the headlines this hour the daughter of iran's top military chief assassinated by the u.s. earlier this year gives an emotional 1st interview to r.t. and reveals how she learned of her father's murder. but i turned on the t.v. and i sold this picture. i understand what happened. from that day tell now i'm still shocked a lot of what. it's so hard to believe. but also to come germany records its highest ever number of deaths in a single day it's a new lockdown comes into force for the christmas period and. i think all that was probably. what you want our troops for the there was no way i

am angry restaurant workers rally in new york is most eateries there including world famous venues are projected to go bankrupt amid a new city the. spirit of my family from your average job you know if there is nothing there we will be sure to grow probably by more perhaps a realistic. good afternoon just gone 4 o'clock here in moscow you with r.t. international 2020 started with an event that shook the world and threatened to spark an international conflict u.s. assassinated iran's top general a man a well in her 1st media appearance his daughter saying up has given an emotional description of how she found out about his murder and also the shooting full act you can watch the full exclusive interview later on this channel or find it at r.t.

dot com but his taste of what we 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 visit my family and i knew it that the situation in iraq was so dangerous so i added chattels for the new is in iraq and my telegram a boat one am i see. is sharing on that china telegram about explosion in the airport i had a phone call after that i hear from one of our friend he was asking for my father at various he is he ok or no because i hear any news that there is explosion in airport. and your father was in the car and they hit it so i got so shocked unfold stress like my heart was going from my chest when i turned on the

t.v. and i saw his picture. i understand what happened and from that they tell me 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 was something something so special in the history you see how people come to the street and they are crying and they are sad and they are angry and they wonder events and they are 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 to probert 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 silly money this is the beginning our people are united and they will stand in front of such a they just 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. my father did his job so well and make them so angry you are seeing every plant they are making them in the list is destroyed everywhere

they are trying to enter and hurt iran they are failed why of course for them my father is a big monster but my father is a savior. he saved people not just his own country he did this for all countries he did this for people not just middle east he this troy i says because he don't want people people innocent in europe 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 he wants new relations with iran do you think it means anything that joe biden will be in the white house there is no difference between biden trump they are the same guy and they are following the same policy there is no difference between them trump or dare killing my father but biden support death so there is no different they have the same thought and they are following the same way and they are the same person so by they cannot return my father he can 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 see that interview in full in the latest edition of going underground now germany has set another sad record in the pandemic with almost a 1000 deaths in the last 24 hours the news comes on the country's 1st day under a strict new lockdown is peter all over reports from berlin. wednesday sees germany enter a new lockdown that will last through until the 10th of january but it also marks a very grim record 952 deaths over the last 24 hours with covert 19 being confirmed by the robert cock institute germany's public health body it comes as germany enters a new strict a lockdown basically all non-essential retail polluting things like head dresses and beauty salons as well closing down the only things really remaining open are banks in some cases pharmacies and supermarkets in order for people

to buy food what they did see was a rush of people going to shopping malls on tuesday evening and an attempt to cram in some last minute in person christmas shopping. it combs after the previous measures that it being called lockdown light that came into play at the beginning of november they were designed essentially to keep as much of the german economy open as possible at the expense of social contacts well everybody basically admitted they hadn't worked dear citizens we had all hoped to be further along but the virus still has us firmly in its grip from wednesday on worked 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 serious thousands of deaths in one week and an infection that threatens to get out of control we cannot avoid drastic measures here and in care homes of being the hardest hit by cove at 19 more than half of all of those. infected in the german capital where infected in a care home we've also heard from chancellor angela merkel who said that we should limit our contacts particularly with elderly family members over the christmas period pulling no punches the chancellor said it could have serious long term consequences big ones and then the answer of a no it's a feeling. that is the 1st lift of i don't think it was in time but it's fast as i did. it's not going to be the most festive period here in germany this year there is going to be

a loosening of restrictions between the 24th and the 26th of this month but the message is still it may be a loosening of those rules but the virus doesn't take a break. in america hundreds of restaurant workers have rallied in central new york they blame the governor for new lockdown restrictions they warn or force most out of business. what you are right i referred to right there i don't know where. all the protests came a day after governor andrew cuomo banned indoor dining they want a relief package is that reporters find that without help more than half of city restaurants will close permanently and even iconic venues may have to shut up tell you it's kind of explain. the coded 9 teen pandemic has been deadly for 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 connick establishment 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 after the war and hanging having to take anything away from them when they finally you know we're not getting any support from anyone in order to pay become pretty well you really need. to pressure keep moving more and more and more people out of here 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 every one year or every day and we there are some people we have a little bit of business we can do that of 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 these people working full time jobs. so deferred. having told people that and i'm scared of my families i'm going to have a job you know a few months if there is nothing because we will be shutting down probably by more that's the realistic outlook burned 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. but this is dangerous. but right next to me as a slap in my face. that they 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 cheeriest and said farewell to our favorite local spots open artsy new york. now here in russia more than 26900 cases 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 well the scale of the pandemic has prompted one russian medic to show us the horrors and challenges of fighting it through his own eyes surgeon is

going follows on line off the posting poignant sketches from a coronavirus hot spot we have made a film about him and his work which does a here in just over 3 hours time but his a quick look. 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 us. still ahead this hour denmark plans to rank muslim migrants separately in crime statistics but it is a move that's being called racist by its critics we put the issue up for debate just after birth. join me every thursday on the alex i'm unsure when i'll be speaking to a guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see if.

the world is driven by shaped by one person. or dares thinks. we dare to ask. exhibit a the smoking gun we know now without a doubt the media manager for your answer to the baby campaign before the election the hunter by the story was not was not russian misinformation we were lying to you again we were is the accountability.

again denmark has defended a new rule that will effectively classify muslim migrants separately in crime statistics critics do say that the movie is clearly racist however the country's immigration minister who's father is he 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 many on social me though said it raised disturbing memories of colonial practices copenhagen previously had just 2 groups for crime stats western a norm western but now there is a new category specifically for those from predominantly muslim nations such as in

the middle east and north africa or to talk about denmark's plan we are joined by by she could a shame he's the chair of the european network against racism and also the political journalist i've been. i don't think that acknowledging the truth and looking at the facts can ever be. racist or sick tarion but i think it's very very crucial to to stress that you have to look at the numbers and the facts and this can never be racist i think actually if you try to make north the facts then you create racists in our group movies. but the problem is mark. lewis you demonize moore greens for you next everything negative. under the beauties of religion. are. this is the races this is in this gear is.

the poor muslim going to. be 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 55 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 to of ostracized them or blame them they actually wants to help them and 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. when you make a list of 20. we tell 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 the us does 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 which please show us the contributions of acting we are just going to which have been in commerce in business is direction driving everything many many services from fundamental right if you can see oh i see the. relation which has proved denmark and action i really do think that this government

and a lot of things appreciate that there are so many muslims that are well integrated in the main a society i think you are inflaming a lot of hatred against denmark but i am inside and have those i am full and i am considered fair because i am dedicated i also do something about the problem tell me one thing before we came to denmark there was not there was no police there was no crimes crimes have our this been committed you know the society we had has in jail we had lot of other groups who are selling drugs who are doing large so crimes exaggerated i am paying them to prevent it at all and i was definitely you know you that if we had not only has managed that we're committing the same sort of crimes they would take camp that i didn't so tightly should stop do i think people into culture religion and groups and look at just like you know the whole these a crime among the people there is a real problem that is alive for 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 triton 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 they're sick sakya what they're trying to do i think why do we why do people call me off usually the standard unarmed us drone cultural background what does michael john has to do with my being that didn't i am a black today in our day and i have lived for 3 of do years so why do categorise people we don't categorize rebuild into what it is just being what we are if we talked about 1000000000 or if we had a young or a group of young then his nan 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 no crimes no matter who

they are i think we have to separate idiology and facts. the u. has unveiled strict new digital market rules the dominance of global tech giants the proposed legislation would apply only though to the biggest companies with tens of millions of users like google and amazon and officials behind the draft bill do 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. boat our responsibility is to decide when to give directions underage just to protect which 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 and european officials also want to be told of planned big mergers or acquisitions

in the sector and repeat violators may be banned from the e.u. market together or google has already criticised the proposal a selective punishment but europe isn't alone in its opposition to these big companies for example just last week here 48 u.s. states together with the federal trade commission filed a lawsuit against facebook and accused the company of pumping money into unfair competition we asked experts whether this latest move 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 as aligned 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 adelie worldwide but over the e.u. 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 facebook pulling out of the e.u. altogether could see the ball the reality is that the diligences technology 72 different speeds and the low are not able to follow the evolution of technology

slim's keep for this reason that we are attempting to up the. state 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 or very small fine is enormous any keys is these fines that are not going off and off to scare tech giants is coming up to a half past 4 in the afternoon here in moscow thanks for watching i think it has been. company well for must and. the pandemic no certainly no borders just blind to nationalities. has emerged with the we don't look like world peace to.

judge a. commentary crisis like this sometimes. we can do better we should. everyone is contributing each other own way but we also know that this crisis will not go on forever the challenges create the response has been masked so many good people are helping us. it makes us feel very proud that we are in it together. the forum is of great importance both for russia and off for new partners it's

opens up new opportunities for the business and strengthens international economic ties. by just the sort of the form agenda is rich the topics are important for both governments and business topics include strategies for entering new markets through electronic trading platforms as well as digital services developments and also states supports for exports as both its federal and regional levels but the success of each of us is the success of russia. civil most notably it's the most valuable thing for us in this forum is that the

government has heard the concerns that exporters how worried about. cool if the film but the one business show you.