you know. i do know. that by john continue to trade blows over the disputed territory of nagorno-karabakh our correspondent gets exclusive access to the heart of the conflict. right now where between the positions of the armenian army which is over there and the other by joining forces which are stationed right over this hill with the 1st international news crew allowed here by the armenian forces. they want turkey because it's full weight behind azerbaijan taking a hardline approach. turkey will continue to stand by its friend and brother in azerbaijan by all means and with all its heart immediately leaves the territory it

is occupying the region will return to peace and harmony. and stepping into the ring donald trump and joe biden prepared to slug it out in the 1st debate of the presidential election. also with the bellary still gripped in a political crisis the french president makes the country's self exiled opposition leader and agrees to mediate in negotiations. a warm welcome this is r.t. international with meeting. of the un security council has called for an immediate end to clashes currently gripping the borders of asia and europe the nations of armenia and azerbaijan. into a day of conflict the most the worst flare up of

a longstanding territorial dispute since the signing of a truce in 1904 violence erupted on sunday with both still laying claim to the goal no karabakh region now these are exclusive pictures filled by an r.t. crew in the karabakh you can see parts of a drone that was shot down by our media an armed forces during the fighting our crew is so far the only media granted access to the area by the army of thora t s r t the dawn of science is a report from a 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 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 here 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 there 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 a mortgage don of reporting from the disputed region of nagorno-karabakh r.t. as a by john meanwhile has strongly rejected claims that a bomb damini in territory this is footage from the azerbaijani city close to the nagorno-karabakh region that a defense ministry claims are made in shells hit civilian targets well the local court building along with some housing was left. me while most international

journalists are still awaiting permission to enter and report from azerbaijan among them our senior correspondent. 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 by charging side 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 water on the margins he said about john we've also heard indirectly 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 conflicts are very difficult to verify

for now but showing an countable number of vehicles tanks armored personnel carriers destroyed. videos showing infantry being shot down corpses lining fields there's also beat unfortunately an escalation with the weapons that are being used now we're hearing reports of. multiple rocket launchers systems being deployed to the combat zone i mean you're coming out saying that about john's actions and leave them no option but to deploy long range much more powerful weapons. casualties of course also unfortunately mounting is headed by john has just come

out saying 10 civilians have died 30 have been killed in what they claim was meenie and shelling the 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 head by judging side laying the blame for the conflict entirely on the armenians. azerbaijan i once again condemn a media who attacked me soil on sunday turkey will continue to stand by his friend

and brother in azerbaijan by all means and with all its heart it is time to bring an end to the regional crisis started with the occupation of new goanna karabakh when some media immediately leaves the territory it is occupying the region will return to peace and harmony russia also trying to mediate a cease fire station of hostilities 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 by johnny president aliyev yesterday imploring him to cease hostilities imploring him to return to negotiations and going to merkel among the latest leaders to call both sides again asking them to do the same to stop shooting into the return to the goshi a chanst the u.n. security council session has also been set to discuss what the international community can do to bring this violence to an end. however both sides are brushing

off any peace talks it comes as armenia has claims one of its jets was shot over its own airspace blame turkey for the down in which reportedly left the pilot dead on correct and as a by john 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 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 2. this is already an established. 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 say today this is fake news there is no evidence of turkey's involved. and i go no karabakh is one of several border disputes remaining from the collapse of the soviet union the republics the state is from azerbaijan in 1988 and declared itself independent however the enclave predominantly populated by all medias is not widely recognized as an independent state with more background on the conflict is saskia taylor. a region nestled in the caucasus mountains caught between armenia and azerbaijan is now in the global spotlight how did new corner karabakh to get to this trouble point the disputed territory has

a rich history having lived under many rulers and kingdoms before seeing out the final days of the russian empire $917.00 came the empire collapsed $918.00 came as a beach on an armenia became independent historically armenian nagorno-karabakh what clear but azerbaijan tried again and again to take back control armenia and azerbaijan independence was short lived in 1920 they were incorporated into the soviet union. in a corner carpark wanted a referendum to join media but joseph stalin had other plans based on the need for national peace between muslims and amin ians on the economic ties of the upper and lower karabakh its permanent ties with as regime leave nagorno-karabakh within the as regime soviet socialist republic giving it broader regional autonomy with the administrative center in the shushi which is part of the autonomous region for more

than 6 decades armenia tried to repeal the decision with no success then in the late eighty's the people of nagorno-karabakh started their own campaign to unite with armenia after a vote they declared their allegiance to fun in 1988 which was rejected by both moscow and. millions of protested in both countries buildings were torched businesses were attacked military conflict started in the disputed area but nothing changed moscow had made its decision. or. they would give them the territory $120.00. greed and 9023. state soviet socialist state. on the day so that reason. that it

should remain. from the armenian point. 1929. and just on the net just this needed to be right because most of the population of the region. was. 3 as they thought 99 to one the us thought collapsed but still nothing changed. then started the broad peace clash the regions at the scene and tied to an estimated 30000 well killed and 1000000 what displaced finally in 1904 a fragile washing by patris came into effect. the little.

boy. was seized on the sleeve and then yuri i think it represented. militarily rules. russia it was a very good driving. russian media. both. very very and i think it came at the right time. there was just not enough resources and there was not enough. to achieve. that. is not a fool peace agreement. since then military clashes have periodic reflagged up and subsided international players regularly mediate but with armenia now considering recognizing nagorno-karabakh to

dependence and as a page on unwilling to even discuss it finding common ground is increasingly difficult historically when it comes to religion and ethnicity when 2 sides are so convinced of the right notice when generations have been involved in the fight long lasting peace is allusive no doubt many are hoping nagorno-karabakh proves to be the exception. long now until the 2 main heavyweight candidates enter the ring for the 1st round of the us presidential debates both of our not a political will be hoping to inflict a knockout blow on tuesday evening caleb morton is been looking at the battle ahead . 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 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 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 is a lie long enough keep repeating repeating repeating it becomes common knowledge that 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 trump is very. young but really. i'd say 5. i'm going to say don trump but it could be provided. 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 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. high syphilis inkpot to taking on not see larry king believes the debates will do little to change people's political beliefs. it's impossible to pick a winner and debate i do not think that joe biden and biden will fare poorly i

think trump is making a mistake by thinking that all he has to do is just go into the arena and he wins the that's not the way it works biden will surely press in the members of the day today 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 nixon 1st counting nixon debate in 1980 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're for biden you're for biden tonight tomorrow and if you're for

the front 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 it count and they'll be polling the next couple days as a vice presidential debate coming in the end. i don't think the amount of very much i think they're a wash so we'll see we shall see. still to come off to some other fountain cup brutality 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 on that coming up after this short break .

when almost choked small seemed wrong. when old rules just don't hold. any old belief yet to shape our disdain comes to educate and in game treatment equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. say 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 that all of like 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 what in 10 or 12 years. going to happen that a lot bigger where we are 12 years later and. welcome

back further international pressure on the belorussian leader with the u.k. and canada hitting president alexander lucas. his son 6 officials with sanctions the measures including the freeze of include the freezing of assets and a travel ban london said the restrictions have been introduced to uphold democratic values and put pressure on those responsible for quote repression following last month's disputed by the russian election the french president has also weighed in on the situation as he promised to help the belorussian opposition leader and manu macross pledge came as he met with taken on sky for the 1st time on tuesday artie's

schaller dubin ski in paris picks up the story. well it's understood during that meeting which took place in the lithuanian capital that suspect 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 be of the more. you know football for this political crisis in our country will do everything just to release all the blood from brazil well this of course follows a disputed presidential elections in belarus which of 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 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 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. my. 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 might call has said president lukashenko must go he's been pretty clear about that but presently 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. after the meetings federline are taken off scios that she had accepted an invitation to address the french parliament independent journalist lucrative a questions however questions however if finance is in a good position to arbitrate. but you michael cannot play this 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 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 europe will reduce its complaints and support this is the kind of scale full and her friends in the for a new trial for the coming years as a government in exile was. releasing 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's up almost 50 percent compared to last year and many of the injuries were sustained during recent anti police brutality protests and union say is politicians who should shoulder the some of the blame. 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 and one of the more bloody incidental number of police officers were attacked by protesters on brooklyn bridge in july 1 required emergency eye surgery

after suffering blows to the head and 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 as an n.y.p.d. vehicle nationwide protest protests gripped the us back in may following the death of george floyd over the summer there were frequent violent clashes between black lives matter protesters and officers national police association member steve pompous a selected official said tough 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 increase the odds of a police officer getting injured and then the black of consequences for people attacking police officers there is sensually 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 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 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 does something outwardly you know 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 saying that. thanks for joining us here on our international way back at the top of the hour with a. well the pandemic no certainly no borders and is blind to nationalities.

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