as fighting intensifies between armenia and azerbaijan locals are caught in the crossfire and forced to flee for their lives. so the records of the. most of. them if you remember. it has been almost 30 years i still see the image of my land in front of my eyes. questions of evidence moscow casts doubts over the water bottle said to prove kremlin critic was poisoned with the. return of restrictions becomes the latest major. measures to combat surging covert infections. and

u.s. vice presidential hopefuls. mike pence slug it out only election debate but it was a high flying crash or headlines. world wide this is r.t. international from moscow just turned midnight friday the 9th of october my name's khalid bray with the world news we're going to start with some breaking political developments in the troubled caucasus region of nagorno-karabakh we've learned that the russian president vladimir putin has called for an end to hostilities end back in the conflict zone on humanitarian grounds that appeal was made during phone calls with the president of. the armenian prime minister on thursday moscow's also scheduled to mediate talks with both countries foreign ministers who arrive in the russian capital on friday rest assured that our correspondents are going to be

across the. and we'll keep you posted on the outcomes other developments 3 russian journalists were injured in a church that was shelled in the goal no 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 very forces for both attacks claiming they pose a challenge to the civilized world however azerbaijan denied the accusations stressing that its military doesn't target religious or cultural buildings. or the fighting intensifying both sides have released their latest combat footage conflicts taking its toll on civilians caught in the middle of course regional officials say that half of nagorno-karabakh residents of now fled. visited one town on the border which has become a temporary home to ethnic 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 have. turkish 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 step on a cat here for you we're all for you. but are they afraid of that. horse feel like she was lucius. 30. 1000 dollars most is out of my will just. mushrooming him or what but i am put. in british. fish form sport the mere thought of a new fresh we perform up i say that they bombed us in 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 unity within the nation here in glorious it's mostly those who don't plan on staying away from home for too long where chapel 50. 1000000 miles was so as with the woodlands at the finish there's a tradition of with the love with most whereas you know. by civil their 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 that. 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 impatiently 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 done of reporting from army news border with nagorno-karabakh r.t. . the fighting isn't only limited to the contested zone several towns and azerbaijani controlled territory have been hit according to the government as areas or it is claim a number of civilian settlements were shelled on tuesday we spoke to some azeri refugees who've seen all this before when the 1st conflict erupted 3 decades ago. i am originally from and we 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 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 grieves over our beloved martyrs it was suffering to call me here i personally cried at that time my parents were no longer alive and there were 6 of us brothers and sisters. so. we are right here in 1903. we had quite a good lead in conditions but last that in a days i faced challenges leaving here. look at more leave in 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 i look back to normal houses to be revealed and thus resettled when returning that is what i am waiting for from this process and care about nothing more just our attitude. i am grateful to

our president i will show a soldier strives to liberate our lands were longing for this for 30 years i was 30 is provided just as bench and aid but i'm still in this dormitory all men in my family is sons and grandsons 7 the army my only desire is to go to the villages of my cobra jaw. russia's cost major doubts of the evidence the west claims it has that proves kremlin critic alexina was poisoned with another choke nerve agent is a did previously said that she'd taken a suspect water bottle from his hotel room to germany where it was then tested but moscow now claims that it never left the country with more details here. the saga involving russian opposition activists alex has become even more time gold an ongoing investigation led by local russian authorities have conducted so far on 230 interviews trying to get to the bottom of what happened on that plane from siberia to moscow has brought a new turn crucially their findings cause doubt over

a key piece of evidence believe it or not a bottle of water that is thought to contain traces of not the child and which apparently led them to the conclusion that if any how to indeed been poisoned by the nerve agent this was a much talked about bottle in the media and it was initially thought that had been smuggled in by one of these 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. novosibirsk there was no containers of more than 100 milliliters in volume in her suitcase and backpack including any bottles of water after the check maria purchased 500 milliliter bottle of water from an aside 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 found who say that as soon as they found out she'd been

hospitalized they returned 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 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 one. rhes 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 working as 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 1000000000 clinic that the felony was later sent and further treated it was also in a german report tree that allegedly there's traces of chalk in 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 all 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 of

mr suddenly 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 turned to france and like my old 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 what corruption fund there has been some dispute about that so it's all really quite modeled in a certain way to see how it all plays out a russia analyst martin mccauley believes it will be hard for france and germany to drop their accusations despite the new evidence. is really going to this situation everything you can. more more complex more more difficult to disentangle so therefore the statements by the russian minister. and berlin and paris were to take into consideration i'm willing to wait and see whether there's no regret no long we can't really go ahead with what we had planned we were actually convinced

that the russian gross ones will come of which ones will but now it's possible there's a doubt there's a doubt where all that evidence and so on may imply cold dark. for trying to impose sanctions but they reached a very very sees that you really believe she did not through good riddance now not only probably hearing was the response with the russians and it's going to take a lot more which way to dissuade them from going to you. but let's become the latest major european city to see a return of lockdown measures buffet 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 a coming back to berlin from the south today until at least the end of the moment thought restaurants local shops or any other business that would be open late at night will have to shut their 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 needed because people and 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 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 and this is often with him so michael 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 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 towards it with

certain measures 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. was of a parts of germany a keeping a close eye on the infection rate in berlin and aren't 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 $27.00 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 where restrictions put in place there's also pushback from some sections of society from conspiracy theorists who think the virus is a hoax for those terrified that the measures to stay. that spirit will cost them their jobs. for the good of. feel our. feet. while braces for what may well be a winning way you've of covert germany as a whole remains one of only 4 european nations not described by the european sent to full of disease prevention and control as being at a crucial rate of infection for now at least peter all of

a. life or most of this is our say still to come will run through wednesday night's u.s. vice presidential t.v. debate between mike and on the surprise guest who stole the show.

it's important to. change that. is there such a thing as trump is. understand that in the 1st. right. after months of living in the shadow of a coronavirus tempers are increasingly becoming frayed over the restrictions being imposed a fight broke out between passengers on a plane in the us recently over 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 while they can be worn on board in addition to mosques the combi used as an alternative when the incident spiraled out of control security on the passenger was removed. it's been looking at how measures to keep people safe during the health crisis and now causing frustration. big march there were positive reports of how people around the world were dealing with the coronavirus slowdown the italians were singing. the spanish don't sing. 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 and 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 officer which i don't think is. the fact about. her. not. that i think. you got me while the government struggled to contain the virus new hardships have inflamed old tensions in this instance 2 passengers on the u.k. bus and physically abuse and apparently asian teenage girl for not covering her face . have told her. 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 country. 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 country's ability to defeat covert 19. in such circumstances it's easy and natural to feel apathetic indeed 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 the

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 the government's failed to effectively lead societies against an invisible enemy which threatens to divide as well as. tape outreach r.t. love the. fate of the next us presidential t.v. debate hangs in the balance donald trump for refusing to take part after it was announced that his bout with joe biden will be held remotely it's after the president called covert last week and spent 4 days in the hospital the 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 say you're not going to participate you know i'm not going to waste my time in a virtual debate that's not what debating is all about you sit behind a computer and do a debate is ridiculous and then they cut you off whenever they want or there may

not be a 2nd presidential debate the only vice presidential encounter was held on wednesday night and mike pence sparred for 90 minutes double quarter whatever the highlight was kevin no 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. improves the vaccine before or after the election should americans take it and would you take it if donald trump tells us that we should take it on not taking the fact that you continue to undermine public confidence in

a vaccine if the vaccine emerges during the trump administration i think is is unconscionable both presidential contenders for 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 isn't it and so a lot of focus on the vice president and how they might cope if they had to step into the big boots 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 coronavirus 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 who were

both were but there was a gay crush too 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 in social a lot of people on social media are saying that a 3rd party won the fly on my pencil. america had special coverage after the debate with ben swann discussing 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 a 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 her 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 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 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. is there a winner who won this debate. well i don't know if there was 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 that 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 through the 3 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 pinions were kept out this was a rigged debate because that's how it looks from moscow this out on call in bright thanks for watching on the back it up that you'll get in just to see that.

there's a threshold at which. big tobacco realized what they were doing in there they continued to do it they continued to put more and more things into cigarettes that needed them more addictive and made me want to smoke more of them in the point i'm trying to make is that social media in particular these artificially intelligent

algorithms are doing the same thing. as the us economy was booming growing numbers of people were made homeless. you can work 40 hours in a week and still not have enough to get housing everybody believes america still is the land of opportunity the reality of we're not financial inequality and the lack of affordable housing or living minimum wage give many people no choice you know that's been a problem with the city and always turn every child told to stay away almost. to the source of the food that there is no answer because you have the required resource the most vulnerable are abandoned on the streets to become invisible class .