a towering figure in broadcasting for over 6 decades legendary interviewer. the age of 87. so the program major muslim federations and. stream is a charter designed to combat. the president of the paris islamic confederation tells us why. many power groups and the way. to clarify their position on subjects that are subjects that they have respected for years and years . and protesters take to the streets in their cross rush calling for the release of

opposition activists. amongst the younger generation. to all corners of the globe this is international i mean to me i'm taking you through the big stories of the day. first this hour tributes are pouring in for the legendary american t.v. radio host laurie king who has died at the age of 87. laurie was admitted to hospital earlier this month after testing positive for kobe had 19 in a career spelling more than 6 decades he interviewed many world changing figures including kings and queens presidents and prime ministers 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 father's that saskia taylor looks back at his incredible career a voice on a name that that 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 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 have a light goes on a metal i goes on bare 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 the. 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 harris i got 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 ira good evening everybody on this tuesday night wednesday morning across the united states this is larry king's show 10 years at peabody award later 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 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 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 a vivid professional life king's pasta one was also full of flat a brief fall from grace off to accusations of loss in. i 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. 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 of or several i never learned anything where i was talking it's important to listen. question more the 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. above saul. lerner i spoke to r.t. america host rick sanchez who was a long term colleague of the late laura king he gave us more insight into the caracter of the legendary interviewer. how much of a loss is larry king to the world of journalism right now oh my goodness i'm not

sure we can find the words to capture that because larry king was the king he was the king. communications in america the even went outside of america i remember there was a time when i 1st started working at c.n.n. and my kids at 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 lear eking 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 book 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 his door asking can you interview me i want to be interviewed by larry king what

was the thin record the thing that laurie brought to modern popular journalism was it just a complete change from the existing format was it is subject matter what your fault . he was curious he was he was curious almost to a fault curious in looking for answers without ever allowing himself or his ego or his story to get in the way of that curiosity he asked simple questions like how. why. where larry talked 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. thoughts of rick sanchez well in 2015 or t.'s going underground host option returns he carved out a special interview with larry king part of our channel's 10 year anniversary

celebrations as a tribute it will be aired again in full on monday here's a preview over the years i've been blessed to a bit of you know 8 presidents. and since so many one i've interviewed jackie robinson the model of the caine. but the most emotional interview. was with the new york city top. this cop. we booked him and i had to i didn't know what the story was i just knew that he was on the new york city police force and that he was shot in an incident in central park and he was in a wheelchair and paralyzed for life and he had a little child who he couldn't feel so i was 3 years old and there was a series of a bike that fs in central park. some people were stealing bikes and he was on

patrol driving in a squad with his fellow patrol and they spotted this black kid with a brand new schwinn bike. and he got out of the car and was approaching the kid and the kid shot to shot he really didn't feel pain he remembered a puff of smoke coming out of this thing the human befalling down remember the ride in the ambulance they gave him the last rites of the catholic church and he thought he was going to die anyway survived but he paralyzed that down as his wife was pregnant he wondered why did this boy shoot. and the boy was in jail and when as a minor he was 17. when he was in for attempted murder. i don't know what the sentence was but anyway he went to visit the kid. and the kid came out in the cell meeting and he said to the kid why did you shoot me. and the kid said.

i've been saving to despotic for 4 years i worked with those shoes. in a student. and finally got my bike. and you with the 10 tops to stop me to. the top to stop me what are you doing with this boy would you have stopped me if i were white. absolutely had to think about it and just the fact that we have a think about it. made him understand is a kid stopped 10 times of course he had a new bike just because he was bored and frustration. and.

bam. the top. became the kids of big brother. and he got a moment. and the kid came with. thousands . and you had to tell a story didn't they well in tribute to t.v. titan larry king artie america are sharing with us 32 hour marathon of what laurie did best asking the questions you want to the people you wanted to hear from in fact that's just started all r t america and if you're outside the u.s. it's live on r t america dot com. moving the program on 3 muslim federations in france have refused to buck president micron's anti extremism charter he's been touching 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. over a number of other muslim federations did sign up to the charter after intense drawn our discussions now the project let's go through it envisions a new national council responsible for vetting and practicing in the country it rejects polarized brands of islam reaffirms equality between men and women islamist terror it's ugly head again in france just 3 months ago a teacher was beheaded for showing his last cartoons of the prophet mohammed during a lesson on freedom of speach.

i don't know how compadre it was the victim of an islamist terror attack was. establishing 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 triggered a crackdown against the extremists and mosques islamist associations now we heard from faulty sarik here he is the president of the parse based islamic confederation organization which is against macross charter we asked them why. some of

these look at that humans we disagree on a number of matters one being the group this child who was to be addressed to at the beginning it was about drafting a chart to republican principles of the national council of moms so it was supposed to concern in moms and mosques here we find ourselves with the charter of principles of islam in france and the fail it to make the proper distinctions run 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 the don't pose any problems for them as for the principles of the french republic the french people of the muslim face all live in this country and surrounded sindh in respect of the values of the french republic that can 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 ra and to move 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 didn't and then christened 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. then you post the e.u. membership reality or just an overly officious jobsworth after the break we hear from our british experts who have his grocery saying he's a spanish. 30

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there were protests in dozens of cities across russia today calling for the release of the opposition activists alexina the police right in force to. arrest were made oh i i. was. election of only was detained last weekend on his arrival from germany for violating the terms of his parole in a 24000 in beslan case ortiz was in central moscow covering the protests. 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 it was even a police officer who was handing out masks at the very beginning of the protests have a lot of. fear. that he would be my. advice you know by rule. it will ruin the group. yes. disappear. overnight.

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 of them 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 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. igor taking us through the situation in moscow the other side of the country hundreds also turned out for an

unsanctioned rally and lobby for stalking the far east. bay city center there it was brought to a standstill police use force this person a crowd detaining dozens of protesters some of those taking part were school children some of whom were preteen in fact russia's all but one for children has tonight's what she described as opposition activists using youngsters as a human shield against the police similar scenes meanwhile play out here in cheetah on a smaller scale though marches helping happening across the country but the main focus on moscow none of the more theorised a lot of protest in the siberian city of cross new york's the police tried to reason with some of the younger protesters imo this. is. the future to. the. north you know if you.

like i said. well the russian foreign ministry has single dollar at the u.s. for encouraging the protest with spokeswoman marie as a heart of highlighting how the american embassy and consulates in russia lay it out at the protesters plans online 'd. yesterday the u.s. embassy in moscow published roots of protests in russia's cities and to an information about a march on the kremlin but was it 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. journalist eva bartlett's who reported on the large opposition protests here in moscow in 2019 says the days policing was in those intense compared to what she has witnessed herself reporting in other countries was surprised to see that protesters

were convened in the square in pushkin square and periodical chanting and cheering for a good hour and a half before the police took any and 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 being 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 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 29000 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 is for breaching his bail so actually a perfectly legitimate reason and who returned to russia knowing full well he would be arrested. is the following a taste of things the coma after britain's recent departure from the e.u. or britain living in spain and working in the u.k. controlled enclave of gibraltar as being bugged by spoilage border guards he was forced to leave behind much of it's called. 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. well the confiscation was officially in keeping with the ease travel guidelines travelers from bringing meat dairy products process vegetables from nonmember states among the things that got juice of into trouble was process the indians in a spicy sauce he tried to make the best of a bad situation though eventual selling the prohibited products at a loss all i. 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 quantities not for snow items and there was no documentation to support a fact at least to my knowledge at that sign that i can take these things over so. if this is already happening in the 1st week after breakfast 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 surroundings and some things i was going through the time for just moving around a lot i didn't get. a 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. possibly related or not iraq has broken out after the e.u.'s ambassador to 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 turkey using them buster will be able to get approval by the queen as head of

a diplomatic mission the u.k.'s the station is at odds with the way the block's representatives are treated in most other countries london's move doesn't sit well with brussels we are not the national recognition we have a union i think it would be vice in my view to for do you could to find a. well britain's foreign office has tried to smooth things over stating that the e.u.'s representative will receive quote the privileges and immunities necessary to carry out their work in the u.k. effectively or a political commentator jonathan fryer 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 that a part is not enough they now want to downgrade the status of the european union and although more than $150.00 countries around the world give full diplomatic

privileges to iran bassa does 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 break. which is actually not a toll championing britain's global role as he would see it the diminishing britain's role in the international stage if we want to have a good working relationship with 27 neighbors who are our main trading partners has taken as a whole we really need to have a much more. grown up and she chewed towards this ok we're going to have a look at moments what's on offer for you here in r.t. over the coming week or so sit tight the see what's being served up i mean an early see again and 30.

join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see that. what a pandemic no certainly no borders i'm just blind to the nationalities. that you players as americans we don't have a charity we don't have a back seat the whole world needs to be ready before. a judge to. come in a crisis such as this time to time so we can do better we should. everyone is contributing each in our own way but we also know that.