he managed to go back a few years ago during the during the unrest in armenia he managed to ride this wave and basically he turned it into a whole tsunami that eventually you know brought him and sent just just well put him into the program into the government put him into the position of the country's leader the prime minister this is what he's good at he's good at rallying people he knows that he also i think knows that the world with the defeats in the war will in the going to carry back he's not going to still be in the elections you won't enjoy the same figures he enjoyed previously he knows and because even i have you spent not too much time having spent like a month in the going to karabakh and a week maybe in armenia now covering the protests even i noticed even one talking to the people to the protesters they have been saying that well yeah i used to support an equal passion and i was in his camp but now after the war i've changed my mind completely i don't think he's the right person to lead the country i don't

think the media is worthy of. basically well washington is unworthy so and i've met a lot of people like that in the crowd and nichelle passion and who has a whole world you know the whole power of you know social logical studies in the years the government behind me has all the agencies who know their stuff so he knows that's how it is he knows that he won't enjoy the same amount of figures so he's going to what he's really good at is being a public speaker you know motivating the crowd giving all these you know perhaps populist but still world just reassuring his supporters and calling on them to rally just on his support is why so many people supporting him then with his call to go to wall over to go to tend to be so catastrophic watching the well it was catastrophic because they were they were overpowered again they were overpowered militarily. they had no answer no response for their own problem and well again to

them with something else it's much bigger it's much bigger than just a patch of land just a few very very very beautiful by the way they're very beautiful very beautiful views see sceneries and you know the mountains it's great was created through them and they hold it they hold this place and they mean armenians they hold this place particularly dear because that's for them that's part of their history this is they see it as inherently inherently armenian and they took a lot of pride beating by john back in the ninety's they took a lot of pride they were even cocky about it in a way a lot of people a lot of people had no doubts not a single doubt. armenia will turn out will be victorious in this war and that's why for many it came as an absolute shock the outcome another statement by nicol passion and maybe just now he says the that he's being called

a traitor and it means so but again he's a he's appealing his making an appeal to his supporters see how he turns that he says that basically if he's being called a traitor then it means that everybody who's who gather their talking to right now are traitors as well and then he then he gives and then he gives these own definition of being a bit of being a traitor and you calling out his one of his political opponents called he basically is accusing his political opponents who are making calls to wage war against against their own people and not against azerbaijani bag by turkey and so on and so forth and also he's also saying that those those. though the people those people in the army within the military forces who got there during the previous administration they must go and i think it's quite and. because

when you look at it it seems that he's going to will cleanse the military forces of anybody might have ties to the previous government and therefore might be. loyal to him you know compassion and so it could be it could be it could be very combustible because if these military. these military personnel go exactly if he wants if he wants them if he wants them to go so basically it's it's a it's a catch it's not a catch $22.00 but it's it's it's a. it's a deadlock it's a complete deadlock because the military is saying the prime minister must go and the prime minister says no you must go and so where does it. so. does the military come on to the streets do they do because they have the audacity they have the capacity to put it but then again with do you think the population of armenia would actually back that because if you're listening to what everybody is saying at the moment the main they're not demanding that even the opposition in the

17 parties that combine this afternoon to talk on stage behalf of the opposition they don't want that they want democracy. to be resolved in a constitutional manner he does no one beside is there for the military to come out and so they do but again this whole all these tensions they have been brewing for so long they have been brewing for months passion and hasn't done anything to deescalate and to bring it back to bring the situation back to normal which is evident now judge you can judge him by what's happening right now so right now it seems pivotal it seems that both sides have had enough and both sides are ready to make their last stand meaning passion and. he's not showing any sign of weakness as he's trying to come out of here as a strong leader strong who is ready to rule with an iron fist if need be the opposition has already called on their supporters in turn to spend the night in the main square of the you. of the armenian capital so those that know

both sides none of the sides i should say have shown signs that they are ready to back down and everything that every statement made by passion and every statement made by the opposition they are just they just keep the pressure keeps building and building and building up and if builds up there has to be some sort of release and mind that the army in turn has remained world relatively silent until there was this big of statement the world kicked this whole machine in motion but after that statement they have been pretty quiet the army has and i haven't seen any any of the statements made by the may be made by the representatives of the armed forces even the minister of defense who presumably is still in nickel passions camp even the minister of defense hasn't really come out and said anything strong and hasn't really shown his shown his allegiance to one side or the other but it certainly

looks that it's time to pick a side and i mean the time has come and i think a lot of people including the army's top generals they are we right now as we speak they are weighing whether or not it's worth it's worth just you know what in the military out in the streets to doing a little bit of malaysia but i mean i do think you're doing it malaysia style but i mean again that's very difficult for them isn't if the streets are full of thousands of people me without being absolute bloodshed it is hard to imagine that the same control as it is a big is a big statement coming from passion and just now he's just confessed that he thought of resigning after the war that won the war and that he's just said that when the war ended he contemplated. just resigning and stepping down. but what he but essentially he's saying that he did not it's not it wasn't his decision to become a prime minister it was his decision to become a pro. minister the people elected him saw basically he thinks that the it's up to

the people to make a decision about his resignation and he says that he and he hear his saying that he had suggested that they suggested to hold an early election but the opposition refused the location declined so he keeps the e.q. to obviously be the statements of the school in stuart little state cross that 1st you go stay in the studio it will come back to you shortly but in the meantime let's just bring you some more recent pictures because military planes have been flying over the armenian capital police have been deployed in large numbers as we can see from these pictures thousands of protesters as well as supporters of primeness nicole passion and are rallying in the capital yet a van right now opposing crowds were seen near each other with clashes erupting between the groups. was.

ok let's get the latest now on what is actually happening down in republican republic square in yet a van because we can speak to you are mean with the mayan she's a local journalist there we appreciate your time just explain what you can see what's happening in place. right. there right minister or just. in the republic square and mr cashion elsewhere he will not let. any problems. also hold our media all our media. here. on 100 meters from that it was straight just thought better connection i say and what is the atmosphere there amongst the supporters of passion young. well just

what is the atmosphere there and the mood among the supporters. now still is so. huge from just. the supporters. i'm just saying how many people are here because you can see it. if you can see. 2 all know how drip media. and for the moment at least it does appear everything is quiet ok i was going to ask you for the moment at least at the pay is that supporters of passion and those against him far apart they haven't clashed so far where you are. oh oh oh you're in march. i haven't been. on the holts march. because during its

march there. or just. many people. were. saying. resign research may i seen those polls. ok all right well look we appreciate you coming on and painting the same for us that was a local journalist. and she was there actually on the republic square and yet a van where. currently giving a speech to many of his supporters we seen him come out it appears in the hundreds possibly thousands turning to this and to what he has to say the soft. but what artist on quarter explains now i wear this rift between the government and the military comes from. there must always be someone to blame for losing

a war what leader would blame himself right or he wouldn't be in power for very much longer that was the dilemma hanging over prime minister and he made his move he blamed russian weapons for his country's military defeat in a go in a car bomb in autumn he said russia's electronic warfare systems could not handle turkish drones used by azerbaijan's armed forces the prime minister's attack on russia's military industrial complex he added that the missiles either quote did not explode or exploded 10 percent is not exactly clear what the pm meant by that were only 10 percent of the missiles launched did missiles hit only 10 percent of their targets either statement has any confirmed substance behind it since no evidence was provided to back paasschen younes claims what is known is that such unreliable weaponry would clearly never be accepted into russian military service or by those who buy moscow's weapons like the armenian military which posh and yon

is now at odds with the deputy chief of the general staff rejected the prime minister's claims about the unreliability of russian equipment calling his statement frivolous he then lost his post chain reaction ensued with the military demanding paasschen yon's resignation and then the chief of the general staff himself was dismissed and all that brought us to today's standoff in front of government buildings with the fate of the armenian state itself hanging in the balance what has been a very important development over the last couple of minutes to bring it to. you go and help saying that he wants new elections exactly he just announced the. breaking news from amin called on the opposition to pick a date together and hold the elections because this is still speaking by the way so the issue will move will come out of this speech but this so far has been the biggest development because it seems like the ultimate way to settle it down once and for rule not in the streets. not through brawling not through scuffling but in

a civil and democratic way political is ago a way to just to sit down and hold a vote and see how many people actually support nicol passion and how many people world no longer support his candidacy so now the ball is in the opposition's cooed so we'll this is clearly a very sensible very sensible thing on nichelle passion and on the prime minister's behalf so the ball's in the opposition's called now world will only have to see now they will have to react and whether or not they want to continue protesting and demonstrating and maybe rioting even at the end of the day whether or not they would want to settle this whole thing down through political methods. previously the call was wasn't from the military that he should step down straightaway but as you say called for elections and it's just a question of how will that be received we haven't seen any. latest pictures

from armenia simple to look at the crowds but we know that many opposition in the thousands are afternoon many supporters in their thousands for passion and we know that the opposition said that they're going to camp overnight out on the streets too but there was fear that this could escalate the situation but as you said the big development in the last couple of minutes is passion and appears to have agreed to new elections which should deescalate things absolutely but again the military now is still his last his loss a lot of support within the armed forces this letter alone signed by some 40 people the top military people in armenia officers generals and. it already shows that he's lost support of the army and that's never a good thing for a country's leader because the army holds a lot of power and again we know what happened in malaysia for instance and there probably it seems now now there are mass riot mass protests calling on the military on the military government to step down and to give the power. we're back to the

elected leaders but that whole other country here the situation is different there are a lot of people who genuinely don't want passion as their leader just as there are a lot of people who still support the incumbent prime minister so the minute but the military they are of course tempted right now and this is why i think nicol passion and is calling on all his supporters to come to the streets and to work to rally under his banners to show to show just to just to show the the army do show the military that they better not they just better not because that because then the people will be angry that a military coup will not have the public support this is why this is this is the message he's sending to everybody to everybody in the army because again he's not enjoying that he's lost a lot of support there when it comes to the offices and so on then also it's does it's not clear where the minister of defense stands right now because obviously he hasn't said anything about against nicol bashing and so it would be logical to

presume. that he's still in his camp but still also nickel passion and making a statement just a few minutes ago saying that all people holding you know holding positions who have who have jobs in the military who got them during the previous administration that they should go. and leave that the should no longer lead in the armed forces so essentially essentially he was almost hinting at the potential cleansing cleansing of the military ranks from anybody who might be still loyal to the previous administration to the previous government and. political opponents and it does so potentially he could be you could see more people more powerful powerful offices well leave his camp and. you know joining the opposition and it's never good it's never good for an incumbent leader when that happens. but century

his message is once again he's called on all political powers to stop any to stop any demonstrations to stop any any any actions in the streets to start the dialogue to start talking about early elections politically he's been very astute isn't he here it seems because the one hand he's looked strong against the military telling him to step down but at the same time he's not looking so obtuse that he's not going to agree to new elections so even opponents people aren't supporting him in the thousands this afternoon could go along with what he's saying well again it's all developing very rapidly i mean we've seen this letter came in this morning and already the situation in armenia descends into into chaos more and more so. again the ball now in the opposition's court the opposition just to remind everybody you know they already called on all their supporters to spend the night

in the city in the main city square in the main square of the armenian capital so that does that still hold or if the you know that russia has called for early elections. he says he wants an early election and called on the opposition to accept his offer. will they still follow through with this plan with these with these with these indefinite protests until passion and resigns now the ball is in their court it is. just just let the viewers know we were looking at live pictures to the center of yet and i'm not sure they are now it's looking at live pictures now and they're just responding to. the comments the statements made by nicole passion and who are looking at right now over the last few minutes he did say that he's prepared to talk about new elections this came after the head of his military insisted that passion and should step down in return passion and said that if the military who should step down and is asked and told him to quit. but since then

there is this olive branch saying that he is prepared to consider new elections now while all this was going on we shouldn't forget the goal not far away was another huge demonstration against passion yan and they were saying that they were to stay in the city overnight to make their voices heard but he said it seems it seems like the power now is with the people because after hearing this they either decide to stay or go absolutely and looking looking at the rally at the pro at the pro-government rally the one that nicole passion is speaking right now looking at some pictures. showing is definitely was definitely in the thousands perhaps in the 10s of thousands does doesn't this is there's a lot of people there's a lot of people supporting their compassionate but again look at these look at these pictures definitely definitely in the thousands some of the largest rallies that armenia has in recent months so now it's up to the opposition whether or not

to accept the offer to accept the offer of early elections and look at the again look at the body language look at how strong he is trying to calm. he is he is he is trying to use trying to do what he's doing best to be the man to be the man of the of the crown to be just to be the loudest voice in the crowd and you know just inspiring people to follow him because that has already worked for and worked for him when he when that crowd made him is in fact you brought him the chair of the prime minister and of me as. the leader of armenia so is he still he still keeps on you can see you may think that well you've already made your point you've already called for an early election but no this is not this is not the only goal that he's pursuing here absolutely he could have come out and just said that and left me has he's been here looking for 30 minutes already with a very defiant message and certainly very delivery he is. trying to come

over as he's trying to. make himself look as the strong as this as the strongman as the big you know why jolted man who was going to lead we use whose power is trying to come to come across as a very powerful person who leads the crown because this has been his message all all the way saying that the people elected him and the so it's up to the people to decide whether or not he should go and not not up to a bunch of a bunch of very high ranking but still a bunch of offices and this is this is this is what he's doing he's doing and i don't know if somebody can confirm it for us but on the left hand side of the screen there machine this is a relic of the opposition i think and if you look at their body language again it's not people reacting angrily to what's been said things to be they've taken it in but it's being considered it's not it's not the body that it's not inflamed it's not you a language of the people who are ready to go to war that are put let me put it this

way so they are they don't want they don't want war they're just showing they're just showing that the yes nicole you have a lot of people who are supporting you but there's also a lot of us who don't want you there but again. how many our unequivocal are they about it really are they just going have they had enough will they go for that other will they do it's up to them whether or not they think about the elections is the right way to go because i having worked there a lot of people they would just say no if you can just go you shouldn't even try you should just go that's how a lot of people feel and probably equally as many people who feel that no you should you should stay and if come tomorrow i will be voting for nickel palace and this is what people are thinking and still no reaction from the military which sparked this latest confrontation and now no reaction at all and it is quite interesting because they just released this statement and then. they've been

keeping very quiet all the way throughout the day so we can only guess as to what's going on as to what's going on behind closed doors that but i'm sure the military is tempted and they are looking out as to how many people actually support passion and how many people are ready to stay in the streets how many people will and how many people who will support the military world forcefully tinking over power over all the passion and probably probably balance will going on there right now but again that's there's no there's no information but clearly a very turbulent and clearly a pivotal state for armenia and still fragile you go thank you we're looking at live pictures here at the center of yet of and what many supporters of come out in favor of passion and after he made that the fine speech on the stage announcing that he was prepared for new elections that's the breaking news here on r.t. international will be back with more in about 5 minutes time.

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