and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sport i'm sure i'll see you then. the 3rd day of hostilities between armenia and azerbaijan over the disputed territory of nagorno-karabakh coming in of airstrikes being carried out on the region's capital meanwhile turkey expresses its support for us a vision with the president heard one adopting a tough stance on the conflict and he will continue to stand. by all means and with all its heart when some media immediately leaves the territory the region will return to peace and harmony also this hour the west getting even more deeply involved in the political crisis gripping bella roosts the french president meets the country's exiled opposition leader and agreeing to mediate

negotiations. on 20 host donald trump and joe biden will clash in their 1st presidential debate before november's election voters do appear to have trouble telling their policies. hello they're welcome you watching r.t. international this tuesday afternoon just gone 2 o'clock a were moscow now a decades old territory dispute has seen its most serious flare up since a truce was established in 1904 violence erupted between the nations and as a beyond on sunday morning with both laying claim to the nagorno-karabakh region. reports are now coming in from the disputed area of baghdad air strikes being

carried out there our correspondent hugo she's done of who is currently in the capital of nagorno-karabakh tells us that air raid sirens can be 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 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 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 mean

your own 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. johnny fisher was meanwhile to strongly reject the claim that back bombed mean territory nagorno-karabakh is one of several border disputes left over from the collapse of the soviet union republics a ceded from eyes a vision in 1980 and declared itself independent however the enclave predominantly populated by all means is not widely recognized as an independent state meanwhile journalists from international media organizations are waiting for permission to enter and report from as a big among them our correspondent were aghast yet he's currently in turkey.

another day and there is still be no response from the exit by chinese side to all the journalists and correspondents and media outlets that have. followed requests for entry to as if i john to be allowed to work and to cover the conflict from the as if i tried inside so far they have been ignoring every request and nobody's been able to get anon so we've heard direct excuses about the wartime emergency said about john we've also heard directly it's use about new flights going through his head by john but there are flights from here from istanbul for example to but to with regards to what is happening on the ground there has been unfortunately more escalation parable videos emerging from the conflicts are very difficult to verify for now but showing countable number of vehicles tanks armored personnel carriers destroyed. videos showing infantry being shot down corpses lining

fields there's also beat unfortunately an escalation with the weapons that are being used now we're hearing reports of. multiple rocket launchers systems being deployed to the combat zone i mean ia coming out saying that about john's actions and leave them no option but to deploy long range much more powerful weapons. casualties of course also unfortunately mounting is headed by john has just come out saying 10 civilians have died 30 have been killed in what they claim was meaning in shelling the. yesterday said that in the 1st 2 days of combat. $86.00

soldiers have been killed hundreds hundreds more wounded we're also seeing an escalation on the diplomatic front there is growing outrage among the international community and the global stage leader after leader nation after nation call in both sides to deescalate but of course getting them to stop shooting is the most difficult part noticeably absent though from this chorus of international leaders that are calling for calm calling for deescalation is turkey edouard has firmly backed the. side lake the blame for the conflict entirely on the armenians. azerbaijan i once again condemn a media who attacked me 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 russia also trying to mediate a cease fire station of hostilities after vladimir putin's telephone conversation with the leaders of both sides i mean and this is about john the un secretary general calling the by johnny president aliyev yesterday imploring him to cease hostilities if imploring him to return to negotiations angela merkel among the latest leaders to to call both sides again asking them to do the same to stop shooting into the return to the goshi asians the u.n. security council session has also been set to discuss what the international community can do to bring this violence to an end. not his murder against if they have a mosque and some as a writer an independent journalist held a sport 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 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 helped their fellow citizens as they saw as in going to 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 then that's that's good and you know for many years that has been the

case here and certainly no longer the case. in other news the view is going for more involved in the internal affairs of better race the french president. has met with the better russian opposition leader fell on it taken off sky and prop and promised to help r.t. shouted bin ski has this report from paris. well it's understood during that meeting which took place in the lithuanian capital that svetlana to kind of 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 everything to help us move 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 seen 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 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 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 belarus it in fact called the integration 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 a north 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 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. a report in the after the meeting spot on a taken of scar also said that she had accepted an invitation to speak in the french parliament independent journalists week with a doubts though where the macro is the right person for the job of mediator assume i cannot cannot play the role of mediator there should be somebody to mediate if any or is respected by all parties including mr sorry to say so our mediating is

something that you cannot do from a position where he stands now asking 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 or 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 our friends in lithuania short for the coming years as a government in exiles. now it is round one of the us presidential debates on tuesday night and the 2 main heavyweight candidates will clash over a number of issues and while their performance will be hampered somewhat by nico beetroots there's been plenty of trash talking before the fight club morton has more on 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 job i didn't try it too often 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 a 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 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 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 truth is. yes but really. i'd say 5. i'm going to say don trump but it could be biden.

the seem 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 i'm 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 american t.v. host and journalist mary king says the debates they will make 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 makes a 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 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 you if you have a biden you're 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 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. than i had over the night and the day after a summer of anti cult brutality protests in the u.s. you think it's released by the new york placed upon to do or feel it's been a steep price the number of offices in q one and how to look at

a town just after the break. you know back in 2008 with the global financial crisis and banks when other lehman brothers bear stearns and some european banks are going to go under that all those like meetings all the weekend long and the policy was not to reform banks but to give them a bigger credit line 10 or 20 times bigger at a time we said you know in 10 or 12 years. going to happen but a lot bigger where we are 12 years later and. seemed wrong. just don't hold. me. to shape out. educate and gauge equals betrayal.

when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. welcome back now the work of police officers in the u.s. is getting more dangerous according to the new york police department 7 and a half 1000 officers have been injured in the line of duty the sheer and that's an almost 50 percent increase compared with the same period last year now many of the injuries were sustained during this summer brutality protests and police unions pointing the finger of politicians. the chaos that politicians are encouraging on

the streets 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 a number of police officers were attacked by protesters on the brooklyn bridge in july on required emergency i surgery after suffering 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 a molotov cocktail was thrown at an n.y.p.d. vehicle while nationwide protests 1st script the us back in may the killing of the police killing of george floyd over the summer there were frequent violent clashes between black lives matter protesters and officers 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 many occurring across america have definitely increased the odds of the 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 that 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 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 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. now the u.s.

has repeatedly and its top diplomat burrell for acting alone in venezuela would that be pretty full of the blocks ally across the atlantic this will make relations with the e.u. bureaucracy more difficult it's not usual to have burrell's office working on its own is fair to call it cowboy diplomacy early any send to mission to venezuela ahead of its legislative elections in december the country's opposition leader called for a boycott claiming it will be raked in favor of the current ruling party bloc hopes to provide minimum democratic conditions during the fight we believe there is a window of opportunity to support a peaceful and democratic transition in venezuela. that is why there is 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 shewing a nationwide protest opposition leader why don't accuse him of rigging the election and declared himself interim head of the state more than 50 countries including the u.s. most of the european nations recognized as the legitimate venezuelan leader washington also slapped sanctions on me during administration. prayer of an associate professor from george mason university says the latest u.s. criticism of the shows it wants to be in charge of the global agenda. it is not surprising considering. the pharmacy of the united states in the past few years shows of chorus. the negative response of the united states with regards to the possibility of opening a dialogue it's kind of like. all the shows sometimes but wait who won only established their rules that they were 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 is the appropriate one i believe that dialogue the best way to deal with us he do ation like that one that venezuela there's a possibility that there will be protests after this election but at the same time right now the government the structure of the. world news in place now and on monday hundreds flood the greek cities of person lawmaking in athens to protest against u.s. secretary of state. visit he came to the country to discuss tensions between greece and turkey over energy rights in the eastern mediterranean is expected to head to rome on wednesday as part of a 5 day tour through europe elsewhere 3 people have died in wildfires in northern california where a number of countries are sorry counties have declared a state of emergency over 70000 to fled their homes as flames spread rapidly

through the region and hundreds of people have taken to the streets of mexico city demanding be criminalised ration of abortion things got out of hand though with police repairing protesters with pepper spray the demonstration was organized by mexican feminist groups to mark international safe abortion. so that brings up the side of things looking so far today here in r.t. more from us in about 35. but there are older birds or dead. or if you are

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matters we're always told this however this time around there's a different feel there's an existential quality to disoblige how many voters will say not my president after november 3rd. as the u.s. economy was booming growing numbers of people were made homeless. you can work 40 hours in a week and still not have enough to get housing everybody believes america still is the leader of up to the reality of it we're not financially equality and the lack of affordable housing for a living minimum wage give many people no choice. that's been a problem with the city knows turn around and told me stay away almost. requires. the most vulnerable were abandoned on the streets to become the invisible

cops. hey you know back in 2008 when the had the global financial crisis and banks went under and 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 it intended 12 years so if there's going to happen but a lot bigger well here we are 12 years later and the states are just as you said. it's all unraveling again especially with european banks because they are not the

center of the empire they are not rome they are outside so they must suffer but before we get to that fin send story about the european banks i want to say once again we find toilet paper roll is a precious commodity as lockdowns began apparently there are rush mad rush on toilet paper all over the western world and we're seeing shortages of toilet paper again that was also something we protected. right so here is the headline from wolf street dot com they say hit from all sides european bank stocks swoon to 1988 low leaks about money laundering a resurgent pandemic china risks exposure to turkey's financial crisis all in a negative interest rate environment that is toxic for banks so the stocks $600.00 banks and x. which covers major european banks slumped 5.7 percent on monday.