A spike in 19 infections. Casting i from moscow with the top stories from the past 7 days welcome to the weekly on our to international i mean in the new. We start in the french city of legal where a Greek Orthodox priest is in intensive care after being shot down inside his church on saturday the gunman fled the scene a suspect was arrested soon after the shooting but its since been released due to a lack of evidence the incident took place as the priest was closing his church in Late Afternoon an investigation into attempted murder has been opened and the terrorism authorities are cooperating with local police we heard from people who witnessed the shooting. I live in the area i heard gunshots but at 1st i thought it was firecrackers we didnt take it seriously and then i saw the motorbikes the roadblocks and the police and i realized that it was serious because there was a church here and the priest who is 47 years old was shot while i was i live nearby whos watching t. V. At home and suddenly i heard Something Like how much blooms some big noises so it was and might be kids playing outside i decided to figure out what was going on but then i heard someone screaming when i went downstairs i saw the police and realized what was happening but unfortunately this time its whats going to happen next thats what we are now asking. For this latest incident came as france was still trying to come to terms with tragedy terror struck on thursday morning in the city of nice when a knife man run paged through a Church Killing 3 that attack came just 2 weeks after the brutal beheading of a teacher in paris the teacher hunch on his last caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad president described the attack in nice as an islamist terror incident this is how it unfolded. Resending. Im sure 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 a huddle lot of gunshots. Then film making the people who do know what happened i lost my son and i lost my life and i demanded in mr gay shit about who stands behind the scenes today and i want to know who committed my son my son does not do such things we are enormously shocked we are good people we stand against terrorism and we denounce what. We know about him is that he is a more room well raised person and we do not believe that he has suspicious connections and this is why. We should i was in that church of the time of the attack it was almost 19 yeah i get a call from the police and was told that it terror attack has been committed in the not. Closed down your church they said it all happened so quickly. But in this new tragedy today you see victims of islamofascism child repeatedly denounced. The main suspect behind the attack and nice has been identified as a 21 year old chin is in migrant he was not previously known to french. Intelligence he arrived in europe in september of its silly when he claimed to be a refugee however he was served an expulsion notice and then dropped off the authorities radar 3 others have been arrested in connection with the case with reports today of 2 more suspects having been taken into custody reporting no from the start t. Charlotte to ski. The anti terror prosecutor said on thursday evening that they were still exploring lines in regards to the perpetrator behind the brutal attack in the priscilla me not to go down basilica 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 55 year old man who also worked as a sex in the church shed been here for 10 years and the 3rd person was a woman 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 last words were apparently tell my family that i love them president mark on has warned frances once again an attack but when he visited nice on thursday he remained defiant that freedom and france would continue to up hold its valleys if you something 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 into any mind of terror i say with great clarity once again today we will not give in 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 people here disbelief shocker. Once again this could hit at the heart of the city but there is also anger to. The french demand justice who want these people to be deported to their country ok in secret there is no safety 3 people are dead what you are married to build another mosque people have been coming to the church in lame true peace since that attack took place but the reality is that this is a community that is still in complete shock over whats happened. Well to the skills the developments of the past number of days im delighted to welcome onto the program a number of guests patricia showing youre a regional counsellor for the National Rally party in france Chris Phillips a former head of the u. K. National counterterrorism Security Office. Chief executive of the Ramadan Foundation in the u. K. Thanks very much for making the time especially on a sunday to speak to us today patricia can we kick off with. d the french president s stance on islam has sparked anger throughout the muslim world weve seen many images of that i put it to you that theyre standing up for free speech and then theres simply provocation that history suggests will only lead in one direction is his plan perhaps well intentioned but actually a danger to french citizens. I think that the president the french president was very right to confirm that we stand for a secular state and for the freedom of speech might i also add which is very important if you want to understand the bait thats going on in the secular state of france religion is seen as an opinion it is an opinion as you can have an opinion of many other things in society and it is treated as an opinion and this is what actually the school teacher. Was trying to explain samuel pepys he was trying to explain to the School Children he was teaching that we think that the way that religions can coexist peacefully in society is in this secular rate of treating them as an opinion an opinion that we respect but an opinion which we can disagree maybe have more cream. And it is your choice if you want to then listen to it or what you want to do with it but that is the way that we treated in our states i think what has happened over the past couple of years and what has exacerbated the movement and whats causing the big outcry in many muslim countries and i might 1st of all pay tribute to my fellow french countrymen the millions of french countrymen of muslim faith who are my fellow countrymen and whom i adore and with whom we live and a secular state i think it has it been the ambiguity that all politicians have had with regards to islam or islam ism lets not confuse the 2 what mr might come said and what france needs to do is combat islam islam the radical islam which has got put a hold in france over the city and last 30 years could have seen but what is the past 30 years women wearing veils everywhere weve seen we see no patients refusing to be treated by a doctor of the opposite sex we have separates. Our we have a radical islam that has infiltrated all corners of society and which is causing this problem only as a flame of unrest chris ever since the Shirley Abdul massacre in early 2015 france has been cracking down on islamic extremists judging by recent events do you think for all intents and purposes if eel well its really part of all battle actually because there is such an easy Movement Across the continent from one continent to the other and this man just moves at the notice that has just come out recently the last few weeks so its an Impossible Task to actually prevent these attacks but the sheer weight of numbers of that have got these extremist views. We also have know how much effect from the Ramadan Foundation the u. K. On the program mohammed go in fact to those protests in the muslim world so much anger about the cartoons mccrone stance on radical islam isnt but we dont see anyone writing doing over the beheading of the teacher you know theres no collective overall denying priorities here are wrong arent they. Well i think if you look at what the reaction has been in france and spain in this country there are many others who are stunned you know and speak you know despite the threats that we may get from some extremist groups i think its very clear you can never just to fight terrorism or violence of any sorts and i think you could be very very clear about that but what what is the issue with president michel on his lauren islam is that its a terminology that hes adopted which is and then the others in which in turn issues every single stem and holds muslims responsible for the action of a small minority of terrorists and so yeah if there is a process of bringing communities together i think that is what we should be doing here in the u. K. You see it up time and time again in the reaction from Prime Ministers and politicians and Senate Community organizations like ourselves that when we need to come together we have the opportunity to stand together against terrorism and do you know right ek to do if we can to watch that but where we need to stand up and speak and defend our faith and defend the honor of our Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him to a democratic and peaceful methods that is something which we do have and we should be encouraged to do well lets put one of those points to Patricia Patricia can you understand that ordinary moderate muslims the millions of them in your country feel under attack by the president s words again i would suggest not mr mark ronson tension at all but the communication the way the vociferously us of a to their to their ears has been threatening its the wrong way to do this patrician. Well lets lets just correct this my muslim friends in france dont at all feel threatened by mr microns words is the contrary the moderate muslims in france are felix threatened by the radical islam which is getting a foothold in france we need we need to address radical islam in france and we are in a war against radical islam and i dont think mr micro is going far enough and i dont think that mr Chris Phillips. Really grasped the problem and firths 1st of all the tunisian terrorists arrived in france only a couple of days apparently prior to his his horrendous decapitation act we need to close of radical mosque we have 4000 mosques in france of which a little over 500 have been identified as radical mosques where some of it isnt is preached where these should be close we need to deport foreigners who preach islam on our grounds we have radical in moms treach. Again. Around what you mean by. I cant hear you so im just asking a question what you mean by that when he said what i meant what i mean by that is by hate speech is against the western way of living against the security way of living we have we have preachers who preach the fact that we should preserve children notably from these types of teachings that we have in our secular schools so we cannot have people preaching it is learn which ones to fight our society our Secular Society ok well much less is calling for more for poor living for living according to very radical and rigorous islamic rules we have a lot of mosques which are which are now telling us about 100 get in there. And then i go to Chris Mohamed go ahead and its just what if it is to a scientist i guess we have to give me a model serial no i dont care where you actually hear it late excuse me excuse me excuse i was asked we have spiritual i was always under the i just lost it we have a lot please respect women we have a lot of sense that does that and i cant tell equipment that they should not we have we have men not shaking womens hands we have most preaching for separate swimming oh its we have young girls going being told to put on the veil this is not what we think it is certainly the pen. That is so not is there nothing to take place. Well i mean stop tonight if you be and talking about you know what you talking about you just sound like as if youre talking from the National Fruit and here gender of the far right we as muslims recognise we have a problem there are people among some its i accept this theres a problem with people who are involved in terrorism glorify need to support unit and find a unit and i think thats what weve got to confront on president micron if you want to work with the Muslim Community in france by around the world as well to gently find the people involved and not chris will know this for. Background in counterterrorism the only way effectively you can stop this is for intelligence from within the Muslim Community and so we want to work with people to do the book in this sort of rhetoric and the language that weve seen on your program just suits the agenda of the far right and demonize is all. Upset ok hold on patricia let me bring Kristen Chris do you think that the french cracked down on islam isnt including the law against religious separatism could serve as a template for other countries weve seen european leaders stand in solidarity give comments with mccrone but no action so far it doesnt look as if theyre willing to go as far as he is do you think they should. Well 1st and foremost nothing i actually heard from crawl on is really attacking is that. Moderate muslims in france what what hes trying to do is say look we have a country here we have laws and regulations that we built up over centuries and this is how this country works and actually go 3 ministers who have a completely different view of how they want life to be and maybe separate into their own type of society. France is probably not for them and to some extent i totally agree with that and other countries need to be a bit more percent for us because this this actually this problem is not france only problem this is a whole european whole western issue that there are certain groups of people extremists in society do not know that the laws of the land. The french the germans the british and and the belgians and the dutch believe they should live and and if they dont want to do that if they want to have a different war i want to. Have a more extreme view of life and really france isnt welcome in a and another country should be standing up that this is well thats. The whole point of this is that the average muslim person in the u. K. Anywhere else wants to live a peaceful life theres no doubt about that ok in the home ed thats what i want to bring up as well the terrorist in nice arrived into europe just days before his killing spree he crossed by boat from tunis here to italy where he was served a deportation order yet he was able to travel to france if europe had not let him in or at least 2 or more stringent things in place to check who he was there could be 3 people alive today that are dead do you accept that language or bite immigration people calling it xenophobic that this is a direct case of those policies. Being failed well i think there is this 2 things here one is that there is a back to have a president ial election so hes reaching out to the far right and trying to adopt the language of the Front NationalMarine Le Pen and others and we see that in the rhetoric that weve seen that christian self might not be saved that this is been a security background so this is doesnt see what he says and the impact it has on muslims and the faith of islam as a muslim practicing muslim i was deeply offended by his language and the rectory adopting the language of the far right is never the way to deal with this issue now i think everybody ought to face. The law there is well im not going to have you chris tell me we cant what ive liked a line with your sample excuse me mardon you just show us a respect like you were asking me to respect you with dont interrupt me please so im not going to im going to you know im not going to have people tell me what i should feel as a muslim ive already said to you and ive said this consistently in my public life as an activist fighting against terrorism a subject to the Death Threats from al qaeda and im sure the were on the front lines fighting these terrorists the ideology and the narrative and language is very very important and all im saying is people should reflect that language and if you want to pull a clients if you want to bring people to decent people who are against terrorism come together lets do that but just do away with this rhetoric that were hearing tonight patricia. Yes. Just to react to mr nick mr so i think you ought to know that many mosques in france preaching and saying that the laws of the of the quran a superior to the loss of france just like many escapes me can you please let me finish my sentence thank you so much to you can you. Think it is i think would you please please now i have to do something for you and i didnt. Ask your father ok mohamed youre not prepared to have a critical head for 20 seconds then we want to get to christmas really rapidly running out of time here patricia go ahead but be very frightening yes i would like to say that we of course we of course agree with the stance that mr micro made for free speech in france but we think he needs to go further we need to curb those radical islamist mosques in france we need to deport people who say who who preach or who condone. Islamist terrorism we need to strip by nationals of their nationality if they do condone terrorism we need to construct special prisons for the french people about the who are engaged in acts of terrorism to fight and we must all go to fight mass might not which is to the. Far reaches the street route tragically. Just i dont know if you can im sure you will hold you dont mention anything about the far right you not mention anything about did you drive the far right extremism across europe ok hold on just that we need that you left the electricity early on as well kris. Kringle radical islam hold on hold on please chris is there an attempt or is there a danger that any attempt to crush radical islam will simply play into the hands of terrorist by causing a rift between muslims and the rest of the population this is this is the core of the modern isnt it. Now there is a problem and let me tell you this this is not the goal of over 510 years this is a generational issue but we have to deal with the people more there is a far right the far left all or actually islamic extremists people that want to do or have to make a choice do they want to live in that country or not if if if they dont then they should either be prosecuted or they should return to a country where they can live as they want to live the freedoms of europe come over generations what concerns me is even a good a good many of the what you would consider completely normal people normal muslims actually are so insulted by these cartoons that they actually are the answer and that surely is a concern for all of us ok were just going to go to our final thoughts from each of you patricia we really have about 20 seconds here ok ill make it very short france is a country where all religions can peacefully live together and i live together with millions of muslims i have many muslim friends who are enlightened muslims and whom i adore we can exist all together it fell out of that the condition that our traditions and laws of secularism are respected the problem today is that we have gone too far and be lenient into bowing our heads to radical islamists having installed themselves on French Ground this needs to be banned and we hope that mr micro is going to have some very very thorough actions to definitely band radical islam from the side the finance minister. Well i mean just heard some of the rhetoric we hear and the language of division that is not wanted here yes we all want an end to terrorism we want to protect france we want to protect the middle east and you let in the world where there is terrorism weve got to confront it and call it for what it is but whats interesting in this debate talk to focus about the threat from within the margins of the Muslim Community but very little about that massive rise of far right extremism in germany in france everything you can around the world so yeah lets be consistent lets take on the narrative the terrorist but dont do that the expense of orderly innocent muslims around the world we are terrorism but we also want the right you know for our boys to be hurt in these countries are not to be attacked in the way it has been slight Chris Phillips. You know we all we all feel the same really the streets that need to be dealt with the police are having to deal with the rise of right wing extremism but at this moment today were talking about people being beheaded in churches and basilicas and things of course of course france thats the issue that france is having to deal with at this moment and its not acceptable for a country like that who are free values to have people that are willing within their own communities and want to to live a separate type of lifestyle with separate laws and if they dont get away are willing to cote or. To deal with it and so terrorism is. But this particular problem is what france is trying to deal with at this moment plenty of food for thought and that discussion weve been speaking to patricia shunyata Regional Council for they National Rally party in france Chris Philips former head of the u. K. National counterterrorism Security Office and Mohamed Shafi chief executive of the Ramadan Foundation in the u. K. Thank you all. Thousands of people have rallied in Central London against the governments new coronavirus restrictions. People held up honors accusing the authorities of tyranny for a district in the movement of people the protests taking place a day after the british Prime Minister announced a new lockdown for all of england. Weve got to be humble in the face of nature and in this country alas as across much of europe the virus is spreading even faster than the reasonable worst Case Scenario of our scientific advisors and so now is the time to take action because there is no alternative from thursday into the storm to december you must stay at home you merely leave home for specific reasons were not going back to the fools gold locked arms of march and april the measures that i dont mind the less bruited less restrictive but im afraid from day the basic message is the same stay at home protect the n. H. S. And save lives just some of the details the new rules take effect on thursday will last until the 2nd of the sem bar all nonessential shelves will close along with Entertainment Venues restaurants pubs as well people will be required to work from home wherever and whenever possible however schools Colleges Universities pay will all be open and after 4. 00 weeks of lockdown the plan is to returning into a system of local targeted restriction and when the need arises since the start of the pentatonic the u. K. s been hit with more than a 1000000 covert 1000 cases and over 46000 deaths that is the highest number in europe in the past week for instance the u. K. s daily infection rate shot up exceeding 20000 political commentator Anthony Webber told me earlier he believes the proposed cure may well be worse than the disease. 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