Several mosques in france face closure as part of a crackdown on what officials call separatism. The government says it is to protect the nations secular values. How can this be resolved . This is inside story. Hello and welcome to the program. I am imran khan. The french government is stepping up its crackdown on what it calls religious separatism. 76 mosques are being investigated nationwide. They will be closed if they are presumed to be a security threat. It is president macrons response to a number of recent attacks. Islamic organizations are accused of inciting hatred, and macron is pushing for imams to agree to a charter of Republican Values. His government denies it is deliberately targeting the Muslim Community. There are 2600 islamic places of worship in france. 76, we are far from widespread radicalization, but there are some concentrated places of worship where it is clearly antirepublican, where imams are followed by intelligent services, where the discourse runs counter t
Commodities having a positive session the far. Astrazeneca stock is actually down today. The s p is up i 014 . It is a monday. We get vaccine news. Generally it is taken quite well. Cyclicals have a bigger day. That seems to be the narrative that is establishing itself. We do have a euro that has weakened. The manufacturing pmi data out of the united states, and i know the ism is more important in terms of what people look at, but nevertheless, the manufacturing data was strong, and as a result, the dollar went up. It does seem to be something of a consensus now that the u. S. Is simply a few weeks behind europe. You only have to look at what is happening with the eurozone data today to get a sense of how far pmis can fall. Highs,off our earlier off by 0. 2 percent. Boris johnson is currently talking about covid. We are also possibly making some progress when it comes to the brexit story. Certainly today, the big driver is definitely that news on astrazeneca. Alix Boris Johnson saying
United states while the announcement has sparked celebrations across the country large crowds have gathered in washington d. C. As well as new york city and philadelphia well lets go live now to alan fischer in washington d. C. Yes so allan we know that the Trump Campaign is contesting this vote but it has been called so joe biden is now finally i guess after days since the election president elect of the United States. Well here is when the states can from the Election Results of the still a few steps but the convention is that when the media call and the data points in that direction then there is a call on who is the president elect in this time of the United States theyve decided that joe biden is well enough states enough elect a College Coach that would mean that he cannot be defeated therefore he is the president elect and will be sworn in on january the 20th 2021 it was saturday the day after the last inauguration that hundreds of thousands of people gathered in washington d. C
Good afternoon just gone 2 oclock here in moscow you with r. T. International now lets start with that breaking news this hour from france because 3 people are confirmed dead in the sudden french city of nice following a knife attack this is life footage from the site of the attack several others have been left injured the incident took place in the early hours of the story early in the morning in the city center and Authorities Say a suspect has been arrested so lets go. First to get the latest shot just bring us up to date then with what more we know at this stage. Well the investigation into this attack has been taken over by the Anti Terrorism prosecution here in france theyre looking at what happened that led to that attack that sought 3 People Killed those people were killed inside the church the basilica not done which is in the center of nice where that attack took place now its does appear that this has all the hallmarks of an islam ist attack although that has not been confir
A controversial speech because it was being viewed by a by many as being patronized towards muslims but mach one also under pressure because he faces reelection in 2022 and he was under pressure from the right for not being seen to be doing enough to tackle terrorism in france and this was seen as an attempt by mccrone to pin his colors to the mast to say that he was tackling this issue in france Marine Le Pen from the far right is expected again to be running off against makana in those 2022 president ial elections hence this push towards the right but today frances council for muslim faith after this attack in is in nice it is says it strongly condemns the attack and it says that as a sign of mourning and solidarity with the victims and their loved ones the representative said i call on all muslims and friends. To council all the celebrations of the holiday of mollett this is the holiday the celebrations today to mark the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad so again mainstream muslims i