to sit. in. a. recycling we have to leave it there to be like this the way they are today reports from. where air strikes have destroyed a hospital and residential buildings. between armenia and azerbaijan over the territory in search of a day now. and a very town just outside the main conflict zone is also bombed residents in the combo box tell us their huge support their own country's military operation. i'm originally from cairo i'm ready to defend my land we will win the lands back as soon as possible and we will go to karabakh and put a flag and. also this hour donald trump is moved to a military hospital after testing positive for coronavirus especially in the wild about the initial impact on the upcoming us presidential election. and the mayor

of a british town slams the government for its new coronavirus restrictions saying they're doing more harm than good. government announced an extraordinary short notice of the summit with. a range of measures to try to protect these measures went way beyond what was necessary. this is are to international is coming to you straight from the russian capital with your live news update this hour. we start with the deadly standoff between armenia and azerbaijan our correspondent who's in the conflict zone says 3 more explosions have been heard there today earlier during a nighttime bombing raid several residential buildings were hit a hospital that was treating soldiers was also damaged and there are unconfirmed

reports of casualties. reports from the scene today would witness one of the worst bombings subsequent to. the city which is the capital of nagorno-karabakh the disputed region here right behind the hospital it was bombed literally just minutes before we arrived here we actually had to had to hide in a bomb shelter and right after that we're right here it's all dark but it's all done because they wanted to be so delicate because well this is this is a matter of defense they make it more. every day when we have to leave but we're being told that this right here right here we see ambulances rushing. it has been like this all day but it. is being blown the levels in like a very large round of the pool. at least this is what the defense ministry of

armenia is telling out we have. like that again and again and again. this is the epicenter of one of the explosions that has battered stomach air tonight this could be a shock now it seems like it has been devastated just shattered glass from google because shattered glass windows are broken in fact look at this just managed to. pull it off there are boxes of there are boxes of stuff just goes something that i'm not even sure if it used to be it was sold on the floor of. the manager just put in the back it will take you to actually treat i give you i can even go and grab this looks it's something that looks like a deodorant and well now it's easy come easy go it's like a welcoming sign from

a road it's well this is where the portrait of the. king of the people who lived there for well. and lots of it still live in the world. building and leave the damage there is the most significant i mean. there's one thing that i have to tell you there was no reason for example to this place. residents of the building you just saw there ran for cover into their basement story in the raid they describe to us what happened. we have all the tall men who have a bomb in a cloud of smoke at the moment and the windows have been shot at the manage to climb down. i was in my room i was going to tidy up when there was a loud bang it wasn't bearable there was one massive impact i suppose of rubble doris retard their hinges and windows shattered there isn't much left of the house . people were killed and wounded although we don't know the exact number they were

taken away i guess the number is around 5 to 7 people the car about conflict is one of several border disputes a lingering since the collapse of the soviet union the mountainous territory is populated mainly by armenian christians from azerbaijan which is majority muslim in 1988 but there has not been widely recognized as a sovereign state according to the azerbaijani president in 1900 billions from his country have died in the conflict and 60 more are injured on friday hostilities spilled beyond the confines of the disputed territory when he bordering a very town was bombed as a brush on claims over 2000 shells were dropped in that raid and its capital people have been showing support for their military campaign local journalists as well live reports from baku his piece includes images of military strikes to be warned about that. morning knowing he'd be wrong. you'll see the. police what you

were doing was ask you for one. hour it's fine if they are late and you can't be going to the special line permission residents are quite enthusiastic. including the one time i. say that. would seek a. negotiation process so my support will be army you can see the national flags that. i'll find out or just the thank you the cards. let's listen to some of them will be asked ration expectations signal now that i am originally from carroll i am ready to defend my land i have been to areas where the fighting is if they call me i'm ready to go to war just like we will when all lands back as soon as possible and we will go to

karabakh and put our flag there only our people and soldiers can take our lands back people are not tired everybody feels motivated and wants to help our troops. that america have a negative attitude to the war young people are going to the war their minions must surrender and leave our lands. the service the mobilization and conscription a. 1000 young people. came to the. service. it's pretty decide to join the army or something because we think national t.v. will come and online media. outlets where we can see that absolute majority will become rich. it was going to. trump is said to be fever free and doing well after contracting coke at 19 that's according

to the white house physician this president is being treated in a military hospital where he's expected to remain for several days earlier showed a video thanking his supporters. oh to think everybody for the tremendous support i move into walter reed hospital or think i'm doing well but we're going to make sure the things we're the 1st lady's doing very well so we're thank you very much very appreciative of your. white house doctors earlier said the president had received anti-body therapy a number of people close to trump have also recently tested positive the white house says the president will carry on and his role but many of his political opponents are hoping he won't as in explains. talk of an october surprise a game changing event that comes right before us election has been pretty common in the united states for the past several decades well this year's october surprise is

here it came in the form of a positive coded 19 test for donald trump and the 1st lady the nation is in shock the white house knew that hope it suggests a positive and the president had been in close contact with her yet he proceeded to still travel yesterday. he is not able to fully perform his his duties as commander in chief we were seeing people without masks regularly we're seeing people stopping to not socially distancing they stop taking temperatures for people who are regular visitors to the white house and we have seen that it has ended up in the worst case scenario for the white house donald trump got tested after it was confirmed that his staffer hope ics had been infected the results came in and it was pretty clear at that point that the campaign is now curving in a new direction now let's not forget that donald trump actually downplayed the coded 19 threat and even mocked joe biden for being more cautious looks like by april you know in theory when it gets a little warmer miraculously goes away hope that's true we have

a very much going to go right here in the united states is lowest in numerous categories were lower than the were. they wanted me to come out and screw people and dying with no no we did it just the right way now we're weeks away from a vaccine we're doing therapeutics already fewer people are dying when they get sick far fewer people are dying we've done a great. democrats jumped on donald trump's diagnosis to once again call him out for mishandling the crisis going into crowds unmasked and all the rest the sort of a brazen invitation for something like this to happen the president of the united states and republicans in minnesota are actively spreading a deadly virus they are a risk to the public health of my constituents and our country though they have not done so in the past the administration must now full of the science and all

recommended health prosecute in order to not put additional people at risk and they must be completely transparent some of the reactions have gotten rather ugly it's been against my moral identity to tweet this for the past 4 years but i hope he dies the 2nd scheduled debate intended for the discussion of foreign policy remains up in the air even if donald trump doesn't get too badly sick he'll still be under quarantine now let us not forget that donald trump is 74 years old and overweight he is in a high risk group for home cove it can be lethal but i want to really trust the information coming out of the white house you have no idea how sick you as a 74 years old he's overweight he's in a high risk group and he may become us to view early ill if he goes into intensive care the way boris johnson did in april that could lead to a cost to final question as to who actually will run the white house and the constitutional mechanisms the extremely slow extremely inefficient and.

maybe faulty in design it's hard to believe they have to proceed taking over the white house but it's that's what the the law says so it's. may very well happen the situation is unprecedented the us is that train to a period of extreme turmoil things were already terribly large enough as they were now they are doubly so. over a dozen campaign rallies have now been canceled so how will the public react will there be sympathy for donald trump now that he's been infected or will this be seen as further confirmation of the democrats' argument that he lacks clear judgment only the voters can answer that question. r.t. new york. the mayor of a british city of middlesboro has spoken out against the country's new coronavirus restrictions saying they're doing more harm than good we spoke with him the government announced a extraordinary short notice they certainly didn't communicate with us all

a range of measures to try and protect people released measures went way beyond what was necessary and they're actually going to stifle all kinds of problems and of course thousands potentially thousands of job losses because damage mental health and are going to break down some of the elements of society that the really important cherished health doesn't necessarily just means physical health it means mental health and mental health is severely impacted when you can't even stand in your garden and have a coffee to meet with from a neighbor because that's what's coming your mental health suffers when you lose your job or your partner does or your parent s. by the way physical health will suffer with these new rules 2 people will not go out they will not run they will not mix so a lot of people get a lot less exercise. the new restrictions also affect a live report warrington and hartlepool they include a ban on people from different households mixing indoors and i think outdoors is a band but also isn't advised either and only essential travel is allowed. the

mayor's words have already been heavily criticized with the communities secretary bringing them irresponsible and impressing however again insists he's taking the pandemic seriously. so i'm not soft on colbert i want to control it but we have to find a way of allowing the life to go on mental health to be ok and says it all helps to be ok what we do know from our local experts is that 80 percent in fact just over 80 percent of all coked infections are happening within the home so we agreed with the government that it temporary restriction on socialising a home is a really good idea but categorically that should not spill out to your garden similarly we wanted to make sure that our venues are very well run and we want to make sure that people could meet for a bite to eat a cup of tea maybe even have a beer in a safe well run environment in a socially just setting none of those 3 environments none of those 3 things are

intrinsically risky so we feel that the government is important some of it goes way beyond what was necessary still had a british widow or has been overwhelmed by new friendships from all across the world thanks to a poster who put up in his window during lunch down at among our stories after the short break. is you'll be via reflection of reality. in a world transformed. what will make you feel safe from. thyssen nation full community. are you going the right way or are you being led

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when surfers in the area fell sick they reported severe i irritations sore throats and teeth since then people have spa the dead sea life including seals being washed ashore along 40 kilometers of coastline experts took samples and found petro chemical levels in the water were 4 times over the legal limit and also found elevated levels of phenol a toxic chemical and all mine campaign called save the pacific is now urging the local authorities and environmental groups to establish the source of the pollution and clean up the waters. a rally is now taking place in southern germany against the country's new coronavirus restrictions earlier this week the government imposed tight limits on public events and family gatherings and i'm going to cross live to our teams peter all over in berlin for more on this peter tell us about the latest restrictions and this public reaction we're seeing. well thousands of anti lock down campaign is fall right activists covert deniers

and anti vacs is only of them unhappy with the way that the german government has handled the pandemic of come out onto the streets of the southern german city of constance so part of a group that call themselves the lateral think is previous marches have been held here in berlin in fact a small scale version of one of these marches was held on friday night around 200 people came out to do that here in the german capital they marches take place they say because the coronavirus restrictions that have been put in place go against the german constitution now today's march in the southern city of constance the plan was that they would make a human chain along a 127 kilometer route from germany into austria we understand that the demo has gone off pretty peacefully reports from the police there suggest there's been no

major incidents taking place but if those people that are out on the streets think that it's by coming out to demonstrate they going to get rid of coronavirus restrictions the german chancellor angela merkel has another thing coming for them . yeah leaving that site we're seeing caution slipping everyone is looking for closeness and human contact they want to be close to friends and family again people want to be carefree and go out in public a few this myself i'm no different to anyone else but this is a long road we are not yet at the end of the pandemic but there will be tough times ahead with the approach of winter so i putu all of you to respect the rules which must stay in force for a while longer or germany like many european countries a seen an uptake a particular beg your pardon in corona cases recently 300000 or there abouts people have been infected with the virus here in germany around 10000 people have lost their lives to it already if we look at the increase in the number of cases that

we're seeing just a couple of months ago in organist $385.00 was around the amount that we were seeing per day on friday this week what this friday just gone in fact $2833.00 confirmed cases were found across germany now measures are coming in place that are going to be tougher this was announced by the chancellor last week this means that there's going to be stronger restrictions in red zones areas that have high amounts of the virus or high in number of cases of the virus there's going to be restrictions on the number of people that can gather it events weddings had been blamed for the spread of the virus in some parts of the country parties as well alcohol sales are going to be limited as well to just bars and restaurants and a hope to stop people from drinking in parks and having large gatherings there now the elderly and chronically ill have also being strongly advised to get

a flu vaccination that so that the standard flu pandemic flu epidemic that we get every year doesn't end up compounding the pressure that's put on the health. that's what that's the advice that's being given today though is the 30th anniversary of the reunification of germany it had been said to be a huge day of celebration those celebrations have been muted the major want took place in the city of potsdam not too far away from the german capital of berlin the german president frank falta steinmeyer admitting that yes the pandemic had an impact on the celebrations you know i learned from unseasoned eyes we all imagine this 30th anniversary of germany's reunification differently a large celebration with thousands of people from across germany in europe a celebration here in port should have reflected our diversity but it wasn't to be because of the corona virus we've almost got used to it the pandemic stands in the

way of many things including the big celebration of reunification day. that's the way it's looking here in germany crowds unhappy gathering in the 7 city of constance but those restrictions that are there to stop the spread of the coronavirus aren't going anywhere anytime soon artie's peter are reporting live from berlin then. as peter mentioned there in his report today marks 30 years since germany's reunification and in central berlin new celebrations have been overshadowed by street on rest and these images you can see several left wing activists being detained after they reportedly hurled rocks and bottles at police officers they were protesting against a far right march led by a group called the 3rd path security forces how the rival crowds apart. and the u.k. coronavirus restrictions have left many elderly people deprived of human

interaction and one widower decided to tackle the problem by putting a poster in his window asking for new friends are to shiny and one star went to meet with him. we spent probably one and a half hours sometimes 2 eating. drinking conversing and that was a huge thing it was in the cajun and now i don't have that. tony williams lost his wife to cancer cheering the cave at 19 locked down after 3 decades together but as is increasingly common for the older generation the loneliness that came with losing a longtime partner was devastating after my lovely wife died i found not only of her loss the loveliest person i've ever met. but i was on my own

i was in an area i had no friends or family i was absolutely isolated put a couple of virgins in the local paper but i didn't get in takers i had some cards printed a sort of introduction to myself although i distributed 29 nobody back the next thing was i had a poster printed put it up in my window had trouble is very few people walked past my window more than a 1000000 older people like tony can go for over a month without speaking to anyone a situation only worsened by lockdown but the media took up tony's cause and he was inundated with support the lovely thing was. not so much the quantity the quality the lovely messages i get from all over the world a heartbreaking tale with a heartwarming ending not quite as many have found before him media fame can take a dark turn with an inevitable public backlash that backlash came from tony's

neighbors who told me they were his friends and there for him in his time of grief they claimed the media circus was all a sham and the apparent rift with the people who call themselves his friends has ironically make tony more lonely than ever and some of them showing real anger about this to my face and some don't talk to me and i can't do anything about that this week i've decided to go those 2 things in this 1st of all the awful associations with moving here job becoming ill joe going into hospital and then coming home and coming home to die i can't think of this place except in those but also because people have misunderstood my motivation so there's another reason for moving away it seems tony and his neighbors have differing ideas of what true friendship looks like i was looking for something called friendship real

friendship now a friend to me is some of the you would immediately think of to go down the pub or to go on holiday with or if you're a mountaineering you'd want them on the end of the rope because your life depends on it that is a friend somebody you trust implicitly charge added stash d r t u k e stamp share. france's president has drawn criticism this week for his perceived meddling in lebanon's crisis it's one of a number of international situations he's gotten himself involved in something like is ations of over ambition trial didn't accept the story. initial over 3 years on the world stage france's president not corn has apparently become the go to man ladies and gentlemen my my 1st miss each he said france is back france is back at the core of for europe from syria to libya wrong to the sun hell mcconnell has

fingers in many pies high profile interventions have kept the international media fixated on him but as bold as they have been many of his cause celeb a seemingly in tractable this week alone he's been asked to mediate in belarus called for a cease fire in conjunction with russian president putin between as a bi schon and armenia and made his feelings over recent well known developments in lebanon known for all his efforts how much success has he achieved we have a president who resists so dark for. 2 days. each time he proposed mediation each time he proposed a conference or something like that but. no one success until now lebanon is a particularly sought issue when much corn arrived in beirut in the days following

those deadly blasts he hoped to instigate change he made bold to months he wanted an interim government appointed fresh elections and an audit of the national bank we need a new political initiative and i'm here to bring her good to coordinate and he broke the mold reaching out and holding talks with hezbollah that now backfired. welcome president book wrong as a friend who loves lebanon and wants to help lebanon get out of its crisis but there is no authorization for the french president or anyone else to be guardian georgia must have been on. for some experts his intervention smacked of hypocrisy his position on lebanon is contradictory with his other stated. positions for example when he went to algeria a few years ago he said that colonialism was a crime against humanity well if it was a crime against humanity then it surely wrong today for the french president to try

to. to control the government of lebanon from paris last year as france hosted the g. 7 summit not call got the nod to negotiate with iran as tensions between the gulf state and the u.s. looked ready to spiral out of control he pulled out all of the stops even flying the iranian foreign minister to the summit to hold talks u.s. president trump though appeared to be less enthusiastic about the situation is the president the british you know force of the iranian foreign minister if we continue to have. no comment needless to say despite macaroons best efforts the u.s. and iran remain polar opposites no one can dispute that not corn has been ambitious in his undertakings he wants to make sure that france holds on to its international client but for all his efforts some might be left wondering if he has

perhaps more than he can chew challenged r.t. paris. that's been a wrap up of the day's top headlines for now thanks for tuning in. everybody's reaching for their geopolitical. and i mean it's a russia and i think the resolution of this is there's going to be a nasty war that's going to go on for maybe months as john in an already rejected. must goes off to mediate because the fighting is too early on that people are now battling to see what territory they can get and i think when the fighting settles down and the lines are drawn and people realize that they're not going to move forward aback.