armenia and azerbaijan continue to trade blows over this 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 and the azerbaijani forces which are stationed right over this hill were the 1st international news crew allowed here by the armenian forces. me most likely throws its full weight behind azerbaijan taking the hardline approach. turkey will continue to stand by its 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 and harmony. also with palaver still gripped in

a political crisis the french president meets the country's itself exiled opposition leader and agrees to mediate in negotiations. on stepping into the ring donald trump and joe biden prepared to slug it out in the 1st of 3 u.s. presidential debates. well welcome to you this is r.t. international with me niki air and our top story this hour the un security security council has called for an immediate end to clashes currently gripping the borders of asia and europe the nations of armenia and azerbaijan are into a 3rd day of conflict in what's the worst flare up of a long standing territorial dispute since the signing of a truce in 1904 violence erupted on sunday with both still laying claim to the nagorno-karabakh were. these are exclusive pictures filmed by an arty crew in

nagorno-karabakh because the part of a drone that was shot down by forces during the fighting crew is so far the only media granted access to the area by the army thorazine. dawn of scent is a report from the side 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. the disputed region of nagorno-karabakh and as they are by john not by turkey in fact amenia 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 america's done of reporting from the disputed region of nagorno-karabakh r.t. . as the by john meanwhile has strongly rejected claims that it bombed armenian territory this is 1st from the azerbaijani city tired tired close to the new goal no care about region relations defense ministry claims armenian shells hit civilian targets or local court building along with some housing was left damaged to. me while most international journalists are still awaiting permission to enter and report from azerbaijan among them our senior correspondent mark gasnier. another

day and there is still be no response from the 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 it budget 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 imagine see that about john we've also heard directly to survive new flights going through is that 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 house of a 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 carabao side 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 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. by john talk and once again condemn a media who attacked the soil on sunday turkey will continue to stand by his friend and brother in azerbaijan by all means and with all its heart it is time to bring an end to the regional crisis started with the occupation of new goanna karabakh

when some media immediately leaves the territory it is occupying the region will return to peace and harmony 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 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 the call both sides again asking them to do the same to stop shooting into the return to the go she ations 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. however both sides are brushing off any peace talks it comes as armenia has claims one of its jets was shot down over it says space your phone blamed turkey for the downing which

reportedly left the pilots dead and azerbaijan both strongly deny involvement speaking exclusively to russian media the presidents of armenia and azerbaijan put their points across earlier on tuesday. turkey is actually involved in the process of warfare instructors and high ranking personnel karalee. we have information that turkey is seeking a reason for a wider involvement in this conflict. turkey is giving us moral support and we are grateful to the turkish government and turkish people for solidarity in standing by there is no other role turkey's taking into the conflict. 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 nagorno-karabakh. all the rumors of turkey participating in the conflict spread by the armenian side are a provocation as it's common to see today this is fake news there is no evidence of turkey's involvement. speaking from istanbul they're going to care about is one of several border disputes remaining from the collapse of the soviet union the republic says ceded from us by john in 1988 and declared itself independent however the enclave predominantly populated by armenians is not widely recognized as an independent state with more background on the conflict his party. 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 and as there by jan claiming nagorno-karabakh as their own 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 a 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 hear that is backed by turkey. doesn't sound from the rhetoric that's coming out of the facade that either side of particularly king to talk. and you know this would be a problematic conflict even with 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 obviously the conflict itself goes back to the ninety's initially and also of course to the drawing a bone dres between azerbaijan and elmer. india during the soviet period and previously what you had in this situation is a situation where nagorno-karabakh was effectively independence of as

a by john. mean you're obviously helped 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 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 belorussian leader with the u.k. and canada hitting president alexander lukashenko his son and 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 put pressure on those responsible for quote repression following last month's disputed belorussian election the french president has also weighed in on the situation as he promised to help the belorussian opposition leader and manuma crowns pledge came as he met with vettel on

a taken off sky for the 1st time on tuesday r.t. saw the deep end skin paris picks up the story. 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. the fish and b. 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. 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 has 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 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 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 affronts well that meeting

comes just ahead of e.u. leaders who are also due to meet where the topic of belarus is expected to be high up on the agenda with leaders discussing possible sanctions against the country. but after the meetings that learned taken off sky said she had accepted an invitation to address the french parliament independent journalists lucre of a questions however if france it is going in a good position to arbitrate. assume i can't cannot play this role mediator there should be somebody to mediate if any respect by all parties including mr question sorry to say so far 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. can't meet the need 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 planes and support. him and her friends and be through right now for the coming years as a government in exile is. long now until the 2 main heavyweight candidates sent to the ring for the 1st round of the us presidential debates but they're vowing not to pull any punches and will be hoping to inflict a knockout blow on tuesday evening head of morpeth has been looking at the battle 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 i would be strongly demanding a drug test of sleepy joe biden prior to off to the debate on tuesday night naturally only agreed to take one also his debate performances have been record setting and even to put it mildly only drugs could have caused this discrepancy now the biden camp is taking donald 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 is 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 kovac the u.s. supreme court racism violence and election integrity but can anyone really tell the

difference between the 2 major candidates. probably the truth is. that really. i would sit by. and i'm going to say don trump but it could be biden. the seems to me to be true. no. job or 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 are 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 one liner jabs but that won't stop millions from tuning in. art see new york host of political politicking on t.v. larry king believes the debates will do little to change people's plates called police. 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 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 selling wow 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 b. if a 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 we shall see. still to come after some of the anti cult brutality protests in the us news figures released by the n.y.p.d. were bills there's been a steep rise in line of duty injuries more on that after this short break.

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welcome back policing the streets of new york is getting more and more risque the n.y.p.d. says more than 7500 officers have been injured in the line of duty this year alone that's up almost 50 percent compared to last year many of the injuries were sustained during recent anti police brutality protests and unions say it's politicians who should shoulder some of the blame the chaos that politicians are encouraging on the streets is pushing cops in hospitals every new york and he starts 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 brooklyn bridge in july 1 required emergency ice 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 under the same month the mother told cocktail was thrown as an n.y.p.d. vehicle nationwide protests gripped the us back in may following the death of george clooney over the summer there were frequent violent clashes between black lives matter protesters and officers national police association member steve palm per se elected officials 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 definitely increased the. 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 unless the leadership gives it to them and so when you have something like this though give somebody you know a jumping off point to go and decide that every police department in america is you know needs to be reformed 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 a teacher did something wrong they wanted to you know reform teaching in america and seeing that. our face masks and gloves are designed to stop the spread of the coronaviruses things they could be doing the all present went about in a way that's the warning from local authorities in an england which came callous disposal of people who could pose a health. 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. earlier the 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 but also environmental ones a report by british research has claimed the daily use of a facemask by every year k. citizen would say only to $70000.00 tons of plastic waste professor lawrence young from the university of warrick believes re usable p.p.a. is the only solution appropriate disposal of face models and other p.p.c. 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 on the local councils certainly in the arctic aimed i'm happy to take those away 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 all 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 there's other headlines that are to international we're back at the top of the hour with the latest.

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who knows what we'll see on this bill will be 6 months. this is a boom bust one business show you can't afford to miss in washington coming up lawmakers in the u.s. are preparing a fresh round of hope and i came relief as the economy faces of greatest challenge in decades straight ahead we're going to take a look at the state of stimulus talks and how the nation stacks up against others and later we'll break down the economic toll the pandemic has caused on businesses as the u.s. has seen record at retail closures were packed show today.