decades old territorial conflict between armenia and azerbaijan reignites with both sides blaming each other. the disputed territory of. street lights have been switched off it is a disguised tactic a smog blackout if i may say so and it is done to make this place more difficult. meanwhile turkey expresses support for. president. hardline on the conflict. will continue just. by all means an. immediate. region will return to peace and. the west is getting ever more deeply involved in

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dispute has seen its most serious flare up since a truce was established back in 1904 violence erupted between the nations of armenia and azerbaijan on sunday morning which both lay claim. the nagorno-karabakh region. i mean enough by john declared martial law reporting creasing civilian and military casualties amid violent clashes defense ministry of no go in a car box says that 84 of its soldiers died in battles during the 1st 2 days of the conflict with the latest is out he's a guest on. 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 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 armenian leaders and the as there by john the leaders have been blaming each other for the escalation for instigating this conflict have a listen the armed forces are very menial have shelled our settlements as well as our military positions from several directions. present the other by joining the army is firing at the enemy's military positions most of their equipment has been destroyed i mean it 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 amity and hatred with which the as it johnny dictatorship finished people for many decades cannot 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 well we will be staying here bringing you all the latest including from the front lines meanwhile journalists from international media organizations are waiting for permission to enter and report from john among them our correspondent ragas dear 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 them urgency that has been declared in azerbaijan's and we may see a reversal a reversal it we are 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 rajon has released a new video showing many soldiers of the gold knickerbocker and union apparently armenian soldiers killed in the action the day's action there we will succeed of course many videos and photos that 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 videos being posted many

many fake news stories as well nevertheless there's been a growing chorus an international chorus cooling the both sides to cease hostilities of 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 unity of option noticeably missing from from these these huge course is turkey where we are now president edouard has taken a very hard line on the conflict and he has thrown his support in behind the as that of a johnny side. azerbaijan talking once again condemn our media who attacked the soil on sunday turkey will continue to stand by its 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 karabakh. immediately leave the

territory it is occupying the region will return to peace and harmony the president said about john leave has said that the only way forward is to ease by the 9093 un resolution regarding the garlic about which recognized many parts of it is occupied by force as a lever said that that is the only way for armenian soldiers and their god to care about the breakaway states force us to to withdraw and to give up control over the area to to is there a budget this is an ancient conflict there has been much blood spilled in this in these war and i was there in 2016 when there was another flare up another escalation of the hostilities fortunately it ended in a matter of days but but it was again brutal judging by what i've seen so far the footage that we've seen the casualty lists reported by both sides this is even

worse than what happened when we were there in 2016. going to kind of dark is a landlocked region in the south caucasus most of the territory is governed by the nagorno-karabakh republican a de facto independent state however the republicans not widely recognized going to the banks one of several border disputes left over from the collapse of the soviet union the republic seceded from azerbaijan in 1988 and declared itself independence this was followed by a bitter war 'd in 1992 to 94 the enclave is predominately populated by armenians martin some is a writer an independent journalist told us more about the underlying reasons behind the conflict. doesn't sound from the rhetoric that's coming out of either side that either side are particularly keen to talk. and you know this would be a problematic conflict even without outside forces potentially being drawn in

on both sides the escalation we're seeing today is a bit of a mystery because it seems sort of blown up out of a blue sky but they'll see the conflict itself goes back to the ninety's initially and also of course to the drawing a bone drees between azerbaijan and elmina during the soviet period and previously what you had in this situation is a situation where nagorno-karabakh was effectively the independence of azerbaijan armenia obviously help their fellow citizens as they saw as in a goal of karabakh during the conflict in the ninety's even if you can't come to a final conclusion about who who gets what bit of the party as long as people aren't being killed then that's that's good and you know for many years that has been the case here and certainly no longer the case. the use getting ever more involved in the internal affairs of belarus on tuesday french president emanuel micron will meet with by the russian opposition leaders for lana to can

osca and if she'd asked him to act as mediator in her country's ongoing political crisis micron's already repeatedly spoken out against the current by the russian president alexander lukashenko. more about this from our past based correspondent on a dubious key for good morning is there any suggestion up to this point of what they're hoping to agree with this encounter. well we know that macron will. affect lerner taken off sky in the lithuanian capital where he's currently visiting and she is in self imposed exile we know that she has called for president mack want to be a mediator with the belarusian president alexander lukashenko this is what she has had to say. we need these mediators now and maybe mr mccraw along with other countries with the leaders of other contras can. be

there or this mediators in starting off for so many and maybe he would be able to influence mr putin to participate in this mediators because i know that as i have heard the. relationships so this comes of course off the back of those disputed elections that took place which have ignited widespread protests protests that she helped herself to spark off now the question is is president back on the right person to be a mediator in this situation a mediator needs to be somebody who is biased and we have heard president macaroons views on this subject he has talked about the desire to not have any foreign interference in belarus and he has said that he backs european sanctions against the country. opposition is very clear we do not recognize the

election of president looking. and therefore we don't recognize his status as president. that is soon as possible i hope we can take the necessary sanctions on but also reengage in indispensable mediation. well there are divergent opinions over what's happening in belarus russia for example backs the term of president. and president putin himself has said that opposition does have a central dismiss the reforms that have been laid out and suggested now the e.u. for its part doesn't back the president it's described his inauguration which took place recently as being lacking any democratic legitimacy it's also described the protesters who've been out on the streets protesting against his new presidential term as having courage and it's called for fresh elections and as

you heard there also present makan saying that we've asked to go now in response to that president lukashenko has said well if that's the logic the president back on has then perhaps he should resign during the yellow vest protests. what is happening in baton rouge is a power crisis a north or a cerium power that can accept the logic of democracy which is hanging on by force it is clear has to leave. based on the principles of mr macro himself following his own logic he should have resigned 2 years ago when the yellow vests started to appear on the streets of paris as an experienced politician to an immature one i want to advise mr macron to look around less and instead finally deal with the internal affairs of france. so specked lerner taken off sky and present macron will meet on tuesday now it is worth noting that despite the fact she has

describing herself as a national leader in that disputed election she gained around 10 percent of the vote we also know that meeting comes in the mix as e.u. leaders it due to meet later this week where they are due to discuss possible sanctions against paris and he thanks report there from our correspondent parish dubin school. now let's move on tonight estates where it is round one of the presidential debates on tuesday nights the 2 main heavyweight candidates will be clashing over a number of issues and while their performance will be somewhat by new code rules as in plenty of trash talking head of the fight killer morgan has the build. in the year of covidien out with the old and in with the new when it comes to presidential debates there will be no handshake between the 2 candidates there will be no live audience there will just be 2 presidential contenders going head to head in front of t.v. cameras but aside from the staging everything looks to be pretty normal donald

trump is revving up his old insult comedy routine accusing joe biden of having poor mental health and being doped up i would be strongly demanding a drug test of sleepy joe biden prior to off to the debate on tuesday night naturally only agreed to take one also his debate performances have been record setting uneven to put it mildly only drugs could have caused this discrepancy now the biden camp is taking down old trump quite literally and demanding a drug test meanwhile biden is certainly not short of a bargain or 2 he has just compared donald trump to hitler's chief propagandist you know he says sort of like goebbels you say is a lie long enough keep repeating repeating repeating it becomes common knowledge when it comes to trading blows in the debates biden hopes they will be verbal rather than physical at least this time now the 1st debate is going to cover just a few major issues you've got coded the u.s.

supreme court racism violence and election integrity can anyone really tell the difference between the 2 major candidates. probably think trump is very. young but really. i'd say 5. i'm going to say don trump but it could be biden. it seems to me to look. no. no no no. it's not on the. job are you just crushing polls show biden has a pretty solid lead over donald trump however there's still over

a month laughs before the final vote however some media outlets have already called and said there's really no point in even having debates he and his henchmen are a danger with their comments on a danger to our democracy so i don't want to give him you know why bother. you know he doesn't tell the truth he isn't committed to our constitution presidential debates are a kind of american tradition now at this point it's pretty unlikely that the millions of viewers will learn anything new other than some nasty nicknames or a one liner jabs but that won't stop millions from tuning in. art see new york meanwhile american t.v. host and journalist larry king thinks the whole event is a false it's impossible to pick a winner in debate i do not think that joe biden and biden will fare poorly i think trump is making a mistake by thinking that all he has to do is just go into the arena and he wins the that's not the way it works biden will surely freshen the members of the day

today about his income tax is the aggressor let's see how aggressive he is this is not a real debate in that each side i go 3 minutes you both 2 minutes i get one minute you get one minute nobody fact checks as to who's telling the truth and who's not. but it is what it is i remember the kennedy nixon 1st kennedy nixon debate in 1960 the 1st televised debate and i heard that the debate on the radio and i thought nixon won the debate but if your sword on television everybody was selling why did you see that nixon look gray kennedy look strong so a lot of this depends on how you look i don't think the public watches this open mind you if you're for biden you're for biden tonight tomorrow and if you're for trump you're for trump how many people are undecided now that's

a question political pundits have asked for years i know of no one undecided in this race sure i think they'll be a tremendous audience for this debate now how much will it count they'll be polling the next couple days as a vice presidential debate coming in the end i don't think they matter very much i think they're a wash so we'll see what we shall see and thing with our team when he's coming your way after this short break. the world is driven by a dream shaped by one person or those great. dares

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welcome back to the united states has rebuked the rippin union and is top diplomats jews a bureau for acting alone in venezuela without the approval of the blocs ally across the atlantic. this will make relations with the e.u. bureaucracy more difficult it's not useful to have burrell's office working on its own it's fair to call it cowboy diplomacy. sent a mission to venezuela ahead of its legislative elections in december the country's opposition leader one goal i don't call for a boycott claiming it would be rigged in favor of the current ruling party want hopes to provide minimum democratic conditions during the vote. we believe there is a window of opportunity to support a peaceful and democratic transition in venezuela venezuela is in a political impasse 2 politicians scrambling for control 2 years ago a controversial presidential vote resulted in the reelection of nicolas maduro and

then suing nationwide protests opposition leader one good idea accused him of rigging the election and declared himself the interim head of state would 50 countries including the u.s. and most of the european nations recognized as the legitimate venezuelan leader washington also slap sanctions on them of their administration go to look for an associate professor from george mason university says that the latest u.s. criticism of the shows that it wants to be in charge of the global agenda. it is not surprising considering. the diplomacy of the united states there are in the past few years shows of chorus of the the negative response of the united states with regards to the possibility of opening a dialogue it's kind of like like a morgue there that shows some type of way to on the established that there are rules that they are willing to follow and everybody

thought so definitely i don't believe that their approach that right now being taken by the u.s. government it's the appropriate law and i believe that dialogue the best way to deal with it he do ation like the one that venezuela has there's a possibility that that there will be protest after after this election but at the same time right now the government does not run stronger that it wasn't 2080. and advance the propaganda infrastructure designed to promote support for the syrian opposition was allegedly created with the help of u.k. government contractors the claim being made following a huge leak of secret documents obtained and published by the activist group anonymous what is it a trying to pick up story. 2 blog posts with an impressively long list of links we cannot confirm the documents are real but i know 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 bitters 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 in the free syrian army within syria and among the international community remember how at one point in the civil war the anti sat 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 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 war. 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 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 bonus region of western russia an area the size of $300.00 football pitches is going up in flames the teams of firefighters struggling to contain the infinite.

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