we're going to shoot. for a few of them to go. in the headlines this friday morning from our international political division is an armenian deep in the opposition as the opposition perceived as parliament. going on opposition groups stand with military chiefs calling on prime minister nicole passion you have to step down after he sacks the head of the armed forces saying in his view is part of little to do. other things or across the u.k. don't come out against to make coronavirus short obligatory for front line workers . and the e.u. chief enters open conflict with the head of the biggest member state germany as it was i love merkel but plans for. our sports aren't set in stone.

good morning for russia 10 in the morning here now around the world live from moscow this is r.t. international with me kevin owen and focusing just on the events in armenia this friday morning what's happened over the last 24 hours and where it's going to go today it's a country in turmoil the smalling is the opposition there military chiefs of color the prime minister to step in and rejected his offer of snap elections hundreds of the prime ministers opponents come to overnight outside the parliament building the reportedly being encouraged by opposition leaders to stay as well there until m.p.'s vote to remove him or not police monitoring the area so far we can report no serious clashes reported. checking in every hour with constant correspondent embedded there saying hey morning. blue sky we. what it remain

a sunny throughout the day. will the tempo for ional is the question what is going to happen today costa. good morning kevin well as you mentioned right now we're standing in front of the nation so parliament which became the epicenter of the current political crisis in armenia and let me just quickly show you around so the the parliament is ride behind this fence and here you can see police officers this is the front row of police officers and they do not have firearms only but tons but the security personnel behind the fence they do have automatic firearms and right here you can see protesters mainly peaceful they just standing here you know having conversation about the current political situation in the country. so i guess for what we see in is i get this faith it's it is safe to say that people are here to stay because they are setting up tents terry said in

a barricades they loading up on supplies they're loading up on water loading up on you know different stuff to you. should help them stay here. or i'm. and you know everything i guess this is another sign that the another round of the power struggle in armenia could be here to stay for a long time and you know we spoke with several people from the crowd some of them were members of the opposition parties and you know they didn't mince their words when talking about him called paasschen on his policy. that it was the newness of the shoe and you mean the moans haven't changed we call him the promise to sit down we will make him quits but only through public press show through the constitution we're not seeking decision by force gen stuff simply called him passion and to create yet he decided to brand it an attempt at military coup that was the last straw was what it was like you know you know today we had to get 3 to. of

a traitor i will fight to the end this enemy must leave our country to restore our homeland. now everything the that you see here came after a turbulent chain of events in the country's capital yesterday the protest worst part by the media's top military commander calling on the prime minister to step down claim and i quote that his ineffective management has led the country to the brink of death now mediately fired back accusing those who demanded his resignation of an it come to military coup and calling his supporters to take to this trees the opposition that backed the military commander staged its own rally in your avan as fighter jets flew past. the prime minister and the governments of all me are no longer able to make and equip 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 die defending their homeland and care about him and then my own will to also solve this is general's job god borders and the territorial integrity of armenia this is my order and no one can disobey today with holding this rally and will finish all actions will sit down at the negotiating table with the opposition for consultations on elections. so you guys can hear you. well. i'm sorry i guess we lost the signal but you know anyway you know eventually that led to thousands of people from both sides to take to the streets of iran and sometimes you know protesters were seen goading and clashing with each other. was

was. was. was a right now it's a wait and see approach despite the prime minister's demand to dismiss the chief general staff on a guest around the country's military chief is still in office because the armenian president hasn't signed on the order any more uncertainty to the already volatile situation members of the parliament are also expected to gather for a special session today to discuss the country's immediate political future as this hangs in the balance yeah it'll be maybe get more heated in the coming hours the coast we'll have to wait and see what happens in the weekend as well a constant hero's call from now on the armenian capital sorry home as well about the small technical problems we have the latest now to force the message home

opposition supporters bloke here of on the streets paralyzing traffic on himself even marched through the streets of the capital with his supporters who had this to say. we came to the square answering the call from our prime minister we stand with him to the end he must put an end to all this there of course failing is that this form of governmental funds ition is definitely not acceptable to me the government should be charged to elections in which only the people have the distaste of thought we came to see our prime minister of the republic square so the whole world knows that the people support him and an attempted military coup in such difficult times seems an acceptable to me so i was cautious saying there for just a recap national tensions escalated in november over the signing of the peace deal between armenia and azerbaijan over the disputed region of color back many as government had vowed victory in the war but there was disappointment as far as i mean it was concerned the group was seen as a humiliating defeat demonstrators reacted to the truce why storming the government

building in europe before they strongly oppose the prime minister's decision to end the fighting adding that they wouldn't give up the territory ceded under the deal that's part of was boiling out of the service and that it all to come to the surface again now in the last 24 hours. they agreed to let as a pleasure hold on to key parts of the area which is a many many armenians say they will never forgive him for that last snow we got reaction to the developments over the last day with the former prime minister of nagorno-karabakh more information and more thoughts on it came in. 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. there was another problem in the melting pot too much of the current volatility has been a top level dispute of weaponry covering that side of it in more detail our correspondent on a quarter next. 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 his candor missiles either did not explode or quote exploded 10 percent it's not exactly clear

what the pm meant by that were only 10 percent of the missiles launched did missiles hit only 10 percent of their targets neither statement has any confirmed substance behind it since no evidence was provided to back paasschen yon's claims what is known is that such 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 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. 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 experts to tell us that a democratic way out of this crisis is a snap election. 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. 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 a vote ciro maneuver and handle such

a delicate situation people looking to blame people are contrary to basically accept the 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 it's the military in the build up for many years of not harming the military properly and not seeing much as it is for going to see it try and physically remove him. to intervene. in a normal sort of military coup they would lose to a lot of the jitteriness you'd sometimes there were community pushing and soon i think the election solution is the best for everybody including physio and just opposition has a very good chance of winning so if they have sense. because we don't want clashes in streator these 2 should demonstrations perhaps meeting each other fighting it out was the only coming in and finding some resistance from a faceless sort of elections is the best solution for everyone it. will be full enough for throughout the day let me take you to some other news this

morning next health attorneys have warned against reported u.k. plans to make covert jobs mandatory for some workers pointing out that it may be illegal under current legislation includes chief medical officer has already told health stuff the getting inoculated is the duty on the national health service the n.h.s. is reportedly considering making it obligatory for certain employees but it has dr paul gild told us that some medical workers see that as an attack on their autonomy than. the idea of making an action compulsory is very shortsighted you need to understand that damn if there has been done to the trust of the medical profession given the government's already chaotic and much criticized handling of the endemic 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 their

professional judgment and autonomy by making this compulsory i think is another straw to break the camel's back you can medical 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 than should be downgraded so with that in my bob dylan gans has mandatory not collation could backfire if you make vaccination part of your terms of employment then what does a doctor do if if you risk losing their job losing their profession that they've studied and worked so hard for or they comply so it's quite a big stick to beat the profession with i don't think anybody could argue against the evidence for vaccination and what the government should try to do is understand if there is significant reluctance why that is support those be all provide the more information but not to coerce them it was

a survey early on in that and then me which showed the vast majority or doctor certainly felt that the government had completely missed and or the krona virus and demick and that confidence nothing has really happened to improve that confidence in government. opposed to the e.u. flagging travel industry could be just months away and it will likely come in the form of a covert vaccination digital pass or at least the german chancellor thinks so. with respect to digital vaccination bass all member states agree that when he such a 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 past the key data that this digital past mass contain had been defined by the european commission and member states. but i jumped the gun with the european commission present the will nothing is confirmed yet. you report.

that scene certificates of controversial put it does seem after what angle of local said that this could be completely for the huge germany and france were originally said to be resistant 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 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 won't be a common approach and this will be an issue will be visited this is what is still a long delay at sait 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 they're also

a scientific question that are still open sort of computer docile if it could but let's immediately draw tension to the fact that when i say health passed that cannot depend on one's vaccination because if we manage at some point in this bring to reopen some of these places we cannot condition their eggs as some were the ones been vaccinated when we wouldn't have even opened the vaccination campaign to the younger did not call for a vaccine stupid originally came from countries like greece and cyprus who are already green lit 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 couvade 900 vaccine here in the u. many feel that this would essentially create a 2 tier system it would be unfair of form of discriminations there have also been many major issues surrounding the supply of 900 vaccines distribution issues in

lower than expected deliveries and. worse still some european leaders are being pretty sneaky about some of the vaccines particularly the astra zeneca vaccine now the e.u. leaders following their video conference on thursday also clenched quickly for fishing off the coast that 900 vaccines this is what the joint statement from clearly has had to say we need to urgently accelerate that water rise asian 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 the e.u. to vaccines or 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 pirates the e.u. has said it would purchase me but of course that will be subject to regulatory approval. how do you figure on this friday things take the time to be with us this is coming up could be a game changer astray or passing the world's 1st law forcing google and facebook to

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in the depths. aura made in the shallowness. when a trauma happens it changes us literally it causes a chemical change. and this changes the way our genes function. sometimes for generations. good morning 20 past the next a strain has become the 1st country to force tech giants to pay publishes for news content the laws designed to make facebook and google pay a fair price to the media facebook had taken the empress in to stop of blocking news posts for a while in a strike until the government made changes to the legislation should each have his reports. facebook is refreshing australia after a tumultuous month that saw facebook poll news from its platform and protests the

tech giant will restore news pages in the country following a landmark agreement with the government experts say more countries may follow the internet platforms need to comply with the rule of law or if they are doing business in australia australia officially implementing a law that forces tech titans including google and facebook to pay local media outlets and publishers to link their content in news feeds or in search results the whole purpose of the humanitarian crisis has been to give a strong incentive to the digital platforms to do commercial deals with the struggling news media businesses google already striking deals with major australian news businesses in recent weeks including news corp and 7 west media while facebook is promising to pay $1000000000.00 over 3 years to the news industry adding that the social media platform has invested a $600000000.00 since 2018 we're working across the full range of the areas where it is important to make sure that the rule of law applies in relation to all of the

things that we do online with the internet and the hypo vices of modern life the so-called news media bargaining code comes just days after the government introduced some last minute amendments to the proposed bill after fierce pushback from both google and facebook we've agreed to make some clarifications to the code when it comes to the designation process by the treasurer of a particular digital platform a one month notice period will be put in place the country's unprecedented new law has been vigorously debated in recent months facebook even shut down news pages in opposition of the legislation last week those actions were completely indefensible after serious back and forth australia's treasurer josh frydenberg and facebook chief executive mark zuckerberg finally came to an agreement for facebook has refer . a strike in return facebook agreed to restore the news pages and lift

a ban on australians accessing and sharing news australian officials say this new law will ensure news media businesses are fairly compensated for content they generate now many are wondering if there will be similar legislation implemented in other countries already facebook is exploring potential news licensing agreements in canada while microsoft is working with european publishers to push big tech platforms to pay for news and new york trinity charges r.t. radio host. told us the new legislation is fully justified in his view. it's very simple it's as if in the old days you publish a newspaper and then somebody came and stole your newspaper put it in their own stand and then added their own ads to it and made a profit and didn't give you anything back for it well there would be a problem there have been always for many many years and lawsuits because of it so clearly it's that time now when facebook has done enough stealing the already steal

our data it's worth billions of dollars where i went who i talk to who my friends are who my friends are not what do i eat all of that and i get nothing 0 for them to sell and resell and resell that data in the united states right now corporations are much more powerful than government facebook wants to own everything its goals are to own everything does facebook want to do york times to be the newspaper of record no facebook wants facebook to be there's no editor in chief of the internet hello you can publish a blog and boy if you make it look good it looks like the new york times that people don't know the difference that's been facebook's conceit ever since 2006 it is the largest news organ other than yahoo in the world it's not going away let me take you through some other news around the world today protesters wednesday this is from gather to support the hunger strike of a greek fall left group member said the 11 life sentences for the series of murders the shoes tear gas and water cannons of disperse crowds were arrested once the

convicted man's reportedly in a critical condition now after months of the food. fight his military helicopters in japan the been working to put out a huge mountain fire threatening nearby residents more than 200 households have been asked to get away from the area for the safety. authorities and in central russia imposing a state of emergency over heavy snowstorms that abort roads to a standstill in the depth of that snow more than 600 people have been. and are being housed in stronger accommodation. adversity bring in an engineer would see adversity being the covert thing and how people are coping with it well case in point germany's small brewers have been hit hard by the closure of bars and restaurants in the pandemic many now warning that may not survive the role of a scot the latest a one story. god whether it's

munich's october fest all colognes carnival plays a leading role in germany's big celebrations covert has hit those parties hard as the need to implement coronavirus measures that seemed cancelled and bars and restaurants closed which in turn has had a knock on effect for brewers 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 been 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 vending machine. so we have here the mobile tank which was created with 2 other companies and here you have fresh 10 beer in the you can tap using their all the have to do is download 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 have 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 men's 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 shows private investor state you rely on that you hope that they will believe in the business believe that it can come back strong the hope is that scenes like these can be seen again by the summer the fears over variance of covert 19 spreading through germany as many painting a less than rosy image for the remainder of 2020 war 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. well that's how

the spring brings part of time so now keep in mind what's so michelle to hear what's happening in armenia today this ongoing top story we're talking about if you want to be across it maybe of course we can as well tito combs well of course but for now that's what we're talking about this morning at knopf past the hour if you have to go and do something things take the time out from watching out to international and have a great day. according to a new gallup poll over 60 percent of those are just satisfied with the 2 major parties the country is divided politically but the parties themselves are divided we did into this most voters do a little to either party is it finally time to move on.