aggressive negotiation on trade deals. unparalleled military might international agreements. the next u.s. foreign policy put america 1st. be a leading light for the world. some of the key issues of the u.s. election. on al-jazeera. armenia and azerbaijan continues to face off in a disputed border region and there are allegations fighters from syria are also involved in the conflict. they're watching al-jazeera live from a headquarters in doha i'm doubting navigate also ahead. mass demonstrations across india over the gang rape and deaths of 2 women from the

marginalised dollops community. formally launches legal action against the u.k. over its plans to breach parts of the agreement and mexico's leader wins judicial approval for holding a referendum on prosecuting former presidents. below armenia us as its defense forces have shot down 4 hostile drones that appeared in its airspace near the capital year of on it comes as the conflict between azerbaijan and armenia over the disputed nagorno-karabakh region continues for a 5th day the drones were spotted in 2 provinces bordering the capital witnesses reported seeing glowing objects in the sky meanwhile there been reports of an armenian drone being shot down. and by as eerie forces going about care about this

footage was broadcast by turkish television on thursday they flare up in fighting this week as the deadliest in decades and there are allegations mercenaries from syria have joined the fight on behalf of. all the presidents of france russia and the u.s. issued a joint statement deploring the loss of life in the disputed region and called for the warring parties to resume talks robin forrester walker reports the spoils of move shown by as every public television of a 1000000 tanks and other hardware proof the army says of terror truth taken in the disputed legal counsel. all of them really believing our need to learn from the enemy we see several pieces of enemy heart of them to our military bases currently the fighting continues we are liberating our lands from occupation move videos released on thursday show the unrelenting destruction from the drones targeting

a 1000000 guns and military convoys the region is officially part of as a bygone but it's run by separatist mediums. it has taken 6 days for world leaders to jointly call for armenia and azerbaijan to return to peace talks known as the minsk process with a warning from french president emmanuel mccrone the turkey to cease its involvement in the conflict this is a place you don't want we have information today that is very clear that indicates that fighters from syria have left their their members of jihadist groups and they traveled via gaziantep to join the fighting in the golan a karabakh turkish president richard tayyip erdogan has pledged azerbaijan his country's full support and says the time for 26 is over new species should they learn given that these 3 mints countries the us russia and france have neglected

this problem for nearly 30 years it's unacceptable that they are involved in a search for a cease fire in the face of these negative developments that came to surface in recent days but if something is wanted the invaders should leave these lands in order to achieve a solution the true gains or losses being made on the battlefield you know this armenian military video suggests its forces are resisting in some cases retaking lost positions but what is known is that the violence continues to injure and kill civilians in the town of marjah tonight on thursday as ery shelling a few 102 french journalists from the moment one is now critical condition for a steelworker al-jazeera. bernard stepanek kurt nagorno-karabakh he says neither side is willing to negotiate for a ceasefire. i mean his defense ministry says that on thursday morning and

azerbaijani helicopter was shot down by them and then went on to crash in iranian territory and then there was shelling on thursday afternoon into the go no karabakh territory and it was during that shelling in a town called martini that a local journalist was killed and he was working with 2 french journalists from le monde newspaper and one of those journalists was also seriously injured i mean is a prime minister nicole says that he believes turkey is sending fighters from syria and mercenaries from syria to fight alongside the azerbaijani forces and he now says that the front line in the gone or karabakh has become a clash of civilizations and a battle of survival an art suck that's what the armenians call nagorno-karabakh is fighting against international terrorism sponsored by turkey so no mood certainly from the armenian side to look towards

a cease fire and talks at this stage some of us will go has this update from azerbaijan's capital. tension is fairly high by the border especially up on the northeastern side of nagorno-karabakh where. this recall charts are has been under attack by the armenian forces since the early morning and we heard that a civilian lost his life this early morning in tora tora as the civilian areas have been discriminately targeted by the army and says the officials and defense ministry has been is saying also down to south job rylan that the strikes at that have been fired also by the armenian forces and the fight has been intensified as well just let us remember a couple of days ago we heard that our survey jumble the tree was able to take over some villages to regain control of some villages in facilities strict but currently

now we have 2 battle points one in the north is territory and down is the fuselage of area and the officials have been accusing our mania for indiscriminate targeting of the civilians and as also bernard for true azerbaijan is also seeking some support on the international level because when you speak to the officials they always complain that the area is under our main your patient these are not disputed lands these are our lands and all lands are being attacked by their minions again from all lands this is what are the real fishelson have been saying since we arrived here last monday. protests have taken place across india over the gang great band death of 2 women from the marginalised balance community rights groups say india is one of the world's most dangerous places for women with a rape occurring every 15 minutes sara reports that the as news spreads of the gang rape and the death of a 2nd woman from the daleks community these protesters try hard to enter the

village where the 1st victim was from but it's now under lockdown an emergency law was brought in on thursday after days of demonstrations. we have section one for 4 of the indian penal code active in the district right now which means we are not allowing an assembly of more than 5 people. police went on to detain leader of the opposition congress party rahul gandhi and his sister as they tried to get into hatteras village to meet the victim's family. the police officials pushed me hit me with sticks like i fell down i'm not saying anything about that i have no problem i am only asking this question than india only be an artist people can walk on the road they can't govern cannot walk in this country only more they can work on a common for the not rock the the latest victim was a 22 year old who died on tuesday on a way to a hospital in luck now in the northern states of into pradesh the same day as the

19 year old 1st victim died off to spending 2 weeks in a hospital in delhi police say they've made arrests in both cases and if denied accusations by the family the 1st victim of committing a body without their permission ok separate cases have reignited protests across several states and online demanding justice for victims of sexual violence. that if he yogi at atlanta can't protect women then it's better that he should voluntarily step down and resign he can't run the government. if the uttar pradesh government is on the women's side then why of rapes. ning every other day every other day there are sexual assaults and other crimes happening to women we will teach this government a lesson not only did both women live in the same state but they were also both from the down its community marginalized being at the bottom of india's deeply entrenched cost system despite rules protecting $1.00 family known as the untouchables they face daily discrimination for generations so those are what made

you a mainstream society regards the search of violence against apple custom and as he used issue but when it happens to a low cost woman they are trying to predict their cost really just in the past right now not coming out as you would want for an upper class woman for instance in the us how had this east she was brutalized she was in the hospital but she was not even given proper medical care the issue of sexual violence against women has been under the spotlight in india since the 2012 gang rape and murder of a woman in delhi which led to huge nationwide protests and changes to the country's great news but this time protesters say it's hasn't been enough to protect these 2 women into pradesh sort of. britain's exit from the european union may have just become more complicated formal talks to hammer out a trade deal by the the summer 31st deadline are set to finish on friday but the

e.u. is now launching legal action against the u.k. over plans to breach parts of the brics that agreement or letter of formal notice has been sent to the british government which has a month to respond and could eventually lead to a case in the european court of justice the disagreement centers around the bill in the british parliament which would violate international law if passed that could ignore trade rules involving northern ireland is one of the topics that leaders from a block of the sky during a summit that's taking place in brussels. this morning the commission has decided to send a letter of formal notice to the u.k. government this is the 1st step in an infringement procedure. the letter invites the u.k. government to send its observations within a month. and besides this the commission will continue to work hard towards

a full and timely implementation of the withdrawal agreement we stand by our commitments for burners and london with a more. the last line of live on the land statement i thought was important we stand by our commitments she said and i think that goes to the crux of the exhaust ration that the european union is feeling having seen the british sides in the negotiations essentially go back on the pre-agreed terms of the withdrawal agreement and having given the british 3 weeks to amend the internal markets bill and by the end of september with take out those controversial clauses the fact that they didn't meant it was inevitable that on the 1st of october underlaying would have to come out with this statement whether it will inevitably mean a day in court is by no means a foregone conclusion that there are plenty of ways that this can be avoided 1st of all the british can relent and one route is through the agreements of the free trade agreement before the end of the transition period and the fact that they're

still talking the still negotiating in brussels i think is a good sign whether they can do it in time though is another matter the british have set a deadline of the 15th of october the european union i think believes that's unrealistic and things early to mid november is more likely but the fact that they're still talking i think is a positive sign and it's not to get an absolute foregone conclusion that the 2 sides will face each other in some massive day in court coming up on al-jazeera kremlin critic of lexan of ami's has the nerve agent attack against him was ordered by the russian president it's 18000000 people in argentina are now living in poverty we look at the devastating long term effects of coated 90.

5 we don't have any sign of any rain in the full cost across western parts of the u.s. but a fair bit of wet weather just around the lakes. i was was eastern seaboard as well and also into the western side of canada british columbia seeing some cloud and right as we go through the next day or so so the heat continues for the south 84 celsius there in l.a. getting up to around 40 in feigning x. the race we got some showers around see the northern place is easing out of the primaries cold air digging out of canada some wet weather over towards new england eastern parts of canada as you go on into sas day little driver bryce ahip of the showers never too far away still a little on the chilly side for the southeast and showers there stretching their way down into florida but i would say was the western side of the u.s. as i said no sign of any letup in that hate to help with the wildfires some of that hate some of that dry weather coming in across a good part of mexico parts of the southern areas of mexico it does look rather

unsettled and we've got another system in the central parts of the caribbean was going to bring some for a wet weather towards jamaica was a go through friday eventually that will run up across the yucatan peninsula turning increasingly wet here for the weekend. but. what once was i think that's what we'll be one chechen coming up in fact tradition in future after in fact in twine through passion and has been a scene he preens home and actually nation to do with them the attention of the looting because through fishing of the future and not from any dishonest chechnyans down its. needs on a new jersey or a. roof over

the rule. the world. bellowing on the top stories on al-jazeera armenia says it's shot down for hostile drones that appeared in the capital year of on. its conflict with azerbaijan over the disputed nagorno-karabakh region continues for a 5th day as a reformer says have also claimed to have shot down an armenian drone. protests taking place across india over the gang rape and death of 2 women from the marginalised doll its community rights groups say india is one of the world's most dangerous places for women with a rape occurring every 15 minutes. european union is launching legal action against the u.k. over its bricks of plans a bill going through british parliament would violate international law in relation

to trade rules in northern ireland. now let's return to our top story that's the fighting in the nagano carabaos region let's bring in our center and he's a former advisor to the prime minister of armenia and he now works as an independent analyst on conflict resolution he's joining us from washington d.c. thanks very much for your time with us on al-jazeera let's 1st start off with the issue of turkey allegedly recruiting hundreds of syrian mercenaries into azerbaijan turkey of course denying it calling this a descent for mation campaign if this alleged deployment was indeed true. what would be turkey's and game. well it's not imaginary for anyone in the international community anymore for a 1st time thanks for having me and today's their france's president and i'm a mother on state of the surely they do have information about mercenaries being broke not so much on bite to russia's foreign minister yesterday stated very

clearly that they do have information about this we also had reports about the us the ordeal kind of got to the independent source that this could be the case so we are facing another plot area being created by turkey so what he what he started school. for us i mean it is a flashback and years ago when he tried to compete against i now we are trying to do it again going being isolated by the international community look at turkey currently in its immediate neighborhood it has not a single friend in the neighborhood its in war with greece it is in war in syria it is in war in the northern africa there is no surprise for us our. relations. also a turkey and france for example who is accusing turkey of sending in these mercenaries i mean their relations. have not been very strong in recent years there they are at loggerheads over a number for a number of issues aren't they well there are

a number of issues not just between turkey and france and order to russia or any other major player like iraq which has been also announcing that they will not take terrorists being deployed in the northern territory what we're seeing now we are very clearly see turkey's wrong moves trying to actually solve it in turkey to all the issues but also trying to get some kind of success from their perspective common to armenia and they will fail as they don't 100 years but. if you were advising the prime minister today what would your advice be. well i think he stated it pretty much lou and i'm saying i'm also referring to what he says and vising he's not it's not my job not release to follow how we're going to get together we are millions have been getting every possible resource that we have in order to defend ourselves we haven't told any one fact turkey backing up there by john on this war which is beyond not going to come up they have just as you just reported

they have been sending drones all over who are in your very dirty steps sixteen's are flying over our space and space and this is a direct and clear intervention. every single major capital has been calling court to step down and not get involved in this war where we are actually seeing the leak against smaller nations and making this region another 'd 3040 like it is now going to be the least likely to use now in the north or not in northern africa so the only advice we have now is get together yet every ally that we can have the international community our friends found ourselves from the start of each other by johnny all right so we'll leave it there we thank you very much for speaking to us from washington thank you now turkey and greece will jointly set up a military hotline to avoid accidental confrontations in the eastern mediterranean nato has been working with both countries to diffuse months of tension over gas

exploration in disputed waters the safety measures following minor collision between turkish angry warships in august reset it was an accidental anchor a call that a provocation. russian opposition leader like senegal me is accusing president vladimir putin of directly ordering the poison attack against him of ali is still recovering in germany 6 weeks after he ingested a soviet era nerve agent he told their spiegel magazine that an order from putin is the only explanation the kremlin has this mess the allegations is absolutely groundless and unacceptable 5 nations have written a letter to the un saying the poisoning of the constitutes a threat to international peace and security our diplomatic editor james bass has more the letter was written by the 5 european members of the security council belgium a study of france germany and the u.k. in that they call on the russian federation to disclose urgently fully and in the

transparent manner the circumstances of the attack on alexina now this letter was submitted to the security council in the final hours of the new share presidency of the council it's now walked and russia's taken over the russian ambassador an incoming president had this response i would recommend my call exclude all the let the instead of that they're leading us to believe the security council 1st the 1st to fulfill in implementing what is necessary and what is incumbent on them and that is to provide the reply to the request and to the to the request to the general or the provide information of the case the issue is unlikely to be discussed directly in the security council but last month when the council discussed the use of chemical weapons in syria a number of countries referred to the nobel nie if another meeting on chemical

weapons in syria takes place on monday and you can expect it to be raised again. egyptian activists are calling for further protests against president identify the has sisi under the slogan friday of anger there's been a shiri across the country after police reportedly shot and killed a man while making an arrest in southern egypt security forces have been deployed in large numbers this follows nearly a week of protests in several cities over the worsening economy and rampant corruption you had on him as an egyptian journalist and author he says this content for the government has been rapidly growing in egypt southern region for years they have grown over hundreds of years this culture of personal vendetta. that that that part of the country and its population have been neglected over a decade no development nothing they will lift. public t.v. and they have been taking care of themselves for decades and that's why be

indifferent to what's happening in the rest of the country but now when the 4th is when the police force they adopt such violent violent means to deal with those that part of the population they feel personally insulted and i'm afraid what's coming up is going to be worse facebook has taken further steps to prevent its platforms from being exploited in the run up to the u.s. election political ads that seek to deal or jet in my eyes the results have been banned from the face from facebook on instagram they include articles that suggest there is widespread voting fraud or ads that attack a particular method of voting during tuesday's televised debate with the democratic challenger joe biden president donald trump said the election in november will be rigged well trump's been facing criticism over his refusal to denounce white supremacists during tuesday's debate our white house correspondent kelly halkett

says that could put a dent in his campaign for another term. this is an america that's divided and right now the president seems to be playing both sides it's very clear that this president is looking to try and win over voters of color what he's done is he's tried to say look at the for the pandemic we had historically low unemployment for key minority groups latinos african-americans but the problem is they want to see this clear declarative statement they feel the president has not done that the press secretary had the opportunity and also failed to do so and so what the president now really is at risk of is maybe alienating both groups both groups he's trying to attract that being those that would support those type of policies which many would say are racist and those that are voters of color so this is a president that's behind in the polls by last count it was by 8 percent he needs

every voter in order to try and hang on to the votes he has he's at risk of losing the ones he's trying to attract mexico supreme court has ruled that a referendum can be held that if the state should be allowed to prosecute former presidents protesters gathered outside the court as judges voted 65 in favor of the referendum in a virtual session it could allow the investigation and potential prosecution of 5 former presidents for alleged crimes and office. has more from mexico city. 7 this vote by supreme court does carry quite a bit of significance perhaps more than anything it's a symbolic victory for mexican president under this model lopez obrador who campaigned under this anti corruption platform this certainly feeds into the rhetoric that we've heard from the president in the past regarding his his desire to go after corruption and root out corruption in the country but this initiative

a referendum that would ask mexican citizens how the personally feel whether or not they agree that you need x. president a former mexican president. should not be emu and from prosecution should not be immune from from investigation that is something that just hasn't been done before that aspect of this is without precedent and it's something that the mexican president has been promoting heavily so in short this is something that makes the mexican president look very good this is certainly going to be a boost for his popularity having that said this vote today in the mexican in the mexican supreme court a $65.00 vote in favor of this referendum is specific only to the question of the constitutionality of the referendum itself there would still be questions and challenges. some 18000000 people in argentina are now living in poverty of already say the sharp increase is due to the devastating impact of coronavirus restrictions to risible has more from one of sirens you know but over the 100 we don't has been

living on this piece of land for 4 months. he moved here with his wife and children because he had nowhere else to live is it because of their mother living with crime here to live with or need these materials with my children i want politicians to know and the president that we need to have a place to live in a neighborhood i don't want my children to grow up on the street i don't have a job i don't have anything else alexander is leaving at anita about an hour away from the capital when a site is people started to arrive to this piece of land in july there were around 700 families now there's over 3000 of them an example of the deep economic crisis in argentina a judge has said that people have to be evicted from this place but they say they're going to recessed and that's why they started setting up some tires to burn some rocks to confront the police they say that this is the only chance they have to have a home. government figures released this week show that poverty has slowed in

argentina in recent months and is battering almost 50 percent of the population. the impact of covert 19 and then they make economic troubles have had a devastating impact landru gonzales was forced on the street as a child with his family in 2001 during another of argentina's economic crisis he's now 24 years old and lives here with his girlfriend. so therefore poverty has always existed since i've had a memory corruption kidnapping looting and with the quarantine it's like 2001 again being on the street it's difficult you look around and it makes you angry this isn't a pejorative for us. argentina's economy contracted almost 20 percent in the 2nd quarter of this year even though the country recently struck a deal with its foreign creditors the economic situation has sapped the government's spending power for social programs that could have helped alleviate

effect of the pandemic on the poor was shirkers in your. there's been an impact on production and on job creation even on the informal work there's great a general poverty all of the 2 poor us we already were last year and now with greater inequality. arjen times have gotten used to persistent economic troubles although for many it's part of a desperate cycle with each new crisis condemning the most vulnerable to a life of constant need. and just when a site is. hello again the headlines on al-jazeera armenia says it shot down for hostile drones that appeared near the capital year of iran that's conflict with azerbaijan over the disputed nagorno-karabakh region continues for a 5th day the drones were spotted in 2 provinces bordering the capital meanwhile

there been reports of an armenian drone being shot down by as a reformer says i'm not going to care about this footage was.