Infections. And 2 weeks after hosting a socalled super spreader event donald trump is set to host hundreds of supporters at the white house in his 1st public appearance since contract in the disease. Im going to get your oscar with your sports jamie butler puts in a performance when he vacation at the miami heat beat the l. A. Lakers to keep the n. B. A. Final say reason light. But its only been in force for a couple of hours but already armenia and azerbaijan a recusing each other of violating a cease fire that is featured region of normal how to block the truce was announced by russia on friday following 10 hours of talks and evolves exchanging prisoners and the bodies of those killed in the conflict hundreds of people have died since fighting flared up at the end of last month. Well armenia and azerbaijan went to war over going to qana but between 19911994 now the contested region is internationally recognized as part of azerbaijan but the majority of the People Living in these red areas are Ethnic Armenian these parts are controlled by Armenian Forces many as there is were displaced during the war in the 1990 s. The socalled line of contact separates Armenian Forces is the line in green here now the majority of fighting has been happening on either side of that line now were going to get the latest from sin and cos you know in tathagata azerbaijan 1st lets speak to Bernard Smith whos in stockholm accounts in there going back. Just to tell him talk us through what the reaction has been there in the hours just after the announcement of this is fine. Well rob the foreign minister of manias zora. He said that the process of achieving the cease fire was rather difficult he called it the local media in armenia and hes calling it a humanitarian ceasefire essentially established to allow the exchange of prisoners and to allow the exchange of bodies between the militaries of both sides but the form is that the profit priority for us was to put an end to what he called this aggression and he said it was unique because azerbaijan actions have support from turkey. Now. The ceasefire came into effect a couple of hours ago there are already reports that its been breached to what level and to what extent isnt immediately clear although we have been told by the authorities here in nagornokarabakh that the has been shelling of a town called had dropped to the south this might be relevant because yesterday when azerbaijani president. Was speaking on television to the nation he said theyve taken that town but they havent and thats why maybe why there is shelling of it going on from the azerbaijani side thats the only thing we can assume from that and the might have been some of the smaller breaches along the line of contact in step and its been quiet since the cease fire came into effect weve not heard of the air raid sirens we havent heard of any shelling immediately where we are but a thanks very much indeed for that reporting to us from savannah thank you very much lets go to city of course youre live is live for us in tot. He said im just talk us through what the reaction has been on your side. Well rob currently we have no reaction from the officials yet about this temporary cease fire we have no idea how long it will last but theres a perception among everyone that it may last up to 72 hours which is not actually very welcomed by the azaria people because they believe after 30 years that they have their lands have been occupied by Armenian Forces this is the 1st time they have the upper hand they have a military with power with more sophisticated weapons at least they have a military back then they didnt have so they believe that a long truce or a long temporary cease fire would only help our maintenance to build up its positions and maybe get some new weaponry from there are large countries there is a perception among the civilians who have been mourning there for their soldiers that have been killed since september 27th and for the 1st time in their history they believe that they are very strong and especially as every jump president s earlier today said that you know this is a historical victory for us our own then by using the military force they were able to bring our mania to a negotiation table and he said the 1st step of a solution to the school to his military then it should be a political process and now we are in a town called. Where i am is is an id peace settlement actually there are 34 buildings and more than 6000 people civilians were living here they were all people who were displaced from the going on in the 9090 s and this compound was actually built by the government for them to settle down but since the beginning of the conflict in september 27th this area had been also targeted several times and most of the buildings are damaged and those people say that we are already displaced and now we are displaced again and just one last thing minister of defense. And the pay radio off as any minute they destroying a tank throng we dont know we caught mayor fly when it was found but its a clear message from the as a military that we are stronger than you to. Sit in thanks very much indeed send him christiane the reporting to us from john i want to bring in Matthew Bruce in istanbul hes a former u. S. Mediator of the go on account of a conflict and hes currently a senior fellow at the Atlanta Council we appreciate your time so thank you very much indeed in terms of the cease fire that were seeing at the moment youve seen a lot of these particular related to nirvana caught a back it is realistic to say that no cease fire ever comes into effect with full sation of activity on either side there is always a period isnt there when the truce is a nonstory to be gains and the fighting whatever that is gradually kind of dies away is that what were seeing here. I hope so robin thanks for having me i hope so yes its absolutely correct that each side right when a ceasefire is being implemented and sometimes a little bit after they try to get as much merging all advantages they can before the terms actually kind of solidified i think that this this cease fire is more than just a temporary lull its more than just a humanitarian ceasefire if you look at the actual terms they are the 1st point is about exchanging corpses and prisoners but the rest of the terms the 3 other terms are all about looking into the future and restarting the negotiating process so it doesnt sound like at least president putin expects that theres going to be a more serious fighting we had some very strong statements from the israeli president on friday what has given us a bias on the confidence to take this action because at the moment it doesnt seem to fear retribution from anyone. Yes and the answer is that azerbaijan was winning militarily it was using relying heavily on chris asian strikes using turkish an israeli drones against high value Armenian Military assets like air Defense Systems tanks artillery and are mean it really doesnt have the Electronic Warfare or defense capabilities to stop these attacks so azerbaijan knew it was steadily marching forward and had momentum on its side and i think buck who was sensing that maybe you know one was growing desperate as evidenced by the attacks on civilians that seem them was just describing you know around bad intel tar and other parts of azerbaijan so he was the military facts on the ground gave gave president aliyev confidence and i have to say yes sometimes reporting is excellent and i think what president aliyev saw was it was going to be very risky and costly to try to recover all of us by johns loss territory militarily and now azerbaijan can negotiate from a position of strength there was an outbreak of fighting back in july across the line of contact which we reported on at the time. This latest amount of this latest round of fighting hasnt really or shouldnt really have come as a surprise to everybody but in your opinion what provoked the attacks that we saw in july that led up perhaps to this full scale assault that were seeing. Yeah i mean in july by the way the attack was actually somewhere else about 300 kilometers from from from this location in it so that was along the International Border between armenia and azerbaijan so back then i mean you know you couldnt speculate on each side why it happened to me i cant imagine azerbaijan would ever want to see clashes where the occurred in july because thats far away from the barn a car or a box far away from the other occupied azerbaijani territories but right where all of the International Infrastructure passes meaning oil and Gas Pipelines a fiber optic cable rail line a highway and so thats its unlikely unlikely azerbaijan want to see fighting there and us are unlikely azerbaijan would want the fighting to spill onto armenian territory because in that case and armenia can invoke the collective Security Treaty Organization and then bring russia into the fighting so it you know but lot of people have speculated some someone on the nano was a budget on the side provoke that fighting i dont know i dont have the information the armenian side says well precisely because its not in house or by johns interest for the fighting to be there maybe azerbaijan tried to provoke armenia the bottom line is though it really doesnt matter because you know the tensions escalated i think yasser by johnnys side just decided over the course of a subsequent month and a half that armenia had given up on the negotiating process so the tension was high and once the fuse was ignited along the line of contact pandoras box was opened and thats what youve seen of president putin was trying to close down doors box i was having to back at the background to this this conflict and it appears that the only time there was any relative calm with regard to these 2 were going to cut about was when the soviet union dominated armenia and azerbaijan given not circumstance is it actually realistic to believe and youve been part of the negotiations that there was a way of finding a solution a long Term Solution to this. So there is actually so in january of 2009 the event president of armenia. And current president ilham aliyev agreed to something called the basic principles i wont go into all of them now but they provided with a compromise solution that was mutually acceptable at least to the leaders of the countries those basic principles are very unpopular among the populations at large but. Both leaders saw that this was really the only realistic way to go forward in the basic idea is you delay until that distant future a settlement of the final legal status of Nagorno Karabakh give it an interim an ambiguous legal status today and then return all the the 7 surrounding azerbaijani territories to us about johnny control so that the displaced persons can return so Prime Minister pushing yun repudiated that formula over the last year but in todays ceasefire agreement what you see is that both sides have agreed to return to negotiations on the basis of those basic principles so thats a big political cost a question yun but to me its the greatest hope that maybe the 2 sides now in this new geo political environment will return to what they had preliminarily agreed 11 years ago and maybe finalize the agreement now always good to get your thoughts on this we have really appreciated meetings because i thank you very much indeed thank you rob great to be with us honor. But more ahead on the news hour including. That the state of emergency in her stands capital fall in disputed Elections Parliament is due to meet to find a way forward. Losing ground fires and deforestation are rapidly shrinking brazils amazon rain forest. And the worlds 2 top tennis players book a place in the french open final jones going to show you how they did it a short. Time once president says hes willing to hold talks with china if theyre on an equal basis speaking at National Day Celebrations so in one said shes open to quote meaningful dialogue with beijing and hopes regional tensions be resolved peacefully a speech comes at a time of increased tension with china thats boosted air force activity near the island in the past few weeks beijing has been angered by growing u. S. Support for the selfgoverning country. But as long as the beijing authorities are willing to resolve an attack in isms and improve relations parity and dignity maintained we are willing to Work Together to facilitate meaningful dialogue we are committed to upholding regional stability but this is not something taiwan can show to alone it is the joint responsibility of both sides. Rosedale feingolds a Political Risk analyst he said sighing and ones offer for talks on equal terms wont change chinas stance on taiwan. For the taiwan government in the people of taiwan they dont want to be treated as if they are a constituent part of the peoples republic of china a local level government they dont want to have negotiations under the framework that is demanded by china which was a framework that this government which was 1st elected in 2016 has rejected your one sentence or a few words in the speech are not going to really change anything that china does. With military exercises or insisting on taiwan accepting that it has a local government kind of status and its not an independent country while there are certainly a worry here in taiwan that obama style policies would return under a but abiding administration which really was to encourage taiwan to talk to china and to do so under the framework that the Chinese Government had proposed which again is something that the current government in taiwan has rejected so certainly there is some concern from the taiwan government and i think parts of this speech had that concern in mind and its trying to position taiwan for how its going to present itself in front of a new u. S. Administration or even if the President Trump is reelected and you know the possibility that current policies will continue as well so definitely some strategizing there from the tyrol government on police have arrested 9 people suspected of helping prodemocracy activists who attempted to flee to taiwan but doesnt activists have been held in the Southern City since then since all this and they were intercepted by chinese authorities their families held a protest on thursday accusing the police of lying about the circumstances around their capture. And in neighboring macau a World Press Photo exhibition featuring images from hong kongs antigovernment protests has been shut down without explanation the shows organizers expressed regret over the closure of media reports suggest it could be because of political pressure from beijing the citys press Association Says macau is facing a worrying episode of erosion for freedom and expression an exhibition showing images of the chinaman square massacre was banned earlier in the year ok let me take you know to north korea state to television there is broadcasting footage of a large military parade to mark the 75th anniversary of the Ruling Workers Party a much anticipated event has been held in the cattle pyongyang thats thought to have taken place Early Morning and then it comes in the deadlocked Nuclear Talks with the u. S. Robin wright is live for us in seoul rob this is coming at a time when relations between south korea and north korea are still somewhat tense and it is a big show of force according to these pictures that were seeing here. Absolutely this is been longer expected theres been mounting speculation about this whole event in the days leading up to this this is a very important day of course 75 years since the founding of the Ruling Workers Party of korea north korea tends to celebrate the 10th or 5th anniversary of these big events with big military parades like this there were a lot of speculation of that we were going to see live pictures north korea has in the past broadcast these parades live on the north korean media and releasing those pictures to the world all day we have been waiting to see any indication that we were going to get a feed of pictures that this event a taken place lots of rumors started to swirl throughout saturday that in fact they some sort of rehearsal or maybe the event itself had taken place in the early hours of saturday morning and now we see in fact that was the case this is very unusual north korea i think its probably the 1st time north korea has staged such an important parade as this in the early hours we dont know quite why theyve taken this decision to do that possibly maybe its something to do with covert as a way of keeping down the controlling the crowds who are watching this parade we do know from the pictures we are seeing that people are in attendance they are watching and interestingly all the people who are marching none of them asked it seems they are not keeping social distance north korea of course claims famously that it hasnt yet recorded a single case of covert 19 is very proud of that fact and holds it up as a as an example of why isnt the bold leadership of kim jong un and the north korean leadership. Rob of course the parades like this are very often used as a demonstration of military powers that weve seen in the past protection from north korea when they have put their blood scare missiles the military technicality technical ability on show and of course the timing is interesting isnt it because again were only about a month away from the u. S. President ial election. Absolutely were waiting to see later on in the parade thats when we normally start to see the hardware out come the tanks the guns and of course north koreas fayned Ballistic Missiles or different sort of missile Weapons Systems rocket launchers and the likes now in the past of course we have seen some of the controversial longer range intercontinental Ballistic Missiles that it has been testing of course in