long rule of former president says sykes sound of the republican party his attempt to stay in power by becoming prime minister had set off a political earthquake. the legitimacy i mean social. psychological edge over the public good port was there they were not popular even 10 years ago with this except to keep the truth. a former political prisoner began a long march from the west of the country to the capital yerevan much of the time with his wife at his side in her right at that. high up and send up well i thought i'd rather. get a girl to get it behind our back to someone else almost nothing and like the slum lord yes that's how it's called in costumes us that's a bargain that's the good nots i levels. most economists that. with hundreds of thousands of supporters on the streets demanding he became prime minister instead

of socks in pushing eunice yoon pilot in a velvet revolution. he immediately set about tackling corruption with high profile cases like the mayor of yerevan his numerous mansions were filmed by a drain the video of which went viral on the internet. people were incensed belong there but these are options to push you know that those films should be should just near us to be real well those are 2 thirds of those that still in the cup. in order to see you. probably was to become from the in you bus on the rules of the. culture of corruption came from the soviet era and it was and it wasn't fought with in the early stages ah army as independence just like it was the case on other in other

countries it became a norm. the mining industry and body thought corruption say activists extraction permits given by politicians without due process or proper scrutiny had terrible environmental consequences. the armenian environmental front of volunteer group mom says pollution levels of mines across the country including country run are manias biggest. we have many mines in armenia and armenia is none that big we have a small country saw but we have huge mines here we have the paling dom which is one of the biggest in the world. for decades the country's mineral wealth has been plundered by an oligarchy at the cost of the environment lacks legislation very low fines on pollution

led to the explosion of mining industry. that's a good corporate mind north of the capital is a typical example even before the mine began operations locals say many of them were compelled to sell the land to the company for a fraction of its value if they really enjoyment out of. shot on the. local job. wish mannings on its chanel table tamang kids. your socks on your abundantly all as it gets in you doesn't on it's also listed. worse was to come it turned out that the tail down had a construction issue and it was cracking and that was a major risk off toxins leaking into the environment so they had to shut down but no before did released a poisonous discharge into the river a dead bird once one of the cleanest in the country contaminating land for miles

around. iraq produces vodka from his sharon trees but there is no guarantee that it's free from contamination by heavy metals discharge from the mine. soil samples from farms in the vicinity shows serious contamination is paired trees dried up completely and no longer bear fruit so he's had no choice but to start from scratch in the hope that new plantings fared better. arak films discharge from the mine going straight into the river. make mikado langkow run company may link you don often to languor i think will make on either chart thank god looking kind of marking it on the chaotic at the wrong bison on casual villainies best news the protesters amel saw fear they will suffer a similar fate if the mind goes ahead but director of sustainability philip you

know mania ohman step in human remains sanguine about any potential risk we come very dim the crushed material all the way down to this facility which is here the hitler just is about 1 point one kilometer away from the votes that he pleads facilities were crushed rock will be does to the cyanide to extract the gold right by the village of can devise has the us. in its mouth 1000 turns a year a 1000 times. and even before the mine has actually gone into production inhabitants of can devise complained of incidence. well there so let me assume chuck got. fired about. the role yet it can combine our stolen general good so you have shot meds of a tongue in there reschedule current work of

a. marker and soon you have to go to. the south caucasus is one of the richest regions in the world for biodiversity and nowhere more so than. the world wide fund for nature conducted numerous field studies on the mountain that are completely years old with the company's assertion that the mind poses new threats to wildlife we found these bought into therefore out that these are at least the species of plant . you for i'm not mistaken 15 species of birds we count one species of mammal this is brown bear. 3 species of snakes perhaps even more importantly than this the proposed mine is cited in the middle of one of only 2 corridos used by the endangered caucasian leopard got on city area because like the

i've used the mountains here it's very important for me gratian of leopards and also connect both of these ranges in short mining project just for the color of that. you know one of the corridors partly the last big chart over europe and we should protect. well if there's a leopard or a are being dangerous you know we will we will produce the effect you know this is the action plan. by by having by changing be environment you actually also create an environment for your species but that's what happens. but it's not just animal species that could be affected. i mean 9 miles from the a muslim mine is the sport and of jimmy famed for its spring water where there is also open hostility solidity and 70 percent of german community these.

people are against these they are thinking about their future and germ abuse spa place of you know many people go to their house in the summer jimmy could try to visitors from all over the former soviet union it's a sort of bulge in borden of the south caucasus but this distinctly up market atmosphere might be about to change if the mine goes ahead according to libyan's environmental and social impact assessment similar projects have experienced increased out a whole consumption new or widening commercial sex networks and prostitution it solution distribution of condoms and information materials in local restaurants and entertainment areas. local businesses are understandably anxious about the future if. shut my 1000 accounts on me as yours of us that would come both earlier

i've had our time without both the minutes or school of right. for the new general . running on the woods from. a more fundamental concern is that the close proximity of the mine could i'd firstly affect jimmy's famous mineral water. and maybe even further afield. this is lake 7 the largest body of fresh water in the caucasus holding some 25 percent of all main use freshwater. levon is captain of a soviet builds research vessel that mamma says the like your ideas of graham are not really worth over was it a. yeah. small that's got the wrong it just got it was we're probably looking on your as you were the other there nor does it start as

there was a report she's. got. the lake is connected to the catch at reservoir which is less than 3 miles from them also so could any talks at discharge from the mine also threaten the lake. according to libyan's environmental and social impact assessment lake 7 will not be impacted if i recall the words correctly the practice is negligible or there is no impact. however many of all mean years leading scientists on most convinced these are biodiversity experts are experts and hydrology or hydrogen ology they're concerned and they've expressed their negative opinion on them on the valid it off their risk assessment is the up which you are the problem of would you. you have traveled sivana. not by ship but i believe me. but almost all

of our no not secured obfuscates of our day we visited the rigor not of earth about you know but she's here our shelter want to meet someone. like ararat it is impossible to overstate the cultural significance of like serpentor media and the new prime minister has been obliged to take notice the position of prime minister is that there shall be proper. impact assessments and proper investigation understand. is it really that there is a risk for impact on later on as a result of. it's quite the test of almost i'm right or not so nobody knows whether he missed all sense or source the whole this region is going. based on current mentation yes no one really knows.

the history positively of the war though we don't beat me the reason you think about going back to this is that it is you know. such is the importance of this issue the just days before last december the snap election called to decide whether pushing in should stay in office he came to the blockade to hear the concerns of the protesters about life and death you know that and often i thought. don't ever given that you stick by i was ever made to have a killer cage to get to you because it's like you just in chicago models are make of them i was from jane from the harvest my thoughts on how carter numbers from the 3rd are called melancholic evil made out how confident it will benefit from the children. the prime minister moved on to jimmy where he addressed $5000.00 such an election rally he seemed to hint where his sympathies lie on the minds future it

4 stars limbaugh topic it passed doma if edes out as a state yet again only an hour before stakeout would sooner. he mom but out live for a bit lets us know if that a minus is i think i got a little knot of good cheer you know i saw a lot but she. if she got really. good a ha catching up made in china i asked bonnie some jack on the child why did he admits joel that he can't he will iraqi troops on the hunt got i'm on it i got them they need my mos they lost me it make it hot so you need to make it they will walk by i've. known the last fishing in his safe own money to avoid taking a decision on the ammo songlines the biggest investment project in the history of all mania. now he faces

a stark choice that could either deter foreign investment or alienate the very people who put him where he is it's an uncertain time but one thing seems clear the blockade is on gang anyway. america is divided like never before a side is so convinced that they're absolutely correct that the other side is dangerous people in power investigates how partisan politics are raiding the civil norms vital to american democracy every indicator shows america to be the least well functioning democracy of any establish democracy. one of the strange death of american civility on al-jazeera.

and the war on terror begins with but it does not in there no terrorist state poses a greater or more immediate threat than the regime of saddam hussein and this is a regime that has something to heart they had there a significant propaganda offer and guess what not one w m d shite was found in iraq since the 1991 iraq a deadly deception on al-jazeera. al-jazeera

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opposition rejects an investigation that finds a handful of offices to blame for a deadly raid on a protest camp. tunisians bid farewell to bayji except see the 1st democratically elected president after his death on face day and bahrain executes 2 men convicted of terrorism charges despite an international appeal not to do so. protesters in hong kong are refusing to leave a metro station after the latest day of clashes in the territory activists say police backs gangs attacks demonstrators said last sunday the protesters continue to defy a police baton rally in young a long way least 45 people were injured in last week's attacks police have used tear gas and pepper spray to disperse the crowds the protests in hong kong began

over an extradition bail that's now been shelved which could have allowed people to face trial in mainland china sakaki. a small group of protesters here and you alone are refusing to leave the streets this is an area on the outskirts of the city police of up or about $100.00 the so police are lining on the streets and they'll continue to pursue those protests as well heidi in the m.t.l. station it's been a day of balak confrontations we've had a number of rounds of to just fall on those protesters those crowds an attempt to disperse the numbers the style of the claim placing purchases has gone on this was considered illegal assembly which means it's a subtle wrists were my age but now and as you can see behind me. it's the cleanup i would as i mentioned a handful of protesters who continue to hide out in hong kong's empty out of the trying station here in long joshua long is the secretary general of de most a pro-democracy organization he says the demonstrators demonstrators will not be

intimidated and we are right on probation thanks to her and walks and best the release and nearly 800000 people to the streets again and urged government to respond to the boy's people and with what has happened last week at the broadway stage and all. the safety seats around the world anymore but we still continue to fight for freedom but we urge the government in the short term must withdraw and terminate the field and in the long run it's time for people to have free elections it's not that the fields exist and we called he knew i was struck however from an old it's just cooperate with probating gangster that's the reason go through and read and have protests yes stay at home call today terrorists tomorrow central don't call protest every week and it's a long time battle for us to fight for free elections but the leader of hong kong

should not be the puppet of beijing that's why i didn't continue and now it's the summer of discontent we also spoke to joseph chang who's a political science and scientists at city university of hong kong he says the protests will continue until meaningful changes are made by the government. to carry them a mystery shopping has been revealed seem to make concessions people are getting angrier and angrier then f. lee confrontation between look police and the author stirs further except the base immutable laws that are to invent a new ball when the tires. crashes last sunday has now pushed. the crisis to a bit level there are doubts whether it be carrying member station can we in effect in front from all of the law and order situation as subs are often calls of business service like last month is very secondary in another

instant get new territories basically the protestants as some didn't as minimum demands for light to carry them and this rationing too clearly and none was the withdrawal of the controversial piece that it's of legislation and do a separate and independent investigation commission into the electorate put the budget and they also are so are protestants the and there will be more as the label on question as to the police that's right yes and finally for them but very station and for carrying them step down but the 1st school of their very very minimal are brought need one that the community and mob that's the problem operates you and that's this. in other world news the blame for a brutal crackdown on protesters in sudan early last month is being laid on the actions of a few offices they had

a committee has unveiled the long delayed findings of its investigation into the raid by security forces on a sit in outside the army headquarters in khartoum he says rogue offices violated orders by telling other security forces to fire on demonstrators it was a worse outbreak of violence in the unrest that followed the military's removal of long time ruler share so don's opposition says more than 100 people were killed but the giunta disputes that number. of them i don't believe what happened today undermines the political process unless the military council looks for excuses to prisoner go see a sense or progress in it the process what happened today is a natural response let the military council see this is a strong message that the people cannot remain silent as the investigation commission was formed not to establish the truth but to conceal the truth. is there is him organise following developments for us from neighboring ethiopia. the

opposition as well as for justice on the streets have announced that they do not recognize the findings of the investigation committee that was set up by the transitional military council there saying that they want an independent free and fair investigation and they're saying that the military council is basically trying to bury the truth that they do not want to reveal who was behind the killings now lots of protestors have come out on social media and setbacks they have recordings and there that has been released over the past few weeks and they say that the rapid support forces led by the deputy head of the transitional military council was behind that tax and that the investigation committee was trying to cover up for him and for the military council so protesters are saying that this investigation is not free and is not fair and that they want an independent one now whether they get an independent one largely depends on the transition military council and the forces of freedom and change coalition specifically on the pressure that the schoolish and puts on the transition military council they're expected to resume

talks on forming a transitional government and we'll be discussing the constitutional declaration which will determine the roles of the various government bodies during the transitional period but they have been demanding accountability since talks resume between them and the military joint so they're the ones who are going to be able to decide if there should be an independent investigation or whether they will continue their talks with the transition military council even with those findings and continue to try to form a transitional government despite protesters demanding a different investigation one that is independent free and fair party and he's fucked up general had an offending his professor of politics at doha institute for graduate studies he says investigation report could end up obstructing justice. from the justice perspective they raised they need to be an independent report. and i think the problem with that most of the information about this is not in the military or through the witnesses. the victims who have been attacked in this whole

thing this went on for hours and about the way that the knowledge of the military is given it is probably might be one of 2 things i see we can take this report as a kind of defense argument and include it in the report but i think the worry is that it could be a crime in itself it and to obstruct justice and to mislead about who was a sportsman you can look to really say that one or 2 officers are responsible. while the fact that the military itself had many many days after the. what happened to close it for itself but they were actually they never condemned anybody they were saying that he never happened and they'll say the last response will stand they say we planned it and saw there is. a pattern of

behavior which shows that there is no repentance for this and actually there is a and to continue with that why are leaders have attended the funeral of tunisia's 1st democratically elected president. see the 92 year old died on thursday following a severe health crisis he was buried at a hillside cemetery in tunis where other leaders are interred franchise in the money and. fannie were among those attending a presidential election will now be held in september and upon a mentary vote in october david chaytor has more from judas. a dignified ending to a very long political career a man who set the course for democracy in tunisia and kept it on the path already a peaceful transition of power because of the constitution that he wrote that means as an interim president the parliamentary speaker is standing in for him and there

will be president presidential elections brought forward to september the 15th about of course the new president and the new government when elections the following month will face huge problems and those problems remain the same they are not gonna me that is stuttering under the strain of a stare of the measures imposed by the i.m.f. essentially unemployment is up to 15 percent and unemployment amongst graduates is more than twice that 31 percent real problems in the countryside real pressure to get the economy right it's not going to be much of a honeymoon for the new president or for the new parliament at least 15 fighters have been killed in a gun battle between libya's u.n. recognized government and forces loyal to warlord honey for half time 10 pro have town forces are reported to have died in the clashes near a military campaign tripoli and one had has the latest from libya's capital. a

nuclear military camp a strategic military camp north of the old in active international airport in southern tripoli has been recaptured by forces loyal to the backed government of national accord that's after have to us forces briefly took control of a military camp military sources with the government say that the have those forces that were positioned in the old in active airport just took advantage of the the military stalemate in that area that has been creating for the past couple of days and more. on such a day because i'm not clear military camp about 3 kilometers to the. east direction of the old international airport and briefly took control of a military camp medical sources at the field hospital say that they have found.