because japan is has. shall remain the cheapest source of guns in the world. questions of evidence moscow cast doubt over the bottle said to prove kremlin critic alexina valley was poisoned with novacek. as fighting intensifies between armenia and azerbaijan locals of course in the crossfire and forced to flee for their lives. so as beat the rebirth of krishna as a petition your beloved where is. the book your most intimate. has been almost 30 years i still see the image of my land in front of my eyes. also to come on r.t. the return of restrictions berlin becomes the latest major city to see measures reintroduced to combat surging infection rates and some other harris and mike pence

slug it out in the 1st and only vice presidential debate of the us election but it was a high flying gatecrasher that stole the party and the headline. good evening it's 7 o'clock here in moscow you're watching r.t. international now russia has cast major doubts over the evidence the west claims it has the proof kremlin critic aleck's in the family was poisoned with nerve agent his aide had previously said that she had taken the suspect water bottle from his hotel room to germany but moscow now claims it never left the country with more details is asking. while the song involving russian opposition figure alexei navalny has been even more in tangled an ongoing investigation by local russian with ortiz to have conducted so far on 230 into he's trying to get to the bottom of

what happened on that flight from siberia to moscow in late august has brought a new turn crucially findings reveal of all the costs of doubt over what has been dubbed a key piece of information. that is alleged to have contained traces of chalk apparently lead to the conclusion that he had been poisoned by the nerve agent now this bottle of water was much talked about in the media and it was initially thought that had been smuggled out by one of his companions marina but this is actually something that she herself claimed in an interview that russian authorities to said touch me not true let's listen what they said. during the preflight security check of maria. novosibirsk there was no contained is of more than $100.00 milliliters in volume in her suitcase and backpack including any bottles of water after the check maria purchased a $500.00 milliliter bottle of water from an asteroid vending machine with which

she flew to the city of. this seriously challenges of course what members of the anti corruption fund that was set up by you have said so far now they say as soon as they found out she was hospitalized they went to return to the hotel room he's been staying and i'm afraid today if anything suspicious they also posted a video on instagram showing them apparently locating this bottle with not the chalk though since some have caused doubt over how it's possible that they managed to casually handle something that allegedly held a deadly nerve agent now another revelation from this ongoing russian investigation consigns the airport in which these plane made an emergency landing this is scout port in siberia now the pilot says he made a request for an. 8 25 in the morning and 5 minutes later he received a message warning of a potential bomb scare in the region so there was for a short period doubt over whether they would be able to land the plane here's what

russian authorities had to say about that given the appearance in the media of a bomb hoax at the airport in the emergency landing of the plane carrying around the investigators are working out additional versions of what happened it has been found that the anonymous message was sent through a server located on the territory of germany now germany of course has featured very heavily in of the story just a quick reminder it was to a bulletin clinic that yvonne was late to sent and father treated it was also in a german treat that allegedly these traces of found in the found the system in the meantime moscow has continued to ask the father information from all parties who are involved in this saying that they need to aid them in their investigation to that and they've in fact sent 6 requests to job 8 many france and sweden all these developments are happening as the diplomatic fallout from this story. on wednesday we heard that germany and france are planning to propose new additional sanctions against russia and they encourage the european community to join them in that that

will be formally discussed next week russia has responded by saying that this kind of language is just not conducive to international cooperation which is something that moscow said from the very beginning that it wants instead of through a police corporate scene with the russian federation with a view to clearing up the circumstances of the incident with the blogger the german and french governments have no turn to threats and blackmail against us at any rate we do not concede it possible to conduct business as usual with the lead in paris so a lot of new information coming out raising a lot of questions including in fact whether marina peptic who apparently brought in that bottle of water even woks for the anti corruption fund there has been some dispute about that so all quite modeled was certainly wait to see how it all plays out what author and russian analyst mark mccord disbelief too will be hard for paris and berlin to drop their accusations against moscow despite the new evidence

. i was really going to this situation everything becomes more more complex more difficult to disentangle so therefore the statements by the russian minister. berlin and paris were to take into consideration i will have to wait and see whether they wrote the long we can't really go ahead with what we had planned you know we were actually convinced that the russian gross once more the problem which ones will but now it's possible there's a doubt this is there's a doubt where all the evidence and so on may imply cold dark. for trying to impose sanctions but the rich the very very serious that you really believe she encountered coverage. of the poisoning was in fact the responsibility of russia and it's going to take a lot more which way to dissuade them from the world of you. now the raging territorial conflicts between as a pendulum and armenia his having a devastating impact on civilians caught in the middle fighting has been

intensifying faith sites have released their latest combat footage and according to the region's officials half of those living in the corner cutting back have now fled because dan of visited one town on the border which has become a temporary home to armenian refugees. the latest escalation in the war over nagorno-karabakh has now stretched far beyond the front lines neat sleepy villages then towns on the home front some populated only by cattle shepherds and farmers have been battered by artillery fire and drone strikes. would have. jury the week that we roamed around nagorno-karabakh we witnessed an exodus of children women and the elderly the flow of refugees was growing exponentially by

the day we're in the town of course it's in armenia but only about 20 minutes away or so from the border with the disputed region in fact it's the closest town to nagorno-karabakh and the 1st refuge for those who decided to flee the bombs mariette move to stop on occurred the capital of nagorno karabakh more than 30 years ago she remembers the horrors of every war of every escalation since the late eighty's this latest one has forced her her daughters grandchildren and even great grandchildren to flee stepanek at here we feel for you. but are they afraid of that. force feel like she was lucia. that it. was almost was it was out of my will just. mushrooming him or what but i am put. in british. fish kong sport the killer myth of the new press we

perform up i say is that they bombed us this summer a few jews who come to the coordination center bear wounds from the bombing is this man hasn't had any food for 3 days most people here have nowhere to go. oh so buses take them to the capital you have on their complete strangers will invite them in their homes in a gesture of beauty within the nation here in glorious it's mostly those who don't plan on staying away from home for too long so i chuckle. when my it was so i was with the rebels at the position as a condition of with the love we must wear. their most intimate. group. mariette can't hold back the tears so we have to stop the interview glories hotels are packed with refugees locals are doing the best they can to lift at least

some of the misery from their shoulders that got them are suddenly we provide rooms and 3 meals a day for free and also invite doctors to provide medical care now we have more than 200 refugees in the hotel and as far as i know there is no room in other hotels waiting patiently to go back refugees here are glued to the t.v. in the canteen watching the latest news from the war torn region some still have family and friends who refuse to leave nagorno-karabakh and everyone is desperate to be reunited i'm done of reporting from army was bored of mccormick karabakh see where the fighting isn't only limited to the region in dispute several times and is a johnny controlled territory have been hit according to the government syria thirty's to claim to a number of civilian settlements was shelled on tuesday we spoke to some refugees who have seen all of this before but the 1st conflict erupted 3 decades ago.

as. i am originally from and lost our house and became homeless so we arrived here i'm not complaining it could have been even worse somehow we managed to make a living here matter what happens it is always better to have your own land if there is a necessity i agree to go to the. from my by myself i grew just sacrifice myself for my land the heart of the state vice president all of them help it is better to return to your homeland it has been almost 30 years i still see the image of my land in front of my eyes i see my house groups of our beloved martyrs it was suffering to come here i personally cried at that time my parents were no longer alive and there were 6 of us brothers and sisters. this is how we rise here in 1903 back in nag them we had quite a good lead in conditions but lost that in the days i faced challenges leaving here

. look at my leave and conditions my heart is breaking when i see what is going on at the front lines but i am waiting to see our land the occupied and expecting our houses to be rebuilt and thus resettled when returning that is what i am waiting for from this process and care about nothing more just our ag. i am grateful to our president i wish our soldiers strives to liberate our lands well longing for this perspective yes i was the largest provider of his bench and aides but i'm still in his dormitory all men in my family sons and grandsons 7 army my only desire is to go to the villages of my combo jar. should. you know berlin has become the latest major european city to see a return of some measures after recorded one of its biggest daily spikes in cable cases since the pandemic began peter all of our reports. are strict coronavirus

measures are coming back to berlin from this saturday until at least the end of the mall thaw restaurants local shops already open a business that will be open late at night will have to shop but doors. at 11 pm until 6 in the morning. covert cases are rising in germany at the fastest pace since made april as europe struggles with a new wave of infection the health minister says the new rules a needed because people and not taking the virus seriously. it isn't surprising with a lack of rules it's more a question of where certain rules are enforced and i think there is room for improvement in our beautiful capital city the chancellor has warned that with winter on the way things may be about to get tough young figured out this is open to him so much we learned a lot and did well throughout the summer but we know that none difficult times are

ahead of us namely in the autumn and winter months and we see a gradual increase especially in densely populated areas we have a number this rise in the numbers of infections this is of course a reason to be concerned but we also know how to position ourselves at all would sit in the ashes but there is a small but dedicated group of germans that don't agree with the chancellor and have been out on the streets to vent their upset that corona restrictions. was. i was of a parts of germany a keeping a close eye on the infection rate in berlin and on keen on visitors from the capital spreading the virus to them i fear that berlin is on the edge of losing control we definitely don't want to have a situation like in madrid we don't want

a situation like in paris where there has to be a complete lockdown where public life has to be reset to 0 elsewhere in europe brussels has announced bars and restaurants will close as the belgian capital is riddled with corona 27 people tested in brussels returns a positive result. the virus is everywhere in the region there is not a single municipality in brussels which is below the national average where restrictions put in place there's also pushback from some sections of society from conspiracy theorists who think the virus is a hoax to those terrified that the measures to stop it spread it will cost them their jobs.

while braces for what may well be a wind wave of cove it germany as a whole remains one of only 4 european nations knocked described by the european center for disease prevention and control as being at a crucial rate of infection for now at least peter all of a r.t. early well after months of living in the shadow of the virus it does seem that tempers are increasingly becoming frayed over the restrictions a fight broke out between passengers on a plane in the united states over the where. the incident had started is now argument between a flight attendant and a passenger who is only wearing a face shield while they can be born on board in addition to masks they can be used instead of when the incident spiraled out of control security were called and the passion she was removed like a partridge has been looking at how measures to keep people safe during the health crisis and eye causing frustration. in march there were positive reports of how

people around the world were dealing with the coronavirus slowdown the italians were singing. the spanish were john saying. he. and the british were giving weekly rounds of applause to the national health service. fost forward 7 months and the world seems to be going stir crazy frustrations at the ongoing restrictions economic uncertainty for surging infection rates have driven some tempers to boiling point and the focus for this is off to those who don't wear mosques. the offices of which i don't think is. the target. not.

that i think. you got while the government struggled to contain the virus new hardships have inflamed old tensions in this instance 2 passengers on a u.k. bus berkeley and physically abuse and apparently asian teenage girl for not covering her face. on. the mosque has become the synonymous with the pandemic both as a symbol of protection and also restriction science supports using them research shows they cut down the chances of transmitting and catching coronavirus and could reduce the severity of any infections but for some not wearing mosque means freedom from state intervention that seen few countries. get the virus under control with

more than a 1000000 dead worldwide protesters across the globe a saying what's the point and with almost a year gone since the virus 1st hit the headlines and no end to the crisis in sight it's this symptom of pandemic fatigue which has led the world health organization toward its threatening country's ability to defeat covert 19. in such circumstances it's easy and natural to feel apathetic and be motivated to experience with teague we can see not surprisingly that fatigue among those surveyed is increasing it is now estimated to have reached over 60 percent in some cases winter is approaching with its associated colds and flu and the expense of christmas and other religious celebrations a time of joy but also stress this year's festive season could yet prove to be a powder keg of the government's fail to effectively lead societies against an invisible enemy which threatens to divide as well as conquer a partridge r.t.

loved. the fate of the next presidential debate hangs in the balance trump is refusing to take part after it was announced his biden would be held for mostly that is after the president called covert last week and then spent 4 days in hospital the debate had been due to take place in miami on october the 15th trump explained his position in an interview. but you say you're not going to participate and no i'm not going to waste rage i'm going to virtual debate that's not what debating is all about you sit behind a computer and do a debate it's ridiculous and then they cut you off whatever they want. may not be a 2nd presidential debate the 1st and only vice presidential encounter was held last night. and mike pence in the ring for 90 minutes don't cause a loop through the highlights with kevin it. was a big change of pace from the presidential debates from last week which looked more

like a political circus than anything but this time around there were less aggressive interruptions no doubt both candidates even seem like they were showing each other a little respect at times but when it came to what what exactly they were debating a lot of it amounted to just attacking or defending the actions of the current administration from the very 1st day president donald trump has put the health of america 1st whatever the vice president is claiming the administration has done clearly it hasn't worked if the trump administration approves a vaccine before or after the election should americans take it and would you take it if donald trump tells us i said to him that we should take it i'm not taking the fact that you continue to undermine public confidence in a vaccine if a vaccine emerges during the trump administration i think is is unconscionable both presidential contenders pretty getting on in years the worry is what if something happens to them has to be continuity in their one of the top jobs in the world the top job in the world business and so a lot of focus on the vice presidents and how they might cope if they had to step

into the big oops yeah absolutely kevin in fact no matter who wins this election biden or trump they will become the oldest person to be elected u.s. president in american history and so this debate that we saw was in a way between 2 potential future heads of state in the u.s. but when the moderator posed this question the possibility of a presidential disability depends he just moved in the direction to talk about the corona virus vaccine and then the question was posed to kemal heiress and. she started talking about how proud her mom was of her so we didn't really get a clear answer on that sort of policy that wasn't made clear you know the rhetoric wasn't as heated as it was before but still not totally clear where these but we were both were there was a getting crushed to i believe yeah absolutely a lot of people were talking about who won this debate and neither candidate really gave us much to work with there weren't even as many insults as in the presidential debate as we saw also a lot of social a lot of people on social media are saying that a 3rd party won the fly on my pencil.

now watty america did have special coverage right after the debate and ben's won't discuss the encounter with political analysts. there's a lot missing here in terms of substance i think there was a lot that was was lacking in this debate look at the political issue that was the centerpiece of the debates coronavirus the coronavirus is an important issue but it's not a legitimate political issue because not 2 sides to it there's not a pro coronavirus side in an anti krone virus side but there are legitimate

political issues pro-choice 1st pro-life views on gun control their views on drug legalization should america be the world's police anymore these are legitimate political issues that are not being discussed because again we're letting the media as well and the debates in a way that's just designed to be the most sensational and the most you know quote topical rather than the most politically relevant is a part of the problem of the format of the debate are they trying to cover too many issues would it be but it would be better served to have one or 2 things that they talk about the whole night and really go at those issues and quite candidly why do we even have vice president or have these debate in the 1st place they don't create policy we're all very interested in policy and the technical details you know but a lot of people that's not the way that they make their decisions about voting and most people are trying to vote on. what they you know with their friends and family like they're making decisions about ideas that they've heard about but they don't really know the details i mean we can't expect regular americans to be

knowledgeable about all these different vast policy areas even the politicians themselves don't really know all of the details of these different policy areas i don't think it's true that the american people are unable to understand the issues i think that the issues are intentionally obfuscated in a way to make sure that the average american cannot weigh in on them perhaps 3 different formats when you have maybe 3 or 4 broad categories that allow for the debaters to get into into the into those those categories might be important was there a winner who won this debate in pinning one. well i don't know if there was a winner or not and i tend to agree that you know a lot of these questions are really not areas of substantive discussion i think we really can't expect them to get into the details of any kind of particular policies and that they're really not trying to do that they're trying to have some talking points and so you know kind of depends on what you're looking for neither one of the candidates really inspired a lot of confidence. if we had to choose

a winner i would have to say that had to be maybe. only because. his way to the point. was her talking point she was to make out who in trying to acquire those points i don't think that either debate changed any single voters' opinion whatsoever i think that the voters had already made up their mind before the debate i think tonight's debate did absolutely nothing and the reason for that again is that the poll opinions were kept out this was a rigged debate we didn't have a libertarian view wouldn't the green party view nobody was there challenge challenging kemal harris on her terrible record of locking up nonviolent drug users we didn't have anybody challenging pants on trump's expensive and wasteful foreign policy that simply wasn't there well for more on the reality facing us in the run up to the poll to watch our new documentary divided america the people's phone and it's being shown thread that they are not. what is wrong with the. american citizen

. to be put to the spy. we have a bombastic wind bag and probably. get it going to take them away or deny the worse because. dollar couplers a lot of president voted for him. to tell. you that if you are the system is. incredibly detrimental to the health of our democracy. freedom of all americans. regardless of race religion or creed. were were at an impossible point people are so divided in their camps that they are more willing to believe insanity about haneke reptilian pedophiles with a moon base than they are to i try to compromise when they try to listen to their

opponents and why i understand where other people are coming from. by. some world news in brief now and in russia fire following a huge blast at a military storage facility has finally been brought under control of explosion happened on wednesday following the blast flames spread to warehouses causing ammunition to explode at least 16 people have been injured with more than 2000 people having been evacuated from villages in the local area in greece leading members of the right wing golden dawn party are expected to be sentenced shortly after the supreme court ruled their party had been operating as a criminal organization some of its members have been convicted of murder and attempted murder on wednesday thousands of anti fascist demonstrators protested outside the court claiming the authorities haven't been hard enough on the party

and anger at a new law that critics claim more harm workers' rights is saying crowds out in force and in the media's capital venting their anger the government does claim those plans will increase investment in the country police reportedly fired tear gas with the protesters responding by throwing projectiles similar demonstrations have taken place in many cities over the last 3 days. and trees have been torn from the ground in areas flooded as hurricane delta swept through the popular mexican tourist destination of cancun wins his speed. nearly 180 kilometers per hour alone 8 deaths or injuries have been reported so far the storm which is said to be building up again in strength is now heading towards the united states. just coming up to half past 7 here in moscow that brings you up to date column bright we'll be here to keep you updated throughout the rest of the evening now that there's.

a sort of amazing country with so many friends in russia and i'm very excited to be here. i love that idea i think i can do. it every night i make a lot of money with them but they make millions and hundreds of me.