Fragile peace talks. In thailand thousands of protesters defy a ban on gatherings and clash with police armed with batons and water cannon. A teacher who showed his pupils cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad has been decapitated outside his school in france. He was attacked by a man at around five oclock local time in a suberb north of paris. The french president , emanuel macron visited the scene tonight and called it an islamist terrorist attack. Translation our fellow citizen was attacked in a cowardly way. He was the victim of an islamic terrorist attack. Tonight, i want to say to all the teachers of france that we are with them, that the entire nation will be by their side today and tomorrow, to protect and defend them, to allow them to do theirjobs, to raise free citizens. Well our correspondent Lucy Williamson is on the scene and sent us this update. The horror of this attack is really at odds with this quiet, sleepy, small suburb. The victim was a teacher at the local middle schoo
Hello and welcome to bbc news. President macron of france has paid tribute to a teacher beheaded by a knifeman in a suburb of paris, saying he was killed for advocating freedom of expression. The teacher is said to have shown his class caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad, advising Muslim Students to leave the room if they wished. Police shot dead the killer, reported to have been eighteen years old and born in russia. Four people have been held in connection with the incident. Gareth barlow reports. Terror on the streets of france. A knife attack, a School Teacher dad, decapitated. Reports say the attacker ran from the scene, posted an image on social media, was apprehended by police and shot after threatening offices. He died shortly after. The incident happened in conflans sainte honorine, 25 kilometres from the capital. Translation they will not get past us. Our policeman, our gendarmes, all our intelligence forces, but beyond that all those who hold the republic together. Magistrat
Now on bbc news dateline london. Hello and welcome to dateline london. Im carrie gracie. This week, a world divided by hope and fear as some countries tentatively emerge from the shadow of the epidemic and others go towards it. Even when lockdown is being lifted, other sorrows arejust beginning as we all begin to absorb the scale of the economic damage. But death and destruction do not stop great power politics. The president of the United States has announced a cut in funding to the world health organization, accusing it of going soft on china. My guests on socially distanced screens Isabel Hilton of China Dialogue and stephanie from Bloomberg News welcome to both of you. And here in the studio we have the bbcs chief international correspondent. Welcome to you. Let us start with the who developments. Stephanie, is that defunding pro President Trump a symbol of american withdrawal from Global Leadership or is it Something Else . Well, its another example of american withdrawal from Glo
Our failure to do this over the recent decades has diminished our standing and encouraged bad actors around the world to break their word. We cannot afford to ignore violations of International Accords as we have done with iran. We cannot continue to accept empty promises like the ones china has made to pressure north korea to reform only to shy away from enforcement. Looking the other way when trust is broken only encourages more bad behavior. And it must end. We cannot be accountable, though, if we are not truthful and honest in our dealings. As you are aware, my longstanding involve with the boy scouts of america, one of our bedrock ideals is honesty. Indeed the phrase, on my honor, begins the boy scout oath. And it must undergird our Foreign Policy. In particular, we need to be honest about radical islam. It is with good reason that our fellow citizens have a growing concern about radical islam and the murderous acts committed in its name against americans and our friends. Radical
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