breaking news this hour here on r.t. reinforcements are heading into the battle between armenia and azerbaijan russia's intel chief says that mercenaries from terrorist organizations including. travelling to the conflicts meanwhile back with those rages on in the disputed region with dozens of civilians being killed on both sides international humanitarian organizations including the red cross are expressing alarm. we are seeing and hearing is that people. terrified and being forced to make really impossible decisions also to come this hour the former coronavirus hotspot new york city sees another wave of infections the authorities are rolling out new

restrictions there starting with the decision to shut down the city's schools. and stands electoral commission has an old this sunday's parliamentary vote following huge riots and the next president of the central asian states has also been released from jail and made the chaos with the parliament buildings set on fire. good afternoon you're watching r.t. international start with that breaking news tonight as the head of russia's foreign intelligence service is warning that foreign terrorists including the tourist. seeking to join the conflict in the disputed nagorno-karabakh region where fighting has intensified between is a big and armenia so let's get the latest now from our correspondent has more

information on this he's currently on the armenian border with the disputed region good afternoon what more can you tell us about this latest revelation from the intelligence sources. in russia. well andy indeed the russian foreign intelligence agency they have released a memo a statement and at 1st they're just expressing the general concern for the well being of the people of nagorno-karabakh and they are calling the issued a call to to both sides to stop the fighting immediately but this is we've already heard from many many sides but what gets when it gets more interesting is as you've mentioned they have said that they have information about hundreds if not thousands of syrian mercenaries fighting in this conflict and they are talking about some of the most radical groups too and they have raised alarm saying that they need it have this information they're an intelligence agencies will according to their

sources again hundreds if not thousands of fighters there here's what they had to say have a listen. according to the information that is available to russia's foreign intelligence service mercenaries from warring international terrorist organizations in the middle east are actively heading to the conflict zone in particular job for cattle homs us halt on moron as well as extremist kurdish groups. so you've already heard a number of a number of names that they have released out there who those fighters they are here for the money according to this statement they're here trying to earn money and so on and so forth when it comes to the names the most notorious one i have to say is of course depart from its was formerly known as the al qaeda in syria but later they broke away and they try to they try to sort of make to rebranded their group but they failed because they're known for atrocities for numerous atrocities brutality and world it's one of the most extremist groups in syria out there queues

of many many crimes against humanity and terrorism we actually have a short clip that we can show you to break down what is. is known about them and what they're notorious for what i have to give you a warning because you may find some of the pictures in this clip disturbing. well it's important to specify that this statement by the foreign intelligence

service of russia does not specify as to which side these thousands of radicals are fighting on however there is mounting evidence and accusations from an international community that it is turkey that is helping i swear by john hiatt these people hire these mercenaries and take them to the border take them to the front lines of the nagorno-karabakh and so essentially that they're fighting on the side over there by john in this war this is something that meaning as accused as they are by john as well but again these 2 sides armenia and azerbaijan they accuse each other of many things and each side is denying what the other one is saying so this is one of such cases by john is denying that any foreign fighters are fighting on its soil and in fact they haven't excused armenia of using foreign soldiers in this war so we'll have to see how far this situation will go and also we have some news just in after the foreign minister of turkey has announced that it's cut his

country turkey that ankara he's ready to work with moscow on solving this problem on solving this a war in the gorn a cab back and bringing the 2 sides. back to the negotiating table i will keep a close eye on it and book bring you all the latest from here. with the latest on the situation in the going to cut it back he's on the border incidentally . well things are also heating up in the are as we journey territory near the disputed area too because the government says the 2nd largest city in the country came under fire and monday these are pictures now of a market that was shelled according to his eerie authorities the armenian side denies that they have fired on as a page on territory meanwhile is areas outside the conflict zone a doing all they can to help their forces reporting next is these mail faster from the capital back. in the wake of the recent advances or there was an army in the

continent. people both in who are in the region of the few consolidated and want to make their own contribution. for the progress of this old throughout the capital several collection points by this initiative of the people they want something from there or we're already sense just from riot trucks just today was sent about 150 boxes i think of big portion of the salary we must be spent this way and we here to stand our support to frontline troops we want to assure our soldiers there we're always with them. it's statement even should that be extra big gratitude to the people for this assistance but in the same time they said that people military personnel leave who are equipped and provide it is all need and in order to prevent any kind or misuse irrational or he shoots the president set

up a temporary hotline where people can get in touch with the officers in the missile defense and then they will help them to reduce. would you be. proud of this notion that of the soldier for the national army or as the shooting does continue dozens of civilians have lost their lives on both sides infrastructure in the corner cutting back is been severely damaged as a result of the fighting and many humanitarian organizations are now alarmed by the escalation of violence and the level of casualties we spoke to the red cross which does say that locals have found themselves in an impossible situation. having a terrible impact on civilian state humanitarian consequences are already apparent we're on the ground across the region and what we are seeing and hearing is that people are absolutely terrified being forced to make really impossible decisions on how to keep themselves and their families safe people are reportedly on the move

trying to find shelter on top of statistics is all happening in the context where winter is coming people have already been dealing with a global coated pandemic we have been helping hospitals in nagorno-karabakh on a quest we've helped with emergency medical supplies our teams in the field it's quite restricted in terms of what they can do because it develops realty of the situation because the fighting is so intense in places so we haven't actually even been able to get out and do a full assessment as we as we would like to do but obviously people people do need support and people need help and where we can we've been stepping up and we obviously have to do a lot more. now in other news donald trump is back in the white house he had spent 3 nights in hospital after testing positive for coated 19. i learned so much about coronavirus and one thing that's for certain don't let it dominate you

don't be afraid of it and i didn't feel so good and 2 days ago i could have left 2 days ago 2 days ago felt great we're going back we're going back to work when to be out front and you leader i had to do that and i know there's a risk there's a danger but that's ok and now i'm better and maybe i'm immune i don't know but don't let it dominate your lives get out there be careful we have the best medicines in the world. however his comments there did infuriate many medical experts who said it actually downplayed the deadly threat of the virus from made the statement a few hours after leaving hospital and following his release the presidential helicopter touched down in washington with the u.s. leader going to the white house balcony and removing his mask to pose for photos the american paper of course still being affected as well the northeast is seeing another big spike in the case is the moment new york city is already set to close schools in several neighborhoods getting hit hard by the virus the new restrictions

come into force on change day. my number one concern has always been schools i would not send my child to a school in a hot spot cluster that is not interested we're going to close the schools in those areas tomorrow or the u.s. as a whole remains the world's hot spot for the pandemic on friday new infections 2 month record with over 54000 positive cases that is the highest daily tally since the middle of august when the country recorded just over 64000 cases we heard from people in new york about the latest decision to close schools. why was he got no schools there is no great optically and why was my son's school which is actually do want to toy with out loud to be was the 1st to do the students a good doing that they're probably going to get out of making. it somewhat discouraging of the street trying or. whatever whatever needs to be done they're

doing it you know the school to give it a little pull our correspondent into why new york is once again facing a spike in cases. the rate of infection in new york city is rising once again the highest numbers we've seen sense back in may so who is to blame for this well new york state governor andrew cuomo says the buck stops with local officials. say go over effective enforcement for every jurisdiction for local jurisdiction cannot or will perform effective enforcement violating entities notify the states and to close all business activity in hotspots where local governments come to comply now cuomo says words have led to allegations of hypocrisy he's criticizing local officials for not doing what he has recommended well back earlier during the pandemic he was criticized for not doing what federal officials recommended i don't

believe that any federal administration could be serious about physical lock downs of states or parts of states across this country i don't believe it's legal i think it would be economic chaos the decision around nursing home with governor cuomo decreeing that co that 19 patients should be sent there at a pretty big impact many have not forgotten what they see is a pretty big misjudgment that cost many lives there is something disgusting that democrats are doing that joe biden does and that you do which is you try to blame the people who lost their lives on your political enemies was it a mistake when your brother implemented a policy that nursing homes had to accept kovan positive patients and endangered the lives of my brother was the 1st i want to say state but there was a learning cuomo has also faced criticism for allowing black lives matter protests

to take place despite talking up the risks are talking about reopening in one week in new york city. and now we're seeing these methods maersk gatherings over the past several nights that could in fact exacerbate the covert 19 spread now despite his policy differences with the white house new york state governor andrew cuomo sent his best wishes to president donald trump when he got coded 19 that is unlike new york city's mayor bill de blasio who saw it as an opportunity to take the president to task i think it's another reminder of why what some of us have been saying is right wear masks practice social distancing and take it seriously this president obviously didn't do it and paid the price party lines power and position mean nothing to the coronavirus everyone is at risk now new york governor andrew cuomo admits the leaders of the state have made some pretty big mistakes along the way however he still wants everyone to believe that he is the guy to lead

us through the crisis well andrew cuomo is a leading figure within the democratic party the democratic party's strategy. during this 2020 a lecture and has to run again in a strumpet and to run against coded new york has had the worst rate. worst. case death rate statistics and the worst prayed for the incidence of govt in the country because much of the media in the united states is entirely in cahoots with the democratic party cuomo hasn't suffered any adverse consequences on that so yes it's hypocritical but he can get away with it he's going to blame him to go with trump and pose as the hero who somehow say new york at the same time in the media and watch and allow him to get away with it. ok let's

turn to events and poke a stand that because that has been chaos and violence on the streets they're following at the speed. it election at the weekend the latest is that the country's central electoral commission has now an old the result of that vote so far one person has died during the riots over the last 24 hours in the country's health ministry says about 700 people have been injured with more than 100 taken to hospital. meanwhile several regional heads have also resigned voluntarily as well as the

capital's man protesters proclaimed a new. earlier on monday and earlier to our senior correspondent aghasi of gave more details of what's happening on the ground kevin. it seemed peaceful enough when these protests begat really people taking to the streets to voice their displeasure at how these elections what conducted it the results of the election would gradually with with passions and tempers rising people began hurling stones at police progressive leave became more and more violent police began firing tear gas water cabin back at the protesters indeed even robbed of bullets hundreds and hundreds of people now injured schools of them seriously many in intensive care in hospitals protest bit purchases begad assaulting government compounds the presidency the presidential palace the parliament the the office of the mayor all

fallen to the protesters the deep the food the president son was among them leading one group that sees the central jail in bishkek in the capital and he freed his father the former president who himself was was in jail facing corruption charges abuse of office even murder for his infamous role in violent resistance against a police raid. unfortunately instance of ilion suffer from the anti-terrorist telfer group read that was sent to capture me the violence and cynicism of the current 247 scene besides rubber bullets to special forces also used combat weapons one more time

a cone the authorities to change their course and i would like to tell soldiers do not shoot your own people this is all going to end badly for you at this point the situation is precarious because the protesters aren't going anywhere they have now voiced plans to install a new temporary prime minister to oversee read the running of the country in prayer preparations for for new elections the president in turn was adamant that what happened in bishkek was an illegal attempt by protesters by those who had lost to seize power this kind of trouble for views around the world just kind of a picture for us is it unusual for kurdistan or not now this this isn't the 1st time we're seeing events like this the reason that the government went out of its way to try and make this election or make it seem as if it was piro was because of . a street in the past 30 years there have been 3 similar

revolutions protesters out in the streets calling for regime change the 1st president after 15 years in power was forced out by street protests the 2nd xcel out of the country and now this is happening for a 3rd time unfortunately given give you start history there is a new telling which way events will unfold. on his much against the if there were local journalists in bishkek also sent to sis reports on the violence that has gripped the city. you know you got to the main event of the previous night is the seizure of the government headquarters that's when people started saying it's a 3rd revolution rallies continue in the city center people are in high spirits but we are questioning our future now the president has called these events an attempt at illegitimate change of power the days you are authorities still formally exist but we don't know where the prime minister spokesperson or bishkek mayor are we

don't see any police around so it's difficult to speak about the presence of authorities meanwhile candidates from the losing parties have taken over several major offices watching are they still had he the sad britons cope with 19 tracing program sufism a jihad cup with thousands of cases disappearing from the system we'll have a look at why it happened plus other stories take yourself. the world is driven by a dream shaped by those great. military

thinks. we dare to ask. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy foundation let it be an arms race is off and spearing dramatic development only closely i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. oh again now the response has been hit by

a major scandal homo 16900 cases vanished from the from the national tracing system all because of a technical error and in turn hampering efforts to find the contacts of those who had tested positive for the virus. thousands of people blissfully unaware they've been exposed to code it potentially spreading this deadly virus a time when hospital admissions are increasing and we're in the 2nd wave but the issue occurred at the end of september with 19 case data failed to transfer from the laboratories to an x.l. spreadsheet used to tally the numbers misleading official figures suggested the u.k.'s coronavirus cases were beginning to plateau but the missing cases now confirm that the country still on an upward path prime minister boris johnson says all those exposed have been contacted and the u.k. health secretary was forced to admit the mistake. this incident should never have

happened but the team of acted swiftly to minimize its impact and now it's critical that we work together to put this right what i can say is that all those people obviously being contacted in the key thing is as i say that everybody whether it be in this group or all generally should should so pricey that's the way to make it work or when the error was 1st announced there was an outcry online not least because the testing trace system is using an old version of excel and then a shot many to considering the billions of pounds spent on developing the tracing app we've got opinion on the streets of london. losing lives every day only not small numbers what are the big numbers saw this is business number for you come to this if you go to new york and i imagine they'll develop it as time goes on there's a real president the n.h.s. extinct 1000 if that because it to be believed the people to vote in the rosy will

of the victim in the case of the repository they could have dished out a lot better and. i doubt we'd be in such a happy different if the government's going to have to rethink something your. people lose interest because obviously. to their expressions something that should feel gross already should be politics probably. the german chancellor angela merkel is meeting with the better russian ex presidential candidates phonetic and of sky later today a german government spokesperson said that she will be welcomed as a key opposition figure in belarus taken over skaar has been in self exile in through a new since the contested election which sparked nationwide protests in the e.u. and u.s. have joined the better russian opposition in denouncing the result as rates were taken off sky arrived in berlin on monday where she took part in a solidarity rally organized by the better russian to support of their join the

event the opposition leader also reportedly said that she would like to meet with the russian president vladimir putin r.t. correspondent peter all of a tell us more now about her goals for the upcoming talks she brought with a list of names that she wants to see added to the current sanctions to the names currently sanctioned by the european union this 40 names on that list already notable absent from that list though was alexander lukashenko at the president of belarus that raised a few eyebrows when it was announced last week she's also going to be looking for germany to play a role as a mediator. in trying to sort out the impasse following the disputed election that took place in august our plans for changes in ballarat consist of 3 points which we have already voiced pressure on the authorities which lead to negotiations and d'anjou negotiations with new fair elections human rights are being grossly in

viciously violated in belarus and ballarat sions are now crying out for help so we hope that germany's role in resolving this issue is the mediator will be one of the most important angela merkel is viewed as perhaps the best face for mediation the other real option was a money with my call on the french president but he has been quite publicly outspoken in his criticism of alexander lukashenko and in his support of the opposition angular merkel's government has said they don't recognize the result of august selection however the chancellor of self has really kept a powder dry while giving her support to the opposition figures that's 4th take it off i will meet with their positions to hand off square one we see brief women taking to the streets calling for corruption free life i cannot but it my that for president my corn in france on chancellor merkel here in germany were 2 of the biggest in loudest voices saying that last being outside interference in bella ruse

trying to sort out what happened following that election in august however the e.u. along with germany and france of course of put a large amount of pressure on the cover of the russian government and on alexander lukashenko himself now this hasn't gone unnoticed by moscow this to say we consider these decisions to be at odds with international law they clearly fail to facilitate dialogue and in effect amount to meddling in internal affairs so atlanta taken off sky is set to meet with the german chancellor and foreign minister at some point this afternoon as soon as we get any news out of that meeting and indeed any news that cause. before that meeting i'll be bringing it to you here on out. he told the reporting just coming up to half past 3 here in moscow don't forget we've always got plenty stories but i went on a website see when you can find that. is

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