mothers still search for grown children while looking in holes for their parents. in the headlines this friday a mass rally by the i mean opposition is expected to start near the parliament after they've besieged the building 'd last night political divisions in the country as promised and faces calls just following his firing of the head of the armed forces saying he thought he was part of an attempted coup artie's correspondence going to bring us the latest right from the site in just a few moments from. the new sort of course is for the u.k. don't come out against plans to make coronavirus shots obligatory for front line workers. and the chief counters open conflict with the head of the biggest member state germany. war. plans for covert

job passports are set in stone. following kevin i mean and i just saw in the headlines that a close focus of attention is being put on what's happening in armenia today it's a country that's in the last 24 hours but in a lot of turmoil again and the latest of all of this the opposition there's been holding a mass rally that's been someone near the parliament there echoing military chiefs who called on the prime minister to step down and rejecting his offer of snap elections hundreds of the prime ministers opponents come out overnight outside the parliament building there are reportedly being encouraged by opposition leaders to stay there to 247. vote to remove him or not police are monitoring the area no serious clashes still. to tell you about so far comes to most close

a correspondent on the scene. well position protesters were asked to gather right about 1 pm local time well you know well what's the turnout like the. by kevin well you know things are picking up steam at the moment in the year of on that's for sure of the major rally that was announced earlier has has just started as i'm looking at this stage and we're expecting the opposition leaders to come out and address the crowd that is craving one thing resignation of the prime minister and he called posh an out and you know people have been gathering here since early in the morning and several dozen protesters actually stayed overnight setting up tents and showing their determination to camp out like this until the prime minister steps down. to the newness of the shoe and you mean you know some of the moans haven't changed we call him the prime minister to step down we will make him

quits but only through public press show through the constitution we're not seeking decision by force general stuff simply called compassion and to create it he decided to be branded an attempt at mill to recruit but there was the last straw was when he was let you go today we had to get read of a traitor who will fight to the end this enemy must leave our country to restore our homeland. as you can see there is a having a police. officers. of the parliament building and those in the front line of they have only about the security behind the fence they do have our arms actually and apart from that rally of the main political of the end of today is going to be a actual parliamentary session where opposition m.p.'s will try to call off the martial law and posed in armenia after the war with a service that broke. the law doesn't allow the. opposition to remove the prime

minister's i'm guessing we're going to see some stafford efforts around this time now everything that eat in here came after a turbulent chain of ads and countries at a protest worse his top military command calling on the prime minister to step down claiming and i quote that has in the fact of management has led the country to the brink of death not immediately fired back accusing those who demanded he's assignation of the attempt at a military coup and calling on the supporters to take to the streets now the opposition that backs have the military by the way aged its own rallying your avan as fighter jets of police asked. him and then night will do the old soldiers so if this is the general's job god borders on the territorial integrity of armenia then this is my order and no one can disobey today whether holding this rally and will

finish all absence will sit down at the negotiating table with the opposition for consultations on elections. right now it seems like the prime minister is trying to calm the situation hade to do a facebook this morning claiming that he has done a lot for the country's military increase salaries and politely of new equipment but it's unlikely that the message will resonate among the hard core opposition that is present here at the parliament and yesterday we saw that situation on the ground can ask for really fast. was . and just to give you a bit more on the atmosphere around the city we saw a military again flying around the city center just minutes before we were. so i

guess this is another another sign that the ongoing crisis that involves country's military and political elites is far from over here really illinois there is no ok we'll stay there he was post his for the day if you will constantly roast coffee in the armenian capital pre-shared it force a message home opposition supporters blog the streets for a time as well paralyzing traffic and passion on him cell phones to march through those same streets of the capitol with 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 transition is definitely not acceptable to me the government should be challenged to elections in which only the people have the decisive 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. national tensions escalated in november over the signing of

a peace deal between armenia and azerbaijan on that disputed region the golden oak armenia's government to victory in the war but the agreement was seen as a humiliating defeat by a lot of armenians stemm a straight is reacted to the troops by storming the government building in the hour of a strongly oppose the prime minister's decision to end the fighting and the agreement being that they wouldn't give up territory ceded under the deal had agreed to let as a hold on the key parts of that area which is of course a lot of concern to many armenians and many said they'd never forgive him for that loss we got reaction on the developments 1st off as it came in thick and fast and still is 1st off the former prime minister of nagorno-karabakh this is what here to say. 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. much of the current volatility has been filled by a top level to speak to of army weaponry so the else in the pot causing concern don or court has got details about that. 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 its 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 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. 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 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 pasha neons 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 told us 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. 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 position or he asked to leave office and we'll just see how the prime minister

is airport ciro maneuver and handle such a delicate situation people looking to blame people who can't really sickly 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 it's the military in the buildup for many years of not knowing the military properly and not seeing much as it is we're going to try and physically remove him or lock him up to take care of her and in a normal sort of military coup they would lose a lot of legitimacy and certain times they were continually pushing think the election solution is the best for everybody including physiology and the opposition has a very good chance of winning so if they have sense. because we don't want clashes in streets. demonstrations perhaps we need to fighting it out or the only coming in and finding some resistance from other forces sort of elections is the best

solution for everybody. ok the rest the big story today this next health attorneys have warned against reported u.k. plans to make covert jobs mandatory for some work is putting out it may be illegal anyway and the current legislation chief medical officer has already told health stuff that getting inoculated is the duty on the national health service n.h.s. is reportedly considering making it. an employee's but n.h.s. doctor bald guild told us that some medical workers would see that as an attack on their autonomy. the idea of making x. and nation compulsory is very shortsighted you need to understand the damn if there has been done to the trust of the medical profession given the government 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 as the background to this and the pressure therefore on the n.h.s. is easing so fishel suggesting then that the country's kovac level should be downgraded there with that in mind but gill says well mandatory knock elation could backfire on them if you make vaccination part of your terms of employment then what does a doctor do a 5th you risk losing their job losing the profession that they've studied and worked so hard for or they comply with 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 so all of those will provide the more information but not to coerce them it was the 3rd early on in the endemic which showed the vast majority all doctors certainly felt that the government had completely missed and all the krone virus and demick and that confidence nothing has really happened to improve that confidence in government. a boost for the e.u. slagging travel industry could be just months away a little likely for more people to talk about it the form of a covert vaccination digital pass seems surgery and chancellor merkel is key i think that's the point with respect to digital vaccination bass all member states agree that when he says a thing the technical preparations were done by the european commission as well as member states in january now we need to implement 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 is digital past mass contain had been defined by the european commission and member states but i'm glad work a merger of the go on with the european commission president yet to confirm anything solid on her side of it are to charlotte abrams has got more of the story . that scene certificates are controversial put it does seem after what angler merkel said that this could be completely for the huge that germany and france 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 angela merkel was saying that they said 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 would be a common approach and this would be an issue will be revisited this is what is still a long delay and to 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 they're also a scientific question that are still open shots of computer docile if it could but let's immediately draw attention to the fact that when i say health passed that cannot depend on one's vaccination because if we manage at some point in the spring 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 a vaccination campaign to the youngest of the call for vaccines typically originally came from countries like or easten cyclists who have 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 ticket but there's huge criticism of this idea especially given the massive troubles there have been rolling up the qubit $900.00 vaccine in the u.

many feel that this would essentially create a 2 tier system it would be unfair for of discriminations there have also been many major issues surrounding the supply of cope with 900 vaccines distribution issues 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 now the e.u. leaders following their video conference on thursday also clenched quickly provision of the code that 900 vaccines this is what the joint statement flu clearly does have to say we need to urgently accelerate that water rise ocean production and distribution of back since as well as vaccination 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 as being one of the most fair. vaccines against the fire of the e.u.

he said he would purchase me but of course that will be subject to regulatory approval. it's exactly 18 past the hour a break next but after a stray passes the world's 1st law forcing google and facebook to pay for news content it's groundbreaking we'll tell you more. join me every thursday on the alex i'm unsure when i'll be speaking together for the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then. when else should seem wrong why don't you all just don't call. me at all if you get to shape out these days to educate and in detroit because

betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. 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. into this the fact most voters either party is it finally time to move on from this to waffle. hygienists trial has become the 1st country to force tech giants to pay publishers for news content the law is designed to make facebook and google pay a fair price to the media then facebook could take in the unprecedented step of

blocking news posts in the strike here until the government made changes to the legislation 20 chevys 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 i provide a sieve 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 . astray in return facebook agreed to restore the news pages and live to ban on australians accessing in 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 in new york trinity chargers r t o 660 seconds go around the world see what's happening with some of the best pictures through war protesters gathering to support the hunger strike of a greek far left group members what you see and hear serving 11 life sentences for a series of murders police used tear gas and water cannon to disperse the crowds

they made 13 arrests of demonstrators the convicted man's reportedly in a critical condition after a month about food. firefighters there a military helicopter is drafted in working to put out a huge mountain fire threatening nearby residents more than 200 households have been asked to get out of the area for this safety. authorities and show you have been stealing was something different this is central russia here they've imposed a state of emergency over heavy snow storms that have brought roads to a standstill more than 600 people been evacuated the being housed in temporary accommodation of doubtful that snow. struggling to deal with cove in germany small brewers have been hit hard by the closure of bars and restaurants in the pandemic with many no warning they may not survive as peter all of a found. was whether its munich's october 1st 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 seemed cancelled and bars and restaurants closed which in turn has had a knock on effect for brewers who really bad this is situation of the smaller breweries because say they're often selling their beers 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. so we have here the mobil tank which was created with 2 other companies and here you have fresh team beer and the you can tap using the yap 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 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 meet 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 shows 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 before the is over variants 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 bruins peter all over. yeah that's it for now keep close on our top story was happening all media at r.t. dot com i mean to us for now though whatever you do in this friday how good they go is great for you.

was a pandemic no certainly no borders just blocking 2 nationalities. has emerged we took a backseat world peace to. judge a. commentary crisis at least 10 times more times we can do better we should be. everyone is contributing your own way but we also know that this crisis will not go on forever the challenges create the response has been much so many good people are helping us. it makes us feel very proud that we are in it together.

the british and american governments have often been accused of destroying lives in their own interests or you see in this these techniques is the state devising methods to him to essentially destroy the personality of an individual. by scientific. this is how one doctor's theories were allegedly used in psychological warfare against prisoners deemed a danger to the state that was the foundation for the method of psychological interpretation psychological courtroom. disseminated within the u.s. intelligence community and worldwide among our allies for the next 30 years and how the victims say they still live with the consequences today.

hello and welcome to cross up for all things are considered i'm peter lavelle according to a new gallup poll over 60 percent of those asked are dissatisfied with the 2 major parties the country is divided politically where the parties themselves are divided within edge of this the fact most voters do not belong to either party is it finally time to move on from this diwali. to discuss these issues and more i'm joined by my guests gloria larry but in san francisco she was a 2020 presidential candidate of the party for socialism in liberation and peace and freedom party in pasadena.