their interests can shift some of their focus too much in high tech fields. some define you see new clues in. the media and azerbaijan both declare martial law as a decades old territorial conflicts between them flares up again. and in our review of the week not about putin off a star for the united nations russia's new pope is back seemed for free. but if on stage 3 trials of the vaccine underway in russia one of our correspondents is among the 1st here to get the job. this morning and i got a call from the creamy sane i am an ideal candidate here look this is your vaccine there's not much in there looks like a couple of drops ok i'm ready. and

violence breaks out in central london as thousands gather to vent their anger at a new covert restriction. hello and welcome you're watching the weekly here on r.t. international bringing you all the latest headlines and a roundup of the stories that shape the week the fuss both on me and azerbaijan have declared martial law of the heavy fighting again erupted between the neighboring countries in a decade's old territorial dispute rather may putin has called on the armenian prime minister to put all efforts into preventing any escalation of the conflicts over the new corner karabakh region well it's on me and defense ministry video reportedly shows azerbaijani tonks being attacked by armenian armed forces i mean a claim 16 of its soldiers were killed in the clashes meanwhile the shots have been published by the azerbaijan defense ministry it claims they show the destruction of

armenian military hardware smoke can be seen billowing across the area both governments are blaming each other for the escalation. in the armed forces over many of shoulder settlements as well as our military positions from several directions. at present the azerbaijani army is firing and the enemy's military positions most of their equipment has been destroyed armenia is doing everything possible to disrupt the negotiation process and i can see that they have succeeded . you'll have to stick to tory old regime his resume till still it sees it is war imposed on the armenian people it is a war against our independence freedom and dignity if we were prepared for the possibility of war because we realize that the amenia phobia amity and hatred with which the azubuike johnny dictatorship fed its people for many decades could not lead to any result other than war 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 now we've already heard that infantry armored an 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 sergey lavrov he had a bit of a different take on the situation he said that there needs to be or 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 the u.n. secretary general has also alleged an immediate stop to the escalation adding that he'll speak by phone with the leaders of on mania and as a by john journalists for these but the news agency working in the 2 countries bush has more details on the situation that our prime minister has now and that army in the neighborhood is going to do anything to keep people of the we know there is war in armenia so. right now most of the people. most of the men who are living in armenia willing to go through with the for their homeland security. who who. have never been collation of the conflict this issue

position has been a government is the i mean in the forces launched a large provocation they fired extensively at the positions of those about johnny army along the entire front line and residential settlements at the broncos breached the city's fire once again in several directions and army was forced to counterattack we have injured civilians little infrastructure has been seriously damaged the minister of defense has announced that the shadow army is continuing its successful campaign. russia analyst martin mccauley says it's down to armenia and azerbaijan alone to resolve their differences it's up to the general staff the government knows about john and me to decide when you talk a little the maximalist their military that's not wanted back. we want to control the now for the situation which unfortunately has now given us the right rise to more conflict and they want to have to stay for us to dissolve

because they're wasting resources which are vitally needed for the development of their country and their economies and you can see this through them of what they say we must defend. despite some global skepticism over russia's new coronavirus vaccine a flood of appeared in this week declared it reliable safe and effective he told the un general assembly that such jobs must be made freely accessible to everybody if the world hopes to end the covert crisis and they offered free doses to un star what would you do with them but we are ready to sure experience and continue to cooperate with all countries and international organizations this includes the distribution of russians vaccine to other countries which is proved its reliability safety and efficiency of russia is ready to provide the un with top notch assistance particularly we offer a vaccine free of charge for voluntary vaccination as un personnel and entities we have received such requests from or un colleagues and we will remain indifferent to

the. advance stage 3 trials of the vaccine are underway in russia although 3 and a half 1000 voters have received the job so far with more than 40000 expected to take part among them as our correspondent there were definitely. it's vaccination day for me and finally this morning i got a call from the clinic say i am in a deal candidate before that i have course took a number of tests and went through a thorough screening now it's time for a final check with the doctor before getting the short good afternoon. and the luster is a pregnancy test that was designed to make sure it's safe for me to receive the 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 and marked on it mean in its assigned to a particular patient. it could be either the real back seen or it will say the number is 0062 seeks. the number is correct confirmed. yes question now we can ask how many times were there i'm 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 call that 19 and of course i won't be able to transmit it to anyone else here look this is your vaccine now there's not much in there that looks like a couple of drops. will it hurt no. i am about to

make the injection ok i am 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 jackson in free weeks. for. a rally in central london against new lockdown restrictions ended in violence on saturday police moved in to disperse a crowd of up to 15000 in trafalgar square for failing to comply with social distancing 9 officers and 3 protesters were injured and several arrests were made. thank. you.

thank you. thank. the british prime minister unveiled new restrictions on tuesday after a spike in cases it's led to critics claiming he's been funneling 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 things will be far better by the spring people are required to work from home if they can mosques are now mandatory for taxi drivers and passengers and rule breakers will be fined 200 pounds for a 1st offense furthermore all pubs and restaurants are now required to close by 10 pm and british public health experts professor john ashton believes the government

needs to rebuild the trust lost since the 1st lockdown. there's a very real sense of deja vu about the last couple of weeks certainly the last few days it feels like you know that show over again and the beginning of march when the numbers of new cases begin to double every 2 or 3 days so the real problem the fundamental problem at the moment is how do you re-establish trust because we finished with drastic measures when we shouldn't have to have drastic measures if we take in the people on this tough journey from the beginning well what they have to do is to really properly put the local regional authorities the local governments and so the local public health director who's in charge i do 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 and trace shouldn't people

getting results after several days by which time they've infected are the people putting goal at risk so into the local public health teams and rebuilding them very quickly. if not he on the way protests in by the way still raging out of a disputed election exactly 10 months song when up they cheer on sunday's rallies that often play. the election only weeks away the trumpet ministration continues its same actions maybe against cuba venezuela and iran is there explain how this advances the national there's also no matter who's in the white house the foreign policy is determined to continue. its defeat in.

the world is driven by shaped by one person. who dares thinks. we dare to ask. for. welcome back post-election unrest continues to rumble on and sunday again so protesters flooding the streets of the campus and as they continue to accuse

president lucas shank of stealing victory more than a 100 people have been detained reporting from man's case. while several 1000 people have gathered in the capital of better roosts men scanned this is the best mass protest since the inauguration of alexander lukashenko it was branded by the opposition by the coordinates as as a 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 a question 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 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 the statement along with many others comes as 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 abroad 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 and months 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 small of the numbers of the if there are fewer people in the streets than it was a week ago. there was concern flagged early this week i was stunned by the russian opposition tactics including the publishing of names and addresses of thousands of

police offices now not next summer i can see it. as with any d. add on the operation the goal is sheer terror even the better russian opposition makes no she quit 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 to and other opposition outlets 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 uniform who supports her rival current president you can use 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 eye. 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 the dissidence of the shooting 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 it by law for example who has faced a tsunami of death threats at the behest of all position media mistrust that of course it is frightening 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 the aim to tens of thousands of better russians don't suffer from sleepless nights doesn't both of them know they'd 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 savers lose thousands already in the least only more determined to prevent the digital art season 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 in ordinary belorussians 2 they didn't sign up for this they don't want the nation divided into leasts and casts the unclean and the blessid opposition at the chills the more radical and hateful the opposition's message the sewer turned up to their protests . u.s. taxpayers money earmarked to buy start of the pentagon protective equipment against covert was apparently funneled into the hands of private defense contractors according to a report in the washington post a congress that this year gave the defense department a $1000000000.00 to battle the coronavirus but the washington post claims most of that money went instead to ship building maintenance army uniforms sound alike drones and space surveillance so their cash was supposed to address funding gaps in the country's covert 19 response with the us suffering the highest number of cases

in the world and it comes amid serious anti coronavirus shortages in the country the centers for disease control of war and that in addition $6000000000.00 would be needed to potentially distribute vaccines next year and says there is a severe lack of high quality face masks but the pentagon has doubled down on its move insisting 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 covert 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 ranks of medicine professor william schaffner believes the spending scandal goes 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 cold the defense budget. on forces was made at a very high level 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 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 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 purposes are being spent. thanks for joining us here on our international we're back in 5 minutes with the latest.

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