a fragile truce takes effect in the disputed caucasus region of nagorno-karabakh the reports of shelling come from both sides. our correspondents in the heart of the conflict zone reporting on the devastation and how locals view the standoff. the city of step on a. site 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. and corona virus cases rise sharply in northern england with hospitals preparing for even worse well government guidelines so confusion.

and welcome to the weekly world running through some of the biggest stories says covered here over the past 7 days in a moment 1st though to update you on the weekends developments and the latest on the standoff in the caucasus between armenia and azerbaijan in the disputed territory of nagorno-karabakh the 2 countries say they are abiding by a cease fire came into force on saturday but both accuse the other of violating that truce with russia's serving as intermediary the 2 sides managed to seal an agreement including an exchange of prisoners and war dead in the contested region the deal paves the way for further talks to be mediated by russia the u.s. and france here's what some of what we saw from the key players on saturday. if you live. a ceasefire is announced from 12 pm 110th of october for humanitarian purposes. we are committed to a peaceful settlement of the current conflict in the ready to resume the peace process. 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 dress store the integrity of azerbaijan the latest fighting erupted in the corner kyra back in late september with armenia and azerbaijan laying the blame on each other as a bridge on planes 9 people died and more than 30 others were injured during shelling of the city of gunja in the early hours of sunday a rocket reportedly hit a residential building and a rescue operations underway a media denies any involvement in that attack but locals think otherwise. it's just it was 2 in the morning we were sleeping i heard a huge sound and i saw everything falling on me glass wood the wall everything my son ran and in a t. shirt and picked me up. i saw a rock fall on my face i opened my eyes and another rocket hit i said to myself what is this i opened my eyes and couldn't see anything but clouds of dust what's cease fire we know these armenians very well we know how they behave they are 2

faced they completely lackawanna you can't even call them humans. they are barbarians they are not human if you have a war it's with soldiers but we are civilians we were sleeping at night just hours after the truce took effect on saturday air raid sirens went off in karabakh and locals run for cover our correspondent in a goshdarn of his in the local capital and heard several explosions the city has borne the brunt of the shell fire over the past 2 weeks there are multiple civilian casualties although the numbers are unclear at this stage hugo brought us this report from the area as the fragile truce initially came into effect. 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 because shattered glass and

if you look closely at the walls and windows here along this whole street they have pierced 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 a such a bomb starts playing with it and it explodes in their hands now it's been just hours into this tentative cease fire but. armenia and azerbaijan but everyone who i've been talking to and counting on it coarsely. since mid day no truce has been observed the war continues there is absolutely no change we are slipping embassies

far is temporary for 2 or 3 years it will become and then it will start again like this time every day we are in danger we wake up and thank god that we are alive i don't know what is going to happen to us as. we have moved trust in what they say and particularly in the current developments in the ceasefire looks worse suspicious staus the director of britain's crisis research institute told us he thinks neither side will be able to make real progress without broad public support . we did shaky partly because you're all about intercity 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 who 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 prest lot of opinion to new that will particularly only as there is not the other problem is that the agreement is essentially

a very short one it says that it's to enable the wounded to be recovered and also for prisons to be exchanged and the us felt the top story she found a way a mechanism for bringing about a long 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 those of our john and i mean the and it's next door. and so it has its own interests in a peaceful solution and that's the problem is perhaps other players further away. interests that they don't have any risks whereas russia will the state stands to lose if there's a conflict in its backyard. nations across europe are tightening their coronavirus restrictions after a spike in case numbers germany france and britain of all seem to mattick increases in recent weeks the british prime minister is expected to announce a partial lockdown for the north of england on monday it could include the closure of all pubs and restaurants but local mayors are resisting the plans and

threatening can launch a parliamentary challenge a nationwide public trust in the government and a low ebb ashanti edwards daschle explained. when considering the u.k. government's response ok but 19 pretty and probably wouldn't be the words 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 testin tracing deadlines set and missed the u.k. topping the death toll across europe plus of course britain being on the verge of a 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 blindly unaware the still spreading thousands of people blissfully unaware

they've been exposed to covert potentially spreading this deadly virus time and 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 piracy confusion is still lingering in the again with mixed messages coming from. the hospitality but as i understand it not successful 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 socialising 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 bubble 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 promo boris johnson. after all these all around president to times far to go back to all that no prime minister has ever fought before and not of months of economic paralysis boris johnson began to i'm not the look down even though parts of the u.k. was still plagued with the virus and some of 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 how to round 6 months to prepare but when carrot has been replaced with confusion and the government really expect people to for the rules when it doesn't seem to know them itself to address such the artsy blunt. disturbing environmental mystery madge don't choose to thousands of dead sea

creatures washed ashore in russian far east surviving fears of an ecological disaster is more on the unfolding crisis and can track. this clash in the kitchen for the past few weeks all the surface at the beach who went into the water were experiencing my problems when i 1st we didn't pay too much attention to their symptoms we put it down to the bright sun and strong winds but when the problems persisted on cloudy days too we became worried sick for started showing other symptoms noisey fatigue and fever so it seemed quite dangerous to a slideshow of some of the 1st sign was some of the surface feeling sick just thought it was a root to borrow something to do with the drinking water then people started complaining about i rotate sore throats in general with.

most of us just this sometimes happens off to storms in the 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 service observed the animals have been behaving strangely in particular the ring seals would swim with us they usually only come up for spending most of their time on the water is now when they break the surface they stop why do while it's that it. is a dotted honestly receive test results from the water all 3 samples we took showed oil based products were 4 times over the limit and final was twice the limit. for your. luggage and it was.

the french president's plan to fight extremism by teaching arabic and schools was met with staunch resistance earlier this week as fellow do best get reports from paris. under 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 going speech did they kill to alleviate those concerns. the problem is islam ist separatism this conscious theorize 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 a right to speak their language and to teach arabic in our schools is

a good idea because we have a lot of young people from north west africa and europe. personally and completely against this idea because here in france there are too many generals ations we point the same 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 it might be a good idea if there are other languages it might be a good idea to learn arabic here. spanish english all these languages and we 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 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 kids cause. i think there's a message i think that's where all the french are against this there's a very very i mean 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 along 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 because there is this specific branch of muslims who naturally make the headlines but this is only a branch that's not all muslims don't generalise. here without say all the way the spanish government and move to all but say a law from the dread to tackle a covert spying is struck down by the capital's highest court we'll tell you about that with the weekly returns after this.

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your soul to see and work to get updates on the cease fire negotiations videos go on the issue of the border and is a war on coal but also on the left and right. welcome back the true ties caught on thursday rejected new lockdown measures imposed by the central government ruling that they violate people's freedoms the lockdown order was issued after a surge in covert cases in the spanish capital but opponents say the decision was taken too quickly without consensus and ignore the fundamental rights of millions of locals. if you don't actually it was the having one of the superior courts of justice in madrid has refused to ratify the measures aimed at restricting people's ability which were imposed by a recent central government order the community of madrid saw those measures as hastily nonconsensual and affecting the fundamental rights of millions of citizens

that the courts have unanimously seen eye to eye with us on this and some 100 residents have been telling us how they feel about the government's lockdown plan for the capital. 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'm not at all in favor of what the government is doing. 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 but that's political analyst jose ramos says the focus has shifted away from fighting the virus. instead of thinking about a real fix for the problem and 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. around the world this weekend the public anger is boiling over in israel over the new nationwide coronavirus lockdown tens of thousands rallied in cities across the country on saturday calling on prime minister benjamin netanyahu to step down clashes broke out in tel aviv and several people were injured. as security guards been arrested in the u.s. city of denver over a fatal shooting the protester was killed during rival rallies between left and right wing groups on saturday local reports say the suspect had been hired by a local t.v. channel meantime over about a rose. police use stun grenades and water cannon against an opposition rally in the capital dozens of people were reportedly detained including russian journalists covering the event it's the latest in a series of protests since august disputed election which the opposition claims

rigged. positions says the president is no longer contagious after recovering from cope with 19 and that he can resume campaigning across the country said the 2nd presidential debate will not be going ahead that was cancelled off the trump refused to take part remotely the vice presidential candidates did manage a t.v. face off this week but there was an unexpected star who stole the spotlight for all of 2 minutes.

the v.p. debate was in stark contrast to the earlier showdown both harris and mike pence mostly refrain from interrupting each other. the pandemic took center stage. the very 1st day president donald trump has put the health of america 1st whatever the vice president is claiming the administration has done it 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 i'm not taking the fact that you continue to undermine public confidence in a vaccine if the vaccine emerges during the trumpet ministration 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 a 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 side but there are legitimate

political issues pro-choice pro-life views on gun control 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 a part of the problem of the format of the debate are they trying to cover too many issues would it be but it would 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 or have these 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 with 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 a 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 might be important was there a winner who won this debate in pinning one. well i don't know if there was a winner or not i tend to agree that you know a lot of these questions are really not areas of substantive 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. we had to choose a winner i would have to say that had to be maybe. only because of.

his weight 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 that's all from a on the way show and promises in about 35 minutes for the next edition here on the r.t. international from moscow. is

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no longer welcome to all the parties people like to say that and that piece is that originally it would work but it's almost never last seen as the latest flare up of pilots in the south caucasus shows freezing conflict 1000 make it easier. later more even less deadly as a result of this effort and bill lajoie their readiness to fight until the last pending soldier should international media here just once again try to put this forum i well to discuss this i'm now joined by ambassador kerry cabin all form a co-chair of the oyster men's group and that's the great classic great honor for me to talk to you thank you very much for making the time where you are to be with you today. now we are now i rounding out the 2nd week of violence that

several 100. that on both sides and that is to add to almost 30000 dad that accumulated over almost 30 years of this conflict and while international mediators keep calling for an immediate cease fire i don't think anyone is listening who will walk in possibly stop this war right now i believe fortunately in the last few days we've seen so promising signs there's a procedure you know the president is being said to get back to a cease fire and very hard by that good i would say who the addition to your local income it may be syria's number of casualties that bit's is much higher than it is obliquely is that this is going to those are birds only at sword's no announced israel or tears or g.'s is certainly to say to this it suits through this

there are probably hundreds of. years well so do through your day will be recruits in thousands and that while our there is a flurry of diplomatic activity here surrounding this conflict i don't think we have seen any actual evidence from the ground that there has still is out about it and. the 3rd students are present it's a sad sad to. issuer of peace but when parties to a conflict it seems there is about to be a truce there's often intensification on the ground to a little bit of way and to improve or better don't you positions in your defensive positions and we may be seeing some of their. literally tied to the fact they were going to be meetings is it even which have already been. achieved and if it had some progress and the exits approached.