we'll. destroy a hospital and residential buildings in the disputed region of. reports from the ground as hostilities between armenia and azerbaijan continue. to leave either. side of the border. reportedly around 2000 shells and. also ahead coronavirus record numbers reports suggest the government could force a nation wide shut down restaurants and museums monday.

u.s. president gives an update on his condition from. broadcasting live. international i'm truly glad to have you with us we start with a deadly standoff between armenia and azerbaijan. several powerful explosions have been heard in the past number of hours. late on friday several residential buildings and a hospital were in a bombing raid casualties have been reported as well as donald is on the ground at the scene. today would witness one of the worst bombings of the planet the city which is the capital of own accord tabak the disputed region here. the most telling it was gone literally just minutes before we arrived here we actually had to had to

hide in a bomb shelter and right after that we are right this is the epicenter of one of the explosions that has facets to kind of character this huge show now it seems like it has been devastated just just scattered glass from you can heal because shattered glass windows are broken there are boxes over there of boxes of stuff just goes well now it's easy come easy go it's like a welcoming sign from a road is following every siren we have to leave. we're being told that this right here right here we see ambulances rushing it has to be like this. is because the little is the end like. grounds of the pool. at least this is what the defense ministry of armenia is telling. our desire to any representing the red

cross in armenia says the billions in qatar box are terrified and many have nowhere to go. passages are now to do still moving in and around the areas feel in a sense because of the intensity and i think unfortunately of the situation you receive words and we see calls of people were pretty terrified and don't know. what to do. to be in a safe. space and basically this is really very worrying also on the onset of winter when children are just several weeks into that school just 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 within the region breaking away from us by john in 1988 but the area has not been widely recognized as a sovereign state as about john is insisting armenia is entirely to blame for the current flare up president claims armenians are occupying

a very land and do not want peace he also said 1000 civilians from his country have died in the conflict 60 more are injured on friday hostilities spilled beyond the confines of the disputed territory when a bordering a very town was bombed. claims over 2000 shells were dropped in that raid 0. so here's 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 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 on the for each 1002 cabins france because 5.9 intensive care beds whereas germany has 8 france has 10 nurses or 1000 people germany has

13. patients currently take up almost a quarter of all intensive care beds across france and this week the number pass a critical threshold 1200 out of 5000 beds medics are also warning of a critical shortage of personnel a doctor and told us that he believes the system is in crisis. for several years now nursing stuff have been warning of chronic stuff from shortages but nothing is being done about this at the university hospital pump and positions have been cuts we're relying on medics in temporary roles who moved around departments and the nazi able to adopt to the virus every year seasonal epidemics posturing 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 the problem was detected off the

coast of. it started earlier this week when surfers in the area fell sick they reported severe eye your attention sore throats nausea and fatigue since then people have spotted the 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. a toxic chemical an online campaign called save the pacific is now urging the local authorities and environmental groups to establish the source of the pollution and help clean up the waters. u.s. president has given update on his condition after testing positive for corona virus in a video taken around 24 hours after he arrived at a military hospital donald trump valid to return to his presidential duties in the very near future. i want to begin by thanking all of the incredible medical professionals the doctors the nurses everybody had walter reed medical center i

think it's the finest in the world i feel much better now working hard to get me all the way back i have to be back because we still have to make america great again white house doctors earlier said the president had received antibody therapy a number of people close to mr trump have also recently tested positive the administration says the president will carry on his role but many of his political opponents are hoping that he won't as artie's kill mop and reports. 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 younger group 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. 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 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 and he's in a high risk group for home cold 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 to come on the program 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 of that after a short break as are 2 international. so

what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race. theory dramatic probably the only move. i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical. to sit down

and talk. back this is our to international 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 strolled pinsky in paris picks up the story for us . 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 francis back france back at the core of for europe from syria to libya 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 by shon 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 president who resists sucked out for. 60 days. which time he proposed mediation each time he proposed a plan for answer something that i doubt but. 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 the lawns 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 some experts his intervention smacked of his. 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 this is a 1st appreciate their reports of the iranian foreign minister if 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. undertaking 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 dogs and the dollars at sight the u.s.

has launched a probe into vietnam's trade practices a move that could result in punitive tariffs the trouble ministration has invoked of the same it legal article that started a trade war with china president trump a spoon we committed to combating info trade practices that harm america's workers businesses farmers and ranchers and for currency practices can harm u.s. workers and businesses that compete with vietnamese products that may be artificially lower priced because of currency undervaluation. 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 and but it's never really turns to manipulating in fact you know if the dollar is too high the currency is one of

country's not a decline or if you know you've got the global recession and the dollars going but if the other countries currencies are falling more of the dollars you know the benchmark urgency well it looks like you know their currency is being manipulated but you know manipulation means you know you have a political move to try to grow its currency down it's not because of economic conditions in this condition it was the united states you're now with certainty to change rates are always the dollar in relationship to another currency that we have 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 bruce based. on a germany now or a rally has been held in the southern city of a come stance 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 anti lock down activists far right campaigners corona deny is anti vacs is all 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 here to stay 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 or 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 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 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 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 corona virus aren't going anywhere anytime soon. chrono virus restrictions have left many elderly people deprived of human company so one widow were in england decided to tackle the problem by putting a poster in his window asking for new friends shirley edwards dusty went to meet him. we spent probably one and a half hours sometimes to the eating. drinking conversing and that was an evening it was in the cajun. and now i don't have that. with us. 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 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 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 that 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 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 that'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 some do you trust implicitly child adult stash d r t u k it's time share 35 minutes i'll be back with another look for news this is our 2 international.

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