headlines this hour from our decades old territory. between armenia and. cold infection rates are rising again in europe. as well with people frustrated to see the return. after it's my life and now they're just taking. the 1st foreigners in russia to take. the. stage 3.

live from the russian capital. international my name's you know neil 30 minutes of news and views start. a decade to the spirits of the caspian sea seen one of its most serious flare ups since a truce back in 1994 violence erupted between the nations of armenia and azerbaijan on sunday morning which both play claim to the nagorno-karabakh region clashes reportedly left more than 50 people dead as the territorial and ethnic confrontation again turned bloody.

here is our t.v. critic donna from the disputed in a corner region with the latest. this is the city of step on the the capitol of the disputed nagorno-karabakh autonomy and well we're filming in infrared here because this is one of the darkest places on earth all street lights have been switched off residents people who are living here while also trying not to turn on any unnecessary lights it is a disguise tactic a smog blackout if i may say so and it is done to make bombing this place more difficult and it is being bombed all right for the 1st time since 1992 on our way

here we actually tried counting all the ambulances that were rushing outside the city and well we lost count on 25 it was simply too many. columns of military hardware were rolling into the city now according to military officials here more than 80 people alone today have been killed here during the clashes both. leaders and the as there by john the leaders have been blaming each other for the escalation for instigating this conflict have a lesson the armed forces over many i have shelled our settlements as well as our military positions from several directions. at present the us or by johnny army is firing and the enemy's military position at most of their equipment has been destroyed army is doing everything possible to disrupt the negotiation process and i can see that they have succeeded. 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 armenia phobia and nitty and hatred with which the as it johnny dictatorship fed its people for many decades could not lead to any result other than war the warring parties here make no distinction if it's the light of day or the darkness of night it seems the fighting doesn't stop for a minute and while we will be staying here bringing you all the latest including from the front lines. like many international media our own correspondent morocco's the it was among the journalist unable to reach us or by johnno he's currently in turkey. well there's been a problem with gaining entry to his head but john we've made repeated requests to the authorities that the government in azerbaijan to grant us access entry to the country to cover the conflict unfortunately these requests hasn't been 2

a response whatsoever we've heard of in direct you to sort of excuses about what saddam urgency that has been declared in azerbaijan and we may see a reversal a reversal and we're hoping for to be able to gain entry and gain a planet accreditation to work in azerbaijan otherwise there has been another day of escalation many more dead reported on both sides the latest is that rajon has released a new video showing many soldiers of the god knickerbocker and. apparently i mean and soldiers killed in the action the day's action there we will succeed of course many videos and photos and footage of it destroyed vehicles and destroyed tags really does seem like a tremendous escalation and we've got to say now it is very difficult at this stage to verify any of these videos there's been reports of old reviews being posted many many fake news stories as well nevertheless there's been

a growing chorus an international chorus cooling the both sides a diplomatic course to cease hostilities of her suspicion of hostilities for a cease fire immediate cease fire to be implemented this is not a time for war the international community is resoundingly say from from the u.n. which is called for an immediate halt to violence from the european union for the united states russia iran and neighboring iran has come out and said this is no good that both sides should stop and dialogue is the only. noticeably missing from from these this huge course is turkey where we are now president edouard has taken a very hard line on the conflict and he has thrown is support in behind the as that of a johnny side. john i once again condemn a media who attack tend to be shown the soil on sunday turkey will continue to stand by his friend and brother in azerbaijan by all means and with all its heart

it is time to bring an end to the regional crisis started with the occupation of new goanna karabakh when some media immediately leaves the territory it is occupying the region will return to peace and harmony the president of a said about john live has said that the only way forward is to ease by the 1993 un resolution regarding the go to the car about which recognized many parts of it as occupied by me and forces and i live has said that there that is the only way for the armenian soldiers and the go to care about the breakaway states force us to to withdraw and to give up control over the area to to is there by judd this is an ancient conflict there has been much blood spilled in this in these war and then in the flare ups that followed the not going to cut above war i was there in 2016 where there was another flare up another as collation of the hostilities

fortunately it's ended in a matter of days but but it was again brutal judging by what i've seen so far the footage of being seen the casualty lists reported by both sides this is even worse than what happened when we were there in 2016.

director of the crisis research institute's mark ullman believes public sentiment within both countries could have played a part in the sudden outbreak of hostilities. well one big problem here is that on both sides popular opinion is highly mobile ised and so you have a situation that you have approximately a 1000000 people in azerbaijan who are refugees from armenia hundreds of thousands of people in armenia who fled from azerbaijan and so we have a situation where there's pressure from the public for standing up for the national interest remember in the renewal of the conflict back in july when it burst out again there were big demonstrations and who president earlier for not been robust enough and on the other side in armenia the prime minister. knows who to talk to power by the street 2 years ago and if you see not to be robust sticking up for armenian interests he can place protests too so we have a problem that it's not simply politicians playing park games though that's going

on of course but it's also that there is an animosity between 2 groups of christian armenians muslim as there is with this history of conflict which is left bitter attacking islam and large numbers of displaced people living relatively close to where they lived before the fighting began 30 years ago and still if you like i mean each other question. another of the day's headlines stories there coronavirus seems to be tightening its grip on europe with numerous countries not reporting record numbers of dealing infections restrictions and other measures designed to stop the spread of return with more on that here charlotte devinsky. 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 actions taken that is a warning from france's one of france's top doctors the 2nd wave is arriving faster

than we thought in 3 to 4 weeks if nothing changes france will face a widespread outbreak across its whole territory for several long 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 it let's have a look now at some of the latest figures for code 9000 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 $760.00 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 was coming over the weekend many restaurant 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's a bit unclear we don't know if they're supposed to close tonight also we don't understand anything in these accusations goes restaurant owners have just said 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 lives even now they're just taking it so i'm going to stay all going to have to get the owner of this business now the majority of people in france to suppress 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 heightened concern over kobe had 19 madrid of course extended its mini lockdown on friday but the spanish health minister says he won't even tighter restrictions because he would emerge didn't the situation in madrid is complicated with the serious risks tough we're sorting out of recession and what must be done is to concentrate everyone's efforts to protect people's health trouble this is not an ideological battle this is that if you deem a 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 he was we need to listen to science or you can listen to the experts now most of the areas under restriction are around the

madrid and the suburbs are poor areas and that has led to a lot of anger there people describing what's happening as being quasi can find meant now let's move to the u.k. where in some parts of the country to us of areas and now under lockdown and there have been protests held in london over the weekend against the co-creator 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 unless serious efforts are made to stymie the transmission of the virus. you know news no one wanted to hear it we also spoke to an infectious disease expert who believes another foal locked on would not be an effective solution. it's just me isolating and avoiding the transmission of virus by avoiding contact between people is the medical position then 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 to be those on the medical 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. still at a trove of documents appear to show contractors affiliated with the u.k. government were behind a must of propaganda effort in support of syria's opposition we've got that story for you and more after the short. truths seem wrong. but. just don't. let me. get to shape out just to pick up the etiquette and in detroit because the trail.

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if a minutes into the program welcome with global hopes of ending the covert crisis essentially resting on effective vaccines russia's own job is known to advanced stage 3 trials among those taking part are stuff from artie's are a back. that's the theater many try to dissuade me they said and it's not been worth getting vaccinated is the risks are too high however for me the pros and cons copyright people say that you shouldn't be the 1st wait for the fixing to becoming reliable i considered all the possible scenarios that may occur after having the vaccine but 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 all and this way will we be able to overcome a corona virus or. a p.c. . it is necessary that there are people who conduct such experiments and then our listeners so that will move forward towards obtaining the fixing that would be the most reliable for. me so even for it is to take a course in clinical trials which is important to us because this is the 1st vaccine and test the vaccine to make sure it's effective tool but. i fear why maybe i'm a little nervous about it all too much noise due to the pandemic too many people getting sick if more people tell us the vaccine will no faster whether it works or

not. russia was the 1st nation in the world to approve its job ahead of the start of stage 3 mass trials but led to accusations corners were cut a charge though not levelled out the other countries around the world speeding and in the quest to develop a potential cure donald quarter looks a prospect. 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 proving 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 cause 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 fall 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. seem to be. pretty. pretty. there's 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 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. in elections while american pharmaceutical companies donated millions to american elections of course they're 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 bag seen 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 proteus 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 this serum in the 1st place. 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 lake of secret documents obtained unpublished by the activist group anonymous picking up the story this hour the trick. to blog posts with an impressively long list of links we cannot confirm the documents are real but are not 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 a trained and equipped moderate opposition with a polished him. 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 there is now 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 a sad f.s.a. clearly won the media attention pedestal the bike is trying to free syria from the grip of. soldiers pledged to defend the syrian people against the assad regime are poorly armed exhausted but embattled 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 wars 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 to 0 hour a beer b.b.c. arabic aryans t.v. aleppo today syria god and syria shaab since 2012 a mission to turn a group that was why. 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 they 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 the photo measured region of western russia an area around the size of $300.00 football pitches has gone up in flames teens of firefighters struggling to contain the inferno.

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