have you ever played high and low poker that's when the low here and the high hand with so we 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 to see how this works out . fears of a health care collapse hospital workers in france protest when dealing resources in the fight against cope with 19. it is a measure that can be beneficial to see what happens i think it is not enough the curfew is not the only problem we lack hospital beds and the 6 stuff cannot be magic out of a hat it is the responsibility of a minister and president. 6 years after the mh 17 plane tragedy russia steps away from talks with the netherlands and australia claiming neither wants to

establish the facts also ahead. 2 strikes obliterating everything in. the all to the benches and one of the domes have been completely destroyed a decades old conflict bursts back into life in the. first hand the damage of war between armenia and azerbaijan since hostilities resumed in late september. 5 am here in moscow and you're watching r t international i'm donald quarter and welcome to the program. starting in europe health workers in france say the country hasn't learned its lesson from the 1st wave of covert 19 there protesting a lack of hospital resources still needed to effectively fight the pandemic it comes after new curfews were announced in a number of big cities charlotte devinsky reports from paris. the protesters here

all forming what is a nationwide day of protest by health workers across fronts and they are protesting because they say they are simply exhausted exhausted by not just the 1st wave of the cave 19 pandemic but then having to catch a polar appointments during the summer i now they're facing this 2nd wave and they say that it is worse than ever they also say that the government has been treating them like fools they all few years saying that there are not enough staff in the hospitals and they're not being paid enough so the government did bump up pay for health workers by around $90.00 euros a month from september but the health would you say that just isn't enough to compensate them for the sheer volume of work that they do you know most of the danger they putting themselves in at the moment and they demanding a massive recruitment drive and a significant pay increase no only wednesday night president. of the health workers aust facing a situation this is what he had to say. our emergency rooms and

our hospitals are in a more worrying situation than in march because we don't have a reserve of beds which is why we have to take measures that are more strict. now in a bid to try and ease the pressure on the hospitals in the fact that there are sometimes more than 20000 people a day testing positive for 19 with a few 100 people a day go into hospitals present mccord announced that they would be a could in the worst hit areas of france that is no new regions across the country including here in paris is going to come into force on saturday and it will be activated from 9 pm every evening until 6 am in the morning those people who are not authorized to be outside will face fines 135 years for a 1st offense but that could go up to 1000. 500 euros for repeated

offenders the idea that they want to try and fight the virus to keep people in at night now i've been speaking some of the health workers here and they are not convinced that it could you is going to help them reduce the number of people who need hospital treatment because of the pandemic we also have it is a measure that can be beneficial but who see what happens i think it is not enough . the curfew is not the only problem we lack hospital bats yes code 900 something dramatic but that's not the only thing that affects the hospitals it is the destruction of public services and the destruction of hospitals as well the curfews not going to solve the problem. since the start of the career of ours crisis nothing was clearly done the number of hospital beds was not increased and it's not the folds of a lack of training nursing staff can't be magic out of the hat it is the responsibility of all ministers and president. well this comes on the same day

that the office is in the home of the current health minister and the current director of health as well as the former prime minister of france on the former health minister of france well all searched by the police this is part of an investigation that's taking place into whether they handled the crisis at the beginning of the $900.00 demick correctly or not there are allegations that they're facing that they didn't do their job they didn't protect people in france but the fact that they didn't give out face must in fact the advice during the 1st wave of the pandemic was only 12 facemask if you had 1000 or you suspected that you had it so they're saying that there was a problem but they are now facing charges that they. even voluntary homicide and in danger in the life if any of them all found guilty of that they could face up to is in jail and face a fine of 300000 euros at the protests. the nationwide protests taking place across

france today health workers once again out on the streets demanding more staff pay in the face of the flu pandemic. russia's quit talks with australia and the netherlands over the downing of malaysian airlines flight m.h. 17 the tragedy which claimed over almost 300 lives took place over eastern ukraine in 2014 a murder trial is currently under way involving 3 russians and ukrainian accused of involvement my colleagues maria phenomena and saw taylor discuss the details it is explained in the document the last straw for russia was the government of the netherlands filing a lawsuit against russia in the european court for human rights alleging mosca had played their role in the mh 17 passenger airplane crash back in 2014 and russia denies all the allegations accusing the now the lens of being interested in only putin all the blame on russia rather than finding the truth here is the

russia's foreign ministry 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 are entirely with the hague will receive the netherlands reaction they say they deeply regret that russia to decision but by the way in the same announcement of russia's foreign ministry it is explained that they only are right now out of this consultation team that they will continue called curated with the netherlands services involved in the investigation 6 years has passed what do we know about the tragedy well i remember that day july 17th 20143 months off to keep. launched what it called a massive. crane using. tanks i was

there on the ground and i remember how quickly turned into a very bloody deadly operation the situation on the ground was boiling it was really dramatic the real war in fact was raging when the tragedy happened. and ukraine. has been going on every since and today we did not know exactly what had happened.

so. together and forces were very quick to accuse. the lens back the position. and according to the joint investigation team the plane was brought down by book surface to air missile fired from the rebel controlled territory but interesting is that no satellite supported. version that russia has been complaining repeatedly that the netherlands do not accept russia's documents and russia's materials he has a russian president vladimir putin talking about it whatever the present it doesn't say we have. syria we have presented its but no one wants to listen to us unless there is. we will not find the right response to the questions that still remain on . the tragedy of. the deficit. people we mourn.

we believe. such incidents aren't acceptable so you understand what we hear today from russia's foreign ministry didn't start yesterday all this lack of trust this misunderstanding has been piled in for months and years moscow's had long time reservations about it does anyone else in the international community shad this questioning investigation it was malaysia airline airplane and malaysia is supported russia's position say that the whole investigation and that alliance led investigation is politicized from the very beginning we see too much politics indeed the idea was not to find how would this happen when all that but you seem to be concerned that it needs to be in the on russia had it been a neutral by the examinee and making conclusions we. accept but here we have these who have some political interests in the matter what

is important now is that yes russia is out of 3 way consultations but moscow says it is open and ready to cooperate with another that services another country services anybody involved in the investigation anybody interested in finding the truth we got reaction to russia quoting the talks from a number of politicians and analysts. most will feel that it judgment has already been made by the dutch and by the australians and that russia is guilty and nor their option should be considered. the new conclusive evidence and therefore russia is seeing that despite all the information and data. over by the russians it doesn't make any just a difference to the fact that that date has been basically made by the dutch this is that russia is that way and that's the source of the frustration which is lead to a russia. is very sensible to pull out it should not pull them actually the dutch need to answer the question as to why they were taking this process beyond the

investigation they were running with the russians at one point and the australians there was a little triumvirate that was looking into the matter and then the dutch ran away from that investigation and decided to cook it up status for the european court of human rights why it was far too early we can see clearly that there is a onesided in investigation and of course it's necessary if you want to find out what happened to all evidence original presented doesn't matter by which side are taken into account i would like if the international community of the united nation or anyone who could be independent would really find a way or an instance which independently takes into account every evidence which is brought on the table. in other news armenia and azerbaijan continue to level accusations against each other in a decades old territorial dispute that sparked back into life just weeks ago either

start of travel to a cathedral in a garden a car or bach that now bears the scars of a recent exchange in the conflict. the war in the going to care about has not just about trivial territorial gains it's a long lasting with lots of bad blood between both sides and recently it has build into a new turf religious this 19th century only savior 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 alone 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. does not have to now there were 7 of us including 2 children when the shell hit the cathedral it was deafening there was destruction everywhere masonry fell from the searing that's all they can

remember 2 strikes have literally eating 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 another story. 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. when the hoff destroyed the rules of the church people pray for peace to return to this land sooner rather than later because don of reporting from the going to. see azerbaijan's president has claimed if his forces were responsible for the attack on that church it was unintentional he's also called for an investigation into how it happened meanwhile boch who has accused armenia of a shelling attack on its territory. that footage comes from the town of territory which came under bombardment this week according to the hours are by johnny government both nations deny violating the cease fire the fighting has forced many to flee to safety although some of decided to take their chances and stay behind. they've been countless attacks this morning they showed us soldiers here luckily the civilized everything we see here and watch

the shooting 1st coming from the armenians some of the known from these areas and then it fell on the roofs of our houses there is new fear soldiers afflicting you've been there why should we be scared here we should not be. contested region is mostly inhabited by nick our main ians but is legally recognized as a part of azerbaijan when hostilities 1st resumed international medical staff offered their help we heard from some of those medics right now in the conflict zone. at the new breast edition it's no easy decision for any doctor to leave behind a content life and go to war 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 i wanted to

share my experience my knowledge and save any life possible goes over but the good was going to at 1st sight these are minor injuries small scratches in fact the x. rays show a splintered bones into her nostrils all this suggests that the weaponry has changed a lot there are a few cases of gunshot wounds here basically these are injuries from explosive mines cluster rockets and so one they're high energy explosives which leaf in comparable damage where 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 there are still those seriously injured an adequate response is needed here to ensure a way to end all of this. was a monstrous all wars are appalling it is horrifying health damage the bodies of soldiers of that brought in more and more young guys with horrible injuries some

will die some will be disabled it is very hard from a psychological point of view it's a real shock for us even though it would seem that we're used to paying. the russians valid to respond to new british and eve sanctions over the alleged nerve agent poisoning of kremlin critic alex a in a volley the penalties target 6 russian individuals and one state entity but moscow has repeatedly denied its involvement. because michigan year sidesteps won't be left without a suitable response we would like to remind you that it was believed in which is openly shared in its internationalist possibilities to assist russia in investigating the incident which happened to russian citizens and what used story to deliver accusations. and threats against our country once again taking the lead role in empty russian same chanson on the e.u. and other international bodies funds for the european council has come for that it will be putting in place sanctions against russia for the alleged poisoning of

alexina violently pretty much knew this was coming it was approved by the 27 member states foreign ministers on monday the council putting the rubber stamp to it on thursday what the sanctions will do is they'll target 6 senior officials and warn organization they will be taking the form of travel bans and asset freezes they are the type of sanctions the e.u. committed the council can push through unilaterally following the announcement from brussels there was also an announcement from london where the united kingdom has also said that they will be imposing similar sanctions against similar entities for what they say is the use of a chemical weapon by russia now what this is perhaps more interesting for is what the russian reaction will be earlier in the week we heard from serbia lover of the russian foreign minister who suggested that there could be a suspension of diplomatic ties between moscow and brussels should the sanctions be

put in place he also said that russia would be assessing how it did business in europe last time there was no go through a process 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 us and looks condescendingly down at russia demanding answers from us for all the crimes it imagines we have committed i think we're under no obligation to response 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 mr and the family also a body involved in the chemical weapons program. russia must continue to explain itself over the attack on alexina valmy and the use of a banned chemical warfare agent much more than has been the case so far and we've

repeatedly emphasized that such behavior cannot remain without consequences and therefore sanctions were decided by the e.u. unanimously and very quickly. 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 navalny 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 he will also use the ease approach to the novotny case is totally unacceptable 5 e.u. countries claim they have established the truth but when we request them to provide evidence of their conclusions 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 bide 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 and then joost colmar receiving treatment of the shot at a hospital he was discharged last week as he continues to recover here in the german capital more and more questions are being raised about what exactly happened to him and who was behind what happened to him everybody is a little bit surprised that we sow to any of the results only prove you decide to sanction and this decision in fact is the sign of weakness of the european what it. is just to how the steps. sanction between russia and europe and we so that in europe institution there is some

countries there is some members of european parliament who want to have. relation and you want to make damn sure and between europe and russia. a new coronavirus milestone was passed in the u.k. on wednesday after the country clocked up its highest daily number of infections so far more than 10001008 comes as parliament is turning increasingly frustrated at the government's handling of the health crisis reporting from london it's k. partridge if coronavirus has taught us and the u.k.'s prime minister one thing is that it's wise not to joke about it during an impromptu meeting of conservative m.p.'s boris johnson reportedly quit the route 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 the

government decisions are bankrupting the nation the opposition are worried that those promises are costing the country lives and labor leader. wants a partial return to lock down the government's plan simply isn't working a lot 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 with stricter curbs in the worst hit areas and he is ready to lock the country back down the whole point is to speak to seize this moment now to avoid the misery of another national lock down and i

don't want nothing of course in combating the virus but we are going to do with the local 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 top of 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 closer 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 want to make as the situation worsens within the country the government remains on the horns of the ultimate dial emma. how do they save lives without bankrupting the country for boris johnson and everyone this is no laughing matter kate partridge artsy london. that's all for this hour make sure to follow us on social media for all your latest news updates thanks for joining us and we'll see you again soon.

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a highly politicized question mark and we'll get one on one perspective from 2 men who come from very different partisan camps but who share experience working in the senate will begin with david brown democratic strategist former majority counsel to democratic senator patty murray on 2 congressional committees and he is in washington ok to get right to it david mcconnell said he'll have a vote on the nominee really haven't before election day. i think he's going to do everything he can to push it through before election day it is i think the stakes larry are incredibly high and fraught for the republicans if they went off the election when you know that all of these people eat all trouble be a losing president and senate republicans will have lost their majority in the senate but the reality is this is a this is a dangerous political calculus for the majority leader because what he's really.