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and a negotiated settlement. begins our coverage. summoned to rule these armenian reservists and leaving the capitol. president nicol passion un called on men into military service after fighting erupted on sunday over the disputed province of new going on karabakh they will fight their neighbors as a by john for control of the territory. on the front line armenia says it is bombarding his eery forces and winning what both sides are calling a war the last time they food for war was in the early 1990 s. after the collapse of the soviet union 30000 people were killed a cease fire was brokered in 1904 but sporadic fighting has continued ever since. nearly 3 decades later with twitter cell phone and drone videos information is

a new frontline. in the 1st 24 hours of fighting amenia and azerbaijan released videos and boasted of their military superiority each accusing the other of killing civilians and of hiring mercenaries from syria and the wider middle east to bolster their forces both have also released videos of so shoes they have cute. the other denies russia the e.u. and the us a calling for calm well turkey is backing as a by john. with a little like. i wanted to clear that not only as a by john but also to is at war with us using the main modern weapons and ammunition available in the turkish army drawings and in. hospitals in a going or karabakh have received dozens of wounded soldiers and civilians they have moved some patients into bomb shelters. we have 30 wounded in

their operations on. going some patients who were in hospitals were evacuated into the bunker and the seriously ill people are in the hospital we are working on high alert in a ready to receive the wounded. as a by john c. the violence has spread outside of nagorno karabakh with 5 family members killed in the city of nuff to learn many more were hurt. as the casualty figures climb amenia in azerbaijan and pushing on both appear determined to settle rooms nagorno-karabakh using weapons and words. bellus al-jazeera we are across the story from 3 different locations our alexandra story and of is in moscow with reaction from there we've also got some calls your you in back starting with robin foresty a walk following events from the georgian capital tbilisi take us through more of

what data was brought. we have the armenian defense ministry confirming that a total of $59.00 soldiers have so far been killed. and dozens more wounded civilians on both sides as charlotte was referring to more civilian casualties because the civilian areas the villages in towns that are dotted along the front lines of the line of control are never too far away from the conflict and those munitions that are being used are not as accurate as the drone footage that we're seeing so much of on the military units appears to show so that is what's been unfolding militarily more fighting more soldiers and more civilians killed with the armenians giving those figures we're not yet hearing about what the actual casualty rate is looking like from the side also

important into this mix the. asserting that turkey is involved in this conflict that turkey has been providing. military experts and its equipment from 16 fighter planes to drones but again this is an information war and we have not been able to verify that independently and we've also heard again today from turkey president saying that he believes the. group the body the international body that was tasked with finding a way out of this with a peaceful solution since the 1990 s. has failed in its task and. rightfully deserves to take back its territories that belong to azerbaijan or right robin forest to walk with that update from georgia in tbilisi let's move to. john here sin and cos you know you cinema believe you've

been to a government briefing. what are they saying. well you know them as soon as we landed in by here we went to a government briefing by the presidential advisor the former so presidential spokesperson dignitaries have and by the defense ministry so basically the if you look at the number of the casualties you're on they also resigned to the french ministry claims that 20 so williams have been injured and 6 civilians have been killed but they are not giving any numbers on the military casualties on diaz i resized but they are saying about their main yinz who are the invaders of deny garneau another no karbala and for the. government have been attacking the civilian areas mane of the villages and there is a fight there is a very tense fight around tora terrace city which is the most populated area in and i'm going to go to a bar and the surrounding villages yesterday we learned that the answer is to back

7 villages they we captured them from the iranian side but today villages it's a they fighting is going it alone meters to the physical city which is very close to a tyrant are the most populated area we have been told by our colleagues that prior to this attack from their main inside that the military operation by day as that reason those religious were in a way evacuated by the government mostly women have been evacuated from the area because they were expecting that attack and we have heard from the presidential advisor many times you have that. all the houses were attacked by mortar shells from their main inside for instance you gave an example of a family where 5 children with 5 children them died ambulances have been attacked also a corporate school where women and the air we have go there to learn how to sew a car put it and sell it to earn money actually that building has been attacked.

actually the discourse is for a by the by the both they are made and the. sides are almost similar because they both accuse each other of invasion they will accuse each other of and propaganda we asked about the mercenaries. the foreign mercenaries to presidential adviser and he's sad that azerbaijan doesn't need any mercenaries a military capacity is enough to deal with this conflict and the border but they said that he said that actually iranians were bringing mercenaries from syria and lebanon and to that it's to the contact every hour as they say and what the conflict is ongoing is since they're not producers under the military service that that number is not being counted this is what he said also at the defense ministry spokesperson on the line such information as well but as robin also put through

turkey is involved in this conflict because circuit has a military base in azerbaijan and turkey has been involved in this issue between our mania and azerbaijan for decades come up as a turkey has been supporting the very military with all the defense industrial equipment it has been producing goes well but the turkish defense ministry also issued a statement making a call that our main yahoo has invited in may did not going to karbala should immediately leave that area and stop bringing foreign mercenaries from the middle east. with that update from. john finally we go to moscow here's. russia with this very important role to play not so much about taking sides here but about mediating. yes kemal exactly or russia is putting itself forward as a mediator if there is will for

a mediation of course so. saying that they can use their good relations that they have with both a meanie and azerbaijan to help resolve this conflict they also warned a 3rd parties from interfering they called on them to restrain as well they call the parties involved to refrain from any steps that can make decisions even more difficult saying the situation is sliding into a war between their media and as a debate john now also france and e.u. which are also with russia members of the ois see means group are sick are calling for immediate cease fire to going back to the negotiating table. difference today it's a turkey of course as we heard both from robinson on siding with us that way john and where they are seeing the solution to this problem is that our media should leave the territories of disputed area of the box.

turkish president the edge of tight better unsaid as as robin pointed out that group actually failed for decades to resolve this problem so now it's time for a debate john to solve it for themselves and in the line with the russian calls for ceasefire in the calls for it actually the whole international community for the ceasefire is also the reaction from the representative of the usuals of what al has said that that this should all be turned to the auspices of the ois see minsk group so the group corps chaired with russia france and united states of exam thruster and of which go with that report from moscow thank you for that. right so we're going to put all of this on the map because it is a region which i think is new for a lot of people you hear the name over and over again the contested nagorno karabakh region which shaded in green here this is the heart of the standoff between armenia and. we're going to talk about itself is internationally recognized

as part of but the majority of the population we're talking about these red areas here they are ethnic mean ian and are controlled by armenian forces then we add in the shaded areas here the orange and white here is also recognize the area recognized as azerbaijan's territory but armenia controls it and then you have those over there the sort of small pockets in blue they're controlled by azerbaijan now add one more thing in here which is the so-called line of contact which separates it is the green line separates the armenian forces and the. forces in no going to cut about all this fighting you've seen it's taking place all along this green line well let's hear from thomas develop now who is a senior fellow at carnegie or specializes on the caucasus region we spoke german he says that despite the region's international importance the outside community remains disengaged from this dispute. unfortunately this round of fighting promises

to be the worst probably since since the cease fire and of course the war going on $990.00 s. was a very low tech and now we're seeing today a much more heavy weaponry on by side a certain destructive power is much greater but but ultimately this is a conflict of identity of territory between 2 nations armenia and azerbaijan and the outside world is not going to solve that they're going to kind of try to lead this horse to water but the comment that you're in a region of international importance which is actually growing more internationally important if in the last 25 years because of the oil and gas pipelines through the region it's a region that borders iran so sure it's the european neighborhood as well as the russian they the hood and the u.s. also got involved in the 1990 s. unfortunately what what we've seen luvvie is disengagement by the u.s. in this issue used to check much more leading role than it does now and cynically

one might say that it was by john has launched a military offensive. in the last as it looks like yesterday one of the reasons i'm a dancer is because the u.s. is so disengaged and there's very little russia can do to apply a bit of leverage and pressure but both sides in a way have to be able to declare success after a few days and maybe you know unfortunately maybe if the casualties mount up and we're already probably seeing least a 100 people dying yesterday then that may be a reason for both sides to think that we can't continue with this. we are a quarter past this news hour here's what's coming up greets finally allows the transfer of hundreds of refugees to the mainland but thousands remain in desperate conditions we will have a live report from the on a device bus also keeps on riding in the city of london are struggling in their favorite british courts and in sports

a winning french open debut for one of tennis's fastest rising stars far away have your sports a little later. well the big news out of the united states comes from the new york times which is reporting u.s. president donald trump has paid 0 tax in 10 of the last 15 years it says he avoided taxes by declaring large business losses and now personally i was creditors more than $300000000.00 don't trump himself has dismissed the reporter's fals and supporters from castro. in 2015 the year donald trump emerged from a golden elevator to declare his candidacy he paid 0 dollars in federal income tax just as he had in 10 out of 15 years prior in 2 101617 president trump paid just $750.00

a year in federal income tax while the average middle class american family paid more than $10000.00 the new york times says it reviewed more than 2 decades of trump financial records the account published sunday describes a businessman president who avoided taxes by declaring huge losses but now personally owes creditors more than $300000000.00 soon to be due trump's prized golf resorts reported losses of $359000000.00 as 2000 times reports the washington trump hotel shows a loss of $55.00. 1000000 trump has long sought to suppress his financial records taking the fight to the supreme court at a hastily called press conference sunday trump sought to discredit the new york times reporting based on the information to fake news face we were through the same story as you caressed in the same questions for years ago had

a little bit this and talk about it total fake news no actually i paid tax but then you're saying that the service might actually change as it gets under a vendor writer for a long time indeed the times reports the internal revenue service audit concerns the legitimacy of a $72000000.00 tax refund that trump began receiving in 2008 and then there are the potential conflicts of interest trump has refused to divest in his businesses while president the times reports his mar-a lago resort has made $5000000.00 a year in new members since trump became president and his resort in dorell collected $7000000.00 from the bank of america overseas income brought him $73000000.00 in his 1st 2 years in the white house iraq i say a few words and in an arrangement that we do strums taxable income the president's

daughter and white house advisor evolved to trump appears to have been paid as a consultant even ashley managed her father's business trump may be engaging in tax fraud on an epic scale where he's using state consultants in i.e. his children to turn businesses that would be turning a profit into losses that he can count on his few businesses that make money but their only losses because he's making his ridiculous payments to people who are on his company's payroll already the times reports the trove of records do not appear to incriminate trump further in his business dealings with russia the times did not publish the records themselves. democrats on twitter quickly seized on the report a roadmap of possible attacks against the president the new york times says it attained financial records from confidential sources with legal access to the information the paper promises to publish more revelations in the days to come this may well be what the trump campaign most feared an earthquake of damaging reports

just weeks before voters head to the polls the brown once again shifting in an election year full of surprises. castro al-jazeera washington. monday morning in washington d.c. now and if kimberly hellcats white house correspondent and the rest of the white house press corps can leave you are looking for a nice quiet start to the week no chance on that one what's been the reaction. we've already seen the biden campaign the democratic presidential nominee joe biden's campaign seizing on this within the hour it's sort of capitalizing on the contrasts if you will putting forward without narration an adverse that shows some of the working class americans and their tax burden for example nurses firefighters as well as teachers and showing that they have paid thousands of dollars annually

in taxes well the president according to this report has paid just hundreds now donald trump for his part has defended himself now it is his son donald trump jr who is doing the same in the early morning interview here in the united states he said that this was essentially a hit shaab by the new york times alleging that it is just sort of one piece of the picture arguing that not only what his father has done is legal and a common practice among business people in the united states take advantage of loopholes but also that this is just one snapshot that does not include for example payroll taxes as well as property taxes so it's very clear this white house is hitting back just a few days out from the 1st presidential debate when we can believe and as you pointed out just really a few weeks out from the election itself is now becomes a huge issue. yeah but it's one that the white house doesn't seem particularly concerned about because already they've been blanketing the airwaves

in the united states hitting some of the more uncomfortable things that joe biden will have to answer in this debate with respect to his family's finances now there has been a senate report that hasn't got a lot of play here in the united states so far that alleges that it well joe biden didn't personally receive payments his son hunter by then allegedly receiving money in the tune of about $3.00 and a half $1000000.00 from a russian mayor of a fact is the wife of a russian mayor and also money from china now where the campaign says it's going to target joe biden with respect to these payments that look a little bit nefarious is that they're going to say you know well americans were losing their jobs to china and other nations well the president were rather joe biden was vice president and also senator his son was allegedly benefiting from this so this appears to be the defense and also the attack lines that we can expect

to see on the campaign stage or rather the debate stage when both men appear side by side social distance of course and reportedly also not wearing masks so that's a little bit of a tidbit that we'll be watching very carefully when they finally do debate so to see what they're saying don't you can't believe how could so white house person which. took as prosecutors of name 6 more saudi nationals out suspects in the killing of journalist jamal khashoggi 20 saudi nationals are already on trial in istanbul the suspects and not in turkey and are being tried in absentia earlier this month the saudi court jailed 8 people for up to 20 years himself a prominent critic of the saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomon he was murdered and turkeys will be in the saudi consulate in istanbul in 2018. indian police have arrested farmers protesting against new laws aimed at reforming the industry many farmers fear the new rules could spell

a mandate to the government buying grain it guaranteed prices but the government says loosening regulations will actually open up the market and will benefit far. more than 14 percent of india's g.d.p. comes from agriculture. more than $276000000000.00 we're talking about half of its people depend on farming for their livelihoods it's diverse farmers produce everything from grains and spices to dairy and meat products however many us simply struggling to get by more than one and 5 farmers are living below the poverty line we spoke to earlier who is the joint secretary of all india this is the largest workers' union which represents farmers in india he explains why they are so angry . that demand of the families have been ensured that the minibus of a police 50 per cent more their lives lost of critics who will be insured and made

illegal right over the government has not a problem there who can go out on business the man in the. entire world is fighting the war we've now been banned to make and the ships that the lokpal has brought here come up with 3 bits but he has audiences and there. has built in the bottom and these are only going to open the doors for quite a bit proper getting it is going to be at the expense of the poor farmers in our country that is the fuel that is the reason why you think the most overwhelmingly age of protest people coming out of the streets i have been activist with the london later but the farmers woman and in my 25 years of political activism i have not seen every movement of the farmers this white went and with all groups of the farmers different organisations coming together the afghan government's top taliban

negotiators arrived in islamabad to meet pakistan's leaders a dollar bill that will meet senior officials over the next 3 days including prime minister run khan it comes as the afghan government and taliban officials meet in qatar for peace talks to end a decades long conflict the better russian opposition leader take on skier says e.u. leaders could help mediate a national dialogue in the country it follows another day of mass protests and arrests on sunday when a russian police fired stun grenades and tear gas to disperse up to 100000 protesters in minsk demonstrators have been demanding president alexander lukashenko resign after last month's disputed election. rules and needs. help in the name in start and dialogue between the nation and our authorities and we need these

mediators now and maybe mr mccraw on along side with other countries with the leaders of other countries can. be the very least mediators in starting or for a. evan fox is here with a look at the weather now. situation over on the west coast wildfire was how's it looking yeah i'm afraid we've got new breaking out at the moment kemal and not a sign of any rain coming in over the next few days and the reason they see the low humidity and the very high temperatures you can see clear skies across that western of the u.s. a little more the way it's out and right it's the central and eastern pa so we've got let's contrast the floods and fires going on it see have a cow it's been building there across the plains spilling out to the canadian prairie is the winds diving in from the north cola hair bumping into some somewhat warmer air over towards the eastern side of the country see temperatures getting up into the mid to high twenty's here she brought all this i co-direct talking behind

so there's quite a temperature contrast to take a look down towards the southwest we're still getting up close to the 40 degree mark in the famous 32 celsius and rising in al a now the reason is we have got those on she'll of those offshore winds coming through that area of high pressure across central parts of the u.s. the winds have been coming in from the mountains as the mount as they slide down from the mountains they warm up and we say that women weather along the west coast and no sign of any rain but here is the right and we like to see flooding rains as this brand of wet weather makes its way through the ohio valley that will continue to drive its way further east was some really big downpours coming in along the eastern seaboard as we go on through chews day and on into wednesday further west to stay hot and dry and they go kamau 37 degrees thank you for that if it's an event folks with a look at the weather in the u.s. this hour still ahead for you this news hour india reaches a new significant stage in the fight against coronavirus we'll look at what is next

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