the viability of the ceasefire between armenia and azerbaijan looks great down some of the claims of repeated violations by both sides reports from the devastated capital of the disputed nagorno-karabakh region. before the wall street used to be bustling with life neighbors would come visit each other mothers would read bedtime stories to their children well now it's almost completely abandoned. as a. territories outside the main conflict something nice we hear from. taking shelter in the basement. shelling constantly they're shelling us now with different weapons. one week. and

my upstairs. and another news the world health organization is the director urges countries not to pursue herd immunity in the approach dangerous and unethical. how do we get. through. and through through naturally infection and what's going to be what's going to cause least harm to our societies overall the lockdowns happening or not if it's a good thing or not and now about issues of herd immunity and so it's coming down to who is communicating the right message. governments and big pharma are all vying to get out the 1st covert vaccine but it appears people's health is not their main priority.

hi there thanks for joining us this morning on r.t. international. the ceasefire agree between armenia and azerbaijan back on saturday is reportedly being repeatedly violated with combat activity occurring over the disputed enclave of not going to care about the conflict flared up over 2 weeks ago but has roots going back 3 decades with on and off balance of fighting a contested region is mostly inhabited by ethnic armenians but is legally part of azerbaijan the details capital his own correspondent has done. before the war this street used to be bustling with life neighbors would come visit each other mothers would read bedtime stories to their children well now it's almost completely abandoned after an as they are by journey airstrike basically there's a huge apartment building here which is no more there are no windows it has partially collapsed it's simply unsafe to live here here people as they ran to

safety they abandoned their belongings like children's bicycles they simply had no time to pack everything and i have to admit that since the truce the city of stop on to the capital of nagorno-karabakh has it more or less easy been bodman to do still happen but they are moved rare than they used to be and they are almost entirely almost completely limited to nighttime it's more or less the same in other towns of nagorno-karabakh like the towns of martini and shu she in fact thing is similar pictures similar very very similar devastation can also be seen from azerbaijan its 2nd largest city of ganja came under shelling just a couple of days ago.

and it would be wrong to say that the fighting has ceased elsewhere too as we're filming this there's a faint but a very distinctive sound of shelling coming from over the mountains to the south from here that is where the town of is which is viewed as a gateway into nagorno-karabakh so it is a very heavily contested area the fighting is also fierce in the north it seems both amenia and azerbaijan are trying to get a firm grip on some key strategic places and heights before real peace negotiations begin as both militaries are fighting for diplomatic leverage and i guess don of reporting from the garden cab back. well a belgian cellist turns performed at a heavily damaged cathedral in the on the cover by the musician as armenian roots

son played a piece by i don't mean in composer the cathedral in the city of shelter a week ago. the regions were being shelled by armenian forces both nations deny violating the cease fire agreement the video you are seeing right now is from these areas city of which according to baku has been shelled several times since the conflict escalated as a result people have taken shelter in the basements as well some of them had to say . they are means for shelling constantly they're shelling us now with different weapons with missiles bombs tanks rocket launchers the user. if it hit one week

ago i shall file and my upstairs need was hung it was completely burned down it was impossible to take anything from the house our house is also seriously damaged doris' windows even the walls everything became useless in general we cannot sleep when they stop shelling for one hour an hour and a half we can close our eyes and map then you sleep and wake up and you sleep and you wake up roll over and over again. the director of the world health organization has urged countries not to pursue a herd immunity strategy against corona virus he said deliberately allowing the virus to spread among populations is dangerous and unethical to be immunities i by protecting people from a virus not by exposing them to it. never in the history of public called has heard immunity been used as a strategy for responding to an outbreak

a little more than a pandemic it's scientifically and ethically problematic. some scientists have argued that covert 19 should be allowed to circulate freely to allow populations to build up a natural resistance to the virus the idea gain some traction early on in the pandemic sweden defacto pursuit herd community while the u.k. initially considered it an option there my colleague you know neil discussed the issue with a panel of experts. to herd immunity is it really such a bad idea i think it is really a bad idea one of the primary reason is that we don't really know a lot about this why this immunity against 4 lives is not long lasting the next what we can expect is that on the year so this means that we have to go through this process so going public will be very costly and probably an optical that gets the basic idea that we that we hoping to achieve some level of immunity within the population indeed herd level of immunity it's just how do we get do we get the

through a bank or do we get the true through natural infection and what's going to be what's going to cause least harm to up to our societies overall the w.h.o. it hasn't been perhaps as clear as it could have been particularly this week it also said that luck darren's are bad are they contradicting themselves how do you see this this advice a lot of the information that's coming from governments and from world health organizations and agencies are are really confusing for most people if a lockdown is happening or not if it's a good thing or not and now about issues of herd immunity and so it's coming down to who is communicating the right message and what is the role of the individual trying to protect their family do they think that it's a good idea if somebody gets chicken pox or they don't have it later in life do they get caught that now and that's a really dangerous position to be putting individuals that increasingly people are

looking at the example of sweden stockholm hasn't officially adopted a herd immunity strategy but that has been the result essentially in practice another dealing. death rail it's almost 0 how they got it right through one way or another well it includes people the claiming that there's no restrictions or back to level of lockdown that other countries have adopted but the have had all those controlling years that are to quietly mind this action on the number of people gathered there were pictures wear and tear of people in restaurants and cafes when essentially the rest of europe wasn't doing that they where in sweden oh yeah absolutely i think sweden is certainly a valuable computer stages off the front of me i think it is not your call to move forward because we don't really know what's going to happen tomorrow in the swedish sports factor so although certainly the swedish perspective is a very good very able to compare between but i think it is too early to call that they have. adopted right approach as the w.h.o.

has pointed out lockdowns are incredibly damaging each other ways and we and want government to keep growing with these balancing the damage from lockdowns with with the damage from not looking down and they can't win whichever decision they make their own their price is to be paid and it's extremely difficult to know which course of action is the right $1.00 and will probably only know in retrospect the government's count to everything if people i suppose are aware of the risk should they be allowed to go wired to expose themselves to potential infection and take their chances and perhaps get that immunity level off well the real issue is this is the inequality lockdowns are showing at the choices that people have to make you know a person who has to put food on the table leg like all of us. may have to leave the house to do that so we have to be concerned about not just emotional wellbeing but the economic well being of the educational wellbeing and so those are the risks people are are also balancing out. while herd immunity remains

a controversial strategy in the fight against corona virus there is a scientific consensus a vaccine will be a huge benefit national governments and big pharma are all vying with each other to make available the 1st but people's health appears mine to be their main motivation auntie's frog as the explains. things will never go back to the way they were too many people have died too many people have lost jobs and enterprises livelihoods the damage has been too great but we can still hope for some kind of normality the only way we will get completely back to normal is by having not maybe not the 1st generation of vaccines but eventually a vaccine that is super effective that is the best case scenario the virus goes away and we all live happily ever after for now though that supply pipe dream judge for yourself the 2nd wave is here record infection rates lockdowns and quarantines

coming back faster than we can report them new universally accepted treatment still no consensus on herd immunity versus social distancing people kaante even agree where the mosques work the strategy weld wide seems to be to cross our fingers and hope for the best promises and cab pain speeches and fiery rhetoric on killing to save lives or reopen businesses the world economy it's all about the vaccine the politicians all of them they dream of being the one that addresses the nation holding a little vile with the onset to our problems the panacea a president that saved the nation listen to them in the states the election isn't about making america better it's about returning life to what it was i want to discuss the historic progress we're making to deliver

a safe and effective vaccine in record time. and there's ever anything like a 7 year history it is never been in in history period world history if the doctors tell us that we should take it i'll be the 1st in line to take it absolutely but if donald trump tells us i think that we've taken i'm not taking trump is swamped big . fama in money $10000000000.00 and counting the potential returns a astronomical fame of course reelection for them ugh told riches imagine they come up with a vaccine that you have to get revaccinated with every year billions of people no wonder there are so many candidates for doesn't that scenes in human trials globally 100 more in the works this isn't so much a race as a good that the son says soup complex you can't predict what will work and what won't until you've tried a new matter how smart thorough or diligent you are luck might just sink you we

have temporarily pulled for the sing in 1000 vaccine cancer to clinical trials including the phase 3 ensemble trial due to an unexplained illness in a study participant you understand now the stakes year elections go to me it's unimaginable fortunes to be made and millions of lives to be saved but how also masses trump doesn't win from a chinese developed vaccine the american or european pharmaceuticals they will make billions if it's russia's vaccine that works better so you do what humanity has done since time immemorial you spike the competition you trip them you malign them and you libel them this is much like the cold war space race but it's a vaccine race in fact russia is calling this that seen sputnik 5 but be skeptical clinical trials were short they were accelerated the speed of his developments is

being questions proving its effectiveness has not been presented a bag seen that has not been trying to a vaccine that has not been tested outside of russia america's top researchers say russia's cutting corners to develop its corona virus vaccine u.s. regulators are insistent that we know coolness cut when it comes to. testing and for many t.j. that is the key difference between what america is doing and what the russians have just announced will need to be very practical in scope just ran through both trying to penetrate each as we've seen as black it's very unhealthy it's going on as a go and very unproductive we all remember when the pandemic began you have p. and nations snatching supplies mosques and ventilators from each other the u.s. trying to poach scientists and buyouts vaccine developers among european allies in desperate times it's each to themselves and with the stakes these high no one wants to share the glory or the money more i guess dia of istanbul.

well this is the 2nd time around that is the experience of the 1st u.s. patient confirmed to be infected with 19 we'll explain all after the break.

as the election approaches we feel it's necessary to ask a very simple though implore the question why do most potential voters describe themselves as independent or not affiliated with the political party on top of this whole after poll revealed voters want more choices institute party system limiting . welcome back now there's been a 1st case in the united states of coded reinfection according to a study published by the lancet medical journal the patient's symptoms were far more severe the 2nd time around than 25 year old man from the wagner who has no

recorded immune disorder tested positive the 1st time around it april he later recovered with 2 negative tests but in june developed severe symptoms and again tested positive it is the 5th such case of reinfection has been registered worldwide and the 2nd case where the symptoms got worse mark pandora director of nevada state public health laboratory the lead author of the study says that this shows that surviving coronavirus once doesn't make you immune scientific data that we have from this case and other cases would indicate that if somebody has had voted no chain we just don't know whether that person can be reinspected again it's possible that they could be reinfected again but it's also possible that some people are immune in fact it could be that the vast majority of people are immune and it could be something else that could be in our immune system gives us a resistance that makes the 2nd case a lesser but asymptomatic action. well despite the confirmed cases of reinfection

some people seem to think that they are immune among them donald trump who's now recovered after catching kobita earlier in the month u.s. president has even since been seen throwing his mask into a crowd of supporters. i went through it now they say i'm i'm you know i can feel i feel so powerful was in iraq just everyone i just think guys in the uniformed women and everybody just give you a big factors. maupin dorie lead author of the study again says the vaccination is the key to immunity. our only real hope of achieving

a herd immunity. that backs and all of g. and this finding does not speak to that scene mediated of people that have been infected can't make the assumption that there are a mere because they're now in several cases that show that it isn't true because you can be really infected you really have to be treated as if you were never injected and that's not only to protect you but to protect others. russia's foreign minister urged the european nations to dial down the rhetoric against moscow so i get a lever of or speaking a day after e.u. diplomats called for sanctions against russian officials over the alleged poisoning of opposition activists the lexan of army. if people who are in charge of foreign policy in the going to do not understand the need. perhaps you will have to say but . it seems to be very serious now the alleged poisoning of alexander valley probably russia's most popular position figure continues deepening tensions between

the russia and its european partners earlier on tuesday foreign minister sergei lavrov had a more than an hour conversation with the use high representative mr burrell explaining to him russia's official position on the incident and this is when he was officially informed about the sanctions ironically later we heard mr burrell saying that the u.s. interested in good normal relations with russia well good relations and sanctions it doesn't really come together very well and now we hear mr lover of make it up slowly clear that is considering cutting off its official relations with the e.u. you to what russia sees as the union's unacceptable behavior and arrogant attitude and also missed a lot of continuous urgent europe of sticking with the international will not get into details but there are plenty of ways in which the european union is paid completely inappropriate in the new family case all this comes after the

european union unanimously supported germany and france this plan to impose individual sanctions against russians supposedly being involved in their alleged poison in a legacy in a valley with a nerve agent we do not know the details yet it is unclear what kind of restrictions we are talking about but reportedly it will target 9 citizens of russia and it will again reportedly include traditional travel ban and freeze of assets this is what germany's foreign minister had to say we have initiated sanctions against individuals whom we believe to be partly responsible for this violation of international law it is important that the e.u. shows unity as. serious crime to do all the stars of the longest 20th when alexander vialli fell terribly ill while on a plane back to moscow jad had to make an emergency landing in the russian siberian city of all the valley was immediately hospitalized in and the response of

condition so he was in a very very difficult situation his family and his supporters immediately started talking about poisoning but the russian medics repeatedly reported that no toxic materials were found in mist in a vial is blood or urine samples but 2 days later he was transported to germany almost immediately after that we started hearing from berlin 1st and then from france in sweden that mr volley was poisoned with a substance from the nabi chocolate family and later the o.p.c. w. also confirmed it just saying that that particular service and blow belonging to the not rich family is not banned and now we have sanctions. berlin has again changed its mind on the fate of a statue dedicated to korean women who were victims of japan's sexual and slogan during world war 2 earlier local authorities are rude to remove the installation of

the tokyo expressed outrage only peter all of a walk through the controversy. the lane is a city that does particularly well when it comes to acknowledging the horrors that originated here during world war 2 the statue depicting a young girl was only unveiled in september it had been set to stay here for one year but from the beginning there was huge pushback from the japanese government it is inappropriate to have such a statue in a city like berlin which was born out of the divide between east and west which is a diverse population the piece that you had been discussed before was approved and was seen as a statement against sexual violence against women in war time however the peace sachi exclusively addresses the behavior of the japanese army during world war 2 this is caused irritation in japan at both the national and local level and also in berlin the japanese empire occupied the korean peninsula from 1910 until 9045 that period of colonial rule is still

a major thought it relations between japan south korea. and japan says this isn't the latest place to get involved on this issue but activists say lynn is exactly the right location for this monument to keep alive the memory of what happened. and is not only about the violence inflicted by japan but in general about the sexual violence and war which also happens today. the dish that the statue is very important for all of us and it should stay there for peace and for all women worldwide who have been victims of he

wasn't sexually abused he fights for those women. to see that society. exploited it's a political problem as soon as a work of art appears in any way that the japanese government doesn't like so they try to get it removed even in countries they have attacked like south korea or the philippines officials in the berlin district where the statue is a right to it were placed in a diplomatic quandary by tokyo's insistence that it be removed the problem that they've made for themselves now though is by giving in to japan's demands they stand accused of forgetting history in order to keep the wall nation happy the troll of all t. berlin. appreciate it company this morning this is art international i'll be back with updates in half an hour.

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