Good afternoon just gone for caught here in moscow youre watching r. T. International and 9 arrests have been made in france after a teacher was beheaded at a school in a paris suburb the atrocity took place after the teacher reportedly showed his class derogatory cartoons of the prophet mohammed resins some people have been laying flowers the place the attack on folded is a breakdown of what happened. In. The. 80 s. Unique one of our compatriots was murdered because he taught freedom of expression the freedom to believe or not believe our compact it was the victim of an islamist terror attack that. Well the killer was shot dead by police not far from the crime scene sources say he was shouting god is great in arabic when police confronted him reports say 2 he was an 18 year old man who was born in moscow and had chechen ethnicity parents of the children who attended the French School at the center of the instance said that the teacher had actually been trying to be considerate to his people. But my view. He asked Muslim Children to raise their hands and leave the classroom he did it my son told me he didnt do it to discriminate or just heard he did it to preserve the children look to not chilled them he explained id prefer if you left because im going to share with the tune of the prophet of islam because i dont want to shock you noted you see where it was only attack here normal and nothing ever happens here and now would teachers been decapitated our children and so we dont know what to do. When marches have been planned in france in response to the teachers killing r. T. Shelley dubinsky has more now on the reaction to the incident. 9 arrests have taken place following searches overnight following that attack that terror attack in that region to the northwest of paris when the stand one is a minor and 2 are parents of children to attend did the school where the 47 year old history teacher has been named by french media as samuel patty taught this is the reaction from the ground for human human madness thats where we are today in france its unfortunate just a lesson just a caricature youre frankly its hard to imagine that someone could do it just for that a drawing a simple drawing that we can no longer see what we want because if our democracy has been crushed by religion by politics. Its just its a pity that the attacker was killed because he should have been judged for his actions and its a pity that we can no longer teaches we wish and enjoy freedom of speech every time there is this kind of reprisal its related to religion and thats a problem in a secular country. That the alleged attacker tweeted a picture of that attack and posted here all social media how since being removed but in the post he said he killed the 47 year old teacher because he had shown those images of the prophet mohammed but the a mormon at the grand mosque in bordeaux has hit out at this attack describing it as vile and saying that there was no reason for it to have taken place whatever the thought the believe even the insult the caricature of the other nothing justifies the fact of killing the so it is the mortal capital soon to kill a person like that to carve his throat like that all because it showed caricaturists of the prophet. Charlie hebdo the satirical magazine which has previously published controversial cartoons of the prophet mohammed has also tweeted about the attack saying intolerance has crossed a new threshold in france and of course it was recently at the center of another terror attack in here in france after we publishing those controversial cartoons to coincide with the start of the terror trial relating to the attack on their offices back in 20153 weeks ago an 18 year old man angered by that stabbed 2 people outside the former offices president raekwon recently set out his stall single be a new draft law homeschooling will be banned for the majority of people apart from in Health Circumstances arabic will now be taught in schools well than in mosques because of fears of potential indoctrination but many will wonder where the that will be enough given that recent polls show that almost 3 quarters of young muslims under the age of 25 who responded to that poll so that they would put their faith above that of the republic so a real question of soul searching question going on here in france as it remains under this cloud of terror with people asking where this new more will be enough to to fight the rot or whether its too little too late but we discussed the incident with erica hay hes a writer and political analyst in paris and he says there is a clash in france between secular and religious values that needs addressing. There is a problem a very deep problem between islamic groups in our conception of the security reason. As we see it encrypts reconsider of the traditions is a intimate affair and the private affair and we cannot mix the religion and the life in the street in the city there is a low in preparation but. A lot of people consider that this low is too shy. Is not proportionate to the very quick move prof or from the president to the spot where the tragedy happened is the important number of complying or of this conscience of descendant conscience of the dems or. Now the capital of the disputed new corner had a back region has been struck by several powerful explosions overnight that is spite serious cease fire agreed between armenia and azerbaijan just last weekend i reports on the ground cain claim that air raid sirens went off multiple times but the extent of the damage is currently unclear locals took cover in their basements the rockets are believed to have also struck to the area surrounding the city and these are pictures from one of the nearby villages and injuries have been reported to the number of regions where fighting has flared up and are going to cut it back its been growing since tensions did rise quickly between back and yet a van back in september the 2 sides are trading accusations of attacks blaming each other for civilian casualties and damage inflicted as president has meanwhile announced that his country has reclaimed 3 cities in the going out had a back something though armenia denies our correspondent is in the region and now reports on what life is like there after these latest strikes. This place could very easily be mistaken for the front line of Nagorno Karabakh but it isnt its a small sleepy village of. Also commonly known as red bazaar and last night it was battered by a very fire im standing in one of the craters left by the bombardment its about 8 meters in diameter. It was about 7 oclock i wanted to park the car in the yard because the bombs had been dropped there. The cast iron explodes and splinters everywhere with a radius up to a few 100 metres today for example my house wasnt damaged but our neighbors windows were smashed someones roof was broken already used to it. Like all villages of Nagorno Karabakh red bazaar resembles a ghost town its not the 1st time that its been bombed in this escalation theres also a monotonous rhythm made by the sounds of artillery fire coming from over the horizon but those who have chosen to stay are saying that they have gotten used to this new and gruesome soundtrack to their lives he says the kind of life can be during war everyone hides in basements even if a bomb drops a kilometer away all the houses shake we know that its close to us of course its scary especially when the bombs drop nearby but im not going to leave anyway all the youngsters and men stayed here some of them are serving in the army depending on their age. But here its just an echo of the fighting that is raging some 50 kilometers to the south from here around the town of drought there is no way of saying for sure who is in control of this heavily contested region which is considered to be the gateway into new going to karabakh thing is its one of the biggest problems about covering this conflict the lack of opportunities to independently verify the claims of both sides but one fact is certain the fighting there is absolutely brutal despite the ceasefire that was announced a whole week ago but as of now theres no mechanism of enforcing the truce on the ground and as long until this mechanism is implemented the fighting one sees by itself and weve done our reporting from the going to karabakh r. T. Meanwhile the conflict is again spilled beyond the confines of the disputed territory is a beyond claims that 13 people were killed in a shelling raid in the early hours of saturday morning over 50 people were injured in every 2nd largest city of ganja rescue efforts are ongoing with residential buildings for portably in the attack is even the president calls it a war crime and has vowed a response on the battlefield in another city tartar has repeatedly come under fire this week. As he had a van carrying at the attacks and where most as a day as a journalist from as a bit and sent this report. I am is a total region officer of region it is safe here now but a few days ago simply turning golden all camera lights would have restart lives with guns firing at any source of flight and do regions of dark. And go on boy came to move quiet for Armenian Armed forces for example were really in escape or religion of thought or district we hear shells exploding no more than a few 100 meters from us fighting continues along the forms line and surveillance are called to endure mido for example yesterday during a funeral procession shell exploded at a girl if you are killing 5 people in one link another 5 shells he also residential buildings and then when rolled people here in dark are leave by their nerves never knowing when shells are start falling again. Us democrats are again accusing the russians of hacking their emails the leaks correspondence if genuine discredits 2021 biden and suggests he was aware of his sons involvement with Ukrainian Gas Company something the democratic candidate had previously denied then who picks up the story. What recent u. S. President ial election would be complete without a good old leak and with the ensuing scandal. Of those behind it inevitably russia is like groundhog day the targets democratic nominee joe bidens campaign the useful idiot messenger for my new york city mayor Rudy Giuliani aim to help the apparently kremlin friendly candidate when theres a new report in the Washington Post the headline white house was warned giuliani was target of russian intelligence operation the russians were on to him and were using giulianis interest in ukraine to feed him mr information almost a russian giuliani but maybe he is Rudy Giuliani as a recruit as a tool that can used to influence President Trump youd think it would just be too obvious surely the russians wouldnt try the same tactics twice in a row knowing the size of the media fallout from last time and what a field day this would be for the media except thats exactly what some are claiming russian intelligence has done the media have a story worthy of the d. N. C. Hacking scandal and the infamous steel dossier rolled into one complete with a mysterious laptop left in a delaware Computer Repair store a sex tape and even the smoking gun email all curiously exposed just in time for the election even fox news found it hard to believe the whole story and u. S. Intelligence agencies went to the white house to warn the president that whatever you come back with whatever information ive been over and exposing biden and his son hunter just consider that to be contaminated material what do you say about that. Well 1st of all they never want me there of that an american citizen one would think if i were dealing with some kind of a move agent of this and that someone would have warned me no one did. I have never heard of that before the kremlin must be fuming the whole web of influence has been shut down in one fell swoop 1st facebook sense of the story bearing it in its algorithm twitter label that harmful content looking the accounts of media organizations celebrities even government officials anyone whos tried to share the story its deja vu just like 2016 in case you still havent had enough the preelection focus has switched again to russian meddling all courtesy of an old laptop about and that in a Computer Store with any known conformist voices swiftly shut down twitter and facebook are both absolutely. Biased in favor of a demographic where he and so this point they dont really care how how obviously biased they are it ok i mean this is election meddling this is actual action interference which is what the democrats have been trying to say russian. Living trying to say that since 2016 we see that the Democratic Party in the media has been scrambling for ways to damage this presidency into a sort of reputation you know russia for some reason remains this eternal bad guy the democrats go back to russia in this bombshell report which is so undeniably damaging to biden what are they going to do well they think and they can attack the New York Post and then they can put the message out to their propaganda machines and Mainstream Media to do things like inject suspicion about these emails where they came from and russias involvement and i think at this point their best shot is to hope these stories continue to get censored washing out international were back with more news just after this break. Join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and ill be speaking to guests of the world of politics or business im showbusiness ill see if that. Is your media a reflection of reality. In a world transformed. What will make you feel safe. Isolation or community. Are you going the right way or are you being led. By. What is true what is. In the world corrupted you need to descend. To join us in the. Forum even the shallows. Again you with r. T. And i coronavirus cases are searching again in the us pride ace or 70000 new infections recorded the highest figure since july meanwhile since the start of the pandemic new york has remained in the top 5 states when it comes to cases and present trumpets laid the blame squarely at the feet of the Governor Andrew Cuomo new york has been the worst of the in our country 40000. 00 deaths new york has done very badly hes done a bad job really good job cuomo new yorks Governor Andrew Cuomo claims a lot of progress has been made and the situation has stabilized but just like trump many do blame local authorities for the chaos of the past few months this kind of market reports. They call it the big apple the city of dreams the capital of capitalism but 7 months into the pandemic new york city is not doing too well and local government is catching the blame its incredible how little we have learned in 7 months well they better start learning pretty fast at this point weve seen gun violence on the rise rapidly the f. B. I. And the u. S. Attorney are looking to intervene my perception is is that this city in certain other pockets has become an environment which is too permissive for armed criminal offenders to walk the streets at the peril of the public in addition to that weve got the new York City Police department they are bracing for a massive underestimate following the president ial election this november 3rd will be one of the most highly contested president ial elections in the modern era we should anticipate and prepare for protests growing in size frequency and intensity leading up to the election and likely into the year 2021 broadway is staying shut down until summer of 2021 lots of lost jobs and lots of lost profits furthermore the Historic Roosevelt hotel has been forced to close there are no tourists to book their room now other hotels have been used to house Homeless People and keep them off the streets during the pandemic a Public Health measure however residents of those neighborhoods are not thrilled about their new neighbors and they are suing the city the city has reacted recklessly and to radically by repeatedly uprooting these individuals based on political pressure hospitalizations for covert 19 are now starting to rise once again local officials have a lot of problems on their hands and for every problem they solve 10 more seem to pop up they look mop and r. T. New york. The arab league has slammed israel iris decision to pay were 2000 more highnesses in new york a pied west bank does come less than a month after israel and the us agreed to normalize relations. The netanyahu governments insistence on moving forward with settlement activity to satisfy the extreme right wing reflects its rejection of this solution and even its commitment to destroy the chances of achieving it in the future you know its expansion plans are the biggest since 2012 according to israeli n. G. O. S peace now earlier this year israel agreed to freeze the form of an extension of the west bank under the west middle east plan spearheaded by president from however palestinians have announced that deal saying it would give the green light to israels settlement activity its meanwhile when human rights observers are still being denied access to israel and the palestinian territories back in february israeli authorities announced the country was suspending its ties with the United Nations office of the high commissioner for human rights after a report was published naming more than 100. 00 Israeli Companies that work illegally in west Bank Settlements but absence of International Start from the occupied territories a highly irregular situation will negatively impact on now billeted to carry out our mandate we continue to hope that the situation will be resolved soon and were actively engaged with various relevant and concerned parties do that. Now washington how moscow are odds at the moment over the extension of a Major Nuclear arms control treaty the us has pushed back against russias proposal to extend it without preconditions for another year the karen has the details. As the clock ticks on the last remaining u. S. Russian arms control treaty the United States and russia seem to be locked in a stalemate while most are suggesting an unconditional 5 year extension of the treaty the us wants quite extensive changes which must go as called quite simply unrealistic now speaking early on friday president putin made a strong call to save the pact when youre used to listening i have a suggestion to prolong the existing treaty without any conditions for at least one year in order to have the opportunity to hold talks on all the matters regulated by such treaties and not to leave all the countries in the world interested in the preservation of strategic stability without such a fundamental document as district did you karmas reduction treaty and things between the 2 have escalated quite quickly with the us even responding with threats if the conditions are not less. The United States is serious about arms control that will keep the entire world safe we hope that russia will reevaluate its position before a costly arms race ensues now the issue is that washington wants a framework for a new trilateral treaty that covers all Nuclear Warheads and includes those of china in the future something which russia has objected to the new strategic arms reduction treaty otherwise known as the new start treaty was signed in 2010 by u. S. President barack obama and russian president Dmitry Medvedev and the plan to limits each country to no more than 1550. 00 deployed Nuclear Warheads and 700. 00 deployed missiles and bombers and envisages sweeping on site inspections to verify compliance but the treaty is set to expire in february 2021 so time is really of the essence here and the lack of an agreement and of course the tone of rhetoric between the 2 sides has raised concerns within the u. N. It is imperative that the Russian Federation and United States of america extend with. The new start treaty for the duration of 5 years. For the sake of all of our security the world must return to a common past towards nuclear designs now as you may remember last year saw the breakdown of the 987 intermediate range Nuclear Forces treaty so the new start is the only Nuclear Arms Control pact between the 2 sides that remains so needless to say the stakes are extremely high whats going to be taken in washington. In washington would your judgment. Increase the. Existence of all these weapons its. A low point i think there were points there were more than one thing very closely watched. The war. Over the last 30 years so you know there are those. Who are. Honestly monstrous imes production nuclear arms production. Military industrial spending is the most. Number one cost what that mean and. So there are very strong elements in the United States and in the trunk. Oh were just seeing a new arms race because they dont mean immense thats what they carry that with that reports i was just coming up top possible here in moscow back again at the top of the room. Or. Thank. You. You know when the family 1st said back in february the question i posed to. You was will this be a crisis sufficient enough to override the ability of Central Banks to paper over the crisis because for the last 30 years every crisis whether its a market crash or the subprime crash or a hurricane or ecological or. Wars always been met with paper printing by the Central Banks. Interest rates keep going down. For paper now for 40 years Interest Rates have gone down so now here we are in the end of the year the question again is this crisis big enough to not be able to be fixed by Central Bank Money printing. Americans love buying homes. This was a fundamental part of how our Political Leadership and our country at large understood the bargain you get a home and then you know rebel right thats the things you dont revolt if you have a stake in the system. And the really interesting stand back and think about the longer deeper history housings men in the United States not just that old question of the American Dream the bigger question if you dream is for. This is boom bust the one business show you cant afford to miss or in washington coming up the federal Communications Commission has moved to target social media giants following outrage over alleged censorship straight ahead well dig into what the moves mean for the new Public Square plus amidst the pandemic sports are in need of distraction to cope it has wreaked havoc on nearly every major league later im going to bring in a panel to analyze the financial state of the industry we have a packed show today so lets dive right in. And we leave the program with the latest in the world of social media in a week that has been nothing short of head spinning in the tech world we have new developments on friday as the federal Communications Commission is indicating that it may begin to regulate platforms over censorship on thursday f. C. C. Chairman i said that the agency will seek to regulate social media platforms like facebook and twitter at the behest of the trump administrations executive orders signed earlier this year so lets waste no time to get to the details of a boom bust cohost and investigative journalist ben swan now ben all of this ramped up this week when twitter and facebook censored and blocked a New York Post story regarding emails of former Vice President joe bidens son hunter biden what happened from the tech side and why has it created such a huge backlash yeah whats really interesting about this brand is that the backlash is bigger than the story itself quite possibly which is that you know because the post could. This article by the way the New York Post you know the 3rd largest daily distribution of any paper in the country they put up this story they tweeted out and twitter responds by actually locking the New York Post account they banned other accounts then they block sharing of it through the direct u. R. L. And they even blocked the sharing of it through d. M. Z. Whats interesting is twitter whos gotten a lot of attention here actually was the 2nd tech company to act the 1st tech company was facebook and facebook essentially said this is a story that should be looked at by our Fact Checkers but even without Fact Checkers looking at it we can go into a whole debate about whether or not the Fact Checkers are legitimate and what theyre doing even without that looking at it facebook said that it would actually slow down distribution of the story by putting a warning on it what does that mean moped when Mark Zuckerberg was testifying in front of Congress Last year about this he said at the time that to reduce distribution on a story by putting those warning labels on it reduces distribution by 98 percent thats what he testified so youre talking about knocking the story down to 2 percent distribution and so in this case it has what we would call the streisand effect which is that your response to try to keep people from seeing the story has actually