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 to the father's murder. but i turned on the t.v. and i saw this picture. i understand what happened. from that they tell now i'm still shocked a lot what. is so hard to believe. too many records its highest ever number of cobi deaths in a single day as a new lockdown comes into force for the christmas period. prior to. the overall. what you are currently referred to are right there are a lot of. angry restaurant workers demonstrate in new york over fears

a new city lockdown will force many out of business experience or my friend with our job in the world if there is nothing we will be trivial probably far more that's a realistic look very much. a very warm welcome it's 8 pm here in moscow and you're watching r.t. international with me. now we start with our exclusive here on r.t. international and her 1st ever t.v. appearance we've spoken to the daughter of iran's former top military chief general concepts of the man he was assassinated by the u.s. in a drone strike back in january his daughter zainab gave an emotional description of the moment she found out and talks about the consequences of her father's death the full interview is on today's going on the ground which you can also watch it 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 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 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 me i'm still shocked a lot of what happened it's so hard to believe how is the death of the off 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 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 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 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 plan they are making them and 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 that 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'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.

germany has sent another side 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 has peta. 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 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 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. 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 in them with covert 19 could have huge long term impacts the ones i'm in the intel they know it's a feeling. i should isn't the 1st listen i don't think it was and i'm not and yet it's fast as i did. 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 hundreds of restaurant workers have rallied in central new york and play the governor for new lockdown restrictions which they say could force them out of business. write to your parents through robot. whatever you want to try to refer to our friends or that i don't wait for the protests came a day off the governor andrew cuomo banned indo dining they once they were leave packages a report finds that without help well and hof of city restaurants will close permanently and even iconic venue's may have to shut to his cane of more pain 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 but if you have more like a having taken away from them when they finally hired you were not getting any support from anyone in order to save a job pretty well you really need. to brush my teeth i think is getting more and more people out of work and it happened way back in 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 we can do 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 only give them 15

hours of people working full time jobs. so it's a virtue. for 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. we buy more that's the realistic approach with her and about $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 hall set up town but this is dangerous.

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 caleb mop and artsy new york. now here in russia more than 26000 new kopechne 1000 cases and almost 600 deaths have been reported in the past 24 hours that brings the total number of infections to most in 2 and a half 1000000 well the scale of the pandemic has prompted one russian medic to show is the horror as the challenges of finding get through his own eyes the surgeon has gained followers online also posting poignant sketches from a coronavirus hot spots well we've made a film about his work which you can watch on the documentary channel on you tube

but here's a quick taste of what's that. we've just finished a 3 hour operation it was our 3rd today that's one tired assistant. let them listen because that's my son who came to me that night i asked my wife to bring him my son and i have a very close relationship and. i love my son and i so wanted to support him little 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. but this is a patient from a care home due to diabetes he had lost both his legs into 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. we had severe breathing trouble with it and was sent to the i.c.u. but on september 17th as i was just leaving the coverts 19 adored 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 ask you what i saw there that made me drop 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 for death is sniffing around you. denmark has defended a new law that will effectively classify muslim migrants separately in crime statistics critics say the movie is clearly racist and the country's immigration minister who's thought is ethiopian explained why it's needed. this new designation 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 for crime stats western and northwestern but now there is a new category specifically for those from predominantly muslim nations such as in the middle east and north africa or talk about denmark's plan we were joined by abashed he's the chair of the european network against racism and also political jing 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 nor does that then you create racist i have looking at these. mark. lewis you see the maligned minority units for you next. door under. religion. are.

these is the real issues this is in this group is. the poor muslim going to. be i think it's very important to address the truth and it is actually the minister itself that has done this research and it shows that. 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. sort of ostracized and more blame them they're actually wants to help them and i think if you ignore that problem and people. see that those people 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 degrees which have a muslim majority countries and see a problem come to the end that this was the point that is a lie because most about disbanding the troops who are you austrians have good jobs there have been wonderful profession why don't you talk about them have you ever read any record in denmark please show us the contributions. are just going to be which you have been in commerce in business is actually driving everything many many servers from fundamental right if you can see what i see from. our listeners which has proved denmark 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 in the danish society and i think you are inflaming a lot of hatred against denmark when i am in slightly and have those i am full and i am going to be unfair because i am dedicated i also do something about the problem tell me one thing before we came to denmark there was not there were 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 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 learned that we're committing the same sort of crimes they would take care of that i didn't show titles should stop do i think people into culture religion and groups and look at the. you know the whole these a crime among the people do is a problem that is alive for all of the problem so we should look at is group in

which each group there is a criminality in which group do the only problem and triton solve it instead of knocking 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 try to have them instead of human eyes them but that's exactly what they're trying to do i think why do we why do people call me off usually the standard unarmed us john cultural background what does michael just has to do with my being that then i am a black today in our day and i have lived for trinity years so why do categorise people we don't get over as we bought into what it is just being what we are if we . if we had a young or a cool of the young then his man that was 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 us from it's 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 fact. question is struggling to cope with a growing number of asylum seekers and locals in one village or fuming at plans to accommodate the nearby he certainly has the 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 is here in the few village of boston stacy in hampshire where there are proposals to build accommodation 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 were 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 or $320.00 shops or any other buildings like that it's just going to cause a danger i think with people trying to cross the carriageway issue here is that's a field in the middle of the countryside with no facilities and their services so whatever happens those people are going to have to walk somewhere or hit film to get any services that will be strong like. a 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 said to the folks in 1800 there it was devastation all around people to death that they couldn't see any that they were trying to devastation of warfare is right and we don't understand that relieving fantasize peace and quiet you know we have no concept unless you've been there you can

understand what the people of interest what they had to endure just to survive. 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 location on a busy country lane with no footpaths could be dangerous to. the concerns of already been raised about other locations used to house asylum seekers such as the napier barracks facility in folkston 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 covert $1000.00 pandemic still 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. who bought and stacey. a you has unveiled strikes 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 uses like google and amazon and officials behind the draft bill say 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 your. boat our responsibility is to decide and to give you directions and. just to protect what is

important to us. let me roll so i could strip the big tech of up to 10 percent of turnover if they break the competition principles european officials also want to be told of plans big mergers or acquisitions in the sector where paid violators may be balance from the e.u. markets google has already criticised the proposal selective punishment but europe is too alone in its opposition to these big companies just last week $48.00 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 our experts whether this latest move could keep the big tech companies in check the idea behind this is to not try to narrow.