our lie with the people demonstrates that struggle the very real. struggle. a week of hostilities between armenia and azerbaijan brings devastation. with a relentless shelling of the local capital our 2 reports from the area. massive explosions in the very center of the city 250 millimeter. it is a massive rocket. the fighting spilled beyond in the disputed region as a border city and azerbaijan is hit by artillery fire also in the stories of the week. 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 warn of a pollution disaster in russia's far east as a probe is launched into toxic chemicals killing sea life. our broadcasting live coverage from our studios in moscow this is our 2 international i'm sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us now we start with the conflict between armenia and azerbaijan which has entered a 2nd week now the disputed region of. 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 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 that 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 azerbaijan says 24 civilians have been killed and more than 100 people injured parties but i have 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 rajan 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 u.s. and by john he said we're warning you to stop to deescalate to come to your senses and to stop before things get out of control before we reach a point from which there is no going back as it about john itself says that what was targeted in the city of ganja wasn't a military airfield is the 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 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 was a big old knickerbocker meaning of that expanded the war zone the geographic area along which combat was happening but it was i said about god 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 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 drought all in all these 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 did it by john it struck they had said to 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 last sunday but it has roots stretching back over 3 decades john cleary broke away from us or by john in 1988 but the area was not widely recognized as a sovereign state. on

monday regime we have only one condition that armenia leaves our 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. i 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 another of our correspondents has been in the conflict zone throughout the week with his report on friday's shelling of the capital here's your standoff. 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 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 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 conflict zone people are collecting donations of food clothes and other supplies to send to the region he is inhabited almost entirely by armenians and many have been left homeless by be ongoing military bombardment we talked to some of the volunteers and yet of on. give us ask us online sites eva this is a pua seville 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 you know of the most people it's just the spirit of our people cannot be broken we are all united everyone has their personal

grievances against the government or anyone else behind them. journalists in. 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 for treatment and are now back in france and on thursday a camera man from an armenian t.v. channel was severely injured during the shelling these are pictures of his car earlier my colleague you know neal spoke to eldar rustle of a journalist from an azerbaijani t.v. channel he described the damage on the very side of the border. we have seen destroyed houses destroyed ambulances destroyed infrastructures. people from their civil population people that had nothing to do with the military actions used to leave their houses refused to leave their region armenians are accusing azerbaijan of targeting civilians we know civilians have lost their lives

in this conflict is that what is happening if they're talking about armenian site that's a complete nonsense the military command over there but be 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 mutes or if that's the way it is and we know what their infrastructure is in the local why it was there by john doesn't fight against civilians azerbaijan 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 of debate with rival joe biden this week 1st clash was a chaotic affair marred by interruptions and insults and he's done 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 because you know what there's nothing smart about you joe what do you. excuse the one who is so your 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 sort of right 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 i because i'm going to do it because you are president things up you are a senator and the worst were resumes america is ever going. to get any word with this clown directly then you know now that we're done we're done sir the american people had big hopes for this debate after all it's happening on the backdrop of a global pandemic in 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 already races the way 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. a very painful response i don't think either them one

this is just terrible all around this is very upsetting to watch that this is the best representation for our country right now i don't think i can say that even if you were one i think it was a twister it was a wild ride 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 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 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 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 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 shut down of a local plant for 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 democracy with the people this case demonstrates that struggle in the very real. struggle.

the soviet raising 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. to the weekly right here on r t 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 currently in the past i'm just a couple of them just to reach there is a make a logical disaster that you like to see between just reading to one person away from the sea i spent 4 hours on the collector speed beach and i didn't see any water all 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 of the dios i like they were a little bit scattered around the beach they're real like selected that fish there but not like files of dead sea lion stuff like that idea see any big sea animals i've talked to some surfers bulls locals and visitors and they confirmed that so i stopped and was in the water and if i and some of them he wouldn't have liked 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 they exceeded the norms for females 2 times and norms for products 4 times in the water so soft and definitely happen come child because gov 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 to fishes to try and downplay it. a thorough and objective analysis will be provided by the relevant organizations we will collect additional samples of water sea floor sediments 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 let up in the post-election unrest sweeping belo roofs crowds gathered in minsk throughout sunday 8 weeks after president bush and co was reelected in a disputed ballot at least 40 people were arrested at one point riot police were using 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 the march went ahead without official permission it 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 minsk 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 u.s.s.r. during the cold war parties killam up and takes up the story. 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 as this threat from foreign intelligence services well we've seen all those old newsreels talking about the red menace it looks like the propagandists are still in business years later trying to. devise i'm going to. play russia had occupied many new territories bringing additional millions of people under communist control. for example only makes. bridge american river road worker makes $10.00 a day more times more the who's to say the chinese can't strike back they've got

hollywood scenes of their own the. really awful what happens when a. little one of them out on the campus is on the line to the literal truth of them . 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 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 speed 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 a u.s. china cold war is already upon us. if we if we follow reports of majority opinions among business leaders and policymakers 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 in 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 this for me i'll be back with more of the weekly in 33 and a half minutes stay with us.

nuclear become a battleground in the u.s. in vermont people are demanding the shutdown of a local plant for my yankee is right now my focus because it's a very dangerous oh no clare power plant the owner is attempting to run the reactor beyond its operational limits this case just sort of puts a magnifying glass on 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 participatory democracy is or powerline with the people this case demonstrates that struggle in the very real ways our struggle on r.t. . the whole soviet raising conflict known is not going to local is not a very hot you tell you what you need to know and is america in 2020 acting on similar events as the bolshevik revolution in 1007.

100. ton while controls in part it's been almost 3 taken since the collapse of the soviet union and the aftershocks over. that geopolitical earthquake keep chilton because soviet space person promised and valorous followed by the alleged poisoning of an opposition politician in russia and now the renewed war between as ever john and armenia and while the 1st you have to supplant familiar actually use a tory rhetoric in both russia and the west the 3rd sim to have dumbfounded bell

what's the difference i want to discuss that i'm now joined bad bad areas of action most correspondent and editor in chief of b.n.a. in telling us that it's good to talk to you thank you very much for your time as a thanks for inviting me now this interview has an interesting backstory to it because i am i believe you're right grace approached by my colleagues from the r.t.e. i'm used to vision or sort of if i understood correctly trying to place your views fit 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 feed they didn't call back and i really mean it accurately as my understanding is. and they want to just soak. in the russia and the line and you've done a couple of features commentary pieces on the same line saying that she's and. that she's there as the western governments have recognized her as

a legitimate leader latvians is going as far as calling have president elect whereas actually she has no standing and that she's like in venezuela. the problem was was that that rang me sort of proof checks my own status 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 i'd like to that they didn't go back and so i was and invites comment and so i said you know if you're a journalist nearing the annex and they're into. if their opinion and even that my opinion didn't seem to fit with line then i was stumped and consequently you know there was a bias that. i read if you did me come across as censorship or even a critic that a fashion of propaganda but it also strikes me as it is a very routine and.