breaking news an r.t. armenia and azerbaijan both declare martial rule is a decades old territorial conflict between them flares up again. and in our review for weeks later we put in office staff the united nations russia's new coby faxing for free plus amid advanced stage 3 trials here in russia one of our correspondents was among the 1st in the country to get the vaccine. this morning and i got a call from the creamy stain i am an ideal candidate here look this is your vaccine now and there's not much in there but looks like a couple of drops ok i'm ready. i and violence breaks out in central london as thousands gather to vent their anger new kovi to push friction.

follow the latest news and look back at events over the last 7 days to you watch and weekly here on r.t. international now we'll start with that breaking news because both armenia and azerbaijan have declared martial law after a decade's old territorial conflict between them erupted into hostilities once more . in has called on the armenian prime minister to put all efforts into preventing an escalation of the conflicts over the disputed nagorno karabakh region well this footage released by the armenian defense ministry reportedly shows as a johnny tanks being attacked by armenian armed forces mean you claim 16 of its soldiers were killed in these clashes meanwhile these shots have been published by the azerbaijan defense ministry has claimed they show the destruction of army. a

new military hardware smoke can be seen by doing across the area and we have asked journalists from armenia and azerbaijan to update us on the situation. our prime minister has announced that army in the a valley is going to do anything to keep people of aruba safe as we know there is a marshal floor in army and so general will do it is a sure win out right now so that officers of the reserves are under the age of 55 mobilized most of the people who are most of the men who are living in armenia are willing to go to the car block to stay for the home ministry of health also announced that everyone who was to help the army can go and delayed a lot all know the situation is. right for people who are who cannot i really hear her but there has never been such an escalation of the conflict as they are by generally supported by the 2 key in those supremacy said that the international community must keep to keep away from the conflict because they have

already said they're going to support a good by jets official position after it's been on a government is that the i mean you armed forces launched a large scale provocations they fired extensively at the positions of those about johnny army along the entire front line and residential settlements at the front was out the priestesses fire once again several directions and as a button on the army was forced to counterattack we have injured civilians and the exact number of the injured or killed military servicemen is being investigated at the moment a civil infrastructure has been seriously damaged the situation of the capt was quite a call we don't see anyone panicking and mr de france has announced that such an army is continuing its successful campaign and it's about on a military command is offering armenia to surrender in the bit i didn't direction to prevent more losses and complete destruction of their conason and the transfer of captives in civilian hostages will be conducted according to the norms geneva

convention meanwhile the international community including nato and the e.u. has been calling on both sides to end the escalation and go back to negotiations one quarter has more nyholm the conflicts as its own fault. it all started sunday morning when we saw this sudden renewal of hostilities between azerbaijan and armenia in the disputed region of nagorno-karabakh that's located in the caucasus region which is just south of russia who's to blame both yerevan and baku are accusing each other of being entirely responsible for these renewed hostilities and they're both valid serious military retaliation. manias actions under present attacks a being made on enemy positions military equipment has been destroyed. our response will be as tough as ever there are many an army has all the necessary means to crush our enemy again now we've already heard that infantry armored in air forces and artillery batteries have been deployed by both sides in this conflict and

they've already engaged in fighting with conflicting casualty reports now in response the regional government in nagorno-karabakh has declared martial law and general conscription of all males over and over the age of 18 well it's important to understand that all this is the continuation of a decades long conflict 25 people have died in skirmishes between the 2 countries since the beginning of 2020 alone and since 2015 over 200 have been killed or injured the fighting even goes back to even before the fall of the soviet union.

turkey immediately threw its support behind azerbaijan at the beginning of this latest conflict we heard from ankara's presidential spokes person who said that azerbaijan will not be alone. but russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov he had a bit of a different take on the situation he said that there needs to be there needs to be a ceasefire and a return to negotiations aimed at stabilizing the situation here we also heard from the head of the european council who had said basically the same thing cease fire and return to negotiations although this latest conflict it's rapidly developing so it's still unclear what path it's going to take. now despite some global skepticism over russia's new corona virus vaccine that emit putin this week declared it reliable safe and effective speaking at the u.n. general assembly the russian president said this must be made freely accessible to everybody if the world does and the crisis and the offered frito says to u.n.

workers. but would you leave them alone we already. continue to cooperate with all countries and international organizations this includes the distribution of russians vaccine to other countries which has proved its reliability safety and efficiency is really to provide the top notch the systems particularly we offer a vaccine free of charge for voluntary vaccination as un personnel and entities we have received requests for more un colleagues and we remain indifferent. van stage 3 trials of the vaccine are underway in russia more than 3 and a half hours and volunteers have got the job so far with more than $40000.00 expected to take part our correspondent was one of the 1st to receive it and she took us through her experience. is the next nation day for me and finally this morning in i got

a call from the queen say i am going to do your candidate before that i have chorus to a number of tests and. now it's time for a final check with the doctor before getting the shot good afternoon. and the last album just reckon it's a tattoo i was doing to make sure it's safe for me to receive a vaccination. right now i am ready the vaccine doses are stored in the freezer they take out each of those immediately before the injection tracks and is individually allocated ever beijing has a specific code and it has this card i marked on it meanin is assigned to a particular patient. it could be either her or her. number 000-0626. the number is correct it's confirmed.

yes question now we're going to ask how many times you were there i'm afraid to be of absolute is of course i'm not afraid to you see this magazine contains neither wife nor death coronavirus this means i can't get infected with carpet rain and of course i won't be able to transmit it to anyone without us here look this is your vaccine lone from there's not much in there that looks like a couple of drops. will it hurt no. i am about to make the injection. i am ready. what did it feel like like an aerial shot through which like a mosquito bite as they usually tell my daughter so i'll get this regular jack show in freely. if you know what might be an option of their now doctors on the covert

front lines in russia those being given the vaccine to you we spoke to one retired medical worker who battled the smallpox breaks back in the 1960 s. she's also among the 1st to get the job. as soon as i heard there would be a 3rd phase of the vaccine trial and there would be a lot of people i told my daughter please sign me out i want to be vaccinated. of all who might be given a vaccination none of them have come back and reported any side effects.

i 1st and foremost have never been afraid of getting a vaccination i've gotten them since i was a child and i was given a little bottle with a not be relation and then i was vaccinated without any fear or tears and due to my profession and i've done plenty of an occupation so. a demonstration in central london against new lockdown restrictions ended in violence this weekend police moved in to disperse crowds in trafalgar square for failing to comply with social distancing mine offices and 3 protesters were injured while a number of arrests were also made. i

. was. but earlier this week the british prime minister unveiled new restrictions after a spike in cases and boris johnson also warned saying another 6 months of measures will likely need it. i do want people to start to go back to work now if you can and allow a more significant return to normality from november at the earliest possibly in time for christmas and though our doctors and our medical advisors they are

unanimous that things will be far better by the spring. under the new strictures people are required to work from home if they can masks and then mandatory for taxi drivers and passengers and rule breakers will be fined 200 pounds for a 1st offense the more from thursday all pubs bars restaurants now do have to close at 10 pm but many on line already ridiculing the new 10 pm deadline day with various names doing the rounds one bar i know they've claimed the change of the rules will be extremely damaging. to our notice it's a tough time everyone's trying to support businesses that they want to see go through that this represents something to their communities you know we're well stocked it's providing jobs for lots of people 80 percent of our trade by the motions that i did not actually happens after time so that's quite a significant chunk that we're taking out of. revenues through i'm going to need

more support to start if they don't want to see mustard on that says i'm certainly going to need support on rent because we haven't you know it's the last 6 months we've got another month to tomorrow and then god knows what's going to happen for the next 6 months everyone in this country who's in a sort of relatively unaffected age bracket young people 18 out of 404-5250 they're just going to go home and continue the policy that we've put so many measures in place and spent a fortune on making all of our license venues coated secure but surely the most sensible place to have people consuming drinks and keeping safe keeping socially distance is within these premises. but we also spoke to dr and academic professor john ashton he believes the government needs to rebuild trust lost since the 1st day. this is very real sense of deja vu about the last couple of weeks certainly lots of your days it feels like chill over again the beginning of march when the

numbers of new cases began to double every 2 or 3 days so the real problem the fundamental problem at the moment is how do you reestablish trust because we finished with drastic measures when we shouldn't have to have drastically measures if we take people on this tough journey from the beginning well what we have to do is to really properly put the local regional authorities the local governments and local public health directors in charge stead of stirring actually literally billions of us at these private companies to lloyd's and serco and others who are sailing to deliver the test in-tray certain people getting results after several days by which time they've infected other people. into the local public health teams and rebuilding them very quickly. by protests and better races still raging over the disputed elections back in august we'll have the latest on today's

demonstrations just after break. well whatever the americans are saying about. their sanctions not affecting humanitarian items it's just it's just like we have been trying to transfer money for the call with 19. callbacks. w.h.o. actually we have a neighborhood that we've been trying to transfer money even for normal the influence of actually read the united states restrictions prevent us from even transferring money to buy back so it's basically medical attention. so the us has a. clue

what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race is on offer and spearing dramatic development the only really i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. oh again i post election unrest continues to rumble on in bella reset the moment sunday is once again seeing protesters flooding the streets of men's because they continue to accuse president alexander lukashenko of stealing victory more than 100 people have been detained so far today don of the ports now from the country's capital. while several 1000 people have gathered in the capital of better roasts men scanned this is the 1st mass protest since the inauguration of alexander

lukashenko it was branded by the opposition by the coordinators as the people's inauguration and it was meant to show that the current government is not enjoying the mass support of the by the russian people of the public and so far i have to say that up to 10000 maybe have showed up here to make their voices heard but really i have to say the number from where we are and it's a good vantage point the number of protesters looks small and it looks like fewer people showed up than even last sunday and really the opposition have to say to show what they wanted to show the opposition needed that number but to a power of 10 now this protest comes to the tune of western powers not recognizing the outcome of the elections pulling alexander lukashenko to resign and some nations even outright recognizing. example of those main rival at the elections as

the real president of here's what emanuel mccrone the french president had to say it is a crisis of power a north or a tear in power that cannot accept the logic of democracy and which is hanging on by force it is clear that has to go now this statement along with many others comes as of the foreign ministry of belarus cools and all western nations to stop meddling in the country's affairs and she will lead the better russian people decide who the leader really is no just to remind you alexander lukashenko was inaugurated back on wednesday it was a rather unconventional event i have to say because it wasn't announced it came as a surprise to everybody the opposition included some even called it a secret inauguration with only a few 100 people invited and it was no a broad cost lives. on national t.v. so since then the coordinators of the opposition have been trying to consolidate

the protest calling on people to show up on mass but that failed on wednesday right after the inauguration even though they tried then they asked they called on the better russian women to gather on saturday that was that's a weekly event but instead of what used to be thousands of better russian women marching throughout the capital till dusk only a few 100 people showed up yesterday for a couple of hours today a lot of people moved people thousands of people showed up but still the numbers. are the numbers of the if there are fewer people in the streets than it was a week ago. meanwhile there's been concern about some opposition tactics including the publishing of names and addresses of fantasies of police officers who are against it has more on that as with any d. add on the operation the goal is sheer terror even and the better russian opposition makes no secret of what it is doing join us they say or we will ruin

your life. the main goals of this channel are to track down every criminal that has committed a crime against his own nation to collect as much information as possible about that individual and also to create a special database which anyone in free bellerose can use to check whether they potential worker partner or anyone they meet has committed a crime against humanity next to poland based and public ganda outlets recently dumped the names and personal details of belorussian policeman into the public domain police are not without fault suppression of protests arrests and physical violence towards demonstrators unorganised were brutal and the public was outraged but the opposition feeds on that outrage stoking anger with fake news and hysterical nonsense armed russian special forces and dragon our fellow citizens by the hair is this normal are you willing to tolerate this nectar apologized for that

saying it is impossible to verify every message that they get such as the actual guilt of the policeman whose names and addresses and telephone numbers and even relatives they published next year and other opposition doubtless don't bother proving their guilt as was the case with nikita marching co he was falsely accused of being an agent of the state after someone sure photo of him in military uniform it turned out he was a construct in his service had ended last year but they aren't acting without support from foreign donations to the blessings of st lottie who not scare a former candidate for president during the election in august to this since fled to lithuania she says anyone in uniform who supports her rival current president. is fair game law enforcement officers should remember the people of belarus who

revealed the identity of those who carry out criminal orders you will have to look you people in the eyes. the same people you're supposed to protect and she doesn't seem to mind that these vigilantes are often wrong going after innocent people she doesn't seem to mind that not just them but also their families become the victims of cyber bullying and harassment and abuse and even attacks and it doesn't seem to concern her that it isn't just police or law enforcement that are targeted but also rescuers teachers and even journalists.

in the midst of this it is a shame i have been forced to record this video because of harassment threats and insults towards me and my family as a result of fosse information on the internet please help me share this so that lies don't spread further and don't harm me and my family. to be. journalists to one of our road constantine but had to buy low for example who has faced a tsunami of death threats at the behest of all position media and it's just their own of course it is frightening so i don't know what's going through their heads someone from the opposition texted me in telegram saying look after yourself or a brick will find your head but at least he's just texting there could be someone else who will actually pick up a brick if they want me to go away then yes i will leave someday but not because of them not because of a text or a phone call another journalist had his car torched off the activists posted the

picture of the vehicle on telegram with government insignia lose behind the pictures the veiled threats the fear campaign aimed at anyone who disagrees with them aimed at tens of thousands of better russians don't suffer from sleepless nights doesn't bother that they laugh it off look at the car still looking behind this is that they are afraid of revealing who they really are that is what would hurt them the most of these like 21st century bullets yes information bullets these blacklists and terror campaigns all doing in the open. shouldn't any favors lose thousands already in the least only more determined to prevent the vigilantes and bullies from coming to power if they do things like these such horrific things now and laugh about it what more they do when they come to power it ordinary belorussians to they didn't sign up for this they don't want the nation divided

into leads them casts the unclean and the blessid opposition that it shows the more radical and hateful the opposition's message the fewer turn up to their protests. the taxpayers' money earmarked by staff at the pentagon protective equipment was apparently funneled into the hands of private defense contract is that's according to a new report to congress this year gave the defense department a 1000000000 dollars to battle a coronavirus but a washington post report now claims that most of that money went instead to ship building maintenance army uniforms satellites trains and also space surveillance where the cash was supposed to address funding gaps in the country's code with 19 response with the us suffering the highest number of cases in the world comes amid serious anti coronavirus shortages in the country the center for disease control for example has warned that an additional 6000000000 dollars would be needed to distribute vaccines next year and says to there is

a severe lack of high quality face masks but the pentagon has doubled down on its move insisting that national defense must come 1st. we are saying through the congress provided authorities and resources that enable the executive branch to invest in the message production of critical medical resources and protect key defense capabilities from the consequences of curve it we need to always remember that economic and national security a very tightly integrated and our industrial base is really the nexus of the 2 professor of forensic of preventative medicine waiting shaphan of unease the spending scandal does go who all the way to the top levels of power. obviously we would have preferred those monies go to cope with relief i would think that this decision to spend the money not on the cold it defense but. on forces was made at a very high level 'd clearly the diversion of these files from the public health

programs of the united states is very misguided i would think that the appropriate congressional committees would do an investigation to find out why this happened and to correct this if a $1000000000.00 was misused we had better look to the rest also to see how those bodies were expended the distribution of the vaccine is going to be our next major effort here in the united states to stop or to reduce and control so cold that problem and all of those things will require funding it means that the congress of the united states has to hold the executive branch to account they have to be absolutely. very attentive to how these monies allocated for good purpose are being spent. just 7 this sunday evening here in moscow you've been

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