called this meeting the foreign secretary boris johnson had tweeted earlier that yemen is the world's worst humanitarian crisis and that he brought together key international partners to stress the need for humanitarian access and a political solution but what boris johnson didn't mention in that tweet is that the u.k. is practically saudi arabia's best friend on the world stage especially when it comes to the arms trade the british government has licensed over four point six billion pounds worth of weapons to saudi forces since the war started back in twenty fifteen and about sixteen thousand yemeni civilians have died since twenty fifteen when the saudi led coalition first started bombing iranian backed who's the rebels there so campaign is in the u.k. say this isn't about a u.n. security council meeting what's needed is a change in policy from the u.k. government and there are questions over whether a security council meeting or a number of them can achieve anything while the u.k.

continues its policy of arming the saudis. the nuclear activists have been arrested in belgium after breaking into a military base they claim the nuclear weapons stored there for the past sixty years are kept illegally in a symbolic gesture of the activists are did the theft of a warhead which they say we'll give to need two heads of state of the summit in brussels next month. some sort of as a clinical go down to we here at the plain of bruegel airbase it's a belgian airbase with american forces who hits oversee the nuclear weapons apparently twenty warheads held on belgian soil illegally given the belgian has signed the nonproliferation treaty and so we're here with zoe a member of the eco party in the belgian parliament and a group of activists have come here to condemn the illegal placement of nuclear weapons. we are concerned that the activists say they want to remove all u.s.

warheads from belgium they also believe the government should sign a un nuclear weapon ban treaty what according to estimates there are currently twenty u.s. warheads in belgium around one hundred fifty were sent to other countries by america including some known nuclear countries as i've been to a group we decided to enter is risking five years of imprisonment for each person to ask the government to remove those nuclear weapon from the village and to a degree those you know we're going to be going to the united states it's not legal to. country so we really like them to be a way that is why people and eleven more that you gave to do so people so more though. nuclear weapons making the actions all together get a message. just a note as things stand there's been no comment from the belgian police on the

military base break in the thursday evenings news runner up looks for an hour after the break we'll be airing an exclusive interview with the new your money and prime minister nicole pasha exploring the impact of his premiership among the country's domestic and foreign policy. makers manufacture to be sentenced to public wealth. when the roman closest project themselves. with the famous. listen to the one percent. we can all middle of the room sick. relieve.

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think it trite to imagine that i say things just to be controversial and you would not withstand the level of attacks of police harassment of detention of having my passport taken of social services being called on my children of my family being under threat of having to jihad his plot to bad me in nov twenty seventh teen i don't believe you would withstand those levels of people trial trying to silence you if you didn't believe what you said. welcome to all of us today we're here at park hyatt hotel and we'll be talking to nicole question young the prime minister. who visited a month ago and is now in the russian capital welcome to moscow mr. thank you

very much. i'd like to start by asking you this since you're visiting russia does that mean those who feared our countries would grow apart were wrong. yes of course even now many people say so and there are many publications in the russian media where authors don't seem to quite grasp what's happened and what is happening in armenia there are forces who want to paint it in a different light they want to make it look like anti russian political forces have come to power in armenia but as i keep saying there was no geopolitical or foreign policy related dimension to the armenian revolution and as i keep saying there was no geopolitical plot it was a purely internal process that had to do only with armenia it's important to emphasize that and we say that this process will not result in a foreign policy u.-turn why do we say that because our people the people who made the revolution happen had no problem with armenia as foreign policy so they had no demands in terms of foreign policy and the way the government represent the people

who started the revolution and prevailed so we must act within the limits and demands of this political process this velvet revolution so i want to say yes those who said the political changes in armenia will lead to problems in armenian russian relations were wrong they've always been wrong and they always will be wrong if they stick to this point of view. correct me if i'm wrong but you say that not only to russian journalists but in the course of meetings as world rights i have a question about that do your counterparts hear you and believe you and tell us about how your personal relationship with president vladimir putin is developing. i think we have a very good straightforward kind of communication it's been like that from minute one i can tell you that our relationship is the kind that has no dark corners we discuss everything openly we put forward all the questions directly and answer them directly mr putin is this sort of person as far as i understand he's very comfortable with this kind of communication and to be honest so am i so we

communicate in a straightforward way not leaving any dark corners what do i mean by dark corners it's very important that everything in our relations is clear. apparent and genuine it doesn't mean that we'll have no issues whatsoever what it does me is that we will have frank discussions about all those issues without resorting to any tricks or political maneuvers which i think is very good i can assure you that our relations are developing in a fast and constructive way what's the most pressing issue at the moment. truth be told we have no such issues right now but russia and armenia a sovereign state in general i think in many aspects the interests of our countries align but there could be some areas or issues on which we might disagree i believe it's very important to maintain the atmosphere we have right now and i hope that's the atmosphere in which we will be discussing any issues we might have in the future i think we will be able to come to an agreement. let's talk about natural gas which as i understand is one of the issues we have on the one hand you said

that people in armenia don't feel that russian gas is cheap. yes but we discussed it and came to the conclusion that it's a domestic issue for us because yes armenia gets cheap natural gas from russia at the border but by the time it's delivered to the customers the price has doubled that's a domestic issue we have to figure out and resolve within armenia and it has nothing to do with our relations with russia. so as the natural gas supplies from russia you're not going to renegotiate the price and you haven't discussed that with them well you know we hope to get even cheaper gas of course and we need cheaper gas even though we know we buy it at a low price that exclusively for armenia but we would like to have even more exclusive the t. in this regard we'll be discussing these issues of course and i hope we will succeed. let's talk about your relations with the e.u. you are waiting for the ratification of your partnership agreement how soon do you

expect that to happen and how will armenia benefit from it exactly the ratification process in e.u. countries has already begun this agreement involves reforming armenia's league. system and that's been underway in armenia for many years i'd say twenty or even more and of course we'll be developing our relations with the european union but as i keep saying it won't be happening at the expense of armenian russian relations and vice versa so we won't be developing our median russian relations at the expense of our relations with the e.u. for example that's our policy we won't adhere to a policy that implies developing relations with one international partner at the expense of relations with other partners and i believe we should be reliable partners for everyone every global act we have ties with our relation should be transparent to all sides and should rely on the principle of reciprocity we all should act in good faith what i mean is that for example it should be unambiguously clear for the west what is happening between armenia and russia what russia should

enjoy just the same kind of transparency when it comes to ties between armenia and the e.u. both certainly we will continue developing our relations with the e.u. us iran georgia and other states alike but that's not going to be done at the expense of our ties with russia and vice versa what we have with russia is not going to affect relations with any other country you told me that this instagram process between armenia and the west has been ongoing for some time will this process now gather speed or remain the same but well it's not integration as such because integration in terms of economic cooperation is what we work on within the eurasian economic community as for the e.u. it's a process of reforming our state legislation system adverse it cannot be called integration in its classical meaning that if you want to call it that way then this is rather about coupling are legal frameworks certainly there's an economic element to it but it's not economic integration it is partnership we have a specific trade regime with them the same kind of regime with georgia in the us

conventionally speaking economic integration is what we do within the framework of the eurasian economic community all. right so we're. it comes to the e.u. you object to using the term integration. it's not that i have any objections i simply state the fact as it is. the prime minister of the meeting with the russian ambassador you announce the beginning of a new stage in cultivating relations with russia so on the one hand you say nothing changes but on the other you mention a new stage what exactly will be new i didn't say there would be no changes i said that we would not be shifting into reverse i hope and i'm almost certain that now we will be developing our relations even more efficiently when i say a new stage i mean more positive more meaningful and more productive also more straightforward more candid and transparent this is what i mentioned in the beginning relations without any dark corners it's not that what we all see in those

corners satisfies all of us in every way what i say is that we frankly voice our opinion and our concerns and we should remember that our during the meeting with vladimir putin we had no problems finding common ground we settled some matters immediately and agreed to discuss others in greater detail later again there were no problems encountered during the talks with them. you know as the entering the new stage and as i understand you're near satisfied with how it all started right. yes that's true i can say for sure that now judging by the outcomes of two summit there are no political problems between armenia and russia. but it did you and limit putin touch upon the cooperation between armenia and the west the e.u. . we didn't discuss it during our latest meeting but we did talk about that in sochi and i've already described what kind of conversation we had. well some media say that you might be nominated for the nobel peace prize and immersion many think

that you are quite popular in the west what do you think about that opinion and the rumor i just mentioned frankly speaking i don't know whether i'm popular in the west or not as for the nobel prize nomination i learned that from the media too. i mean what if it really happens and someone decides to nominate you all right then it would be nice. when you also see that action the u.s. agrees on paris the us weekly's on the iran and pause although vast if i'm can dribble from north korea i will think five times before i sign up something with trump because i don't know if the guy's going to keep his ball is that in the first place.

that. kid. kind of. those who don't gel you've been talking to don't just take the stand on the person in that equal distances wonder what equals a stance make that connection don't consume don't need to. move it back to those who didn't mean as a solution soon times out of the answer to all. short

term gains at the expense of a longer term growth saudia set of vesting in the future and in products and employees you're taking all of future revenues in your book it today just like the met is buying back all the stuff in his own store yes he bought back all of the stuff in his story he has a lot of revenue but now my store is empty and he has nothing to sell so the next quarter he says my sales are zero because i have nothing in the store to sell i bought it all myself so similarly. they'll buy back all their stock they want to better the future and when it comes time to report earnings a year or two from now there are other reports. regarding your anti corruption campaign what have you already accomplished as prime minister and the what pace that you fighting it the one you expected or maybe you're somewhat behind or ahead of the plans. and i can say that we have put an end to corruption in armenia in such a small amount of time. yes in that little time we had i can say that for sure

because all of armenia stands against corruption these days there might be some small occurrences though but these are just the remnants of the corruption we had we will continue our fight and will eradicate them to really these are simply residual effects when there are no corruption pyramid's is the government structures and officials themselves behind the wheel it means that corruption is gone and i'm confident that this is the case with armenia certainly relapses are possible but i believe that the work we're doing can safeguard us against that including in the long run. i'm somewhat surprised to see you saying with such confidence that there's no corruption in armenia only some residual effects how did you do that so forster that's my political conviction that the system of corruption in armenia was run from the top echelons of power and now that these higher echelons are no longer involved in corruption something i can guarantee the system of corruption that used to exist in armenia is no longer there there may be some

remnants of it left and we must work hard to ensure that a new system won't to rise on top of the only one wish. that there were in order to ensure that corruption is gone for good some changes are in order is that correct. certainly but the problem is there have already been many reforms carried out in armenia so the important thing is that reforms are complied with the quality of our legislation is quite high including our anti corruption laws in fact i'd say that our legislation is one of the best among the c.i.s. countries but our problem was a lack of political will as they say it's like we had two parallel realities one was what is described in the laws and the other was what was actually happening our main goal now is to synchronize these two realities in other words make it so that laws are implemented in practice of course there are parts of the legislation that are unreasonable and need to be changed we are going to reform these laws so that a lawful reality is possible so to speak. there been cases within the c.i.s.

i'm not going to cite any specific examples when during the shift of political elites it was said that the key goal is to put the right people into the right positions and this is a lot like what you're saying but then people started to notice the old elites seeping back into power and sometime of the that they said nothing had really changed how can you guarantee that your case is different and what are you going to do to ensure that i think the best guarantee here is the will of the people i'm pretty confident the people won't say nothing has changed because it was the people's own way of thinking that changed i believe that's an important factor that allowed for a peaceful revolution without violent clashes or a single drop of blood the fight was inside every citizen's mind and when the struggle is internalized you're very unlikely to harm those around you this is why our revolution was so peaceful and positive it was a revolution of unity but i believe that the main outcome of our revolution was not a shift of power but

a shift in thinking the armenian people the whole nation started to think differently but this has nothing to do with the government because it's already happened and there won't be a return to the old ways the people realize that their position and their views were a key factor they realized it wasn't one single person or even a hundred people that forged this new reality this was our shared endeavor we've all been involved in it or when we renounce the old crooked reality it just collapsed because all this time it had been standing on our own shoulders by refusing to support this corrupt and fake reality we freed ourselves of this burden i understand that purely in terms of news in terms of information flow it's important to say who stepped down as prime minister and who replaced him but this is not the key change the took place in armenia it's not about who is prime minister it's about the people's way of thinking their perception of reality their understanding of their role in the life of the country and the nation that there is never going to be a return to the old ways. what's your relations right now with your political

opponents the republican party and mr. as for mr sarkozy an it's true that we live practically next door now but we do not have any relationship that such as for the republican party it's no longer the majority party in our parliament but it's an opposition party and it's a solid opposition but as far as i understand it is going to try and make a comeback isn't it. but it's not a realistic prospect they will never make a comeback other forces other parties may emerge that may win an election but this party will never be back that's for sure and that doesn't have anything to do with me it's because people will never forgive them i can guarantee that at least that's how i feel and i think it's true. so you think speaking of your party what are your plans are you playing to reform it are you going to run with it in the pending early parliamentary election. yes i am if you're referring to my

party the party alliance no you see we have a party and we have an alliance in our party it's called civil contract and the party alliance is called all the way out alliance speaking of the alliance right now we're discussing it's future that's for the party it's definitely going to develop regardless of what happens to the alliance so the party will develop as for the alliance it's something we're negotiating now and will arrive at a decision into time. on june the first you said on facebook that those who set off an artificial price hike for basic foods and want to assert the rule of law listeners over the rule of law will feel the full weight of a lot who were you referring to and what do you mean by saying they will feel the full weight of the law i meant exactly what you just said the context being that we became aware of some illegal activity by a number of supermarkets in europe than they simple taney asli raised prices for some products and it looked like a kind of sabotage and so i reacted by saying we were ready to take action to

restore justice in this area that's what it was about in the end these supermarkets had to pay quite a high fine because their actions were illegal. it looks like you have no fear of your political opponents returning in claiming positions of strength in the country in parliament perhaps it looks like you believe that the kind of political environment that armenia now has will not let it happen not now not ever. you see i don't think that we need to speak in the terms of fearing anything i'm not the kind of prime minister who will have a fear losing his post i never will i will never be afraid to lose this post and i never consider fear a factor in my political activity i simply do what i think i must and what i'm sure i must do in order to serve my country and my people and i have no fear whatsoever following this part. why you always been with people among people has anything changed in your relationship with people of you became prime minister you understand it right that you're still trying to stay close to people with them of

course a lot has changed because now i have to spend a lot of time in my office working takes up the lion's share of my time and so my contacts with people are limited now. what do you do when you manage to find a little time for it i'm trying to keep this connection alive and i'm sure it'll stay alive. to people feel that this connection is still there. i believe they do for example yesterday i ran a live stream on my facebook page answering questions of other users and it got a lot of views five hundred thousand six hundred thousand people watched it and that's how many people watch my life streams on average more or less sometimes a lot more than that that's why i believe this connection will stay alive you see our government is supported by the people we stay in power as long as our people have trust in us if we lose people's trust will lose power pretty quickly i firmly believe that no one has any business being in government if they have no support from the people it makes absolutely no sense to be in a position of power without people support it's absurd. mr person you know if i

mails a question on a completely different topic now what are your impressions of your visit to the main host city of the twenty eighteen feet for world cup would. after it's been great tomorrow i'll attend the opening ceremony i'm sure it'll be a most interesting dynamic and memorable event today we watched the concert in moscow's red square it was most fascinating we were very impressed i'm very grateful for this invitation but. what team will you be supporting at the well traditionally i root for team armenia but since we didn't make it to the tournament to our great regret i wish the best of luck to all teams kim nicole question young the prime minister of on many a thank you very much for the opportunity to talk to you i thank you.

i think it's trite to imagine that i say things just to be controversial and you would not withstand the level of attacks of police harassment of detention of having my passport taken off social services being caught on my children my family being under threat of having to jihad these plot to behead me and nov twenty seventh teen i don't believe you would withstand those levels of people trying to trying to silence you if you didn't believe what you said. when a loved one is murder it's natural to seek the death penalty for the murder i would prefer it be to the death penalty just because i think that's the fair thing the right thing research shows that for every nine executions one convict respond dennison the idea that we were executing innocent people is terrifying there's just

no way to present in that we're even many of victims' families want the death penalty to be abolished the reason we have to keep the death penalty here is because that's what murder victims' families want to that's going to give them peace that's going to give them justice and we come in and say. not quite you know we've been through this this isn't the way. you have a phone you know i don't have what was the last time that you went on the internet you know i am not used to me to these village is it safe or just. are you sure there is no excuse or is there a bit of all going to be sure the baby doesn't go. so here's the. question we're going to. is the debt as part of the deficit given the.

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