Investigation is continuing just now, that has been difficult for the snp, hard for people to move past that. There was a lack of progress, of course, on independence. A number of people who have criticised a strategy that Nicola Sturgeon pursued, that Hamza Yusuf pursued as well, her successor, and of course Nicola Sturgeon was such a successful politician. She resigned quite suddenly and was replaced by Hamza Yusuf as her predecessor, who had a short time as First Minister and of course, he did not have the support at holyrood in the chamber i do not have enough mps to get things through. So there were a minority government, they had lost their Partnership Support so he had to go. John swinney is now coming in, trying to address a lot of those problems, a lot of those problems beyond their control, such as the police investigation. 0ther control, such as the police investigation. Other problems, when it comes to delivering, for example, Government Advisers here quite candid, say, yes
The whole world has to be merged donor to the world crisis for good afternoon. Youre watching our International Start this hour in france, where 4 teenagers have been reportedly charged in connection with the beheading of a teacher that rocked the country back in october. For to be among them. The daughter of a man behind an Online Campaign against samuel passing. He was killed after showing his students controversial cartoons of the prophet mohammed in a lesson on free speech. Lets get more details now. And go to paris is speaking, covering this story for a shot at what details do we have regarding the investigation . Well, 3 of the individuals are said to be 13 and 14 years old, and they have been indicted for complicity in a terrorist assassination. And thats because theyre said to have been the teenagers who pointed out to samuel pattis murderer, who he was there for allowing that beheading to take place. The 4th teenager who has also been indicted is said to have been the daughter
Except in the us itself. Donald trump rushes to carry out election promises including getting troops out of afghanistan and iraq, as he continues to question the us president ial Election Results on russias president says, care about bloodshed, it could have been stopped 2 weeks ago before the our media. Is there a conflict . Took so many casualties. Our correspondent reports from a russian peacekeepers observation, post. One of the benefits of the troop doesnt the russian, shes far more nasreen stations would have been fed up here in the gold the got a bomb is a neutral territory. Very welcome to you, watching r. T. International with me. The protests turned violent in france following a draft security bill to ban publication of images of police with intent to cause them harm. The interior minister insists the bill will protect offices, but it sparked outrage from rights. Campaigners take gas and Water Cannons have been fired in the french capital to disperse crowds, angry at the move
The bill awaits signoff from the president. Akron turns up the heat. France threatens to veto a brexit deal if it does not like the terms, piling pressure on the e. U. Not to make further concessions. Welcome to the program, everybody. 7 00 in london. 8 00 in paris. Lets look at the futures. We are fairly flat on futures. The young stock x50 futures flat. Yesterday, we saw some decent gains for the ftse, up by more than 1 and that was a standout compared to the rest of europe which was more mixed. It was mixed in the u. S. Session as well. We did actually see a bit of a late rally in u. S. Equity trading, up to some of those new highs we were talking about in headlines. All of that in the context of the hopes and dreams around u. S. Stimulus. The concern about what can legitimately be done in the shortterm and a lot of hope around vaccines. Perhaps oncent day some parts of the equities space and a late rally in the u. S. Yesterday and we are now pausing. We are pausing somewhat here. W
What would your role or what has been your role during this pandemic . Its been very involved in this pandemic and how the frontline response so the organization i work for works closely with them supporting response and on researching issues for them and also on communicating to other stakeholders like the centers for Disease Control in congress and the administration. What are your thoughts on rent headlines about the spike . In covid cases . Wall street journal describ it as everywhere. It is very concerning and it is something that we knew there would be the likelihood can happen as we move into the fall months but you kw, as everyone knows we are seen levels of infecon weve not seen before in this country and when you look at whatappened on the east coast back in t spring and how quickly we got to the situations where we almost went over t capacity of the hospitals and now is across the nation and its concerning. For that reason, we cant let ourselves get to a poi where you dont h