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Trump-Biden: White supremacy row flares after chaotic debate - BBC News

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President Donald Trump's refusal to explicitly condemn a key far-right group has sparked outrage among opponents after a fierce and chaotic US election debate.

In the TV debate with rival Joe Biden, he instead called on the Proud Boys group to "stand back and stand by".

Members of the Proud Boys said on social media that the comments were "historic" and an endorsement.

Mr Biden said Mr Trump had "refused to disavow white supremacists".

The first of three televised debates between the two men ahead of the 3 November election descended into squabbling, bickering and insults, with US media describing it as chaotic, ugly and awful.

The commission that regulates the debates said it would introduce new measures for the next two to "maintain order".

Not much was gleaned on policy and although one snap poll on the debate gave Mr Biden a slight edge, other opinion polls suggest 90% of Americans have already made up their mind on who to vote for and the debate may well have made little difference.

BBC North America reporter Anthony Zurcher says if one man emerged a winner it was Joe Biden as he was less covered in slop from the food fight. Anything resembling a substantive exchange was buried in bickering, so this was a missed opportunity for the president, he says.

Mr Biden appears to hold a single-digit lead over Mr Trump, but surveys in so-called battleground states suggest this could still be a close contest.

Why did the far-right issue arise?

It was raised by debate moderator Chris Wallace amid the backdrop of street violence in some cities this year, some of which flared over the issues of police killings and racism.

Wallace asked whether the president would condemn white supremacists and tell them to stand down during demonstrations.

"Sure, I'm willing to... but I would say almost everything I see is from the left wing, not from the right wing. I'm willing to do anything. I want to see peace," Mr Trump said.

Mr Biden twice said "Proud Boys" when the president asked who it was he was being told to condemn.

The president said: "Proud Boys - stand back and stand by. But I'll tell you what... Somebody's got to do something about antifa and the left because this is not a right-wing problem."

Founded in 2016, Proud Boys is a far-right, anti-immigrant, all-male group with a history of street violence against left-wing opponents. One Proud Boys social media account posts the logo "Stand Back, Stand By."

Antifa, short for "anti-fascist", is a loose affiliation of far-left activists that often clash with the far right at protests.

What has the reaction been?

Joe Biden returned to the issue in a tweet on Wednesday, saying: "There's no other way to put it: the President of the United States refused to disavow white supremacists on the debate stage last night."

In his tweet he quoted a comment, addressed to the president, from a Proud Boys online forum that read: "This makes me so happy. We're ready! Standing by sir."

Mr Biden's Democratic running mate, Kamala Harris, told CNN: "I heard what we all heard. The president of the United States, in the year of our Lord 2020, refuses to condemn white supremacists."

Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt said Mr Trump's words were "astonishing" and Rita Katz, of the SITE extremist watchdog, said Mr Trump had given "another nod to white supremacists".

President Trump has tried to project a stance of being the law-and-order president. His response in a tweet on Wednesday read: "Biden REFUSED to use the term LAW & ORDER. There go the Suburbs."

Trump campaign spokesman Hogan Gidley told CNN the president had said "sure" when asked if he would condemn extremist groups, adding Mr Trump had done so "many times just not last night, in the past as well".

Mr Trump's son, Donald Jnr, also said his father was "happy" to condemn such groups. "I don't know if that was a misspeak, but he was talking about having them stand down," he told CBS.

Mr Trump has downplayed the threat of white supremacy groups in the past, although the Department of Homeland Security says they will remain the most "persistent and lethal threat" in the United States into next year.

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Proud Boys members certainly believed they had been supported by Mr Trump.

Organiser Joe Biggs wrote: "President Trump told the proud boys to stand by because someone needs to deal with antifa... well sir! we're ready!!"

One member said the group was already seeing a spike in new recruits.

What were the other key debate moments?

In the 90-minute debate in Cleveland, Ohio, both candidates talked over each other a lot. Mr Trump cut in some 73 times.

The main issues included:

Abounding insults. Hectoring from Mr Trump saw Mr Biden call the president a "clown". He told the president: "Will you shut up, man?" and later snapped "Keep yapping, man"
Mr Trump said Mr Biden had "graduated either the lowest or almost the lowest in your class" and had done nothing in 47 years of politics
Mr Biden said Mr Trump had "panicked" over the coronavirus epidemic and a "lot of people died". Mr Trump later tweeted that many more would have died if Mr Biden had been president
Mr Trump defended his effort to swiftly fill a US Supreme Court seat, while Joe Biden refused to answer when asked if he would try to expand the number of judges
When asked if he would encourage his supporters to be peaceful if results of the election were unclear, Mr Trump said: "I'm encouraging my supporters to go into the polls and watch very carefully"
When Mr Trump said Mr Biden would be at the behest of the left of the Democratic Party over health and environmental policy, Mr Biden responded: "I am the Democratic Party right now"

What happens now?

The war of words following the debate lingered in exchanges on Wednesday.

On Twitter, Mr Trump said Mr Biden would destroy the country, claiming the challenger wishes to pack the Supreme Court with judges, end fracking and kill the Second Amendment of the Constitution, which includes the right to bear arms.

He said he was off to Minnesota on Wednesday.

Joe Biden is on an all-day train tour through eastern Ohio and western Pennsylvania, while his campaign has also rolled out a digital advert onslaught against the president.

He said on his first tour stop that Mr Trump had "forgotten the forgotten Americans he said he was going to fight for. I will never forget".

Mr Biden added: "I am not going to be a Democratic president. I am going to be an American president."

The other TV debates between the two candidates are on 15 October in Florida and 22 October in Tennessee.

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Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict: Why Caucasus flare-up risks wider war - BBC News

By Laurence Broers
South Caucasus expert, Chatham House

What are the dangers?

Previous escalations between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces have been contained after a few days. The intensity of the current fighting indicates that this may not be possible this time.

Populated areas within the contested territory of Nagorno-Karabakh have been hit by missile strikes and bombardments for the first time since the 1990s. Civilian targets in Armenia and in Azerbaijan have also been hit.

Local residents gather outside a dugout in readiness to take shelter during the fighting over the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh, 30 September 2020

Both sides appear to be digging in for a longer conflict. Azerbaijan has rejected renewed negotiations with Armenia, and unlike in previous escalations it has a greater degree of Turkish support to count on. The danger is that a longer, protracted conflict will see increased involvement by outside powers, risking a wider regional war.

What is Turkey's role?

Turkey has traditionally provided moral and diplomatic support to its fellow Turkic nation and key geo-strategic partner Azerbaijan. Contacts between defence officials of both states intensified after July's clashes, and joint military exercises followed.

Since the fighting started on Sunday, Turkey has declared its unconditional support to Azerbaijan, and appears to be lending Azerbaijani various kinds of military capability. There is little doubt that highly regarded Turkish military drone technology is being deployed.

Yerevan has also accused Ankara of shooting down an Armenian SU-25 aircraft on 29 September, which Ankara denies. Although such claims have been made before and found to be untrue, there are also unconfirmed - but growing - claims that Turkey has mobilised mercenaries from Syria to fight for Azerbaijan.

What is Russia's role?

Russia plays diverse, often contradictory, roles in the conflict. Through bilateral ties and the Collective Security Treaty Organisation, Moscow provides Armenia with security guarantees, but these do not extend to the combat zone in Nagorno-Karabakh, which is internationally recognised as part of Azerbaijan. Moscow also supplies weapons to both sides and is one of the co-chairs of the Minsk Group mediating the conflict.

Russia has called for a ceasefire, but unlike previous large-scale escalations it has yet to convene a meeting of Armenian and Azerbaijani political or military leaderships.

Moscow has an uneasy relationship with Armenia's new post-2018 leader Nikol Pashinyan, and Yerevan would undoubtedly prefer to handle the escalation as far as possible on its own. Russia was not able in the 1990s to deploy peacekeeping forces on the ground in Nagorno-Karabakh. Armenian misgivings that Moscow's assistance would come with strings attached drives caution in asking for Russian support.

For as long as combat is contained to contested territory in and around Nagorno-Karabakh, the optics of preserving Russian neutrality make Moscow's overt involvement unlikely. However, a longer conflict with increasing Turkish participation would threaten Russia's dominance in an area it considers part of its sphere of privileged interests, and invite a response.

How has the international community reacted?

With the exception of Turkey, other regional and global powers have called for restraint. Iran, Georgia and Qatar have offered to mediate. A meeting of the United Nations Security Council on 29 September affirmed the primary role of the Minsk Group, chaired by France, Russia and the United States, of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, in mediating between Armenia and Azerbaijan.

But concentrating sufficient international attention and commitment to renewing diplomacy will be challenging. The fighting coincides with a period of international distraction due to the global pandemic, the US elections and a traditional pattern where focus falls away once a ceasefire is agreed.

How might events play out?

Rapid and consolidated military success, either through recapture of significant territory by Azerbaijan, or the repelling of Azerbaijani operations by Armenian forces, could open up scope for a ceasefire, but trigger domestic instability in whichever side fares worse.

The longer that fighting goes on, and/or if one side is seen to be losing in a more protracted struggle, the more likely it is that Russia and Turkey will face difficult choices over whether to become more involved.

Laurence Broers is Caucasus programme director at peace-building organisation Conciliation Resources and author of Armenia and Azerbaijan: Anatomy of a Rivalry

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Iran reassures Azerbaijan, slams ‘rumours’ of arms to Armenia - Al Jazeera English

President Hassan Rouhani’s chief of staff said his country was willing to mediate talks over the contested Nagorno-Karabakh region.

Iran has reassured its neighbour, Azerbaijan, that it recognises its territorial integrity as it reiterated calls to resolve a deadly conflict with Armenia over the contested Nagorno-Karabakh region through talks.

“The stance of the Islamic Republic on Azerbaijan has always been clear and transparent as it has always recognised the neighbouring country’s territorial integrity and respected it,” Mahmoud Vaezi, President Hassan Rouhani’s chief of staff, told Azerbaijani Deputy Prime Minister Shahin Mustafayev in a phone call on Wednesday.

“We believe the end of occupation will bring stability to the region,” the Iranian official was quoted as saying by the government’s website.

In a separate development on Wednesday, Rouhani, in a phone call with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashynian, called on Armenia to work toward ending the conflict and hold dialogue.

“Our region can no longer take instability and new wars,” Rouhani said.

“Our wish is to immediately stop the clashes and for us all to resolve the region’s issues through political discourse and international laws.”

Pashynian reportedly agreed that armed conflict is to the detriment of the region and expressed concern about foreign interference in Armenian disagreements with Azerbaijan.

Nagorno-Karabakh is a breakaway region inside Azerbaijan that is controlled by ethnic Armenians backed by Armenia and has been the subject of several UN resolutions calling for an end to the occupation of Azeri lands. It broke away from Azerbaijan in a war during the 1990s but is not recognised by any country as an independent republic.

Iran shares borders with Armenia and Azerbaijan.

Vaezi stressed that Azerbaijan holds an important place in Iranian foreign policy and said Tehran will always strive to develop and boost bilateral ties with its neighbour.

He also reiterated Iran’s deep concern regarding the armed conflict, saying the country was ready to mediate between Azerbaijan and Armenia to begin negotiations “within the framework of international laws”.

Shortly after the latest clashes erupted, Iran called on the two sides to exercise restraint and work towards dialogue.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has had separate phone calls with his counterparts in Armenia and Azerbaijan on Sunday, in which he urged them to hold talks within the framework of international law.

In his call with the Azeri deputy prime minister on Wednesday, Vaezi also denied reports that Tehran was sending arms and military equipment to Armenia.

“These are completely baseless rumours spread to tarnish good relations between Iran and Azerbaijan,” he said.

On Tuesday, several videos circulated on social media showing trucks carrying covered loads through the Iranian border with Armenia, prompting claims military equipment was being exported for use in Nagorno-Karabakh.

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh immediately denied the reports, saying, “The Islamic Republic will by no means allow our soil to be used to move arms and ammunition”.

He said the trucks had been carrying “conventional, non-military goods”, as per usual.

Iranian state television on Wednesday broadcast from the Nordooz border terminal, where the trucks carrying the suspect loads were in a depot.

The vehicles were Russian Kamaz trucks, which a local official said had been purchased by Armenia before the armed conflict and were being transported through Iran. They were shown to be carrying vehicle parts.

Vaezi told Mustafayev that he remains confident Tehran-Baku ties will not be affected by such rumours.

Mustafayev also reportedly stressed that the two neighbours must not allow close bilateral ties formed over a long time to be influenced by outside plots.

“The two countries’ top officials have worked hard to develop and deepen Tehran-Baku relations and they stand at a good level today,” he said, according to the Iranian government’s website.

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PIERS MORGAN: Biden 'won' sham of a debate but only because vile Trump was even worse - Daily Mail

PIERS MORGAN: Rude, doddery Biden 'won' this shameful, humiliating sham of a debate but only because vile Trump and the impotent moderator were even worse – and the biggest losers from this mudslinging fiasco were the American people

By Piers Morgan for MailOnline

Published: 13:33 BST, 30 September 2020 | Updated: 13:37 BST, 30 September 2020

'That,' said CNN anchor Jake Tapper, looking like he'd just swallowed a rotten egg, 'was a hot mess inside a dumpster fire inside a train wreck… the worst debate I have ever seen; in fact, it wasn't even a debate. It was a disgrace.'

Incredibly, if anything he understated the full horror of last night's first presidential showdown of this US election cycle between Donald Trump and Joe Biden.

Tapper's colleague Dana Bash, a lady not given to hyperbole or profanity, said simply: 'It was a sh*t-show.'

Even that was being generous.

I got up at 2am in the UK to watch it, and can honestly say, hand on heart and without fear of contradiction, that it was the single most embarrassing and unedifying spectacle in the history of modern American politics.

Which, when you think President Bill Clinton was caught lying about having cigar sex with a 22-year-old White House intern in the Oval Office, is quite something.

Last night's first presidential showdown of this US election cycle between Donald Trump and Joe Biden was the single most embarrassing and unedifying spectacle in the history of modern American politics

Trump, even by his legendarily barbaric debate standards, was repellent. The President basically brought his Twitter game to the debate – a relentless bombastic bombardment of abuse, personal jibes, self-justifying tripe and blatant falsehoods

But awful as Trump was, Biden could and should have done so much more to counter and exploit the flailing president. Instead, the Democrat nominee was weak and ineffectual throughout the debate, failing to land any real blows on Trump

The President basically brought his Twitter game to the debate – a relentless bombastic bombardment of abuse, personal jibes, self-justifying tripe and blatant falsehoods. But awful as Trump was, Biden could and should have done so much more to counter and exploit the flailing president

Trump, even by his legendarily barbaric debate standards, was repellent.

The President basically brought his Twitter game to the debate – a relentless bombastic bombardment of abuse, personal jibes, self-justifying tripe and blatant falsehoods.

In the worst of many awful moments, he refused to condemn white supremacists, and when specifically challenged about the Proud Boys, a vile racist homophobic transphobic misogynist group of violent bigots, he replied: 'Proud Boys, stand back and stand by!'

This astonishing dog-whistle response was immediately, sickeningly, and entirely unsurprisingly, embraced by the group as a formal public presidential endorsement and call to arms.

In another horribly ugly exchange, Trump interrupted Biden as he spoke movingly about his late war hero son Beau, to smear his other son: 'I didn't know Beau. I know Hunter. Hunter got thrown out of the military. He was thrown out, dishonorably discharged for cocaine use.'

This, like so much Trump spewed last night, isn't true. Hunter was discharged but not dishonorably.

But regardless of whether it was true or not, to ignore a man praising his beloved son who died of a brain tumour just so Trump could deride his other boy was a disgusting low blow move that will have surely revolted any viewer with even a half sense of decency.

The President even mocked Biden for wearing face masks to ward off Covid-19, as if somehow that is something a responsible citizen should be ridiculed for doing when over 200,000 Americans have already died from the virus.

I wish I could say any of this abhorrent conduct shocked me.

But it was just Trump being Trump, albeit at his most bestial and in a manner that made even own team uncomfortable.

'It was too hot,' said Governor Chris Christie, who helped the president prepare for the debate. 'With all that heat, you lose the light.'

You think, Governor?

As for moderator Chris Wallace, one of the most respected figures in American media, I'm sorry to say he lost control, and the plot, allowing Trump to dominate proceedings like an overgrown playground bully and consequently letting the debate collapse into an almost unwatchable charade

To me, as someone said on Twitter, Trump resembled a drunken heckler at a comedy club who keeps hammering the acts thinking everyone's cheering him on – when in fact they just want the nasty chuntering bore thrown out.

But awful though he was, Biden could and should have done so much more to counter and exploit the flailing president.

Instead, the Democrat nominee was weak and ineffectual throughout the debate, failing to land any real blows on Trump even as America reels from his diabolical handling of the pandemic which has led to the worst coronavirus death toll in the world and the worst economic collapse too.

The challenger struggled with statistics, as he often has in this campaign, mumbled incoherently at times, and frankly did little to dispel persistent Republican-fuelled rumours that he is battling the early onset of senility.

I also found Biden's constant weird 'Joker' style mocking laughter, even at very serious moments, inappropriate and grating.

The cackling was clearly a pre-planned strategy, but it didn't work.

He should have stayed serious, statesmanlike and firmly above the raging bull Trump fray.

Americans are really suffering right now, losing loved ones and livelihoods in vast numbers.

They don't want laughter in a debate to decide who to vote for in November - they want leadership, empathy and reassurance.

And that was all in chronically short supply last night.

Biden's biggest mistake was to descend to Trump's level.

He is supposed to be the man who's going to bring civility back to the American presidency.

Yet last night, we heard Mr Nice Guy call Trump a 'clown', a 'racist' and a 'liar', tell him to 'shut up', and sneer at him to 'keep yapping.'

President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump on stage at the debate, along with Joe Biden and his wife Jill Biden

That's not civil, that's just behaving the same way Mr Bad Guy behaves.

Some supporters of the Fox News host said there was nothing he could do given how outrageously Trump was behaving.

But there was.

As Watergate legend Carl Bernstein tweeted during the unfurling fiasco: 'Chris Wallace needs to shut Trump down and insist he follow rules... and, as moderator, enforce them... stop the debate for 60 secs and lay down the rules.'

That, in the end, is what any debate moderator is supposed to do: ask the questions and enforce the rules.

By failing to do the latter, Wallace ruined the debate for the millions watching at home.

In any rotten food fight, the winner is the one who emerges from the fray with the least amount of putrid gastronomic garbage smothering his face and torso.

By that very low yardstick, Biden won – as most post-debate polls confirmed.

But the sad, dismal truth is that nobody really won.

Biden's reputation for civility was damaged by his ill-advised and dumb mudslinging.

Trump's chances of winning over independent voters - who will be key to his presidential survival - were mauled by his 90-minute freak show performance.

And Chris Wallace's image as a smart, tough newsman was seriously dented by his abject failure to control the mayhem.

Most seriously of all, the shambles did a massive disservice to America and the American people.

This US presidential debate was watched all over the planet and couldn't have been a worse advertisement for the self-acclaimed greatest superpower.

Watching the two election candidates trade pathetic insults like squabbling schoolkids at such a critical time for the country and the world was an excruciating, shameful and humiliating debacle that demeaned everyone involved.

Joe Biden may have 'won', but by so foolishly choosing to lie down with rabid attack dog Trump, and play him at his own name-calling game, he sadly ensured we all got up with fleas.

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Parisians alarmed by sonic boom by warplane - BBC News

A French military plane Rafale, pictured here in 2018, was dispatched in Paris on Tuesday

A French military plane broke the sound barrier and startled Parisians after it was scrambled to aid a commercial aircraft which had lost radio contact.

Players at the French Open Grand Slam tennis tournament paused play in astonishment.

The capital has been on edge after a knife attack last week deemed a terrorist act by authorities.

This time French police hastened to urge residents fearful of an explosion not to call emergency services.

"A Rafale, carrying out an intervention to assist an aircraft that had lost contact, was authorised to break the sound barrier to reach the aircraft in difficulty," an Air Force spokesman told AFP news agency.

The spokesman did not provide further detail about whether the incident with the aircraft in difficulty was resolved.

The loud noise shook windows around the city and suburbs of Paris and caused alarm to residents.

At Roland Garros, tennis players Stan Wawrinka and Dominik Koepfer paused their game as the sound echoed around the court.

"A very loud noise was heard in Paris and in the Paris region. It was not an explosion, it was a fighter jet crossing the sound barrier," French police wrote on Twitter on Tuesday lunchtime, urging people not to call.

Last Friday, a man with a knife cleaver attacked and wounded two people in the street outside the former office of controversial satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.

It came as a high-profile trial was under way of 14 people accused of helping two jihadists carry out the 2015 attack on Charlie Hebdo, in which 12 people were killed.

On Monday seven people were detained in connection with last week's attack.

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Wednesday, September 30

11:15 GMT – Three Armenian civilians killed in Nagorno-Karabakh town: Armenian state media

Armenia said three civilians had been killed in Martakert, a town situated in the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh inside Azerbaijan, as a result of an Azeri attack, the Armenpress news agency reported.

10:30 GMT – Russian military closely following Nagorno-Karabakh developments: Kremlin

The Kremlin said Russia’s military was closely following developments over Nagorno-Karabakh and again urged the opposing sides to end hostilities.

09:40 GMT – Armenia publishes photos of wreckage it says is SU-25 warplane shot down by Turkish F-16 jet

Armenia posted pictures on an online government platform of the wreckage of a plane it said was a SU-25 warplane, shot down by a Turkish fighter jet on September 29.

Turkey and Azerbaijan have denied Yerevan’s claim that a Turkish F-16 fighter jet shot down the Armenian plane, killing the pilot. On Wednesday Armenia’s defence ministry named the pilot as Major Valeri Danelin.

09:15 GMT – ‘Will do what is necessary’: Turkish foreign minister

Turkey will back Azerbaijan with “every means available” in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu says.

“We will do what is necessary … if Azerbaijan wants to resolve this [conflict] on the field,” Cavusoglu tells state news agency Anadolu
after being asked whether Turkey is providing military support to Baku.

Azerbaijan currently has the “capacity” to handle the situation on its own, Cavusoglu says.

08:45 GMT – Turkey says French solidarity with Armenia supports occupation in Azerbaijan

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said that French solidarity with Armenia amounted to supporting Armenian occupation in Azerbaijan.

He was speaking in an interview with state-run Anadolu news agency after French President Emmanuel Macron said Turkey’s “warlike” rhetoric was encouraging Baku to reconquer Nagorno-Karabakh.

08:07 GMT – Macron criticises Turkey’s “warlike” rhetoric on Nagorno-Karabakh

French President Emmanuel Macron said Turkey’s “warlike” rhetoric was encouraging Azerbaijan to reconquer Nagorno-Karabakh and that was unacceptable, though he added that he had no proof at this stage of direct Turkish involvement.

Fierce fighting broke out on Sunday between Armenian and Azeri forces over Nagorno-Karabakh, a breakaway region inside Azerbaijan but run by ethnic Armenians. Turkey is an ally of Azerbaijian, with which it shares ethnic and cultural ties.

“I have noted Turkey’s political declarations (in favour of Azerbaijan), which I think are inconsiderate and dangerous,” Macron told a news conference in Latvia.

07:25 GMT – Armenia says no need for outside military help

Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, who spoke by phone to Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday, says he is not at this point considering asking for help under a post-Soviet security treaty – but did not rule out doing so.

“Armenia will ensure its security, with the participation of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) or without it,” Russian news agencies quoted Pashinyan as saying.

He said he and Putin had not discussed the possibility of Russian military intervention in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

Russia has used the CSTO, along with the Eurasian Economic Union, another regional bloc focused on trade, to project influence across most of the former Soviet Union.

07:00 GMT – Armenia not ready for Russia-mediated peace talks: PM

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said peace talks with Azerbaijan under Russian mediation would be inappropriate, as fighting over the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region entered a fourth day.

“It isn’t very appropriate to speak of a summit between Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia at a time of intensive hostilities,” Pashinyan told Russia’s Interfax news agency. “A suitable atmosphere and conditions are needed for negotiations.”

06:35 GMT – 2,300 Armenian soldiers ‘neutralised’: Azerbaijan defence ministry

At least 2,300 Armenian soldiers have been killed or wounded by Azerbaijani troops since the conflict between the two countries began on Sunday, Azerbaijan’s defence ministry has said, according to an Anadolu Agency report.

Al Jazeera was not able to independently identify these numbers.

The ministry statement added that 130 tanks and armoured vehicles, more than 200 artillery and missile systems, approximately 25 air defence systems, six command and observation zones, five ammunition depots, 50 anti-tank guns and 55 cars were also destroyed.

Hello and welcome to Al Jazeera’s continuing coverage of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. I am Usaid Siddiqui in Doha, Qatar.

You can read the updates from September 29 here.

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Trump-Biden: White supremacy row flares after chaotic debate - BBC News

Why did the far-right issue arise?

What has the reaction been?

What were the other key debate moments?

What happens now?

Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict: Why Caucasus flare-up risks wider war - BBC News

What are the dangers?

What is Turkey's role?

What is Russia's role?

How has the international community reacted?

How might events play out?

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Wednesday, September 30

11:15 GMT – Three Armenian civilians killed in Nagorno-Karabakh town: Armenian state media

10:30 GMT – Russian military closely following Nagorno-Karabakh developments: Kremlin

09:40 GMT – Armenia publishes photos of wreckage it says is SU-25 warplane shot down by Turkish F-16 jet

09:15 GMT – ‘Will do what is necessary’: Turkish foreign minister

08:45 GMT – Turkey says French solidarity with Armenia supports occupation in Azerbaijan

08:07 GMT – Macron criticises Turkey’s “warlike” rhetoric on Nagorno-Karabakh

07:25 GMT – Armenia says no need for outside military help

07:00 GMT – Armenia not ready for Russia-mediated peace talks: PM

06:35 GMT – 2,300 Armenian soldiers ‘neutralised’: Azerbaijan defence ministry