Wild about the implications of his infection for the 2020 president ial race. Plans to counter islamist separatism with a new law defending secularism critics slam it as a desperate bid to mask is failing steering the pandemic. This is r. T. Start with the deadly standoff between armenia and azerbaijan on europes southern border with asia in the latest development armine is reporting 3 azerbaijani warplanes have been shot down in the no go and i care about conflict. Hospital in the regions capital was hit by it as strike and there are unconfirmed reports of casualties the hospital was treating soldiers they have now since been evacuated from the area. Reports from the city. 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 we were right 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 your case just shattered glass from google because shattered glass windows are broken there are boxes of there of boxes of stuff just goes well now its easy come easy go its like the world coming from a road is following every siren we have to leave no doubt were being told that this right here right here we see ambulances rushing it has been like this. Is being born as well as the unlikely very large rounds of the pool. d at least this is what the Defense Ministry of armenia is telling us. Several residential buildings were also hit in the strike her residence took cover in the basements from some of the. Dome of the wall at home and was a well not a cloud of smoke at the moment and the windows have been shot at i managed to climb down the i will 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 some lousy 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 to 7 people. The cut up a conflict one of several border disputes still in this old since the collapse of the soviet Union Populated mainly means broke away from us about john in 1900. 8 but the area has not been widely recognized as a sovereign state and spies on itself has also seen sizable damage on pride in a border region was hit by shelling which destroyed a building that all in the capital citizens have been showing support for military action local journalists marva tally of reports from back in this piece includes images of military strikes. Were. Going to go and eat the 9 pm youll see the cook you think i. Really want to score goals for an hour might ask you for one song. And our get 5 leads and youve got to go on the special line for Michele Norris are quite enthusiastic people out there waiting for the full time. To see. Who would seek a thing or. Feel like this is a process so much support of the army you can see the National Flags that they hang outside their house for just being on their thank you the karst. Lets listen to some of them will be asked for a since its been a since. Im originally from carol im ready to defend my land i have been to areas where the fighting is if they call me im ready to go to rule bush for the simple to say much i think we will win the land back as soon as possible and he will go to karabakh and put a flag there hes the only our people and soldiers can take our lands back people are not chinese if i look he feels motivated and wants to help our troops so i can remember he can have a negative attitude to going where young people go into the war their main us must surrender not only. On service the mobilization and consequences of a. State. 100000 young people. Came to the. Service. Its pretty decide to join the army or something because of conflicts national t. V. Networks and online media. Outlets where we can see that absolute majority of the coverage. Donald trump ers been moved to the Walter Reed Hospital as a precautionary measure after testing positive for corona virus the president says hes doing ok and shared a video thanking supporters. Think everybody for the tremendous record im going to want to read hospital i think im doing very well but were going to make sure of the things were the 1st lady is doing very well so were thank you very much gary appreciate it i will never forget you. White House Doctors say that the president is experiencing mild symptoms including low grade fever he doesnt need oxygen support but started antiviral therapy democratic rival joe biden had his results come back negative the white house says the trouble continue in his role many of his political opponents are hoping he wont elaborate an explicit. Talk of an october surprise a Game Changing event that comes right before a 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 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 to 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 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 warmer miraculously goes away hope thats true we have a very much good to go right here the United States is lowest in numerous categories were lower than the world that they wanted me to come out and screwy fearful of dying with. 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 agreed. 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 full of the science and all recommended Health Person 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 hes 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 a 74 years old hes overweight hes a High Risk Group and he may become us to view early 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 of the clubs but the other law says may very well happen she does situation as unprecedented the us is that right to a period of extreme turmoil things were already struggling a lot 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 s proposing a new law to find radical islam socalled religious separatism among their mccraw made the announcement in a speech on friday claiming that islam is in crisis. This led me to what is your conclusion islam is a religion that raising the price of today all over the world countries people who dont just see it in you dont you lose a deep crisis that is linked to tensions between fundamentalism them already 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 would you measure the law targets what it calls enemies of friends isnt the separatists and terrorists it restricts foreign financing of mosques and religious schools ratchets up surveillance of groups and individuals suspected of separatism its provoked some negative reactions and im french politicians. Mccrum didnt speak of separatism and republican cohesion he spoke of islam obsessive lee stigmatizing muslims heres his only solution to try to hide his calamitous management of the health and social crisis and mr mccraw speech was exclusively devoted to islam and islam islam 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. For all comes in the midst of a social crisis in france a recent poll found 40 percent of french muslims put their faith above the laws of the republic and most who think like that are under 25 years of age french journalist are now benedetti says michaels policy is part of his reelection campaign. What 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. Frances president also drawing criticism this week Christmas Eve meddling in lebanons crisis its one of a number of International Situations hes got himself involved in prompting accusations of over ambition in paris picks up the story. And michel over 3 years on the world stage from says president not corn has apparently become the go to man ladies and gentlemen my my my 1st missy each he said francis 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 sun hell mccaughan 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 a 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 by shon 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 is a sort of sub being in Politics Today africa today sleep. Each time he proposed mediation each time he proposed a gun for answer Something Like that but. No one success until now on result for example we were active on leave and no 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 on 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 guardian jaja must of been on it for some experts his intervention smacked of hypocrisy i definitely dont think that he can 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 from thorough appeared to be less enthusiastic about the situation is the 1st the british you know force of the opinion Foreign Ministers 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 bromance 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 let you see the 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 corn has been in his undertakings he wants to make sure that france holds on to its International Clout but for all his efforts some might be left wondering if he has perhaps more than he can chew. R. T. Paris. A lonely british widower has been overwhelmed by new friendships from around the world after he put a post through his window during lockdown well meet him after the break. The entrepreneurs to our developers like. They take a risk 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. Everybodys reaching for their. Soucie and i mean its a rush and i think the resolution of this is theres going to be a nasty war thats going to go on for maybe months. Already rejected. 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. The other. Welcome back along the would do were in the u. K. Put up a poster in his window saying he was looking for friends to his surprise he received an overwhelming response. Spoke with it we spent probably one on the half hours sometimes 2 to. Drinking conversing and that was an evening it was in the cage 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 versions 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 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 those 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 t