this is day that we're hearing news live from berlin snap election results are armenia's a velvet revolution counting is underway in the country's parliamentary voters' acting prime minister nicole passion is hoping for a majority in parliament to push through his reform agenda also coming out assessing the damage in paris after more violent protests the yellow vest demonstrators demanding for the reforms as french president emmanuel back home values to address the nation and make the union groups in the coming day.

i'm rebecca riches it's good to have you with this vote counting has begun after amin is snap parliamentary elections today preliminary results are expected in several hours the reformist prime minister nichol passion young pushed for the early ballots after a pace full anticorruption uprising swept into power earlier this year it was the most sweeping transformation in the landlock locked caucasus country since its independence from the soviet union nearly thirty years ago international election observers were monitoring today's vote which was cold as passion no six a strong mandate impala meant for his planned reform drive. to his supporters he's a true man of the people a former journalist turned politician nicole pushing 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 sergei sarkozy on donning his trademark backpack and baseball cap pushing and led weeks of mass protests that ultimately forced sarkozy answer resignation. but the longer willing 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 some the economic agenda is our priority you have a very important and ambitious plan transform i mean you're going agrarian into an industrial country. into a technological and industrial state is. a strongly. passion young remains popular if you doubt that his my stuff alliance will come out on top of the

race among eleven parties and political blocs. is a. vote for nico 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 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 . for more i'm joined by journalist joshua can share his in the capital garo of on my joshua now as we just heard counting is underway what is the expected outcome. well the pashtuns my step alliance is expected to win a huge victory i mean opinion polls had him at around seventy percent of the vote

the polls aren't necessarily super reliable here but analysts that i've talked to said they expect anywhere between sixty to eighty percent of the vote to go to him because of the drama his kind of rule will be the other parties in the parliament this is especially interesting because a lot of the parties really are actually also quite loyal to partially. and some voters that i talked to who planted to vote for other parties said that they wanted to do so because they actually supported according to the constitution here. at least three parties have to make it into parliament. even if the they don't make the threshold of five percent so a lot of people are voting for other parties that they like just so they can block some of the parties that they don't like for making it in right and what are the real challenges for passion if he doesn't do a gang that parliamentary majority. well there considerable as your report said i

mean the economy is really the big issue here and that's what you spend campaigning on and and poverty is. a big problem that has been a problem since armenia gained independence from the soviet union in one thousand nine hundred one. it's not going to be easy to solve. it's talks a lot about bringing in foreign investment that's sort of been the strategy in the seven months that he's been prime minister it really picked up there hasn't been any noticeable increase in foreign investment and now when we're going as the parliamentary majority in the i don't think he will really have no more excuses he says that start thinking don't start to pick up it's going to be difficult for him to explain and does a have the necessary political experience to be able to follow through on this reform agenda that he wants to push through. yeah i think he's you know he's not an absolute newcomer and he has been in parliament for several years he's been the

head of it's already albeit a minor party for several years a lot of people have complained that a lot of the the people who surround him are fairly new i mean it's a very young team and a lot of inexperienced people are from sort of the ngo world rather than leave pretty the political worlds or a government world. so it's a reasonable question but gosh you know himself is a pretty cagey operator so i don't think that will be the problem i think the bigger problem is just that our media has problems are are quite large and it's going to take more than one now and more than a few months to turn them around. joshua. thank you very much. now to some of the other stories making news around the world saudi arabia says it will not extradite two suspects wanted in turkey for the killing of journalist jamal khashoggi turkish prosecutors have filed warrants for the arrest of a top saudi and the country's deputy head of foreign intelligence was last seen

alive walking into the saudi consulate in istanbul early in october. thousands of people have taken to the streets of london in opposing rallies and he breaks it marchers called for britain to remain in the twenty eight nation bloc for a while before right ukip party organized a bricks at the trial march to protest against the deal prime minister to raise in may has negotiated with the e.u. . from france is reeling after another saturday of violent protests by the so-called yellow vest movement police detained almost two thousand demonstrators with dozens reported injured in clashes french president and manual macron is under pressure to address the anti-government unrest is now due to speak to the nation early in the coming week and also plans to meet with union and employers groups on monday. another night of unrest on the streets of paris.

banks nothing was immune as angus fled across the city sounds of extra police were out here is practically on lockdown it wasn't quite the chaos of last weekend still officials are dismayed at what played out this stuff today. and we called upon once again every citizen to come back to dialogue and peace because there would be a nice long term solution for the crises without these monsters beach. with a clean up operation in full swing on sunday parisians pools to take stock. it's very hard but it's normal reaction of the people there with the french people writing for. president. it is difficult for many people in the country but if you don't say it's not the government says

it's listening to demonstrate his scrapping its plan to hike fuel taxes but president emanuel mccrone hasn't yet met with that has ignited deaf you really. 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 same with western city of bordeaux clashes between writers and police and then barricades set on fire outside and apple's store. the yellow vests movement has been organized almost exclusively on social media with no official leadership or even an official facebook account this has opened up a space for roma's and fake news to circulate our reporter and it's as if has been looking into this for us i mean hi thanks for coming in so what kind of rumors have been circulating well one of the most blatantly false rumors circulating right now

among the yellow vests on social media is this claim that france is about to sign away its sovereignty to the to the united nations and accept millions of refugees into france and other european countries there is it's unclear what the origin of this claim is but two of the spokesperson spokespeople for this movement did a facebook live video where they discussed this as if it were true that. was one of the first to call for action and maksim maxime the cause who is also a spokes person let's take a look. at this thing about the united nations is that mccall is supposed to sign a pact to relocate four hundred eighty million migrants to eight different countries and give up his seat at the u.n. to someone else. now almost nothing in that statement is actually true except for the fact that france is going to be signing a un pact on monday and tuesday with other united nations members that is

a non-binding pact that will just reassert the rights of migrants and also clarify some international migration issues but it won't bring more migrants to europe but the yad also point out that there's only two hundred sixty million international migrants worldwide let alone four hundred eighteen what is it just of members of the elevates this spreading this fake news no well actually there was controversy just yesterday when trump tweeted that protesters in france were chanting we want trump. and the a.f.p. did a fact check fact check on this and said this was clearly false that there have been no reports on the ground of protesters from the l a vest movement chanting that they in support of trump tripoli has a ten percent approval rating in france. and it's unclear we've got this but some have pointed out that earlier in the week there was a video circulating on right wing media that was a fake video was actually from london earlier this year of

a right wing protests and as any of this fake news as having an influence on the movement well of course you have these people who are very influential in the movement some of the people who started the movement who are circulating fake news which might might be troublesome but this is remained a leaderless movement so these people are not calling the shots they're not setting the marching tempo these are still debated on facebook and in local meetings and actually if the fact that fake news is circulating among us has been used against them to to discredit them by saying that just conspiracy theorist but actually their main argument is that michael is out of touch with the french people in this is not something that you can blame on fake news oh meserve thanks very much here now thank you. it's to sports now and just over an hour from now boca juniors will take on river plate in the second leg of the final of south america's top club soccer competition the copa limited orus and it will not kick off and one

as i was originally planned instead thousands of fans have arrived in the spanish capital madrid the venue has changed but changed in order to avoid a repetition of sames like from two weeks ago like this one the bow contained bass came under attack from the fans leaving some players in james. max merrill is in madrid covering the match for us and i asked him what the mood was around the stadium well the atmosphere is pretty relaxed so far in the city center the two groups of fans are actually mixing and there are according to reports around four thousand to seven thousand police here in the capital i've spoken to a few of them they've been very happy with how smooth everything has gone so far most of the major roads in the city center have been blocked off i'm standing just by one of them that's just still open but most of the city center is pedestrian ised and there are fan zones either side of me to the left of me the bookers union fans are all gathering to the right of me as the river plate finds further up hill

and indeed later on when the celebrations kick off or one of the teams they'll be separated in the stadium they're also meant to be separated but i can speak speaking to a few fans who were in such a rush to get tickets that they just bought any sort of ticket they can so there will be a lot of fans mixing inside the stadium which is very spectacular considering that in argentina for a lot floats last five years away fans have been banned so no away fans have been able to travel home games away games sorry and today will have very mixed stadium but the fans i've been speaking to have been very excited by that prospect. and just a reminder of the top stories we're following for you people in armenia heading to the polls and it's not palm entry elections triggered by prime minister nicola. the votes being same as an attempt by pressure now to cement his political party and head of a time for reform drive. in the yellow vests protests events have been a full week in france at least one hundred thirty five people were injured and

almost two thousand arrested as the demonstrations turn violent on saturday protesters are demanding further concessions from the government for a proposed diesel tax hike was rolled back. to watching data over the news more of the top of the hour with helena humphrey don't forget you can get the latest news on our web site d w dot com i'm rebecca riches thanks for watching. wouldn't confide in full details to be taken seriously in the world of work here's what's coming up. on t.w. they use to superhero on a mission smart women smart tokes smart station on the job these and by no means missed out on it were increasingly dangerous to. meet.