a meteor in azerbaijan come together for talks in moscow followed. to end hostilities over nagorno-karabakh. the meeting comes the shelling destroys an historical seadrill a disputed region civilian losses are growing with journalists also in the line of fire we hear from mothers whose sons are fighting on the front lines. we all have kids serving i can ringback share my emotions in church only i feel bad i haven't slept properly since september 27th as a soldier's mother and as a citizen of is there is i myself am on the front line. on the french president's plan to clamp down on radical islam threatens to teach him a lesson after outrage a ruckus over his idea for arabic lessons in schools.

on this friday evening. news from the international from moscow 1st there are hopes that a breakthrough can be reached today in the conflict that's erupted between armenia and azerbaijan the foreign ministers of both countries are holding talks right now in moscow. the venue awaiting news of any developments. well certainly great expectations of the eyes of the world are right now on the russian capital where the talks between the foreign ministers of armenia and azerbaijan mediated by their russian counterpart sergei lavrov has already begun they're on the way at the moment journalists were allowed in for about 30 seconds for they had to witness their initial encounter then everybody was asked to step outside as it's also continued behind closed doors once again there are ongoing right now as we speak

meanwhile earlier vladimir putin called for and still if he's in gordon a car bomb and to allow for the exchange of bodies and prisoners and for all the humanitarian reasons that some of this russia's president to scold will be into the still exists in the nagorno-karabakh conflict zone for humanitarian reasons he's also suggested the 2 sides look at an exchange of prisoners and the remains of those killed now once again all eyes are on moscow right now as the russian foreign minister is mediating talks with his nearby johnny and armenian counterparts now they call they keep it up just recently with both sides accusing each other off escalations and both sides have been really serious about standing on the ground soul of the salsa going to be very important. to not only stop the hostilities in the region but also perhaps find some common ground between the 2 sides that's

all this once again are ongoing and we will be here to cover everything that's going on and of course we'll give you the all comments that as we have it. since the decades old conflict burst back to life nearly 2 weeks ago now the fighting has only been intensifying there are conflicting reports on both sides about casualties and videos a big brother used almost daily basis showing the destruction both inside the disputed region and its surrounding areas case in point of historic a siege all at the heart of the goal. was badly damaged after being shelled 3 russian journalists nearby were also injured one of them seriously here's the aftermath of the shelling which at the church twice in the same day the armenian foreign ministry blames ery forces claiming that they pose a threat to the civilized world. meanwhile this area sources say 7 people have been injured in recent shelling by a meanie and forces rockets at a restaurant in the city of baba that left a school severely damaged in a separate shelling in the region as

a boy john also reported the local police station was destroyed along with civilian buildings. and internationally as a budge on is backed by turkey which has supported backers attempts to regain the goal no karabakh however i mean you're a long with russia as a member of the collective security treaty organization which is based on a nato style platform the head of the c s t o's says a president the alliance needs to do nothing but call for pace but in an interview with he was asked if that would change if any are itself was attacked by azerbaijan . well i'm sure that the regime will not hit the actual territory of armenia i'm sure such development will not happen that's because initially said that it has no territorial claims to armenia it does not challenge on media sovereignty and territorial integrity i think that it is neither in the interest of armenia nor as a regime for the conflict to grow into a regional war but if it happens then any member of the c.s.t. has the rights count on help without this there is no organization but most of the

fiercest clashes recently have been reported in the south of the disputed region. near the border and has been talking to some of the armenia mothers who have seen their sons head off to war they spoke of both pride and concern sentiments being echoed on both sides of the conflict. arsenic lives a modest life as she's invoicing us in her apartment it's almost like we traveled back in time the house is 137 years. and has been home to generations of her ancestors she offers us coffee enthusiastically 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 its from base to chechnya embattled so 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 adult for a minyan forces it's a life or death bastion of defense and for there 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 cause me to say that he's fine and that's it it doesn't happen often but

once in 23 days alone at the beginning he used to call me once in 4 days now more outs and the war hasn't changed my favorite scene a lot but we do communicate a lot with other mothers whose kids are on the front asking each other about this because we all have kids serving there i can ringback share my emotions in church only i was bad but i can sure it's only when i light a candle in a 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 honor and yes apart than one i'm proud of having that child no mother knowing there is currently a war in the car in a car but it will come we arrest 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 guard of karbala 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 one car

a buck i know they are stronger i know how he's doing he's in the fight in spirit and he inspires me to be strong here at home and asked 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 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 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 whatever washed amongst a week before the war began my son volunteered it was one the very 1st conflicts emerged he was immediately sent to the front line you always want a girl. lance to come back to us that is why he volunteered i mean mothers are mothers too i don't want their children to die alone 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. or other had lied to you send it to combat extremism but there's been nothing but an extreme reaction to the french president's new plan for arabic to be taught in schools both left and right of

united in their opposition to the idea as shot to do better to give reports next from paris. on the plans announced by president korn france is fighting back against separatism and a 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 they kill to alleviate those concerns. the problem is islam is separatism this conscious theorize 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 ism midsts and in a bid 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 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 and ask all who 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 asians we point to say no it 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 or if there are other languages it might be a good idea to learn. arabic hebrew. english all these languages i think that's a really good idea i think people do with these want to do if they're interested it's 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 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 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 school what purpose i think there's a political message. that's where all the french are. going to if we don't want to push integration if we want to help communities that are trying to live together. and wish 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 and i've also heard people saying online that teaching arabic. it 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 they resist specific branch of muslims who naturally make the headlines but this is a branch that's not all muslims don't generalise. this is out say all the way the us speech said sanctions stick against iran yet again this time targeting the financial sector banking on hopes that it will change its behavior as altie reports among all stories after the break. is your media a reflection of reality. in

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come back just days after proclaiming themselves. of the coronavirus donald trump is reportedly pushing for the antibody therapy he received to be cleared for mass use the president says he wants an emergency use authorization signed off by the food and drug administration as soon as possible but it comes not long after he accuse that same agency of launching a political hit job against him after it introduced tougher vaccine guidelines that could potentially delay the approval of any job. new f.d.a. rules make it more difficult for them to speed up vaccines for approval before election day just another political hit job. guidelines say manufacturers have to wait 2 months before approval can be considered so the trials can flag up any safety issues that means the earliest any drug could win approval would be off the november's election the f.d.a. insists its decision is not political. i've made it clear from the beginning of my

junior year that the only thing that will guide our decisions is data in science all out citing inquiries from administration officials members of congress local officials are routed. the chief executive of the washington pain center believes trump's risking his political future if he plays loose with vaccine safety. but it was about the election clearly you know parody of the democrat party has put. up the failure of men as you become a bit closer syrian ited states so he has a lot of pressure to make sure he does something with respect to vaccines as he did with personal protective equipment ventilators respirators he did everything from that perspective and i was going through. a vaccine that he wants to turn out obviously before the election to hopefully you know regain another 4 years of the white house if he put something out there that was not safe and not effective that would be devastating to his legacy so he has to make sure that everything is

a big safe and effective for the american people to believe in it and obviously to believe it and don't take the vaccine for safety. as for the election the next presidential t.v. debates is looking increasingly unlikely donald trump says it will be a waste of his time after it was announced that it will be held virtually after the president called the coronavirus. you're saying 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 debates ridiculous and then they cut you off whenever they want and some suggested delaying the debate until the end of the month but his rival joe biden is refusing to budge and lie to trump sell this house speaker nancy pelosi has announced plans for a presidential capacity commission it's designed to assess whether the health of a future commander in chief impairs their ability to govern well as for what american voters think that ng the polls are proving to be grim reading one survey suggests more than half of respondents expect violence to increase off the

november's election and to supporting riots and looting just under 2 thirds of where the u.s. could be verging on civil war so is the gloom justified earlier i question a panel of experts over whether they think chaos is inevitable no matter who wins. i don't know if i would force the a still or 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 the level of a civil war however you do have the state of being very very high it 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 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 it's a joke 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 wouldn't have the opportunity to work from home they have found themselves bearing the brunt of the law down home with me to the country and that of course people poured aeration a 4th riot well america has indeed as divided stratified and polarized 'd as ever right wing violent elements are certainly ready at the beck and call of trunks of 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 'd 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 that have happened that i would have been the state now is it 4 years of trump or would it have happened anyway well certainly on a true. it is down to spend in trump is not taking this seriously he's prioritized other things 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 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 palate 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 it's ironic that the democrats and lame trump are 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. you sanctions have been slapped on iran by the united states further isolating the country from the world's financial systems washington times the move is to stop iran sponsoring terror activities and developing nuclear weapons attack tonight i was on occasions and says the restrictions will hurt the iranian people the hardest. the maid coded 19 pern to make us regime was to blow up our remaining channels to pay for food and medicine iranians will survive this latest of cruelty but conspiring to starve a population is a crime against humanity culprits and enablers who broke our money will face justice in new sanctions freeze the u.s. assets of $18.00 a radiant banks which is almost all of the country's financial institutions and

also places secondary sanctions or firms to do business with those banks and although washington claims the restrictions don't apply when it comes to basic necessities critics say foreign banks will simply be scared off from getting involved in humanitarian aid or lost our world affairs journalist thomas fassbender told me he believes the sanctions are not just about targeting iran but sending out a wider message to the world. even if there is some mechanism in place that will still allow medical human material aid get into iran. any foreign company any for invading that is dealing with iran that is involved in such supplies they will have to 'd apply they will have to wait for a full licenses for cruel that's. from a practical point of view that can be no question that this will impede aid and support getting into the country it isn't political move by the us the us are gambling on using their economic my their power over the global financial

infrastructure to pacify any potential opponents from russia china iran. even germany as are u.s. sanctions now and we'll see what this will lead to. next quarter in madrid has projected new coronavirus lock down measures imposed by the central government rolling that they violate people's freedoms the lockdown order had come of it a significant surge in covert cases at the spanish capital just over 5000 were recorded in the past 24 hours however opponents of the restrictions claim the decision was taken too quickly without consent and ignored the fundamental rights of millions of locals. when actually it was the head in one of the superior courts of justice of madrid has refused to ratify the measures aimed at restricting people's mobility which were imposed by a recent central government order the community of madrid saw those measures as

hasty nonconsensual and affecting the fundamental rights of millions of citizens in the courts have unanimously seen eye to eye with us on this and rules that would have meant they would be able to leave their old city local opposition to the lockdown with strong. army and seek a map it seems that the measures are only intended to annoy madrid because there are many provinces in spain which are going through the same thing as asked and they don't have. to do the same so i'm not at all in favor of what the government is doing. has made us i think the measures that we're taking were good but it is true that economically it will be very bad for us that ambitious then it just sort of we have to move on we have to continue with our knives and i think that we can have a normal life if we are careful. political analyst jose rama in madrid says the focus seems to have shifted from fighting the virus. out of this that happened sunday or instead of thinking about a real fix for the problem in a common effort to fight the virus from which everyone would benefit the central

government and the regional authorities are constantly criticizing each other and looking for some new strategies all this leads to chaos from which way the ordinary citizens suffer. and that's how it looks from moscow this have across talks up next trying to define trumpeters and that's the choice facing america voters draws ever closer by from moscow this is r.t. international. when else seemed wrong. but i'll. just call. me. yet to say proud disdain because etiquette and it gains from an equal betrayal.

when somebody find themselves worlds apart when just of the for common ground. this moment last as american citizens united want to talk that's why. we're in a tough time we have a. battle and i think. i would vote for a republican over trump i would vote for anyone who cannot use and has half a brain. dump truck. because if you get. the my 2nd wife. she can handle it. she and i divorce because our trouble is a lot of the president and i floated for him and she can't stand for. that when the

most important election. in our history is mr the months to go before the next presidential election is the atmosphere in the us now i. want to the highest priority programs how will they vote should they do next not. just some of the questions we put to feel free america.

hello and welcome to crossfire all things are considered computer with election day e-mail it's important to ask how donald trump has changed the g.o.p. if at all. is there such a thing as trump is do the political in establishment elites understand why he was the elected in the 1st place and does populism on the right future. to discuss this and more i'm joined by my guest ted harvey in denver he's chairman of the committee to defend the president and a founding member of the former stop hillary and summer we're joined by chris fance he is former chairman of the washington state republican party after his departure from the g.o.p. he is now an active member of the never trump group any job i originally crossed up and i think that means you can jump in anytime you want now as appreciate ok let's

go to ted in denver as i asked in my introduction as it is the election that is looming what impact has donald trump hat on the g.o.p. because i will put my cards on the table i think i see myself as a conservative i don't usually think of the president is being a conservative where does he go where does how does he fix it fill in the mix of the g.o.p. go ahead well as a conservative that goes all the way back to working in the reagan white house i would definitely say that that president trump is a conservative probably the most pro-life president and american history and ronald reagan obviously was the 1st leader of the pro-life movement in america if you look at his efforts to try to secure our borders that's something that i've been fighting for for decades lowering taxes.