A bike shop. Thousands of antigovernment protesters are gathering in bangkok for the 4th day despite the shutdown of major roads and public transport the protesters demanding new elections and reforms to the monarchy tony chang reports from bangkok. Weve seen an interesting game of cat and mouse there with the protesters announcing this morning there would be more protests today were not specifying where the police in turn have tried to look down the center of bangkok and in characteristic style the protesters have started 3 different protest sites outside of that just on the edge of the suburbs i should say they came about it 2 hours ago in very large numbers were one of those sites large crowd in the north of bangkok there are still lots of students around turkey has reportedly tested its russian made Missile Defense system drawing criticism from the u. S. Washington has repeatedly warned ankara against purchasing the s 400 system saying it could compromise ship dates of military sys
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Sunday on r. T. And that means we take you through some of the biggest stories weve covered here over the past 7 days but some of the weekend developments to bring you up to speed on 1st though both media and azerbaijan have declared martial law after heavy fighting again erupted between the neighboring countries and a decades old territorial dispute. Called on the Prime Minister to put all efforts into preventing any escalation of the conflict over the region this Armenian Defense Ministry Video reportedly shows azerbaijani tanks being attacked by a median armed forces armenia claims that 16 of its soldiers were killed in the clashes meanwhile. These shots have been published by the azerbaijan Defense Ministry it claims they show the destruction of media and military hardware smoke could be seen billowing across the area both governments of blaming each other for the escalation. Of the armed forces over many a have shelled our settlements as well as our military positions from several