this is. the one that you know. a fragile truce takes effect in the disputed region of. reports of shelling from both sides our correspondent is in the heart of the conflict zone reporting on the devastation and how locals view the standoff. i can see it has been razed to the ground but it has been. many. provirus cases rise sharply in northern england with hospitals preparing for even worse while government guidelines so confusion. and the french president's plan to clamp down on radical islam threaten to teach him a lesson after outrage over his idea to teach arabic lessons in school.

for broadcasting live. this is our 2 international i'm sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us as we read the week's top stories. all right 1st the latest on the standoff between armenia and azerbaijan in the disputed territory of nagorno-karabakh the 2 countries say that they are abiding by a cease fire that came into force on saturday but both have accused the other of violating the truce with russia serving as an 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 us and friends here's some of what we saw from the key players on saturday. of your live.

as ceasefire is announced from 12 pm 110th of october for humanitarian purposes but . we are committed to a peaceful settlement of the current conflict in the ready to resume the peace process with it but if you if the armenian side is committed to the truce regime phase for a political settlement will come and the phase for pressured negotiations will end our goal remains the same restore the integrity of azerbaijan the fighting erupted in a buck in late september with armenia and azerbaijan laying the blame on each other as a bridge on claims of 9 people died and more than 30 were injured during shelling of the city of god in the early hours of sunday a rocket reportedly had a residential building and a rescue operation is currently underway our media denies any involvement in that attack but locals think otherwise. 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 a teacher it and pick 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 ceasefire we know these armenians very well we know how they behave they are 2 faced they completely lack honor you can't even call them siemens. 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 and the locals ran for cover our correspondent to go to some of it is 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 you go order brought us this report from the area that the fragile truce initially came into effect. the city of step on the kurds is

a sorry sight i can't 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 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 with since midday no truce has been observed the war continues there is absolutely no change we are slipping ever cease fire is temporary for 2 or 3 years it will be calm 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 cease fire looks were suspicious stores the director of britain's a crisis research institute told us he thinks neither side will be able to make real progress without broad public support. you know about an interest in both sides not just the treatment so dysfunctional that some it's public opinion and for instance we must be afraid that was

a risk that already in book the 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 for public opinion to new that will particularly only as interest on 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 for christians to exchange and those felt the tools to actually find a way americans and bring even to them a term ceasefire and he competes with i think russia is the key player because it enjoys a considerable degree of trust and a little contact with those of our german omonia and its 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 rushnell 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 have all seen dramatic 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 it to launch a problem entry challenge and nationwide public trust in the government is at a low ebb as are 2 shiny edwards dati explains. when considering the u.k. government's response. 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 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 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 would 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 virus confusion is still lingering in the guess 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. off to rule these all around precedented times far to go back to all that no prime minister has ever fought before a lot 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 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 how to round 6 months to prepare but when carrot has been replaced with confusion can the government really expect people to for the rules when it doesn't seem to know them itself shut the artsy learn. french president's plan to fight extremism by teaching arabic in schools was met with staunch resistance earlier this week as r.t. showed dubinsky reports now from paris. on the plans announced by president korn france is fighting back against separatism and a deviation away from the secular nature of the republic but the law which has yet to be fully drafted and released has been seen as an attack against islam not going speech did they kill to alleviate those concerns. the problem is islam ist separatism this conscious theorize political religious project which

materializes in repeated deviations from the values of the republic which often results in the constitution of a counter society and whose manifestations of the dropout of children the development of community based sports and cultural practices which are the pretext for teaching principles which do not comply with the laws of the republic french authorities fear that children and students learning arabic in mosques all being taught by religious associations could fall prey to indoctrination by ism midsts and in a bid to have more control the government plans to expand its availability in schools but not everyone is convinced that it's a good idea according to a new poll some 69 percent of respondents would not in favor so what do people here in paris make of the idea yes for me it is a good idea today people from around the world have

a right to speak their language and 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 that says much 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 that might be a good idea to learn arabic here. talian spanish english all these languages and we i think that's a really good idea and i think people do with these want to do if they're interested it's critics have also rounded on it the note saying it is being counter productive it's ridiculous it's the best way to boost the proliferation of quranic schools or denominational schools if we want to islam ice france this is the best way to get there the language of the republic is french institutionalizing learning

of the arabic language in schools is cowardice and a mistake but even if arabic classes or more widely 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 florence 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 in school what purpose i think there's a political message and i think that's where all the french are. going if we don't

want to be around the bush trying to integration if we want to help communities that are trying to go live together. and which is one of the best instruments which can be used to get people around here. of course we teach the other languages even the president is in favor of teaching the arabic language so i think we shouldn't mix the subjects and say and i've also heard people saying online that teaching arabic 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 a recent specific branch of muslims who naturally make the headlines but this is a branch that's not all muslims don't generalise. it's not take a swing around the globe to look at some stories that are making headlines this weekend and public anger is boiling over in israel over the new nationwide corona virus a lockdown tens of thousands rallied in cities across the country on saturday calling

on the prime minister benjamin not netanyahu to step down clashes broke out in tel aviv and several other people were injured as well. a security guard has been arrested in the u.s. city of denver over a fatal shooting a 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 the meantime over in belarus. police used a stun guns and water cannons against an opposition rally in the capital min's could dozens of people were reportedly detained including russian journalists covering the unrest it is the latest in a series of protests since august up did election which the opposition claims was rigged. still to come this hour the spanish government's move it to all but

seal off madrid to tackle a covert spike is struck down by the capital's highest court will tell you about that when the weekly returns this is art international. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sport i'm showbusiness i'll see that. the world is driven by dream shaped by.

the day or thinks. we dare to ask. welcome back to the weekly international on thursday madrid highest court rejected new lockdown measures imposed by the central government ruling they violate people's freedoms the lockdown order was issued after a surge in coded cases in the spanish capital but ponens say the decision was taken too quickly without consent and ignored the fundamental rights of millions of

locals. if you don't actually know who is the having one of the previous reports of justice 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 hasty nonconsensual and affecting the fundamental rights of millions of citizens that the courts have unanimously seen eye to eye with us on this and madrid residents told us how they feel about the government's lockdown plan for the capital i mean. 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. as me. 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 spanish political analyst 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 suffer. donald trump's a physician says the president is no longer contagious after recovering from cobra 19 and can resume campaigning across the country that said the 2nd presidential debate will not be going ahead it was canceled after trump refused to take part remotely the vice presidential candidate did it manage a t.v. face off this week but there was an unexpected star who stole the spotlight for all of about 2 minutes to take a look. at

. the v.p. debate was in stark contrast to the earlier trump biden showdown but kamel harris and mike pence mostly refrained from interruptions and predictably 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 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 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 the political issue that is the centerpiece of the debate 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 side 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 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 debates in the 1st place they don't create policy are 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 and 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 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 perhaps the different format where 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 neither one of the candidates really inspired a lot of confidence if we had to choose a winner i would have to say that had to be maybe pens only because it's his way to do the debate certain points i don't think that either debate changed any single voter's 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. a state of emergency has been declared in sudan after some of the worst of flooding there in years and for many it means life is proving even more of

a challenge and what was already one of the world's poorest nations. the water has destroyed all of our furniture and belongings they were all lost in the flood we were being evacuated from our homes to safer places several houses were in time it's truly we managed to save some furniture but the rest was taken with the water. some people are living now under a tree we don't have anything left for children to live on the 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 said to shelter ourselves and our families

until things get better. but that does it for me this hour be back with one more look at your week we had about 35 minutes this is our 2 international. it's sort of amazing country with so many friends in russia and i'm very excited to be here. i love that idea i think i can do that. different nice to make a lot of money with the same millions and hundreds of me.

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a member of the president's executive transition team past the barrel scores he says donald trump is the most pro black president ever to occupy the oval office having personally blessed him to cleveland to 1600 pennsylvania avenue and we find out why a trump supporting retired u.s. army major is now calling on americans to vote biden arris all the civil coming up in today's going on the ground 1st mainstream media airwaves have been full of speculation about us supremes court hearings in the senate amid brutal accusations that a lethal president trump. his infecting washington d.c. trump went on to say the coronavirus diagnosis was a blessing from god well joining me now is someone who has been advising the president on his relationship with god and has personally blessed him pastor darrell scott believes donald trump is the most pro black president ever to occupy the oval office and details his divine journey with the president in his new book nothing to lose unlikely allies in the struggle for a better black america joins me now from cleveland in ohio pasta thanks so much for

coming on it was a lot of people talking about the shadow presidential debate on thursday why do you think trump would want to do a virtual presidential debate with joe biden a month to the big plays right into joe by hands that there's so much room for malfeasance there's almost room for a lot of underhanded as it ended and i mean you don't know was going one of camera we don't know if he has a monitor set up in real time with someone typing responses there's just so much. in a virtual debate that you know you just lose room for a lot of. enery the lack of a better word when you think back want historic debates you're talking about john f. kennedy and richard nixon back of the night in 60 debate and it was the body language which basically won the debate for john f. kennedy not necessarily the words that came out of their mounted so there's a lot more to of debate than just ask and has.