This hour aleksey and ive only accuses a lot of your food in the weaselling him and his 1st interview since coming out of a coma prompting a furious reaction from moscow which claims russia played a key role in saving the opposition figures life. Watching our to international bring you your live news update from our studio here in moscow welcome to the program. Armenia and azerbaijan how both flat out rejected calls for a cease fire and ruled out peace talks as hostilities over a disputed border territory enter their 5th day these are the latest Images Released by azerbaijan showing the destruction of Armenian Military vehicles in the. Region both sides have released a string of videos to back up their claims of military conquest 2 french journalists are among those who have been wounded don love is also at the heart of the conflict zone and reports on the impact the hostilities are having on local communities. Nagorno karabakh is sandwiched between the territorial ambitions of armenia and azerbaijan but as commanders in chief are deploying platoon after platoon to the frontline its often civilians who end up in the crossfire on both sides or in a small town in the disputed nagornokarabakh region the front line is about 5 to 7 kilometers that way and is there by johnny shell flew from over there and made this crater and well that was a bust staying right here has already been cleared the debris and it was bustling with people as a result because of the strike this strike killed 2 people and 5 more were wounded all of them civilians this is no military complex its just a building just a house where you live in in fact im being told that these these areas are being shelled relentlessly even though the closest military position is about 3 to 4 kilometers away that way but what youre hearing right now is them firing in fact we could hear just minutes ago a u. S. V and sometimes even see it as it was making circles above us it was not in armenia and it was in azerbaijan one so this is one of the places where it is as hot as it gets in the going to care about their own many places that have it worse than the town of martinique within the 60 minutes that we were filming there we had artillery infantry drones all of them had their deadly say. It would be a new movie the. Air raid sirens and the buzz of drones have become the terrifying soundtrack to this war in the gorn a cab and this frontline town his enduring booms all calibers this is whats left of the round that fell and his backyard its really. And well im being told its about 160. 00 millimeters in caliber which makes it a truly formidable project and you can see the amount of damage that it did here for instance here used to be the gates well there are now completely gone both sides are ready to fight to the bishop around both sides of the fervent support of their populations sharing an underlying belief that its them fighting for the right cause and not the enemy with all the horrors that have already haunted this land this war shows that the your grievances have only deepened because dawn of reporting from the green a care about. The war and a car bomb is one of several border disputes remaining from the collapse of the soviet union the republic seceded from azerbaijan in 1988 and declared itself independent however the enclave predominantly populated by armenians is not widely recognized as an independent state turkey for its part has expressed staunch support for us or bias in the conflict buckaroo says this support is limited to the diplomatic level but youre about to lodge is that the Turkish Air Force is getting involved as well with more on the escalation here is our Senior Correspondent juan garcia reporting from istanbul. Well theres been absolutely no lol in the fighting continued overnight raged i would say every few hours were also seeing casualty numbers both military and civilian spyro and it seems to be getting worse and worse and the escalation seems to be escalating itself and this is all despite tremendous diplomatic pressure for both sides to take a pause to take a break to anything you know give talks the charts despite everything the International Community is doing the violence seems to be getting worse. We have only one condition that armenia leaves our lands completely and immediately this is file it is the armenian government complies with this the fighting will stop there will be no bloodshed there will be peace peace will come to our region. I believe the Armenian Army can secure a country and the selfdefense forces of the Golden Corral bark are successfully protecting their region from a political standpoint i believe its very important for us that International Partners know how and who started this military action. All of that all of this rhetoric though it isnt stark contrast to what ordinary people think here in istanbul in turkey in out of mean year in karabakh in baquba people know off to so many years of escalations of flare ups that peace doesnt come through war medical needs more poverty as an armenian i do not want to talk about who is right or wrong but i would like those issues to be resolved through negotiations not force. And i dont like what is happening many people i know are now going to the front line we dont want blood to be shed we want everything to end peacefully but i am afraid there is no chance to talk about peace of the moment we must reclaim our lands. I fought in the 1st war and in 2016 nowadays people go to the front line to win the shelling will come down then we will be needed there we used to it this is our homeland we have nowhere to go the losses buth sides suffering though we cant verify everything its impossible for now are tremendous so the perhaps the sheer magnitude of what is happening will force both sides to take a pause and to reconsider the approach that theyre both taking but for now that seems a dim concept because the president of caravan has sworn his citizens the people of calabar to prepare for a prolonged war and the set about johnnys side has as we mentioned earlier obviously set its path and that path is to reclaim carabaos by force russia is among the countries thats urging an immediate cessation of hostilities moscow is also warning about the possible involvement of foreign extremists and the conflict parties in a bitter end go looks at that threat. So the issue of foreign mercenaries from outside the region being moved into the conflict zone in the gorn a car back it was 1st armenia that kept pointing out these concerns but now is the time when for the 1st time the russian side began to address this threat heres exactly what the Foreign Ministry statement said according to the information we have received militants from illegal armed groups have been transferred to the nagornokarabakh conflict zone from syria in libya to take part in the still it is we call on the leaders of the countries involved to take active measures to prevent the deployment of Foreign Terrorists a masterpiece in the conflict and to ensure their immediate withdrawal from the region so in this particular case and its very important moscow is not pointing the fingers at any of the sides for being behind this but like i said when youre yvonne began talking about alien fighters in the region they started blaming turkey right away in fact the armenian side was blaming turkey from the very beginning for provoking this call flick now in an interview to the Russian Media both leaders of armenia and azerbaijan addressed this specific issue and heres exactly what they had to say as their big john handed over the air command of offensive operations against the in the ground car back to the Turkish Air Forces the air force is being operated under their most command and control of the turkish station but its a turkeys giving us moral support and were grateful to the turkish government and turkish people for solidarity and standing by her side there is no other role turkeys taking into the conflict the role of anchor all in all this has been the focus of speculation and debate for a long time now because unlike many Important International players which called for a peaceful settlement of the crisis from the very beginning and which didnt take sides turkey decided to back as thereby john immediately and even threat. To send its military there now thats something that wasnt welcomed by the russian side at all which at this point has very good relations with ankara all this comes amid reports in the media that Syrian Rebels backed by turkey could be getting ready to be moved to the nagornokarabakh region or are already on the way but these are just reports for now and again id just like to point out that in a statement the Russian Diplomats arent blaming anyone for the things that are causing concern at this point my colleague and you know neal spoke earlier to a political analyst focusing on the region who says the situation is more complex than it 1st looks. There are Many Organizations not probably i dont think it is real be bodies media or dorky me theyre all frustrated by gen or even the leaders it is mainly i suppose the initiative belongs to certain Financial Firms and slamming Financial Firms related to the muslim presence in and out of the meaning of the. Weve seen over the last number of days statements of support from m korea for azerbaijan how far do you think turkey is willing to go to help its allies well you should understand the situation be thrown the chair of the gun the shaken out too many forces inside or you would include the gun party now wanting to replace him and hes fighting for the place so if the military fortune would be on a sort of bridge on the side at the gun would get the glory. Conquer over their main and slike stuff accumulate that you would cause a big greek conqueror so that is if military force sure are on a sort of by genocide but if it means we have begun to lose nothing because of its beauty but its not about genocide we have noted relations. Russian opposition figurehead unexplained of all me has given his 1st interview since coming out of a coma and it he talks about surviving his now we took our deal and point the finger at Vladimir Putin is alive now to berlin and our peter peter what did the molly have to say. Well they use this interview in their spiegel to thank the german people and in particular angler merkel the german chancellor it paid a secretive visit to Alexei Navalny while he was in hospital and mr in the valley throughout this interview seems to be under no illusions who is behind his alleged poisoning hes pointing the finger of blame firmly at moscow and directly to me at burrton at some point but while in russia a very different version of events is being talked about by senior figures in the state parliament i claim that putin is behind the crime and i have no alternative versions of what happened i dont say that to flatter myself but on the basis of fact the most important fact is novacek the order to use a manufacture it can only have come from 2 men the head of the f. S. B. Or of the Foreign Intelligence Service the s. V. R. Know vonnie is a shameless scoundrel putin saved his life if what happened to him was orchestrated by the western secret services then his statement fits that logic in only a dishonest person can make such a statement. Well shortly before ive come to talk to you right now weve heard from Dmitri Prescott of the kremlin Spokes Person saying that while he wasnt going to say that Alexei Navalny was working for Foreign Intelligence Services that moscow seems to have proof that Foreign Intelligence Services namely americas Central Intelligence agency the cia are working with him that would be a real escalation in claims in this case thats just come out in the last few minutes now germany says that it found traces of the nerve agent not the chalk in samples that took from alexina valley the tests that were carried out in the city of low in siberia where mist in the valley 1st received treatment well they showed no trace of poisoning whatsoever alexina valise team sent a bottle that was taken from the hotel room had been staying in that was then arrived here in germany that was tested that seems to have shown positive for novacek now with the toll transition period there raises a lot of questions many of which have not been answered the russian Foreign Ministry of the russian side in fact its the russian chief Prosecutors Office has made numerous requests 3 so far for the details of these tests to be shared with russia that so far as fallen on deaf ears and its really caused quite a lot of upset in the russian Foreign Ministry whether it is not abuse or we turn to the o. P. C. W. Which unfortunately was playing for time and then told us we need to go back to berlin you can you believe that when we were 1st appealing to believe in it directed our communications to the p. C. W this is a vicious circle it is illogical absent and everyone understands it. Well back to the interview that alexis in the valley gave an interview he says that he believes russia made attempts to keep him in the country when he 1st was receiving treatment in the city of he had been flying from siberia the city of thompson over to moscow his plane had to make an Emergency Landing when he took ill now the Russian Foreign minister Sergei Lavrov has said that mr novelli is alive today because of the actions of russian pilots and russian doctors who provided him with medical treatment when he 1st arrived in the city of aunts. I think they were determined not to let me out of the country which is why they publicly stated that i was not fit for transport they waited for me to die in my eyes the chief medical cost bittle is worse than the Intelligence Officers who kill people for them killing is at least their job. Were supposed to children so the impeccable work for pilots doctors and paramedics is presented as a lucky coincidence they dont even admit that we acted in a proper way the western partners look at us with their arrogance because we dare to doubt their correctness of professionalism thats why they doubt the professionalism of our doctors and investigators he was new to the news. In the valley says that he plans to return to russia as soon as thats possible. Peter all over bringing us the latest from berlin thank you. Still ahead exporting the pandemic to wage a repressive Crackdown Amnesty International lashes out at frances response to peaceful protests by and that after the short break. Join me every thursday on the alec simon show and ill be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business im showbusiness ill see if that. Is your media a reflection of reality. In the world transformed. What will make you feel safe. Isolation whole community. Are you going the right way or are you being led. What is true what is faith. In the world corrupted you need to descend. To join us on the death. Or a made in the shallowness. A come back Amnesty International has issued a damning report condemning the french governments brutal crackdown on protestors and also alleges that the pandemic is being exploited to bring in repressive measures. Whats more. Amnesty international doesnt hold back in this report accusing authorities of using oppressive laws in the period pre and post the code it 19 locked down thousands have been arbitrarily fined arrested detained and prosecuted for peaceful activities which should not be considered defenses peaceful protests have been banned under draconian kovan 1000. 00 powers and hundreds of protesters find the report says that despite the covert lockdown ending in may a barrel all public gatherings of more than 10 people remained in force it claims that this was disproportionate given that other launch gatherings in open spaces were permitted yet even though it was deemed illegal protests did take place including ones linked to the black lives Matter Movement oh that was a. Good. Thing put on i was just. Going to the burn was eventually overturned by francis highest Administrative Court but amnesty says that dozens if not hundreds of protesters were fined for participating in small public gatherings over the past few months it says in the cases that it has documented the fines imposed appear to constitute a disproportionate restriction to the right to freedom of Peaceful Assembly that includes the case of eleanor a Health Worker took part in a protest calling for support for the Public Health system they say the Police Stopped eleanor who was alone at the time in front of the Closing Stores are Law Enforcement official. Checked eleanors backpack which contained a gas mask and a pair of goggles they told her that she would be fined for participating in the band protests they subsequently arrested her and placed her in a precharge detention for participating in the group with a view to preparing violent acts in 20182019 amnesty says that more than 40000 people were convicted on the basis of vague laws the Yellow Vests Movement was hit particularly hard. But its not just protesters whove been at the receiving end amongst those deta