But i welcome you watching r. T. International where shes going 2 oclock this friday afternoon here in the russian capital now well start with some news just coming in from paris because 3 people have been injured there by a man armed with a machete near the former headquarters of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo these are live pictures were looking at now from the city you police are hunting for the suspect who escaped on the metro authorities are calling on people to stay out of the area which you hope to go live to our correspondent at the scene in the next few minutes. Meanwhile france assess a new daily code red cord with more than 16. As in cases registered in the past 24 hours on wednesday the french government announced new measures to contain the spread of the virus Health Authorities have set up graded danger levels to cover alert reinforced alert and also maximum. Areas with more than 150. 00 cases per 100000 people as shown here read while the worst hit areas with more than 250. 00 cases per 100000 marked dark red and to face the most strict measures businesses a few make. It. Well many have taken to the streets in paris warning they simply wont survive these new closures ours and restaurants have already been ordered to shut in marsay while in red zones like paris Opening Hours from next week have been restricted to 10 pm discontent spirally. You know im not going out with this im going if we cant travel on the metro close to each other masked how is it that we cannot be in a Bar Restaurant respecting the instructions and rules imposed have to log down rules that the vast majority of us packed sort of security support of the people of bring them all my friendship and solidarity it can happen to paris in a few days time and if they ask us to close longer be able to return today we say let us work we want to be able to work we know how to work and we know what precautions to take. There are health rules to apply we apply them but on the other hand the government is bludgeoning us they are hitting us with this but you should know that they can hit even harder so today we are here calmly but it can quickly escalate. We spoke to the french doctor mark a lot about this he told that without such measures in place the situation could turn even more disastrous. Densely populated places in big cities especially in bars and restaurants people can forget that they need to take precautions if you go to a bar or restaurant was such a high transmission risk you could then infect your family members with the virus so far we do not have a vaccine and the recommended measures are temporary as the minister said they will be revised in 2 weeks if we do nothing it will lead us to a Public Health emergency when i hear what some politicians have to say i think we need to ask people who have been in intensive care they really know what we are talking about. Meanwhile britain could soon become the 1st country to carry out socalled challenge trials with a Coronavirus Vaccine it would involve deliberately exposing volunteers to the live virus the Financial Times newspaper cites insiders working on the project saying that the trials could start in january at a quarantine facility in london all in tears will reportedly receive a vaccine and then a dose of the actual virus a month later theres been an online backlash over the questionable morality of the. Volunteers or not how can this be ethical when corona virus infection can be fatal wonder what we would be saying about this if it was russia not u. K. Project risky reckless irresponsible typical of russia how risky are the human challenge trials well the academically on the trials did not confirm the report there and the British Government has also not confirm the details of the scheme but has said it is open to conducting such studies we heard from microbiologist simon clark of britains university of reading he says though that the move may not be ideal but these are desperate times. Its quite unusual of course if we had effective treatments the rush for a back seat would. Wouldnt be so would be so strong its not optimal an optimal way of doing it ideally youd let people get the. Virus normally but needs must when the devil drive with our backs are against the wall on base and weve really got to be able to come up with a vaccine in pretty short order so i think some people think this is a way of doing it you know they need to its a sub optimal way of doing the trials no 2 ways about it the fact is the hospitals in this country in the spring were gummed up by lots and lots of people who were seriously ill many of them were literally unable to breathe and needed the attention of intensive care that meant that that so the hospitals were unable to discharge their normal case loads and that was the basic problem. With the growing number of people catching cave across russia 6 and a half hours in the last 24 hours alone moscow is calling on people in high risk groups in particular to only get if essential with more details his woman costa. Well indeed the number of cases has been the growing in russia recently over the last couple of weeks in fact now russian consumer watchdog. Or wall there is saying that its not the 2nd wave of coal that theyre actually calling it call it the continuation of the 1st wave meanwhile Russian HealthMinistry Officials said that the number of serious cold cases remains at the same level at this point now authorities claim that everything is being done in order to avoid a massive shutdown so they have issued the following recommendations lets take a look so retarded people and those with chronic illnesses should try and stay home as much as possible and if they do need to go outside just like everyone else they need to wear protective gear like masks and gloves now everyone should also limit their visits to shops and pharmacies as well as visits to close relatives and loved ones in in case they live separately also some large scale employers here in moscow have been advised to send as many people as possible so work remotely or even have them take a vacation now if the employees do need to come to work they need to observe social distancing rules and of course they wear protective gear like masks and gloves now moscow mayor says that the capital saw a spike in the number of covert b. Cases and this is showing this its huge situation is becoming more difficult lets have a listen to sergei sabbaton and unfortunately in moscow in recent days we have seen a significant increase in the number of covert positive cases whats more the cold is approaching that means a traditional increase in diseases doctors say that to illnesses together could result in dangerous and serious consequences especially for the elderly and those suffering from chronic diseases thats why for monday we are as. Can you just stay at home despite these high numbers president putin said that russia is going through this pandemic period all but better than other countries but he also said that its no time to relax or tread lightly lets have a listen. You can make these problems. Otherwise they will expand its going to be a very tough challenge through citizens through a country and through economy now some Health Officials are also saying that this new spike in you call that cases is due to the fact that more people are being tested for coronavirus with the rollout of 3rd stage of this. Vaccine in russia more and more people are becoming interested in becoming the volunteers in this 3rd stage so theyre getting tested and they want to be 1st to become inoculated now everyone also remembers that i am when almost sire economies have been shut down due to restrictions however this time authorities in russia are hoping its not going to go that far and they say they have they have everything under control. Ok lets go back to our top story this from paris because 3 people there have reportedly been injured by a man armed with a machete near the former headquarters being satirical magazine charlie habits of the police to say that a person has been arrested authorities are calling on people to to stay out of the area well it. Was in the french capital for us. To just run through them what else we know about what happened this afternoon. Well as you know andrew this is an ongoing operation at the moment what we understand is that there was an attack that took place near the formal offices of the satirical magazine shortly after shortly after of course flying into the spotlight back in 2015 when then wolf that deadbeat terror attack that killed so many people at the offices there and started as sort of blast spate of terror attacks here in france now weve had the updates that occur. In that attack on friday morning and we understand that suits them have been role that seriously injured we understand that we wont notice and has been arrested to the police are currently still searching for 2 of the individuals who were sent to be at large at the moment so theyre all morons this operation is ongoing as you can see the full picture is that there is a big Police Presence movements of vehicles there as well as theyre trying to assess whats happening now people have been told to the needs the area if theyre in the area this is around lets move our home decent all at paris to near and the best to larry where we we see a lot of cars has taken place have been shot in the area as have nurseries and news. Operation is ongoing now it does of course come in the wake of fresh threats against your homeland seeing sharlee and dead at that although you were mental were talking more outraged just a few weeks ago when it really published some rumors Holton Herschel because youre in the back. And the muslim context. Is that. The moment at which and people who want or accused of being connected to that attack that took place in 2015 knots of people who carried out its act there accused of being people that may in provided states equal the terrorists will perhaps equal financial backing out this week in. Wake of those new threats against the legacy french media have banded together all the over a 100 different outlets organizations all calling on people to support the magazine to defend freedom of speech. Charlie hebdo is once again threatened by a terrorist organization threats that are real provoke ation in the midst of the trial of the january 2015 attacks i had 10 minutes to gather my things and leave my home 10 minutes to leave behind a part of my life thats a bit short its very brutal lets be clear we dont know that these 2 incidents are connected right now so what we do know is that Ongoing Police operation has basically called off the area near the 4 offices of the satirical magazine shania and we understand that 4 people were injured in that attack which was an attack with a life incense you. Enjoy it at what has been arrested for the incident its all still looking at the scene of the suspects they were involved in this latest attack ok thanks charlotte the Charlotte Benson there reporting from paris. Another news this afternoon Major Car Companies including tesla fireball suits against the trumpet ministration for what they called unlawful tariffs on chinese made parts as the u. S. Presence trade war on beijing leaves american firms struggling to find alternative manufacturers assassin taylor explains. Fost in serious speeding its way to dominating the car industry but it may have reached a bit of a roadblock increase tariffs schools economics. Through the increase of course and the impact of profitability due to the complexity of the maybe 3 car computer and the demanding timelines necessary for teslas exponential growth to say is unable to find another manufacturer to meet our requirements tesla has filed a lawsuit against the trumpet ministration why what components the company uses namely the computer tips are made in china and as luck would have it these parts are subject to 25 percent tariffs as part of trumps tough on china strategy ido musk says its a car crash and the tariffs are all poetry capricious and in a piece of this question probably not what a president wants to hear from one of his countrys greatest minds who hes fine gold in the past is one of our great geniuses and we have to protect im with must say single says probably not what trump had in mind when he promised to make America Great again protecting our workers are protecting our companies to trade war hurts them doesnt hurt us with a hole in his pocket now musk is asking for a refund with interest of course on all the tax hes already had to pay and tess was not the only Company Spinning out of the big hits is like misstating his fortune volvo have also decided to sue trump and co they are irony of all this is all while these tariffs are quite literally driving away business for americans and europeans for beijing theyve been a road to give us a fixation i dont crease profit you know the trade friction between china and us puts pressure on Companies Whose main market is the us well the value of exposed to the us has decreased companies have been exploring multiple markets the result is remarkable and has enlarged known u. S. Markets well the. The u. S. Market for chinese products has shrunk so chinas overall exports keep growing so was no doubt for President Trump 4 years ago said the cards were in american hands but we have the carts dont forget were like the piggy back this being wrapped we cant continue to allow china to rape our country and thats what theyre doing its their greatest staffed in the history of the world while 4 years oughtnt the u. S. Trade deficit with china is almost 10 percent more than what trump said those wads and 4 years on it looks like its now tester and co who are the ones looking into that piggy banks and saying empty words not those gold coins they were promised. Some world news in brief now more than 100 firefighters through the night. To get the burning parts of the church being built in berlin are the cause of the fire still being investigated and no casualties have been ported another making place to this time in argentina has torched thousands of hectares of grassland and pine forests there and he waved in strong winds in a number of provinces to fuel the flames activists are warning of an environmental disaster as the raging wildfires burn active control residents of a syrian village have burned the stars and stripes to protest against pentagon and turkish troops in the country demonstrators march with National Flags to also demand crippling u. S. Sanctions washingtons latest restrictions do hit the countrys central bank as well as anyone working with its military oil or gas sectors. Course not International Company this hour for more from moscow britains high yield a commitment to a new Energy Source backed by all majors but critics do you see a trick or have the details just after the break. Wall street financial engineers look up the crowds. To money printing into their pockets at a rate that according to the Rand Corporation equals more than 50. 00 trillion dollars so that is your god thats why we have social unrest thats why we have incredible wealth and income gap thats why we have such a distorted economy thats why wages are not keeping up thats why weve got inflation raging. And the story. Seems wrong. Well we just dont hold. Any new world yet to shape our disdain become educated and engage with equals betrayal. When so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. Again my rights activists in britain a warning against new legislation to let undercover agents get away with serious crimes including murder. There is a grave danger that this bill could and providing informers agents with a license to kill it is deeply alarming that the proposed law does not explicitly prohibit m i 5 and other agencies from also rising crimes like torture and killing it must be amended to do so the new legislation to be introduced this week will allow agents to carry out necessary and proportionate offenses the full list of crimes that can be allowed is not disclosed but allegedly the bill sets no limits the government insists the bill is compliance with the European Convention on human rights and doesnt provide a license to kill we discuss the issue with the former British Intelligence agent and masha. Our spy agencies in the u. K. Are the most legally protected and least accountable of any spy agencies in any notion of western democracy and this is just another law that will protect them so i have some sympathy for the agents in the field who want to be sure that if they have to do something thats illegal to protect their lives saved their lives or get information will save others lives yes they do want to be protected and thats right however if this is going to another warrant system which is basically and i 5 would have to request a warrant from death and it could march to the home secretary. And then they would have immunity that is wide open to abuse and this is one of the things that David Shayler reported way back in 1911 the warranty system is a tick box exercise government ministers always sign off on them because they dont want to take the risk that something might happen if they dont. And they can be gamed and so its a sort of a state of notional democratic oversight and notionally notional Legal Protection but actually i think its part of a bigger power grab thats going on amongst our Intelligence Agency school u. K. That britain has announced a massive commitment to socalled Green Hydrogen as part of efforts to be Carbon Neutral by 25th the Prime MinisterBoris Johnson says to that he is a convert. Quite extraordinary potential we have when we want to lead in Carbon Capture and storage of technology i barely believe was possible but im not a complete evangelist. We want to use those technologies to develop a lot of hydrogen were going to be big on hydrogen. For. A lot of purposes and not least the ability that hydrogen has to provide a lot of grunt for. The trucks the trains even perhaps the planes of vehicles. Now on paper Green Hydrogen to same to be an excellent alternative to fossil fuels its made using Renewable Energy and the only by products are oxygen and water a professor of Mechanical Engineering david saban does point out the technology is incredibly inefficient. Economy. Through group. You have to build a very large amount of interest just to give you an example if you power home heating directly through with tricity or you do the same thing through hydrogen you need 6 times more electricity to do it through harder and we are at a time in human life where the amount of renewable electricity is limited this is not free we are. Trying to to. To her own eyes the entire Global Energy system and to require 6 times more power to one system than another its completely obvious that you dont want to do that of the hard task forces alone being creep founded by the likes of oil giants a pe in shell and has been pushing the government to commit to hydrogen for the long run one of the goals is 100 percent Clean Hydrogen hating in the country by 2025 a call to you for Financial Support to build Hydrogen Fuel stations for a transport but critics of the dash to hydrogen do warn of fossil fuel mages know hydrogen wont solve the planets climate goals. We know that Global Warming is dangerous the additional danger here is that is that this just to hydrogen is caught is going to cause a lot more delay what we will see there is no doubt that well see that hydrogen is far too expensive for vehicles and too expensive for home heating we know that we know thats going to happen but its going to take quite a few years before people realize that thats the dash to hydrogen which is being promoted by a very powerful international lobby. In the in the in the fossil fuel industry well thats doing is causing delays its causing electrification projects not to happen its causing governments not to make decisions about what to do and you remember that we only have until 2040 to completely decarbonise if were going to get to one of the degrees of Global Warming its detrimental to Carbon Emissions its detrimental to energy usage there to mental to the current session rates and still a commendable to the Energy Security so its got everything there that and nothing good with it. That is the battle for the us presidency does going the mental model of trump has suggested he may not accept defeat and the peaceful transfer of power if he loses the race which has shocked the rival joe biden and his kind of more pain now looks at how history might repeat itself ending in the Supreme Court should the election end in stalemate. There is always plenty of anticipation and tension in the lead up to a u. S. President ial election however 2020 stands out this year people arent so much worried about who wins but rather what will happen after victory is declared donald trump our if he loses to joe biden on november 3rd we have to see what happens you know that ive been complaining very strongly about the ballots and the ballot surges esther and that but in bull riding do you commit to making sure that theres a nice little worries for all of the want to get rid of the ballots and you have a very transfer will have a very peaceful there will be a transfer or frankly there will be a continuation that sounds pretty ominous if youre a democrat and its given fuel to joe bidens pretrial of trump as a would be dictator were pretty grueling. Being facetious i said what country or where you are. Says the most rational thing. Mother would say but its not just donald trump Hillary Clinton has advised joe biden not to concede to donald trump under any circumstances in other words not to promise a peaceful transition either joe biden should not concede under any circumstances because i think this is going to drag out and eventually i do believe he will win it so if no clear victory is determined on Election Night it could end up following the trajectory of the 2000 elections where the Supreme Court ended up picking who the winner was donald trump is already anticipating such circumstances i think this will end up in the Supreme Court and i think its very important that we have 9 justices now thats convenient because the republicans could soon have a stranglehold over the Supreme Court a clear 63 majority the passing of Supreme CourtJustice Ruth Bader ginsburg has set the stage for a big fight on capitol hill. And who is going to replace her on the u. S. Supreme court that do you remember how ugly things got with Brett Cavanagh well this time the stakes are much higher caleb mopp and our 2 new york. Ok well before we go this hour lets just recap our breaking news for you coming from paris because 4 people there have reportedly been injured by a man armed with a machete uniform the headquarters of this is here with a magazine Charlie Hebdo among the victims are believed to be 2 employees of 1st lines press Agency Police say one person has been arrested and offices are reportedly hunting 2 others of thor it seems according on paper to stay away from the scene of the incident the french president the man who macro and says he is following the situation closely from the. Not. So that brings you up to date will be back with the latest on that story present this to you at the top of the. Metal was a very nice or for a for a president who knew that i could have said no thank you or i could have said thank you and i said ill take it and now its time to introduce my is not special mr donald trump thank you susan very much was the. Name whatever you want to name i mean i dont know how would i come that news that just tell what i can about a recorder or a network thats totally dishonest. And then is says you know 100 percent negative i can reverse the change fast changes so fast sometimes ill say wow thats going to be a great story be a pretty good reporter not as good as you. Can. See what happens. I always say who knows what well see on the film it will be a success and. Join me every thursday on the alec simon show and ill be speaking to guests of the world of politics sports business im show business ill see if that. Is your media a reflection of reality. In the world try