a week of hostilities between armenia and azerbaijan brings devastation to the corner with relentless shelling of the local capital reports from the area 2 massive explosions in the very center of the city 250 millimeter caliber so it is a massive rocket. the fighting spills beyond the disputed region as a border city and azerbaijan comes under fire as well. i'm not here to call out his lies everybody knows he's a liar there's nothing smart about you joe would you she went. through so you were number 2. the 1st presidential debate before the u.s. election descended into name calling and interruptions the 2nd round however is now in doubt after donald trump contract that 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. in the 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 . we start with the conflict between armenia and azerbaijan which is now entering its 2nd week the disputed region is being relentlessly shelled and these right now are the latest pictures from the local capital showing burning cars as actual buildings have been hit across the city a number of casualties so far we're earlier in the week a hospital was hit in their strike and several residential buildings were also about the damaged hostilities are now spilling beyond the disputed territory with several towns in azerbaijan and the city came under fire earlier on sunday as

a pressure on claims one person was killed and $32.00 wounded on friday the town of tire 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 artist non-constant brings us latest. world we're 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 authorities came out looking at forty's and said look if i did it by john doesn't stop just with with shells multiple rocket

launchers with an ash 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 gordon 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 senate by johnnie's 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 this was essentially crowd which is peace and defeat and there's a budge on it to reduce the design of getting civilian residential. it's in the 2nd largest city it was there by john john john why do so media violates all principles of human it's a rule including the geneva convention armenian itself has come out though and said that it was of the god meaning of that expanded the war zone the geographic area along which combat was happening but it was as it about drug and turkey which targeted which targeted military and civilian targets inside armenia and itself not inside the godly got a box it was easy to budge on the previously expanded the combat zone by shelling due to tour of armenia look more than that armenia 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 proper 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 call 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 an attack on turkey itself so it would 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 a very worrying trajectory our correspondent has been in the conflict zone throughout the week with his report on friday shelling of become about capital here is a question of. it 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 was 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 as there by journeys are using these so-called double tap so that the 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 go in a car bomb are also getting caught in the crossfire 4 were injured in

a shell strike on wednesday including 2 french reporters they were airlifted to a van for treatment and are now back in france and on thursday a camera man from an armenian t.v. channel was severely injured during shelling from the azerbaijani side is what you're seeing now are pictures. this car. the conflict reunited last sunday but it has roots stretching back over 3 decades now and play of popular mainly by armenian christians broke away from majority muslim in 1988 but the area has not been widely recognized as a sovereign state. element

they wish simply have only one condition that armenia leaves all the lands completely and immediately they see if the armenian government complies with this the fighting will stop there will be no bloodshed there will be peace peace will come to a region a. lie believe the armenian army can secure country and the self-defense forces of the golden corral box are successfully protecting their region from a political standpoint i believe it's very important for us that international partners know how and who started this military action. donald trump is in the hospital for a 3rd day after contracting code 19 u.s. presence condition has cast doubt over the november election and the 2nd round to bait with rival joe biden a 1st class was a chaotic affair marred by interruptions and insults all 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 don't ever use the word smart with me don't ever use that word to me because you know what it is nothing smart about you joe what do you she was out excuse was so your number 2 he's prudish fluffy i get my time back fewer interruptions i'm appealing to you sort of do that him too well frankly you've been doing more and a lot of that sort of but he just bloody well less than what he's just shush for a minute why do you do it all that i want in the last 25 years. because i'm going to do it because you are president sure things up you are a senator and the worst we're as always 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 sea entrapping 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 greatest economy of the history of our country we handed him a booming economy he blew it was it evil who. he is usually the crime bill 994 where you call them super predators african-americans are 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 is a very painful response i don't think either them one this is 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 that it was a twister it was a wild ride right away and 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 others. 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 every day voters are really kind of taking a sort of i'd rather laugh than cry approach.

we asked former republican state senator john ladin and international affairs expert sophia mclennan for their thoughts on the 1st 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 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 any 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 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 forus report hundreds of dead sea creatures washed ashore sparking fears of an environmental disaster will be across that after the break.

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come back to the weekly crushes environmental regulators are investigating a spike in sea pollution in the country's far east problems detected off the coast of come chaka editor and chief beyond of several of the city area. i'm currently in the coliseum just a couple of them just to reach there is a make a logical disaster that you can see between just when you go 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 off keep my knee and they come through and that he felt some unpleasant odor and it told the left weekly i've seen some death fish on the floor and some dead shellfish but not in the amounts like you've probably seen on some user videos like they were a little bit scattered around the beach they're real like selected that fish there but not like piles of dead sea lion stuff like that idea see any big sea and i talked to some sort of 1st bull locals and visitors and they confirmed that so soften was in the water and heard their highs 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 a soft. happened here but we don't know where it started we don't know the scale of the disaster and we don't know what has caused the local authorities from. the

samples that the back on september. the exceeded the norms 4 times and one x. 4 times in the water so soft and definitely happened. governor of law 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 fishes 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's

no sign of a let up in the post election on rest sweeping beller a large crowds gathered in minsk throughout sunday 8 weeks after present look at shango was reelected in a disputed ballot least 40 people have been arrested at one point riot police used a water cannon truck to target the demonstrators who fought back damaging the vehicle as a heavy security presence throughout the capital as you can see and 8 subway stations had been closed in march when i had without official permission and it falls almost 2 months of public calls for a look to resign earlier this week the european union passed sanctions on 40 fellow russian officials over claims of election rigging and brutal violence against protesters responded by blacklisting european officials. russia's corona virus infection rate has seen a dramatic uptake now exceeding $10000.00 per day that's double the figure recorded

just a month ago and it's 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 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 rammed back up in the last 24 hours russia has hit that $10000.00 case per day mark now to tackle these big 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 trials sputnik v they are underway as well the final 3rd stage has recorded no serious side effects for gallons to shoot and the government hopes to have that vaccine in much 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. if we are has released a short film demonstrating the dangers of chinese intelligence recruitment but the

propaganda style video reminded many of the methods used by the us and the u.s.s.r. during the cold war as kilmartin 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 2 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 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 buy i'm going to. play russia had occupied many new territories bringing additional millions of people under communist control. for example really make. bridge american really 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 planet is on the line to do a little digital. just listen to yourself and either the usa nor 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 of each with its own freedoms financial rules and the internet and not official 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 would 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 to international next hour you know neal we'll be bringing you your life news update thanks for tuning in.

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