people realize that they're not going to move forward which then they're going to. the other day. a week of hostilities between armenia and azerbaijan brings the devastation of war in a car with relentless shelling of the capital actually reports from the area. massive explosions in the very center of the city 250 millimeter caliber so it is a massive rocket. the fighting skills beyond the dispute is now going to cut off region as a bordering a city comes under artillery fire. i'm not like everybody knows there's nothing smart about you know what you she went. through so your number 2. the 1st presidential debate before the u.s. election descended into name calling and interruptions the 2nd round however is now

in downtown for donald trump contract with the coronavirus. and environmental groups warn of a pollution disaster in russia's far east as a probe is launched into toxic chemicals killing sea life. come to the weekly it this is our roundup of the news from the past week along with the day's headlines stories. we start with the conflict between armenia and azerbaijan which has now entered its 2nd week the disputed region i'm not going to karbala is being relentlessly shelled at this point these are the latest pictures from the local capital showing burning cars residential buildings have been hit across the city and the number of casualties is so far clear earlier in the week a hospital was hit with an airstrike and several residential buildings were also badly damaged. hostilities are now spilling beyond the confines of the disputed

territory with several towns in azerbaijan also bombed the city and came under fire within the past several hours as a pressure on claims one person was killed and 32 wounded on friday the town of turner was also attacked my crew 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 morganza 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 on both sides calling them to deescalate put that hasn't happened we have seen now for several days unprecedented terrifying bombardment of step on like at the biggest settlement the biggest doubt in the war zone and during

that bombardment at some point forties came out looking at forty's and said look if is it about john doesn't stop targeting us with with shells multiple rocket launchers with air strikes 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 about said that he gave the order to strike and he also gave the order to stop these missiles strikes this was a warning a message to the as it by job 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 godly kind of box said but the. later they're in

civilian areas turkey has come out very strongly against this kind of us strike on ganja they're blaming this on our movie and saying that this was essentially a war crowd amenia which is space and defeat and there's a budge on it to reduce the design couponing start getting civilian residential areas in the 2nd largest city of his or by john donne john why do done so many of violate so principles of human it's a rule including the geneva convention armenia itself has come out though and said that it was of 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 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 installation or target inside armenia profit if it believes that that military target fired upon populated areas inside is it about judge all in all the seas a very significant escalation because obviously armenia itself has a defense pact with russia so if i mean it 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 is struck they had said so themselves before any attack by armenia and azerbaijan would be construed as. as an attack on turkey

itself so it will be standing by it will certainly ceased whether with military force or with support it will assist as it a budget so indeed events are developing along the very worrying trajectory r.t. has been reporting from the conflict zone throughout the week with his report on friday shelling of the capital has increased on them. 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 at which we could see the smoke from the explosions which were 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 raise 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 they 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 and the going to

are also getting caught in the crossfire or were injured and they shall strike on wednesday including 2 french reporters they were airlifted to a year event 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 after the attack. the conflict reignited last sunday but it has roots stretching back over 3 decades it's one of several border disputes still unresolved since the collapse of the soviet union play of populated mainly by armenians broke away from azerbaijan in 1988 but the area has not been widely recognized as a sovereign state. well

my dearest 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 flights will 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. a video on twitter saying the real test is still ahead that's after he was moved to

a military hospital after becoming infected with the coronavirus his situation has cast doubt on his 2020 presidential campaign and his 2nd round debate with rival joe biden their 1st clash was a chaotic affair marred by interruptions and insults a quarter has the details. 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 it is nothing smart about you joe what do you. excuse the one who so you are number 2 he's putin's puppy i get my time back if you were interruptions i am appealing to you sir to do that will get him to well frankly you've been doing more interrupting that sort of but he does plenty well less than you will he's just shush for a minute what do you do it all that i want in the last 25 years i because i'm going to do it if you are president things up you're a senator and the worst we're resumes in america is ever. 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's very socially the crime bill 1904 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 of 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 to write it when left there was a lot going on there was 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 clinton for their thoughts on the 1st debate. there's little doubt that trump lost his composure or he was repeatedly interrupting and. seemed overly emotional and somewhat hysterical i was disappointed to see

it in decide to sort out stoop to that kind of behavior he tends to be very dismissive been to bully and in fact name call it's certainly not presidential it's not the kind of behavior that you really want to see in a candidate i'm not sure anybody watching had their minds changed except that i do 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 would hate to see the count and 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 and russians far east report hundreds of dead sea creatures washed

ashore sparking fears of an environmental disaster that story and more after this short break. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy for him to you shouldn't let it be an arms race in his own spearing dramatic development only really i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk.

welcome back to the weekly 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 come chaka editor in chief of several who via the state the area. in the film i'm currently in the pubs and i'm just a couple of them just to reach there isn't that a logical disaster that you ought to see between just reading the one person 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 of keep my eye and they come through and that the felt some unpleasant odor and it had told the left weekly i've seen some deaths fish on the sure and some dead shellfish but not in the amounts like you've probably seen on some user b.d.'s 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 surfers bulls locals and visitors and they confirmed that it's soft and was in the water and the 1st day i 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 softened happened 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 29th they exceeded the norms for females 2 times and norms for products 4 times in the water so soft and definitely happened come talk a governor a lot of male soldo 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 want to fishel stitch. 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 on rest sweeping beller truths huge crowds are now gathering in minsk exactly 8 weeks after present look shango was re-elected in a disputed ballot dozens of people have already been arrested just today at one point right police used a water cannon truck to target the demonstrators who fought back damaging the vehicle as a heavy security presence throughout the capital and 8 subway stations have been closed in march went ahead without official permission and it falls almost 2 months of public calls for president look like a to resign earlier this week the european union passed sanctions on 40 bell russian officials over 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 that's prompted moscow to impose citywide restrictions which will take effect on monday jan 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 coronaviruses recorded over 3300 new cases here in the capitol 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 a day 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 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 trial sputnik v they are underway as well the final 3rd stage is recorded no serious side effects forget the names the suit and 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. the f.b.i. has released a short film demonstrating the dangers of chinese intelligence recruitment the propaganda style that reminded many of the methods used by the us. and the u.s.s.r. during the cold war has killed more than 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. to warn you 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 desmonte 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 need to as distress 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. devise i'm sure. 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. 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 campus is on the line to do a little digital. just listen to yourself you do the usa nor china has actually declared a new cold war but everyone is buzzing about it and the issue of our cold war ours 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 homes cannot afford the future too much as the economy speed the globe integrates fractions each with its own treatments 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 we spoke to politics professor joseph 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 had a future conflict but we already see many people agree a cold war and tech a cold war growing frictions between us and china and other countries and international organizations as the u.s. turns against multilateralism 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 for further details on all those stories and up to the minute reports at our website dot com.

nuclear power plants has become a battleground in the u.s. government people are demanding the shut down of a. yankee is right now my focus because it's a very dangerous. power plant the owner is attempting to run the reactor beyond its operational limits this just sort of puts a magnifying glass where's the power in this country where's it going is it moving more towards corporate interests or is it more in the idea of a traditional just. power lie with the people this demonstrates that struggle in the very real ways. join me every thursday on the elec so i'm unsure when i'll be speaking to the world

. i'm show business. done while controls a part of it it's been almost 3 take instance the collapse of the soviet union and the aftershocks of that earthquake keep jolting because soviet space there is a protest in dallas followed by the alleged poisoning off an opposition politician in russia and now the renewed war between azerbaijan and armenia and while the 1st you have long familiar actually is

a tory rhetoric in both russia and the west the 3rd sim to have dumbfounded both was the difference well to discuss that i'm now joined by that aries veteran mosco correspondent and editor in chief in telling us that. it's good to talk to you thank you very much credit time as a thanks for inviting me now this interview has an interesting backstory to it because i had believed you were a grace approached by my colleagues from the r.t.m. news division who are sort of if i missed it correctly and trying to place your views hint 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 date they didn't call back and i rang it accurately and that's my understanding is that i was called by producers and they want to just soak. the last hour and then russia and the line and you've run a couple of features commentary pieces on the same line saying that she's and. that

she's there as the westen governments have recognized her as a legitimate leader latvians is going to fire a schooling have president elect whereas actually she has no legal standing and that she's like in venezuela and the problem was was that that rang me sort of proof checks my own says before inviting me on and when i had made it clear that i don't think that the 2 cases equivalent and made clear that i was going to say no i do think she is just what they are although this program spackling our elected that they didn't go back and so i wasn't invited to comment and so i'd say that you know if you're a journalist nearing an expert and their insights if they're 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 manufacturing of propaganda but it also.