a charming figure in broadcasting for over 6 decades legendary interviewer laurie king has died at the age of $87.00. coming off program major muslim federations in france rejecting. extremism charger designed to come by a brother the president of the islamic confederation tells us one. draw many power groups anyway asking muslims to clarify their position on subjects that are subjects that they have respected for years and years. of protesters take to the streets in moscow and across russia calling for the release of opposition

activists. the high turnout amongst the younger generation. across the world around the clock this is r.t. my names you know neil pleasure to have your company. first this hour tributes are pouring in for the legendary american t.v. and radio host laurie king who has died at the age of $87.00 lori was admitted to hospital earlier this month after testing positive for cope at 19 in a career spanning 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

footsteps saskia taylor looks 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 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 a raja 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 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 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 into the 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 king's personal one was also full of flat a brief fall from grace off to accusations of loss and. 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 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. about soul. we're earlier i spoke to r.t. america host rick sanchez who is a long time colleague of the late laurie king who gave us more insight into the character of the legendary interview her. larry king was the king 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 literally 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 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 easily 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 . use 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 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. rick sanchez well in 2015 or t.'s going underground host of towns a south delhi with larry king as part of a channel with 10 year anniversary celebrations as a tribute it will be earned 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 has so many one i mean the good jackie robinson martin luther king. but the most emotional interview.

was with the new york city top. this couple. we booked him and 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 a car and was approaching a kid and the kid shot. to shot. he really didn't feel pain he remembered

a puff of smoke coming out of this thing human falling down a member the right in the ambulance they gave him the last rites in the catholic church and he thought he was going to die anyway survived but he paralyzed that down as his wife was pregnant and 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 and sold it and he said to the kid why did you shoot me. in the kid said. i didn't saving to despotic for 4 years i worked a doodle shoes. in a student. and finally got my bike. and you with the

10 tops to stop me that day. but come 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. the top. became the kids of big brother. any government job. and big kid a kid with. 1000.

3 muslim federations in france have refused to back president micron's extremism charter he's been typing it as a way to follow it rather closely. 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 discussions the project envisions a new national council responsible for offending him of practicing in the country it rejects poor arise brands of islam and reaffirms equality between men and women

islamist terror reared its ugly head again in france just 3 months ago a teacher was be headed for showing his class cartoons of the prophet muhammad during a lesson on freedom of speach. i don't know how compadre it was the victim of an islamist terror attack. establishing islam is 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 to 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 30

sarik here he's the president of the paris based this lama confederation organization which is a cancer across charkha we asked him why. it is a good that you will 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 the 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 in france and the fail it 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 a wave in this country and surrendered sin 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 there are and to muslim acts we call that islamophobia we're not going to get into semantic. we have a commission called fight against islamophobia so we call it that the reason deeds and then chris 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 the teleconferences 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. the new post the e.u. membership reality or just an overly officious jobsworth after the break we hear from a british expert to how these groups receive the spanish. is

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anyway you know a big steaming $22026.00 team was dollars station d. globalization and now it's all coming to. hello again there were protests in dozens of cities across russia today calling for the release of the opposition activist alexei navalny the police are out in force to boiled over dozens of arrests were made. wow was was was. was was was. the. election of all me was detained last weekend on his arrival from germany for

violating the terms of his parole in a 2014 embezzlement case r t z e force 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 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 there was even a police officer who was handing out masks at the very beginning of the protests have a lot of. fear. that

he will probably be my. advice you know by rule. it will ruin everything. yes there. is a fear. then 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 vali 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 on the show if you can but you could probably see that they left their banners that. hundreds also turned out for an unsanctioned rally and flatly false talk in russia's far east bringing the city center to a standstill police use force to disperse the crowd taining dozens of protesters some of those taking part were school children some preteen rushes ombudsman for children tonight in swat she described as opposition activists using youngsters as a human shield against the police similar scenes played out in the city of chita they want to 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 crust new york's the police tried to reason with some of the younger protesters. this. appears. to. be considered to.

be the last you know. more. than i guess. the russian foreign ministry has singled out the u.s. for encouraging the protest with spokeswoman marie as a heart 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 its 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 where journalist eva bartlett who reported on the large opposition protests in moscow in 2019 sees the days policing wasn't as intense compared to what she's

witnessed 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 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 in 21000 and today there are a lot of young people 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. is the following a taste of things the cold but after britain's recent departure from the use of britain living in spain and working in the u.k. controlled inclusive of gibraltar those who do the shopping but again border guards he was forced to leave behind much of it's called. usually you just walk straight say 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 they normally say 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 it prohibits travelers from bringing meat dairy products and process vegetables from nonmember states among the things that god juice of into trouble was processed onions in a spicy souls he tried to make the best of a bad situation though eventually selling the brigitte products i lost online 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 large quantities not for snow items and there was no documentation to support a fact at least my knowledge of the sign that i can take these things over so if this is already happening in the 1st week after breakfast then yeah our program to

supply a few a few other issues. as it stands going forward i think the moment we're still in which a boater 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. 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 save the european union. related or no it's a royal has broken no doubt for the e.u. isn't buster 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 on less london changes turkey use new industrial won't be able to get approval by the queen as head of

a diplomatic mission and you case decision is adults with the way the blocks representatives are treated in most other countries and doesn't sit well with brussels we are not in it done nationally and in addition we have a union i think it would be vice in my view to for you kid to find. a britain's foreign office has tried to smooth things over stating that the e.u. is representative will receive quote their privileges and immunities necessary to carry out their work in the u.k. effectively or of a political commentator jonathan fire believes that london's approach her back by her 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 apparently 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

the dunes under the vienna convention and this is a situation that these land a decision now with the government surrounded by cabinet ministers who support this nationalistic break city airline which is actually going to toe 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 the 27 neighbors who are our main trading partner has taken as a whole we really need to have a much more. grown up as you to do all of this. well we're going to have a look in moments at what's on offer for you here in our tea over the coming week to see what's being served up you know no legal see you again so.

i wouldn't support sort of the banning of trump per se i think long before we reached this point there should have been enough and there should have been a set of guidelines and rules. technology platform followed around specific kinds of cases by which people might be maybe even not the platforms into steps they're on the way to there if they are stealing information that is going viral that is obviously false and or heedful. by these algorithms that are influencing the visibility of content that is heat fall and viral in those cases we need to intervene.

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 a lady gaga wearing a brooch depicting what looked.