this is a real space missions to work at the us to serve in these. villages thanks guys for . big news this hour a media agreed to talks in moscow to stop the fighting and to go in a car about falling victim of putin's cold and hostility. the candor this shelling ruins in the story cathedral nagorno-karabakh civilian losses are growing too with journalists also getting hit we talk to mothers whose sons are fighting on both sides of the front line. we all have kids serving and who 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 of this there is a myself am on the front line. french president of mccraw who wants the arabic language taught in schools no he says it's meant to radical islam his plans been

met with criticism from across the spectrum and. from scuffles a small faceoff for a dollar no less with left wing radicals who are resisting authorities attempt to a victim iconic squatters protest. by their very good afternoon my name is kevin now in thanks for being with us today this is art international law from moscow i'm here for the next half hour to take you through the latest developments starting with developments on the diplomacy front in the long running nagorno-karabakh conflict latest is to tell you all media reservation have confirmed in the last hour participation in talks offered by moscow it's going to happen today it's after russian president vladimir putin called for an end to the tease on humanitarian grounds our correspondent reports from. moscow is proving just how much it's determined to end the 2 weeks of

bloodshed in the poor me breakaway republic of. back in azerbaijan and these efforts are getting the proper response from armenia and azerbaijan the talks between the foreign ministers from moscow yairi and baku are happening on friday in moscow so the invitations were sent they were accepted and surrogate lavrov is the mediator in these talks now that is after the russian president vladimir putin spent hours on the phone with the leaders of both armenia and azerbaijan which makes us understand that some kind of 1st steps towards some kind of agreements were probably already made because otherwise they just wouldn't be heading to the russian capital now late on thursday the russian president made

a statement it appeared on the kremlin website in which he called on both sides to immediately lay down arms and stop shooting russia's president to school to be into the still exists in the government conflict zone for humanitarian reasons he's also suggested the 2 sides looked at an exchange of prisoners and the remains of those killed shortly before that president vladimir putin called the crisis in the car back a real tragedy for 2 nations that are very close to russia the question is though to what extent armenia and azerbaijan are ready for an immediate and proper cease fire because when you listen to armenia and azerbaijan officials speaking we can hear that they are always expecting the other side to take the 1st step to this is rare should not be one sided gives because as i've said we've had cease fire starting from 1900 who are under negotiations continued what they did as

a result nothing of what john is committed to the peaceful solution but what we see is that armenia is. conflicts should be resolved by mutual concessions. is ready for it and will make concessions if it has a version is also ready for them the war in nagorno-karabakh the escalation that has already proved to become the worst in decades is also being discussed here in the area of on as the prime ministers of russia belarus cows like stan and armenia are getting together now that was a pre-planned event for a post soviet integration block where loads of things are being discussed but without any doubt what's happening in nagorno-karabakh is the primary focus during the talks here as well we will the shooting hasn't let up shelling is devastated in a story cathedral nagorno-karabakh a church that came under fire numerous times during the previous conflicts between

armenia and azerbaijan and this time 3 russian journalists close by getting injured in the latest fray with one in a serious condition is the aftermath of the building in fact i'm told but it's the 2nd time in one day that the church has been struck the armenian foreign ministry is blaming is very forces for both attacks the reason saying their opponents pose a challenge to the civilized world. meantime is very authorities say 7 people were injured didn't recent shelling by forces rockets in a restaurant in the city of. severely used a secondary school to serve 2 places the least badly damaged the fighting has intensified over the last 2 weeks casualties have been limited to the front line either civilians or ending up as victims as well the fiercest fighting has been reported in the south of the disputed region you go down of who's close by in an armenian border town talk to some women from both sides who have sent this sons to

war. 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 her ancestors she offers us coffee enthusiastically the good to talk about her son fighting in the going to come back when 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 or 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 like his son is fighting on the southern flank of the town of a drought 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 mc son is right there trying to stop the relentless onslaught of 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 than one i'm proud of having the child no mother knowing there is currently a war in the car in a car by will call me rest her head and you know out after 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 of your support of them. i'm proud to the to have a son who is a soldier now serving in one of the military units in the car 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 be 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 this sentiment is not exclusive to this side of the front line as are you mothers equally as proud of their boys advancing on the enemy. both my sons completed their military service with distinction when the conflict started my oldest son was already on the front line and proud of both of them both of them volunteered my oldest is there now and the 2nd one is waiting he's ready to go there any moment he's in an excellent mood he's ready to carry out any order any word of our president. 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. 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 i mean our 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 now made them targets on foreign land. and we don't have reporting from the border with nagorno-karabakh. french president emanuel micron has a new plan to teach arabic in the country schools he says it's a way of combating extremism rather than teaching it in religious associations or mosques but that's not sitting well with part of french society he's come under criticism from both the right the left in france our correspondent charlotte do as

the details. and the plans announced by president mccord france is fighting back against separatism and a deviation away from the secular nature of the republic but the law which is yet to be fully drafted and released has been seen as an attack against islam not on speech did this little to alleviate those concerns. the problem is islam ist separatism this conscious theorize politico 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 drop out 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 learning arabic in mosques all being taught by religious associations could fall prey to indoctrination by is

a mists and in the. to have more control 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 were 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 arabic in our schools is a good idea because we have a lot of young people from north west africa and europe. personally i'm completely against this idea because here in france there are too many generals asians we point to say no this is not just 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 of the languages it might be

a good idea to learn arabic hebrew. spanish 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 interested it's critics have also rounded on it 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 losses are more widely on offer there is no indication there would be a prolific appetite for them it's currently the 8th 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 paul. of mandatory lessons here in florence if that was the case it is likely to feel the flying of those who believe teaching arabic in schools only fosters communitarianism and blues the feeling of patriotism the exact opposite of what. there's nothing wrong with teaching in school or what purpose i think there's a political message and i think that's where all the french are against this there's a very big problem today i mean if we don't want to beat around the bush and shrink integration if we want to help communities to join together live together around common values and language is one of the best instruments which can be used to get people around to get along so goes a little but 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 because there is a specific branch of muslims who naturally make the headlines but this is only a branch that's not all muslims don't generalise. from berlin this morning clashes adorned police have faced off with left wing demonstrators as authorities move into a vote and iconic squatters protest. earlier colton berlin ruled the occupants should return the building to its owner the lease on the house expired 2 years ago but the activists refused to leave the building the previous attempt to vic the squatters ended in failure in 2019 the activists

accuse the building's legal owner of pearl and real estate mogul of unscrupulous practices they say there's a heavy police presence at the site with at least $3000.00 officers there and on the evictions to be completed by the end of the day will keep an eye on it day 16 here in moscow on a friday this is head election day is creeping closer in the us and a new poll shows americans think more violence is potentially just around the corner too overly gloomy or all but guess debate that coming up. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then.

again the next u.s. presidential debates now even less likely to happen after the commission on presidential debates refused the team's request hold it live face to face you say you're not going to participate you know i'm not going to waste going to 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 whenever they want well trump's team proposed feeling the next debate planned for thursday talked over the 20 night biden's advisors though refused to accept that option and also now democrats want to remove trump based on his health yesterday house speaker pelosi hinted democrats would look at using the 25th amendment to oust the president but it's the cabinet including the vice president who must initially invoke that provision provision not congress anyway and trump is yet to respond to proces plan but there will be fireworks so is the debates hanging by a thread

a new poll shows growing fears over where the election may lead to the results of the anyway more than half of respondents say they believe violence will increase over november's result people expect to see riots looting in cities in flames at the same time just under 2 thirds through the country could be on the verge of civil war so is the gloom justified my colleague colleen bray spoke to a panel of experts about it. it seems that post-election dooms being predicted whoever comes out on top next month they correct as i was going to happen i don't know if i would force the war i could certainly course need some additional civil war referencing a lot of the civil unrest over the past few months violence rate i don't know but the level of civil war however you do have the state being very very high will certainly politicians drumming up fear and 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 again for years the coals for action from disgruntled groups a louder than calls for calm and that it's a job you know 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 economically who don't have the opportunity to work from home they have found themselves bearing the brunt of a lot. of the country and that of course people who are deaf aeration a 4th riot people america has indeed as divided stratified and polarized 'd as ever right wing violent elements are certainly ready at the beck and call of trump to

fry interaction in large segments of the population 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 'd going to come to the end we're going to have violence in the streets so i think it's over in reality. most americans don't want violence but this of happened anyway would america be in the state now is it 4 years of trump or would it have happened anyway well certainly on a trump is down to spend any insurance is not taking this seriously showpiece prioritised of the senate 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 or at our jobs was still contagious we called it trying to downplay it 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 fake palla the rate about on par with hulu has a 99.9 percent survival rate except for some very specific categories of people so there has been a politicization of a medical problem in the united states and it's ironic that the democrats blame trump for not taking it seriously enough but at the same time they blame trump for messing up the economy when he tried to shut things down so you really you can't win when you politicize the medical situation like this and the pandemic affecting every area life in it new measures in new york angering religious communities and that's our next report. 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. was we were we were orthodox jews say they are 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 out 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 fervently objects to

being told to further reduce capacity because we have strict did to cope with 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 st 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 went out we shall see. new york. one of the poorest nations in the world which has seen the years of political turmoil now as major floods on its hands tough to deal with 2 disaster struck in early september the consequences a still being acutely felt and 16 out of the country's 18 regions authorities have put in place a 3 month long state of emergency. the water has destroyed all of our furniture and belongings were lost in the flood of being evacuated from our homes to safer places several houses were in time it's truly we managed to save some furniture because the rest mistakingly through what.

some people are living now under a tree we don't have anything left the children live on the trees there's no place to show and the village is still submerged in water we're building a house out of wood and plastic sheets to show to ourselves and our families until things get better. to deal with on top of everything else awful and low but grub so far check out to you know come on of us social media for thing else we're talking about today was a pretty show you watch in my bike. with more than 30 minutes this is r.t. international.

chose seemed wrong. just don't hold. me to it is yet to shape out this day comes to educate and in gay treatment equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. it's wrong with us as american citizens and i hate to be blasted on that spot. during the time we have a house to die and i think. i would vote for a republican or trump i would vote for anyone who would not you and house house would bring your defeat don't try. to feel that. your 2nd

wife. she could handle it. all she and i divorced because our trouble is a lot of the president and i voted for her and she could i just didn't feel. that way and the bill is the important election. in our history list of the months to go before the next presidential election how is the atmosphere in the us now i. want to the highest priority problems only by a vote which they do next. just some of the questions we pull to the americans.

this is boom bust the one business show you can't afford to miss on fairmont and washington coming up the rate in new unemployment claims may be leveling off but congress and the white house looks to be stocked yet again on a stimulus plan to try to just continue to rise across the globe to the pandemic flu and unpredictable weather we'll tell you what this could mean for those who are already struggling to get enough to eat we have a lot to get through to. that hard. we begin today with jobless claims as u.s. unemployment fell just slightly for the week ending on october 3rd to a fresh pandemic low the u.s. labor department reported an initial jobless claims at 840000 worse than expected showing the labor market is still experiencing a slow recovery while the economy is still growing it's been a gradual comeback as concerns rise over another wave of layoffs without another federal relief package still some 25500000 americans are collecting some sort of

benefits so for more on this and the overall state of the economy and markets we bring in boom bust co-host christine keogh of pent up portfolio strategies michael pentode michael let's start with you unemployment claims they remain high and came in worse than expected 840000 americans filed for these jobless claims and on top of that the number of people who have been laid off permanently is growing how long before we can get to pre-code levels again. that's a great question i just want to barron's on the wires these are coming out and who's going to take a vaccine that was developed and drive anyway. the banks you were going to be warm but reused ursulines and take it back scene that was there in months when it usually takes years but listen there's a 1000000 people who are currently unemployed that's how they classify themselves we're still living in the 1000000 jobs below.