Socalled mother and baby homes in ireland. Stranded in yemen the dangers for tens of thousands of ethiopian migrants and why they cant return home. Im joined by just go with the sports as tiger woods prepares to return to competitive gold for the 1st time in 5 months get his view on the back drives mats on the fence and playing in the current virus pandemic. So were beginning this news hour with a flare up in fighting on the border between armenia and azerbaijan 13 soldiers and at least one civilian have been killed in the heaviest fighting between the 2 neighbors in years the 2 former soviet republics went to war in the 1990 s. Over the disputed region of not gone or cut above the areas internationally recognized as part of azerbaijan but its controlled by armenians a fragile cease fire was agreed in 1994 but tension has simmered have a sense. By 216200. 00 soldiers and civilians were killed in whats known as the april war russia brokered that cease fire and the International Community are now looking to russia once again rather for us to walk on reports. In these airy capital crowds demanded vengeance for a Major General the most senior servicemen to have died in clashes on azerbaijans border with armenia only just. Unlike the enemy our generals and officers do not hide behind the backs of soldiers they adequately carry out their combat missions unfortunately battles are not without losses. Both sides accuse each other of starting the latest hostilities. Both sides releasing videos of their high tech weaponry as ery missile strikes on armenian positions. Armenians shooting down azeri drones. On the fighting which began on sunday has so far claimed more than a dozen lives and clued in at least one civilian what i think many many say with the whole story of them going precious in red whereas the very area thats fully printed by significance religious are like marks to the military trains or between them and this is extremely important because it enough are the 1st one to suffer from that all korean. Military activity. The region is situated north of the disputed territory of the go on a car back internationally recognized as part of azerbaijan its controlled by Armenian Forces how to go to think in the armenian Prime Minister has accused as a by johns the danger in regional stability as a by johns. President says International Peace talks have led nowhere. There is a risk of a wider conflict if the fighting continues turkey says it stands with. Russia which brokered a ceasefire in the past may be needed once again to bring the 2 sides back from the brink robin 1st year walka al jazeera in a moment were going to have reaction from the president s office in azerbaijan 1st we can speak to. The foreign minister of armenia hes joining us live by skype from the capital yet a van thank you very much indeed for joining us on aljazeera civilians are being caught up in this fighting what efforts are being made to put a stop to it. Thank you very much. There still as a very Dangerous Development over the past days since the 12th of july whether or not there was an alternative imprint to be able to ration by there is every unit or so this surely i mean geraghty to be more of a supply medium and the use of want to come about artillery. Under fire the danger still for escalation which we have now and. These. Attempts to deescalate are a priority now this is what were working for and this is what were working with a quarter or so be ok c. E. Q. Which comprises france russia and the United States this is the priority now we need to deescalate because while i media spoke about us to defend i mean yes i mean Major Garrett all theyre going to care about but war is not an alternative there is no alternative to the peaceful settlement marry me committed to this and will work towards the escalation and establishing an environment which helps an atmosphere which helps. Ease and we share favors state ecosoc the process what kind of detail can you give us about the efforts to try to deescalate this whats the process thats happening and how foster is it going to happen given the fact the people on dying where these fighting this fighting is counting on. Well i just say that it is encouraging that we have relative call with the. Us i think now its about to out the latino worse we are in no constant touch with the o. S. C. A nice meal or jest with russia we are as United States and friends and trying to work out the mood out place that will sustain the strategy question and will we establish the cease fire regime as you mentioned every game which has 8 missions being established in 990 people who need force since the documents signed by i mean are going to bet about and as about your own and greater to know eastern race that mish need a cease fire if. It was being reported that the media had asta the c s t o the collective Security Treaty Organization which is led by russia to to meet on this and take action on it but the response to that seems to have been somewhat locked last oh how what is a mini is reaction to that response i wouldnt know one degree what the assassin and i mean is a member of the c. S. T. Its a collective security trait to overwrite overnight zation and with our partners st are obviously raising the questions which concern the territory. Will be c s you know which any any spark we are grieving our partners about the developments and who will raise the question as we deem necessary and we didnt need it necessary to raise the question of elected actually now but obviously as you know when i say she we could share terror we havent wasted minutes in our hands but we assess the situation assess the apps aspect of the situation we are in contact we are in touch and work consistently with our partners he asked you the were told some 2019 to try to find some sort of solution to this situation its reported that i mean as Prime Minister. Time is reported to have said that theyre going to cut a buck is armenia and he wanted to change the negotiation format of the talks which essentially allegedly undermines the process of the talks how much responsibility does a media carry for the failure all of this stalling of these talks. Again i would rather disagree with such assessment because a Prime Minister of crimea has been very clear in the context of. That even in that context about. I mean him being together into a war to go to court about i mean you know behringer sponsors humanity all the security. Very physical existential security of our competitor its in there going to care about what he meant what he committed to the Peace Process and obviously i mean it has its Development Agenda i mean it has its agenda to you know secure of the prosperity of its nation and theyre going to care about its population are under conditions which which are no a favorable they are to every attempt is made to cut them out of there were and this is not acceptable and i mean this figure provides every support indictment never got about people cant even security any peace and you know meant and and it is in that context i wanted i would undermine undermine that promise to apply me has been very consistent in his statements that peace is possible when we achieve such a compromise such solution which is acceptable to all people to the people of crimea to the people what were going to provoke and the people of president john and we are still awaiting a reciprocation opening of such an approach a compromise basic approach from that it should be you know save my job because now where the pricing is the maximum based approach which hed noons the basic fundamental priorities for me and who dont care about so our position is a position of seeking and establishing a solution which is acceptable to all and well welcome in that direction where pressure times of months akonting and thank you very much indeed i want to bring in my hot 7 hes a systems to the president i was up by sana and had a Foreign Policy department and the president. Ministration hes joining us on skype from baku thank you very much indeed for being with us on. From us about johns point of view you taking part in any negotiations at the moment to try to bring this current fighting to an end. Thank you 1st of all i will all due to my life the armenian minister at the house in this interview and he once again reiterated our mean u. S. Policy of occupation and also to little claims against my country and everything started over so for me in europe armenia and i want to care about region and 7 and december as you saw it was a by john and conducted not tourist as nicklin singh thats in a cold fundamental cause of armenia azerbaijan or a kind of a conflict and also up to it was a great unit asks that question to armenia minister what armenian soldiers are doing on the sovereign soul of azerbaijan what do you also understand that us consulate in armenia beers falls as the chrism of 1000000 more azerbaijan is from going to car and therefore little is speaking armenia is a responsible country for the a list of occupation an additional present by john and it was a recent incident is a simply an Tunisian Army as a whole set of Occupation Army it cant hide itself behind a nice words of peace if i mean you want of peace armenia should be committed to it surged demands of the International Law and particularly United NationsSecurity Council resolutions to be 0 its the troops from the occupied territories as its not in our armenia also provoked was an incident in the border area of 2 countries its not only just incident its simply cant 2 nations of the policy of aggravation arent for support and yet against it are public of azerbaijan and the sign was seen it is a border area of 2 countries and the question is why are immediately the ins of border area of the country is now one of the reason is that as that clip of diapers edition from the armenians i was in that one car about conflict and also of a armenians responsibility for the crimes but i mean you can meet that is azerbaijan and also to create a new hotbed of conflict in our region article that was a border area by deans army and also tries in a responsible manner to undermine its risk courage or lets armies all of this connectivity project in their engine under question was quite right about armenia. Tries to clean the dirty game as a sort of parties including the military alliances but armenia is a member to his council but its also yet and others are it is possible act to undermine the original peace and security and also we see by the us my interest is spreading armenians over to divert attention from that their social economy armenian Political Leadership all salt there is order to such an adventure as a result of each artillery attack initially of course and within a serviceman have been killed now we have 11 hours and we can soldiers and officers have been killed as a region is not hiding the casualties are so the case in armenia fortunately and its also time for armenian governments to report back to Armenian Society as a result of the irresponsible military adventures they have committed for as regards a negotiation process as in which is committed was a peaceful resolution of the council it based on International Law and dozens of dream of course he mused which aired but as armenia on the minds of those in negotiation and substance of the negotiations and also the armenian Prime Minister sitting where i want to kind of what is armenia isnt an exact undermining of the negotiation process its a reaffirmation of the goals of annexation of the solitary there is a azerbaijan and its also all this in respect to the mediation process and the ways that we see music reports to countries let me let me just quickly ask you about i take i take all the points that youre making but let me just bring you back to the original question that i had given the fact that we are seeing fighting on the ground and the people are dying. Open to negotiations to bring this current round of fighting to an end. It was there which is always been our interest it is a peaceful resolution of all matters but here is a little our zones are mean yes its in armenia started with attention and escalation these are border area and it was always on is also in concert was always see music Group Countries and also regional countries and we have an extensive diplomatic contact was that russia was always entries and also some of the regional cancers in general as a way to support peaceful resolution of the council and it was existing framework for much of the negotiations but of course in armenia has started an army and b is responsible of the army should also. Explain reasons why it was. From this i quote how you have his assistant to the president and head of Foreign Policy department at the president ial administration of by john so we appreciate your time thank you for joining us on. But have more ahead on the news hour including anger in japan why the u. S. Military is accused of not doing enough to contain a coronaVirus Outbreak at its base is. A rising inflation uncovered 19 in nigeria leaving many struggling to feed their families plus. Its a goal fast and italys top Football League joe is going to be here with all the action in the sport. China is vowing to retaliate after the u. S. President announced new measures to hold beijing accountable donald trump a survey of sanctions against chinese officials over the recently national recent National Security law which has been imposed on Hong Kong China says its now going to impose sanctions of its own. Joan found gentle to be out to up hold our legitimate interests in china will make the necessary responses to sanction the relevant personnel and entities of the us side we are just the us to correct their mistakes and to not implement this act and stop interfering in chinas internal affairs if the u. S. Insists on going down the wrong path china will definitely hit back all hong kong is being stripped of its special trade and economic status and banks that deal with some chinese officials are also going to face sanctions the hong kong or tanami act which i signed this afternoon passed unanimously through congress this law gives my administration powerful new tools to hold responsible the individuals and the entities involved in extinguishing hong kongs freedom weve all watch what happened not a good situation their freedoms been taken away their rights have been taken away and with it goes on in my opinion because it will no longer be able to compete with free markets well thompson and when it came after a win for his administration with the u. K. Announcing its going to ban chinese tech giant holway from its new high Speed Mobile Network citing concerns about security china is strongly opposed to that decision saying the u. K. Is merely playing into political manipulation from the u. S. Lets speak now to katrina you shes joining us from beijing katrina this has been a big u. Turn for the u. K. On holway lets talk about that 1st of all whats the reaction in beijing to that. Well the aging definitely is unhappy we heard earlier from quaternion whos the Foreign Ministry spokesperson she had quite strong words for the u. K. She said that it was colluding with the u. S. To oppress Chinese Companies she said that this was an unfair discriminatory move it violated a commitment by the u. K. To fall away and china and also it damage relations between london and they doing she said that the u. K. Would do better to listen to the Business Community in britain who are opposed to this move because it was the Business Community there as well as the citizens of the u. K. Who would suffer because of it now watching was also asked if she agreed with this very strong editorial which was posted in the global times to state media newspaper and government mouthpiece which essentially attacked the u. K. Government saying that this was a borzoi huawei but at the same time china shouldnt worry because the u. K. Was a weak link in terms of other western 5 eyes allied countries and also it said that china should retaliate in a strong way because otherwise other western powers like get the wrong idea and think that its ok to bully beijing well quaternion didnt respond directly to that but she did say that china would do whatever it could to protect Chinese Companies and she also strongly encourage any chinese investors to reconsider doing business with the u. K. Because of the risky environment there lets have a listen to what she had to say on that. And just show you which usually this is about the u. K. At all costs politicizing commercial and Technology Issues this is about china facing major threats in its investment security in the u. K. And its about our confidence in whether the u. K. Markets can remain open fair and nondiscriminatory so we will comprehensively and seriously evaluate this and will take all necessary measures to safeguard our companies interests and rights. Ok katrina lets talk about donald trump revoking Hong Kong Special status. Why was china responding to this and how is it likely to hit back well the diplomatic relationship between beijing and washington seems to be in a downward spiral and the rhetoric is certainly being taken up a notch quaternion said that she called the u. S. A troublemaker and she said that if the u. S. Really wants to stir up trouble let the storm rage with greater force so it seems that beijing is not going to back down on this she essentially repeated and only a statement by chinas Foreign Ministry that