as suddenly purchasing power in top its currency collapses. in a day of political upheaval in armenia the prime minister's calls for early elections rejected by the opposition he also says the military must obey him after he sacks the armed forces chief saying he was part of an attempted coup. this is general. god and the territorial integrity of armenia this is my order and no one can disobey. clashes erupted as thousands of protesters as well as supporters of prime minister faced off in the capital. plus in other news this hour a shot in the arm for travel through europe the german chancellor says. could be

a new month's european commission says it's not a done deal yet. and essential vaccines for political influence critics. sending countries jabs in exchange for diplomatic support. worldwide this is r.t. international from moscow where it's thursday evening and it's midnight and that's where the big story is that we've been tracking for you today the opposition that's rejected an offer from the prime minister for snap elections earlier a standoff between opponents supporters of. the capitol police were deployed in large numbers yes collations in response to passing on sacking the chief of the armed forces general stuff saying that he was part of an attempted military coup and the riff is that the tensions could spiral further.

massive opposing rallies we're seeing close to one another in central official crowd numbers. but there are estimated to be in the thousands. drivers have been honking their car horns as crowd chanted anti passion and slogans some of the driving with photos of the prime minister smeared in fake blood stuck on their vehicles opponents and they call pascha yeah i've also been filmed standing on their balconies giving the thumbs down sign. the opposition block streets and paralyze traffic that chanting that they wanted the prime minister out a test as of also set up a makeshift camp next to the parliament building in the arab and a reportedly being uncovered by opposition leaders to stay there until i am paid to vote for the resignation of the prime minister. here by the rallies in support of

prime minister passion and earlier in the day he took to facebook to tell supporters he needs them the prime minister and his son that met with crowds to assure them that the situation was manageable and that he was ready to discuss any problems in the country. he also insisted that the army chief that he dismissed remains quote his brother but he's demanding that the country's military obeys him they sacked the head of the armed forces saying that he was part of an attempted coup. no i don't want to also this is generals do your job god borders and the territorial integrity of armenia this is my order and no one can disobey today we're holding this rally finished all accidents all sit down at the negotiating table with the opposition consultations or no actions the prime minister and the government of army are no longer able to make adequate decisions in this fateful and critical situation for the armenian people given the current

situation the own forces of armenia the resignation of the prime minister and the government at the same time we cool to refrain from using force against people whose children died defending their homeland and care about. well i mean as general stuff insists on the resignation of the prime minister and his government the military accuses nicole passion of being unable to make sound decisions in times of crisis on top of that the military's unhappy about what they describe as numerous attempts to discredit the armed forces the statement goes on to claim that passion and inefficient management has brought our mania to the verge of demise. a local journalist said karren about his young reporting for me out of and says the opposition's preparing for a night of demonstrations. right now where between 2 towns in the fall of one square right behind me you can see. the building of national leslie a parliament here right in the streets of the opposition was teaching the chance to

make that camp. because we should is to stand still $24.00 seventh's and also they they are preparing for that night's. drinking firewood for campfire everything good for the ration for the night and not just the one night but every day 247 yes the all physician leaders they are lost and also waiting for the president of for me to make. from the seizure. he had the office of the president before he is also in the parliament street sold the main role says that the main actions will take place right. the political tensions in armenia escalated following the military conflict in the disputed no go and i care about region last autumn which

saw azerbaijan make significant gains forcing the armenians to cede large swathes of territory the opposition's been calling on the armenian prime minister to step down ever since accusing him of treason and mismanagement. of who covered the bloody military conflict between armenia and azerbaijan force during that drew from here earlier with some in-depth analysis on the political crisis this whole process that has been brewing for months because it all stems from a meaning as and when the going to town backs a defeat in last year's war the i mean ian government the promise their people that they would come out victorious out of this clash with those there by john. over the issue of 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 heard from the i mean inside it 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 i mean it signed a peace deal which russia effectively brokered it came poor mean eons for ordinary people as an absolute shock because according to that deal they had to concede 2 thirds of the go in a car back to azerbaijan and that when it sparked that 5 was the ignition that's when the protests started that's when people started to come out to the streets and when they started to call on world local trashing and to step down because they blame this on the him and essentially passion and he tried 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 did mean that but that's when the bad blood between him and the military started

because i've been there and 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 which were absolutely not ready for the you know their defense systems were not ready for that so that's when it started basically people heartbroken absolutely devastated because you 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 and. having to concede 2 thirds of the territories which are overwhelmingly populated by the ethnically armenian people that was absolutely devastating and through the cause 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 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 how much support does he have exactly and 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 moon was still bleeding from the last in the war basically i did see thousands of people turn out against nickel passion on a given back then but again every single taxi driver that i would talk to back when he would tell me 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 like he came with the 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 as as the country's leader that's why he's kneejerk reaction to the statement by the military was to call on 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 i mean that the mood in armenia has changed because of this war and people world fewer people now support him after the after the defeat and that they blame. that the pin the blame of the defeat on him passion is saying that it's an attempted military coup but again we haven't seen any military in the streets 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 on 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 passion and so he's trying to find this balance as to what he doesn't want to be more who or than he needs to be and he's trying to and it is clear that he did not have a plan for this he's just he just reacting on the girl like something happens he reacts it's not 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. he goes down over now back in november there was another violent rally in the armenian capital when hundreds of demonstrators broke into the government building they were strongly against the prime minister's decision to end the fighting and all i care about they won't give up their lands under the deal reached with azerbaijan back to hold the areas of the disputed region taken during the conflict and many armenians say they'll never forgive partner for the loss. the current unrest comes from

a more recent disagreement inside the armenian government over weapons of the army's disposal as double quarter now explains. there must always be someone to blame for losing a war what leader would blame himself right he wouldn't be a leader for much longer that was the dilemma hanging over prime minister posh and young and then he made his move he blamed russian weapons for his country's military defeat in a go in a car 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 russian made is skandia missiles either did not explode or quote exploded 10 percent it's not exactly clear what the pm meant by that 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 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 pasha neon is now at odds with in fact russia's ministry of defense says none of their iskenderun missile systems were in any way involved in the nuke or in a car conflict giving russia's defense officials the impression that posh and yon's been given inaccurate information by i mean she is there also be doing that. according to the objective unreliable information available to us no miso systems of this top were used during the conflict. it's appears that armenian prime minister. was misled and used in cuba information. 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 a 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 standoff in front of the government buildings with the fate of the armenian state itself hanging in the balance has been international reaction over the past few hours with russia the us and 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 the old military coups or coup attempts 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 our mania and encourage all parties to exercise calm and restraint and to escalate tensions peacefully without violence of the experts we've been hearing from the grave the only democratic way out of this crisis is to go for snap elections. well i think his 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 wanted democratic and constitutional solution so it. will not have new elections it'll take a few minutes to organize them so who by some time he can turn patch up his relations with the army in the meantime and slight chance to he would win the elections what's happening is almost a normal thing you go to when a country itself is a defeat in malls and stores and people looking for scary could people who can blame people who can't really there's you can accept the new reality which is to have lost a lot of territory huge human cost as a whole who. didn't start the war. and then lost it. you have to you couldn't expect to have school he didn't start through interesting areas he did the problem of i mean is that they lost the war the 6 weeks war that left 6000 people dead in moscow intervened in november or 2 to obtain a cease fire and have things calmed down and count down the situation so everybody

sort of. they lost the war but they're all saying the same. should have been better protect maybe and the problem is that the army feels discredited lost the war and dour all day they have anger at their humiliation and so i think it's more between the general style. 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. an issue between the president and the military that needs to be sort. of happy with us we've got our other headline news all the way covert vaccination possible to appeal to college for a year travelers. that's if member states can find a united approach we're going to be live with our correspondent on this after the break.

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and this changes the way or genes function. sometimes for generations. and. hello again a shot in the arm for flagging travel across the european union could be just months away and it'll come in the form of a covert vaccination digital past at least that's according to the german chancellor angela merkel. i think that's the point with respect to digital vaccination bass all member states agree that when he says to think of the technical preparations were done by the european commission as well as member states in january now when you temper man that's said that there's comfortability among different national passes when germany have decided that it will develop such vaccinations that the key data that has digital past mass contained have been

defined by the european commission and member states and i. thought that statement was not confirmed by the president of the european commission confused you should be don't pack your bags yet let's get an update from our correspondent shot of. what's been said then i'm lost because i know just lost you there but if you can hear me just want to pick up all the e.u. leaders have been saying all of those discussions up to a conference that took place today that they have pledged quicker provision all vaccines to saying that they recognize the need to step up and ensure that all have access to the chad as so far as we know there's been much criticism of what's been known as being a word fairly slow progress let's talk a listen to what the joint statement had to say. we need to urgently accelerate the authorization production and distribution of back since as well as vaccination.

well vaccinations to typical as you mentioned there are controversial but it does seem now that this is exactly the road that the e.u. is going to be taking and germany and france was said to be the ones that were resistive to this idea but now with angela merkel the german chancellor saying that she's all in it that is a game changer call that vaccine certificates originally came from countries like greece and cyprus who've already greenlit the plan to travelers for u.k. and even israel to go there on holiday for the summer providing that they can show that they have been inoculated against kopechne 19 but there is massive criticism of this idea especially given the fact that there are problems of bowling vaccines in the u. many feel that they swoop be discriminatory it would be unfair would it create a 2 tier system whereby people would be able to say well i can leave the country because i've had my job and others who are waiting for it to be able to go anywhere

let's have a list 'd look at some of those the figures narrow 6 percent of adults in the e.u. have already received a jap let's compare that with the u.k. where around 27 percent took already given it and they have been major issues here in europe surrounding the supplies and distributions all the different vaccines and therefore even being popular at the surprise it broke spectate from major and manufacturers like astra zeneca would still after some european leaders raise doubts about the effectiveness of the astra zeneca a vaccine which is a swedish u.k. vaccine many in europe are now refusing to even have it it's been reported on thursday that around 4 out of every $35.00 doses delivered to the e.u. hasn't it being used yet that is a huge proportion of unused vaccines. even angela merkel said that she won't have

the astra zeneca vaccine that is though because she's $66.00 and in germany the fictional advice is not to administer back scene to anybody in the age of $65.00 now russia has said that it's ready to send doses of sputnik to the e.u. the vaccines recently giving at glowing reports in the medical journal the lancet which ranked is being one of the most effective vaccines against code 19 the e.u. has said it will purchase but it's me that's of course subject and regulatory approval but at the moment in europe problem still with the rollout of vaccines e.u. leaders saying that they really need to know how to accelerate that and of course it looks like they're all forging ahead now with the idea of vaccines that if it gets to the people to be able to travel and possibly who knows it will go into restaurants in the future. ok so sort of a 5050 on the solid a's in the here there with the vaccine lottery ok how to do

best in paris thanks for that. or saying with the pandemic developments namely claims of exercising soft power through vaccine diplomacy with jobs currently worth their weight in gold about chronic shortages in places israel is negotiating political favors from countries in exchange for giving shot here's paula slayer. israelis say to share what stock effect scenes with of the countries including with palestinian doctors a generous mean few might think about but. 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 israel recently bolstered relations.

sus 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 chick 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 though 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 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 of 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 do it in the original price to get to all the countries that need it and we shouldn't make any profit out of it i do agree we should help other countries and the 3rd welt 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 a position leaders are criticizing the secret nature of these deals and cooling for mold jabs to be seen to the way spank and gaza over half the population has made roxanne but wish i played this operation 1st before going over satan's very far away from actually. no matter what is there and you know the diplomatic aerobatics . are in can be a very you and humanitarian gesture at me and very crying read somewhere in there is not far. more eloquent to go out and out human i help you know in hell why aspect i think that sending them books seems far away might be going to india. not nice for we have built our own again shows to our neighbors nearby that are on

there are were our responsibility. peace both human cerium and practical for it to keep these vaccines. 2 5 or 6000000 by the stream years leaving next week because the dead make knows no borders in peace not for israel to to eat just to buy it for almost there are no more fives or and then given to some that you know american rulers all the community is only going to get there or there are israeli jews 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 those regimes even though cruel to make that you know and perhaps have worked against be israeli interests inside the country netanyahu

is 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 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. tel aviv kind of showed news for now thanks for watching on call in bright but with the next hour to international up they say just over half an hour after the kaiser report.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race he's on also a scary dramatic development only really i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and tom. hi i'm max kaiser this is the kaiser report well stacy the powers that be seem to be getting it bit nervous yasser starting to see some nervousness as people in the at least in the beltway of america are starting to realize that max and

stacey were right as they keep on saying because you know a lot of the headlines and the news today are reflecting what we've been warning about are saying or predicting might happen over the past 10 years well this is from the washington post and their editorial board at this point whom won't to throw in the dollar but that doesn't mean there's no danger really really a want to throw on the dollar they spend. like a 1st there's a few paragraphs of just really old fod that you and i have already experienced many times oh yeah they're getting nervous and you know it for these types of editorials to appear lark's the beginning of a new phase where the folks that are in charge the elites now as they're called are starting to wake up to the fact that the world order that they've grown up with is being challenged by.