the world of politics or business i'm sure i'll see you there. in the headlines this sunday morning from moscow i mean here's prime minister raises the stakes this weekend sending an order to dismiss the country's top general back to the president after he rejected it setting the stage for a constitutional showdown as crowds in the capital continue to demand that pm quit . and simply other top stories of the week astra zeneca is coded jobs like an used in europe as people refuse vaccination over efficacy concerns at the same time as the world health organization points to drastic shortages in poorer countries. and the world health organization special envoy to covert 19 talks directly to us and

says we may not be near the end game yet still when it comes to the pandemic. good morning from moscow just turned 11 am sunday morning here this is the weekend i'm kevin go in with a recap of some of our biggest stories of the last 7 days and what's making the news now and that's what we're going to start with talking to which armenia is political crisis has escalated further after the president there rejected sacking the country's top general on the prime minister's request this weekend setting the stage for a constitutional showdown meantime crowds in the capital continue to demand the pm quits thousands of opposition protesters took to the streets of euro van for a 3rd day calling for the resignation of nicole. they're angry at his handling of last year's war with which many saw as ending in a humiliating defeat the fresh protests which have continued on and off now since

the war ended in november erupted again on thursday when defied a call by the military to resign. and accuse the army of an attempted coup is a quick recap of how the situation for really deteriorated over the past few days especially. the prime minister and the government of army 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 armenia demand the resignation of the prime minister and the government. you. might want to also officers generals do your job god borders and the territorial integrity of armenia this is my order and no one can disobey today we're holding this rally and will

finish all actions will sit down at the negotiating table with the opposition for consultations on elections both car were are. are ready for consistency and they're both of them. i'm a sharon and asked their people in the square to go on the stand being the only of the scientific community top politicians parties everyone is against nicol . we've made significant progress it has to quit he has betrayed the nation has to leave we've never had such a vile leader who treated us so badly 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 of course failing that this form of governmental transition is definitely not acceptable to me we came to see our prime minister of the republic square so the whole world knows that the people support him. her the.

the streets the office the speech the chance to make. because. this tuesday 24th and also they are preparing for the ringing fire woods for. the country's premier on edge since november over a peace deal with. the disputed region of the corner cut about the government of victory in the war but many in saw the agreement as a humiliating defeat for them and protesters reacted at the time to the troops for storming the government building in europe that he goes down often spend time there

last year during the worst of it now line for us the troubled path that's led to what we're witnessing now this whole process that has been brewing for months because it all stems from mean years and well nagorno-karabakh to defeat in last year's war the armenian government the promise their people that they would come out victorious out of this clash with their by john over the issue of this disputed region of nagorno-karabakh i spent a month there well as the war was breaking out all around me and basically from the very start and all throughout the war everything that we've heard everything that journalists have heard everything that the population the people that heard from the i mean inside it it was we're going to come out victorious yes we are falling back a little bit but that's a tactical retreat and we will regain our positions and don't worry we have it under control so when i was there by john and i mean i signed a peace deal which russia effectively brokered it came poor mean eons for ordinary

people as an absolute shock because according to that deal they had to concede 2 thirds of the going to come back to azerbaijan and that when it's. spark that was the ignition that's when the protests started that's when people started to come to the streets passion and he tried to just push the blame on something else at a certain point it was almost like he was trying to blame the military to blame the sawyers for not doing enough he obviously he retracted that he later he said that he did mean that but that's when the bad blood between him and the military started because i've been there and soldiers they did all they could they just they were overpowered militarily they were overpowered they had no response they had no answer to the drone problem because the drones they were just obliterating their positions which were absolutely not ready for you know their defense systems were not ready for that so that's when it started basically people heartbroken absolutely devastated because you're going to care about it's not just some piece

of mountainous which it is for you or for me we don't have that you know feeling it's for that for them it's a matter of a matter of national pride so that defeat having to concede 2 thirds of the territories which are overwhelmingly populated by the ethnically armenian people that was absolutely devastating and through the course of all these months it seems and while it is obvious now passion and hasn't the prime minister hasn't done enough to to do so back together the divisions in the armenian society just so back together to heal this woman this massive wall and cleared it does have a fair amount of support doesn't it i mean he called for supporters to come on to the streets and they did how much support does he have exactly and why is that support there given what you've just said judging from what i see right now is very much reminds me as to what was happening there back in october in november when it

was still hard when the wound was still bleeding from the loss in the war basically i did see thousands of people turn out against nicol passion and even back then. but again every single taxi driver that i would talk to back then he would tell me something along the lines well i don't know i don't know why people are so angry like a lot of people do support the prime minister after all remember he came into power as the man of the streets so to speak he was like he came with a with a crowd he came as part of a revolution himself so really the streets and the public support is all that he has to legitimize him as as as the country's leader that's why the his knee jerk reaction to the statement by the military was to call in his supporters to gather in the in the city center because this is what legitimizes him call passion and he's saying that it's an attempted military coup but again we haven't seen any military in the streets the general chief of staff he signed a letter along with some 40 other top officers generals they have called on him to

resign but again they called on everybody to refrain from violence so to me it looks like the last word really the last warning literally the last warning to passion and it came as a complete surprise to passion and so he's trying to find this balance as to he doesn't want to be more couper than he needs to be and he's trying to and it is clear that he did not have a plan for this he's just he just reacting on the girl like something happens he reacts it well it's not like he had a he had a contingency plan for that at least it doesn't look like he had one to me. we discussed the latest with vice president of the country's national assembly and also an armenian left helen general a veteran of previous wars in the gordo. the regime knew that its yearly it for 30 years the military has been poorly managed in terms of equipment and maintenance this led to the army becoming weak 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 commander his resignation as he was destroying the army to communion. its post-war turbulence when the military makes political statements that 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 what's. at the center of media attention for allegedly refusing to take the astra zeneca covert job herself the german leader explaining age was the reason. and 66 years old and i do not belong to the group recommended for astra zeneca. the vaccine so far approved in the country for those under $65.00 but the chancellor statements added to the controversy more broadly where many in the e.u. are refusing western shots over reports of poor efficacy leaving significant numbers of news jobs main targets at the same time as the head of the world health organization is warning rich countries against restricting job supplies to developing nations as our europe correspondent reported in the week. germany is facing a touch of cognitive dissonance when it comes to covert 19 vaccinations on the one

hand politicians on the population are outraged at how slow the process of giving a vaccine to everyone in germany has been on the other hand vaccination centers like this one here in berlin at the old airport which only gives out the astra zeneca job well they've been struggling to get people to take up the offer that some sorts aligned unused because not enough people enrolling or just not turning up for their point meant this is an absurd and unbearable situation as of last friday only 10 percent of the vaccines available had been administered the astra zeneca job is only approved for use in under 60 five's in germany due to a lack of data on its effectiveness and older people it's being made available to health care staff but tales of reactions to the vaccine have seen some german states suspend its use. astra zeneca has been criticized because on the one hand it seems to be less effective than the messenger r.n.a.

vaccines from beyond tank and moderna and on the other hand you have been reports of vaccine reactions both must continue to be well monitored is something quiet fish out there how can we do it to vaccine and then find out a couple weeks months later that it's maybe not as efficient as it was as it was promised i think this shows that the way the european union has been managing this whole vaccine campaign it was not only by the professionals that were supposed to be making decisions in the 1st place i think this is something which is not normal and now it's backfiring of course we see a very small percentage of western europeans getting the vaccine it's angle of merkel spokesperson even had to put out a post on social media encouraging people to take the astra zeneca vaccine because there's a worry that the doses germany has could end up going to waste. astra zeneca succeed in c. and. it prevents many infections and protects against serious illnesses vaccination

against. france has found itself in a similar position to germany when it comes to its citizens being unsure about the astra zeneca jab a general lack of vaccines across the european union added to growing fears about their safety i mean the 2 biggest eurozone economies germany and france vaccinated just 6 percent of their populations but the head of the world health organization wants rich countries to check before ordering more shots and meat diet shortages in developing nations if there are no vaccines to buy moneys irrelevant currently some high income countries are into contracts with vaccine manufacturers that undermine the deal start call vioxx hours in police and reduce the number of those come by. we've already millions and millions of shares and we don't even know if these vaccines are safe and now that we've got these vaccines people don't want

them so what do we do with that and there's no better be over of course if some kind of trees feel safe with these vaccines in they want them in their family who should and should should have them or sell them or or get into the countries we can't have vaccines staying in. some or as some call spots refrigerated areas around the you know while e.u. nations are did the ring over whether or not to get one of the main vaccines that are on offer poorer nations are running the risk of having no doses of any vaccine at all peter all over r.t. berlin i took low uptake of astra zeneca has shot with the director of health and care at the international federation of the red cross and red crescent he told me in the week the consequences of not using all available doses in his view would die . it leaves a nasty cold that we have hundreds of thousands of those 'd effective and safe

vaccine lying go unused in the european countries when we have many else workers in the developing countries that are not getting any vaccine these are not only unethically is extremely sad because every vaccine that is not injected in the arm of a person is a potential death due to. the 19 so we really need to accelerate the distribution of vaccines and to do that one of the critical point. as being information and mistrust in not only europe we have a lot of vaccine is around the world and i think there is a lot of work to be done to make sure that people understand that getting a vaccine that has a 60 percent efficacy rate a great deal everybody should be going for that vaccine as long as the vaccine is safe i think has been demonstrated that it will actually do so there's no reason why those people should be at the clearing and not taking a vaccine they're putting themselves and their communities at risk besides creating

problems for the rest of the world. coming up this sunday a recovered covert patient tells our tale about getting hundreds of deaths being blamed for a lot of down restrictions well some of ago that we made him then there's other news that made the headlines too from us in the last 7 days after the break. is your media a reflection of reality. in a world transformed. what will make you feel safe. isolation full community. are you going the right way or are you being

led. by. what is true what is faith. in a world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the depths. for a mate in the shallowness. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. one of canada's covert victims is one the stigma attached with the disease is stopping many from reporting that they could be infected colon kroenke received hundreds of death threats of the it was revealed that he caught the virus. people

attacked me for no reason in new brunswick that's my hometown that's where i'm from there's a video that was on october 31st of me saying that i couldn't taste or smell anything and the background story i kind of the you tube video on this so that you know creates allergies where i can't taste her might and you know my nose gets blocked up and and that's what i was relating it to and that's why the 2nd day i booked a task like waited still there you know it could be covert to it out of the state so i'm just going to double check i'm pretty sure it's not because my spouse days prior tested negative for covert $191.00 of the guys that i was on the trip with who came home early from calgary he tested also negative for quote 19 which he actually had symptoms so i was like ok there's probably a very slim chance that i have over 1000 and when i was traveling from calgary back to new brunswick i was considered an essential worker so we weren't required to isolate and i didn't have symptoms at that time my symptoms didn't come till the 31st and i was coming back to new brunswick on the 24th of october after being

infected people on social media began blaming him for his subsequent public restrictions and he told us of the dangers of public shaming. a lot of people are so worried about having kobe not because of it's going to harm them but it's because they're worried of what the pope and i the population around them will think when you shame somebody and when you have this big stigma on people for having called it a lot of people who are sick you know that might have a sniffle or a sore throat or something they don't bother going to get tested because they they feel like they're going to be shamed so or shunned and so a lot of people end up hiding their symptoms that's an issue because then you're not getting a true number on cases and and you know you have people going around spreading the virus not knowingly the they have the virus because they're too worried about what people might think that they have the virus. and then the world health organization special envoy on covert 19 talking direct to us saying the world should prepare for a new post pandemic reality he also warned that we should expect other dangerous

strains to spread to. this some who say we should be striving towards eliminating the virus completely others and i'm in this 2nd group say that we must strike wards being able to live with the virus as a constant threat but putting in place a mix of defenses in our societies that mean that we hold the virus at the way at the center of that is vaccination which can protect people from getting seriously ill and dying but there's also how we behave there's also help governments create the conditions in which we can behave in a really helpful way which we're going to avoid in the virus and this international cooperation. i want to be clear you

always need to have traction nations to good so that's good practice or even just for many years i've carried a little yellow book next to my passport which indicates that i've had yellow fever vaccinations it includes those of the data i've received the vaccination who vaccinated me and very importantly will number of vaccine i received i really think that's good practice now how the significance it used as possible for being able to get on a plane or get into a hotel or go into a building or go to a festival that's a different story and right now i don't think anybody is in a position to start saying to our vaccinations if it gets will be used in practice it's early days on that. as as most of your viewers will know 'd a recent investigation into how this virus appeared true independence

scientific group that was sent to the auspices of the world go for organization a joint independent group together with the chinese authorities and they are in the process of producing a report looking for hypotheses about the origins and their report will show where they got to in relation to each of these hypotheses finding out the origins of any kind of pathogen whether it's the one causing this corona virus or other pathogens for example like it or particular kinds of influenza these investigations are difficult to do and as far as i'm concerned this is a process it's on track. it's very political and a lot of people are watching it we have to wait until the report appears but already for the judgments could be made. away from covertly brought you this to

everything from brand names to work relations even family ties and showing signs of breakdown these days as u.s. political divides begin to affect practically every section of society there as double quarter reported if you take joe biden's word at face value you might think political polarization in america is no big deal the nation is not divided it is not nearly as divided as we make it out to be but if you take a look at what's actually going on in the streets well a different picture begins to appear. on. and according to the statistics your eyes are not deceiving you i think we're all

aware of how political polarization has affected our elections and system of government but the impacts go far beyond the political arena it seems the facts contradict biden's feel good speeches about unity take the family the core structure of american society it's a real example of unity and something more important than political bickering with that in mind check out what one republican senators family had to say about his decision to support trump's impeachment we all thought really just gusted with you it is now most embarrassing to us that we're related to you you've been bearish the kings and family name ok he's a politician his family cannot get around political talk at the dinner table but divorces parents disowning their children this is happening in ordinary american families it's tough my husband is a trump has caused such trying to date feel like i want to divorce i'm a registered republican who is now an independent who voted democrat my republican family however has dug in they think i'm the crazy one they were more shocked to

find out i hate to d.t. than they were to hear i was also known as none of my family members talk to me i'm so sorry for anyone who's lost family over politics it has. you can see it in the workplace where playing politics can get you fired and the spotlight of national news like the former what a burger employee who wore a black lives matter mask to the job i would have but i hated that i made an approach to the style of the other and i think a good way to. say it is that. you probably shouldn't buy the wrong item either unless you want to incur the wrath of those who don't agree with you go your food for example is now being boycotted just because the boss praised donald trump for a also under boycott because the company dropped its contract with a conservative beauty blogger who claims she was targeted for. her political views and the head of my pillow is taking flak since he publicly supports the idea that the last presidential election was fraudulent the keyboard warriors have drawn

their swords and retailers have even cut ties with the companies because of it so next time you think about buying a pillow think twice unless of course you want your family to fall apart from customs just a robot you know was the last of the things not just through insults it is getting physical i honestly think that it has to do with the fact that we can interact with each other a lot more we were probably always at our core of this polarized the differences that now the the barbarian at the gate to use a metaphor is a lot closer in real or than it was when we had cities that lived in liberal bubbles and red states that lived in their bubbles and everybody kind of believed based on the way that you would go about your life that there was a little bit more of a homogenously lifestyle now the person that is is very very conservative sees the fringe of the liberal city life in the liberal city live sees the 3 of our conservative ecosystem they are on top of each other in

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