i doubt. this is what's left of you around the world from this backyard it's really. the conflicts between armenia and azerbaijan takes a brutal toll on communities in the disputed region of michael mcconnell our sheer force from the area affiliates are now into the 5th date with the 2 nations rejecting calls for a cease fire we hear from civilians on both sides of the divide who say they do not want war as an armenian i do not want to talk about who is right or wrong but i would like the issue to be resolved through negotiations i don't like what is happening many people i know are now going to the front line we don't want to pressure. and the kremlin alleges that unexplainable only works for the cia after

the opposition figurehead accuses the bottom reporting of boys and its 1st interview since coming out of a coma. good afternoon and welcome to the program this is our 2 international coming to you live from the russian capital bring you your life news update. armenia and azerbaijan have both rejected calls for a cease fire and rolled up peace talks as hostilities over a disputed border territory and for their 5th day now these are the latest images released by azerbaijan showing the destruction of armenian military vehicles and i'm going to region science has released a string of videos to back up their claims of tactical victories. meanwhile local reporters are being caught in the crossfire a camera man from an armenian t.v. channel was severely injured during

a shelling and these pictures were about to show you here are of his car 2 french journalists were also injured while covering the conflict and are being treated in hospital r.t. is it just all of reports now on the impact on local communities. nagorno-karabakh is sandwiched between the 2. and as they are by john but as commanders in chief are deploying platoon off to platoon to the frontline it's often civilians who end up in the crossfire on both sides were in a small town in the disputed nagorno-karabakh region the front line is about 5 to 7 kilometers that way and thereby johnny shell flew from over there and made this crater and well that was a bust staying right here has already been cleared the debris and it was bustling with people as a result because of the strike this strike killed 2 people and 5 more were wounded all of them civilians this is no military complex it's just a building just a house we're live in in fact i'm being told that these these areas are being

shelled relentlessly even though the closest military position is about 3 to 4 kilometers away that way what you what you're hearing right now is them firing in fact we could hear just minutes ago a u.s. v. and sometimes even see it as it was making circles above us it was not in armenia and it was in azerbaijan one so this is one of the places where it is as hoarse as it gets in the going to care about their own many places that have it worse than the town of martinique within the 60 minutes that we were filming there tillery infantry drone wall of them had their deadly say. you would be a new movie that is true. and i read sirens and the buzz of drones have become the

target finding soundtrack to this war in the gorn a camera back and this from playing town his enduring booms all calibers this is what's left of the round that fell in this backyard it's really heavy and well i'm being told it's about 160 millimeters in caliber which makes it a truly formidable project and you can see the amount of damage that it did here for instance here used to be the gates well they are now completely gone both sides are ready to fight to the bishop around both sides of the fervid support of their populations sharing an underlying belief that it's them fighting for the right cause and not the enemy with all the horrors that have already haunted this land this war shows that the your grievances have only deepened and we've done of reporting from the green a care about. the girl i care about is one of several border disputes remaining

from the collapse of the soviet union area broke away from azerbaijan and 1988 and declared itself independent over the enclave mostly populated by armenians is not widely recognized as an independent state. turkey has expressed starch support for azerbaijan in the conflict who insists that support is limited to diplomacy although ever and i love is that turkish air forces are getting involved as well as more on the escalation here is our senior correspondent juan garcia reporting from istanbul. well there's been absolutely no lol in the fighting continued overnight raged i would say every few hours we're also seeing casualty numbers both military and civilian so far and it seems to be getting worse and worse and the escalation seems to be escalating itself and this is all despite tremendous diplomatic pressure for both sides to take a pause to take

a break to anything you know give talks the charts despite everything the international community is doing the violence seems to be getting worse on monday but we have only one condition that armenia leaves our lands completely and immediately this is file it is the armenian government complies with this the fighting will stop there will be no bloodshed there will be peace peace will come to our region. i believe the armenian army can secure a country and the self-defense forces of the golden corral bark or successfully protecting their region from a political standpoint i believe it's very important for us that international partners know how and who started this military action. one of the one of this rhetoric though it isn't stark contrast to what ordinary people think here in istanbul and in out of mean year in catabolic in baquba people know off the so many years of escalations of flare ups that peace doesn't come through war

medical needs more poverty as an armenian i do not want to talk about who is right or wrong but i would like those issues to be resolved through negotiations not force. and 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 shed 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. world. i fought in the 1st war and in 2016 nowadays people go to the front line to win the shelling will come down then we will be needed there we used to it this is our homeland we have nowhere to go the losses both sides are suffering though we can't verify everything it's impossible for now tremendous so the perhaps the sheer magnitude of what is happening will force both sides to take

a pause and to reconsider the approach that they're both taking but for now that seems a dim concept because the the president of carabao has warned his citizens that people have got about to prepare for a prolonged war is it about johnny side has as we mentioned earlier 3 obviously set its path and that path is to reclaim gadabout by force russia the u.s. and france have jointly called for a cease fire and i'm going to cut off the 3 powers chair the o.s.c. mintz group a body overseeing peace efforts in the region and they called for an urgent restart of negotiations between armenia and azerbaijan through the minsk format both russia and france have taken a neutral position in the conflict and how voiced alarm over the apparent role of foreign fighters and the area present micron's said he's received information that militants have been brought in from syria and russia's foreign ministry on wednesday and on stay similar finding walking them in any foreign involvement

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 exists we call in the leaders of the countries involved to take active measures to prevent the deployment of foreign terrorists messing reese in the conflict and to ensure the immediate withdrawal from the region earlier my colleague unit o'neill spoke to a political analyst focusing on the region who says the situation is more complex than it 1st seems. there are many organizations not to blame i don't think it is real be bodies' media or dorky me they are all frustrated by gen or even dimly that it is mainly i suppose the initiative belongs to a certain financial and slumming financial firms related to the muslim presence in another meaning of the. we've seen over the last number of days statements of support from and credit 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 foot of the gun the shaken out too many forces inside or you would include of the gun party 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 the conqueror over there are many and like stuff that you would cause a big greek conqueror so that is if military for sure i wanted to buy johnny's but if it means we have begun to lose nothing because of its beauty but it's not about genocide we have noted relations. russian opposition figure on exam of ali has given his 1st interview since coming out of a coma and he talks about surviving his now we choke or deal on point the finger of

blame at the latymer putin artist but all reports from berlin. alexei navalny used this interview to the german news magazine dish beagle to thank the german people and in particular angle america for the help it received the german chancellor visited mr novelli secretly while he was in the shot at a hospital here in berlin in the interview mist in the valley pulls no punches about who he thinks is behind his alleged poisoning he points that finger of blame firmly at russia and directly at president vladimir putin the kremlin has responded to this kremlin spokes person dmitri peskov saying the claims made against me of britain against russia were unacceptable and also accused foreign intelligence services of working with mr novelli i claim that putin is behind the crime and i have no alternative versions of what happened i don't say that to flatter myself but on the basis of fact the most important fact is novacek the order to use

a manufacture it can only have come from 2 men the head of the f.s.b. or of the foreign intelligence service the s.v.r. and western intelligence services are working with him in particular the cia we believe his accusations against the russian president are groundless and unacceptable his interview reveals that he thinks he's as important as the leader of a state but the real royals at that level are quite different people you know. germany says tests that were carried out show traces of novacek were found now the same type of tests that were carried out on alexina valley in the city of of skin russia where he 1st received medical treatment well they showed no sign of any such poisoning alexina valise team sent acquired a bottle from a hotel room that he'd been staying in in the side perience city of tomsk this bottle was then sent with other things he had to germany where tests were carried out on it and that is where the novacek was found now there's

a lot of questions about how that bottle got from a hotel room to you here in in germany and how those tests were carried out all of those remain unanswered it's important to course because the whole idea that he was report that he was poisoned with an overcharge nerve agent hangs on the results of those tests now the russian prosecutors have sent 3 requests to berlin for the sharing of information relating to those tests and others that were carried out all mist in the valley so far all of that has fallen on deaf ears but it is not abuse or we turn to the p.c. w. which unfortunately was playing for time and then told us we need to go back to berlin can you believe that when we were 1st appealing to believe in it directed our communications to the p c w this is a vicious circle it is illogical absent and everyone understand it or go back to the interviewing alexina violently says the russian made attempts to keep him in the country once he was in hospital in siberia i think they were determined not to

let me out of the country which is why they publicly stated that i was not fit for transport they waited for me to die in my eyes the chief medical cost bittle is worse than the intelligence officers who kill people for them killing is at least their job or previously russian foreign minister sergei lavrov it said that the very facts alexei avali was alive right now was down to the. the quick thinking and the professionalism of the pilot that made the emergency landing the power medics that arrived on the scene at the airport in herbs and the medical professionals that gave him treatment in a hospital in the siberian city of worms bostich so the impeccable work for pilots doctors and paramedics is presented as a lucky coincidence they don't even admit that we acted in a proper way our western partners look at us with arrogance because we dare to doubt their correctness and professionalism that's why the tao the professionalism

of our doctors and investigators the election of ali was discharged from hospital here in berlin last week he had spent 2 weeks in an induced coma and is currently undergoing physio therapy following that he has said though that he wants to return to russia as soon as it's possible. german journalist and author thomas fassbender told us that all these claims appear to be based on a series of assumptions if you look at numbers on these argument it is interesting it's not an ex use asian by any proof it's an x. as asian by conclusion his arguments goes the way that there are only 3 people who can approve of the use of the knowledge of nerve agent which jordy had sort of 3 secret services in russia and they would not do anything without the approval of mr godin interestingly also in the same interview you mentions the possibility that not 3 beeblebrox 30 may have access he calls it much worse even with with some

reason probably but this is that all he has is this one conclusion there is no further proof still to come in the program amnesty international has a kiss france of using the pandemic as an excuse to crackdown on protesters and more on that after this short break. the world is driven by a dream shaped by one person. thinks . we dare to ask.

first presidential debate exhibited lots of like but not much one could argue neither candidate last night there was a perfect reflection of the nation's politics but the campaign coming to an end did the debates have any meaningful impact is there such a thing as an undecided voter. welcome back to c international has issued a damning report condemning the french government's brutal crackdown on protestors and also alleges that the pen demick is being exploited to bring in repressive

measures here's charlotte with the details. honesty international told but in this report accusing authorities of using oppressive laws in the period pre and post the code 19 locked down thousands have been arbitrarily fined arrested detained and prosecuted for peaceful activities which should not be considered defenses peaceful protests have been banned under draconian kovi 900 powers and hundreds of protesters find. the report says that despite the code red lockdown ending in may a barrel all public gatherings of more than 10 people remained in force it claims that this was disproportionate given that other launch gatherings in open spaces were permitted yet even though it was deemed illegal protests did take place including ones linked to the black lives matter movement oh it

was. good. things come on i was just. going to the burn was eventually overturned by francis highest administrative court but amnesty says that dozens if not hundreds of protesters were fined for participating in small public gatherings over the past few months it says in the cases that it has documented the fines imposed appear to constitute a disproportionate restriction to the right to freedom of peaceful assembly that includes the case of eleanor a health worker took part in a protest calling for support for the public health system they say the police stopped eleanor who was alone at the time in front of the closing stores are law

enforcement officials checked eleanor's backpack which contained a gas mask and a pair of goggles they told her that she would be fined for participating in the band protest they subsequently arrested her and placed her in a pre-charge detention for participating in the group with a view to preparing violent acts in 20182019 amnesty says that more than 40000 people were convicted on the basis of vague laws the yellow vests movement was hit particularly hard.

but it's not just protesters who've been at the receiving end amongst those detained were 1st aiders human rights observers and journalists we were in plaster republique i was filming the priest cordons there were clashes around the square but not where we were walking we decided to leave and suddenly my friend shouted brice watch out several police called me from behind and forced me to the ground they insulted me and asked if i throw projectiles against them i told them that i was a journalist and that i had my student card royce was placed in pre-charge detention before being told that he would be prosecuted for using violence against public officials he was later acquitted amnesty is now calling on the french parliament to review and to repeal all laws that impose

a punishment solely for the exercise of the right to peaceful assembly it also wants the interior and the justice minister here in france to offer clearer guidance from law enforcement officials so that in less someone is carrying a pair of goggles or a face mask and this suspected of being involved in a violent crime they are not subject to detention in light of this report amnesty says it's ironic that a country with such a low. all and proud tradition of collective action for social change is criminalizing protest in this way. r.t. paris has the french government to respond to an assist charges so far no comment. a french rights defender says the way protesters have been treated as an m i trust the french government. to you chris to cross at this point to europe

now to call them do you know there is. the president micro used the police. very strong. straight to to stop the protests using force which was not necessary but in fact he was using force to dent the people stay home to grow this industry they were not guns there are delinquent people they were just upset of the leaving of the level of living in france i think the people are. in there risky in there and they are hurting their soul and there is no account let's not trust the president and i think is going to be very hard to lead to. these 2 years before the new presidential election there is a dress of you know i think from from the french people. here pay says

it's poised to impose tougher and take over it measures as the infection rate spirals with over $7000.00 infections registered in just 24 hours there is only one way of doing this and that's by showing a collective forbearance common sense and willingness to make sacrifices for the safety of others and i have to be clear that if the evidence requires it we wound not hesitate to take further measures that would. i'm afraid be more costly than the ones we put into effect not one week ago the prime minister brought in a 10 pm curfew for pubs bars and restaurants and in england similar restrictions were also introduced in scotland and wales along with a 15 person limit at weddings u.k. government also introduced its rule of 6 this was meant to simplify and strengthen the rules on social gatherings but as kate partridge reports from london it led to

more confusion in the u.k. suffering from covert 19 confusion rising levels of corona virus infections a causing widespread but forment among the public and officials struggling to implement the policies aim to defeat it even the prime minister mixed up some jurisdictions it's 6 in 6 in the hospitality but as i understand it not successful but boris johnson got it wrong and had to tweet an apology apologies i misspoke today in the northeast new rules mean you cannot meet people from different households in social settings indoors including in pubs restaurants and your home you should also avoid socialising with other households outside that couldn't go are mentioned by the opposition leader who seized on his rivals gaffe to highlight public confusion about exactly who is supposed to do what if the prime minister doesn't understand the rules and his own council leaders are complaining about mixed messages how does the prime minister expect the rest of the country to

understand and follow the rules the prime minister is also facing opposition within his own party with some slamming the new measures and especially the hasty implementation through parliament as the death of freedom when you've got a body of lords are at large changing that fast i doubt really anyone understands what that lauri's this is not a fair environment for a free people you have people think that liberty dies it dies like this with government exercising draconian powers without parliamentary scrutiny in advance though i. those think the policy is don't go far enough one conservative m.p. thinks the military should oversee any potential mass vaccination and then issue certificates for international travel i have written to the prime minister recommending recommending that he consider calling on the ministry of defense to establish a small task force led by a senior empowered voice of authority to begin the planning and design of a draft blueprint known forces have the capacity the logistical experience and the

national reach and i'm not overburdened by any current duties involving tackling covert 90 while parliament itself felt the wrath of public opinion when it was revealed the bars in westminster were exempt from the new 10 pm hospitality curfew a loophole that was swiftly closed following the indignant backlash one will for them and one for us no wonder the contras ignoring the 10 pm course you know this whole part is corrupt in everything they do instead of being shocked about parliament closing at 10 pm shouldn't we be asking why part of it needs a. no wonder m.p.'s keep doing u. turns all the time the u.k. has heard several anti covert government mantras stay at home protect the n.h.s. save lives was a guideline people could understand but the rule of 6 prompted the question which 6 and even flux the prime minister confusion has replaced clarity which also begs the

question can the government expect the public's to follow the rules if they're struggling to explain them or even agree on the cape partridge altie london that's a roundup of the day's top news for now as always thanks for tuning in. when i was still seemed wrong. i mean the world to get to shape out these days becomes to add to it and engage with equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. well let's talk about tea and crumpets and scoundrels the london bridge and the.

oh. the u.s. economy was booming growing numbers of people. you can work 40 hours in a week and still not have enough to get housing everybody believes america still is the leader of opportunity the reality of it is that we're not financially quantity and i'm not comfortable housing or living minimum wage give many people no choice. that's been a problem with the city you know it is time to make sure to stay away on a little bit. of the food that there is no answer because yes that requires resources most vulnerable were abandoned on the streets to become the invisible clubs.

this is boom bust the one business show you can't afford to miss friendship or in washington coming up the numbers are in the united states took a major hit to its g.d.p. in the wake of the coronavirus dropping more than 30 percent annually straight ahead we analyze the extreme drop in the state of the real economy here in the u.s. plus a big check and seeing an influx of anti-trust cases as tech tensions continue to rise across the globe later on in the show where to take a look at the cases and what's at stake moving forward with a packed show today. that will lead the program with the latest economic data out of the united states the commerce department reported wednesday gross domestic product fell by a record 31.4 percent in the 2nd quarter of 2020 now the number was a slightly better than the 31.