Speculation. The potential in. A large british. Government. To. Cross the world this is your R T International from the team and myself you know hello and welcome to the program. We start with the deadly standoff between armenia and azerbaijan in the caucuses several powerful explosions heard in the past number of hours also confirmed reports of cluster bombs being used by. International law. On friday night several residential buildings were hit in a bombing raid the hospital which was treating soldiers was also damaged there are unconfirmed reports of casualties. Reports shows non the area and its people are continually on edge. Today we witnessed one of the worst bombings of the planet the city which is the capital of nagornokarabakh the disputed region here right behind 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 its all dark but its all done because they wanted to be so delicate because well this is this is a matter of defense they make it more humane all the way every day when we have to leave but were being told that this right here right here we see ambulances rushing. It has been like this all day all day who is being told the level is the end like a very large round of the cool things are better at least this is what the Defense Ministry of armenia is telling us we have no right to get in and get in a way. This is the epicenter of one of the explosions that has battered stomach air tonight this could be a shock now it seems like it has been devastated because its just shattered glass someone who can heal because shattered glass windows are broken in fact look at this just managed to. Pull it off there are boxes of there are boxes of stuff destroyed something that im not even sure if it used to be it was sold on the floor of. The manager just put in the back it was all digitally victory i give you i can even go and grab a slug says something that looks like a deodorant. Well now its easy come easy go its like the welcoming sign from a road this well this is where the portrait of the. From the those people live all well. And lots of it you still live in the world. Talk a lot further leave the damage there is good most significant and. Theres one thing that i have to tell you there was no reason for us here by john to head this place. Residents of the building you just saw run for cover into their basements during the raid the scribe to the team what happened. We have all the tall men who have a bomb in a cloud of smoke at the moment and their windows have been shot at the manage to climb down you have a lot of well i was in my room i was going to tidy up when there was a loud bang it wasnt bearable there was one massive impact i suppose of rubble doris retard their hinges and windows shattered there isnt much left of the house. People were killed and wounded although we dont know the exact number they were taken away i guess the number is around 5 to 7 people. Or the place is populated mainly by armenian christians it broke away from us or by john which is majority muslim in 1908 turkey consistently supported azerbaijan in the standoff on the armenian problem minister claims ankara long with or trying to continue the genocide of the early 20th century. Are they debate going to put a clock on her theres a by johnny to his bended groups to not want to solve the care or bark issue the target is all or many and people around the world theyre continuing the policy of the armenian genocide. Or by john for its part in sr many is entirely to blame for the current flare up president a liar claims armenians are occupying is 0 land and do not want peace he also said 19 civilians from his country have died in the conflict 16 more are injured on friday hostilities spilled beyond the confines of the disputed territory when a bordering on was bombed after by john claims over 2000 shells were dropped in that raid in the Nations Capital people have been showing support for their own military campaign a local journalist sent us a report from a coup his piece includes images of military strikes. Each the. Youll see. I want to go right now right after this. So. People are trying to lead and going on this mission in mind for michelle who is this why. Do we think what is the one time i. See. Siddiqi a. Negotiation process so quite supportive. You can see the National March that the. Now were just here thank you for the card. Lets listen to some. B. S. Reasons and its been since signal another i am originally from carol i am ready to defend my land i have been to areas where the fighting is if they call me im ready to go to war. I think we will win all lands 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 tired everybody feels motivated and wants to help our troops. That america have a negative to do to who are young people or go into the war their minions must surrender and leave all and its. Service and mobilization and conscription to be a. 1000 young people. Came to the. Service. Decide to join the army or something because i am nothing if you will conquer the mind. Now of where we can see that absolute majority of all the coverage. Was crossed by john and paul who are little earlier i spoke to zorra attorney representing the red cross in armenia who say civilians in karabakh are terrified many have no work to go. Passages are now to do filtrate who leaned in and around the areas feeling missed because of the intensity of icing on the last minute of the situation to receive 3 words and we see from recent polls people were pretty terrified and dont know where its cool and what to do to turn to to be in a safer place and basically this is really very worrying also on the onset of winter and that children are just several weeks into that school just and basically its a day that people are trying to protect themselves and being anxious you know the mission is already severe situation. Mixed signals are coming from washington over donald trump state of health is currently in a Military Hospital after contracting corona virus the white house chief of staff was described the president s condition as very concerning saying the next 48 hours will be critical about was soon after trying to doctor said he was doing very well and had no fever earlier mr trump turned a video thanking his supporters. Oh to thank you everybody for the tremendous support im moving to Walter Reed Hospital who are going to who are. Going to make sure the things were the 1st ladys doing. So would thank you very much very appreciated. Here just to explain what i was saying what host doctors said that the doctor and also received down to 4030 a number of people close to mr trump of all to recently tested positive the Administration Says the president will carry on in his rule but many of us political opponents are hoping he wont notice people reports any talk of an october surprise a Game Changing event that comes right before a u. S. 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 except tested positive and the president had been in close contact with her yet he proceeded to still travel yesterday. He is not able to fully perform his his duties as commander in chief we were seeing people without masks regularly were seeing people stopping just not socially distancing they stop 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 with 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 covert 19 threat and even mocked joe biden for being more cautious looks like by april you know in theory when it gets a little warmer miraculously goes away i hope thats true we have a very much under control right here in the United States is lowest in numerous categories. Were lower than the world that they wanted me to come out and scream fearful of 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 miss handling the crisis going into crowds unmasked and all the rest the sort of a brazen invitation for Something Like this to happen the president of the United States and republicans in minnesota are actively spreading a deadly virus they are a risk to the Public Health of my constituents and our country though they have not done so in the past the Administration Must now follow the science and all recommended health prosecute in order to not put additional people at 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 he is in a High Risk Group for home cove it can be lethal but i want to really trust the information coming out of the white house you have no idea how sick you as you 74 years old hes overweight hes in a High Risk Group and he may become us to view early ill if he goes into intensive care the way Boris Johnson did in april that could lead to a cost to final question as to who actually will run the white house and the constitutional mechanism 6 dreamily slow extremely inefficient and maybe faulty and decide its hard to believe they have to proceed taking over the white house by. What the law says may very well happen the situation is unprecedented the us is that right to a period of extreme turmoil things were already turbulent as they were now they are. Over a Dozen Campaign rallies have now been cancelled 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 other story were keeping a close eye on today russias environmental regulators are investigating a spike in sea pollution in the countrys far east the problem with the text off the coast of come. It started earlier this week when surfers in the area felt sick they reported severe. Sore throats nor fatigue since then people have spotted creatures being washed ashore along 40 kilometers or so of coastline experts took some pills and find that petro chemical levels in the water were 4 times over the legal limit we also discovered elevated levels of a toxic chemical an Online Campaign called save the pacific is now urging local authorities and environmental groups to establish the source of the pollution and clean up the waters. Youre watching are to International Still ahead the u. S. Is accusing vietnam of all the fur trade practices and could lead to chinas. Further explanation. Is a reflection of reality. In a world transformed. What will make you feel safe. Isolation community. Are you going the right way or are you being led. By. What is true what is faith. In the world corrupted you need to descend. To join us in the depths. For a mate in the shallowness. Join me every thursday on the alex simon show and ill be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business im show business ill see you then. 17 minutes in food Program Welcome back the mayor of middlesboro in the u. K. Have spoken out against new coronavirus restrictions saying theyre doing more harm than good on the preston talked to r. T. Government announced to extraordinary short notice they certainly didnt communicate with us at all a range of measures to to try and protect people release 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 Damage Mental Health and are going to break down some of the elements of society that the 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 maneuver because thats whats coming your Mental Health suffers when you lose your job or your partner does or your parent s. 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. And its not just middlesborough then youre a strictures also affect Liverpool Warrington hartly pool and these are the bands people from different households mixing our doors interrupting our doors interest me is not banned but it is this courage and only essential travel is allowed even before these measures where introduced the areas mentioned were a long bill is under harsher curbs than the majority of the u. K. Law reaction the middle of birth marriage stance heavily criticized the u. K. Community sector rebranding it irresponsible while one of the mirrors colleagues on the town Council Called him reckless and the press in again and says hes taking the pandemic seriously. So im not soft on colbert i want to control it but we have to find a way of allowing the 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 in fact just over 80 percent of all coked infections are happening within the home so we agreed with the government that it temporary restriction on socialising homes a really good idea categorically. That should not spill out to your garden similarly we wanted to make sure that our venue was a very well run and we want to make sure that people could meet for a bite to eat a cup of tea maybe you know 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. Staying in the u. K. Crueler virus restrictions are left many elderly people the private of Human Company as they have done many other places and one that were decided to tackle the problem by putting a poster in his window asking for a new friends shall be at risk thus he went along to meet and. We spent probably one and a half hours sometimes to the eating. Drinking conversing and that was an evening it was in the cajun. And now i dont have that. With us. 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 taters 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 made 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 for those 2 things in this 1st of all the awful associations with moving here job becoming ill joe going into hospital and then coming home and coming home to die i cant think of this place except in those 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 is some of the youll immediately think of to go down the pub or to go on holiday with or if youre a mountaineering youd want them on the end of the rope because your life depends on it that is a friend somebody you trust implicitly child adult stash d r t u k e stamp share. For a few years in paris are considering whether to shut down all bars restaurants and museums after a jump in corona virus infections the nationwide caseload now stands at almost 600000 putting hospitals under severe strain the countrys Nursing Union has warned that intensive care units could soon become overloaded. We feel betrayed the government is deaf to our needs for each 1002 cabins france has 5. 9 intensive care beds whereas germany has 8 france has 10 nurses bear 1000 people germany has 13 covert patients currently take up almost a quarter of all intensive care beds across france and this week the number of passed the critical threshold 1200 out of 5000 beds medics are also warning of a critical shortage of personnel a doctor and more say told us he believes the system is in crisis. For several years now nursing staff have been warning of chronic stuff from shortages but nothing is being done about this at the University Hospital permanent positions have been cut we are relying on medics and temperate rolls who moved around departments and are not able to adapt to the virus every year seasonal epidemic split strain on hospitals even without it and now the situation is very difficult this should have been a mass Recruitment Campaign in both hospitals and care homes. In germany a rally has been held in the Southern City of constance against the countrys new coronavirus restrictions earlier this week the government imposed tight limits on Public Events on family gatherings arties europe correspondent peter all over as more. A whole bunch of anti lock down activists far right campaigners corona deny is and voxs all people who have been on happy with the way the German Government has handled the corona pandemic of being out on to the streets of the so than german city of constance there are parts of a group that call themselves the lateral think is usually the demonstrations have taken place here in berlin they chose the Southern City for their large demonstration this time around there was a small scale outing here in the german capital on friday evening though around 200 people came out to that they say that the measures that have been put in place by the government designed to stop the spread of the coronavirus breach numerous parts of the german constitution the reports coming in from the scene say that it was very peaceful demonstration there was no major incidents reported by the police anyway so far brought these people out there to say get rid of the anti corona measures thats not going to wash with german chancellor Angela Merkel she says these measures he had to stay here leave the fight were seeing caution slipping everyone is looking for closeness and human contact they want to be close to friends and family again people want to be carefree and go out in public i feel this myself im no different to anyone else but this is a long road we are not yet at the end of the pandemic but there will be tough times ahead with the approach of winter so i putu all of you to respect the rules which must stay in force for a while longer for germany like many European Countries has seen an uptick in corona cases recently 300000 or thereabouts people have been infected with the virus here in germany around 10000 people have lost their lives to it already if we look at the increase in the number of cases that were seeing just a couple of months ago in an organist. 385. 00 was around the amount that we were seeing per day on friday this week 2833. 00 confirmed cases now what measures are coming in place that are going to be tougher this was announced by the chancellor last week this means that theres going to be stronger restrictions in red zones areas that have a high number of cases of the virus thats going to be restrictions on the number of people that can gather it events weightings had been blamed for the spread of the virus in some parts of the country parties as well alcohol sales are going to be limited as well to just bars and restaurants and hope to stop people from drinking in parks and having large gatherings there now the elderly and chronically ill have also being strongly advised to get a flu vaccination that so that the standard flu pandemic flu epidemic that we get every year doesnt end up compounding the pressure thats put on the Health Service thats the way its looking here in germany crowds unhappy gathering in the 7 city of constance but those restrictions that are there to stop the spread of the coronavirus arent going anywhere anytime soon. As mentioned some action from decades since the reunification of germany and central berlin the celebrations were overshadowed by street unless these images you can see several left wing activists being detained after they hurled rocks and bottles of Police Officers they were protesting against the far right march led by a group called the 3rd Security Forces held the rival riots of part of. The dongs in the dollars cites the u. S. Has launched a probe into vietnams trade practices a move that could result in punitive tara the troubled ministration focused same legal article about started a trade war with china. President trump assume we committed to combating unfair trade practices that tom americas workers businesses pharmacy and ranches unfair currency practices can harm u. S. Workers some businesses that compete with vietnamese products that maybe ought to fish to lower the price because of currency undervaluation well this fall is a decade of powerful growth in vietnamese exports to the United States surging from just 15000000000. 00 in 2010 to almost 67000000000 last year recently the trend has been accelerated by Firms Shifting their production to vietnam to avoid american targets on china political economy professor jack russell just told me the investigation has a purely political motive he believes the mystic politics but its never really turns to manipulating and you know if the dollar is too high the currency is one of countries in a decline or if youve got the global recession and the dollars going but if the other countries currencies are falling more of the dollars you know the benchmark urgency well it looks like you know their their currency is being manipulated but you know manipulation means that you know you have a political move to try to throw its currency down its not because of Economic Conditions in this condition the United States youre not. Really sorrow is the dollar in relationship youre in was experiencing if one rises the other naturally falls and vice versa so theres no currency manipulation received newson used against china that was false through this is this is all about domestic politics making it look like its going to do something. And if you feel like doing a deeper dive into any of those stories a good place to start an investigation is r. T. Dot com always plenty to get stuck into there and im back at the top of the hour too hope youll join me then