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when feel good in though in. the midst of a good thing it was on those. divisions deepen in a mania where opponents of the prime minister prepared to spend a 2nd night outside the parliament building demanding his resignation. produce doctors come out against plans to make coronavirus fax a nation's obligatory for frontline workers. on the head of the e.u. clashes with the german leader ayatollah merkel over her claims that code possible to have to begin by all member states. although this is the international from moscow on calling for a review will be used this hour to stop with the latest developments in the south caucasus the opposition in armenia is continuing to hold
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a mass rally in the capital opponents of the prime minister and now preparing for a 2nd night camped outside the parliament building in yerevan they vowed to stay there until resigns constantine force. the biggest news of the last couple of hours in armenia is the outcome of the meeting between the opposition leaders and the country's president now why this meeting is so important well for one there is a pretty intense standoff between the armenian political leader prime minister nicola pasha now and he stopped military command army generals called on pashtun to resign accusing him of being incompetent the prime minister fired back accuse a military in an attempted coup that's the story that's been playing out since yesterday now partially now wanted to give blood to the chief of the general staff of the armenian armed forces for being too political and disloyal and that would have been a show of force for the prime minister but he cannot follow through with this until the president of the country signs off on that order and that's when the latest
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meeting of the presidential office came into play at 1st it seemed like the opposition has one over there president can do. unsing him to sound the order of back to the prime minister's office however those claims weren't officially approved later on and as for now it's more likely that the negotiations are still underway we should not forget though that the prime minister over media still has more political power according to the local constitution and the sacking of the chief of the general staff can still happen even without president's approval it's just going to take more time anyway how bad signaled that the ongoing power struggle in armenia moving from the streets towards big political offices all the protestors are still present in the capital and right now where you can see several hundreds of people that are still demonstrating in front of the national parliament put on music putting on some passive mood to boost their spirit as some of them are
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going to stay here overnight and the opposition a vow that they are not going anywhere from this place until they called pushing down steps down so let's hear from the people we met here earlier so that of the newness of the shoe and you mean you know some of the moons haven't changed we call in the prime minister to step down we will make him quits but only through public pressure through the constitution we're not seeking decision by force general stuff simply called him passion and to create it he decided to be branded an attempt at military coup but there was the last straw was what if it's it was like you go today we had to get to the trade we'll fight to the end this enemy must leave our country to restore our homeland. passion and has faced protest and calls to resign after what his critics say was that as aster is handling of a bloody 6 week conflict between his service john and ethnic armenian forces over their region of newborn occur last year that conflict ended in significant
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territory losses for armenian side and as you can see the country is still reeling from that be it or defeat. it forced the message home opposition supporters blocked the streets and yet a vote on thursday paralyzing traffic that passion on himself 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 thrones issues is definitely not acceptable to me the government should be challenged through elections in which only the people have the decisive vote 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 what of the current volatility has been fueled by a top level dispute over army weaponry the prime minister earlier claim that russian made its kind of missile systems had failed during last autumn's brief or
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with azerbaijan but the russian defense ministry says armenia didn't use that weapon in the conflict over nagorno-karabakh. it's almost choking up. in denver. why the iskenderun that fire 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 of the home forces of the resignation of the prime minister and the government. because.
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national tensions escalated in november after the signing of a peace deal between armenia and azerbaijan over the disputed nagorno-karabakh region the armenian government had vowed victory in the war but the agreement was seen as a humiliating defeat back then demonstrators reacted to the truce by storming the government building an arab strongly opposed the prime minister's decision to end the fighting and said they weren't willing to give up the territories seated on the deal. agreed to hold on to keep possibly area many armenians though say they'll never forget and feel about loss or discuss the situation with an armenian army
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officer the vice president of the country's national assembly. but 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 punching and came to power without a team all 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. it's post-war turbulence when the military makes political statements it can only be called a military coup the military must carry out its immediate task of protecting the
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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 thoughts. within the past hour long awaited and now declassified u.s. intel report is directly implicated the saudi crown prince over the brutal murder of journalist america shoji in 2018 and what could set the tone for the biden government's relations with what should be a strategic partner the big question now is will the new president go all out with a punishing rebuke of the united states biggest ally let's get more now from correspondent kate of op ed hi there 4 pages long but it's pretty unequivocal isn't it. indeed we have here the newly
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declassified report and then basically alleges that the saudi crown prince approved a plan to capture or kill jamal khashoggi now the report sheds some light on to how this operation was carried out and it bases this is sess meant that the crown prince did approve the operation on the fact that he has had control of decision making in the kingdom that there was direct involvement by one of his key advisers and that the crown prince has been in support of using violent measures against dissidents and against jamal khashoggi now it's important to note the report makes clear that the crown prince had absolute control over the kingdom's security and intelligence organizations making it highly unlikely that saudi officials would have carried out the operation without the approval of the crown prince now this
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report was released because congress mandated it the u.s. congress mandated that this report be released but before it was released joe biden spoke with the king of saudi arabia over the phone he spoke about it with them over the phone report lists a number of individuals who are accused of being directly involved in the operation to kill jamal khashoggi and many look at this and say this could essentially be a step in a deterioration of relations between the united states and saudi arabia let's review how exactly things went down and what has taken place with the killing of jamal khashoggi.
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now the brutal killing of jamal khashoggi certainly shocked the world and sense the event more information has trickled out this seems to be the latest revelation regarding an event that will certainly go down in history as rather pivotal in world events and how the kingdom of saudi arabia is viewed and boils or biden wanted a reset with riyadh whether this is enough the massive arms deal that they've got between them i guess we'll find out for now though kind of open in new york thank you. next health attorneys have warned against reported british plans to make a covert jabs mandatory for some workers pointing out that it could be illegal england's chief medical officer has already told health stuff that getting inoculated is their duty and the state run national health service is reportedly considering making it obligatory for certain employees but n.h.s. dr bob hill told us that somebody will work and see that as an attack on their
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autonomy the idea of making the nation compulsory is very shortsighted you need to understand that demi has been done to the trust of the medical profession given the government's already chaotic and much criticized and little bee and demi we've already lost a 1000 health and social. work all due to the pandemic people have been working exhaustingly long hours have witnessed tragic scenes and to attack they have professional judgement and autonomy in this compulsory i think is another straw to break the camel's back. well in a separate development u.k. medical chiefs say the number of coronavirus patients has dropped and pressure on the n.h.s. is easing officials suggest the country's code alert level should now be downgraded without it my bob dylan again says mandatory inoculation could backfire if you make
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vaccination part of your terms of employment then what does a doctor do if it you risk losing their job and 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 at all 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 the 3rd early on in that and then me 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. also in the u.k. more than 200000 people have signed a petition urging the government not to introduce vaccine passports meaning the
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issue could now be debated in parliament but with travel across europe heavily restricted many are putting their home if they could get things moving again including the german chancellor. 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 as the key data that has digital past mass contained have been defined by the european commission and member states. some southern e.u. states like greece and spain which are heavily dependent on tourism pushing to adopt the inoculation certificates quickly but the idea is facing high level resistance as well 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
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certificates will be used for but they're also scientific questions that are still open. meantime the a huge vaccination programs encountered some severe setbacks including shortages of doses and supply delays we heard about some of the possible drawbacks of vaccine certificates from a member of germany's the left party and a specialist in emergency medicine from the u k. solution is not a little clip on and causes problems because it can become someone last time sources only used hoax and passport to. create some really unique problem. for people who can't get it back you are your own person for example who's probably just as difficult a time or someone totally who is not likely to get seen before the end of that your issue learned you can go or not to do it because you don't hold works in passport.
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that would be pretty unfair but those young people everyone can decide on their all when they want to vaccinate and everyone has to decide on their own waste of the vaccinations they want we need vaccine charts because as said currently stands in many european countries we do not have that charts in germany for example we only have western maxine's young people younger than 16 years of age cannot get any kind of explanation at the moment so the discrimination there would follow if your borders only poor people who have chosen to get vaccinated would be immense it would be the kind of the kind of discrimination that we haven't seen for over 70 years in europe. personal details of half a 1000000 patients in france have been hacked and posted online it's the latest in a series of cyber attacks to had better go to institution is there to do bensky now reports. france is attacking well to do to leave at least it's been
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revealed that sensitive medical records of nearly whole a 1000000 patients have been stolen in the latest major cyber attack to hit the country dozens of health care labs were targeted with details such as new dresses social security details and personal medical information being stolen now much of the information has since landed online we can find this file in 7 different places on the internet data on 500000 people is already huge and nothing prevents me from thinking that the hackers still have a lot more it seems the information was released free of charge on this occasion after water peers do have a dispute between because france is. digital technology says the mafia is to blame and so just on that concerning the hospitals in all likelihood it's not foreign powers but rather the mafia type organizations situated in eastern
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countries but not just limited to they're sure looking for money the minister went on to say that this was likely to be a ploy to extract money similar to demands when computer systems have been infected by ransomware so early in february 2 for trucks which was were hit in such attacks patients had to be moved in while the situation is now said to be under control some hospital staff are still having to work with paper and pen but it's not just hospitals being attacked from national cybersecurity agency recently released details of another series of attacks this time an organization such as the energy group e.t.f. the defense company and oil and gas giant to a tell all had been using software from french soil to deal with a vulnerability being exploited this campaign mostly effect. it information technology provided us especially web hosting provider this this campaign because
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several similarities with previous campaigns attributed to intrusion said the name said the worm sound worm has been linked by some to russian military intelligence but that has been dinoire by the kremlin russia has never had currently does not have and could never have any involvement in cyber crime according to some experts summary for attacks against hospitals in particular have increased in france by 500 percent since the start of the could be pandemic now hospitals are said to be a target because they are in the spotlight and the scene is being lucrative to keep information present mccord has promised to strengthen france's cyber defenses pledging 1000000000 you is because he said that attacks on hospitals make this a priority so much even ski altie paris well echoing that a french lawyer we spoke to says the country needs to invest heavily in its data security systems. it's not normal that this information can be obtained so weasely
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by hacking into a laboratory in france there are many and basically each of them can do whatever it wants there are some rules to be followed in this sphere but these laboratories do not always have the means to fulfill their obligation i know that france is going to develop an information security plan which will require a 1000000000 euros with regard to this issue we have been talking about a so-called sovereign cloud for several years perhaps all these data should be stored in the cloud which would be maintained by the state i think it's better than relying on the discretion of private organisations it would be better to join forces to keep this highly sensitive data safe. australia has become the 1st country to force tech giants to pay publishers for news content laws designed to make the likes of facebook and google pay a fair price to the media facebook had taken their precedented step of blocking news posts in australia until the government made changes to the legislation the
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americas trinity chevys reports. 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
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it is important to make sure that the rule ringback 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
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. astray 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 chavez r.t. all discussing it with political commentator and talk radio host carrie harrison he thinks the new north 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
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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 the new 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. it's one of the signs of the time germany's small bros have been hit hard by the
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closure of boston restaurants during the lockdown pandemic that many had now warning that they might not survive reporting from the lead his peter all of. 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 are really bad to a situation off the smaller breweries because say they are off selling their bureaus in restaurants and pops and this you know 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
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have gone off a cliff 17.3 percent down on a 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 i hear 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 vaccine the 2000 cans they produced selling out in just over 3 hours cans and bottles they usually the territory of the larger
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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 the 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 man's challenge and eventually it will not work any more and eventually water won't make
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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 debt 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 were 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
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a serious toll on germany's proves peter all of a. see. for now thanks for watching i'm calling brian back with your next update after watching the whole. l. look forward to talking to you all that technology should work for people. i robot must obey the orders given by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the 1st law show your identification for should be very careful about artificial intelligence and the point of view c. is too great trust our government here. right on various jobs and with artificial intelligence will summon the demon.
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the robot must protect its own existence as. well. according to a new gallup poll over 60 percent of those asked or just satisfied with the 2 major parties the country is divided politically but the parties themselves are divided which did not do this the fact most voters do not belong to either party is it finally time to move on from this do one thing. greetings and sell you tell you sure i'm from demick strew police while i'm still.

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