this is deja vu news live from berlin tonight a standoff in armenia protesters demanding change and the political leaders saying enough is enough today the country's ruling party blocked a bid by the leader of an anti-government movement from becoming prime minister he was the only candidate tonight as tens of thousands gather outside parliament nicole question ian is calling for a general strike across armenia on wednesday also coming up with a name calling in finger pointing in the middle east israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu accuses iran of not complying with the nuclear deal but provides

no evidence of noncompliance since the deal went into effect with no smoking gun critics are questioning his time. i burnt off it's good to have you with us we start tonight in armenia where a political crisis threatens to bring the entire country to a standstill parliament today rejected opposition leader nicole in his bid to become prime minister after the ruling party refused to back and he was the only candidate for the job machine ian has been addressing thousands of supporters outside parliament in just the last hour he says that the ruling republican party has declared war on the armenian people and is calling for a general strike tomorrow and lead the protest moved. last month which resulted in

the resignation of the nel former prime minister. all right we want to go now to our very own nick connelly he is standing by in the capital tonight's good evening to you next i mean dramatic developments in parliament today what's happening now. good evening brant well most people have gone home ahead of that general strike called for tomorrow not in the general strike but also he's pledged to block rosie the airport leading to the country's borders several all on attempt to bring life to a standstill and really forced this matter the day started off in quite surreal fashion we had thousands of people out in the square seemingly very confident that this was a done deal we talked to them about what they thought would happen and for them it seemed just a matter of sitting out long enough until he came back to them victorious as prime minister but obviously as we saw the ruling republican party has been in control of i mean if you will the two decades now wasn't going to give up its power without

a fight and without some surprise on the way yeah and you know for the world watching this story it's hard to believe what we're seeing a nine hour marathon parliament session today. and then the only candidate for prime minister is not allowed to take that position so what are people been telling you i mean are the angry are they disappointed or resigned. i think it's just a question of confusion now this will happen very late in the evening when now. nearing midnight here and the elementary session went on till about nine pm here i think people seem willing to moralise those people we talked to said that they would be out tomorrow blocking streets as a really happened in previous weeks i think the extraordinary thing that you have to remember here is that off to the short resignation of subset of the long president and lastly prime minister it seemed like threw up a good boss he was going to give up its positions without too much confrontation

they didn't as you mentioned advance their own candidate and for a while they even said they wouldn't stand in session younes way having said that was observers did say this seemed a little too easy and that's how it proved they didn't last moment pull out this that she session to take hours rather than a matter of six. hundred eighteen minutes is this the thought and then at the end of the day throughout that was when aides telling him on that they didn't think he was up to the jump ok so they say they don't think he's up for the job i mean do they have legitimate grounds for not endorsing this candidate especially when you consider the fact that there is only one candidate. but they have a constitution they have the majority in parliament. would say that majority is just but one because they say elections have being have being. manipulated in recent years and that this is being a patent imposed that pressure is brought on civil servants about the government

all those kinds of manipulation of the kinds of. they would argue that he's been too like the detail what he actually wants to do they say he talks about freedom about and you all mean you know without giving very much detail of how he would protect the country and its many conflicts with neighboring azerbaijan and what to do about the economy having said that this kind of public support on the streets is something we have pressed into that have been. but they said he never managed to fill the public square that's behind me here this is support on a different level i think it's going to be a question of how he's able to keep that support going in the next days but he certainly has the support right now i mean we're looking at pictures right now of the protests from today that were in front of parliament and we're talking about tens of thousands if not more than one hundred thousand people there so if these people are all in support of having this new prime minister what happens tomorrow then with this general strike. that general strike happens then they'll

be these closures of roads are things squashing of a show of support at the moment think we're at station brinkmanship here. everyone seeing the public and seeing who's going to blink first procedurally the next step will be another vote next week so we could have up for election next weekend up against candidates from the republican. to elect an interim prime minister then we'll have snap elections and what is your says nic i know i know it's very level where you are despite it being late in the evening but what's your prediction based on what you seen of who will blink first in this standoff. it's very hard to judge so. giving no indication that he's willing to step down and he is very clear that he has the mandate of the people and that it's time for publicans to go certainly was a very impressive cross-section of the public out on the streets day so this wasn't just a question of young male activists you had old people you had people with their kids

out showing that they were scared of the police or of the state and its ability to crack down so that is definitely something that is very impressive very striking about these protests the lack of fear the broad diversity of people out. there will be hoping that takes him to the premiership. connally in the armenian capital tonight with the latest on what looks like a country bracing for a general strike on wednesday nic thank you very much. here's some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world reports from nigeria say that dozens of people have been killed by suicide bombers in the north eastern city of movie residents say the two bombers detonated their explosives at a mosque and a market the attacks bear all the hallmarks of the islamist militant group boko haram and court has ruled that vatican treasurer cardinal george pell must stand trial on multiple charges of sexual abuse that date back decades he is the most

senior catholic official to be tried on such charges the sudden the six year old has pleaded not guilty riot police in paris had used tear gas and water cannons against a left wing anarchism marking international labor day the riders ransacked shops and torched cars but the main rally organized by labor unions it remained peaceful tens of thousands turned out to protest president money will micron's economic reforms and abandon the high rise building itself has collapsed look at these pictures and stay only to follow the huge blaze in the building at least one person was killed the twenty six story building was frequently occupied by squatters and it's feared there may be more casualties. north and south korea have begun taking concrete steps to improve relations as outlined at a summit between the two countries' leaders last week so has asked the united nations to oversee the mothballing of

a nuclear test site used by pyongyang both sides meanwhile have started talking down or taking down speakers that blare propaganda across the border it's a first step that could signal a long term fall on the divided peninsula. for years south korean loudspeakers have blasted propaganda and pop music at north korean border regions now they are being permanently removed north korea is reportedly doing the same with their own south facing speakers. since two thousand and fifteen the clocks of north and south korea were out of sync by half an hour after north korea created its own time zone later this week the north will reset its clocks to match seoul time according to a government decree these measures of reconciliation are the first signs that last week's into korean summit was more than just words.

in the coming weeks the enter korean border could again become the side of historic talks u.s. president donald trump suggested the so-called peace house as a possible location to meet with north korean leader kim jong un. there's something that i like about it because you're there you're actually there where if the things work out there's a great celebration to be had on the site not in a third party country i will say this the good news everybody watches it has the chance to be a big event. it is likely that trump will not offer him any concessions unless kim agrees to dismantle north korea's nuclear weapons arsenal while disarmament remains a distant goal kim has already promised to scrap his country's main nuclear test site. south korea ever skeptical of north korea's promises has asked the united nations to oversee the shutdown. the president said the u.n. support would be important not only for the improvement of into korean relations

but also for the success of the upcoming us north korea summit. the first steps toward peace on the korean peninsula have been significant but largely symbolic the real work of ending seven decades of hostilities is still ahead. well tonight the international atomic energy agency says there is no credible evidence to suggest that iran is currently working to gain nuclear weapons or that it's had any such program in recent years it comes after israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu unveiled document just today which he claimed showed iran lied about its nuclear intentions in the past and is still pursuing nuclear weapons today the u.s. is backing israel u.s. secretary of state mike from peo says that israel's information shows the international nuclear deal with iran was quote built on live. art i'm joined tonight by by he is an iran analyst and he has advised the german government on

iran he joins us tonight from the german city of dusseldorf adnan it's good to see you again we've got two narratives going on right here competing we've got one that says iran is deceptive not complying we've got another one that says the nuclear deal should be kept on life support and that iran is at hearing through the terms is there a way of saying which one is going to come out on top. lir is we have the international atomic energy agency which has the mandate to be the watchdog of this agreement and they have been approving for ten ten times now that iran is in compliance so there shouldn't actually be that much of the discussion. i want to ask you about the reaction from iran to the announcement from netanyahu yesterday we saw the foreign minister from iran saying that this is a case of netanyahu crying wolf and then we had the head of iran's nuclear agency

warning that the country can enrich uranium at a level higher than it could before the deal was reached i mean that with that kind of talk isn't the country threatening that it will if the deal is crashes that it will immediately go for nuclear weapons i think that kind of messaging particularly from mr zolli from the only energy agency in iran who that an energy organization of iran. is a signal that there will be costs if the u.s. were to walk away from the deal if the deal was to fall apart i think this is what this is signal is about obviously iran can resume enrichment but it would also have to loot the consequences that that would bring and that would probably be sanctions again and how much of this is about iran and its supposed to attempt to get nuclear weapons versus iran's influence in the middle east and of

course i'm talking about in syria and lebanon. i genuinely believe that the issue that the opponents of the agreement have with the nuclear agreement is not about what actually delivers basically securing iran's nuclear program to be narrowed down what issue that they have is with iran being elevated to a higher political level having iran no longer being a pariah in the region but that hasn't happened so there was effective tends to stop that kind of normalization of iran and accept exceptional is ation is in full force again so it's much more about these political dimensions and also about iran's role in the region not so much about the nuclear file i would say ok. joining us tonight from the german city of dusseldorf giving us valuable insight into this the standoff between israel and iran i don't think you very much

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