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race is better. though not everyone is. rushing. for 3 days in a row. the usual season. will be less powerful when it comes to. live from moscow this is artsy international welcome to the program. we begin with breaking news a russian force helicopter has been shot down over the border between armenia and.

on 2 countries that have been locked in a deadly conflict for the past 7 weeks the russian defense ministry is saying 2 crew members were killed and a 3rd survived a helicopter had been stationed at a russian base in armenia it was hit by a surface to air missile while accompanying a military convoy run 2 and a half hours ago there is so far no indication where the missile was fired from and in a related development russia's foreign ministry has said moscow now intends to play a more active role in the disputed province of nagorno-karabakh after a deadly spike in violence between us or by john under me and. a day after us or by john's president and once the capture of a strategic town in cutback sparking celebrations on the streets of baquba azerbaijan's defense ministry said the turn of shashi being quote liberated from the armenian occupation after more than 28 years and quote she lies only main road

connecting nucor to cut it back with armenia the local leadership has been saying that. you must now acknowledge that chain of misfortune has befallen us and the town of she she is completely out of our control and hopeful or inspiring propaganda will only serve to distance us from reality the start there is a city of shows she is now under the control of the bridge on the army that has been confirmed now by majority side after that they have published a video showing that the as a bridge on the force is controlling the city of the streets of city of shushi but the question now what's next what city will be next is it a step on a current oh maybe there will be this settling in shoes they will have a break maybe after 4 or 5 days of heavy fighting across the region of. gorney corrupt here in armenia the people of this spirit.

filled that they have been left down and they don't know what to do actually and we can notice that in their faces because they have suffered a lot they have given a lot of struggle to all these 4 for more than one month. and they sic roofies the law now the fighting had been settled for a break as we believe but we still receive some information from our source of this deployment there at the that. the shelling is still and step on a kurd and the city of moore to need to the no more to any to the north and also the road that connects no gormley corrupt with mean yeah it's a matter of time now well the arrival of azerbaijan the forces there has sparked a mass exodus of civilians in these images from sunday you can see a line of traffic leading out of the main city step on

a kurd the disputed province has been the focus of intense fighting since late september might 3 attempted cease fires it is legally part of. a majority or many in population has been pushing for independence since the early 1990 s. the latest flare up in the 30 year feud has left hundreds dead global affairs analyst paul robinson believes it's a major setback for the armenian forces. the show is one of the major cities in not going to iraq it's also very easily defensible positions. on the heart of the mountains are and if the cause of them not going to go. on a book to your tame control issue show them that bodes very ill for their future success in this war and now reports are saying that as every forces are coaching the council they're going to. not going to kind of panic. and it looks as if the

position of the armenian they're going to cut about forces there it is not looking good. just a reminder of our top story this hour a russian military helicopter has been shot down killing 2 people over the armenia and azerbaijan border and we will have an update on the situation from our correspondent a little later in the program. in moving on another u.s. election and more claims of meddling only this time not by outside doctors but from the inside with donald trump accusing the democrats of mass voter fraud after joe biden was proclaimed president elect. president trump has yet to concede the election in the u.s. he's claiming serious but fraud has also legal action

we believe these people are fiefs the big city machines are corrupt this was a stolen election the best post the rim briton wrote this morning that this clearly was a stolen election that it's impossible to imagine that biden out ran a bomb in some of these states where it mattered they stole what they had to steal . occurred in several states between rival and several arrests made. a strong supporter stand by the president in questioning the election result. i. i well 48 hours ago many media outlets

called the race for biden after days of hunting the president elect has promised to help america become a nation. like in 2016 it's all got all shaky start with more allegations of meddling hawkins school and. for many americans the 2020 us presidential election had so much riding on it it was symbolic a long awaited chance for justice to prevail for the country to correct the mistakes of 2016 at least that's how the media and many people saw it where were you in 27. when we had the worst president we could argue it's unfair to rank trump as worth president ever after just one year but clearly those scholars see in him a great potential worst in most dangerous president in the history. of the worst words he's america's ever. thousands of jubilant people celebrating on the streets

a far cry from the scenes we saw after the last presidential election seemingly the only tears this time of joy. it's. a case where a lot of people who have really suffered for years ago when trump won broadcasters showed scenes of people in shock and crying today a biden declaration shows coverage that would make you think jesus had returned all 4 hours might be exaggerating but to some it really looks like a savior the same that apart america except this is a reality for only half of the country biden's predicted landslide or blue wave didn't happen and no matter how many times he was called the worst president in american history the worst president the country's ever had trump still managed to gain the support of close to half the electorate and they alongside his campaign team are not giving up without a fight i was i was able

people over and immediately. with the democratic leadership all trump has so far also refused to concedes making a slew of allegations about the legality and accuracy of the voting process if you count the illegal votes easily when if you count the illegal votes they can try to steal. election from us i'm trump's team up behind him ready to do battle in the country's legal system and highest courts to stop what they see as an injustice these lawsuits will be brought starting on monday as you know from the very beginning the mail in ballots were a source of some degree of skepticism if not a lot of skepticism as being innately prone to fraud this fraud war between the trumpet bought in camps won't end anytime soon how do we know this well that simple the last one dragged on for trump's entire term

a democratically elected president was accused of just about every wrongdoing trump is already acting like a russian donald trump is actively or was actively colluding with russia own told mahler's office about more contacts between trump's orbit and it's it appears trump himself in russia they didn't believe trump when he denied there was any collusion for example so why should he give his of poland's the benefit of the doubt what claims the president made yesterday were simply not supported you know i think what the president needs to do is frankly put his big boy pants on he needs to acknowledge the fact that he lost and he needs to congratulate the winner well it's not for us biden or trump to decide whether any wrongdoing took place during the 2020 lection it looks like math will be down to the supreme court but what we do know is that trump's 4 years in office might have taught him a valuable lesson about how to fight his battle and so far it looks like they'll be

little unity along the way. hawkins taking us through volatile we asked a number of guests whether there is any merit to donald trump's allegations of fraud. there's no doubt of that but that joe biden is the president elect and will take office at noon on the 20th of january next year there are no court cases that have any merit the margins are such that they are not capable of being disputed and it's also clear joe biden won the election by 5000000 votes the most votes that any candidate has ever gotten the country's polarized but there was an extraordinary turnout in this election largely because of donald trump but because a majority of americans wanted did not want him to continue as president joe biden got it got over a 50 percent of the vote for. hillary clinton and won by 3000000 votes but she

didn't get 50 percent there are teams of lawyers in every state with question marks on them and their purpose is to put together their part of a case that's going to be presented to the public and to justice as a full case that shows that the election outcome was altered by the fraud that it was that significant now going to give you just one of those mathematical near impossibilities to show you how you can obviously see that things were done but are not right to. vote for hillary clinton was very strong in a lot of democrats capital cities including the ones in the swing states joe biden got fewer votes than hillary clinton in every a major american city except for and those 4 are milwaukee detroit atlanta and philadelphia the 4 cities where much of the obvious change every is going on so joe biden got more votes than hillary clinton coincidentally in the 4

capital cities of the swing states but less all across the rest of the country and still he gets a record number 74000000 popular votes for president. how does that happen when only 4 cities have to make up a disadvantage to your previous jane today in the previous election it's just mathematically nearly impossible i think there's a lot of circumstantial evidence a lot of self evident impossibilities like that and you have to assemble them all into a single detailed case and i think that's what president trump team of lawyers is doing right now. well europe has been taking an intense interest in the u.s. election and with joe biden are widely being hailed as president elect disposals has expressed the hope bilateral ties will get a boost to some of the continent's political top brass are skeptical things will transform under the new administration or to charlotte dubinsky picks up the story for us any e.u.

leaders were signaling their congratulations to a sense of relief i think in europe that biden is the president elect there was a lot welcome particularly over the fact that biden has said he would bring the u.s. back into the paris climate agree fold but there was also this carefully wooded suggestion about the challenges that are faced in the future and cooperation on those challenges together one of the big issues the european leaders are going to be thinking about is nato trump was seen as being divisive not particularly supportive of the alliance whereas joe biden seen as somebody who is a big supporter of nato and may look to reinforce the alliance but there are some aspects of that that he won't be changing from the trumpet administration clued in perhaps the 2 percent of the g.d.p. that trump demanded that other nato members pay their fair share that's likely to remain the status quo and those the suggestion that joe biden would not be making

a u. turn or other important decisions. joe biden isn't going to change washington's approach to international issues overnight because he can't it's a mistake to believe that everything changes europe must above all count on itself nothing will be easy there are also many issues where i don't think anything is going to change there. there's also the issue of trade this is been a massive problem with all these tariffs that trump has been imposing on e.u. products over the last 3 years now joe biden comes into the presidency with a u.s. trade deficit of $170000000000.00 u.s. dollars with the e.u. so trade is something that is going to be continuously a difficult issue there's also talks coming up over the digital tax on tech giants which of course friction over the past year or so and there is this continuing dispute over subsidies for airbus and boeing so that is unlikely to resolve itself

very soon now the e.u. has also been pushing ahead with this agenda of more sovereignty in defense in trade trying to perhaps sort of rally itself up against the u.s. and that is also unlikely to change we need to up this marks a new chapter in european history where europe is independent where we can be proud of our european culture and identity we'll be able to stand up against china against the united states against the disorder we are currently witnessing european strategical told them is goal number one thought generation we're sending a message not only door citizens but also to the rest of the world europe is the world power and then of course there's the issue of bragg's it those negotiations not going to well between the u.k. and the e.u. but the e.u. is hoping that a biden presidency will not give special treatment to the u.k.

particularly if there is no deal breaks it so lots of issues that europe is waiting to find out about but the reality is joe biden has so much on his plate domestically trying to create the harmony within the u.s. and let's not forget that trump gained more than 70000000 votes trump is and is alive and kicking and joe biden is going to have to do an awful lot to reach out to those voters or we got the thoughts of current can nurse or current is austria's former minister of foreign affairs speaking to the program she said that on her biden time is with europe will not be a u.s. priority. personally i don't see 2 european union issues being top chanda we might believe that we are so important that washington wakes up in the morning and now cares 1st and foremost about how to repair the alliance how to get back to better relations with the various e.u.

member states no i think their 1st and foremost foreign policy to chanda will be to people's republic of china and how to handle all the open issues with them but personally i would share the position by the president of to you being commissioner . nothing is going to change because although he constitution a lot and so we call. the fact. that we did continue one of them is to trade deficits and that along with the traits this and of course the burden sharing within the alliance if you will of course pasting across the very latest developments in the us 2 days after media projections put joe biden above the 270 vote mark needed to secure the white house and the clarity president elect donald trump is refusing to concede with legal challenges being mounted by trump's team the transition of power in america may face hurdles yet.

he has gotten quite chilled. you know because we. are trying to do w. rubber bushing sure. what i can only do. that would have been. you got to go with us because all of us do just about because those told me tell you we will soon. because it would seem more seats. business but is a necessity or some of what is the innocence come off the news the of. the 20th century was thing in a revolution the great depression and world wars the 21st century of mental illness . those aren't my words that's what surfaced some psychiatry to tell us the only

question is should we accept it as a fact. or no. biting claims victory but what about those who voted for trump will they say now not my president and is europe they think another wave of terrorism is neo liberal ideology showing signs of exhaustion. i i. i. i. 21 minutes into the program on return with our breaking news story a russian earth force howley tempter has been shot down killing 2 people over the our media border let's bring in patricia who has been following developments around 3 hours or so since this incident 1st emerged what information

has come out it's well you're right it was about 3 hours ago a bit more than that. 5 30 pm moscow time approximately the helicopter the me 24 it's an attack helicopter the russian ministry of defense are saying that it was traveling along the as there by john border but it was in armenian airspace where it was accompanying a russian military convoy a convoy of russian military vehicles that are permanently stationed in armenia there's a russian base there and that was the point when it was hit by a surface to air missile that is portable they don't know the origin of it though and that was when the helicopter lost control then. eventually it exploded in a mountainous area of armenia 2 people were killed immediately one somehow survived

he was taken back to the base where you station that's where that soldier's being treated we know that this particular. you know the area where the incident happened is only about 60 kilometers away from yet yvonne and potentially of course the situation is very difficult if not explosive but for now it's too early to make any conclusion. like that you see it's the distance from europe what about the car of bach region which we've been talking about so much in the last number of weeks is that far from there what kind of locality is it so this is the bit that you know everyone's asking questions about at this point because it is actually quite far from the conflict zone about 200 kilometers this is a completely different area yes the russian military base is close to that exact

location but. there's no combat zone or anything anything like it near there although what i have to point out is that this is the place where the 4 countries meet so to say turkey is very close to that area there's also the border with iran so if you look at the map for instance the greyer parts are turkey and iran and then there's also the azerbaijan called which is green and then mainland armenia in red you can see nagorno-karabakh but it can actually see how far it is from the crash site on that actually as you're speaking just explaining all this and again green is there by john so this is a place where so many cultures are mixed and but but i have to tell you that in that specific area where the crash happened there's no military activity there so it is of course very important to find out how it could have happened it could have

been a mistake because we understand that tensions are high obviously in the entire region because of everything that's going on in nagorno-karabakh and we already know from the armenian side that they're ready to assist the russian side completely times of just interrupt you we are just hearing a line coming in just as you're speaking that. has taken responsibility just admitting to shooting it done but has apologized for. so i'm not exactly sure . of what rank is doing this but this is coming from. on this ready. to. well they're saying they apologized to russia perhaps to to to pay some kind of. of awareness of doing not to moscow with the language coming out as a little bit unclear at this stage but what is clear is that they are sorry for shooting it. this is a very important message you know because again in these kind of cases what you

expect is usually some sort of blame game but we need to make sure that this is actually coming from there by johnny officials and if that is true then again this perhaps would show the respect from both sides from armenian as i was there by john in the conflict to russia as a mediator and also perhaps it's going to be a display of willingness not to escalate this because perhaps this could have been a mistake so very important to follow all these further statements that perhaps we could get from cool and from the as their eyes on the military we will try to get verification just exactly what was what was said but it does appear at that stage that has took responsibility for the shooting down of a russian helicopter killing 2 people and has apologized for the fact when we know more do come in and speak a little bit more on this just to get some more clarification but thank you for.

ok in other news this hour the covert 1000 pound demick is spiraling here in russia with the daily rate of new infections topping 20000 for the past 3 days the main infection hotspots more schools in petersburg the 2 cities have imposed a number of the pandemic rules just going through them monday tree masks and gloves in public places they have to be worn curfews as well for restaurants and leisure centers all to cope with the growing infection rates moscow has opened a number of field hospitals in china went to check out the conditions. well of course as a polling. company i don't. think about. it for free or almost still it. has a. the

2nd week how's a different from the 1st i think people have become less vigilant what do you mean people get used to it yes people got used to it but there are those who refuse to believe there are 2 groups now those who are extremely concerned about coronavirus know what it is who lost their loved ones and those who say you were all liars in the summer we relaxed let ourselves go and here you are and what we are seeing the consequences of this in autumnal what did we relax because there were some objective reasons for that or were we just being stupid no we are not stupid we are just human beings how many temporary 1000 hospitals were set up in moscow 5 and all them can accommodate over a 1000 patients approximately 430 to have sort of the report of. the pulse of earth but it was

a. news and it will. be shown some ventilators has the survival rate grown since march and for patients on a ventilator it hasn't changed much what is the rate 25 percent however our approach has changed a lot of them for us now placing a patient on a ventilator is a last resort when all other possible treatments are exhausted or the question will come there i think this is not the feeling of the most ill middle of the earth incredible i thought of it clearly there. we. take him with them is meaningless what the hell has to hospitals work changed since march knickers on the one hand to the team has gained confidence in their actions but on the other hand everyone is exhausted. when will you be able to get back to normal routine work because we expect the 3rd wave in spring the usual season for all viruses so we

hope this wave will be less powerful when it comes to the rate of infections and if it goes like this probably by june we will be back to normal i hope so but maybe even earlier we'll see the morning with the short. stories are shaping up for an hour on this monday november the 9 i'll keep the updates coming up at the top of the hour but in the meantime stay close as more great programs get their start in moments by for an.