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 final warning from the military to the prime minister because the prime minister would obviously as we act in saying that this is a military coup an attempted military coup 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 that they have hold on everybody to refrain from using violence as means and they just called on the compassion and to well to to go just to go to get assigned but of course he didn't and of course the big breaking thing is now that he's. he's the chief of general staff he must have felt in some sort of political danger well he

is trying to sack the chief of political staff staff the chief of the chief of general staff excuse me indeed and now it's up to the president and by the way the so basically this is not a done deal and he has it because it is signed it but basically the meaning according to the constitution according to the law the general chief of staff can only be fired and appointed by so the prime minister suggests a candidacy and then the president the president should appoint and approve or not the same thing with firing a general chief of staff so nicol passion has said i want to fire this guy officially and now it's up to the president whether to accept that or not and so far from based on what i'm reading right now the president seems well at least seems reluctant he seems hesitant basically is not it's not like you know when when it's they are not acting the prime minister and the president they're not acting as a single you know united force because if that had been the case then what if it were the case if they do or they go. i mean if they don't that's the thing they

aren't acting as one united force in this particular situation because the prime minister has already made it very clear that he wants the general chief of staff fired so how was it is the for prime minister personally and if it isn't actually going to be signed off at the end of the day by the president that would make would it the prime minister's position untenable that would that would send this whole already term. stimulus situation into complete chaos that would be might take because right now what we see what is happening in armenia both the opposition because obviously the opposition is trying to capitalize on this statement made by be made by the generals made by the army's top brass there saying that this is well this is the clear sign that that's it that should be the last the last final call on passion on to go wild passion and in turn he's trying to bolster the support which is happening in his name he's trying to bring out his supporters in the streets and this is what what is happening with already seen some scuffles for

instance some people some people who are some proposition people they have been hanging out. the flags passings excuse me photographs out of the out of their car windows with with the with the with the word betrayal so traitor so basically they're calling him a traitor at the time because we are signatories about the just again. very long way away from people of the other side of the world just paint a picture of why this is important what the dispute is between as opposed to and armenia over it because it's internationally recognized as being. as a journey control and that's what the armenians don't like because it's primarily armenians there well yes but it's a very deep it's a long lasting historical will dispute between armenia and azerbaijan basically a piece of mountainous land which are meaningless as basically they deserve independence but obviously the. it is their backyard and the main wall is there by

john is saying well hell no that's. our territories and we're going to take it back and this is what happened last september i spent a whole month in a going to karabakh a very brutal bloody war lots of civilian civilian infrastructure destroyed in the course of this war but basically at the end of the day just just to keep it simple as simple as possible the armenians lost the karabakh the protege of armenia and year of on nagorno-karabakh last this will miserably well not miserably but well that was did all they could they did all they could the food bravely. lost what was it end of last september when i was. out of november what sparked this you mean you mean you mean. well it was just it was it was it was. it's a bit murky because obviously both sides they accused each other of the very forces accuse the armenians of provocations along the long line of contact and so the they

said well we have to we have to fight back and basically a full onslaught and ensued and well it was altered in a full out beautiful blue rule in the armenians are saying the opposite the ideas of our journey side started started firing 1st and that they had to defend themselves but basically they're going to come back and armenians they were overpowered militarily the drones they had no response they had no answer to the drone problem which obliterated their defenses which will more suited for an artillery style warfare or civilian destruction there's a lot of a lot of houses blown subpoena the whole whole town just razed to the ground i mean that's not much of an exaggeration what i'm saying about why isn't the goal of holding to all media that's a matter of well that's a mass over story cold or now a matter of their national identity i would say national. this is basically they saw it as a. that was their pride because back in the ninety's when they managed to take all

of that in a landslide victory over the over there by john back in the ninety's when they took the those lands from the by john basically when they claim them for themselves and world populated basically 90. the 90 percent of the population i'm not going to care about ethnically meenie and so on and there was a point that was subject of the national pride they would boasted and so on and so forth but now the as there is a taken aback and that was seen as humiliation at the end on top of that during that whole month the armenian side was saying that we're going to we're going to come out victorious we're going to come out victorious it's going to be all good all great and saw they didn't and they they had to concede a lot of lands important historically important to them and since then the situation in armenia has been very term us and this is just the latest lapper from a sort of final thoughts all the way to the picture what this is all about for all of you is what's russia's involvement here what's russia going to do with the help

broker this peace deal but how does russia see all this well for russia both armenia and azerbaijan. partners our allies and russia is in a tricky situation here because of course russia has a peacekeeping peacekeeping force in going to karabakh and basically that's probably the only thing stopping the 2 sides from you know going back at each other's throats. and right now. the kremlin has said that they view this particular crisis and today's developments as a strictly internal matter for armenia but they are alarmed with this latest escalation but so far they're not taking any action because well it's an internal matter for armenia just they've called on both sides to again refrain from violence so all eyes are on what happens what the crowds do when they turn out today are many crowds turn out whether they're in support or against prime minister. breaking news if you just joined us at home is that. the meanie in the prime minister

a sacked the chief of the general staff in response to a similar demand that was given to him from the military a couple of days ago but as you heard you saying no it's not a done deal because anywhere that has to be signed off by the president president nischelle indications are that's not necessarily going to be forthcoming so i could be a whole nother issue of spot going on that come back to us later in the keep us up to speed complicated story in regards to a there are correspondent. now donald trump's quote concentration camp 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 of more reminiscent of prisons the new administration claims it will only operate during a pandemic but next. why the coverage is so different this time round. 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 different dates under the articles and very different titles the one from of tobar 20 reads the american tradition of caging children the one from this week is 1st migrant facility for children opens under biden and the tone 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 f.a.a. c i l i t y facility that we're being. told is under fire this is not kids being kept in cages this is this is this is a syllabary 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 democrat 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 that ministration a party only to backpedal in less than an hour after being struck by a hail storm of replies her 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 the 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 camps 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 present united states not vice president hoops is he still not getting it right speaking of vice presidents once in 29. scored political points by protesting outside a cab and homestead florida where teens detained at the border were being held well there's now plans to reopen that homestead facility to. the people of mt to talk to us this is a case in point the world health organization special envoy on covert 19 speaking directly to us saying that the world should prepare for

a new post pandemic reality whatever that's going to be done to david nabarro also warned that we should expect other dangerous strains to spread to. as some who say we should be striving towards eliminating the virus completely others and i'm in this 2nd group say that we must strive towards 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 the virus at bay 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 as international

cooperation because if one country is brilliant and the neighbor is not so good that's not helpful to the people who specially if they were to move between the countries so that last point about 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. as as most of your viewers will know 'd a recent investigation into how this virus appeared true independent scientific group was sent to the auspices of the world poker organization a joint independent group together with the chinese authorities and they are in the process of producing a report looking for hypotheses about the origins and their report will

detail where they 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 we have to wait until the report appears before any further judgments could be made. running a full hour this figured out international to bring you up to speed on the breaking news if you're just joining us and that is that supporters and opponents of the a mania prime minister clashed in the capital in the last hour or so after he said that the general staff of the armed forces attend to the military. and the pm and his son in the day publically invited supporters in the central republic square

there to come out of me showed them the situation is to manage a whole and that he's ready to discuss any problems in the country also insisted that the army chief that he remains his quote rather so to speak not literally of course this comes after the prime minister took to facebook to describe the armed forces statement calling for for his resignation and attempted military coup to set a tit for tat a that you say but there is also a significant opposition president. presents against the prime minister as we've seen for weeks now cars have been pictured driving through the capital with photos of him covered in blood they feel have been sold out by the recent truce deal of the disputes in the goanna karabakh they've been honking their horns as you can see there in protests. other developments have been filmed standing on the balconies giving the thumbs down and despite the growing tensions the country's defense ministry has yet to comment on the statement by the general staff for passion young

to quit now current of it is the media covers for the for sister news agency sputnik briefed us very well earlier on it's on the spot there again could you bring us up to speed just boil it all down for viewers just joining us what's happened today and what's the situation at the moment where you are. right down to the ministry of defense of you. know were there were. protests. joining the resignation of the prime minister and. the supporters of prime minister and this situation is also in the republic square. and in the freedom square. we know that in the freedom square. there is a gathering of opponents of. the man think it's

a risk nation after statement of the head of the head or to simply minister. fort. aren't government. provide. great decision. to keep the street. heroin i have located say karen just a 2nd i just to rewind losing the track of the news line and if they could say complicated tit for tat that's been building for months since this truce still was signed correct me if i'm wrong i believe the breaking news the top line is that our media is pm has sacked the chief of general staff in response to military demands earlier on this week for the prime minister to go in and in effect the prime minister said today no more. stamping my assertion military do not get involved in

politics i am the prime minister and our correspondent interestedly also said that even though the prime minister wants to sack the chief of general staff it's not necessarily a done deal because the way the constitution works in armenia the president has to sign that off and it's not at all clear whether the pres. we'll sign off the sacking of the chief of general staff now as i understand it i think that's the news that's happened today i'm i correct. yes you're correct and everybody waiting for some decision decision making from the part of for the president sort of part of. prime minister and. to our worst there will be a public call by. the republicans where where he will provide his for there are steps and he's vision of. problem solving.

but the only goal common goal for opposition in. karen we've lost the line she again i think you saw here is karen vets is here and yet we lost the line a 2nd i want to come back to the president's role here so ok we've got the prime minister one saying the sacking of tracy the one of the military chiefs but what happens if the president doesn't agree to that it makes things very old could for the prime minister doesn't it. yes it will be truly a very complicated situation and to now the experts are literally are discussing this problem. and they are sure that the in. in 4 pm in the republic square we'll get some response of. this

situation and there will be also kind of a statement from the head office of the. current if you've been to for me for. her we've lost the line she had again we try to stay with it because it's really good to have you on the line there from yerevan you're one of the 1st people. on the scene there in the last hour bring about these live reports are you still there can you still hear us. karen are versus you're thinking ok a final one just give me 30 seconds finally what is the thought on where this is going to go this afternoon is it likely to kick off even war in view of what's happened are the people coming out onto the streets in support of the prime minister or against it or was it a mix what's likely to happen in the coming hours. coming hours say it's a likely mix because there are 2 main squares main forums for

the. opposition and for the supporters there is a freedom square when. coming to meetings there will. will be a lot of people demanding the resignation of questioning in the republic square the main square when after the call of the prime minister there will be a gathering of supporters of the she knew both of them are trying to avoid to see the flesh and everybody are waiting for a statement both from the office of the president of armenia and from. and himself trying to. hope for him to provide any solution of this situation in the context of in the political context and. one of the solutions can be elections and a lot of experts and people are waiting for elections to

be a part of his statement that too will clarify it. will hear there's going to be a lot more to talk about hopefully with the health care and advocacy and i mean a correspondent for a sister who's agencies putting on the line live with us not international come but she later thanks for now. and document. jobless families penniless pensioners are just some of the groups struggling to survive in one paris suburb branded a ticking time bomb by its mer. reports next them from the tone with food charities warn they can no longer cope. the time of good the new 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 complex is now nearly hall full of the residents who live in that complex behind me live below the poverty line things were already 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 with no money coming in local authorities will struggle to keep things afloat here 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 as people were getting poorer the basics that we needed for life even further 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

so many have lost their jobs and many students have found themselves without resources without help without anything at all and she says the problems here are getting out of control she gets. 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 people towards bad things very more and more problems here there is aids in cooking me a number of associations offer help 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 did click click it's been a very very difficult for many families because they haven't been able to walk because they've closed jobs but they had temporary contracts and i had problems

finding a job it's a catastrophe i have been looking everywhere so. it's become immersed with a 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 to 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 in france in general yeah fewer and fewer opportunities to find a job yet they have indications that elsewhere could give them a stable future what chance they have remains to be see. greatly. because particularly tough times there is

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clashes erupt in the armenian capital between supporters and opponents of prime minister nicole passion yann after he fires the country's army chief who had called . on the entire government to quit meanwhile the armenian leader called that statement an attempted military coup in his son publicly invited supporters to the central square and came out to meet them. to come this hour now it's essential vaccines for political influence critics slam israel sending countries jobs in exchange for diplomatic support and president biden reopens a facility for migrant children similar to the democrats dubbed trump's concentration camps.