you've got 2 eyes 2 ears and one now. so you should be seen here and a whole lot more if you don't take that advice easy going to do it yourself. european leaders ease restrictions for the upcoming christmas celebrations that their concerns grow this could spark another wave of code 19 infections. the 700000 people in britain have fallen into poverty due to the puns earning more than 2 new books. and one of the most shocking lockdown violations in the pandemic at top brussels i meet here for an anti l.g.b. tea party quits after being corpse trying to flee what is described as a male orgy being raided by police. the wrong valve to avenge the murder of a top nuclear scientist and puts the blame on israel we discuss possible motives

and consequences with our guests. i think it was ordered to provoke you run into response could then be used as a pretext for a strike on iran its condemnation is going to go anywhere it must go to the to the iranian regime that celebrated this is not a nuclear weapon it is a provocation. a very good morning to you it's 9 am here in moscow and you're watching r.t. international with me. it's worth less than a month to go to christmas the e.u. states are responding to mass anti lock down outraged by easing restrictions but leaders fear the planned festive gatherings could spark a fresh wave of covert outbreaks let's go live now to our europe correspondent peter all of pizza great to see you expose one of a covert surge in the u.s.

after last week's thanksgiving celebration so what risks does europe face this christmas. there's a balancing act for you leaders between keeping in place restrictions to stop the spread of coronavirus and easing those restrictions to allow families to meet over the festive period there's also a need to try and stop more people joining the ranks of those who've been out on the streets of european countries demonstrating saying that they're fed up with these corona measures. the risk is though that if you ease restrictions over christmas you get a spike in the virus in the new year here in germany angler merkel the german

chancellor has reluctantly agreed to east some of those restrictions from the 23rd of december and to look 1st of january 10 people for all will be allowed to mix together that doesn't include any children they're not counted in the numbers that's up from 5 but she did say the german chancellor that people have to take responsibility for their own behavior. people in winter are worst equipped against the virus and then in the sound that because we spend much more time inside close spaces the situation becomes more difficult we just have to get through this winter months and we hope people get vaccinated. the czech republic is seeing more of an opening up with bars and some shops that have being closed being able to open their doors albeit with restrictions put in place on those openings when it comes to religious services over the christmas period there is a split in europe over how they're going to be carried out in italy and in ireland

there will be socially distanced masses taking place while in germany and iceland they're going for the virtual option. we did shoot services that we broadcast online and they've also created virtual confirmation classes try to do something outside the church on christmas eve such as a coup or a performance or a sure service well the e.u. might get a glimpse of what could be coming down the pipe by looking across the atlantic to the united states last week's thanksgiving holiday so people travel from all over the country to get together with families will be looking to see if that has an impact on the number of cases that are recorded there but ultimately the question comes down to is it justified to have a short term lifting restrictions for potential long term long time

impacts of doing so be found thank you for that information that's artes and peter oliver well meanwhile new york's governor has been ridiculed for comparing povich to the grinch and some on social media think the better candidate for the children's character who stole christmas is under cuomo without. holdridge is the group. think of it that. mobile is the green and the grease that help spread to convert into nursing homes profited on their dads by writing a book about leadership in the middle. kind of analogy for trying to

encourage people to have a back in the day because the good guys of the function believe that you can celebrate it regardless of how the grinch tried to be christmas good on that in any event so i. will encourage it's going to steal christmas because we're going to put on christmas like they did when stevie i. thank you. i think think think think think think think. also one of the most appalling breaches of covert restrictions now a top european parliament member has quit after police caught him trying to avoid capture after brussels sexology officers raided the mostly male sex party which was also attended by european diplomats and held above a gay bar you know jeff who had been

a chief whip of the european peoples policy was caught carrying drugs as he fled through a window and shimmied down a drain pipe when police broke into the orgy. in his resignation letter. admitted that his behavior was irresponsible he apologized for breaching lockdown rules but claims the drugs in his backpack had been planted for many paid a bit coburn says the whole incident sets a terrible example. it's not setting a good example to the people in a time of the american show me going to have a good laugh about it you know the hypocrisy of it all but it is serious and as much as that people do what we set an example like that it all just a goal if they're out there politicians are having a tremendous party while the rest of us i am are having to isolate i mean it look at my hair i have a lion's baby i never had hair was long since i was a student i haven't seen a barber in months so you know i try to be the rules and set an example as it goes

a little bit away and by you know i think it's better people obey the rules overseas best not to to do the opposite to what you're you're selling to the public . you know was that shows that the economic effects of the covert crisis have plunged nearly 700000 people in britain into poverty so he had with us to pull. the covered 19 pound demick has left a few corners of our lives untouched from our health to our social lives and even the food on our plates nearly 700000 people have been driven into poverty by the crisis including one 120000 children that leaves a total of $15000000.00 britons below the poverty line a staggering 23 percent however a small boost to save some as a further $700000.00 people have actually been narrowly prevented from falling below the poverty line by a temporary 20 pounds per week boost to universal credit the study however does not take into account the impact of the benefit cap which could send tens of thousands

more people below the poverty line over the next few weeks when the 9 month grace period comes to an end what it means there is that many claimants could see their benefits slashed by hundreds of pounds but many antipoverty campaigners and the chair of the institute conducting the study claim the government needs to go further there have been significant increases in poverty amongst families that will work prior to the code 19 crisis these have resulted from job losses and earnings reductions that have tipped them into poverty there is a clear need for a comprehensive antipoverty strategy to be placed at the heart of the u.k.'s covert recovery response the poverty line is 60 percent of the u.k. median income which comes to about $325.00 pounds per week for a single parent with 2 kids $439.00 pounds per week for a couple with 2 children and 239 pounds for a senior couple now those hit hardest by the crisis have been young workers in low

paid jobs in sectors like retail and hospitality who have been crippled by the locked on measures with many of these businesses predicting to shut their doors for good the risk of thousands more people slipping through the poverty cracks remains high. critical or to take seriously nobody sees it as a political issue more people will join. causes than will ever die or how we're going to. do all those ministers who should be. to be transferred to train wreck a policy. in france tensions the high over a new security bill that could criminalize filming of the police officers already in the spotlight of a widespread accusations of brutality with critics warning far more significant changes the needed to structural and deep rooted problems with the force solid

bensky reports. it's the burning issue in france right now how to improve protection for the police while also safeguarding the public from police brutality . amid a wave of anger with the plans to criminalize the publication of images of the police if there was intent to harm the government has backed down the ruling party and the that the much profiled article 24 would be entirely rewritten hours later the interior minister outlined his plans for reform sickie

a mike what is my deep conviction in what the government thinks is that we absolutely have to keep the protection of police forces during their police actions so i repeat they are not protected enough addictions with more training more leaders and more police and the generalized use of police body cameras these would he said tackle the root cause of the problem meanwhile the french police chief admitted that there are some issues but he defended the owner of his offices the police the police are not violent and are not racist saying this i'm not in denial and i am not waffling i tell you what i see and what i hear every day i see the police officers or flexion of the good side of our society but for many woods are not enough accusations of police violence of tarnish the name of the force

these were brought into sharp focus over the past week as show. examples emerged. tried to call my lawyer to try to calm people that even a neighborhood my screams and he wanted to call the police but it was the police. then as protests turned over the weekend did emerge that one journalist was caught in the fray injured by a police baton as he attempted to cover the demonstrations. an award winning photographer was clearly identifiable as

a journalist i was shocked by the injuries suffered by a colleague how be and condemn the unprovoked violence the injuries were sustained as he exercised his legal rights as a photojournalist documenting protests on the streets of paris and narrow questions have been raised about the police role in the death of an 80 year old in mass a back during the yellow vests rallies. zainab was hit by tear gas canister in 20000 while in her apartment originally an expert report submitted as part of the investigation concluded that the officer that fired the grenade had done so properly and she'd been hit accidentally that's now being questioned following an independent investigation it claims the officer launched the corner to an angle and too close to her building and it was there for

any legal shot a lawyer for the victim's family is so. that it was a deliberate act we believe that the police officer fired tear gas grenades because he thought that mrs kreder one who was on the phone using its loudspeaker was filming the police violence that took place outside her house rewriting also called 24 is unlikely to be the end of the story the recalls the entire global security bill to be scrapped passions are high not just over press freedom and the ability of citizens to film police officers but also of the deep rooted problem of police violence issues that simply cannot be whitewashed charlotte didn't ski r.t. paris. india see one of the biggest international strikes in history as 250000000 people come out to protest free market we've got more on that and other stories coming up after this short break.

we're going to be far more extreme than you too used to when this is like breaking norms not necessarily in a good way. as the. right is an extremist but the reality is. join me every thursday simon short and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics. i'm sure i'll see you there. no one else seemed wrong. why don't we all just don't all. get to see power just to come after. and in detroit equals betrayal.

when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. welcome back one of the biggest national strikes in history has seen 250000000 people come out against a new farming law although they warn will devastate their livelihoods and the campus on new delhi demonstrators clashed with police who find tear gas and water cannon and used to tones to 4 spot protesters.

i. september's last clamp to minimum prices for crops and opened the door for corporations to negotiate prices directly with farm most in addition private companies can now stockpile staple crops which could previously only be done by the government's or prime minister narendra modi insists the new rules will benefit farmers allowing them to attract an investment and choose from a large number of potential buyers and ease accused opponents of deliberately spreading falsehoods. were seen the same old misinformation against these historic agricultural for is coming from the same people who have constantly misled the farmers for decades we're working with pure intentions and

without any purpose of betraying anyone. a new delhi based journalist and political commentator says the moves have simply not been thought through or. through these 3 laws that the government has brought explicable hari. is going to replace the little man with far more bob for protective d.s. there will be greater role for a broker. in deciding everything by chasing a lot of the produce and then that only means you are reinforcing the mafia the bribe or the. invisible hand is going to be far more of less crime should read of the farmers interests. iran's parliament has passed a bill to raise the stakes on nuclear development unless western countries ease

sanctions it's not working the government to suspend un nuclear inspections and boost your radio man which meant above the level disagreed with international powers but the governments say the supreme national security council has yet to decide on the issue the bill passed amid uproar in the country over the killing of a wrong top nuclear scientist to wrong is blaming israel. the israeli government is the primary suspect in this us nation and now serious evidence has been provided the situation is that from now on we will follow the same path and we will seek to create legal responsibility for it iran as has been said and it is our firm policy will respond to both the perpetrators and the commanders will be proportionate independent and god willing with maximum pain for those who have done it. israel's government of still refusing to comment on the issue my colleagues ask you tell it discuss the escalation possible motives and

outcomes with our guest if the goal of the assassination as a lot of people are assuming was to disrupt the iranian nuclear program in your opinion will it succeed. no i don't think so but i don't think that was the point of the killing i think it was done in order to provoke iran into response that could then be used as a pretext for a strike on iran and i think this was designed to get the iranians to to take some response with it which would then justify an attack on iran is what appeared to be the closing days of the trump administration concerns that this attack could provoke iran to develop nuclear weapons what's your comment on that 1st of all there's no evidence that iran ever attempted to produce nuclear weapons iran which has the most advanced military technology in the region and we've seen that how it has been used against the american base. if iran which has that

technological capability if they wanted to produce a nuclear weapon they would have done so years ago so the issue is not nuclear weapons it is a provocation just as your previous guest rightly pointed out the israeli regime is looking for a provocation to bring about war in this region because for them it is it's not the interest of the united states or europe or the region it is their own interests let's look at who factories are there was he was a weapons specialist a nuclear weapon specialist now a school that doesn't have a soccer team doesn't hire a soccer coach and a regime that isn't seeking to carry out nuclear attacks doesn't hire nuclear weapons specialists and really you know if condemnation is going to go anywhere it must go to the to the iranian regime that celebrated this man that carried him around in government motorcade gave him a state funeral condemnation and again i have no idea who is involved the condemnation does not deserve to go to the people that remove this man from

a very problematic situation condemnation only goes to the iranian regime who continue to oppress their people and continue to seek the execution of another radio. and protesters were quarrelling on a war with america over the killing of back in january of course we saw that the 2 countries came very close. to a confrontation over a model of general sort of made me my question is is this time different and how it was for the purpose of the triggering an american attack on iran one trouble drum printer the presidency in 2016 he promised an america 1st foreign policy if we didn't get there we got an israel saudi arabia 1st foreign policy it's interesting to me that even the saudis in iraq don't seem to be going along with the script on this one so we could end up with a situation where the americans really don't feel they have the regional support they would only have the cover of israel to launch an attack on iran so i'm hoping

war will not come under a no matter what the iranian response turns out to be. investigative website declassified u.k. says it's been blacklisted by britain's biggest intelligence agency besides face the g c h q it's refusing to speak following its revelations about j.c.h. key practices. 'd ringback declassified u.k. blacklisted by jason age kill britain's largest intelligence agency internal e-mails from d.c. h.q. show it will not been gaijin further with matt's canot declassified head of investigations the day he published what the agency privately disparaged as a negative long read about his secretive schools program 'd.

but this is yet another worrying example of the u.k. government imposing arbitrary restrictions on media deemed to be critical a champion move that has no place in british democracy since that was the blacklisting us no g c h q public officials are just not used to dealing with journalists doing the job they used to dealing with sycophants sorry but declassified u.k. is different we're working for the public not the state and. britain is a country which likes to pride itself in freedom of speech and this goes completely against the grain quite like the c.h.p. was made this decision is silly it is

a journalist's job to ask all good questions to be critical of the information it receives so you know journalists don't do their jobs to be popular quite the reverse and. you know this this move has already been like. into a trippy and styled. decision and of course this is what we've seen in the white house that when journalists upset. president donald trump they get blacklisted or are asked to leave the the white house press corps and for g c h q to do this to a. journalistic organization is astonishing. thanks for joining us here on r.t. international we're back at the top of the hour with the latest headlines all 3 about.

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