going to exploit for a trial here in los angeles they were going to cause you see officers going undercover as 6 workers and customers to fight the early 6 trades. in. the headlines an artsy armenia and azerbaijan the great talks in moscow to stop the fighting the. following vladimir putin is called to end hostilities their foreign ministers from the 2 warring parties are heading to the russian capital also the stories in historic. 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 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 as i myself am on the front line and the french president wants the

arabic language taught in schools he says it's meant to clamp down on radical islam although his plan has come in for criticism. and in berlin scuffles break out as police faced off with left wing radicals resisting. maicon and squatters protest. good afternoon just gone 2 o'clock here in moscow you're watching international now our top story this hour searching for thinks the foreign ministers of armenia and azerbaijan have agreed to meet in moscow over their conflict in nagorno-karabakh. after russian president vladimir putin called for an end to hostilities on humanitarian grounds all correspond reports now from year of. so moscow is proving just how much it's determined to end the 2 weeks of bloodshed in

the pro armenian breakaway republic of nagorno-karabakh and azerbaijan and these efforts are getting the proper response from armenia and azerbaijan the talks between the foreign ministers from moscow yairi and buck who are happening on friday in moscow so the invitations were sent they were accepted and certain of 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 toward some kind of agreements were probably already made because otherwise they just wouldn't be heading to the russian capital now wait 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 nagorno-karabakh 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 we 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 it is because as hans that we had ceasefire starting from 99 people who are in the negotiations. that what he did as

a result nothing that we're just going to get to the peaceful solution but what we see lately is that our media is continuing to cover closure. conflicts should be resolved by mutual considerations. who's ready for it and will make concessions if as the bush 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 honor as the prime ministers of russia belarus kazakhstan 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 the car back is the primary focus during the talks here as well. well meanwhile the shooting hasn't let up shelling his staff a state it's an historic cathedral in nagorno-karabakh while 3 russian journalists who were nearby at this time were injured one seriously here's the aftermath of the

shelling which targeted the church twice in one day the armenian foreign ministries blaming is there in forces for both attacks and are even saying that their opponents pose a challenge to the civilized world meanwhile in syria authorities do say that 7 people were injured in reaching shelling by armenian forces rockets hit a restaurant in the city of barter and severely damaged a secondary school where. the fighting has intensified over the last 2 weeks and casualties haven't been limited to the front line either with civilians ending up seems as well as clashes have been reported in the south of the disputed region when our office near the border there and talked to some of the armenian women who have sent their sons to war they spoke of both pride and weary sentiments echoed on the other side too. asked mick 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 ancestors she offers us coffee and it was asked equally be good to talk about her son fighting in the back while 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. his son is fighting on the southern front 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 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. 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 about i'm proud of having that child no mother knowing there is currently a war in the garden carver will call me rest her head on a pillow 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 you support 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 back i know they are strong i know how he's doing he's in a fight in spirit and he inspires me to the strong here at home as make hopes 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 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 frontline i'm proud of both of them both of them volunteered my oldest is there now and the 2nd one is waiting he is ready to go there any moment he's 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 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. the french president to manu macron has a new plan to teach arabic in the country schools he does say it is a way of combating the extreme islam rather than teaching the language in religious associations or in mosques but the idea has come under a hail of criticism from both the right and the left as our correspondent charlotte reports. on 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 they kill 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 learning arabic in mosques all being taught by religious associations could fall prey to indoctrination by isn't mists and in a bid to have more control the gun. 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 to teach arabic in our schools is a good idea because we have a lot of young people from north west africa and europe and. personally i'm completely against this idea because here in france there are too many generals asians we point the same the 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 is there other 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 denouncing 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 offered 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 part of mandatory lessons. florence if that was the case it is likely to feel the flying of those who believe teaching arabic in schools only focus can mean

a tear in ism and blues the feeling of patriotism the exact opposite of what mr malts there's nothing wrong with teaching or our kids' schools or what purpose i think is 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 be around the bush trying to integration if we want to help communities we're going to join together live together around current values and which is one of the best instruments which canada used to get people around together to try to understand values a little bit 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. that there were violent scenes in berlin this morning police faced off with left wing demonstrators authority as authorities did move into evict an iconic squatters process. well earlier recall timber lended rule 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 evict the squatters ended in failure back in 2019 yet of a sticky. building's legal owner of the lynn reed estate mogul of unscrupulous practices money street 1000 place offices were deployed to the site at one point

around daybreak although i think it has now been scaled back offices though to complete the fiction by the end of that. he said had few election date is creeping closer in the us but the next debate is up in the air after donald trump says he won't do it remotely i guess or so give us their thoughts on the potential for election violence the details to come just off the front. is your media a reflection of reality. in the world transformed. what will make you feel safe from. isolation away or are you being so. direct. what is true

what is faith. in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the depths. aura maybe in the shallows. with election day looming it's important to ask donald trump has changed the g.o.p. . is there such a thing as trump is just a political an established in a weeks understand why the bucket in the 1st one has just populism on the bright future. now the next u.s. presidential debate looks even less likely to happen at the moment after the commission on presidential debates suggested holding the event virtually due to

donald trump contract and grow the virus but the president squashed that idea saying hello only do it face to face. so you say you're not going to participate you know i'm not going to waste regimen 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 or trump's team proposed resharing the next debate planned for thursday to october the 29th biden's advisors however 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 the president but it's the cabinet including the vice president who mush and who must initially invoke that provision not congress trump yet to respond to pelosi as planned. so as the debate is hanging by a thread a new poll does show growing fears over where the election will actually lead to

more than half of respondents to say that they believe violence will increase over november's results people expect to see bright sleeting and cities in flames at the same time just under 2 thirds fear that the country could be on the verge of civil war so was the gloom justified when my colleague colin bray spoke to a panel of experts. it seems that post-election doomed 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 or i could certainly course need some additional civil rights we're allowed civil rights over the past few months violence really i don't know but the level of the of the war however you do have this being very very high or certainly politicians drama next year in the heat of each other causes people to get scared in that 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. our daily diet across this country already regardless really of whom who wins will certainly trump 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 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 economically who 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 the 4th cry if you will america is indeed as divided stratified and polarized 'd as ever right wing violent elements are certainly ready at the beck and call of trump to fly into action 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 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 would this have happened anyway would america be in this state now is it 4 years of trouble would it have happened anyway well certainly on a trump is down plead this pandemic insurance is not saying in this seriously he's prioritize other thin it's 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 when he 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. on par with the flu 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 this it's ironic that does 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 a medical situation like this where the side from the presidential debate been derailed by the pandemic new look damages in new york angering religious communities with more on that his kind of more pay. 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 miami yet. was what we were 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 figure 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 coded outbreak so significant cases since reopening on july the 5th to 25 percent capacity we fervently objects to

being told to for that reduced 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 wrist strict sions we have to close the temple because it's over 50 percent i'll do it. we have to close a roman catholic church. had to close the super 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. new york. than one of the poorest nations in the world which has seen years of political turmoil now has major floods in its hands to deal with to disaster did strike in september but the consequences are still being acutely felt in 16 of the countries 18 regions authorities have put in place a 3 month long state of emergency. or rather i ve gotten out of the water has destroyed all of our furniture and belongings they 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 was taken with the water. some people are living now under a tree we don't have anything left for children to live on the trees there's no place to show dressed and the village is still submerged in water we're building a house out of wood and plastic she's just show to ourselves and our families until things get better. just coming up to help us take care moscow that brings you up so that when you say fossett i about to get. one else seemed wrong why don't we just don't. let me.

get to shape out just to become educated and indeterminate equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground. but the feeling is that on the. one making i wonder why it's why you know i'm not good. looking. but there are some friends of the us are still so but the so beautiful thing to do something to see. the

charm. the idea that the simple lack of self-control in the most simple with someone of that kind of a will to. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. former senate majority leader and dr bill frist is our guest dumbass homage to.

the politicking and i'm larry king the white house what comes up demick hotspots while the infected president tells americans not to lead the 19 dominate them a candid one on one about the deadly health crisis and the presidential race how has it been done. with form a similar job may be the bill frist life he's a heart and lung transplant surgeon and host of the podcast a 2nd opinion he joins me from nashville stop right there how has this affected bill frist like. well larry it's affected me like every everybody else has changed my ways of communicating are still been able to be very active i've had a son and a daughter in law with coded and thankfully they came through it well and their children had an infection as well national itself being a big hospitality town service industry town has been devastated things are slowly

coming back but who will be probably 2nd quarter of next year before there's robot taliban back in the town president trump has given himself an a plus for a sampling poll show about 2 thirds of american disapprove of where you are. the president 1st our government i would give a big he in terms of responsiveness and that's not enter your question directly yes but i think in terms of response by congress stimulus packages in the past looking after small business getting money out the door the war effort to create a vaccine in the partnerships our government has done with the private sector with the pharmaceutical firms a very impressive but at the country has not done well with 4 percent of the population in 20 percent of the deaths in the world 210000 people a 1000000 have died in the the in the world we're not doing well.