armenia and azerbaijan continue their deadly standoff over the disputed territory of. r t is the only media outlet granted access to the conflict zone. concerns over foreign fighters including extremists are being sent into the battle zone are raised by moscow which is urging all sides to prevent external involvement also. everybody knows he's a liar there's nothing smart about what you should. know your number of. presidential debate decorum exit stage left as round one between donald trump and joe biden descends into name calling and interruptions we've got the big moments

from it for you. are broadcasting live the rest of our studios most of this is our to international . be with us now the u.n. security council is calling for an immediate end to fighting between armenia and azerbaijan after 4 days of hostilities the 2 nations are once again vying for control of the longest period border region of the go to know r.t. is the sole media outlet granted access to the region there. well we're in the city of stop on the capital of the disputed nagorno-karabakh region and well you can see how dark it is around me well it's not because we're in a forest or somewhere in the middle of nowhere no in we're in the middle of a city a big pretty big bustling city normally shining with the lights but this is not the case right now because all the street lights have been switched off people are

trying not to light the lights in their homes just because just to make it more difficult the job more difficult to those who are bombing this town what has become regular here raid sirens it's sort of a sort of terrifying soundtrack to this war i should say this city of step on a cat is pretty far from the front line about 60 kilometers probably but regularly every day we're hearing dozens of raid sirens and we hear it we're hearing explosions as the missile defense systems as ed offense systems i should say are shooting down these drones that the azerbaijani army is sending in sending in here now when it comes to the latest as to what's going on on the frontlines well i wish i could tell you that it is getting more timid but well it isn't at all the fighting is intensifying from what i'm seeing this is the conclusion that i can make so far the infantry aren't at each other's throats they aren't going into hand

to hand combat so far the conflict in the stage of artillery shelling and bombings drone bombings especially so the 2 the 2 sides are firing at each other relented slee ruthlessly when it comes to casualties both armenia and azerbaijan to giving contradicting figures and each for instance armenia for example is saying that more than $100.00 people were killed they could have they killed more than 100 as they are by johnny soldiers as they were by john denies that and says that it was them killed hundreds of armenians soldiers and i'm. turn denies that so it is difficult to find any any plausible and real it's difficult to tell which figures are realistic indeed now when it comes to the bigger developments armenia today the foreign ministry accused by john of giving up all operations offensive operations bombings control to the turkish military so essentially they've said that now

everything that's going on every bombing is something that turkey has ordered something that has been ordered from by you the turkish military now ankara of cause has adamantly denied that saying that they are not involved in this conflict militarily armenia has promised to show some proof but hasn't done so so far now as to what we have seen we traveled to or to a frontline town basically in an hour that we spent there filming we witnessed everything artillery artillery fire from both sides a drone came in flew into buzzing the armenian soldiers shot didn't they missed the drone bomb those those who shot and flew away and then artillery worked again all that in the span of just an hour now i will be standing by here reporting from the frontlines and from and report giving you bringing you personal stories alike

so stay tuned for that. meanwhile azerbaijani media has published a video allegedly showing a drone striking on american soldiers doesn't armenian soldiers excuse me big difference there are dozens of civilians and military casualties have been reported on both sides here's how people in azerbaijan and armenia view the ongoing crisis. profitable to hamas as a by john is not providing any opportunity to resolve this conflict through negotiations it has been decided that the conflict must be resolved through force and we are all ready for that but it must be understood that if this happens there will be severe loss of life. and every loss is a tragedy we do not want the issue to be addressed in this way. meets our position it is the it serious who are to blame and from their point of view we are to blame as an armenian i do not want to talk about who is right or wrong but i would like those issued to be resolved through negotiations not force. i don't like what

is happening many people i know are now going to the front line we don't want blood to be shipped we want everything to end peacefully but i am afraid there is no chance to talk about peace at the moment we must reclaim our lands. for the bullshit in the north. of course what is happening in the conflict zone is bad who would want to have a war and see people dying but how had was forced by the armenians. both of the leaders of russia and france are in agreement that the situation needs us to say should have hostilities after holding talks meanwhile moscow has also warned about the possible involvement of foreign extremists in the conflict. as more that. so the issue of foreign mercenaries from outside the region being moved into the call for exile in a gorn a car back it was 1st armenia that began pointing at such concerns but now is the time when the russian officials are directly addressing this threat in

a statement here's what exactly the russian foreign ministry said according to the information we have received militants from illegal armed groups have been transferred to the nagorno-karabakh conflict zone from syria in libya to take part in the still it is we call on the leaders of the countries involved to take active measures to prevent the deployment of foreign terrorists a masterpiece in the conflict and to ensure their immediate withdrawal from the region so and this is very important moscow is not pointing the finger at any of the sides for being behind it but like i said when your yvonne was voicing concern about alien fighters in the region they put the blame on turkey straight away in fact armenia has been saying all along that turkey is to blame for provoking this conflict and the 1st place now in an interview to russian t.v. both leaders of armenia and azerbaijan addressed this specific issue and here is

what exactly they had to say by an ace through 3 turkish warfare instructors and high ranking personnel a currently at command posts in azerbaijan turkey is also recruiting mercenaries in syria and taking them to azerbaijan to fight in a war against nagorno-karabakh and armenia turkey is giving us moral support and we are grateful to the turkish government and turkish people for solidarity in standing by resigning there is no other role turkey's taking into the conflict the role of caroll in all this has been the focus of speculation and debate for a long time now because unlike many international players which called for a peaceful settlement and the ones that didn't take. turkey from the very beginning began to support as our by john and even said that they are ready to back them militarily now this is something that wasn't welcome to by russia which is also an important player in the region and which does at this point has very good relations

with anchor up so here's what we heard in response to the statements made by turkish officials from moscow. we stand by as a by john on the field and at the table now we want to solve this problem completely so that peace and stability can come to the region the occupied territories of azerbaijan must be liberated not to be i'm sure any statements about some kind of support and military activities undoubtedly add fuel to the fires and we are firmly against this we call on all countries especially our partners including turkey to do all they can to urge the conflict in sides to return to the ceasefire now all of this comes amid media reports that syrian rebels backed by turkey are either getting ready to be moved to a car back or are already on the way there but again for now these are just reports and like i said before russia is not blaming anyone for this matter at this point.

i had my colleague you know neal earlier spoken to a political analyst of focusing on the region who explained that there are numerous complex parties to consider in this conflict. there are many organizations not to believe i don't think it is real be bodies' me the earth torquey me they are all funded by general or even their leaders it is mainly i suppose the initiative belongs to certain financial firms and slumming financial firms related to the muslim presence in and out of the meaning of the they are many and prime minister has stated turkey might be sending syrian mercenaries to azerbaijan to fight in this conflict could this information have any crimes of truth in it well it could because you need to cross the borders you need to get customs clearance when you come into country and of course the government feel very relaxed when the militants

who are in practical meaning on the turkish control getting out of the country and they could much less problems because when they go to get out to other places and don't forget the game to be feeling that the former soviet union have something in common and when people call in for arabs for syrians or for turks when we come back to the former soviet union. if these kind of go for it let's say should so i think they knew about it and they could put it away and but they didn't but there is no any official decisions that. government sponsored troops we've seen over the last number of days statements of support from for us about how far do you think turkey is willing to go to help its ally well you should understand the situation be thrown the chair of the gun was shaken out but too many forces inside or you wouldn't be of the gun party are now wanting to replace him and he's fighting for

the place so if the military fortune would be on a sort of bridge on the side at the gun would get the glory of. konqueror over there are many and like stuff that you would quarles. big greek. so this is maybe $34.00 to 0 in a sort of a journey but if it means we have begun to lose nothing because of its beauty but it's a little bit of motivations. donald trump and joe biden have locked horns in the 1st u.s. election debate of 2020 earlier my colleagues daniel hawkins and don quarter discussed the presidential clash which was a chaotic affair with no shortages of insults and interruptions. listen respectfully to each other's opinion i'm not here to call out his lies everybody knows he's a liar they'll never use the word smart with me ever use that word because you know

what it is nothing smart about you joe what do you show no excuses one who saw your number to know he's putin's puppy i get my time back if you are interruptions i'm appealing to you sort of do it him to well frankly you've been doing more than a lot of those who haven't but he does plenty well less than you will he's just shush why do you do it all that i want in the last 25 years i because i'm going to do it because you are president sure things up you are a senator and the worst with resumes america is ever. going to find it. hard to get any word with this clown directly matters that you know now that were done were done sir while then the american people had big hopes for this debate after all it's happening on the backdrop of a global pandemic and a serious economic crisis but based on how both biden and trump conducted themselves i would say most people probably thought they were watching some sort of circus. you should get out of your bunker and get out of the sand trap and get in your golf course and fund what needs to be done now to save lives he wants to shut

down this country and i want to keep it open. i had it close to the greatest economy in the history of our country we handed him a booming economy he blew it was it a loon. he's very socially the crime bill 1904 where you call the super predators african-americans the super predators and the moderator was barely able to hold this discourse together to stop it from completely devolving into insults and unsurprisingly we saw the mainstream media pretty quickly send out already headlines blaming trump entirely for derailing the debate but as we just saw in that clip it takes 2 to tango and biden didn't exactly live up to his promise to bring dignity to politics. we can do all that we need to do to make you groan to restore doing we need to restore the integrity of the presidency of the office of presidency and you mention the american public had high

hopes for this debate what's been the reaction so far while during the debate the moderator was able to get in a lot of questions that the american people really want answers to how the next administration is going to handle coronavirus relief racism police brutality of the social unrest but the most important thing of all is how biden or trump actually respond to these questions and voters didn't seem to think that they did a very good job honestly is a very painful response i don't think either them one this is terrible all around this is very upsetting to watch that this is the best representation for our country right now i don't think i can say that even if you were one i think it was a twister it was a wild ride it went right it went left there was a lot going on there's a lot of interruption it was crazy. to me that i don't think either one of them respected none of the other. and the economy seems to agree with those voters as well because right after the close of this chaotic debate we saw u.s.

stock futures take a plunge and while both political camps have already started making political memes as if they're their guy won the debate every day voters are really kind of taking a sort of i'd rather laugh than cry approach. we asked former republican state senator john loudon and international affairs expert sophia mclennan for their thoughts on the 1st debate there's little doubt that trumps lost his composure as he was repeatedly interrupting and.

seemed overly emotional and somewhat hysterical i was disappointed to see it in decide to sort of stoop to that kind of behavior he tends to be very dismissive and to bully and in fact name call it's certainly not presidential it's not the kind of behavior that you really want to see in a candidate i'm not sure anybody watching had their minds changed except that i do i do see that i think biden is going to have some cleanup to do with the left flank it's inappropriate he just dismissed the president as a liar i would hate to see the count on how many times he said the president just lies without backing up and being specific about what was dishonest but american politics can be pretty contentious and i think american

people sadly are kind of used to it. bungle merkel has said that she's planning to meet with the belorussian opposition leaders who have learned to come up sky is currently in lithuania having fled her country after the disputed presidential election in august and the german chancellor shares her view that the vote was rigged. in the vice president saying we do not recognize the legitimacy of this presidency him to engage in dialogue with his people without interference from east or west we condemned what's going on there on a daily basis specifically the derailment of democratic processes and the violence perpetrated against the opposition. german chancellor angela merkel has added her voice to calls from french president emmanuel back on for alexander lukashenko to step down as president of belarus micron had met with svetlana ticking off the woman who ran against lucas schenker in august disputed election just earlier this

week that meeting took place between the french president and a mistake and following that meeting that crown said that he was willing to act as a mediator to get to the bottom of the impasse that followed that vote however there has been some questions over the fitness of mr micron to act as a mediator in a dispute he's already very publicly taken aside in or speaking on wednesday the german chancellor angela merkel said that she will also be holding her own meeting with svetlana taken off in a meeting of the need. i will meet with their position on off square one we see brief women taking to the streets calling for corruption free life i cannot but it mire that. with 2 of the keep power brokers in france and germany either having met with or agreeing to meet with svetlana ticking off skier it's hard to see how that sits alongside previous statements by emmanuel marco on and angela merkel saying that there should be no outside interference in the future of dollars. from clapham

absolutely clear must find its way by itself and there must be no involvement from abroad the people of belarus know what they want and it was good for them and we want the dialogue to take place among belorussians themselves with the european union is ready to take part if that's what belorussians wants russia should also be included as part of that dialogue with moscow is unequivocal on this and says that these meetings are direct outside interference on the future of belarus vladimir putin's spokes person to me to the press corp saying that there was tremendous external pressure on minsk and. alexander lukashenko right now we consider these decisions to be at odds with international law they clearly feel to facilitate dialogue and in effect and mountain meddling in internal affairs they expect more bellerose talk coming this week on thursday and friday there's a special e.u.

council summit taking place during that summit we can expect the future of sanctions on belarus and all alexander lukashenko and those close to him to be discussed bringing you all the latest on the us as it happens. returning to tuesday night's u.s. presidential debate between donald trump and joe biden the new york times is under fire from its own readers over its coverage of the event now the paper tweeted this screenshot of it's fact checking piece it shows a quote from biden claiming we left trump a booming economy and he caused the recession the new york times flag that is false and its mostly liberal leaders readers were unimpressed and this is the image you choose to include cancelling my subscription tomorrow i'm done with the this is ridiculous ludicrous shameful ok after decades of being a subscriber i'm going to have to cancel my subscription because the new york times

continues to enable trump's fascism. so glad i cancelled my subscription to rog cannot believe you would choose a biden cool enough to trump just lied for 90 minutes what we're seeing now is this with some of the new york times which the clear that solves so fervently to be the paper of record and to be the authoritative voice of news america they've really gone so far up in just really won't even pretend to be to be bias or to pertain to give the other side a fair shake the readers are a bit so poisoned by the rhetoric of the last 4 years that that the opposition president is the incarnates of evil right that that nothing else mattered but getting rid of this guy they poison the reader so much that this rhetoric as soon as they say one of these media companies just dipping their toe in the water of fact checking joe biden then it's all out backlash and they think that suddenly these papers are on the side of some dark side tannic force it's

a chicken or egg question with this relationship that these far left these have with their media but they're locked into each other now and it's an absolute echo chamber. france and germany are warning of potential action against russia over the alleged poisoning of election a volley the european powers claim it's moscow's duty to establish what happened to the opposition figure. the. pick them up there was very clearly an assault and an assassination attempt that was made on russian soil against a russian opponent with a chemical agent on the business related in russia. and therefore it is on russia to give indispensable clarification that we will have to draw from the information that russia provides the consequences all its refusal to provide tariff occasion. i call on russia to do more to investigate this case the case such as this must have consequences the therefore reserves the right to impose sanctions on. this by

the german foreign minister is tough words there chancellor merkel has said that she will wait to see what the chemical weapons watchdog concludes before deciding how to proceed meanwhile russian prosecutors have sent a 3rd request to berlin seeking the evidence they need to formally open a case previous requests though were ignored. we consider it an attempt to politicize the matter everything that is going on indicates that it is not to both seeking the truth our prosecutors have sent a 3rd request to germany but there has only been one of response and that was from the media that the request had been received. was transported to berlin after falling ill on a domestic flight in siberia and was recently discharged from the hospital political analyst gilbert doctorow says the west is deliberately piling the pressure on russia. i think this is a talking point. that i think we have to look at must

a statement from the state and not growing in the context of what i see is it wrong . on russia going on today a military from informational whether it was one thing we can all extend to bring in the lords into question the west is now all. pressure on russia on the only case is only one and it is a leader against mr looking as they are in their view and they want to to maintain it that way because if there were to be a proper investigation the absurdity of the claims made against russian. oil or the boy's name that was one would be. us democrats have lashed out at the release of a declassified report allegedly obtained from russian intelligence the documents claim hillary clinton personally approved a plan to undermine donald trump back in 2016 by linking him to russian hackers

according to his handwritten notes form essential intelligence agency direct to brennan subsequently briefed president obama and other senior national security officials on the intelligence including the alleged approval by hillary clinton when july the 26th 2016 of a proposal from one of her foreign policy advisers to vilify donald trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by russian security services. the claims are summed up in a letter from the director of national intelligence to the senate judiciary committee had alleges the text is insight into russian intelligence analysis and may reflect exaggeration or fabrication top democrats are saying the release of the findings so close to election is disturbing. now the claim that russia hacked the democratic national committee goes back to before the 2016 election it sparks years of investigations into alleged trump russia collusion and it culminated in the release of the muller report in april last year which failed to pinpoint any clear evidence

of collusion lou rockwell a political consultant and author says russia isn't going anywhere. the attorney general wants to reveal the truth i would i would very much like to see that notice that he said that he would give a private briefing to members of the just the judiciary committee if they were interested in that about things that had not been that he had not made. a boy so i hope a lot more is made public i think is a but many of these documents the american people need to see these documents about historical russian collusion which we know i think don't any of us to examine a knew was a fraud from the beginning but of course the american media hides it nobody knows about it unless you read certain publications i notice that joe biden last night in the presidential debate referred to trump as putin's puppet and that without any explanation or any evidence. so this is still the democratic line

although it's obviously ridiculous of the desert for mail back about 32 minutes with another full gets news this is r t international. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics sport i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. let's talk about tea and crumpets and. the london bridge and the.

time after time here we're going underground hours after democrat joe biden faced off republican president donald trump in the 1st u.s. presidential debates of the 2020 election conducted amid a global pandemic a climate crisis that threatens extinction mass demonstrations against racial capitalism and you're an acknowledgment of a new cold war coming up on the show after going underground fiery interview with former israeli prime minister who had baracoa here the other side from the palestinian ambassador to the u.k. . part 2 of us special investigations exploring the abraham accords we ask him of the extinction of the rules based international order could also mean the extinction of the palestinian people 20 years after the start of the 2nd intifada and what do members of the u.s.

republican party think of a historic deal which president trump claims heralds peace in the middle east we are to be chairman of the texas republican party a former member of the house of representatives and retired u.s. army lieutenant colonel allen west all the support coming up in today's going underground but 1st on sunday's show we spoke to former israeli prime minister defense minister ehud barak about the. abraham accords that normalize relations between israel and the u.a.e. in bahrain before terminating the interview he expressed his support for the chords and urged the palestinian leadership to use this moment to negotiate with israel you can find that interview in full in a you tube channel but now let's hear from the palestinian side joining me now by skype from london is the palestinian ambassador to the u.k. formerly the p.l.o. the man in washington who's arms almost ambassador thanks so much for coming back on the show before we get to the east shoes what's the situation with coronavirus in palestine there are reports of 47 percent of essential medicines in gaza depleted or close to run.