headlines in r.t. in a day of political upheaval in armenia the prime minister's call for early elections is rejected by the opposition he also says the country's military masturbate him after he sacks the head of the armed forces saying he was part of an attempted coup. will do to all soldiers and officers generals do your job god borders on the territorial integrity of our mean you this is my order and no one can disobey. i i will clashes erupted is that the protesters as well as supporters of prime minister nicole passion and faced off in the capital get a van and also to come this essential vaccines for political influence critics slam

israel for sending countries jobs in exchange for diplomatic support. oh good evening watching our international start this hour with that breaking news because i mean with opposition has rejected an offer from the country's prime minister for early elections earlier standoff between opponents and supporters of prime minister nicole passion yann rocked the capital gather van and police were deployed in large numbers all after the prime minister sacked the chief of the armed forces general staff saying that he was part of an attempted military coup in the raf is the tensions could escalate further. i was i was i was

i saw massive opposing rallies we're seeing close to one another in central hear of an official crowd numbers are yet to be confirmed they are estimated to be in their thousands. thanks. drivers were seen honking their horns as crowds chanted anti passion and slogans some have been driving too with photos of the prime minister made in fake blood stuck on their vehicles opponents of the cole passion and have also been filmed standing on their balconies giving the thumbs down sign and here by there were rallies in support of the prime minister earlier in the day he did take to facebook to tell supporters that he needs them and the prime minister and his son they met the crowds to assure that the situation is manageable and that he's ready to discuss any problems in the country but they block streets and paralyze traffic they're chanting that they wanted the prime minister protesters have also set up

a makeshift camp next to the parliament building in yellow van and the being encouraged to boil position leaders to stay there until m.p.'s vote for the resignation of the prime minister he also insists that the army chief he dismissed remains quote his brother but he is demanding that the country's military a bay hear him after he sat the head of the armed forces saying that he was part of an attempt to kill. no i don't want to also officers generals do your job guard borders and the territorial integrity of armenia this is my order and no one can disobey to do with holding this railway and it's finished. down at the negotiating table with the opposition consultations on elections the prime minister and the government of armenia are no longer able to make adequate decisions in this football 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 called to refrain from using force against people whose children died defending their homeland and care about. armenians general staff demanded the immediate resignation of the prime minister and his government military coups nicole passion and being unable to make sound decisions in times of crisis on top of that the military is unhappy about what they describe as numerous attempts to discredit the armed forces there same goes on to claim to that bashing and inefficient management has brought armenia to the verge of demise now earlier hello call journalist cut and have. visited the protests in the capital of armenia here's some of the highlights of how things are ravelled on both sides of the dispute. what we could see in goals for meetings in here and square where opposition gathered together is the absence of provocations which is very rare. in a meeting so that there is very clear deviation between the opposition and the

supporters and that's why we know no clashes no real provocations and no clashes and. statement of prime minister was. all the representatives of force does not mean ministries to broaden doing their direct responsibility it is. not to get into great detail into any political process is and a call to opposition was an opportunity to make a dialogue and he mentioned that the dialogue is opposition needs a guy alone as well despite that think that their main theme on steel resignation. well political tensions in armenia escalated following the military

conflict in the disputed nickel and i cut it back region in late last year which saw as a big john make significant gains forcing a means to cede large swathes of territory the opposition has been calling on the armenian prime minister to step down ever since accusing him of treason and mismanagement article just on of the bloody military conflict that between armenia and azerbaijan join me in the studio a bit early with some more in-depth analysis on the political crisis this whole process that has been brewing for months because it all stems from armenians and well mcgoohan attacks defeats last year's war the armenian government the promise their people that they would come out victorious out of this clash with us thereby john over these. this disputed region over nagorno-karabakh i spent a month there well as the war was breaking out all around me and basically from the very start and all throughout the war everything that we've heard everything that journalists have heard everything that the population the people there. from the

armenian side it was we're going to come out victorious yes we are falling back a little bit but that's a tactical retreat and we will regain our positions and don't worry we have it under control so when i was there by john and armine signed a peace deal which russia effectively brokered is a poor meany and it's for ordinary people as an absolute shock because according to that deal they had to concede it's like 2 thirds of nagorno-karabakh to azerbaijan and that when that was the mission that's when the protests started that's when people started to come to the streets and when they started to call on world local trash man to step down because they blame this on the him and essentially passion and to try to just push the blame on something else and at a certain point it was almost like he was trying to blame the military to blame the soldiers for not doing enough he obviously he retracted that he later he said that

he didn't mean that but that's when the bad blood between him and the military started because i've been there soldiers they did all the could they just they were overpowered militarily they were overpowered they had no response they had no answer to the drone problem because the drones they were just obliterating their positions and we were absolutely not ready for some of you know their defense systems were not ready for that so that's when it started basically people heartbroken absolutely devastated because we go to karabakh it's not just some piece of mountainous which it is for you or for me we don't have that you know feeling it's for that for them it's a matter of a matter of national pride so that defeat. having to concede 2 thirds of the territories which are overwhelmingly populated by ethnically armenian people that was absolutely devastating and through the course of all these months it seems and while it is obvious now passion and hasn't the prime minister hasn't done enough to

well to do so back together the divisions in the armenian society just so back together to heal this woman this massive wall and looking at the pictures today it's clear that it does have a fair amount of support doesn't it i mean the call for supporters to come on to the streets and they did and how much support does he have exactly why is that support there given what you've just said judging from what i see right now it very much reminds me as to what was happening there back in october in november when it was still hard when the ground was still bleeding from the last of the war basically i did see thousands of people turn out against an equal passion on a given back then but again every single taxi driver that i would talk to back then he would tell me you something along the lines well i don't know i don't know why people are so angry like a lot of people do support the prime minister after all remember he came into power as the man of the streets so to speak he was you. were there with

a crowd he came as part of a revolution himself so really the streets and the public support is all that he has to legitimize him as the country's leader that's why the his kneejerk reaction to this statement by the military was to call in his supporters to gather in the in the city center because this is what legitimizes him and that's why the opposition is following the same route because they know if a lot of people come out and if it is obvious that there is so many people who want him to go that the that the moves in the way that the mood in armenia has changed because of this war and people and fewer people now support him after the after the defeat and that the blue. game that the pin the blame of the defeat on him called passion on this thing that it's an attempted military coup but again we haven't seen any military in the streets as the general chief of staff he signed a letter along with some 40 other top officers generals they have called on him to

resign but again they called in everybody to refrain from violence so to me it looks like the last world really the last warning literally the last warning to passion and it came as a complete surprise to partially and so he's trying to find this balance as to he doesn't want to be more hard core than he needs to be and he's trying to and it is clear that he did not have a plan for this is just you just reacting on the girl like something happens he reacts well it's not like he had a he had a contingency plan for that at least it doesn't look like he had one to me or back in november there was another rally in the armenian capital when hundreds of demonstrators did break into the government building they were strongly against the prime minister's decision to end fighting in the back saying that they won't give up their lands under the deal reached with as vision back in this whole there is a disputed region taken during the conflict any armenians say that will never

forgive passion and for that law. however the current unrest does come from a more recent disagreements inside the armenian government over weapons at the army's disposal one quarter as morn. 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 block 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 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 either statement has any confirmed substance behind it since no evidence was provided to back paasschen yon's claims 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. the russian defense ministry does say that the missiles will use to go on a cutback adding that the prime minister was misled by inaccurate information says more international reaction has been coming in with russia the u.s. and to all voicing their opinions on the political crisis. 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. no matter where they take place across the world it is unacceptable for

a military to call for the resignation of an elected government we are closely following ongoing developments in armenia and encourage all parties to exercise calm and restraint and to escalate tensions peacefully without violence. ok let's turn to other news now on the pandemic and the issue of exercising soft power through vaccine diplomacy with jobs currently worth their weight in gold a chronic shortage is israel is negotiating political favors from countries in exchange for giving shots with more his poor asli. israelis say to share that stock effect scenes with other countries including with palestinian doctors as a generous means he might think about well we are talking about symbolic numbers of vaccines that were given to maris countries i took the decision in return for many things that we already received through many contacts in various areas that i will no detail here. but ports came trade off sought being made with countries which is

well listen people stood relations. sussed at its finest he often appears quite clear we will give you vaccines and in mattoon you give as well diplomatic support this is the czech embassy in tel aviv not so long ago paul promised to open a diplomatic office in jerusalem and in return the people of the czech republic would receive thousands of coronavirus vaccinations from israel or somalia has moved its embassy to jerusalem 100 page the same hungry 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 it's on the 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 he use us for anything he has to report to people in israel why he's doing it and to which countries he's doing it to you has to be transparent about it but there's nothing wrong with it we need to give to all of our citizens here in israel the vaccine. speak for we think couple 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 and 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 for 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 quit 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 roxanne but wish i played this operation 1st before bowing overstatements very far away country. no matter what is there and you know the diplomatic aerobatics are in can be a very yeah you are humanitarian gesture at me and very crying from read in those not from the far. more eloquent to go out and out human i help you know in hell why

aspect i think that sending them folksiness far away might be going to india. not nice for. our own again shows who our neighbors nearby admit they are on their our our responsibility. peace both your money cerium and wrecked it for it to keep these vaccines. 2 5 or 6000000 palestinians living next to it because the people that make knows no borders if you is not for israel to do it just don't buy it from up there no more fires are and then if you start on that you know american rulers all the community is only going to get there or there are israeli is moving 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 remarkable to me tell you how and perhaps how it worked against be israeli interests inside the country netanyahu is main rival in governing partner defense minister bill guns has harshly criticized the arrangements saying they had been reached without any governmental deliberation the fact that netanyahu trades in vaccines of israeli citizens that were paid for from their tax money without any accountability shows that he thinks he is running a kingdom and not a state next month hundreds of thousands of medina vaccines are expected to arrive in israel once the country has finished inoculating its own population the surplus supplies might be used to help normalize relations with new countries who knows how many more of these embassies might be springing up in jerusalem. r.t. tel aviv. the world health organization special envoy on cope with 19 is told

r.t. that the world should prepare for a new post pandemic reality for today even the bad i also want to that we should expect other dangerous strains to spread. 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 but we're going to avoiding the virus and this international

cooperation because if one country is brilliant and the neighbor is not so good that's not helpful to the people 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 getting to those of the data i've received the vaccination who vaccinated me and very importantly will number of vaccine i received i really think that's good practice now how the significance it used as possible as 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 vaccinations if it gets 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 a proto coast using vaccinations to the kids when enabling people to travel or enabling people to benefit from going to a particular event that needs to be discussed internationally. there's been as as most of your viewers will know a recent investigation into how this virus appeared through an independent scientific group that was set up under the auspices of the world health organization a joint independent group together with the chinese authorities and they are in the process of producing their report looking for hypotheses about the origins and

their report will detail where they've got to in relation to each of these hypotheses finding out the origins of any kind of pathogen whether it's the one causing this corona virus pandemic or other pathogens for example like it or particular kinds of influenza these investigations that difficult to do and as far as i'm concerned this is a process it's on track. it's very political and a lot of people are watching it and we have to wait until the report appears before any further judgments could be made. and also long ago they were called at donald trump's concentration camps for migrants however the same facilities being operated by the biden ministration things thing to be getting the thumbs up from the media so why is the coverage so different this time around is it a try. the same famous outlet reporting on essentially the same controversial

issue of how children who are legally cross america's southern border are treated by the u.s. government the general practices that they're put in camps after being separated from their parents there for and dates under the articles and very different titles the one from tobar 20 reads the american tradition of caging children the one from this week is the 1st migrant facility for children opens under biden and told in these 2 unmistakably different i'm not the one to judge but it seems under biden are the words that make the difference this is though how the dems were destroying trump not so long ago for oh they couldn't stop repeating. in cages there is a very clear intent and they are carrying out the intent which is to separate these families and put these children in cages they watch in horror as children are torn

from their families and thrown into cages but make no mistake what's open door reopened after joe biden took charge is spelled f.a.a. c i l i t y facility that we're. trying to survive this is not kids being kept in cages this is this is this is a facility that was opened that's going to follow the same standards as other h.h.s. facilities ok i get partisan solidarity but there must be someone in the democratic camp with the ballast vision who would say guys this isn't right these double standards in how you look at treating young migrants being go here's what congresswoman alexandria ocasio cortez tweeted. this is not ok never has been ok never will be ok no matter the ministration 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 that 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 in 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 there right speaking of vice presidents once in 2019 cavalera 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. ok let's give you a recap then on vents in armenia today because armenians opposition has rejected an

offer from the country's prime minister for new elections a standoff between opponents and supporters of prime minister nicole passion and the capper he had a van and police were deployed in large numbers all after the prime minister sang the chief of the armed forces general staff saying that he was part of an attempted military and rafi's that tensions could escalate further. well experts we hear from do agree that the only democratic way out of this crisis is to go to snap elections. well i think is most sensible thing would be to call for new elections because that buys a little bit of time it sounds democratic and as you said the opposition saying they want a democratic constitution solution so it would serve all right we'll have new elections it'll take a few rich to organize them so who by sometime you can try and patch up his relations with the army in the meantime. slight chance to you would win the

elections what's happening is almost a normal thing you go to when a country suffers a defeat in wars or is it people looking for scary good people looking to blame people who can't really closely accept a new reality which is to have lost a lot of territory huge human cost as this whole war. didn't start a war started lost it. obviously have to resign you couldn't expect to have school you didn't start the war interesting areas you did the problem of arab leaders that they lost the war 6 weeks war that left 6000 people dead in moscow intervened in november 2 to obtain a cease fire and have things calm down and calm down the situation so everybody sort of reached you know. they lost the war but they're also saying. the box should have been better protect maybe change and the problem is that the army feels discredited death lost the war and dumb down dour all day they have anger

at their humiliation and so i think it's more between the general staff the generals and the president that the thing of course your position tries to make use of it but it's some it's not really. the opposition at least the game it's more of an issue between the president and the religion that needs to be solved. so that's how the news is looking and i hear not international just come half os 7 is more from us than the headlines at the top there.

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