Earlier this month. Insulting the master of god the Prophet Muhammad the pretext of. Democracy. Is playing with fire. And the. Pandemic wreaks havoc on europes already strained systems the blocks leaders agree urgently to bolster their response. Good morning to you thanks for joining us here on r. T. We begin this hour in france which is once again trying to come to terms with tragedy struck on thursday morning in the city of nice when a knife paged through a Church Killing 3 leaving several others injured president emanuel described it as an islamist terror attack. It will be but in this new tragedy today you see victims of islamofascism repeatedly denounced. As you know who descended. Upon for the siren of the firemen the Police Arrived quickly since really with bikers and everything that followed then they set up a Security System i went down with my scooter and i saw the guy come in take refuge in the cathedral afterwards i heard a lot of gunshots. Now says the channel r. T. France spoke with the 1st deputy mayor of naysay echoed the words of president in saying that the country is at war with islamic terrorism. Barbarism because the attack whos dead it is yet to be established 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 islamofascism. And further details have emerged about the suspect a 21 year old tunisian initially arrived on the italian island of lampedusa just over a month ago claiming to be a refugee and is yet to comment on the case but the maryland producer has appealed for stricter migrant policies the nice attack is an attack on europe the competent or thorough geezer tracing the leads but in any case this is a matter that must lead italian and e. U. Institutions to reflect deeply on what has happened and on the need to deal with the management of migration flows in a different way. The suspect was reportedly carrying a document issued by the italian red cross after being processed at a Refugee Center online producer tono thirtys were reportedly going to spell him but lost track of his whereabouts the case is causing or poor in rome calls are growing for the interior minister to step down and producer has been on the front line of europes migrant crisis weve all learned bearing the brunt of refugee arrivals into italy Foreign Policy expert frederica bindy says that the nice attack has exposed a wider european problem. The fact that is 1st and came through it was that theres clearly that immigration illegal immigration there you can see its not only any greek problem but its a european problem which has to be theirs as such which is wired to the south that border that greece has said a lot of time unless we work all together and a solution together no there is no way to fix it we think we have. This is the aftermath that these are thats which id match harder to detect match harder to to start and i see it as a reaction to. The global south happening now treat it will matter and such. A commemoration took place right across france on thursday with bells ringing out at churches cathedrals join together to ring the bells at 3 pm in memory of those who lost their lives to discuss the background to the tragic events in nice with a panel of experts. When you see what goes on with the stream of speech it only has a little. And the people that sharing our tested track theyre not doing it because of charlie are doing it because of of whats going on there 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 or dont its all just thousands of what you would call is all the mist is a mystic stream ists. Its very few more terrorists theres very few people who actually do the deal if the if Charlie Hebdo was so offensive was so horrible surely theyd be thousands of people on the street stabbing one another its not its a tiny tiny minority what is it about the tiny minority that distinguishes them from all the rest of us and thats why you have to look at this 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 on one and its kind of like a rally around the flag now were all going to were all going to go because it becomes rational or when you think you will get legitimacy for it. Thats 6000000 muslims living in france you have a simple percentage who are ready to kill you in the last year and then spend a whole Business Branch has developed on the outlook as well that from seminars school security. But what france needs right now much more social cohesion or sort of reconciliation and more polarized address here i would say. That things have been going more in the polarizing but again hes supported by the majority of the french. Ok a correspondent on the dubious he joins me now live on the line from nice good morning to charlotte we learned a little bit more about the suspect in this assault in theory came from tunisia claiming to be an immigrant what more we learned in the last in the last. Well as you mentioned we know that the perpetrator is said to be a 21 year old according to those documents that were issued by the red cross on the italian island of lampedusa suggestions es also national but none of thats been confirmed and the anti terror prosecutors said on thursday evening that they were still exploring lines in regards to the perpetrator behind the brutal attack that took place just 24 hours ago in the priscilla behind me not to a dumbass silica in the heart of nice with 3 people were brutally murdered i just want to take you through some of the details we know about the victims of this latest terror attack here in france one was a 60 year old woman who had gone to the church for prayers for the 1st mass of the morning we heard from the anti terror prosecutor that she was almost beheaded by the perpetrator a 2nd was a man a 55 year old man whos been named as a van saw cares a father of 3 who also worked as a sexton at the church hed been here for 10 years and the 3rd person was a woman who said to be around 44 shes been named in the Brazilian Press as being simone silver she was stabbed she managed to escape from the church to raise the alarm so it was as a result of her heroic actions the police were informed and able to come and apprehend the perpetrator she succumbed to her injuries her last words were apparently tell my family that i love them president mark corn has warned frances once again attack but when he visited nice on thursday he remained defiant that freedom and france would continue to up hold it as. He knew something if we were attacked once again it is for our values for our taste of freedom for this possibility on our soil to believe freely and not to give in to any minute terrorists. I say it with great clarity once again today not to give it to you this morning we decided to increase the vigilance everywhere in france to adapt to the terrorist threat ive decided that our soldiers will be. Coming out. Of the mobilization within the framework of operational sentinel from 30027000 soldiers on the ground to meet their. Present mark on their referencing operation sentinel this is not ration that was set up back in 2015 when that 1st terror wave really hit france following the attacks and then later in the year in paris which saw the the back to come attack than very many people who were killed in coordinated attacks by terrorists 4000. 00 extra security personnel now deployed across france particularly at sites like this church and also at schools and one of the reasons that religious sites are getting the priority when it comes to security is because there was a release earlier this week from a thought but which is a press agency linked to the Terror Network al qaeda which suggested that christian symbols should be attacked. And for the people who live in life difficult enough like most of the world people there just trying to cope with life in the times of coronavirus and then this progeny comes along not for the 1st time for many residents there how are they coping. Thats right nice is already been subjected to terror attacks in the past including that horrific attack back in 2016 that saw 86 people lose their lives when a truck plowed into a crowd of people who were celebrating the july 14th basti Day Celebrations in nice is already had its fair share of terror people here disbelief shock once again that this could hit at the heart of the city but there is also anger to. See where the french demand justice who want these people to be deported to their country all are ok there is no safety for the 3 people i didnt look at what the american or to build another mosque was it we are in a country that has witnessed atrocities Great Teachers being the head of priests. People who beheaded his church thats not france kind of even if we take in all possible security little bit have been able to come in with a knife and do is. 0 risk does not exist. And thats perhaps the most shocking thing for most people is that this is 3 people who are inside a church and theyre in a place where that should have been sanctity there should have been safety instead they met there and people have been coming to the church in lame troops since that attack took place but the reality is that this is a community that is still in complete shock over whats happened and you talked about the terrorist attack in the several years ago but many didnt and did in fact islamic terrorism is very much a current problem for people in france. Yes thats right since those attacks back in 2815. 00 which started this wave of terror in france we saw those huge attacks and that this is but since then every few months there is another attack just in the last 5 weeks france has been subjected to 3 separate terror attacks it started with a stopping outside the form offices of. 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 lets have a look at how the anger though has been unfolding in the 2 weeks since the death of samuel betty. Im 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 didnt 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 weve 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 of anger here on the ground. With the latest from new society charlotte do thank you. For the entire muslim countries are indignant it seems over frances stance on freedom of expression protesters say that theyre offended by president microns remarks on islam as well as by his defense of the right to mock religion the latest rallies occurred in the libyan and israeli capitals as the islamic world celebrated the birth of the prophet mohammed demonstrators carrying banners that condemned the french president earlier in the month claimed that islam was in crisis. In libya one local business has gone so far as to place images of the french president on the shop floor for customers to stand on and there are calls for muslims across the world to boycott front. As you see here in the country. Its a little bit angry because of what happened after that is holding the master of the Prophet Muhammad under the pretext of mockery is not considered democracy and for france honestly we want to tell you that your statements are offensive to every arab muslim to the whole world that we demand. Their role and that. Is playing with fire in this case interesting to. Denounce from a friend in the prophet there who you denounce and every people do anything different from the council. The outrage comes as a french satirical magazine shirley or whose caricature was or at the center of the row added fuel to the fire with its latest front cover featured a cartoon of the turkish president and chris lamb the publication as disgusting besides of dough fingers also being pointed at the french governments policy towards muslims aunties mark as the of takes a closer look. Something in france is broken and it is france nowhere else in europe is there this much terror killing and a complete breakdown and Mutual Respect and understanding these latest attacks there just that the hence a bow and a hope that justice will be so this attack who deserves it i do have words as a matter of fact its really shocking me. Then i feel sorrow it makes me crazy so crazy its impossible to see this im speechless i dont know what to say about a year ago and warned against stigmatizing muslims were all one people he said since then something has changed now hes talking about islam of separatism shutting down dozens and dozens of Muslim Charities and organizations and has unveiled a plan to domesticate is lot. Of our citizens of the islamic faith must be protected against the evil of radical islam i say it here because the will of the islamists of its ideologues is precisely at the heart of our citizens of and against the republic using their religion and we cannot let that happen. Macros platen involves forbidding french moms from training overseas restricting foreign funding for religious organizations giving the government control over religious subsidies and you loon you get money if you sign a contract saying you respect french values he even has a name for this new french islam the islam of enlightenment or everyone is challenged about macros little cult and specifically his cracked out on Muslim Charities and n. G. O. S if the government still goes on to divide us it will create separate groups in society and it is not the solution. To some duty of the. Maybe some people who come in but not everybody people have the right to practice their religion as they want so we can close the police who worship like the us. Government to calm the tensions down today we have to be careful of not developing and then to Muslim Hatred it makes no sense and it is dangerous i dont think that there is an optimal solution it would be utopian to think the opposite but dialogue is a better solution for me muslims are not guilty for the terror attacks the government is not responsible either so precisely both have to discuss the problem find solutions and respect each other it is incredible how simple cartoons can cause this much bloodshed and hated misunderstanding one side sees these cartoons as nothing but an insult in the public city stunt which essentially they are intended only to insult and offend more than a 1000000000 people the other side including the french government sees it as an expression of free speech houllier than any god and free speech is a constitutional right of any french citizen. And we will not give up caricaturists or drawings even if others retreat we started this freedom and look at caricaturist not necessarily of mohammad but we look at caricature has to show freedom of expression frankly i think its horrible what happened as it were hampering our freedom of expression the freedom to learn no for 14 years charlie abdu has reprinted these cartoons a regular intervals a magazine with a very modest circulation has now found a cash cow peoples feelings and beliefs for which they themselves have paid a high price. And. And. And. The. Sworn never to give up these caricature than during the even of everyone else does only further angering muslims. Needs a Mental Health treatment what else can be said to the 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 1900000000 muslims and their sanctities for the apartheid crimes of such extremists is not but you need stick abuse of freedom of speech that only fuels extremism the recent statements that the leadership level is the dence of this a creation 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 backgrounds tough talk has so far completely failed frances doubt seen as an enemy in the muslim world islamophobia boycotts protests and all that as for his little project his plan to essentially domesticated islam in france may be the most admissions thing has undertaken. The chief executive of the u. K. s Ramadan Foundation says that frances policy towards its Muslim Community over the last few decades has had a negative impact. You have to also look at whats been happening over these past few months when president warren d islam and supporting it can reach or the prophet mohammed which is set out do you not think got to cause harm when hate to go to feelings of muslims around the world that has been of decades of discrimination and harassment mass unemployment People Living in a ghetto laws and all you know work being done to bring the mainstream to bring rage was lims into the image the image tackled their issues so this is a consequences all successive governments over decades you know lets 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. But the current virus pandemic pounding Health Care Systems across europe the blocks movers and shakers have convened online to try and parse the problem they agreed on a number of resuscitation measures lets find out where they are from our correspondent in berlin pain to oliver good morning peter what have the leaders there managed to come up with. Well it was a 3 hour summit of the council thats the heads of state and government of the 27 Member States on thursday evening they agreed to present a united front when it comes to tackling the coronavirus that united front will take the form of a Vaccine Distribution when a vaccine is found it will be shared equally throughout the block also borders are to remain open this was something they werent able to do in the spring during the 1st wave of coronavirus we sure we saw borders being shut down nationally they want to keep those open theres also a 220000000 euro been pledged to allow patients to move between e. U. Member states for say if one nation is particularly suffering then they can be moved to a nation they can accommodate them and has hospital beds weve already seen this happen with patients moving from belgium here to germany but im good but not im glad merkel excuse me ers live on the line the new Commission President said that these this united front was needed in order to stop european medical Services Becoming overwhelmed. I think it is enough to say that it is very serious numbers of cases raising numbers of hospitalization are rising number sudden death of death are rising not as fast fortunately because we understand better today how to treat covered patients and how to deal with the disease but the spread of the virus will overwhelm our Healthcare Systems if we do not act urgently. As of friday france is in a 2nd lockdown on thursday evening protesters against these measures clashed with police we saw tear gas used in both those incidents the french Prime Minister though acknowledged that the. One depressed man for a trip of up to one hour for physical activity to get some fresh air or to take your pets for a walk these trips may not exceed a one kilometer radius from your home i remind you that for physical activities only individual an outdoor practices such as jogging will be authorized in this pacific context but apologies into lost the connection there with a correspondent in berlin peter over well hear from im sure again across the warning thanks for staying with r. T. Or return with updates enough. Is youll be a reflection of reality. In a world transformed. What will make you feel safe. Isolation community. Are you going the right way or are you being led. Away. What is true what is faith. In the world corrupted you need to descend. 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