i'm sure. armenia and azerbaijan continue to trade blows over the disputed territory of nagorno-karabakh correspondent gets exclusive access to the heart of the conflict so. right now we're between the positions of the armenian army which is over there by joining forces which are stationed right over this hill where the 1st international news crew allowed here by the armenian forces. meanwhile turkey throws its full weight. in with president taking a hardline approach. will continue. by all

means and with. immediately. the region will return to peace and. also coming up on the program with belarus still gripped in a political crisis following last month's election when the french president meets the country's. leader the media to negotiations. for donald trump and joe biden. in the 1st of 3 u.s. presidential debates. just after midnight in dar es salaam in amman you're in moscow my names you know me when you're welcome to our to international our top story. hostilities between armenia and azerbaijan have continued to a 3rd day in what's the worst flare up of an old territorial dispute since

a truce was agreed a quarter of a century ago violence erupted between the nations on sunday but both laying claim to the. region that show you some exclusive pictures filmed by an r t crew in a car or bike you can see part of a drone done by armenian armed forces during the fighting our crew is so far the only media granted access to the area by the armenian authorities were shut down of sent us this report from the site filmed with a night vision come. right now we're between the positions of the armenian army which is over there and the as they are by joining forces which are stationed right over this hill and here is the debris of a massive unmanned drone that was shot down by the armenian air defense this is the main piece but not the only one in fact there's still a distinctive stench of burning up in the air which means it was shot down literally hours before we arrived here in fact where the 1st international news

crew allowed here by the armenian forces the here is school and everybody has to walk over a huge pieces of metal like this and well this marks yet another day of deadly clashes between armenia and the disputed region of nagorno-karabakh and as there by john not by turkey in fact a meanie accused by john of attacking its soil today which means that probably conflict spilled over the borders of this disputed region but we're being told that we have to hurry we have to rush it is not safe here so we have to wrap up i will be bringing you more of this as we go more of this as a stay here don of reporting from the disputed region of nagorno-karabakh artsy. and you go in the thick of the scene there and meanwhile who strongly rejected claims that it mean inter train this is footage from the bridge on the city charter tarik close to the nagorno-karabakh region the nation's defense ministry claims are many and shells hit civilian targets the local court building along with some

housing was left damaged too meanwhile journalists are still awaiting permission to enter and report from her by shon among them our senior correspondent murat goes to . another day and there is still be no response from the by johnny 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 it by driving side so far they have been ignoring every request nobody's been able to get a non-so we've heard in direct excuses about the water on the margins he said about john we've also heard directly excuses about new flights going through is that about 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 conflict very difficult to verify for

now but i mean countable number of vehicles tanks armored personnel carriers destroyed. videos showing infantry being shot down corpses lining fields there's also bhedam fortunately an escalation with the weapons that it being used now we're hearing reports of. multiple rocket launchers systems being deployed to the combat zone i mean coming out saying that about john's actions 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 care about side yesterday said that in the 1st 2 days of combat $86.00 soldiers had been killed hundreds hundreds more wounded we're also seeing an escalation on the diplomatic front there is growing outrage among the international community on the global stage and lead off to lead a nation of the nation calling them both sides to deescalate but of course getting them to stop shooting is the most difficult part new to simply absent though from this chorus of international leaders that are calling for calm calling for deescalation is turkey and go out of his firmly back the. side laying the blame for the conflict entirely on the armenians. azerbaijan i once

again condemn a media who attacked to be johnny 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 nagorno-karabakh when some media immediately leaves the territory it is occupying the region will return to peace and harmony russia also trying to get a cease fire station of hostilities off the vladimir putin's telephone conversation with the leaders of both sides i mean and this is about john the un secretary general calling the is it about johnny president aliyev yesterday imploring him to cease hostilities if imploring him to return to negotiations and going to merkel among the latest leaders that to call both sides again asking them to do the same to stop shooting into the return to the goshi a since 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. in.

is one of several border disputes remaining from the collapse of the soviet union the republic seceded from azerbaijan in 1908 itself independent of the enclave predominantly populated by armenians is not widely recognized as an independent state with more background on the conflict. is 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. what is controlled by ethnic armenians and backed by all means 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 redrawn during the breakup of the soviet union with both on. there by jan

claiming nagorno-karabakh as their way 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 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 . and is a major oil exporter to hear back. from the rhetoric that's coming out leaves us that leaves the saudi particularly king to

talk. to. it 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 to have blown up out of a blue sky but the oldest of the conflict itself goes back to the ninety's initially and also of course to the drawing of bone drees between azerbaijan and elmina during the soviet period and previously what you have in this situation is a situation where nagorno-karabakh was effectively independence of as a by. menial 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 who gets what base of the party 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 moving the program on an

international pressure is mounting on the bell a russian leader after they you care canada had president lukashenko his son and 6 officials with sanctions now the measures include frozen assets a travel ban as well london has said the restrictions have been introduced to uphold democratic values on part pressure on those responsible for quote repression in belarus following the disputed election there earlier the french president also weighed in on the situation he promised help to the balor russian opposition leader among all my crohn's pledge came hours he met with spectrometer can offer for the 1st time on choose they are to charlotte to been skin parts picks up the story for us. well it's understood during that meeting which took place in the lithuanian capital that suspect land there taken 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. with the fish and story of the more. you know football for this political crisis in our country will do everything just to her to release all the blood from brazil 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. our position is very clear we do not recognize the election of president lukashenko 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 present my call has said president lukashenko must go he's been pretty clear about that but presently she 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. just an additional point on this story after the meetings for said she had accepted

an invitation to address the french parliament an independent journalist look very questions however if france is in a good position to arbitrate. assume i cannot play the role of mediator there should be somebody to mediate if any respect by all parties including mr question goes sorry to say so mediating is something that you can help to from the position where he stands now offering 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 so probably the situation will remain the same and and europe will reduce its complaints and support. and her friends and be through right now for the coming years as a government in exile is. getting ready to rumble in the american leader and

his main challenger are reading for round one of the us presidential debates both following not to pull any punches and i will be hoping to inflict a knockout blow on choose the evening been has been looking at the bottle ahead. in the year of cove it it's out with the old and in with the new when it comes to presidential debates there will be no handshake between the 2 candidates there will be no live audience there will just be 2 presidential contenders going head to head in front of t.v. cameras but aside from the staging everything looks to be pretty normal donald trump is revving up his old insult comedy routine accusing joe biden of having poor mental health and being doped up. strongly demanding a drug test of sleepy joe biden prior to off to the debate on tuesday night naturally all 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 campus taking down quite literally and demanding a drug test meanwhile biden is certainly not short of a. barba or 2 he has just compared donald trump to hitler's chief propagandist you know he's a sort of like goebbels who stays alive long enough to 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 the truth is. that really.

gets it right. i'm going to say don trump but it could be biden. the seems to me to split. down. 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 to laugh 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 we've got some reaction from the host of politicking an hour to you the one and only larry king he believes the debates will 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 in the news of the day today about his income tax filings 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 counting 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 did 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 you're 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 sure 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. larry king on tonight's debate still ahead on the program after a summer of on take comfort tell us see protests in the u.s. new figures released by the n.y.p.d. reveals there's been a steep rise in line of duty injuries more than 1000 seconds and counting. seemed wrong. wrong just don't. get to shape out these days active. engagement equals betrayal.

when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. you know back in 2008 when the have a global financial crisis and banks when other lehman brothers bear stearns and some european banks are going to go under and that all the meetings all weekend long and the policy was not to reform banks but to give them a bigger credit line. at the time we said you know what in 10 or 12 years. 12 years later.

policing the streets of new york is getting more and more risky the n.y.p.d. more than 7500 officers have been injured in the line of duty this year alone. 50 percent compared to last year many of the injuries were sustained during recent police brutality protests and unions say it's politicians who should some of the 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 our so let's go through some of the incidents and one of the more bloody events number of police officers were attacked by protesters in brooklyn bridge in july 1 required emergency ice surgery after suffering blows to the head another case in june an officer in the bronx was the victim of a hit and run the same month amala tof cocktail was thrown out an n.y.p.d. vehicle nationwide protests gripped the us back in may following the death of

george floyd over the summer there were frequent violent clashes between blocking lives matter protesters and officers national police association member steep pumper state elected officials should have to answer for the spike in police injuries in kurd in the line of duty. obviously the increase in the riots that many occurring across america have definitely increase the odds of a police officer getting injured and then the black of consequences for people attacking police officers there essentially many of them are getting away with it part of the problem is that we have you know governors mayors 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 as 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 nice the reform i don't know of another occupation where somebody makes a mistake or does something outwardly you're wrong and they don't want to change the entire institution i remember last time you know it teacher did something wrong they wanted to you know reform teaching in america and seen that. to something a little different while a face mastan gloves are designed to stop the spread of the coronavirus it seems they could be doing the opposite when thrown away is the warning from local authorities in england which claim curliness the supposal of p.p.c. 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 world health organization earlier spoke to saying improper disposal could lead to a certain transmission and it's not just health concerns about p p e that have been mounting but also environmental want a report by british researchers claim the daily use of a facemask by every u.k. citizen would soon lead to 70000 tons of plastic waste professor lawrence young from the university of warrick believes reusable p.p. is the only solution in this regard. procrit disposal of face models 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 waste bins and do not litter the streets and other public places with potentially contaminated face masks and gloves and also highlights the important use

perhaps of cloth for a small slow washable because washable face masks 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 united kingdom are happy to take those away in and deal with them properly if you're out and about disposing old facemask in little bins is perfectly ok but if they do happen to fall off all you decide rob though it responsibly just to ditch them in a road or in a public place and that is a really really socially irresponsible thing to do and you have pretty shocking images there we are all set to cross to some more great programs and moments when art international find out what is showing where you are today right after the shortest of breaks as they put.

always however. there is. not my president. hey you know back in 2008 when the had the global financial crisis and banks went under 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 in 10 to 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 fence and 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 banks 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 to close at $81.00 just a smidgen above the mole 5 decade low of $79.00 set in march the last time before march that the index was below today's level was february of 1988 during the sell off that followed. black monday in october 1907 when it also slumped as low as $79.00 the index has collapsed by 85 percent since its peak and may 2007 after having quadrupled over the preceding 12 years it's looking bad right i mean once a day in the connections in 1087 black monday the crash of that here is for.