news armenia and azerbaijan come together for talks in moscow following. hostilities. the shelling destroys an historic seadrill in the 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 his. am on the front line. the french president's plan to clamp down on radical islam threatens to teach him a lesson. his idea of arabic lessons in the schools.

and the big story that we're tracking for you. there are hopes that a breakthrough could be reached in the bitter conflict that's erupted between armenia and azerbaijan the foreign ministers of both countries are holding talks right now in moscow and have been for upwards of 6 hours. at the venue awaiting news of 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

to hostilities in the gourd me and to allow for the exchange of bodies and prisoners and for all the humanitarian reasons that some of this russia's president to school to be into the still exists in the mcgauran a core of 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 the 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 seoul the solves are 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 i have. since the decade's old conflict escalated nearly 2 weeks ago the fighting zoli been intensifying there are conflicting reports on both sides about casualties and videos of big released on an almost daily basis showing the destruction inside the disputed region and in the surrounding areas. case in point of historic a theater of the heart i'm going to count about. it's been badly damaged after big show 3 russian journalists nearby were also injured one is said to be in a critical condition unable to be airlifted out of media the other 2 have since left the country on a russian government flights and are now receiving hospital treatment back in moscow. here's the aftermath of the cathedral shelling it was hit twice in the same day the armenian foreign ministry blames is very forces claiming they pose a threat to the civilized world. meanwhile as every authorities say 7 people have

been injured by recent shelling by all media and forces rockets at a restaurant in the city of leftist schools severely damaged in a separate shelling in the border region also reported the local police station was destroyed along with civilian buildings and internationally azerbaijan's backed by turkey which is supported backers attempts to regain the golan no karabakh however armenia along with russia is a member of the collective security treaty organization which is based on a nato style platform of the head of the c.i.s. t.-o. says at present the alliance needs to do nothing but call for peace but it interview to r.t. he was asked if that would change if media itself was attacked by azerbaijan. well i'm sure that as a regime will not hit the actual territory of armenia i'm sure such development will not happen fast because as a vision initially said that it has no territorial claims to armenia it does not challenge armenia 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 right to count on help without this there is no organization the faces clashes recently have been reported in the south of the region. of is near the border and has been talking to some of the armenia mothers who've seen their sons head off to war they've been speaking of both pride and concern sentiments being echoed on both sides of the conflict. 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 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 he was in hundreds

from the very beginning from base to chechnya and back 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 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 such a child no mother knowing there is currently a war in the barn a car bomb 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 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 car a buck i know they're strong i know how he's doing he's in a fight in spirit and he inspires me to the strong here at home asked me 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 are 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 his

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 who 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. headline news now and it was meant to combat extremism but instead 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 shot or do best give reports next from barrett. and the plans announced by president mike korn 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 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 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 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 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 arrived to speak their language 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 asians we point to say no this is 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 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 clauses widely offered 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 there are 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. but those who believe teaching arabic in schools only folks this can mean you terry newsom and blues the feeling of patriotism the exact opposite of what mr. there's nothing wrong with teaching or out in school or what's the 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 this has

to be around common values and the language is one of the best instruments which can be used to get people around together to understand god is 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. this is r.t. on the way the us yet again raises the stakes on sanctions against iran this time targeting the financial sector as r.t. reports among our stories after the break.

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the right. just days after the proclaiming himself cured 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 accused the same agency of launching a political hit job against him after it introduced a tougher vaccine guard lines 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. the new vaccine guidelines say manufacturers have to wait 2 months before approval could be considered so trials can flag up any safety issues that means the earliest any drug could win approval

would be after november's election the f.d.a. insists it does 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 increase from administration officials members of congress local officials are routed psni the chief executive of the washington pain center believes trump's risking his political future if he plays loose with vaccine safety it was about the election clearly the parody of the democratic party has put trump's way up the failure of managing to cope with quote a serious 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 well from that perspective and now he's got this vaccine that he wants to turn out obviously before the election to hopefully you know regain another 4 years of the

way 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. new sanctions have been slapped on iran by the u.s. further isolating the country from the world's financial systems washington claims the move is to stop iran sponsoring terror activities and developing nuclear weapons to iran denies those allegations and says the restrictions will hurt the iranian people the hardest. made covert 19 pandemic 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 block our money will face justice and iran knows that and they've been put on notice of us around with us if

you do something bad we're going to do things to you that have never been done before. so i'm not very presidential language from donald trump live on the radio a few hours ago the new sanctions freeze the u.s. assets of 18 iranian banks which is almost all of the country's financial institutions it also places secondary sanctions on firms that do business with those banks and although washington claims that the restrictions don't apply when it comes to basic necessities critics say that foreign banks are going to be scared off from getting involved in humanitarian aid 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 would still allow medical humanitarian 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 rely they will have to wait for it for 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 u.s. the u.s. are gambling on using their economic my. 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. a quarter of a dread has rejected new coronavirus. lockdown measures imposed by the central government ruling that they violate people's freedoms the opt out order had come amid a significant surge in covert cases in 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 ignore the fundamental rights of millions of locals internationally it was the hearing when it was

a period courts of justice and 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. rules that would have meant they couldn't leave their own city local opposition to the lockdown was strong. and seek him out 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 us and they don't have to do the same so i am not at all in favor of what the government is doing doesn't mean i think the measures that we're taking were good but it is true that economically it will be very bad for us that. 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 in madrid says that the focus has

shifted from fighting the virus. out of this that have been sung 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 we the ordinary citizens suffer. a state of emergency has been declared in sudan in central africa after some of the worst flooding there in years for many it means life is proving even more of a challenge in what was already one of the world poorest nations. the water has destroyed all of our houses furniture and belongings they were all

lost in the flood of being evacuated from our homes to safer places several houses were in time it's truly managed to save some furniture with the rest of us taking with. some people are living now under a tree we don't have anything left the children live under trees there's no place to shelter us and the village is still submerged in water we're building a house out of wood and plastic she's just a shell to ourselves and our families until things get better. that's the news for now thanks for watching i'm called embraer r.t. in moscow back with your next headline news in a round of 36 minutes from now i have to see it.

there's a threshold at which. big tobacco realized what they were doing and that they continued to do it they continued to put more and more things into cigarettes that made them more addictive and made me want to smoke more of them and the point i'm trying to make is that social media and in particular these artificially intelligent algorithms are doing the same thing. class. american citizen but he didn't want to talk to my.

dad and i think. i would vote for a republican i would vote for anyone who is not and has half a brain. dump truck. of the future. my 2nd wife. she can handle it. she and i divorce because trouble is what the president and i for good for him and she can't stand. the most important election. in our history list in the months to go before the next presidential election is the atmosphere in the us now. what are the highest priority problems how will they vote should they do next. just some of the questions we put to the american.

banks geysers financial survival will they say money to the relatives who planted it is it is a central banks a 4 diatom is kind of problem right now so you stop the. former senate majority leader and dr bill frist is our guest on both politics. blog the politicking and i'm larry king at the white house what comes up. make hard spot while the infected president tells americans not to let covert 19 dominate them a candid one on one about the deadly health crisis and the presidential race how

has it up ended with former senate majority leader bill frist like he's a heart and lung transplant surgeon and host of the podcast a 2nd opinion he joins me from nashville start right there how has this affected bill frist life. well larry it's affected me like every everybody else has changed my ways of communicating you know 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 real by talented back in the town. president drunk has given himself an a plus for a sampling of polls 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 yet

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 and 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 and then it goes back to the answer to question president trump has not done well as commander in chief his sole purpose should be at this juncture of the safety and security of the american people and he's let us now he has come forward even just in the last week has said this mary she should not be afraid and as a heart transplant surgeon as a cardiac surgeon never tell a patient don't be afraid of this virus it is deadly people need to respond and in

the response you told people to do the wrong thing that mask are not important and that social distancing really doesn't have the impact. what do you make of only returned home from the hospital landing on the lawn there and then taking off the basque you know. the in the big picture and i'll put my position hat on i think it was good he went to the hospital i think he had a potentially deadly disease we don't know what that he's right middle of it he is still infectious i think it was good he went to the hospital he was ok he came home from the hospital much the doctors had cleared him still infectious my expectation would be he has be pretty protects other people in the hospital and i think the grandstanding and coming home was totally unnecessary and i think the american people are very disappointed is seeing that 5 minute pause with the cameras going where he he clearly wanted to project leadership in that he's beat this virus but that's not the right message now for the american people the people here in

nashville to our own families i think is totally appropriate. what do you make of this president. where you know he. won a lot of things that he said and a lot of people don't agree with the things that he's put forward in terms of his campaign and initially but if you look at the progress has been made in stripping back regulations make it easier to start a small business he's done well overall i think with manufacturing jobs he has projected this image of leadership and say all that and i've been broadly disappointed in the integrity and the trust into what i want my children and my grandchildren to look up to as president of the united states and really comes down to what's been manifested with this virus which shows that he has been anti science that he puts hypothetical things.