a decades old territorial conflict between. reignites with both sides blaming each other. reports from the disputed territory of. streetlights have been switched off it is a disguised tactic a smart blackout if i may say so and it is done to make this place more difficult. in the meantime turkey expressed his support for president one adopting a tougher stance on the conflict. will continue. to be. immediately. the region will return to peace in.

the west is getting ever more deeply involved in the political crisis gripping the french president meets with the country's exiled opposition leader and agreeing to mediate a negotiations. for 2020 hopefuls joe biden will clash in the 1st presidential debate before november's election but voters appear to have trouble telling their policies apart. it is just past midday here in moscow this is r.t. thanks for joining us. a decades old territorial dispute has seen its most serious flare up since a truce was established in 1904 violence erupted between the nations of armenia and azerbaijan on sunday morning with both laying claim to the nagorno-karabakh region .

reports are now coming in from the disputed area about as strikes being carried out that r.t. correspondent is star nothing scarily in the capital of the ground a kind of tells us that air raid sirens have been heard across the city locals have also been advised to take cover in basements is the latest on the situation. instapundit the capital of the disputed nagorno-karabakh region this morning began with the sounds of explosions and air raid sirens an unmanned drone was shot down we saw the famed smoke above the mountains which are right behind me the military has told me it was a small drone but size is not of the essence here apparently such small you avi's are actually even deadlier than the large ones because they are designed to specifically eliminate large groups of people they're designed to target personnel not vehicles or machines that's how yet another day of brutal fighting begins here

in the go in a cab back there are no signs that the intensity of this fighting is receding on the contrary the armenian defense ministry has said that its army base in armenia on armenian soil came under the attack of the azerbaijani forces if this is indeed true this would mean that this conflict has spilled beyond the borders of this disputed region and now in tangles armenia directly and this could be the beginning of the escalation of this conflict into an even larger and more deadly war fighting in nagorno-karabakh has been escalating with both sides reporting increasing civilian and military casualties amid violent clashes.

i'm going to kind of box 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 but the enclave predominantly populated by armenians is not widely recognized as an independent state. journals from international media organizations are waiting for permission to enter a report from azerbaijan among them a correspondent brought against the who is 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 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 is that rajon 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 it 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 of both sides to cease hostilities if 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 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 his support. behind the set about johnny side. by jon talk 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 forces and i live has said that that is the only way for armenian soldiers and the god to care about the breakaway states force us 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 the hostilities fortunately it's 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. months and some as 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 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 of bone drees between azerbaijan and el mania 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 pie 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. here is getting ever more involved in the internal affairs of belarus france's president among you micron assessment with the valid russian opposition leaders from manotick an oscar i think shiela do basically has more. well it's understood during that meeting which took place in the lithuanian capital that land there to fend off sky asked for support for fresh presidential elections in belarus and she asked for united european support for change in the country now following the meeting she said that france's president had agreed to help you promise to every of you to help us with negotiations you're in this political crisis in our country and he will do everything to help us to secure the release of all political prisoners well this of course follows a disputed presidential elections in belarus which have seemed widespread protests in the weeks following that some say that she was the spark behind some of those

protests there will be a question if perhaps president macron is the right person to mediate in this situation given that he has made his views about belarusian president alexander. very well known and on the one hand president machen has talked about the fact he doesn't want to see foreign interference in belarus on the other hand he says he has supported or does support the idea of sanctions on the country. opposition is very clear that we do not recognize the election of president look at showing cairo and therefore we don't recognize his status as president elect. as soon as possible and i hope we can take the necessary sanctions but also reading gaijin indispensable mediation there are diverging opinions on what's happening in belarus for example russia has given its backing to the new term of. president putin saying

that the changes that have been put forward to the constitution reforms in the future have been outright rejected by opposition leaders the e.u. meanwhile says it doesn't support what's happening in valerie's it in fact called the inauguration of president lukashenko. being something that was lacking any democratic legitimacy it's also described the protesters out on the streets as being brave didn't it to have suggested that it wants fresh elections now present matt corn has said president lukashenko must go he's been pretty clear about that but presently she has hit back saying if that is president michael's logic then perhaps he too should have stepped down during the yellow vests protests what is happening in baton rouge is a power crisis and not 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 well that meeting comes just ahead of e.u. leaders who are also due to meet where the topic of belarus is expected to be high up on the agenda with leaders discussing possible sanctions against the country. i can speak now with independent journalist lucre very good morning luke i'm on your mark promised promise that you'll help in negotiations between cannot scar and the bellows or thor it is but walk among offer in any negotiation what we bring to the table. that's a good question and it cannot be the mediator off to what he said enough to what the european commission said it was quite secure but the commission has said of

course they don't recognize lucas shrink oh fine by that was to be expected and they and visit sections they sanctions cannot be that numerous it will be against individuals and probably they will refuse some below to the country to this can only occur to some people so that they don't have much in their arsenal to true or counter a location call being designated for a new term so another point is that for example in prague. people wonder why mature michael has not found one word for the people who were nearly killed by a stop me islamists to we tried to kill them in front of the offices the former offices of the newspaper were able stop it you know the islamists attacks it paris it cannot all shanae it didn't say a word about that but it was very busy with the level of what he also tries to be

a mediator and it doesn't work there either because he has found a diplomat who could be the prime minister of a very nice person but this man just yesterday he said i cannot form a government i cannot find anybody to work with me so what is your call going to do now in lebanon he has solved being very strong willed and strong minded and said strong words but nothing happens so it's even worse for him in the borough situation it don't do anything economic say anything it cannot mediate since he said should be left alone so probably the situation will remain the same and europe will reduce complaints and support misses the kind of scale throat and her friends and with the rain and. coming years as a government in exile support and if you look at shank you see this man coming

towards you who has already said that he doesn't think you should be in power that you don't deserve to be there but he's saying he's going to try and mediate also micron said that you believe there should be any outside interference yet at the same time he's saying that there should be sanctions so clearly he's trying to interfere is look it's not just going to see michael as a hypocrite. yes i mean mr look it. can be wrong when he when he pinpoints a few things that are yellow present trends in other things you know it's. michael cannot play this role of mediator there should be somebody to mediate if any who is respected by all parties including mr sorry to say including my moscow of course so far mediating is something that you cannot do from a position where he stands now having after having taken a strong position in support of the opposition. mediate anymore so i don't see anything happening on the side of europe in brussels or in paris except

01 mr michael will call president putin at his request as he did in the past already to discuss any will get the same answers and you've got to not in or own country unable to influence from where she is trying to depose a leader look at who's now been sworn by kid. how does she have any power where she is unless she can get some kind of outside assistance and if it isn't who will help . it's indeed a very grave question the opposition has not many say a peaceful weapons said to us at its discretion now there will be a few tense a few hundreds of opposition figures in news for 40 years i'm afraid before anything happens because i don't see in the present situation today i don't see the

organizing new free and fair elections it's true that the last elections would not free and fair but what can happen now it's difficult to say and and very probably the situation will be stall you know everything is stalled to 2 positions that were to be expected from moscow from the european union and within the question what your position is lanvin has and there for a long time luke many things feeds on why i guess the groovy independent. ok thanks staying with still to come after a summer of brutality protest in the united states new figures released by the new york police department a veil has been a staple rise in line of duty injuries we'll bring you all the details on that story to the back.

as election day approaches there are growing concerns whether the outcome will be contested whether the election will be an agenda that we are told this election truly matters we're always told this however this time around there's a different feel there's an existential just election how many voters will say not my president after november 3rd.

welcome back it is round one of the u.s. presidential debates coming up on tuesday night the 2 main heavyweight candidates will clash over several issues and while their performance will be hampered somewhat by the new covert rules there has been plenty of trash talking going into this fight on the scale of morgan has 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 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 and even to put it mildly only drugs could have coolest 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 that 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 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 be by. no. no no no. 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. you want us 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 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 go 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 mixer 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 you're sore on television everybody was so on meanwhile 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 have a by your for biden tonight and if your for from your 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 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 they're a wash so we'll see what we shall see. the work of police officers in the u.s. is getting more dangerous according to the new york police department more than 7 and a half 1000 officers have been injured in the line of duty this year alone that's an almost 50 percent increase compared to the same period last year many of the injuries were sustained during this summer's and he caught brutality protests police unions are pointing the finger at politicians. the chaos that politicians are encouraging on the streets is putting cops in hospitals every new york and he

starts their elected officials how cops can protect them when we can barely protect ourselves. one of the more bloody incidents in new york police officer richard mack was attacked by protesters on the brooklyn bridge in july he replied emergency eye surgery following blows to the head in another case in june an officer in the bronx was the victim of a hit and run attack also in june miles of content was thrown at an n.y.p.d. vehicle. nationwide protests has gripped the us mikey may over the police killing of george floyd of the sum of there were frequent violent clashes between black lives month to practice does an emphasis see pump a member of the national police association also blames elected officials for the spike in injuries incurred in the line of duty. obviously the increase in the riots that many occurring across america have definitely increased the odds of a police officer getting injured and then the lack 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 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 was the leadership gives it to them and so when you have something like this though it's 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 something outwardly you know 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. finally some news

in brief for you on monday hundreds flooded the greek cities of to salonica nothing's to protest against us to state money from players who's in the country to discuss tensions between us and king of the and if you balance an eastern mediterranean pay it was expected to head to rome wednesday as part of a 5 day tour across europe. but 3 people have died in wildfires in northern california a number of counties of the state of emergency and 70000 to flood this flame spread rapidly. hundreds of people taking to the streets of mexico city demanding the decriminalisation of abortion. police republic. international safe.

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