communities least in. the beginning with growing tensions between greece and turkey in the mediterranean we'll explain how the dispute could affect the election of the self declared republic of northern cyprus october on al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera. hello again i'm peter double you're watching the news our live from our headquarters here in doha coming up in the next 60 minutes. armenian and azerbaijani forces fight over the disputed territory of nagorno-karabakh for a 2nd day both sides are reporting casualties. historic news story

shakers say. donald trump tries to dismiss reports that he paid 0 tax in 10 of the last 15 years after his records were leaked to the new york times. hundreds of refugees to leave last boss and head to the mainland but thousands remain in desperate condition. also this hour as the world me is a 1000000 coronavirus deaths we report from kenya where the number of infections is dropping and restrictions are easing. hi i'm sorry to have all the sports arena williams is off and running in paris the american is but spots of effect around the french open but the straight sets where. we start with the escalating conflict between azerbaijan and armenia fighting over

the disputed region of not going to cut as continues well into a 2nd day both countries are reporting deaths of soldiers and civilians the international community is calling for calm and an immediate cease fire near charlotte dallas. was. summoned to rule these armenian reservists and leaving the capital. president nicol passion un could own 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 fought of 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 social. they've cute kind the other denies russia the e.u. and the us a calling for calm well turkey is backing as a by john. the revelator. i wanted to clear that not only is it by john but also to is at war with us they are using the main modern weapons and ammunition available in the turkish army drawings and aircraft. hospitals in

nagorno-karabakh have received dozens of wounded soldiers and civilians they have moved some patients into bomb shelters. we have 30 wounded in their operations undergoing 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 a casualty figures climb amenia in azerbaijan and pushing on both a pair determined to settle who rooms nagorno-karabakh using weapons and words. dallas al-jazeera well the united nations has now joined the calls for an immediate cease fire the secretary general and is in touch with the leaders of both and

armenia and he's urging both sides to exercise restraint. he delivered. in his phone conversation the same message which he had in the statement to the president by john meeting a need for an immediate stop to the fighting a resumption without precondition for meaningful negotiations without delay under the umbrella of the minsk group co-chairs and also for the immediate redeployment of monitors to the region and he will say exactly the same thing to the prime minister of armenia well turkey has long been a traditional ally of azerbaijan the president wretch up type of media must withdraw its troops from the disputed areas azerbaijan. once again i condemn many of which attacked as a regime's lands yesterday turkey will continue to stand with the friendly and

brotherly as a raging with all its resources and heart it is time to end the crisis in the region which started with the occupation of the now gone ocado buck the region will once again see peace off to a minuet immediately withdraws from the area lands it is occupying any impositions and proposals other than this will not only remain unjust and unlawful but will also continue to spoil minea wholesome consumers in the years ery capital she says he is not just defending azerbaijan diplomatically but it's also supplying them with military equipment. dontrelle has already shown its side which is siding with us are based on and so far as a person after their main attack in the tolls area couple of weeks ago both the turkish president and the defense minister have been very still it about the turkey stance sending it by azerbaijan till the very end supporting them militarily

logistically as you know peter turkey also has a military base in azerbaijan and the have very strong military agreements between the 2 armies circle so support as supports them with mostly a logistics with drones and other defense industry keep it that turkey has been in the region of the a producing for the last couple of years and apparently the turkish drones over are also used by the azerbaijan military doing it during this conflict with the armenian side. they say they have been saying for the last couple of days we are going to do what is necessary to be standing by as our base john and to defend the rights because they are our brothers that with blood and everything between turkey and us our bridge on there is the saying we are one nation but 2 different states so you can imagine how turkey is committed to be standing by as our bridge on. now as it was on is denying the accusations from

a media that it's using turkish flights from syria in this conflict it's an accomplice the baseless on their own clothes and as a piece of propaganda point i mean you know what to. deflect attention from their side and if the only responsibility for doing that of such thing it's an awful lot of media that brings recruiters and terrorists from middle eastern countries. but i mean ian is insisting turkey's involvement goes beyond moral support as robin for a street walker explains from the georgian capital now to b.c. . well they've been on an offensive today to state it's not only the words of comfort that president at the one is giving to the aries but also military support as well that is that is their claim not only in the form of facilitating mercenaries i seem it was referring to there but also. equipment in the form

of aerial drones unmanned aerial drones and f. 16 fighter aircraft but again important to emphasize that we've not been able to independently verify these statements. this is a this is an information war that is going on now at $59.00 confirmed soldiers dead and more than $200.00 wounded and the armenian defense ministry stating that the intensity of the bombardments of areas around town the town of martyr kit is unprecedented we know that armenian civilians in these areas are sheltering underground in bunkers trying to avoid being caught up in this . alexander. is in moscow with more on how russia has been

leading mediation efforts between the countries. what russia is 1st and foremost saying is that there should be an immediate cease fire and when it comes to competing forces and all 3rd parties possibly involved they're saying that they should show restraint before this things go any further down this about the 3rd party that you chose to strain is clearly directed to turkey but they had a message also for armenia specific more specifically when it announced that they might recognize not going to get about as an independent state this is when russia said that there should be they should refrain from taking steps that will push this conflict may make this conflict escalate the now are actually saying that that there is no way that this conflict can be resolved with arms that all the parts should go back to the negotiating table and the platform that they are seeing is minsk group in which the courtrai are meant with the united states and france

they're also saying they're in a good position to help resolve this situation because they have good relations with both armenia and azerbaijan and international community indeed reacts with a calls for the media to cease fire and for negotiations as a way to solve the conflict which is growing into a war between armenia and azerbaijan. well as we've been mentioning here on the news the information war is already key in this conflict both sides immediately blamed each other for starting the fighting that broke out early on sunday morning then there are the conflicting reports of casualties both military and civilian coming from both sides as opposed to on has announced opposition military casualties numbers which armenia disputes and barcoo has dismissed armenia's claims that is still heavy losses to their troops. authorities have restricted internet use in the country access to

a number of communications and social media platforms has been cut entirely. as a lecturer in security and development at the department of war studies at king's college in london she explained earlier where there is so much conflicting information. it's very important to sort of control the narrative not only for external purposes but also for domestic purposes so both sides want to appear i think tim's and sort of knowledge to have to resort to the use of force but what is very sad is this very sort of inflammatory rhetoric which is really pushing both sides to the brink and to really notch scale confrontation and these kind of rhetoric is used to mobilize. near for citizens and i don't mean strictly and also to justify the use of force. and i would argue that it is the only aspect of also of the fight i think we need to focus on what is happening on the

ground and also the efforts at finding a resolution to the conflict but setting up this early stage it's very hard to understand corey's ride we all sharks 1st wolf odds are always to blame how many conscience tease on each side but it's clearly are escalating very rapidly so it's going to be a very challenging our reality for the mediators within the means to to congress situation down. lots more still to come for you here on the news including we'll bring you the latest developments out of istanbul as more saudi nationals are indicted over the killing of the washington post journalist. and anger across india farmers march against the new ball that they say threatens their livelihoods and in sports european champions by munich suffered an unexpected defeat some are open to deal with that story in about 30 minutes.

the u.s. president donald trump has come under fire after the new york times reported he only paid $750.00 in federal taxes the year he took office it's. 40 mr trump paid no tax in 10 of the last 15 years mainly because of large business losses mr trump has dismissed the report as fake news as heidi jocasta. in 2015 a 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 gulf resorts reported losses of $315000000.00 since 2000 times reports the washington trump hotel shows a loss of $55000000.00 from 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 leaked information to a fake news fake we were through the same stirs eucharist in the same questions for years ago had a litigators and talk about it total fake news no actually i paid tax but then you're saying that the service might actually change that it's under the banner of

photo. 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 dural collected $7000000.00 from the bank of america overseas income brought him $73000000.00 in his 1st 2 years in the white house iraq say if you go out 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 ashie 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 they're only losses because he's making these 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 but democrats on twitter quickly seized on the report a roadmap of possible attacks against the president the new york times says it a tantrum 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 and earthquake of damaging reports just weeks before voters head to the polls the ground once again shifting in an election year full of surprises. castro al-jazeera washington.

let's talk to. the white house kimberly how much trouble is mr trump in right now. oh well he hasn't done anything wrong. legally so it doesn't appear that there would be any scrutiny unless the many probably members of congress would be guilty of the same charges of both the left and the right this is a long sort of kept secret in the united states that if you can afford a good tax attorney or good accountant and can take advantage of these loopholes it is legal but you know the question of whether this is moral or ethical is certainly a broader argument and that is where the president may have trouble with ordinary americans even some in his own base who of course when it comes to very many working class americans are paying tens of thousands of dollars a year in taxes in contrast to the president too is making or paying rather hundreds now the u.s.

president has continued to defend himself the latest being on twitter he calls this information in the report by the new york times nonsense illegally obtained he also says he's paid millions of dollars in taxes and he's entitled to depreciation a tax credits and he also says that he has little debt compared to his assets he also points out that he is the only president who has been donating his annual salary so whether or not that's going to weigh into the minds of americans is unclear but certainly this is a problem for the trump white house will this change the color was in the run up to the presidential debates i mean that happens what 2436 hours away from now. yeah you're absolutely right it certainly will i mean the white house right now is instead of preparing for the debate is already kind of hitting back at negative headlines so this is sort of taken their air attentions away if you will and provided a bit of a distraction in terms of debate preparation now for his part the democratic

presidential nominee joe biden we know has been working with aides has been going through planning to fact check the president on the debates that stage when the 2 meet but he may also have to fight back against some of the jabs from the president that are being planned this white house is hoping to hit hard on the issue of hunter biden joe biden son as the moneys that he allegedly received not just from china but also from russia well joe biden was vice president and also a senator so it's clear that both men are sharpening their knives and ready for an attack ok let's stay with us story kimberly thanks very much let's bring in jack kingston from new york he is a surrogate for president trump and former u.s. congressman from the state of georgia jack kingston good to talk to you again here on the news mr trump says this is fake news it's not is it this is not the new york times making stuff up this is the new york times publishing stuff that mr trump put together through his accountants through his lawyers and submit it to the i.r.s.

well we don't actually know what they had and what they publish what they think they picked and chooses the new york times always does these. tax returns or whatever information it is it's have fallen into their hands illegally we all know that but remember that when you go as mr kingston pulls if it fell into the hands illegally it can be fake news it's got to be one of the other well. well it can be fake news if they have let's say 10 items and then they choose to report on 3 of them so we don't know that they have reported on the complete picture but remember a creator there were supposed to show that he was in cahoots with russia they felt and that's what the whole thing is the king center we're not talking about we're not talking about the russia hoax we're not talking about that but we're talking about we're talking about the moral compass of the most powerful man on the planet

i'll take you back to my original point i'll take you back to my original point at least hang on if it's fake news why doesn't the trumpet ministration just publish the real news the real tax returns. because all it's going to do is give more fodder for his critics and the people who are obsessed with attacking him but you have to remember this peter is the i.r.s. after him it's a yes or no question the i.r.s. is not after them so if he had done something illegal and the i.r.s. was after him that would be a totally different thing but i hate to say it but 320000000 americans in every one of us tried to pay as little taxes as possible so you know what a business real estate does it's very simple simmered are is what the trump administration has been doing and furthermore peter americans are far more worried about their own tax returns then the occasional cat but that's a completely different conversation mr kingston and with mr gates you know no i

don't i don't either you know that's a different conversation another point if only as a family u.s. taxpayer says i got big losses to sidestep paying taxes and then artificially inflates earnings and assets on bank paperwork that he presents to the i.r.s. to offset that against multiple loans that in theory is a big fraud so where is the difference or the distance here between a fraudster and mr trump. goes back to your issue about the fake no use what the new york times has done which is run a 4 year narrative against everything trump has done they picked and choose the facts are the end to end that they want to put out there if. something illegal ate the our ass would be on our air the i.r.s. bust people right now laugh at this they love it there is i.r.s. has lots of very smart acts that can it's an attorneys who go after people like

this all day long they would love to put his head on the wall as a trophy but they're not doing that and so regardless of what the york times reports the real reporter is between mr trump and the i.r.s. ok this also means looking at this from taking a back to my original point the moral compass points of view this means that every nurse in the time of covert 19 every loser and sucker quotes who's worked with or for the u.s. military every teacher every doctor every paper hat dispenser of french fries at mcdonald's over this period of 15 years they've possibly paid more tax than the president of the united states of america and he's saying vote for me because i'm just like you. we don't know what kind of texas he's paid the new york times report and that's the same points mr kingston for we don't know and we

should know it now no we really shouldn't pater what happened is you guys try to make this a big deal in 2016 when he did not release his tax returns in the american people study that they said you know what that's not my number one issue it's the number one issue with people who are obsessed against drop i understand that people don't like donald trump they want to find one more thing to criticize the average person though still is more concerned about his freedom getting this economy going again getting those jobs back get away from these nanny state democrat governors who won't let their businesses reopen or kill and the restaurant business is to kingston i'm going to have to do it again with a different conversation so that's a different interviewer but a different issue let me just one point to you let me just put one point to you he's got a mountain of debt mr trump it has a mountain in a debt come on right he possibly has debt totaling almost

$400000000.00 what if he is a fraudster if what if he has no money in the bank he has no resources $1.00 individual owes uncle sam 4 $100000000.00 that surely constitutes a national risk to the security of the united states is like being in debt to a bank if you were if you and i were in debt to a bank now to have 2 or 3000000 let me finish if i was in debt to my bank here to the debts of 2 or 3000000 dollars the banks got a problem i don't have a problem but the bank has a problem. peter you know the expression kronwall if the prior if the press hasn't continuously cried wolf about every single problem that they have blown up over donald trump then maybe when something legitimate comes along and i don't believe this is legitimate but when maybe someone something legitimate comes along people would listen to them but the new york times is not exactly a fair source everybody in america knows that the reality is this is about

re-election that's why coincidentally the same comes out the day before a debate and the american people are still ignoring it because they're more concerned about their own paychecks ok you know millionaires oh and $400000000.00 i don't know i'm a billionaire i'm not in on the intercom. but but it's if your work 10000000000 then 400000000 unlock ability isn't that big of a deal ok couple and we don't one final question please mr kingston because we are running out of time and otherwise if i don't ask you this quickly you'll be reading the headlines in 3 minutes. if you have read the new york times article have you read the new york times article i'm at some assuming you have got it covered i read it not with it necessarily a fine to go and i read it with a lot of skepticism but i thank you for that if you read that article or if anybody read that article and you took the name donald trump and you inserted the name joe

biden would your takeaway be joe biden's a fraudster or joe biden's a stand up guy we can trust him he's got a big firm grasp on economics. i think people would see it through their own present but where my reaction might be is if you want to talk about taxes why did the mayor's wife the mayor of moscow why did yes why give hunter body 3 and a half $1000000.00 that's what we're going to talk about every time this comes up and that they were going to say where is the curiosity that the new york times has about trump what about what does russia or china have on joe biden in his family that's what that's a legitimate discussion but well so peter listen in politics all in love all's fair and this is going to be an issue and i asked certainly acknowledge that but you know the finger points both ways when you when you look at donald trump's tax returns because the family has

a lot of curious business deals during the time that he was vice president ok jack kingston so good of you to come on we do appreciate your time thank you for talking to us here on the news hour thank you peter hundreds of refugees have been allowed to leave the greek island of less boss than going to the mainland after being granted asylum they were all residents of the morea camp before it was destroyed by fire earlier this month families and those requiring medical attention being prioritized our correspondent staff deca was there. this is the moment they have been waiting for for incredibly long time the ferry now with around 700 people on board families people classified as vulnerable being taken off the island on their way to. with official asylum status they've had an incredibly long wait here in the street difficult conditions of course following an incredibly lengthy and dangerous journey that they made to get here to greece this is the dream this is the dream.

to get off the island and then what we understand from the ministry of migration is that they will be taken to athens they will be housed in hotels and then at some point in the future they will be moving on to other european countries we've watched them arrive here bus by boss getting off. the buses with their lives really their lives packed into. getting on that ferry that we weren't allowed to talk to any of them but we could sense people waving particular started to move waving singing a lot of smiles i think certainly clear to say an incredibly happy day for those on board. the u.s. secretary of state is in greece to discuss tensions with. u.s. support to mediate in the disputes of exploration in the eastern mediterranean sea greece is disputing drilling rights but last week both countries did agree to new talks about the territorial claims still to come here on the. lebanese young

people who are growing more and more disillusioned as political paralysis.