this is. from berlin tonight a standoff in armenia protesters demanding change in the political leaders who say 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 should be and is calling for a general strike across our media on wednesday also coming up the international atomic energy agency dismisses claims by israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu

that iran is failing to comply with the twenty fifty nuclear deal it says there is no credible proof to back up israel's accusation and noisy neighbors no more south korea takes down its propaganda blaring speakers in the first concrete steps since an historic summit with the north last week. plus countries around the world of mark international labor day tonight we focus on the situation in china and on one former workers fight for his right says. it's good to have you with us tonight a standoff in armenia protesters are demanding change and the political leaders they are saying that enough is enough today the cut. trees ruling party blocked of

bid by the leader of an anti-government movement from becoming prime minister he was the only candidate standing for the position tonight tens of thousands have gathered outside parliament and nicole. that candidate is calling for a general strike across the country tomorrow. earlier i spoke to nick connelly he is covering this story for us and i asked him to describe the mood in the capital yerevan. good evening brant well most people have gone home ahead of that general strike called for tomorrow not only a general strike but also he's pledged to block rosie the airport leading to the country's borders so rail all an attempt to bring life to a standstill and really forced this massive 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 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 all happened very late in the evening when now. nearing midnight here and the parliamentary session went on till about nine pm here i think people seem willing to carry on 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 thing that you have to remember

here is that off to the shop resignation of subset of the long present and lastly prime minister it seemed like throughout because bossy 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 those observers did say this seemed a little too easy and that's how it proved they didn't last moment pull out this column that you session to take hours rather than a matter of sixty one hundred eighty minutes is this the thought and then at the end of the day. throughout that was cooper an aide telling them that they didn't think he was up to the job. 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 although i would say that that

majority is just but one because they say elections have been have been. 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 of what he actually wants to do they say he talks about freedom about and you all mean it without giving very much detail how he would protect the country and its many conflicts with neighboring azerbaijan and also what to do about the economy having said that this kind of public support on the streets is something we have pressed into the happy. but i've 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 well he's able to keep 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. general strike happens then they'll be these closures of rotating squashing of a show of support at the moment think we're at a stage of 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 week again up against a candidate republican. next an interim prime minister they will have snap elections. says nick 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've 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 them to the premiership our correspondent connelly in the armenian capital you 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 police in nigeria say at least twenty people have been killed by suicide bombers in the northeastern city of movie the two bombers detonated their explosives at a mosque the taxpayer all the hallmarks of the islamist militant group boko her wrong and australian court has ruled that vatican the treasurer of cardinal george

pell must stand trial on multiple charges of sexual abuse which date back decades he is the most senior catholic official to be tried on such charges the seventy six year old has pleaded not guilty and abandoned high rise building itself how liberal zeal has collapsed following a huge fire. amazing images there at least one person was killed the twenty six storey building was frequently occupied we're told by squatters and it's fear that there may be more casualties riot police in paris have used tear gas and water cannon against a left wing anarchism marking international labor day the rioters ransacked shops and torched cars but the main rally organized by labor unions remained peaceful tens of thousands turned out to protest president emanuel micron's economic reform . while on this labor day a much different scene in china human rights groups say that china's cozy

relationship with hyper capitalism and growing gaps between the wealthy and poor revealed that beijing is ignoring its own proletariat for those workers with complains the only recourse is the country's one official trade union the mightiest berlingo tonight introduces us to a railway worker whose efforts to promote greater workers' rights has made him a target of repression. these tracks still give me a feeling of comfort even if they're just a distant memory you know where we are almost every day for twenty years he waits year drove his train past this spot he worked as a train driver until one day while getting off the train he slipped and fell and broke his spine the railway refused to treat the incident as a workplace accident lead believes the company systematically violated labor laws

by long sense that something wasn't right but it always worked so much that there was not much time to think about things. today he's partly paralyzed he receives no pension or compensation but he's long stopped worrying about just his own fate he documents how worker's rights are ignored he says it's not unusual for train drivers to work up to two hundred hours overtime each month without pay he's trying to organize workers on line. the official unions do not represent workers interests on the contrary as soon as someone stands up the unions try to muzzle that person that he has made contact with others outside china the union invited him to the u.s. in twenty sixteen he was already at the airport and had checked in and was turned back at the gate he was under surveillance and up to today his social media accounts are regularly blocked. it was someone who needed advice.

or sure whether reaches out to me has shown where the boundaries lie and it's threatening and only if you are brave enough to contact me directly. the police in iraq someone inform them about his meeting with a join a list a neighborhood policewoman and a plain clothes. he's unable to show he's going to. leave my apartment immediately. these are. the policemen leaves a small victory over. the policewoman remains she turns up regularly instead of focusing on the foreign reporter lady nancy have him fight for is right here is a constant struggle. all right helen is here now we're going to switch

gears a little bit germany losing patience with the u.s. when it comes to brinksmanship and trade likely losing patience but it's good to have a little bit more patience thirty more days in fact to find out if a permanent exemption a will be granted the german economy minister saying that raising tariffs is the wrong way of going about things as it would end up hurting jobs in germany europe and the united states that paid out my says delaying the decision as truck did just hours before the midnight deadline is also a big problem especially as businesses have no way of planning for the future. the style of relief for the european steel industry at least for now the next four weeks the e.u. can continue to sell steel and aluminum to the u.s. without additional tariffs. back in march donald trump signed off on plans to impose tariffs of twenty five percent on steel imports and ten percent on r.u.

many and two weeks later he granted the e.u. and several countries a temporary waiver that exemption ended on may first washington accuses the e.u. of unfair trade practices trump says if no deal is reached within the next four weeks tariffs will be back on the table analysts say now is the time for the european union to take decisive action the. e.u. should do three things first it has to admit that there's a problem and i think it's important to be honest second it needs to send a clear signal that it's not going to run away from a trade conflict in other words send the americans a statement the third thing is to offer a concrete proposal at light but be a smart one the german government said simply that it had duly noted the extension that it expects a permanent exemption from the tariffs. and i would have preferred to have received a definite permanent way for with immediate effect this didn't happen and so now we

should use every opportunity to reach a reasonable agreement. but getting both sides to agree on what's reasonable won't be an easy task. well let's get the view from washington our correspondent cast in it for now and then is standing by casting a lot of surprise at this today as opposed to real sorry of relief thirty days from now what we're trying to consider when. well i guess for the on of the trump unconditional surrender by the europeans would be the preferred outcome the president has been ranting for some time now that the european union is unfair towards the united states and he might have very few firm convictions but the idea that others are taking advantage of the united states and that previous u.s. leaders have been too weak to do something about that that is

a conviction that he has has for many years that but the people around him of course ready to compromise to some extent the commerce secretary said today that some fruitful discussions were going on with the europeans about reducing overall tensions in the trades relations but i think even with ross and other people in the u.s. administration wants some major concessions from the europeans they believe that they are in the stronger position of the europeans have multitudes which means meanwhile of course a month of hand-wringing for the european union as well as canada and mexico once again we still makola macko head over to washington that charm offensive didn't tap it is-i defect can we expect them to now make an. well the official position of the european union has always been that they won't make any concessions. under the threat of punitive tariffs but of course it's

possible that behind closed doors deal might be reached which would include that there will be some concessions from the europeans but officially those would only be agreed then the u.s. says ok the extensions for the europeans would be indefinite and then a few weeks after that that would be the official announcement of the agreement but i'm just speculating here but that of course is always a possibility and all the while of course china still feeling the sting of days terrorists come as secretary wilbur ross heading day this week for trade discussions is it too optimistic to think he might come back with some kind of resolution. today that he wouldn't go there feel wasn't hopeful that something might come out of it again the americans believe the u.s. administration at least believe that they are in the stronger position because they

have a trade deficit with china china wants to sell its goods and so they can dictate the terms but that might be a bit overoptimistic china the chinese government has a different perspective has a more long term perspective in its power struggle with the u.s. correspondent constant fun a nominee in washington good to talk to thanks constant. well facebook is to allow users to didn't eat their browsing history see your mug zack about going out the new feature in a post on his account saying that the measure will allow users to see information about the apps and web sites they've been used and to claim that data from their account announcement comes as it comes as the company holds its annual developers conference was up about announced that facebook would also rollout an online dating set of features on the sites your social media platform is under intense pressure to keep its users and become more transparent offering to match the consultants the

three cambridge analytical access the data of millions of uses without the consent things. some people are saying was and that was a face that was being use whatever that was what tender was used for now as the competition to fill in the thank you very much. was about the international atomic energy agency says that 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 now this after israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu unveiled documents just today which he says show iran lied about its nuclear intentions in the past and is still pursuing its weapons program today the u.s. is backing israel u.s. secretary of state mike pompei oh says that israel's information shows the international nuclear deal with iran was quote built on laws. that.

some observers believe that yahoo's presentation is that attempt to encourage u.s. president donald trump to pull out of the iran nuclear deal but what do iranians themselves think the w used to research rober has been talking with assad there but is it a prominent political science professor at the university of tehran. u.s. president donald trump us threatening to pull this country out of the nuclear deal how is that seen here in tehran. people are very common saturday at both this is. all in if people. really feeling. the bite the pressure. the pretend ness of the sanctions and many any and feed that it will be with the ordinary people who will feel. the pressure.

of of the sanctions you've already mentioned that there would be a reaction from tehran if the trunk would terminate the deal how could it look like other than. restarting. their nuclear industry are you i really don't see any of their reaction that. that there's not the government will be able to do what are they going to do bomb so again on united out anywhere to bomb their u.s. ally in the region what are we going to do what do you think with the influence be on iran in domestic policies of the nuclear deal was terminated no on fortunately the. draw of united states. from the. more sanctions would be more belligerent

foreign policy towards if they were both. europe was the and i think state it would mean that the hardliners in need on what fun. would gain more power so that's why i say that democracy human rights will suffer as a result of any confrontation and of up general. state government there will be analyzed that and now eighty million you don't you know are being punished because of something that they haven't done anything wrong. in that we didn't dispute between already there is. a precedent from thank you very much. art i'm joined tonight 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 to meredith's 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. lear is we have the international atomic energy agency which has the mandate to be the watchdog of this agreement and they have been the true being 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 salim from the ceiling and e.j. 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 generally 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 even the pariah in the region but that hasn't happened so there was affective tends to stop that kind of normalization of iran and. 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. for south korea has asked the united nations to oversee the mothballing of a nuclear test site used by pyongyang both sides have also started taking down speakers that blare propaganda across the border this is all a first step that could signal a long term thaw on the divided. four years south korean loudspeakers have blasted propaganda and pop music at north korean border regions now they're 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 into 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 il. there's something that i like about it because you're there you're actually there where if 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 wants us 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 as that's the united

nations to oversee the shutdown. president moon 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 u.s. 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. to take you through the stick around for that.

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