shooting one of the perpetrators was confirmed to have been killed at the scene it's understood that at least one other was detained by the authorities however niihau medicine the hama the interior minister asking for people who have any mobile phone videos all of the the incidents of the shootings to send those to the police to there's a specific police web site that they can be uploaded to as part of the investigation there is a plea as well not to share those on social media now what we've heard for all my. the austrian chancellor is a condemnation of this attack he said the police will carry out decisive action against these hideous terrorist attack we've also heard from the french president. saying that. the people of france stood in grief with the people of austria we the french people share the shock and grief of the austrian people struck this

evening by an attack in the heart of their capital vienna. after france a friend of ours is attacked this is our europe our enemies must know who they are dealing with we won't surrender to anything the austrian president under find a bell and has said austria will continue to defend freedom and democracy he praised those emergency services who were on the scene almost immediately on monday evening after this shooting took place and also sent condolences to the families of those who've been caught up in this terror attack now when it comes to international reaction as well i said we heard from a manual maicon we've also heard from the for the spanish prime minister pedro sanchez he said that hatred will not bend our society europe will resist terror. are you got a fool in a who is a soprano of the vienna state our brother was an eyewitness to the violence. you

were in the in the cafe and the city center and then we heard some shootings and we were very scared of course and the men drove off these place and he started he started to. to scream everyone please come inside inside and we went to the 2nd floor we tried to hide ourselves and then when he became safer and empty on the streets we just we just ran away from there very fast to our friend's apartment which was and trant of these this place these scuffing and yes we are we are quite scared because my family my my daughter is in the other place in my apartment and i'm in there are going to my friends and we don't know when we can to leave it and when i can go home so it's it's really a very scary situation we also spoke to professor hines that from the university of

vienna he says the attacks are unexpected as austria has not seen any terror incidents in its recent history. i am leaving in this piece which. is close to the 1st place where this happened so i didn't have any immediate experience of that attacks of course you can hear and see cars and ambulances mean by. who was. going to the streets in boys but we don't really know what their motives. and. like you know it's time to sort of take over history and has been planned in the long run. at the beginning that produced was. never us because it's not really. extravagant and. you would expect.

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mostly he had just a few courteous. cultures. but more macabre trekkers and not. know what a lot of the conflict between the muslim community and. society of course. is. obvious about their heads cows and so on is just a total lie you know it's not that there is no use in. effect. the french president recently announced a clamp down on radical islam following a wave of terror incidents and it has sparked a war of words with turkey. if i speak he said i understand and respect that people might be shocked by the caricature but i will never accept that someone can justify

physical violence because of them i will always defend my country's freedom to speak to write think and draw. so we 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 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. along with it turkey muslim nations including pakistan and bangladesh have called for a boycott of french products there have been major rallies in those countries and also in yemen with the french flag set alight this comes after the french government shut down muslim aid groups and a major market following a series of stabbings assured us.

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. 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 fish in a church that's not france and even if we take in all possible security measures to be have been able to come in with a knife will do is deadly deed 0 risk does not exist york out 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. 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 it's a terminology that he's adopted produced 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. it is really attacking islam and moderate muslims in france what what i think he's trying to do is say look we have a country here we have laws and regulations that we've built up over centuries and this is how this country works and actually goes extremists 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 man's preaching. against islam what are the grounds what you mean by the what i mean by that is they hate speech is against the western way of living against a security way of living we have men not shaking women's hands we have most preaching for separate swimming o.-s. 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 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 front i'm here gender of the far right we as muslims recognize we have a problem there. people want some it's set 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 neo nazis far right extremists or which is totally out of guilt that your shows are just focused on the minority the whole

community we all feel the same very streets that need to be dealt with 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 speak a sister 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 moderate 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. donald trump's advisor on covert 1000 has apologized for giving an interview to our team after

a wave of criticism from mainstream media outlets speaking on it going underground scott atlas slammed the use of lockdowns to contain the spread of the virus. dr house has been one of the one who 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 986 at all costs and those costs are massive and what's happened here is that the argument is undeniable the lock downs are killing people this is a very controversial fellow his views are controversial he has a lot of power he 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 going to see adler's did it on his own without seeking approval from white house senior aides have raised concerns that that was 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 the 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 or other 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 we've got a bear in mind. election and everybody should to squeeze every little bit of a. advantage that they cab 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 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 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 of a 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 certainly. not. 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 new york 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 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 trump's 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 pandemic saw all the mistakes as a miracle but a tremendous opportunity we're just so lucky we have to use it well that is god's gift to the last. instead of uniting america the pandemic divided 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 treasured from doing they go home. he's given up he couldn't you couldn't your family couldn't america of course the democrats didn't do any better look at new york which ranks stent 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 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. because they're really 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 take it 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 urging people to make their votes while republicans are in

their boots to go vote in person. you're getting tired of the damaged. you know. it's just all the job for children. you know why the judge judge everybody out of voting people are buying it. was. what could only be described as monumental acts of duplicity and hypocrisy they would warrant each other and also politicize the pad demick the same people that brought you all of these the bungled response the innate named celts and accusations had the gall to say this this is become a political thing and let's sort of crazy that it's become a political thing this is not a time to score political points to 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. earlier we spoke with al she returns he who interviewed scott atlas on going underground he said it is unsurprising that trump's covert advisor caused such a stir by appearing on r.t. . mccarthy i times we should expect that when journalists from countries other than the united states broadcast information that are helpful is helpful could be helpful to united states citizens we should expect

this kind of press opprobrium from the so-called liberal mainstream media this is a 1st amendment issue. i think even though. he has to register under this foreign agents registration act which the name agent is probably probably hoodwinking a good few liberal journalists in the united states it doesn't mean we're all spies who were killed and it's a sad day i think freshly given the corona virus has killed hundreds of thousands of people all around the world the highest at all in the united states and all we were doing was giving the chance of some of the white house coronavirus task force to speak and i think he enjoyed the interview it was disappointing i think that he said he was taken advantage of how was he taken advantage of when he was allowed to speak to you or tease audience and the audience reach is hundreds of millions of people all around the world in doing so he in

a will those who are hate him and dislike his scientific views to be attacked on all grounds how can he actually be a proper doctor if he doesn't know what he stood for and what the ownership. was about and who funded it the idea that all these networks can call straight on that rather than what's in the interview which affects the lives of hundreds of millions of americans. after months of relative normality countries across europe are going back into lockdown following a surge in corona virus infections case 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're heard from journalist and economist paul but dickey believes some countries in need to rethink their priorities when dealing with the pandemic as an economist i look at trade offs and 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 gandhi life avoiding 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 crete over the next few months because of the lockdowns it will be a harsh winter everyone hoped after 1st lockdown with a relatively mild summer that the worst was over but now we started the new episode off of another lockdown and god knows how long this will take so what will be very jet engine for the rest of the year and also early next year for now if you look at the polls in holland most people still support the long end 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 seem streeter for some that we're only increase as long as we we don't find a way to to to live or deal with the with the virus does it for me i'll be back in 31 and a half minutes with another question is this art international. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest in the

world of politics. i'm sure i'll see you then. the u.s. has a history of complicated and heated presidential election what's different this time is that the biggest political events of the last 4 years is happening amid the coronavirus and the rest of the level of civil unrest sparked by the death george floyd and the lies of the radical groups on both sides of the political spectrum.

right there is that your. say. these groups attract very young members who have taken to the streets make intro tasks look like full scale what you see here we're going to do you know what it's about. this demonstrators are sometimes heavily armed and they are not afraid of violence or law enforcement. if you will of war let it begin with us. or go into trouble across the u.s. over the next week to meet those groups and their leaders to find out how far they're ready to go to fight for what they believe the stupid for this country. we are. members of a group called the. boys have been around for several years now but the recently came into the media spotlight during the summers and say lockdown and government

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