in the shallows. frances is a nighttime curfew as of saturday it will affect paris to date other cities in the spike in new code cases the country's fight against the virus is expected to last until next summer. but if it in announces russia stepping up its efforts the battle over 19 with a 2nd vaccine now registered against the virus it's already undergone 2 months of clinical trials. 2 strikes obliterating everything in. the altar the benches and one of the domes have been completely destroyed our correspondent there reports from the battered region of nagorno-karabakh us or still it is between armenia and azerbaijan continued.

bombs are also falling in is very controlled territory despite the cease fire having been agreed just a few days ago. by the may day here in moscow thanks for joining us on art. we will begin this hour in france where president emmanuel micron has announced strict new rules to be applied to paris and other major cities in response to cope with 19 a nighttime curfew will be in for start of this coming weekend for a minimum of 4 weeks. and we have made a decision to impose a curfew it will be in force in the paris region and 8 other french cities and new nationwide state of health of urgency has been declared in france as president back on out new stricter measures to try and defeat 19 he's announced a curfew that will take place. not just here in paris but in 8 other of the worst

affected cities across france that will come into force on saturday and will be from 9 pm in the evening until 6 am in the morning and it will be strictly enforced with the 1st time that you are caught outside without a good reason with a fine of 135 euros but that will go up to 1500 euros for repeat offenders we understand those measures will be in place for at least 4 weeks but the government wants to try and push that to 6 weeks taking it to december 1st and he said president michel and this would be strictly enforced i.e. if your actual restaurant and you live half an hour away you will need to leave the restaurant by half 8 in the evening he also talked about reducing private gatherings saying that 6 was the magic number and he said if you will with friends and families at a private gathering and you couldn't be more than one metre away from each other you would still have to wear a mask well there was thick and furious reaction to those announcements by

president mack on. 60 percent of infections happen to 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 or present back and said this was about trying to bring down the number of coded 1000 infections that came as the latest figures showed there were almost 23000 new cases of the virus in the 24 hours to wednesday with 104 deaths in present back and said that the health care system was simply overloaded with stuff being exhausted and he said that the situation was more worrying now than it had been during march at the start of the 1st wave of the pandemic now these measures will also of course affect restaurants and he said that

they would be help for people who worked in those sorts of businesses with 90 percent of pay basic pay being covered by the state but you can imagine that many businesses who are already hard hit by kovac 1000 of probably worrying about what the future will hold for them now and present back and said that france would have to live with this virus until at least the summer of 2021 so not just a long winter ahead but possibly a long spring and a long summer for france as even stricter measures could be put in place if as president machen said people do not respect the rules and those numbers of covert 9000 infections are not brought down we spoke with the director for red cross international who support the tougher restrictions. the starter measures measures are welcome and now we as the red cross today called out for political

leaders to intervene at you now speedy courageous any inclusive way to ensure that these measures are put in place to protect that the health and the social economic 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 they are many countries are reacting within the departures 48 hours with new measure that being put in place what is needed are did more meant to ease. measures that can reduce the deferred trust mission but measures that can also bring people along at least equal you know order to ensure that those measures are actually effective. russia says it will stop taking part in consultations over the downing of malaysian airlines flight 17 the tragedy took

place over eastern ukraine in july 2 10146 years later the investigation is still ongoing trilateral discussions were being held between the netherlands australia and russia where the netherlands for the case blaming russia for m.h. 17 before the european court of human rights in july of this year this is a story we'll be following over the next few hours we'll keep you posted. elsewhere there's another weapon in the fight against covert a 2nd experimental russian vaccine against the virus has officially been registered the provoke corona vaccine has been developed by the siberia based vector state research center russia's president vladimir putin made this announcement on wednesday lucy just using. the vent to research center in the c.b.s. is registered a.p. vancouver on the 2nd russian vaccine against corona virus. well corona works like a composite sketch of a criminal suspect it contains antigens molecules that train the immune system to

recognize the virus being synthesized artificially and so shouldn't pose much danger then when it comes to confronting the real virus the immune system should be ready the vaccine is expected to provide long term immunity to go over 90 with more here's me financially. phase $1.00 and $2.00 of its clinical trials and i'll be behind and here it was a success now phase 3 is coming and it is a study on 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 this is russian 2nd registered vaccine the 1st was registered back in august it is known as sputnik all satellite and we now hear from its developers that by november russia will be able to produce up to 6000000 doses of basic see a meaning aid 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 as we continue to cooperate with our foreign partners and we will promote a vaccine approved as well 50 countries are already interested in russia sputnik the vaccine against call that we hear that from the head of russia's investment fund who just this week returned from the united arab emirates where phase 3 of the clinical trials of sputnik was approved billeted to sputnik. you know war 33 was meaning the issue of participating is definitely very important we believe you we use a strategic hub for by concurrent not only of the middle east in the world now marie i know that you've been vaccinated yourself but degree the 1st russian

vaccine can you tell us more about your experience with one of 40000 volunteers taking part in phase 3 of the clinical trials of sputnik here in russia i got 2 injections already until the last moment i didn't know what did i. because it is what is known as double blind trial meaning placebo is used and only 75 percent of the volunteer is expected to get with a real shot i was hoping of course that i was among them and plus there were some sides side effects in both cases of both injections like had a fever or muscle pain but till wednesday morning i was not sure and then i got blood test and the results showed that i had i.g.g. antibodies meaning it was the vaccine that i was injected with and it worked it tricked my body making it believe it was infected while in fact it wasn't a question is for how long my antibodies will stay and i'm happy anyway.

hostilities continue between armenia and azerbaijan over the disputed region of the good that despite the greed ceasefire on these issues donna reports from a cathedral that was hit last week and met some civilians caught in the crossfire. the war in the going to care about has not just about trivial territorial gains it's a long lasting religious this 19th century ollie savey a cathedral was a place where soldiers and volunteers alike used to come and pray before heading into battle that made it a target but it wasn't just soldiers who would come to this church the as area military was battering the town of shushi at that time so i learned and her family decided to hide from the bombs in the cathedral script one place they thought that was safe from the shelling but they were wrong god does not have to now there were 7 of us including when the shell hit the cathedral it was deafening there was

destruction everywhere masonry fell from the searing that's all i can remember 2 strikes have literally sing everything in their path the altar the benches and one of the domes have been completely destroyed no place is sacred no place is safe in this war not only was this church hit twice but the 2nd strike injured 3 russian journalists one of them is still in intensive care after spending several days in a coma he believes the hit on them was intentional the streets of shushi bear a striking resemblance to those in other towns of nagorno karabakh it's a place of desolation and despair those who can fight are already on the front lines those who had somewhere to run already have done but alone or doesn't have any choice but to stay have a story in mind we have to fit in this small shelter with a kitchen and bathroom in the same place we are too scared to go with doors when we

hear the sound of the sirens we are rushing here to hide every even in the reason we can hear the shelling people seem to be unfazed by the story state of the cathedral there's plenty of candles still burning within the half destroyed walls of the church people pray here for peace to return. on to this land sooner rather than later because diana reporting from nagorno-karabakh artsy. azerbaijan's president ilham aliyev has called it on the damage to that historic church he says that the incident needs to be investigated and that if it was done by his forces it was unintentional i mean is also accusing azerbaijan of shelling a hospital in the disputed region on wednesday and attack back it denies 31st broke out medical staff in different countries rushed to the region r.t. spoke with some russian doctors who are currently in the conflict zone. but then you pressed addition it's no easy decision for any doctor to leave behind

a content life and go to war with us here of course it's not hand to hand combat but the threat is there every 2nd i just followed my heart i went through the 1st war as a student observe military medicine i gained experience and admired the doctors who saved lives i think it was imprinted on my mind having a broad experience in emergency medicine i didn't want to sit idle with you i wanted to share my experience my knowledge and save any life possible goes over but the good will is going to at 1st sight these are minor injuries small scratches in fact x. rays show us splintered bones and torn muscles all this suggests that the weaponry has changed a lot there are very few cases of gunshot wounds here basically these are injuries from explosive mines close to rockets and so on they are high energy explosives which leave in comparable damage where you. are in my colleagues and i have been here since day one of the war and honestly we work 247 at the hospital i can't

understand the enthusiasm of some to continue this war even if people don't die but there are still those seriously injured and adequate response is needed here to ensure a way to end of last year. when huge conflict broke out over 2. weeks ago put has roots that go back 3 decades with on and off balance of fighting the contested regions mostly inhabited by ethnic armenians but is legally part of azerbaijan is our government reported again on thursday morning its territory being under fire. that was the sound of a shell hitting the azerbaijani town of according to this area government the town came under bombardment on wednesday but both nations denied violating the cease fire since the eruption of fighting many people have fled their homes a few though have chosen to stay. there have been countless attacks this morning they showed our soldiers here luckily they survived every evening we sit here and

watch the shooting 1st coming from the armenian side and then from our side it hit these areas and then it fell on the roofs of our houses there is no fear our soldiers are fighting over there yet more should i be scared here we should not be scared of. rising unemployment and the climbing death toll that's what the u.k.'s labor party says will come from the prime minister's coronavirus explode all after the break.

high and low poker that's the low and the high hand. so we've got a situation in the global economy right now where in the currency markets various countries are trying to win with the worst possible. let's see how this works out. back to the united kingdom to the new daily record of coronavirus cases on

wednesdays it's 19000 and pays meanwhile seem unhappy with boris johnson's latest strategy for much ink over 90. if coronavirus has taught us and the u.k.'s prime minister one thing it's that it's wise not to joke about it during an impromptu meeting of conservative m.p.'s boris johnson reportedly quit the ruin of 6 social distancing policy would mean families could escape celebrating christmas with their in-laws one of several attempted gags which apparently fell very flat but while some tories rage that government decisions are bankrupting the nation the opposition are worried that those policies are costing the country lives and labor leader. a partial return to lock down the government's plan simply isn't working or not of course is needed. that's why i'm calling for a 2 to 3 week circuit breaker in england a circuit breaker is

a short period of strict social restrictions aimed at bringing the virus under control this comes after it was revealed the government's scientific advisors urged m.p.'s to impose a fortnight long long down as far back as september the 21st instead johnson and as a 3 tier system of measures including a 10 pm pub curfew and advice to work from home we stood to curbs in the worst hit areas and he is ready to knock the country back down the whole point is to speak to seize this moment now to avoid the misery of another national lockdown it i don't want nothing of course in combating the bars but we are going to do with the local and the regional approach the policy as indicated by those tory m.p.'s concerns is driven by the vast economic burden of the pound make one think tanks predicted that almost 3000000 people will be unemployed by christmas after the chancellor's furlough scheme ends on october the search the 1st while more than 2000000 people

in england on the government's shielding list and considered vulnerable to coronavirus due to health issues will mostly be told to take precautions but not to stay at home to the anger of patients groups of people who for example are on it was because we're simply not at it so you know we're going to have some protections that is how financial protection you talked about that is in very high risk areas such as a little somewhere like that they are not going to work however there's no protection for this new financial support they may be able to get. only a deal is done locally so actually the choice between whether to go to work on public transport and of course needing to keep her job is very difficult once in a as the situation worsens within the country the government remains on the horns of the ultimate di lemma. how do they save lives without bankrupting the country

for boris johnson and everyone this is no laughing matter kate partridge r.t. london. more sanctions on russia are in the queue courtesy of brussels hughes agreed to bring in new penalties this thursday over the alleged poisoning of russian opposition figures aleck's enough article respondent peter all of it brings us the latest developments. elite is a gathering in brussels on thursday and friday for an e.u. council summit in which they'll be discussing the coronavirus the response from the block to a rise in infections also breaks it as well set for a high place on those talks that will be taking place but sanctions against russia will also be up for discussion on monday e.u. foreign ministers and mounts that sanctions would be put in place they agreed to those for the alleged poisoning of alexina valmy we still don't know what form

those sanctions will take exactly it's understood that they will be against 6 senior officials and one organization taking the form of asset freezes and travel bans those are the type of sanctions that the e.u. council can push through without any further approval in response the russian foreign minister sergei allowed for all threatened to suspend diplomatic relations between russia and the european union he also said that the sanctions could have an impact on the future of doing business with europe last there was no go through a pulls the question is not just whether business as usual is possible but whether any business with the european union is possible at all the e.u. behaves arrogantly towards and looks condescendingly down at russia demanding answers from us for all the crimes it imagines we have committed but i think we're under no obligation to respond to about the sanctions were proposed by france and germany in the document put forward berlin and paris say that they're looking to

target individuals responsible for the poisoning of mist in the family also a body involved in the chemical weapons program. to. come to michigan in the last years we have strived for a reasonable relationship with russia all also in the common interest of russia in mind and for cooperation in solving. international crises and at the same time we must notice the specific incidents charge the bilateral relations and we need to ensure that a violation of the chemical weapons treaty which is one of the most acceptable agreements of human rights doesn't remain without consequences and on that we have a consensus at the european level mine. russia denies the allegations that have been made against it moscow sent for official requests to berlin for germany to share the information the evidence that germany says it has of the poisoning of

alexei no felony russia needs that information they say in order to carry out an investigation the russian foreign minister has encouraged his european partners to observe well the set standard of international law if you will so you'll see your approach of an avanti case is totally unacceptable 5 b. you countries claim they have established the truth but when we request them to provide evidence of their conclusion it's that they say this is outrageous so let me be clear what we want is for the e.u. in germany to abide by international law there are the conventions on cooperation in criminal probe we appeal to those conventions asking germany to abide by the norms of international law and germany basically replies by saying you know what you have international law but we have our own rules and the rule is this if you don't believe you are guilty it was back in august that alexei in the family took ill on a flight from siberia to moscow he was brought here to berlin where he spent 2

weeks in an induced coma receiving treatment of a shot at a hospital he was discharged last week and is currently undergoing physiotherapy in other parts of recovery as an outpatient remaining in germany so far we will find out more about the sanctions we hope on thursday leaders the phone the e.u. council the gathering in brussels around lunchtime as soon as we get any news coming out. that meeting we're bringing to you here on r.t. . this feed our love to journalist and author thomas fassbender welcome thomas let's start with what's a rather surreal scenario you've got the e.u. set to impose sanctions but holding russia responsible for this alleged poisoning of aleck's in the vanni on the counter side you've got russia accusing the breaking international law and yet there hasn't even been any kind of investigation or trial at this point in those circumstances is it acceptable for you to impose sanctions well acceptable or not they do what they deem proper.

and the problem the background is that the e.u. or the west in general right now at the prevailing is not to believe whatever broke or whatever statement comes out of russia whatever trial. they have occupied on moral grounds to an extent that almost blinds them or the bieber's other part is the specter of points of use and that's the conflict is going to further escalate now if we say that there was a crime it would have to have occurred on russian territory. even the victim the election of suspects russian government but can't say for sure he knows who is responsible given all of that is is it ok for the e.u. to then start enforcing its own judgment on something that happened in another country. argument at least the argument of the centers and leftist politics in

general is that when met as of human rights here in particular chemical weapons are concerned that transcends. international borders and can no longer be treated under the. under the with the argument of noninterference into an unmet that is what what i said that the moral high ground the e.u. see themselves on the on the side of human rights on the side of the the right and the proper and also with the legitimate interests will interfere in whichever it is russia china. 'd any other country. russia's foreign minister has been speaking in last couple of days and he talked about the possibility of future business ties. with the e.u. coming into question so the effects are now coming from the russian side and is

economic would you say that relations are pretty low now at the moment. and getting lower capital of the interview the long interview with 70 lever of yesterday on. our moscow radio it was clear that mr lavrov with his rather moderate approach was getting under pressure we join the lists we interviewed him. he was arguing he used the not not very diplomatic word of arrogant as characterizing the treatment of russia by by us by the e.u. from what was suggested at the interview it was clear that we are on the road to escalation and that the sanctions will only lead to conversations countermeasures leading again to counter measures etc. thomas thanks so much for your time journalist author thomas fassbender my guest. now let's just quickly return to

breaking news story this hour russia says it will stop taking part in consultations over the downing of malaysian airlines flight 17 tragedy occurred over eastern ukraine in july 24th 6 years later the investigation still continues discussions were being held between the netherlands australia and russia but the netherlands brought a case blaming russia for me 17 before the european court of human rights in july of this year here's what russia's foreign ministers had to say on the decision to pull out the dutch move is considered yet another blow to russian dutch relations and the hague courts determination contrary to common sense is to continue on the wrong path of unilateral attribution of responsibility to russia for what happened in the sky above donbass such unfriendly acts by the netherlands make it senseless for us to continue to participate in the 3 way consultations responsibility for the breakdown of the consultations those lies entirely with the hague. i'm moving more

information on that developing story with our correspondents will be here next hour . so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race is on the spear in dramatic development the only. resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk.

well i'm max keiser this is the kaiser report have you ever played high and low poker that's when the low head and the high hand when so we've got a situation in the global economy right now where in the currency markets various countries are trying to win with the worst possible hand let's see how this works out they see her rights we have in the news we have a lot of gold we have a lot of big queen and of course in the past week we've seen the excel or of this central bank digital currency rolling across the world 1st i will powell says that the endless ongoing desire for each trading block to undertake more and more stimulus is why big quiet and gold will continue to outperform vs all currencies over time but only because it has outperformed the g 4 central bank balance sheet and he was referring to walter bloomberg tweet that said top official.