20 point donald trump and joe biden will clash in their 1st president ial debate before novembers election but is do appear to have trouble telling never policies. Although theyre just going for pm here in moscow you without international now a decades old territorial dispute has seen its most serious flare up since a truce was established in 1904 with a still ities now into their 3rd day violence erupted between the nations of armenia and azerbaijan one sunday morning with both laying claim to the new gorno karabakh region. Well reports are now coming in from the disputed area about air strikes being carried out there our correspondent dan of was currently in the capital of nagornokarabakh tells us an air raid sirens can be heard across the city locals have also been advised to take cover in their basements he gave us the latest instapundit the capital of the disputed nagornokarabakh region this morning began with the sounds of explosions and air raid sirens and unmanned drone was shot down we saw the famed smoke above the mountains which are right behind me the military has told me it was a small drone but size is not of the essence here apparently such small you avis are actually Even Deadlier than the large ones because they are designed to specifically eliminate large groups of people theyre designed to target personnel not vehicles or machines thats how yet another day of brutal fighting begins here in the cab back there are no signs that the intensity of this fighting is receding on the contrary the Armenian Defense ministry has said that its army base in armenia on armenian soil came under the attack of the Azerbaijani Forces if this is indeed true this would mean that this conflict has spilled beyond the borders of this disputed region and now in tangles armenia directly and this could be the beginning of the escalation of this conflict into an even larger and more deadly war but i suppose jani officials too strongly reject the claim that back in bombed armenian territory theyre going to cut back is one of several border disputes left over from the collapse of the soviet union the republic seceded from as a vision in 1918 declared itself independent however the enclave predominantly populated by armenians is not widely recognized as an independent state meanwhile journalists from International Media are waiting for permission to enter and report from as a bitch on among them our correspondent or against the f hes currently in turkey. Another day and there is still be no response from the by chinese side to all the journalists and correspondents and Media Outlets that have. Followed requests for entry to as if i john to be allowed to work and to cover the conflict from the as it budget inside so far they have been ignoring every request and nobodys been able to get a nonso weve heard directly excuses about the wartime emergency headed by john weve also heard indirectly excuses about new flights going through is that about john but there are flights from here from istanbul for example to but to with regards to what is happening on the ground there has been unfortunately more escalation parable videos emerging from the conflict so very difficult to verify for now but showing i mean countable number of vehicles tanks armored personnel carriers destroyed. Videos showing infantry being shot down corpses lining fields theres also beat unfortunately an escalation with the weapons that are being used now were hearing reports of. Multiple rocket launchers systems being deployed to the combat zone i mean ia coming out saying that 3 is it about johns actions and leave them no option but to deploy long range much more powerful weapons. Casualties of course also unfortunately mounting is headed by john has just come out saying 10 civilians have died 30 have been killed in what they claim was meenie and shelling the side yesterday said that in the 1st 2 days of combat. 86 soldiers have been killed hundreds hundreds more wounded were also seeing an escalation on the diplomatic front there is growing outrage among the International Community and the global stage leader after leader nation after nation call in and both sides to deescalate but of course getting them to stop shooting is the most difficult part noticeably absent though from this chorus of International Leaders that are calling for calm calling for deescalation is turkey edouard has firmly backed the head by judging side laying the blame for the conflict entirely on the armenians. And once again condemn a media who attacked johnny soil on sunday turkey will continue to stand by his friend and brother in azerbaijan by all means and with all its heart it is time to bring an end to the regional crisis started with the occupation of new goanna karabakh when some media immediately leaves the territory it is occupying the region will return to peace and harmony russia also trying to mediate a cease fire station of hostilities after Vladimir Putins telephone conversation with the leaders of both sides i mean and this is about john the u. N. Secretary general calling the about johnny president aliyev yesterday imploring him to cease hostilities if imploring him to return to negotiations Angela Merkel among the latest leaders to to call both sides again asking them to do the same to stop shooting into the return to the goshi a chanst the u. N. Security Council Session has also been set to discuss what the International Community can do to bring this violence to an end but i guess you have a modern some as a writer an independent journalist told us more about the underlying reasons behind the conflict. Doesnt sound from the rhetoric thats coming out of either side that either side of particularly king to talk and you know this would be a problematic conflict even without outside forces potentially being drawn in on both sides the escalation were seeing today is a bit of a mystery because it seems sort of blown up out of a blue sky but theyll see the conflict itself it goes back to the ninetys initially and also of course to the drawing of bone drees between azerbaijan and el mania during the soviet period and previously what you had in this situation is a situation where nagornokarabakh was effectively the independence of azerbaijan armenia obviously help their fellow citizens as they saw as in going to karabakh during the conflict in the ninetys even if you cant come to a final conclusion about who who gets what bit of the pie as long as people arent being killed then thats thats good and you know for many years that has been the case here and certainly no longer the case. In other news the french president has promised to help better russian opposition and crohns page came as he met with atlanta taken on sky for the 1st time chinas means can now has more details from paris. Well its understood during that meeting which took place in the lithuanian capital that affect land there to kind of sky asked for support for fresh president ial elections in belarus and she asked for united european support for change in the country now following the meeting she said that frances president had agreed to help. The fish and b. Of the more. You know football for this political crisis in our country will do everything to her to release all the blood from brazil well this of course follows a disputed president ial elections in belarus which have seemed widespread protests in the weeks following that some say that she was the spark behind some of those protests there will be a question if perhaps president macron is the right person to mediate in this situation given that he has made his views about belarusian president alyaksandr. Very well known and on the one hand president machen has talked about the fact he doesnt want to see foreign interference in belarus on the other hand he says he has supported or does support the idea of sanctions on the country. Opposition is very clear that we do not recognize the election of president lukashenko and therefore we dont recognize his status as president elect. As soon as possible on and i hope we can take the necessary sanctions but also reengage in indispensable mediation there are diverging opinions on whats happening in belarus for example russia has given its backing to the new term of. President putin saying that the changes that have been put forward to the constitution reforms in the future have been outright rejected by Opposition Leaders the e. U. My. Meanwhile has says it doesnt support whats happening in belarus it in fact called the inauguration of president lukashenko being something that was lacking any democratic legitimacy its also described the protesters out on the streets as being brave didnt it to have suggested that it wants fresh elections now president might call has said president lukashenko must go hes been pretty clear about that but president lukashenko has hit back saying if that is president michaels logic then perhaps he too should have stepped down during the yellow vests protests based on the principles of mr himself following his own logic he should have resigned 2 years ago when the yellow vests started to appear on the streets of paris as an experienced politician to an immature one i want to advise mr mccrone to look around less and instead finally deal with the internal affairs of france well that meeting comes just ahead of e. U. Leaders who are also due to meet where the topic of belarus is expected to be high up on the agenda with leaders discussing possible sanctions against the country well after the meetings vote on it in office guided say to that she had accepted an invitation to speak in the French Parliament dependent journalist has questioned whether france is the best player to play the role of mediator. But you michael cannot play the role of mediator there should be somebody to mediate if any or is respected by all parties including mr question sorry to say so mediating is something that you cannot do from a position where he stands now having after having taken a strong position in support of the opposition. Caught mediate anymore so i dont see anything happening on the side of europe in brussels all of us so probably the situation will remain the same and europe will reduce its complaints and support this is the kind of scale thought and our friends in lithuania for the coming years as a government in exile is. Now the ads are counting down until the 2 main heavyweight candidates and to the ring for the 1st round of the us president ial debates the rules may have been changed because of it but both will be hoping to inflict a knockout blow on the other but more his kind of. In the year of covidien out with the old and in with the new when it comes to president ial debates there will be no handshake between the 2 candidates there will be no Live Audience there will just be 2 president ial contenders going head to head in front of t. V. Cameras but aside from the staging everything looks to be pretty normal donald trump is revving up his old insult comedy routine accusing joe biden of having Poor Mental Health and being doped up. Strongly demanding a drug test of sleepy job i didnt pry a 2 off to the debate on tuesday night naturally only agreed to take one also his debate performances have been record setting uneven to put it mildly only drugs could of course this discrepancy now the biden camp is taking down from quite literally and demanding a drug test meanwhile biden is certainly not short of a bargain or 2 he has just compared donald trump to hitlers chief propagandist you know he says sort of like goebbels you say is a lie long enough keep repeating repeating repeating it becomes Common Knowledge that when it comes to trading blows in the debates biden hopes they will be verbal rather than physical at least this time now the 1st debate is going to cover just a few major issues youve got coded the u. S. Supreme court racism violence and Election Integrity but can anyone really tell the difference between the 2 major candidates. Probably think truth is. Yes but really. Id say 5. Im going to say trump but it could be biden. It seems to me to be. No no. No no no. Are you just grossly reading polls show biden has a pretty solid lead over donald trump however theres still over a month to laugh before the final vote however some Media Outlets have already called and said theres really no point in even having debates he and his henchmen are a danger with their comments i mean danger to our democracy so i dont want to give him you know why bother. You know he doesnt tell the truth he isnt committed to our constitution president ial debates are a kind of american tradition now at this point its pretty unlikely that the millions of viewers will learn anything new other than some nasty nicknames or a one liner jabs but that wont stop millions from tuning in. Art see new york. All the talk show host that larry king does believe that by the debates would be little to change peoples political beliefs its impossible to pick a winner and debate i do not think that joe biden and biden will fare poorly i think trump is making a mistake by thinking that all he has to do is just go into the arena and he wins the thats not the way it works biden was surely fresh from the members of the day today about his income tax is the aggressor lets see how aggressive he is this is not a real debate in that each side i go 3 minutes you go 2 minutes i get one minute you get one minute nobody fact checks as to whos telling the truth and whos not. But it is what it is i remember the Kennedy Nixon 1st Kennedy Nixon debate in 1960 the 1st televised debate and i heard that the debate on the radio and i thought nixon won the debate but if youre sort on television everybody was selling wow did you see that nixon look gray kennedy look strong so a lot of this depends on how you look i dont think the public watches this open mind you if youre for biden youre for biden tonight too are and if your for from your for trump how many people are undecided now thats a question political pundits have asked for years i know of no one undecided in this race sure i think theyll be a tremendous audience for this debate now how much will it count and theyll be polling the next couple days as a Vice President ial debate coming in the end. I dont think they matter very much i think theyre a wash so well see what we shall see. Now after a summer of nice brutality protests in the us new figures to show that has been a stink prize in a number of offices in jude longevity but the tiles just off the bridge. Join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and ill be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business im sure business ill see you there. Welcome back now the work of Police Officers in the u. S. Is getting more dangerous according to the new York Police Department over 7 and a half 1000 officers have been injured in the line of duty here and that is an almost 50 percent increase compared with the same period last year many of the injuries were sustained during this summers anti cop brutality protests Police Unions are pointing the finger of politicians the chaos that politicians are encouraging on the streets is putting cops in hospitals every new york and he starts their elected officials how cops can protect them when we can barely protect ourselves and one of the more bloody incidents a number of Police Officers were attacked by protesters on the Brooklyn Bridge in july on required emergency ice or tree after suffering blows to the head in another case in june an officer in the bronx was the victim of a hit and run attack and then also in june a molotov cocktail was thrown at an n. Y. P. D. Vehicle nationwide protests 1st gripped the us back in may over the Police Killing of george fraud over the summer there were frequent violent clashes between black lives matter protesters and officers see pumper a member of the National Police association also blames elected officials for the spike in injuries incurred in the line of j. T. Obviously the increase in the riots that many occurring across america have definitely increase the odds of a Police Officer getting injured and then the black of consequences for people attacking Police Officers there essentially many of them are getting away with it part of the problem is that we have you know governors mayors city leaders county 3 leaders who are essentially ordering officers not to enforce the law or theyre implicitly setting the situation where officers dont enforce the law or because no charges are going to be brought against you know the people they arrest you know youre just going to have that cycle of violence because the officers are not the theyre not equipped to be able to stop the violence they dont have the authority to do it was the leadership gives it to them and so when you have Something Like this so its it gives somebody you know a jumping off point to go in and decide that every Police Department in america is you know nice the reform i dont know of another occupation where somebody makes a mistake or does something outwardly youre wrong and they dont want to change the entire institution i remember last time you know it teacher did something wrong they wanted to you know reform teaching in america and seeing that. The u. S. Is ripping these top diplomats just the burrell for acting alone in venezuela with that the printing of the blocks ally across the atlantic this will make relations with the e. U. Bureaucracy more difficult its not useful to have barrels Office Working on its own is fair to call it cowboy diplomacy he sent a mission to venezuela ahead of its parliamentary elections in december the countrys opposition into call for a boycott claiming it will be great to in favor of the Current Ruling Party the bulk types that provide minimum democratic conditions