Day in San Francisco in the evening in algiers 10 pm here in moscow this friday october the 2nd welcome to our. We start with the deadly standoff between armenia and azerbaijan caucuses 2 large explosions have been heard within the past number of hours in the. Earlier today the regions main city was. Been hearing the regular sound of a raid sirens. Several buildings were damaged including the Emergency Ministry where the windows were shattered and holes blown through the walls the Armenian Defense ministry has blamed azerbaijan for the u. S. To its army units on fold and there it was and by john has not confirmed or denied the bombing. Has itself in fact also seen sizable damage a border region was hit by mortar fire and several buildings were destroyed are. Reports not from nagornokarabakh. Step on 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 on the outskirts in the suburbs this is the very city center and moreover this is the building of the ministry of emergencies so it has been obliterated i mean look look at this everything is gone windows are gone the whole wall theres a hole in the whole wall and its not just this building theres a whole complex its a large its a large complex and its everywhere like this obliterated not raised to the ground but its gone i dont see any way how it can be fixed all renovated we dont know what we dont know what exactly caused the explosion but we didnt hear any sirens and sirens so probably wasnt a drone but some really heavy artillery and with a very long range as well but we have to go they are telling us its not safe because sometimes as the azerbaijanis are using these socalled double tap so that they not only they destroy the building but also the kill soldiers who arrived here weve arrived here with the soldiers as well so we have to go this is the crater that was made by one of the rockets and this is a piece from a the military here is telling me that this is a 250 cal about 250 millimeter caliber so it is a massive rocket they dont know exactly what it is theyre telling me these these are not laws but that this one is also israeli made. Courses on offer putting in the ground will journalists covering the conflict are getting caught in the crossfire 4 were injured in a shell strike and whedons being put into french reporters they were lifted to your advantage for treatment as were witnessing here theyre not back in front on thursday as well a car carrying 4 other reporters including russians was hit. By an artillery shell but no one was injured. Lets give you some background to this the current conflict is one of several border disputes still unresolved since the collapse of the u. S. S. R. The enclave populated mainly by armenian christians broke away in 1988 from azerbaijan which is majority muslim but the area has not been widely recognized as a sovereign state. Another aspect to this conflict france russia accused turkey of funding the militants from syria into the conflict zone armenias backed up that claim saying turkey is using terrorist to help azerbaijan along with direct military support observation for its part denies those allegations saying it is armenia thats using foreign mercenaries. There is much historic evidence for meaning of terrorists and mercenaries during the occupation of nagornokarabakh and adjacent regions of his or beach on their mini and leadership continues this policy today mercenaries are pumped into the conflict zone disguised as volunteers according to our information about 4 families and militants have recently been deployed by turkey from syria to azerbaijan they are already fighting for azerbaijan they are trained in militant camps and then transferred. Well russia france and the u. S. Have urged the warning signs to end the financing of call for negotiations involving the o. S. C. Minsk group which has been overseeing peace efforts for almost 30 years turkey has rejected pleas for such a truce president erdogan has said he hopes it will continue its offensive until color black is freed from what he sees as the armenian occupation one more point in an already complex situation armenia has accused of using cluster munitions in color back and has published photos allegedly proving it the weapons are bound to under International Law has not yet responded to. Both sides have however released a string of videos to box up their claims of tactical victories and are making contradictory claims about the damage inflicted parties are looks now at how dissent from ation has become one of the key weapons in the standoff deception and full of military victories are as old as of wilfahrt south but in the digital age the distance from mason cant beat. The military Propaganda Machine of armenia which found itself in a stalemate after a series of successful hostilities by the us or by johnny army began a large scale provocation in the Information Space though the armenian side as always presents old video of battles as new ones the goal was to present their failures to the population as successes the ongoing conflict in the want to care about is an example of how information is deployed just as powerfully and destructively as guns claiming victory come play as important a role as physically claiming territory its all about the image you project so one surprise in that just as azerbaijan tried to discredit on me as claims of success yards on shot off its own attack. The enemy both at the front in the Information Space is making his last efforts is running out of steam and therefore through everything all possible weapons into battle and even fakes and false hoods over the past few days there has been a relentless stream of accusations from one side followed by denials from the author and this exchange of fire has made finding the truth almost impossible for example armenia says one of its su 25 warplanes was shot down by tuckers fighter jet talky and as a by john denounce this is law is and with no footage or i want to says its one sides word against the others so what is the truth but even when evidence is put forward the truth proves to be just as elusive the car back to France Ministry both sit down and azeri helicopter a photo of a burning helicopter hurtling to the ground is posted on social media a small victory is claimed it turns out the photo was actually of a Helicopter Shot down over syria back in february but it doesnt matter because people thought it was a sari and that will stick as a point john uses the same tactics to post about a successful strike bridge honest i did not publish any midges of the strikes and their mean in positions of military equipment it turns out it was for those from the war in syria these videos were shot thousands of times and so without being the truth they become a version of the truth so were letting this has this war of information become that journalists have been put on high alert. All members of the media in armenia and azerbaijan to not take part in the ongoing information war journalists should avoid manipulation and official propaganda. It is important to crosscheck information even when it comes from official sources journalists should never become soldiers in the information war one of russias most famous authors once compared finding the truth to looking for gold he said the only way its fast to wash away all that is not gold then you will find your signing not get well when it comes to car thats still a knot of sifting through the muddy river of misinformation to be done before we even get close to the truth. Lets turn stateside where President Trump is suffering mild symptoms after contracting coded 19 now according to the white house he the 1st lady tested positive for the virus with just over 4 weeks to go before the election in the wake of the diagnosis a number of top officials have been tested being Vice President mike pence whos tested negative Donald Trumps rival for the presidency joe biden his results also came back negative along with his running mate horace incidentally if trump and pence were ruled out of action democrats House Speaker nancy pelosi would enter the oval office shes now weaving her results killam up and has more now on the shakeup caused by the announcement. The white house has now confirmed that both malani of the 1st lady and u. S. President donald trump have tested positive for coded 19 now according to the white house they are both starting to show mild symptoms at this point now this is pretty big news trump is in a High Risk Group as he is overweight and 74 years old now many are pointing out that donald trump has somewhat downplayed the danger of covert 19 over the past few months 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 Younger Group right here in the United States is lowest. In numerous categories were lower than the world they wanted me to come out and screw. With so 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 job with just about a month left until the president ial election is to take place on november 3rd this is a pretty dramatic event to have the president of the United States testing positive for covert 19 now dozens of Campaign Rallies have been canceled as the president goes into quarantine now a debate was scheduled to take place in that with the following 2 weeks of debate with joe biden in which the president and joe biden would debate issues of international and Foreign Policy however its unclear what will be happening with that debate as we proceed the democrats have been quick to criticize donald trump and say that he has mishandled the coded 1000 crisis and downplayed the very serious dangers posed by covert going into crowds unmasked and all the rest the sort of a brazen invitation for Something Like this to happen though they have not done so in the postes the Administration Must now full of the science and recommended Health Person in order to not put additional people who risk and they must be completely transparent media is rampant with speculation about how this could affect the Election Results now at this point if donald trump were to be unable to perform his duties as president fall ill or die he would be replaced by mike pence or if mike pence were unable to do so by nancy pelosi now both of those individuals are also in the High Risk Group for coded 19 so at this point the question remains will the u. S. Public become more sympathetic to the president now that he has fallen ill or will they become more outraged about his handling of the coded 19 pandemic that will be seen on november 3rd when u. S. Voters head to the polls. Well journalists and or 3rd done english are thinks theres plenty of uncertainty right now over Donald Trumps actual condition no one really trusts the information coming out of the white house we have no idea how secure is a 74 years old hes overweight hes a High Risk Group and he may become a severely d ill or baby even die if he goes into intensive care the way Boris Johnson did in april that could lead to a constitutional question as to who actually will run the white house and the constitutional neck in isms extremely slow extremely inefficient and. Maybe faulty in design its hard to believe nancy pelosi taking over the white house but its thats what the law says though it may very well happen the situation is unprecedented the u. S. Is that going to a period of extreme turmoil things were already trev be lots of stuff as they were now they are doubly so. Lets bring you another headline stories today the french president is proposing a new law to find running kill islam and religious separatism among all mccraw made the announcement in a speech on friday picking up the story for us not r. T. Charlotte devinsky. This has been long awaited how the french government would seek to defend the countrys secular values against radical islam and present law call on friday has set out his stall. Islam is a religion that is in crisis today all over the world we dont just see it in our country it is a deep crisis that is linked to tensions between fundamentalisms specifically between religious and political projects that as we have seen lead to radicalism even in countries where islam is the majority religion well the draft glorys due to be presented in december and it will seek to strengthen the secularism here in france now present much ringback talked about france liberating is from foreign influences and some of the ways it intends to do this with this law will be for example more oversight in how mosques here off funded there will be stricter scrutiny of schools and associations that so serve religious communities and when it comes to homeschooling which is rather popular amongst the Muslim Community that will only be allowed when there are Health Related issues involved sometimes they do not receive any education but go to unofficial structures very Simple Structures walls with no windows children who arrive at 8 am every day and who leave a 3 pm women in becomes welcome them and teach only prayers and certain classes thats their teaching there was Immediate Reaction on social media to president michel speech with many decrying it. The destruction of france has been written by the hands of the president of france crown houses them in crisis all over the world today do you realize is the leader of a nation the ramification of your words especially on french citizens who follow islam mccanns latest comment on crisis and islam is nothing other than a shill to the crisis in europe of their identity and liberal is on the other hand many people feel that this who is needed to stop the slide away from francis secular values it has forced the country in the last few years with the terror attacks that france is seen to take stock of what its core Republican Values are and some of the things that have come out have been concerning to many french people for example a recent poll found that 3 quarters almost 3 quarters of the young muslims under the age of 25 thought that their values of islam were more important than the french republic and that really worried many people just in the last week we saw fresh terror attack here in paris and the man who carried out that attack did so because he was unhappy with the satirical magazine charlie ever dont we publishing controversial cartoons of the muslim prophet mohammed and the idea of islam and how that sits with those values of secularism in the french republic is a thorny issue will this still the debate or will it settle it well thats yet to be seen. We clearly see that the manual mark ron is trying to toughen his rhetoric on the values of the republic hes trying to please the traditional right but also the National Rally 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. Youre going into or to International Still i heard you slap sanctions on bella russian officials over election rigging. But leave the question go off the list all the details when we return. The 1st president ial debate exhibited lots of like but not much one can argue neither candidate last night was a perfect reflection of the nations politics could the campaign coming to an end do the debates have any meaningful impact is there such a thing as an undecided vote. Is your media a reflection of reality. In the world transformed. What will make you feel safe. High salacious community. Are you going the right way or are you being. Direct. What is true what is faith. In the world corrupted you need to descend. To join us in the depths. Or a maybe in the shallows. Just approaching 20 minutes into the Program Welcome back the regional authorities in madrid have launched a legal challenge against the spanish governments new lockdown order they have filed an appeal in the National Court claiming that the measures violate local laws on self ruin will cause all necessary economic harm the madrid area has one of the highest grown a virus infection rates in spain and the Health Minister insists the shutdown is on avoidable. Ok what i can tell you is that we have to act with determination to take control of the pandemic in the majeed region and this is the most important thing we have to do in this moment because health comes 1st if you get on with cares we believe this document contains decisions that concern the entire National Health system and above all the fundamental rights and freedoms of millions of people the minister is imposing measures that go against the will of many citizens. Well just some of the main aspects of this residence in madrid will not be allowed to leave the area unless they have to make an essential journey social Gatherings Limited to 6 people bars restaurants theyll have to close by 11 pm at parks playgrounds theyre off limits to the measures have already led to mass protests over 2000 people gathered to denounce them last friday protesters pushed rubbish bins into roads and chanted slogans the mounting freedom we asked madrid residents what they think about the new locked i. 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