oh jesus this is a central plank for diagramming kind of problem right now so he started. it's midday here in moscow this is r t these are the headlines essential vaccines for political influence critics slam israel sending countries over jobs exchange for diplomatic support. elsewhere open your borders or else brussels slaps ultimatums of 6 covert affected member states including germany is traffic piles up trying to get in through the red tape. president biden reopens of his city for migrant children similar to those his fellow democrats trumps concentration camps. and social tsunami and ticking time bomb warnings than from the mayor of a paris suburb containing one of europe's biggest poorest housing estate visits the

area torn apart by the pandemic its economy that. by their very good are sitting to my name is kevin owen here for next hour 1 with some breaking news to start this is coming in let me tell you about from armenia armenia is prime minister we're just hearing the last few minutes has fired his chief of the general staff of armed forces for demanding nichol passed person yan and his entire government quit there's been a spat going on here for weeks now and added that the statement was an attempted military coup in his words he urged the military to remain vigilant and to protect the country's borders but he warned members of the armed forces against engaging in politics and making political statements he invited supporters to gather in the center of the capital so this looks like

a story that's going to carry on at least for the rest of the day the general staff issued a statement in response calling for the resignation of prime minister nicola passing . which was signed off by top military officers the move was triggered by person's decision earlier this week to oust the 1st deputy chief of the general staff it's a complicated story to follow this the developments came after armenia saw a spike in demonstrations this is the long running part the last few months this week demanding the resignation of. the protests against him began in november after he signed a ceasefire. a controversial one that was helped broker with russia's help here that ceded territory occupied by armenian forces a lot of people weren't happy about the deal ended a 6 week war over the separatists nagorno-karabakh territory in which thousands died late last autumn their dispute with over the separatist territory had gone on

previously before the 4 decades so say that part of history of it and that's the breaking news that we have so far i mean as prime minister is fired now it to perturb thing is chief of the general staff of armed forces after the requests from that side of it for the prime minister to resign so trouble brewing there will be across it for the day you can count on us as part of our part we'll keep you posted know what else we're talking about today we go back to covert again exercising soft power through vaccine diplomacy with jobs currently worth their weight in gold amid chronic shortages is a story coming out from israel that country negotiating political favors may be from countries in exchange for giving shots is our correspondent paula slee with more its new diplomatic strategy that. israelis say to share that stock effect scenes with of the countries including with palestinian doctors a generous mean few might think about well we are talking about symbolic numbers of

vaccines that were given to various countries i took the decision in return for many things that we already received through many contacts in various areas that i will no detail here. but ports came trade off sought being made with countries which least some people stood for nation's. soft paula at its finest the often appears quite clear we will give you vaccines and in mattoon you give us all diplomatic support this is the czech embassy in tel aviv not so long ago paul promised to open a diplomatic office in jerusalem and in return the people of the czech republic would receive thousands of coronavirus vaccinations from israel or somalia has

moved its embassy to jerusalem 100 page the same hungary has also set up a trade mission in jerusalem many of those think it's simply wrong to trade medicine for political influence the reason being that any always doing it is to promote himself and to try and win the elections so in that sense of course the it's not done purely out of the right multi-verse he use us for diplomatic relationships he use us for anything he has to report to people in israel why he's doing it and to which countries he's doing it to you has to be transparent about it but there's nothing wrong with it we need to give to all of our citizens here in israel the vaccine. speak for we think about offering it to any other countries regardless of what they are doing for us the ideal thing would be that these vaccines would get directly to these countries and

not through israel in the original prize to get to all the countries that need it and we shouldn't make any profit out of it i do agree it should help other countries and the 3rd as well to get vaccinated but. not to use it cynically just to gain politico gain our loyalty and our government's loyalist see should be to its citizens 1st and foremost like most of our population i think you should israel doesn't manufacture the vaccines itself and the idea is to stand thousands of left of the shots to other countries but a position leaders are criticizing to see could nature of these deals and cooling for mold jabs to be seen to the way spank and gaza over half the population has been back stand by bush a complete this operation 1st before boarding overstatements guard faraway country . no matter what is there and you know the diplomatic aerobatics. in can be

a very humanitarian gesture at me and very crying from red indians not for. a morally important to go out and out human i help you know in hell why aspect i think that sending them books seems far away might be going to india are not nice for. our own negations to our neighbors nearby admit they are on their our our responsibility. it's both your money cerium and wrecked it for it to keep these vaccines. 2 5 or 6000000 palestinians living next to it because the pandemic knows no borders it is not for israel to do it just to buy it from want there are no more fires or and then some of that in american rulers all the communities all living together there are israelis living

in settlements in the west bank next to arab villages and towns. of religious intolerance so yes after israel palestinian should get the 1st and not goals regimes who will commit 10 yo and perhaps have worked against the israeli interests inside the country netanyahu is main rival in governing partner defense minister binney guns has harshly criticized the arrangements saying they had been reached without any governmental deliberation the fact that netanyahu trades in vaccines of israeli citizens that were paid for from their tax money without any accountability shows that he thinks he is running a kingdom and not a state next month hundreds of thousands of medina vaccines are expected to arrive in israel once the country has finished inoculating its own population the surplus supplies might be used to help normalize relations with new countries who knows how

many more of these embassies might be springing up in jerusalem. r.t. tel aviv. at a talks between the e.u. leaders brussels has threatened legal action against 6 member states if they don't reopen their borders the countries including germany have shut down to try to stop the spread of the pandemic but the closures are brought some trade to a standstill what you see in here for instance the rows of italian trucks trying to get into austria on route to germany big hold up though they knew. coronavirus test to enter lots of paperwork red tape our europe correspondent reports next. the e.u. commission currently after all do with 6 member states who have unilaterally put in place border restrictions of one type or and other in order to try and stop the spread of covert 19 whether that's the spread of the virus in general or the stop of the spread of mutated versions particularly here in germany that's been

a top issue e.u. commission buying up though they're not happy with the situation the commission has been clearer to coordinate that approach among 27 member states we risk fragmentation and disruptions to free movement into a supply chain is something we have witnessed again in the past 2 weeks. so who's on the naughty list belgium germany denmark hungry finland and sweden have all been given 10 days to provide a good reason why they put these restrictions on freedom of movement in place or to relax the restrictions that have been put there the e.u. commission's unlikely to win easily on this one we've heard from the german side who've defended their move these measures obviously put a massive strain on border regions commuters and the transport of goods and the single market but the protection of our citizens aspire amount finland has also issued a statement saying that yes they recognize this is far from ideal but they deem it

necessary the recalcitrant member states of all received letters this week saying that a means that they're trying to achieve can be reached through different means we believe that the objective justifiably pursued by germany the protection of public health during a pandemic could be attained by less restrictive measures brussels is essentially fighting a battle now with the member states over their. national interests they want to keep covert out of their countries but the e.u. has a duty as it sees it to keep freedom of movement going within the block and those 2 things coming together over this pandemic in that border which we eat only and. there were 4 meetings. between some trucks and we think 2 hands are from heat to house because if you want to call it roxanne to have even

tested i mean if we are inside a european union if we are inside all this the scene. i don't understand why there are subsidies be problems and. if you want to be in the united states of europe. sometimes explained this is not the. correct way. of talking to cope with the people that matter told to us case in point next the world health organization special envoy on covert 19 speaking to us telling us that the world should prepare for a new post pandemic reality whatever that's going to beit dr david nabarro also warned we should expect other dangerous strains to spread to. some who say we should be striving towards eliminating the virus completely others

and i mean this 2nd group say that we must strive to wards being able to live with the virus as a constant threat but putting in place a mix of defenses in our societies that mean that we hold of our interests at play at the center of that is vaccination which can protect people from getting seriously ill and dying but there's also how we behave there's also how governments create the conditions in which we can behave in a really helpful way with regard to avoiding the virus and this international cooperation because if one country is brilliant and the neighbor is not so good that's not helpful to the people especially if they were to move between the countries so that last point of international cooperation is absolutely vital.

i want to be clear you always need to have traction nations to good so that's good practice or even just for many years i've carried a little yellow book next to my passport which indicates that i've had yellow fever vaccinations it includes being toes of the data i've received the vaccination who vaccinated me and very importantly will number a vaccine i received i really think that's good practice now how the significance it used as possible for being able to get on a plane or get into a hotel or go into a building or go to a festival that's a different story and right now i don't think anybody is in a position to start saying to our vaccination significance will be used in practice it's early days on that but what matters is that there is good international cooperation between countries to really work out what the protocols for using vaccinations to the kids when enabling people to travel or enabling people to

benefit from going to a particular event that needs to be discussed internationally. there's been as as most of your viewers will know a recent investigation into how this virus appeared through an independence to pick group that was set up under the auspices of the world health organization a joint independent group together with the chinese authorities and they are in the process of producing their report looking for hypotheses about the origins and their report will detail where they've got to in relation to each of these hypotheses finding out the origins of any kind of pathogen whether it's the one causing this corona virus or other pathogens for example like it or particular kinds of influenza these investigations are difficult to do and as

far as i'm concerned this is a process it's on track where it's very political and a lot of people are watching it and we have to wait until the report appears before any further judgments could be made. donald trump's quote concentration camps for joe biden's facilities for kids that appears to be the message from u.s. media reporting on the president reopening a site for migrant teens with disturbing elements more reminiscent of prisons the new administration claims it'll only operate during the pandemic but only a patrol harass next why the coverage is so different this time around. the same famous outlet reporting on essentially the same controversial issue of how children who are legally cross america's southern border are treated by the u.s. government the general practices that they're put in camps after being separated from their parents there for and dates under the articles and the very different

titles the one from 20 reads the american tradition of caging children the one from this week is the 1st migrant facility for children opens under biden and told in these 2 unmistakably different i'm not the one to judge but it seems under biden are the words that make the difference this is though how the dems were destroying trump not so long ago for oh they couldn't stop repeating. in cages there is a very clear intent and they are carrying out the intent which is to separate these families and put these children in cages they watch in horror as children are torn from their families and thrown into cages but make no mistake what's opened or reopened after joe biden took charge is spelled 5 f.a.a.

c i l i t y facility that we're. trying to survive this is not kids being kept in cages this is this is this is a facility that was opened that's going to follow the same standards as other h.h.s. facilities ok i get partisan solidarity but there must be someone in the democratic camp with the ballast vision who would say guys this isn't right these double standards in how you look at treating young migrants being go here's what congresswoman alexandria ocasio cortez tweeted. this is not ok never has been ok never will be ok no matter the ministration no party only to back pedal in less than an hour after being struck by a hail storm of replies our next twitter post slammed the fundamentals of the immigration system putting the blame on the previous administration oh yeah under the old administration ms ocasio cortez had been much more adamant in her fight

against what she wasn't just calling cages but full on concentration camps i flew to the concentration camp with a trumpet ministration was keeping children they still from their parents joe biden steam and left leaning commentators are defending the decision not only to maintain but to reopen campus for children by saying it's a necessity in the times of covert or cabs extra room but the head of a u.s. border patrol union says it doesn't feel like any improvement is on the way instead though he claims the biden team holds unaccompanied migrant children in border patrol custody longer than legally allowed all in the very same cages the hypocrisy from the left and the mainstream media truly shows they care nothing for the children they used as pawns to attack president trump the ironic thing is that the camps or facilities or whatever you choose to call them appeared while barack obama

was in charge along with vice president joe biden mr biden didn't even shy away from admitting responsibility made a mistake made 2 took too long to get it right took too long to get it right i'll be president of station and vice pres united states hoops is he still not getting there right speaking of vice presidents once in 29th. ward political points by protesting outside a cab at homestead florida where teens detained at the border were being held well there's now. plans to reopen that homestead facility to. talk about the breaking news we started with a small detail company to tell you about a tit for tat political and military struggle it looks like has caused top level casualties in armenia is the latest the prime minister the firing his chief of the general staff of the armed forces after all 40 members of the general staff

officially demanded the prime minister as entire government quit so this is kind of going backwards they called. the call for it resignation was an attempted military coup that call we talked to he also urged the military now to remain vigilant and to protect the country's borders he warned members of the armed forces against engaging too in politics and making political statements and further today is called on supporters to gather in the center of the capital the year of these live pictures coming from there now people can really be seen gathering i think that's near the building of the ministry of defense because we don't know yet what those people think gathering there whether they're in support or opposition of the firing of the army chief police officers arriving there to protect the media building just so you see a few of them there on the left hand side the general staff there had issued

a joint statement calling for passion young's resignation a couple of days ago it was signed by top military offices the move was triggered by passing ians decision earlier this week to oust the 1st deputy chief of the general staff some real acrimony going on here the developments come after armenia saw a spike in demonstrations this week it's been going on for weeks demanding passion young quit the protests against him began in november after he signed a cease fire with there's a place that ceded territory occupied by armenian forces not at all popular in all quarters that the deal ended a 6. war though over the separatist nagorno-karabakh territory in which thousands died deal was brokered with big help from russia the dispute with surprise over the territory has gone on for decades of course. we'll keep you posted on the latest pitches in from our media today where the late sister pictures the latest

pictures are not exactly live where the news is that armine is prime minister a sack the chief of general staff in response to the thing to demand. himself resign and now these pictures he'll be told in my ear these are again. these are archived pictures of what's happened in the past so we don't want you to think this is what this is the show 'd of turn out at the moment this isn't the case these are pictures from your advantage you can see there. on the 23rd of february so it a day or 2 ago these were the protests as we said to be going on for weeks calling for the prime minister to resign and the military were calling to resign but a complete about face today now the latest is armenia's pm has sacked the chief of general staff in response to demand that he himself resign so a lot kicking off there potentially we'll get some live pictures back from there just to stress again this is not the scene at the moment although the prime

minister has asked his supporters to come out and furthermore he's told the military not to get involved in politics he called it an attempted coup. 24 past the undocumented migrants jobless families penniless pensioners are just some of the group struggling to survive in a paris branded a ticking time bomb by its mayor charlotte eventually reports next them from the town where food aid charities are warning they can no longer cope. the tongue of the given year is just 30 kilometers south of paris and it's already infamous in france as being one of the country's poorest areas and home to one of europe's biggest housing complexes now nearly hall full of the residents who live in that complex behind me live below the poverty line things would already be bad before

kovac 19 ravaged through this community now the mayor is sounding the alarm saying the pandemic is causing a social tsunami between last march and december the number of unpaid charges including for water and heating has practically doubled and if we can't pay for the water and heating that means we also can't pay for upkeep and emergency repairs we have no money coming in the local authorities will struggle to keep things afloat meaning the problems in this town could spiral we spoke to one resident you didn't want to show her face on camera but told us people were getting poorer the basics that we needed for life even out of reach greenies one of the poorest towns in france and that's been known for a long time because there are many types of poor inhabitants lots of immigrants that's cousin in crisis in the town and during the coverage pandemic has worsened

many have lost their jobs and many students have found themselves without resources without help without anything at all and she says the problems getting out of control. it's a social catastrophe because poverty is growing people have difficulties to make it to the end of the month there's also criminality that pushes young people to worse bad things very more and more problems here there is aids in cooking me a number of associations of health to those who are struggling through distribution as well as moral support is being doled out but more and more people are finding themselves in it people here feel isolated forgotten so it it is been very very difficult for many families because they haven't been able to walk because they've closed jobs or they had temporary contracts i had

problems finding a job it's a catastrophe i have been looking everywhere so. it's become immersed with the pandemic in every sense if i try to find a job i won't be able to do it at my age but it also effects our children they have nothing to do here they're struggling to find a job for many you know the key issue is how to survive but so to have to crawl out from the poverty trap jobs have been lost has been lost too and without either residents like at lima see no future here i don't want my children to stay here in france in green particularly and in france in general there are fewer and fewer opportunities to find a job yet they have indications that al sware could give them a stable future what chance they have remains to be see. r t. s or. so let me go back to our breaking news story

correspondents discovery of the studios getting across it because it's just happening as we speak in a tit for tat political or military struggle basically as calls top level casualties in armenia we can report is the breaking news the prime minister the russian you saying. on the screen says the general stuff of the forces is a tent is a coup therefore he's done something about it let's talk about well that is we don't call it here the breaking news i mean is pm sacking the chief of general stuff in response to a similar call for the pm to go from the military earlier on in the week and this call has been going on actually for weeks against the prime minister but no he's. right kevin i mean this is obviously breaking news coming in obviously one of you know it's been a tit for tat between the head of the general staff and the prime minister and finally the prime minister has said he's giving the boot to the head of the general staff calling this a military coup as you said before this is all really happening after the peace deal that was brokered between armenia and azerbaijan over the disputed region of

nagorno-karabakh during that conflict last year the crucially russia helped to. thousands does. put an end to it then late last autumn yeah yeah absolutely russian peacekeepers were sent into the region and actually they're still there the peacekeeping mission is supposed to go on for a long time now but this. ended up you know the conflict ended up being advantageous for azerbaijan and so after prime minister pasha brokered this peace deal there was a lot of unrest in armenia about it i mean we saw that the the parliament building at that point after the agreement was stormed by angry armenians that were unhappy with the deal that the government had brokered and the military and the civil government have been at each other's throats it seems like we're showing the viewers of the if you've got the in the gallery the pictures of the crowds out just a couple of days ago may have been put that on screen now showing the strength of feeling out there this whole area has been so horribly contested over the years

isn't it a medium's feel very strongly about it a lot of them feel they were basically sold show here in this deal yeah absolutely because the situation is a bit complicated when you consider that. has long been international written at internationally recognized as part of our by. but the majority of the population there is actually armenians so there has been quite a dispute there and this is what's given rise to a lot of those protests that we've been talking about before they see it really you know the armenian see it as a part of their national heritage and azerbaijan sees it as internationally recognized as part of their territory so i mean we just saw the prime minister give the boot to the head of the general staff but who knows if this is going to be the end of the story especially if really there is a military coup brewing as the prime minister's claiming telling the military today to go. media is bold is the worry of.