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ALJAZ NEWSHOUR July 11, 2024

Goes in our very lives a difficult pill to swallow for nurses in the philippines who are being prevented from working abroad because of the pandemic. With Donald Trumps chances of overturning the Election Results near 0, his lawyers resort to making increasingly wild claims with the sports including rafael nadal, reaches the last fall at the a. T. P. Finals for the 1st time in 5 years. Welcome to the new company. The army says it has entered a district thats been under armenian control for almost 30 years. Its one of 3 areas that armenia has to hand back as part of a cease fire deal just over a week ago. Now russia helped broker the truce, forces on hand to oversee the transfer. Armenians are angry about giving up the land and have been protesting to demand their Prime Minister. Resign as a by jan and armenia, signed the agreement to end 6 weeks of fighting over nagornokarabakh. Lets take a closer look at the regions being handed over. Region alone is nearly the size of the disputed in a corner. Karabakh region. Armenia must hand over to more areas in the coming weeks, including the jar region. On november the 25th on december, the 1st it will have to hand over the Election District that includes the important corridor connecting the governor kyra back to armenia. Thats now under control of russian peacekeepers by jan will keep all of its her tauriel gains including the corner second city shusha. Well, as im a pinch of it is near baghdad. I mean, how does this area compare to which looked like a ghost town where you were less than 24 hours ago . Well weve been told that it is exactly the same as with what we saw and physically which was a ghost town. Just to give you an idea of where we are. These are actually the trenches on top of which were standing for about 30 years. This is the area which he is very army, was using to go back to the dude go towards the front lines and were just a few 100 meters away from the defacto border, which has existed for about 27 years and about 10 kilometers away from the town center where weve seen some social media pictures of the azeri army moving in and taking control of large parts of the city again, which was a ghost town. So i was one of the most Populated Areas in the go in a car about one of the 7 regions around the corner car about which were taken by the area by the Armenian Army in 1993, when they moved in and it was about 10 percent of all of their rage on this territory. So now it is being handed over people. Weve been meeting on the street on the way to the border, waving their flags coming out in support and asking us, has somebody been to the other side . Has somebody been to their mosques or somebody in their homes . So theres a lot of anticipation here because people want to go back. They have been living away as i. D. P. s, and they now want to return to their homes, but it is not going to be easy or quick because the military has been telling us that all of this area is littered with an exploded munitions. And landmines, of course, is a very carefully choreographed handing back to azerbaijan from the medians. I mean how delicate is the operation . Its easy to say about i. D. P. s wanting to come back. You telling us about the munitions that are scattered over the region, but its also very dangerous area too. Absolutely. So the 1st step is when the russian peacekeepers come in, they are going to shore. And guarantee that all of the fighters have gone back, all of the Armenian Forces have pulled out, and there is only civilians, if there are any left in these areas from the armenian side. Then the Border Guards from the other by johnnies. I go in and secure the area, remember this is the contact line that existed either by john actually has a much larger border with armenia where its forces are going to go. And so yes, it is going to be a very difficult transition. Weve been told because there have been indications from armenia there, there are some people who do not want to go back. There are some fighters who want to continue. They dont want to listen to what their government has said. So theres a lot of back and forth that we, you hear were hearing from various parties, but the, as very army says that they are moving in, the government says that it wants to reconstruct all of these areas. But it also says that it wants to go back and sue armenia for all of the damages and vandalism, in its words, that has been cause into these areas which were very territory to begin with. So yes, the guns have fallen silent here on the line of contact, but the diplomatic war continues between the 2 countries who are not directly talking to each other and talking to each other or intermediaries. Russian peacekeepers are here for at least 5 years. And then it is extendable period that they could stay perhaps for a decade or so are not needs to be filled into that very broad Framework Agreement that was reached between the 2 countries. And well see in the leading weeks and months how these countries can actually live as peaceful neighbors, rather than being at war with each other into it for the moment or some of inch of it in azerbaijan. Thank you. Lets follow this with matthew bryza, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Councils eurasia center, and Global Energy center joins me now from istanbul via skype. Good to have you with you. This seems to be a relative peace. The moment for the tension between armenia and azerbaijan continues and probably is that it will sort of flare up in the future if the final status cannot be found for nagorno karabakh. Where do we go from here . Well, sale, you know, i was the u. S. Mediator over the number on a car of a conflict as well as ambassador azerbaijan. And in that capacity, we were able to get armenia and azerbaijan in, in 2009 to agree to a framework, to settle the conflict, which is essentially what was agreed on november 10th in that deal between armenia and azerbaijan, brokered by president putin of russia. So that framework is now being realized, and it always envisioned that the final legal status of armenian occupied areas of nagornokarabakh would be determined through negotiations that would conclude at an indeterminate point in the future. So i think thats where we are right now. Those negotiations will take place at some point, but of course only after the dust settles literally and figuratively and psychologically and the, the sense of humiliation and anger in armenia softens a bit. Indeed, when you talk about sort of the peace talks that in the framework, obviously there was also the framework sort of mediated in the late ninetys through the n. S. C. Say, you know, including france, russia and the United States. But now turkey has come more forcefully into the mix. So it is thats a worry that there may potentially be sort of a proxy diplomatic potential war surfacing again with these larger regional powers still exerting influence and mainly russia as well. Yes. So during my 3 years, you know, working for that o. E. C. D. Mediation effort, turkey always wanted to play a political role. But that was, that was unacceptable to the armenians for obvious historical reasons. Well, thats all changed now. And you know, back in july of this year, there were clashes between armenia and azerbaijan. Preliminary months before this war began in a different area on the outside by john armenia border. And at that point, the United States and france, the other 2 members of the 3 member cochair group. That means group really did nothing. And it was clear that russia and turkey were still in a diplomatic vacuum and thats what they have done. So from, from my nato centric perspective, having russian peacekeepers on the ground can be a really negative thing if you look at how they behaved in georgia and moldova. But in this instance, they were essential because the fighting suddenly stopped. And as i was just saying, you know, there are still armenian troops floating around, not dumb, and they need to be separated from the azerbaijanis. But thats, thats what geo strategic loss i think for nato. And for azerbaijan, they have the russian peacekeepers there. So turkey, playing a role in peacekeeping operation is actually a counterbalance of the russian peacekeepers. Joe, strategically. And i think really good news for nato because, you know, turkey has nato 2nd largest military. So i actually think having russia in turkey there with peacekeepers. I think its going to be a stabilizing factor. As you said, you know, tensions have to be calmed down. The anger has to sort of similar to a level where these 2 sides possibly come talk to each other and possibly being infected camas. It seems as if i, john said yesterday, was talking about, willing to take the armenians to court over damage to infrastructure. So willing to take, you might say the legal routes rather than the, the physical war route. If the legal routes dont work out for us, if i john and i mean who is unwilling to talk to us about john, we had to use really see this going next. Because does that mean theyre going to see a long term Troop Deployment of both russia and turkey in the area to keep the 2 sides apart . First of all, ill say the emotions on the azerbaijani side are about to turn a bit negative when when johnny troops get to see dom ive been there in the city of dumb, i mean it used to be a city of like 40000 people when i was there, there was nothing standing above ground level except to the shell of a mosque where there happened because living which was desecration of a religious try and of course, but it was as if someone took a knife and just sliced everything off the surface of the earth. And the only thing left of the buildings were their foundations. Everything else, everything else, every door, every window, every bit of metal, every brick of these by johnny houses had been, had been vandalized and basically taken, died by the armenians who came there. So the anger is going to increase the azerbaijani side is probably going to push for that legal path and sure, i think armenia will resist. But at the end of the day, i think were going to see that this Peace Agreement will be implemented. And yes, there will be, i think, russian and, and turkish peacekeepers involved as far as we can see into the future until theyre finally is that negotiation on the final legal status of the residual part of mccormack are currently under armenian control. Thats a long way in the future, i think, and it will be continuing to follow events with your eyes of thanks so much for joining us from istanbul. Thank you. Thank you very much. There have been clashes outside a south African High School where people were protesting against racism. Its accused of discriminating against black students. Gas was used outside the capetown school, which allegedly held a graduation event where only white students and teachers attended. The school denies this and says the function was a private event. Lets get more on this entire vacation for correspondent for me to near the school in cape town. I mean, what should have been really a celebration of academic success seems to have turned ugly and revived bitter memories of the past. What seems to have happened all over the last couple of weeks. Weve seen a number of protests outside the school promenading in what appears to be the largest to date. And what led to that was that the school didnt have its normal end of year pension for final year students because the pope in 1000. 00 restrictions. And it stated, it appears as if a group of students held with their own. But i know we are done. So all these matric students, we have the only white students and teachers. Now the school has distanced itself from the event saying that it was a private function and that it had nothing to do with the race. That was the Immediate Response to criticism of what had happened. And in the weeks following the school then said, we do acknowledge that some work needs to be done within our school, around integration. And this is after a number of black students came forward, past and present students saying that theyd had a difficult time at the school. And they also put these allegations of racism to the school. Now this is led to these protests behind us. And members of the Economic Freedom fighters who are here to protest, this alleged racism. There are a couple of 1000 protesters here and theyve just begun all good. Now. Down the smain road to the School Police earlier prevented them from marching down. They fired tear gas, but you started going a towards a cannon to keep them back. But it appears now they have commissioned to march down to the school, but we know at the school, theres also a significant contingent of white parents and Community Members who have told us theyre ready to defend the school. They say theres nothing wrong and they view the presence of the effort here at an attack. Here 5 members here are certainly very angry because this is turning into a political race when its developing into a National Debate across the country. Whats being said, how is this sort of, you know, evolving what it appears increasingly, issues of race and integration have come into the spotlight in south africa after the 1st democratic elections in 949094. 00. There were significant difficult efforts to integrate a society that sat been separated, certificated as a government policy after these 1st democratic elections. We of course have seen institutions like schools, universities, Florida Society trying to tackle the issue of segregation. Many schools in this country have done a decent job of integration schools open to all races. If anything, theres an economic divide. But the issues of race still persist with leadership of the Economic Freedom fighters. Yes. Say that this is about spatial segregation. The legacy of partakes and how white parents at the school are defending the school kids, people who they view as they view it as an attack. But members of the year 50 years say that this is about dealing with a great issue that is prominent in the western cape province, maybe now, but across of africa, well continue to monitor events with us for me to join you later in the day, forcing taped at least 28 people have been killed in uganda. In the past 3 days during protests sparked by the arrest of opposition, politician bobby wine Security Forces shot at supporters of the pop star turned politician. As they demonstrated, after he was detained on wednesday, officials have accused him of violating coronavirus restrictions while campaigning for the upcoming president ial election. A number of east Asian Countries held for their early success in handling the coronavirus pandemic, and are seeing a sharp increase in cases. Japan is on its highest alert level after a record rise in daily infections of more than 2300. The countrys never had a full lock down and its up to the public to follow social distancing. Rules. South koreas on the brink of another wave, its registered more than 300 new cases, a 3 month high. And the Prime Minister is urging people to minimize year end parties and stay at home as much as possible. Over in china, the problem of Community Transmission is reemerging. For more domestically infected covert 1000 patients have been detected in the Northern City of tianjin. The areas now being classified as high risk. Well in the philippines, nurses are opposing their governments ban on taking work abroad. They say they have the right to pursue Work Opportunities overseas, but the government wants them to serve their country. During the pandemic jamila linda can report from the capital. Manila, gary gary, do admits working as a nurse in manila feels like a struggle for survival. For more than 10 years, hes earned around 400. 00 a month. And this is the early enough to support his family. Gary has been accepted to work as a nurse in ireland for 6000. 00 a month, a salary that is unimaginable to earn here. The Philippine Government in april barred nurses and other medical workers from leaving seeing they were needed to fight the cruel a virus crisis, told me working abroad is not make us any less of a patriotic citizen of this country. For me, it is actually a heroic act. We are just human and we also have this goals in over lives. The salary here is not to sustain the needs of our families. Gary is among the thousands of filipino nurses who have called themselves prison nurses. They started an Online Campaign to petition the government to reverse its decision. They say it is tantamount to forced servitude. Filipino nurses are some of the most sought after Health Workers in the world. But this fight, this a global study shows that nurses in the philippines receive one of the lowest salaries in southeast asia. The pandemic has highlighted the plight of nurses in the country. And i mean nurses, theres no one i, rachel, for a nurse to 200 patients. If the government wants to really improve the situation here, they need to hire thousands of nurses in government hospitals. Some are nurses who now work in Different Industries like call centers because these jobs simply pay better. Nurses are calling for the chapel band to be removed and for salaries of all nurses in the country to be raised. But the Philippine Government is defending its decision. It says about 75 percent of cities and towns across the country, lack Health Workers, and it needs to keep the current pool of Health Workers. Here during a pandemic, Health Workers tell us no one wants to leave their home country. If there are fair opportunities for all, and most of them had to borrow money or sell their land in order to afford to go abroad. Now deep in debt, they see the government stands is denying them the opportunity to have a better

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