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stage 3 test. just after 10 at night in doha in nairobi here in moscow this monday september the 28th a warm welcome to our team international our top story this hour. result of decades old territorial dispute between armenia and. up again violence on the. border 1st erupted on sunday morning with military clashes reportedly killing more than 50 people.

on a journalist for the sputnik news agency and also. currently in armenia a report on the situation in the 2 countries. mania the health care system is bracing itself clearly bracing itself because right now hospitals have soap's admitting new patients and they have been focusing as they are focusing on treating those wounded in this conflict now armenia has also declared mass mobilization and thousands of men have already volunteered saying that they are ready and willing to go fight in this disputed region now johnny forces during the 1st night of clashes they managed to capture several villages from the karabakh

defense troops and the military top brass of this disputed region has already vowed to take back these villages. by john's ministry of defense regularly reports the shelling of their positions and territories from the armenian side connor offensive operations have led to the liberation of several settlements to the south as well as a range of strategic positions to the north the defense ministry also reports losses among the enemy's personnel and military equipment official see that there is or by john army is ensuring the security of its sovereign territories the escalation has led to deaths and injuries both military and civilian speaking about the perception of the population as are by journey citizens and reacted down things yes tickly to the news of the army's successes. filling in the blanks for us on the situation our. conversation earlier with you harvey. this is

a conflict that has flared up and gone through parents of love for over 3 decades now but within the last 24 hours we have seen the most serious escalation in recent years that happened on sunday but the military activity continued through the night and is still ongoing monday how we got to the stage is not entirely clear because there are such conflicting versions both the media as a breach on each other of these deadly clashes which violate a $9094.00 truce both allowed to have footage supporting their respective stances neither of which can be it depends if verify it out the leaders of the 2 arch enemy really countries have both spoken out passionately and quite aggressively showing no signs of backing down the armed forces are very menial have shoulder settlements as well as our military positions from several directions. at present the us or by johnny armies firing in 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 but stick to tauriel regime has resumed hostilities it is a war imposed on the armenian people it is a war against our independence freedom and dignity we were prepared for the possibility of war because we realize that the armenian phobia and latino hatred with which the azubuike johny dictatorship that its people for many decades could not lead to any result of the war. another alarming sign that tensions are only is the introduction of martial law in both countries and cut his in certain cities and us of a job our media has also mobilize for the military really calling on its conscripts to step up and sob and this latest sort of these rig 90 what was a long standing conflict already to. it's more of the background to this well this conflict has roots dating back over a century as muslims and christians competed in the area now the newborn

a car back is a small mountainous region in the caucasus and it's really large between armenia and azerbaijan but it does have a predominantly ethnically armenian population and they chose to secede in the ninety's but internationally it is still recognized as part of john well let's take a look back at its troubled history.

as is often the case with disputes along religious or ethnic lines we can see the region has been scarred by really bloody clashes and that was back in the ninety's actually took 30000 lives and left 1000000 people displaced now that has a big johny president says he's confident that this enclave will be fully retired as a big john but the armenian prime minister says well actually i'm now ready to consider the regions independence a really differing perceptions of how the future of iraq will look the countries were involved in brokering a peace when they were hostilities in the past what's the international reaction been on this occasion well over the years there have been numerous attempts to stabilize the situation to that and russia france on the us or coach at the minutes group and in fact the armenian prime minister only 3. and he asked for the group to reboot it with a renewed passion saying that they are on the brink of a really large scale war there has been

a unanimous call for peace from russia france the us iran which borders both countries has offered to broker the deal the un and nato forces spoke out expressing side and turkey has thrown that support behind us i think john you know the true sign between these 2 countries has always been pretty shaky so understandably this war like rhetoric the ongoing military activity it is alarming and with many hoping that we won't see a return to those bloodiest days. to another headline stories there coronavirus seems to be tightening its grip on europe with numerous countries now reporting record numbers of 1000000000 functions restrictions and other measures designed to stop the spread of return to with more inot here charlatans. well there's a warning that france faces months of 19 problems that's because the epidemic is apparently likely to overwhelm the health system if no action is taken that is

a warning from france's one of france's top doctors the 2nd wave is a running faster than we thought in $3.00 to $4.00 weeks if nothing changes france will face a widespread outbreak across its whole territory for several autumn and winter months while his main concern is about the ability of medical staff to deal with this because he says they're exhausted and there are not enough staff to plug any gaps as needed let's have a look now at some of the latest figures because 1000 here in france in the 24 hours to saturday there were more than 14 and a half 1000 new cases in the last week around 4000 people were quiet hospital treatment and of those 760 around required intensive care treatment. all of this comes as there are new restrictions coming into force in 11 parts of france from monday that includes here in paris where we will see bars not allowed to open later

than 10 pm sporting facilities being closed and a ban on gatherings in public spaces of more than 10 people this would put in place 15 days but that could be extended in paris there was anger over the weekend over these new restrictions with people going out on protest saying it's devastating their economy and that was also the case down in mass a which saw new scription is coming over the weekend many restaurant to cafe owners and bar owners say that they've just had enough we don't know where they find their statistics in the end it is a bit unclear we don't know if they're supposed to close tonight also we don't understand anything in these accusations against restaurant owners have just gone they've made big sacrifices everything they needed to do. i'm going to. have the keys to my business it's mine i paid for it as i said just far from the

sky it's my life so even now they're just taking it so i'm going to. have the the owner of this business now the majority of people in france to support the restrictions are being put in place by the government and by the local prefecture but a recent poll showed that 65 percent of people said they did not trust the executive to fight effectively against the epidemic here now let's have a look now at spain where there is also a heightened concern over 19 madrid of course extended its mini lockdown on friday but the spanish health minister says he wants even tighter restrictions. the situation in madrid is complicated where the serious risks tough weeks are headed and what must be done is to. concentrate everyone's efforts to protect people's health global this is not an ideological battle this is about it to dimia logical battle against

a virus and we know how to do this because we did it once before and all efforts need to know you concentrated on that you was we need to listen to science or you can listen to the experts know most of the areas under restriction around the madrid and its suburbs are poor areas and that has led to a lot of. now let's move to the u.k. where in some parts of the country up to us of areas and under lockdown and there have been protests held in london over the weekend against the co-create 19 restrictions clashes between the police and protesters with the police having to use battens to control the crowds. but.

all of this comes as the world health organization is predicting that deaths from covert going to could reach 2000000 people across the world but this is a model and it's saying that things could be even worse than that and less serious efforts are made to stymie the transmission of the virus or we spoke to an infectious disease expert who believes another foal locked down would not be an effect of solution. isolating and avoiding the transmission of virus by avoiding contact between people is the medical position and there's the economic position is countries are free to continue living their lives the balance between both is hard to achieve i believe that the absence of a total lockdown fits this decision is not perfect for everyone be those on the

medical or economic extremes it's a difficult balance there's no need for another look down if people observed distancing measures if we were mosque when there is a risk of infection there's no need to reintroduce a lockdown this is a last resort in case the population fails to comply with the measures in place. watching our c international coming all the trove of leaked documents appear to show western contractors were behind a massive propaganda effort in support of the survey is opposition and more after the break.

the election only weeks away the trying to diminish ratio continues its ancient mania against cuba venezuela and iran is there explain how this advances the national interest also no matter who's in the white house the foreign policy is determined to continue to avenge its defeat in.

hello again with global hopes of ending the covert crisis essentially resting on effect of vaccines russia's own job is now into advanced stage 3 trials among those taking part our stuff from our teens are of spanish channels. that actually seem to many tried to dissuade me they said remember it's not been worth getting vaccinated if the risks are too high however for me the pros and cons of the talk you people will say that you shouldn't be defers to wait for the fixing to become a reliable you know i considered all the possible scenarios that may occur after having the fix in the decided to take part in its trial.

i decided to get vaccinated because i see that the world has changed after the front of virus antibodies will arise through the vaccine and only in this way will we be able to overcome a coronavirus. it is necessary that there are people who conduct such experiments and their listeners so that will move forward towards updating the fixing would be the most reliable form. even for it is to take place in clinical trials which is important to us because this is the 1st vaccine you test the vaccine to make sure it's effective tool box. i feel like maybe i'm a little nervous about it all too much noise due to the pandemic too many people getting sick before people tell us the vaccine will no faster whether it works or

not. that. russia was the 1st nation in the world to approve its job ahead of the start of stage 3 master trials now that led to accusations corners have been cut a charge not leveled by the way or the other countries around the world spreading ahead in the quest to develop a potential cure a dull quarter looks at the us backed. such a small vial that could save hundreds of thousands of lives countries around the world are racing to perfect their own coronavirus vaccines russia sputnik v. was the 1st to be approved for production and the west was quick to criticize the state of his developments is being questions proof of its effectiveness has not been presented a bag seen that has not been trying to a vaccine that has not been tested outside of russia america's top researchers say russia's cutting corners to develop its coronavirus that same u.s. regulators are resistant to the new coolness cut when it comes to testing and for

many t.j. that is the key difference between what america is doing and what the russians have just announced it's too early to tell if there's any merit to these fears but face 3 testing doesn't involve 40000 volunteers and those who have already taken part have yet to declare any serious side effects at the same time the world health organization seems optimistic about russia's vaccine. is a good reason. for that it would be seen to be believed. to be. pretty definitive. there is no reason that i see to be skeptical and the west big pharma is rushing to get emergency approval from regulators before the end of critical phase 3 testing companies like madonna and pfizer have even published their clinical protocols after public concerns that their vaccines weren't exactly safe then astra zeneca did the same after 2 participants had spinal inflammation and testing had to come

to a halt these companies are trying to hide the multi-billion dollar contracts behind their thirst for faster than life approval but it is surprising there hasn't been more negative media reaction to that especially in comparison to the onslaught that russia received over sputnik the it's always been politicized in various different ways and we need to get the politics out of medicine russian pharmaceutical companies legally cannot go to money to america. elections while american pharmaceutical companies donated millions to american elections of course were going to be done to favor american pharmaceutical companies those people byelection in america the only way to get politics out of medicine is to get government out of medicine and americans if an american patient wants to buy a vaccine from an american company that should be between the company and the person if they want to buy a vaccine from an indian company or a russian company or a canadian company that should be between them and that company the f.d.a.

and the federal government should have no involvement at all because when they get involved you see this kind of produce nonsense the effectiveness of any vaccine american european and russian no doubt needs to stand the test of time but when politics and profits get involved it's not always easy to remember who needs to benefit from the serum in the 1st place. an advance propaganda infrastructure designed to promote support for the syrian opposition was allegedly created with the help of u.k. government contractors that is the claim being made following a huge link of secret documents obtained and published by the activist group anonymous ilia trying to pick up the story. 2 blog posts with an impressively long list of links we cannot confirm the documents are real but on on a most is confident they've exposed how british taxpayers cash was being splashed on dirty schemes for regime change in syria only small particles of information

about covert operations of british intelligence in syria have leaked into the media until today we have everything from criminal programs and tenders to bidders complete proposals so the leaks point to 10 programs or projects all logically put together inside government offices in london all united by a mission to nurture and trained and equipped moderate opposition with a polished image capable of overthrowing bashar al assad nothing to do with the terrorists under each program come bettors and documents supposedly describing how they planned to do the job fascinating stuff there from military training camps to diagrams outlining the structure of the desired post assad government plus you'll be amazed by the extent of the alleged p.r. effort check out this bitch the reason i am an urgent need to provide a counterbalance to the regime's narrative to build trust and confidence in the

supreme military council and the free syrian army within syria and among the international community remember how at one point in the civil war the anti us that f.s.a. clearly won the media attention pedestal the bike is trying to free syria from the grip of us soldiers pledged to defend the syrian people against the assad regime poorly armed exhausted but i'm bowed some of these men have spent more than a year on the run from the syrian regime sophisticated and ruthless security forces we cannot say if that was somehow thanks to what the bidders were up to but a number of projects claim to have been launched by the u.k. foreign office were purely about information was. dubai based a r k f c which among others lists the state department and the european commission as its clients sought a contract with all such programs the firm's claims to be pretty much unmatched

when it comes to its propaganda resources connections with the most influential networks piece of cake a.r.k has provided regular branded and unbranded content to key syria focused satellite t.v. channels such as al-jazeera hour a beer b.b.c. arabic aryans t.v. aleppo today syria our god and syria al shaab since 2012 a mission to turn a group that was once caught staging a rescue operation into international social media darlings done the white helmets are world famous ok created and continues to run a twitter feed and a facebook page on behalf of the syrian civil defense teams posting photos and updates of their activities in english throughout the day bring up a battalion of activists turned reporters to deliver the right message roger that. more than 150 activists have been trained and equipped by ok on topics from the

basics of camera handling lighting and sound to producing reports journalistic safety online security and ethical reporting a.r.k which boasted a wide presidents and all 14 of syria's regions wasn't the only p.r. prodigy listed the leaked docs show that virtually every aspect of the syrian opposition was cultivated and marketed by western government backed firms from political narratives to branding from what they said to where they said it but it's all hard to believe right london and its allies would never stoop so low. a battle has been raging against huge wildfires in a foreign nation region of western russia a large area and the size of 300 football pitches has gone up in flames teams of firefighters as you may be able to work out there we go struggling to contain the inferno.

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the election only weeks away the trumpet ministration continues its sanctions mania against cuba venezuela and iran has never explained how this advances the national interest also no matter who is in the white house the foreign policy blog is determined to continue to avenge its defeat in syria. to discuss this and more i'm joined by my guest marcus papadopoulos in london he's the editor of politics 1st magazine and here in moscow we're joined by dmitri bobbitt he's a political analyst and editor in the media project all right gentlemen crossed up rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it ok let's go to marcus in london you're and i want to. telmarc is a demon in our audience here i have big news we're not to talk about the presidential debates we're not to talk about the supreme court of the united states

we're not going up about it joe biden is see now actually we're going to talk about some real important things going on in the world today on this program and i want to talk about sanctions mania because this is all too familiar marcus it is a political weapon that is the kin to war it is. it is an assault on the these countries here and as i said in my introduction here you know it's never explained why it is in the national interest why civilian populations in these designated countries are punished repeatedly and to know that it doesn't have any people that were real political outcome except for on the ground misery oh hemmer whoa with the well once castrated and indeed distracted by what is no 19 the american government has continued its aggression on the international stage and continued this aggression on the base it's a move we have seen in recent days is

a washington impose new sanctions on a cuba venezuela and iran hands i believe peter that we really need to see these new sanctions true. russia. how are all of the international say yes on the one hand the americans do want to take action against the aforementioned countries they would like to bring down the government so that they would last and turn those countries to how they were trying to do the revolutions in those countries namely fassel states of america and i believe on the other hand the most important reason is that the americans are shreiking back against russia doing so i construe of russia's most important allies and friends in the world as russia has a strategic partnership with.