it was. a decades old territorial conflicts bursts back into life between armenia and azerbaijan with both sides blaming each other. not just covert infection rates that are rising again in europe and that is on the other was well with people frustrated to see the return of restrictions. i thank these accusations kuchma strong journalist i have to stop it's my life's even now they're just taking it so i'm going to steal him. i'm glad he stopped it on the 1st foreigners in russia to take the country's new anti tobit job passes the vaccine undergoes advanced stage 3 testing.

to. a very warm welcome to you watching r.t. international with me nicky aaron. now a decade's old dispute off the caspian sea has seen one of its most serious flare ups since a truce back in 1904 violence erupted between the nations of armenia and azerbaijan on sunday morning which both lay claims to the new golden oak our back region clashes reportedly left more than 50 dead as the territorial and ethnic confrontation again turned bloody.

i was. on his. on off on the disputed nagorno-karabakh region with the latest. this is the city of step on the capital of the disputed nagorno-karabakh autonomy and well we are 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 while we lost count on 25 it was simply too many that as 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 jure in 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 are very menial have shelled our settlements as well as our military positions from several directions. at present the other by joining armies firing and the enemy's military position 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 correspondent mind was among the journalists unable to reach azerbaijan he's currently in turkey. well there's been a problem with gaining entry to as it were 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 are the mergence of that has been declared in azerbaijan's and we may see

a reversal a reversal and we're hoping for to be able to gain entry and gain a permit accreditation to work in azerbaijan otherwise there has been another day of escalation many more dead reported on both sides the latest is that our john has released a new video showing many soldiers of the god knickerbocker and armenian apparently armenian 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 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 option. noticeably missing from from this this huge course is turkey where we are now president edouard has taken a very hard line on the conflict and he has through his support even behind the as that of a johnny side. john to a friend 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 leave 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 and said that there that is the only way for the armenian soldiers and the go to cut about the breakaway states force us to to withdraw and to give up control over the area to 2 is headed by john this is an ancient conflict that 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 mark arlen's believes public sentiment within both countries could have played a part in this 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 about who tell him the president earlier has not been robust enough and on the other side of armenia the prime minister of russia now knows who to call to power the street 2 years ago and he seemed not to be robust sticking up for your interests he can place protests too so we have a problem that it's not simply politicians playing power games that's going on of course but it's also that there is an animosity between 2 groups of christian armenians muslims as there is with this history of conflict which has 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. securing a virus seems to be tightening its grip on europe with the numerous countries now reporting record numbers of daily infections restrictions and other measures designed to stop the spread have returned to with more on that a solid to ski. 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 will for you so widespread outbreak across his whole territory for several autumn and winter months well 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 for code 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 marsay which saw new descriptions come in 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 do know they're supposed to close tonight or tomorrow we don't understand anything in these accusations goes restaurant owners have just gone they've made a big. sacrifices everything they needed to do. i'm going to stay open i 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 stay all going to have the keys and i'm 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 it spain where there is also concern. teen madrid of course extended its many lockdown froid day but the spanish health minister says he won't even tighter restrictions because. the situation in madrid is complicated with the serious risks tough weeks are had and what must be done is to concentrate everyone's severance to protect people's health doubled this is not an ideological battle this is that if you do me a logical battle against a virus and we know how to do this because we didn't once before all efforts need to know you concentrated on that he was we need to listen to science so you can listen to the experts know most of the areas under restriction 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

mint now lets move to the u.k. where in some parts of the country. of areas and lock down 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. he. was he was going to how he was extra all of this comes as the world health organization is predicting that deaths

from covert going 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 we spoke to an infectious disease expert who believes another full lockdown would not be an effective solution. it's just mean isolating and avoiding the transmission the 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 lock 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. a

try the documents appear to show contractors affiliated with the u.k. government were behind us if propaganda efforts in support of syria's opposition story and more coming up after the break.

the election only weeks away should the trying to diminish regime 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 to avenge its defeat in syria. welcome back with global hopes of ending the covert crisis essentially resting on effective vaccines that russia's own job is now into advanced stage 3 trials among those taken paula a star from artie's arabic and spanish channels. that's

easy to many try to dissuade me they said and it's not worth getting vaccinated against the risks are too hard however for me the pros and cons here people who say that you shouldn't be defers to 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. and. i decided to get vaccinated because i see that the world has changed after the throne of virus antibodies will arise through the vaccine and only in this way will we be able to overcome the corona virus. easy. it is necessary that there are people who conduct such experiments and know

their losses so that will move forward towards obtaining the fix soon that would be the most reliable form. of misleading for it is to take a course 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 because. if you get it. 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 know 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 months trials when i led to accusations quarter as well cut

a charge though not less all that the other countries around the world speeding ahead in the quest to develop a potential cure for old quarter looks at that aspect. 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 and 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 phase 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. elections well while american pharmaceutical companies donated millions to american elections of course they're going to be done to favor american pharmaceutical companies those people while auctions in america the only way to get politics out of medicine is to get government out of medicine and americans and american patient want 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. in advance propaganda infrastructure designed to promote support for the syrian opposition was allegedly created with the help of u.k. government contractors that's the claim being made following a huge leak of secret documents obtained and published by the activist group anonymous if you are trying to fix up the story. 2 blog posts with an impressively long list of links we cannot confirm the documents are real but i don't want to miss 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 plan 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 the. 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. ors 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 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 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 turn 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 in 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 that garage and as region of western russia an area the size of 300 football pitches has gone up in flames with teams of firefighters struggling to contain the inferno.

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it. hello and welcome across town where all things are considered on people about 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 horn policy blob 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 tell me.