Symposium director and the director for the peace and war center. At the universities and Global Resilience Center for global insecurities and the peace and war center and in the initiative for the university. The 2020 military writers award. We would like to mention a couple of details before i introduced hiintroducing and wet the award. For those of you that are not familiar with the award we created a special video that provides context and background to the award from the previous recipients and we ask that you go to the website. The link to the website has been put out on chat and take a couple of minutes after the presentation to watch the video we would also like to ask you go to the page in the military writers symposium website. You will see theyve given an introduction to the symposium this is why we are doing some of the things we are doing right now in this particular theme. As you can imagine this is the inaugural event virtually we bring the guests and authors here to the
Very concerned about see here in your region because we feel it could be conference to force. A resurgence arrives in the transmission of. A very warm welcome its 3 pm here in moscow and youre watching r. T. International with meaning. A breakthrough and hopes for a last in peace missys fire between armenia and azerbaijan has now come into force in a go no karabakh just a few hours ago but with some conflicting reports on violations coming from both sides in istanbul picks up the story. Weve had reports from media about azerbaijan the forces attempting to carry out offensive operations in the south of calabar weve also heard from the as it about johnny side which is accuse the armenians of looted an artillery strikes so there are mixed reports coming from both sides but i must say i have never seen a ceasefire take hold at the appointed me this appointed hour nevertheless we have positive messages from from the armenian and the as their budget inside regarding this ceasefire the latest
His condition makes him unfit for office. Plus new coronavirus restrictions sparked protests in many countries and warning from Global Health officials. Were very concerned about that so you hear it in the european region because of. Course a resurgence in 2 arrives in transmission. Worldwide this is r. T. International from moscow my names called 1st started off as optimism this saturday has descended a ceasefire between armenia and azerbaijan is a standstill in effect in the disputed caucuses territory of nagornokarabakh after a 10 hour talks in moscow but within hours both sides are swift to accuse each other of breaking the pact local media in the karabakh and ill call. Spondon described a series of explosions in the regions capital on the regular sound of air raid sirens and this latest flare up started 2 weeks ago with relentless shell fire leaving a trail of destruction according to both sides dozens of civilians have died since then. Earlier brought us this report from the area
Hello there good evening youre watching r C International now there are hopes of breakthrough can be reached today in the basic conflict that has erupted between armenia and azerbaijan the Foreign Ministers of both countries have sat down for talks in moscow but im of course that is at the venue awaiting news of any developments. Well certainly Great Expectations of the eyes of the world are right now on the russian capital where the talks between the Foreign Ministers of armenia and azerbaijan mediated by their russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov had already begun there on the way at the moment journalists were allowed in for about 30 seconds for they had to witness their initial encounter then everybody was asked to step outside as its also continued behind closed doors once again there are ongoing right now as we speak meanwhile earlier Vladimir Putin called for and still it sees in gordon a car bomb and to allow for the exchange of bodies and prisoners and for all the humanitarian re
For broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is R T International im sean thomas glad to have you with us as we recap the weeks top stories with our weekly program. And 1st the latest on the standoff in the caucuses between armenia and azerbaijan in the disputed territory of not gotten a cut above the 2 countries say that they are abiding by a cease fire that came into force on saturday but both have accused the other of violating that truce with russia serving as an intermediary the 2 sides managed to seal an agreement including an exchange of prisoners and war dead in the contested region the deal paves the way for further talks had to be mediated by russia the u. S. And france heres some of what we saw from the key players on saturday. If you live. Near a ceasefire is announced from 12 pm 110th of october for humanitarian purposes but its we are committed to a peaceful settlement of the current conflict and the ready to resume the Peace Process with it but if you have if th