By brant coffee its good to have you with us we start tonight with the unraveling of another attempt at peace new clashes have erupted between armenia and i swear by john despite a humanitarian cease fire that was agreed to late on saturday in the disputed region of the both sides accuse each other of violating the agreement just hours after it came into effect this was the 2nd attempt at a cease fire in the past week. Off from the front line but not far enough a makeshift shrine in a Residential District of ganja. A community torn apart. As if they were my friends and close acquaintances you cant grasp just how much my heart is bleeding. At least 13 people died here and as i by john 2nd biggest city on saturday accuses armenia of launching the attack death and despair in the corner carabaos to the ceasefire an ounce by the 2 sides off to saturdays deadly attack in ganja proof short lived and fighting resumed soon afterwards the disputed region has been controlled by separatist Ethnic Armenians since 1994 but it remains an internationally recognized part of azerbaijan. Armenia denies any involvement in the ganja or attack and accuses back you of continuing to shell heavily Populated Areas and cite nagornokarabakh. This man and schuster says these are a very rockets forever so we are respecting the cease fire but all the as a by johnnies respecting it where is the ceasefire dont look theyre firing the ship is full of these rockets this is prohibited ammunition. As tensions between azerbaijan and armenia escalate fears are growing that russia and turkey could be drawn into a regional war. Are joined by richard and hes the head of the Regional Studies Center that is a Foreign Policy think tank in armenia ridge is good to have you on the program let me start by asking you what are you observing are you seeing any signs of possible progress here. Fortunately friends we do see fresh signs of optimism a rare glimmer of hope after the elusive pursuit of ceasefire this is now 23 days of rather intense combat operations and is over but john launched it surprise attack in late september what we see though is a new Diplomatic Initiative momentum driven on 3 levels a french demonstration of shuttle diplomacy coupled with a russian effort to fix your end broker a cease fire and almost finally a recent announcement that the armenian and all of the 24 and theres birds will travel to washington for a meeting with u. S. Secretary of state pompei on friday this is especially important as france the u. S. And russia are the only mediators of this conflict whats interesting about the washington meeting is it offers hope for a breakthrough diplomatically where the momentum now is less on the battlefield and more in the diplomacy and it will be followed by a summit between armenia and also withdrawn with president ali of azerbaijan d and drive minister of hushing the on throttling to moscow who go there is a rare glimmer of hope after of john has rejected earlier call thirsty fire you know richard this all sounds very promising what is standing in the way then a diplomatic solution to this conflict. Lets be honest the one Party Standing in the way the country i did not mention turkey turkey has been 5 steps and sidelines diplomatically phil i do expect Turkish Military support for us a real job and it will also be graduated into enough structure this counterproductive insistence on continued fighting and in this way turkey poses the spoiler in fact. All right richard your gross you head of the Regional Studies Center in armenia give us an update on what could be promising a diplomatic attempts there over that disputed region richard thank you thank you brant or. For thailands government is seeking to block the messaging app telegram in a bid to prevent antigovernment protesters from organizing authorities are also trying to shut down several Media Outlets that have reported on demonstrations calling for thailands Prime Minister to resign for jesters also want reform of thailands monarchy which is protected by strict laws from criticism. Thousands of protesters were once again back on the streets of bangkok monday evening. Its the sick consecutive day of protests despite a ban on public gatherings of more than 4 people in the capital. We believe you can remember but the government needs to leave it now was the 1st for them need to sit on the. People have shown their power and its massive everyones out here with the same goal and determination. The crowds give the 3 thing good salute that has become the symbol of that movement they remain undeterred despite the arrest of their leaders and warnings from the authorities now the government appears to be changing tack seeking to restrict Media Coverage police are threatening to shut down a number of times Media Outlets that have been covering the protests life. Is full of the protesters create a sea of lights using their mobile phone flashlights the student led movement largely uses the messaging telegram to organize rallies at short notice and recruit support now authorities are moving to have the top blocked. The protest is a calling for democratic reform and want that political leaders to resign especially Prime Minister prime. The former army chief seized power in a military coup in 2014 hes now agreed to a special session of parliament to discuss the protests. The government has been trying to compromise as much as we can were just asking people not to do any wrong and not to destroy government or other peoples property and especially to avoid only violence. Added that his government must protect the monarchy referencing the prodemocracy Movement Demands for change when it comes to how the royal family operates thats challenging to believe in Times Society where the king has traditionally been revealed almost like a day criticizing the king complete to hefty penalties the government but also many conservative tinys oppose efforts to reform them on a case. That the protesters have filed to continue this with more gatherings planned all over the country. To the u. S. Now where early voting has gotten underway in that critical battleground state of florida many polling stations are reporting the lines have some voters have been eagerly waiting to cast their ballots since before dawn today one county had to close an early voting site after the election supervisor and an employee tested positive for the. Record numbers of americans more than 28000000 have already cast their ballots in early voting the pandemic continues to loom large over the november 3rd election. Well now there are still weeks to go until election day but many of the volunteers who usually help make sure that the elections run smoothly theyre the ones who are most vulnerable to this virus theyve decided to sit this election file for more on this story im joined now by my colleague here at the big sable. Hes monitoring the u. S. Elections forests so tell me more people so this was always going to be one of the most contentious elections in at least a generation i think that much has been clear for a while now. But with this pandemic its really thrown a wrench into the engine of american boxer see you know the likes of which the country is rarely seen in so that is because these elections rely so heavily on volunteer workers experts estimate that roughly 1000000 volunteers are needed across the country for everything from men in the polling stations to helping voters fill out their ballots correctly or even of register new voters but heres the catch typically those volunteers nearly 60 percent on average are over the age to 60 right and so that is also the same age group that Health Experts say is you know the most vulnerable to this virus and i talked to dan courtin he is from Pittsburgh Pennsylvania one of those critical but battleground states and he is one of the more the many seasoned poll workers whos decided to set them this one out and see whats that i am clearly in the category of people who are potentially at risk if no significant underlying conditions that im aware of but i am 71 years old and you know youre citing documents youre treating patients back and forth youre ending things off with the voters there is interaction and so based on all that i decided that it probably was this that at least this time i should sit it out you know meet people like dan and the retired the they have the time their key to these elections or what happens when when they decide that they should stay home will this kind of really dramatic consequences take milwaukee for instance in another keep swing state wisconsin when it helped its. Primary elections back in april the city had such a dire shortage of volunteers that it had to close 175 of its 180 polling stations the media only 5 left and that meant that many voters really had to wait for hours. And you know perhaps more learning still it meant that turnout dropped quite significant pairs the 26 inch or so whats being done now to cope with the shortages i mean these are huge shortages that youre talking about yet so you know thanks to concerted recruiting efforts by the ships like power the poles were more than a vote which was launched by n. B. A. Star Le Bron James young people are helping to fill that gap left behind by people like dan korda in fact one of them is dans own daughter catherine and she lives in washington d. C. And joined me on this guy call with her dad and i asked her about her decision to volunteer this isnt fair. So i like my dad. That is the one who would normally be at the polls i cant take my own dads place because i dont live where he does but i could replace somebody elses down here in this. I am a relatively low risk person so much better to have me going its somebody elses high risk parents. I may not know the person here in the desert but im taking the advice somebody is parents and that they matter so if i can keep that person from being at risk then i can yeah so its really that young people like katherine even some as young as 16 who cant even vote yet really stepping up there to help ensure a safe rence of their election for all americans many stay say they now met their targets a but still some crucial ones including pennsylvania where down korda lives say that theres still reporting shortages if i can say one last thing though it is this you know more than these volunteer shortages the reality is that if you cant recruit all the people you want but there are many other challenges facing American Voters from Voter Suppression voter id laws and poor voting if a structure and i think to ensure free fair and smooth elections it will require more than simply recruiting a new generation of folks or it is far easier to see dan in his daughter there thats the civic minded family i think the u. S. Needs more of the few to thank you thank you. Coronavirus restrictions around the world they have led to cancel birthday parties graduations and weddings but when this wedding in israel was determined to include all of the family the father of the groom is in the hospital with code that night scene indeed to set to mrs sons wedding so they held it in the grounds of the hospital allowing him to watch safely from his window ospital Officials Say the ceremony was in compliance of all Health Regulations what people do for fame are heres a reminder of the top story were following for you armenia and azerbaijan are trading flames for the breakdown of another cease fire theres been continued fighting for the last 3 weeks over the disputed region of newborn hundreds of been killed. At the top of the hour with more world news followed by the day i hope to see you then. Combating the pandemic. Where does research stand. What are scientists learning. Background information and. Our corona update. 19 special next on d w. Ws crime fighters are back africas most successful radio drama series continues this season the stories focus on hate speech cholera prevention and sustainable congo introduction. All of a sows are Available Online and of course you can share and discuss on g. W. Africas Facebook Page and other social media platforms. Crime fighters to name now. The coronavirus pandemic has exposed the divisions in our societies. Time and again we see that economic background affects the likelihood of one catching cold 19 people from less wealthy communities are more likely to have jobs that put them in harms way. Working from home meanwhile is mostly the preserve of white collar employees who are members of society to the face more risk of exposure living in tight quarters and finding distance a luxury. Existing Health Problems also make the coronavirus more dangerous to the poorer parts of society. So what can be done to close the gap how can we ensure that everyone has the same chance of escaping the virus. Welcome to torch of those cold 1000 special im Stephen Beardsley in berlin good to have you with us work housing preexisting Health Conditions all play a role in our exposure to the coronavirus as well as our vulnerability to the illness that develops from it thats what experts say its also the lived experience of many in the pandemics hardest hit neighborhoods take a look. Test catherine why and his friend are looking for a curry if the one that belongs to their friend danny he may have died of corona virus has doesnt know for certain but downey is one of 41 friends that hes lost in the past 6 months all except one are black. And this really makes you knew you were worried. Because. Pesca is a popular figure in the north london borough of hiring in the 62 year old pensioner worked as a lecturer at the nearby university and does volunteer work where he can for example at a food charity for those in need he says hes seen how the black asian minority ethnic or being community has been especially affected by the pandemic. You know being committed should be. Disproportionately in terms of numbers and thats why you get the bits and theres. A report in june by Britains Department of Health Reasons for the many deaths among ethnic minorities as in the sponsible workers and hospitals food markets taxi drivers theyre more exposed to the virus also Housing Conditions are often cramped risk factors such as diabetes or being overweight are also more widespread the chairman of the council of the British Medical Association is familiar with what has this experiencing and warns that the deaths will continue with the 2nd wave. It is the duty of any government in any nation to protect its population protect those that work lack of any action plan the lack of any implementation of clear recommendations that were made. Is extremely concerning. Cant find its friends great only close family members were allowed to attend his funeral has kept hasnt been able to say goodbye to any of his 41 friends whove died. The report mentions some of the risk factors facing poor communities during the pandemic tighter quarters preexisting Health Conditions and front line jobs lets take a closer look at that last factor jobs fiza breakdown of job categories by the percentage of employees who can work remotely based on a study from the o. E. C. D. At the top Business Administration with a whopping 3 quarters of workers able to stay home roughly in the middle teaching professionals down at the very bottom mostly jobs that are considered low skilled like sanitation and cleaning now there are a mere one percent of workers able to do it from home and even thats hard to imagine. And im joined now by Ricardo Espinosa hes a policy analyst at the o. E. C. D. Center for skills and paris carlos good to have you with us is it fair to say that the better educated you are the more likely you are to be off the front lines you know absolutely so where we found that theres a lot of evidence showing that when it comes to tell america the range of those who are as a higher level of skills say for example those who have a Tertiary Education degree tomorrow much more likely to be able to tell it where were from so after we are there we said it was on Time Research about these issues and not only that we also try to help kind of trees to all repair this difficult. There are part of the skills divide between those who can afford to stay home those who can perhaps theres already a skills divide before the pandemic wasnt there. Absolutely so weve been hearing about the risk of automation were long time right so people are going to gradually be machines now the problem is that this pandemic might you know accent or a strength so you think of commons up to this and they dont try to automate as many dollars in order to protect themselves. Against prices like this or potential out there and then in the future so any but context it is very likely that those jobs or are currently performed by people who as a lower level skills are likely to be automated 1st so in that sense i think that you have to map it and then it most people will probably. Occur even much more than those this is highlighting the skills so widening the gap between hire and. What is the potential for retraining those who might be replaced by automated workers as you said. Yeah absolutely so i think this is going to be a center agent so i think you have to distinguish between the long term and the short term i think the short term theres the scope of governance or colonies to implement certain policies 1st of all to retain as many jobs possible but also. To promote example. In managerial practices to share in i dont so Management Practices you know to allow workers to work from home but it is a long term this will not be possible without thinking of this charity to abseil and rescale the opposition so thats why strengthening our learning system in general movie at the center of the debate and countries are working on and passing these large recovery bills right now have you seen any effort to already begin this conversation or at least even the funding for some of this retraining or is it too early. To treat the contras are reaching out to 1st of all to help to help i think the 1st episode help identify those workers and i think research once in that direction is important pursuant to our other workers are a high risk in the west were able to identify if the church or 2 of them target the right incentives right measures were those. So you know this is actually a trend that weve seen over the past month or so countries are wary about this question of very short term theyre looking at retaining as many jobs as possible but once the pandemic sort of the next i mean well see countries doing more and more to strengthen their out of the system and theyre really worried about this and this is something we should do in the coming years can we say that people will always be needed for those frontline jobs those those working with their hands kind of jobs that cant really be automator telework out of. Yeah absolutely it will be many jobs will not be automated right so i think it will be a transitional which can take and 1520 years to move it which we will need a lot of many of this sort of management but the question is what do we do with this so i think we have to guarantee that these people are able to return safely to be replaces but also we need to be able to believe you are able to move to a situation where they can move so thats why you have skilling and risk killing hiring or creating skills to move to different positions. Will be at the center of the debate and press up in 3 countries to to achieve all right a crisis that still developing right now of course some long term questions correspond with o. E. C. D. Breaking down for us thank you very much. Right now its time for your questions the part of the show where our sort of science correspondent Eric Williams and theres the questions you posted to our you tube channel over to you derek. How long is the incubation period for covert 19. 1 of the reasons this virus turned into such a big problem so quickly it was not just that its pretty contagious the corona virus that causes sars for example seems to be just as contagious as sars co 2 if not even a little more so but that epidemic petered out and the pathogen basically disappeared after around 6 months so so why didnt the same happen with this virus well to answer that we have to look at their respective incubation period stats the amount of time that passes between the moment of infection and the time when a patient begins to show symptoms so in other words the moment when you know that person is sick in both Diseases HealthAuthorities Say the incubation period is similar ranging from between 2. 14 days and with an average of about 5 days the interesting thing though is not the length of the incubation period but what happens during it with sars patients generally hit their peak infectious period after they had begun to show symptoms and they didnt really seem to pass the virus along to others during the incubation period when they were unaware that they were carrying the pathogen so we were able to contain that virus effectively with isolation and quarantine in measures and thats a key difference between it and source code to with covert 19 Research Shows that patients are contagious or maybe even most contagious in the last couple of days of their incubate period so before they begin to show symptoms themselves and experts say those few critical days are one of the big reasons that will be unable to get to over 1800 control of without a vaccine. 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