a week of hostilities between armenia and azerbaijan brings devastation to not go to no kind of talk with relentless shelling of the local capital r.t. reports from the area. massive explosions in the very center of the city 250 millimeter. it is a massive rocket. the fighting spills beyond of the disputed region as a border city in azerbaijan is hit by artillery fire also in the stories ahead that shaped the week. i'm not here to call those guys everybody knows he's a liar there's nothing smart about you joe what you should. know you are 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 at war no pollution disaster in russia's far east as a probe is launched into toxic chemicals killing sea life. broadcasting live director our studios in moscow recapping the week's top stories with our weekly program this is r t international glad to have you with us i know we start with the conflict between armenia and azerbaijan which has entered a 2nd week the disputed region of not go to no kind of box is it being a relentlessly shelled these are some of the pictures of the latest ones from the local capital showing burning cars residential buildings have been hit across the city and the number of casualties so far is unclear earlier in the week a hospital was hit in an airstrike several residential. were also badly damaged

hostilities are now expanding beyond the disputed territory with several towns in azerbaijan bombed the city of a gun came under fire earlier on sunday as a page on claims one person was killed and 32 wounded on friday the town of tara was also attacked by claims that thousands of shells were used in that raid since the start of the conflict azerbaijan says 24 civilians have been killed and more than 100 people injured but i've got to have as 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 of forty's came out looking at forty's and said look if as if by john doesn't stop targeting us with with shells multiple rocket launches 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 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 golden corral boxset 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 couponing start getting civilian residential areas in the 2nd floor of the 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 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 golden it got a box it was easy to budge on the previously expanded the combat zone by shelling the territory of armenia. 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 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 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 or ignited last sunday but it has roots stretching back over 3 decades young broke away from azerbaijan in 1988 but the area has not been widely recognized as a sovereign state. on

monday wish simply have only one condition that armenia leaves our lands completely and immediately. 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 buck are successfully protecting their region both 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 in the car capital here's. 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 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 in the armenian capital there has been an outpouring of support for those trapped in the car about conflict zone people are collecting donations of food clothes and other supplies to send to the region cut about is inhabited almost entirely by armenians and many have been left homeless by the ongoing military bombardment we talked to some of the volunteers and yet of on. this is abuse a bill an initiative people are donating supplies nonstop he everything is sorted and sent to the warehouse every person in armenia wants to be involved and help in

whatever way they can oh well that was devoted to the spirit of our people cannot be broken we are all united ruling because personal grievances against the government or anyone else behind them journalists in my garden are kind of getting caught in the crossfire as well 4 were injured in a shell strike on wednesday including 2 french reporters they were airlifted to your oven 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 these are pictures of his car earlier my colleague you know neal talks to a. journalist from in azerbaijan the 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 military actions refused to leave their house and refused to leave their region

armenians are accusing her version 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 by gently clear that azerbaijan army does not target civilian people as well as the really interesting infrastructure the targets of the azerbaijan army are firing positions mutes or if it's the way it is and we know what their infrastructure is in the local buy it either by john doesn't fight against civilians out there by john is fighting for liberation it's all territories. donald trump is in the hospital for a 3rd 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 debate with rival joe biden this week's 1st clash was a chaotic affair marred by interruptions and insults artie's down 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 will 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 should excuse the one who saw your number to 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 interruptive that sort of but he does plenty well less than what he's just shows 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 resumes america has ever had. to get any word with this clown directly 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 in the history of our country we handed him a booming economy he blew it was it he who. he are you races you say 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 of 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 than 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 it went right it went 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 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 loudon 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 his side 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 do i do see that i think biden is 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 in russia's far east report hundreds of dead sea creatures washed ashore sparking fears of an environmental disaster we will delve into that after a short break this is the weekly on r.t. international.

nuclear power plants have become a battleground in the u.s. in vermont people are demanding the shutdown of a local plant from my yankee is right now my focus because it's a very dangerous. powerplant the owner is attempting to run the risk beyond its operational limits this case just sort of puts a magnifying glass on where's the power in this country where is it going is it moving more towards corporate interests or is it more in the idea of a traditional participatory hour lie with the people this case demonstrates that struggle in the very real way.

the old soviet frozen conflict no news no good local is no very hot you tell you what you need to know and it is america in 2020 minutes bolshevik revolution in 1007. the week we hear on our 2 international now 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 the editor in chief of the russia beyond the online magazine visited the area and spoke to us. i'm currently at the polls and i'm just a couple of them just to reach there isn't that a logical disaster that you didn't see between just reading the one verse of a trip to see 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 that they felt some unpleasant odor and it had to 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 they're real like selected that fish there but not like files of dead sea lion stuff like that idea see any big sea and. i've talked to some surfers wolf locals and visitors and they confirmed that it's soft and was in the water and ice 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 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 norms for products 4 times in the water so soft and definitely happened. because governor is overseeing the probe and samples are being sent to moscow for analysis he has 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 officials to try and downplay its significance a thorough in 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 sweeping dello russo crowds gathered in minsk throughout sunday night 8 weeks after president bush was reelected in a disputed ballot at least 40 people were arrested at one point riot police used a water cannon truck to target the demonstrators who fought back damaging the vehicle there was a heavy security presence throughout the capital and 8 subway stations were shut down for several hours as well the march went ahead without official permission this follows almost 2 months of public of 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. 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 and takes up the story for us. 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 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. divine i'm going to. play russia had occupied many new territories bringing additional millions of people under communist control. for example but really makes. average american really 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 loose on the line to do a little truth with them when i was. just listening to your sim 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 as the foreign minister suggested so 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 is split the globe in a great fraction 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 the u.s. trying to cold war news 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 does it for me this are all more of the weekly of the 33 minutes and a half stay with us. everybody's

reaching for that you have political problems as opposed. to russia and i think the resolution of this is there's going to be a gnostic war that's going to go on for maybe months as john in an already rejected . must 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. and. join me every day on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see that.

a grandmother doing a life for murder was released from prison yesterday after 17 years when i judge said she did not do it susan mellon recently filed a lawsuit against the detective who arrested her for hiding evidence that detectives the same one who arrested reggie. what we know as a society we see the bad guy in the good guy well that's cops and robbers but when the cop becomes the robber the game is over the game is over s. corruption it was

a horrific twist of fate that led to reggie's release. was more fortunate this father's death led to an unexpected turn providence was his big thing in any have you know great life insurance and those 184000 that my dad left and i was able to parlay that up to about $236.00 stock market and then it was just 100 percent of my time dedicated to my case and that enabled those to hire a private investigator we have essentially a growing more chest of evidence that i had committed the crime or at least that all the evidence that was presented was it was false evidence i had received a complaint from i flew up to. the state prison where bruce was i spoke to him once somebody is accused of murder and you're arrested for murder it's tape recorded everything is tape recorder i couldn't find his tape 'd it had been. taken out of evidence by detective monsoon and it was never put back into evidence.

text of monster wood said the footprints outside the house matched the footprints on the inside lieutenant gavin found the footprints were actually looked at by a scientist or any qualified expert so we took matters into his own 'd so i contacted our people scientific investigative division so he takes this big magnifying glass looks at it looks at the other one day goes these 2 don't match see this is a great embarrassment for any large organization that you've convicted somebody for murder and then 51020 years later it's true it turns out that the person is actually innocent and this is what my lieutenant said that is not in that prison do you understand me sergeant kaplan they will do everything they can to stop you perfect you from going forward with the information you have upon a deal in the comprehensive work of the private investigator yeah the p.d. internal affairs department claimed his complaints were unfounded and that no misconduct had occurred you can't have an eternal investigation.