been rebel group and said they died and come, but the neighbors and family members in states, they were innocent, taken from their homes and executed under pressure vinnish. well, as defense minister by the me to the you know, said the forces were obliged to the friends that come through from irregular groups that added the human rights needed to be respected. and that the events at the border would be investigated. ah armenia as votes counting continues with early results showing the prime minister nicole passion yawn in the lead. ah, unwelcome mind peter w are watching out 20 live from our headquarters here and also coming up an emergency shut down as iran only nuclear power plant could last days and cause

electricity cuts across several cities, millions to be therapy and will cost the balance on monday, but with some regions excluded questions remain over how inclusive to vote will be . lessons learned from the pandemic now a year later, albania is health care system is still facing tough challenges. ah, being counted in armenia, snap parliamentary election, the early indication, sure. the key, i think the prime minister nicole passion yawns, willing party aren't now in the lead turn out was just under 50 percent. passion. you had called the snap pull back in april after last year's defeats in the war with as the by john. his main rival appears to be the former president robert

kershawn, who faces a corruption investigation where a challenge has been out on election day in the capital europe. and the sun beat down on armine is election day, but outside polling stations across the country, people keep patiently for their chance to vote. and they told us about hope for the future and ends to that countries present miseries. and i expect mania is able to overcome this temporary crisis with a good governance will be able to guarantee development, avail country, politically and economically. yes ma'am it's, i'm going to vote with the dream to see my armenia safe and unified with care about it. i hope for the best future for my country, the electorate have different views on how that is to be achieve and whether either of the front runners can achieve it. this is acting prime minister nicole passion. yet he's trying to convince people not to throw him and his reformist agenda out, just because they're angry and traumatized by last year's military defeat against

azerbaijan and his, his main rival, former presidents, robert cherry. and he's trying to convince voters to ignore the corruption associated with his ears in office and trust him again as a strong man. you can rebuild armine as military strength and standing for plenty of voters. neither of these options are particularly appetizing. both main arrivals try to convince that their competitor is worse. and that is why we have this aggressive abusive language from both sides. now. so, and if you will talk to our citizens, you will see that they are just judging what will be the least harm for the future of armenia. there are outcomes that could extend the dog fighting of the election campaigns, no clear winner. and no coalition deal could see the 2 front runners, sharp and claws for a 2nd round in a month. but whoever gets into the prime minister's office, his face is

a don't thing list of challenges. healing and unifying, a traumatized nation, resettling, refugees, bringing home prisoners of war, boosting the economy and development of navigating armenia is troubled. relationships with its nearest neighbors combines these tests even the ablest of politicians for each helen's out is era. i mean, you well, let's stay with that story. richard jira, gus g on is the director of the regional study center and yet, and he says the outcome of sunday's election is likely to have regional implications. well, in many ways, this is a campaign and an election dominated by security or more correctly in security. meaning that we are still in a state of war with neighboring algebra. john, with prisoners of war still to be returned from us over john and escalation of border tension with incursions, bio silver johnny military forces. this only demonstrates that were written on

chartered political territory. this is the 1st ever armenian election in such a degree. one certainty, and in security, in this way, this particular election is decisive, but it's also highly divisive. well, in many ways, the net outcome of the unexpected loss of the war for no gotten our car about was the realization that armenia is ever more firmly within the russian orbits. what i would argue that for president putin, of russia, a reelection of incumbent, armenian prime minister puss union is the preferred option. because in many ways it's the opposite of lucas shanker, when bellows. why shouldn't, on is a legitimate, democratically elected leader. but now very much a prize or a trophy for president who didn't well under russian control. and in this context, russia has bets on every horse in the race,

even that former interlocutor and partner the ones president robert court shoddy and who now as emerged as the leading opposition. rival candidates. there are warnings of power cuts across several iranian cities after it's only nuclear power plant, went into an emergency shut down the head of the states. energy companies says that bashir plant may not be operational for up to 4 days. as the 1st time to iran has reported an emergency of this kind. there had been warnings in the past that the plan could stop functioning if iran couldn't buy equipment from russia. because of us banking sanctions have at all, it has been announced in the news and you might have heard to the nuclear share of power has been subject to an emergency shut down, which will last for 3 to 4 days. it was shut down yesterday. when you lose a 1000 megawatts of your plans capacity, the likelihood of blackouts will rise. but bring in gary say more, he's an expert on iran's nuclear program and director at the crime center for

middle east studies. he joins us on skype from washington. gary, great talk you again here on out to 0. what kind of scenarios lead to this kind of emergency shut down? well. busy peter, we don't really have enough information to make a very firm judgment, but nuclear power plants periodically have to be shut down for a wide variety of technical. busy issues that relate to safety and operation. so we don't really know because you're, ronnie and officials haven't provided precise details. but until we know more this could very well. just be the kind of normal. busy everyday typos incident that often takes place with nuclear power plants, especially if they're able to get the plant online again 4 days was the back story to this particular plan, gary. i mean, is it home grown home build and design, or was it bought in as a kid of parts? it's entirely a foreign facility. so the plan was originally started by

a german company before the iranian revolution and was partly finished at the time the show was remote. then germany refused to continue building the plant after the revolution and russia stepped in. and the plant was finished about 2011. the plant is entirely fueled by russia, so the fuel is manufactured and enriched in russia, ship to iran after the fuel is used and therefore contains tony and then says after russia for disposition. so the blue shirt has a power plant really isn't connected in any direct way to concerns about your rod, your program, because iran operates the facility, but they don't really provide the fuel or handle expense. if this goes back to before the revolution gary was talking about, what? because you don't throw these things up over night. do you is not made of brick and county board. so they started building this probably what?

mid to late seventy's. 7677 i'm guessing may be. so this is properly old technology now. well, the, the german, the germans basically built the shell facility. so the major con crate portions, they didn't build any of the what are called reactor components. the essential nuclear parts. those were all provided by russia. there have been concern expressed about the safety of the facility because it's such a curious hybrid, partially german facility, finished with rush and technology. but so far there have been no safety incidents that have taken place on the plan has operated more or less sufficiently since it 1st went online at 2011 once. keep an eye on for sure. gary. good talk. you again, thanks very much. can see me on that. joining us from washington. thank back

campaigner. meanwhile, in vienna, a day after iran elected the new conservative president talks to revive the nuclear deal seem to have made some progress. but differences do still remain. diplomats have been negotiating since april to bring both to iran and washington back into complying with the original agreement. now the u. s. is in, in direct talks with turan and says there are still several sticking points. while the head of the iranian delegation thinks the quotes closer to the end, but the most difficult issues all yet to be resolved and go see it isn't going back to the capitals from all consultations and they will return after 10 days from washington is kristin salumi the key issues seemed to be the lifting of sanctions that were imposed by the united states. when president donald trump withdrew from the nuclear agreement, the iranians went into these talk saying that they would not go back to full compliance with the deal until the sanctions were completely lifted. and national

security advisor for the united states, jake sullivan is saying that the united states does retain the right to impose unilateral sanctions on non nuclear issues like human rights abuses or ballistic missile issues. we know that missiles while not covered under the original nuclear agreement are a concern for the united states. but still sullivan is saying that the united states focus is on containing iran nuclear program. what i would say is that there is still a fair distance to travel on some of the key issues, including on sanctions and the nuclear commitments that iran has to make. but the arrow has been pointed in the right direction in terms of the work that's getting done in vienna. so we will see if the iranian negotiators come to the next round of talks prepared to make the hard choices that they have to make. in order for the joint comprehensive plan of action, the iran nuclear deal to be reinstated,

and sullivan downplayed the importance of the election of abraham. right. he said to the presidency in iran, the hard liners saying that ultimately it will be the i a toll of the supreme leader who will call the shots and make the decisions when it comes to whether or not to return to the nuclear deal. he did say that the us believes that diplomacy is the best way forward, not military conflict. so to come here on out to europe, shaking down the barriers, the coastal highway becomes the symbol of the french l. troops in libya and the italian government of the cash incentives for family to have more children. but not everyone actually wants. i

hello, a tropical storm club that has lashed the u. s. gulf states and particularly louisiana, were in some spots. 10200 millimeters of rain lead to this water logged roads. and this is certainly a state that has dealt with a lot of flooding. as of late that new orleans about a 159 percent above its average rainfall. so far this year, the disturbance has now moved out toward the atlantic, brushing up toward the carolinas, and it will have an impact for new york city. as we head toward tuesday, we'll tap into some tropical rain. your temperatures will fall off a bit below average, but you'll be back into the sunshine. elsewhere we do have a friend sliding across the great lakes through the ohio valley, the mid west, straight down toward the southern plain. so certainly a possibility. we could see some storm spark up here and toward the u. s. south west, about 30000000 people under heat alerts and look at these temperatures, vegas up to 42. on monday the tropical storm dolores gave a lashing toward areas of mexico, particularly acapulco. we saw the flooding,

mud slides, and now we've got about 300 members of the mexican army. they're trying to help in whatever way they can towards south america. we've seen clouds and rain drift out of rio, so we've got some sunshine on monday with the high of 20 to the, the weather bag, energy and change to every part of our universe. the small change is all around the shape, my technology and human ingenuity. we can make it work for you and your business. ah,

the bank, you're watching out. just a reminder of the top stories this. our votes have been counted in armenia. snap parliamentary election tele indication, show catholic, a prime minister. nicole passion, the ruling party, are in the lead, and had called the snap pulled back in april of last year's defeats in the war with a bunch on iran's only nuclear power plant has gone into an emergency shut down the 1st time. it's not clear what caused it, the head of the state energy company says that bashir plant may not be operational up to 4 days. some progress has been made in the talks to revive the iran nuclear deal in vienna. but both iran and the us say there's still some sticking points to the stations where was in 10 days time and a few hours,

millions of the opens. we heading to the poles for a crucial parliamentary election, which has been delayed twice so far. its prime minister smith's 1st electoral test and it comes at a critical time for the nation with reports of famine and continuing violence in the northern t gray region. while they will be new election integrate because of the conflict. some other regions will also be excluded. as well how to do reports now from the eastern region of herat. with $368.00 alley squeezed into just one square kilometer. this is the old walled city of hot of extent. if you appear, if thick, high walls erected in the 13th century by the indigenous people, a unique ethnic minority group. while holidays used to inhabit a much larger area, their population has declined. and they now leave behind the city walls. in 2016 units got out of the heritage site to protect its history. as one of the worlds and

she and civilization, they see up in government, also med, had its own federal state, the smallest in the country. yet the electoral commission recently refused to allow his living in other parts of if you appear to vote for candidates in their homeland in upcoming parliamentary elections. but after hired his challenge, that decision in the supreme court, it ruled in their favor, moved to give you all we want is to preserve our culture and heritage. the reason her always have a quasi state today is in recognition of her already culture language history, and perhaps most importantly to redress the injustices perpetrated against us. preserving how already governance will prevent a tar ronnie of the majority, protect indigenous and minority rights and quite simply, it is just fair following the supreme court ruling delettre, commissioners for more time to conduct a special distortion of how to revolt in other parts of it appear to enable them vote in their homeland for holidays,

the question of who gets to govern how to essential to their existence. and they say that specially important as they are facing competition from surplus and coaching on the land. but we are really worried about the future about people as a population keeps declining the plot to take over herrera by other ethnic groups is getting thicker. the challenges facing the people of the hot region is illustrated by the housing behind me. it was built with funds from the diaspora, people living in the united states and europe. but now lies abundance of people from the neighboring region came to claim the land of their own. this week the elections will also not take place in the neighboring somebody region of the electoral commission as postponed, the pulse their site, the defects with bowling material. the region has known more instability than piece in the past 3 decades. 2 years ago, the rebel group, the national liberation front,

signed a peace agreement with the pink government, and did more blessed its troops. hello, i'm and i want to be very all thinking that our region will for once of all, to be the rest of it, your p. it's piece for vance, and we are all being forced to wait till september to exercise our constitutional rights. voting has also been postponed in the more from conflict on to great region where hundreds of thousands of people are suffering from farming. a new date for a voting ticket has not been set together. the harder to gran somali regions account for 6 to 3 out of 504 to 7 parliament visits. and to many of the people in those regions been unable to vote, they say undermined their existence. mamma do, i'll just do it. harder is tennessee. i suppose in from south suggesting the far right has performed worse than expected in sundays regional elections. the president and manuel macro centrist party also polled poorly,

but it appears the center right, has made some gains. it comes off for record low voter turnout. the 1st round of these original elections. libby is national unity. government has announced the partial reopening of a road that links the east and the west of the country. it was one of the conditions of the cease fire agreement, signed between warring sides in october, forces loyal to the wall or tale for half up. so they went consulted and yet to prove that decision, but the prime minister insist portions of the road are open. you need yeah. do you mean me about it? it is my pleasure to be part of this historic day as the reopen the main arch, reconnecting but use of libya to it's west. it will enable people to reunite as a doctor of division and separation have gone forever. i take this opportunity to call an all libyans to steal away from rift malice or hatred, and to join hands to rebuild our country to take libya forward. jan of war had, let me know something i was what the prime minister did is

a unilateral act from one side. the prime minister did not coordinate with the operations room. the only authorized party for that decision is the 5 plus 5 joint military commission. we have to wait until they meet and we will see what decisions will be taken. my trainer has more now from the coastal road west of the city of cert. now we're here on the coastal road in between the cities of miss rosa and approximately a 130 kilometers east of miss. rather now the prime minister has just arrived. he's open the road and to commemorate the event. now this road has been closed. since warlord police officer lost his offensive on tripoli in 2019 in april 2019, this is a very important road to live in trade between eastern and western libya.

so this is very significant. according to the prime minister, he says this will help rebuild libya to bring about unity and to further prosperity in the country. now there are critics that say that opening the road will give war and fighters as approximately, according to the un, 20000 ford fighters in libya, according to military forces. there's at least 2000 russian mercenaries to the south here. wagner group. so some play that this will help for who are the foreign quite or to continue on or to move up towards towards the north. so we're here now. this is the front line. there's another, there's another, a place that they're going to go about 20 kilometers to the east of here, and they're going to be opening up that road. they're. the hope is that the libyans

will be able to travel from is turned to western livia from western to eastern libya, and that this will help unite the country on world refugee day. the head of the roman catholic church is called for compassion for people forced to flee their homes, are not for java. and let us open our hearts to refugees. let us make their sorrows enjoys our own, let his land from their courageous resilience. and so all of us together, we will grow into a more humane community. one big family. in on sunday, brazil became the 2nd country after the united states to record more than half a 1000000 corona virus deaths demonstrators in rio de janeiro place rosie's on kobuck on the beach and memory of the victims. hospitals are struggling with

a devastating 3rd wave of the pandemic. president julia bolton are still continues to play down the seriousness of code 19 putting pressure on states to resist lock downs. albania says it's achieved. heard immunity through infections, cutting cooper 19 transmissions dramatically. but it came at a terrible cost, so overwhelmed hospitals and the resulting death tow may have been far higher than the official figures suggest john surplus reports now from the capital to ron. this is covered one, the 1st of 4 public hospital wards at the heart of the obedient government's pandemic response. from november to february, it was overrun because of the government policy to concentrate all the countries covered 19 cases in toronto. at the very beginning, we were thinking it would be a lot with a time by the time run around by we were thinking it's much easier and economically

and political logically and medically thinking to get those services much closer to that people by then would had gone around the hospitals were under pressure. ariens can de named journalist of the year for his coverage of the pandemic. witness to the problems no case. there was no agenda case that patients have to wait 6 to 8 hours just to be on load from ambulance. because there were no beds available, they were very sick and needed to go to intensive kevin mediately some died in the ambulance in the overcrowded and undisturbed words. some patients committed suicide by jumping from the windows. hearing these stories, many patients were afraid to go. some went to private clinics, many of them to turkey through a special charter flight. and many stayed home. yorkie pudgy says he spent $5000.00 on oxygen and nursing it up over from the bus. and i had many friends who went to hospital and never got out alive. so i decided to stay home. at 1st it was easy. i

thought, is this the great cove it everyone is talking about. but then i got really sick. i thought i died and came back to life. the prime minister eddie roma says, albania is early lockdown initially saved the country from the soaring infection rates of western europe. what happened in italy scared us a lot. so it was a bit like running home and we were if you recall, well the 1st country after italy to impose love, now our lives down was very, very heavy. then we did the many things faster than others because of the, of the terrible fear that if we would not control this to be but albania didn't have the resources to keep workers at home during the 2nd wave of the virus herd immunity was achieved through infection at a high cost,

officially 2 and a half 1000 people died of cove at 19 in albania. but the us based institute for health metrics and evaluation estimates the figure at nearly $16000.00. because that's how many more people died here over the past 9 months than would normally have died in the same time period. we've heard immunity achieved infection rates plummeted in time for a general election in april. and 17 percent of the population has now received at least one vaccine chart, far above the global average of 12 percent. helping prime minister at a rama when a 3rd term jumps out to pull us al jazeera tirana. well, since the pandemic italy's population has dropped by nearly 400000, the government is offering cash benefits to families. having more children tell reverse that trend, but i'm going to say it might not be enough. adam rainy reports now from room

by italian standards, sahara maloney might be said to have a big family, 13 month old and it's her 2nd child a problem. but the problem is that my husband and i have had unsteady work for 14 years. the decision to have a 2nd child came late only after we both got a steady job. we have relied on our parents to help us pay for the house and take care of the children. postponing a family is common here. births have been declining since the 2008 crisis. italy has the world's 2nd oldest population, and it is shrinking to last year. it fell by more than 380000 people. that was due to a historically high death rate with the pandemic. and historically low birth rate, italy's fertility rate is $1.00 children for each woman. the government is trying to boost birth rates with a new family plan, a major infusion of direct cash payments that increase with the number of children

. a family has demographers, elena ambrose set. the says the family plan is a good start. but any increase in the birth rate can take decades. there are more immediate steps. italy could take now. immigration can be a solution, software for aging population. of course we have an injection of young people working in the working age population. but immigration is a thorny issue in italy. we asked a member of parliament from the center left the democratic party, how political leaders can convince italians of the need to take more non italians into the country. you'll also see got, i can explain all i want to italians that a certain level of immigration helps italian society. but as long as they keep saying immigrants big for handouts on the street, i won't convince anybody that we need to integrate them into italian society and need help from europe. with the pandemic eating and summer temperatures rising,

there's been an increase in the number of migrant crossing the mediterranean and landing in italy. that's only further fueled anti immigrant sentiments divided over immigration. italy will rely then on mothers like sahara to choose to have multiple children. a choice many italian women are unwilling to make adarine algebra, rome, the renowned and controversial graffiti on his bank. she is making headlines again, but this time it's not for art is created, but for losing the rights to claim some of his work. the anonymous arts, his last rights to 4 of his most famous pcs in a legal battle with a postcard maker who uses the images for profits. the european union intellectual property office says his work can't be protected if he doesn't identify himself. the me updating it up stories here on alex's era. exactly half past the hour votes being

counted in armenia, snap parliamentary election, early indications show the.