Rigging with responding in kind. Of very warm welcome to the program on this friday afternoon its 4 pm here in the russian capital lets get started with a live news update we start with a deadly standoff between armenia and azerbaijan in the south caucuses the main city in the disputed province of. Has been pounded by warplanes and locals have been hearing the regular sound of air raid sirens. Several buildings have been damaged including the Emergency Ministry where the windows were shattered and holes blown through the walls Armenian Defense ministry has blamed azerbaijan for the airstrikes and has put its National Army units on full combat alert armenia has also accused of using cluster munitions and karbala and has published photos allegedly proving that azerbaijan has not yet responded to the allegation or confirmed or denied the airstrikes are going on the reports now from the destroyed Emergency Ministry building. Has come under probably the heaviest shelling since we arrived he
October welcome wherever youre joining us from today. We begin with the deadly standoff between armenia and azerbaijan in the south caucasus a hospital has been hit by a large explosion in the disputed province. There are unconfirmed reports of casualties earlier the regions main city was bombed from the air and locals have been hearing the regular sunday of. Several buildings were damaged including the Emergency Ministry where the windows were shattered and holes blown through the walls there are many in Defense Ministry has blamed azerbaijan for the earth strikes and put its army units on full combat alert. Has not confirmed or denied the bombing raids yet are down for ports now from nagornokarabakh. It has come under probably the heaviest shelling since we arrived here 2 massive explosions in the very center of the city usually what we could hear what we could see the smoke from the explosions which were on the outskirts in the suburbs this is the very city center and moreover this
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This is r. T. International coming to life are lost on the joining us. North and south korea have started their First Official talks in two years the negotiations are taking place in the Demilitarized Zone between the two countries that have been recent signs of progress january the third sold the reopening of a cross border telephone line and the following day donald trump delayed the annual military drills with seoul until after next months Winter Olympics in south korea. Lets cross now to our reporter caleb caleb what more can you tell us about these talks which we north and south korea. Well the talks have already started in the shared village in the Demilitarized Zone between north and south korea now from what we understand the primary focus of the talks will be in relation to the olympics about the participation of athletes from north korea in the south korean Olympic Games which are coming up in february now we also heard from south koreas reunification minister and he was sayi
Something different than has been applied before which it isnt and in reality he wants to pull back some of the thunder if you will back to washington because you have again the north and south talking i think the u. S. Is a little jekyll and hyde with its policies because on one hand it wants to have a resolution wants to have de mille nuclearization wants to have peace and on the other hand pumps up this rhetoric and so the motivations relate to finances they relate to geo political factors of the u. S. Power in the region if you will and they relate to trying to ice out china and russia a little bit as a player in this as was evident in vancouver. More than thirty people are feared to have been killed in an overnight siege at a major hotel in afghanistans capital of kabul thats according to reports citing Security Officials authorities put the death toll at nineteen including. A high ranking afghan diplomat and fourteen foreign nationals most of them the employees of a local airline