armenia and azerbaijan continue to trade blows over the disputed territory of. our correspondent get sick. of the conflict. right now we'll between the positions of the media which is. joining forces which are stationed right over this hill where the 1st international news crew allowed here by the armenian forces. turkey throws its full weight behind. taking a hard line approach. will continue. by all means and with all its heart immediately. the region will return to peace

and harmony. also during this. gripped in a political crisis the french president meets the country's opposition leader mediate in negotiations. on stepping into the ring and double trouble. in the 1st of 3 u.s. presidential debates. broadcasting live from moscow to the world this is r.t. international pleasure to have your company my names you know neal. hostility spawning the borders of asia and europe the nations of armenia and azerbaijan are into a 3rd day of conflict in what is their worst flare up of a long standing territorial dispute since the signing of a truce in 1900. war violence erupted on sunday with bullets. back

region these are exclusive pictures. you can see parts of a drone that was shot down by armenian armed forces during the fighting our crew is so far the only media granted access to the. authorities. sent us a report from the site filmed with a night vision camera. 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 that here is school and everybody has to

walk over a huge like 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. well currently there are a lot of accusations kuntar ickes ations. how strongly rejected claims that it bonds are many inter tree we can show you footage from under the present a senior this is tar tarnas close to the nagorno-karabakh region the nation's defense ministry claims are many and shells hit civilian targets while

a local court building along with some harvesting was left damaged they say meanwhile most international journalists are still away seeing permission to actually get into a report from observation among them is our senior correspondent rough guess 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 an answer we've heard directly excuses about the water on the mergence he said about john we've also heard directly excuses about new flights going through is that 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 conflict very

difficult to verify for now but i did 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 armenia coming out saying that i did 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 after 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 are calling for calm calling for deescalation is turkey edouard has firmly backed the judge the side laying the blame for the conflict entirely on the armenians. azerbaijan i once again condemn our

media who attacked as it was 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 that 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 u.n. secretary general calling the is it about johnny president aliyev yesterday imploring him to cease hostilities if glorying him to return to negotiations and going to 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 u.n. security council session has also been set to discuss what the international

community could do to bring this violence to an end of the conflict zone could potentially spiral on the back of armenians latest claims that this jet was shot down by turkey and killing the pilot again something which i incur. strongly deny speaking exclusively to russian media the presence of armenia and azerbaijan put their points across earlier and to use their. turkey is actually involved in the process of warfare instruct isn't high ranking personnel carrier command points in as a vision we have information that turkey is seeking a reason for a wider involvement in this conflict. turkey is giving us moral support and we're grateful to the turkish government turkish people for solidarity in standing by resigning there is no other role turkey's taking into the conflict.

well this is already an established fact turkey should have 16 jets have been taking any part in the fighting it's easy to prove that it's just another provocation. turkey is recruiting mercenaries in syria and taking them to azerbaijan to fight in the war against. all the rumors of turkey participating in the conflict spread by the armenian side are a provocation as it's common to say today this is fake news there is no evidence of turkey's involved. they're going to cut up his one of several border disputes remaining really hung over from the collapse of the soffit union the republic seceded from us or by shan in 1908 clearing itself independent however the enclave predominantly populated by armenians is not widely recognized as an independent state with more background on the conflict here is polly boyko. it's the latest

flare up in a conflict that struggled 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 by jan is a major oil exporter to here and that is backed by turkey. doesn't sound from the rhetoric that's coming out leave the saud that leaves the saudi particularly king 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's blown up out of a blue sky. but the obviously the conflict itself goes back to the ninety's initially and also of course to the drawing a bone dres between azerbaijan and tell me. during the soviet period and previously

what you had in this situation is a situation where the goal of karabakh was effectively independence of as a by. menial obviously to 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 does 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. further international pressure on the bell a russian leader with the u.k. and canada heading president alexander lukashenko has some 6 officials with sanctions the measures include the freezing of assets and a travel ban london has said the restrictions have been introduced to uphold democratic values and part pressure on those responsible for a quote repression following last month's disputed ballots russian and action the

french president also waiting in the situation as he promised help to the russian opposition leader money on micron's pledge came as he met with svetlana taken off skier for the 1st time that was and choose the r.t. show dubinsky in paris as more. well it's understood during that meeting which took place in the lithuanian capital that affect land there 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. the fish and serbia of the more. you know football for this political crisis in our country will do everything to her to release all the blood from brazil 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 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. opposition is very clear that we do not recognize the election of president lukashenko and therefore we don't recognize his status as president elect. as soon as possible all and i hope we can take the necessary sanctions but also reading gaijin indispensable mediation there are diverging opinions on what's happening in belarus

for example russia has given its backing to the new term of. president putin saying that the changes that have been put forward to the constitution reforms in the future have been outright rejected by an opposition leaders the e.u. my. 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 might call has said president lukashenko must go he's been pretty clear about that but president lukashenko has hit back saying if that is president michael's logic then perhaps he too should have stepped down during the yellow vests protests 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. well after the meetings for. example an invitation to address the french parliament independent journalist reveals questions however if france is in a good position to arbitrate. but you michael can play the role of mediator there should be somebody to mediate if any respect by all parties including mr christian close already to say so mediating is something that you can help to from a position where he stands now offering after having taken

a strong position in support of the opposition. mediator anymore so i don't see anything happening on the side of europe in brussels already in paris so probably the situation will remain the same and europe will reduce its complaints and support it to come out and our friends and be through right now for the coming years as a government in exile it's. not long not less than 3 hours in fact until the 2 main heavyweight tenders for the 1st run of the us presidential debates go head to head both are vying not to pull any punches i will be hoping to inflict that knockout blow choose the evening killam open he's been looking at the play. in the year of cove 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 from quite literally and demanding a drug test meanwhile. while biden is certainly not short of a bargain or 2 he has just compared donald trump to hitler's chief propagandist you know he says sort of like goebbels you say is a lie on the most 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 very. young but really. i would sit by. and i'm going to say don trump but it could be provided. the seems to me to close. down.

the. job or you just grossly 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 it 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 with it 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 jag. but that won't stop millions from tuning in able to mop and artsy new york so how important is tonight going to be while host of politicking in artillery king 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 go into the arena and he wins the that's not the way it works biden will surely press him the images of the day today about his income tax widens 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 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 about 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 give 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. you're watching are 2 international still ahead after a summer of brutality protests in the u.s. new figures released by the n.y.p.d. reveals there's been a steep price in line of duty injuries or not so after a short break.

join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then.

24 minutes into the program policing the streets of new york is getting more and more risky the n.y.p.d. says more than 7500 officers have been injured in the line of duty this year alone that is up almost 50 percent compared to 29000 many of the injuries were sustained during recent down to police brutality protests and unions say it's politicians who should shoulder some of the plane. 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. well in

one of the more bloody incidents a number of police officers were attacked by protesters in brooklyn bridge in july 1 required emergency surgery for suffering blows to the head in another case in june an officer in the bronx was the victim of a hit and run and in the same month a molotov cocktail was thrown out an n.y.p.d. vehicle nationwide protests gripped the us back in may following the death of george florida over the summer there were frequent violent clashes between black lives matter protesters and officers national police association members the pumper a ses elected official should have to answer for the spike in police injuries incurred in the line of duty. obviously the increase in the riots that many occurring across america have deftly increase 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 force the law or they are 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 so it's somebody you know a jumping off point to go and decide that every police department in america is you know needs to be reformed i don't know of another occupation where somebody makes a mistake or something outwardly wrong and they don't want to change the entire institution i remember last time you know it's teacher did something wrong they wanted to you know reform teaching in america and seeing that. ok a story perhaps making more people think about

a particular issue not while the face mosque thing. globes are designed to stop the spread of the krona virus it seems they could be doing the opposite when through in a way that is the warning from local authorities in england which claim careless disposal of p.p.a. 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 yeah that coming after the world health organization spoke to saying improper disposal could lead to a surge in transmission it's not just health concerns about p p being mine also environmental ones a report by british researchers claim the daily use of a facemask by every u.k. so this in would soon lead to the figure of $70000.00 tonnes of plastic waste professor lawrence young from the university of warwick believes reusable p.p.a.

in this instance is the only solution. appropriate 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 way spins 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 by 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 and the local councils certainly in the united kingdom are happy to take those away in and deal with them. if you're out and about

disposing of facemask in little 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 a lot of our lot for novack more great programs get going after a quick look at what's showing on our team this week and then nikki's here to keep you in the loop at the top of the hour to join her then you are watching r.t. international. as election day approaches there are growing concerns whether the outcome will be contested whether the election will be legitimate 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 moment just election how many voters will

say not my president after november. so said no to. the. president is he there's this myth about it. and i would go to the. studio with. you already feel. that argo.