Swing states. One year on from the start of protest movement demanding change levanon is still deep in political and economic crisis and curfews close restaurants and new limits on gathering europe comes down tighter as cover 19 cases keep growing. A new cease fire between armenia and azerbaijan is now in place a humanitarian truce came into effect 4 hours ago after an attack on the as every city of ganja which killed at least 13 civilians this is the 2nd attempt to stop nearly 3 weeks of violence have been fighting over the disputed region of the garden okada bok just a week ago they agreed to a russian mediated ceasefire but it failed to hold Bennett Smith is in armenias capital yerevan with more. This information about the new troops has come from the armenian side and the armenians that have been pushing for a ceasefire in the last few days is the armenians that have been losing territory to these areas is areas have taken now we understand territory that is essentially in the buff
To keep it in place. We start with the fighting between armenia and azerbaijan there are claims the latest attempt to when the violence is faltering just hours after it began both sides are accusing each other of violating a 2nd russian mediated ceasefire in the space of a week it was established the day after the there is said 13 people were killed in a missile attack in the city of ganja more than 700 people are estimated to have died so far in the fighting in the occupied region of nagornokarabakh of the remote mountainous area is officially part of azerbaijan and its been controlled by Ethnic Armenians since the end of a 6 year war in 1994. I mean it is in ganja as a very john with the reaction to the cease fire from there but theres not much belief in that you many tarion ceasefire was in the hospital a short while ago where you had still do did of the attack on saturday which killed. 13 people and then i asked the people there would you think this cease fire is something good and
Demonstrations. And the u. S. Warns of sanctions if a weapon sales go ahead with iran and the United Nations expires. And im peter stammered with your sports matches the city striker Sergio Aguero will face no punishment after touching a lineswoman during a match but well tell you why many fans are still upset by it. So now after months of unrest in a campaign marred by violence voters in getting a costume that ballots to elect the next president Company Leader alpha conde voted in the capital cannot agree on sunday morning hes running against 11 kind of its but his main rival is the former Prime Minister. This is the 3rd match up between the 2 men if you 2 year old conde insists his bid for a 3rd term is legal but the opposition says it violates the constitution. So lets take a look more closely at the 2 main candidates incumbent alpha conde has been in power since 2010 and he leads the rally for the getting in people party conde is backed by his ethnic group and has faced mass protes
I worked for many years in los angeles at the Los Angeles Times. I have written for the new york times. Currently i write for the los angeles review of books and i am on the board of directors of the National Book critics circle. I am also the author of a book lapoetry, that deals with causa. At this time i would like to introduce miriam. Miriam is the former Pulitzer Prize winning editor. She spent 25 years working at newsday and to the Los Angeles Times. Her book, the crusades of cesar a biography is the First Comprehensive biography of the charismatic leader. She has written the union of widely acclaimed into nuanced history of chavez is United Farmworkers Movement and nuanced history of a United Farmworkers Movement. She recently received an endowment for her work on the chavez biography. Please welcome miriam pawel. [applause] thanks, gregg. Gregg hi miriam. Gg. Iam hi, gre gregg i want to ask you something i feel is important what brought you through the writing about cesar chave
York state. We showed resolve for. Still a lot of differences between. Serbia and kosovo agreed to work on economic links and a u. S. Brokered deal but remained far away from formal political times. Also ahead we speak to kenyans who say theyre struggling to survive after being evicted from forests and a fight over land and the environment. Our top story a search continues for possible survivors beneath the rubble of a collapsed building in beirut highly sensitive equipment attempted signs of breathing on friday if so far dug 3 tunnels to the spot where the signs of life were picked up but nothing has been found on friday lebanon fell silent to mark exactly one month since the explosion ripped through the city life to say an author whos near the spot in beirut where the search goes on saying up at the in a situation where hopes are beginning to fade that theyll find anyone. Head of lebanons Civil Defense said we havent found anything yet this is a painstaking operation let me just get