the who's this is the w news life in berlin or media is prime minister secures another term in office after snap electrons. nuclei pushing yawns, party wins over 50 percent of the vote. as a result, that is like bigger surprise, many after immediate disaster setback in its recent war with neighboring as

a by john hopkins. also go to the poles in an election long delayed by the krona virus crisis. voters give their verdict on prime minister abi smith reform agenda. the you meet the discuss slapping fresh sanctions on failures, but will they have any effect? and alexander lucas. shank, those iron with on power and at the european football championship, a perfect 3 wins out of 3 for it'll yeah, here fans go wild in room 18 deep whales to reach the tournament, knocked out statements as winters. ah, me. i'm michael locus. welcome, armenian prime minister, nicole passion. yon has won another term in office after snap parliamentary

elections official results true. his party has won over 50 percent of the vote. passion yon called the pole to shore up his mandate after disastrous war with us to budge on last fear. last year sees fire saw armenia lose large swaps of territory and the long disputed know going to quarterback region. the election result could impact the future of the agreement with us by jaw. the results came instead of the after the polls closed, one ticket was available quickly turn out. despite and emotionally charged campaign, only half the eligible voters cast fathers incumbent, nicole petunia and the paid on facebook. shortly after counting started to claim victory. men got him. did we already know that we want to convince him victory in the elections? and we will have to convince thing majority in parliament in force caution young called the election in a bit to stabilize his government. armenia

is still smarting from its defeat as about john in the wall over the disputed enclave. nagondo kara, a peace treaty broken by russia in november, see the last the best way to territory a mass after thousands of menial soldiers had died in the fighting. with the last war, kicked off a wave of protest with demonstrators even storming the parliament. and yet, yvonne we are 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? me think of the last 3 years have been awful. i economy our politics. it's all gone totally wrong. the president rebecca chevy on his heading for 2nd place in the poles. far behind persons party, he's already cried, fall over the result,

claiming fraud. but that's unlikely to concern pushing young hu, one international praise. so leading the country to its 1st free and fair election 3 years ago, and looks set to merge victorious once more. d w, correspond nick connelly is in the armenian capital, yerevan. nick, with almost all the votes, counted, certainly looks like a convincing victory for the incumbent nickel. nicola pasha yon, this is despite polls, it suggested that he was running neck and neck with his opposition. how did this happen? exactly, and this is definitely a bad election for the posters, for the pundits. some of the polls read running up to the selection, they put them just one percent apart and then we've seen now if these find results turn out to be final about 30 percent gap between the 2 leading parties are a huge, huge discrepancy there. i think there are 2 things to bear in mind here. good,

high culture, social g polling is expensive and in the small country like media, often enough, those kind of polled commission by people with a vested interest. so they have to be taken with a big pinch of thought there. i think the 2nd thing is, i think there was, if you shine as the most pushing hands voted to support him openly. people we talked to, they would say that they were interested in parts of the platform where they would say that their priorities chimes were things that young would have suggested as part of his program. but they weren't really willing to kind of throw that support open the behind him. i guess the echo of that war of that piece far of that defeat last year, weighing heavily and reluctance to come out in for him. whereas the opposition sports is where a lot more vocal, but that criticism of him and that support for the opposition candidates. so i think that definitely played a part of making difficult to predict quite how big this guy would be and how come from the victory it would be for the company. next, speaking of the opposition, i can't imagine that they're taking this very well. i think it's, it's definitely almost it's a body blow and it's probably quite embarrassing,

given the main office and candidate was the president, someone who has been employed for a long time to have a defeat quite such a margin at the hands of a government that is essentially overseen a military defeat, so i think they definitely weren't expecting that they've talked about electoral a fraud about different kinds of infringement and procedure. the activists being harassed by the police, they would say that the incumbents were electioneering illegally in the days running up to this election. but none of that for now can really adds up to anything that could affect the result of such an extent to bring the 2 parties close together with such a huge gap between the 2 body. i think that's very little chance of that happening . i think the test whether they accept this will be tonight. we heard in the run up selection of both parties or planning big rallies here in your van. and they try and bring their people out on the street to get a van to make themselves to the felt, to actually challenge the result with boots on the ground as it were. that could actually be stable in this country,

but we're not in europe. and today is very relax and it doesn't seem like there are lots of people for now at least who are seriously challenging the results. if pushing on does in fact come out of it with a renewed mandate. what is the future of armenia given the fact that tensions are still extremely high with their neighborhoods or bizarre? he's definitely got his work cut out to him. so even if this internal political crisis following last is, will, could now maybe be put to rest by this very clear election results. he's got to deal with other by john, the richer neighbor with big population that has better weapons that is building up its forces along armenians border the border. they don't agree on their disputes of where exactly the border should run and you've got basically 25 year old conscript up in the mountains space each of the down occasions you can each other. so lots potential there for an escalation and tens of thousands of refugees from last year . we still haven't found a new home, an army that is still very unhappy and if you need cumulated that they weren't able to push back, that is their results. so lots of things to deal with that and

a difficult few years cynical pushing on but one that he'd be able to embark on with the new renewed mandate. thank you. nick connelly in europe. if you have begun voting in general elections that are seen as the 1st major tests of prime minister ned and his ruling coalition, the electrons were scheduled to take place last year, but were delayed by the pandemic, their grown of viruses. and the only challenge that is facing the vote comes as war rages in the northern to live region, in turn triggering a phantom that threatens hundreds of thousands of people. opposition groups accuse ethiopia as ruling party of harassment. but the prime minister has promised that the election will be peaceful when i'll be a man came to power. he was lauded as a reformer, lifting bands and opposition parties and free and thousands of political prisoners . his efforts to end hostilities in the region also saw him awarded

a nobel peace prize, would be met. it's facing mounting pressure both at home and abroad. e t o p as international partners, one quick end, the ongoing conflict, the grey region fighting there between the regions former ruling party, the t growing people of ration front and both government and retrain. troops has caused untold thousands of lives and spread famine throughout the region. un figure say over $350000.00 people here are facing acute hunger that includes tens of thousands of children. mondays pulling has been twice delayed due to the pan demik and logistical challenges still remain. many opposition parties are also boycotting the election because leading members have been jailed. the accused the government of rolling back many of our b of meds, initial reforms,

hardly no suspicious backdrop for the 1st major test of the prime minister's prosperity party. but in the run up to the vote, mister med, remain confident, seem to pulling would be his country's 1st attempt. i truly free and fair elections . i'm joined by reporting maria griff nicholas who at pulling station in addis ababa greetings. maria does prime minister abi commit? look, set to win this election. so there hasn't been any surveys per se to determine, you know, who is most likely to election, or what the voter turnout will be over a 1000000. you can have registered both throughout the country, but it has to be said that's hard to target, to be as a paper collection over the former coalition to inherited word, party structures that with with for example, in the biggest part of the 2 main

parts. the election so the preferred parties is considered to be the favorite election. there are some places where. 8 we jump with the national most popular support and i just want to put a threat to the 3rd party. it results around july. first my that's the 67. not so thing that in addition to the region, marie as well. no, never won the nobel peace prize in 2019, in part is recognition of his achievements. how much has the, has he actually achieved, especially given this ongoing unresolved conflict in tiegram. so the one main

reason why, why, why is because of the 2 still into a retread to feel now has to be different light because of this conflict with the members of the keep. yeah, that's the ration from to the children, but also to. a retrieve the greatest the reach of medicine, ordering a retreat every transporters are fighting against their long time. and they're also accused off to the truck just killing civilians. so just completely different dimension to know about the prize and mount tickets and national criticism for the situation. the great debate especially really hands are full so. so what are the main challenges the new government will need to tackle? thank you guys, chris, me quite

a divided computers and divisions about you know, how the state should be structured. there's people criticizing the current federal system, others are especially stake agenda overall. you know there's, there's been a lot of ethnic classes ethnic violence in different parts of the country. so far as i know, most of the border between those 2 region, i was double firing a lot of those issues and territorial feedback storage and portal disagreements. so there's also a conflict that i mentioned earlier. it's called the yellow set attack federal military bases. but you said that at the said that a reason for that,

a lot of challenges as report. maria, good news, less school in addis ababa, many things. and now here's a look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world. french for right liter marine, the pens party performed weaker than expected in regional elections on sunday projects and showed the republican party of former president nicholas or z on course to come out strongest in the 2nd round of voting. in frances, 13 regions and 96 departments will take place in a week. large ports of romania or battling severe floods after heavy rainfall. hundreds of houses in the eastern european nation are under water. some residents needed to be evacuated. meteorologist, worn more ring could be on the way iran, so nuclear power plant has undergone a temporary emergency shut down over what was described as a technical fault. official said the outage is expected to last up to 4 days. power

black blackouts are expected. hong kong for democracy newspaper apple daily has said it may be forced to stop publication within days after the government froze, its assets or the $500.00 police officers rated the newsroom and rescued. 5 executives last thursday saying it's articles and research sweeping chinese national security law. the company's c, e o, jimmy law was already charged and imprisoned under the same law. in april, the government throws the company's assets, leaving it unable to take down. the paper now says is friday issue is likely to be if one's for more, i'm joined now by phoebe kong d. w, corresponded in hong kong greetings. phoebe pro democracy newspaper apple daily will stop publication in 5 days. why? exactly? while last week to l. a. flies or apple data executives was arrested and

charged for conspiring pollution with one courses. it's the very 1st time the national security law targeting media coverage because they are accused of publishing sources of online printed articles nationally urging for international attention against china and hong kong and apart from the individuals is also the 1st time the authorities prosecuting the entities for violating national security, all 3 companies linked to put 80 including is a printing and internet company. we're also prosecutor for the same charge. so a leading to a freezing office access, amounting to 800 meters, hong kong dollars. so these action and the prosecution and the freezing. okay, so basically make it impossible for apples 80 to conduct any type of banking

operation and it's really hard for it to sustain. and the kind of like publishing or like a daily routine salary, payment of the stuff like even so this is the major reasons of like my indirectly, like shutting down apple. daddy in my buy financial means. so give us some perspective here. phoebe how big a set back to the pro democracy movement. is it for apple daily to close? apple dad, he was down there shortly before hong kong returned to join to china. in the late ninety's, just yesterday is the month of the 26th anniversary. they are very critical and newspaper so. a it has long been an icon and one of the most critical voices against like the chinese communist party and also they'll forties and the hong kong in china as well. so like, is facing like a setback,

a very possible chance of shutting down of these very critical newspaper. so it will be a very symbolic water shade. moment for the press, industry and hong kong, w corresponding to become many thanks. vd you foreign ministers meeting today, or a set to blacklist dozens more supporters. a bell, tuition leader, alexander lucas, chicago. his iron grip on power shows. little sign of loosening his ongoing repression of the countries democratic movement has sent many activists into exile or jail. and helping lucas shank. oh. cling onto power is the country's secret service. and the climate of fear they've created. the soviet dictator yoseph stolen looms larger than life at this military theme park, near men's, people from all over billers have come to celebrates a so called border guard day. many like yell enough support. alexander lucas. shank

. oh, she works in a meat processing plant and breast on the polish border. she can't understand why people in bella. ruth wants to be rid of lucas shank. oh. what are the most important things in life? we have a salary, a job. we live in peace and our kids get a good education for me and my family. the current leadership is exactly what we need. we like living and bella was, i don't want change in the foreseeable future. not sure if you are young cuckold, if she's bella ruth in a positive light, he's a truck driver but has no desire to travel abroad and he feels safe with lucas shanker in charge. you go to stimulus. i'm not saying i like him, but i don't see who else i could vote for. was lucas shanker was leader. i can let my son play on the streets without any concerns. i sleep in my lori cabin without

worrying that something could happen to me. many people here are untouched by the pro democracy movement. they watch day tv and work in state and companies or for the military or police. above all, it's the support of the secret service, the k g b. that is helping lucas, shank, oakland to power agents hound opposition activists and generate a climate of fear. valerie costco once worked for the k g, b himself wellness that he knows why there's virtually no descent in its rank. so can you polish i? first of all, they make good money compared to those who plowed the fields or work in the factories around their opperation or have taken on a criminal element for lucas shank, who needs people who already have blood on their hands. going to be correct and i will cause them to move them. there is no way out grow you and i was telling you about that and ensured that the opposition is red and white banners have all but

disappeared. all that's visible is the soviet era, red and green of the country's official flag. for many, it's become the symbol of lucas goes regime. one tool western leaders have tried to use the loosen look at shanker grip on power has been targeted sanctions like asset freezes. they've been in place for the better part of 20 years, but so far they've seemingly had little effect. the lucas shank goes, authoritarian rule d. w analysis using freedom of the press and freedom of speech, among other parameters to measure belushi and democracy has found little positive change since they were introduce. the recent mass protest may have had some positive effect on democratic participation. but those gains have been short lived with little sign. the 2 decades of sanctions have encouraged, democratic development in b. louis, i'm joined by d. w. sondra peterson, head of our research and investigations team. sondra. the 1st question has to be

the fact that lucas shank has been in power for 27 years and much of that under sanctions. so the clear question is do shit sanctions work or not? it certainly doesn't look that way. i mean having a look at that graph, if you would clearly think they don't work, but it is not as simple as that. i have come to learn that sanctions really are not the black and white thing. there are many shades of grace. so let's look at what we have so far, what we have seen our targeted sanctions against glucose. shank was within, which means the freezing of bank accounts, foreign assets and also travel bands. and what we haven't really seen is broader economic sanctions. the broad sanctions applied. so far has been the closing off of the european as space for across from bella. ruth. and that is for a reason because the and the countries that do sanction had a huge learning term after and experienced in the 1900 ninety's with regard

to iraq. if you remember the iraqi functions of the early 1900 ninety's, what we saw was nearly totaled locate. but yet then dictator, saddam hussein manage to stay in power while millions of iraq he suffered from poverty, hunger and disease because of the sanctions. so something like this should never happen again, and that is why i talk to sanction are the flavor of the day hitting the elite and specifically the but when the european foreign minutes, the me today, we were most likely see much talk about broader partial sanctions. we'll see more people added to the blacklist, but also we will see probably a ban on new loans and to you export credit and also possibly sanctions on sectors of the bellow. russian industry like the 3rd lies the industry and the oil industry, which creates a lot of revenue. but that will, in that we're most lackey also hit a population. of course,

you've been clearly at analyzing data about sanctions in their effectiveness. so what are you key findings? well, thanks sense of touch are no stand alone talk to democracy, ties or talk receipts or dictatorships, clearly not. but what we can say is that about a 3rd of them in the past 25 years has led to some sort of confession by the sanctioned state. and when it's a confession, i don't need a complete turn around as an regime change. i mean, maybe the beginning of talks, maybe a reduction in violence, something like that. and if we look at trends, banks, for instance, there is to try been in place against lucas shinkel himself ever since november 6. try the band had a success rate of 36 percent. and if you look at the broader sanctions in comparison, like on trade for instance, they had a success rate of 40 percent. and what i found quite interesting and to military

cooperation that reached the success rate of 46 percent. and in fact, we do have a weapons in barbara in place from the european union against ben. it's d w xandra peterson. sandra, thank you so much. the name at the euro 2020 football championship. italy had one group a after beating whales. one neil in rome. though both sides qualified for the last 16 material. passengers scored the winter for the italians with a header in the 1st half wales. had ethan sent off, but they still qualify after finish. second in the group. italy's reputation as slow starters and major tournaments has been blown out of the water by their blistering form at you wrote 2020, and fans across the country celebrated their teams path to the last 16 in typically passionate style jubilation on the streets of rome. i had no wonder with 3

winds out of 3 and not a single go conceited. italy's funds are convinced that all roads lead to london and confident and hopeful that will least make it to the final. we have a great team, a great coat, and we have a good chance of winning the tournament. the ones you don't is, it was certainly an easy road for italy, but it's a good start. it gave us confidence and security. you know, we have to see how we will play the important matches mateo person as the winner. it's really he was one of a new faces in a much changed side that worryingly for their opponents showed few signs of a drop in quality. never the most efficient way such every day. i'm very pleased to see that we change the players and the team played very well. many valid if you've all we deserve to score more goals. but wales defended fiercely, rosie, but i really liked what i saw in my team. the boys played very well,

but i am watching. i was so excited we are living the moment. we're very happy to be here. how are we going to face the quarter finals? well, we're going to put up a good fight. the actual fight starts, right? no. ominous words. the austria and ukraine, one of whom will fight italy in the last 16. the markets around the world get nervous about interest rates. find out why on business news that's coming up next. on the w, the news . the news news, the news

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