you know the bible reasonable for a pause for a movie but i was reading one way. headlines in r.t. armenia's prime minister has called for early elections he's also saying that his country's military must obey him after he sacks the head of the armed forces saying it was part of an attempted. to all soldiers look this is joining the ranks it's doing your job god and the do you really want to bore me with this is my order and no one can disobey. i crash did or up his thousands of supporters and protesters of prime minister minister nicole passion and faced off in the capital of yet a vamp also to come this hour essential vaccines for political influence critics slam israel sending countries with jobs in exchange for diplomatic support.

even just gone 5 o'clock in moscow you're watching r.t. international our breaking news this hour standoff between opponents and supporters of the armenian prime minister nicole passion and in the capital yet military planes were seen over the capitol police were deployed in large numbers all after the prime minister sacked the chief of the armed forces general staff saying he was part of an attempted military coup where there have been clashes between rival groups as well and there are fears the tensions could escalate further. was. was. a massive

opposing rallies were seen close to one another in century out of an official crowd numbers are yet to be confirmed but they are estimated to be in their thousands. and cars have been honking their horns this crowd chanted anti passion and slogans to some have been driving with photos of the prime minister smeared in fake blood and opponents of nicole passion and have also been filmed standing on their balconies giving the thumbs down sign. but we can look at some live pictures tell you of an opposition protests taking place at the moment opponents of the prime minister have gathered in the city center saying that they still want him to quit. most again live pictures from rallies in support of the prime minister also passion earlier in the day passion and took to facebook to tell supporters that he needs them passion and in his son there met them to assure them that the situation is manageable and that he's ready to discuss any problems in the country you also

insisted the army chief he dismissed remains quote his brother and in the last hour or so the prime minister then addressed his supporters and century rather than calling for early elections he's also demanding to the country's military a bay him after he sank the head of the armed forces say it was part of an attempt to. not to also slow this is going ruin your job god borders on the territorial integrity of army this is my order and no one can decide to do with a meeting this railway is finished all accidents. will go seating table with the oppositions our consultations or no actions the prime. and the government of armenia no longer able to make adequate decisions in this fateful and critical situation for the armenian people given the current situation the armed 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. i mean his general staffs only demand is the immediate resignation of the prime minister and his government the military keys nicole passionate man of being unable to make sound decisions in times of crisis and on top of that the military is unhappy about what they describe as numerous attempts to discredit armed forces the statement goes on the claim to the passion and inefficient management has brought on mania to the of to minds. we discussed earlier these latest developments in armenia with local journalists caught in. what we could see in goals meetings in here and square where opposition gathered together is the absence of provocations which is very rare seen in a meeting so at their ease very clear division between the opposition and the

supporters and that's why we know no clashes no no provocations and no clashes and. the statement of the prime minister was. all the representatives of forces of ministries to go on doing their direct responsibility. not to get integrate it into any political process is and a call to opposition was an opportunity to make a dialogue and he mentioned that that dialogue is possible and it's somehow weakening is that early elections are also a possible scenario for development because the early elections as we mentioned before can be one of the real concepts and jewelry

of which you need to solve this problem. without any aggression or without any clashes and and with all blog all position needs a dialogue as well despite that think that their main theme on steel resignation will throw an equal question yes but that's resignation can be a result of the election so maybe dialogue among. across the topic of early elections can be this calm on a red line a common thing that can unite these. 2 political call political powers. well political tensions in armenia escalated following the military conflict in disputed nagorno-karabakh region in late last year which saw as a big make significant gains forcing armenians to cede large swathes of territory to

opposition has been calling on the armenian prime minister to step down ever since accusing him of treason and mismanagement so let's get more now from you or should an office been following the situation very closely in hugo you've also covered extensively that conflict in the going to cut it back but before we just go on to that let's just talk about what's happening right now and what's been the reaction to the calls for early elections by passion well essentially the opposition it's fair to say they have rejected the school altogether in fact they have reiterated that they are sticking to the plan that the now that the earlier they had announced indefinite. excuse me an indefinite demonstration which would go on until resigns also the opposition have called they have called on their supporters to put a barricades in front of the parliament because tonight at the parliament m.p.'s will be voting on whether or not to world.

rushing out of office this is what they will be voting on and so the opposition is suggesting is called on their supporters to put a barricades and barricade all around the parliament and the and the avenue leading up to it and keep it that way until they vote to well impeach not just impeach but just completely oust nicol passion and ok so i mean originally talking to an hour or so ago where you feel that things are deescalated with this offer of an election but it appears that that's been rejected and things are now getting ramped up again as you said absolutely but do you understand what's going on in armenia right now it would be a mistake to see today's escalation. as an independent incident because the tensions. i've been brewing and simmering for months and to go to the roots we need to see the outcome we need to look at the outcome of the war in the i want to counteract last year it broke out late september went on for about a month and

a half and it ended up in an absolute and utter defeat of a mean and they're going to cower back and i mean eons had to concede about 2 thirds of the territories they had previously controlled but that came as a shock for armenians especially not because not because they mainly mainly i should say because they did not expect it at all because having spent a whole month in the going to karabakh and seeing the world break out all around me we kind of were getting the sense that probably things weren't getting on the ground as smoothly as and too great but when it comes to the messages and what we've heard from the what we've heard from the young me and government from the going to care about self-will authorities and the politicians they have been saying that everything's cool all's fine this war they will come out victorious in this war sure we are falling back here and there but that's all temporary it's

a strategic retreat and we will actually even give more lands will the. the possibility the possibility of losing the war was absolutely out of the question if you were to listen to the official message from here iran and so imagine when one morning all of armenia wakes up and finds out that partially on the prime minister signed a peace deal truce deal with the leader over there by jiang homily and according to that deal they were conceding 2 thirds of the territories including some key strategically key places in the golan a coward imagine the wrath imagine the anger the frustration the heartbreak in all of the country. because mine do you know me going to come back me seemed just like another patch of mountains land very picturesque very beautiful but still to armenians it's infinitely more than that it is very important it's

part of the national identity and it's not an exaggeration it's a matter of honor oh having access to nagorno-karabakh and having it under their control is a matter of honor again a matter of national integrity national idea that's why it was so heartbreaking imagine if you were if you if you were in in the you in the united states imagine losing alaska or imagine imagine losing new york or california or some some very iconic to armenians it's even more than that so when they learned about it about the defeat and they found out they were defeated fair and square they were simply overpowered militarily in are they had no response no answer to the drone problem their positions were just obliterated from above because the defenses were just not suited to this rule of a new generation move world more suited to and artillery mourn old school or warfare but not to not to this and so they found that out they were very angry they

took to the streets and that's when it all started and for months it's evidently compassion and hasn't done enough clearly to let these tensions will ease to what he's done he hasn't done he has done nothing for the wound to heal all that said he still has a lot of support that he has absolutely you can see well behind you you can see but there's a hope who will on a video will behind you. there's a huge rally in support of vernon cole a nickle passionate and so he managed to rally thousands definitely thousands of people and but remember he's a man of the streets so to speak because the only legitimacy the only thing that he has is the support of the people that's what brought him that's what gave him the. the prime minister's seat so they as a way visit tsunami they literally gave them this power gave them this the people because he he came to power after

a revolution so so now this is the card that he's playing and this is something that he's riding on he's making a point the people have elected mean so only the people have the right to oust me and that's why he's calling on election and the opposition is saying well no we're way past that we're just the only thing that we we can we're going to talk to you is is your resignation this is the only thing that we are ready to discuss with you not not not the election not anything so this is the thing and when it comes to the election when it comes to the public support sure these pictures are impressive but mind there's also even right now the opposition has its own march and it's also in the in the thousands so and even having covered protests that broke out earlier broke out last year after the deal was signed the would deal that was disastrous for me but the only way to avoid bloodshed i talked to some of the protesters some of the opposition members and members many of them told me that

well look i used to support passion and but not anymore because i don't think he's fit to run the country because he's run the country into the ground he's run the country into this war that was lost completely the way we were obliterated in this war so we used to support him but not anymore at the same time every other taxi driver was talking to they would point out that well there's a lot of people who are still supporting russian ok still a very fragile situation thank you that was done of. wealth is don't cause and i explains a bit more about where this rift between the armenian government and 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 pasha and he made his move he blamed russian weapons for his country's military defeat in a go in a car a bokken 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 added that the missiles either quote did not explode or exploded to 10 percent it 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 neither statement has any confirmed substance behind it since no evidence was provided to back paasschen yon's claims what is known is that such fun reliable weaponry would clearly never be accepted into russian military service or by those who buy moscow's weapons when the person looks for ways to exonerate himself he will make iskander missiles look guilty and say the armenian people and to blame this of course is anything but true this high precision weapon system which has proven its effectiveness during your is drills 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 the chain

reaction ensued with the military demanding paasschen younes 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. that some international reaction has been coming in over this with both russia and turkey voicing their opinion on the political crisis in. russia has made it clear that it views the situation in armenia as its own internal affair and hopes for its peaceful resolution we condemn all military coups there are no matter where they take place across the world it is unacceptable for a military to call for the resignation of an elected government. ok let's get the thoughts now mark armand he's there rector of the crisis research institute of the university very welcome thanks for coming on just firstly let's get your reaction to what the opposition is said in armenia and they have rejected passion yan's

offer of an early election does that surprise you. well i think what they really were directing is the idea that he stays in office and 2 is an election they are deeply suspicious of him he's of course suspicious of their motives to and so they want him to resign and to leave before the remarks of course he wishes to go into elections to as prime minister would be or if you like that attaches to that office so how does this sort of stalemate resolve itself that. it's not at all clear as you've just heard from reversed on of the opposition's also staging really isn't cool for another big demonstration this evening. promised depression one has really been able to bring out thousands of his supporters who have been deeply divided society and the risk is that it does spiral out of control mercifully so far today there hasn't been any violence but the danger will be that either will be a clash between 2 large grabs demonstrates his or the military may move from the position of the senior officers calling on the prime minister to resign to actually

trying to really go about looking past on the streets and. so far we haven't really seen. that pushing arms be talking about. a letter saying that he has insulted the army and the dignity of the victims of the war that's not quite the same thing as the classic military coup you see for instance in myanmar. is that the fact that we haven't seen them yet i mean does that suggest that they really are reluctant see you are they just waiting for the right moment where it could be that the generals were angry about the way crushing on the school the deputy chief of general staff but they were soldiers are less likely to take part in any kind of action to overthrow him or it could be that russia has said it wasn't really a plan for a coup in some ways he's gauging a kind of preemptive strike against his opponents particular his political opponents showing that you've got support on the streets trying to make sure that those who might try to push him out of office in the parliamentary vote this

evening feel that perhaps there isn't really a sufficiently strong tide against him spite moves in the room without. are going on that you can hold all the problem is that it all mean there are politics often highly factional people who we also saw conspiracy theories who do it so that certainly they believe that politicians are very very wily operators or maybe they are now the question is who's going to be the cleverest at the end of the day and i suspect this will have to be decided really in the next 10 to 12 hours what is going to happen otherwise there's a risk of a breakdown of public order yeah but i suppose whatever happens this evening i mean if he's told that he can stay in office or if that's what people voted for then you know he has got thousands of supporters as. i can't see it dying down. the best outcome in many ways would be for the to be in election the problem is getting both sides to agree on how that election is to be conducted who is to be running the government in the weeks before the election takes place that's the sticking point at the moment maybe a compromise can be found maybe

a compromise candidate prime minister. but it's a very unpredictable situation and we have to remember that in all media we have seen mass demonstrations we've seen political violence in past assassinations so. somebody some hotheads could actually. do something that will cause violence and bloodshed and then a potential civil war. even if you hope because of past experiences all mediums will destroy themselves ok well let's hope so mark nice to see that was more calm and director of the crisis research institute and oxford university thanks for coming thank you for. ok well let's turn to other news now today in the pandemic an issue of exercising soft power 3 vaccine the plane missing because big jobs currently worth their weight in gold are made chronic shortage is israel is negotiating political favors from countries in the exchange for giving shots but more his sleeve. israelis say to share with stock effect scenes without 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 me there is 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 least some people stood relations. sauce paula at its finest the often appears quite clear we will give you vaccines and in return you give us all diplomatic support this is the check 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. diplomatic relationships to use us for anything he has to report to people in israel why he's doing it and to which countries is 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 offering it to any other country is

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 politicos 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 mole jabs to be seen to the west bank

and gaza over half the population has been black sand but wish i played this operation 1st before bowing overstatements very far away country and. no matter what is there and you know the diplomatic aerobatics. in can be a very and humanitarian gesture at me and very crying from red indians not before i went on morally important to go out and that you meant to help you know in hell why aspect i think that sending the book seems far away might be fine for india. not nice for. our own a geisha and to our neighbors nearby admit they are on their our our responsibility . both human. and directed forward to these vaccines. 2 5 or 6000000 palestinians leaving next week because the dead make 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 to starve that you know american rulers all the community is only going to go there are 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 were cruel to me tell you how. it worked against the israeli interests inside the country miss and yahoo's main rival in governing partner defense minister billy 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 another 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. tel aviv. not only from so-called migrant concentration camps or getting a media rebranding and i joe biden's new facilities for kids at least that appears to be the message from u.s. outlets reporting on the president's reopening of a site for migrant teens with disturbing elements though more reminiscent of prisons new administration claims it will only operate during the pandemic but isn't it now asked 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 practice is that they're put in camps after being separated

from their parents different dates under the articles and very different titles the one from a cobra 20 reads the american tradition of caging children the one from this week is 1st migron facility for children opens under biden and the 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 open door

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 the ministration no 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 where 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 a 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 pres united states 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 it and you're trying to reports ness that brings up today the lease a faucet here or not he will be back with in about half an hour.