in the movie. hospital and residential building in the disputed region. reports from the ground between armenia and azerbaijan continue. to leave the. side of the border and outside the main conflict zone reportedly hit by around 2000 shells and. also ahead. record numbers in france reports suggest the government could enforce a nationwide shutdown on restaurants and museums. and.

soon as the u.s. president gives an update on his condition from a military hospital after. this is our chief international. you know we start with the deadly standoff between armenia and azerbaijan and now into an 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 range of casualties have been reported. on the ground at the scene. today we witnessed one of the worst bombings of the planet the city which is the capital of nagorno-karabakh the disputed region here right behind me is 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 arrived here this is the epicenter of one of the explosions that has bathurst atomic air this used to be a shop now it seems like it has been devastated it's just scattered glass something to heal because shattered glass windows are broken are boxes of there are boxes of stuff just goes around well now it's easy come easy go it's like a welcoming start from a road is following every siren 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 because the levels in like very large rounds of the pool. at least this is what the defense ministry of armenia is telling us. these are

representing the red cross in armenia says civilians and cut above are terrified and many have nowhere to go. passages are not to do still moving in and around the atheist feel in a sense because of the intensity i think and the volatility of the situation to receive words and we see the recent polls of people who are pretty terrified and don't know. what to do 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 and basically it's a day that people are trying to protect themselves and being anxious you know the nation's already severe situation car about his populated mainly by armenians with of the region breaking away from azerbaijan in 1988 the area has not been widely recognized as a sovereign state as a measure is insisting armenia is entirely to blame for the current flare up

president claims armenians are occupying as area land and do not want peace he also said $1000.00 civilians from his country have died in the conflict 68 more are injured on friday hostilities spilled beyond the confines of the disputed territory when a bordering a very town was bombed as a bench on claims over 2000 shells were dropped in that raid. 0. which in gears now authorities in paris are considering whether to shut down all bars restaurants and museums after a jump in try to 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. with feel betrayed the government is deaf to on the for each 1002 cabins france has 5.9 intensive care beds whereas germany has 8 france has 10 nurses or 1000 people who germany has

13. covert patients currently take up almost a quarter of all intensive care beds across france and this week that number passed a critical threshold 1200 out of 5000 beds medics are also warning of a critical shortage of personnel doctor and must say told us that he believes that the system is in crisis. for several years now nursing stuff we've been warning of chronic stuff from shortages but nothing is being done about this at the university hospital pump and positions have been cut we are relying on medics and temperate rolls 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 bop elation in the country's far east the problem was detected off the coast of come chaka it started earlier this week when surfers in the area fell sick and they reported severe eye irritation 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 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. for. the u.s. president has given an update on his condition after testing positive for chronic 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 antibiotic therapy a number of people close to mr trump have also recently tested positive in ministration says the president will carry on in his role but many of his political opponents are hoping that he won't as art his 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 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 so this is 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 mishandling the crisis going into crowds unmasked and all the rest of the sort of a brazen invitation for something like this to happen the president of the united states on. republicans in minnesota are 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 past the administration must now follow 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 and he's in a high risk group for whom 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 ahead the u.s. is accusing vietnam of unfair trade practices a move that could lead to china style heavy tariffs from washington for the explanation on that after a short break this is our 2 international. israel

media a reflection of reality. in a world transformed. what will make you feel safe from. tyson nation build community. are you going the right way or are you being so. direct. what is true. in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the depths. or a maybe in the shallows. the world is driven by a dream shaped by one person if there is. no

day or sinks. we dare to ask. france's president has drawn criticism this week for his perceived meddling in lebanon's crisis it is one of a number of international situations he's gotten himself in volved in prompting accusations of over ambition archly shoulda been 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 my my 1st miss each he said

francis back france back at the core of for europe from syria to libya wrong to the sun hell corn 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 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 pretty good reason sort of for. each time he proposed mediation each time he proposed going for answer something

that i doubt. 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 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 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 iranian foreign minister if we continue to 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 dark is in the dollars site of the u.s. has launched a probe into vietnam's trade practices move that could result in punitive tariffs the troubled ministration has invoked the same legal article that started a trade war with china. president 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 ought to officially lower the price 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 most 67000000000 dollars 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 currency manipulating in fact you know if the dollar is too high the currency is one of countries in a decline or if you've got the global recession and the dollars going to what other countries currencies are falling more of the dollars you know the benchmark urgency well it looks like you know their 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 the united states. turns to change rates are always on

the dollar in relationship to another bernstein that we're one rises the other naturally falls and vice versa so there's no currency manipulation not received news that gets china and that was false through this is all about domestic politics making it look like it's going to do something or is based. on the germany now or a rally has been held in the southern city of a constant against of the country's new coronavirus restrictions earlier this week the government imposed to 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 and vioxx 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 soul 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 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 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 waiting the said being 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. run a virus restrictions have left many elderly people deprived of human company so one would or were in england decided to tackle the problem by putting

a poster in his window asking for new friends to study edwards daschle went to meet him we spent probably one on the 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. kenny 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 love this person i've ever met. but i was on my own oh 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 walk 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 like 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 a journey 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 joe 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 your immediately thing called 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 to adult stash d r t u k it's time share or that as a female back of headlines of the top the hour this is our 2 international. always be polite never engage with baited or confrontational. don't get into any conversation or start answering questions just.

to survive. the jump. you're more likely to walk free if you're rich. or if you're poor. you've got 2 eyes 2 ears and one mouth. so you should be seen in hearing a whole lot more than you're saying if you don't take that advice easy going to dig yourself a hole. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race in. dramatic development only mostly. i don't see how.

you sit down and talk. almost 3. hours. the shocks of that geopolitical earthquake keep jolting the post soviet space for a suppressed and valorous followed by the alleged poisoning of an opposition politician in russia and now the renewed war between azerbaijan and armenia and while the 1st you have to supply unfamiliar apps use a tory rhetoric in both russia and the west the 3rd sim to help jump on that bell

was the defense want to discuss that i'm now joined bad bad areas and actually most correspondent and editor in chief of b.n.a. in telling us that it's good to talk to you thank you very much for your time as a thanks for inviting me now this interview has an interesting backstory to it because that i believe you are crazy approached by my colleagues from the r.t.e. i'm used to vision or sort of if i understood correctly trying to place your views fit in that framing of the story in that case it was the promise in dollars and then when they found out it wasn't a perfect feed they didn't call back and i really mean it accurately that's my understanding is. and they want to just soak. in the russia and the line and you've done a couple of features commentary pieces on the same line saying that she's and. that she's there as the western governments have recognized her as

a legitimate leader latvians is going as far as calling have president elect where is actually she has no legal standing and that she's like in venezuela. the problem was was that that rang me sort of proof checks my own status before inviting me on and when i had made it clear that i don't think that the 2 cases equivalent. made clear that i was going to say no i do think she is just this program spackling our elected that they didn't go back and so i wasn't invited to come and so it's a you know if you're a journalist nearing an expert. and their insights if their opinion and even that my opinion didn't seem to fit with the line then i was dumped and consequently you know there was a bias that. i read and you did me come across as censorship or even create that attaching of propaganda but it also strikes me as that is a very routine and

a very common way of pretty decent television news not only in russian but i think pretty much everywhere how common this dream interviewing of the sort at in the industry is and interesting and if you're asking to t.v. stations in the west do they have a line and other interested in people with a period and then that's absolutely true and the obvious example is is fox news which absolutely has an agenda and is biased but you know i'm an old school journalist in so much this supposed to be about objective it see and you reach out to people who know what they're talking about and if they don't agree with you then you know the least you can do is debate. the prescreening of and says in my mind it's not it's not on i mean in so much is if you want to discuss a tricky issue like this and it is a fairly kristen's one if she is and it's a.