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in the end. it's good to have you with us i mean ian's are going to the polls today and stop introductions triggered by minister nicola after he took office. president. citizens. are going to. make the most sweeping transformation in that. country since its independence from the soviet union in one thousand nine hundred. bottom introductions one should you have to be have i'm twenty twenty two that's not all

a big seed of the mentor. to cement political authority i had to. drive. to his supporters he's a true man of the people a former journalist turned politician nicole passion jaan has a way with words and an unassuming style that has won the hearts and minds of many armenians pushing young was elected prime minister by parliament in may after galvanizing a civil disobedience movement to protest a power grab by the country's prime minister sergey sarkozy on donning his trademark backpack and baseball cap pushing and led weeks of mass protests that ultimately forced sarkozy on's resignation. but the long republican party retained its majority in parliament in october pushing on step down as prime minister to trigger early elections during his campaign he blasted the old elitist corrupt and pledged to revive the economy in a country where a third of the population lives in poverty principally so my glove in the economic

agenda is our priority you. so we have a very important and ambitious plan and form a media from an agrarian into an industrial country. into a technological and estoril state he's going to have in the city avoid a strongly. passing on remains popular if you doubt that his my step alliance will come out on top of the race among eleven parties and political blocs. isn't doing the nuclear power vote for nicole passion on his virtue as an honest during his seven months in office his hands were tied because the former ruling party still dominated parliament. until he gets rid of all the corrupt thieving politicians from the previous government he won't be able to do any good news. the capitol yerevan may look gloomy shrouded in december fog but on the streets there is real hope among armenians that this election could mark the advent of real democratic change joining me now for more from the capital you have on is john this joshua

who's following the story for us joshua what has been the turnout like so far. as a vote two pm local time it was a twenty four and a half percent turnout which interesting is quite a bit less actually it's almost ten percent last that it was in the previous parliamentary elections just last year was this not the void that people waiting for is this uprising there for the stomach. yeah i'm a little surprised that people that i've talked to have suggested that maybe you know the old regime was notorious for using various unsavory methods for getting people to vote for them like bribery or organized government workers you know to go to the polls together and so now that that's not happening. that's that's their early speculation for why the turnout is is so much lower than it was before now the opposition is claiming that the polls were called too soon and it did not give them the time they needed to prepare for these polls do they have

a point. no not really i mean to the people who are making this argument are the former ruling party the republicans they're the ones who have the most sophisticated political organization in the country and if anybody would be ready for early elections it should have been that this was a fairly transparent excuse to kind of try to put off elections that they knew they were going to lose sadly my dump of the challenges that busha young faces what will happen if he does indeed gain a parliamentary majority what are the real challenges he's facing then well the challenges are are substantial i mean i mean he has a lot of problems the economy is in quite difficult circumstances which it has been since the collapse of the soviet union there are very difficult foreign policy environments trying to balance through russia and the west and its conflicts with azerbaijan and turkey and so azerbaijan you know and so harshly on has been saying

you know i can't do everything i need to do because i don't have a parliament now with the with the majority in parliament will have control over really every branch of government and so there will be don't worry excuses jenna's joshua in yet about thanks very much speaking to us. now to some of the other stories making news around the world china has demanded that canada release arrested while we. draw face consequences is being held in vancouver and faces extradition to the united states where she is accused of violating sanctions on iran on friday before a court which a judge and a decision on whether or not to allow be. u.s. president donald from first told reporters that his chief of staff john kelly when he his job by the end of the yeah there have been persistent reports for several days that mr kelly has been under pressure to leave from say his successor could be announced in the coming days in the one. trial of women have come forward in

britain to accuse so-called psychics. deduced of sexual abuse their women claim the septics that he abused them on the premise of transferring his quote unquote energy deputation reaches far beyond brazil with followers in the u.s. europe and australia. france is reeling off for another saturday of biden protests by the so-called yellow vests want police detained almost two thousand demonstrators and one hundred thirty five people were injured in clashes france's prime minister has called for dialogue and the government is signaling if you make further concessions to protest as in the coming days bear in mind it has already scrapped a planned increase in fuel taxes that triggered the demonstrations in the first place. another night of unrest on the streets of paris. shops. banks nothing was a mean as across the city thousands of extra police were out paris

practically on lockdown it wasn't quite the chaos of last weekend still officials are dismayed at what played out this saturday. the as a relation of pilots has been stopped. it has been certainly contained but it is totally unacceptable. except the water cannon deployed in the capital to bring the situation under control says the government those on the street say they've good reasons to protest. like i'm emotional tonight if not i wouldn't have taken to the streets i'm upset because there are people who talk and enough to make a living when i fasten your eyes i'm on. the government says it's listening to demonstrate his scrapping its plan to hike few taxes but president emanuel micron hasn't yet met with them that has ignited deaf you. the yellow

vests movement is less than a month old but it has already brought hundreds of thousands to demonstrations across the country like here in the southwestern city of bordeaux clashes between writers and police and then barricades set on fire outside an apple store. and i asked her how downtown paris was recovering after those clashes on saturday. absolutely life here is going back to normal now you can see the cleaning cars just behind me cleaning away the last exam from last night there were violent clashes here late into the evening last night between the police and demonstrators so obviously with lots of tear gas being dispersed here i was just talking to someone on a lady who lives here in the area actually just this five hundred meters away from

here and she told me you know we kind of used to these protests now but still she preferred to stay at home last night with her little daughter she said there was lots of guards everywhere it's just no point in getting out she said you know understand what these protesters are asking for however the violence sometimes goes a bit too far she said i understand when they attack you know luxury shops like tea or something like that according to her because she said this is kind of a symbolic gesture they say there's something wrong with our system but at the same time when protesters attack cars and burn cars normal people have to pay for that so it's a bit less clear what that might lead to and it's actually it affects the people that they're defending now these protests initially. against a proposed hike in decent rates not the government broad but this proposed hike what are the protesters demanding now. well they're asking for

a lot more said when the government finally reacted to their main demand you know to take away that a few tax hike that was one for next year they said that's too little too late now they are asking for more they are asking for a higher minimum wage they're asking for other taxes to pay down the asking the government to tax the rich more because these people who are struggling to make ends meet who for example need their cars to go to work and that's why this huge tax hike was so symbolic for them they are saying that they are shouldering they have to shoulder far too large share of the kind of transition to woods a more sustainable economy right now these are the micro government measures now appears to be that it's time to talk how does a plan to win back the yellow vests if you're. sitting at the government says you know we need to negotiate now president and call is

supposed to make an announcement early this week tomorrow maybe on tuesday and it also talks kicking off across the territory between the government politically titian's and yellow best protesters so we can see what you put on the table we did have a part of. covering the protests for us thank you very much. sports news now in the bundesliga on saturday dortmund defeated fierce rivals in installing. the black and yellow splash on through as it continued to consolidate their lead at the top of the table. shell because their reno was boiling over with excitement ahead of the much anticipated roar darby. but it was visitors dortmund who made that energy pay off first thomas delay making it one meal after just six minutes his first ever goal for the black and yellows and how sweet it was to score against their arch rivals. after that things got heated. keeping the

referee on his toes. to many go to desk oh shark i needed to get their attack going . but that didn't happen after the restart the dortmund defense look stare out. but then i mean at each went down in the penalty area oh and after play continued for some seconds the ref consulted the video assistant. marco toys had stepped down at its foot an unfortunate but correct penalty or was it crazy daniel kelly jordi fired home to equalise for shaka in the sixty first minute of. the bitter rivalry was bubbling over i've i kept attacking and eventually hit paydirt jade in sand show putting them back in the lead by the english ace with acres of space to net is fifth goal

of the season my men didn't manage to increase their lead in the waning minutes but it didn't matter i won the final score in the mother of all darby's half as one of my supposed to do was it stopped smiling we tried everything and it still didn't work so. that was a real game it wasn't always pretty but intense with lots of chills and tackles maybe not pretty but winning this darby for the first time in three years means much more than just the three points. and freiburg improved on their sporty record in the bundestag are shocking but the comprehensive feed near victory striker kneels hit us an open sporting after just five minutes the thirty year old netted his third goal of the campaign. private than double the lead on the stroke of half time. starting home from the penalty spot. and mike from the

game. of contention by the head after fifty two minutes of victory was freiburg first win in five matches. what's coming. up. here. in this league every week here the. first day of school in the jungle.