there's tried to destroy a hospital and residential buildings in the disputed region of. r.t. reports from the ground at hostilities between armenia and azerbaijan continue. to leave. on azerbaijan side of the border and outside the main conflict zone one town is reportedly hit by around 2000 shells and. record numbers in france as reports suggest the government could enforce a nationwide shutdown on restaurants and museums from monday.

broadcasting live director our studios in moscow this is r.t. international i'm john thomas glad to have you with us now we start with the deadly standoff between armenia and azerbaijan and now into a 7th night several powerful explosions have been heard in the past number of hours . late on friday several residential buildings and a hospital were hit in a bombing raid casualties have been reported as he goes down off on the ground at 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. at the hospital it was formed 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 this is the epicenter of one of the explosions that has battered statoil macaire this is your shop now it seems like it

has been devastated your case just shattered glass something new for you you because shattered glass windows are broken there are boxes over there of boxes of stuff destroyed and well now it's easy come easy go it's like the welcoming side from a road just follow that every day when we have to leave you know what we're being told that this right here right here we see ambulances rushing it has to be like this. but it. is because the level is even like very large rounds of the pool busy think of it at least this is what the defense ministry of all media is telling us. the residents affected by the raid used their basements to take cover we spoke to some of them. don't have all the tall man who have a bomb in a cloud of smoke at the moment and the windows have been shot at the manage to

climb down you have a lot of 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 that are i'm attorney representing the red cross in armenia says civilians and caught a buck are terrified and many have nowhere to go faster now to do still. in and around the areas feeling missed because of the intensity of i think on the boss didn't know the situation to receive words and we see calls of people who are pretty terrified and don't know. what to do. to be in a safe. space and they see this is really very worrying also on the

onset of winter when children are just several weeks into that school just and basically it's a day that people are trying to protect themselves and being anxious you know the nation's already severe situation is populated mainly by armenians with the region breaking away from azerbaijan in 1988 but the area has not been widely recognized as a sovereign state was about john is insisting armenia is entirely to blame for the current flare up president. claims armenians are occupying a very a land and to do not want peace he also said in 1000 civilians from his country have died in the conflict 60 more have been injured on friday the hostilities spilled beyond the confines of the disputed territory when a bordering a very town was bombed by john claims over 2000 shells were dropped in that raid. which in years now authorities in paris are considering whether to shut down all bars restaurants and museums after a jump in corona virus infections the nationwide caseload and now stands at almost

600000 putting hospitals under severe strain the country's nursing union has warned that intensive care units could soon become overloaded. we feel betrayed the government is deaf to our needs for each 1002 cabins france has 5.9 intensive care beds whereas germany has 8 france has 10 nurses bear 1000 people germany has 13. covert patients currently take up almost a quarter of all intensive care beds across france and this week the number passed a critical threshold 1200 out of 5000 beds medics are also warning of a critical shortage of personnel a doctor in marsay told us that he believes the system is in crisis. so. for several years now nursing stuff has been warning of chronic stuff from shortages but nothing is being done about this at the university hospital pump in

positions of cuts we're relying on medics in temporary roles who moved around departments and the north's able to adopt to the virus every year seasonal epidemics pissed on hospitals even without it and now the situation is very difficult this should have been a mass recruitment campaign in both hospitals and. russia's environmental regulators are investigating a spike in sea pollution in the country's far east problem was detected off the coast of. and started earlier this week when surfers in the area fell sick and they reported severe i irritation sore throat nausea and fatigue since then people have spotted dead sea creatures being washed ashore along 40 kilometers of coastline experts took samples and found that petro chemical levels in the water were 4 times over the legal limit they also discovered elevated levels of phenol a toxic chemical an online campaign called save the pacific is now urging local authorities and environmental groups to establish the source of the pollution and

help clean up the waters. mixed signals are coming from washington over donald trump's state of health he is currently in a military hospital after contracting corona virus the white house chief of staff has been quoted as describing the president's condition as very concerning saying the next 48 hours will be critical that was soon after the troops doctors said that he was doing very well and had no fever earlier mr trump shared a video thanking his supporters. what are they giving you money with the tremendous record i'm moving to walter reed hospital are seeing a new very very well but we're going to make sure that things work out the 1st lady is doing very well so would thank you very much i appreciate it i will never forget it thank you white house doctors earlier said the president had received antibiotic therapy a number of people close to mr trump have also recently tested positive the administration says the president will carry on it's his role but many of his political opponents

are hoping that he won't desire to kill him up and comments. talk of an october surprise a game changing event that comes right before a 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 except tested 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 with 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 on the right here the united states is lowest in numerous categories were lower than the world that they wanted me to come out and screwy fearful of dying with. 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 don't agree. democrats jumped on donald trump's diagnosis to once again call him out for mis handling the crisis going into crowds unmasked and all the rest of this sort of

a brazen invitation for something like this to happen the president of the united states henri. publicans in minnesota actively spreading a deadly virus they are risk to the public health of my constituents and our country though they have not done so in the postes the administration must now follow the science and all recommended health prosecute you know and 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's in a high risk group for whom cove it can be lethal 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. still ahead the u.s. is accusing vietnam of unfair trade practices a move that could lead to china style heavy tariffs from washington for their explanation on the vadra short break this is what international. the entrepreneurs' who are developers like trumpets entrepreneur if they take risks they're risking that these properties could blow up and not be worth anything of value and that's what entrepreneurs do and they get taxed the government gives them tax incentives to be entrepreneurial to be property developers that's what those tax incentives are for to encourage entrepreneurs to go create millions of jobs by

being property developers. the world is driven by a dream shaped by those. saying . we dare to ask.

welcome back this is our international now 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 prompting accusations of over ambition to show dubinsky picks up the story in paris. in little over 3 years on the world stage france's president not corn has apparently become the go to man ladies and gentlemen 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 are 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 for all his efforts how much success has he achieved we have a pretty good reason for. each time he proposed mediation each time he proposed going for answer something that i doubt 'd. no one success until now lebanon is a particularly sought issue when corn arrived in beirut in the days following those deadly blasts he hoped to instigate change he made pulled the ones 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 jaja must of 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 region foreign minister of the week you have. no comment needless to say despite mackerels best efforts the u.s. and iran remain polar opposites no one can dispute that not corn has been 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 charlotte r.t. paris. the darkness in the dollar's site the u.s. has launched a probe into vietnam's trade practices a move that could result in punitive tariffs the trumpet ministration has invoked

the same legal article that started a trade war with china. present trump is firmly committed to combating unfair trade practices that tom america's workers businesses pharmacy and ranches unfair currency practices can harm u.s. workers some businesses that compete with vietnamese products that maybe oughts officially lower priced because of currency undervaluation it follows a decade of powerful growth in vietnamese exports to the united states surging from $15000000000.00 in 2010 to almost 67000000000 last year recently the trend has been accelerated by firms shifting their production to vietnam to avoid american tariffs on china political economy professor jack rasmussen thinks the investigation has a purely political motive the mystic politics but it's never really turns to manipulating and you know if the dollar is too high the currency and lot of countries in a decline or if well you've got the global recession and the dollar's going but the

other countries' currencies are falling more dollars you know the benchmark urgency well it looks like you know their their currency is being manipulated but you know manipulation means that you know you have a political move to try to grow its currency down it's not because of economic conditions in this condition the united states you're our currency exchange rates are always the dollar in relationship to another current sink if one rises the other naturally falls and vice versa so there's no currency manipulation or received news that gets china and that was false through this is this is all about domestic politics making it look like he's going to do something 1st based. on a germany now where a rally has been held in the southern city of constance against the country's new coronavirus restrictions earlier this week the government imposed tight limits on public events and family gatherings our europe correspondent peter oliver has more . a whole bunch of lock down activists far right campaigners

corona deny is on t v axis or help people who are being on happy with the way the german government has handled the corona pandemic of being out on to the streets of the sort than german city of constance there are parts of a group that call themselves the lateral think is usually the demonstrations have taken place here in berlin they chose the southern city for their large demonstration this time around there was a small scale outing here in the german capital on friday evening though around 200 people came out to that they say that the measures that have been put in place by the government designed to stop the spread of the coronavirus breach numerous parts of the german constitution the reports coming in from the scene say that it was very peaceful demonstration there was no major incidents reported by the police anyway so far brought these people out there to say get rid of the anti corona

measures that's not going to wash with german chancellor angela merkel she says these measures he has a stake here leave the fight 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 i feel 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 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 for germany like many european countries has seen an uptick in corona cases recently 300000 or thereabouts 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 an organist. $385.00 was around the amount that we were

seeing per day on friday this week $2833.00 confirmed cases now what 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 number of cases of the virus that's going to be restrictions on the number of people that can gather 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 hope to stop people from drinking in parks and having large gatherings there now the elderly and chronically ill have also been 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 the health

service 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. coronavirus restrictions have left many elderly people deprived of human company so one would or were in england he decided to tackle the problem by putting a poster in his window asking for new friends and his shiny edwards daschle went to meet him we spent probably one and a half hours sometimes to. drinking conversing and that was an evening it was in the cajun. and now i don't have that. you missed us. tony williams lost his wife to cancer cheering the cave at 19 knocked 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 love this 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 versions in the local paper but i didn't get in taters 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 tan 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 shown real anger about the. 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 for those 2 things in this 1st of all the awful associations with moving here you're 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 mountain earring you'd want them on the end of the rope because your life depends on it that is a friend somebody you trust implicitly child adult stashed e r t u k e stamp share. either does or 3 of us i'll be back next hour with more news as our 2 international.

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look at them from the definition in. the news to him. it was a very nice show from president putin that i could have said no thank you or i could have said thank you and i said i'll take it and now it's time to introduce my it's not bashful mr don't travel thank you says very much with a. name whatever you want to name i mean i don't know how would i come that news that ceasar else tell of our combat a recorder or e. network that's totally dishonest c.n.n. is says you know 100 percent negative i can reverse the change fast changes so

fast sometimes i'll say that's going to be a great story i'd be a pretty good reporter another's good as you. will see what happens who knows i always say who knows what we'll see others will who will be successful. max kaiser this is the kaiser report well we've got another scandal or is it a scandal i'm not sure sure it is a scandal could be a big nothing burger not sure people say that anymore but it deftly qualifies as a nothing burger i think stacy well once again kaiser report was right we were right 4 years ago on this whole tax story regarding trump's tax returns but i want

to say you know this fits in this with the theme that we've been covering here and on orangeville pod cast every sunday which is that the the real world out in the real world outside of the beltway outside of california silicon valley washington d.c. new york manhattan but outside of those locations the world is actually pretty fine and people are not hysterical and it is not as hysterical as what you might see on the cable news where it is all entertainment this is gladiator style delivery of the news and it's hyperventilating and screeching it's not really like that if you look down deeper that there is a calm ockham's razor sort of natural explanation for most stories so back in 2016 everybody was like why is trump trying to hide his tax returns well this is what the mainstream media the cable news who since this point of 2016 have been empowered to determine for all these

ordinary people out in the rest of america what is fake and what is real news is they they are on these boards they get to sit over facebook and determine what should be deleted from ordinary joe baggett donuts who somehow is like too stupid to know what the likes of jeffrey zucker the head of c.n.n. knows. so here's what they said was going on back in 20161718 we have a few headlines here of what they said at the time why trump wanted to hide his tax returns. could tom's tax returns reveal the republican presidential nominee has ties to russia done. that was july 27th 2016 here's chuck schumer in july of 2018 he's a senate minority leader he says chuck schumer july 28th president inexplicable behavior has many americans.