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more in the idea of a traditional participatory democracy our lie with the people this demonstrates that struggle is very real. struggle. a towering figure in broadcasting for over 6 decades interview king. paul still ahead on the program major. extremism. the president of the porous islamic confederation tells us why. that position subjects subjects that they have respected for years and years protesters take to the streets. calling for the release of opposition activists.
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amongst the younger generation. of the world this is r.t. international. my names you know. 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 after testing positive for covert 19 in a career spanning more than 6 decades he interviewed many world changing figures kings and queens presidents prime ministers movie stars sporting legends and every day people with extraordinary stories to tell the new york native became the master interviewer for generations of journalists following in his footsteps. and looks
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back at his incredible career. a voice on a name at the became an institution larry king was the indisputable maust of the microphone and a case in point the when you find a job you enjoy doing that 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. goes on. bad man. laurence harris 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. 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. 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
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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 it started in 28 cities 5 years later it was in 118 larry king became a household name radio's 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 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
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with presidents of rappers ballerinas even preachers and even killers mark where you really are with us those terrible moments for you for them 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 will 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 possible one was also full of flat a brief fall from grace off to accusations of crime. lost any 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
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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. 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 sort 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 on the larry king question being listening learning you know our 7 i never learned anything where i was talking it's
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important to listen to question more and 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 good bye. i'm of soul. well it's a pleasure to welcome live on to the program nara r.t. america hosts rick sanchez a long time colleague of the late laurie king good to have you on the show how much of a loss is larry king to the world of journalism right now oh my goodness i'm not sure we could find the words to capture that because larry king was the king.
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he was the king of communications in america the even when outside of america i remember there was a time when i 1st started working at c.n.n. and my kids and the time were small and they came up to me and they said dad we're so proud of you now that you're working at c.n.n. and i said why and they said because you're working with larry king. he was huge and these my kids at the time were like 5 or 6 years old when they said that to me because larry king's voice was being used by disney in all these movies that they were coming out with i mean look larry king is a guy who was so good at his craft that he was able to do what most people in our profession would never be able to do and that is he didn't have to but guests guests booked themselves he would have a line out the door of people including presidents and prime ministers of every country in the world including the united states job easly who would be knocking on
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his door asking can you interview me i want to be interviewed by larry king that's what's different the other thing that stands out that i think maybe people miss in the life of larry king i know because larry and i were both fired by c.n.n. but somebody who would say and sometimes a badge of honor but regardless i do recall that after larry was fired they try to replace him and they tried and tried and tried he was not replaceable larry king was irreplaceable eventually they just said no more interview show we'll just do another panel discussion that's how big larry was that's how big and how it went there it can once rick you brought it up so i'm going to go on it in 2010 larry king agreed with c.n.n. as the session to suck you over regarding remarks about political comedian jon stewart what was your relationship like after that. with larry yeah one of the 1st things i did well i had long discussions and stuart years late larry and john were
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very funny so larry immediately jon stewart had gone as well previously on the larry king show and i remember larry said to be something that i thought was was was very interesting regarding my getting sacked by c.n.n. and he said you know your presence i'm stupid i said yeah i probably don't and i won't be the last time in my life i'd probably say something stupid he goes yeah no it's on trust me he said record i've done i've said many many more stupid things than you have but here's the difference rick and i said once that he goes if ted turner still owns c.n.n. he would have fired you he would have called you into his office he probably would have maybe yelled at you as ted turner had a tendency to always do and then he would have said hey you screwed up get back on the air apologized let's keep going but that doesn't happen anymore because to larry's point and quoting larry specifically this new outfit that bought us larry
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said time warner. that's not the way they deal with things so those are larry's words after i was let go one of the mini conversations i had with larry over my career including my own joining our team one of the 1st things i did when i when i was thinking about joining our 2 years i picked up the phone and i called larry king and i said larry what you advice he said do it do it ricky it'll be one of the best decisions you've ever made it was right on what was a thin record the thing that laurie brought to modern popular journalism wasn't just the complete change from the existing format was it is subject matter what your fault. yes he was curious he was he was curious almost to a fault curious in looking for answers without ever allowing
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himself or his ego or his story to get in the way of that curiosity he asked simple questions like how. why. where. when who instead of so let me tell you about me while i ask you about you which is unfortunately in our profession what we get more of than anything else and larry didn't do that larry talk to his guests the way you talk to somebody you just met on the street and you can't wait to find out more about their story and that's what made his interviews so good it was once a giant rift here in the united states between a newcomer named bill o'reilly and he was the new guy at fox so at the time c.n.n. was the hottest network in the country and the hottest show was larry king right so
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larry king was amassing this huge audience so fox which was new at the time the television network here in the united states and i don't people are familiar with that overseas but so they were coming on and they hired this grill a dude named bill o'reilly miller really was a bit of a bully his way of interviewing was very different from larry's he would take people on and make them mad and scream at them and then he would go on the air and he would say to them you should watch me don't watch larry king because larry king is a soft and he doesn't ask real question than whatever so one day larry king got on the air with bill o'reilly and bill o'reilly tried to assail an attack larry king and he was angry and you know in typical bill o'reilly fashion. and instead larry said to bill o'reilly words i will never forget this day he said. you do your interviews your way and i'll do my interviews my way. it's ok
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so he's. i was going to say rick he have the longest running show with the same host the same time slot for all the time is that perhaps as a lifetime achievement. well you know longevity is really important for those of us in this business you know i've been doing it for so long and you know worked at c.n.n. and fox and n.b.c. and and now our t.v. and i think that sense that you're growing into your position and you know i'm still no good i'm trying to get better every day but there was something about larry that just made him so controversial in his skin and i think when he and i would talk about this and boy. i'm going to miss him because i love talking to the guy you know he was. he was he was that friend you enjoyed talking to about anything and everything now one of the things that i remember larry and i
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would always talk about when i when i tried to look for the answer to the question that you just asked me. he would say my best training was radio and he's right people who come from radio have this organic sense of comfort with the words that they're expressed saying in a conversation on t.v. 'd a lot of people on television can't ever get beyond the fact that there's you know something in front of you there's a camera there but people who come from radio are very comfortable with the words very came from radio where it was a legend on the mutual broadcasting system everybody in america before they went to bed at night would listen to larry king interview and tell stories and it was from there that he got picked up and went to c.n.n. so that was the larry that i remember larry and i started together in miami we both worked at w o d we both worked at c.n.n. we both worked in r.t.d. so we had a very similar parallel path together and i watched as he grew up and what made
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larry great was he was curious he never let himself get he never let his own persona or ego get in the way of the story and he was trained by radio where you have to fill hours at a time and he was just very good he was very good at it what about his ending and c.n.n. after 25 years having pulled in one and a half 1000000 viewers a night he left the channel but he didn't retire what was your take on why he left are the way it happened. you know c.n.n. was going through a tough time that period they were trying to find themselves and you know i guess there was a difference of opinion and i think they made one of the greatest mistakes that you could ever make in television you know they didn't give larry is due they didn't give larry the respect that he was due when you have somebody who's that legendary i mean even if you decide you're going to change your programming let's suppose you don't want to have a mandated claw anymore let's suppose you want to move into another hour but
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suppose instead of having them on every night you decide you know what we're going to we're going to give you a few you know when we start on 5 days a week we're going to go 2 days a week or something like that but that's what they did they were kind of they were kind of mean in terms of their exit. i you know it's not my place maybe they have their reasons but i think they did him wrong my opinion what kind of legacy does he not only for the next generation of journalists. hopefully we tend to not look back enough in our profession we're constantly striving to fill that next new shackle and unfortunately we're more interested in the next half hour than looking back at something as important as a lifetime too many people in our profession today are not good interviewers because they're not generally curious because they do allow themselves to get in their own way because they are looking at their ratings and their salaries and everything else and not the things that really matter which are those 5 w.'s that i
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gave a little while ago larry got that and then and if no more of us heed to that principle and to those morals something that's lacking right now in the world and especially in the world of journalism principles morals ethics those are the things that stand out those are things when i when i when i'm going to chance and i'm honored to go and speak to students at universities about journalism that's what i tell it we're going to be remembered but your ethics and your morals and your principles and that's what larry top mean and that's what the great ones do larry was a man of principle and to the end when you had conversations with them those are the things that if you listen carefully you heard it was his soul something i just want to get and it is something that fascinates a lot of people is not one detail 8 marriages 7 wives was that subject ever
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breached in your chats why do you think of so many i asked him. if it is there larry i've only been married once and maybe it's because i don't know maybe i was more boring movement but i did ask him that question once. and you know rick so what we're you know it's like ice cream or anything else sometimes you're like no and then one day you wake up and you're like just so dazed change. what i'm doing. so. well that's honest and that's why i love you man and it's just another fascinating aspect of life well lived and that it's certainly he was you were one of the years and always will be the king irreplaceable my c.n.n. and many other places rick thanks very much for coming on your program and sharing
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all that with us rick sanchez r t america host on long time colleague and friend of the late laura. it's my pleasure. well in a tribute to t.v. titan larry king artie america will be sharing with us 36 hour marathon of what laurie did best asking those questions you want us to the people you want to hear from that starts in less than an hour an hour to america if you're outside the u.s. it's live on r.t. america dot com. 3 muslim federations in france have refused to back president until extremism charter has been tightening 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
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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 and drawn out discussions that project envisions a new national council responsible for vetting and moms practicing in the country it rejects polarized brands of islam reaffirms equality between men and women islamist terror reared its ugly head again in france just 3 months ago the teacher was beheaded for showing his class cartoons of the prophet muhammad during a lesson on freedom of speech. on the park in patridge was the victim of an islamist terror attack.
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islam is a religion that is in crisis today all over the world we don't just see it in our country. the will of the islamists is precisely to turn our citizens against the republic using their religion and we cannot let that happen the gruesome attack on samuel party triggered a crackdown against extremist mosques and islamist associations we heard from fatty sarik here he is the president of the paris based islamic confederation organization which is against the calls charter we asked them why. some always look at it 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 and mosques here we find ourselves with the charter of principles of islam
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and 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 serenity in respect of the values of the french republic the 2 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 the right and to muslim baggs 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
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but that does not mean that these kinds of acts are not increasing. there have been protests in dozens of cities across russia this saturday calling for the release of the opposition activists alexina the police riot and forced to boil over dozens of arrests were made. was was. was. was was. with us through. the election of ali was the tango last weekend on his arrival from germany for violating the terms of his parole in a 2014 embezzlement case r.t.c. worked at dulles been 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
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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 you know we're not sure 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 snow we had in moscow right now so people have been actually throwing snowballs at police officers as they were detaining people because we've have seen some detentions some scuffles fighting between the protesters and the police and people who were taken and well taken into
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custody now when it comes to the police response so rather staying with that there's a constant message being played through a megaphone that is right over there coolly going to 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 in those even a police officer who was handing out masks at the very beginning of the protest have a look. you. might . find you know by. the rules of the group through google groups.
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there's a. great britain. that 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 all 3 day i'm calling on the release of alexina valley a prominent opposition figure here in russia also they've been calling for the resignation of the russian president vladimir putin which is a traditional a traditional thing a traditional chant during protests like this some some protesters also climb to these street lights and you could put you on the show if you can but you could probably see that they left their banners that. on the other side of the
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country hundreds term life for an unsanctioned rally and lobby for stock in the far east bringing the city center to a standstill police used force to disperse the crowd detaining dozens of protesters some of those taking part were school children some preteen rushes ombudsman for children hers 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 marches have been happening across the country with the main focus on moscow none of them authorized a protest in the siberian city of crush new york's the police tried to reason with some of the younger protesters. who were. right there. a few years ago to. the. north no. more. i guess. the russian foreign ministry has singled out the u.s.
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for encouraging the protests with spokeswoman marie as a horror of highlighting how the american embassy and consulates in russia laid out the protesters plans online. yesterday the u.s. embassy in moscow published routes of protests in russian cities and to an information about a march on the kremlin but was it instruction even the organizers did not announce such perhaps you can imagine what would happen if the russian embassy in washington d.c. published a map of protest through syndicating to you and point for example in the capital of journalist of a park later reported on the large opposition protest in moscow in 2019 cities today's policing hasn't been as intense as what she's witnessed while reporting in other countries. was 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 any and measures to clear the square when they did
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that they did it in waves they approached you know forming a line and generally pushing the crowd back i did see baton spinning 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 well one thing i noticed with the protests and 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
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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. in moments for another fresh loyce of the coalition report join markson guests right after the shorters of bricks this is art. become a battleground in the u.s. in vermont people have demanded the shutdown of a local plant for mike is right now my focus because it's a.
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