The french leader among your micron unveils a plan to counter islam is separatism veyron neutral or defending secular values critics have been quick to condemn. The morning welcome youre watching r. T. International. We start with the deadly standoff between armenia and azerbaijan on europes southern border with asian in the latest development a hospital thats been hit by their strike in need disputed province of Nagorno Karabakh and there are unconfirmed reports of casualties the hospital was treating soldiers they have now been evacuated from the area from near the explosion site is r. T. If you start off. Today we witnessed one of the worst bombings of the planet the city which is the capital of nagornokarabakh the disputed region here. At the hospital it was bombed literally just minutes before we arrived here we actually had to had to hide in a bomb shelter and right after that were right here this is the epicenter of one of the explosions that has battered stomach area this beauty shop now it seems like it has been devastated the case just shattered glass from the new heel because shattered glass windows are broken there are boxes of there are boxes of stuff just goes well now its easy come easy go its like the welcoming started from a road just follow every driver and we have to leave. Were being told that this right here right here we see ambulances rushing it has to be like this. Is being born as well as the like very large rounds of the pool. d at least this is what the Defense Ministry of armenia is telling us. So if a residential buildings were also hit in the strike residents took cover in the basements heard from some of them. Dont have all at home and little ball not to be in a cloud of smoke at the moment and their windows have been shot at the managed to climb down yeah well of course i was in my room i was going to take when there was a loud bang it wasnt there there was one message in control i somehow so we have doris retard their hinges and windows shattered and there isnt much left of the house really people were killed and wounded although we dont know the exact number they were taken away i guess the number is around 5 just 7 people in. The car about complex one of several border disputes still unresolved since the collapse of the soviet union. Populated mainly by i mean in the spro go away in 1980 from. But the area has not been widely recognized as a sovereign state has about shown itself is also seen sizable damage on friday a border region was hit with shelling we destroyed a building there well in the capital citizens and been showing support for the military action local journalist a small fatah live report from by kids is peace includes images of military strikes. Will eat the wrong. Youll see. I want to score goals right now i ask you for your song. Our good bye. And you can go on this mission the line for me said the listeners are quite enthusiastic. Including the one time i. See. The cd being the result of. The negotiation process so my support of the army you can see the National Flags that. Ill fight for just yet i think the cars. Lets listen to some of them will be asked recent expectations. I am originally from carob i am ready to defend my land i have been to areas where the fighting is but they call me im ready to go to rule which will listen much i think we will win the land back as soon as possible and we will go to karabakh and put our flag there only our people and soldiers can take our lands back people are not chinese everybody feels motivated and wants to help our troops our countrymen to have a negative attitude to going where young people are going to the war their maintenance must surrender not only. On service the mobilization and consequences. 1000 so young people. You. Service. Its criticize you doing to our voting the coverage of national t. V. Or congress and online media. Outlets we can see that absolute majority coverage is the most prosperous and cool or. Move to the Walter Reed Hospital as a precautionary measure to testing positive for corona virus the president says hes doing ok to share the video thanking his supporters. Thank you everybody for the tremendous support im moving to Walter Reed Hospital where hes going to we were. Going to make sure the things were the 1st lady is doing. So were thank you very much very appreciative that i will never forget the. White house trying to say that the president is experiencing mild symptoms such as a low grade fever but remains in high spirits a number of top officials have now also taken the test democratic rival joe biden had his results come back negative the white house says mr trump will continue in his role but many of his political opponents are hoping he wont live more but explains speaker talk of an october surprise a Game Changing event that comes right before us election has been pretty common in the United States for the past several decades well this years october surprise is here it came in the form of a positive coded 19 test for donald trump and the 1st lady the nation is in shock the white house knew that hope it suggests a process and the president had been in close contact with her yet he proceeded to still travel yesterday forced fundraisers he is not able to fully perform his duties as commander in chief we were seeing people without masks regularly were so. People stopping just not socially distancing they stopped taking temperatures for people who are regular visitors to the white house and we have seen that it has ended up in the worst Case Scenario for the white house donald trump got tested after it was confirmed that his staffer hope ics had been infected the results came in and it was pretty clear at that point that the campaign is now curving in a new direction now lets not forget that donald trump actually downplayed the coded 19 threat and even mocked joe biden for being more cautious looks like by april you know in theory when it gets a little warbird miraculously goes away i hope thats true we have a very much under growing right here the United States is lowest in numerous categories were lower then the world they wanted me to come out and screw the fearful and dying with no we did it just the right way now were weeks away from a vaccine were doing therapeutics already fewer people are dying when they get sick far fewer people are dying weve done a great. Democrats jumped on Donald Trumps diagnosis to once again call him out for mis handling the crisis going into crowds unmasked and all the rest of this sort of a brazen invitation for Something Like this to happen though they have not done so in the postes the Administration Must now followed the science and recommended Health Person you know and to not put additional people to risk and they must be completely transparent some of the reactions have gotten rather ugly its been against my moral identity to tweet this for the past 4 years but i hope he dies the 2nd scheduled debate intended for the discussion of Foreign Policy remains up in the air even if donald trump doesnt get too badly sick hell still be under quarantine now let us not forget that donald trump is 74 years old and overweight hes in a High Risk Group for whom cove it can be lethal but i want. Really trust the information coming out of the white house you have no idea how secure is a 74 years old hes overweight hes a high risk. And he may become a severely ill the few goes into intensive care the way force johnson did in april that could lead to a constitutional question as to who actually will run the white house and the constitutional mechanism 6 lamely slow extremely inefficient and. Maybe faulty in design its hard to believe nancy pelosi taking over the white house but if thats what the of the law says though it may very well happen she does situation as unprecedented the us is entering to a period of extreme turmoil things were already struggling lots of stuff as they were now they are doubly so. Over a Dozen Campaign rallies have now been canceled so how will the public react will there be sympathy for donald trump now that hes been infected or will this be seen as further confirmation of the democrats argument that he lacks clear judgment only the voters can answer that question. R. T. New york. The french president is proposing a new law to fund run ticklish hunts socalled religious separatism and money mccrum made the announcement in a speech on friday claiming that islam is in crisis. Islam is a religion that is in crisis today all over the world countries people who dont just see it and you dont you would lose a deep crisis that is link. Between fundamentalist democracy simply put it between religious and political projects that says we have seen it lead to radicalism even in countries where islam is the majority religion islam you know what is your measure of the law targets what it calls enemies of present is a mis separatist and terrorist restricts foreign financing of mosques and religious schools ratchets up surveillance of groups and individuals suspected of separatism its provoked some negative reactions among french politicians mccrum didnt speak of separatism and republican cohesion he spoke only of obsessive lee stigmatizing muslims heres his only solution to try to hide his calamitous management of the health and social crisis revolting we were expecting a speech on separatism but the plural has become single or and mr mccraw speech was exclusively devoted to islam and islam isnt as if the republic was threatened only by the obscurantist excesses of a tiny minority mcraney evokes the degradation of life in working class neighborhoods and the organization of islam then put forward proposals to be specified only on islam and nothing on the rest there not only believers but also citizens who want equal rights or comes in the midst of a social crisis in france a recent poll found that 40 percent of french muslims put their faith above the laws of the republic mostly think like but are under 25 years old french journalist are no benedetti says macro policy as part of his reelection campaign. We clearly see that emanuel macron is trying to toughen his rhetoric on the values of the republic hes trying to please the traditional right but also the National Bradley supporters who are concerned about this issue so this law countering islamic separatism is all part of his Election Strategy 18 months before the end of his president ial term. President s also drawn criticism this week this perceived meddling in lebanons crisis its all over only a number of International Situations is going in self involved in prompting accusations of over ambition in paris picks up the story. Initial over 3 years on the world stage frances president not corn has apparently become the go to man ladies and gentlemen my im my 1st miss each he said france is back france is back at the core of for europe. Its up to you to write your history but the role of from says to be in friendship by your side from syria to libya wrong to the sour hell mcconnell has fingers in many pies high profile interventions have kept the International Media fixated on him but as bold as they have been many of his cause celeb are seemingly in tractable this week alone hes been asked to mediate in belarus called for a cease fire in conjunction with russian president putin between as a bi schon and armenia and made his feelings over recent well known developments in lebanon for all his efforts how much success has he achieved we have a president who resists sort of. Being in Politics Today africa. Which to me proposed mediation each time you proposed a conference or Something Like that but. d no one success until now on the result for example we were active on leave and use there is no result we were active and there was no result we want to be active in belarus for the moment of course no result lebanon is a particularly sought issue when corn arrived in beirut in the days following those deadly blasts he hoped to instigate change he made pulled the lawns he wanted an interim government appointed fresh elections and an audit of the National Bank we need a new Political Initiative and im here to bring her good because. If your plan on International News should leave you to bring money out directly to people and he broke the mold reaching out and holding talks with hezbollah that now backfired. We welcome president book ron as a friend who loves lebanon and wants to help lebanon get out of its crisis but there is no authorization for the french president or anyone else to be guarding georgia must of been on the list for some experts his intervention smacked of hypocrisy i definitely dont think that he can get to succeed in lebanon and not least because france doesnt control lebanon but also because his position on lebanon is contradictory with his other stated. Positions for example when he went to algeria a few years ago he said that colonialism was a crime against humanity well if it was a crime against humanity then it surely wrong today for the french president to try to. To control the government of lebanon from paris last year as france hosted the g. 7 summit not call got the nod to negotiate with iran as tensions between the gulf state and the u. S. Looked ready to spiral out of control he pulled out all of the stops even flying the Iranian Foreign minister to the summit to hold talks u. S. President trump though appeared to be less enthusiastic about the situation is the president the british you know force of the Iranian Foreign minister you. Know needless to say despite mackerels best efforts the u. S. And iran remain polar opposites no one macro has been busy trying to fix up the world hes also found himself into hot water there was a spat with the brazilian president his romance with trump crashed and burned and he called nato br. Dead and then there is his relationship with turkeys president bush will love me to remind you of my Statement Last year on nato being brain dead i think this is the best example of it into nato members are confronted with the situation we are seeing and denouncing it its intolerable letter. To turkey has drilling practices in the exclusive Economic Zone of cyprus that are today on acceptable and it is multiplying provocations that dont represent the dignity of a great state no one can dispute that not call has being ambitious in his undertakings he wants to make sure that france holds all to its International Clout but for all his efforts some might be left wondering if he has perhaps more than he can chew charlotte r. T. Paris a lonely british were being overwhelmed by new friendships from around the world after he put the post through this window during lockdown well meet him after the break. Join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and ill be speaking to guests of the world of politics sports business im showbusiness ill see you then. Welcome back a lonely widow way in the u. K. Put a poster in his window saying hes looking for friends to his surprise he received an overwhelming response. It was dusty spoke to him we spent probably one on the whole of hours sometimes to eating. Drinking conversing and that was a neat thing it was in the case. And now i dont have that. Tony williams lost his wife to cancer cheering the cave at 19 locked down after 3 decades together but as is increasingly common for the older generation the loneliness that came with losing a longtime partner was devastating after my lovely wife died i found not only of her loss the love this person ive ever met. But i was on my own i was in an area i had no friends or family i was absolutely isolated put a couple of virgins in the local paper but i didnt get in takers i had some cards printed a sort of introduction to myself although i distributed 29 nobody phone back the next thing was i had a poster printed put it up in my window had trouble is very few people walked past my window more than a 1000000 older people like tony can go for over a month without speaking to anyone a situation only worsened by lockdown but the media took up tonys cause and he was inundated with support the lovely thing was. Not so much the quantity the quality the lovely messages i get from all over the world a heartbreaking tale with a heartwarming ending not quite as many have found before him media fame can take a dark turn with an inevitable public backlash that backlash came from tonys neighbors who told me they were his friends and there for him in his time of grief they claimed the media circus was all a sham and the apparent rift with the people who call themselves his friends has ironically make tony more lonely than ever and some of them showing real anger about this to my face and some dont talk to me and i cant do anything about that this week ive decided to go theres 2 things in this 1st of all the awful associations with moving here youre becoming ill joe going into hospital and then coming home and coming home to die i cant think of this place except in those terms but also because people have misunderstood my motivation so thats another reason for moving away it seems tony and his neighbors have differing ideas of what true friendship looks like i was looking for something called friendship real friendship now a friend to me its on the you would immediately think of to go down the pub or to go on holiday with or if youre a mountain earring youd want them on the end of the rope because your life depends on it that is a friend something you trust implicitly child adult stache d r t u k is time share. Its not just the older generations that can feel isolated by locked down but it was the claim coming from the mayor of the town of middlesboro who said that he would reject the new lock down measures being introduced by the u. K. Government we spoke to the marriage itself. The government announced took extraordinary short notice they certainly didnt communicate with us at all a range of measures to try and protect people but these measures went way beyond what was necessary and theyre actually going to stifle all kinds of problem and of course thousands potentially thousands of job losses because it damaged Mental Health and they didnt break down some of the elements of society that are really important cherished health doesnt necessarily just means physical health it means Mental Health and Mental Health is severely impacted when you cannot even stand in your garden and have a coffee to meet with from a neighbor because thats whats coming your Mental Health suffers when you lose your job or your partner does or your parent by the way physical health will suffer with these new rules 2 people will not go out they will not interact they will not mix so a lot of people get a lot less exercise. New restrictions also affect Liverpool Warrington and hartlepool include a ban on people from different households mixing in doth interacting outdoors isnt banned but also isnt advised and only essential travel is allowed. All the bears word serve already been heavily criticized with the Community Secretary branding them irresponsible and depressed and again to say that hes taken a pandemic seriously. So im not soft on colbert i want to control it but we have to find a way of allowing life to go on Mental Health to be ok and physical health to be ok what we do know from our local experts is that 80 percent fact just dont reach a percent of all coked infractions are happening within the home so we agree with the government that it temporary restriction on socialising forms a really good idea categorically that should not spill out to your garden similarly we want to make sure that our venue is a very well run and we want to make sure that people could meet for a bite to eat a cup of tea maybe even a beer in a safe well run environment in a socially just setting none of those 3 environments none of those 3 things are intrinsically risky so we feel that the government is important some of it goes way beyond what was necessary. Julian assange his extradition trial hearings concluded in london the judge and the final verdict will be given in early january after 4 weeks of evidence hearings the wiki leaks that is health has busily deteriorated and the rest is back in april 29th in the us demanded extradition. Stateside he faces criminal charges for leaking 3 documents that detail the u. S. War crimes and the length that explain this trial has been unfair and a conviction because of corrective journalistic freedom around the world and hes going underground spoke to him or her and filmmaker john is a preview. It is the most important political trial of the century but if it goes hippies sent to the United States if his extradited hell find a way to take his own life the whole hearing shouldnt have happened the only way he can speak to his lawyers is to get down on his knees its been 10 years of incarceration of one kind or another they have. Process in this court that has been due revenge the son of his own trial for journalism he gave us too much truth told us about war crimes he told us about how governments lies american jurisdiction can cross any ocean and reach into any country any journalist if they get away with this if they send a sondre across the atlantic it point be the last time it will be the beginning who will be next. And i bring him today join me for more and half an hour. The entrepreneurs 2 are Developers Like dory they take risks theyre risking that these properties could blow up and not be worth anything of value and thats what entrepreneurs do and they get taxed the government gives them tax incentives to be entrepreneurial to be Property Developers thats what those tax incentives are for to encourage entrepreneurs to go create millions of jobs by being Property Developers. And everybody is reaching for there to boost as opposed. To russia and i think the resolution of this is this going to be a nasty war thats going to go on for maybe months as john in an already rejected. Must goes off to mediate because the fighting is too early on that people are now battling to see what territory they can get and i think when the fighting settles down and the lines are drawn and people realize that theyre not going to move forward or backwards then theyre going to turn to the other. As the u. S. Economy was booming growing numbers of people were made homeless. You can work 40 hours d in a week and still not have enough to get housing everybody believes america still is the leader of opportunity the reality of it is were not financially equality and the lack of Affordable Housing or living minimum wage give many people no choice you know thats been a problem with the city knows turn to get richer and told me stay away almost. Half the food that there is no answer because yes that requires resources the most vulnerable are abandoned on the streets to become. Invisible canucks. Nuclear power become a battleground in the us in vermont people love demanding the shutdown of a local plant from my yankee is right now my focus because its a very dangerous oh no care power plant the owner is attempting to run the reactor beyond its operational limit this case just sort of puts a magnifying glass on wheres the power in this country wheres it going is it moving more towards corporate interests or is it more in the idea of a traditional participatory democracy as are powerline with the people this case demonstrates that struggle in the very real ways our struggle