the case is closed and nobody really can tell the difference between the headline stories this president fighting house completely stopped in the disputed region where russian peacekeepers between armenia speaks with refugees who fled the conflict. i didn't want to leave my home, but my daughter said, mom, my children, i left the news a giving

but mainly to rich countries. developing nations. germany of playing for the kremlin spokesperson repeated requests for information. we want the truth. if you have information that we please share it with your churning in from across the globe are welcome to international my names. you know, your company. we will get headlines stories in just a moment, but we start with news coming into us from montreal. encountered a police,

there are saying there's a major tuck to cooperation underway after reports of a hostage situation. according to local media, dozens of people are trapped inside an office building so far there's no information on who is holding them there or possible casualties. we do know that the building being spoken of by houses, the offices of the video gaming firm, soft, best known as the creators of a number of games. assassin's creed, far cry to name a few images on social media are showing several people climbing onto the roof. of the building we are of course keeping track of the situation. any significant updates from there. we'll bring it right to you. russia's president saying he's fighting has come to a complete halt in the disputed region of think or no cutback since the signing of a cease fire between us or by john under media glare, putin updated his cabinet ministers on the situation in car, a buck or almost 2000 russian peacekeepers being deployed,

armenia's prime minister, who is the offended his decision to sign the russian brokered cease fire saying it prevented catastrophic loss of life, but he's facing strong public resistance. throughout friday, crowds gathered yet again parliament calling for nicole resignation. many armenians are furious about the terms of the truce, which are mine, john, to hold on to the land. it's captured in the past 7 weeks, plus armenia is obliged to hand over 3 other districts by the end of the month. here's a look back at the past few days of unrest in your of the was the only job was was not, god was was

well during friday's cabinet meeting, russia's president also highlighted the dire humanitarian situation in karabakh, after weeks and weeks of deadly fighting. just more than 4000 people have died in the fighting, including civilians and more than 8000, injured. according to various sources. the number of for f.e.u. g.'s is in the 10s of thousands, many ethnic armenians left car a grind after the ceasefire was signed when it became clear about their home. villages would be handed over to azerbaijan, makeshift centers with volunteers and aid workers have been created in armenia to help accommodate them. but some of those fleeing to find shelter in homes of total strangers is important. on a report we built our dreams. we wanted our dreams to come true, but after 30 years it's war again. again,

everything is destroyed. there are many places in the world where peace spells torment, but nagorno-karabakh is one of them. the truce between armenia and azerbaijan hasn't brought any relief for those who fled the war, but nona didn't want to run, not at the beginning, at least, but did for the sake of her children. yet as with the 1st bombing, i woke the children and we went to our neighbors basement. we're in an area where there are no bomb shelters. i didn't want to leave my home, but another siren. my daughter said mom, they're coming for the sake of my children, i left step and i kept to care of the kids. well, while she's holding back tears a little dude who runs around as if war has never been a feature of her young life. finding home in armenia has never been a challenge. people weren't just welcoming. they were actively searching for refugees to give them shelter from the other bomb what i thought something needs to

be done. and i started looking for family to help. and they found me, they found me and i found them. and they have been living with me since october 1st, as none are, was following the war from afar. at 1st, everything seemed bright, just as if victory was around the corner. but then troubling news from her husband on the front line was the 1st sign that all was not well in her homeland. it has been said that the is there by jan. he's were waiting outside the city to attack, and at night a drone attacked a car in which he and other military personnel were and he reached and his relatives took him to the hospital. but he wanted to go back and fight. and now he's in stepanek at the peace deal, which for many looks too much like surrender hate karabakh. refugees like a hammer blow, says the as a by journey's will never give them a chance. at co-existing, my adults in my relatives lived in had root. it was very scary. they were in the

basement until mid october, but they were lucky enough to leave there and escape. my other friend lived. she lost her home and her husband, and she has no idea how to continue living. as well aware of what happened and how much of new going to karabakh they have to give up. and she finds it impossible to accept, but it looks like she and tens of thousands of other refugees will have no choice but to get used to it. amigos done of reporting from armenia for us. the world waits for a viable covert vaccine finding a job is not the only challenge. another is how to make it accessible, while rich countries can afford stockpiling drugs per what is often locked, especially the storage equipment needed. picking up the story are to charlotte to ski within hours of pharmaceutical giant pfizer and by own tech announcing there could be $1000.00 vaccine was 90 percent effective, that you swooped in and signed on the dotted line. and europe wasn't alone. massive,,

deals have also been struck with the u.s. the u.k., egypt, pan, canada, and new zealand, leading some n.g.o.s to question whether this is just a vaccine for rich nations. it's worrying that phase a bio when tech has already struck deals with rich countries for more than a 1000000000 doses of its vaccine, leaving less than a quarter of its projected supply for the rest of the world. big pharma profits must not be prioritized over the health of billions. now, the european commission has been clear and member states can decide what to do with their vaccine doses. and that includes the option of to meeting them to lower and middle income countries. the u. is unlikely to help a lot because it is in deep trouble itself. and many poor countries are not going to be able to be all the supply expensive coaching infrastructure and storage on

time to deliver the missing. this vaccine needs to be stored at minus 70 degree celsius, requiring a special freezer of a type that isn't widely available even in europe and america. meaning countries will have to build deep freeze storage and transportation networks from scratch to keep the vaccine from becoming useless. its production is costly, its component is unstable. it also requires call chain transportation and has a short shelf life. the requirement for extremely cold temperatures is likely to cause spoilage a lot of vaccine. the price tag in building these and the difficulties in administrating the required 2 shots within a month, may be too much of a burden for my nations, leaving them essentially frozen out. some n.g.o.s of cool. don't foist on tech to clarify how the vaccine will be made accessible outside high income

countries. and they want the firms to make that vaccine technology available via a w h o scheme. so billions of doses can be produced as quickly and this cheaply as possible. now that's unlikely, because when scheme was launched, pfizer made its feelings clear, i think is nonsense and at this point of time, it's also dangerous. there's a giant effort right now happening to find solutions. the risks we're taking represent billions of dollars and the chances of developing something is still not very good. and adding insult to injury the day. the vaccine was announced, the c.e.o. of fine, so many $5600000.00 worth of company stock. now pfizer says that this was a scheduled transaction once the stock hit a certain value, but for many this was a cold shower. of a reminder, the big pharma is also big money. so a vaccine for coated 19 may be closer, which of course is good news. well,

for those who can at least afford it, i say centralized profit seeking the theory of home with market in some because last country to be really determines when the pandemic is going to be one who pay for it getting worse. i mean, we can't complain much, but the point is really, if it is eventually optimal for them to leave all these poor countries untreated because we could eventually travel back to the bric countries. at the same time. profit incentive shouldn't be in the mind, the world's greatest invention and treatment by a lot by products. one of the biggest global changes brought about by the pandemic is a mass shift to working from home. millions of people worldwide are staying away from the office,

and researchers at germany's biggest bank are saying those people should be taxed for the privilege of working from home will be part of the new normal. when after the pandemic has passed, we argue that remote workers should pay a tax for the privilege our calculations suggest the amounts raised could fund material income subsidies for low income earners who are unable to work remotely. and this is old economy and health risks. a deutsche bank team is suggesting an additional 5 percent levy for remote stuff. they argue that it's roughly equivalent to what people save transport in food. adding the money could be redistributed to those who cannot work online, many of whom are blue collar workers and lower incomes. now the researchers estimate that such a scheme would raise quite a bit of cash $48000000000.00 in the united states and tax revenue $9000000000.00 here in the u.k. and a sizeable $19000000000.00 in germany. well,

most surveys this year have shown positive attitudes to working from home. a poll here in the us find only 12 percent would prefer to work solely from the office while a hefty 72 per cent. they want a combination of remote and office judy's name knowledge workers. now, earlier i spoke with journalist charlie boyle on geo political analyst, reiner rough for us. they give us their views on the idea of a new work from home tax. they said the best way to invent new taxes all over. if you want more, trust is social justice. why haven't we tried to lift the wage of nurses before? so i think it's not really fair to talk about an extra tax, but i don't think the government saw much through all this year. but actually tony, i'm just speaking specifically about kerry because it's been by stross that doing it's a major cost for people is really nice and that is getting to work and that is next

fights to get something every year. and a lot of cases that automatically remove the you know, significant costs associated with, with getting to joe. i think this needs to be proven 1st. the people who are working from home at the long run will save money, but you need a fully equipped, equipped office. you need hardware, you need more space, which you need to rent or to buy as a white collar worker as well. i think we have to have a wider conversation about working from long, hard work, 60 quite large fiancee's this year. ryan miller looks through waves 1st and 2nd mark. and very recently they made it clear that they don't want their workers work from home. workers tend to want to go back if people stay at home, work from home,

the turnover is reduced for many other businesses and this hurts the overall economy. but there is a long term conversation about you know, what we do with compensating people. businesses that don't have to rent in, in big cities, and also it's a, it's a double swing, but this is not going to be resolved in the next couple months because the super slow downs over everyone's getting crunched, going back to what you know best and give a man's have really increase to their deaths quite considerably. so if this tax, if this extra tax for people who can't work for from home is supposed to be something like a compensation for these losses and for these deaths, i think it's a totally misconceived strategy. but i think like i'm holding my view, this is ground 0 and principle. it's one for the long term. i think in the shorter term, there's no time to even implement. there's even, it's political will. and i say yes,

organ secured across 3 months next year. once it actually gets rolled out and we'll have the conversation for 3 and a couple years time. i mean, this would just be a revenue for the state, but what we need is to foster economic growth and activity. and this can never be done through a tax. so i think the state in general should be rather limited to its basic functions in the medical study has fallen not catching cold. that 19 can result in mental disorders. more enough, later in the in germany, babies cry in a pattern like saying entrenched babies would say rotten is so low is that they're

actually follow the rhythmic pattern of, you know, mom versus mom. so, you know, show, learning to get that turns out she looked into it 1st, what was happening was that the babies could actually hear their mother's feet in the room. seemed wrong. quite old paul. just don't call me yet to stamp out this day, because as a kid and in danger, i'm an equal to trail when so many find themselves worlds apart, when she's to look for common ground.

hello again, russia has accused germany of stalling the investigation into the alexina volleyed case. the 2 countries have been locked in a stalemate for months with moscow, demanding lab data to back up berlin's claim that the opposition activists was poisoned with a nerve agent. russia's foreign ministry says it's only getting excuses from germany, didn't. you really doesn't want to hand over materials on the winemaking east to russia and was clinging on to any excuses. i would like to reiterate that we do not expect the bearer of bad news to be criticized. it would be better to deal with the news itself. we have informed the c.w. that the russian side can approach to ask further questions. germany claims a military lab find traces of another truck type nerve agent in the valley system

after he was transferred to the country for treatment. i. conclusion that was later backed up by the global chemical weapons watchdog, the o.p.c. w. . however, moscow insists that not only was tested for multiple talks since including nerve agents, while he was still in russia, all of the results came back negative. russia has repeatedly asked the o.p.c. w to pass on whatever evidence it has. those requests been denied leading russia's un envoy to question the organizations neutrality. i will be blunt, the o.p.c. w.'s technical secretary. it is increasingly turning into a tool in the west's hands, which is being used to exert informational and political pressure on countries that fail to toe the line. this conclusion is backed up by the watch dogs involvement in anti russian campaigns earlier with the scrape. our case and now with the alleged poisoning of alexina valmy. well, earlier we spoke with russia's permanent representative to the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons. he explained their months long effort to get answers from the organization and also from germany. russia has contacted the

director general of the o.p.c. w.'s technical secretariat, offering to arrange for an expert mission to russia, so they can find out along with their russian colleagues what happens in the vanni . we've asked the technical secretaries about the cooperation between it and germany, and we were told to direct our questions to berlin, citing confidentiality policies under which the a, p. c. w is not allowed to disclose anything without germany's consent. so heeding the technical secretary, it's advice we approached by lynn and sent a request there. but we still haven't received a reply. our german colleagues are trying to wriggle out of their obligations under the chemical weapons convention, which requires them to consult us and give us legal assistance as a member state when any questions arise regarding the convention. to be honest, we've got an unseemly situation on our hands. our german partners is saying that this whole story is no longer a bilateral issue, but rather an international one which should be considered by the way. but at the

same time, the technical secretariat directs us back to the german side for any questions. so we find ourselves trapped in a vicious circle. just to recap the situation, alexina volley 1st fell sick on an internal flights in russia. back in august, the plane made an emergency landing in the city, where he was taken to hospital and put into a winter's coma. the opposition activist was then or lifted to germany for treatment. the novelli case and much more was discussed in an r.t. interview with the kremlin spokesperson, their interpersonal exclusive sit alone, will be airing in full throughout the day, including again in 10 minutes time. here's a taster. we are interested in the investigation of all the circumstances of what happened. we want to know the truth. so we said please help us if you have information that we do not have, please share it with us. but no one wants to cooperate. sometimes it seems that the patient does not want that truth to be out himself when we were doing it,

but sometimes it seems the patient is not that sick when there are a lot of questions about his illness too. and if he is ill, we need to know how bad and whether his disease can fade and come back. well, you have to agree that there are more questions than answers a new study has pointed to an unexpected consequence of covert 19. it found that infection can trigger mental disorders. the research was conducted by a team at oxford university in the u.k. . no, they found that one in 5 covert patients go on to receive a psychiatric diagnosis within 3 months of testing positive tens of thousands of people were assessed. the most common conditions relate to feelings of worry or fear. in some cases causing severe depression. specifically, the time followed a heightened risk of post traumatic stress disorder,

panic attacks and insomnia. we talked to a quarter of the study. the short answer is that we don't know yet, and we have to do more research to find out, you know, we can start to speculate about what might be the reasons and i think there might be 2 main reasons. one is psychological. the other one is biological, the psychological one is quite intuitive. it is, you know, people suffer with the 19 which is quite scary in itself and the fear of having a potentially life limiting in this might cause things like anxiety and depression . and then there's also a possible biological explanation, which is that it is possible that sask of to say the very virus that causes of it 19 my get into the brain. we know that some viruses do. we don't know yet. as far as i know where the sask of 2 does, but it's possible that it does. and in that way it might, it might be affecting the brain and damaging the brain if you will, within the biological explanation is also an inflammatory explanation. so we know

that of 2 as a virus causes an information throughout the body that can be, can expand well beyond the lungs. and it may be that inflammatory response also involves the brain. and if that's the case, that in my view that the inflammation to the immune response of the body mount against the infection might be the cause of the psychiatric illness. given that there's going to be more people suffering with mental illness as a result of 19, we need to make sure that there is services provided for those people in therapy provided for the people. we know the things that he depression, for instance, for example, is our treatable disease. most people that we receive treatment for anxiety, depression do get better and very important that those treatments are available to all that need them. during the pandemic. let's bring in a reminder of a developing situation in montreal in canada, police. there are saying there's

a tactical operation underway at an office building after reports of a hostage situation. according to local media, dozens of people are trap inside a conference room so far. there is no information on who is holding them or possible kushal to use the building. we do know how it is the offices of the video gaming firm, ubisoft, best known, perhaps you might know it as creators of a substance create and far cry. images on social media, showing people climbing onto the roof of the building. there are as well in the area. we are of course keeping track of the situation a little, keep you up dated. well, that is a wrap over stories this hour. don't go too far. no though part 2 of our tease exclusive interview with prevalence spokes person, dimitri peskov begins right now, i know what you're coming back to russia,

possibly being the only country except the us that can protect someone besides itself. let's talk about the conflicts between us there. but john, in armenia as well as russia's role in it, has seen absolutely dramatic shifts. i mean, you had to bet in some sizable areas and i think we should thought to be in its full possession for decades. for decades. you thought that way because that's how russia played its role as army is allied and now russia hasn't been supporting armenian that conflict in any significant way, at least from an outside perspective. actually when i scroll down my facebook feed, i see half of my armenian friends complaining about russia's betrayal. what does the kremlin think about that news that i just need to it's no secret that back to the banks by turkey announced that it considered a military solution as a way to solve the problem in the goanna karabakh. it is because of this stance that as a by john launched a military operation. this military intervention happened after the o.s.c. minsk group. russia in particular, has been proposing various formulas that could end the conflict for many years.

they have been several formulas and all the parties to the negotiations are well aware of them, because fortunately for some reason, none of them worked out. why is that? but there were reasons for it in both sides are at fault. unfortunately, there were reasons why those formulas haven't been put into action. if they had been, we say even 2 years ago when this war and all the bloodshed could have been avoided, well, thousands of young armenians and azerbaijanis wouldn't have died. i look at what were those formulas? i don't think i can elaborate on any of them, especially now. i don't think it's necessary critical, so the topic is off and yes, here's what i can tell you. none of the minsk group chairman shared back use stones . the trio had been insisting in a well argued manner, that the only possible solution to that conflict is diplomacy. and that's what we all had been saying to persuade us. it was most likely only if a live.

yes, he remembers that soon after hostilities arrested its 3 leaders, hooten trump and macro made a rather unprecedented. and they very important statement. france had been working on that problem and washington to all within the same framework. i think that contributed a lot to the consensus that enabled putin and passion yemen. here in the end of the conflict with most of the people who criticize russia in your facebook feed, have absolutely no grounds to do that. president putin said unequivocally that russian never forgot about its obligations as member of c.s.t. . oh. and if in allies territory was under attack, if i mean is territory was on the any threat than russia would surely do everything within its power to protect its ally? that's what our president said. the criticism you've heard is absolutely unfounded

and unfairness by the man who broke in your system. in the newspaper, you know, not, and perhaps armenians expected russia to deploy troops. we need it, we have the right to do that. yet my point, no, we did get the right to deploy a peacekeeping mission, but only after the warring parties agree to answer. the peacekeepers were ordered to stand at the separation line. as for sending its military forces, especially to cairo, but russia does not have any such right. by international law. russia continues to abide by all relevant resolutions of the un security council member. no, i don't think we can call this a peace agreement because we don't know yet how it's going to play out. let's say it's a quasi peace. an agreement between 2 warring parties that has been brokered mainly by russian president putin, but this agreement triggered quite a response from the you expect the reservoir. john would resolutely claim that it won, and that loss of armenians would take the streets to protest which cities are grimly

winning me a broken kim. i am in no position to comment on either the azerbaijanis response, all the armenians reaction. yes, it would be foolish of me to do that. i can only say that i appreciate the wise choice the politicians made. it was the political modernist, which politicians, the president i live prime minister passion am thanks to vladimir putin's efforts. they signed a joint statement and ended the hostilities stop the bloodshed. could you please elaborate on president putin's role in this agreement? how did he facilitate the trouble or decision, or he played a critical role. the signing of that agreement was preceded by many days of tireless work. sometimes almost around the clock. it was president putin who did that. he was on the phone pull the times, making numerous schools and passion am again, and he's been doing that for days.