european leaders ease restrictions for the upcoming christmas celebrations spoke concerns grow this could spark another wave of 19 infections. released 700000 people in britain have fallen into poverty due to the pandemic according to new research. and one of the most shocking lockdown violations in the pandemic a top brussels let me pay for an anti l.g.b. tea party quit after being caught trying to flee what is described as a male being graded by police. and wrong to avenge the murder of a top nuclear scientists and as the blame on israel we discussed possible motives

and consequences with all this. i think it was an order to provoke iran. could then be used as a pretext for a strike on iran and its condemnation is going to go anywhere it must go to the to the iranian regime that celebrated this month is not your weapon it is a provocation. a very good morning to you 8 10 am here in moscow and you're watching our city international with me and. with less than a month to go to chris most e.u. states are responding to mass anti lock down outraged by easing restrictions but leaders fear the planned the festive gatherings could spark a fresh wave of covert 19 outbreaks our europe correspondent peter all of a has the story. european leaders are facing a balancing act between keeping covert restrictions in place to stop the spread of

the virus and allowing families to be together over the festive period this also the need to try and appease some of those that have been out on the streets of european cities angry and fed up with the current restrictions. the problem is ease restrictions for christmas and new year you may well get a spike in the virus in january here in germany chancellor angela merkel has reluctantly agreed to ease restrictions on the number of people that are allowed to gather together that's been raised to 10 not including children in that number between the 23rd of the senate and the 1st of january but she has said that there

is a personal responsibility on people to try and keep covert safe people in winter our worst equipped against the virus and then in the sound that because we spend much more time in such close basis the situation to const more difficult we just have to get through this winter months and we hope people get a pakistani and the czech republic they've got a bit further than germany and they'll be opening some shops that have being closed albeit with extra carona measures in place when it comes to religious services there's also a split across europe in italy and in ireland there will be socially distanced masses taking place while in germany and iceland they're going for they will auction we recorded shoots services that we broadcast online and they've also created virtual confirmation classes most humid try to. do something outside the church on christmas eve such as a coup or performance or assure service the e.u.

might get a glimpse of tension what could be coming down the pike by looking across the atlantic to the united states last week's thanksgiving celebration saw people travel across the country and get together with families will be looking to see if that produces an uptick in the number of corona infections but while restrictions that have been in place across europe of seeing numbers either drop off or level out here the question is is it justified to ease these restrictions for a few days of christmas cheer meanwhile new york's governor has been ridiculed for comparing code of it to the grinch and from social media i think the better candidate for the children's character who stole christmas is andrew cuomo. oh great is the group. think about that.

moment is the grange the grinch that helped spread to convert into nursing homes profited on their dads by writing a book about leadership in the middle. kind of an analogy for a while but if you're trying to encourage people to have a bad idea to do it in a day because of the good guys and the good with the folks in here that you can celebrate it with god let's have a grinch tried to be christmas but i'm not in any event. for the winning card is going to steal christmas because we're going to put on christmas like they did when stevie i.

think think think think think think you. now it's one of the most appalling breaches of covert restrictions a top european parliament member has quit after brussels police caught him trying to avoid capture at what's being described as a sex orgy offices raided what's being called a gay party held above a gay bar where charles surprised many as he was part of an anti l g b it's a coalition it was attended by some 20 people including european diplomats who had been chief whip of the european people's policy was caught carrying drugs as he fled through a window and shimmied down a drain pipe when police broke in. at passer by reported to the police that he had seen a man fleeing the law in the gutter he was able to identify the man the man hands were bloody it is possible that he may have been injured while philine now

according to a found in his backpack years in in his resignation letter years the shi'a admitted that his behavior was irresponsible he apologized for breaching lockdown rules but claims the drugs in his backpack had been planted from m.e.p. david coburn says the whole incident sets a terrible example it's not setting a good example to the people in a time of america's jimmy going to have a good laugh you know the congress even though it is serious and as much is that people don't want to be set an example like that in order to go live there out there politicians are having a tremendous party while the rest of us i might have reached isolate i mean look at my hear a lot i mean i never had hail as long as i was a student i was you know barber in months so you know i try to be the rules and set example as a goes a little bit away and by you know i think it's better people obey the rules overseas but it's not to to do the opposite to what you're you're you're selling to

the public. new research shows that the economic effects of the kobe crisis have plunged nearly 700000 people in britain into poverty shoddy edwards reports. the covered 19 pandemic 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 so 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 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 lockdown 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.

transferred and ready to go. in france tensions are high over a new security bill that could criminalize filming of the police officers are already in the spotlight over widespread accusations of brutality with critics warning of far more significant changes are needed to structural and deep rooted problems with the force so a debate as he 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 at 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 that the much profiled article $24.00 would be entirely rewritten hours later the interior minister outlined his plans for reform so key 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 general 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 and try to calm people even a neighbor heard my screams and he wanted to call the police but it was the police . then as protests turned over the weekend did emerged 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 did now questions have been raised about the police role in the death of an 18 year old in musée 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 an illegal short a lawyer for the victim's family as soon. that it was a deliberate act we believe that the police officer fired tear gas grenades because he thought that mrs red 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 you not just 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 so what do you can ski. paris. still to come india phase one of the biggest international strikes in history as 250000000 people come out to protest a free market measures more on lance and other stories after the break.

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welcome back one of the biggest national strikes in history has seen 250000000 people come out against a new farming law that they warn will devastate their livelihoods and the capital new delhi demonstrators clashed clashed with police to find takeouts and was a kind of a used but songs to force protesters. in. september of last scrapped at minimum prices for crops and opened the door for corporations

to negotiate prices directly with foam as in addition private companies can now stockpile staple crops which could previously only be done by the government's prime minister narendra modi insists the new rules will benefit farmers allowing them to attract investment and choose from a launch number of potential buyers and he's accused opponents of deliberately spreading falsehoods. we're seeing the same old misinformation against these historic agriculture reforms 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. and in 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 in a couple 100. years gold to replace the men with

far more powerful cooperated to do this there will be greater role. in deciding everything over by chasing and the seed of i'm going to go to reproduce and then that old leave means you're reinforcing the mafia the private to do with the invisible hand is going to be far more powerful no less consider it of the farmer's interest. iran's parliament has passed a bill to raise the stakes on nuclear development on less western countries east sanctions so watching the government to suspend un nuclear inspections and boost uranium enrichment above the levels agreed with international powers but the government says the supremes national security council has yet to decide on the issue the bill passed amid uproar in the country over the killing of iran's top nuclear scientists to run is blaming israel. israeli government is the

primary suspect in this nation and they are 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 it will be proportionate independent and god willing with maximum pain for those who have done it. israel's government is 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 it when your nuclear program in your opinion will it succeed. no i don't think so but i don't think that was the point to 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 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. protesters were calling on a war with america over the killing of back in january of course we thought that the 2 countries came very close. to a confrontation over the model of general sort of

a knee 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 2016 he promised an america 1st foreign policy we didn't get that we got an israel saudi arabia 1st foreign policy it's interesting to me that even the saudis in the arm 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 no matter what the iranian response turns out to be. investigative web site declassified you case as has been blacklisted by britain's biggest intelligence agency the fine face the g c h q is 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 gauging further with mad 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 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 it was the m o d 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 or. britain as a country which likes to pride itself in freedom of speech and this goes completely against the grain quite like she c.h. she was made this decision is silly it is a journalist's job to ask olcott questions to be critical of the information beatrice seems so you know journalists don't do their jobs to be popular quite the reverse aren't. you know there's this little there's 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 taking r.t. international this morning wherever you are we hope you're having a great start your day we're back in 30 minutes with the latest headlines i'll see you back.

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you've got 2 eyes 2 ears and one now. so you should be seen in here and a whole lot more than you're saying if you don't take that advice easy going to dig yourself a hole. greetings and salutations this week the corporate media outlets like m.s.n. b.c. in the new york times were gushing over the every day american appeal of united states president elect joe biden's announcement of his supposedly crack team of economic advisors which features such working class luminaries as chair millionaire janet yellen and internet troll. and c.e.o. of the center for american progress once again millionaire neera tanden meanwhile

the other biggest story of the week was the continued mockery of donald trump and brooklyn bridge troll rudy giuliani's continued toys r us flop sweat temper tantrums over their last election and dash dreams of 4 more years of being the center of everyone's attention because these are the headlines of our day these are not the news that roughly 52000000 americans this year are facing food insecurity thanks to the code would 1000 crisis or that 87000000 public and private sector workers could potentially lose their federally mandated paid sick and family leave by the end of the year that's that and that's not news or or that despite all of the rest of us getting financially crushed by cope with this year america's $614.00 billionaires like washington post owner jeff bezos or even on musk saw their collective wealth grow by $931000000000.00 almost a trillion instead over.