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Tough lockdown measures. That lie from moscow this is the International Money that you had lined news 1st the troubles in the caucasus more than a week since a decades old conflict between armenia and azerbaijan burst back to life theres little sign of peace on the horizon fighting is still raging over the disputed region of nagornokarabakh the conflict has roots stretching back more than 3 decades the region controlled by Ethnic Armenians but its internationally recognized as part of azerbaijan theres been almost continuous shelling in karabakh capital heres some footage filmed by the Armenian Defense ministry. Still as hes now spreading beyond the disputed territory with several towns in azerbaijan being hit according to his every government it claims that some were struck by missiles or by well media disputes that he goes on and reports next from the troubled region. Things like this one common here in the go and i care about in fact this tiny village alone was battered by 6 massive missiles here is where one of them landed and this is all the devastation that it has left but it is not where the azerbaijanis had hoped where it would land because we about we were just a few 100 meters away from the airport of step on a cart and here the airport its much bigger than just taking people from point a to point b. Its political its a symbol of independence and the symbol of allegiance of the local government to the authorities over menial and that is why i was there by john isnt happy at all that its here in fact since since this airport was renovated and became operational again back in 2012 it became a regular target of attacks in fact it went as thereby john went as far as threatening to shoot down planes coming in and out of this airport but later they backtracked saying that it would never target civilians but even if it doesnt even as it doesnt target civilians specifically well they still get the short end of the stick as you can clearly see but i talked to them i talked to the owner of this house who still lives here and hes told me. But hes not going anywhere bush. Ive lived here for almost 20 years and i dont want to move away i will work your and stay until the end of my life and hes not the only one its the general mood here as people prefer to stay and live in their homes even of bombs fall on their heads and we get done of reporting from the disputed region of nagornokarabakh. On the red cross says locals have found themselves in an impossible situation having a terrible impact on civilians the humanitarian consequences are already apparent were on the ground across the region and what we are seeing and hearing is that people are absolutely terrified being forced to make really impossible decisions on how to keep themselves and their families safe people are reportedly on the move trying to find shelter on top of this this is all happening in the context where winter is coming people have already been dealing with a global covert pandemic we have been helping hospitals in nagornokarabakh on request weve helped with emergency medical supplies our teams in the field its quite restricted in terms of what they can do because of the volatility of the situation because the fighting is so intense in places so we havent actually even been able to get out and do a full assessment as we as we would like to do but obviously people people do need support and people need help and where we can weve been stepping up and we obviously hope to do a lot more so other assessment of the u. N. Says more than 40 civilians have been killed in the disputed region since the fighting broke out just over a week ago a Senior Advisor to azerbaijans president gave us his views on the escalating conflict. Im going to go d to the answer. Of course is worse and we have seen. This and its i once again the most wanted to be able. Side exactly happened to. Come. Home to the church and come to. Issues. Concerning intensive show in which. I have received or it just was in. 2 souls and that is this. Just school. Near so for 6 hours or so but then. Also i think its not even used as a government. In israel despite you coronavirus rules banning Mass Gatherings tens of thousands running to over the weekend demanding the Prime Ministers resignation Benjamin Netanyahu is handling of the pandemic dozens were arrested reporting next from tel aviv his point. Was. Well over the weekend we saw teams of thousands of protesters demonstrating throughout israel against the israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu now mass protests are currently forbidden in the country and people are only allowed to gather within one kilometer from the home so the result is that we small we saw hundreds of small demonstrations taking place in tel aviv was one of the scenes where those demonstrations resulted in violence. Now the local police chief has complained of the criticized protesters for using violence against Police Officers for example throwing eggs we know that 38. 00 protesters were arrested in tel aviv alone for the violation of public water and at the same time for attacking Police Officers many protesters disturbed order blocked roads to ignore destructions of officers resorted to physical and verbal violence a large majority of virtually broke the emergency regulations when they gathered with no distancing not Wearing Masks and danger in Public Health now one of the organizations that has organized the protests is known as the black Flags Movement and it is to make soccer where 100000 people out on the streets of the weekend that it is difficult to independently verify that what we are hearing from witnesses is that this is an historic fateful moment they say that they will not be silenced other organizers threatening that the protests will not be stopped but when he stayed until the Prime Minister netanyahu begins his post this comes as criticism against the police in the way that they have been handing hold protests also close we heard from the countrys defense minister has been a gun its the attacks on protesters tonight and in recent days around thinkable demonstrations were held in accordance with the guidelines are religious and essential parts of a democracy i call in the police to find the attackers and bring them to justice now the countrys Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu continues to insist that the way hes been handling the protests is legitimate and particularly the way hes been handling the whole pandemic is experiencing its 2nd lockdown however its likely that these protests against the Prime Minister will continue. In the weeks and months to come theyre criticizing the way hes been handling coverage 19 and also they calling out against his corruption charges. Tough new covert restrictions are set to come into force in paris and its surrounding suburbs because of a big spike in cases there nationally on saturday france registered 17000 its highest number of daily infections since the pandemic began heres our correspondent in paris. Well the announcements came thick and fast on monday with the 1st announcement the limit on the number of people who can gather together there is a ban or more than 10 people gathering together in public spaces and in places like stadiums there is a limit of a 1000 people that though doesnt apply to protests if they have got the ability to go ahead now you know that bars will shut down in paris and the in the suburbs from tuesday but restaurants will be able to remain open a restaurant will be defined as a place whose main activity of business is selling meals but the selling of alcohol and the consumption of alcohol in public spaces will be banned after 10 pm in the evening now outlining these measures the paris police prefects said that this was because the epidemic was coming too hard too fast and something need to be done before it overwhelmed the health system. The measures will be taken for the next 15 days with a reassessment at the end of these 15 days to see whether or not we will renew a certain number of measures whether we will change them. Other announcements are a band of festival student parties and we know that swimming pools games rooms and dance halls will all be closed as a result of the new measures outlined and universities will see a deuced capacity of only 50 percent of the numbers that they can normally hold the mare of paris described the measures as being very hard. And we know that the Health Crisis is have an extremely dramatic consequences for many families and dramatic consequences for the Economic Activity of our country and our capital theres also be concern from Industry Groups over the fact that those bars will close they say that thats going to force young people into drinking at home and that they wont be any health. To calls they owe anybody watching them while they do that and the president of one bar cafe in brazill. Said the situation has been so tough on Business Owners that many of them now having to take depressants it is a Great Sadness it will be an Economic Disaster im afraid that economically and psychologically the damage will be much greater than the gruner virus there is also being and go down in france is 2nd city of mass say and thats because theyre less than impressed by the fact that restaurants will be allowed to stay open in paris if you just think back to a week ago when marsay was put in a maximum zone they were told all of the restaurants would have to close now there were protests and people going out to the streets who were unhappy with those restrictions but there is a question there as to where the paris by allowing restaurants to remain open is receiving some sort of preferential treatment so it seems that these covert restrictions are perhaps more controversial than many people would have thought. Says hell be leaving hospital in the next couple of hours hes been receiving treatment for the corona virus for the past 4 days the president tweeted that he felt great although his doctor said in the last hour that he is not of the woods yet i mean his tweets trump also told people not to be afraid of the virus despite the fact that the United States has recorded the highest number of deaths in the world on sunday evening trump briefly left his ward to greet supporters outside the walter reed Military Hospital traveling in his motorcade the president waved to the crowd well wearing a mask however there is still much speculation about the exact circumstances of him falling in the 1st place here saskia taylor. I want to experience the roller coaster of being an american in october 2020 so a bit of a stretch i know but imagine i mean media in the u. S. After trump that announcement so my 1st question obviously. When was he diagnosed just 72 hours into the diagnosis now the 1st week of it but 72 hours i mean he found out on wednesday not on thursday as he said i must sniff out more inaccuracy as confusions and conflicting reports the time that is my 1st query of course but that it has been cleared up in a memo not that convincing though the white house is clearly sketchy and involved in some kind of cover up also there was a misspelling in the memo im sure we can read something into that something terrible and sketchy obviously then we come to symptoms of the bad are they very very bad how fatal is oxygenation levels how budding is his fever was he taken to hospital because hes literally at deaths door as before its clear the white house is covering it all up. And not just the doctors who say hes actually feeling fine his videos while probably a body double think you are. Going to make sure things were reversed live it is doing very well theres a fever why but i in my funeral outfit he doesnt have one was the Washington Post had perhaps not particularly encouraging either way lets pass the wost Case Scenario and even back to the power not to my pants of course no no to not supposed see shes a good solid democrat then thats the question of intent some of my colleagues are suggesting that trump was a no win super spreader what should we do with such covert criminals look them up of course comes doing notifying people of hickstead gnosis constitutes Reckless Endangerment in the 1st degree he presented a genuine risk of death to another person in a way demonstrating a deprived indifference to human life. Knew he had coded 19 traveled in a plain spoken event went into peoples faces travelled by never worried anyone that he was exposing everyone in his airspace to go. In peace in the hospital. If trump knew he had killed that 19 of the time who debate to do garden he should be charged with assault oh speaking of the debate even molony is not is innocent she looks molony was the only trump Family Member who wore a mosque during the debate then she took it off when she went up on stage with the bidens were was she purposefully trying to infect joe biden dont put it past her shes evil just listen to the tapes on the topic of those tapes its obvious from these leaked phone calls with her trusted formally 8 that she did really miss being in the white house. Working that. I knew. About. It so its agreed shell stop at nothing to stay for a few more festive seasons meanwhile as my colleagues predict trumps imminent death there are some out there who are cheering it on president trojan asphodel from colbert and i just was same our heart goes out to covert. Social media platforms even had to step in and take down the thousands of posts wishing trump dead i mean if twittering coa deletion contest against donald trump we know its descended into chaos either way all those people who already dancing on traumas killed a grave need not worry because that chosen candidate might be the oldest democratic nominee ever but you know matata hes an a for the long run these. Things are. The receivers this. Is the right. Word. Because. Its so i can say is this is really building anticipation for the upcoming 3 peat debate which if you really think about it all Things Considered looks a lot like a president ial debate i cannot wait for november. Live from moscow this is all things still to come you do the crime but on necessarily the time at least in england and wales where the pandemic is seeing judges give short sentences to explain that and talk about it after the break. Join me every thursday on the alex salmond chill and ill be speaking to guest of the world of politics sport im showbusiness ill see you then. Are getting some criminals in england and wales are reportedly being handed shorter sentences or avoiding prison at all or because of the coronavirus and its not gone down well with the government appointed Victims Commission of friends of don wales. There is a real danger that could expediencies taken precedence over justice from the point of view victims must recognise that the scene more offenders been diverted away from courts and towards out of call disposals more plea bargains been accepted by the Crown Prosecution Service long the delays in getting cases to court and now sentences been reduced due to the impact of course we dont prison regimes. Well in april the court of appeal acknowledged the impact of a custodial sentence that is likely to be more severe during the pandemic to try and keep jails covert free prisoners are being confined to their cells for much of the day of visitors have been banned as a result judges are being asked to take this into consideration when passing sentence along with other mitigating factors such as guilty pleas and background circumstances. I with us to discuss the facts then former London Metropolitan Police Officer Peter Kirkwood also human rights activist Peter Tatchell gentlemen welcome to the program 1st of all the Peter Tatchell. Prison sentences are there to protect the public so handing out more lenient sentences whatever the circumstances really does it send the wrong message and leivick to fill shortchange. Well this is not a generalized policy there are a small number of cases the actual volume of cases its been somewhat exaggerated and the amount of production that sentence is actually mostly quite small so for example i 10 month sentence which would normally be applied is reduced by one month to 9 months so its not as if prisoners are getting off scot free but i would certainly add that in the case of serious sexual advance offenses this policy should not apply the public needs to be protected but having said that there may be some individual circumstances where it is the right policy given the fact that in our prison system theyre not really been able to tackle the covered it adequately there is often a shortage of masks and of sanitizing in prisons which is putting prisoners lives potentially at risk if you can lock older prisoners and prisoners with Underlying Health conditions so its right that the Prison Service should take this into account but really the solution is get them after the prisoners get the santa tires and dont do a blanket policy of peter kirk and these are unusual times and if youve got low level offenders who are essentially facing solitary confinement because of the covert restrictions that really isnt the punishment fitting the crime then is it. Its certainly not ideal but of course the entire population of the country are having to put up with all sorts of restrictions on their usual freedoms and liberties with a lockdown in the country at large so to a certain extent the prisoners are just take in the sort of prison equivalent of where everybody else is taking. One of the points that peter mentioned there that really does concern me is that this you seem to be being done in an informal ad hoc sort of way with different judges making different decisions in Different Cases if were going to have Something Like this it needs to be a proper policy with a proper framework so theres some consistency on how each person in each case is dealt with. Otherwise some will get very little change their sentence some will get quite a lot on a random sore basis so there needs to be a proper framework for as well as the p. P. Though peter kokomo its down to manpower as well prisons are overcrowded as they are by 107 percent i think the figure i saw a little earlier on given that then why not more manpower why not send in the army. Well they are using covariates as a sort of excuse for the problems the prisons have especially the lack of staff is disingenuous to say the least there have been problems of staff in the prisons for decades now or more and so this is just the latest small thing and its a massive problem thats been building over the years but peters quite right if theres a problem with the illness in prisons it shouldnt be dealt with by effectively throwing the prisoners out early it should be dealt with by other mitigation steps like more stuff like proper sanitation facemasks and such like so reduce the the spread without having to lock people up in their cells all the Peter Tatchell whom you mention of other people that they cant even get enough in the hospitals that are going to get enough for the prisons or any kind of custodial facilities are they going to happen. Well i dont think theres a huge problem in providing mass to prisoners and prison star i didnt as you problem in providing centers and it is happening in some prisons but as peter says very patchy very different responses in different prisons and i think the government really needs to provide the proper funding to mitigate the risks within prisons going id say is that i would be very reluctant to simply give prisoners who committed crimes a Carte Blanche to walk out of prison i think that those who need to be released to try and deal with the cold and then it should be subjected to electronic tagging where they can be monitored and put for example but basically restrictions on their movements if they have a family to go we should be required to remain in that family home 247 and electronic tagging can wonder that and of course if then they breach it then of course theyd have to go back to prison i think thats up thats a reasonable alternative response the other is that i think is is the more you. Use of restore to justice this is a system where the victim and the perpetrator meet under victim is tells is our 1st story about what happens when the impact the perpetrator then is required to acknowledge their crime and to offer to make some kind of recompense now this is a very different approach and it has a very much higher success rate than normal prison and i think that that could be something that could be trial in these circumstances and there are established procedures for that as ive said it does appear to be even more successful than prison in dealing with the victim and trying to get the perpetrator to acknowledge the crime to rehabilitate themselves and move on a peter kirk amidst attack technology a way forward because it wouldnt just be the low level offenders are necessarily being affected by this if their families to be stopped from visiting them of these times. Very much so book families are stopped from meeting their grandparents and other relatives so again its just a reflection of whats happening more generally in society those definitely noncustodial alternatives to custodial sentences they are largely used already i can see theres going to be a huge amount more leeway before you start cutting into the prison of body that really do deserve to be in prison for a variety of reasons. But yes if it pushes even more impetus on years in non custodial sentences where that is appropriate and outright tagging and things like that alongside it then that has to be a good thing again weve seen covert move our society more rapidly in all sorts of directions for instance were doing these interviews over skype today when in the priest covert sort of era wed have probably been in a studio down the line and i can desperations the mother of invention as they say ok pay to go commit a title thanks for joining us on r. T. Thank you. 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