there's i'm show business i'll see you there. maybe is prime minister is fired the head of the army after the general staff of the armed forces issued a statement about he and the entire government quits a tit for tat thing in which the prime minister said was an attempted military coup it is breaking news this but more other headlines we're covering today. essential vaccines for political influence critics slam israel sending countries covert jobs in exchange maybe for diplomatic support. open your borders or else brussel slaps ultimatums on 6 covert affected member states including germany as traffic piles up trying to get in because of the red tape. and president biden reopens a facility for migrant children similar to those his fellow democrats dubbed trump's

concentration camps. just one of the afternoon moscow time the 25th of february watching out international with me kevin owen very good afternoon to you so more on our breaking news and we mentioned it's come in in the last hour or so in fact there are a lot of pictures we're go straight now coming from. the. capital of armenia and there's a tit for tat political or military struggle that's caused top level casualties in armenia is the breaking news the prime minister is saying the general staff of the armed forces there that attempted a military coup supporters and opponents of the armenian prime minister have clashed in the capital here of value saying lot of police presence there now i gather these are these still live guys are recorded pictures you must tell me

prerecorded this then but police have been know on the road to say police are at the scene these recent pay. as well well let's go. live to dimitri cross the law farty correspondent for our documentary channel hey there nice to get the signal to you was there any inkling that this whole top level clash was going to erupt or did this all come totally out of the blue that really you know but again with. all these good afternoon. our crew has been working. you can see. a opposition take it to the streets thousands of people take it to the streets who disagree with the. prime minister it was being translated actually to me to begin to stop you for a minute because i don't think we're going to translation there are we are.

what you thought it was the situation has escalated to a. generalist outpolled they are meeting and the ministry of defense made a statement a demand that. government now and then it was a shoot up for nicole richie and himself in turn sad that she dismissed the 1st deputy she. had the ministry of defense taken down. the shin and said because decision i made it. to do ation times for that country and state it and what's responsible. but the minute they found said the government can't control the situation in the situation of cry to it's that has been ongoing for the months if you will and. his supporters and facebook in

particular is sad that you know this state and by the ministry of defense his he is as an attempt a military coup so it dismissed that had staff on a guess by the un and other than that. and cold on the treat to continue their job to defend and protect the country that stated that he supported must take it to the streets obviously who gather at the central square of the capital and to support him. and now with supporters has already gathered at the center of this lyrically block the traffic the traffic is. shut down in the capital and all this is happening at the ground 0. on flakes that took place last year and then it turned into the house feel that the military confrontation took

a lot of. december's the stance. from russia the. fact is back it was signed in up but that. there are ongoing. lives almost daily we put in and so foreign to resign so that's what we have here. dimitri thank you very much for i know this being translated we have a few sound problems that i'm sorry it was translated in english and i hope our viewers got that thank you for your input as well to be to r.t. correspondent there for a documentary channel dawn hope you caught a bit of it was a little bit difficult some of it to take in but we're seeing a lot of people on the streets in those live pictures that no slowly started to come through on top of the prerecorded pictures we saw from a couple of days ago these are live again as you see on your screen there again a lot of people are calling for the prime minister to resign then but this whole turn around the prime minister calling for people to come out onto the streets

today in support he hopes of him and he is saying i believe that the military is abetting he's called the military to be careful to be vigilant on the borders the worry may be from what's coming maybe from the going to as a pleasure. and also to not get involved crucially in politics yeah absolutely the situation i mean has exploded really pretty quickly on thursday i mean it began with the general staff of the armed forces saying that the prime minister and the government are not making adequate decisions for the armenian people and then just about an after hour an hour after that prime minister parchin yon said that he was going to give the boot to the general head of staff he said. that the military was perhaps planning a military coup and now we're seeing on your screen right now these protests that many of which are coming out of the under the streets against prime minister pasha and yon holding signs shouting slogans calling the prime minister a traitor what's the problem here this was just awful conflict again that towards

the end of last year the thousands of deaths we saw its sorry pictures coming from there then there was that big a deal that was brokered mainly with the help of russia there but a lot of armenians felt sold out today what was their problem with it while the nagorno-karabakh region is really contested between armenians. by john because internationally it's recognized as part of azerbaijan but the majority of the population there is armenians so when this conflict broke out mind you both sides blame each other for starting it this this was a really heated issue and when the peace deal was brokered a lot of people see the armenian as losing out on those deals i mean we also saw the demonstrations right after the peace deal was brokered like we're seeing right now where demonstrators had stormed the parliament building in anger calling for the prime minister's resignation but in the current situation now. says that the military is obeying his instruction to give the head of the general staff the boot

and he says that all parties involved need to come to an agreement to end the conflict russia also saying this is the moment of business here it's armenians because we're still in these live pictures i mean nothing to look there's a lot of police presence people no scuffles particular thing at the moment just to remind our viewers you're of verne's been seeing protests regularly since what was it the 1st week of november 10th of november. when this agreement was signed with the as a pledge on the presidency of sundered agreement on the cease fire in the corner of this whole thing was brokered by the russian president vladimir putin the deal ended an armed conflict which he kicked off a couple of months earlier in late september i'm under the agreement back. regain control of the territories occupied by armenians before the outbreak of the hostilities prompting this public outcry in our media this is what's been simmering

on since november all the way into the new year and again this culminating now just to remind our viewers here we had the army basically. representing you could say the people if you like there or some of the views of the people that are unhappy in armenia say we've been sold short by this deal therefore the guy that signed up to meet on the armenian side prime minister passion you know we want him out that is. what the military will calling for right now. no uncertain terms the prime minister 'd of armenia saying no 1 a tit for tat back at you you will do as i say 'd i am staying put you are going to go the breaking news is that our media the chief of general staff in response to this demand that he himself resign i wonder where this is going to go he's calling for people to come out onto the streets we're seeing live pictures are these people in support of the prime minister who after all he's called for people to come out onto the street so therefore he must be thinking you would have thought pretty sure

that he has gone public support because you are going to call people out of the streets are you might say no it's a bad idea your the so i suppose he thinks it's wise to call a public right right i think it's safe to assume that there's going to be people in the streets in this kind of situation in support of the prime minister and against him but really the biggest and most vocal voices we've been seeing are people that calling the prime minister a traitor and holding anti-government signs actually and it would make sense because you know when the military positions itself against the prime minister who made himself significantly less popular with this peace deal people who didn't necessarily support a military coup or the military probably thought this is you know political force that could be used against this unpopular prime minister but there will be a few 100 people on the streets there and maybe this will be saying of the coming hours we don't know it's a developing story a breaking story on r.t. international's perch so we're the best people to cover it for our viewers around the world with your help on and the rest of our correspondents thank you for now.

right exercising soft power through vaccine diplomacy is our next story with currently worth their weight of course in gold and chronic shortages israel is negotiating political favors from countries in exchange is the allegation giving shots here is our correspondent paula slee with more on its new diplomatic strategy that. is really. to share that stock effect scenes with other countries including with palestinian doctors as a generous mean few might think about but. 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. reports came tradeoffs sought being made with countries which is well listen people stood relations.

soft at its finest he 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 has moved its embassy to jerusalem 100 page the same hungary has also set up a trade mission in jerusalem many though think it's simply wrong to trade medicine for political influence the reason that bibi netanyahu he's 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 uses us for diplomatic

relationships 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 vaccines before 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 we 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 don't position leaders are criticizing the secret nature of these deals and cooling for mold jabs to be saint to the west bank and gaza over half the population has been vaccine but i wish i believe this operation 1st before going over satan very far away from actually. no matter what is there and you know the diplomatic aerobatic. are in can be a very yeah you are humanitarian gesture at me and very crying from read in there is not far. more eloquent to go out and that you met her help you know in hell why aspect i think that sending the book seems far away might be going to india but not me for we have our own again shows to our neighbors nearby and if they are on

their i were responsibility. both human. and directed for reach these vaccines. 2 5 or 6000000 of these stream humans leaving next week because the dead me knows no old lives. it is not for israel to do it just to buy it from want there are no more fires or and then if you starve that you know very rulers all the community is only going to get your there are israelis living in settlements in the west bank next to arab villages and towns. of religious intolerance so yes after israel should get the 1st and not goals regimes where will to me tell you how. it worked against israeli interests inside the country netanyahu is main rival in governing partner

just means minister. 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. talks between e.u. leaders brussels is threatened legal action against 6 member states if they don't reopen their borders and in time soon again it's over covert the countries including germany the big powerhouse of shut down to try and stop the spread of the pandemic but the ramifications the closures have brought some trade to

a standstill what you see here rows of attorney in trucks trying to get into austria and on the way on to germany but they're stuck because they need coronavirus test to enter there's a lot of red tape is our europe correspondent. the e.u. commission currently at all do with 6 member states who have unilaterally put in place by. water 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 to supply chains 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 they're 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 the pandemic could be attained by less restrictive measures brussels

is essentially fighting a battle now with the member states over there while the national interest 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 house 2 are. there. for a meeting. between some trucks and we think 2 heads are from heat only to house because it wants to all of the trucks and to have a negative test i mean if we are inside a european union if we are inside all this the scene. i don't understand why there are sets of these big problems and if you want to be the united states europe. sometimes it's plain to see is not the.

correct way. let's go back to our top so we're going to go a full hour on this to bring you as much as we can on supporters and opponents of your 1000000 prime minister clashed in the capital after he said that the general staff of the armed forces attempted a military coup or prime minister. met with supporters there is the central republican square these latest pictures just in and told them the situation in the country is manageable he's ready to discuss any problems in the country he also stressed that even the army chief he fired remains his quote brother so trying to keep things as amicable as possible in this to mulch was time all this coming after the prime minister took to facebook to describe the armed forces statement calling for a physic nation as an attempted military coup in the streets of the capital here a van and now filled with protesters they say he is the latest in using the prime

minister there surrounded by a lot of security and a lot of. chanting crowds let's bring in more people talk about this karen of it is here and the media correspondent for a sister news agency sputnik. going to say at the scene was not exactly the scene obviously it's been quiet where you are but carol tell us what is happening in the capital now we're seeing a lot of people out there we've seen this looks like a tit for tat move the prime minister really asserting his authority over the military tell him to keep in mind to not get involved in politics where you are how things ravelled today how's it worked out. right now we're next to the ministry of defense of republic of 4000000 some half an hour ago there was a gathering of protesters and awful day i'm. joined him on the rescue mission of prime minister in. the representatives of the

supporters of prime minister and the starting point. situation today was the statement of the head of the headquarters of ministry of defense demanding the resignation of a coke machine and saying that he and current government has no longer the o.b. leads to use the abilities to. make 2 to provide the stable situation in armenia and are responding to that prime minister dismissed. the head of the headquarters only cusp r.d.m. saying that this is the that he's bringing the nation close to the military coup and para literally in the republic square there was a gathering of supporters off to the cole off nicole pushing him to gather together in the republic square. as a sign of

a few miti and a sign of. stabilization of the situation and some will campolo far worse there will be. there will be speech and t. he will make a call by analyzing the current situation and to say what's. what will be next and so this is the question that nobody knows yet yand that are not the part of the protesters are the parents of 4 war prisoners. demanding some political steps to take to to their songs back to their homeland and to these groups is also divided into 2 groups of supporters and of the ones that the man received nation of the prime minister sharon while you're on the line most of the support just describing

to our viewers around the world are trying to get a handle on what's happening there what some support does the prime minister have amongst the. a lot of armenians were unhappy about this peace deal that was brokered to try to end the conflict late last year for going to cost by russia a huge part of it but it wasn't universally popular with armenian so how popular is the prime minister amongst the people there. so the. people supporting. are. just are afraid of the opposition and. saying that. the opposition has also no ability to take the country away from the crisis and the same as vice versa so. the only. goal of both sides is to avoid clash she supports civil pressures and. we will see what's happening in in some couple of for worse. in the republic square where there are definitely

more people than right now here next to the ministry of defense yeah we're showing you know she talking to her as you're talking car we're showing pictures that are coming through this fair few people out in the streets fair but the police as well what show haunch you know this patch well what is your hunch on how this is going to go is the fact now that the prime minister is firmly put his foot down and said enough i mean control military you should not get involved in politics i'm in charge it's not going to quell dissent is it going to quieten things down or is it going to make it worse 'd. so we actually get this is the grateful question i mean for a for everybody because nobody knows what's worse will happen next and everybody are talking about the possibility of elections and that that can somehow make this situation unstable and take away what's going on in the squares.

into the political context so deedee aim is to put everything in the political procedure in the political process political context and as a say you should and. it can be elections but will the elections be a part of the question your speech will see only you know the truth 3 hours carol what just again summing up for all of you is getting a handle on what's happening here around the world what is armenia's problem or some of the people in armenia what's the problem with this deal that was brokered to try and end of conflict with thousands 5 died. i'm sorry i can't hear you what's your problem what so what some people in armenia are saying are on a happy by the pace deal that was brokered cease to end the conflict last year but what is their problem with what was signed there by prime minister passion what

don't they like about the peace deal. i felt the problem yeah the problem is that mean you know lost. so. lost a lot of people and a lot of territory so we don't concede they're not go to the territory of for meaning and but it's it's a problem for i mean you know. because because they consider eat as a loss that they are lost and so the loss of life and loss of territory is together bringing a great problem and. as a and as a conclusion it comes to the day montell for a sick mission of the current government while a part of the supporters of washing your own things that this paper

to bring peace and peace can be. goals are everywhere and great. for stabilisation. she would you know political situation in the political situation inside me karen throws a couple of short notice the current over to see media correspondent for a city news agency sport live on the line here without international. please update us right now down of in the studio as well but of a surprise this happened or maybe we could have seen it coming of the prime minister asserting his authorities to the military here was it for saying that it had to happen or not well basically according to some unconfirmed reports which are citing sources close to nicol passion and this joint statement that we're talking about has come as a complete surprise to the prime minister basically the chief of staff the general chief of staff and some other 40 you know very high profile officers many of them

generals you know wearing. ribbons on their lapel they managed to keep all the all the meetings secret essentially. and so and even the wording as they worked on the wording of the statement they managed to keep it in the shadows when it comes to nickel passion and before before we continue i just want to remind our viewers as to just the essence the key thing to say let's really i just. talk about the back story here exactly so let's let's 1st have a listen to a quote from this statement basically what these generals have been calling nickel passion and upon have a listen. the prime minister and the government of army are no longer able to make adequate decisions in this fateful and critical situation for the armenian people given the current situation the own forces of armenia demand the resignation of the prime minister and the government at the same time we call to refrain from using force against

people whose children died defending their homeland and care about. so to me it looks like a a final warning from the military to the prime minister because the prime minister will obviously as we acted saying that this is a military coup an attempted military coup but i mean we can see the pictures like there are pictures behind you on the screen right now there are no there's no there's no army men there's no servicemen in the streets just yet so the military they're not moving their personnel they're not using that potential that huge potential that they have to move you know army in the streets and just seize power there they have called on everybody to refrain from using violence as means and they just called on their compassion and well to to go just to go to get a sign but of course he didn't and of course the big breaking thing is now that he's kicked back you know he's the chief of general stuff he must have felt in some sort of political danger that.