Vaccine against. The 2020 Nobel Peace Prize goes to the Uns World Food Program for working to stop hunger being used as a weapon of war. And why the netherlands so called intelligent coronavirus lockdown no longer seems to be working. Welcome to the news hour we begin in carrick a stand where theres been gunfire and more chaos on the streets after a state of emergency was declared to end days of postelection on wrest the former president back at home by of says there was an attempt on his life when his car was shot in the capital bishkek these are some of the key players in the crisis right now you have kyrgyzstans president so room by you may be a call of insisting that hes in control of the country but says hell resign. Once a new cabinet is appointed solder jumper of is the new Prime Minister after protesters freed him from jail earlier this week hed been serving 11 and a half years for kidnapping also freed on tuesday was the former president and by of he was close to present him back off but they fell out after the 2017 president ial election opposition groups have failed to agree on a common candidate so far but 2 of them have said that they will Work Together in a power sharing deal there is child stratford reports now from bishkek. This video appears to show the moment a gunman tried to assassinate cue the storms former president almost back at a boy of. Only hours before hed appeared for the 1st time in public since being freed from jail by supporters during protests over last weeks parliamentary Election Results. And some boy who was jailed last year for corruption was on her in the attack the Central Election Committee an old sundays Election Results of the widespread vote buying the opposition says progovernment parties were most to blame since then kyrgyzstan has descended into chaos. Its a strange feeling nobody explains anything to us and totally confused by the situation there is a great sense of our certainty its been days now and people are afraid i dont want violence. In the early afternoon on friday bush gets a little square began filling up with supporters of various opposition parties the president s are in by june beck all said he will resign after a new cabinet these votes is by parliament but many protesters here want more than that theyre angry with politicians who they accuse of years of corruption economic mismanagement many want a whole scale change of what they describe as an old guard leadership that has failed this country and rick the elections by buying votes and theyre angry with this man saw those. Who they say was illegally made Prime Minister of the he too was freed from jail by supporters and protests. If is a full member of parliament that was serving 11 year jail sentence for kidnapping. As opposition supporters of various parties chaunceys in the square a group of his supporters ponce through the crowd of those in storms will hold many people fled. The situation in the square up until 7 years ago it was peaceful that all changed the one supporters of the new Prime Minister the claim in there were clashes the theyve now taken control of the statue the on the fold from the forces of other officers to groups that often for the majority of the rest of the city were. To power of supporters insist he is the legitimate Prime Minister yet the word that im on my only concern is that my compatriots my relatives and brothers dont realize that there were game is being played and weve seen it many times they try to impose old leaders on us we dont want that president jeenbekov has declared a state of emergency which will be voted on in an emergency parliamentary session on saturday to put them on he says its necessary to prevent omh to confrontation between rival groups many people here say their country is on the brink struck without a 0 bishkek. Well of course our other headline story this hour the Foreign Ministers of armenia and azerbaijan currently holding talks in moscow in an attempt to resolve their 13 day old a conflict of the nagornokarabakh on me as leader says hes ready for peace talks but the as ery president appears to be backing a military solution to the conflict for now the disputed region is officially part of azerbaijan but its run by Ethnic Armenians seneca city reports now from the as area city of their. Its the 1st stark contact known to have taken place between our mania and azerbaijan since the new fighting broke out in the soviet republics 3 decade old conflict on september 27th. The talks are focusing on a cessation of hostilities and exchange of bodies and prisoners the moscow talks came after their survey john foreign minister attended talks in geneva with the french us and russian envoy song thursday may vary but its a miracle we are committed to a peaceful settlement of the karabakh conflict in a ready to resume the Peace Process in accordance with the recent statements of the president s and Foreign Ministers of the o s c e minsk group. But just as a talks in moscow began those original president and how mali have said there could be no peace if our media continue to insist that level in a paragraph was part of its territory that otherwise un. Will no harm will be demanded karabakh is azerbaijan everyone should know this including those in charge of armenia today i told them again that if they commit fraud after the moscow talks regret it we will take back our lanes peacefully or through war on the quickly we want to organize it peacefully we give our being only one last chance. For the last 2 days efforts to stop the fighting between our many and as our john has been held while the battles in and around the corner car about continue to rage it still remains to be seen whether this latest International Effort to achieve a cease fire while the successful. The fighting is the worst since 199194 war that killed an estimated 30000 people and ended with a cease fire that has been her critically violated. Azerbaijans says that 31 hours there is civilians have been killed and 168 wounded since september 27th it has not disclosed information about military casualties or thirtys im not going to say 370 the 6 of its military personnel and 22 civilians have been killed that day in pure. Aljazeera miniature resurveyed John Alexandra stay on of which god voight is following russias mediation efforts in moscow just remind us what it is that theyre trying to accomplish and also why theres been a bit of a delay because you are supposed to hear from the Foreign Ministers bye now. Well these talks that started in the great atmosphere and without Opening Statements from many of the ministers are now entering their 8th hour their tough and difficult talks obviously despite the goal that is announced to be achieved is not very high and that is to agree on some sort of a ceasefire so to exchange the prisoners and to collect and bring back for burial bodies or for the soldiers that got killed since 27th of september and as i said theyre talking for hours now there are some reports that there have been some pauses in the meantime probably for consultations but so far we do not know the results of these talks and this is the 1st time that any officials from other media as out of it john are sitting and talking directly to each other in this case theyre doing it with the mediation of the russian minister of Foreign AffairsSergey Lavrov and these stocks are possible to happen now because of all the International Efforts to make the side sit at the negotiation table and also because there are on the invitation of russian president Vladimir Putin who is invitation is very hard to refuse for both as a demijohn and armenia which russia has a rather good relations so we are still waiting to hear what is the outcome of hours and hours of talking all right thank you very much and now alexandra stand image got freud joining me now from washington is pull strong get a bit more analysis on this story as a senior fellow of the russia and Eurasia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace obviously the kremlin is leading the way in these negotiations between azerbaijan and armenia at the moment how sensitive is russias position in this because obviously theyre obliged to protect armenia whether any direct attack on armenia but they dont want to be seen as being pro on the near in this because theyve also managed it. Maintain a solid relationship with azerbaijan through the is. Yes thank you for having me and this is a very complex issue for russia russia has really had some difficulty over the past 2 weeks in trying to get the sides together when previous efforts previous wars have have taken place in previous fighting theyve been really able to get to knock Heads Together and get people in the room within a couple days but theres been a lot more difficult i think russia was taken by surprise and youre right russia is armenia is ally it has a lot at stake in that alliance and its credibility as a state but it also is as been keen not to let you know the as a result is get too close to the turks and have turkey increase its influence in the region but it doesnt want to alienate as a result and so its got a lot on the line and its been trying to deescalate this this. And this is the 1st indication that weve had today that some of these russian efforts might be working into at least a small extent what about what is president up to in all of this because weve seen russia and turkey pot heads in libya and syria so what is that a risk of a collision between russia and turkey in this conflict. I think there always is there is a risk of that collision is as you say i mean russia and turkey are loggerheads in syria theyre at loggerheads in libya and there is a real risk that this could become a proxy war there are reports of turkish facilitated syrian mercenaries fighting on the azerbaijani side reports of f. 16 which is on i understand that president aliyev even stated are sitting in as a result not used but turkish f. 16 s so this really does have a potential to become a sort of of a proxy fight i think thats not it either turkey or or russias interests right now. But the turks have really grown much more assertive and i think this is sort of this is a time when when russia is a little bit weaker in the former soviet space than many people expected i want to ask you about the un resting because there is a state in the agency in the country obviously and its code vacuum off to that election how how serious how serious is the risk of more violence than. Will the violence certainly escalated today the escalated very quickly and very surprisingly and i think thats deeply troubling. And this is a country that has a history of violent instability the history of sort of bottom up popular revolutions that very often are taken over by warring political elites and that seems to be what we are seeing right now but the violence that we saw today was was troubling theres a lot of looting going on and then the sort of political groups and even some organized crime groups seem to be trying to take advantage of that so its a very deeply troubling situation that is that is unfolding as we speak in kyrgyzstan and no really legitimate government to try to bring it back under control all right thanks very much. Influence on this pull strong joining us now from Carnegie Endowment for International Peace thank you. It with the news hour live from london coming up a country where the corona virus is spreading faster than anywhere else how me in my eyes trying to control it 19 and then also President Trump is set to hold an impersonal vent at the white house even though its not know whether hes still infectious. United nations World Food Program has won the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize for its efforts to combat hunger and Food Insecurity around the globe its also been credited for its contribution to improving conditions for peace in conflict zones and preventing the use of hunger as a weapon of war our diplomatic editor james bass has our report. And so we work with the people in rehabilitating allin with what we call him moves in now the head of the World Food ProgramDavid Beasley was on a trip to west africa hed been in bikini a fast so and then was in 2 countries blighted by conflict and hunger when he heard the news i mean this is the 1st time in my life a bit speechless look up to this local legal talk about the most exciting point in time in your life is the Nobel Peace Prize it is because of the w. T. Family theyre out there in the most difficult complex places on in the world with us war and League Climate extremes it doesnt matter theyre out there and they deserve this award and wow wow wow wow thank you will even before the nobel announcement some of predicted the peace prize might go to the World Health Organization but that would have been controversial the agency and its head dr ted ross are at the center of disputes between the u. S. And china with the trumpet administration pulling its funding instead another part of the u. N. Family deeply impacted by coded 19 was chosen for its efforts to call. For its contribution to bettering conditions for peace in conflict affected areas and for acting as a driving force in to prevent the use of hunger as a weapon of war and conflict. The World Food Program has had a major logistical challenge the delivering food this year with large parts of the Global Shipping and Aviation Networks closed instead its had to find alternatives one expert told me w. S. P. Is currently probably the Largest Airline in africa the award goes to the agency for its work and to all its 17000. 00 stars. But executive director David Beasley has been a bold passionate leader repeatedly linking conflict and hunger in his speeches in the u. N. Security council it is worth the job has the 1980s always gone to an american was to be used as a former republican governor of South Carolina who knows President Trump well hes had a difficult year himself contract encoded 19 early in the pandemic but he ends it with the presentation of the award in december recognition of the agencys ever growing workload james zira of the United Nations. Well for months the World Food Programme has warned that the world is on the verge of a hunger pandemic as they say because of conflict disasters economic crisis and of course at 19 it says the number of people facing hunger could almost double by the end of the year from a 149000000 to 270000000 africa they say is the worst affected continent with 22000000 people suffering Food Shortages in the democratic republic of congo alone and then in the middle east 20000000 people there experiencing a food crisis in yemen while lebanon is experiencing its worst economic crisis ever in latin america more than 5000000 venezuelan migrant suffer from Food Insecurity but the program is facing its own funding shortfall it means that the half 1000000 beneficiaries only receive food aid every other month well earlier the head of the u. N. World food Program David beasley who you saw in the report there spoke to al jazeera about the award and said the Organization Needs money to of famine in yemen in order to be able to reach those in need. Yemen is the worlds worst disaster out of 29000000 people we see a system about 12 and a half 1000000 people on any given day it is driven nothing but by war man they conflict and people starving to death if we have the money in the access and we need both we can avert famine and we can avert death but in a place like everyone is just so much war conflict it is very complicated our people the men and women that work so valiantly at the World Food Program theyre putting their lives on the line at it every single day their lives at risk every single day whether its yemen or syria or iraq or the northeast nigeria south sudan theres a whole region where you get isis and al qaeda and all extremist groups so we work in complex environments but if we have the money in the access we can avert famine we can in fact reduce destabilization as well as migration but assess it but weve got to have the money and right now money is a really really serious issue well one of the countries about food program has been warning about is in bob ways has more than half the population that wont have enough food without help by december this off to the coronavirus pandemic compound in food supply problems blamed on droughts and a poor economy from the shona land west of reports hed be. One hit of cabbage some cooking oil a little bit of salt and about 3 cups of rice is all in mukherjee has left in her kitchen she says you have to make it last as long as possible to feed a family of 8. Ninetys had we dont have much to eat there is nothing good about thomas situation we have been civilizing the Uns World Food Program says more than 8000000 zimbabweans will not have enough food by december