army here now as a continuous trade blows over the disputed territories nagorno-karabakh reports of their strikes on the region's capital meanwhile turkey throws its full weight behind us the vision and the president taking a hard line approach. turkey will continue just standpoints friend and brother in azerbaijan by all means and with all its heart when some media immediately leaves the territory it is occupying the region will return to peace. also this hour with better roots still grips in the political crisis following the disputed election the french president meets the country's exiled opposition leader and in greece to mediate in negotiations and 2nd one donald trump and joe biden prepared to slog it

out in the 1st presidential debate. whether the welcome you're watching r.t. internationalists to see anything just gone 7 o'clock in the sky now hostilities between armenia and azerbaijan have continued into a 3rd day is the worst flare up of an old territorial dispute since a truce was agreed a quarter of a century ago violence exploded between the nations on sunday with both laying claim to the nagorno karabakh region. reports claim there have been a strikes in the disputed area our correspondent who is currently in the capital of going to cut it back said air raid sirens have been sounding across the city locals have also been advised to take shelter. 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 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 mania 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 as a piano has strong rejected days claims that it has bombed territory this is footage from the as a beyond city of tasks are close to the nagorno-karabakh region as a big chance defense ministry claims that on armenian shells hit civilian targets he claims a local court building along with some housing was left damaged. meanwhile journalists are waiting for permission to enter and report from as a bridge on among them r.t. more aghast the ever he's currently in turkey. another day and there is still be no response from the by johnny site 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

a non-so we've heard directly excuses about the wartime emergency said about john we've also heard directly excuses about new flights going through his head about john but but there are flights from here from istanbul for example to but coup 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 put showing uncountable 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 is it 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 meenie and shelling the cat about yesterday said that in the 1st 2 days of combat. 86 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 and 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 the 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 as abuse johnny 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 that 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 off of land the mere putins telephone conversation with the leaders of both sides i mean and this is about john the un secretary general calling the about johnny president aliyev yesterday imploring him

to cease hostilities if imploring him to return to negotiations angela merkel among the latest leaders that the 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 could do to bring this violence to an end more advanced if there will be going to cut a back is one of several border disputes left over from the collapse of the soviet union the republic seceded from has a vision in 1908 and declared itself independent however the enclave predominantly populated by armenians is not widely recognized as an independent state with more narrow hole in the history of the conflict is. it's the latest flare up in a conflict that straggled on for almost 40 years.

nagorno-karabakh is in the south caucasus it's internationally recognized as part of their by jan but is controlled by ethnic armenians and backed by armenian forces as a result of the remote region has become a defacto breakaway republic. the near 40 year old conflict stems from the way the borders were redrawn during the breakup of the soviet union with both on media and azerbaijan claiming nagorno-karabakh as there are. in the early ninety's hostilities between the 2 neighbors led to a full scale war that killed more than 30000 civilians and ended with a russian brokered cease fire in 1994. since then there have been regular missions in the area but the latest flare up has been the most violent in the last 20 years the conflict has international

ramifications russia has traditionally supported our media and provided weapons for its military while azerbaijan is a major oil exporter to here and that is backed by turkey. doesn't sound from the rhetoric that's coming out of the of the saud that leaves us or the particularly king to talk. and you know this would be a problematic conflict even with language outside forces potentially being drawn in on. the escalation we're seeing today is a bit of a mystery because it's blown up out of a blue sky. but obviously the conflict itself goes back to the ninety's initially and also of course to the drawing the bone dres between azerbaijan and elmer. during the soviet period and previously what you had in this situation is a situation where nagorno-karabakh was effectively independence also as

a boy. mean you're obviously help their fellow citizens as they saw as in nagorno-karabakh during the conflict in the ninety's even if you can't come to a final conclusion about who gets what does of the poly as long as people aren't being killed to go nuts that's good and you know for many years that has been the case and certainly no longer the case. the u.k. and canada have slapped sanctions on the better russian president alexander lukashenko his son and 6 other senior government officials the measures to include a travel ban and asset freeze the british foreign secretary said that the restrictions have been introduced to uphold democratic values and to put pressure on those responsible for oppression in baton rouge following the disputed election meanwhile the french president has promised help to the better russian opposition leader and map crohn's pledge came as he met with svetlana taken off sky for the 1st time reporting now from paris his shot at the been. well it's understood during

that meeting which took place in the lithuanian capital that affect 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. the fish and b. of the just for. you know football for for this political crisis in our country your door everything just to her to release all the political prisoners well this of course follows a disputed presidential elections embarrass which 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 macklin is the right person to mediate in this

situation given that he has made his views about belarusian president alyaksandr. 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 look at showing code 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 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 corner has said president lukashenko must go he's been pretty clear about that but president has hit back saying if that is president mcconnell's logic then perhaps he too should have stepped down during the yellow vests protests based on the principles of mr 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 micron 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 but after the meetings fell on a 2nd off sky d'orsay say that he had accepted an invitation to address the french parliament independent journalists the only way to question whether france is now in a good position to mediate. but you michael cannot play these role of mediator there should be somebody to mediate if any respect by all parties including mr the 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 full and her friends in the forenoon for the coming years as a government in exile is. now the hours are counting down until the 2 main heavyweight candidates and to the ring the 1st round of the us presidential debates that are not so pull any punches and will be open to inflict some sort of knockout blow on the other with more his. 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 a 2 off to the debate on tuesday night naturally only agreed to take one also his debate performances have been record setting uneven to put it mildly only drugs could have caused this discrepancy now the biden camp is taking down old trump quite literally and demanding a drug test meanwhile biden is certainly not short of a bargain or 2 he has just compared donald trump to hitler's chief propagandist you know he says sort of like goebbels you say 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 think truth is. yes 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 grocery 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'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 will show host larry king does believe the debates that will see would do little to change people's political beliefs it's impossible to pick a winner in debate i do not think that joe biden and biden will fare poorly i think trump is making a mistake by thinking that all he has to do is just go into the arena and he wins the that's not the way it works biden will surely 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 both 2 minutes i get one minute you get one minute nobody fact checks as to who's telling the truth and who's not. but it is what it is i remember the kennedy mixon 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 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 few of your for biden tonight and if you're for trump you're for trump how many people are undecided now that's a question political pundits have asked for years i know of no one undecided in this race sure i think they'll be

a tremendous audience for this debate now how much will account. 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. police in the streets of new york is turning increasingly risky the n.y.p.d. says that more than 7 and a half 1000 officers have been injured in the line of jim this year alone. almost 50 percent compared to last year many of the injuries were sustained during recent and police brutality protests mean say it's politicians who are to blame. 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 when one of the more bloody incidents

a number of police officers were attacked by protesters on the brooklyn bridge in july on with quiet emergency 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 and then in the same month a molotov cocktail was thrown at an n.y.p.d. vehicle nationwide protests 1st gripped the us back in may over the killing police killing of george floyd a very for the summer there were frequent violent clashes between black live matter protesters and offices national police association members the pumper 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 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 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 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 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. while face mosques and bloods is designed to stop the spread of the coronavirus it does saying they could be doing the opposite saying when thrown away that is the warning from michael authorities in england which claim that can this displays

a lot of pain could pose a health hazard. not only does this blight local areas but it also risks spreading infection face masks gloves and other forms of personal protective equipment designed to protect people from infection but poor disposal risks doing the opposite the other world health organization also spoke out saying improper disposal could lead to a surge in transmission and it's not just health concerns about people that have been mounting today but also environmental a report by british researchers earlier this year claimed that the daily use of a facemask by every case citizen would eventually create almost $70000.00 tons of plastic waste professor her and she hung from university where it believes we usable pimping is the only solution. pro-create disposal all face smiles and other p.p.s. essential to avoid any increase in transmission and so it's really important that

people take responsibility to dispose of their face masks gloves etc in appropriate way spins and do not litter the streets and other public places with a potentially contaminated face masks and gloves and also highlights the important use perhaps of cloth for a small slow washable because washable face mass will be much more easier to deal with they would washing will destroy the virus and it's a much more environmentally friendly approach in your own home you can dispose of these in your normal black bag on the local councils certainly in the arctic and i'm happy to take those away in and deal with them properly if you're out and about disposing of facemask in litter bins is perfectly ok but if they do happen to fall off or you decide rather irresponsibly just to ditch them in a road or in a public place and that is

a really really socially irresponsible thing to do. that the united states has for you and its top diplomat just a pearl for acting where that its approval in venezuela. 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 the e.u. recently sent a mission to venezuela ahead of december's parliamentary elections there the country's opposition leader. has been calling for a boycott of the polls claiming that it will be rigged brussels is hoping 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 that is why it was plunged into political crisis 2 years ago following a disputed presidential election which the incumbent nicolas maduro claimed that he

won opposition leader one quiet cried fraud and declared himself interim head of state he is backed by more than 50 countries including the u.s. and the associate professor from george mason university quite a leap there believes washington's current criticism of europe shows it wants to lead the global agenda. it is not surprised seeing considering a career in the diplomacy of the united states directly in the past few years shows of chorus of the negative response of the united states with regards to the possibility of opening a dialogue it's kind of like lego movie that shows some time both way to one only establish that there are rules that they are willing to to follow and everybody to follow 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 is 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 after this election but at the same time right now the government the stronger of the 2080. some other world views now on monday hundreds flooded the greek cities of thessaloniki in athens to protest against the visit of the u.s. secretary of state mike campolo was in the country to discuss tensions between greece and turkey over their energy rights in the eastern mediterranean is expected in rome on wednesday as part of a high rate of europe 3 people have been killed by wildfires in northern california where a number of counties there have declared a state of emergency more than 70000 people have been forced to flee their homes flames spread rapidly in the region and hundreds have taken makes ecosystem blinding abortion is made legal tensions flare and police to resort to pepper spray

to break up the crowds the demonstration was organized by mexican feminist groups to mark international say abortion. so you're up to date that's where everything is looking here in r.t. so far today of course we'll keep you updated throughout the evening you know new york will be here at the top of the. as election day approaches there are growing concerns whether the outcome will be contested whether the election will be in egypt 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 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

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