Daniel shimer is following developments in the region from one is ours could all be with the next day or 2 likely to pass that grim 1000000 mile stone of people infected theyve had 30000 deaths. Has already passed that 1000000 a 1000000 people infected with 28000 deaths both of those countries imposed fairly tight restrictions that have suffered despite that the worst cases the worst country to suffer has been brazil where president both the noro if you may remember called the corona virus nothing worse than the little flu he himself contracted the disease. There are growing concerns that people fleeing fighting between armenia and azerbaijan are taking the virus with them doctors in the contest into going to car about region fair as many as 9 in 10 people are now infected there are no official figures but its thought the crime to bomb shelters could be accelerating the spread we just saw another night of intense shelling on friday. Gagnes president alpha conde has been declared the wi
A landslide election victories New Zealanders reward the covering for. Tens of thousands of protesters have gathered in lebanons capital city to mark one year since mass antigovernment protests they have been rejecting corruption in the ruling class lebanon has been experiencing its worst economic crisis since the civil war which is only deepened during the pandemic so a quick look at how we got to this point in october last year a newly announced tax on calls made through the whatsapp application triggered protests across lebanon then it turned into a broader call to end government corruption unemployment and poor Public Service led to the resignation of the Prime Minister saad hariri and a political deadlock to replace him and in early august a powerful explosion ripped through central beirut killing more than 200 people and became another symbol of government incompetence and weeks later a 2nd wave of coronavirus posed a threat for the 10s of thousands of people who lost their homes
In europe are reimpose curfews to try and stop a surge in corona virus infection its about. Liverpool and everton locked in a dog. Bowl late in the program. Hello thanks for joining us fighting has escalated in the conflict over the disputed region of nagornokarabakh a week after a cease fire between azerbaijan and armenia took effect as a vision has accused armenia of deliberately attacking civilians and in the city of god with a missile that killed at least 13 people armenians Defense Ministry says it did not fire towards as or based on several hierarchies begins our coverage. Assessing 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 our back. People hate all fall from
Majority the government agreed to the referendum following demonstrations. This referendum is not the end it is the beginning of a path that we must all walk to give the to agree on a new constitution for. Until now the constitution has divided us from today we must all work to give us a bit the new constitution is the great framework of unity stability in future. And humanitarian ceasefire has just come into effect between azerbaijan and armenia its the 3rd such deal made in recent weeks to stop the conflict over to go on a kind of the 1st to fail to hold and its comes despite heavy fighting in the disputed region on sunday. Security forces in iraq a fight a gas of protesters trying to get into baghdads falsified green zone the demonstrations against corruption and unemployment 1st began a year ago hundreds of people have been killed since then. Frances registered a new record of daily infections with more than 52000. 00 confirmed cases on sunday several other pir European Countries i
By their very good morning to you thanks for joining us here on r. T. International. The capital of the disputed nagornokarabakh region has been struck by several powerful explosions overnight despite a now weeklong cease fire agreed between armenia and azerbaijan reports on the ground raid sirens went off multiple times but the extent of the damage is currently unclear locals took cover in their basements the rockets are believed to have also struck the area that surrounds the city pictures from one of the nearby villages injuries have been reported. The number of regions where fighting has flared up in the going to karabakh has been growing since tensions between back you and your advantage over the disputed territory boiled over at the end of september the 2 sides are trading accusations of attacks blaming each other for civilian casualties and damage inflicted and socials president meanwhile announced that his country has reclaimed 3 cities in theyre going to care about something a