and even if you don't make the mother the french president's party withdrawals a bill that would help 1st, straight to the filming of police officers off to weeks off nationwide protests in europe. so guantanamo a rights report says, hundreds of iceland, family members with your appearance of friendship are being held in any humane conditions that controlled refugee camps in syria, middle east nations could. and in the killing of a wrong top nuclear scientists does tyrol and blames israel on the west. creating a major challenge for the and public biden administration. and teachers in norway

say they won't be afraid to show pop tunes of the prophet muhammad in class. after last month's model of a french teacher, we spoke with one of them. after the murder of summer, i decided not to show them at all because i felt i felt my profession was attacked. you know, and while you're watching all the international good choice, i'm sauced detail up. thanks for choosing us today. well, to start us off this hour with the french president's ruling party has a withdrawn a parliamentary bill that would have severely restricted the filming of police officers off to 2 weeks of nation wide on rust. opponents. named 24 would have violated press freedom and allowed the police to cover up acts of brutality

reports, president macron, chad and the movement see meeting on monday. as part of that meeting, there was the french prime minister, the french interior minister, and also the leaders of the parliamentary parties of the majority, the presidents of these parties. now they decided following that meeting, that this specific article, article 24 would be suspended from the bill. as i say, it follows a weekend of violent protests in france, where more than a 130000 people came out to the streets to say that they didn't want this particular part of the law enacted here in france. my it

it was, well, the anger that we saw in those protests had been focused on 2 incidents in the last 7 days, which showed extreme versions of police brutality. the 1st was over, we could go on monday evening, here in paris when police were shown in videos using brute force to dismantle a migrant camp with one journalist saying that he had been attacked 3 times during the evening by the security forces as he was trying to carry out his job that was described as shocking by the interior minister and there was an investigation. and then the 2nd incident was that of a black music producer here in paris, who was shown on security footage being beaten up by officers. now the 4 officers involved in the incident have since been suspended in turin, custody, but the reality is many say that without these images being broadcast,

then perhaps they wouldn't be any comeuppance for the police. even president machen said that, that image of the black producer who is just trying to get into his studio, being beaten, was shameful, and more diffuse. it was very hard when they fired tear gas. i was at the back. i tried to call my lawyer. i tried to call a lot of people, even a neighbor heard my screams. he called me and asked what's going on. i explained it been attacked and he wanted to call the police, but it was the police. it's outrageous. i can't even tell you what i'm waiting for . i wish, of course, that this never happens again to anyone. whether there are cameras or not, it should never happen. the police are here to protect us. well, journalists and engineers had criticised article 24, saying essentially gave the green light to police officers just stop them from doing their job to stop them from filming. it had been previously backed up by the government who said that this was needed to protect the police officers who have been facing unprecedented levels of violence. the police unions that said that this

more didn't go far enough. they wanted something stronger. but of course, that now has been back tracked with the announcement that this particular part all school 24 will be completely rewritten. the former interior minister, who is the president of the parliamentary group. christopher cassidy said that it was the parliamentarians and must be the guarantors of fundamental rights. and this is freedom of expression and freedom of the press. and it's quite less than a club, which believes the harsh tactics used by french police have severely damaged public trust. but don't forget what the situation has been in france this series and i remarked on as to who the president and one of those inside that society was france is known to the stars their case. if you can remember, there was ration of the us with extreme violence when the police officers and people representing the oh, shooting demonstrators and in the face with her, with

a stick. by this mean people are losing their, their eyes for yet another violence at large. who did not say that the people there was traitors were altar boys, but if it was extreme violence, now the situation would have to fill in the certificates. there are curfews where i'm sort of a martial state purposes of a police state. and then i was in this coming out saying instead, even through the police officer, which is you can reach out. so you are trying to fill such a situation. people don't like these people already. the global context is that people don't trust a lot of people don't trust the french police any more. what's the necessity of this? and there's been a current situation, but i think most of the people in france for the police to do a good job in police officers. they're going to be don't have anything to be afraid of that they're going through. but they're fully friends. don't trust. there are, there was so much so many more a human rights group has accused europe of creating its own kuantan immobile, allowing its citizens to be subjected to human rights abuses at camps in syria.

according to a rights and security international report, there are thick 440 european children $230.00. european women being held in need to be added without charge at kurdish run camps for terrorist suspects in the north east of syria. the report contains eyewitness accounts of inhumane and degrading treatment to try and cope. pick that up. just look at this sea of tents enormous dubbed in the report as the new get mo, europe's kuantan, a mole because of the citizenship or the origin of many of the families there. but here's why this place could outdo the infamous prison in reputation for the horrors happening inside. and pretty much every tent. there are kids. since the start of 2019, more than 400 children have died in the main camp. long after i saw was wiped out in this part of syria. families of suspected terrorists are paying the price some

die because of gruesome conditions. it can be anything from bad food to tent fires . last winter, 3 and children were burnt alive. we saw the bodies so the babies. if someone dares to speak out against the conditions, the guards, as it's been reported, resort to gunfire. we never feel safe here. my main worry is that my children are injured. we're dying from gunshot wounds. one day a bullet landed between my neighbor's tents. i'm afraid of the bullet enters my tanned and winds of one of us. one children, especially boys grow older. they could end up being forcibly removed, just in case 2 men in military uniforms who had their faces covered with these cards and carrying kalashnikovs and very fast. they took my son who was asleep. i screamed, they said, don't scream. local authorities have admitted they are removing

troublemakers, which could be justified by the detainees all in violent behavior. at times, imagine scuffles between those who reject eisel ideology and those who remain brainwashed. it's an explosive mix. the question is whether the threat from these clashes is an excuse for any humane treatment bordering on torture. the syrian democratic forces that are running the camp, say such practices are banned, but they are admitting mistakes and keep complaining about the resources they have or lack to keep the whole mess under control. we'll soley responsible for the safety and security of thousands of families of militants in the whole camps. something for beyond a modest capabilities due to the failure of the international community to cooperate with us and their refusal to repatriate this. it's so where do these families belong? who bears the ultimate responsibility for the woman and children?

many of whom never chose to be an islamic state, but ended up in its jaws. e.u. members don't want the families back flying them as a security threat, revoking citizenships. it is more than turning a blind eye, the state's actively engaging in a policy that is leaving these people in these dire conditions outside of the law. they're actively doing it because they've said that the security approach is to leave them. that this is a strategic policy, it is a moral aberration to have a strategic policy which is leaving mostly children in its attention to die. there is no easy solution and maybe there is no way out europe with its own sleeper cells and unprecedented numbers of terrorist attacks in recent years isn't looking forward to any extra fuel on the fire. 1 decision was that the dutch government does not have to pick up these children and these women from syria. right now. what

the judge says is that this is a political decision, and that it is not up to the judge to decide whether they should do this or not. i am facades that a national security threat means a threat of the most serious kind to the public. the resists, serious risk from anyone who is aligned with ours. so so for now, unfortunately, it looks and navigable that more blood will be spilt in the sea of tents. keith best is full of ice child, the european council on refugees. now he says that if some of the detainees did commit crimes, they should be tried. but in their home countries. human rights is something that you just cannot contain in one country or whatever it is universal. and the laws about human rights should be applied to the diversity and that includes in these counts rather than leaving those even if they. 'd are accused of crimes or accused

of having gone to support an action or a group or terrorist group which is contrary to the laws also. 'd the country to which there are citizen, but those people should be brought back to the country. prosecutors didn't try for that in a sense in their country of which they are national. i can understand the reluctance of security services wanting these people to come, but, but at the end of the day, you have to do with your citizens as you find them, rather than just forgot all left to be forgotten about you as president elect joe biden has announced his paper, white house press secretary man, as with almost all of his nominees so far, it's a familiar face from the former obama administration. as artie's tell it more than explains well presumptive president elect joe biden has achieved what's being hailed as an identity. tarion breakthrough with an all female press team and it

will be headed up by and none other than jennifer psaki. now folks will remember jennifer psaki from 2013 in 2014 when she was a spokeswoman for the u.s. state department. and she actually became notorious for a number of her, a number of her blunders that she delivered from the state department podium. let's review jennifer psaki career. there are flows of gas, the natural gas, i should say. they go through from western europe through pain train to russia, and we are, i'm sorry, the other way from russia through ukraine to western europe. and i don't have anything, any specific comment on the case that point to the egyptian government is very due to have a conversation with the department of justice. i don't have any teeth and the state has instead of having things there, and i don't have more details on who are members of russia and have seen the evidence to the crew who are close to russia. sorry, i said, methodology was also highly suspect with reports of paris,

the looting pre-marked ballots, which are still there. and i've been through this is those reading that i'm not familiar with that is from either way. it may be that people weren't checking out, check and see what, what our team meant, specifically by the way to the store, to sort of the issues with the answers. but i don't think it's a reference to that is, this is just the tip of the iceberg. there are many other examples of misc sakis, mindblowing way with words. however, she seems to have taken it upon herself to regain the trust of the american people . take a listen. i can't imagine a smarter to say they're bad, a human to prison with than a karine gen pierre, to build trust of the american people communicate the biotin. harry said chanda, and make the work of the us government more accessible to the people who go. jennifer psaki is not the only individual in the new white house communications team who will have come out of the obama administration. for instance,

you've got the communications director for the white house as well as the communications director for the 1st lady, both being individuals who worked with joe biden, when he was vice president. and when he was a u.s. senator byrd's or more, you've got the deputy press secretary, being someone who served in the cabinet of the obama administration. and it's important to note there is one outlier. there is an individual who will be serving as a senior advisor to camila harris, who did come out of the bernie sanders campaigns. however, this individual is the exception. now in addition to their ties to the obama white house, these individuals seem to also have pretty clear ties to us mainstream media. jennifer psaki herself has been a c.n.n. contributor, in addition to that, you've got corinne gene peer. now she has worked as a political analyst for m s n b c and n.b.c. news. now, simone sanders has been a c.n.n. commentator before she moved on to the biden harris campaign, and she will also be part of the communications team of the biden harris

administration. so lots of familiar faces from the obama era and from us mainstream media will be moving into the executive branch and working in the media team of joe biden's presidential administration, while still had to iran seeks retribution if they can acknowledge that top scientists while regional power as fair a new crisis, but what about it officially? the foreign policy team of a potential buy in ministration is being touted by the liberal media. we'll tell you why all this should be 4 or 5. also, there's a lot of talk of a great reset and build back better looking back for bode well for the future. the world is driven by shaped by those great

sinks. we dare to ask joins me every thursday on the alex simon, sure. and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics, sport, i'm show business. i'll see you then. welcome back. the united arab emirates has condemned last friday's assassination of

iran's top nuclear scientist. the gulf want to keep called it a threat to regional peace. the emirates condemns the crime of the assassination. it kosher no science to practice the greatest possible restraint. so as to avoid dragging the region to new levels of instability and threats to peace. terror on has blamed the killing on it's ron meanwhile, found at fault the days of rioting with people buying both american and israeli flags. as you can see, as well as torching port traits of donald trump and job by to his what is known about the assault so far

with iran following retaliation. now that all phases of keep up hostilities with israel and the us and as equals donna if not explained, it could pose a major challenge for of course, the incoming, the strace. so far it's been up to run, to make accusations. and then israel alongside with the us quite expected really are its prime suspects, warning against any adventurist stick measures by the united states and israel against my country, particularly during the remaining period of the current administration of the united states in office, the islamic republic of iran reserves its right to take all necessary measures to defend its people and secure its interests. in response. israel, the one country whose spies might actually know more about iran than iran knows about itself. has had this to say. i have no clue who did it is not that my lips are sealed because i'm being responsible. i really have no clue. and the united

states, the same united states that kicked off 2020 with an open assassination of iran's top general has been completely mute this time. and it would be perfectly fine given the total lack of evidence and nation thousands of miles away from iran had anything to do with the killing except in the past 2 weeks. several unconfirmed reports claim the donald trump was seeking options to attack iran to further detail its nuclear program. factories that there would make a perfect target given he was quite a celebrity for israeli intelligence. remember that moon 5 years ago. so here's this director, writer and uses the journalism is to announce the closure of project on mars. but then he adds special activities. you know, what are those special activities will be carried out under the title of scientific know how developments. and in fact,

this is exactly what iran proceeded to do. it continued this work in a series of organizations over the years. i know for preside a well, he doesn't know how well i know him. if i met him in the street, most likely i would recognize him. he does not have a new knitty. he did not have immunity, and i don't think he will have immunity by aggravating iran. trump would also be throwing a spanner in the machinery of joe biden's foreign policy. given that the president elect has hinted at a friendly, a stance on to iran, will offer to iran a credible path back to diplomacy. if iran returns to strict compliance with the nuclear deal, the united states would rejoin the agreement as a starting point for follow on negotiations. with our allies, we will work to strengthen and extend the nuclear deals provisions while also addressing other issues of concern and europe, whose leaders probably still have a p.t.s.d. over january's prospects of world war 3. have been pointing out that this latest

killing creates a tough road ahead for biden, a few weeks before the new u.s. administration takes office. it is important to preserve the scope for talks with iran, so that the dispute over iran's nuclear program can be resolved through negotiations . we therefore urge all parties to refrain from any steps that could lead to a further escalation of the situation. during the past 4 years, trump has sent america's relations with iran, back into the pit of hostility, by unilaterally tearing up the nuclear deal, recognizing jerusalem as israel's capital. and sending his top diplomat on a charm offensive to all of the middle eastern nations that oppose iran. definitely what the israelis were aiming for. i mean they're there, they're sure and hope is that the united states gets involved in a military action against iraq. that's. that's their ultimate goal, that's their ultimate objective. you're void of that. the next best thing is to

ensure that the united doesn't improve relations with iran, by rejoining the iranian nuclear agreement in the way you do as to sabotage any effort at diplomacy. i mean, when you knock off the number one scientist, iran's nuclear program in a suburb of tehran in a bold, daring daylight attack. you're not going to have the iranians go. that's ok. let's, let's get on with diplomacy. it's going to get the reaction. it's getting right now, a hard line iranian response that will further restrict the efforts of not only shut down the efforts of international inspectors and only increase international concern that iran might be edging toward. a military weapon is ation effort. this new high profile death, even though there's no hard evidence to reveal the culprits will only once again prove to tehran, that the raw power as hell bent on destroying it, and with the wounds from the assassination of gen, son, imani, still fresh in the mind. no one can be expecting restraint from iran,

close teaches in norway would fear for their safety if they were to show their students cartoons of the prophet mohammad, according to a new survey. that's in the wake of last month's model of a french teacher who displayed thoughts, images to students. one way to teach us as there are now very real dangers to those walking in the profession. after the murder of some, well, i decided not to show them at all because i felt it's wonderful. i felt my profession was attacked at the moment and the freedom of speech over expression was attacked, of course. and i wanted to find other ways to express myself and to achieve the same goal with my teaching. because the character gets your drawings are not the goal. they're just dressed a part of criticism against

a religion. and there's other texts we can use as well. the poll found that 60 percent of teachers a would refuse to show the notorious mohammed, cartoons and class, many also reluctant, in general, to bring up any issues related to islam can sign about scaring students is the main rich reason given though there are negative reactions from students and parents that also feature as a factor. meanwhile, france is still feeling the shock waves of 6 weeks on the on the answer to one of our competitors was murdered because he taught our competitor, it was the victim of an islamist terror attack. the

norwegian teacher we spoke to believes the stop should be free to decide how to explain religion to their own students. there is the law and that is i thought, the law and it one hand and freedoms of speech on the other hand. and we can maneuver in between the limits of those. and i don't want to have anyone telling me which texts to choose in my teaching. i think it's really important that teachers, it's all around the world, is allowed to teach to make those choices by themselves. we have the curriculum and we have these limits and i think for us it's really important too to make choices about these things ourselves. the thing is that the no, each and curriculum has a very important main topic. that's democracy and citizenship. and we are teaching in with the law on the and on one hand,

the law against hate speech. and in the right. and we have the human rights on the other hand rights. so we have to menu of or in, in between them. and for us, and we will have to find a way to achieve, to develop the students' skills and their, and ability to, to read attacks with a critical mind. and i think we can do that even though we're not showing the least specific pictures. but it's all for this hour. don't forget, the auto call has plenty more details on lows, on many, many more stories to check it out. unceasing. always be polite, never engage with the negs baited or constitutional officer. don't

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when so many find themselves worlds apart, just to look for common ground. imagine or times you were going underground after repeated aerial bombardment of syria by israel armed by britain e.u. nations in the united states. coming up on the show, we ask a former middle east based m i 6 agent whether a joe biden presidency signals a new road to damascus and the renewal of isis al qaeda and u.k. u.s. . the u.s. attempts at regime change in syria, even during a global pandemic, and what bloodshed to expect from obama officials accused of facilitating civilian

drone killing and the destruction of libya, africa's richest per capita country. and as an inquiry launches in, rumania after a coronavirus intensive care units that fire and kills 10, we investigate oscar tipped film collective with its echoes of el edged incendiary profit driven corruption for which an inquiry continues here in london into the grenfell fire in the poorest area of one of the richest in the world. also more coming up in today's going underground, the football star, diego maradona being mourned today around the world. not only once said in my heart, i am palestinian. he declared the motives of western powers in syria was to destroy a secular nation hours before he died. warplanes from israel by britain, even nations, and the us a bomb, the oldest, continuously inhabited city in the world, damascus. joining me now from room is the conflict forums. allister crook who cut his teeth in my 6 and says the siege of bethlehem has dedicated his life to deescalating violence. alice jeff, thanks so much for coming on. going.