Pandemic earlier this year now the government there is introducing new measures for restaurants and bars at restaurants they have to shut at midnight a maximum of 6 per table bars have to close at 6 pm and not just there last year for example are worried about the fact that over the weekend they saw record daily new cases which was the best part of 2000 on saturday theyre now limiting gatherings to 12 people thailands Prime Minister has issued a conciliatory message to protesters saying rallies which were banned are now permitted as long as there are peaceful thousands demonstrated in bangkok for a 6 day to demand private resignation they want a more democratic constitution as well as changes to the monarchy but it. Well the government has to do is protect the monarchy because this is the duty of all time people we request just these few things and we request the protesters to demonstrate peacefully. Theres no plan to expand the area of the state of emergency the governments trying to compromise as much as possible i want to ask the protesters for a few things dont destroy government and private property dont do anything wrong and most importantly dont let there be fighting. The u. S. Special envoy to afghanistan says attacks are threatening to derail peace talks and words Zalmay Khalilzad calls inflammatory rhetoric doesnt help either a suicide bomber killed at least 13 people in the Western Province of gore on sunday and tens of thousands in Helmand Province have fled increased fighting between taliban and Government Forces so the exit is the afghan president s spokesman he says the taliban should react or evaluate its violent approach if it wants peace. I think its an unfortunate masters that they are trying to send and i would just violence despite the fact that the International Community the atman people are now ready to talk to this group but the continent ration of these kind of violence and brutal attacks on the average people and really pose a serious threat to the Peace Process that millions of americans are hopeful of war so i think its time for the taliban to actually look at the their. Behavior in this look at they have to reassess what they are doing and and the they should not just revise the kind of deportment which is there for ending this war well 1st of all they are behind you that look at the office of the deliberate opens up a price on helmand all look at these. Regular packs that the photo of these b. Goes with explosives and the targets government offices and so theres no doubt a big claimant or deny it we know about who are behind this and thats the challenge of course these attacks is against. The commitments they claim that they are doing something in the Peace Process so the the violate the terms of that agreement that they made with the us in the affirmative so the taliban has to realize that the route to peace the former it is to end this violence we do everything not only happen government but the International Community what we all do is to pursue the taliban to end this nonsense war and violence the chief palestinian negotiator saw about a cots is in a medically induced coma while being treated for a coronavirus complications he was taken to hospital in west jerusalem from his home in the occupied west bank on sunday doctors say hes in a Critical Condition after contracting covert 19 nearly 2 weeks ago those are the headlines on aljazeera the war in october is coming up next thanks for watching bye bye. New york. Saturday the 6th of october 1973. The waldorf astoria hotel. In the early hours and merican secretary of state Henry Kissinger. Is woken in his suite with the news of military activity in the middle east. 2 hours later at 2 pm middle eastern time. Egypt and syria launched a war against israel on 2 fronts. After 3 years in power egyptian president anwar sadat had grown tired of peace initiatives that seemed to be going nowhere. We dont fear mediators has not been successful and so and and the United States was the main supporter of the surge so it was clear that if you wanted to solve the problem you would have to do 2 things either go to war. Or try to convince the americans to move in the right. 2 weeks into the war and with the opposing forces locked in a stalemate and richeson just arrived in moscow. Is goal was to agree a u. N. Ceasefire acceptable to egypts soviet allies. The russians had presented us with a restitution that was unacceptable so we had to rewrite it in henry and. Shape up from the. Right again. We push it to the next morning. Within 2 days the draft of u. N. Security Council Resolution 338 had been accepted by both the soviets and the americans. But instead of returning direct to washington kissinger made a stopover in tel aviv for a few hours. Thats off to news 22nd of october he would give his blessing to israeli plans to violate a cease fire even before the dawn. On the sit for the toba 973. 00 the egyptians mounted a lightning attack across the suez canal. Their goal to liberate the Sinai Peninsula occupied by israel 60 is in the 6 day war. To field all means 100000 men had established bridgeheads 10 kilometers deep into sinai. During the 1st week of war the israelis had lost equipment at an unprecedented rate. 500 tanks. And 50 aircraft. To an Egyptian Army equipped with the latest soviet weaponry can tell the antitank rockets. And sophisticated sufis to and missiles. Right on the political system away from the soviets were trying to impose their will on the middle east to gain a position data supplied mashable to board. As to the arab world. United states had to respond and it had to make sure that weapons were not perceived as being inferior in the soviet union. By the 14th of october a massive american alef had begun to carry weapons to israel. The operation was code named nickell grass. Electronic equipment sand which would help to neutralize the sand sites toll antitank missiles or sand the strange thing is that the really important material it was sent was the most basic 105 millimeter ammunition they sent that by the thousands of tons and it was fired off almost immediately. Throughout the whole war we were receiving ammunition crates of ammunition which came straight off the planes and ships. And no one even tries to make it look like its israeli there was u. S. Army on it so it was clear what role america took in keeping israel alone. Reinforced with american arms. Israelis now formed a bold plan to cross the canal at a gap that identified between the 2 egyptian field armies. The plan was cooled stout hearted man. During the 2nd week of the war and after a fierce fighting these really succeeded in crossing to the egyptian mainland on the west bank of the canal. 3 Army Divisions some 600 tanks formed an israeli bridge had in an area called devil swaps. Thats a problem. We had to get to all the anti aircraft bases and take them out and hit the retreating Egyptian Forces and cut off the egyptian troops that had crossed to the eastern side of the canal so it was a complicated mission but. Of a pair of. The egyptians confused and unsure what was going on began to restrict the release of information about the israeli presence on the western side of the canal. But so shocking here was the moment the egyptians said that 4 or maybe even 8 israeli tanks had been attracted to the western side of the canal and were being dealt with i told the friends the egyptian command have started making false statements up till then all the egyptian statements were truthful and the israelis were lying now i said its the other way around that egyptians are lying and the israeli statements are correct. On the other hand the israelis were working closely with western journalists. Just the wrong box and purely military it was a brilliant they conceived plan b. Israel. Managed to see more with federal troops in egypt. International correspondents accompanied to minister of defense moshe dyan on visits to Israeli Forces west of the canal. President sadat claimed the israeli operation and deficit was in a television stunt an attempt to cover up israeli failures in the 1st week of. The in fact it was a really serious problem i knew it was not just a media operation but that israeli breakthrough was a personal blow to me as a commander of the 2nd army. Davis walk the area now coming under israeli control was a rich agricultural land. Totally different from the waste desert of sinai. Egyptian special forces working in small groups use the last undergrowth to set ambushes for the israeli troops. It was clear. Why was i was so confident because i knew they were up to the job i had faith in the troops and commanders. I had lived with them for a long time i was the commander of the fatah troops for 3 years and i knew them to be brave fighters real men and reliable. Egyptian chief of staff general sada szczesny realize the war plan was on the verge of disaster. Antitank squads would desperately needed on the western bank of the canal to help stop the israeli advance. But in ordering them to cross back from sinai shadley was breaking president ial orders. To say that. And so that had set his mind on the fact that since we had taken bring. Heads on the eastern side of the canal we should never leave the east whatever happened he thought at least now were on the eastern side of the canal so he gave orders that not even one rifle should be pulled back from east to west. Too often. So how can we stop them how can we stop them how can we stop the enemy when we have no troops and 90 percent of our troops are on the eastern side of the canal not fighting and have nothing to do anyway at the end it was the president and the war minister on one side and side shows you on the other whose orders are going to prevail you figure it out or the end of that. Says lee who had masterminded egypts initial success was sidelined. From now on sadat and his woman mr general after my dismay i would take all the decisions. When the Israeli Forces crossed to the western side of the canal they inflicted massive damage to the logistical units in the rear which you untrained units so what was their goal just to create as much terror as possible all. Now the egyptian high command was running out of options and force commander mobarak ordered his pilots into the air. And of already a member once i was entering the operation room and i heard general Hosni Mubarak on the radio speaking to our Brigade Commander as unfathomable of the house and saying sir dont you see whats like to work replied doesnt scramble. There are dangerous enemy targets but you have to scramble dont you if you didnt scramble what would happen the israelis will advance and everything youve done would be invade iraq. Egyptian pilots also found themselves facing a new threat from the israel and its from the ground from occupied territory west of the canal. Adoor read that go in with ana they came across with a mobile air Defense System hoping assad asked those missiles brought down many of our aircraft while me on the colleague who were attacked by a hawk massage it took me by surprise and i said to myself oh god swayze is firing at me and then one of her songs one of the after more than 2 weeks of war it seemed all this bloodshed was about to come to an end on the 22nd of october the Un Security Council adopted resolution 338 calling for a cease fire in the middle east. To be going on any casualties and destruction the situation. Is the big challenge for the international peace. 852. 00 middle eastern time the fighting would stop. In desperate battles on the western side of the canal egypt had lost hundreds of men. 2 of its senior commanders. Who design and embodiment a family had died in the fighting. But despite these losses the egyptians had stopped the israelis from achieving the strategic goal of stout hearted men. Today just south of the city of a smiley israeli tanks remain at the point where their advance was stopped in its tracks. And headway at that point the corridor through the road had not been cut and neither the 3rd nor the 2nd army was besieged but then who said anything about israel respecting un security Council Resolutions and the slave that then puts. As the hour of the cease fire approached american secretary of state Henry Kissinger arrived in tel aviv. The ceasefire he had just spoken straighted with the soviets had come too soon for israel they were desperate to fight on to consolidate their position. Kissinger agreed to turn a blind eye. Witness so that israel had a greater interest in the ceasefire could be an order that moment has the hard work to do though terror it was to corruption. As morning broke on the 23rd of october Israeli Forces went into action as though no ceasefire existed. To ahmed divisions commanded by generals after hamadan and conmen magen. Braced southwards by pulsing egyptian resistance points and a dash toward so as. The mayor of a private school bus the city for. Us to get to within 80 kilometers of cairo and with 3 divisions i think that considering where we started from to reach where we did it was a huge achievement but we paid the price in blood in my battalion 67 of my soldiers were killed almost a 100 injured. By nightfall on the 23rd the israelis had managed to cut the kyra so as road im bypassed so as city to reach the port of ajdabiya. The egyptian 3rd army dug in on the eastern side of the canal now found itself under siege surrounded by israeli troops on every side. 100. 1000000 there was a state of bewilderment and feet of the 1967 soon are you that what happened in june 67. 00 would happen again and now we are at their mercy that the holiday. In new york at 11 pm middle eastern time on the 23rd of october the reconvened Security Council issued resolution 339. It called for a new cease fire to go into effect at 7 am the following day. But again israel was to break the 2nd cease fire. That formed my d. M. Out of you see their main target was a big city and the conquering of a big city either is smart or swiss a city with a big name they were fighting more of a media battle but at the same time they wanted to achieve a big political goal. Until the 6 day war suez was a flourishing Industrial City imports. But after 967. 00 the city found itself on the front line between egypt and Israeli Occupied sinai. A target for israeli attacks it was soon reduced to rubble. A city of a quarter of a 1000000 people now lay virtually abandoned. On october the 24th just as the new cease fire was scheduled to start israeli tanks and power troops moved into the semi deserted city. But they soon encountered stiff resistance from a small city militia. To have their tanks into the city and ibrahim saw a man hit the 1st of them so a mans shell went through the tanks hatch of the drivers throat and stop the tank that was the 1st act to stop in so race. So all the tanks and Armored Vehicle stopped after that one because it blocked the street we knew very well as we did that if any tanks stopped in a city it becomes a mobile tool so the abandoned their tanks and ran to the nearby buildings where the horse should be or the from. The israelis were driven from the city losing 80 debt and 120 wounded. To this day destroyed israeli tanks remain a testimony to the courageous resistance in suez. Despite this setback israels disregard of the cease fire was buying it precious territory elsewhere causing consternation in moscow. So this course is an earldom up to the total of little clue to just when israel ignored the u. N. Cease fire and continued fighting it became clear there were different points of view in the soviet government some people thought we should put pressure on them to make them adopt the ceasefire make them behave properly. To emerge. On the 24th of october at 9 35 pm washington time an alarming message arrived from moscow. It said the soviets were considering taking unilateral action to impose the ceasefire in the middle east. What there were there were some exercises several airborne divisions were put on alert but i dont think there was a military contingent ready to land the next day in the middle east it was more likely to be political pressure not military although some people for example our minister of defense were very keen on the idea. With president nixon submerged in the mire of the watergate scandal. It was left to Henry Kissinger to handle the crisis. Kissinger decided to respond to the soviet threat with a show of force. There to 11 41 pm washington time the American Armed forces state of alert was raised to defense condition 3 the highest in peacetime. Well the question of the us versus soviet union. Always boils down to mutual annihilation we could have killed everybody in the soviet union they couldve killed everybody and i state and the rest of the world would have gone it was an absolutely insane situation the thing that saved it was that each side knew that if a war occurred the leaders themselves would get killed and so when you know that youre going to get killed in a war and not to some poor peasant soldiers going to get killed you make different decisions about starting a war. Faced with the possibility of a spiral towards nuclear will the next day 25th of october the soviet stepped back. The alert was defused. We do not consider it. But the soviet union we do not believe it is not at this moment. In fact we have been over the operative story that really feel better and. Better. For a full 24 hour as the world had stood on the brink of between the 2 Great Nuclear powers but common sense at prevailed. On october the 25th the Un Security Council issued resolution 340. 00 the 3rd and less than 4 days to finally impose a cease fire in the middle east. The following day the vanguard of a new you an Emergency Force arrived at the