Almost 10 years worth of its annual energy. When march in u. S. Cities to protest against president on trumps nomination of judge amy clooney. And person Prime Minister just into our day and enjoys a landslide election victories New Zealanders award half a curbing covert 19. And tens of thousands of protesters have gathered in lebanons capital city to mark one year since mass antigovernment protests and theyve been rejecting corruption in the ruling elite level and has been experiencing its worst economic crisis since the civil war which is only deepened during the pandemic saying a look at how we got here in october last year a newly announced tax on calls made through the whats the cation triggered protests. Right across lebanon but it turned into a broader call to end government corruption unemployment and poor Public Service it led to the resignation of Prime Minister saad hariri and a political deadlock to replace him and then only oldest a partial explosion ripped through central beirut killing more than 200 people every came another symbol of government incompetence and weeks later a 2nd wave of coronavirus opposed the threat for the 10s of thousands of people who lost their homes in the blast. When he joins us from beirut you know that was very good but things are just going well from bad to worse. Yes the situation has since the terrorist to the economy was bad a year ago and thats what triggered nationwide protests today the economy is near total collapse more than 50 percent of a population of 5000000. 00 people are now poor the middle class is sinking into poverty people are losing their jobs businesses are closing this country is in dire need of hard currency but there will be no International Assistance until the politicians stop bickering over seats in the next government and agree to form a reform minded government but those in power those who have been in power for decades now are clinging on to that power and are really refusing to form a government of experts which is what the International Community is the thing and conditioning International Aid so the situation for the lebanese people is quite dire people returned to the streets their message is we are still here we will continue to voice our demands for political change but no one really is under the illusion that change can come easily because we have seen the ruling elite the Political Class fight back because they used Security Forces to clamp down on gatherings they arrested people they intimidated people and they even used their supporters supporters of the sectarian Political Parties to attack the the antiestablishment protesters so not much has changed since a year ago in terms of the political situation in fact there is a political impasse but the economy its worsening right just to throw a little more difficulty into the mix coronavirus once again on the right. Yes more than 1000 cases on a daily. Basis like i mentioned this is a nation of 5000000. 00 people our Health Care Sector was already collapsing before coronavirus pandemic arrived hospitals were struggling the government owes billions of dollars to private hospitals and the government cant pay them back Public Hospitals are struggling to treat patients there are coming up with their new beds new i. C. U. Beds are needed on a daily basis and people are not really. Putting up Wearing Masks or our social distancing they say were were were trying to make ends meet we cannot think about coronavirus and not go to work we need to do to work on her to be able to feed our children so the situation is is quite dire for the people in this country and the International Community like i said will not provide any bailout if the politicians dont give up power. Or incentive thanks very much indeed for the reporting there from beirut lets speak to her but hes a journalist and founder of the beirut joins us now from the lebanese capital a year old from those protests why has it proved so difficult knowing impossible for lebanon to move forward. I mean lebanon is in a very difficult situation that there is no expert that can fix it unfortunately and i dont think its just a matter of changing faces at the top you know we have a system and lot going on that is bankrupt and fragmented and so many ways over so many decades it would be kind of foolhardy i think to assume that people gathering in the streets would change that i think theres a tendency to believe that Political Freedom will repair our countrys deep seated problems postcolonial problems not forget and this country is constantly at war every decade there are wars in this country theres a tug of war over lebanon between the western powers and iran and its allies and so this fundamental problem lebanon the structural one that will not really change because of ideas or faces you know we have to really talk about how can a movement succeed in lebanon if there is no. Force behind it you know you have to if you want to change a government or a political system it wont change on its own it wont change because people are can right it will change as a money in power exactly and im not a little bit earlier we saw about kind of vigil marking the explosion of the beirut poll which of course serves as a shock a reminder to many of the rot at the heart of the political system that but but even that explosion has managed to elicit any kind of change at all so what is it going to take and where is it going to come from if it is not coming from the streets. Well i wouldnt say that theres no change i mean weve seen things that weve never seen in our lives in lebanon which is Prime Minister resigning due to pressure in the streets we saw unprecedented out of our weve seen a lot of developments over the past year in terms of journalism its a lot of investigative reporting the last really kind of sparked a lot of reporting in the absence of the government giving an explanation of what happened there was no cross conference there was no details of why this is what you have we had journalists coming forward and putting document based research for investigative reporting became very important so weve seen a development of a new political culture along with that and organizing among the the activist went down to the ground again build the void the government left without providing humanitarian assistance they were able to you know get their laptops out start organizing the neighborhood and all this to be very important for political organizing in the future and so i think in the long term we have seen a change of local culture at the same time that we can expect to see a place that has been in the making for decades and decades of war to be just right as rain in a year and so there is no magic bullet for lebanon but the basic fundamental problem for the day is the economy you know its not just Political Freedoms we often think about in the world the political friends who will set countries free they need economies countries that tend to do really badly economically tend to have a lot of uprisings and protests so what lebanon desperately needs right now and its and things are worse than ever is jobs as industry. As some kind of a faith in this country to help these people nor the just a handout more than just a charity of a few you know silos of grain or whatever we actually need to have people to be able to stand on their own feet all of the can actually have Economic Freedom theyll be freed politically. Appreciate ran out of time thank you for your perspective on this i mean whats on the front of the beirut report. Now fighting has escalated in the conflict over the disputed region of nicola car back a week after a cease fire between john and armenia took effect families of bury their dead in azerbaijan which is accused armenia of killing 13 civilians in a missile attack on the city of ganja or many as Defense Ministry says it did not fire towards us so hard as this report is there seeing the damage from the air and missile strike destroyed at least 20 buildings in ganja azerbaijan 2nd largest city of 300000 people or so. Weve been living in fear for days we couldnt sleep at night we hid but that was no use our suffering a lot i wish we were dead but our children would have to live without us we believe in our state and president may god give us back karabakh. People hate all fall from the disputed region of nagornokarabakh azerbaijan and armenia are fighting over but they were not spent armenias Defense Ministry denies firing tools as operation adding the type of missile its accused of using doesnt have the range to reach gunja however it later released a list of what it called legitimate targets and ganja as a right john says it has proof that the missiles came from all media to say how. Immoral by our. Political. Army and on the forces. In other words just because it is an equal the job is not as a 1st attacked in a deliberate discriminate manner as a way to the syrians and say you have isnt what was burst scott me. Saying. Both sides of blaming each other for violating a russian brokered truce agreed a week ago which includes a school for detainees and bodies of those killed. Since friday nights attack in gunja armenia says azerbaijans armed forces violated the humanitarian ceasefire by hitting step pan card to nagornokarabakh on saturday as i by johns president confirmed his forces have now taken control of most villages in foods in the south east of nagornokarabakh armenia considers feasibly a buffer zone between nagornokarabakh and as i abrasion insist territory that both sides of the conflict have been negotiating over for the last 26 years. And as those negotiations failed as a bridge on with turkish support pushed to take some of these territories back to you know most pressure on the armenians have lost more than 600 fighters recently. The violence is the worst in the region since azerbaijan Ethnic Armenian forces went to war in the early 1990 s. The control of nagornokarabakh allies with an eye by asian has been under the control of the ethnic amini and forces. Fact since the war ended in 1994000000 extension 1 friday armenians Prime Minister met soldiers being sent to the front line the main party i love you all im proud of you all i believe that youll defend the future of your children with dignity long live the republic of armenia long live the Armenian Diaspora was a clear message but theres no signs of a respite for now civilians and they saw its own face in uncertain days ahead was a not a fighter and just. Army says it has sent a delegation to russia to discuss to see his father but a smith is in the armenian capital of your event and hes got more in the. Well yes. Military representatives to moscow to discuss with representatives a cease fire monitoring mechanism is at the back of the initiative started by moscow to get this cease fire going but armenia says theres areas havent turned up and they say they suspect that its turkey stopped as of. Representatives no no word yet from. On whether they will whether or if they will send a representative to moscow but certainly there is pressure on media to do something because its suffering military casualties at least more than 600. 00 millions killed on the battlefield and its losing territory its losing territory that it has controlled since the cease fire in 1994 this is territory between the go on a car back and azerbaijan that armenia says is a necessary buffer zone a safe zone between azerbaijan and kind of the territory of both sides of supposed have been talking about over the last 26 years under the auspices of this minsk group moscow paris and washington d. C. Says nothings happened theyve not got any progress and that is why with turkeys assistance now they are prosecuting this conflict to try and take back that land near a tet militarily meaning it says it wants to implement a cease fire and hes willing to talk about implementation. It has more from the azerbaijani side in the capital back. At the moment the International Community has been issuing statements calling for calm weve seen the efforts of the. Group weve seen the efforts from bloody mir putin weve seen also depreciation of russia turkish president richard do and a de mint it seems that no one is listening really underground here certainly azerbaijan is backed by turkey in this conflict it does have aerial superiority so it feels strong in that respect armenia says that it will retaliate and munir also having the backing of several European Countries it seems but underground is. On the way when it comes to azerbaijan theyre getting territory theyre making territorial gains. According to the president actually they have. Retaken at least 2 of those 7 regions maybe not fully but certainly made enormous gains in there and there is movement and when you speak to azerbaijan they will continue this fight now obviously you have things that happen like yet back in ganja last night do you have a big human a human cost to this war yes people at the moment here are backing their leaders and theyre probably also back at the same is happening in armenia but you know do more you every day that passes and the higher the human cost you have probably the positions will become also very difficult for both leaders turkey has discovered a natural gas supply roughly equivalent to almost 10 years worth of its annual energy needs the president present time power to run so the find off the coast of the black sea is the countrys largest ever discovered turkey currently imports nearly all the gas it consumes explosion elsewhere in disputed waters in the eastern med has angered greece and cyprus. Out of hobby linen book all of the European Union is doing the most damage to itself by becoming captive to greece and Greek Cypriots the reliability of the European Union has already diminished because of the double standard the block imposes on our country at the cost of defying all the values it has been defending to this day with the e. U. Does not hold an unbiased stance in existing disputes in the Eastern Mediterranean this situation would be the official declaration of the end of the European Union. Or use of out about her as a retired turkish can only worked in the 1000 base he now works as a security analyst of the defense of the text defense minister university he says the countrys ambition to become a Regional Energy power will put political and trade relations at risk this findings in the black sea region is a very important number from the search for suspected because he is staying on the 4 nature. Almost 13000000000. 00 to russia by john and iran will be a huge leverage for turkey not only afford the price of the nature of gas bottle say the same time so he has a goal for creating yeah gas trading up inside turkey for just isnt turkey not on the use only it is nature of gas for the trade top but also know that there are lots of pipelines bringing nature gas on its volume from russia john from iraq from iran for misuse and so evil ad also. To his vision for being a gas trading in this area for balkan sound for europe. So she is trying to use her in order to clerked for Justice International relations are still form a quantum leap or just isnt always a part of perestroika agreement try to use just the troll gas and also. Keep down electric Power Generators each drug used to call for the citizen in any case it will be beneficial for the. 40 she should put it also led on these are including thousands of protesters in the thai capital to find government warnings and a transit shutdown. 35000 afghans have been displaced in just over a week while the taliban is agreed to halt attacked in the country. Way on sports coming up in a half hour or so the English Premier League leaders and champions go head to head in the local Dhabi Paynter will have that coming. Up protest as it taking to the streets in the us capital of washington d. C. And other cities across the country in a march for women. Im. One of their goals is to build momentum to fight President Donald Trump out of the white house and also protesting against the Supreme Court nomination of judge amy kind of back to replace to replace the late Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg 87 years old and was a liberal feminist icon and lets get more on this from roslyn jordan in washington d. C. And rosa have the protests met the expectations of the organizers. It doesnt at least from a numerical standpoint there were probably about a 1000 or so people who gathered on pennsylvania avenue in Downtown Washington d. C. When the permit that the organizers pulled was for about 10000 demonstrators so in from a numerical standpoint fell far short of their goal there was also the question of exactly why the womens march organized this particular rally because when they 1st announced that they were planning to have this event it was to try to slow down or do rail the nomination of judge Amy Kone Barrett to join the u. S. Supreme court well it appears that when the vote is taken in the u. S. Senate this coming thursday october 22nd that she will be confirmed Republican Leaders say they do have enough votes in order to put her on the nations highest court what you heard during the demonstration in washington on saturday where a number of issues reproductive justice black lives matter opposition to donald trump and his Vice P