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question is not just with business as usual it's possible with any business with the european union. just a few moments into a brand new day income. right here in moscow this thursday october the 15th welcome to r.t. international you know. we start in france where president. new rules to be applied to power us. major cities in response to cope 19 a nighttime curfew will be enforced from this coming weekend for a minimum of 4 weeks. if. we have made a decision to impose a curfew it will be in force in the paris region and 8 other french cities well this all came of course as it was declared that france was moving into a new state of health emergency something that had subsided back in the summer when the numbers of cases had gone down but that is now back president marc on took to

the stage to address the french public on wednesday night to talk about the new stricter measures that would come into place he said he didn't want to infant allies people to treat people like children but he said that people must follow the rules and if they didn't follow the rules or respect those rules and they could be even new stricter restrictions coming into force in the next few weeks but what he has announced is this nightly curfew that will start on saturday and that will operate from 9 pm in the evening until 6 am in the morning and that will be across paris the greater parisian region and also 8 other cities the worst affected cities by 19 now president machen said that this will have to be strictly regulated if you are out past 9 pm and you don't have a good reason i.e. you're not leaving your work to go home or you don't have an artist on which is

like a paper to say that you can be out on the streets you will be fined the 1st time a $135.00 euros repeat offenders will face $1500.00 euros in terms of fines and we understand that this will be in place for at least 4 weeks but the government is going to look to extend that up until december 1st so that will be for 6 weeks but that could if you will be in place to give you an example the number of cases almost 23000 new cases registered in the last 24 hours with more than a 104 deaths also registered now president michel also talked about. the things that needed to be taken into consideration he said that we needed to reduce private gatherings in france have less social contact with people and the rule of 6 that's been in place in restaurants he said now had to be in place in private settings too and while he said it was still ok to visit your family and to travel around france

he said even with your family members and your friends if you can't be more than a metre away from them you must still where unmask well there has been reaction thick and fast to those announcement by president mack on. 60 percent of infections have been the work schools or universities between 8 and 7 pm but micron is banning people from going out to bars restaurants between 8 pm and 6 am welcome to absurdity there must be great disappointment among medics tonight who have heard no announcements of extra personnel material support well on medics president mack on did address the crisis in the hospitals he mentioned the fact that the number of covert patients in the i.c.u. unit intensive care units is now higher than it was back in march at the start of the 1st wave of the kopechne 1000 demick here in france and he said that they were in a worrying state as

a result of that he said these measures were being taken to reduce the number of people who are testing positive for covert 900 from the 20 odd 1000 that we've seen in the last 24 hours down to just a few 1000 which he said would be manageable by hospital staff but the reality is that these measures in place there are strict he said we will have to live with the virus until at least the summer of 2021 and there will be many people night having listening to that speech of president back on worrying about the future of their businesses that cookie coming into place on saturday in paris and in 8 other cities across the country it will last from 9 pm every night until 6 am every morning and it will be strictly enforced sure devinsky took us through god when we spoke with the health director for red cross international who is tougher restrictions now log on avoidable there are many nations. the stuff for mention measures are welcome and

now we as the red cross today called out for political leaders to intervene in our speedy courageous and inclusive way to ensure that these measures are put in place to protect the dea the health and the social nomic status of of the people of france and in many other countries even europe or many countries are being taken little bit by surprise by the iraq surge all cases and so the are many countries are reacting within the deposits 48 hours with new measure that being put in place what ease needed to moment to ease. measures that can reduce the deferred a transmission but measures that can also bring people along and this is critical you know order to ensure that those measures are actually effect keeping. a 2nd experimental russian vaccine against crolla virus has officially being registered

at the corona successfully passed phase 2 clinical trials earlier we discussed what's ahead after president putin made the announcement on wednesday. the vent to research center in the disappears is registered. the 2nd russian vaccine against corona virus the epi bot corona vaccine was developed by siberia based state a research center among the largest in russia it was founded more than 45 years ago that in the soviet times phase one and phase 2 of its clinical trials are now behind and we heard it was a success meaning the drug is safe now face 3 is coming and it is a study in whether the vaccine is in fact effective we hear that around 40000 volunteers are expected to take part and for that purpose 60000 doses of the drug will be produced and we hear from russia's vice premier that it will happen very

very soon interesting to mention is that normally all 3 stages so phases of the human a clinical trials should be completed before registration but the world has been living in quite an emergency mode in the last 8 or so months so procedures have been slightly changed slightly adjusted so this is world's 2nd registered vaccine against call they'd 19 the 1st one was also registered in russia back in august it is known as sputnik all satellite feed it is and then the virus back to viral vaccine and we now hear from its developers that by november russia will be able to produce up to 6000000 doses of vaccine maining 8 to may take up to 12 months to vaccinate around 80 percent of the country's population and as we hear from russia's president vladimir putin the russian citizens house is among the country's key priorities but. first we need to make these vaccines available on the

russian markets they must be supplied to russian pharmacies on as large a scale as possible we continue to cooperate with our foreign partners and we will promote a vaccine abroad as well taken. international cooperation and foreign partners we know that 50 countries are already interested in russia's sputnik of the vaccine against kawiti we heard that from the head of russia's investment fund who just earlier this week came back from the united arab emirates where phase 3 of the clinical trials of sputnik was approved billeted to sputnik. you know gold piece 3 was mean in the issue of participate to is definitely very important we believe you we use a strategic cob for concurring the bios not only of the middle east in the world now marie i know that you've been vaccinated yourself. be the 1st russian vaccine can you tell us more about your experience with it is

a double blind trial meaning placebo is used and neither doctor is know the participants know who is getting the wharton only 75 percent of the volunteer is actually jabbed with a real short and till the last moment i was hoping that i'm among them i got 2 injections already on the 1st and 21st day of the trial so i got reactions like fever muscle pain and had a off to both injections actually now i just now received results showing that my body right now has i.g.g. antibodies meaning my body reacted to. 1000 to corona virus as if i was infected vaccine apparently i got the vaccine. job so i'm very happy with that. ses it's no longer business as usual when it comes to the e.u. while threats and accusations continue to rule out from brussels russia's top diplomat sergio of rauf was speaking to russian media executives including artie's

editor in chief margarita simonyan also on the agenda it was turkey's involvement in the car of conflict or has the big talking point. we had a very lengthy and really comprehensive conversation between foreign minister sergey lavrov and editors in chief of a number of media organizations that was so much to unpack that such an array of topics but one that was given considerable attention was russia's increasingly difficult relationship with the european union now love prof notes that of course the 2 have mutual interests especially economic ones let's think of course just off the north stream to a gas pipeline but that all of this was made very difficult by what the fire of foreign minister described as a condescending attitude from the blog and this constant to mons being put on moscow this is what he said about the impact of thought after that there was no go through approvals. the question is not just where the business as usual is possible

but where the any business with the european union is possible a tool the e.u. behaves arrogantly towards us and looks condescendingly down at russia demanding answers from us for all the crimes it imagines we have committed i think we are under no obligation to respond to that. also add to that a versa for you but minority within the european union was only father undermining the relationship now of course this all comes against the backdrop of wosm diplomatic ties between moscow and brussels as a result of the alleged poisoning of russian opposition figure alexina found me now one of the significant part of what lavrov said talked about double standards and he said that often the puts much more pressure on moscow than it would on itself and he said especially when it comes to the idea of interference in foreign affairs as this is something that people few very subjectively but i wouldn't go to. in 2017 during the election in france marine le pen's

a legitimate politician came to moscow to meet with president putin then french foreign minister publicly claimed that this was an attempt at foreign interference in the electoral process in france. now look at who macro holding meetings with smith learned to cannot. no one pays any attention to the fact that this could also be considered as foreign interference in russian affairs for such a lot for laid out his few on what the end goal was from these verbal assaults from unfair competition for calls for sanctions and for causing tellme oil russia's borders. the west will always try to hold us back to undermine our political and economic capacities this is all part of the same old game they want to throw russia of violence not just with direct assaults like dirty competition and illegitimate sanctions but also going creating instability on our borders. now one out of russia's key relationships on the international stage that was touched was of

course with washington and quite frankly he said with less than a month to go to the election whoever wins in november whether it's trump or biden probably very little would change he reiterated that all moscow has ever wanted was good cooperation but i'm an equal footing and that sometimes washington's foreign policy made that very difficult other topics such as the protests and bad or worse or indeed a peaceful resolution to the conflict in the board i care about we're also discussed quite extensively but certainly the lion's share from today's conversation was dedicated to the current status of russia's relationship with key international players and the future of it the message today seemed very uncompromising things cannot continue as they are business cannot go on as usual whether that serves as a trigger for more compromise or want to stand who have to be seen. so i ask you to are taking us through that what we also heard from politicians journalists who agree but in you still needs to maintain relations with moscow despite any harsh

language coming from brussels h q. i think it will last for some time and then of course the dialogue will continue to measure the most important issue that germany and europe could take would be to stop the. pipeline between russia and germany north stream too but of course the german star want to do that because that would get them and do it up very badly we need russian gas and so they don't put them on the sanction list so the sanctions are not really sanctions it's you know wagging the finger it's really not up to standard where europe should be as an international power and talking with russia which is another you know power and the world we have a new wave of russia. as well and chinese propaganda coming from the u.s.

there is no net n.g.'s of a politically trained politicians and of a population that is uninformed of russia that it's very easy to make such a i don't tell russian company russia is very smart in using soft power so we don't have enough pro russian engineers they don't have that. european russian cultural exchange. it would be very helpful if russia could try to be a little bit have a little bit more p.r. that makes it also. and easier for us. to push the other site. still ahead donald trump claims his recovery from coburg 19 means in unity but a new study suggests otherwise the details are not on board this ice under the.

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18 minutes into the program welcome leaders of russia and turkey have agreed on the vital importance of polling the ceasefire between armenia and azerbaijan and a phone conversation with president putin also raised concerns over the role of militants from the middle east being brought into the car of conflict. a fragile cease fire was brokered but has been repeatedly violated. blaming each other the fighting in more than 2 weeks ago but has roots going back 3 decades. but it by ethnic armenians but legally part of azerbaijan correspondent for ports

from its capital. 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 and as a by johnny airstrike basically there's a huge apartment building here which is no more there are no windows it has partially collapsed it 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 step on it the capital of nagorno-karabakh has it more or less easy been bodman do still happen but they are move rather 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 martone and shushi 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 adroit 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 the. seems

both and john 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. reporting from the back. the carnage belgian cellist performed. in. was shelled one week ago the musician who played a piece by an armenian composer he told us what inspired that performance. i played a concert exactly one year ago in. church and it was very hard breaking to see such a peaceful church can be. historical. buildings or he

can just be bombed for nothing and force my way off my prayer. as a musician the only thing i can do and if every one in the ward the ward will be a peaceful place. choose their claim territories for being shelled by armenian forces both nations they live violating the cease fire these images are from the city of turkey which according to back who has been shelled several times in recent days as a result people have taken shelter in their basements here's what some of them had to say. there are many insertion constantly they're showing us now with different weapons with missiles bombs tanks rocket launchers they use it all if it had been one week ago a shell struck and abstainers neighbor's home was completely destroyed it was impossible to take anything from the building our home was also severely damaged

dools windows even the walls everything is ruined militant we cannot sleep at night when they stop shelling for an hour or so we can close our eyes now then we get woken up again it's the same thing over and over. the 1st known case of covert 19 reinfection has been confirmed in the us according to a study published by an internationally recognized medical journal the patient's symptoms were far more severe the 2nd time around a 25 year old man from the father who has no recorded immune disorder 1st tested positive an april he later recovered to negative test but in june develop severe symptoms and again tested positive it's the 5th proven case of reinfection registered worldwide in the netherlands the 1st death after reinfection was confirmed on choose the mark dorie the lead or 3 of the us study says people should not assume they're safe after recovering from cold but. scientific data that we

have from this case and other cases would indicate that if somebody has had hoped at 19 we just don't know whether that person can be reinfected 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 it could be that our immune system gives us a resistance that makes the 2nd case of a lesser been asymptomatic in action despite the confirmed cases of reinfection some people do assume they're immune having caught and recovered from the disease donald trump seemingly among them the us president battle covert earlier this month and he said he's even ready to get up close and personal with his supporters now they say i'm a mutant i can feel i feel so powerful it was i was just so everyone. was just the guys in the utils women and

everybody just give you a big fact is. a controversial in new york times project which label slavery is the most significant aspect of american history that sparked a raw between the paper's own writers one columnist wrote down the 1619 project had failed and then he called this response from the paper's union of employee it says a lot about an organization when it breaks its own rules and goes after one of its own the act like the article reeks. the tweet since being taken down the project was developed by new york times magazine with a series of pieces published last year 1619 was when the 1st slave ship arrived in the colony of virginia and then the writers argue that date should be considered the birth year for the united states rather than 776 the year independence was the

clear the research gained plenty of publisher the creator wanted a surprise but last week new york times columnist bret stephens wrote an opinion piece questioning the 69000 project he praised the quality of the research but said it's not the job of reporters to reframe history journalists are most often in the business of writing the 1st rough draft of history not trying to have the last word on it we have best when we try to tell truth with a lowercase t. following evidence in directions unseen not the capital t. truth of a pre-established narrative in which inconvenient facts get discarded as fresh concerns make clear on these points and for all of its virtues buzz spin offs and a pulitzer prize the 161000 project has failed. or we spoke to a legal and media last line or are both the infighting in the new york times over the project he thinks it demonstrates

a left wing intolerance of the something that. well it amazes me that somebody who represents or than organization of journalists would basically have a problem with somebody expressing an idea or performing journalism it just goes to show you that this comes down to one very simple fact there are some things that are allowed to be said within let's say the alter left journalist platforms and things that you can't say if you say anything that challenges you to the new york times or particular ideologies a spouted by the time or even that you dare say something that goes against the grain you're cut down immediately. let me make it even more simple there is no journalism anymore.

and finally this news hour a russian for a coveted international award with a once in a lifetime image of an endangered siberian tiger surrogate work is titled the embrace it shows a tigress scent marking an ancient fir tree in russia's far east it took a left and months of trial and error to finally capture the close up of the big cats using motion sensors the british natural history museum chose the $49.00 followers and entries with korsakoff claiming the wildlife photographer of the words a little bit more about these big cats or little ones as it is the tiger was pushed to the brink of extinction a little while ago a few decades ago and poaching deforestation with the population falling to just a few dozen it's recovered somewhat in recent years with the help of strict conservation laws but the species is still glass 1000 injured there and around 500

siberian tigers living in the wild in parts of eastern russia. beautiful things are they i mean only in moscow dollars are a lot for naught but more great programs get going and moments after we take a look at what else is showing in our team this week. when almost seems wrong. we're all just don't. get to see. this day after. and in detroit equals bitch. rail. when some find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground.

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