this is what's left of the round in this backyard it's really. a conflict between armenia. communities in the disputed region of. our reports from the area. russian from. militants being brought in from the middle east. we hear from civilians on the. war is not. as i do not want to talk about who is right or wrong but i would like. many people i know we're going to the front line we don't want blood. on the

kremlin alleges that he is working with the cia. in his 1st interview since coming out. around the clock across the world this is your archie from the team myself you know neal hello and welcome to the program. let's begin in the south caucasus region on the latest from the territorial feud between armenia and azerbaijan there's already been 5 days of intense fighting with both nations rejecting calls for a cease fire these are the latest pictures from they are many inside filmed by artie's video agency ruptly as you can see rocket launchers and other heavy weaponry are lined up along the front here. meanwhile local reporters are being caught in the

crossfire a cameraman from an armenian t.v. channel was severely injured during the shelling these are pictures of his car 2 french journalists also injured while covering the conflict are being treated in hospital. 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 after 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 bus 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 the. by johnny one so this is one of the places where it is as hot as it gets in the going to caravan there aren't many places that have it worse than the town of martini within the 60 minutes that we were filming there we heard artillery infantry drones all of them had their deadly say. is loosely connected and this was. some of the. you were when you move you do this

through. air raid sirens and the buzz of drones have become the terrifying soundtrack to this war in the gorn a cab back and this frontline town has enduring bombs all calibers this is what's left of the round that fell and 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 there are now completely gone both sides are ready to fight to the bitter end both sides have the fervent 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 you all grievances have only deepened and we've done

of reporting from the going to care about. you know just to give what we're speaking about some qur'an the nagorno-karabakh conflict is one of several border disputes which arose after the collapse of the song you knew the area broke away from us a by john in $18830.00 itself independent however the enclave populated mainly by armenians is not widely recognized as a sovereign state armenia and azerbaijan accuse each other of starting the latest hostilities. we have only one condition that armenia leaves our lands completely and immediately this is fairly if 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 of us by those uncompromising remarks there is widespread on knees and both armenia and azerbaijan over the deadly conflict we asked people in both countries how they feel about the escalation. of needs 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 sure 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. i fought in the 1st war and in 2016 nowadays people go to the front line. when the shelling will come down then we will be needed there we used to it this is our homeland we have nowhere to go i want to

tell you about another alarming element to the conflict russia and france both say there are indications of extremist militants being brought in from the middle east to fight in car a back. can break down the findings for us. these aren't just media reports it is the french president and manual macron making it clear officially that he's got the information that armed fighters from syria are engaged in the battlefield in mcgauran a car about here's what exactly came from the french leader. today we have information with certainty that indicates that militants from to have his groups who left the field of combat in syria to rejoin the field of qom but i'm carol soon after mr mccraw on the russian foreign ministry followed up and said that they have similar information as well which follows their own statement from wednesday when the russian diplomats warned of armed militants being moved from

syria and libya to the call flags own in nagorno-karabakh but officials in moscow for now are refraining from pointing out who the foreign militants are fighting for i can tell you that the government of us here by john is saying that there is no way that some kind of fighters from outside could be on the battlefield together with their army however the armenian side has previously blamed but who along with allies turkey for doing just that and they're actually saying that turkey and azerbaijan are exploiting terrorists to try and win the battle against the armenian army now in the meantime in a rare display of unity that doesn't always happen with many international conflicts the presidents of the u.s. russia and france came out with

a joint statement in which they are the governments of armenia and azerbaijan to urgently lay down arms and come back to negotiating table without any preconditions but i can tell you that the turkish the. type erred on pretty much destroyed this statement by saying that the 3 countries have pretty much failed in their attempts to do something to the crisis over the decades you should learn. the fact that america russia and france known as the minsk trio looking for ceasefire in the face of these negative development just because they have been equipped to this problem for nearly 30 years is unacceptable. on the other hand we are hearing from russian in turkish diplomats that for example. foreign minister perhaps chose 'd a bit more of a diplomatic approach to this we know that surrogate. are in touch over this and they are ready to coordinate their peace efforts that's how they are

. moving the stories on the kremlin spokesman dmitri peskov has accused alexina vuln of working with the cia prompting an untrue response from the russian opposition activist who says he's going to sue it follows the mollies claim in an interview with german media about the mirror putin poisoned him artie's peter all of the reports from berlin. alexina valmy used this interview to the german news magazine they should be able to thank the german people and in particular angle america for the help peter received german chancellor visited mist in the valley 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 if

britain against russia were unacceptable and also accused foreign intelligence services of working with mr novell me 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 normally chuck 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. government 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 rivals at that level are quite different people 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 family in the city of almost in 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 siberian 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. here in in germany and how those tests were carried out all of those remain unanswered it's important 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 that we turn to the o 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 interview and the shriek 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 of ali was alive right now was down to the quick thinking in the professionalism of the pilot that made the emergency landing the power medics that arrived on the scene at the airport in almost the medical

professionals that gave him treatment in hospital in the siberian city where i'm supposed to children 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 the arrogance because we dare to doubt their correctness and professionalism that's why they doubt the profession is move our doctors and investigators alexina valley 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 that he wants to return to russia as soon as it's possible. meanwhile russia has invited experts from the global chemical weapons watchdog to visit the country as part of their probe into the novell new case foreign ministry spokeswoman marie as a car said russia hopes for a productive cooperation with the o.p.c. w.

to quote shed some light on these murky events security analyst charles schumer bridge thinks the o.p.c. w.'s credibility will be called into question if it turns darn moscow's invitation . and i was that the west to say if they want to do that if they believe that shit is actually hiding something here which it may be it may not be this well done of course that it's time to consider west and many of those whose course will work for the a.p.c. to be sponsored and supported by western governments we saw that very much during the syria series of records at the a p c w i produced for any i think neutral objective investigative work questionable at best shall we say good moving on to the next on the case it allows the n.p.c. to be on the west to call russia's bluff if that's what they believe is happening it would be interesting to see what the n.p.c. response to this is because they don't except in the tension of course it and stem as an organization to as absolutely come to

a preordained conclusion still ahead in the program my column peo goes to the felt like and i get the cold shoulder from pope francis but that story and more after the break.

join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics or business i'm showbusiness i'll see if. you're back with our to international the u.s. secretary of state paid a visit to the vatican where he was hoping to meet with pope francis the holy see the klein that request saying the point of those meet with politicians during election campaigns my pump to urge the catholic church to join washington and

violations of religious freedom in china 2 years ago the hooli sea reached an agreement with the chinese communist hoping to help china's catholics yet the chinese communist pontus abuse of the faithful has only gotten worse the vatican in dangerous its moral authority should renew the deal. peo was referring to a 28 deal in which the catholic church agreed to recognize several bishops bought by beijing and it was seen as a 1st step in reestablishing relations between the vatican and china which were severed back in 1959 in response to criticism from the u.s. the papacy defended the agreement with china saying a direction has been marked is worth continuing international relations analyst victor gao thinks washington's attempt to pressure the father can is misguided. maloney's secretary of state and i all said the wrong thing and tried to interfere in the internal affairs of the holy see but also all the timing is very

suspicious a very sensitive right now and this is really troubling to see the secretary of state of the united states not doing diplomacy but actually becoming a warmonger and the rumor monger in the world very much in. the same footsteps with his president and we can see that washington is regrooving is moral us suffering from a seizure of hysteria extremism and hopelessness whatever your call it and or it wants to do whatever it can to practice the. syndrome to watch the kneecaps of china it wants to see china as an enemy and it wants the rally the whole world behind it to a not succeed because china has now a very significant force called global girls. moscow and other major

russian cities are tightening their coronavirus restrictions after a surge in cases artie's donnel quarter takes us through development. over the past several weeks russia seen a significant rise in the rate of new covert cases with nearly $9000.00 new infections over just the past 24 hours of course the country's 2 largest cities have been hit the hardest in st petersburg cases have exceeded those from june worrying authorities that a 2nd wave may have already begun they've already made it mandatory for people to wear face masks on public transport under the penalty of a fine but on the other hand moscow's mayor seems to think the capital has enough hospital beds to handle whatever comes out it but he still introduce new measures to deal with what he considers to be a very serious situation we are seeing a city rise in the number of coded 1000 cases over 2000 daily the situation is very dangerous predictably this uptick has led to an increase in the number of people hospitalized more than $5000.00 so guns new measures will go into effect on october

5th and they'll require all businesses to have at least 30 percent of their workforce on an at home work regime people $65.00 and older and those with serious illnesses will also be required to work from home and as for children the mayor has declared a 2 week school holiday for the beginning of october to curb the rate of infection the proportion of children who contract it could be 19 has for the 1st time exceeded 900 percent of all cases over the usually have mild symptoms or nonis will they can post the disease on to older family members who are likely to develop much more serious symptoms so far russia sporting the vaccine is going ahead with phase 3 testing as planned with no serious side effects reported the mayor of moscow hopes the 1st batches will be produced either by november or december and perhaps this time around the authorities will have an advantage on keeping new infections low. well the european union is taking legal action against the u.k.

over its plan to override the break to divorce treaty and it comes after the house of commons passed on internal market bill which is reported to contradict the withdrawal agreement approved last year picking up the story for us r t's. the u.k. governments that have introduced this internal market bill are still in the draft stages awaiting to be truth and to pass into normal essentially what it would do is by admission of the u.k. government itself is go against the withdrawal agreement that was agreed by the 2 sides at the beginning of this year and do much of the hard work done by negotiators on both sides of the e.u. commission have now put the u.k. on notice that they could be facing legal action as a result of this latest measure as you know how we had invited our british friends to remove the problematic parts are van draft internal market beyond the deadline lapsed yesterday we are going the problematic provisions have not been removed.

therefore this morning and the commission has decided to send a letter farmer notice to the u.k. government this is the 1st step in an infringement procedure this bill challenges some of the most important parts of the withdrawal egremont in particular to do the northern ireland protocol of course the border between the north and the republic of ireland is hugely important to the stability and peace of the island of ireland and yet there are those on the european side who say that this could threaten the good friday agreement this could violate the integrity of the single market this bill that is but also there are some again even within the british government the northern ireland secretary now themselves admitting that by doing this the u.k. government are violating international law this does great international law in a very specific and limited way we are taking the power to supply the you know

concept of direct the strategy and behavior of the british government was one of brinkmanship was one of threatening to crash you know if if you don't if we don't get to an agreement we like ok because i knew that sort of thing trust has. been eroded. tension has been created doubt have been created and that's not conducive to solid the course of actions we are less than $100.00 days away from the end of the so-called transition period and both sides and i should be really at this point trying to negotiate a deal to avoid a nodal outcome that many economists say would be disastrous for both sides not least the u.k. and yet who we are with one side threatening the other with legal action this is surely not how a negotiator is hoping to be going at this very late stage. just a reminder for up to the minute news views on plenty more in between our twitter page is well worth a follow up with lots to get stuck into there and i'm back at the top of the hour i

hope to catch you then to. it's sort of amazing country with so many friends in russia and i'm very excited to be here. i love that idea i think i can do that. every night to make a lot of money with which they make millions and hundreds of me. here is the nice what. a great wall and nobody feels a lot better than me believe me and i'll build a very inexpensive like a great great wall.

and just in case you're worried about who's going to pay for it mexico will pay for . it we'll see what happens. i always say who knows what we'll see on the field will be success. as the u.s. economy was booming growing numbers of people made homeless. you can work 40 hours in a week and still not have enough to get housing everybody believes america still is the land of opportunity the reality of it is we're not financially equality and the lack of affordable housing or living minimum wage gave many people no choice but to respin the problem with the city and always turn their backs on and told me stay away oh miss. the food that there is no answer because yes that requires resources the most vulnerable are abandoned on the streets to become the invisible cops.

welcome to the united states of america we call this the free but this country is home to largest prison population in the world we have more people in prison. more than we have colleges and universities one 3rd of all incarcerated females globally. are locked up here in the united states put that in perspective imagine all of los angeles and all of new york combined arrested every year. on. the even if.

not creepy little stuff pretty. much. as an american citizen you don't have to be a murderer or a rapist or a thief to be arrested. if you call the police in an emergency and find yourself arrested just because the officer doesn't like you. my strongest memory my mom is she was very into teaching sharing. loved each other how to put my own life on the line to try to just say my mom's had i known anything like this was going to happen. and it was a day just like any other day. i went over to my parent's house normally when i went over my mom went right on the on the front porch to greet me. she didn't come

to the door i was able to see her on the floor and she had been stabbed him beaten and left for dead. nose freaking out. right about. right now are are there are you know i was hysterical and i was yelling and screaming at the paramedics to hurry up and get her to the hospital so the doctors could do something to save her life. the police choke hold of me and him comfort me and put me in the car for my own safety a sense of when you call the authorities when something goes wrong you call for help and you put your full face on them i was. i mean the please i want to go to the hospital to be with my mom screaming crying you know. and he said no we have to go to police department the detectives interrogated this for 2 hours by the time he was done interrogating me.

so what would you do tell the cops whatever they want to know demand they release you scream argue maybe even fight. i. number of citizen watchdog group sure observe and record police misconduct their advice is to always be polite never engage with a negative aided or confrontational officer 1st of all just respected me. and my department you understand me when i'm talking to you can ask my being detained or am i free to go is she sees unusual behavior this is over i'm assuming i'm going to take my in my being detained or not go sir thank you if you're not being detained leave them are being detained the police can legally lie to you so don't get into any conversation or start answering questions.