and i'll be speaking to us on the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then. go on. fighting between azerbaijan and armenia and does a 6 day taking an increasing toll on civilians with journalists also among those caught in the crossfire. russia and france say syrian militants are pouring into that conflict zone as trade accusations over foreign mercenaries. reveals here in the 1st lady have tested positive for cope with 19 will quarantine in the white house. busted for sanctions belorussian officials over allegations of election rigging with minutes to return the favor.

other thanks for joining us here on r.t. international. as a by chance says it's made strategic gains in its military campaign against armenia the reignited territorial conflict is into its 6th day the armenian side is also claiming success with the prime minister saying his to shut down for drones near the capital. hey you can see all media not television rocket launchers and hostilities i've seen civilians killed in the crossfire among them journalists a cameraman from an armenian t.v. channel was severely injured when his car was hit by shelling and 3 french journalists of those have been hospitalized covering the conflict all course wanted

to get down off reports from the battleground. deadly clashes continue hay in the disputed region of nagorno-karabakh both sides amenia and us air by john battering each other with artillery right now you have on is saying that dozens of its soldiers were killed yesterday alone while azerbaijan is saying that these numbers are actually in the hundreds saying that they killed hundreds of 1000000 soldiers so it is difficult to tell how many people exactly are dying here and who to believe this comes amid mounting reports of syrian fighters actually coming and fighting on the frontlines from the as there by johnny's side several news outlets reported this so it will be there by john of course who is denying these reports is denying all these claims also and yesterday yesterday's shellings several news crews to the news crews. and wounded for instance the journalist of the french

newspaper le monde they got caught up in the shelling got badly wounded had to be taken to hospital and surgeons had to operate on them to save their lives franzi was even trying to send a jet to evacuate them from this region also a cameraman of the local news crew was wounded as well all of that happened in the frontline town of martinique we ourselves filmed just a couple of days ago the city's being battered very very badly because not only not only drones can bombard but also it's within the. of the azerbaijani artillery now this town where we are right now the largest town in karabakh the town of panic is also being bombed regularly we heard explosions just a few minutes ago so really there's a no there's no safe place here and the fighting is not receding as both sides are refusing to sit to go back and sit at the negotiating table in

a go to care about conflict is one of several border disputes still unresolved since the collapse of the soviet union populated mainly by armenians broke away from us of john in 1988 but has not been widely recognized as a sovereign state meanwhile the french president has warned nato that alliance member turkey wish backs as a by this crossed a red line and on your microphone says he's received intelligence 300 syrian fighters let through the country on their way to fight for back you. john and armenia are accusing each other of deploying foreign mercenaries with more. well aside from an increasingly violent and volatile situation on the ground things are heating up on the diplomatic international stage and i would say at this point that they are boiling france now coming out with an increasingly hardline 8 stance

on what is happening in the region in these in this conflict and they're saying that they've come by the same intelligence as russia had that there are indeed syrian geologist's mercenary fighters being transported and utilized by is it about jobs in the fight against armenia. today we have information with certainty that indicates that militants from to have just groups who left the field of combat and syria to rejoin the field of combat and care obama has this information regarding the transfer of mercenary fighters from the middle east to the going to curb area the information exists and it was presented in social networks and relevant publications previously tacky and as ed by john had vehemently denied that they were usually using utilizing syrian mercenaries in the in the fight against armenia against catabolic but in recent days that lie has changed now they're accusing

armenia of itself using hiring mercenaries under the guise of them being volunteers . there is much historic evidence for meaning of terrorists and mercenaries during the occupation of nagorno-karabakh and adjacent regions of their beach on their mini and leadership continues this policy today mercenaries are pumped into the conflict zone disguised as mountaineers according to our information about food fans and militants have recently been deployed by turkey from syria to azerbaijan they are already fighting for azerbaijan they are trained in militant camps and than transferred merely calling its international concern doesn't quite do it justice there are very concrete fears that have taken root that this could be a runaway conflict the potential as collation could be catastrophic because all these powers regional powers could be pulled into this war into this conflict irregardless of what they want russia for example with its security pact defense

pact with armenia iraq making it know very well that it is tremendously concerned about syrian fighters mercenaries which is his forte in syria now being flew to its doorstep. just just to show how can they are france the united states and russia have come together in a in a comparatively rare feat addition to the joint statement calling for peace the turkey for one doesn't quite believe that that can happen you should learn the fact that america russia and france known as the minsk trio are looking for cease fire in the face of these negative developments just because they have been equipped to this problem for nearly 30 years is an acceptable turkey's position and to a lesser degree that of is it but john is that there has been years decades of talks and they've led to nothing they've been completely fruitless the karabakh

problem is still a problem the flare ups are still happening and they say this is not the time for peace this is a tired. to resolve this conflict by military means because all these talks have led to nothing and if we keep talking the conflict will keep escalating and unless the underlying issue is resolved and that is who controls karabakh the problem will persist as a version released these images showing the destruction of armenian military vehicles both sides have released a string of videos to back up their claims of tactical victories but are also making contradictory claims about the damage inflicted and sustained on. dissin from aisha's become one of the key weapons in the ground war. deception and full of military victories are as old as wolf heart south but in the digital age the dissent from ation can be tough charged the military propaganda machine of armenia which found itself in a stalemate after

a series of successful hostilities by the us or by johnny army began a large scale provocation in the information space though the armenian side as always presents old video of battles as new ones the goal was to present their failures to the population successes the ongoing conflict in the want to care about is an example of how information is deployed just as powerfully and destructively as guns claiming victory can play as important a role as physically claiming territory it's all about the image you project so one surprise in that just as azerbaijan tried to discredit armenia as claims of success yet on shot off its own attack the enemy both at the front and in the information space is making its last efforts is running out of steam and therefore threw everything possible weapons into and even fakes and falls over the past few days there has been a relentless stream of accusations from one side followed by denials from the

author and this exchange of fire has made finding the truth almost impossible for example armenia says one of its su 25 warplanes was shot down by tucker's fighter jet talky and as a by john denounce this is lawyer i'm with no footage or i want to says it's one side's word against the others so was the truth but even when evidence is put forward the truth proves to be just as elusive the car back to france ministry sit down and azeri helicopter a photo of a burning helicopter into the ground is posted on social media a small victory is claimed it turns out the photo was actually of a helicopter shot down over syria back in february but it doesn't matter because people were. thought it was a sorry and that will stick as way john uses the same tactics to post about a successful strike the bridge on his side did not publish any images of the strikes and the remain in positions of military equipment it turned out it was for

those from the war in syria these videos were shared thousands of times and so without being the truth they become a version of the truth so we're letting this has this war of information become that journalists have been put on high alert. is all members of the media in armenia and azerbaijan to not take part in the ongoing information war journalists should avoid when appeal ation and official propaganda it is important to cross-check information even when it comes from official sources journalists should never become soldiers in the information war one of russia's most famous authors once compared finding the truth to looking for gold he said the only way is faster wash away all that is not gold then you will find your shining nugget well when it comes to car but there's still a knot of sifting through the muddy river of misinformation to be done before we even get close to the truth. trump has announced he and his wife

will are near trump both tested positive for covert 90 comes not long after he said he would go into quarantine after its closest aide also tested positive for the virus earlier discussed the development with r.t. america scottie nell hughes. most people went to sleep here in the united states they gave us hope hicks the president's longtime aide and 31 year old assistant was the one who tested positive last notes from the president most people went to sleep was that he had been tested he and his wife been tested since then about 12 o 5 the official memorandum came from dr connally the president's physician confirming that both the president as well the 1st lady was had tested positive however it does that the president is in good health and will continue to be able to handle the position we here in the united states do have the ability thanks to the 25th amendment that the president is incapacitated he can temporarily pass his

powers over to the vice president we are not at this stage because the president himself is a systematic as of now and only took the test because of a closeness that he had to hope x. after he tested positive herself and she said asymptomatic the must be some implications so when it comes to his campaigning how is this going to affect what he would normally be doing in his bid to you know style this president. well that is a very good question we're going to find out a lot once the sun rises here in the united states how people are going to react to it is there going to be fear obviously the markets are going to be the 1st test to see how wall street is reacting to it but the campaign is very much alive and i'm on task considering it's $32.00 days the president has all campaigning there all of it that he was going to be attending as evan now he cleared his schedule only one happening at 1215 today he's going to host a phone call from the white house on oddly enough coded 900. years since then i

think the president knows very much personally right now how to handle we are within the 14 day quarantine timeframe however to the next debate which is supposed to happen on october 15th so it will depend on whether or not the president is able to meet the specific guidelines as of now they are too negative a test to do negative test taken whether or not the president has this 2nd debate as scheduled on time i honestly my personal opinion is i do not think it is going to be very likely i think they will push 'd it outside the 14 day window and there will be that 3rd debate that's supposed to be happening in nashville tennessee on october 22nd as well all of these can be pushed on the one thing that cannot be pushed off however is the actual election date which is november 3rd it has never happened in history to take it through a 3rd vote by congress to change the election date and congress has not gotten along very well on any issue let's be very highly doubtful that they would change it even on this. the you have sanctioned dozens of by the

russian officials relegations of election rigging the country's brutal crackdown on protests to schools quick to react you should. list there's still a. postponement the pizza roll of that have to do pizza 1st of all why would these sanctions deemed necessary. well they would be. syria according to the e.u. commission and the european leaders of the individual member state leaders of the e.u. council on counts of falsifying election results and cracking down on protests following that election back in august these sanctions had been a long time coming though they were agreed late night on thursday both the delay was quite embarrassing for the e.u. it resulted from cyprus saying they wouldn't budge on agreeing to the sanctions until the problem that they have with turkey and turkey exploring for energy

sources off their coast was sorted out it requires unanimity amongst you member states to do things like putting sanctions in place but yes they target 40 individuals in bellary so high ranking officials but not the highest ranking notably absent from this list is alexander lukashenko announcing the sanctions we heard from mr fein the law and the european commission president saying they send a message. there will be no impunity for those who are responsible for the crackdown on demonstrators and opposition politicians sunni important is this a clue. we are critical and we repeat it we would like to to to consider the people of the the rights to do to mean what's the only future. well money one micron the french president backed not putting sanctions on

alexander lukashenko a move which certainly raised more than a few eyebrows the british of course did issue an asset freeze on the ballot russian president previously he said by if they'd put sanctions on mr luker shanker then it would have put more pressure on the already embattled president and he could well have adopted a bunker mentality and not cooperated at all in the future i'm going to merkel the german chancellor said that it was difficult negotiations that got them to this point but referred to it as a big step forward in terms of minsk reaction to the sanctions well they're less than impressed as you would imagine they've said that no nation would've had to the demands that were being made of it by the european union and that they may well and they will sorry i beg your pardon react with sanctions of their own in turn to this move. saying sions have been imposed as a punitive measure for the belorussian failure to comply with a set of ultimatum requirements that not

a single self respecting sovereign state would ever meet. well moscow which has a key role to play in the future of belarus due to the close and historical ties between the 2 nations they've said they don't agree with placing the sanctions we heard from dmitri peskov the kremlin spokesperson saying just that. 'd these sanctions are a manifestation of weakness not of strength had been included on the list that would have deprived the e.u. the chance to maintain dialogue including on topics of interest to both sides we have a very negative attitude toward sanctions in january. of the u.k. and canada had already previously put sanctions in place the delay from the e.u. highlighting splits within the bloc basically the baltic states and particularly. were very keen to get these done last week however cyprus said no we'll get to your

problem once ours has been sorted out not resulted in this long delay late night negotiations on friday into where into friday morning obs thursday night into friday morning were eventually got there the e.u. has placed these sanctions on 40 beller russian officials but not president alexander lukashenko many thanks of course when the berlin peter oliver with that date. because the reaction now from run a road geopolitical honest to base the in germany welcome. so president he's the one who would directly benefit from any vote rigging is the one who would benefit from suppressing the protesters is the one who's not on the sanctions list why on earth not. i think that the e.u. is leaving some space for making the sanctions tough ther step by step because we have already seen an attempt of the european union to channel into bailout was

50000000 euros why are the coordination council of the opposition this attempt has failed because the opposition didn't want to lose its good reputation as a real internal belorussian opposition by receiving money from the european union that we had to step that lithuania has acknowledged. as the president and now we are seeing these sanctions which 1st have been blocked by cyprus so i think it's just a game of slightly stepping up the tone against. against look i shan't go and i see the difficulty that. usually when we have reached a stage of sanctions once it's like a one way road and we will never never get out of it so we can take years and that was sanctions 1st may harm or amaze seem to harm the political elite but in the end

we know from enough experience in this world iraq syria venezuela cetera that it's the normal people it's most of all the poor of people who are hit very very severely by those sanctions as soon as they get really tough do you think that can be an element of why they impose sanctions then to make conditions worse for members of the public to ratchet up that animosity the level of their protests. that's a clear and no one part of the strategy of imposing sanctions and it has been uttered several times also concerning syria that the e.u. and also the united states is trying to bring up the people in riots began to the government to topple it so it's part of the math it and the victims are the population the poor population and this is of course against the charter of the

united nations because it's also sort of force which is applied here or also in the case of other countries with stronger sanctions it's also kind of force which is against the independence of another sovereign country it is against international law and he thinks my guess run the road 1st geopolitical analyst in germany that thank you thank you. moscow another major of russian cities toughening up their coronavirus restrictions following a surge in cases still call to takes a stew the measures. 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 in the developments a very serious i expect the daily caseload to predict 3000 in the coming days we are seeing an increase in the number of people hospitalized they say who is seriously ill patients on the ventilator all these numbers are rising the daily hospitalization rate has reached 1000 and this is twice as high as 2 weeks ago. so gannon's 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 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've contract it could be 19 has for the 1st time

exceeded 900 percent of all cases over the usually have mold 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 speaking of time restrictions a sponsor spoken out between north ortiz in madrid on the spanish government imposed lockdown measures on the city and surrounding areas the region is the country's worst hit mike over 19 accounting for more than a 3rd of infections but the local administration says the needle down is illegal and that it violates freedoms. ok what i can tell you is there we have to act with determination to take control of the pandemic in the majeed region and this is the most important thing we have to do in this moment because health comes 1st. we

believe this document contains decisions that concern the entire national health system and above all the fundamental rights and freedoms of millions of people the minister is imposing measures that go against the will of many citizens. and that the new restrictions residents of madrid will not be allowed to leave the area unless they have to make an essential journey social gatherings will be limited to 6 people bars and restaurants will have to close by 11 pm and parks and playgrounds will be off limits the measures have already led to mass protests more than 2000 people gathered to denounce them on friday protesters pushed rubbish bins into the road and chanted slogans demanding freedom we asked residents of madrid what they think of the new lock down. at the back you have to turn it into a political war they're playing with us and they should be aware that they have to see this is a pandemic not a political war i think there is

a real threat and this could be improved a lot if the necessary measures are taken with more transport put on to avoid grounding. if you lock people up at home for the virus for the flu for a cold everything will get better but people don't have anything to eat you just have to take a walk through madrid to see the shops are all closed people will eventually have to grow their own potatoes because i don't know what we're going to eat if madrid closes again. bridges rather today appreciate you staying with r.t. international more coming on the top stories in half an hour. the. first presidential debate exhibited lots of like not much one can argue neither candidate lost the. neither was a perfect reflection of the nation's politics put the campaign coming to an end to the debates have any meaningful impact is there such

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