this is deja vu doos live from berlin the political crisis in armenia deep that. i am part of our backyard alison's take to the streets after opposition leader he called passion on calls for a general strike to protest against parliament's failure to elect him as prime minister can he keep the demonstrations are peaceful. also coming on these migrants

have been on a harrowing journey to reach the united states but for many the real challenge is just beginning as they try to cross the u.s. border to apply for asylum. and it is misery for byron munich in the champions league the germans are out but spain's real madrid celebrate making the final of europe's top club competition for a third straight year. i'm sumi so it's going to good to have you with us tens of thousands of protesters have taken to the streets of the armenian capital of europe on to join a general strike opposition leader nicole pasha urged his supporters to bring the country to a standstill after he failed to secure enough votes in parliament to become prime minister bashing on was the only candidate and had expected a different result. this is not how the vote was expected to go.

was full of enthusiasm and high expectations tens of thousands had come to catch the moment their protest leader became prime minister. then excitement gave way to sorrow i was really good and i'm going to do we have to win we can't go on like this anymore you know not only nationally this is our life they don't have the right to rule that if we don't want then they mislead all the people out here everyone and they have to trade us. wasn't us on that you they are i mean is ruling republican party a lot of my that after a day long session in parliament the writing was on the wall eventually the votes were two. of the republicans would not back the opposition leader to take the reins

and angry nicole pushing him walked out to be with his supporters. he was met by loud cheers and shouted and confetti was pushing ian who has promised to rid the country of corruption and poverty called for mass civil disobedience was all marry. a rich new option no possibility to go backwards we will move forward only forward and the republic and there is no power that can resist you. with the new day thousands of protesters have been blocking routes into the capital you're a van he didn't passion in school for civil disobedience another attempt to elect a new prime minister is due in a week but if it fails a second time around new national elections must be held. let's go straight to nick connelly he is at the scene in the armenian capital yet

yvonne hi nick good to see you so the opposition leader pushing on has been calling for a general strike and civil disobedience today we've seen thousands of people taking to the streets tell us what you've been seeing and hearing today. good afternoon sumi well your van has ground to a halt the main streets have been blocked off with people sitting on the pavement among the little kids don't sing singing parking their cars to prevent any movement here i'm on republic square and maybe you can see behind me some of the huge trucks that have set to come in from the regions bringing people on the backs a real show of force we're expecting a big demonstration this evening but for now. is more has been transformed just into a sort of. festival atmosphere people walking around with their kids with their elderly parents and the main roads all sort of this country have been shut down the airport is not working so this really this school of nickel pushing us from last last night

seems actually to be unheeded and you know he really has shown that he's able to bring people out on the streets even after that initial disappointment and these protests have had a powerful effect nick they led to the resignation of the former leader sergey sarkeesian and they have been peaceful so far but how much do you think the opposition can actually achieve without resorting to force. they say people power is on their sides the numbers are unprecedented the square public square where i am now was never previously used demonstrations because it was thought to be too big they thought it was thought that no poll should ever fill this square well yesterday they did and the the share a variety of people here from young to old not just young activists has been very impressive that something the act analysts say here has really differentiate these protests from previous protest movements and yesterday made very clear that the tactic of nonviolence would continue their gesture is that of the open hands show the north frankly it's really playing to their strengths because the army and the

police are still under control of the current government the public and party so there's not much in it to try and risk any confrontation and his hope really is just by having tenacity in the numbers on the streets that he can browbeat the republican party into giving up power and it just basically can what is the government the ruling party's plan. they're certainly not telling anyone that would there be any wild rumors about what they're doing and what may be advancing their own candidate for the new round elections next week but none of that is confirmed yet so far really the public sphere has been engulfed by nico passion and his activities and they're very reactive the mood playing catch up without much of an openly stated plan about how they see to defuse a situation. that he's correspondent nick connelly in the armenian capital nic good to talk to you. now to some other stories making headlines around the world a judge in man maher has dealt

a blow to prosecutors in the trial of two reuters journalists accused of possessing state secrets he ruled the testimony of a witness who said the two had been framed was credible it's being seen as a landmark free speech case for the country of. the world health organization says seven million people every year die of diseases caused by air pollution a number it says that has remained steady for the past several years almost all those affected live in poor countries in asia and africa worldwide nine out of ten people breathe polluted air. donald trump's former doctor says a letter giving him a glowing bill of health in the run up to the two thousand and sixteen elections was dictated by trump himself harold bornstein letter said trump would be the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency whose quote physical strength and stamina are extraordinary bornstein previously said he had written it. officials in the u.s. have begun processing a small number of asylum applications from a group of central american migrants camped out just across the border in mexico

the migrants traveled across mexico in march aided by political activists u.s. president donald trump has described mass migration as a threat to national security he's called the caravan a provocation and warned they could be denied entry claire richardson reports from the border. these are some of the faces that have invoked the great president donald trump the reason he's threatened to mexico and called for thousands of troops to be sent to protect the border and stop short on their journeys they've set up makeshift camps into wana mexico. but as you know we're sending many many national guardsman down to the border most of them are already there and that's having a big impact most are from honduras they say the united states must hear their asylum case that they left their homes because they had reasons to fear for their safety but again because they killed my father. or i mean that's us

them what they because of death threats that's what forced me to lay for one of the men pulled out a gun pointed at me and told me if i didn't give him what he wanted he was going to kill me soon all of that battle came up with maybe i'm at that. they travel together for over a month i fought boss and trained. they sought safety in numbers and what can be an arduous and dangerous journey. if it was ugly tiring and boring. as big as my feet when i was walking and glendale and little or no. they traveled some three and a half thousand kilometers all the way from near mexico's southern border with quite a moa. when they arrived at the u.s. border with one a hoping to request asylum they got stuck. with the right papers it's just

a short walk across this bridge to the united states and to california where more than one hundred people who say they fled terrible dangers in their home countries are stuck here on the mexican side of the border the united states has not said that it won't hear their asylum claims that would be illegal under international treaties that the u.s. has signed but they've blocked their entrance by saying that the processing center is false. the united states is bound by law to hear their cases yet although they often face military criminal and sexual violence most people coming from central america lose in the end organizers hope that won't be the case here when. they're hoping that will be granted asylum so they can live their lives for a bit of the violent conditions that put them at risk. their future is a test case for the trumpet ministrations anti immigrant policies to see whether his fiery rhetoric is enough to stop the united states from welcoming those fleeing

persecution. you're watching news still to come on the program gay kenyans currently face stiff jail terms but the country's high court could soon change that we'll find out what's at stake. and byron minix quest to win the trouble is over that's after the bundesliga titans failed to overcome real madrid in their champions league clash on tuesday more on that game coming up. but first the swedish institute for peace research or sipri says global military spending has risen to its highest level since the cold war ended expenditures total around two hundred thirty dollars for each person in the world no military spending in asia rose for the twenty ninth consecutive year china is the second largest spender globally behind the u.s. it's leading the increase with a total expenditure of two hundred twenty eight billion dollars it is followed here by india with sixty four billion and higher spending by saudi arabia is driving the

increase in the middle east which rose by over six percent saudi arabia had the third highest military expenditure in the world last year and iran and iraq are also playing a big role in the middle east arms race so let's get more on that story with peter visayan he's a senior researcher at sebree with a special focus on the middle east and co-author of that report mr basemen thank you for joining us on our program now your report says that global spending is on weapons rather is at the highest level since the cold war what does that mean are we heading towards a major armed conflict. no not necessarily mean they're spending is out of pools of the purpose of. making sure that these don't dare to attack each other but still it is a worrying development because even though the terrorists might be objective and it may still be conflicts maybe not a global level but certainly on the regional level so it remains

a reasonable concern let's look at some of the big spender saudi arabia is now the world's stirred biggest spender on weapons and across the middle east we saw an uptick there what is driving that development it serve the right of things but very important in the east is the rivalry between several states in the region which see that's a more abstract region and even outside. the region and those aren't saudi arabia u.a.e. qatar and and and iran and especially between saudi arabia and iran there is that loom and attract perception where saudi arabia will consider iran as extensional threat and probably five to set those two countries are looking at each other and specially in saudi arabia this is led to very high levels of military spending and in the run also if you increase in military spending in the past two years there are all the reasons to. the population region

has at times revolted against him and also their approach to deal with these often militarized nature and of course it has been very clear the case of syria but also because of the weapons that we're seeing coming into this region where are they coming from. all these countries are not dependent on ours imports and of the countries like saudi arabia u.a.e. qatar i'm mainly dependent on weapons which are being supplied from the us and western europe. is not receiving downgrades yet they still are in international embargo but russia has been asked to supply round at least some equipment over the past few years you mentioned the us it is the world's biggest arms export it is investing more in its military than the next seven countries in the list what does that mean. it really shows that military capacity is extremely

important for us it is a key tool for them to. have power and to remain influential throughout world it's not the only tool of course but it's very important and we see the truth even more emphasis on these he both wants to increase military spending any as a result of our doing that if you down eighty and at the same time he's also very clear that he wants to supply more weapons to many of the u.s. and that means that there are in the world so it's not just that u.s. supplies are most in absolute terms but it's also the case that the u.s. is an ounce of liar to a very large number of countries in the world military power is just very important in the u.s. security and foreign policy it's also important to russia mr vaz a man of the country that's been projecting its power in the middle east yet its spending fell about twenty percent briefly if you can why is that. it may do with

its. economic growth and it's also partly to do with the station fire a shot to kind of level out there and long term at expansion of military spending that's the kind of two thousand and eight. visit down from the break in stockholm thank you very much for joining us on our program you're worth. i tend to check in on business now and numbers from the eurozone are in today and you heard they're not very encouraging no they are not sue me economic growth in the euro zone is slowing in the first three months of this year the single currency area as you cannot economy grew by just zero point four percent lower than the previous quarter it's the sharpest slump in two years since the middle of last year growth in the euro zone has gradually been easing last week the european central bank warned that protectionist dangers were affecting recovery in the euro zone made up of nineteen of the e.u. twenty eight member states that have adopted the euro as their currency.

now let's quickly check on the markets take on this rather shocking news only by standing by in frankfurt only what's happening our markets panicking already. no there is no panic here but certainly there is disappointment i mean on the one hand one was expecting worse news on the economic front a slowdown as you mentioned the e.c.b. has warned of lots of other economists have also pointed out two factors that were depressing the potential for economic growth in the first quarter like waves of sick people here in the euro zone are also strikes and countries limiting output. but the numbers did come in a disappointing way here in frankfurt the dax which mirrors the developed in the thirty most important companies has lost a bit of steam but it's still gaining about a percent so it's disappointing yes but it's not destroying people's outlook at the

moment perhaps one of the reasons is because one of the main reasons for poor economic performance in the first quarter was a strong europe went all the way up to a dollar twenty five that has come considerably down the euro just a dollar twenty and that benefits european exports. apple surprise the market today with seoul its sales of the i phone ten and also announced one hundred billion dollars buyback of its own shaz what's behind. the buyback is just to keep investors happy apple promise to do that and it saw the time had come now with donald trump's tax reform making it easier let's say less expensive for companies to repatriate repatriate profits that score all the way abroad on sales abroad and apple is giving part of that money now back to shareholders plus raising the dividend there's criticism also though there's always two sides of the going here

in the market some people say stick it in the new products don't be dependent on the i phone for so long find something new to argument that. only bans in france and thank you. well if you look at europe there's still some good news if you take a closer look at single countries portugal's economy for example is growing and that is making the country attractive for investors in many sectors especially the property market property values in lisbon are rising and more building is taking place. while lisbon is known for its beauty its property market was ignored for a long time that has changed in recent years investors have been pouring money into lisbon's real estate sector in twenty fifteen investment in commercial property more than doubled from the previous year to eight hundred seventy six million euros and the levels of remain true to lehigh since then. real estate prices are also

rising in the portuguese capital from the city's historic center they increased sixty seven percent between twenty seventeen and two thousand and eight according to local real estate experts so fordable housing is harder to find and some residents are becoming more marginalized in twenty fifteen be authorities cleared slums on the outskirts of lisp and while that may have offered some property investors a better view locals when given an alternative critics say so portugal's property boom is also leaving men behind. for the first time kenyan film is set to be screened of a cotton field festival but the kenyan government isn't happy that's right they had kenya has actually banned a film that tells the story of love between two women because it has quote a clear intent to promote lesbianism the film rafiki will be the first kenyan feature to be shown at the khan film festival this month homosexuality is illegal

in kenya and can be punished with fourteen years in jail but activists have petitioned the high court for a change in the law as you catherine on lundell reports they hope this will make life easier for homosexuals in kenya will now live in constant fear of arrest or worse. all our richard. really good all over the world firms norden hard for the war on a burger for the rich or reversible troops all work for a person. or years of hard labor submarines. it's it's basically a good honest neutral situation wouldn't go. in kenya homosexuality is illegal under the penal code those who are found guilty of engaging in gay sex can be sentenced for up to fourteen years in prison. this means many like no one live in constant fear. the national gay and lesbian human rights commission has responded

to at least one thousand seven hundred cases of abuse or mistreatment we're talking about the right to not experience violence simply because you identify says being here bisexual so one thing that we reiterate over and over is that the case is not about same sex marriage this case is not about nonconsensual sex this case is not about sex with minors this case is quite simply about what two adults are allowed to do consensual in the privacy of their home without government interference in no as few it's time for kenya's high court to repeal the colonial era law. koreans you should all try and if you would be a great start because it's put us in a position where we're. targeted because women find a lot of people who are targeted to some sort. or you know people collaboration is to rescue a bribe you are probably you were tortured you know block me or you and some people who move goods ever going to talk a yeah. i think it should be talked about but.

yeah. some but it's not something that should be a noise that yeah that's that's that's not according to the baby according to the legions should not be i love. in an interview just to see a president who can ya to said that homosexuality was not a human rights issue in kenya. this is not the first time a president who can yet to is dismissing the issue of homosexuality in kenya as a priority discussion. in two thousand and fifteen during former u.s. president barack obama's state visit he almost said the same thing cover the reality is there is a significant population that needs this discussion to be had even if the high court rules of the north should remain in place the fight to sensitize kenyans on the issue of gay rights will continue so we're not at a place where i think we're able to get ninety nine percent of kenyans that this is

something to accept but we need to be able to do is have laws that say these people are protected and then have the people responsible for enforcing those laws being able to do that. you know hoops the courtroom. so that he can live a life where he doesn't have to constantly look over his shoulder. in champions league soccer byron munich's quest to win the trouble is over after a four three aggregate to see to real madrid in the champions league joshua chemist had given byron the lead in the third minute before two goals from carrying benzema turned the game back madrid's way. did equalise giving barn a glimmer of hope but the hosts held on to reach another champions league final bitterly disappointed for the german champions who saw all of the semifinal stage for the fourth consecutive time. of the game in madrid was not without controversy

. was there to see it unfold firsthand let's hear what he had to say after the final whistle. what a night of european. and. third consecutive final. to win their third consecutive. trophy. thirteenth european. game overall there was plenty of controversy. with handball which many believed it was. a goal of course he used to play here. at the end.

go through four three on aggregate but we'll see how things work between roma and liverpool and see who's going to be playing in the final in just a few weeks time. is it going to be. way too long to. fully reporting there are minder now for top stories that we're following for you here tens of thousands of protesters have taken to the streets of the armenian capital to join a general strike opposition leader. supporters to bring the country to a standstill after parliament. his bid to become prime minister. a new arms race in the middle east. an alarming rise in spending on saudi arabia third biggest arms in the world. don't forget you can always get news on the go from google play or from the app store if you access to all the latest news from

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