Campaign. In the local lockdown germany after a spike in coronavirus cases. The two districts affected northwest of the country. Hello and thanks for joining us here. Iim claire pryde. Russia has held a victory day parade. It was meant to take place in early may to celebrate the dedefeat of f nazi germany. It was postponed because of the pandemic. Technicalllly Mass Gatherings ae still banned in moscow and residents were urged to watch the parade on television. For more, we spoke to our correspondent, nick holdsworth. 50 new cases today and 154 deataths. Ththe new cases figures are slightly lower than yesterday, but about one. Higher than yesterday. What people in moscow believe is ragingw the virus is outside of the capital they feel it is produced in the capital, although the overall figures have done above 600,000. That did not seem to deter people this morning. I went to the kremlin to have a as the tanksarade and Armored Vehicles rolled out after the events inside that square. Normally that t place by the bridge across the river moscow in front of the kremlin would have been absolutely crowded. Still quite a lot of peoeople, sevevel hundred,d, but not as my as nmamal. Talking to local people, they can they seemed unconcerned about the virus. When i spoke to them about whether they would go and vote in the referendum which is coming up next week, most of them said they would and they would vote for those amendments which we will come to in a moment. President putin speaking to the troops and guests assembled in red square on the red armies role in defeating naziism and it was the russian people who had crushed nazi is him. He alluded to the Nuclear Talks which began in vienna on monday, saying now was not the time to forget about common purity security concerns. It was clear what he was alluding to. , he mentioned that referendum. This parade came a few days before the country holds a vote on constitutional changes that are expect to extend Vladimir Putins time in office. Nick thats s quite right. In fact, the original parade postponed. En todays parare marks ththe 75th anniversary since the first postwar victory padede was hele. It was called the parade of victors. It consisted of manhood fought , tossingn the front nazizi flags onto the ground in red square. President putin was keen to have this parade because this kind of marked thehe high point of the coununtries patriotic past. 95 of the people in rusussia believe e this is the biggest memory in their country. With that constitutional reform coming up next weeeek, it is vey important for Vladimir Putin because that is going to stay in power until 2036. That has not been flagged in the leaflets being sent out to people. Early voting starts tomorrow. Claire the spread of covid19 did nonot deter donald trump frm heading to arizona on tuesday. Leader made a stop at the wall of the u. S. Mexico border and he addressed thousands of people in phoenix. This five months before he is up for reelection. Trump did not reference the pandemic much at the event, but here is some of what he did say about that. We are testing so much. 27. 5 million to tests. I thought it was 25, because it seemed like when a 5 million, 27 they just told me. Now, when you have all those tests you have more cases. We did the right thing. Now weve got to get it open because i said, you gotta get it open. People get sick from the other also, it is not just t from t te virurus they get sick frfrom. All of the otherer things that happen, yoyou know what i i mea. Claiaire donald trump speakingo supporters on tuesday. Joe biden, meanwhile, held a virtual fundraiser, and for the first time in the 2020 campaign, barack obama was with thehe assumptive nominee. Former president warned democrats not to get complacent the head of the election. He also mentioned how tough the situation right and inherit is. You are a all feeling a sense of urgency. The same urgency im feeling right now, that michelle is feelng, that so many of us as we look at the news and we talk to our friends and neighbors and those who are hurting. That help isto say on thehe way if we do the work. Truste there is nobody i or to be able to heal this country than my dear frienend, e biden. Claire barack obama there, who announced his backing for biden in april. Obamas support is important when i it comes to female, female voters, black voters, and fundraising. He spoke to us about biden being in pole position right now. Bucks biden is leadiding in all of t the pol. Points,eak goes frorom four 1212, maybe even 15 p points led ovover donald trtrump. The problemm is, for many people the actual policicies that joe biden is proposing remain ququie unknown or peoplele dont evenn bother to look at what he is prproposing because they have other worriries, notablyy the coronavirus, the state of the economy, their jobs,s, their lifestyles. The not t spending a a lot of te looking at what joe e biden is prproposing. They a are voting againsnst dond trump. People saying theyre going to vote for joe biden, is mostly against trump. If it was trump against the biden, the thing that the actual ratio of support in favor of joe biden might begin to go down. That is why joe biden is keen to put his policies out there, to say that he is saying important things about the black lives matter protest. Important things about how he would deal with the coronavirus outbreak. All of those things are having trouble getting through to the american public. But, joe biden is leading all of the opinion polls. If the election were all tomorrow, it would be joe biden who wouould funnel trump. Instructionsown are being restrictions are being reimposed in europe. Back in thewass capital, lisbon. In that area, some places have a ban on gatherings of more than 10 peoeople. Others allow up to 20. Austria has issued a warning against travel to the western german state. This after two districts for putback under lockdown. Monte reports. This neighborhoodod in westen germany is under a new mandatory lockdown. Health officials taking every precaution, handing out disinfecting wipes and testing residence for the virus. Districts in western germany are affected by the new restrictions. For their proximity to a meatpacking plant were more than 1000 workers have tested positive for covid19. [speaking foreign language] reporter the new lockdown andcts some 640,000 germans comes just weeks after the country began lifting lockdown orders in may. With less than one third of the deaths of many of its european neighbors, germany was held up as an early Success Story in limiting the spread of c covid. Now hundreds of thousands of germans are having to accept the reality of a second lock down. [speaking foreign language] [speaking foreign language] reporter the new restrictions include the closure of schools, museums, and fitness clubs. And also i stopped to tourism. The measures are expected to stay in place at least until june 30. Claiaire in latin america, coronavirus deaths have risen beyond 100,000. There are more than 2 million cases in the region. The most affected country is still brazil. Only the u. S. Has had more fatalities. Now w the presidedent has been ordered by a judge too wear a mask in public. Mexicos president has also been criticized for not taking the virus seriously enough. Shirli sitbon reports. Reporter there are patients, doctors, and nurses, three weeks ago this building was a military camp. It was converted into a hospital like hundrdreds of otherer miliy facilities across mexicoo to fae the covid19 outbreak. [speaking foreign language] reporter military bases are used to take the pressure off hospitals as the number of covid. Atients explodes mexico has latin americas secondworst death after brazil, with around 24,000 people dead. Now 200,000 infected. Testing meansw the real figures are much higher. Ngos haveeks, alerted over the crisis and criticized the governments inadequate response. The lockdown has slowly been eased long before the epidemic reached its peak. [speaking foreign language] reporter many have accused obrador refusing to wear a mask while the disease was spreading. Now authority are calling for precautionary measures and are pushing for more tests. Ngos say thehe late response has endangered the population. Police here in paris have been sent to guard a statue in front of the National Assembly after it was covered in red paint. The statatue is shove a minister under louis the 14th. It was targeted by antiracism protesters. Colbert a statue of doused in n red paint, an inscription which was quickly cleaned off the statue read referring to the discrimination against black people in france. Colbert was behind a legal decree that defined the conditions of slavery in the french colonies, known a as the black coat. Group posted d photos of the vandalism and said one of its members had been arrested by police. Activists are calling for a National Debate over monuments that they say represent antiblack racism in france in the wake of black lives matter protests acrcross the u. S. And world. [speaking foreign language] reporter other statues related to frances colonial past have been targeted by activists, including the writer both tear voltaire. President macron acknowledged the problem of racism but said the statues would remain. [speaking foreign language] reporter there are also calls for statues of jules ferry to come down. He is credited with the founding of the modern educational system, but also referred to superior and inferior races. Claire that is it for me fofor nonow. Thanks for watching. Take care. The inspirationon behind the african union, which since his reign has been based and richh regularly pays homage toto him,e has also left a dark legacy. [speaking foreign language] between his s supporters s ad those who fear the return of an autotoatic regime, his legacy remains divisive. The empire revisited, on fence 24 and france 24. Com. Hello. Pleased to see you again. You are an academic c researche. We have ofoften heard your analysis here or on other chanls. In june last year we were arrested in iran as you u are going to visitit youour partner. She has a specialist of iran. You were released on the 20th of march. She is still i in prison in tehran. You were accused of crimes against the state, propopaganda, etc. What happened on june 5, 2019 as you landed in tehran . Eveverything happppened very fast. I had just arriviv and i was going through the formalities to get the visa at the airport. Case now and it has been that for some years. It was during that procedure where i was arrested. When and how did you learn that she had also been a lasted arrested . I heard i heard her voice. Celll in thef my room i was being interrogated, i heard someone call out freedom. I came to understand the meaning of the true number o of words. It was her voice that i heard. Celell was a floor above and the conditions s for women are differenent for those for men. Conditions arent as strict. She was actually ablee to see m. She recognized me and she shouted out and i clearly recognized her voice. He was then i realized she too is a prisoner. Inher again o on t t september, october, and february. Each timime we saw each othehert was fofor a few short minutes. We were able t to speak sosomet, but sometitimes not. Ini understand that you werere the guardians of the revevution. Is not exactly a prison, it is not the interior ministstry. I was inin a highsecurity wing. I was very much in i isolationo. In fact, t that was probably the ththing most harrowing. You couould not see the light of day, could you . Had to stand on your tiptoes to get a clumps of daylight. A clulus of daylilight. Im a workaholilic. I realllly was very harrowing for me. The first fefew days i i was trg to get a notion of time. I try to understand whenen breakfast t would be served. When people would come e with medication. Or when yoyo are allowed to slep in the evening. Just to get an understanding of when the meals would come. Time then was verery monotonous and it was very challenging to live through. Workaholic som a it was very hard for me. I had no news from the outside. I had no idea why i had been detained. What the accusationsnsere, how lolong i was goioing to be ther. It was extremely trying. Isolation you lose your memory. You forget so much. They were asking me e questions which may haveve been very norml questions because it wasas in te linknk with currenttffairs, thtt i couldnt answerer them. Access toeased i had tv i starteded watching foreign films. I didnt watch them for the content because they were dubbed in farsisi, but i was trying to rememberer who the actors nams werere to rebuild my memomory. As time went o on i would spend days trying to remember t the names of pololitical figigures t i had knowown so well in the pa. Isolation is not just being cut off. It is forgetting everything you have done, eveverything you have written. Trying. So very were e growingons worse and worse. Interrogators werere becoming me angry and would shout at me. When y you come frorom the quies of yourself and are e put into a room where y you have people shoutingng at you, shououting questiss like, how isis it possible you cant remember all of this . From a psychological point of view, im sure they were using techniqueses used by other countries for interrogation. Your First Contact with the outside world was the french consul . The First Contact i had with the outside was, i guess first and foremost, at the infirmary in the prison. Toause i actutually was able see a doctor when i needed it in the prison. I had some serious ailments to deal with. I suffered panic attacks and claustrophobia. Clear that t iery needed to o see a doctor. Dr. In the infirmary and it w was such a pivotal l momenr me. I was giveven pills. I was drugged with six p pills every y night to help me sleep o do with my stress, heart palpitations, and many otherer things. Whether or not, i i was able to see time. He was a breakthrough h for me becacause i could get back this nonotion of time t to understand what time of day it was, to know when prayers would happen, because every time i would hearr the call to prayer i was able to keep trackck of time. It was so important for me. The consular visit took place on the fourth of jujuly. That was an important timime for me, because i was able to let y family know where i was. I had not had any contact with them. It is on the 29th of august that i was able to contact my mother by phone for the very first time. And then i wasas also ablele too start puttining in reques. S. Hadasked for books and i friends, colleagues who sent me bobooks and it i is thanks to tt but im here today. I think without them and the books, i dont t know where i wowould be. I would d certainly not be myse. Books for months it was not widely known had been arrested. It was announced in july. For r you it was annouounced in october. I suppose that changes things when the media speak, i expect the french authorities were able then to o speak in pubublic. Did yoyou feel that . Really, it was in february during one of my interrogations somewhwhat took me e aside and a long conversation with me. Was surprised that i had been refused such simple things as being able to call my family, those mostst simplple ts werent even being given to me. For that i went onon a small hunger strike, and the interrogator said, look, this isnt really about you. It is all about the negotiations for an iranian who is in france. H here is to your time put pressusure on francece. I realized i was just a babargaining chihip. In that it w was actually quite comforting, because it meant there would be an end, and that end would be an exchange. It also meant my freedom was not tied up to legal proceedings. What do you think is best . Being discreet o or a Media Campaign . I think the Media Coverage did play a role. One of my interrogatoror said tt the International Media thought i was dying. That wasnt the case. Living through was someme very trying times. That it was ak rough having the public aware of the situation because it raised concerns. Treated any, i wasnt bebetter than the others, i wat mistreated or abusused in priso. I was still allowed to see a doctor and getet medical care. And i wasnt sent to another cell, because had that happened that wouldve been the end of it for me. Do y you have any recent new . She had kidney issues, didnt she . She went on a very long hunger strikike. Fofor me, i was asking very sime requests. I was wondering why c couldnt l my f family, lawyer, consulate, why i was no longer able to receive books. She had some very clear demands. When we saw me and tiptop. Ther i wasnt she was very y concerned by it. A very why she e went o long hunger strike. Hunger strike is a very challenging thing. 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