must protect its own existence. a towering figure in broadcasting for over 6 decades legendary interviewer. so coming up major muslim federations in. charge. the president. confederation tells us why. draw many power groups anyway asking muslims explicitly to clarify the positional subjects subjects that they have respected. and protesters take to the streets. calling for the release of opposition activists.

with the high turnout among the younger generation. just the 10 in. this january the 23rd i'm you know neal hello and welcome to the r t. first tributes are pouring in for the legendary american t.v. and radio host laurie king who has died at the age of 87 lori was admitted to hospital earlier this month but after testing positive for covert 19 in a career spanning more than 6 decades he interviewed many world changing figures including royals political leaders movie stars sporting legends and every day

people with extraordinary stories to tell the new york native became the muster interviewer for generations of journalists following in his footsteps saskia tailor the spark to his incredible career a voice on a name at the became an institution larry king was the indisputable master of the microphone and a case in point the when you find a job you enjoy doing you'll never have to walk a day in your life are going to have a bad day but it will not affect me when i have a light goes on a metal eye goes on bad man it's like home to me lawrence harry's i go was born into a poor family of jewish immigrants and brooklyn the sudden death of his father left the family in dire financial straits and to roger less laurie badly finishing high school but he had to pass on to use the voice that had been given to him and i don't know why most of her. a good voice pre-puberty people kept telling me you got

to be honorary so i would imitate radio with less than $20.00 in his pocket a 24 year old larry set off for the sunshine state in such of golden opportunities that he said goodbye to lawrence vida and became larry king he took a gig as a d.j. all the while freelancing writing columns and trying to get on the air waves and from those humble beginnings he started he walked his way towards his big break came in 1978 when king landed the upon a miss the late night radio larry king show t.v.'s fast live worldwide phone and program it started in 28 cities 5 years later it was in 118 nary king became a household name radios number one interviewer larry king thank you very much good evening everybody on this tuesday night wednesday morning across the united states this is larry king's show 10 years at peabody award on an emulator king decided it

was time to move on and larry king life was born a smash hit from start to finish the longest running most watched show on c.n.n. pulling in a 1000000 viewers nightly for 25 years king with his trademark baritone sat down with presidents of rappers ballerinas even jellicoe preachers and even killers mark where you really are with us those terrible moments for you for the world for a lot of people around and circles close to john lennon some said king was too soft on his guests but his interview style made him a man of the people talk show host his uniqueness was simplicity no gimmicks no skits no long sentences and king insisted no preparation and i use that as questions i never thought about a question of a plan b. question i had questions written ever not to be outdone by the professional life kings person one. was also full of flat

a brief fall from grace after accusations of grand larceny saw him walk as an announcer at a horse racing truck he was married 8 times to 7 women he went to the same bagel shop with his childhood friends every morning he reluctantly gave up smoking and red meat and even more reluctantly took up walking 4 miles a day he left voice mails for his assistance with what to post on his twitter and he had a flip phone until the very end. of your order that you have a flip phone. thank you. but with phenomenal success also came miss fortune king overcame a series of health scares and was stalked by enormous personal grief including the passing of 2 of his children within weeks of each other the very next day king's sort of solace in the place he called home the studio where he stayed until the very last because the mohammed ali of broadcast interviews brought his unwavering

voice and curiosity right here to r.t. and did what he always done best questioned more often larry king questioning listening learning you know our sever i never learned anything where i was talking it's important to listen to question more more than 6 decades of success over 60000 interviews numerous awards countless suspenders and one inimitable voice a legend an icon a king is dead i don't know what to say except to you. my audience. thank you and instead of goodbye. well let's go live now on the program to r.t.m. america host manila cerm a colleague of the late laurie king live good to see you the easy question 1st does

laurie king's death marked the end of an era in global journalism i think certainly larry was one of the few remaining voices of a bygone era where journalism was was true and it was honest it was unbiased i don't think larry went beyond journalism i think larry was kind of as saskia said in her package larry was kind of a voice for the people his genuine carry curiosity. for the everyday person that had a story to tell to you know exactly what being or yasser arafat i mean he spanned across all platforms i think all demographics i think he is part of the generation of journalists that are no more he was certainly bipartisan and fair and honest and most of all genuine and then on a personal level of course what was lori like to work with what's the last thing

impression you have of him as a colleague as a person. well i think the lasting impression about larry is that certainly he's an original and again i can't say enough about how honest and genuine he was he was always one to make the room laugh he was very personable. just a warm guy even though he is this this monolithic figure in television and radio it never felt that way when you were around larry when you were talking to him it was like you were at home with larry so having him be a regular part of my show on in question being a fixture on that show the last 2 years he certainly his voice is going to be greatly missed by my audience i think everybody across the world because of his insight and and his charisma but he just really was a genuine down to earth man his fame and fortune never i don't think ever really

changed and i grew up watching him i think like most children in the u.s. i think it's a time immemorial i think most people alive can't remember a time that you turn on the television and larry king wasn't on it somewhere so he was definitely a fun guy to work with always in good spirits just he was a hard worker and never put the microphone away that's the thing is now he held a ratings busting cable news slot for 25 years you know a period in which the world changed a lot as well perhaps you touched on it but what do you think was was the enduring appeal for audiences manila. i think because of larry's humble beginnings his humble roots a child of the great depression era and he shared with me along with the audience he was very candid about his his upbringing and the beyond modest childhood that he

led so i think he never forgot his roots the same way that he was a huge brooklyn dodgers fan and when they became the los angeles dodgers larry was true blue and i think that came across to all the viewers that kind of genuine honesty i think is translated when you listen to him when you hear him and whether it was somebody viewing his show or somebody in the room being interviewed by larry i think that always came across so i think he was able to be as successful as he was. is was he genuinely no i when you were doing sign checks or perhaps after the interview was there a noticeable change at all you know that was larry that was larry always joking singing quite peppy i think he ran circles around me and certainly less than half his age but he had so much energy he was fry and sharp as a tack all the way to the very end he always had

a great attitude and never wanted to stop working because this wasn't work for him . just all not when his most recent shows big airing on r t larry said he would rather ask questions to people in positions of power instead of speaking on their behalf do you think he achieved that did his choice of new platform compromise his mission to deliver independent on bias programs as has been claimed. you know i think to the contrary i think nowadays with the the the way television is now the way television news is now i think news has been muddled with editorialising and i don't i think larry was the truest definition of news is that the news maker is there with him he asked the questions and let them answer for themselves he didn't editorialize for them he didn't summarize and tell the story to the viewer he let the viewers hear it from the horse's mouth and i

think that's something that will be greatly missed because that style of journalism is is just no more and i think it went with larry king just finally in manila for anyone perhaps starting out in journalism what you think you could learn from larry king what's that one thing. i think larry was spot on when he told me that if he could make it as a poor kid that was waiting in soup lines growing up he had a dream and fire in his belly and he went after it and he never stopped chasing it and he became the king of television and we will all sorely missed him in an election are to america host and colleague of the late laura king thanks for your time today well in tribute to t.v. titan larry king artie america will be sharing with us 36 hour marathon of what laurie did best asking the questions you want us to the people you wanted to hear

from that starts in a couple of hours on our to america if you're outside the u.s. it's life on r t america dot com. moving on 3 muslim federations and fronts have refused to budge president mccollum's extremism charter he's been targeting it as a way to fight radical islam. we regret that this charter was signed before getting the approval of all components of the french council of the muslim faith we believe that some passages and wordings of the submitted text are of a nature that will weaken the ties of trust between the muslims of france and the nation in addition some of the declarations infringe on the honor of muslims exhibiting an accusatory and marginalizing character however a number of other muslim federations did sign up to the charter after intense drawn out discussions the project envisions a new national council responsible for vetting and moms practicing in the country

it rejects polarized brands of his love and reaffirms equality between men and women. sure you remember islamist terror reared its ugly head again in france around 3 months ago a teacher was beheaded for showing his last cartoons of the prophet muhammad during a lesson on freedom of speech. on the park and patrick was the victim of an islamist terror attack. that. established islam as a religion that is in crisis today all over the world we don't just see it in our country yet they don't listen the will of the islamists is precisely to turn our citizens against the republic using their religion and we cannot let that happen.

the christian attack on something or person who triggered a crackdown against extremist mosque islamist associations we heard from 30 sarik here he's the president of the paris based islamic confederation organization which is against them across charter we asked them why. some of these look at that humans we disagree on a number of matters one being the group this charter was to be addressed to at the beginning it was about drafting a charter republican principles of the national council of so it was supposed to concern mosques here we find ourselves with the charter of principles of islam in france and if they were to make the proper distinctions many paragraphs anyway asking muslims explicitly to clarify their position on subjects that are of this subject that they have respected for years and years that don't pose any problems for them as for the principles of the french republic the french people of the

muslim face in this country and surrounded sin in respect of the values of the french republic that to gauge us all we do not have to ask them explicitly to measure their religious convictions to prove how respectful they are to the values and principles of the french republic it is certain that there are and to muslim acts we call that islamophobia we're not going to get into semantics we have a commission called fight against islamophobia so we call it that the reason deaton increase and these acts especially in light of current events now i also don't want to say the result institutionalized islamophobia in france i really think that our country is doing its best to fight against and to muslim acts against islamophobia but that does not mean that these kinds of acts are not increasing. as the following a taste of things to come after britain's recent departure from the e.u. a britain living in spain and working in the u.k.

control enclave of gibraltar heard his shopping bag emptied by spanish border guards he was forced to leave behind. much of it's called it's usually you just walk straight through well they might be out check it. out call tobacco whatever. they showed them a bag and they they took the time to look for a little bit more caffeine than we normally day and they started back probably this night pulling everything out after checking a few items they basically just told me that the majority of this you can't take through because it has processed vegetables on it and saying that they were going to essentially just put them in the vent. the confiscation was officially in keeping with the e.u.'s travel guidelines that prohibits travelers from bringing meat dairy products and process vegetables from nonmember states among the things that got juice of into trouble was process the onions in the spicy sauce he tried to make the best of a bad situation though eventually selling the prohibited products i lost all along

and think it's reasonable i had a brief conversation with one of the guards in the in the office that made my point if i can take these items it seems to me that would be more like a large export quantities not for snow items and there was no documentation to support a fact at least my knowledge of that sign that i can take these things over so. if this is already happening in the 1st week after bret's it then yeah really anticipate a few a few other issues. as it stands going forward i think at the moment we're still in there is actually having to negotiate an agreement with spain due to us being left out of the. g.'s my a surroundings and some things i was going through the time for just moving around a lot i didn't get. to really wish i had had i voted as a set of really wish i had i would have stood with the 9097 percent of gibraltar that chose to remain because that i didn't really see any benefit whatsoever for us

to leave the european union. on related or not iraq has broken our town for the ears and bastards of britain was denied full diplomatic status london insists it's not obliged to treat representatives of international bodies the same as foreign diplomats working for nation states unless london changes to the e.u.'s new ambassador will be able to get approval by the queen as head of a diplomatic mission the u.k.'s decision is a dog's with the way the blocks representatives are treated in most other countries and london's move doesn't sit well with brussels we are not a national religion we have a union i think it would be vice in my view to for do you could to find. britain's foreign office has tried to smooth things over stating that the e.u. is representative will receive quote the privileges the immunities necessary to carry out their work in the u.k. effectively however political commentator jonathan fryer he believes that london's

approach could backfire. i think this is a really sad position that the british government has taken because after all we were members of the european union for nearly 50 years and brags intraparty is not enough they now want to downgrade the status of the european union and although more than $100.00 fallacy countries around the world give full diplomatic privileges to bassa dunes under the vienna convention and this is the situation that these landed dissin now with the government surrounded by cabinet ministers who support this nationalistic briggs's airline which is actually not to talk championing britain's global role as he would see it diminishing britain's role in the international stage if we want to have a good working relationship with easy 27 neighbors who are our main trading power

has taken as a whole we really need to have a much more. grown up and you tube jeweled since. there have been protests in dozens of cities across russia bestseller a calling for the release of the opposition activists alexina valley the police were out in force today that is under a boiled over dozens of arrests were made. was . was was was the was the 1st free. election of ali was detained last week and on his arrival from germany for violating the terms of his parole artie's either he said out of spain covering the rally in central moscow throughout the day. it is getting a little bit hectic because the police special forces have begun at least their

initial attempts to clear out this square which has been completely packed for about an hour now so people have been trying to escape the security forces through this corner as well we managed to keep our vantage point but no we're not sure for how much longer we will be able to do that because there's a lot of people it's a huge crowd it's very very packed so it's difficult to let people through here and not be taken away with this a flood of protesters now it does feel like there's a good few 1000 people here although i haven't seen any official of figures as of yet as to how many people have showed up here in the heart of the russian capital and now there has been some movement also i'd sit quite snowy here in moscow right now so people have been actually throwing snowballs at police officers as they were detaining people because that we have seen some detentions some scuffles fighting

between the protesters and the police and people who were taken and well taken into custody now when it comes to the police response of rather staying with that there's a constant message being played through a megaphone that is right over there calling on the people to disperse saying that it is this rally has not been authorized and also reminding people of the coronavirus situation here because obviously social distancing is not a thing here and those even a police officer who was handing out masks at the very beginning of the protest have a lot of. fear. even my. life through this it will ruin everything. group of the group.

is a surprise. group. so you could hear that some people saw a surgical mask as a symbol of oppression from the authorities also also when it comes to the amount of people and to how they have been behaving in general they have been chanting slogans like shame. 3 them calling on the release of alexina vali a prominent opposition figure in russia also they've been calling for the resignation of the russian president vladimir putin which is a traditional traditional thing a traditional chant during protests like this some some protesters also climb to these street lights and you could put you i'm not sure if you can but you could probably see that they left their banners that

a particular through the situation in moscow earlier hundreds turned out for an unsanctioned rally and bloody of all stock in russia's far east bringing the city center to a standstill police use force to disperse the crowd detaining dozens of protesters some of those taking part were school children while under the age of 8 dana russia's ombudsman for children has the nonce what she described as opposition activists using youngsters as a human shield against the police similar scenes played out in the city of chita though on a smaller scale with a few 100 demonstrators taking part at marches have been happening across the country with the main focus being in moscow none of them were authorized. to a protest in the siberian city of cluster jarosz the police tried to reason would solve the younger protesters. the mood is. right there he still is. considered to be.

the. boys will be. more. like. the russian foreign ministry has singled out to us for encouraging the protests with spokeswoman maria horror of highlighting the american embassy and consulates in russia give protesters instructions online speaking it's a make up on yesterday the u.s. embassy in moscow published roots of protests in russian cities and to an information about a march on the kremlin but was it the instruction even the organizers did not announce such plans you can imagine what would happen if the russian embassy in washington d.c. published a map of protest through syndicating to the end point for example in the capital. of journalist eva bartlett's who reported on the large opposition protest in moscow in 2019 sees today's policing hasn't been as intense as what she's witnessed while

reporting in other countries. surprised to see that protesters were convened in the square in pushkin square and chanting and cheering for a good hour and a half before the police took i mean measures to clear the square when they did that they did it in waves they approached you know forming a line and generally pushing the crowd back i did see baton sting used but i did not see the kind of excessive violence that i would see in protest for example in france you know not only does have the backing of the west so i think that that we will see more protest in the usual attempts to paint scenes of chaos in russia paint scenes of you know mass dissatisfaction in the country one thing i noticed with the protests in 21000 and today there are a lot of young people and on the one hand you could commend young people for being politically aware very young people from ages 12 perhaps lower or older which is strange to me because at that age you don't really have

a political awareness so it seems like children might be being used in these in this political game in order to paint to the western world scenes of the entire mass of russia uprising you know in support of not only who was arrested for i believe it's for breaching his bail so actually a perfectly legitimate reason and who returned to russia knowing full well he would be arrested. but we're going to have a look at moments of what's on offer for you here and more to you over the coming week or so so tired to see what's being served up i mean you know we'll see you get a 30.

started ministration we've been doing the show for 12 years anyway big same at 20202016 was station. and now it's all coming to. a. time afshin rattansi welcome to another lockdown edition of going on the ground in a week of the inauguration of the 46th president of the usa joe biden hailed and heralded all around nato nation media but joining me now is the legend that is the publisher of tribune and the founding editor of jacobin buskers and caro thanks so much for coming on he joins me now from new york i'm going to start by saying what

do you make of the inauguration we saw lady gaga wearing a brooch depicting what looked to me like the piece. we did spanish banks because so how optimistic are you. well i should say that certainly as a socialist i'm used to being in perpetual opposition i think if you're a good socialist in united states given the hardest perpetuated by the u.s. economic system at home and the hardest part pressure a big broad one is used to a posture of opposition i honestly would rather be in opposition to joe biden then to donald trump i think joe biden is more susceptible to pressure and saying that isn't really much of a credit to joe biden as a human being or his certainly his political history which is quite a sordid one but it is.