it's. the us is. this is our breaking news armenia and azerbaijan both declare martial law as a decades old territorial conflict between them flares up again. in our review of the week in office staff of the united nations russia's new vaccine free. a little stage 3 trials of that vaccine underway here in russia one of our correspondents is among the 1st to get the job. this morning and i got a call from the scene i am ideal candidate here this is your fix seen there's not much in there looks like a couple of jobs ok i'm ready. central

london as thousands gather to vent their anger at new coke restrictions. sunday on r.t. and that means taking you through some of the biggest stories we've covered here over the past 7 days because some of sunday's developments to bring you up to speed on 1st though from the caucasus both armenia and azerbaijan have declared martial law after heavy fighting again erupted between the neighboring countries and a decade's old oriel dispute. called on the armenian prime minister to put all efforts into preventing any escalation of the conflict over the nagorno-karabakh region. defense ministry video reportedly shows tanks being attacked by armenian armed forces armenia claims that 16 of its soldiers were killed in the clashes. meanwhile these shots have been published by the azerbaijan defense

ministry it claims to show the destruction of media and military hardware smoke be seen billowing across the area journalists for the sputnik news agency working in both armenia and azerbaijan brought us more details. our prime minister is now in that army in the neighborhood is going to do anything to keep people of the we know there is a show war in armenia so. now right now more people. welcome the men who. are willing to go through with higher pay for their home. who. coalition of the conflict this issue position of has been a government is the i mean in the forces launched a large scale provocation they fired extensively at the positions of those about johnny army along the entire front line and residential settlements out of branches out and they breached the city's fire once again in several directions and the join

army was forced to counterattack we have injured civilians killed infrastructure has been seriously damaged the minister of defense has announced that the session army's continuing its successful campaign on the conflict in the going to dates back to the 990 s. and has seen repeated clashes between both sides as despite a major ceasefire being signed in 1994 the whole quarter has more on how the conflict unfolded. 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 vowing serious military retaliation as well. as actions on the prison it's acts of being made on 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 who has 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 adding to that the international community including nato and the e.u. are also calling on both sides to end the escalation and return to negotiations all

through and russia adults most of the cold he says it's down to armenia and azerbaijan alone to resolve their differences. it's up to the general staff the government knows about. you to decide and when you talk a little they're maximalist your 1000000 or so that's not wanted back as a reason no it's our territory we want to control it so therefore it's a situation which unfortunately has not given us the right rise to more conflict and they want to have their view and they want to ensure that they will from their point of view state disaster because now they're wasting resources which are likely needed for the development of their country and their economies and you can see on a virus vaccine but if they are put in this week declared it reliable safe and effective he told the u.n. general assembly that such jobs must be made freely accessible to everybody if the world hopes to end the covert crisis and he offered doses for free stuff. but would

you leave them alone we are ready to sure experience and continue to cooperate with all countries and international organizations this includes the distribution of a russian vaccine to other countries which has proved its reliability safety and efficiency russia is ready to provide the un with top notch assistance particularly we offer a vaccine free of charge for voluntary vaccination of u.n. personnel and entities we have received such requests for more u.n. colleagues and we will remain indifferent to the advanced stage 3 trials of the vaccine are underway in russia more than 3 and a half 1000 volunteers receive the job so far with more than 40000 expected to take part among them as our correspondent. is next nation day for me finally this morning in i got a call from the clinic same as i am an ideal candidate for that i have course took a number of tests and went through atheros creaming. now it's time for

a final check with the doctor before i get in the shot good afternoon. and the last of these a pregnancy test that was designed 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 each vaccine is individually allocated ever beijing has a specific code and each child has this card marked on it mean in its assigned to a particular patient. it could be either her real back seen or heard her say the number is 006 to seeks. the number is correct confirmed. yes question now you can ask how many times where i am afraid to be vaccinated of

course i'm not afraid you see this vaccine contains neither wife nor death coronavirus this means i can't get infected with cobbett 19 and of course i won't be able to transmit it to anyone else here look this is your vaccine now and there's not much in there that looks like a couple of drops. will it hurt no. i'm about to make the injection ok i'm ready. what did it feel like like a normal shot like a mosquito bite as they usually tell my daughter so i'll get the secular objection in free weeks. or doctors on the covert front line in russia are among those being prioritized to get the vaccine we spoke to a retired medical worker who battled the smallpox outbreak in the sixty's she's also the 1st to get the job.

as soon as i heard there would be in 3 days 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 the vaccination i've gotten

them since i was a child i was given a little bottle with a few lieschen and then i was vaccinated without any fear or tears and due to my profession i've done plenty of an occupation so it's. probably in central london against new lockdown restrictions descended into violence on saturday police moved in to disperse a crowd of up to 15000 and trafalgar square for failing to comply with social distancing not offices and 3 protesters were injured several arrests were made.

the british prime minister unveiled new restrictions on tuesday after a spike in infections it's led to critics claiming that he's been fumbling his way through the crisis since it began. 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 but as things stand people are now required to work from home if they can masks are now mandatory for taxi drivers and passengers a rule breakers will be fined $200.00 pounds for a 1st offense furthermore all pubs and restaurants are now required to close by 10

pm. a british public health expert professor john ashton believes the government needs to rebuild the trust lost into the 1st knock down. this very real sense of deja vu about the last couple of weeks certainly last few days it feels like you know it sure over again 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 drastic measures if we take new 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 aren't the local public health director who's in charge of the stead of stirring actually literally billions of perelman's at these private companies to lloyd's and serco and others who are sailing to

deliver the test in-tray shouldn't people getting results after several days by which time they've infected other people putting all at risk into the local public health teams and rebuilding them very quickly. this is our say on the way protests in better rossa still raging over the disputed election exactly 2 months although we'll update you on sunday's rallies after the break. join me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see if that. is your media a reflection of reality. in

a world transformed. what will make you feel safe. isolation community. are you going the right way or are you being so. direct. what is true what is faith. in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the depths. or inmate in the shallows. i get more we can developments for you post-election unrest continues to rumble on a sunday against all protesters flooding the streets of the capital as they

continue to accuse president lukashenko of stealing victory more than a 100 people have been detained reporting from of. all several 1000 people have gathered in the capital of better roasts men's kind this is the fust of mass protest since the inauguration of alexander look it was branded by the opposition by the coordinates 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 the. make their voices heard but really i have to say good a 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 to have their 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. the example of whose 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 and wealth 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 integration with only a few 100 people invited and it was not broadcast live on national t.v. so since then the coordinators of the opposition have been trying to consolidate the protest cooling on people to show up and mass but that failed on wednesday right after the inauguration even though they tried then they they cool down 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 are there are fewer people in the streets than it was a week ago there was concern flag earlier this week over some russian opposition tactics including the publishing of names and addresses of thousands of police

officers more on that next remark because they have. as with any di add on the operation the goal is fear terror evil 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 pullen based and public ganda outlet 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 saw a photo of him in military uniform it turned out he was a conscript in his service had ended last year but they aren't acting without support from foreign donations to the blessings of st lotty who not scare a former candidate for president during the election in august to this since fled

to lithuania she says anyone in you to for. who supports her rival current president who is fair game law enforcement officers should remember the people of bellows who revealed the identity of those who carry out criminal law does you will have to look you people in the eye the same people you are supposed to protect and she doesn't seem to mind that these vigilantes are often wrong going off to 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 a dog gets it but also rescue us teachers and even journalists.

in the midst of a society to exhibit a she and i have been forced to record this video because of harassment threats and insults towards me and my family as a result of false 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 the by law for example who has faced a tsunami of death threats at the behest of opposition media ok mistrust that of course it is frightening i don't know what's going through their hats 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. we 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 after activists posted a 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 the 10s of thousands of bell russians don't suffer from sleepless nights doesn't bother them they laugh it off at the logic 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 terra campaigns are doing the opposition any favors losing 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

will they do when they come to power and ordinary belorussians to they didn't sign up for this they don't want the nation divided into leasts and costs 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. us taxpayers money earmarked to buy stuff at the pentagon protective equipment against covert was apparently funneled into the hands of private defense contractors according to a report in the washington post this week how congress this year gave the defense department a $1000000000.00 to battle the coronavirus but the washington post claims that most of that money went instead to ship building maintenance army uniforms satellites drones and even space surveillance how the cash was supposed to address funding gaps in the country's covert 19 response because the u.s.

of course the suffer the highest number of cases in the world i come. it's serious anti corona virus shortages in the country as well the centers for disease control has warned that an additional $6000000000.00 will be needed to potentially distribute vaccines next year and says that there's a severe lack of high quality face masks but the pentagon's doubled down on its move insisting this national defense must come 1st we are saying for the congress provided or thirty's and resources that enable the executive branch to invest in domestic 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 interrelated and our industrial base is really the nexus of the 2 preventative medicine professor william schaffner believes the spending scandal goes all the way to the very top levels of power. obviously we would have preferred those monies go to code 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 clearly the diversion of these follows 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 monies were expended the distribution of the vaccine is going to be our next major effort here in the united states to stop or to 'd 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 i will get a hold of any pandemic fighting treatment at all is a big problem for iran that's facing the threat of further u.s. sanctions the foreign minister of iran talks to will to pot at length showing. it's sort of amazing country with so many friends in russia and i'm very excited to be here. i love that idea

i think i can do that. different nice to make a lot of money with. millions and hundreds of me. here is the nice was. a great wall and nobody feels a lot better than me believe me and i'll build a very inexpensive like a great great wall. and just in case you're worried about who's going to pay for it mexico will pay for . it we'll see what happens. i always say who knows what we'll see on the field it will be success.

there. are. a lot of welcome to all the parts there's an all persia saying when there is fire try and a web gather it may be an apt description of the call that 19 pandemic which affected every. country on the planet but iran and the united states more than others again based new invisible enemy we should abandon so many things in our lives. swore in and tired i'm 18 now to discuss that i'm now joined by iran's foreign minister javad zarif minister it's such

a pleasure to see here in moscow especially in person good to see you again you know if you are one of the 1st and very few dignitaries who are flying into moscow this day and i want to start by asking how it has this been demi change the workings of diplomacy and you guys have some conversations like most of us or is it not particularly safe to exchange information this way well actually we have to do that and just this morning i participated in the meeting of the conference on interaction and cooperation in asia confidence building in asia. video conference. some 20 more foreign ministers were participating in that conference and as you pointed out in your introductory statement.