this is live from berlin tonight a standoff in armenia protesters demanding change and the political leaders who say that 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 gathered outside parliament nicole. is calling for a general strike across our media on wednesday also coming up the international atomic energy agency dismisses claims by israel that iran is failing to comply with

the twenty fifteen nuclear deal it says there is no credible proof to back up netanyahu these accusations. i bring off it's good to have you with us we start tonight in armenia where the country's political crisis has just deepened the parliament rejected opposition leader nicole for prime minister after the ruling party refused to back him he was the only candidate for the job but shinnie on addressed thousands of supporters outside parliament after the vote he said the ruling republican party had declared moore on the armenian people and he called for supporters to start a general strike on wednesday. led the protests that prompted the resignation last month of the now previous prime minister. earlier i spoke to nick

connelly who is covering this story for us and i asked him what the mood was like in the capital. 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 into 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 one of people been telling you i mean are the the angry are they disappointed 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 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 short resignation of steps that are just down the long present and that's of the prime minister it seemed like the up in policy 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 question 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 that she 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 when aides telling them that they didn't think he was up to the job and 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. they have a constitution they have the majority in parliament although i would say that that majority is not a 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 what to do about the economy having said that though this kind of public support on the streets is something we have pressed into to have been here now 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 and 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 that in this question of a show of support at the moment think we're at a stage of brinkmanship here. everyone seeing passion on one hand 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 candidates from the public. on able to elect an interim prime minister they will have snap elections. what is yours 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've seen of who will blink first in this standoff. it's very hard to judge so if he's giving no indication that he's willing to step down and he is very clear that you have the mandate of the people and that it's time for publicans to go that's certainly was a very impressive cross-section of the public out on the streets today 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 was scared of the police or of the state and it's a bit it's cracked 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 nick connelly in the armenian capital you're of on tonight with the latest there on what looks like a country bracing for a general strike on wednesday nic thank you very much for here's some of the other stories that are making headlines around the world police in nigeria you see 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 a taxpayer all the hallmarks of the islamist militant group boko her wrong. fresh sectarian violence in the central african republic has killed at least twelve people and wounded fifty gunman this time targeted a church thousands protested afterwards carrying the body of the pastor killed in the attack the country has seen frequent attacks on christians and muslims since civil war broke out in twenty thirty. 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 programs in recent years of this after israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu unveiled documents yesterday which he said 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 of says that israel's information shows that the international nuclear deal with iran was quote built on law. but 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 there 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 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 and in that kind of messaging particularly from a society 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 the 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 it actually delivers basically secure

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 the political dimensions and also about iran's role in the region not so much about the nuclear file i would say ok to bazza by joining us tonight from the german city of dusseldorf giving us valuable insight into this the standoff between israel and iran and i think you very much. north and south korea have begun taking concrete steps to improve relations as outlined at that 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 p.r. yang both sides meanwhile have started taking down speakers that blare propaganda across the border it's a first step that could signal a long term fall on the divided financial. 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 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 kim 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 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. arts and sports news now and real madrid remain on course for a third straight champions league title after knocking out byron munich in the semifinal and took the lead in just three minutes into the game but karim benzema scored a goal in each half to give madrid a two one lead a man by the name of rodriguez drew level in the sixty third minute but rio hong on to win the title for three on aggregate. here's a reminder of that top story that we're following for you armenia's ruling party has blocked nicole question ian from becoming prime minister after he led a wave of protests that unseated the country's previous leader in response he

called on thousands of demonstrators outside parliament to hold a general strike on wednesday. you're watching news live from berlin we'll be back at the top of the loop the top of the hour rather with more world news we'll see if it. is going to. tell you no good today nothing would change you know the banks. and so was the language of a bank. speaking the truth global news that matters g w made for mines. global inequality and. quality in a. well.