I have the pleasure today of moderating this conversation between two outstanding policymakers and scholars. And the us china relationship. And working in the Defense Department and mongolia and the commissioner congressionally mandated Security Review Commission and the author of a terrific new book which is called the china nightmare. And we will be talking about it with him and with retired Lieutenant General hr mcmaster. And a reputation and military service one of those adaptive mines in the American Military i am delighted to have both of them here with us today. I am sorry neglected to say hr is also the author of a new book called battleground. Thank you both for making time for china policy. Thank you very much thank you for your leadership at aei and mr. Mcmaster for joining us. And to have reshaped china policy last few years. I am very thankful as we all are for doing that. The china nightmare, what does my book mean by that . China certainly has grand ambitions and power b
Live direct from our studios in moscow this is R T International im sean thomas certainly. Right now a statement moral service has been held in paris on wednesday night to commemorate a murdered history teacher the french president ial dress the ceremony declaring some will have a silent hero in the face of the republic and the teacher was beheaded by a jihadi extremist last week after showing caricature of the Prophet Muhammad to his class are reports now from the french capital. A solemn ceremony at the paris on wednesday evening with about 400. 00 people in attendance to pay tribute to the slain teacher Samuel Pattie president paid his own tribute saying party had now become the face of the French Republic the face for the fight for freedom. Was murdered for the very reason the human body the value of the French Republic he was killed because islamists want to take our future and. They will not prevail said samuel was a victim of lies and conspiracy theory. Of what we are on friday
Good to have you with us here is a Member States planned to go deeper into the red than ever before this year to counter the pandemic draft budget plan sent to the European Commission indicated the 19 countries bloc will slide to an aggregate fiscal deficit of close to one trillion euros earlier this year the Commission Suspended to the block stability and growth pact and nord a 750000000000 euro joint Borrowing Program to help the hardest hit Member States pay for the economic damage being done by the pandemic but germany has so far been in a fairly good position both in controlling the pandemic and keeping the economy afloat but rising case numbers here could put the countrys success record into jeopardy. Berlins nightlife is at a standstill for the past week bars and pubs have been forced to close at 11 pm for many this essentially means the end of their business customers are frustrated. Theres really nothing else to do were in our mid twentys and were not going home an 8 pm on a w
Speech it all has the pleasure of im also going to be linked to the beheading of a teacher who showed caricature of the prophet mohammad. Bring you your news every hour of the day this is all it international is very welcome from the whole team. While lots of stories the phosphor on the countdown to the u. S. President ial elections is of course on either looks like theres a new october surprise a recent Study Reveals that tech giants google and facebook have reportedly been manipulating online such results and as one Political Party and one counted it in particular whos a repaying the rewards of more pen breaks it all down for us in these times when youre trying to make up your mind about something or. Doing research on a topic what comes up when you type it into google can be pretty decisive well according to project vera toss google could be manipulating the results in favor of the democratic party. Or you. Know. If it was flawed it doesnt matter where were from. And on the other si
A cartoon. That will welcome you watching r. T. International with me carrying our top story this hour in france people continue to mourn the slain teacher some your party the 47 year old was brutally killed last week in an in an ax labeled us terrorism as part of its pledge to fight hate speech the government has ordered the closure of a mosque accused of links to the gruesome murder with the latest developments a solid defense. Several organizations are being shut down as a result of the attack on some real party almost a week ago in france and that includes the mosque behind me this is the grand mosque of punks on you know the reason the order says on the front of the mosque that it is being closed on wednesday is because that is for the sole purpose of preventing acts of terrorism and thats because this mosque which has around 1500 people who regularly come and worship posted a video inciting hatred against teaches samuel party in the days before he was killed now the person the au