And welcome to the weekly for r. T. International weve run through some of the biggest stories weve covered here over the past 7 days so those developments to bring you up to speed on 1st though both armenia and azerbaijan have declared martial law of the heavy fighting again erupted between the neighboring countries in a decades old territorial dispute that has called on the armenian Prime Minister to put all efforts into preventing an escalation of the conflict over the karabakh region now this Armenian DefenseMinistry Video reportedly shows azerbaijani tanks being attacked by Armenian Armed forces a media claims that 16 of its soldiers were killed in the clashes the shots have been published by the azerbaijan Defense Ministry they claim to show the destruction of military. Hardware and smoke can be seen billowing across the area both governments are blaming each other for the escalation. Of the armed forces over many a have shelled our settlements as well as our military positions from several directions. At present the us or by johnny armies firing in the enemys military positions most of their equipment has been destroyed armenia is doing Everything Possible to disrupt the negotiation process and i can see that they have succeeded. Stick to tauriel regime his resume till still it sees it is a war imposed on the armenian people it is a war against our independence freedom and dignity we were prepared for the possibility of war because we realize that the amenia phobia amity and hatred with which the Azubuike Johnny dictatorship fed its people for many decades could not lead to any result other than war it all started sunday morning when we saw this sudden renewal of hostilities between azerbaijan and armenia in the disputed region of nagornokarabakh thats located in the caucasus region which is just south of russia whos to blame both yerevan and baku are accusing each other of being entirely responsible for these renewed hostilities and theyre both valid serious military retaliation now weve already heard that infantry armored an air forces and artillery batteries have been deployed by both sides in this conflict and theyve already engaged in fighting with conflicting casualty reports now in response the Regional Government in nagornokarabakh has declared martial law and general conscription of all males over and over the age of 18 well its important to understand that all this is the continuation of a decades long conflict 25 people have died in skirmishes between the 2 countries since the beginning of 2020 alone and since 2015 over 200 have been killed or injured the fighting even goes back to even before the fall of the soviet union the. Turkey immediately threw its support behind azerbaijan at the beginning of this latest conflict we heard from ankaras president ial Spokes Person who said that azerbaijan will not be alone but russias foreign minister Sergey Lavrov he had a bit of a different take on the situation he said that there needs to be there needs to be a ceasefire and a return to negotiations aimed at stabilizing the situation here we also heard from the head of the European Council who had said basically the same thing cease fire and return to negotiations although this latest conflict its rapidly developing so its still unclear what path its going to take the u. N. Secretary general has also an immediate stop to the escalation adding that hell speak by phone with the leaders of albania and azerbaijan journalists for the Sputnik News Agency working in the 2 countries brought us more details on the situation locally. Our Prime Minister has announced that armenia in the neighborhood is going to do anything to keep people of the we know there is a show floor in armenia so. Now right now most of the people. Most of the men who are living in armenia willing to go to get hired to flee for their homeland security. Right for. The conflict this issue position has been a government is the i mean in the forces launched a large provocation they fired extensively at the positions of those about johnny army along the entire front line and residential settlements at the broncos around the bridge to seize fire once again in several directions and the baton army was forced to counterattack we have injured civilians killed infrastructure has been seriously damaged the minister of defense has announced that this mission armys continuing its successful campaign. Russia analyst Martha Macauley says its down to armenia and azerbaijan alone to resolve their differences. Its up to the general staff the government. To decide when you talk a little there maximalist their military thats not territory we want it back. To our territory we want to control it so therefore its a situation which unfortunately has now given us the right rise to more conflict and they want to have their view and they want to ensure that they will from their point of view. Point of view to dissolve because now theyre wasting resources which are likely needed for the development of their country and economies and you can see this to them of what they say we must defend. On some of the Headline News for the weekend and despite some global skepticism over russias new Coronavirus Vaccine and this week declared it reliable safe and effective he told the Un General Assembly that such jobs must be made freely accessible to everybody if the world hopes to end the covert crisis and he offered free doses to un staff. But we didnt. Put it on we already its a sure experience continues to cooperate with all countries and International Organizations this includes the distribution of russians vaccine to other countries which is proved its reliability safety and efficiency its not sure its ready to provide the un with top notch assistance particularly we offer a vaccine free of charge for voluntary vaccination as un personnel and entities we have received such requests for more un colleagues and we will remain indifferent to the. Advanced stage 3 trials of the vaccine are underway right now in russia more than 3 and a half 1000 volunteers have received the job so far with more than 40000 expected to take part among them as our correspondent maria. Sure is vaccination day for me and finally this morning i got a call from the queen mother say i am in a deal candidate before that i have chorused took a number of tests and went through a thorough screening now its time for a final check with the doctor before getting the shot good afternoon. And the lifestyle is a pregnancy test that was designed to make sure its safe for me to receive a vaccination. Right now i am ready the vaccine doses are stored in the freezer they take out each of those immediately before the injection of the many tracks and is individually allocated ever beijing has a specific code and each child has this card on market on it mean in its assigned to a particular patient. It could be either the real back scene or it has to grow our number is using 60 of sikhs. The number is correct confirmed. Yes question it now we can ask how many times were there im afraid to be vaccinated of course im not afraid you see this vaccine contains neither wife nor death coronavirus this means i cant get infected with call that brain and of course i wont be able to transmit it to anyone else here look this is your vaccine now there is not much in there that looks like a couple of drops. Will it hurt no. I am about to make the injection ok i am ready. But what did it feel like like a normal shot like a mosquito bite as they usually tell my daughter. So ill get the 2nd house action in free weeks. Rally in Central London against new lockdown restrictions ended in violence on saturday police moved in to disperse a crowd of up to 15000 in Trafalgar Square for failing to comply with social distancing 9 officers and 3 protesters were injured and several arrests were made. The nestor unveiled the new restrictions on tuesday after a spike in infections they said to critics claiming that hes funneling his way through the crisis since it began i do want people to start to go back to work now if you can and allow a move significant return to normality from november at the earliest possibly in time for christmas and there were doctors unarmed medical advisors that they are unanimous that things will be far better by the spring so as things stand people are required to work from home if they can masks are now mandatory for taxi drivers and passengers and Rule Breakers will be fined 200 pounds for a 1st offense furthermore all pubs and restaurants are now required to close by 10 pm British PublicHealth ExpertProfessor John ashton believes the government needs to rebuild the trust lost since the 1st lockdown. This is very real sense of deja vu about the last couple of weeks certainly lots of your days it feels like chill over again the beginning of march when the numbers of new cases began to double every 2 or 3 days so the real problem the fundamental problem at the moment is how do you reestablish trust because we finished with drastic measures when we shouldnt have to have drastically measures if we take people on this tough journey from the beginning well what we have to do is to really properly put the local regional authorities the local governments around the local Public Health director whos in charge by the state of stirring actually literally billions of us at these private companies to lloyds and serco and others who are sailing to deliver the test intray certain people getting results after several days by which time theyve infected other people putting. Into local Public Health teams and rebuilding them very quickly. Life from moscow this is our take on the way protests about a rossa still raging and the disputed election exactly 2 months on when i take you on sundays rallies after the break. Well whatever the americans are saying about. Their sanctions not affecting humanitarian items its just destruction like we have been trying to transfer money for the covert 19. Callbacks needed to w. H. O. Actually have a neighborhood that weve been trying to transfer money even for normal the influence of actually read the United States restrictions prevent us from. Even transferring money to. So its basically made. The us using. The election only weeks away the trying to diminish ration continues its ancient mania against cuba venezuela and iran is there explain how this advances the National Interest also no matter whos in the white house the form follows is determined to continue to avenge its defeat in syria. Again lets update you on the postelection un rest that continues to rumble on sunday against all protesters flooding the streets of the capital as they continue to accuse president of stinging victory over 100 people were detained reporting next. While several 1000 people have gathered in the capital of belarus men scanned this is the 1st mass protest since the inauguration of Alexander Lukashenko it was branded by the opposition by the coordinators as the peoples inauguration and it was meant to show that the current government is not enjoying the mass support of the by the russian people of the public and so far i have to say that up to 10000 maybe have showed up here to make their voices heard but really i have to say the number from where we are and its a good Vantage Point the number of protesters looks small and it looks like fewer people showed up than even last sunday and really the opposition to have their say to show what they wanted to show the opposition needed that number but to a power of 10 now this protest comes to the tune of western powers not recognizing the outcome of the elections pulling Alexander Lukashenko to resign and some nations even outright recognizing. Main rival at the elections as the real president of belarus heres what emanuel mccrone the french president had to say it is a crisis of power a north or a chair in power that cannot accept the logic of democracy and which is hanging on by force it is clear that has to go now this statement along with many others comes as of the Foreign Ministry of belarus cools and all western nations to stop meddling in the countrys affairs and she will lead the better russian people decide who the leader really is no just to remind you Alexander Lukashenko was inaugurated back on wednesday it was a rather unconventional event i have to say because it wasnt announced it came as a surprise to everybody the opposition included some even called it a secret inauguration with only a few 100 people invited and it was not broadcast live. On national t. V. So since then the kootenays of the opposition have been trying to consolidate the protest cooling on people to show up on mass but that failed on wednesday right after the inauguration even though they tried then they asked they called on the belorussian women to gather on saturday that was thats a weekly event but instead of what used to be thousands of better russian women marching throughout the capital till dusk only a few 100 people showed up yesterday for a couple of hours today a lot of people moved people thousands of people showed up but still the numbers. Are the numbers are there are there are fewer people in the streets than it was a week ago. Well there was concern flagged earlier this week over some russian opposition tactics including the publishing of names and addresses of thousands of Police Officers morell not next. As with any di add on the operation the goal is fear terror even and the better russian opposition makes no secret of what it is doing join us they say or we will ruin your life the main goals of this channel are to track down every criminal that has committed a crime against his own nation to collect as much information as possible about that individual and also to create a special database which anyone in free bellerose can use to check whether they potential worker partner or anyone they meet has committed a crime against humanity next to pullen based and public ganda outlet recently dumped the names and personal details of belorussian policeman into the Public Domain police are not without fault suppression of protests arrests and physical violence towards demonstrators unorganised were brutal and the public was outraged but the opposition feeds on that outrage stoking anger with fake news and hysterical nonsense Armed Russian special forces and dragon our fellow citizens by the hair is this normal are you willing to tolerate this nectar apologized for that saying it is impossible to verify every message that they get such as the actual guilt of the policeman whose names and addresses and telephone numbers and even relatives they published next to and other opposition outlets dont bother proving their guilt as was the case with nikita marching co he was falsely accused of being an agent of the state after someone saw a photo of him in military uniform it turned out he was a conscript and his service had ended last year but they arent acting without support from foreign donations to the blessings of state law that he cannot scare a former candidate for president during the election in august to this since fled to lithuania she says anyone in uniform. Who supports her rival current president you can use fair game Law Enforcement officers should remember the people of belarus who reveal their identity those who carry out criminal orders you will have to look you people in the eye the same people youre supposed to protect and she doesnt seem to mind that these vigilantes are often wrong going after innocent people she doesnt seem to mind that not just them but also their families become the victims of Cyber Bullying and harassment and abuse and even attacks and it doesnt seem to concern her that it isnt just police or Law Enforcement that are targeted but also rescuers teachers and even journalists. In the midst of the dissidence of the sheen i have been forced to record this video because of harassment threats and insults towards me and my family as a result of foss information is on the internet please help me share this so that lies dont spread further and dont harm me and my family. To be. Journalists to one of our road constantine but at the bala for example who has faced a tsunami of Death Threats at the behest of all position eda mistrust that of course it is frightening i dont know whats going through their heads someone from the opposition texted me and telegram saying look after yourself or a brick will find your head but at least hes just texting there could be someone else who will actually pick up a brick if they want me to go away then yes i will leave someday but not because of them not because of a text or a phone call another journalist had his car torched off the activists posted the picture of the vehicle on telegram with government insignia lose behind the pictures the veiled threats the Fear Campaign they defy anyone who disagrees with the aim to tens of thousands of better russians dont suffer from sleepless nights doesnt fall over that they dont look at the car still the logic behind this is that they are afraid of revealing who they really are that is what would hurt them the most of these like 21st century bullets yes information bullets these blacklists and terror cab pains all doing in the open. Shouldnt any favors lose thousands already in the least only more determined to prevent the vigilantes and bullies from coming to power if they do things like these such horrific things now and laugh about it what will they do when they come to power in order rebel or russians to they didnt sign up for this they dont want a nation divided into leads and casts the unclean and the blessid opposition at that shows the more radical and hateful the oppositions message the fewer turn up to their protests. Thanks to us taxpayers money earmarked to buy stuff for the pentagon protective equipment against covert was apparently funneled into the hands of private defense contractors certainly according to a report in the Washington Post earlier this Week Congress earlier this year gave the Defense Department a 1000000000. 00 to battle the coronavirus but the Washington Post claims that most of that money went instead to ship Building MaintenanceArmy Uniforms satellites drones and even space surveillance the cash was supposed to address funding gaps in the countrys covert 19 response with the United States of course suffering the highest number of cases in the world it comes of course amid serious anti coronavirus shortages in the country as well the centers for Disease Control has warmed theres an additional 6000000000. 00 is likely needed to potentially distribute vaccines next year it also says theres a severe lack of high quality face masks but the pentagons double down on its move insisting that National Defense must come 1st. We are thankful that congress provided authorities and resources that enable the executive branch to invest in Domestic Production of critical medical resources and protect key defense capabilities and the consequences of curve it we need to always remember that economic and National Security a very tightly into related and our Industrial Base is really the nexus of the 2. Preventative medicine Professor William schaffner believes the spending scandal goes all the way to the top levels of power obviously we would have preferred those monies go to code relief i would think that this decision to spend the money not cold the defense budget. On forces was made at a very high level clearly the diversion of these follows from the Public Health programs of the United States is very misguided i would think that the appropriate congressional committees would do an investigation to find out why this happened and to correct this if a 1000000000. 00 was misused we had better look to the rest also to see how those monies were expended the distribution of the vaccine is going to be our next major effort here in the United States to stop or to reduce and control so cold that problem and all of those things will require funding it means that the congress of the United States has to hold the executive print to account they have to be absolutely. Very attentive to how these monies allocated for good purpose are being spent. That is the weekly for now thanks for watching nikki errands here in 34 minutes to update you again for now though for me ok have a great week. We are segregated only by social class laws fail fast people also in poverty 1st. If youre born into a poor family off youre born into a minority family if youre born into a family that only has a single parent that really constrains your life chances people die on average 15 years younger if youre born into generational poverty. Its a much softer fight every day to meet your needs and the needs of your family. Join me every thursday on the alex simon shore and ill be speaking to us in the world of politics sports business im sure. Ill see you then. All. Alone or welcome to worlds apart theres an all persia thing when theres fire. Dry and wet brain together it may be an apt description of the call that 900. 00 make which affected every country on the planet but iran and the United States more than others again based new invisible enemy we should abandon so many things in our lives. Swore in and tired and the team to discuss that analogy one by irans foreign minister javad zarif minister is such a pleasure to see here in moscow especially in person good to see you again you know if you are one of the 1st and very few dignitaries who are flying into moscow this day and i want to start by asking how it has this been demick change the workings d of diplomacy and you guys have some conversations like most of us or is it not particularly safe to Exchange Information this way well actually we have to do that and just this morning i participated in the meeting of the conference on interaction and cooperation in asia a confidence building in asia. Video conference. Some 20 more Foreign Ministers who are participating in that conference and as you pointed out in your in your introductory statement. This despite a studs and recognize ritual poor weak or strong or enemies its affecting all of us and it shows that we need to come together in order to fight this fight as unfortunately the United States continues to prevent iran even from buying medicine and vaccine to buy just what will definitely discuss that in details but let me ask you one more question about the workings of diplomacy because from what you mentioned i understand that when it comes to you know making. Public statements or prepared statements its ok to do with online but the use still came to moscow for some reason is that because certain things that you sound sort of to disk. Thus the only this is this is actually my 3rd visit to moscow after the corona. Breakout so there are things that you need to discuss in person. Of course we all use Video Conferencing as zoom or whatever other. Platforms are available but it comes to a point that you need to discuss certain things in person now under normal conditions diplomat of your statue would be granted full immunity i mean you cannot be serious you can add the task that. Has covered 1000 change and that i mean