After the beheading of a teacher dear paris and shown his class caricature of the prophet mohammed. And in other news r. T. Asks social platform twitter to clarify why one of its reports on the us election was labelled potentially misleading. Good afternoon thanks for joining us this is r. T. We begin in france which is once again trying to come to terms with the tragedy terror struck on thursday morning in the city of nice when a nice man rampage through a Church Killing 3 leaving several others injured the attack came just 2 weeks after the brutal beheading of a teacher in paris after hed shown his class characters of the prophet mohammed president. Has described the latest attack as an islamist terror incident. Live. It was relief 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 and take refuge in the cathedral afterwards i had a lot of gunshot. Correspondent sheila davis kaye has the latest from an ace. 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 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 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 is of all 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 in apprehend the perpetrator she succumbed to her injuries her last words were apparently tell my family that i love them president mark on has warned frances once again attack but when he visited niece on thursday he remained defiant that freedom and france would continue to up hold its valleys and some said that if 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 mind of terror i say with great clarity once again today we will not give in this morning we decided to increase the vigilance everywhere in france to adapt to the terrorist threat ive decided that our soldiers will be more mobilized in the coming hours and we will up the mobilization within the framework of operational so. And to know from 30027000 soldiers on the ground from their referencing operation sentinel this is no permission that was set up back in 2015 when the 1st terror wave really hit france following the attacks it surely abdo and then later in the year in paris which saw the the battle plan attacked in those very many people who were killed in those coordinated attacks by terrorists 4000 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 in 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 bus the 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. The french the man justice who want these people to be deported to their country ok in security there is no safety 3 people are dead what you are married to build another mosque sums up each we are in a country that has witnessed atrocities teachers being beheaded priests having their throats slit people are beheaded in a church thats not france and even if we take in all possible security measures weve been able to come in with a knife and do his deadly deed 0 risk does not exist and thats perhaps the most shocking thing for most people is that this is 3 people who are in this. Church there in a place with that should have been sanctity this should have been safety instead they met there and people have been coming to the church in a lame troop since that attack took place but the reality is that this is a community that is still in complete shock over whats happened since those attacks back in 2815. 00 which started this wave of terror in france we saw all those huge attacks in the years 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 the 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 there have of course the anger spilling out on the streets here too not just in this protests weve seen over the last few days in muslim majority countries but here in the song thursday night there was a demonstration held by the anti immigrant group jennifer seal identity they came out to the streets calling for islam to be out of europe so there really is a huge sense of anger here on the ground to. Me while further details of emerged about the suspect 21 year old to new zealand who initially arrived on the italian island of lampedusa just over a month ago claiming to be a refugee it leisure to comment on the case with the mayor of lumber doozer has appealed for stricter migrant policies the suspect was reportedly carrying a document issued by the italian red cross to being processed at a Refugee Center in one producer telling north ortiz were reportedly going to expel him but lost track of his whereabouts and the case is causing uproar in rome where calls are growing for the interior minister to step down to discuss the background to the tragic events in nice with the panel of experts. When we see what goes on with the stream of speech it annoys a lot of people and the people that sharing our chose to track theyre not doing it because of Charlie Hebdo theyre all doing it because of of whats going on there they use it 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 a list is d 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 tiny minority that distinguishes them from all the rest of them 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 one and its kind of like a rally around the flag now were all going to rule to go because it becomes rational or when you think that you will get legitimacy for it. 60000000 muslims living in caracas you have accepted what this has brought up has developed a model of as well that from seminars will security act. What france needs right now is so much more. Cohesion and sort of reconciliation and more polarized handcraft but here i would observe that things have been going more in a polarizing but again he is supported by the majority of the french. Meanwhile muslim countries are indignant over frances stance on freedom of expression protest to say that theyre offended by president microns remarks on islam as well as by his defense of the right to mock religion and the latest of those rallies occurred in the libyan and israeli capitals as the islamic world celebrated the birthday of the prophet mohammed demonstrators carried banners that condemned the french president earlier in the month micron had claimed that islam was in crisis. And in libya one local business is gone so far as to place images of the french president on the shop floor for customers to stand on and there are calls from muslims across the world to boycott france. As you see here in the country there are the cancers its a little bit angry because of what happened after that is holding the messenger of god Prophet Muhammad under the pretext of democracy is not considered democracy and for france honestly we want to tell you that your statements are offensive to every arab muslim and to the whole world we demand demand for our. Back row and that. Is playing with fire in this case. d we denounce france for offending the prophet therefore we denounce and will quote every product anything from france that comes to us. All the outrage comes as french satirical magazine whose caricature those are at the center of the round added fuel to the fire with the latest front cover featured a cartoon of the turkish president the publication is disgusting sides i dont think ive also been pointed at the french governments policy towards muslims what is my guess 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 in Mutual Respect and understanding these latest attacks there just that the latest. Clearly its inhumane it is highly reprehensible and i hope that justice will be served this is attack who deserves it i do have words as a matter of fact its really shocking. I feel sorrow it makes me crazy so crazy its impossible to see this im speechless i dont know what to say. A year ago macron 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 to turn a part of our citizens against the republic using their religion and we cannot let that happen. Macro involves forbidding frenchmans from training overseas so restricting foreign funding for religious organizations giving the government control over religious subsidies and you loony get money if you sign a contract saying you respect french values he even has a name for this new french is law the islam of an lightman all everyone is about macros little cult and specifically his cracked out on Muslim Charities and and geos if the government still goes on to divide us it will create separate groups in society and it is not the solution for the muslim mosques in associations and im guilty maybe some people who come in but not everybody people have the right to practice their religion as they want so we can close a police who worship like that. Expect our 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 salute. 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 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. Than any god and free speech is a constitutional right of any french citizen. We will not give up caricaturists or drawings even if others retreat started this freedom and look at caricature not necessarily of mohammad but we look at caricature has to show freedom of expression frankly i think its horrible what happened where hampering our freedom of expression the freedom to learn snow for 14 years charlie has reprinted these cartoons at 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. For. His. Own swore never to give up these characters and during. Even if everyone else does only further angering muslims. Needs a 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 between a stick abuse of freedom of speech and 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 francis tao seen as an enemy in the muslim world islamophobia so bored gods protests and all that has been his little project has planned essentially domesticate islam and france may be the most ambitious thing macron has undertaken. R. T. Has asked the social platform twitter to explain why one of our reports on the us Election Fraud was labelled as potentially misleading for voters 4 years ago the site was plagued by allegations of the cillit ating election meddling my colleague nic joins me with more on this story. Nick if 1st of all that why they make this decision twitter and other supposed to be you know more careful about that the stories they put out in their platform what is the problem with this report when they all as weve all noticed right now are leading many news cycles around the world is the upcoming u. S. Election just days to go reporters all over focusing on the polls the process and everything to do with this Major Political event and here at r. T. Weve been doing eggs. Actually the same but now for the 1st time ever weve had one of our reports flag a civic integrity label this is a warning if you like for readers that. The details of the particular report might be misleading or disputed now on closer inspection we simply failing to see what it is about this particular report which is that raised red flags for the guys at twitter in the report our correspondent basically highlights all of the concerns that have already been raised to do with voter fraud ahead of the election challenges that the o. S. C. Has even also raised and we quoted that in the report take a look. Overall office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights Needs Assessment Mission interlocutors noted that the conduct of these elections will be the most challenging in recent decades they expect that Election Officials will face serious challenges prior to and on election day due to new measures in response to covert 900. 00 pandemic and expressed concerns over their ability to overcome them now they are teenagers agency is the object to offer calm broadcasting standards much like many other News Agencies which means that every report must be fair and balanced and in this report our correspondent kaleb has adhere to those rules ensuring to use words such as allegedly ensuring to keep it analytical yet balanced referencing all reports and official channels its what we like to do here at r. T. We like to bring a range of reports together dig a little deeper try to salvage some accuracy and call out any hypocrisy is why a tag line is question more now earlier this month twitter did say it was it would be ramping up its use of these warning labels on tweets to help head the spread of misinformation ahead of the u. S. Election heres what they said. You may not use twitter is services for the purpose of manipulating or interfering in elections or other civic processes this includes posting will sharing continents that may suppress participation or mislead people about when where or how to participate in the civic process we believe we have a responsibility to protect the integrity of twitter conversations from interference and manipulation that was part of this move twitter and now is that disputed claims in the election process would be flagged or removed tweets that include any premise your claims will be labeled and users will be directed to the official u. S. Election page and tweet same to inciting interference in the election process or the results such as calls for violent action may be removed and after youve seen recently its not just r. T. That has raised red flags with the guys at twitter the recent New York Post article involving hunter by his old laptops on. Emails i was also pulled from twitter a story which joe biden rubbish which there could have cast a shadow on his chances in the race for the white house nonetheless twitter wasnt the only want to pull this story after this twitter as well as other Major Social Media Companies that come under scrutiny and face a grilling in the senate your position is that you can. Demand. That you can tell them what stories they can publish or you could tell the American People what reporting they can hear is that right. Out. Greece 2 terms of service youre still like me right now youre blocking the post and i can see this Senate Hearing was pretty intense this saw democrats and republicans really interrogate interrogate the heads of facebook and google and twitter which some say really exposed this deep distrust that there is when it comes to the power of Silicon Valley and the policing of the web. To get out of the social fall foul of twitter in the past and the labeling yet its not the 1st time r. T. Has come under scrutiny like this twitter has previously labeled arties editor in chief Margarita Simonyan as russian language twitter as a russian state affiliated media which struck many as a little bit unfair because other news groups that are also state financed that as the b. B. C. And n. P. R. Were not given the same treatment its not just twitter as well but facebook has also labeled arties account as state affiliated media to again failing to do the same for other foreign state media like voice of america and aljazeera facebooks position back then stated its stated goal is to provide Greater Transparency into publishers that combine the influence of a Media Organization with the strategic backing of the state so i think the double standards there are quite apparent now none the less what this does is it raises their stories by the New York Post or by r. T. Or anybody else which is raised is quite increasing concerns about how much power these social media giants have when it comes to what we read what we trust online we have requested comment from twitter and well bring it to you may get it ok many thanks for bringing us the latest. Ok lets discuss this story a bit more depth now with journalist john gone very good afternoon to you john are looking to try and defend this report. That kind of makes me too close to the story so id like to get your opinion on it do you think twitters labeling was in there were justified. No i think were true to a degree youre in good company but why theyve also done it to donald trump is quite clear isnt it that twitter think theyre like the lord chamberlain back in the u. K. In the sixtys where they can censor what you can watch whole see these new media oligarchs have got much much too much power theyre more powerful than arty theyre more powerful than the b. B. C. Theyre more powerful what they think they are than even the leader of the free world donald trump so they are censoring what you can see for example theyre attacking you for that report which i watched i thought it was ok i thought it was perfectly balanced it was hard but i thought it was perfectly ok but they they then suppress the stories about joe biden son which are very very important that people have the ability to read them think about them and then discuss them thats what you meant to do isnt it on social media and of course theyve also had the former Prime Minister of. Malaysia who wrote a comment about the latest muslim sorry muslim outcry about the awestruck atrocity by these lamas to extremist yesterday beheading people saying that muslims should kill thousands of french people they left that up all day its come down now this double standards here and theyre working to an agenda and i guess weve got to remember that nobody ever let jack dorsey what we actually gave him was all our information they are simply way way way too powerful you need to allow both sides of the debate to get on there and have the discussion i want it comes to state sponsored media or whatever i agree with your reporter why dont they say that about the b. B. C. It would appear that the b. B. C. Themselves have now recognized that because today theyve told their people people who work for them directly can no longer express political or personal views on so. Media so if the b. B. C. Can see that there must outfit it just seems unfair that their tweets arent labeled in the same way its all of the rubbish and i dont think jack dorsey or twitter or facebook should have that kind of power but theyre private companies so they can do what they want well as he said they wield great influence over many millions of people other any laws regulations anything to make sure they have a sense of balance dare i say fair play because of the great influence they have i mean for example in theory if youve got a left leaning or right leaning own or. C. E. O. Of a giant social Media Company whats the stop then just skewing any kind of filtering of stories in the direction that they would like personally where in my personal opinion that is what they do at the moment they push a wote agenda so its not a certain left or right but its very much you know Climate Change very much pushing that way they dont like opposite views to that especially if the views are popular i think youre in the selection theyve been trying to well along with the Mainstream Media especially in our country put down donald trump nearly every hour watched a program on the b. B. C. Last night it was so biased it was so one sided it just isnt right and if donald trump and i think he will get elected again next week theyre going to have egg on their face but coming back to the social media platforms no nothing can be done because who can regulate them they say theyre not publishers thats the problem with yesterday so they can have people on their libeling and defaming people and they can just wash their hands of it and say no we are just a piece of tech were not publishers thats whats got to change that said im all for deregulation of the broadcast media i dont understand why artie is under of calm i dont understand why radio stations are that was fined 50 or 60 years ago and when the. And you want to stations it was fine when there wasnt social media but now theres not a level Playing Field so i am all for being upfront and say this is our political stance of us where people get upset about fox news but we dont want to focus news in this country well why not if you dont want to watch fox news dont watch it watch Something Else and that could be a left wing alternative its beginning to change in this country weve got 2 new t. V. Stations coming up which are going to be more centrist and maybe right of center but still giving a balanced view thats what we need people sensible enough to know whats there we dont need trigger warnings from twitter particularly when its clear the owners of those platforms both treacher. With facebook and they do have a left leaning culture particularly placed in california so its quite clear what hes going on you know there are certain keywords which will trigger them dont get me wrong im not into hate speech im not into racism sexism homophobia they should stop that source stuff but if people are expressing a political opinion they should be allowed to do it go back to report your report was talking about the elections your report was talking about is it fair and balanced and i thought the report was i dont really see why youve been flagged for this one apart from the fact you know russian. Who say shit the reason i could see although to be fair they didnt print the label it misleading just potentially misleading whatever potentially means i do i really appreciate your time john going to unload program. Potentially therell be more news at the top of the hour in fact that definitely will be a hope youll join us then. Is your media a reflection of reality. 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