yes well the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you the. questions of evidence must go cost doubts over the water bottle said to prove kremlin critic was poisoned with. this fighting intensifies between armenia and azerbaijan the locals of course in the crossfire and forced to flee for their lives. so i'll beat the fish there's a condition you would follow both ways you know. people here most human. being has been almost 30 years i still see the image of my man in front of my eyes . the return of restrictions berlin becomes the latest major city to reintroduce measures to combat covert infections. u.s. vice presidential hopefuls harris and mike pence slug it out in their 1st and only

t.v. election debate but it was a high flying gate crasher who stole the headlines. from moscow this is aussie international with your world news headlines stories this hour of firsts russia's cost major doubts over the evidence the west claims it has the proves kremlin critic was poisoned with another choke nerve agent has aided previously said that she had taken a suspect water bottle from his hotel room to germany where it was then tested moscow now claims it never left the country with more details here. but the saga involving russian opposition activists out of me has become even more time gold an ongoing investigation led by local russian authorities have conducted so far on 200 interviews trying to get to the bottom of what happened on the plane from siberia

to moscow has brought a new ton crucially the findings cause doubt over a key piece of evidence believe it or not a bottle of water that is thought to contain traces of nuts. child and which apparently led to the conclusion that if annie had indeed been poisoned by the nerve agent now this was a much talked about bottle in the media and it was initially thought to have been smuggled in by one of his companions a certain marine up check this is something that she herself claimed in an interview but russian authorities say that that is not in fact true let's hear from them during the preflight security check of maria pay of check at the airport novosibirsk there was no containers of more than $100.00 milliliters in volume in her suitcase and backpack including any bottles of water after the check maria paid chick purchased a 500 milliliter bottle of water from an side vending machine with which she flew to the city of now this seriously challenges the claims made by members of the anti corruption fund set up by now you say that as soon as they found out he'd been

hospitalized they were turned to the hotel room in which you've been staying and raided it for anything suspicious in fact they posted a video on instagram showing them apparently locating this bottle of water up with not the chalk though many have since questions how it's possible they were able to so casually handle an object with a deadly nerve agent another revelation from the russian investigation concerns the airport which is a plane made an emergency landing this is in siberia now the pilot says he put in a request for an emergency landing at 8 25 in the morning and 5 minutes later received a message warning of a potential bomb scare this for a short period triggered some worries about whether they would in fact be able to land the plane now this is what russian authorities had to say on that given the appearance in the media of a bomb hoax at the airport to prevent 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 germany of course has featured heavily in the new story just a quick reminder it was. to a bilin clinic that it was late to sent and father treated it was also in a german the tree that allegedly those traces of the system found in the meantime moscow continues to ask for thought the information to aid its investigation into that and has sent around 6 requests to germany france and sweden all these developments come as the diplomatic fallout from the story wasn't only on wednesday we heard that germany and france were plotting a proposing new additional sanctions on russia they encouraged the european community to join them that will be formally discussed next week russia has responded by saying that such language is just not conducive to international cooperation which is something that it said that it's wanted from the very beginning it also added that no matter what happens from now it will simply not be

possible to return to business as usual. unfortunately instead of working together to establish the truth of the facts of what happened to the russian citizens paris and berlin have preferred to politicize the case turn to france and like my own world the use of international platforms we consider this behavior irresponsible and unacceptable so a lot of new information coming in raising some serious questions including in fact whether in fact marion appear to even want to corruption fund there has been some dispute about that so it's all really quite modeled in the sutton wait to see how it all plays out russia evillest martha macauley believes it will be hard for france and germany to drop their accusations despite the new evidence. i was really going to this situation everything you can was more more complex more difficult to disentangle so therefore the statements by the russian minister. berlin and paris were to take into consideration when we look to wait and see whether there's no right. now we can't really go ahead with what we had planned

though we are absolutely convinced that the russian gross ones will approve of 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 they reached a very very serious situation. not through good riddance. wasn't like the response would be rational now and it's going to take a lot more. interest to really didn't work while you. are. free russian journalists have been injured after a church was shelled in the corner karabakh as the conflict over the disputed territory rages on between azerbaijan and armenia the russian foreign ministry says one of the journalists is in a serious condition this video shows the aftermath of the shelling it's the 2nd time the church had been hit that day the armenian foreign ministry blamed as ery forces for both attacks claiming they pose a challenge to the civilized world however azerbaijan denied the accusations

stressing its military doesn't target religious or cultural buildings. but the fighting intensifying both sides released their latest combat video the conflict is taking its toll on civilians caught in the middle regional officials say a half of the corner cutbacks residents have now fled because the dawn of the one town on the border which has become a temporary home to ethnic armenian refugees. the latest escalation in the wool 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 have. turkish i've had.

jury in 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 step on a kurd to 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 stefana cat here for you we're all for you. but are they afraid of that. horse feel like she was pollution. that it. was almost was is out of my will just.

mushrooming him or what but i am put. in british. fish form sport the killer method of the new press we perform up i say is that they bombed us some are a few jews who come to the coordination center bare wounds from the bombing is this man hasn't had any food for 3 days most people here have no where to go so buses take them to the capital you have on their complete strangers will invite them in their homes in a gesture of unity within the nation here in glorious is mostly those who don't plan on staying away from home for too long where chapel the food. when you might so as beat the records of the police there's a petition you're with the love with most was. your most intimate. group it's. mary and 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. 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 and we don't have reports from our menus bored with nagorno-karabakh see. the fighting is not only limited to the contested zone several towns and azerbaijani controlled territory have been hit according to the government as area sources claim a number of civilian settlements were shelled of tuesday we spoke to such as area refugees who've seen all this before when the 1st conflict erupted 3 decades ago.

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 no matter what happens it is always better to have your own land if there is a necessity i agree to go to from my by myself i grew to sacrifice myself for my land in 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 grieves over our beloved martyrs it was sucker. 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 are right here in 1903 back in nag them we had quite a good lead in conditions but lost that in

a days i faced challenges leaving here i have debts if you look at my leaving 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 added them. so much i am grateful to our president i will show a soldier strives to liberate our lands well longing for this perspective yes i was the largest provider of his bench and aid 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 karma jar. should it. become the latest major european city to see a return of some lock down measures after it recorded one of its biggest daily covert spikes since the pandemic began peter all of the reports next from the

german capital. strict coronavirus measures are coming back to berlin from this saturday until at least the end of the moat thought bars restaurants local shops or any other business that would be open late at night will have to shut the doors at 11 pm until 6 in the morning. covert cases are rising in germany at the fastest pace since mid april as europe struggles with a new wave of infection the health minister says the new rules are needed because people are not taking the virus seriously. it isn't surprising with a lack of rules it is more a question of where certain rules are enforced. and i think there is room for improvements and of beautiful capital city the chancellor has warned that with winter on the way things may be about to get tough young figured out is that i think of him so much because we learned a lot and did well throughout the summer but we know that more 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 no 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 sit in the ashes but there is a small but dedicated group of germans that don't agree with the chancellor and being out on the streets to vent their upset at corona restrictions. of parts of germany a keeping a close eye on the infection rate in lynn and on cane 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 $27.00 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 both where restrictions put in place there is 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 berlin braces for what may well be a wind way you've of cold 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 girl if. this is all tasted ahead we'll run you through wednesday night's u.s. vice presidential t.v. debate between camelot mike pence and a surprise guest who stole the show. so

what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. very dramatic probably only. i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical. to sit down and talk.

after months of living in the shadow of the coronavirus tenpence are increasingly becoming frayed over the restrictions being imposed a fight broke out between passengers on a plane in the united states of the wearing of a face mask. the incident started as an argument between a flight attendant and a passenger who was only wearing a face shield of all they can be wallboard in addition to face masks that can be used as an alternative when the incident spiraled out of control security was cold in the passenger was removed ok potter has been looking at how measures to keep people safe during the health crisis and now causing frustration. big mo much 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 fall season which i don't think is. the problem. not. that i think. you got me while government struggled to contain the virus new hardships have inflamed old tensions in this instance 2 passengers on the u.k.

bus on physically abuse and apparently asian teenage girl for not covering her face . on. her ears. 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 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

to warn it's threatening the country's ability to defeat covert 19. in such circumstances it's easy and natural to feel apathetic and be motivated to experience fatigue 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 educated if governments fail to effectively lead societies against an invisible enemy which threatens to divide as well as conquer hate partridge's r.t. love to. go to the next u.s. presidential debate hangs in the balance refusing to take pass after it was announced that his bout with biden would be held remotely it's after the president called covert last week and spent 4 days in a hospital debate had been due to take place in miami on october the 15th here's

how trump explained his decision in an interview to his go to t.v. network you're saying you're not going to participate you know i'm not going to waste my time on a 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 whenever they want. well there may not be a 2nd presidential debate the 1st and only vice presidential encounter was held on wednesday night coming to harris and mike pence for 90 minutes on a quarter went over the highlights with kevin oh 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 seemed 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 the vaccine if the vaccine emerges during the trump administration i think is is unconscionable both presidential contenders for the getting on in years and the worry is what if something happens to them has to be some continuity in there 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 was this heated as it was before but still not totally clear with these who were both but there was a gay crush to. the 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 pencils had.

all of the america had special coverage after the debate with ben swan discussing the encounter with political analyst. 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 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 is 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 to have this 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 what their friends and family like they're making decisions about ideas that they've heard about but they don't really know the details and 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 is a winner or not 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 one of the candidates really inspired a lot of confidence. we had to choose a winner i would have to say that have to be maybe pens only because. his way to the point i don't think that either debate changed any single voter's 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. on the reality of what's at stake in that election a look at next here on r.t.

and divided america the people's vote. join me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then. nuclear become a battleground in the u.s. in vermont people of demanding the shutdown of a local plant for my yankee is right now my focus because it's

a very dangerous oh no care power plant the owner is attempting to run the reactor beyond its operational limit 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 as are power lie with the people this case demonstrates that struggle in very real ways our struggle on r.t. . what is wrong with us as american citizens and i hate to be bought off by you have a father and we have a past to win by and probably a 2nd wife. she can handle. because.

the president and i voted for him and she and for. a republican i would vote for anyone who is not evil and has half a brain will defeat. the future. with less than a month to go before the next presidential election how is this fair in the us. how will they vote should they do next just some of the questions we put to americans. on 2 years old and i'm speaking from my living room in my house in the maryland. per 15 years i was a water treatment technician.