it's. headlines in r.t. the daughter of iran's top military chief assassinated by the u.s. to leave if she gives an emotional 1st interview to r.t. and reveals how she learned of her father's murder. what i read on the t.v. and i saw his picture from that day tell no i'm still shocked i was what. it's so hard to believe. also to come germany records its highest ever number of deaths in a single day is a new lockdown there comes into force for the christmas period and. that. was. what he was part of the rather interesting clearing world famous venues are projected to go bankrupt amid

a new city lockdown we speak to one restaurant owner. my family from your girlfriend if there is nothing we will be sure of the ground probably far more perhaps a realistic look at the ground. hello there welcome good afternoon you're watching r.t. international where it's just gone 2 o'clock in moscow. now 2020 started with an event that shocked the world and threatened to spark an international conflict the u.s. assassinated iran's top general. well in her 1st media appearance his daughters sign a given an emotional description of how she found out that her father had been murdered and the fallout from it you can watch the full exclusive interview later on r.t. but here's a taste of what was said. that turbot night. before

a few hours that this happened for my father i hear and i spoke with him on the phone. and then i left. to wisit my family and i knew it that the situation in iraq was in my telegram a boat one am i see every deal is sharing on that china's had a girl about the explosion i had a phone call after that i hear from one of our car and they hit it so i got so shocked and on the t.v. and i saw his picture. i understand what happened and from that they tell not i'm still shocked a lot of what happened it's so hard to believe how is the death of the off road in iran together what happened in iran and iraq are angry and they wonder events and they're waiting for an answer because they know. what general fully money did for

them and they know also well why order to kill my father so so after that after killing my father america thought that everything will be stopped because they killed general soleimani departure of the middle east but they are so wrong they didn't see the anger of the od in the eyes of iranian people they didn't see their tears they didn't see their sadness and i have to say that generously money has a military from people. that they will take revenge from trump and they are so wrong they are thinking this war will be end the end of general soley money this is the beginning our people are united and they will stand in front of such a they interest powers why would donald trump say that your father was

a monster well of course a 1st he is the monster not my father. and 2nd i will say. seeing every day are trying to enter and hurt iran they are failed i got killed by such a dangerous virus how my father can be a person who wants to kill an american people and people in europe how he was saving them from i says he was saving them so don't let anyone to hurt them he was fighting for them how he can be a terrorist to kill people trump is gone in january and it will be joe biden who says that joe biden will be in the white house there is no difference between biden trump they are the same guy and they are false joe biden cannot return my father

he can't they can't return it so there is the problem we have with our it is with their policy this will not change they are the same people the same mind the same way and it's one of them is worse than the other one. and you can watch that interview in fortune the latest episode of going underground now germany has passed another sad milestone during this pandemic it has recorded almost a 1000 deaths in the last 24 hours the news coming during the country's 1st day under a strict new lockdowns let's get the latest with peter all of them joins us from berlin good afternoon. things are looking pretty bleak there according to the figures in the numbers just brings up to date with what's happening. well germany starts a new national lockdown on wednesday the run through until the 10th of january at

the least it starts that period with some very grim news and a very grim record $952.00 deaths with covert 90 were confirmed in the last 24 hours that say a record it beats the previous record that was set just a few days ago that was $598.00 so it's a considerable rice in the number of people dying with this virus the new lockdown means all non-essential retail has closed that's all. and all shops that are in supermarkets and pharmacies basically anything else is short the reason that that was done was to try and stop the spread of of the virus rising but what it did see was on cheese day a lot of people going out to do some last minute in person christmas shopping.

well the new lockdown was agreed on over the weekend between the federal government here in berlin and the leaders of germany 16 states it comes after what is being called lockdown light that came into effect in november that had been designed to keep as much of the german economy open as possible at the expense of social contacts well after everybody basically admitted that hadn't worked. dear citizens we had all hope to be further along but the virus still has us firmly in its grip from wednesday on words our public and private lives will therefore be more severely restricted than ever before in the history of the federal republic of germany the situation is bitterly series. yes thousands of deaths in one week and

an infection that threatens to get out of control we cannot avoid drastic measures . here in berlin care homes of being the hardest hit by covert 19 more than half of all of those infected in the german capital were infected in a care home what we've also heard from the german chancellor is anglo merkel pulling no punches whatsoever explaining just how much damage meeting with elderly relatives in particular over the christmas period could have in the long run. that led to simply say that if we now have too many contacts before christmas and afterwards it will be their last christmas with the grandparents then we will have missed something we should not do that. well there is going to be a loosening of the new strict lockdown measures between the 24th and the 26th of december a very light loosening but the the message from the government is do not just it

here to what is permitted go beyond that and limit your contacts as much as possible although they are acknowledging that a lot of people particularly the elderly are looking for contact at this time or looking for human contact at this time the message is to avoid meeting with as many people as you possibly can ok thanks peter that was artie's peter over there reporting from berlin. that over in america hundreds of restaurant workers have rallied in central new york they are blaming the governor for a new lock down restrictions that they warn will force most out of business. right to your hair drew. whatever you want to try to refer to our last credit i don't care for the protest k a day after governor andrew cuomo banned indoor dining a one term relief package is a report finds that without help more than half of city restaurants will close

permanently and even iconic then used my ny have to show up to this kind of report . the coded night teen pandemic has been deadly for a society's most vulnerable even the big guns are not safe and for businesses it's no different here in new york city the latest victim is club 21 and i conduct a stablish meant that is now shutting its doors for good the restaurant has been serving customers for a century there's been some big stars along the way such as novelist ernest hemingway tennis player john mcenroe as well as every sitting president since roosevelt except of course george w. bush and barack obama club $21.00 is not alone small businesses have been devastated some estimates say that as many as 50 percent of them could go under soon but it is absolutely heart wrenching having to take anything away from them when they finally you know we're not getting any support from anyone in order to

pay because people you really need. to brush and keep moving it's getting more and more and more people out of work and it happened we had. the new york state restaurant association made up of over 6000 operators has many who fear they won't make it through the next 6 months it's carried over one year or every day and we there are some people we have a little bit of business week to do that are these 2 little bit more right we had to bring some people back to work and it's terrible to tell them that you know we give them 15 hours of people working full time jobs. so it's referred. to as having told people that and i'm scared of my family i'm going to have a job you know a few months if there is. nothing we will be sure they will probably buy more that's the realistic approach will bring out $552000000000.00 was provided as a bailout to small businesses during the pandemic however a big chunk of that went to major corporations tied to big banks not the little guys who are struggling to stay afloat meanwhile those that are still open for

trade are facing even tougher restrictions that one bar owner in los angeles was fighting back tears and anger when mayor eric garcetti closed down her outdoor patio and just across the way a hollywood movie set had outdoor dining all set up town this is dangerous. but right next to me as a slap in my face. that face politicians love to praise small businesses but is the whole game rigged it seems like when we finally emerge from this pandemic we might as well have dined out sheerest and said farewell to our favorite local spots open artsy new york. mall here in russia more than 26 that is new k b k c's and 500 deaths have been reported in the past 24 hours and that brings the

total number of cases to more than 2 and a half 1000000 but the scale of the pandemics also prompted one russian medic to show us the horrors and the challenges of fighting it 3 was ionize the surgeon's gang follow his online off the posting poignant sketches from a coronavirus whole sport when you can watch his documentary here on our nights but he's a pretty. we've just finished a 3 hour operation it was our 3rd today that's one tired assistant. that's my son who came to me that night i had asked my wife to bring him my son and i have a very close relationship. i love my son and i so wanted to support him and it upset him that i missed his 1st day. moreover before he was born i'd imagine seeing my kids 1st school day crying staring into

the distance looking at teachers it didn't work out sadly. this is a patient from a care home due to diabetes he had lost both his legs. the thing is i drew him on the 5th of september. well certainly early september. when he arrived i thought he would die because he was suffering from moderate to severe covered 19. he had severe breathing trouble and was sent to the i.c.u. but on september 17th as i was just leaving the covert 1000 ward we were going down in the same lift. i was so surprised to see that he had recovered. he was going back to the care home. this was my last picture my last but one working day. i was as they say at the end of my tether.

that day i had sent 2 patients to the i.c.u. they were severe patients hopeless cases that day i went to the i.c.u. and it scared the hell out of me what i saw there made me draw this picture of. a depiction of despair when you walk across this room with no doors or windows and as you cross it you're waiting death is sniffing around you. and you can see his documentary a bit later now still to come this hour denmark plans to rank muslim immigrants separately in crime statistics that has faced of wave of criticism with people calling the move racist we'll have the details after the break.

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again you with denmark has defended a new rule that will effectively classify muslim migrants separately in crime statistics critics to say the movie is clearly racist but the country's immigration minister whose father reason explained why it's needed. this new jersey nation will provide a more honest political discussion about the minority of immigrants who create very great challenges there is a huge difference in how immigrants from thailand the philippines and latin america fare in relation to people from for example the middle east and i do not think it is racist to categorize countries based on that or many on social media do you say

race to being memories of colonial practices copenhagen previously had just 2 groups for crime stats western norm western but now there is a new categories we heard specifically for those from predominantly muslim nations such as in the middle east and north africa or to talk about denmark's plan we were joined by bashing he's the chair of the european network against racism and also the political journalist i've been from home. i don't think that acknowledging the truth and looking at the facts can ever be. racist or sectarian but i think it's very very crucial to stress that you have to look at the numbers and the facts and this can never be racist i think actually if you are trying to make nor the facts then you create racists and i have looked movies. but the problem is much. less you demonize more of us for.

the next. negative move. on the beauty of religion or our. this is the races this is in this gear is. the poor muslim country. i think it's very important to address the truth and it is actually the ministry itself that has done this research and it shows that of 5 percent of young men from north africa the middle east pakistan and turkey actually do have some kind of sentence because they committed a crime as it is quite lower for other immigrants from other countries and this are the facts and i don't think it is raises to say hey we have a problem here because among these men there is such a high crime rate it's not because they want to and so it of ostracize them or

blame them they actually wants to help them i know i think if you ignore that problem and people see that those people are many crimes then we have you know another tendency to more racist and so i think actually this is to prevent racists and i do understand that for all the good law abiding muslims in this country it's not nice to hear those facts but still they are facts and i don't see any kind of racist idiology behind trying to help the problem. then you make a list of 20 countries which have a muslim majority countries and see a problem come to the end that is 1st of all that is a lie because most about disbanding the turks good for you austrians have good jobs there have been wonderful profession why don't you talk about them have you ever read any of the holes in denmark please show us the contributions are acting we are just going to which have been in commerce in business is actually driving

everything many many services from fundamental right if you can see what i see from . this international which has proved that denmark is doing that and then action i really do think that this government and a lot of things appreciate that there are so many muslims that are well integrated into danish society and i think you are inflaming a lot of hatred against denmark when i am inside and have those i am full and i am going to understand because i am dead and that i also do something about the problem tell me one thing before we came to denmark there was no jails there was no police there was no crimes crimes have are has been committed in every society we had has in jail we had lot of other groups who were selling drugs who were doing lots of crimes exaggerated i think it was dumb to prevent it at all and i was definitely you know you that if we had not only in his managed that we're committing the same sort of crimes they would take care of that so i came that they

didn't so tightly should stop people into culture religion and groups and look at the white meat of the whole of these a crime among the people there is a problem i live where the problem so we should look at that is group in which each group there is a criminality in which group there is any problem and try to solve it instead of talking about it all the time if the majority of them are functioning very well so what is the problem and those who are not. functioning very well may have some plan of action right to have them instead of revise them but that's exactly what they're trying to do i think why do we why do people call me are usually standard unarmed u.s. drone cultural background what does michael john has to do with my being that then i am a black today in our day and i have lived for 50 years so why do categorise people we don't get a grocery bill into what it is just being where we are if we taught but bill you

know if we had a young or a group of young then his land that were born in denmark that had such a high crime rate the government would address that too and say this is a problem we have to help this problem it is a problem for other people that people are committing crime not crimes no matter who they are i think we have to separate idiology and facts. vu has unveiled strict new digital market rules to challenge the dominance of global tech giants the proposed legislation would apply only to the biggest companies with tens of millions of users like google and also amazon and officials behind the draft bill do you say that they had no choice now we have such an increase in the online traffic that we need to make rules that put order into chaos everybody is welcome in europe vote our responsibility is to decide and to give directions and ruge just to protect what is important to

us. well the new rules could strip big tech of up to 10 percent of turnover if they break the competition principles european officials also want to be told of planned big mergers or acquisitions in the sector and repeat violators could even be banned from the new itself or google has already criticized proposal as selective punishment and europe isn't alone in its opposition just last week $48.00 u.s. states together with the federal trade commission filed a lawsuit against facebook accusing the company of pumping money into unfair competition we are scarce whether all this could keep the big tech companies in check. the idea behind this is to not try to too narrow it into just one kind of attack but across all the tech spectrum of so-called gatekeepers the e.u. has consistently is lined amazon find google find facebook for violating their

rules over and over a key problem here is the fact that these companies continue to break the law france and germany continually say facebook is violating the law google is violating the law so they assigned them record size fines these companies build this into their actual bottom line in terms of a line item in their budgets to say we're going to pay fines because we're going to break the rules the penalties are enormous we're talking about 10 percent of global turnover and then if there is a persistent noncompliance that could be increased to 5 percent of daily then of a daily worldwide but over the e.u. he's saying hey you know we want to be able to to give internet companies we want to give them an opportunity to compete do facebook and google will just have to accept the new reality. to the new rule it is difficult to

see face grew pulling out of the e.u. altogether could see the ball the reality is that the village incision technology 72 different speeds and the low are not able to for all the evolution of technology sloan's keep for this reason that we are attempting to up the decision that there is need in the 20 years ago you cannot force tech giants are to follow the rules that we dismantle finance and 'd the sense speaking we have seen in the last couple years so very small fine is enormously nicky's is these fines that are not going off and off to scare tech giants. international let me bring you up to date with all the events around the world for the moment. we'll be back that was usually the headlines and more stories about how. forward to talking to you all. should work for people. must

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