when some find themselves worlds apart. she's to look for common ground. a week of hostilities between armenia and azerbaijan brings devastation to not go to with relentless shelling of the local capital r t continues to report from the area. the fighting has spilled beyond the disputed region as a border city in azerbaijan is hit by artillery fire also in the stories that shaped the week. i'm not here to call out everybody knows he's a liar there's nothing smart about you joe what you should. do so 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

warned of a pollution disaster in russia's far east as a probe is launched into toxic chemicals killing sea life. by broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow recapping the week's top stories with our weekly program this is our international glad to have you with us and we start with the conflict between armenia and azerbaijan which has entered a 2nd week now the disputed region of nagorno-karabakh 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 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 it beyond the disputed territory with several

towns in azerbaijan bombed the city of ganja came under fire earlier on sunday. 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. says 24 civilians have been killed and over 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 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 of forty's came out looking at parties and said look

if is it about 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 bus strike on ganja

they're blaming this on armenians and saying that this was essentially a crowd amenia which is peace 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 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 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 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 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 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 the conflict reignited last sunday but it has a route stretching back over 3 decades young broke away from us about john in 1988 but the area has not been widely recognized as a sovereign state. on

monday regime we have only one condition that armenia leaves our lands completely and immediately they say if the armenian government complies with this the fighting will stop there will be no bloodshed there will be peace peace will come to our region. 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 is you've got to get down off. 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 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 arrive 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 of the conflict zone people are collecting donations of food clothes and other supplies to send into the region 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 . guys ask us online sites eva this is a people with 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 know of the most people is 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 the gordon or cut above 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 cameraman 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. a journalist from and azerbaijani 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 a military actions refused to leave their house and 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 side that's a complete nonsense the military command over there but the clear that i was there by janet army does not target civilian people as well as the really interesting that is an 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 5 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 of debate with rival joe biden this week's 1st class was a chaotic affair marred by interruptions and insults and she'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 they'll never use the word smart with me that ever use that word give me because you know what there's nothing smart about you joe what you show was an excuse 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 interrupting that sort of but he does plenty well less than he's just shush 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. to get any word with this clown directly matters you know now that we're done we're done sir the american people had big hopes for this debate after all it's happening on the backdrop of a global pandemic and a serious economic crisis but based on how both biden and trump conducted

themselves i would say most people probably thought they were watching some sort of circus. you should get out of your bunker and get out of the sand trap and get in your golf course and fund what needs to be done now to save lives he wants to shut down this country and i want to keep it open. i had it close to greatest economy in the history of our country we handed him a booming economy he blew it was it a loon. he's the races you say 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. this is

a very painful response i don't think either of 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 it went right and 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.

we asked former republican state senator john lubna 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 out stoop to that kind of behavior he tends to be very dismissive been to bully and in fact name call it's certainly not presidential it's

not the kind of behavior that you really want to see in a candidate 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 would 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. rush'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 the editor in chief of the russia beyond online magazine visited the area and spoke to us. i'm currently in the past i'm just

a couple of them just to reach there isn't that a logical disaster that you like to see between just 20 kilometers away from the sea i spent 4 hours on the collectivists the beach and i didn't see any water off 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 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 of the dios i like they were a little bit scattered around the beach their real life selected that fish there but not like files off that sea lion stuff like that idea see any big sea and. i've talked to some surfers bulls locals and visitors and they confirmed that it's soft and was into 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 happen 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 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 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 groups crowds gathered in minsk throughout sunday 8 weeks after president lukashenko 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 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 minsk responded in kind by blacklisting european officials. the f.b.i. has released a short film demonstrating the dangers of chinese intelligence recruitment the propaganda style video reminded many of the methods used by the us and the u.s.s.r. during the cold war. 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 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 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 river road worker makes $10.00 a day. 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. the amount of things on the line to the literal truth of 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 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 well it's 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 multi-lateralism some people a lot of people in the d.c. area believe that we're already in a hot cyber war well that does it for me and for that matter for the weekly for this week my colleague kevin owen he'll be here in about 35 minutes with a full and fresh look at your new stay with us you're watching our teacher national .

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just in case you're worried about who's going to pay for it mexico will pay for. it we'll see what happens. i always say who knows what will seattle philly will be success. a little in welcome to cross talk we're all things are considered i'm peter labelle the post soviet frozen conflict no news no go to look at about is no very hot we tell you what you need to know and it is america in 2020 acting out similar events that witness the bolshevik revolution. in 1970.

3. to discuss this and more i'm joined by my guest george is an author and a you tuber a gaggle and here in moscow we have dmitri bobbitt she is a political analyst and editor it interest me internet media project originally crossed out rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i was appreciated ok let's go to the georgian budapest the conflict the call about a buck has flared up again those that have. been watching the post soviet space gotten used to this year now after over 7 days of the conflict create knighting again georget some kind of stalemate put it into context why is this conflict important to follow. where you have to go back to the earliest days of the bolshevik revolution and to the decisions of joseph stalin who was the bolsheviks

point man on nationality he was the nationality. in among the bolsheviks and he decided. that the region. should be a part of there by john b. you know within that within the territory it was there by john. and it's ethnic make the fact that it's ethnically armenian the armenians were going on about this is the need is there that this would be a part of i mean but he decided to be a part of us there by john in logic because the bolsheviks was seeking to appeal to the muslims of asia and also the muslims of the of the what became the u.s.s.r. and in particular look. at that's right and the nascent bolshevik regime was making great efforts to. keep turkey happy. so that back when it was set up now of course it didn't really matter.