so you should be seen here and a whole lot more than you're saying if you don't take that advice easy going to dig yourself. decades old territorial conflict between armenia and azerbaijan reignites with both sides blaming each other. reports from the disputed territory. all street lights have to be 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. turkey expresses its support with president. tough stance on the conflict. will continue. to be. immediately.

returned to peace in. the news the west this is getting ever more deeply involved in the political crisis. as the french president meets with the country's example position leader he wants him in the media. and 2020 hopefuls donald trump and joe biden will clash in the 1st presidential debate november's election to voters appear to have trouble telling the policies apart. thanks for joining us this is our senior international. a decades old territorial 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 with both.

armenia and azerbaijan have both declared martial law on reporting creasing civilian and military casualties amid violent clashes the defense ministry of nagorno-karabakh says $84.00 of its soldiers died in battles during the 1st 2 days of the conflict with the latest isn't easy to start. this is the city of step on the 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 smart 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 have been killed here jure in the clashes karma like this is a life and death struggle and we will win it be sure about we are fighting with the turkish azerbaijani foursomes on a large scale war is underway maybe tomorrow and we will have to retreat or launch an offensive we must be prepared when difficult as our long to still if he's got both menial leaders and the as there by john the leaders have been blaming each. other for the escalation for instigating this conflict 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 and going to car back is one of several border disputes left over from the collapse of the soviet union the republic seceded from azerbaijan in 1908 and declared itself independent however the enclave predominantly populated by armenians is not widely recognized as an independent state meanwhile journalists from international media organizations are waiting for permission to enter and report from john among them our correspondent in iraq as the who'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 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 as ever john has released a new video showing many soldiers of the god 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 says this huge chorus 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. i once again condemn a 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 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 1993 un resolution regarding the garlic about which recognized many parts of it is occupied by army and forces and i live has said that that is the only way for armenian soldiers and they got to care about the breakaway states forces to to withdraw and to give up control over the area to to is there by john 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 hostilities fortunately it ended in a matter of days 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. and summers

a writer and 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 it goes back to the ninety's initially and also of course to the drawing a boundary 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 base of the party as long as people aren't being killed and 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 scatting ever more involved in the internal affairs and by the roots french president among in micron is currently meeting with by the russian opposition leaders from limiting an oscar press office says that she will discuss holding new elections in her country i think reports. she's there in imposed self-imposed exile and he is there visiting the country we know that she has called for emanuel much to be a mediator with belarusian president alexander lukashenko this is what she had to say that we need to this 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 this of course follows the disputed elections in belarus that have seen widespread process as a result of that now the question is is president back on the right person to act as a mediator here a mediator needs to be unbiased and president michel has made his views about the belarusian president plainly clear he has talked about on the one hand there not being any foreign interference in belarus and on the other hand he has said that he supports sanctions against the country. our position is very clear we do not recognize the election of president looks shango and therefore we don't recognize his status as president elect me as soon as possible i hope we can take the necessary sanctions but also to reengage in indispensable mediation russia for

its part has supported the new term that he has taken president putin has talked about the fact that the opposition in belarus have a dismissed any idea of the proposed reforms that have been put forward you for its part doesn't support president lukashenko it described his inauguration which took place recently as lacking any democratic legitimacy it's also described the protesters out on streets as having courage. and it's called for fresh elections now present back on has said presently has to go but president has hit back at that saying if that is the logic the president back on has that he perhaps should have stepped down during the yellow vests protests what is happening in baton rouge is a power crisis and or storage cerium power that can accept the logic of democracy which is hanging on by force it is clear look to shanghai 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 to course has been enjoying support from western leaders and all of that comes as e.u. leaders do to meet later this week where they will discuss what's happening in belarus and they are also possible sanctions against the country in the mix. it is round what the u.s. presidential debates coming up on tuesday night the 2 main heavyweight candidates will clash over a number of issues and while the performance will be hampered somewhat by new code rules there's been plenty of trash talking going into the fight him organize the build up. 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. 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 cools 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 murder ball 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 but can anyone really tell the difference between the 2 major candidates. probably the truth is very. young but really. i'd say by the end i'm going to say don trump but it could be biden. it seems to me to be. 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. and i can t.v. host and journalist larry king says the debates who might little difference to what

people think. it's impossible to pick a winner and 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 press him the members of the day to day about his income tax was the aggressor let's see how aggressive he is this is not a real debate in that each side i go 3 minutes you go to 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 and nixon debate in 1960 the 1st televised debate and i heard that debate on the radio and i thought nixon won the debate but if yes sort on television everybody was selling wow it's you see that nixon look gray kennedy looks strong so

a lot of this depends on how you look i don't think the public watches this open mind you if you have a biden you have for biden tonight tomorrow and if your from your for trump how many people are undecided now that's a question political pundits have asked for yes i know of no one undecided in this race so 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 there are a wash so we'll see what we shall see. ok more news coming up for you after this short break.

you know back in 2008 when the have a global financial crisis and banks when other lehman brothers bear stearns and some european banks are going to go under that all of meetings all the weekend long and the policy was not to reform banks but to give them a bigger credit line 1020 times bigger at the time we said you know what in 10 or 12 years. going to happen but a lot bigger where we are 12 years later. seemed wrong. just don't hold. anything. to shape out. and engage equals betrayal. when something find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground.

and. this year has be monks anti police protests in the united states new data from the new york police department shows that so far this year more than 7 and a half 1000 officers have been injured while on duty almost 50 percent increase compared with the same period last year and if the injuries were sustained during this summer's brutality protests police unions are pointing the finger at politicians. the chaos that politicians are encouraging on the street is putting cops in hospitals every new york at least ours their elected officials how cops can protect them when we can barely protect ourselves. and one of the more bloody incidents new york city police department officer richard mack was attacked by

protesters on brooklyn bridge in july it required emergency ice surgery after suffering blows to the head in another case another officer was attacked by a hidden run driver in june in the bronx and also in june a mullet of cocktails thrown at an n.y.p.d. vehicle nationwide protests 1st gripped the us in may over the police killing of george floyd all over the summer there were frequent violent clashes between black lives matter protesters and offices see pumper a member of the national police association also blames elected officials for the spike in injuries incurred in the line of g.t. . obviously the increase in the riots that many occurring across america have definitely increase the odds of a police officer getting injured and then the black of consequences for people attacking police officers there essentially many of them are getting away with it part of the problem is that we have you know governors mayors 2 city leaders county leaders who are essentially ordering officers not to enforce the law or they're

implicitly setting the situation where officers don't enforce the law or because no charges are going to be brought against you know the people they arrest you know you're just going to have that cycle of violence because the officers are not the they're not equipped to be able to stop the violence they don't have the authority to do it unless the leadership gives it to them and so when you have something like this though it's give somebody you know a jumping off point to go and decide that every police department in america is you know needs to be reformed i don't know of another occupation where somebody makes a mistake or does something outwardly you're wrong and they don't want to change the entire institution i remember last time you know it teacher did something wrong they wanted to you know reform teaching in america and seen that. an advanced propaganda infrastructure designed to promote support for the syrian opposition was that it led to be created with the help of u.k. government contract this is the claim being made following

a huge leak of secret documents obtained and published by the activist group anonymous auntie said to trying to house 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 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 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 sat f.s.a. clearly won the media attention pedestal the bike is trying to free syria from the grip of the 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 arabic 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 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.

the u.s. has rebuke to the e.u. and is top diplomats chose a barrelled for acting alone in venezuela without the approval of the blocks cross the atlantic. this will make relations with the e.u. bureaucracy more difficult it's not useful to have barrels office working on its own is fair to call it cowboy diplomacy. well earlier the e.u. sent a mission to venezuela ahead of its legislative elections in december the country's opposition leader wang why don't call for a boycott claiming that it will be rigged in favor of the current ruling party bloc 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. when as well as in a political impasse with 2 politicians scrambling for control 2 years ago a controversial presidential vote resulted in the reelection of nicolas maduro and then suing nationwide protests the opposition leader won by doa accuse him of

rigging the election and declared himself the interim head of state more than 50 countries including the u.s. and most of europe recognized by doe as the legitimate venezuelan leader or shins and also slap sanctions on the media administration were correct a bribe or 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 surprised seeing considering. the plumber see of the united states there are even in the past few years weak shoals of chorus of the negative response of the united states with regards to the possibility of opening a dialogue it's kind of like a leg on more of that that shows sometimes but wait who will only establish that there are rules that they are willing to to follow and everybody thought so definitely i don't believe that the approach that right now

being taken by the us government it's the appropriate one i believe that dialogue the best way to deal with us he'd ration like that one that venezuela has there is a possibility there that there will be protests after after this election but at the same time right now the government does not run stronger than the us in 2080. ok let's wrap things up with some news in brief for you and on monday hundreds flooded the greek cities of tests along nick enough sense to protest against u.s. secretary of state might visit and go into the country to discuss tensions between greece and turkey over only g rights in the eastern mediterranean and pose expected to head to rome on wednesday as part of a 5 day tour across europe. 3 people have died in wildfires in northern california where a number of counties of declared a state of emergency in 7 thousands of homes as flames are spread rapidly across the region. that is your latest new so stay with r.t.

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