decades old territorial conflict between armenia and azerbaijan reignites with both sides blaming each other. in malta he expressed his support for the president on the dropping a tough stance on the conflict. will continue. by all means. immediately leave the territory in the region will return to. the west is getting ever more deeply involved in the political crisis gripping as the french president meets with the country's exiled opposition leader and the greece to mediate in negotiations. 2020 hopefuls donald trump and joe biden will clash in the 1st presidential debates prachi november's election voters though

appeared to have trouble telling policies a part. of the watching all to international 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 the lying claim to the no go. reports are now coming in from the disputed area about strikes being carried out to correspond i think a standoff use currently in the capital of going to calabar tells us that air raid sirens have been heard across the city locals have also been advised to take cover in basements here's 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 and 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 and going to car park 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. while germans from international media organizations are waiting for permission to enter and report from as a by sean among them our correspondent ryan gets 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 what saddam 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 is that rajon 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 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 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 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 in behind the as that of a johnny side. john to provide once again condemn a media who attacked 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 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 the go 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 the 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 martin sum 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 or 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 golden 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 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. the news getting ever more involved in the internal affairs in belarus trying to present among micron has met with the ballarat and opposition leaders from manotick and off and promised to help her i think as more from paris. well it's understood during that meeting which took place in the lithuanian capital that svetlana 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 viewer 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. our position is very clear we do not recognize the election of president looking showing to go and therefore we don't recognize his status as president elect. as soon as possible i hope we can take the necessary sanctions but also reengage in 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 has 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 president matt corn has said president lukashenko must go he's been pretty clear about that but president 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 or

a terry in power that can accept the logic of democracy which is hanging on by force it is clear look if shankar 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 affronts 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. well after the meetings for lana taken off scott also said she'd accepted an invitation to speak in the french parliament an independent journalist who grieve a downs where the micron is the right person for the job of mediator. assume michael cannot play the role of mediator there should be somebody to mediate if any

respect by all parties including mr question sorry to say so 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. caught mediate anymore so i don't see anything happening on the side of europe in brussels or in paris so probably the situation will remain the same and europe will reduce its complaints and support this is the kind of scale for him and her friends in the forenoon for the coming years as a government in exile. and surround one of the us presidential debates on tuesday night the 2 main heavyweight candidates they'll be clashing over a number of issues while the forms will be hampered somewhat by new coded rules is the lid plenty of trash talking in the build up to the fight skill morgan explains

. 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 job i didn't pry it too often 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 of course this discrepancy now the biden camp is taking down a lot from 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 it's 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 but can anyone really tell the difference between the 2 major candidates. probably the truth 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 true. no. no no no. it's not on the. job are you just crushing reading 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 i mean 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

us t.v. host and journalist larry king says the debates will make little difference though 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 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 you're sort on television everybody was so on meanwhile

that 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. by your foot biden tonight and if you are from your foot 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. so they come through a summer of anti cult brutality protests in the u.s. the biggest release by the new york police department revealed has been a steep rise in line of duty injuries more on that the bridge.

as election day approaches there are growing concerns whether the no come will be contested whether the election will be. we're told this election truly matters we're always told this however this time around there's a different feel there's an existential disaffection many voters will say not my president. shaped.

the bears thinks. we should ask. welcome back the work of police officers in the us is getting more dangerous go into the new york police department more than 7 and a half 1000 officers have been injured in the line of duty just this year and increase of almost 50 percent when compared with the same period last year many of the injuries were sustained during the summer brutality protests and police unions are pointing the finger of blame 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 in one of the more bloody incidents a number of police officers were attacked by protesters on the brooklyn bridge in july on required emergency ice surgery after suffering blows to the head in the now the case in june an officer in the bronx was the victim of a hit and run attack also in june a mullet of cocktail was thrown at an n.y.p.d. vehicle. nationwide protests 1st gripped the us back in may over the police killing of george floyd over the some of the frequent violent clashes between black lives mounted 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 duty. obviously the increase in the riots that have been occurring across america have deftly 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 city leaders county 3 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 give somebody you know a jumping off point to go and decide that every police department in america is you know these 3 reform i don't know of another occupation where somebody makes a mistake or does 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 seeing that. the u.s.

has rebuked the e.u. and its top diplomats to use a barrel for acting alone in venezuela without the approval of the blokes 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 is fair to call it cowboy diplomacy earlier the center mission to venezuela ahead of its legislative elections in december the country's opposition leader wang why don't call for a boycott rigged in favor of the current ruling party bloc hopes to provide minimum democratic conditions for the vote. we believe there is a window of opportunity to support a peaceful and democratic transition in venezuela from 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 in suing nationwide protests opposition leader go i don't accuse them of rigging

the election and declared himself interim head of state or than 50 countries including the u.s. and most of europe recognized as the legitimate venezuelan leader washington also slap sanctions on the madeira administration or look korea cabrera an associate professor at george mason university says that the latest u.s. criticism of the e.u. shows that it wants to be in charge of the global agenda. it is not surprised to see in considering a career in the diplomacy of the united states there are even in the past few years weak shows of course of the negative response of the united states with regards to the possibility of opening a dialogue it's kind of like a lego movie that shows some time but wait who only established that there are rules that they are willing to 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 one i believe that dialogue the best way to deal with it he do ation like that one that venezuela has there is a possibility that there will be protests after this election but at the same time right now the government the stronger the. pilots are some news in brief for you starting on monday the news of hundreds flooding the greek cities of tests on the get out and to protest against u.s. secretary of state mike compos visit he came to the country to discuss tensions between greece and turkey over and she writes in the eastern mediterranean it was expected that the roma ones stay as part of a 5 day european tour. elsewhere 3 people have died in wildfires in northern california where a number of counties have declared a state of emergency over 70000 people who fled their homes as flames spread rapidly through the region. and hundreds of people have taken to the streets of

mexico city they're demanding the decriminalization of abortion things got out of town with police repairing protesters with purpose spray on the threshold organized by mexican feminist groups to mark international safe abortion. ok thanks for staying with r.t. international where you will be getting updates coming your way at half an hour's time. something. that all. the policy was. to give them credit line.

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