week of hostilities between armenia and azerbaijan brings devastation to not go into a kind of box with relentless shelling of the local capital r.t. reports from the area. 2 massive explosions in the very center of the city 250 millimeter. it is a massive rocket. the fighting spills beyond the disputed region as a border city in azerbaijan is created by artillery fire also in the stories that shaped the week. i'm out here everybody knows he's a liar there's nothing smart about you joe what do you she was excuse me your number 2. the 1st presidential debate before the u.s. election descended into name calling and interruptions and the 2nd round is now in

doubt after donald trump contracts coronavirus. and environmental groups that warn of a pollution disaster in russia's far east as a probe was launched into toxic chemicals killing sea life. broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is our international i'm john thomas glad to have you with us as we recap the week's top stories with our weekly program right now we start with the conflict between armenia and azerbaijan which has entered a 2nd week the disputed region of not gotten the kind of block is being relentlessly shelled these are some of the latest pictures from the local capital showing burning cars residential buildings have been hit across the city as well and the number of casualties is so far unclear earlier in the week a hospital was hit in an airstrike several residential buildings were also badly

damaged. hostilities are now expanding beyond the disputed territory with several towns in azerbaijan bombed the city of ganja came under fire earlier on sunday by john claims one person was killed and 32 wounded on friday the town of tal was also attacked who claims thousands of shells were used in that raid since the start of the conflict john says 24 civilians have been killed and more than 100 people injured. has the story behind those figures. well we're seeing unfortunately events down a path that was feared by many but few thought that we would get here many people thought that 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 forgeries and said look if as if by john doesn't stop targeting us 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 a city by 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 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 golden corral box said but populated areas civilian areas turkey has come out very strongly against this kind of bug strike 1 on ganja they're blaming this on armenians and saying that this was essentially a crowd amenia which is space and defeat and there's a budge on it to reduce the design 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 wasn't the god. of that expanded the war zone the geographic area along which combat was happening but it was i see it about drug and turkey which targeted which targeted military and civilian targets inside armenia and itself not inside the golden got a box it was easy to budge on the previously expanded the combat zone by shelling the tutorial. 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 into this every response to an escalation seems to be another escalation as ever john coming out and say 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 john all in all these sees 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 did it by john it 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 the conflict are ignited the last sunday but it has roots in stretching back over 3 decades the enclave broke away from us about john in 1908 but the area has not been widely recognized as a sovereign state. thank.

you. all on one day wish him please have only one condition that armenia leaves all lands completely and immediately this is file it 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 where the. lie believe the armenian army can secure a country and the self-defense forces of the golden corral buck 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. another of our correspondents has been in the conflict zone throughout the week with his report on friday's shelling on the car about the capital here's you go to donna. 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 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 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. in the armenian capital there has been an outpouring of support for those trapped in the car the conflict zone people are collecting donations of food clothes and other supplies to send into the region cutback is inhabited almost entirely by armenians and many have left been left homeless by the ongoing military bombardment we talked to some of the volunteers and yet of on. this is a pew was a bill an initiative people are donating supplies nonstop here everything is sorted and sent to the warehouse every person in armenia wants to be involved and help in

whatever way they can. but it was just the spirit of our people can now be broken we are all united everyone because personal grievances against the government or anyone else behind them. journalists. are getting caught in the crossfire as well 4 were injured in a shell strike on wednesday including 2 french reporters they were airlifted to yet of on for treatment and are now back in france and on thursday a camera man from an armenian t.v. channel was severely injured during showing these are pictures of his car and they are you know neil spoke to our bus full of a journalist from. t.v. channel he described the damage on the very side of the border. we have seen. destroyed houses destroyed ambulances destroyed infrastructures that people from their civil population people that had nothing to do with their actions

refused to leave their house and refused to leave their region armenians are accusing her breakdown of targeting civilians we know civilians have lost their lives in this conflict is that what is happening if they're talking about i mean yeah. that's a complete nonsense the military command over there but generally clear that i was there but janet army does not target civilian people as well as the really interesting infrastructure that targets of the azerbaijan army are firing positions it's or if we were infrastructures in the occupied territories either by john doesn't fight against civilians other by john is fighting for liberation of it's all territories. donald trump is in a hospital for if. day after contracting covert 19 aside from health concerns the u.s. president's condition has put election plans into disarray including the 2nd round of debate with rival joe biden this week's 1st clash was

a chaotic affair marred by interruptions and insults are seized on quarter discussed how it went. listen respectfully to each other's opinions i'm not here to call out his lies everybody knows he's a liar never use the word smart with me ever use that word give me a because you know what there's nothing smart about you joe what do you show as an excuse one who's so you are number 2 know he's putin's puppy i get my time back fewer interruptions i'm appealing to you sir to do that and him too well frankly you've been doing more interrupting that event but he does plenty well less than. us for a minute but why do you do it over again in the last 25 years not because i'm going to do it because you are president things up you are a senator and the worst were 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 sand trap and get in your golf course and fund what needs to be done now to save lives and he wants to shut down this country and i want to keep it open. i had it close to the greatest economy of the history of our country we handed him a booming economy he blew it was it he who. he is usually 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 bust ins 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 it was a twister it was a wild ride to write it 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 every day voters are really kind of taking a sort of i'd rather laugh than cry approach. and.

we asked a former republican state senator john that allowed it and international affairs expert sophia mclennan for their thoughts on the 1st debate. there's little doubt that trump lost his composure 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 match or 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. surfers and beachgoers and russia's far east report hundreds of dead sea creatures washed ashore sparking feed fears of an environmental disaster we'll delve into that after a short break this is the weekly on r.t. international.

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hole so he draws in conflict no he's not going to look at it is no very hot we tell you what you need to know and it is america in 2020 similar events witnessed the bolshevik revolution in 1970. s. a getting a spike in sea pollution in the country's far east the problem was detected off the coast of come chaka the editor in chief of the russia beyond online magazine visited the area and spoke to us. i'm currently in the polls and i'm just a couple of them just to reach there isn't that a logical disaster that you like to see between just reading to 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 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 b.d.'s like they were a little bit scattered around the beach their real life selected that fish there but not like piles of dead sea lion stuff like that idea see any big sea anymore i've talked to some surfers wolf locals and visitors and they confirmed that it's soft and wasn't good water and 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 29. exceeded the norms for females 2 times and those 4 products 4 times in the water so soft and definitely happened. cumshaw because governor is overseeing the probe and samples are being sent to moscow for analysis he is 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. one 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 let up in the post-election unrest is sweeping bell reuss crowds gathered in minsk throughout sunday 8 weeks after president lukashenko was re-elected in a disputed ballot at least 40 people were arrested at one point riot police used water cannon truck to target the demonstrators who then fought back damaging that vehicle there was a heavy security presence throughout the capital as well and 8 subway stations were shut down for several hours the march went ahead without official permission this follows almost 2 months of public calls for president lukashenko to resign earlier this week the european union passed sanctions on 40 below russian officials over claims of election rigging and violence against protesters responded by blacklisting european officials. and the 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 us and the u.s.s.r. during the cold war parties came up in comments. 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 us 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. kind of for example really make. average 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 loose on the line to do a little truth with them. just listen to yourself 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 un 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 of speed the globe integrates fraction each with its own freedoms financial rules and into metadata 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 the 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 multilateralism some people a lot of people in the d.c. area believe that we're already in a hot cyber war and that as a female back with more than weekly in let's say 33 and a half minutes there with us.

this class as american citizens need to blast off that's. fine. and i think. i would vote for a republican i would vote for anyone who is not you and has half a brain. don't try. to feel. like a wife. she can handle a. divorce because trouble is elected president and i floated for her and she. election. in our history. list in the months to go before the next presidential election is the atmosphere in the us now i. want to the highest priority programs.

should they do next. just some of the questions we put to the america. join me every day on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics sport i'm sure i'll see you then. you. belong to sherman didn't is guilty no ma'am. what we see on t.v. shows is not reality our justice system isn't what you think it is rolling stone magazine considers wayne kramer of the m c 51 of the top 100 greatest guitarists of

all time he battled drug addiction in 1975 went to prison for 2 years for selling cocaine he's since provided guitars and taught music 10 mates at over 50 correctional institutions throughout the united states people think that you know you have a right to a trial and everybody goes to trial and there's the good prosecutor and the defense attorney and they battle it out that i think the way it works the way it works is the prosecutors stacked up the charges and you have forced you to plead guilty to a lesser charge to keep from doing life or double life or triple life people don't get trials what they get is a deal people suggest that anywhere between you know 3 or 10 and 15 percent of people behind bars could be innocent of the crimes for which they were charged michelle alexander is a civil rights lawyer stanford law professor and the author of the new jim crow one of the most highly acclaimed studies america's criminal justice system the reality

is that thousands of people. every year and the united states wind up pleading guilty to crimes they may not have committed because they're the they're railroaded by police officers who give them false information or horrors confessions or because they're afraid of facing you know harsh mandatory minimum sentences and believe that you know the best chance is to just take a plea. every joe you. know the president the politics in county jail you don't know anything so they put you in there with these people this is how they force you to take deals the u.s. justice system just like any justice system in the world a system where 95 percent of the cases are resolved by plea bargain it's no longer trial system it's a plea bargain system.