idea about what the political alibi was all about was with the one that you know we're. in the weekly smart international a fragile cease fire takes effect between as a place and armenia in the disputed nagorno-karabakh region but both sides already accuse each other of violating the truce. correspondent is in the heart of the conflict zone reporting on the devastation and how locals view the standoff. this city of. sorry sight i can see it has been razed to the ground but it has been battered by so many bombs of so many calibers sizes and types. of news report you know the international chemical weapons watchdog claims traces similar group poison were in samples belonging to the legs in a valley says the o.p.c. w.'s handling of the opposition activists case is politicized is russia yet to

receive any evidence. and corona virus cases rise rapidly in northern england with hospitals preparing for the worst the u.k. government's contradictory antivirus measures so in confusion to still. there good morning sunday the 11th of october my name's kevin now in this is the weekly here on r.t. international around about the big stories as reported by us to you over the last 7 days thanks check in with us 1st and the latest news that's dominated a lot of our coverage for the last few days and weeks the ceasefire between armenia and azerbaijan came into force in the golan a kind of back on saturday but almost straight away started flying from both sides about violations of that truce. claims. 5 people died in shelling and just city in

the early hours of sunday a rocket reportedly hit a residential building there leaving around 30 injured as well for its part denies involvement in that attack then earlier saturday with moscow serving as broker the 2 sides managed to seal a truce including an exchange of prisoners and war dead this deal paves the way for further talks to be mediated by the oas see minsk group which includes russia france and the u.s. here's some of what we saw from the key players yesterday. a ceasefire is announced from 12 pm on the 10th of october for humanitarian purposes to exchange the prisoners of war and other detained persons and the borders of the killed in line with red cross principles. we are committed to peaceful settlement of the conflict and are ready to resume the peace process in accordance with the recent statements of the presidents and foreign ministers of

the co-chairs of the always see group. but if you have if the armenian side is committed to the truce regime the phase for a political settlement will come and the phase for pressured negotiations will end our goal remains the same to restore the integrity of azerbaijan recognized by the entire international community and to return azerbaijanis to their places of origin . despite the ceasefire the capital of the contested region has also seen sirens late saturday 11 hours after the guns were supposed to fall silent his correspondent on the ground told us there were several explosions the capital's been under fire since the conflict escalated in the region several weeks ago the shelling has led to civilian casualties as mentioned it goes down of this report from the area. the city of step on the kurds is

a sorry sight i can see it has been razed to the ground but it has been battered by so many bombs of so many calibers sizes and types this street got the full wrath of a cluster munition all the hallmarks i hear burn down cars shattered glass and if you look closely at the walls and windows here along the whole street they appears with tiny tiny holes this is the deadly power of a cluster bomb and other aspects of using one is that when a rocket shoots dozens of little bombs of little grenades many of them don't explode so we were being told not to go down that street because that's where locals gathered those grenades that didn't explode and there detonating them on purpose they're doing so because each unexploded grenade like this poses a grave threat to especially to children because they look harmlessly look innocent so a kid picks up such or such a bomb starts playing with it and it explodes in their hands now it's been just

hours into this tentative cease fire between armenia and azerbaijan but everyone who i've been talking to and counting on it was. since midday no truth has been observed the war continues there is absolutely no change you can. this sounds frightens me after silence there is usually a bombardment i do not know what will happen whether they will strike again. apart from civilians being caught up in the violence journalists have been hit too on thursday a bombing devastated in historical phaedra nagorno-karabakh which was struck twice 3 russian journalists were injured one of them who is in a coma a lot of ventilator really is now improving is the latest this morning. fighting erupted in a goal to care about late in september with armenia and azerbaijan laying blame on each other for the escalation the region populated mainly by ethnic armenians broke away from back in the 1990 s. after a bloody war the latest conflict to spill beyond the disputed territory to

a day before the tentative cease fire people in very very edges took refuge in a school building which has been transformed into a temporary shelter several dozen families are living in classrooms these days while waiting to return to their homes what's left of them in some cases but despite the severe dangers many as a bridge on these believe their country should continue the war. with god's help everything will be fine because i believe in our victory we will achieve victory either in a peaceful or military way we believe in our supreme commander in chief. we need to go further we should press on with the war and take back our territories we don't want a cease fire there must leave our land said they must leave and let our people leave there in normal conditions that's all you want we have nothing to do with that they should stay away from us as we heard in the week 2 from the director of britain's crisis research institute who thinks the 2 sides will be unable to make

real progress without broad public support. it is shaky partly because they are all banning research on both sides not just between so dysfunctional both sides public opinion and for instance we must be afraid that was a risk that already but there are some dissenting voices saying that why are we stopping the war when we as a result we winning so there's a danger that governments who made the improvement could be pressed by public opinion to new that will particularly only as there is not the other problem is that the agreement is essentially a very short point says that it's to enable the new to be recovered and also christians to be exchanged and those for the top story she found a way a mechanism for bringing about a longer term ceasefire and even peace well i think russia is the key player because it enjoys a considerable degree of trust and a lot of contact with as the german omonia and its next door. as it has its own

interests in a peaceful solution and that the problem is perhaps other players further away. interests that they don't have any risks rushnell the state stands to lose if there's a conflict in its backyard. other news russia's dismissed the findings of the global chemical weapons watchdog the o.p.c. w. the claims on choose day than another child type nerve agent was used to poison the high profile kremlin critic alexina velie until you're given documents materials samples material evidence we will consider all that surrounds this incident and unbridled propaganda campaign of lies or simply put a low grade provocation its purpose is obvious denigrate russia with unsubstantiated accusations and thereby create a far fetched reason for introducing another tranche of sanctions against our country. the o.p.c. w. says tests of confirmed quote the presence of a nerve agent in the valleys blood and urine samples which is structurally similar

to 2 substances from the novel group banned in 2019 the organization described the findings as a matter of grave concern russia's not buying it though let's look at some of moscow's criticisms of the way the case has been handled so far than 1st of moscow says germany never shared novell needs test results all the samples of his bio materials used to date russia are also has no access to any files on the politician held by berlin's charity hospital where he was treated further moscow insists that intel it received any of those there's little it can do to help the investigation saying it will not take western lab results face value. on wednesday france and germany issued a joint statement saying there could be no other explanation for the case but the russian government's involvement paris and berlin voted to put forward e.u. sanctions against russian individuals russian military expert egan of coolant told us the proceedings in the nevada case though

a bit lacking in transparency all along the way. first of all we still don't know the exact substance used no one told us about it unfortunately clearly mr ray's inhibitors come in a wide range of substances all nerve agents have them as well as some medication or substance from the group and the chemical weapon called novacek are 2 different things the substance can be mildly toxic as toxic as dye called boasts that we use in daily life to kill insects and that's the difference there is for example a cocktail of alcohol that can be ignited and then there is a molotov cocktail that can even set tanks on fire the to the safe but quite different. i think the results could have been falsified we don't know who did what with the bottle it is possible the bottle had been substituted we don't know that and there is no proof reminds me of the fake stories like with white helmets in syria when some unknowns get bottles samples with so-called proof from the crime

scenes and later it is found out they were collected someplace else. coded 19 cases in northern england aspiring other controlled hospitals across the country are preparing for the worst it's being pressured to the british government already under fire over its response to the health crisis critics say the authorities are nothing but so the seeds of covert confusion along the way show the average death as the latest than from london. and considering the u.k. government's response to cave at 19 pretty and probably wouldn't be the word on the tips of most people's tongues over the course of the year the u.k. has seen thousands of people dying in care homes tests and tracing deadlines set and missed the u.k. topping the death toll across europe plus of course britain being on the verge of round 2 and while most people think the government's response needs to be completely written off it seems as though not everyone agrees it's been. i think it

will be like the lympics that's when it's all over and we look back and reflect we will actually be extremely proud of ourselves some people might think a wooden spoon is more appropriate than a shiny metal especially considering the latest news that 16000 positive tests for private 19 have been lost meaning the super spreaders a blimey on the way this still spreading thousands of people blissfully unaware they've been exposed to code potentially spreading this deadly virus a time when hospital admissions are increasing in the 2nd wave blunder after blunder critics say the government's not learning from its mistakes but as the country hurdles towards a 2nd wave of the virus private confusion is still lingering in the again with mixed messages coming from power. but as i understand it. apologies i misspoke today in the northeast new rules mean you cannot meet people from different households in social settings

indoors including in pubs restaurants and your home you should also avoid socializing with other households outside go to work but stay at home eat out to help out but don't socialize kick start the economy but stay in your bible it's no wonder the country is confused especially considering the man telling the u.k. what to do is accused of being a tad confused one of the major problems is widespread confusion about the local restrictions people feel very let down a very frustrated very forgotten can we pin all the primal boris johnson off to roll these all around president at times far to go back to all that no prime minister has ever fought before and after months of economic paralysis boris johnson began to i'm not the lockdown even though parts of the u.k. was still plagued with the virus and so the north south divide found its latest partition the timing of the lifting of national lockdown was london centric please remember this the next time you see politicians pointing fingers at our people on

the eve of a 2nd wave many might think the government would know what it was doing by now especially considering it's had around 6 months to prepare but when clarity has been replaced with confusion can the government really expect people to for the rules when it doesn't seem to know them itself should you ever start the artsy lunches. coming up or more the news of the week that we're recapping for you and president of participant was declared the winner in the only vice presidential debate ahead of the u.s. election where is it there is we'll show you that was a bit more detail after the break. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race in this spirit dramatic development that only

. exists i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. no one else seemed wrong but i. just don't. get to ship out just the answer. and engagement equals betrayal. when some find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground.

60 minutes per side of the morning moscow time this next donald trump's physician says the president's no longer contagious with covert 19 therefore allowing him to resume campaigning across the country but that's unlikely to change the fact that the 2nd presidential debates officially being canceled refused to hold the match up remotely and asked to reshow jewel but that was rejected by the democrats meantime the vice presidential candidates faced off in the week on an unexpected star stole the show for all of 2 minutes.

well the vice presidential debate went don't quite differently compared to the earlier in the showdown both of my parents mostly refrain from interruptions and cross talking for a change unlike their respective running mates the course took center stage pushing more substantial issues to the wayside though on the night. the very 1st day president donald trump has put the health of america 1st whatever the vice president is claiming the administration has done and clearly it hasn't worked if the trump administration approves a vaccine before or after the election should americans take it and would you take it and if donald trump tells us i said to him that we should take it on not taking the fact that you continue to undermine public confidence in a vaccine if the vaccine emerges during the trump administration i think is is unconscionable there's a lot missing here in terms of substance i think there was a lot that was was lacking in this debate look at the political issue that was the

centerpiece of the debates coronavirus the coronavirus is an important issue but it's not a legitimate political issue because not 2 sides to it there's not a pro coronavirus thought in an anti krone virus sides but there are legitimate political issues pro-choice pro-life views on gun control the use of drug legalization should america be the world's police anymore these are legitimate political issues that are not being discussed because again we're letting the media as well and the debates in a way that's just designed to be the most sensational and the most you know quote topical rather than the most politically relevant is part of the problem of the format of the debate are they trying to cover too many issues would it be but we'd be better served to have one or 2 things that they talk about the whole night and really go at those issues and quite candidly why do we even have vice president to have this debate in the 1st place they don't create policy we're all very interested in policy and the technical details you know but a lot of people that's not the way that they make their decisions about voting and

most people are trying to vote on. what they you know what their friends and family like they're making decisions about ideas that they've heard about but they don't really know the details i mean we can't expect regular americans to be knowledgeable about all these different vast policy areas even the politicians themselves don't really know all of the details of these different policy areas i don't think it's true that the american people are unable to. understand the issues i think that the issues are intentionally obfuscated in a way to make sure that the average american cannot weigh in on them being perhaps the different format when you have maybe 3 or 4 broad categories that allow for the debaters to get into into the into those those categories by be important was there a winner who won this debate in pinning one. well i don't know if there is a winner or not i tend to agree that you know a lot of these questions are really not areas of steps and if discussion i think we really can't expect them to get into the details of any kind of particular policies

and that they're really not trying to do that neither one of the candidates really inspired a lot of confidence. if we had to choose a winner i would have to say that it had to be may be. only because of. his way to the point i don't think that either debate changed any single voters opinion whatsoever i think that the voters had already made up their mind before the debate i think tonight's debate did absolutely nothing and the reason for that again is that the poll opinions were kept out this was a rigged debate. the capital stands under a state of emergency after a week of violent protests over the country's parliamentary election results that. the.

protests began on monday after the outcome of the vote was announced angry crowds capture the torch the country's main government building election commission has declared the disputed returns null and void but protests have continued throughout the week despite a lot demonstrators also went to security council building demanding the release of the country's next president. he was released but later detained again for organizing more protests. this was curious thousands of dead sea creatures have washed ashore in russia's far east. concerns of an ecological disaster off the coast of kamchatka samples of water sand and marine life have been sent to moscow for examination they've shown high levels of oil products up to 4 times normal and

investigation into the cause is still under way is more on the unfolding crisis. it. started with the fact there's the clash in the kitchen for the past few weeks all the surface at the beach who went into the water were experiencing not problems i face who didn't pay too much attention to their symptoms we initially put it down to the bright sun and strong winds but when the problems persisted on cloudy days too we became worried for started showing other symptoms nausea fatigue and fever so it seemed quite dangerous in the slide show of some of the 1st sign was some of the surface feeling sick we thought it was a rotavirus something to do with the drinking water and then people started complaining about ira taishan sore throats in general.

check. the post if this sometimes happens off the stone. starfish often washed up on the shore in large numbers but we haven't seen octopuses wash up before that strange. some of the local surface of the animals have been behaving strangely to me in particular the ring seals would swim with us they usually only come up for spending most of the time on the water is now when they break the surface they stop why do while. she didn't approach it is a data dust we receive test results from the water. we took showed oil based products were 4 times over the limit and final was twice the limit. you to. all the possible causes for the disaster are all. local milk the

reactions make it all for. some commercial temper or some problems at the local folks in chemicals girl we should like it if you know because those people got a month off here. sad to say isn't going to have lost their will let you know but that saw 7 days recap of the big stories of the week as reported by us to you here in moscow kevin own reporting from me in the whole team on t.v. this helped make this program thank you for watching and for must have a great rest of the weekend. while the sunday make no certainly no borders i'm just blind to nationalities.

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