the headlines this hour the daughter of iran's top military chief assassinated by the u.s. to read this she gives an emotional 1st interview to r.t. and reveals how she learned of her father's know. what i turned on the t.v. and i saw his picture. i understand what happened. from that day tell no i'm still shocked a lot of the soft hard to believe. also to come germany records its highest ever number of deaths in a single day as a new drop zone comes into force for the christmas period and. i got to call her. whatever you want to write and of course i was right there are a lot of playing. angry restaurant workers demonstrating new york over fears of

a new city lockdown there will see many go bankrupt. spirit my family from your average european if there is nothing we will be sure they will probably buy more books a realistic look very. low good evening you're watching r t international where she's gone 5 o'clock here in moscow now we'll start with our exclusive here in r.t. international because in her 1st ever t.v. appearance we've spoken to the daughter of iran's former top military chief general a man who was assassinated by the u.s. in a drone strike back in january his daughters zainab emotional description of the moment she found out and talked about the consequences of her father's death but you can watch the interview in full on going underground this hour or any time at r.t.

dot com but here's a taste of what was said. 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 add a child for the new is in iraq and my telegram a boat one am i see every deal is sharing on that china's had a girl about the 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 and full of 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 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 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 bench 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 money to power off 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 chomped and they are so wrong they are sinking 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 dangerous 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 plan they are making them and the list is destroyed everywhere

they are trying to enter and hurts in 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 it 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 it is going underground which follows this bullet in the back 25 minutes time now germany has set another sad record in the pandemic with almost a 1000 deaths in the last 24 hours the news came on the 1st day of a strict new lockdown in the country reporting from berlin his peter oliver. wednesday sees germany and a new lock down 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 which they would designed essentially to keep as moche 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 in berlin it's care homes that have been hardest hit when it comes to infections and deaths hoffa. around half of all deaths in berlin have been in care homes what we heard from chancellor angela merkel is a message saying stay away from elderly relatives if you can because of the possibility of infection and with covert 19 could have huge long term impacts then one side and then the until then it's a feeling. i should isn't this just listen i don't think it was and i'm not and can be and it's fast doesn't mean. it's not going to be the most

festive periods 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 there have rallied in central new york playing the governor and you know damn restrictions they want to force most of them out of business. right. now. whatever you want to try to refer to are right there i don't know where. but the protests came a day after governor andrew cuomo banned indoor dining i want a relief package as the reporters find that without help more than half of city restaurants will close permanently and even iconic venue's may have to shut down to this kind of explains. the coded 19 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 kind of 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 sit. 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 when you have more and having to take nothing away from them when they finally heard you were not getting any support from anyone in order to feel pain because people you really need. to press can keep moving is 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 you carried everyone you know every day and we were there some people we had a little bit of business we could do of these 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 you know hours people working full time jobs. so deferred. having to tell people that and i'm scared about my family's 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 with the 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 town but this is dangerous. but right next to me as a slap in my face. that face politicians love to praise small busy. 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. here in russia more than 26000 new cases of covert 19 and almost 600 deaths have been reported in the past 24 hours and that brings the total number of infections to more than 2 and a half 1000000 while the scale of the pandemic has prompted one russian medic to show us the horrors and challenges of fighting it through his. surgeon is going

follow this online after posting poignant sketches from coronavirus hot spot where we've made a film about him and his work and you can see it here in just over 2 hours time but his 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 which. 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. your now 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 who put the issue up for debate in a couple of minutes. is your media a reflection of reality. in

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we were is the accountability. hello again you with r.t. international now denmark has defended a new door that will effectively classify muslim migrants separately in crime statistics critics who say the movie is clearly racist but the country's immigration minister he's father is ethiopian 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 media said it raised disturbing memories of colonial practices copenhagen previously had just 2 groups

of crime stats western and norm western but now there is a 3rd category specifically for those from predominantly muslim nations such as in the middle east and also north africa where to talk about denmark's plans we were joined by bashing kuwait a she he's the chair of the european network against racism and also the political journalist i've been through on her. 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 ignore 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 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 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 ostracize 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 don't exist we tell a muslim majority countries and say the problem comes that is 1st of all that is a lie because most a pakistani in the turks good to us does have good jobs there have been wonderful profession why don't we 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 i see the.

relational 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 no jails 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 represent it at all and i didn't mention it or you that if we had not only on his managed that we're committing the same sort of crimes they would take care of that so i think that they didn't so tightly should stop do i think people into culture or religion and groups and look at this

is 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 realize that they're sick sakya what they're trying to do i think why do we why do people call me of usually standard unarmed us john 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 do years so why do categorise people we don't categorize people into what it is just being where we are if we talk but 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. now view has unveiled strict new digital market rules to challenge the dominance of global take giants proposed legislation would apply only to the biggest companies with tens of millions of users like google and amazon and officials behind the draft bill say they had no choice. now we have sitting crees in the online traffic that we need to make rules that put order into chaos. in europe vote our responsibility is to decide when to give directions underage just to protect which is important to wish 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 that are happening in the sector and repeat violators may be banned from the e.u. market altogether or google has already criticised proposal as selective punishment but europe isn't alone in its opposition to these big companies we can see because just last week 48 u.s. states together with the federal trade commission did file a lawsuit against facebook and it keeps 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 delhi 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. book 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 follow the evolution of technology sloan's keep for this reason that we are attempting to up the decision that you state in the 20 years ago you cannot force tech giants are to follow the rules we dismantle finance and 'd he says speaking we have seen in the last couple of years certain very small finance enormous any keys is these fines that are not going off and off to scare tech giants. because next it is going on the ground with that exclusive interview with the daughter of the iranian military chief that was assassinated by the united states.

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time after it had said we're going on the ground as the world trade organization general council meets for a 2 day summit in switzerland as the west stands accused of buying up covert $1000.00 vaccinations and imposing arguably illegal sanctions that home the covert response of poorer countries potentially risking the lives of billions coming up on the show almost one year ago global strategist against isis and al qaeda hearing in general custom soleimani was murdered on the orders of u.s. president donald trump.