every thursday on the alex simon sure i'll be speaking to us on the world of politics or business i'm sure. i'll see you there. in the headlines this friday shelling the ruins of historic cathedral in the. civilian losses are growing with journalists getting here we talked to mothers who sons are fighting on both sides of the front line. we all have kids serving i can share my emotions in church only i feel bad i haven't slept properly since september 27th as the soldiers mother and as a citizen i was there a breakdown is emma south and on the front line on the diplomatic front moscow stepping in political calls for an end to hostilities between armenia and azerbaijan offering to mediate talks to help stop the fighting but.

in the german capital scuffles as police face off with left wing radicals who are resisting authorities the attempts of this morning to a victim iconic squatters protest a correspondence there. no one here no good morning from russia the sort over the night from kevin owen here at artie's world news center with the latest for the next hour from us for you thanks to a company. so 1st the ongoing troubles in the going to occur and nothing is sacred in a time of war shelling is devastating and historic cathedral nagorno-karabakh now a church that came under fire numerous times during the previous conflicts between armenia and azerbaijan and now under fire again this time 3 russian journalists close by getting injured in the latest fray with one in a serious condition and this is the aftermath of the shelling into. it's the 2nd

time in one day that that church had been struck the armenian foreign ministry blaming as there are forces for both attacks saying they pose a challenge to the civilized world meantime as area 30 say 7 people were injured in recent shelling by armenian forces according to the country's general prosecutor's office rocket sits a restaurant in the city of barber and severely damaged a secondary school there the fighting is intensified over the last 2 weeks casualties haven't been limited to the front line civilians are ending up victims to the fiercest fighting has been reported in the south of the disputed region it goes down or food is now in an armenian border town talk to some women who've sent their sons to the front line. arsenic lives a modest life as she's inviting us in her apartment it's almost like we've traveled back in time the house is 137 years old and has been home to generations of our ancestors she offers us coffee and juicy astley the good to talk about her son

fighting in the back he was conscripted when he came of age the usual service he was on the 7th of january he had been serving for 10 months he was in hundreds from the very beginning from base to chechnya and backwards i didn't know that he was sent to the front line i found out by chance he hadn't called me for 4 days afterwards and when he called he said nothing about being on the frontline others told me about it. his son is fighting on the southern flank near the town of the desert for a 1000000 forces it's a life or death bastion of defense and for their by journeys a clue szell gateway to flood the region with own troops.

as mick son is right there trying to stop the relentless onslaught over his enemy his mother waits patiently for an occasional call from him when they do come they're all too brief for his own safety all he can tell is everything's fine so he calls me i don't he calls me to say that he's fine and that's it it doesn't happen often once in 23 days at the beginning he used to call me once in 4 days now more often the war hasn't changed my routine a lot but we do communicate a lot with other mothers whose kids are on the front asking each other about them we all have kids serving i can ringback share my emotions in church. only i feel bad but i can sure it only when i light a candle in church i keep everything inside. sending a son into the line of fire is soul destroying for any mother but in this conflict it seems there is no greater on up yes apart and i'm proud of having the child no

mother knowing there is currently a war in the barn a car by will call me rest her head on a pillow so during calls and conversations he always told us that he was very far from the front line we learned that he had been allocated to serve in the garden carver and i'm very proud we're not scared and my child was not afraid that he was going into the army. yes a part of them will know i'm single i'm proud to the to have a son who is a soldier now serving in one of the military units in the inner core a buck i know they are stronger i know how he's doing he's in a fight in spirit and he inspires me to live strong here at home and ask me kobes the fighting will be over soon and his son will come home and return to his studies before the conflict intervened with life he'd only just graduated from high school and had started university he wants finance to be his line of work but right now he's on the frontline of war and we just don't have reporting from the border with

nagorno-karabakh. on the other side of the conflict the very mothers who are also free of they may not see this. both my sons completed their military service with distinction when the conflict started my oldest son was already in the front line and proud of both of them both of them volunteered my oldest is there now and the 2nd one is waiting his ready to go there any moment i talk to my oldest son but not that often he's an excellent mood he's ready to carry out any order any word of our president i haven't slept properly since september 27 as a soldier's mother and as a citizen of his error by john as i am a self am on the frontline i'm not afraid of death every person is afraid of dying of course but not in this situation. my son just came back from the army when the conflict began after september is events when our enemies once again attacked our country he was conscripted again to exercise 1st and then to the frontline my son

is there now defending his country we speak by phone when there is a possibility to do it he always says to me that everything is fine always wanted to volunteer i think he even deed but i'm not sure if he didn't talk about it a lot don't know if that's the reason why he was conscripted now but he got the call and went to serve for washed among a week before the war began my son volunteered it was when the very 1st conflicts emerged he was immediately sent to the front line you always wanted our lands to come back to us that is why he volunteered we are in contact he always says that everything is fine that everyone wants to get back what is ours i mean mothers are mothers too i don't want their children to die nobody understands a mother better than another mother they should call their children back not make them targets on foreign land. then the diplomatic efforts to help continue russian

president putin has called for and hosted a tease in the goal and a complete humanitarian grounds he made that appeal to phone calls with the president on the armenian prime minister on thursday reports from you know. in any case moscow is trying to prove how much it's determined to end the 2 weeks of bloody war in the poor median breakaway republic of nagorno-karabakh and the foreign ministers of both john and armenia have been invited to the russian capital for peace talks that are supposed to be mediated by foreign minister sergey lavrov and that is after the russian president spent hours on the phone with the leaders of both john and armenia which makes us understand that some kind of 1st steps some kind of agreement have already been made i can tell you that late on thursday

a statement by vladimir putin appeared on the kremlin website with a strong message for all saw it's they must suspend all hostilities for humanitarian reasons to allow a prisoner exchange and also a swap of bodies of those killed in the conflict a conflict that vladimir putin has already called a true tragedy for 2 nations that are very close to russia although the question is whether armenia and azerbaijan are really ready for an immediate cease fire i can tell you that a little earlier we spoke to the foreign minister of john and she told us that on the one hand who is ready for a ceasefire but only if. provocations that's how the put the. here's to the seats where should not be one sign to get the girls at her

and said we had ceasefire starting from 1900 who are under negotiations continued what they did as a result nothing where john is committed to the peaceful solution but what we see lately is that armenia is continuing to publication likewise a little earlier we heard from the armenian prime minister nicole posturing on who said that uri vonne is ready to make concessions but all the if john decides to take steps towards peace he's right up there many conflicts should be resolved mutual concessions. he's ready for it and make concessions as a bush is all sort of ready for them the last 2 weeks i've already proved to be the worst escalation of the nagorno-karabakh crisis in decades and another place where it will surely be discussed on friday is yet avon the russian prime minister is on

the way to the armenian capital we know that this is a planned meeting for a post soviet eurasian integration blog and russia and armenia are both part of it but of course the latest escalation will be talked about as the prime ministers of russia and armenia get together here in the armenian capital. in berlin this morning clashes adornment police have fought with left wing demonstrators as authorities move into a victim iconic squatters protest. i . the eviction process is underway of the queen a feminist housing collective life big 34 it's named after the street which i'm

talking to you from the building itself around 200 meters is just behind me police put a cordon around it called the red zone in which they're not letting anybody get close to it's been described as the end of an era the eviction over one of the last left wing autonomous squads in the german capital the lease on this particular building that the group had expired 2 years ago in the berlin district court said that the building needed to be returned to its owner. illegally this is all over you wouldn't think it though from the protesters that have come out to show support and from the people who remain inside the building saying they aren't going to leave a lot of the anger though has been directed towards the owner of the building a part of it the 68 year old property mogul here lynn he's made his millions from buying up sometimes derelict buildings renovating them and selling them renting them out for really high quite high prices he bought this particular building back

in 2008 and up until 28 seen the group were paying just under 5000 euro a month for 30 or so apartments now to put that into a bit of context a renovated new apartment in this particular parts of the german capital you might get 3 for a just on the 5000 euro the demonstrators that have come out a direct a lot of their anger at a property developers like mr part of it's us that think the owner has a history of treating the brand that he provides properties for the a.f.d. party. his houses fall apart and explains the workers on the construction sites we cannot accept all that we don't want to let the tenants be oppressed by someone who only has profit in mind and who is not interest and the wellbeing of the residents of the city. there is a huge police presence here carrying out this a victory and they were telling us around $3000.00 police officers i would say that's perhaps probably a conservative estimate some of those police that we've seen full riot gear wearing

balaclavas covering their faces also vehicles that have been brought into the area just behind me vehicles that they would be able to get up to high windows in order to take people and their belongings out of the squad we've heard from those that represent the police and they say that equipment and those vehicles are necessary and that police officers have become targets what is school is the police officers not being seen as human beings and hence it is being deemed legitimate to attack them and use violence against them this is something that in a democratically minded person can and must condemn many years ago then mayor of burlington said that the german capital was poor but sexy it still doesn't have the money of say german cities like munich or how but what it does have is some of the fastest rising property prices in all of europe and ultimately that's what we're seeing play out here. are to the front of money from moscow comporting and kevin 0 in thanks for your time today it's come it's quarter past the hour if watching the

clock this is ahead election day creeping closer in the u.s. a new poll was gloomy shows americans think more violence is just around the corner the worry is it could kick off overly gloomy or not we got a panel on it after this. there's a threshold at which. big tobacco realised what they were doing in it they continued to do it in. continued to put more and more things into cigarettes that made 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.

seems wrong why don't we all just all. get to shape out just a bit as a kid and in detroit equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. hi again french president amount of mccrone has got a new plan to teach arabic in the country schools he says it's a way of combating extremism rather than teaching it didn't religious associations or mosques but that's not sitting too well with

a lot of french society it seems he's come under a hail of criticism from both the right and the left in france a correspondent shall i do because he's got the story. under plans announced by president korn france is fighting back against separatism and deviation away from the secular nature of the republic but the law which has yet to be fully drafted and released has been seen as an attack against islam that point speech did this little to alleviate those concerns. the problem is islam ist separatism this conscious theorized political religious project which materializes in repeated deviations from the values of the republic which often results in the constitution of a counter society and whose manifestations of the dropout of children the development of community based sports and cultural practices which are the pretext for teaching principles which do not comply with the laws of the republic french

authorities fear that children and students are learning arabic all the government plans to expand its availability in schools but not everyone is convinced that it's a good idea according to a new poll some 69 percent of respondents would not in favor so what do people here in paris make of the idea yes for me it is a good idea today people from around the world have a right to speak their language and to teach arabic in our schools is a good idea because we have a lot of young people from north west africa and europe. personally and completely against this idea because here in france there are too many generals ations we point the same notes in march of muslims when there are more serious matters but who i don't really have an opinion on that but it has to be controlled might be a good idea or if there are other languages it might be a good idea to learn arabic hebrew. english all of these languages i think

that's a really good idea i think people do what they want to do if they're. interesting its critics have also rounded on it the note saying it is being counter productive it's ridiculous it's the best way to boost the proliferation of quranic schools or denominational schools if we want to islam ice france this is the best way to get there the language of the republic is french institutionalizing learning of the arabic language in schools is cowardice and a mistake but even if arabic classes or more widely there is no indication there would be a prolific appetite for them it's currently the most popular foreign language chosen by 11 to 15 year olds and figures show that only about 0.2 percent actually study it what's not clear yet and this is perhaps where the concern comes from is

whether or not under the new plans arabic will become part of mandatory lessons here in france if that was the case it is likely to feel the fire of those who believe teaching arabic in schools only fosters communitarianism and blues the feeling of patriotism the exact opposite of what mr. there's nothing wrong with teaching in school what purpose i think is a message and i think that's where all the french are. going to if we don't want to push and shrink integration if we want to help communities that are trying to go live together. and which is one of the best instruments which can be used to get people around here. of course we teach the other languages even the president is in favor of teaching the arabic language so i think we shouldn't mix the subjects and say as i've also heard people saying online that teaching arabic is an act of

separatism you know that arabic has existed here for a long time and it never brought me that radicalism or terrorism there is a specific branch of muslim. you naturally make the headlines but this is only a branch that's not all muslims don't generalise. the next us presidential debates now even less likely to happen after the commission on presidential debates refused to teams request to hold it live face to face democrats meantime want to kick trump out of office based on his health you say you're not going to protest ok you know i'm not going to waste great i am in a virtual debate that's not what the buildings are all about you sit behind a computer and do a debate it's ridiculous and then they cut you off whenever they want tomorrow by the way tomorrow come here tomorrow we're going to be charging about the 25th amendment ok let's talk about ourselves what is it will a president who loses power under the 25th amendment if he becomes incapacitated

it's the president's cabinet including the vice president who must initially declared unfit not congress crucially from person commented on the movie his team propose reshuffling the next debate planned for thursday to be the 29th biden's advisors though refused to accept that proposition. so as the debate hanging by a thread new polls show growing fears over where the election will lead more than half of respondents say they believe violence will increase as a result of november's election people expect to see riots looting in cities in flames at the same time just under 2 thirds fear the country could be on the verge of civil war so is the gloom justified well this is what our panel of experts came up. it seems that post-election dooms being predicted whoever comes out on top next month they corrected i was going to happen i don't know if i would course or i

could certainly course need some additional civil war rhetoric and a lot of civil unrest over the past few months violence i don't know but the level of civil war however you do have the state being very very high or certainly politicians drumming up steam or any hate of each other causes people to get scared and in sometimes it incites people to violence but when you look at the actual policies of the republicans and democrats once they're elected and serve in office the actual policies are almost the same the systematic violence that is our daily diet across this country already regardless really of whom who wins will certainly try to victory puts fascism away supremacy in the driver's seat and in 4 years the calls for action from disgruntled groups louder than calls for calm and it's a joke at all that's already been rolling through 2020 but we know it's a strange year you know we've had the country shut down for the past 6 months we've

had people who are marginalized economic we don't have the opportunity to work from home they have found themselves bearing the brunt of the law. and that of course people who are deaf aeration of course raw if you will america reason as divided stratified and polarized 'd as ever right wing violent elements are certainly ready. at the beck and call of trump to science action in large segments of the population a very worried about every time a president's up for election the people in the media say this is the most important election of our lifetimes and if you don't vote for this bad republican or this bad democrat the world's going to come to the end we're going to have violence in the streets so i think it's overblown and in reality most americans don't want violence but this of happened and i would have been the state now is it 4 years of trump would it have happened anyway well certainly on a trump is down to lead this pandemic insured is not taking this seriously he's

prioritized other thing i mean how is he showing up at the white house is if today was a normal day imagine if one of us showed up at studio our at our jobs when he was still contagious we called it john a down plea that signals the wrong things to the rest of the country i think coronavirus is natural and republicans or democrats whoever was in charge neither could have done much different and we'd probably see the same i think it's unfair to blame either party for it however when you look at this disease cope with the infection pay pal of the rate about on par with hulu has a 99.9 percent survival rate except from very specific categories of people so there has been a politicization of a medical problem in the united states it's ironic that the democrats and when trump are not taking it seriously enough but at the same time they blame problem for messing up the economy when he tried to shut things down so you really you can't win when you politicize medical situation like this. that aside from the

presidential debate been derailed by the pandemic new lockdown measures in new york are angering religious communities it's next report and they. with covert numbers rising in new york city once again andrew cuomo the governor is bringing the hammer down religious places of worship and schools are now closing now that sounds like common sense but religious communities are giving him quite a bit of backlash here is why i mean yes the ied. was her orthodox jews say they're being singled out they have taken to the streets to protest and they say they are planning a legal action against governor cuomo i hope we can avoid it but as i said before if that we don't make any progress and we're left with what we are now we would. probably ask courts to issue

a temporary restraining order until we can see this all the while the orthodox jews say they've been singled out the roman catholic community is also quite upset the high ranking this ship from the roman catholic church is speaking up catholic churches in brooklyn queens have not had any covert outbreak so significant cases since reopening on july the 5th to 25 percent capacity we favored the objects to being told to further reduced capacity because we have strict did tico that 19 protocols and the safety measures have been working now the parents of children who attend roman catholic schools are also objecting they say that cuomo should punish the guilty close down the schools where covert is spreading but not blanket shutdown all educational institutions governor cuomo appears to be losing patience with those who complain about his wrists directions we have to close the temple because it's over 50 percent i'll do it we have to close

a roman catholic church. i'll do it i had to close the city patrick's day parade i did it. i'll do it now the government is not supposed to interfere with people freely practicing their religion except in very dire circumstances now governor cuomo and many others would argue that a global pandemic is exactly that however many catholics and jewish people disagree who will win now we shall see. r.t. new york we shall see indeed the citron i want to have a social media's got you totally covered has so much more from us today check it out if you get a minute why don't you. have been exposed for now reporting from moscow kevin i went on the whole team here today wishing you a great friday. with

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