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region we've got the strong footage 1st of all it was actually released by azerbaijan they are saying it shows strikes against armenian positions armenia is condemning what it calls a quote full scale attack military personnel and civilian deaths have been reported on both sides and international leaders are now calling for an immediate cease fire and dialogue on that note russia leading that mediation effort so we'll talk to alexandra steele in of it's called who's in moscow what position is russia taking at the moment. well russia is actually calling for everybody to calm down and to for immediate cease fire and the parties to be back to the negotiating table now the way that the former president then at the prime minister of russia and now the deputy head of the russian security council said that all the parties should calm down should drop the war retore x. that the going to cut about a problem can only be solved in

a peaceful way and not with arms and that it does not have doesn't happen the consequences for this region will be catastrophic before that we heard the similar message from the deputy head of that beauty minister of foreign affairs and they would be in court who said that all 3rd parties should show restraint regarding the conflict in the garden or god about this query refers to turkey who are very openly sided with the debate john he also said that the parties involved sure the watch there retore acts so that the ceasefire can be reached as soon as possible and that russia says that they are in contact with their partners within the ois sea in minsk group which consists of russia u.s. and france trying to negotiate or trying to solve in a peaceful way a 30 year old conflict in an accord not about so the important thing to note is that russia in particular is not taking

a side here often when we look at conflicts we say well which country which other force is backing whom in this conflict russia in its position as you say particularly in the minsk group is there as a mediator. yes indeed and this region is very important strategically for russia and russia has a lot invested there i mean it is so very close to their southern border it is a region where passions are running high also the part where. the word what is in the russia meaning the us and russia is trying to keep good relations with both renia and as a debate john when they are seeing or calling with ministers or having contacts on any level they're trying to have them equally on the other hand their contacts are much tighter with their media because i mean yes is russia as its main ally is a member of every organisation which is either sponsored or organized by russia in

the region of the last soviet region so to say that they are having the joint rails the military drills the army games russia's at the same time also supplying arms to both amenia and as the debate john. they're setting their arms to these both countries and there is also a complicated thing here that is key also being interested in the region who is a partner of russia but also they don't see eye to eye very very often so it's going to be a very tricky thing for russia but at the same time they are in a good position to be a mediator if the parties involved want such a mediation you use that phrase alexandra post soviet which means we're talking about a nearly 30 year period now and yet this conflict remains unsolved and it flares up quite often. well yes indeed that this is this

is actually the 1st conflict pickel conflict that arise during the time that. it was a union that's the end of the eighty's and has not been solved yet so when the soviet union fell apart and the republics for that republics a declared their independence is that conflict again flared up resulting in ethnical cleansing on both sides resulting in 30000 that seen hundreds of thousands of people displayed this place both armenians and there is and has been frozen this conflict ever since 1904 the main groups exist since 91 but we did not see the conflict resolved all these all these decades not say here is that there is a very high tension between armenians and has a debate johnny over this region and in their mutual relations which are basically

nonexistence they don't have any diplomatic relations whatsoever between within themselves as oh yes in the. area this is one of the frozen conflicts which very easily sparkles and explodes ok i think some of it good for with the view from moscow there thank you for that as other examples alluded to the world powers they have been world powers trying to resolve this conflict for decades if you go back to 9092 the organization for security and cooperation in europe the o.e.c.d. set up minsk group with the goal of finding a peaceful solution it is co-chaired by france russia and the united states with permanent members from across the region. its work is called the minsk process and it has 3 main objectives conflict resolution peacekeeping and working towards a final settlement to the new going to cut about dispute it's provided a forum for dialogue between the 2 sides are regularly agreed to lower tension across the line of contact but despite this as we see the been several flare ups

over the years and the rivalry remains unresolved. pleased to welcome thomas divel to the news hour now a senior fellow at carnegie europe specializing on the caucasus region and author of black garden a media and as about john through peace and war which is exactly what we've got right now so you're the perfect man to talk us through all of this i'm not saying that wars are easy to solve all conflicts or occupations are easy to solve but if this minsk route was set up in 1902 what 28 years of of work why is it not amounted to anything it well it certainly doesn't solve the conflict at the best the minsk group has done is to have a cease fire back in 1904 which was held. more or less although this unfortunately this round of pointing promises to be the worst probably since since the cease fire and of course the war going on to ninety's was a very low tech of our now as we're seeing today a much more heavy weaponry on both side a certain destructive power is much greater but but ultimately this is

a conflict of identity of territory between 2 nations armenia and azerbaijan and the outside world is not going to solve it they're going to try and lead this horse to water but they can't make sure i understand why russia is involved why france and the u.s. as well what do they bring to this particular process. well it's an it's an international it's a region of international importance which is actually growing more internationally important. in the last 25 years because of oil and gas pipelines through the region it's a region that borders iran so sure it's the european neighborhood as well as the russian neighborhood and the u.s. also got involved in the 1990 s. unfortunately what what we've seen last few years is this disengagement by the u.s. in this issue using check much more leading role than it does now and cynically one might say that the votes by john howard launched a mother treat offensive. in the last as it looks like yesterday one of the reasons

it may have done so is because the u.s. is so disengaged and so what is your take on this a key issue we have right now they say there's a long standing issue to resolve but how do you think these 2 side step back from firing and shelling which is only getting worse at the moment. that's right it basically has to be their own calculation that there's very little russia can do to apply a bit of leverage and pressure but both sides in a way to have to be able to declare success after a few days and maybe you know unfortunately maybe if the casualties mount up and we're already producing least 100 people dying yesterday then that may be a reason for both sides to think that we can't continue with this that the azerbaijan's consolidated or we've taken back a bit of. the armenians we do have a point on some kind of cease fire but again it's very much for the other 2 sides i

think the russians will try to do something the u.s. has rather just go to the e.u. has never really had a role in right things to talk about casualties there can you give us a little background because look we're going to cut it back is a region that a lot of us have never heard anything about what sort of numbers of population we talking there who is under threat at the moment. sure well of course the states as we just heard from us go back to the late soviet era nagorno-karabakh was inside as a by john but an autonomous region but the majority i mean in population this was the problem that both sides had a very strong claim to the region and once the single state empire broke up both sides wanted it for their own around maybe a $100000.00 people still living in there going to caracas and not luxuries and until maybe 10000000 people in azerbaijan and 3 or 4000000 in armenia huge numbers of displaced people more than a 1000000 people displaced by this conflict in the 1990 s. which is one reason why it's such a still such

a traumatic issue for everyone talks about great to talk to you and to get all that experience and knowledge that you have on this topic thank you so what we're taking you through the international mediation efforts but the situation on the front line is ongoing 2nd day of fighting and robin foresty walker is in subleasing the capital of georgia keeping an eye on things what you bring us up to date robin with what's actually come out from both sides today. what we know is of course the fighting did not end last night and we're now into our 2nd day with those heavy artillery weapons being used on both sides we don't yet get a clear picture of the casualties that as a by has sustained because it's not really admitted any serious casualties in inflicted by the armenian forces. but. still

again accusing the other of the other of targeting civilians and other dimensions coming into this now we been hearing about how turkey is has thrown its backing behind as a by john now today the the. in fact that they've they facto authorities there are saying that turkish military weapons are being used by these areas or alongside as now. saying that drones by turkey and f. 16 fighter jets even being used there were military drills in. turkey. this year in the summer no hard evidence yet to prove that turkey is actually involved in the conflict but certainly the language that it's that's coming out of anchor is that it's in support of of. and that's that's what

is of real concern for the armenians but for the international community the possibility that russia would be drawn into this what this is what we're seeing and we've also heard reports that munitions have landed even inside iran iranian media reporting this iranian official saying that they won't tolerate any any involvement or any clashes on its borders so rather potent mix so in amongst all of that robin is there any sign of anyone wanting to talk you know we spoke to the armenian foreign minister. the news yesterday who was saying this is a terrible escalation but we need to come back to the negotiating table is anyone suggesting that could happen. at this stage and i think the medians have said publicly that they want to return to the negotiating table but i think that there are red lines that they will not cross. they want for example as a bi john to recognize nagorno-karabakh as

a republic or at least to recognize your thirty's there that they should be party to the talks azerbaijan isn't interested in that. has been talking about the fact that i mean isn't isn't really interested in compromise. at the moment there doesn't appear to be any sign of either side willing to step back from the brink but yes the international community as tom was saying has a role to play. to get back to talks and some some form or other. keeping us up to date on the situation in. tbilisi. we're a quarter past the news hour here is what's coming up families on the march in india against 3 new laws they say will strengthen their livelihoods just hours before a white house backed ban on tick-tock was scheduled in the u.s. a judge has put everything on hold and in sports

a winning french open for one of 10 assists boss this rising stars more on that with far out of. the big news out of the u.s. overnight came from the new york times which is reporting president donald trump has paid 0 tax in 10 of the last 15 years it says he avoided taxes by declaring large business losses and now personally owes creditors more than $300000000.00 the president has dismissed the report as files this report. in 2015 a year donald trump emerged from a golden elevator to declare his candidacy he paid 0 dollars in federal income tax just as he had in 10 out of 15 years prior in 2 101617 president trump paid just $750.00

a year in federal income tax while the average middle class american family paid more than $10000.00 the new york times says it reviewed more than 2 decades of trump financial records the account published sunday describes a businessman president who avoided taxes by declaring huge losses but now personally owes creditors more than $300000000.00 soon to be due trump's prized gulf resorts reported losses of $315000000.00 as 2000 times reports the washington trump hotel shows a loss of $55000000.00 trump has long sought to suppress his financial records taking the fight to the supreme. court at a hastily called press conference sunday trump sought to discredit the new york times reporting based on the information to fake news fake we were through the same story as you caressed in the same questions for years ago had

a little bit this and talk about it total fake news no actually i paid tax but then you'll see that the service might actually change as it gets under they've been under water for a long time indeed the times reports the internal revenue service audit concerns the legitimacy of a $72000000.00 tax refund that trump began receiving in 2008 and then there are the potential conflicts of interest trump has refused to divest in his businesses while president the times reports his mar-a lago resort has made $5000000.00 a year in new members since trump became president and his resort in dorell collected $7000000.00 from the bank of america overseas income brought him $73000000.00 in his 1st 2 years in the white house iraq i say if you were to go out and in an arrangement that we do strums taxable income the president's daughter and

white house advisor evolved to trump appears to have been paid as a consultant even ashley managed her father's business trump may be engaging in tax fraud on an epic scale where he's using state consultants in i.e. his children to turn businesses that would be turning a profit into losses that he can count on his few businesses that make money but their only losses because he's making his ridiculous payments to people who are on his company's payroll already the times reports the trove of records do not appear to incriminate trump further in his business dealings with russia the times did not publish the records themselves democrats on twitter quickly seized on the report a road map of possible attacks. the president the new york times says it a tantrum financial records from confidential sources with legal access to the information the paper promises to publish more revelations in the days to come this may well be what the trump campaign most feared and earthquake of damaging reports

just weeks before voters head to the polls the ground once again shifting in an election year full of surprises. castro al-jazeera washington. and update on coronavirus around the world now and the death toll is now inching towards the $1000000.00 mark the latest figures here from johns hopkins university almost 998000 deaths from people infected by the virus the u.s. brazil india mexico the u.k. other countries with the most deaths. infections wise this is india the past 6000000 there with more than 82000 new confirmed cases in the past 24 hours that is the 2nd worst affected country in the world after the us with nearly 100000 reported deaths. is from the center of social medicine and community health at home there are university and he says there is some silver

lining in india in all of this. the most recent good news is some wonderful decline in the last week. and it definitely looks as if that the he has been achieved that we are on a downward trend however as we have seen with other countries other large countries protect us. this could write another there could be another rise again but the present doesn't seem to be. very short duration in a trend then we christians running out of a month it's not as. it is also true that following the lock down region unlocked there has been a good times increase to this current mine stone up 6000000 however these are short fluctuations there seem to be somewhat of a slowing down during the end of august also but then there was another rise so

this is part of the game it's rainy me and mark is reporting a major rise in cases the total number now stands at nearly 10000 and the 10 times what it was a month ago surge began in the commercial capital yangon and it spread nationwide 200 people have died and infections are expected to keep rising while china's passed a law protecting medical whistleblowers months after the death of dr li when yang who was punished for raising the alarm about coronavirus in will han beijing says the law will only protect what it calls non malicious whistleblowers and reward verify tipoffs these death in february triggered public outcry and a wave of criticism towards the chinese government. in a word on australia as well for the 1st time in 3 months the state of victoria is reporting a single digit rise of just 5 infections in the past 24 hours this comes as a lockdown in the state capital melbourne is being eased 5000000 people there had

been under lockdown since early august so before we take a break we'll have a look at the world weather with mr everton folks what you got for us well just about everything for you because you just go for 2 or 3 to kind of like that i haven't got a heat wave that's the anything i haven't got wasn't expecting one now and. it bang on there so we've got wildfires in new york or we've had snow over the yelps we've had a tornado in i think it's fair to call it unsettled lots of clouds swirling away particular central parts of here and see this mess of weather fronts that we put on the chart here areas of low pressure piling their way through a little ridge of high pressure though up towards the northwest hopefully a window of several weather window of dry weather coming through for the tennis taking place in paris to say it's a very heavy rain missing that stormy weather around central parts of the mediterranean this is in sicily 91 millimeters of rain in 24 hours around twice the

monthly average coming through here so very very disturbed more cloud and rain coming in across italy through the balkans pushing across plain all the way back into eastern parts of france the low countries another area of low pressure there is that window of high pressure that i'm talking about just coming in across the british isles not too bad on shoes day then for the tennis in paris but the chevys never really too far away it does stay dry down towards the southwest wall try weather coming into western parts as we go on into where to stay for the showers they were tools yes here comes the next batch of cloud and rain for the northwest kemal thank you everton tennis in paris very odd this time of year thank you we'll get more weather with everton in our next news our 1300 hours about still to come here the fast track career. and bars tests for passengers airlines are hoping will give the industry a much needed lift. so how these tractors a revolutionizing farming with some extraterrestrial help. and your sports news as

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infections in india has now passed 6000000 suffer the 2nd highest number of cases in the world after the united states the global death count meanwhile is nearing 1000000 and the new york times is reporting u.s. president donald trump paid no tax in 10 of the last 15 years mainly because of large business losses trump has dismissed the report as false. still in the u.s. where a police ballistics report is contradicting the official account of the shooting brianna taylor the report casts doubt on the allegation that her boyfriend fired at least during a drunk's right black woman's killing in louisville kentucky in march continues to cause protests as does the failure to prosecute the officers involved more from shihab rattansi. the protest is a renamed. downtown louisville in justice square and almost on a daily basis we get more and more information leaking to the press this is just the official account of the circumstances of brianna taylor's death which was

presumably presented to the grand jury just doesn't add up the latest information it has not been ruled out of the police officer who was wounded by a gunshot. by another officer there could have been friendly fire the attorney. journals or that have been ruled out if you will documents addressed that haven't been ruled out in addition a lot rides on one witness out of 12. he did hear the police announce themselves before they used a battering ram to. tell you was home however it now transpires it took 2 months for this man to save 2 months of interviews 3 interviews over 2 months and even then what he said was that the police said this is because that's the quote that he gave which again adds to a certain amount of incredulity that that's how the police would have them selves and even though he says it when he said that once all of this adding to the clamor for the grand jury grand jury transcripts and the underlying evidence to be

released so we can see what evidence they drew is really worth considering when they decided not to charge one police officer with the death of briana. indian police have arrested farmers who are protesting against new laws aimed at reforming the agriculture industry many farmers fear the new rules could spell an end to the government buying grain it guaranteed prices government says loosening the regulations will open up the market and will actually benefit it's just a bit of background for you more than 14 percent of india's g.d.p. comes from agriculture which is worth around $276000000000.00 over half of its people depend on farming for their livelihoods it is a very diverse sector with farmers producing everything from grains and spices to dairy and meat products however many are struggling to get by and in fact more than one in 5 farmers are living below the poverty line we have with us now the joint

secretary of all india which is the largest workers' union representing farmers and it's good to have you with us there just seems to be 2 different points of view here the government says this will open up competition i guess the farmers view is actually taking and getting crushed by the competition by the corporates. yeah it is that demand of the bombers had been to ensure that the minibus of a police 50 percent more than the cost of would be insured and made to be built right over the government has not a problem there who can go out on business the math. and that burden is fighting the what we can band to me and i accept that that not only has brought the government 3 but it's fussy i thought in and says and then. has built in the bottom and these are only going to open the door to

a lot of credit for getting it is going to be in the expense of the poor farmers in the whole country that is the figure that.