pics or business i'm show business i'll see. that on this friday evening amin is president agrees to meet opposition the does at his residence as thousands rally for prime minister nicola to quit the country's divisions a deepening out of passion young father the head of his armed forces saying he was part of an attempt to. also does come out against plans to make coronavirus vaccinations obligatory for front line workers and the head of the clashes with germany later angela merkel over her claims that covert passports will have to be used by all member states. hello welcome just on 6 o'clock here in the russian capital you're watching us

international ok well let's start with the latest developments then in armenia because the opposition there is continuing to hold a mass rally in the capital yet a van they have marched to the presidential residence where the opposition is meeting with the president they want him to intervene in the papal spots by the prime minister they call passion firing the armed forces chief saying that he was part of an attempt to carry on the march began outside the parliament building where hundreds that can tell you the night to stay that's a 247 and so pays votes on whether to remove caution and from office parties constantine's been at the scene since early morning. right now we're standing in front of the nation's parliament which became the apis center of the current political crisis in armenia there is heavy police presence in the area officers and basically cordoned off the parliament building and those in right now they are changing and those police officers in the front row they don't have firearms only

but times but the security of behind the fence over there well they do have. automatic firearms and you know as far as what's going on right now here on the street well you can see the people behind me they just kind of wandering around chatting peacefully about the latest news. several dozen opponents of the incumbent prime minister any called question and stayed here overnight demanding his resignation and from you know what we're seeing here there are they are bracing for a prolonged standoff set up tense barricades loading up in supplies and firewood is i guess this is another sign that the latest round of the power struggle in armenia could be here to stay and whispered with several people from the crowd some of them were members of the opposition parties and they didn't mince their words when talking about me called parchin and his policy. issue and you mean the moans

haven't changed we call in the prime minister to step down we will make him quits but only through public press show through the constitution will seeking decision by force the general stuff simply called him passion and to create it he decided to branded an attempt at military coup that was the last straw was what if it's it was today we had to get rid of a traitor who will fight to the end this enemy must leave our country to restore our homeland everything that you see here it came after a turbulent chain of events in the country's capital yesterday the protests were sparked by or mean is top military command calling on the prime minister to step down claiming and i quote that he is an effective management has led the country to the brink of death on immediately fired back accusing those who demanded his resignation of an attempted coup and called to his supporters to take to the streets you know the opposition that backed the military commanders stage its own rally in year yvonne as fighter jets flew past. the old.

general's. borders and the territorial integrity of a. armenia this is my order and no one can disobey today we're holding this rally and we'll finish all accidents will sit down at the negotiating table with the opposition for consultations on elections well right now it seems like the prime minister is trying to tone it down a bit he took to his facebook this morning claiming that he has done a lot for the country's military increased salaries and you know bought plenty of new equipment but it's unlikely that that the masses will resonate among hard core opposition that is present here at the parliament and yesterday we saw that the situation on the ground can ask allays korea to fast the hour was

. right now it's a wait and see approach the opposition has called on a massive rally in your avant well of course we're going to keep our fingers on the pulse. in the last call for posting that will to force that message home opposition supporters to block he had a van streets home to stay power lies in traffic and then passion yet himself or so much through the streets of the capital with his supporters who have this to say. so there are really into 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 are of course failing is that this form of governmental transition is definitely not acceptable to me the government should be charged through elections in which only the people have the decisive vote we came to see our prime minister of the republic square saw the whole world knows that the people support him and an attempt at a military coup in such difficult times seems an acceptable to me national tensions

did escalate back in november that was after the signing of a peace deal between armenia and azerbaijan over the disputed region of nagorno-karabakh i mean is government had vowed victory in the war but the green was seen as a humiliating defeat and a bank then demonstrators reacted to the truce by storming the government building in yet a van they strongly oppose the prime minister's decision to end the fighting adding that they won't give up the territory ceded under the deal had agreed to letters of hold on to key parts of the area many armenians though do say that they'll never forgive him for the loss or much of the current volatility has been fueled by a top level dispute over army weaponry while the prime minister claimed that russian made is scanned the missile systems that failed during the war with the russian defense ministry announced that armenia did not use the weapon in the nagorno-karabakh conflict late last year. it was chalk enough that

my coffee can damage my. why the iskenderun that fired did not explode or only exploded 10 percent off. the prime minister on the governments of all media no longer able to make adequate decisions in this fateful and critical situation for the armenian people given the current situation the own forces of the resignation of the prime minister and the government. i'm.

i well we discussed the situation then the officer no said the vice president of the country's national assembly. the regime that for 30 years the military has been poorly managed in terms of equipment and maintenance this led to the army becoming weak it isn't the army used to be and pushing and came to power without a team experience the prime minister was an absolute 0 in military affairs as well as in economics and politics and this management disorganization noncompliance with the mobilization plan the destruction of command and control systems and the dismissal of military officers all this led to the fact that the general staff lost all patience and demanded the supreme commanders resignation as he was destroying the army this destruction resulted in the loss of 5000 soldiers and tens of

thousands of wounded. to communion home. it's post-war turbulence when the military makes political statements it can only be called a military coup in the military must carry out its immediate task of protecting the borders of the republic politics is not a military matter our colleagues from other countries are emphasizing that this is unacceptable the prime minister has problems with a few military officials following the war and i must say the authorities and the prime minister are in control of the situation put in the blame on one person is wrong it's not fair and there are millions understand that and we all have our share of the blame for us but experts we spoke to also said that the any democratic way out of this crisis is to gaither 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 a vote ciro maneuver and handle such a delicate situation people looking to blame people are contrary to yours you can accept the new reality which is to have lost a lot of territory but you 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 of it as it is we're going to see dr physically remove him. to take care of. in the normal sort of military coup where they would lose to a lot of the judgments he had certain times they were continually pushing him so i think the election solution is the best for everybody including for 0 and the opposition has a very good chance of winning so if they have certain. because we don't want

clashes in the streets refuse to shoot demonstrations perhaps we need to fighting it out because the only coming in and finding some resistance from us officials sort of elections is the best solution for everybody. nothing's tonight health attorneys have warned against reports of plans to make man to treat for someone is pointing out that it could actually be illegal aliens chief medical officer has already told health staff that guessing in that g.t. and the national health service is reportedly considering making it a bigotry and employees but to tell us that some medical workers to see it as an attack on their autonomy. idea of making next a nation 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 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 meanwhile you came medical g.'s to say that the number of coronavirus patients has dropped and pressure on the n.h.s. is easing and officials have suggested see that the country's covert alert level should now be downgraded with that in mind bob guiney again says though that 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 and 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 the 3rd way early on in the pandemic which showed the vast majority or doctors certainly felt that the government had completely missed and or the krone virus and demick and that confidence nothing has really happened to improve that confidence in government meanwhile obesity use flagging travel industry could be just months away and it's likely to come in the form of a vaccination digital pass or at least that's according to the german chancellor. that's the point 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 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 pass the key data that is digital passed must contain have been defined by the european commission and member states. however i'm going to call them they have jumped the gun because the european commission president has yet to confirm anything solid with more on the story his shot at the bin ski. that scene certificates of controversial put it does seem after what angle a 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 revisited this is what will 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 scientific questions that are still open sets of computers. but let me draw attention to the fact that when i say health pass 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 the rocks that somewhere the one has been vaccinated we wouldn't have even opened a vaccination campaign to the younger did not get a 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 inoculated 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 ringback than expected deliveries and. worse still certain 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 for fishing off the coast with 900 vaccines this is what the joint statement clearly does have to say we need to urgently accelerate that water rise 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 you that 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 purchase me but of course that will be subject to regulatory approval. letter straightly has become the 1st country to force take jains to pay publishers for news content nor is designed to make facebook and google pay a fair price to the media or their facebook had taken the unprecedented step of blocking news posts in this trailer until the government made changes to the legislation with more on the story his trinity chavis. facebook is refreshing australia after a tumultuous month that's all 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 the bipolar 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 straight up 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 in new york trinity chávez r.t. when we spoke to radio host kerry harrison about this new told us the in his opinion the new law is fully justified. 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 could 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. in other news tonight thousands of people of taking to the streets of the georgian capital tbilisi oppose the arrest of an opposition leader he's accused of inciting violence and processed back in 2019 opposition there says the rest is politically motivated and he's calling for a parliamentary elections by fighters the military helicopters in japan have been working to put out a huge mansion 5 they're threatening nearby residents more than 600 times selves have been asked to leave the area for their own safety and authorities in china have been skin sent to russia have been sent from the ocean sea off the heavy snow

storms that brought to a standstill more than 600 people have been evacuated and are being housed in temporary accommodation of the roots of those. funny jimmy small brews have been hit hard by the closure of bars and fresh strongs joining the pandemic in many and saying that they may not actually survive more his place or all of. i was. whether it's 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 cancelled and bars and restaurants closed which in turn has had a knock on effect for brewers who really bad this is situation off the smaller breweries because say they're off selling their beers in restaurants shops and this

you know pops and restaurants are closed since november so there is no real sales at the moment for them beer 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 the year on year sales for april 14 point one percent down for november so look to diversify to move with the times when it caught 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 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 there and also be contact less so that is also

entirely covered conformant while a brewery near nuremberg saw their lock down creation vaccine the 2000 cans they produced selling out in just over 3 hours cans and bottles they usually the territory of the larger produces 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 angle of 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 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 someone who fears over the 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 german newsgroups peter all over. but if you've got any views in any of these stories tonight we will be pleased to hear them and you can that is snipe at our social media pages that's how the news that is looking back again at the top of the. l. look forward to talking to you all that technology should work for people. i robot

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hello and welcome to cross talk where 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 but 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 the rebbe in san francisco she was a 2020 presidential candidate for the party for socialism and liberation and the peace and freedom party in pasadena we have great john to what he is the co-host and co-creator of the independent media show congo couch and in austin we have wes

benedict he is former executive director of the liberation party are across the girls in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i was appreciated ok let's go to separate so gloria you heard my introduction here why do you think over 60 percent of people are dissatisfied with the 2 major parties because we keep hearing the country is equally divided. and that's the media me but i think it's far more complicated than that because i i i mix with different circles and the majority experience i come across personally most people are politically homeless not a democrat and not a republican go ahead gloria. well i believe for many years people have felt disengaged from the political process and it's reflected in the fact that maybe 40 percent maximum usually vote in the presidential elections and far less in the.