since 1st french president markov defended the use of cartoons depicting the muslim prophet mohammed muslims across the world have condemned macross remarks which followed the murder of a french teacher who had shown the cartoons and class. a bomb has ripped through an islamic seminary in the northwest pakistan killing at least 7 students and wounding dozens of others police say the blast went off during a visit by a prominent religious scholar no group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack. vietnam has begun evacuating more than half a 1000000 people along the country's central coast as a powerful tropical storm approaches forecasters say typhoon malarky will make landfall wednesday causing strong winds and waves of up to 10 meters the storm has already caused major damage in the philippines. the death toll is difficult to verify but russian president vladimir putin says some 5000 people have been killed in the ongoing fighting over nagorno-karabakh azerbaijan and armenia resumed hostilities in the largely frozen conflict one month ago today and we go to the city of ta-ta in azerbai

calling for teach it to be dismissed as a result of showing those care features of the prophet mohammed muslim prophet to the cost for him and we end this stand that in the days leading up to this decapitation they will many threats that were being made against at the 47 year old teacher we've been speaking to some of the parents all children who are also in central patti's cost to them of you. he asked muslim children to raise their hand and leave the classroom he did it my son told me he didn't do it to discriminate or to hurt he did it to preserve the children to not chilled them he explained i'd prefer if you left because i'm going to show a cartoon of the prophet of islam i don't want to shock you delegates will do and i think you see where it's an attack here normally nothing ever happens here and now a teacher has been decapitated our children on safe we don't know what to do you know the rector of the great great mosque here in paris has said that he was horrified by what's happened and he said that condemnation just isn't enough anymore that action needed to be taken and also it was c

a class of students in late september early october some caricature some cartoons of the muslim prophet mohammed as part of a lesson on freedom of speech now we understand that some of the parents had reported the teacher for that action in class what we understand that happened today is that reports in the french media that an 18 year old suspect capitated this teacher close to the school in the afternoon of friday some people say around 5 pm local time we understand from french media that he then tweeted did an image of that decapitation before police came to the area saw a suspect brandishing a knife and apparently shot him we understand the alleged perpetrator has been shot dead by the police this incident has been taken over by the national anti terror prosecutor so it is being dealt with as a terror offense here in france and we also know that the interior minister has cut short a trip to morocco this is the latest tweet from him back in paris i'm being informed directly by the crisis unit that i have opened in conjunction with the president of the republic and the prime minister. so that

demonstrations since french president mccone defended the use of cartoons depicting the muslim prophet mohammed muslims across the world have condemned remarks which followed the murder of a french teacher who have shown the cartoons in class. a bomb has ripped through an islamic seminary in northwest pakistan killing at least 7 students and who didn't wounding dozens of others police say the blast went off during a visit by a prominent religious scholar no group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack. beard numb has begun of actualizing more than half a 1000000 people along the country's central coast as a powerful tropical storm approaches forecasters say typhoon malarkey will make landfall wednesday causing strong winds and waves of up to 10 meters the storm has already caused major damage in the philippines. in the united states the confirmation of any county ballots into the supreme court has given america's top court a conservative majority for years to come the senate approved the nomination by 52 votes to 48 barrett's appointment was strongly opposed by congressional democrats. after a m

mohammed. many muslims find that and macron's position as untenable.arin: next, let's hear fromfr a ch islamic affairs journalist here in london. reporter: the macron administration has effectively cartoons moc islam into its domestic policy. up until now, charlie hebdo images portraying the prophet mohammed as a pathetic figure who is there to be mocked along with the founders of islam has been considered anti-est has changed all that. he promised he would not renouncehe caricature and defended them as part of french culture and part of france's global image. made the caricatures mainstream and normalized the, some say to put muslims in their place. karin: this is what president macron said today. >> if we have been attacked again, it's because of our values, our tae for freedom, the possibility to believe freely and not given to terror. let me say a this clearlyin -- we will never give in. karin: emmanuelacron speaking earlier. let's talk to our middle east editor. put this into context -- why is france being targeted like this? guest: the main nexus

teacher out asked he was a history teacher he had asked any muslim students in his class to leave the room before showing cartoons of the prophet mohammed at one people believed to be of muslim extraction a muslim who remain for whatever reason told his or her parents there was problems without some video or text went viral the teacher had clearly taken precautions but. involving children in a debate like this even a by freedom of expression was it was a too much of a risk. i think that. from what the investigation is beginning to to show there are undoubtedly rufe occasions the mark of eyes is what remained of it a real policy of terror and not isolated acts or or some kind of reaction. of this kind of this is more critical in any case that of a. of an involvement of the remaining rim remnants of about isis. i think we must point out that the mysteries and was born during the cold war to counter the rest of us are just very very very similar to the complacency of the city western democracies for for fascism in the interwar period the west has has created a frankenstein and is trying to pass this off as a specificity of the arab muslim

muslim world islam or phobic so board cards protests and all that as for his little project his plan to essentially domesticate islam in france may be the most ambitious thing macron has undertaken. mohammed saffi chief executive of the u.k.'s ramadan foundation says france's policy towards its muslim community over the last few decades has had a negative impact you have to also look at what's been happening over these past few months when president warren and supporting it can which are the prophet mohammed which is set out do you not think got to cause harm when hate to do feelings of muslims around the world that has been decades of discrimination and harassment mass unemployment people living get laws. you know work being done to bring the mainstream. muslims into mid-stream and tackle their issues so this is a consequences and all successive governments over decades you know let's be clear that president back lawn when he adopts the language of class and civilization is adopting the language of what the terrorists want to do they want to divide communities. with the coronavirus pandemic pounding health care systems across here of the blocks movers and shakers convened online to try t

that followed the fact that the magazine reprinted controversial cartoons of the prophet mohammed angering muslims across the world 2 weeks later we saw the beheading of history teacher 30 who had used those images as part of a civics lesson to discuss freedom of speech and now we have this attack here in nice let's have a look at how the anger though has been unfolding in the 2 weeks since the death of samuel betty. i'm looking at one of our competitors was murdered because he taught our compassion it was the victim of an islamist terror attack. and. he asked muslim children to raise their hand and leave the classroom she did it my son told me he didn't do it to discriminate or to her he did it to preserve the children to not shield them. there have of course been anger spilling out on the streets here too not just in this process we've seen over the last few days in muslim majority countries but in the song thursday night there was a demonstration held by the anti immigrant group of your identity they came out to the streets calling for islam to be out of europe so there really is a huge sense o

that followed the fact that the magazine reprinted controversial cartoons of the prophet mohammed angering muslims across the world 2 weeks later we saw the beheading of history teacher 30 who had used those images as part of a civics lesson to discuss freedom of speech and now we have this attack here in nice there have of course the anger spilling out on the streets here too not just in this process we've seen over the last few days in muslim majority countries but in the song thursday night there was a demonstration held by the anti immigrant group. they didn't it says they came out to the streets calling for islam to be out of europe so the really is a huge sense of anger here on the ground too. meanwhile further details have emerged about the suspect a 21 year old to new zealand who initially arrived on the italian island of lampedusa just over a month ago claiming to be a refugee little easier to comment on the case but the mayor of lumber douceur has appealed for stricter migrant policies suspect was reportedly carrying a document issued by the italian red cross after being processed at a r

muslims across the world to boycott french goods. as you see here. in the country. it's a little bit angry because of what happened. holding the messenger of god prophet mohammed under the pretext of democracy is not considered democracy and as for france honestly we want to tell you that your statements are offensive to every arab muslim and to the whole world we demand demand for our. back road and yet that. is playing with fire in this case interesting that 'd we denounce france for offending the prophet therefore we denounce and will quote every product anything from france that comes to us. r.t. social media joined twitter to explain why one of our reports on us selection fraud was labeled as potentially misleading. the correspondent at the center of the story explain to me earlier what up. it's very interesting that this report has been labeled misleading by twitter in regards to a civic matter because if you look at it none of the material is original to ourselves right i mean the report that i put together i simply drew from what's being said by international bodies as well as what was said by u.s. president donald trump this is what we included in the

that followed the fact that the magazine reprinted controversial cartoons of the prophet mohammed angering muslims across the world 2 weeks later we saw the beheading of history teacher some of the party who had used those images as part of a civics lesson to discuss freedom of speech and now we. we have this attack here in nice there have of course be anger spilling out on the streets here too not just in this protests we've seen over the last few days in muslim majority countries but in the song thursday night there was a demonstration held by the anti immigrant group agenda identity they came out to the streets calling for islam to be out of europe so there really is a huge sense of anger here on the ground to. charlie doman scooting us throughout the french government has told its embassies to tighten their security after a wave of protests by muslims in several countries. yeah and staying in libya there are one local business went as far as placing images of the french leader on his shop floor for customers to stand all alone there are calls from muslims across the world to boycott french goo

calling for the teach it to be dismissed as a result of showing those characters of the prophet mohammed the muslim prophet to do it because for him and we end this stand that in the days leading up to this decapitation there were many threats that were being made against at the 47 year old teacher we've been speaking to some of the parents all children who are also 'd in central patti's costs and they said that students who given the option to leave brought in stay until. he asked muslim children to raise their hand and leave the classroom the plot he did it my son told me he didn't do it to discriminate or to hurt he did it to preserve the children to not show them he explained i'd prefer if you left us with you because i'm going to show a cartoon of the prophet of islam because i don't want to shockey caricatural and i think you see where it was an attack here normal and nothing ever happens here and now would teachers been decapitated our children non-sale we don't know what to do with your argument that well the reaction has been shock and horrify here the front 7 about this brutal attack on a

of protests over the french tant on prophet mohammed cartoons of spreading in muslim countries to egypt join the angry chorus but the president saying freedom of expression must stop when it offends one and a half 1000000000 people the westone stands with paris with the british foreign secretary urging nato allies to support the values of free speech are to show it to be a small. that's charlie hebdo the satirical magazine has published this front page which is marking the turkish president he seen here in a caricature in his underwear holding what seems to be a can of beer and lifting up the skirt to show the bottom of a woman and it's got the comments to the profit well of course tookie is incensed by this caricature on the front page it's described it as being utterly despicable and it is of course taking those actions it has also blamed president matt corn for this saying that this comes as a result of his anti muslim or toric the aim of these publications devoid of morality and decency is to sow seeds of hatred and animosity turning freedom of expression into hostility towards reli

in the wake of president mack on defending the right in france to publish cartoons of the muslim prophet mohammed and he used those cartoons as a device in school to discuss freedom of speech. i am. currently. it was definitely her am over it's too has been angered by that reaction those protests and those calls for boycotts and it's issued a warning to its citizens who live or traveling in muslim majority countries saying that they need to be vigilant because of this rising anti french sentiment and it stepping up its own efforts against turkey calling on its european allies to make waves france is united in europe is united at the next european council europe will have to take decisions that will allow it to bolster the power balance with turkey to bow to defend its interests and european values or france and turkey have had a very difficult relationship over the last 3 years they're both nato allies but they've come down on opposing sides on a number of massive worldwide issues including libya syria the gas and oil rights in the eastern mediterranean but it seems that this particular problem t

since president machen defended the use of those cartoons those controversial cartoons of the muslim prophet mohammed and they have been protests in many muslim majority countries such as bangladesh in jordan in libya and also in gaza with people burning effigies of president and there's been this war of words between him and the turkish president who suggested that she needed to have his mental health checked many muslim majority countries also calling for a boycott of french products and a warning to french citizens who live or who are traveling in those countries to be extra vigilant at the moment. and charlotte within the last hour or so there have been reports of an incident also in france and avignon what more do we know about that. well very little at the moment but we do understand that a man attempted to attack police in the norm and he was shot dead now the early reports and these are unconfirmed is that that men is said to have been of turkish origin so there will be a question whether that is related to this war of words between president macron and president and the fact that the satiric

teacher had given to talk about freedom of speech and in that lesson he showed cartoons of the muslim prophet mohammed that had angered many many muslims and then that led to the brutal beheading of that teacher as a say less than 2 weeks ago now since then president macron has defended the right to show those cartoons and that has seen a huge wave of anti in france sentiment in muslim majority countries that have been protests in countries such as bangladesh where more than 40000 people are said to have turned out one day f. of g.'s of president matt corn have been burned there's been a call for boy caught on french products is sold in those countries there's also been a huge tit for tat a war of words between the french president and the turkish president the turkish president suggesting that president machen needed to have his mental health checked so all of this comes at a time of really heightened tension here in france we don't know that this latest attack is linked to that but it does seem very likely given the situation that from . currently finds itself in with the fact that many people in th

the killing of a schoolteacher who taught freedom of expression and showed drawings of the muslim prophet mohammed in his lessons. well corona virus infections here in germany are rising sharply and chancellor merkel is personally appealing to people to change their behavior to stop the spike but discussions involving iraq tune to previous restrictions are proving unpopular among many in germany some members of the governmental are also calling for more debates ahead of germany's next move to combat it. masks are now required outside in some crowded pedestrian zones of berlin but not all people here are abiding by the new rules. a few kilometers away german chancellor angela merkel expressed concern about the sharp rise in u. corona virus infections in her weekly podcast she made it clear that citizens played a key role in containing the spread of the virus. does. the order of the day is to reduce contacts and meet with this few people as possible if we all make an effort we can meet the huge challenge this virus parses. the view was all. it was an unusual address after just over a minute the chan

friday's attack outside paris had become the target of threats after showing caricature of the muslim prophet mohammed in the classroom the suspected attacker was an 18 year old from russia's chechnya region he reportedly avoided outside the school and asked for information about the victims were about. shocked children parents and neighbors come to pay their respects at the suburban paris school where the murdered teacher taught. although the school had received one complaint after his classroom discussion surrounding caricature is of islams prophet muhammad the teacher didn't have a reputation for being provocative. i mean my oldest boy said he never behaved in a racist way. not at all. his lessons weren't intended to shock you know my son didn't think there was anything unusual about him. and his. friends is that you cation minister vowed the country would never bow to tear or intimidation when it came to defending its core principles. this teacher was murdered because of what he symbolized knowledge used for critical thinking that with the development of citizens who are free and enlightened it's

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teach patty president said he would defend the right to show controversial cartoons of the muslim prophet mohammed now there is this huge anti sentiment that is is sparked up in the wake of that with protests now in many majority muslim countries with some of the awning effigies of president back on and of course from caught on french products. was it was feeling as if it would happen if the tab was. well present my corner has refused to step down over this comments which would perhaps defuse this situation and he has been accused of whipping up anti muslim sentiment and that's because in the wake of that terror attack there has been a crackdown on muslim associations and of mosques that are all said to have extremist sympathies here in france and there's already been some repercussions seen with attacks being investigated including attack that took place last week in order in the west of france and that was against 2 jordanians a brother and a sister who required hospital treatment they say they were attacked because they were speaking arabic now the charge against present on has been led by the

that anger which was sparked by his defense of cartoons mocking the muslim prophet mohammed, today thereere fresh protests in several countries against the france president. >> it should be a day of celebration, but this year, the prophet's was overshadowed by anger. >> [speaking foreign language] in the midst of celebrations held to commemorate the birth of the prophet, peace be upon him, every muslim must express their disdain and condemn what the evil man macron has done. he has insulted the prophet and insulted what we consider holy and sacred. from iran to molly, to pakistan, muslims around the world took part in demonstrations against the french president. many called for emmanuel macron to retract recent statements well others demanded an immediate boycott of anythi to do with france. >> [speaki foreign language] [speaking foreign language] we should boycott everything from france, the ambassador should be expelled from pakistan and the leader should recall the pakistani ambassador to france. all relations with france should end. >> the protests were sparked by mike rounds dissent