the armenian people the whole nation started to think differently 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 realized 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 but 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 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 that took place in armenia it's not about who's 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 there is never going to be a return to the old ways. what are your relations right now with your political

opponents the republican party and mr. but as for mr sarkozy an it's true that we live practically next door now but we do not have any relationship as 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 i 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 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 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 did 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 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 and claiming positions of strength in the country in parliament perhaps it looks like you believe that the kind of political environment the armenian 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 path or you've always been with people among people has anything changed in your relationship with people of the you became prime minister you understand it right that you're still trying to stay close to people of course a lot has changed because now i have to spend

a lot of time in my office working it 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. you know 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. nicko passion and the prime

minister of all media thank you very much for the opportunity to talk to you i think thank you. we're. i think it's trying 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 take ten of social services being called on my children my family being under threat and coming to jihad these plot to behead me in nov twenty seventh 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.

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to or to dot com coming up though a former president of the e.u. chamber of commerce in china is the guest on sophie and co talking about the risk of a global trade war stay with us. well donald trump resigned on the korean peninsula finally meeting with the u.s. is headed into a talent battle with china. can a global economy cope with a trade war well today we're talking about that with york care former president of the e.u. chamber of commerce in china. the sponge the u.s. into a global trade conflict with new tariffs on european and chinese goods sparking measures

of response threatening the stability of world commerce what is a three way tie or if clinch going to bring to the world economy can the standoff escalate into an all out trade war what can the consequences for all involved. your good care former president of the chamber of commerce in china welcome to our show it's great to have you with us today. thank you thank you all right so first let's start with north korea donald trump and came john couldn't have been shaking hands at a historic meeting in singapore and yes president has sad that it's possible to lift sanctions on north korea while the north korean leader has expressed a strong will to leave all the past behind how realistic is this really happening is still a north korean issue about to be finally solved well as we're sitting here in china in beijing there's a chinese proverb every journey of a thousand kilometers starts with a for a step and i guess that for

a start was taken in singapore a discussion and meeting always better than confrontation but boy the devil is in the detail this going to be a long way to go and we have to see how these particular impatient u.s. president is going to sustain with the momentum and we have to see how his promises are going to be implemented so it's going to be a long march she china be wary of this rapprochement between washington and on young. but china was always playing a very constructive role frankly speaking all the way to the point that actually they don't age it's the prime minister's plane to get him to a little singapore this still wanted to be in the game this leaves hope that there will be tensions are lessons they have already east the sanctions china benefits from this is this progress and the north korean issue is show that u.s. sanctions and trumps pressure worked. oh that's difficult to say i

guess that all saw. it he was trying to commit to something where we actually don't know if it's open ended and going to need to success again we're all in the region very happy that this kind of fury and. that he was talking about is gone. because keep in mind that we talk about nuclear weapons here so i don't know kim has paid to send very coolly we have to see how that all ends again for a step a thousand kilometers to go said tram slapping tariffs on steel and al-ameen amand here a place far from happier than if and when and that call has called the us harris illegal and their recent g. seven summit said that six countries in a group without the united states represent a real force is here were afraid to back out and go it alone without the united states or our hero p.s. just bluffing to get an upper hand in the trade talks. well for us. europeans it's all the new thing that's the the crux of the economists coming to an end of the old

mechanism where we all sort of have a common understanding on free trade has reached a point where it's actually quite disappointing to see that the u.s. is launching steel tariffs on security grounds against its allies well first of all i guess it unites europe the kind of beating in canada will bring japan canada and european union much much closer together as you have seen troubles pretty much isolated and we have to see how the issue of steel and aluminum will be dealt with because europe will take us to the w t o and i guess in view of the fact that fifty percent of the overcapacity globally comes out of china in steel and aluminum by the way also hurting real solid and russian industries how that is to be dealt with so trump decided to a safeguard one hundred forty thousand jobs and challenge a couple of millions in the car industry i'm not sure this was an economics one

hoof either so do you think trump will even care if he's isolated by his european friends. well it seems like he takes credit takes strength out of this given his constituency that he's working around his former allies but i guess that you know he's ruling with the system this the congress there's other bodies of the government and there are still lots of connections on the working level trying to see how we can actually sort of call on a lower level but with trump a lot of porcelain house been damaged it's going to be really difficult cording to the dutch bank kind of the experts of steel and al-ameen into the united states make up to just zero point three percent of worldwide goods exports from the e.u. now the youth is imposing retaliatory charis from july on us modern whisky fishing boats it is a pretty serious to me right now but the united states will probably take

retaliatory stabs and this tit for tat actions could end up really bad i mean trump may eventually slap tariffs on the car industry which would be extensively for germany for instance so you can hear him control this mass and would it be cheaper for the europeans to just swallow the american measures and this before it escalates. well i guess the first of all sanctions of course is not very heavy and not very strong unless you like bird and you like to drive a holiday was the mortal cycle then of course it's your full fledge but at the same time you know german industry is a heavy investor in the united states in south carolina for example and actually the german common defector is all the biggest exporters from the u.s. into china so i guess there will be a lot of rhetoric and a lot of noise coming out of the white house to any german cars on the road i guess that trump eventually is going to do something different this is all very much

rhetoric i would read into this the investment climate the americans have a strong interest to remain attractive to the europeans after all more than one hundred billion dollars is investor from europe into the united states so let's see i think this is just the first round trump want to blood on the floor this is what he got but i think the second round is going to look to from suppressor as is opening a case against the united states with the w.t. out now back in two thousand and three they're going to say sion that designated us still terrorists imposed by the bush administration as illegal how likely is it that the devil each heel will reach the same decision this time around i mean. if it rules against washington what trumped by the ruling. well w. tilled luckily is still functioning despite the fact that the us been reluctant to nominate people for the panel which is vital for the survival of the w.h.o.

dr enough judges should be able to do cases on the panel but beside this some you lose some you win and in this case i guess europe has a pretty strong hand in order to go against european and canadian steel exports in the united into the united states on security grounds i cannot imagine that it holds water but again this case is take a long time one two even three years and we have to see it so immediate impact is european steel will be more expensive in the us and europe will basically have to pay more in order to have a decent tennessee whisky so will this house situation bring the e.u. and china closer together i mean e.u. foreign policy is our fake i'm not getting any has already said that ties between the bloc in china are more important than even before is she hinting that e.u. may turn to greener economic pass at pastures in the east if trump keeps this up.

you know so if that's very hard to say because of course the u.s. is our ally pax americana how spin safeguarding our economic picture around the world and then you deal with the climate agreement in paris and the next thing you see this is blown apart you have an agreement in iran next thing you see is this blown apart and china has been a solid support in paris as well as in the iran deal and now both of us europe as well as china a strong believe us the multilateral actions w two and so forth so in a funny way that looks like we have far more in common than with china than the united states but don't forget underlining the economic system of europe and america is very much alike so let's see it is sometimes honestly sophie it feels like we're bit into a nightmare so here i'm sensing again a lot in syria from china's one belt one wrote megaproject can the promise profits

from a land trade offset the trade partnership. no by no measure i mean the. one bold one wrote initiative from president xi.