there's still search for grown children while adults look in hope for their parents . the headlines this friday morning from our 2 international armenia's parliament is under siege by opposition groups is the country spirals further into crisis the country's opposition stance with military chiefs calling on prime minister nicole personally and to step down beside the head of the armed forces say he was part of an attempted coup. move to get a standoff then between thousands of his supporters and opponents leading to clashes on the streets of the capital here of our we got a live report coming up from there next but some other news as well we're headlining 2 today shot in the arm for travel through europe just may be the german chancellor says covert vaccine passports could be in use for the months but the

european commission wants it's not a done deal. good morning for russia around the world live from moscow this is r.t. international with me kevin no it allows you heard there folks in 1st this friday and events in armenia over the last 24 hours or so country in term of this morning it has to be said as the opposition their military chiefs of called on the prime minister to step 3 in and reject this offer so far of snap elections a brief history of what's happened over the last 24 hours hundreds of the prime ministers opponents camping outside the parliament building there reportedly being encouraged by opposition leaders to stay there to please vote to remove him police are monitoring the area no serious clashes reported yet forties of course when i hope it stays that way are to constantly roast coffee at the same forest yeah quiet

so far as the country wakes up to a new day a new friday is it going to stay quiet for the weekend is the question in central europe and what's happening there. good morning kevin well right now we're standing in front of the nation's parliament which became the apis center of the current political crisis in armenia and you know several dozens opponents of the incumbent prime minister in a cold pashtun stayed here overnight demanding his resignation. you know from what we're seeing here right now they're bracing for a prolonged standoff said enough tan's barricades loading up on supplies and even firewood i mean if you can see over here there's a lot of bottles of water right beside the temp and if we move a little bit over down the road there's more people that gathered around the bonfire and if you can see the smoke that that smoke comes from kind of a makeshift heating systems that people here set up in order to warm up during

nights and i guess this is another sign that the latest round of the power struggle in armenia well could be here to stay now everything that you see here came after 8 turbulent chain of events in the country's capital yesterday the protest were sparked by remaining as top military command calling on the prime minister to step down claim in and i quote that his you know back to management has led the country to the brink of death. the prime minister and the government's no longer able to make an adequate decisions in this fateful and critical situation for the armenian people given the current situation the own fool says of the resignation of the prime minister and the governments of the same time we cool to refrain from using fools against people whose children are defending their homeland and kyra. on top of that the a military is unhappy about what they describe as in numerous attempts to discredit

the armed for such a passion and immediately fired back accusing those who demanded his resignation of an attempted coup and calling his supporters to take to the streets the opposite. back the military commanders stage its own rally near yvonne as fighter jets flew past now let's 1st have a listen to what he called a caution not had to say to his supporters. and then to also. generals do your job god borders on the territorial integrity of armenia this is my order and no one can disobey today we're holding this rally and will finish all accidents will sit down at the negotiating table with the opposition for consultations on elections. bhatia now has faced protests and calls to resign afterward his critics say was that the disastrous handling of a bloody 6 week conflict between a service john an ethnic armenian forces over the region of nigora to occur last

year that war ended in the controversial peace deal brokered by moscow that gave his service control over swaths of territory in the region that armenians had to fact so controlled since the 1990 s. military humiliation that many are meetings to blame for on the cold question on has seriously undermined his authority and sparked a wave of protests so what we're seeing here right now is kind of another episode of a greater political crisis in armenia. so right now i guess it's a wait and see approach and despite the prime minister demands to dismiss the chief of the general staff. the country's military chief is still in office because the armenian president hasn't signed off on the order adding more uncertainty to the already volatile situation also members of the parliament all expected to gather

for a special sessions a day to discuss the country's immediate political future as it hangs in the balance yeah things seem to be changing quickly there constantino they can stay rosko stay there in the capital for us if you will and keep us posted throughout the day nice to see this morning well as he was saying the unrest in armenia escalated if you're watching 24 hours ago we brought you all the breaking news is that with this series of events that triggered both opponents and supporters then to take to the streets late yesterday to force that message home opposition supporters blog share of the streets paralyzed in traffic chanting that they want the prime minister out they said they also condemned describing the situation as an attempted coup he himself marched through the streets of the capital with supporters as well he demanded that the country's military a baby him and warned them against into. fearing in politics the situation then at times turned violence who. was

was was. was. was the national tensions escalated in november when russia brokered peace deal between armenia and azerbaijan over the disputed region of nagorno-karabakh the armenian government had vowed victory in the war but end of the day the agreement was seen as a humiliating defeat and that's where this is already stemmed from of late demonstrators reacted to the truce by storming the government building in year of and then they strongly oppose the prime minister's decision to end the fighting adding that they would not give up the territory ceded under the deal personally and had agreed to let as a version hold on to key parts of that area many armenians say they will never forgive him for the loss. much of the current volatility has been fueled by a top level dispute over army weaponry to on the quarter explains that part of it. he's 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 a scandal 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 posh and yon is now at odds with in fact russia's ministry of defense says none of their is candor 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 me. according to the objective unreliable information available to us no missile systems of this top were used during the conflict it's appears that armenian prime minister and the i 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 international reactions been coming in with russia the us the e.u. and turkey o giving

a response to the crisis as they saw it. 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 told us the only democratic way out of this crisis is to go for a snap election. should be up to the people that 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 are looking to blame people basically accept a new reality which is to have lost

a lot of territory but it didn't start the war machine and wasn't to blame for that the military in the build up for many years of not harming the military properly and not seeing much and going to try and physically remove him. to take care of. in a normal sort of military coup they would. continue to push think you know action solution is the best for everybody including for and just opposition has a very good chance of winning if they have certain. because we don't want. demonstrations perhaps. finding some resistance from us a for instance sort of elections is the best solution for every. what do. you watch for the clocks going to 13 past the next a boost for the use flagging travel industry code may be just

a month away it will likely come if it does in the form of a covert vaccination digital pass and at least the german chancellor is thinking that i think that's the point with the respect to digital vaccination pass all member states agree that when he says to thank the technical preparations were done by the european commission as well as member states in january now when he temperament that's said that there is compatibility among different national passes we in germany have decided that it will develop such a vaccination past the key data that has digital past mass contained have been defined by the european commission and member states. jump the gun there a bit with the european commission president yet to confirm anything solid. he's got more vaccine significance of controversial but it does see what angle of local said that this could be the way forward for the e.u. you know germany and france were originally set 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 merkel was saying that this it being

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 won't be a common approach in this would be an issue with this it is this is what ursula vulgarly and that say on the vaccine certificates. indeed we discussed this topic as you know there are still a number of open question political question the 1st one is of course what these certificates will be used for but there are also scientific question now the call for vaccines 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 to 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 course of discrimination so really many people unhappy about apple so dear that to give you a sense of what the situation is here in the e.u. you around 80 percent of adults in countries have received the chap that's very far behind countries such as the u.k. a former e.u. member where around 27 percent tips and don't support the chat now there have also been as i mentioned many major issues surrounding the supply of coke with 900 vaccines they have been distribution issues in lower ringback 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 the 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 elegant local said that she won't have the vaccine now admittedly she's 66 and the official advice and germany is that the astra zeneca vaccine should be given to those over the 8. on 65 but still this is signaling to many people that there is an issue it's that scene now the e.u. leaders following their video conference on thursday also clenched quickly for fishing off the coast 1000 facts in recognizing many they said just step back and excel rate this program to ensure that everybody had the chair it is of course it has so far be slow this is what the joint statement from their leaders had to say we need to urgently accelerate that water rise ocean production and distribution of back since as well as vaccination when russia says it's ready to step up and send

doses of sputnik v. to you that vaccine was recently given a glowing report in the medical journal the lancet which ranked it has been one of the most effective vaccines against the virus the e.u. has said it would purchase the but of course that will be subject to regulatory approval. meantime other developments to brief you on health attorneys of warned against reported u.k. plans to make covert jobs mandatory for some workers pointing out it may be illegal under current legislation england's chief medical officer then has already told health staff are getting inoculated is their duty and the national health service the n.h.s. is reportedly considering making it obligatory for certain employees but it shows dr bob guild told us that some medical workers will see that as an attack on their autonomy the idea of making the nation compulsory is very shortsighted we need to understand that then we've been down to the trust of the medical

profession given the government already chaotic and much criticized handling of the and demick we've already lost a 1000 health and social. work force due to the pandemic people have been working exhaustingly long hours have witnessed tragic scenes. and to attack they have professional judgment and autonomy by making this compulsory i think is another straw to break the camel's back. u.k. medical choose to say the number of coronavirus patients has dropped and pressure on the n.h.s. is easing at the moment officials suggested the country's covert alert level should be downgraded with that in mind bob gilligan says mandatory inoculation could backfire if you make vaccination part of your terms of employment then what does a doctor do if you risk losing their job losing their profession that they've studied and worked so hard for or they comply is quite

a big stick to beat the profession with i don't think anybody could argue against the evidence or vaccination and what the government should try to do is understand if there is significant reluctance why that is support those will provide the more information but not to coerce them it was a survey early on in the endemic which showed the vast majority all doctors certainly felt that the government had completely had completely mis prove that confidence in government. us democratic party lawmakers are leading warnings of a growing danger of domestic terrorism next artie's kellam open examines them the alleged threats against top politicians and even repeated attacks on the capitol building. 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.

as 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 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. 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 this was and 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 you and 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 capital riots that left 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 well political analyst and radio host dave perkins thinks that democrats actions are an effort to silence rivals. you're looking at a democrat party attempting to criminalize scored a political opposition you can tell by the trenches and barbed wire around the capitol part of washington d.c. around the united states government looks like a dictator's fortress and 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 law and their steam until they're entitled to start making arrests 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 let's check out some other world view see just 60 seconds what you see and hear protest is wednesday gathering 3 to support the hunger strike of a greek rights get really group member 7 multiple life sentences and charged with several murders pleas shoes to a gas and water cannons to disperse the crowds that had gathered they arrested at least 13 demonstrators they convicted man is reportedly in a critical condition after almost a month without food. firefighters most helicopters in japan have been working to

put out this huge mountain fire that threatens nearby residents more than 200 have souls of been asked to evacuate the area. authorities in chile you have been skimming time in central russia to look at the snow there but i didn't post the state of emergency of a heavy snowstorm snow brought roads to a standstill more than 600 people have been evacuated they're being housed in temporary accommodation. business. and we thought we had it here in moscow the last few weeks finally germany's small brewers have been hit hard by the closure of boston restaurants in the pandemic with many now warning that may not survive peter all of the reports. god whether it's munich's october fest all colognes carnival plays

a leading role in germany's big celebrations has hit those parties hard as the need to implement coronavirus measures that seem cancelled and bars and restaurants closed which in turn has had a knock on effect for brewers who really bad this is a situation of the smaller breweries because say they're often selling their bureaus in restaurants shops and see no pops and restaurants are closed since november so there is no real sales at the moment for them be a sales of actually being declining in germany for a while now understood to be due to health concerns but over the last year they have gone off a cliff 17.3 percent down on a year on year sales for april 14 point one percent down for november some have looked to diversify to move with the times when a court in bavaria overturned

a ruling banning the sale of alcohol in public spaces last month this brewery in munich set up a machine as i mean so we have here the mobile tank which was created with 2 other companies and here you have fresh chain beer and the you can tap using their all the have to do is download the app at the top of your credit card and then if you scan secure code you can type directly through the app and also be contact less so that is also entirely covered conformant while a brewery near nuremberg saw a rush on their lock down creation named vaccine the 2000 cans they produced selling out in just over 3 hours cans and bottles they usually the territory of the larger producers the vast majority of germany small brewers sell direct to bars and restaurants all. all of which are closed with no real indication when they'll reopen the german government towers provided financial aid and while it has helped

it isn't a solution over 300 brewers of signed an open letter sent to angela merkel's government warning of an existential crisis in the industry while a lot of the talk has been about getting schools shops and hairdressers open there's no end in sight to covert restrictions on the hospitality industry if i can open i have to take on more debt but i really need an opening date i understand that it's difficult with the situation as it is but if i don't have an opening date i don't know. how much money i will need to until that day and i constantly will need to keep looking for more money somewhere and this is just it's i'm just immense challenge and eventually it will not work any more and eventually water won't make any sense this breweries use the time that they've been closed during the pandemic to upgrade production facilities in order to allow them to sell beer in pounds but that's all comes with extra costs and extra costs come with extra

risks just by a government support alone it's impossible to survive this so it's just more and more death and eventually it's already almost impossible to get money from banks because they're seeing the situation as it is and why would they give businesses that are basically bankrupt at this stage why would they give them money so it's just private investors that you rely on that you hope that they were believe in the business believe that they can come back strong the hope is that scenes like these can be seen again by the summer but fears over variance of covert 19 spreading through germany as many painting a less than rosy image for the remainder of 2021 which will likely lead to a continuation of restrictions in some form all of which will take a serious toll on germany's breweries peter all over. the last 12 months you just couldn't make it up could you well that's it for now keep a close eye on what's happening now media today if that story interests you a lot

a lot of sites are calm as well as the news updates here every hour i'll be here for next 5. and of course i'll be talking about so much more as well but for now this friday morning kevin 0 in on the rest of the team in the gallery and be on the scenes is signing off wishing you a great day and thank you for watching.