24 hour news live from moscow this is r. T. International my names you know neal that one welcome to the program. We start with the story dominating our Coverage Today a knife attack in which 3 people were killed in nice on thursday morning was perpetrated by an islamist terrorist that is according to french president among the well. It happened inside a church. And this footage is the Moment Police entered the basilica after the assailant had struck earlier in the morning the suspect was arrested after being shot and wounded by officers terror prosecutors have launched an investigation. After visiting the scene of the tragedy president mccrum said his country was under attack and ordered a more than doubling of the army nationwide. And. Not look big 8 if once again our country has been hit by an islamist terrorist attack once again this morning 3 of our compatriots fell in the basilica a nice very clearly france is under attack i have decided that our soldiers will be more mobilized in the coming hours and we were up the mobilization within the framework of Operation Center know from 30027000 soldiers on our ground we will be in a position to protect all places of worship in particular of course churches and we will also protect our schools for the coming school year. In light of todays events in france the countries raise their its Terror Threat system to the highest level with more on the killings under a farmer spoke to r. T. Charlotte dubin ski in paris. The attack level in france has been raised in the last few hours to attack a level meaning france thinks it could be subject to other attacks following whats happened in nice where 3 people were killed inside a Church Inside not. In the heart of the city of nice present mark warner has arrived on the site to see whats happening and to offer his condolences 3 people dead including one we understand who was beheaded in an attack that has shocking reminiscent of that attack on the history teacher senator patty less than 2 weeks ago 2 others also killed in that attack we are not exactly sure of the details of what happened to them but they do understand that it was a mass stabbing that took place inside the church now the mayor of nice has been talking out about whats happened hes described this as a terror attack. In this new tragedy today we see victims of islamofascism which i repeatedly denounced while the Anti Terrorism prosecution has taken over the investigation into what unfolded in nice and we are waiting for further developments from them to see whether they are officially considering this to be a terror attack but all suggestions would show that that is exactly what it is it has the hallmarks of islamist attacks including when the perpetrator was apprehended by the police he apparently screamed out. Several times that is god is the greatest the french Prime Minister has been paying his own condolences this act which is barbarian as it is cowardly has plunged the entire nation into mourning the government has just raised its terror alert level throughout the country theres been reaction as well from opposition politicians who are questioning whats happened in nice some of the strongest came from the leader of the national. A rally in Marine Le Pen the dramatic acceleration of islamist acts of war against our fellow citizens in our country demands from our leaders a comprehensive response and at the ready cation of business and from our soil of course offer her condolences to the families of the victims of that brutal attack in the heart of niece on thursday morning and thats also been the thoughts and condolences from many of the people now of course this attack happened in a Catholic Church and the vatican has been speaking out about this recently suggesting that they condemn this attack and also has said that terrorism and violence is Never Acceptable and this does come to you doesnt it charlotte its a very tense time for france yes france at the moment is on the edge of a knife with anger spilling out in muslim majority countries this comes after president mcentee friended the right to publish and choose controversial cartoons of the muslim prophet mohammed in civics lessons such as after the beheading of 7 patty and also to be published in french magazines and in its newspapers lets take a quick reminder now of whats unfolded in the last 2 weeks. In the hospital one of our competitors was murdered because he taught our competitor it was the victim of an islamist terror attack. And this is the concern past of russia nationality and of chechen origin benefited from a Refugee Status and lived in fear that he was not known to the Intelligence Services on a judicial level hes never the. Convicted the law is noted for cases damaging public property and Gang Violence while still a minor. The fuel he asked Muslim Children to raise their hands and leave the classroom she did it my son told me he didnt do it to discriminate or to hurt he did it to preserve the children to not shield them he explains id prefer if you left because im going to show a cartoon of the prophet of islam i dont want to shock you. Im even more shocked that this college is one i opened when i was the town mayor working there was nice and it was located in a neighborhood without any problems oh violence by i dont think that this act of terror is a crazy man staying at a premeditated act. Well following comments by president matt calling that france would not step back from showing these controversial cartoons there has been this out spilling of anger in many muslim majority countries with protests in bangladesh in jordan libya and in other countries theres also been a call for a boycott of french products and weve heard the turkish president who is essentially led the charge saying that president michel needed to have his Mental Health check all of this comes as the director general of the National Police in france has been urging for the last few days for additional vigilance in the wake of whats happening this anti french sentiment he indeed said to people that they needed to be extra vigilant particularly around places such as religious sites which of course this church in nice is. Well in an interview tourist History Channel r. T. France the 1st deputy mayor of nice Anthony Boris said his country was at war there was a fight it would win. The aggressor decapitated a woman those 3 People Killed a victims of islamist barbarism because the attackers dead it is yet to be a standish cried out of whack by several times of course we will have to be relentless in the face of this barbarism we cant leave this battle for our children we have to wage it now using our means of warfare we have to be decisive stick to the law and use new tactics keeping in mind the Current Events in our country in nice we use all the tools at our disposal to Counter Terrorism at the same time were mindful of the fact that the instruments we use that a municipal level are not adequate to help the government in this battle we need additional a lawful means to eradicate islam over fascism. Well enough its time to act and i would like to tell mr matt corner mr dogman our stay of paris theres no need to come to us vice had already come to us when 86. 00 people died on the promenade day on a large had already visited us to no need to come better stay in paris and do something just do something how do the residents of nice react to this the same as me there are few reus with super tired of this its the 2nd time an islamist terrorist attacks a church in france for the 3rd time in our country people have been beheaded once again when will they stop. Well lets take a listen to what former Austrian Foreign minister current knesset told the program earlier about the french president s clampdown on radical islamism. I would say as an observer. It could have been them in a little bit more conciliatory way to 6000000 muslims living and you have a certain percentage who are ready to kill him no less and. Has developed and will that from Seminar School security. But what right now is much more. Sort of reconciliation by more polarized and. I would observe that things have been going more in a polarizing but again supported by the majority of the french this is the 3rd incident within the past month the 2nd within about 10 days. Theres sort of similar in the sense that they seem to be a response to this you know Charlie Hebdo in showing these photos and also just a worshipping inside of a church and so its not just peoples impression empirically i think its fair to say that france is in the middle of an up tick and its not clear that it will end its quite possible unfortunately that ill be back on your program in in a week but theres no signs that its ending i suspect that selfcensorship is going to rise especially in france and again i think that the conditions for this attack are not only still present but are going to be exacerbated and so i 1st see more islamised attacks in france probably in the near future if the past month is any indication. Just coming up to 30 minutes past the hour we will have more coverage of our breaking news from france right after the break your chin into r. T. International. 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This is been the pattern for the last several years of attacks and terror all over france and theyve been seeing 2015 the attack on sharlee abdul headquarters a dozen People Killed then same year the attacks and in paris more than 100 People Killed 400 injured the next year the truck attack in nice 80 People Killed 20172018 more stabbings shootings ramming then 2000 the tack of a Police Station and other shootings and stabbings this is this is a horrific. Horrific pardon leading up to this year and of course 2 weeks 3 attacks and many of these attacks can be traced back to these these characters charlie abdu and this is perhaps the reason the french patiences is running out there is there is this sense in the president s reaction to the murder of the french teacher 2 weeks ago that you know the french government is toughening up its position but samuel was murdered for the very reason that embodied the values of the french republic he was killed because islamists want to destroy our future and what silent hill is like simultaneity that they will not prevail samuel was a victim of lies a Conspiracy Theory of the hatred of others of what we are on friday he became the face of the republic and our desire to bring down terrorist networks islamic rules to live like a community of free citizens. He was talking there about the beheading of the french teacher a couple of weeks ago i want to differentiate government to you in particular in response to that was a very strong reaction they went after Muslim Civil Society shutting down some thief t. Energy use and charities including the collective against the slobber phobia in france which is can see. Somewhat mainstream nevertheless they have now gone after the more than 200 people are either awaiting deportation from france or have been arrested by authorities on suspicion of being radicalized in you know the interior minister has come out and called some of these in jews enemies of france enemies france of these are french and geos these are french organizations french charities what they hope to achieve with this. Is unclear at the moment but what we do know it has provoked a strong reaction from muslim countries well theres been a double reaction this was the 1st reaction has been condolences condolences with regards to the murder of the teacher condolences with regards to what has happened today even even turkey coming out and saying that you know this is completely unacceptable there is no justification for behaving people the other reaction has been not to what is happening in france but to what french authorities are saying and in the muslim world this is from north africa all the way to Southeast Asia the malaysia the reaction has been very different because theyre seeing theyre hearing what the french are saying not as not as condemnation of terrorism but as islamophobia needs Mental Health treatment what else can be said to a head of state who does not understand freedom of belief and who behaves in this way to millions of People Living in his country who are members of a different faith muslims are the primary victims of the cult of hatred empowered by colonial regimes and exported by their own clients insulting 1100000000 muslims and their sanctities for the apparent crimes of such extremists is not you know stick abuse of freedom of speech it only fuels extremism the recent statements that the leadership level is the dence of disick ration of the holy quran a reflection of this increasing islamophobia that is spreading in European Countries we must explain. To the western world the value systems differ for different social and religious and ethnic groups in the world we also have muslims ordinary muslims all over the world people who have one of nothing to do with terrorism we want nothing to do with these beheadings in who condemn condemn violence theyre still coming out into the streets there waving banners across the muslim world even even here theres a small demonstration in moscow today. Before before this incident and what people want to know is where does free speech end and where does religious tolerance begin because by by the descriptions of these characters the point of them was was to insult they are insulting their crude theyre insulting and the point was to get a reaction this is what many muslims many analysts say that surely do which usually doesnt sell very many copies i believe in the passes around 60000 that they feed they capitalize on huge amounts of huge amounts of attention that they get after after every publication after every Major Incident that theyre in the limelight and this is what ordinary people are saying that you know theres been a history of this now they keep doing it and doing it and it isnt it isnt for. The defense of freedom of speech is as an act of freedom of speech which is obviously very different to the position of many secular organizations journalists the french authorities that say religion is religion and it is it is subject to free speech you can say whatever you want about religion nevertheless there has been this this pattern of protests and violence around it charlie able to. Broadcast the of speaking to untruth farmer or weve been hearing a range of opinion and reaction to all of todays events. Tensions are mounting every day between the slimy word and france in france we have the french government saying that we have the freedom of speech we have the freedom to do any said about anyone we want and on the other side we have the slimy words which says ok you can have the freedom of speech but you do you shouldnt be insulting our prophet so this 2 points of view are opposing each other and this 2 communities dont understand each other if we want to stop the radical islam here in france we should prove and we should show them that france is a neutral country that what we call here. No religion has the right to interfere with with the government or the state of affairs in france these radical muslims dont understand that and the french Government Regarding its freedom of speech says that the we have the right to do anything you want to mock anyone we want and this is our right this is our freedom of speech but in general we should understand and the viewers should understand that in france we have almost a total freedom of speech which saw 1st few exceptions and few restrictions but these restrictions never apply to 2 muslim thats i mean thats what the muslim of the french muslim they feel that the freedom of speech is. Suffers no received and when you attack the muslim people and the muslim religion but not the other religion thats what they think when the Charity Issues were published and then there were it and there was actually. The call to this to 20 scene the main jesuit review it fronts how delish not only the jacket use one of the 100 year it years but many shall you do caricature those that were much. Against the Catholic Church who treat nuns you could imagine it and they ran. There are those on that website precisely to make the point that even though this was an insult they were doing the christian thing in. Showing her that she was also respecting the idea that the city does not exist and rules nor french media are reporting the theola aged niece attacker is a 21 year old chimneys ian however no official confirmation on that has been given it is claimed she only arrived in europe a few weeks ago but again the claim has not been verified by french authorities meanwhile in yet another incident today in france in the popular tourist city of new york an armed man was shot dead by police just 2 hours after the nice massacre hed been promising a weapon. People while shouting god is greatest in our back again this is what happened in nice hours before that and of course in the last number of years the nation has faced a number of brutal terror attacks. Or 3rd expert dr Lewis Harrington believes that surely caricatures have been used as an excuse by islamists to cardiod atrocities they would have in any case when we need to see what goes on with the stream of speech in the local. And that the people that sharing our toast at the track theyre not doing it because of Charlie Hebdo theyre all doing it because of whats going on that they use 8 serves as a useful way of giving what theyre planning to do anyway legitimacy you know there are a lot of people who disagree with Charlie Hebdo theres all this thousands of what you would call is list is a mystic stream ists. Its very few more terrorists theres very few people who actually do the deal if the Charlie Hebdo was so offensive was so horrible surely theyd be thousands of people on the streets starving one another its not its a tiny tiny minority what is it about the type of minority that distinguishes them from all the rest of us and thats why you have to look at this an individual level when one starts it almost gives legitimacy to the others so the reason that france has raised its terrorism level is because it takes one and its kind of like a rally around the flag now were all going to go because it becomes rational or when you think you will get legitimacy for a. Lie from moscow they say its r. T. E. International or Great Program start any moment and ill keep the updates coming from the front sand for their failed in all of the 1st set of elements at the top of the hour in just over 30 minutes to help the syrian. You know we dealing with a Global Pandemic in. Viral type infecting people causing chaos and mayhem but thats small change compared to the mind virus bit calling. The maturity to. Go in and you may never get out some sort of people this is. My teenage gang rules here because i dont want to you. Know let the my people go. Through with it but. Now youve. Got. Minus. 0. And now its looking for the. Bell and when. Im looking. Through music i see. Welcome to the alex salmond show into the 2nd of our special shows marking black History Month this years celebration has achieved record interest in the wake of the surge in support for black lights matter. Last week we told the remarkable story of scotlands forgotten football hero im due watson who led to steam to a devastating 61 triumph over england in march 8081 m g watson was scotlands 1st and thus far only black football captain it was 130 years before the scotsman followed in his footsteps and captain her country if you will my dear one of scotlands most cup players of all time joins us from florida to tell us of the experience of a black woman beating scotland and were joined again by england great john barnes who places football in the context of the struggle for equality and justice in the 2nd half of todays show we ask black history 2020 editor kathryn roth about the unprecedented published you received by this Years Program of events while professor jeff palmer i can use that revisiting the often and see for the say defense treaty is still a positive experience but 1st your tweets i messed us on last week sure 1st to hear from im to say its really an episode of the show football and black history might not be your thing but it was great to hear from general bryant talking of Scottish History so well they say youre from christie says brilliant show alex i love this story what a remarkable and sadly forgotten figure we should have a statue of him not santa watson i decided hunton as one of our original creates so much of our history that we dont know thanks for telling this story so well scotia says was it great sure did we detect a lump in your through alex spent describing freydon scotlands 1st but National Football cutn. I think so surely says being a women to a certain age im nonplussed by fit sliver i was disappointed by todays topic however i faced invading gaging im worthy i charge of and towards him but was surprised by how much he did cheat in his life against a challenging backdrop of the each glenn says another new to me is a complete lack of reference to what sense ethnicity in any of the press to be said into him. On the teams exploits it didnt matter he was simply a man playing really good that bold body says fantastic story and one that should be taught far and wide in scotland beyond the how does an collection say brilliant stuff david says very interesting i should just see publicist bobby says finally are not about the side my 5 times great grandfather was black he fought in the 2 major c. Bottles of the 18th century in the old navy and served under 2 role Navy Captains against my paternal and highland and sisters in the 45 he studied in milton next to