The question is not just business as usual this. Any business with the European Union is possible tool. A warm welcome to our to international my names you know neal and 30 minutes of news and views. We begin with france where president. Drastic measures to counter a surge in corona virus cases a nightly curfew is being rolled out in the capital and elsewhere. It at this is you we have made a decision to impose a curfew it will be in force in the paris region and 8 other french cities. Lets cross live now to our correspondent in part a shard tube and ski charlotte some pretty extreme measures by be president tell us more. Well this all came of course as it was declared that france was moving into a new state of Health Emergency something that had subsided back in the summer when the numbers of cases had gone down but that is not how back president mark on took to the stage to address the French Public on wednesday night to talk about the new stricter measures that would come into place he said he didnt want to infantile eyes people to treat people like children but he said that people must follow the rules and if they didnt follow the rules or respect those rules and they could be even new stricter restrictions coming into force in the next few weeks but what he has announced is this nightly curfew that will start on saturday and that will operate from 9 pm in the evening until 6 am in the morning and that will be across paris the greater parisian region and also 8 other cities the worst affected cities by 19 now president machen said that this will have to be strictly regulated if you are out past 9 pm and you dont have a good reason i. E. Youre not leaving your work to go home or you dont have an artist which is like a paper to say that you can be out on the streets you will be fined the 1st time a 135. 00 euros repeat offenders will face 1500. 00 euros in terms of fines and we understand that this will be in place for at least 4 weeks but the government is going to look to extend that up until december 1st so that will be for 6 weeks but that few will be in place and this is how strict president said he was going to be about this he said if you were at a restaurant and you lived half an hour away from that restaurant you would have to finish your meal and leave by 8 30 in the evening to make sure that you get home on time this is how regimented he wants to be about this curfew in a bid to fight the rising number of 19. Cases to give you an example the number of cases almost 23000 new cases registered in the last 24 hours with more than a 104 deaths also registered now president mark also talked about other things that needed to be taken into consideration he said that we needed to reduce private gatherings in france have less social contact with people and the rule of 6 thats been in place in restaurants he said now had to be in place in private settings too and while he said it was still ok to visit your family and to travel around france he said even with your family members and your friends if you cant be more than a metre away from them you must still where unmask well there has been reaction thick and fast to those announcement by president mack on 60 percent of infections happen to work schools or universities between 8 am and 7 pm but micron is banning people from going out to bars or restaurants between 8 pm and 6 am welcome to absurdity there must be great disappointment among medics tonight who have heard no announcements of extra personnel material support. Well on medics president mack or indeed address the crisis in north spittles he mentioned the fact that the number of patients in the i. C. U. Unit intensive care units is now higher than it was back in march at the start of the 1st wave of the 1000 pet demick here in france and he said that they were in a worrying state as a result of that he said these measures were being taken to reduce the number of people who are testing positive for covert 1000 from the 20 odd 1000 that weve seen in the last 24 hours down to just a few 1000 which he said would be manageable by hospital staff he said hospital staff who had no back up hospital staff who have had few spaces and he said hospital staff who were plainly exhausted not just from the 1st wave of the covert 900 pandemic but also from rearranging all of the hospital appointments that were missed during that 1st wave so he said this was about protecting them and those services now he also said that there would be new measures in place to help the businesses impacted by this new curfew he said for example those people who work for businesses impacted would see 90 percent of their pay covered by the state and he announced injection of financings to people young people 18 to 25 year olds and people with children and he said there would be an increase and an improving in the testing of kovac 19 but the reality is that these measures in place now are strict he said we will have to live with the virus until at least the summer of 2021 and there will be many people night having listened to that speech of president mack on worrying about the future of their businesses that could be coming into place on saturday in paris and in 8 other cities across the country it will last from 9 pm every night until 6 am every morning and it will be strictly enforced. Yeah a big big step well see how it pans out as you say from this weekend r. T. Charlotte toobin ski from pars thank you but earlier we heard from the Health Director of the International Federation of the red cross he thinks new restrictions are on the void of all for europe the stuff for mention measures are welcome and we as the red cross today called out for political leaders to intervene speedy courageous and inclusive way to ensure that these measures are put in place to protect that the health and the social nomic status of of the people of france and in many other countries even europe or many countries are being taken little bit by surprise by the iraq surge of cases and so the are many countries are reacting within the deposits 48 hours with new measure that being put in place what ease needed at the moment to ease. Measures that can reduce the deferred trust mission but measures that can also bring people along and this is critical you know order to assure that those measures are actually effective in. A 2nd experimental russian vaccine against corona virus has officially been registered at the voc corona successfully passphrase woman to Clinical Trials my colleagues nuclear and if an arsenal discussed the announcement made on wednesday by president putin. Lucy gives you. The vent to Research Center in the disappears is registered on the 2nd russian vaccine against corona virus the corona vaccine was developed by siberia based state a Research Center among the largest in russia it was founded more than 45 years ago that in the soviet times phase one and phase 2 of its Clinical Trials are now behind and we heard it was a success meaning the drug is safe now face 3 is coming in and it is a study in whether the vaccine is in fact effective we hear that around 40000. 00 volunteers are expected to take part and for that purpose 60000. 00 doses of the drug will be produced and we hear from russias vice premier that it will happen very very soon interesting to mention is that normally all 3 stages so phases of the human a Clinical Trials should be completed before registration but the world has been living in quite an emergency mode in the last 8 or so months so procedures have been slightly changed slightly adjusted so this is worlds 2nd registered vaccine against call theyd 19 the 1st one was also registered in russia back in august it is known as sputnik all satellite feed it is and then the virus vector viral vaccine and we now hear from its developers that by november russia will be able to produce up to 6000000 doses of vaccine maining 8 to may take up to 12 months to vaccinate around 80 percent of the countrys population and as we hear from russias president Vladimir Putin the russian citizens house is among the countrys key priorities but. First we need to make these Vaccines Available on the russian markets they must be supplied to russian pharmacies on as large a scale as possible we continue to cooperate with our foreign partners and we will promote a vaccine abroad as well they can. International cooperation and foreign partners we know that 50 countries are already interested in russias sputnik of the vaccine against kawiti we heard that from the head of russias Investment Fund who just earlier this week came back from the United Arab Emirates where phase 3 of the Clinical Trials of sputnik was approved billeted to the sputnik. You know gold piece 3 was made in the issue of participate to is definitely very important we believe you we use a strategic cob for fighting colonel biros not only of the middle east in the world now marie i know that youve been vaccinated yourself. Be the 1st russian vaccine can you tell us more about your experience with it is a double blind trial meaning placebo is used and neither doctor is know the participants know who is getting the wharton only 75 percent of the volunteer is actually jabbed with a real short and to the last moment i was hoping that im among them i got 2 injections already on the 1st and 21st day of the trial so i got reactions like fever muscle pain and had a off to both injections actually now i just now received results showing that my body right now has i. G. G. Antibodies meaning my body reacted to. 1000 to corona virus as if i was infected vaccine apparently i got the vaccine. Job so im very happy with that. Moving russias foreign minister has questioned whether the country can continue to do business with the European Union if the threats. From brussels continue Sergei Lavrov spoke to Russian Media executives including arties editor in chief Margarita Simonyan he addressed a range of issues including the arrest and better routes of turkeys involvement in the car of a conflict or to sell security or to excess through in. We had a very lengthy and really comprehensive conversation between foreign minister Sergei Lavrov and editors in chief of a number of media organizations that was so much to impact that such an array of topics but one that was given considerable attention was russias increasingly difficult relationship with the European Union now love prof notes that of course the 2 have mutual interests especially economic ones lets think of course just off the north stream to a gas pipeline but that all of this was made very difficult by what the fire of foreign minister described as a condescending attitude from the blog and this constant to mons being put on moscow this is what he said about the impact of that after 2 years that there was no go through approvals. The question is not just whether business as usual is possible but with the any business with the European Union is possible a tool the e. U. Behaves arrogantly towards us and looks condescendingly down at russia demanding answers from us for all the crimes it imagines we have committed i think we are under no obligation to respond to that. Also add to that a versa phobic minority within the European Union was only father undermining the relationship now of course this all comes against the backdrop of wosm diplomatic ties between moscow and brussels as a result of the alleged poisoning of russian opposition figure ill explain a follow me now one of the significant part of what lavrov said talked about double standards and he said that often the puts much more pressure on moscow than it would on itself and he said especially when it comes to the idea of interference in Foreign Affairs as this is something that people few very subjectively but i wouldnt go to. In 2017 during the election in france marine le pens a legitimate politician came to moscow to meet with president putin then French Foreign minister publicly claimed that this was an attempt at foreign interference in the elect. Process in france now look at who Macro Holding meetings with smith learned to cannot. No one pays any attention to the fact that this could also be considered as foreign interference in belorussian affairs. Such a lot for laid out his few on what the end goal was from these verbal assaults from on fact competition for calls for sanctions and for causing tellme oil russias borders. The west will always try to hold us back to undermine our political and economic capacities this is all part of the same old game they want to throw russia of violence not just with direct to so its like dirty competition and illegitimate sanctions creating instability on our borders. Now one out of russias key relationships on the International Stage that was touched upon was of course with washington and quite frankly he said with less than a month to go to the election whoever wins in november whether its trump or biden probably very little would change he reiterated that all moscow has ever wanted was good cooperation but im an equal footing and that sometimes washingtons Foreign Policy made that very difficult other topics such as the protests in batteries or indeed a peaceful resolution to the conflict in the corner karabakh were also discussed quite extensively puts us in the lions share from todays conversation was dedicated to the current status of russias relationship with Key International players and the future of it the message today seemed very uncompromising things cannot continue as they are business cannot go on as usual whether that serves as a trigger for more compromise or want to stand who have to be seen. So i ask you to or were or guest told us that the spite the harsh language coming from the bloc still needs good relations with moscow. I think it will last for some time and then of course the quote continue to measure the most important measure that germany and europe could take would be to stop the. Pipeline between russia and germany north stream 2 would have caused the german star want to do that because that would get them and do it up very badly we need russian gas and so they dont put them on the sanction list so the sanctions are not really sanctions its you know wagging the finger its really not up to standard where europe should be as some International Power and talking with russia which is another power and the world we have a new wave of antirust. As well and chinese propaganda coming from the u. S. There is a net of n. G. O. S of politically trained politicians and of the population that is uninformed on russia that its very easy to make such a im tell russian copy russia is very smart in using soft power so we dont have enough pro russian engineers they dont know about. European russian cultural exchange. It would be very helpful if russia could try to be a little bit have a little bit more p. R. That makes it also. And easier for us. To push the other site like. This is our Senior National still ahead donald trump claims his recovery from covert 19 gives him a unity but a new Study Suggests otherwise the details are not story on more after the break. Join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and ill be speaking to us from the world of politics or business im show business ill see you there. Is your media a reflection of reality. In the world transformed. What will make you feel safe. Isolation community. Are you going the right way or are you being so. What is true what is faith. In the world corrupted you need to descend. To join us in the. Forum made in the shallows. Just coming up to 20 minutes into the Program Welcome back the leaders of russia and turkey have agreed on the vital importance of upholding the cease fire between armenia and azerbaijan in a phone conversation with president Vladimir Putin also raise moscows concerns over the role of militants from the middle east being brought into the car about conflict zone a fragile cease fire was brokered on saturday but being repeatedly violated with azerbaijan and armenia pointing the finger of blame at each other the fighting in car a back flared up more than 2 weeks ago but has roots going back 3 decades the area is mostly in how but it by Ethnic Armenians but is legally part of azerbaijan our correspondent down off reports from its capital. Before the war this street used to be bustling with life neighbors would come visit each other mothers would read bedtime stories to their children well now its almost completely abandoned after in azerbaijan e. S. Trike basically theres a huge Apartment Building here which is no more there are no windows it has partially collapsed it simply unsafe to live here here people as they ran to safety they abandoned their belongings like childrens bicycles they simply had no time to pack everything and i have to admit that since the truce the city of stop on it the capital of nagornokarabakh has it more or less easy been bodman do still happen but they are move rather than they used to be and they are almost entirely almost completely limited to nighttime its more or less the same in other towns of nagornokarabakh like the towns of martini and shushi in fact thing is similar pictures similar very very similar devastation can also be seen from a 0 by john its 2nd largest city of ganja came under shelling just a couple of days ago. And it would be wrong to say that the fighting has ceased elsewhere too as were filming this theres a faint but a very distinctive sound of shelling coming from over the mountains to the south from here that is where the town of adroit is which is viewed as a gateway into nagornokarabakh so it is a very heavily contested area the fighting is also fierce in the north. Seems both and john are trying to get a firm grip on some key strategic places and heights before real peace negotiations begin as both militaries are fighting for diplomatic leverage reporting from the back. The carnage a belgian cellist performed a heavily damaged cathedral. In the cathedral was shelled a week ago. Piece by an armenian composer he told us what inspired performed. By played a concert exactly one year ago in. Church and it was very hard breaking to see such a peaceful church can be. A historical. Building or he can just be bombed for nothing and force my way off my prayer. Musician the only thing i can do and if every one in the ward the best ward will be a peaceful place. Choose the claim that its regions where being shelled by Armenian Forces both nations then live via leading the ceasefire these images are from the as yuri city of turkey which according to shell several times in recent days as a result people have been taking shelter in their basements heres what some of them had to say. Oh dear the hum of their minions are shelling constantly theyre shelling us now with different weapons with missiles bombs tanks rocket launchers they use it all if it had been one week ago a shell struck and abstainers neighbors home was completely destroyed it was impossible to take anything from the building our home was also severely damaged dools windows even the walls everything is ruined militant we cannot sleep at night when they stop shelling for an hour or so we can close our eyes now then we get woken up again its the same thing over and over. The 1st case of covert reinfection has been confirmed in the us according to a study published by the lunsford medical journal the patients symptoms were far more severe the 2nd time around the 25 year old man from nevada who has no recorded immune disorder 1st tested positive in april he literally covered with negative tests but in june developed severe symptoms and again tested positive its the 5th proven case of reinfection registered worldwide in the netherlands the 1st death after reinfection was confirmed on tuesday mark dorie the lead author of the us that he says people should not assume theyre safe after recovering from coal. Scientific data that we have from this case and other cases would indicate that if somebody has had hoped at 19 we just dont know whether that person can be reinfected again its possible that they could be reinfected again but its also possible that some people are immune in fact it could be that the vast majority of these are immune and it could be Something Else that could be our immune system gives us a resistance that makes the 2nd case a lesser been asymptomatic action. Despite the confirmed cases of reinfection some people do assume theyre also most likely immune havent caught an recovered from the disease donald trump seemingly among them the us president battle covert earlier this month and he said hes even ready to get up close and personal with his supporters. Now they say im a mutant i can feel i feel so powerful god it was just so everyone. Was just the guys in the unified women and everybody just give you a big fact is. Right to my favorite story of the day now russian for target for has won a Coveted International award with a once in a lifetime image of an endangered Siberian Tiger surrogate course caliphs work is titled the embrace it shows a tigress scent marking an ancient fur tree in russias far east it took a leaven months of trial and error to finally capture the close up of the big cat using motion sensors the British NationalHistory Museum chose that piece 49000 other entries up against that of course cough claimed the wildlife photographer of the year award. William or tiger was pushed to the brink of extinction a few decades ago too to poaching and deforestation with the population falling to just a few dozen its recovered some lot in recent years with the help of great conservation laws but the species is still. Endangered there are now around 500. 00 Siberian Tigers living in the wild in parts of eastern russia. 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