in a day of political upheaval in our media the prime minister's pull for elections is rejected by the opposition he also says the minute you must obey him to he signed the armed forces chief saying he was part of an attempted coup. do you do to focus is. do your job. to ruin for me this is my no one can disobey the. clashes erupted as thousands of protesters as well as supporters of prime minister mcauliffe faced off in the capital of here. on and off the news a shock to the arm for travel through europe new job and chunks of the says cope

with vaccine passports could be in use within months but the european commission says it's not a done deal yet. bring you your news every hour of the day this is all it international for myself and the whole team here moscow and i will. start off with a story that's grabbing headlines the opposition in armenia has rejected an offer from the prime minister for snap elections a standoff between opponents on supporters of nicole rocks the capital you are fun and police were deployed in large numbers the escalation is in response to. the chief of the armed forces general staff saying he was part of an attempted military coup and there are fears the tensions could spiral far.

thank you thank you thank you thank you. thank you. very. much have opposing rallies were seen close to one another and sometimes you are official crowd numbers are yet to become found but they are estimated to be enough pounds. drivers have been honking call horns as crowd chanted slogans some have been driving with photos of the prime minister smeared in fake blood start their calls opponents often call passion on have also been filmed standing on the balconies giving the thumbs down sign the opposition bloc streets and paralyze traffic chanting that they wanted the prime minister out protesters have also set up a makeshift camp next to the parliament building in the capital and are reportedly being encouraged by opposition leaders to stay there until and please vote for the

resignation of the prime minister meanwhile the other side nearby there were rallies in support of prime minister push him there and today he actually took to facebook to tell supporters that he needs them the prime minister and his son that met the crowds to assure that the situation was manageable and that he's ready to discuss any problems of the country he also insisted that the army chief he dismissed remains quote as proper but still too long too that the country's military a pay him after he signed the head of the armed forces saying he was part of an attempted coup. to also slow this is general it's your job god borders on the terror to rule integrity of our mean you know this is my war and no one can disobey to do with losing this really nice finish. in the sit down at the negotiating table with the opposition our consultations or no actions the prime minister and the governments of all me no longer. to make the quick decisions in

this full and critical situation for the armenian people given the current situation the own forces of the resumed nation 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 what i mean years general staff insists on the resignation of the prime minister and his government the military accuses nicole passion and 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 the armed forces the statement goes on to claim that pushing out an official management has brought our media to the verge of demise our local journalist in yerevan was there for us as the opposition prepared for its night of demonstrations. right now we are between 2 towns in the fall of one square right behind me because she is building a nation

a lesson of parliament here right in the streets of the opposition that is pitching the chance to make camp. because you wish is to stand still 24 seventh's and also the they are preparing for that now i. ring of fire woods for him fire everything good for the ration for the night and not just the one night but to every day when the force is the off position leaders there was also waiting for the president of the year to make. some decisions. to the the head office of the president the union is also in the parliament street shows the main rule says that the main actions will take place right here political tensions in armenia

escalated following the military conflict in the disputed newborn a car back region last. saw azerbaijan make significant gains forcing the armenians to cede large swathes of territory now the opposition has been calling on the armenian prime minister to step down at the sense accusing him of treason and mismanagement ati's equals tunnel was actually covering the bloody military conflict between the 2 countries for us when he earlier joined pharma with some in-depth analysis on the political crisis this whole process that has been brewing for months because it all stems from armenians and we're going to tampax defeat in last year's war the armenian government the promise their people that they would come out victorious out of this clash with their by john over the issue of this disputed region over the going to come about. 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 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 i 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 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 him to step down because they blame this on 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 soldiers they did all they 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 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 feeling it's for that for them it's a matter of a matter of national pride so that defeat and having to concede to. the territories which. overwhelmingly populated by the 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 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 then 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 on his. 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 of the 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 on and it came as a complete surprise to passion and so he's trying to find this balance as to he doesn't want to be more hardcore 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 while back in november as he called mansion that 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 fighting and of course i care about saying they won't give up their lands until the deal finally reached with azerbaijan baku holds areas of the disputed region taken during the

conflict many armenians say they'll never forgive us for that. however the current unrest comes from a more recent disagreement inside the armenian government over weapons at the army's disposal as donal quarter 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 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 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 paasschen yon's been given inaccurate information. according to the objective unreliable information available to us no miso systems of this time were used during the conflict. it's appears that armenian prime minister. was misled and used 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 what has been international reaction of the past few hours with the russia the u.s. the e.u. at taco 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 de-escalate tensions peacefully without violence the european union is following developments in amenia very closely we ask all activists for calm and avoid any rhetoric or actions that could lead to further

escalation experts we've heard from agree the only democratic way out of this crisis is to go for snap elections. should be up to the people to decide their form of government spent certainly the military will want to have their say they're upset you know that they lost the war. and they want to make sure that they have a stake in the outcome of the next election you know they really want to force men to a position where he asked to leave office and we'll just see how the prime minister is their votes maneuver and handle such a delicate situation. i think that what he's doing he's doing very deliberately it's a mission given to him by someone from the west we all believe that he came to power with one goal to draw russia away from the southern caucasus from armenia to make russia leave the region so that the turkish military can enter the southern

caucasus so that nato can gain a foothold in the region this did not have the support of the military or the people essentially the whole of civil society demands that the prime minister step down i do not believe that he can survive this people looking to blame people because you can't accept a new reality which is to have lost a lot of territory but it didn't start the war and wasn't to blame for that it's the military in the build up for many years of not harming the military properly and not seeing much as it is we're going to try to physically remove him. to take care of. in a normal sort of military coup they would. continue to push. you know action solution is the best for everybody including physio and just opposition has a very good chance of winning if they have certain. because. she's in st.

demonstrations perhaps. finding some resistance from other forces sort of elections is the best solution for everybody. in the arm for the e.u. striking travel industry could be just months away and it will likely come in the form of a covert fax a nation that still costs at least the job and chancellor thinks it. with respect to digital vaccination bass all member states agree that when he says the thing the technical preparations were done by the european commission as well as member states in january now when he's implemented this so that there's comfortability among different national passes we in germany have decided that it will develop such a vaccination pass the key data that this digital pass must contain had been defined by the european commission and member states. mrs merkel may have jumped the gun a bit with the european commission president and yet to confirm anything solid has ot he shot it to pinsky with details. that seems significance of controversial but

it does seem after what angler merkel said that this could be the way forward for the e.u. now germany and france were originally said to be resistive to this idea but the fact that she's now giving it the green light well that is a game changer but while it seems that what merkel was saying that this had been approved there was a bit of a different story coming out from the leaders in the official statement it wasn't so sure essentially saying that they would be a common approach and this would be an issue would be revisited this is what is still a long delay at sait on the vaccine certificates. indeed we discussed this topic as you're now there are still a number of open question political question the 1st one is of course what these certificates will be used for but they also scientific question another call for

vaccines the difficulty originally came from countries like greece and cyprus who have already greenlit their own plans to allow travelers from the u.k. and from israel to go there on holiday this year if they can show that they've been and not kill a tick but there's huge criticism of this idea especially given the massive problems there have been rolling up the qubit 900 vaccine here in the u. many feel that this would essentially create a 2 tier system it would be unfair of form of discrimination so really many people unhappy about abba so dear that to give you a sense of what the situation is here in the u. around 80 percent of adults in the countries have received the chair that's very far behind countries such as the u.k. a former e.u. member where around 27 percent don't and don't support the job now there have also been as i mentioned many major issues surrounding the supply of kuwait 900 vaccines have been distribution issues. use in lower than expected deliveries and worse

still some european leaders have been pretty sniffy about some of the vaccines particularly the astra zeneca vaccine and so because of that and the questions being raised about the efficacy of this spec seen many in europe are now refusing point blank to have it it's been reported that 4 out in every 5 doses that we've delivered to the immune haven't been used yet and even only a mobile said that she won't have the vaccine now admittedly she's 66 and the fish if i see germany is at the astra zeneca vaccine should be given to those over the age of 65 but still this is signaling to many people that there is an issue with this fact seen now the e.u. leaders following their video conference on thursday also clenched quick implementation of the code that 1000 facts in recognizing any they said just step back and excel or rate this program to ensure that everybody had the chair but it

is of course it has so far been slow this is what the joint statement from clearly just had to say we need to urgently accelerate that more prize ocean production and distribution of vaccines as well as vaccination when russia says it's ready to step up and send doses of sputnik v. to the e.u. to vaccine was recently given a glowing report in the medical journal the lancet which ranked it as being one of the most effective vaccines against the virus the e.u. has said it would. be but of course that will be subject to regulatory approval. since the violent events of jan with the sec thought the u.s. capitol american government officials have been increasingly warning of the specter of domestic terrorism and with thousands of national guard troops still stationed in washington it appears they still see the threat as quite real artie's caleb

moore penn has the story. domestic terrorism is thriving in the u.s. that's what the intelligence services and the department of homeland security claim almost 2 months after the january 6th capital riots the acting chief of the capitol police came with bombshell testimony before a house committee that the insurrectionists are ready to strike again this time in a much more deadly manner targeting both lawmakers and joe biden himself we know that members of the militia groups that were present on january 6th have stayed at their desires that they want to blow up the capitol and kill as many members as possible with a direct nexus to the state of the union which we know that date has not been identified so based on that information we think that it's prudent that capitol police maintain its enhanced and grow blast security posture until we address those

vulnerabilities going forward the revelations came as officer pittman was asked about security measures on capitol hill both the fence and the ongoing national guard presence pittman cited intelligence agencies and the f.b.i. is the source for the revelations she said that the insurrectionists quote want to send a message to the nation about who is in charge of the legislative process for the department of homeland security was quick to respond to pitman's testimony offering $77000000.00 to state and local governments in order to fight domestic terrorism in the almost 20 years since september 11th 2001 the terrorism threat landscape has changed considerably today the most significant terrorist threat facing the nation comes from a lone offenders and small groups of individuals who commit acts of violence motivated by domestic extremist idia logical beliefs the $911.00 parallels did not come out of thin air last month we heard the proposal from nancy polo. about

setting up a $911.00 style public commission and now this month nancy pelosi has made this proposal public however republicans objected to the makeup and scope of palosi as proposed commission arguing that it is politically driven and not made up equally of democrats and republicans meanwhile the 1st hearing on capitol hill regarding the capitol hill riot saw security officials pointing fingers and blaming each other for mistakes that led to the assault and left many more questions than answers police officers were not trained on how to respond to an infiltration of the capitol building is that correct. when you talk about infiltration you talk about a large insurrection like we saw in the january 6 know anyone from the department of homeland security contact you about a potential national special security event designation no i'm not aware of anybody

from a d h s reaching out no one contacted thank them to stay with me senator no contact with me or my office are all capitol police officers outfitted with riot gear no they're not the aftertaste of the january 6th capitol riots but let's 6 people dead including a u.s. capitol police officer it does not seem to be going away as the date of joe biden's address to a joint session of congress is left yet to be announced at this point the u.s. capitol is looking like a state of war bastion and with the narrative of domestic terrorism gaining momentum biden's mission of healing the wounds of deepening divisions seems to fail political analyst and radio host a pop cans told me that the democrats are trying to suppress the political rivals. you're looking at a democratic party attempting to criminalize corner political opposition if you can tell by the fences and barbed wire around the capitol part of washington d.c.

around the united states government looks like a dictator's fortress in some 3rd world country they're trying to demonstrate to the world they're terrified of people like me who wouldn't hurt a fly and they're trying to continue with this lie and there's theme until they're entitled to start making the rest and they're trying to stimulate people on the fringes there are people on the fringe in every political party to do something about it so they can then point to all of us and say we're all guilty of what these 2 guys in the pickup truck did we all need to be dealt with this is a short trip to tyranny i am a student of world history i understand how this works they're following a manual that is well known in the 20th century. and find me over and as well it's claimed need to exercise some soft power through facts and diplomacy with jobs carney what that weight in gold amidst chronic shortages the country's apparently negotiating political favors from other nations in exchange for giving shots while

his point to sarah lunde. israelis say to share with stock effect scenes with a 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. reports came tradeoffs sought being made with countries which least some people stood relations. sauce paula at its finest he often appears quite clear we will give you vaccines

and in return you give us all 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 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 uses us for 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 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 quit israel doesn't manufacture the vaccines itself and the idea was 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 seen to the west bank and gaza over half the population has been vaccine but i wish i played this operation 1st before going over statement very far away country. no matter what is there and you know the diplomatic aerobatics. in can be a very humanitarian gesture at me and very crying from red indians not far. more island pointed out and that human eye hello you know in hell why aspect i think that sending them folksiness far away might be fine for india and not nice for. our own negations who are neighbors nearby and are on their our our responsibility both humanitarian and practical for reach these vaccines. 5 or 6000000 by the stream use.