a week of hostilities between armenia and azerbaijan brings devastation to not going to cut a bomb but the relentless shelling of the local capital r.t. reports from the area. massive explosions in the very center of the city 250 millimeter caliber so it is a massive rocket. the fighting has spilled beyond the disputed number in a couple region as a bordering of very city comes under fire. i'm not here to call lies everybody knows he's there's nothing smart about you joe what you should i don't reason excuse me mr snow your number to go to. the 1st presidential debate before the u.s. election descended into name calling and interruptions the 2nd round however is now

in doubt after we tracked the cause of it 19. you're watching the new weekly here on our to international where we bring you a roundup of the top stories from the week just gone along with the day's headlines news. we start with the conflict between armenia and azerbaijan which is now entering its 2nd week the disputed region of it's being relentlessly shelled and air strikes have destroyed numerous buildings and these are the latest pictures from the local capital showing burning cars as damage is inflicted across the city the number of casualties is so far unclear earlier in the week a hospital was hit in a bombing raid and several residential buildings were also damaged hostilities are now spilling beyond the confines of the disputed territory it was several towns in azerbaijan as the city again came under fire within the past several hours. as i

brush on claims one person was killed and 32 wounded on friday the town of terror was also attacked a coup claims thousands of shells were used in that raid since the start of the conflict azerbaijan says 24 civilians have been killed with 111 injured on his one gun since brings us the latest. world with seeing unfortunately events down a path that was feared by many but few thought that we would get here many people thought the things would deescalate especially with such tremendous international diplomatic pressure or both sides calling them to deescalate put that hasn't happened we have seen now for several days unprecedented terrifying bombardment of step on the get the biggest settlement the biggest doubt in the woods and during that bombardment at some point of forty's came out looking at forgeries and said look if is it about john doesn't stop targeting us with with shells multiple rocket

launches with an air strike so we will respond in an equally powerful manner and apparently now they have responded by striking at the city of ganja they have confirmed this the city of ganja the 2nd biggest city in is it about john they have confirmed this the head of the golden ticket abbas said that he gave the order to strike and he also gave the order to stop these missile strikes this was a warning a message to the ascent by john he said we're warning you to stop to deescalate to come to your senses and to stop before things get out of control before we reach a point from which there is no going back as it about john itself says that what was targeted in the city of ganja wasn't a military airfield is the go to kind of box said but populated areas civilian areas turkey has come out very strongly against this kind of bug strike on ganja they're blaming this on armenians and saying that these. it was centrally crowd.

which is spacing defeat and there's a budge on it to reduce the design couponing start getting civilian residential areas in the 2nd florida city of his or by john gun john why do guns on media violate so principles of human it's a rule including the geneva convention armenia itself has come out though and said that it wasn't the god knickerbocker meaning of that expanded the war zone the geographic area along which combat was happening but it was i said about judge and turkey which targeted which targeted military and civilian targets inside armenia and itself not inside the garden it got a box it was easy to budge on the previously expanded the combat zone by shelling the territory of armenia look more than that says that it will respond in a powerful magnet to any provocation from any side so if anything is targeted in armenia proper it will respond i said about john also escalating you know this is

every response to an escalation seems to be another escalation as ever john coming out and saying that it will now target any military installations or targets inside armenia profit if it believes that that military target fired upon populated areas inside is it about drought all in all these seas a very significant escalation because obviously armenia itself has a defense pact with russia so if any is attacked it will have cause to trigger its defensive pact with russia and cool for help from abroad turkey letting it be known that if i said about john a strike they had said so themselves before any attack by armenia and azerbaijan would be construed as an attack on turkey itself so it won't be standing by it will certainly a ceased whether with military force or with support it will assist as in

a budget show indeed events are developing along a very worrying trajectory. r.t. has been on the ground in the complex down with his report on friday shelling of the car bomb capital here's a customer. has come under probably the heaviest shelling since we arrived here 2 massive explosions in the very center of the city usually what we could hear what we could see the smoke from the explosions on the outskirts in the suburbs this is the very city center and moreover this is the building of the ministry of emergencies so it has been obliterated i mean look look at this everything is gone windows are gone the whole wall there's a hole in the whole wall and it's not just this building there's a whole complex it's a large it's a large complex and it's everywhere like this obliterated not raised to the ground but it's gone i don't see any way how it can be fixed all renovated we don't know what we don't know what exactly caused the explosion but we didn't hear any sirens

and sirens so probably wasn't a drone but some really heavy artillery and with a very long range as well but we have to go they are telling us it's not safe because sometimes as the azerbaijanis are using these so-called double tap so that they not only they destroy the building but also the kill soldiers who arrived here we've arrived here with the soldiers as well so we have to go this is the crater that was made by one of the rockets and this is a piece from a the military here is telling me that this is a 250 caliber 250 millimeter caliber so it is a massive rocket they don't know exactly what it is they're telling me these these are not laws but that this one is also israeli made. journalists in the going to are also getting caught in the crossfire or were injured in a shell strike on wednesday including 2 french reporters they were airlifted to

year of and for treatment and are now back in france on thursday a camera man from an armenian t.v. channel was severely injured during shelling from the azerbaijani side these are pictures of his car. and the conflict rigged knighted last sunday but it has roots stretching back over 3 decades is one of several border disputes still unresolved since the collapse of the soviet union populated mainly by armenians broke away from azerbaijan in 1988 the area has not been widely recognized as a sovereign state.

alumni division if we have only one condition that armenia leaves our lands completely and immediately this is file it is the armenian government lies with this the fight to stop there will be no bloodshed there will be peace peace will come to our region. i believe the armenian army can secure the country and the self-defense forces of nagorno-karabakh are successfully protecting their region from a political standpoint i believe it's very important that international partners know how and who started this military action. donald trump has shared a video on twitter saying the real test is still ahead after he was moved to a military hospital after testing positive for cocaine 19 his situation has cast doubt on his 2020 presidential campaign and his 2nd round abate with rival joe biden a 1st class was a chaotic affair marred by interruptions and insults

a quarter reports. listen respectfully to each other's opinions i'm not here to call out his lies everybody knows he's a liar will never use the word smart with me ever use that word because you know what there's nothing smart about you joe what do you. excuse the one who saw your number to know he's putin's puppy i get my time back if you are interruptions i am appealing to you sir to do the will of him to well frankly you've been doing more interrupting that event but he does plenty well less than you will he's just show us for a minute why do you do it over again in the last 25 years i because i'm going to do it because you are president sure things up you are a senator and the worst were as always america is ever. going. to get any word with this clown directly then you know now that we're done we're done sir the american people had big hopes for this debate after all it's happening on the backdrop of a global pandemic and

a serious economic crisis but based on how both biden and trump conducted themselves i would say most people probably thought they were watching some sort of circus. you should get out of your bunker and get out of the sand trap and get in your golf course and fund what needs to be done now to save lives he wants to shut down this country and i want to keep it open. i had it close to the greatest economy in the history of our country we handed him a booming economy he blew it was it a loon. he says she's way to crime bill 1994 where you call the super predators african-americans the super predators while during the debate the moderator was able to get in a lot of questions that the american people really want answers to how the next administration is going to handle coronavirus relief racism police brutality the social unrest but the most important thing of all is how biden or trump actually

respond to these questions and voters didn't seem to think that they did a very good job honestly as. very painful response i don't think either them one this is just terrible all around this is very upsetting to watch that this is the best representation for our country right now i don't think i can say that even if you were one i think it was a twister it was a wild ride right when left there was a lot going on there's a lot of interruption it was crazy. to me that i don't think either one of them respected none of the other. and the economy seems to agree with those voters as well because right after the close of this chaotic debate we saw u.s. stock futures take a plunge and while both political camps have already started making political memes as if they're their guy won the debate everyday voters are really kind of taking a sort of i'd rather laugh than cry approach.

we asked former republican state senator john lott and international affairs expert sophia mclennan for their thoughts on the debate. there's little doubt that trump lost his composure as he was repeatedly interrupting and. seemed overly emotional and somewhat hysterical i was disappointed to see it in decide to sort of stoop to that kind of behavior he tends to be very dismissive

been goalie and in fact a name call it's certainly not presidential it's not the kind of behavior that you really want to see any candidate i'm not sure anybody watching had their minds changed except that i did i do see that i think biden's going to have some cleanup to do with the left flank it's inappropriate he just dismissed the president as a liar i hate to see the count on how many times he said the president just lies without backing up and being specific about what was dishonest but american politics can be pretty contentious and i think american people sadly are kind of used to it. still had surfers and beachgoers in russia's far east report hundreds of dead sea creatures washing ashore sparking fears of an environmental disaster that story and more after this.

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world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then. come back russia's environmental regulators are investigating a spike in sea pollution and the country's far east the problem was detected off the coast of come chaka editor in chief of russia beyond this so this is the area. i'm currently in the post i'm just happen to love not just the region there is a make a logical disaster that you like to see between just 20 kilometers away from the sea i spent 4 hours on the collectivists the beach and i didn't see any water or

feel collar and i didn't smell any on pleasant water but at the same time some of my friends were closer to the area off keep my eye and they come through and that they felt some unpleasant odor and it had still be left weekly i've seen some death fish on the sure and some dead shellfish but not in the amounts like you've probably seen on some user of the dios i like they were a little bit scattered around the beach they're real like selected that fish there but not like files that sea lion stuff like that idea see any big sea anymore i've talked to some sort of 1st bull locals and visitors and they confirmed that it's soft and wasn't good water and it hurt their eyes and some of them even had like chemical burns of their eyes and they had to consult a doctor and it started 3 weeks ago so definitely saw things happen here but we

don't know when it started we don't know the scale of the disaster and we don't know what has caused the local authorities confirmed that the samples that the 2 back on september 29. exceeded the norms for females 2 times and norms for products 4 times in the water so soft and definitely happen i'm talking a governor. is overseeing the probe and samples are being sent to moscow for analysis he's warned that any officials who neglected the issue will face consequences. we're currently analyzing what possible harm the incident may have caused my main aim right now is to ensure that what's happened isn't touched up i don't. on officials to try and downplay its significance a thorough and objective analysis will be provided by the relevant organizations we will collect additional samples of water sea floor sediment and sand and of dead animals i can tell you right away that if it turns out local officials downplayed

this incident or tried to hide it they will be immediately fired and if any federal officials are guilty of the same i will demand similar punitive measures. there is no sign of a let up in the post-election unrest sweeping bell roosts crowds are now gathering and minutes you can see it live pictures from the city just behind me has been exactly 8 weeks after president was reelected in a disputed ballot there dozens of people have already been arrested today at one point riot police use a water cannon truck to target the demonstrators who fought back and damaging the vehicle as a heavy security presence throughout the capital and 8 subway stations have been closed down a march went ahead without official permission and it falls almost 2 months of public calls for present location and go to resign earlier this week the european union passed sanctions on 48 bell russian officials are claims of election rigging and brutal violence against the protesters responded by blacklisting european

officials. russia's corona virus infection rate has seen a dramatic uptick now exceeding $10000.00 per day that's double the figure recorded just a month ago and it prompted moscow to impose citywide restrictions which will take effect on monday then hawkins reports. well the situation of course is worsening across the globe with the number of infections or with coronavirus cases russia unfortunately is no exception the center for growing of our oceans recorded over 3300 new cases here in the capital just over the past 24 hours now people with any sort of symptoms are of course being asked to stay at home and self isolate and many people though are not so lucky and do require urgent medical attention our hospitals are filling up fast the situation has stabilized a little but the number of new patients is slowly but surely approaching 1000 today many of them are seriously ill so many hospitals and medical institutions which were created especially for corona virus cases and subsequently scaled down over

the past few months are now being ramped back up in the last 24 hours russia has hit that $10000.00 case per day mark now to tackle these the government is bringing in a series of new rules which come into force as early as tomorrow they include a 30 percent reduction in office staff that number could rise as high as 50 percent later on those who are elderly or have chronic medical conditions they must also stay at home only go outside for valid reasons though so far there's no plans the moscow government says to introduce any sort of past system that we saw over some of the school holidays have also been extended by one week of course the vaccine trials sputnik v they are underway as well the final 3rd stage is recorded no serious side effects forget the names to shoot in the government hope to have that vaccine in march production with massive aid ability as early as november or december this time of your thirty's the hospitals are far better prepared than they

were in the spring this year and the situation will remain at least stable over the coming days and weeks. f.b.i. has released a short film demonstrating the dangers of chinese intelligence recruitment however the propaganda style video reminded many of the methods used by. the u.s. and the u.s.s.r. during the cold war explains. it's the latest hollywood thriller complete with a catchy soundtrack and a script that keeps you on edge however it's meant to be informative it's not a feature film this half hour movie was created by the f.b.i. more knew about chinese intelligence and its efforts to recruit this is someone targeted on raven who may have sent classified information to chinese intelligence . like many blockbusters it's

based on a true story a former cia officer was sentenced to 20 years in prison for passing along information to the chinese and the f.b.i. says that this video is meant to educate the public and alert them about the threat of foreign intelligence recruitment as this movie highlights foreign intelligence services are posing as head hunters and consultants and professional networking sites to aggressively target americans we believe it's critically important to educate the public in order to neutralize this threat from foreign intelligence services well we've seen all those old newsreels talking about the red menace it looks like the propagandists are still in business years later trying. to buy i'm going to. play russia had occupied many new territories bringing additional millions of people under communist control. for

example only makes. bridge american river road worker makes $10.00 a day more times more the who's to say the chinese can't strike back they've got hollywood scenes of their own the. really awful what happens when a. little one of them out on the planet is on the line to do a little digital. just listen to your sim and either the usa in north china has actually declared a new cold war but everyone is buzzing about it and the issue of our cold war is the foreign minister suggested it's not just our writings saying that is this a new cold war we've heard for example u.k. officials are china and the united states headed for a new cold war or is it going to be a hot war the u.n.

is even getting in on the hysteria or should we call it in a stealth we must do every scene for the new cold war we are moving in a very dangerous direction own world cannot afford the future lead to too much as the economy speed the globe in a great fraction each with its own through those financial rules and the internet and not officially intelligence capacities yes many of us heard stories from our parents about hiding under their desks in school during civil defense drills the cold war has a special place in american history and now with dueling propaganda films and talk of a red menace from china it seems that the cold war is back the good old days well perhaps we've forgotten how potentially dangerous it is. r.t. new york is about the politics professor just have gregory mahoney who says a u.s. china cold war is already upon us. if we if we follow reports of

majority opinions among business leaders and policy makers that there will be likely a war between china and us within the next 10 years so i think that again this is part of the negative messaging that we see with trump but there is also some credibility that it is an issue that the u.s. wants to check ahead of future conflict we already see many people agree a cold war and tech a cold war growing and frictions between us and china and other countries and international organizations as the u.s. turns against multi-lateralism some people a lot of people in the d.c. area believe that we're already in a hot cyber war. that's been the weekly here on our t.v. for further details on all those stories and up to the minute reports find us on facebook or twitter.

everybody's reaching for that you have political power and so as opposed. to 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 china i'm already rejected it's. almost 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 or backwards then they're going to turn to the other.

things from us as american citizens today to blast off that's. not an attack on the other fast guy and i think. i would vote for a republican or trump i would vote for anyone who would not and has half a brain defeat. to feel that. yeah my 2nd wife. she can handle it. she and i divorce because dollar trouble is elected president and i floated for her and she can't stand. that when the most important election. you know history. books. months to go before presidential. history now.

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