the in the news news lie from berlin ols closing the snap election in the healing national divisions. in armenia, voters give their verdict on a disastrous defeat in war and a prime minister who signed away large chunks of bitterly contested territory. also on the program on world refugee day, we hear the stories that were hinge, a muslim stranded in bangladesh and struggling to get back to their homes. and me and martin and st. quarantine rules for people returning to the united kingdom of putting a dead in spain. forrest industry. ah,

me, i'm william, good rep. welcome to the program. polling stations in armenia have now closed in parliamentary elections that were moved up due to a disastrous war with, as were by john last year ceasefire. so armenia lose large swats of territory in the long dispute. nagondo carr, boff region. more than 20 parties are buying for the vote. the prime minister, nico passion yon, is hoping to renew his mandate despite a drop in popularity. the election result could impact the future of the cease fire agreement with as or by john, which was brokered by russia and dw, spoke to voters on the streets of armenia, capital your yvon. many were disillusioned with the choices on the ballot and the current situation in their country. the current government has failed to remove that may have failed on the economy and they failed to protect us with the last 3

years have been awful. i call me our politics. it's all gone tightly wrong. we're going to be do i want to be able to get up in the mornings and go out for my exercise without finding a demonstration outside on the street meeting. we need our board is protected. we need to be able to feel confident and safe within this country. and our border is this is shawn to w, corresponding nick connelly, talking to some of those people. now we're talking to him. he's in armenians capital. you're yvonne. so nick, bring us up to speed the government's unpopularity. it's clear that we can hear that in the voices of those voters. is there any indication of how this election might be turning out? well, i think that unpopularity is yes indeed. a factor for the current going, but also for them main rival, the main opposition leader because you're on there's

a broad tiredness and kind of disdain for the piece of cloth from both sides and people at the police station telling me that basically for them, this was the question of choosing the lesser evil in terms of the question yes, great appointment that he agreed to receive that gave up a lot of territory searches if there is haven't taken by their own alms that i'll mean you gave up voluntarily as it were. his main rival, it seems as being closer to russia, the expectation would be that it being close to russia, he could have got more russian support during that war. but his record is very chicken and the order criticism of what he did when he was in office. so no great enthusiasm in terms of the numbers. well, we don't have reliable exit polls for now. the most credible polls before the elections put it extremely close. just less than a percent, one percent between those 2 front runners. so everything really to go for and a lot of attention now to the counting the votes. i think the important thing though this isn't really about personalities. this is about this war about this defeats and about the father.