the germans started thirteen on g.w. . this is you don't use live from berlin do night now we're marching for a different future thousands of armenians here to call from opposition leader in a call pashtun to go on strike and demonstrate against the government parliament rejected his bid to become prime minister but how much longer can it resists the public mood also coming up under fire palestinian leader mahmoud abbas widely condemned for suggesting that europe's jews brought the holocaust on themselves israel and the e.u. called his remarks unacceptable also embarrassing news for germany only four of the

nato members nearly one hundred thirty year old fighter jets are fit to fly missions as according to media reports here as the country tightens its defense budget plus a special report from kenya homosexuality is illegal in this east african country indeed people like noah live in constant fear of being arrested all now activists are pinning their hopes on a real new ruling by the country's high court. on layla herat thanks very much for your company everyone well after weeks of protests tens of thousands of demonstrators are out in force in armenia blocking roads dancing on the streets of the capital yariv on taking part in a general strike opposition leader a new call urged his supporters to bring the country to

a complete standstill after he failed to secure enough votes in parliament to become the prime minister while pasha was the sole candidate and had expected a very different outcome. hangry opposition leader nicole pushing me and calls for must civil disobedience earlier after a day long session in parliament the votes just didn't stock up for him the ruling republican party was not prepared to let him become prime minister. with a new day push union supporters heeded his call they started blocking some of the main thoroughfares in the capital here over thousands of people were back on the streets here and in other cities. when they did it two weeks ago no one thought this was possible but the people of on the nia took to the streets for nico because they believe in him. we want to crush in this country we don't want to be ruled by just thirty people who are gaining all the power all the money of the country and

we want to have the pressure want to all want to be our. goal pushing in one of the government not to deploy troops and so it all mean is political crisis could not be solved by force if the government did send troops to the capital to quell protests he said all the soldiers will come to us and join us column and we'll try again to elect a new prime minister next tuesday when asked if he would be a candidate to push union wasn't giving much away we will sink and go shit he said . all right let's go to our nic ali he is in the armenian capital yerevan working the story for us there nick a tell us what's happening right now. good evening late i was you can maybe see behind me people are already getting warmed up for the big protest that's going to be happening over back on the public square just in a few minutes people dancing on the roofs of trucks and that's really very much being the story of today we left our hotel this morning hit one of the normally

busiest crossroads and center caravan and found a group of students sitting on the pavement singing eventually don't sing and they were alone they were joined by families with children there was a further street that was blocked by mother and infant children and also those extraordinary variety of different backgrounds we saw someone in their white bentley arriving to have a look at what was going on talks people then half an hour later we talked to a group of construction workers with their heavy duty lorries that arrived bringing people in the back of those lorries so it really is a very broad cross-section of army side it is turning out and these numbers are unprecedented so it's a very important but this is a small country of about three million people have tens of thousands of people in the streets day in day out really isn't a given and these are protests that have really exceeded most people's expectations in terms of their full sun in terms of the numbers right and then i think to have judging by the crowd behind you the mood is generally beat but what's the risk of

this standoff potentially destabilizing armenia. people we spoke to said then scared they don't think given the numbers that the police or even the army would consider. dispersing these protests by force they say also that the republican party would be too scared to go against the people given how big these parts of being close to that option is still here so far has to be said we've seen very little of the police when they have turned up it's been to warn people to get off the roofs of lorries and also to get children out of harm's way so so far they've been keeping very low. profile but obviously though those instruments of the state in the state security are still in the hands of the acting government of the public apology you upset lookahead with question again and currently engaged in a game of brinkmanship with them right and a game of brinkmanship but because what i want to ask you next is the ruling elite prepared to loosen its grip on power and come up with

a compromise that will help defuse tensions with the opposition. so far then telling us very much we heard today that there would be a second round of voting in the parliament a week yesterday's unexcused day but in terms of substantiative office to these protesters we haven't heard very much they just say the current government it is that question needs to come to the table and talk and basically do a deal that's something that he's consistently refused to say to do he says he doesn't want to do especially behind the scenes deals if he's going to talk to them it's going to be in full public view with the press present so so far we really haven't seen much in the way of coming together the protests behind me when we also know how long it's going to take how long can you carry on with this how long can you carry on closing down the city you're leaving your day job is to come here they said pretty much the honest me as long as it takes right now calmly with the latest from your of on armenia thank you for you continue coverage. all right let's get

you up to speed now with some of the other stories making news around the world. well u.s. president of donald trump has made his first visit to the state department to attend a swearing in ceremony for his new secretary of state mike pompei as he was officially sworn in last week after being confirmed by the senate he has promised to restore what he called the department's swagger authorities in libya say at least eleven people have been killed in a suicide bomb attack on the other troll commission headquarters a spokesman said the bomber was among a group of militants who set fire to the building in tripoli the electoral commission has been registering voters ahead of elections in the country. israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu has attacked palestinian president mahmoud abbas for making anti semitic remarks at a meeting of the palestinian national council on monday abbas suggests that that

the genocide of european jews by the nazis was because of the jews role in money lending rather than because of their race or religion netanyahu said the palestinian leader was quote still a holocaust denier and he called on the international community to condemn what he called abbas a severe anti semitism all right let's get you insight now from mark rings he is director of the conrad adn our foundation in ramallah all right a very good evening hopelessly thinking what prompted this rant. well besides what we can also talk about the who it was as a woman says that if you want service as such in this two hours last speech i know from all the shows that has direct environment water and not to speak of our earth is a spoke in his perspective on european history but he wanted to convey this message my understanding or my thinking as it was maybe to convince seniors to support him

again because the support of rates are quite look only besides that one also has to take into consideration when you speak took place in the prem or the philistine national council meeting appeal all or as mentioned we knew the political strategy of his leadership so i think it was part of a broader started at he wanted to convey to his people right but it's still very difficult to comprehend why he chose to do this to talk just a little bit about what what his current position is in palestinian politics. well it's of course without saying that the statement against me is unacceptable has to be condemned think the europeans did it so a few minutes ago when it comes to us in tow position we have to differentiate on the one hand people in polls i have a long way behind him to constantly be martin to resign they want to have

a new leadership leadership in and who they trust and who can make the political economic and social difference on the other hand if you focus on the international level there you also have to see that for us as a state or national community he was always for the past decade ever since he embarked on to politics a very important he actually because he represented the negotiations yasser court recognition of israel peaceful. nexus o.-g. for a picture of him past all of this is not question and it brings me back to what i said at the beginning the majority is not behind this president and he has a very weak position on her rights but he still clinging on to power nevertheless clearly this won't endear him to his israeli counterparts separate mr netanyahu seizing on this around has it become a liability what does this mean for whatever is left of the peace process.

oh i think it was not a game changer what what we have to observe monday night we have to see the full picture in israel the situation in the palestinian territories is not playing a big role. you know at the same time while apostles' giving the speech benjamin netanyahu talking about iran which of course coming from iran so this is a secure generic if that's taking place in israel while on the palestinian side as i described earlier there's a leadership in which people do not longer trust so i would say that the peace process if you ask people especially in the first inter-office has died many years ago there was no political hope in the two state solution actually the news of the palestinian side and their jewishness really. community so it will be very difficult to renew this but i don't think that as each of these unacceptable passages. will contribute to this. direction of peace because it's

google director of the conrad adenauer foundation in ramallah mark rings thank you for sharing your insights with us thanks michael. you're watching the every news lot more news ahead including. hiding from the camera and living in fear and reality for gay rights activists in tenure where homosexuality is banned. but before we bring you that story ben is here and there is finally a crackdown on some of the world's worst attacks if we're talking about hiding money remember the pediment papers they were huge a massive data leak that exposed offshore dealings the u.k. came under fire its overseas territories allow investors to braise money far from the gaze of tax collectors but by the end of twenty twenty they'll have to make it all transparent through public ownership registers disclosing the true owners of companies in the caribbean a load there are five such territories the cayman islands but muta the british

virgin islands as well. and good and montserrat thousands of firms claim to have subsidiaries there but they're often nothing more than a mailbox for money laundering or tax avoidance let's bring in our financial correspondent ali bonce to talk about these the pentagon papers remember with two years ago it's taken a while for the u.k. to come up with a plan but it sounds like it's going to take a while longer until that plan actually comes to fruition. that's true if it's to be the end of twenty twenty that's more than two years from today's date but you have to leave it to the u.k. that it's they've started on this and i think there are many people out there in the world including many here in germany who were critical of all those people hiding money money laundering doing the illegal activities and tax savings that something like this would come about it all government action and government action

with a certain bite to it but having said that a thread that there's opposition from the territories involved the cayman islands british virgin islands the premier of being very critical and also bermuda so you have to wonder will it actually happen there and if it happens there will the money goes someplace else there's a lot of money involved in this courting to the financial stability ports boards recent report alone cayman islands there's money stashed away there in shadow banks to the june of four point seven trillion dollars and while there's a lot of dirty money well thank you very much for covering that story for us from frankfurt there. will be a lot of pushback on this story as well the european commission has unveiled an increased e.u. draft budget for twenty twenty one to twenty seven with close to one point three trillion euros but getting countries to agree on contributing more won't be easy includes huge spending hikes for defense and security twenty five billion to help

countries introduce structural reforms needed to join the single currency and some brussels wants to reduce the agricultural budget by five percent and it wants a mechanism to withhold funds from member states that don't respect the rule of law . barbara visa live brussels for us on this one. they want more money but is it because of break that huge ten. million euro hole i think it is the. whole the u.k. contribution annually there will be. help me. there is there is of course there's of course the brakes at home which is supposedly around between ten and twelve billion euros depending on how you count this plus of course there is the future and that is all fall the european union says the e.u.

commissioner going to actually has sort of drafted this budget because he says europe has more to do in the future so we don't need only to fill the hole we need money on top that's that's his main argument and he wants to spend it in particular to secure the external borders of the european union for instance ten thousand new border guards in the officials so he wants to employ and he also wants to spend more money on research very important for the future and on youth programs and more money on migration so these are the big three issues and he says we also of course have to fix victor in that the european is growing at a rather healthy clip and on the other hand we have inflation so if you all sort of mix this up together you come up with a higher budget than the last one and to him of course all this seems totally logical and reasonable above or he was but they want.

they want of course always something else now this is really been the opening of the great european carpet buzz are we have the maximum demand on the table and then what we're going to see now in the next months and maybe for more than a year as experience shows is a lot of hair tearing and table thumping and nightly negotiations and a lot of screaming and yelling because some countries already say no imposed impossible francaise for instance to five percent cuts for farmers so we can't do that the netherlands already say never in our lives are we going to put more money into the budget it's already unfair so this is just the beginning and we're just going to see a lot of strike struggle and a lot of fighting until we have this budget all the screaming and yelling over the e.u. struck budget thank you very much bob. now back to you later a similar topic jodi's defense spending which is under scrutiny right exactly

because the country's coalition government has presented its budget for the current year to spend thirty eight point five billion euros on its armed forces well that may sound like a lot but the defense ministry is up in arms saying it needs far more to modernize germany's fighting forces as pressure grows on the country to step up to its obligations to nato. a german euro fighter taking to the air something of a rare sight these days germany possesses one hundred twenty eight of the jet work plates but only four are reportedly mission ready that could leave the country unable to fulfill its commitments to nato germany needs to modernize its armed forces the bundeswehr but there's no consensus on the cost. conservative defense minister was a left under lion says she needs an additional twelve billion euros by twenty twenty one to get the military back in fighting shape but she's only receiving two

point five billion extra she's taken the extraordinary step of filing an official letter of protest. in a terse statement from the line played down the conflict but stressed germany's military responsibilities the most awesome money has to make its contribution here not just for security in germany but for our common european security as well here to germany's voice is needed. but finance minister shots is priority is a balanced budget not a state of the art bonus fair the social democrat argues that military expenditures have been growing recently. stuff in my yard so beautiful frightening let me show you a chart of how defense spending has developed in the last few years that you can see the huge rises that have occurred. this is as far as defense spending is concerned things have really turned around yet and the only thing that's. germany's military

expenditures have gone from thirty three billion euros and twenty thirteen to he projected forty two billion for twenty nineteen but that still leaves germany well short of the nato target that members should spend two percent of their g.d.p. on defense and the bullets fan says far more money will be required to keep its troops ready for action. and to kenya now a country where homosexuality is illegal and punishable by fourteen years in jail l g b t activists there have addition to cry court for a change to the law and one though begins this report with a statement from a gay man who is so afraid to reveal his identity that he asked us to scramble his voice. or our would rather see who can be good for. our friends nor do the harder for the war. article

referred supporters were from the purser or years of hard work or it's it's very secure due to trolls and to interest me. 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 i live in constant fear. the national gay and lesbian human rights commission has responded to at least one thousand seven hundred cases of abuse on mistreatment we're talking about the right to not experience by. and simply because you identify assessment care by sexual so one thing that will reiterate over and over is that the case is not about same sex marriage the space is not about my consensual sex this case is not about sex with minors this case is quite simply about what to what also are allowed to consensual in the privacy of their home without government to interfere and in no as few it's time for kenya's high court to repeal the colonial era little

. charisma sure. would be a great start because it's a witness in a position where we're. targeting. people who are targets of progress and. or you know people. to rescue a good brother who was probably who will tortured you you know block me and some people who move a little tickle we've got these people. on the streets of nairobi it's hard to find someone who openly agrees with no one. i feel bad and bloody. be the other get mists. human models and they being the should not be allowed in kenya i don't think it's ok. i think it should be talked about. some but it's not something that should be ignored yeah that's that's not

a good thing to be a baby according to world religion should not be. yeah. 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 president who can yet to is dismissing the issue of homosexuality in kenya as a priority discussion. in two thousand and fifteen doing former u.s. president barack obama's state visit he almost said the same thing however the reality is there is a significant population that needs this discussion to be had even if the high court rules of the 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. ninety nine percent of that this is something to accept but what 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. that. hoops

the court. so that he can live a life where he doesn't have to constantly. our east africa correspondent catherine wando reporting to speak now to catherine i catherine you're in the kenyan capital of nairobi how precarious is the situation for the. community in kenya. it's quite precarious especially if you consider where these people or where you live in the example of know or who we featured in the story he says that if he is among the people who are the same economic background and same social background as him he feels safe that you know probably going to go to places which are probably uptown compared to downtown but then you have cut people who live in low income areas who are so afraid and always have to live a double life because if they're found out there either attack or told you know forwarded

to the police how widespread is homophobia catherine and what's behind it. it's quiet it's not as bad as uganda or nigeria if you're to do come if you do a comparison but it's quite present because kenya is as much as it is a secular state it is this is ita very religious divide between muslims and christians and they say they say that it's a you know homosexuality is against religion and it's also against the african culture as well and so we know catherine which way the court is leaning in this case and when can we expect a ruling but it's hard to tell at the moment because things are pretty tense. the statement by president hu kenyatta judging the recent interview to the court we don't know when they were meant to make this ruling to remove the fourteen year

jail term we don't know when they're great to actually supposed to make that date or set a date for the ruling last day but they didn't say this in light of what the president said so it's really it's it's up in the air at the moment. the commission that represents the beattie community says that even if it does go to court they don't really expect to win in the first try all right they don't expect to win on the first try now kenya has been your filmography kian l.g.b. to you love story incidentally only can you movie headed to the prestigious cannes festival what does the general public in kenya make of all these developments that this court case and the banning of this movie as well. well it's interesting because when it comes to that. there's more support for the movie in terms of a creative you know project at all it's an art piece still you find a lot of people do support take as that

a film but then when it comes to do you know the actual conversation that people really shy away from from homosexuality that they do support start and they do support the film then it's such a it's such a contrast because you have people who openly you know they think do not support homosexuality and they were not openly supported all right he did use east africa correspondent catherine wander where porting thank you. and before i let you go want to remind you of our main headline this hour thousands of armenians have heeded a call by opposition leader and he called potshot to go on strike and demonstrate against the government has after the ruling party blocked his bid to become prime minister worsening the country's ongoing political crisis. and will rock thank you so much for watching. you.

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