“There is a court ruling for closing down Al Jazeera for 45 days,” a soldier told al-Omari. “I ask you to take all the cameras and leave the office at this moment.”

“And now, who am I introducing next? Who's next?” the US President barked to the assembled crowd, apparently forgetting the order of speakers at the event. Biden was quickly interrupted by a member of his staff, who ushered Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the stage.

Europe’s migrant crisis was imposed by the elites on their own population, he stressed. It was part of a “fateful alliance among the big corporations that want cheap labor and the kind of multicultural advocates who think that that's a good thing for Europe to be more diverse,” Szamuely noted, stressing that this is “what's causing this intense political feeling because people don't really want it. This is something that the elites had desired.”

“Tens of hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers come into Europe and then make their way into the most prosperous parts of Europe, becoming an additional huge burden on countries,” Szamuely said, adding that Europe is witnessing “complete abuse of the asylum seeker scheme.”

"Let's imagine a family in which the father loudly turns on Russian movies and the mother listens to Russian music. They... The only question is what to do first: take the children away and then shoot them, or kill them in front of the children? No, of course, you have to take the children away and after that [kill them]," Lithuanian radio and TV host Algis Ramanauskas suggested.

"I reject out of hand any connection to this or that source of operation," Herzog told Sky News, adding that "there are many enemies of Hezbollah out there, quite a few these days."