martine. dear to me yes to give you. 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 when i turned on the t.v. and i saw all these picture. i understand what happened. from that day tell not. a lot what. it's so far to leave. insurgent come germany recalled its highest ever number of deaths in a single day as a new lockdown comes into force from the christmas period. prior to her. whatever you want to write off for the greater good i don't like her and angry

restaurant workers demonstrate in new york over fears a new city lockdown there will force many out of business. scared of my family from your average job you know if you if there is nothing there we will be shutting down probably far more that's a realistic we're going to. get even you're watching r.t. international start this outing with our exclusive on 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 so the money was assassinated by the u.s. in a drone strike back in january his daughter gave an emotional description of the moment she found out and also talked about the consequences of her father's death well the full interview is on today's going underground which you can also watch at r.t.

dot com 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 lose it my family and i knew it that the situation in iraq was so dangerous so i added a child for the new is in iraq and my telegram a boat one am i see. is sharing on that china telegram about explosion in 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 unsold 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 your road 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 truly 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 gen soleimani departure of the

middle east but they are still 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 as 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 and 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 are making the middle east 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 joe biden 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 watch that interview in full in the latest episode of going underground now germany has set another sad record in the pandemic with almost a 1000 deaths in the last 24 hours you just came on the 1st day of a strict new lockdown in the country reporting now from berlin is peter all of. 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 all 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 work or 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. for around half of all deaths in berlin have been in care homes or we heard from chancellor angela merkel is a message saying stay away from elderly relatives if you can because of the possibility of infection them with covert 19 could have huge long term impacts the ones i did then the actual benefits of feeling. i should is there's less if i don't think it was in time but at the end of year it's fast as i'm tired that's a good. 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. meanwhile in america 100 restaurant workers have rallied in central new york they blame the governor for the new block time restrictions which they say could force them out of business. or her. whatever you want to try to refer to are right there i don't know where were the protests came a day after governor andrew cuomo banned indoor dining they want to release packages the report finds that without help more than half of city restaurants will close permanently and even iconic then used to they have to shut down this kind of market reports. the coded 9 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 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 to have r.n.a. having taken away from them when they finally you know we're not getting any support from anyone in order to pay become pretty clear they really need. to pressure keep things getting more and more and more people out of her and it actually packing 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 we can only give them 15 hours of people working full time jobs. so deferred. having to tell people that and i'm scared of 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 labor and now $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 is even tougher restrictions that one bar owner in los angeles. 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 and the lamp in my phrase. bad faith politicians love to praise small businesses but is the whole game rigged it seems like when we finally emerged 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 know most 600 deaths have been reported in the past 24 hours and that brings the total number of infections to more than 2 and the half 1000000 or the scale of the pandemic has prompted one russian medic to show us the horrors and challenges of fighting it through his ive nice surgeon is going to follow this online after posting poignant sketches from a coronavirus hot spot well we have made

a film about him and his work which does a in about 15 minutes from now but here's a quick taste of what's to come. 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 with this. 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. 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. just going to quote a possum the evening. denmark has defended a new law that will effectively classify most of the migrant separately in crime statistics critics say though that the movie is clearly racist but the country's immigration minister his 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 though of colonial practices copenhagen previously had just 2 groups of crime stats weston and norm weston but now there is a 3rd category specifically for those from predominantly muslim nations such as in the middle east and also north africa well to talk about denmark spamming we're joined by day she he's the chair of the european network against racism and also the political journalist i've been through. 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 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 racism i have looking at these. but the problem is . pretty loose you see the maligned minority is for you

next wrong everything negative. under beauty is not religion or are we one color this is the races this is in this gear is wrong you can be poor muslim can give me this is your view 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 our ship 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 racist 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. sort 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 committing 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 $21.00 trees which have a muslim majority countries and say the problem comes there that is was the part that is a lie because most about disbanding the turks go to universities have good jobs there have been wonderful profession why don't you talk about them have you ever read any report in denmark which averages show us the contributions are getting when are just going to be which have been in commerce in business is direction

driving in everything many many service from fundamental right if you can see 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 of me and have those i am full and i am going to be unfair 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 our this been committed you know the society we had has in jail we had lot of other groups who were selling drugs who were doing large some crimes x. said yeah i think it was dumb to prevent it at all and i was definitely you know you that if we had not only has learned 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 religion and groups and look at this is likely to hold these a crime among the people there is a real problem that is alive for the problem so we should look at 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 human eyes them but they're sick sack you what they're trying to do i think why do we why do people call me of usually presented unarmed u.s. 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 have lived here for 2 or 3 of do years so why do categorise people we don't get a grocery bill into what it is just being what we are if we thought would be you

know 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 the people that people are committing crime no crimes no matter who they are i think we have to separate idiology and facts. of britain struggling to cope with the growing number of asylum seekers and locals in one village or female at plans to accommodate them nearby has more that story. 20 twentieth's seen record numbers of people attempting to reach the united kingdom and claim asylum thousands made the journey a while not all will be granted permission to stay long term all do need somewhere to live quite well but the question is whether one location under consideration it's clear to me from village of boston stacy in hampshire where there are proposals to build accommodation for up to 500 young men seeking asylum with just

the church a part of the village store and a population of only a 1000 people that if it is it simply won't cope in a small rule very large 500 people squat lot so i think maybe i'm not against the idea of the idea of it's good it's just the placement i think is a little off to maybe it should mean more towards a city or town. my concerns mostly focused around the facilities in the area and the fact that it will be the other sort of a 3 a 3 to any shops or any of the buildings like that it's just going to cause a danger i think with people trying to cross the carriage but the issue here is that's a field in the middle of the countryside with no facilities and there are services so whatever happens those people are going to have to walk somewhere who hate children to get any services that. the strong like. the petition by council to stop the home office from implementing the idea has been saturated but some in the local council are more welcoming of the idea i sent in the falklands in 1800 it was devastation all around people to death that they couldn't see any that

they were trying to devastation of warfare he's right and we don't understand that relieving countrysides peace and quiet you know we have no concept unless you've been there you can understand what the people of interest what they can't change it just to survive. thank you this empty plot is ministry of defense land that's been floated as a location for the facility built temporary structures will include dining and sanitation facilities as well as. access to basic recreation but it's been compared to prison like conditions in some one of the possibility of overcrowding and the location of a busy country lane with low footpaths could be dangerous to. concerns have already been raised about other locations used to house asylum seekers such as the napier barracks facility in folks in kent the government to spend millions on housing asylum seekers and say these are just temporary measures while they work to find

more sustainable solutions given pressure on the system during these unprecedented times we have worked tirelessly with local authorities and other partners to provide asylum seekers who would otherwise be destitute with suitable accommodation as we are required to do by law if the napier barracks experience is anything to go by there are fears of overcrowding over the cove in 1900 mks that ongoing the safety of those housed in the accommodation and local residents is paramount but with the number of asylum seekers needing shelters set to rise other communities could be placed in a very similar positions to the sally ots u.k. botton stacey. has unveiled strict new digital market rules to challenge 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 did 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 when you come in europe. vote our responsibility is to decide and to give 2 directions underage 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 and acquisitions that are in the sector repeat violators too you may be banned from the market altogether now google has already criticised the proposal a selective punishment but europe isn't alone in its opposition to these big companies a case in point just last week 48 u.s. states together with the federal trade commission filed a lawsuit against facebook and accuse 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 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. 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 out of the e.u. all together i could see available the reality is that the village solution technology 72 different speeds and the new are not able to form the evolution of technology sloan's keep for this reason that we are attempting to up the. state in a 20 year signal you cannot force tech giants or tool fall or do we dismantle finance and 'd see sense speaking we have seen in the last couple of years so very small finance enormously nicky's is these fines that are not going off and off to

scare giants. so that's the news today up next though it's our documentary. on that russian doctor we mentioned earlier and his life on the front line against. the us economy was booming growing numbers of people were made homeless. you can work 40 hours 'd in

a week and still not have enough to get housing everybody believes america still is the land of opportunity the reality of it is we're not financially equality and the lack of affordable housing for a living minimum wage gave many people no choice but to just been a problem with the city knows turn their backs on and told me stay away almost. before that there is no answer because yes the records resource the most vulnerable are abandoned on the streets to become the invisible class. the good of those who did the bush or the war well this stuff.