and azerbaijan come together for talks in moscow following vladimir putin's cold to end hostilities over nagorno-karabakh. comes the shelling destroys the story cathedral in the disputed region civilian losses a growing journalist also in the line of fire we also hear from mothers whose sons are fighting on the front lines. because we all have kids serving i can share my emotions in church only i think 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. and the french president's plan to clamp down on radical islam threatens to teach him a lesson after outrage rupp's over his idea for arabic lessons in schools.

that law if i will why this is our international from moscow where it's just one of the morning on saturday good to have you along here with the big stories we're cross for you this hour the ropes a breakthrough can be reached in the pits a 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 7 hours now a man called sort of his at the venue awaiting news of developments. well certainly great expectations the eyes of the world are right now on the russian capital where the talks between the foreign ministers are media and by john mediated by their russian counterpart sergey lavrov has already begun they're on the way at the moments now journalists were allowed in for about 30 seconds for there to witness their initial encounter then everybody was asked to step outside as it's always conceded behind. those doors once again they're ongoing right now as we speak

meanwhile earlier vladimir putin called for and still it sees in my gourd me. to allow for the exchange of bodies and prisoners and for all the humanitarian reasons let's have this russia's president to school to be into the still exists in the mcgovern the 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 soul of 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 as we have it. since the decades old conflict escalated nearly 2 weeks ago now the fighting has been intensifying there are conflicting reports on both sides about casualties and videos are being released on a daily basis showing the destruction inside the disputed region and also in the surrounding areas case in point and historic a feature of the heart of gold i've heard a box being badly damaged after being shelled. some of the aftermath of that shelling it was twice in the same day the armenian foreign ministry blames a very forces claiming they pose a threat to the civilized world. the russian journalist nearby the cathedral were injured one said to be in a critical condition and unable to be airlifted out of the other 2 have since left the country on a russian government flight they're now receiving hospital treatment back in moscow

. meanwhile this area of forest is say 7 people have been injured in recent shelling by forces rockets at a restaurant in the city of daraa and left a school severely damaged in a separate shelling in the region azerbaijan also reported that the local police station was destroyed along with civilian buildings. internationally azerbaijan is backed by turkey which has supported back its attempts to regain the goal no care about 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 s t o says at present the alliance needs to do nothing but call for pace but in an interview with r.t. he was asked if that would change if armenia 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 we 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. oh has the rights to count on help without this there is no organization but the fiercest clashes recently have been reported in the south of the disputed region the horse town of his near the border has been talking to some of the armenian mothers who've seen their sons head off to war they spoke of both pride and concern sentiments that a record of both sides of the conflict. arsenic lives a modest life as she's inviting us in her apartment it's almost like we 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 go and i can back what he was conscripted when he came of age the usual service he was in the 7th of january he had been serving for 10 months or he

was in hundreds from the very beginning it's from base to chechnya and baskets 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 meaningful says 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 he calls me to say that he's fine and that's it it doesn't happen often but 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 because we all have kids serving there i can share my emotions in church only i feel bad but i can sure it 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. yes about that one i'm proud of having a child no mother knowing there's currently a war in the car in a car battle comey 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. of them were them single i'm proud to the to have a son who is a soldier now 7 and one of the military unit in the car back i know they are stronger i know how he. he's doing he's in a fight in spirit and he inspires me to the 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 a 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 in the front line and proud of both of them both of them volunteered my

oldest is there now and the 2nd one is waiting his ready to go there any moment 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 front line 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 not make them targets on foreign land and we get it done of reporting from the border with

nagorno-karabakh. on to our other headline news then and 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 charlotte do best get a report 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 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 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 isn't mists 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 ations we point the finger too much at muslims when there are more serious matters but who i don't really have an opinion on that but it has to be controlled. it might be a good idea or if there are 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 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 widely offered there is no indication there would be a prolific appetite for them it's currently the most popular foreign language chosen by 11 to 15 year olds and figures show that only about 0.2 percent actually study it what's not clear yet and this is perhaps where the concern comes from is whether or not under the new plans arabic will become part of mandatory lessons here in france if that was the case it is likely to feel the fire of those who believe teaching arabic in schools only fosters communitarianism and blues the feeling of patriotism the exact opposite of what mr. there's nothing wrong with teaching school what. i think is a political message i think 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 which is one of the best instruments which can be used to get people around to get. together of course we teach the other languages even the president is in favor of teaching the arabic language so i think we. shouldn't mix the subjects and say as i've also heard people saying online that teaching arabic is an act of separatism you know that arabic has existed here for a long time and it never brought me that radicalism or terrorism there is a specific branch of muslims who naturally make the headlines but this is only a branch that's not all muslims don't generalise. just days after proclaiming himself cured of the corona virus 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 all comes not long after he accused

the same agency of launching a political hit job against him after introduced a 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 the new vaccine guidelines say manufacturers have to wait 2 months before approval can be considered so trials can flag any safety issues that means the earliest any drug could win approval would be after 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 or increase from administration officials members of congress local officials are routed psni and the chief executive of the washington pain center believes trump is risking his political future if he plays loose with vaccine safety. but it was about the election clearly you know occurred already the

democratic party has put in donald trump's way up the failure of managing to cover questions here united 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 would get this 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 above the road safe and effective for the american people to believe in it and obviously to believe it and don't take the vaccine for safety. this is our say on the way the u.s. 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.

it's important to. change the g.o.p. . is there such a thing as trump is the political establishment understand why does the bucket in the 1st one just populism on the right. there's a threshold at which. big tobacco realised what they were doing in they continue to do it big continued to put more and more things into cigarettes that needed them more addictive and made me want to smoke more of them in jail i'm trying to make is that social media in particular these artificially intelligent algorithms are doing the same thing.

join me every day on the alex salmond and i'll be speaking to. politics. i'm sure i'll see if. new sanctions have been slapped on iran by the united states and 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 at $11.00 put on notice of us around with us if you do something bad we are going to do things to you that have never been done before and the 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 and also places secondary sanctions on firms that do business with those banks and i washington claims 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 believes the sanctions are not just about targeting iran but sending out of wider message to the world. even if there is some mechanism in place that will still allow medical humanitarian aid get into iran. any foreign company any for invading that is dealing with the iran that is involved in such supplies they will

have to 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 u.s. the u.s. 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 in a pandemic pushed back a quarter but dread is rejected new can. virus lockdown measures imposed by the central government ruling that they violate people's freedoms the lockdown 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 ignored the fundamental rights

of millions of locals. internationally it was the having none of it disappeared courts of justice of madrid has refused to ratify the measures aimed at restricting people's mobility which were imposed by recent central government order the community of madrid saw those measures as hasty nonconsensual and affecting the fundamental rights of millions of citizens that the courts have unanimously seen eye to eye with us on this or i'm going to rules that would have meant they couldn't leave their own city local opposition to the lockdown was strong. army 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. yes i mean i think the measures that were taking were good but it is true that economically it will be very bad for us. and it's just 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 came full. us not just politics where the pandemic is proving to be a divisive issue in the united states religious communities in new york are up at all observe a new lockdown measures in the city which they claim unfairly target that can have more been explained. 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. 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 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 supernatural stay 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. state of emergency has been declared in sudan in central africa off to some of the worst flooding there and for many it means life's proving even more of a challenge in what was already one of the world's poorest nations.

no i got nothing out of the water has destroyed all of our house furniture and belongings we were a little lost on the floor being evacuated from our homes to safe places several houses were in time it's truly we managed to save some furniture because the rest mistakingly through to. some people are living now under a tree we don't have anything left and children live on the trees there's no place to show them the village is still submerged in water we're building a house out of wood and plastic she said to show to ourselves and our families until things get better.

ok that's it from a don't know holkins is here to update you again in just under 34 minutes from now and i look from a call in bright thanks for watching have a great weekend. the lockdown has shifted away fevola relationship with their bosses of their companies and how do you account for costs. down to the granularity of toilet paper and the only industry i know where toilet paper costs are incorporated in the p. and l. a monthly or weekly basis is in the prison business right.

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when everything works. making dinners the problem is that everything to us work japan's nuclear nightmare continues a 2nd hydrogen explosion at the fukushima daiichi nuclear complex destroyed the reactor exterior all 3 daiichi reactors have nuclear fuel rods that have been exposed to some degree so they are teetering on the edge of a meltdown. you need to sit. there you. know she. thinking can you include. a more serious. concern in that situation in japan a male joined live from vermont to some you know we're reporting at the moment that that all suggestions that a partial nuclear meltdown is no way this is not a nuclear chain reaction this is not a nuclear bomb this is the radiation left over after the chain reaction has

started because sort of sorts of interrupt but you say this is not a nuclear bomb but would not the effects be the same as a nuclear bomb if obviously it does reach meltdown and there is an explosion. the chemicals that are going to be released are similar actually the chemicals released from other radioactive chemicals released from a nuclear bomb disappear quicker than the radiation that is released in a nuclear power plant all we're looking at an apocalypse this is true and noble on steroids do you think it's definitely going to happen or do you think crisis could be averted no i don't think crisis can be averted. because we know her containment building.