you. know crawling as a burden on france the president of france to get rid of its need to relations between the countries hit new lows over a crackdown on islam. as far as up the plans to roll out its rock scene in the u.k. and seeks approval at me us its c.e.o. admits it might not stop those who take it from spreading the virus. must go slams what it calls fabricated accusations against john list of to russia affiliated news agencies charged with violating e.u. sanctions. and donald trump support a step forward to cause father doubt on what they are calling a rigged presidential election we hit some of the latest testimonies benches the

ballots being ran through the tabulating machines numerous times being counted 8 to 10 times newer with return addresses shorter cells and. whatnot to keep you in the loop this is all it international from everyone here in moscow very welcome to the program. while to start us off this hour the talk as president has knocked out his french counterpart claiming he's a button to his country and should step down it represents a new low when relations between one. comes as power to crack down raja islam following a wave of terrorism in france. macron is a burden on france and france are going through a very dangerous period actually my hope is that france gets rid of this mccraw in

trouble as soon as possible well the spat between the turkish president at the one in france has been deepening for some time now you will remember that last week the french senate adopted a non binding resolution in which they officially recognize the independence of nagorno karabakh and they called for azerbaijani forces to need to leave the wall from territories that had been captured in the disputed territory from september the 27th they're also calling for an international investigation into war crimes and at the same time prohibited weapons and senators also recommended that the french government look into the role that career has played and has called for decisive action against turkey now it's it all of this while at the same time saying that france's foreign policy has not changed but of course this angered azerbaijan's closest ally turkey. because this you know much as a budget any president believe heard some advice for the french what did he say if

they love the armenian so much they should give more suits of the media was making the same recommendation if they love them so much give them are sick the french president also caused outrage last month in the muslim world when he defended the right to publish cartoons of prophet mohammed. his criticism of political islam comes in the wake of the killing of a french teacher samuel patty that angered at one end of the international leaders not everyone has responded by comparing the treatment of muslims to that of jews before world war 2 and he's also questioned the mental health of the french president at the same time you have a deepening of tensions between a turkey. and the european union and in recent years we've seen the relations get increasingly right here brussels has repeatedly expressed content concern and

protested of turkey's exploration of natural gas off the coast of cyprus and greece reached out to turkey in the dollar susman does negative with the continuation of you know actual acts and hostile rhetoric the debate of the european summit on december the term to use the means to tell disposal turkey must stop its provocations and its hostile rhetoric and as we heard there the european union summit on the 10th of this month and e.u. member states potentially discussing. measures that they can take against and. let's bring in our career sharma's a lawyer and middle east expert welcome to the program good to have you i want to start off do you think these calls to remove a president could actually end up backfiring on turkey. thank you for having me on yet the tensions have been growing between french president and erdogan since a while ago and for

a president. asking for the move all of. it's a nonsense because we still have a mandate of 2 years to go and these tensions have started in libya which france and turkey are defending different different sides it continuing about northern syria when the turkish army attacked the kurdish army who were defending western countries against this and the french called government press the protestant about that and as you said earlier in greece they have found a huge gas field and greece and turkey are. combating each other and france is defending france is defending turkey and the same in northern carabao which friend france wants to be independent but not france but the french. now france of course has

a big muslim community 4700000 people my question is how do you think that they're going to respond to one's wired's and do you think that that could be a problem for. i don't think it's going to be a big problem because as you said france has one of the largest muslim population in europe but most of the muslim people are a normal people they not drive the call so what macron is trying to do is he's trying to fight against radical islam and. the french prison macron has has been criticized by other. political opponents because they say that macro was too soft on radical islam or on the muslim population i can tell you and they can assure you that prison micron is not. islam is not a muslim he's just anti radical islam and he wants to control radical islam because

in france as of today we have the coming to to preach in france they are sent by morocco algeria turkey and saudi arabia some of them don't even speak french so what prison mccrone wants to do is to get. trained. in france and to teach muslim. let's say the islamic view of france. now we know that turkey as been very vocal it wants to be part of the e.u. it's been a long process a lot of discussions do you think that one's words will actually harm turkey's chances here. erdogan the world's going to harm his chances but we can say it's been for decades turkey is trying to enter the e.u. doing almost everything that the e.u.

asked them and they keep the european union keeps asking them more and more and more and more time and one of one of the differences between turkey and france is because france doesn't want turkey to get into e.u. that has been since jacques chirac france or mitterrand and sarkozy and all along and not only mccall saw they keep discussing with turkey about then getting in the e.u. but i think they have no chance because european union they consider themselves as a christian a christian part of the world and turkey is a muslim country so they don't want turkey to get in and i think there is nice with the european union here if he keeps insulting insulting all the president he has almost no chance in getting into the european union and the bigger picture also we had one before he called on people to boycott french products you know he has

criticized before and that has been a wave of anti micro protests as a result in muslim countries do you think that these latest wired's are just going to see that intensify. it's not going to intensify because the prison micro on fuel t.v. in order to explain to this population what freedom of speech is what freedom of satire is that you can makes a tire of everyone every religion it's not a one religion in political or but every religion and this is part of the freedom of speech of france and even if prison michael one needs to to stop that and stop publishing the discourse on our distant tire he cannot do it because it's a constitutional right here in france so he cannot do it by himself so the so the diff between muslim countries and france will grow but at the end

despite a court of one change anything because a people will buy fresh produce at the end and. recently the short picture of the guns wife with the hermes bag that she is that they've been they are calling for people to boycott french products whereas his wife is. buying french for the french luxury products while certainly a time of big tension for the 2 countries will be watching to see what develops next thank you so much for coming on and speaking to us that was courage shammy lawyer and middle east expert. thank you very much. now one of the latest track teams being put forward to tackle coronavirus in the u.k. has come under increasing scrutiny that's after the c.e.o. of fines or admitted its job may not stop those who take it from spreading the virus. even though it's good that protection and most. other people

i think this is something that needs to be examined we are not certain about that right now 2 days ago it was the news we were all of waiting for it was described as a historic moment but now it seems like it's historic so all the wrong reasons the approval of course of the kind of it 1000 vaccination just a few days ago by the british medical regulated meant that as soon as next week the vaccine could be rolled out but now it's been proved almost too good to be true of course the united kingdom was celebrating being world beating world leading and now it seems as though it potentially is just a guinea pig in the science of all of it not because pfizer has come out to admit that actually while the job might be 95 percent effective against private 19 there is by no means any guarantee that it can prevent carrying the transmission of that 19 as well now interestingly the e.u. regulator and the u.s. top health officials have both come out say that the u.k.

has entirely jumped the gun here it's been far too quick in its procedures because for their for their every settings they think that approval process is necessary to ensure safety and effective ety kind of a real around the corner of the marathon because. they really rushed. well there you heard from the top u.s. immunologist who has since apologized for slamming the u.k.'s too hastily oversee private tracking saying it was all a misunderstanding however the initial statement sparked some controversy and apparently put the director of the national institute of allergy and infectious diseases on the defensive but regardless 40000000 doses have been preordered by the united kingdom the 1st batch of 1st supply will head towards the united kingdom as soon as next week it could be around the figure of $400000.00 doses many immunization could start within the next few weeks now top of the list is those most vulnerable those over the age of 80 plus care home residents and stop. and of

course those n.h.s. workers on the front line however there were many people gassed casting doubts even right here within the united kingdom particularly over the logistics whether or not there may be a lag as soon as next week is just around the corner but also in terms of the distribution of the vaccine as well considering it needs to be stored in conditions of minus 70 degrees so those handling the vaccine argue that they need to be instructed exactly how to do so then of course there's the political narrative in all of this because the government has been criticized for many a failure throughout the 1000 pandemic from self-imposed targets and deadlines certain missed to really just handling the crisis in general now many people would argue that we really need to see these promises being delivered and at this point in time it's more of a case of more talk rather than action especially when we're hearing rhetoric like this from cabinet ministers i just reckon we've got the very best people in this country we've got the best. is much better than the french better than the belgians

have much better than the americans and that doesn't surprise me at all because we are much better country than every single one of that also so it did help but we've recruited for a user willing to rue the number of deaths in the u.k. must prove that we march worse come true than france and belgium not the us obviously what a facile boost that sort of thing you hear in the playground not to be on national radio world teaching jingoism brits got it 1st because of how badly they're doing in controlling covered 19 so exactly the opposite of what they're claiming to their government williamson saying that the united kingdom is world's leading and is a much better nation than any other but what is the question the public really have political commentator believes this rush to roll out the vaccine it just isn't necessary. those fast wraps this create or are on the basis that it it's for emergency situation for power and direct my food not

such a very debatable because we have a sort of pound our military just made here proud of that made which is a fact so you can combine the proportion of the population normally what they mean with a pandemic you just need a whole lot of issues potentially reduce so i don't think this really qualifies surgery astra bussing only you only have to look at the books absent the great you're so 30000 with a population of 67000000. and we know that every minute. of critic on t.v. so far it's a complete overreaction people are going to be. but there are going to be big amounts of money to be made all right the producers for the. nation are going to say we're open and yet it's leadership. really because most people

don't actually need it. employees of russia affiliated news agency and years and sputnik latvia have been released from interrogations on condition they don't even up here but after the journalists were charged with violating all sanctions cossar f. has the details of the now at the moment is that they've been accused of violating personal european union sanctions against the c.e.o. of russia's a receipt a subordinate news agency me tricky self now russian foreign ministry they have already reacted to what's happening in riga and they said that latvia's crackdown on russian speaking journalists under the pretext of the violation of the you sanctions is apps. the unacceptable the foreign ministry also said that the e.u. restrictions are of a personal nature against mr kissel off and they cannot apply to just about

everyone who cooperates with the news outlets that are under his management and they consider the aggressive actions of. security service a blatant example of violating the foundations of the democratic society which is freedom of media and expression it is a completely punitive action which leaves no doubt about the use of 4 big subtext of the fabricated accusations you would think a crackdown and dissent violation of the fundamental principles of freedom of speech were totally incompatible with the status of an enlightened european state but that's the case of the complaint before so dissenting media is gaining momentum now the accused journalists and their colleagues are certainly. outraged and mind you this is a criminal indictment against journalists and they're being persecuted for coal parading with russian news outlets now the crackdown on the russian speaking latvian journalist. well it had all of the intimidating attributes and features and

they were there were searches in the homes and places of work there was confiscated of personal property and equipment they were interrogating which lasted for hours one person was interviewed for 8 hours. after all of that was done the journalists were released but they were asked to stay in latvia not to leave the country and of course sign a non-disclosure agreement sputnik had a statement about this as well the latin citizens are accused of violating the sanctions regime because of their work for the receipt of civil and news agency according to a lot of lithuania and estonia the agency subject to the personal sanctions of the imposed on the agency's general director joins ricky sort of in 24 scene. no russian mission and the sea they also expressed their concern tweeted out saying this is another flagrant violation by rigo of the o.e.c.d.

commitments on freedom of speech and access to information and persecution of russian speaking journalists in the baltic countries is not something new for example just the end of last year going into this year sputnik. and now there journalists were forced to break their contracts with the sputnik because this tony and. police were threatening them with jail terms of up to 5 years so basically they were forced to resign and the police also cited these 2014 you sanctions person begins to mr however the outlets that we've been talking about today none of them have ever appeared on the sanctions list so that's what we have for now now there was some small protest in reeker itself against the charges and we also managed to have reaction from veteran john. state affiliated media.

are all over in the united states in israel in many other places what is the army radio in israel what is the b.b.c. what is the voice of america if one starts a tricking journalists. 'd other then media persons just because our their livelihood depends on the state or are. our rich person who owns the network that is unfair and journalists the world over should rise up against the question was question is why have they done this no and of course the the wider question is is it legitimate to use sanctions as a means of preventing the alternative views that you don't like and of course at the most extreme we saw that in the news for you slowly the bombing of the serbian

national t.v. station or the missiles that were used to take a 0. in kabul during the the afghan war. while having stateside u.s. president elect joe biden has invited donald trump to his inauguration and claims that will give a positive sign that the post-election chaos is ending but it's unclear whether the millions who still think that fact it was stolen from charm believe this move the diffidence. no. trump supporters are still coming out on tng stop the steal and citing multiple irregularities that's despite officials in swing state general just saying a 2nd recount should confound biotin as the winner. looks at how the dispute is affecting the reputation of the u.s. election. is only about

a month left until the big transition of power in the white house and yet it looks like the battle for the presidency is not yet over this may be the most important speech i've ever made i want to provide an update on our own going efforts to expose the tremendous voter fraud and irregularities which took place during the ridiculous lead along nov 3rd elections if we are right about the fraud. joe biden can't be president trump is sticking to his guns still insisting he was cheated out of the election and calling on the supreme court to overturn the results his lawyers though have yet to prove their case and the justice department says the current administration is full of baloney so what is it that the trump administration is making such a fuss about while in new york one u.s.p.s. driver claimed a trailer with thousands of ballots disappeared into thin air i knew it with return addresses for thousands of them while in wisconsin an ex postal worker even claimed

his coworkers were ordered to backdate the ballots u.s.p.s. employees were ordered to backdate ballots that were received too late to be lawfully counted ballots in liveries in the middle of the night people filling in the blank ballots for by misplacing duplicate souther wisconsin poll workers claim similar violations as well as the widely shared testimony from this michigan election contractor who claimed she blew the lid off some dodgy dealings in detroit there was. batches the ballots being ran through that had been waiting machines numerous times being counted 8 to 10 times her testimony has already been put through the wringer of public opinion and the justice department's also made up its mind about these claims we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have affected a different outcome in the election. the thing is though the d.o.j. won't say why what does raise the eyebrows of conservative officials all we're asking for is own where there is evidence of improper impropriety that you examine

and we want the transparency we want to understand is the investigation going on. what kind of investigation what are you looking for for years americans have been told evil russian meddling is undermining democracy and now that biden seems to have won the election there's not so much as a whisper on that front that the russians really just decide to sit out this very important election or perhaps the very system itself is at fault here it's clear that these elections are corrupt through and through but not for the reasons that donald trump highlights the corrupt through and through because this is an electoral college that does not recognize the popular vote there's already a complete lack of trust people do not respect the electoral college most americans can't even explain the electoral college provide any type of justification or logic for which there is none many americans don't even participate in presidential elections because they understand that it's. a choice between 2 oppresses for the

next 4 years between tweedle dee tweedle dum trump is just expose the system from the right in created these issues that have long existed. proof of sand and bias against donald trump that's how a u.s. conservative group has described leaked tapes of conference calls held by the news that walk and one clip ratings by project veritas a c.n.n. special correspondent and howard saying that she was a fine spy room a cuz not to give trunk too much at a time. i just keep hearing the same thing both from republicans who have not been there to congratulate biden. but also who you know who have been the democrats and that is we have to be you know news organizations have to be very careful in the response of all of that out not

keeping track of too much of a platform. here. to heating. the trolls additional to go forward the correspondent has helped hasn't commentated on the released tapes yet however that now was communications team has tweeted that projects are tough may have broken a little by snooping on that stuff and have referred the case to lauren false want the communications manager for project power to shut his face on the tapes. you hear the outgoing president of c.n.n. jeff zucker dictating to his hosts reporters editors and producers what the news will be not based on whether it is true not based on whether it's important but whether or not it fits jeff zucker's world view and personal political agenda there's no diversity of opinion nobody objects nobody challenges c.n.n.

did react very quickly on twitter that said that is going to get your in full sun involved my question is are you ready and do you think the door is on your side i don't believe for a minute that the police are to come knocking on our door everything that project veritas does is legal we have a very well trained and very well paid legal staff and i'm highly confident that everything we did was within the legal guard rails you know and no one has called us from from law enforcement that's just something they said that tweet came from cnn's p.r. staff and i think you can call that a p.r. stunt and i want to ask you one of the tables what todd and and you'll private discussions with that is his workspace would you support it as while the one who is objecting c.n.n. i mean they ran secretly recorded tapes of 1st lady malani a trump just weeks ago they were in the access hollywood tapes they ran tapes

secretly recorded of mitt romney when he was the 2012 republican candidate for president the idea that c.n.n. is suddenly upset. about somebody were chris secretly recording the meeting or a conference call and put and putting out to the public that's absolutely absurd beneath pad to show c.n.n. chief jeff zucker imperial caring employees not to normalise trying to claims on the election and equal a need to on the sly nal told us that he believes that news outlets which shout the most about the end potshot a-t. usually show the rules. so the question is what role did o'keefe play because if he if he just got the number himself and somebody let's it just gave it to him and he dialed in himself never being a part of us i think you may have legal problems but this is weird because now we have zoomed cause and now we have new areas of conversation and conference it's not a one on one conversation and don't forget lionel's law the law always lags behind

technology if we had done the same thing let's say 2. or. something how bad you we would maybe hear something maybe not as blatant as that but certainly a journalistic bias and there are other people who say this is the brand the idea of you tuning in to c.n.n. you want to hear a liberal anti trump stuff i'm sorry but that's a fact so being true to the bad brand to the shareholders they have to produce but here's the thing which is amazing when you look at people who go out of their way to see we are the news we are unbiased fair and balanced is this in essence a form of trademark law is this perjury to say enjoy any kind of liability for misleading the consumer if i tell you something is 100 calories but it's 200 you've got to believe i may get a lawsuit well if i'm lying about the content why shouldn't it apply otherwise watch this being addressed in the courts coming up. and find

a russian president has given a speech on how artificial intelligence can help to transform russia but he warned that the technology have to pull catherine of regulated daniel hoare kens has more . in the coming decade we are to pursue the digital transformation of our entire country we are seeing universally implements technologies and big data analysis and realizing our goals we must rely on a sovereign 2nd logical groundwork a 1000000000 rubles all the earmarks to pursue digital transformation of the public administration and should public services to the digital format many of which will be provided automatically. well president putin has always been very clear on the developing digital technology particularly emphasizing the domestic tech sector telecommunications and artificial intelligence and this was of course to keep.