this is the u.s. making amends for the tragedy in laos built to the people need in that little. in the headlines this sunday armenia's prime minister raises the stakes sending in order to dismiss the country's top general back to the president after he rejected it setting the stage for a constitutional showdown crowds in the capital continue to demand the pm quits. and in some of the top stories of the week astra zeneca is kobi job ally under used in europe as people accuse vaccination over efficacy concerns at the same time the world health organization points to drastic shortages and poor nations. and u.k. doctors come out against plans to make coronavirus vaccinations of the likud tory

front line workers. welcome to the weekly here on our teacher national where we bring you the latest headline news at the top stories from the past week. for me as political crisis has escalated further after the president rejected sacking the country's top general on the prime minister's request setting the stage for a constitutional showdown meanwhile crowds in the capital continue to demand the pm quits thousands of opposition protesters took to the streets of iran for a 3rd day calling for the resignation of nicole posh and young are angry at his handling of last year's war with azerbaijan which many saw as and humiliating defeat a fresh protests which have continued on and off since the war ended in november erupted on thursday when a defied a call by the military to resign and accuse the army of an attempted coup. here's

a quick recap of how the situations deteriorated as of late. prime minister and the government of armenia 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. might want to also just 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 was the initial actions will sit down at the negotiating table with the opposition for consultations on the elections both cowher are. already for consistency and they're both of them. i'm a show and just and asked their people in the square to go on the stand being the

only the scientific community top politicians parties everyone is against nickel and 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. or her the. right in the streets the opposition is teaching the p.m.'s to make.

because. this. way the force and also preparing for the. woods for. the country has been on edge since november of last year over a peace deal with azerbaijan and the disputed region. the government had vowed victory in that war but armenians saw the agreement as a humiliating defeat protesters reacted to the truce by storming the government building and. down the spent time there at the height of it last year and outline for us the trouble that's led us to what we're seeing now. this whole process that has been brewing for months because it all stems from mean years and well nagorno-karabakh defeats in last year's war with the armenian government the

promise the people that they would come out victorious out of this clash with their by john over the issue of this disputed region over the going to come about 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 like 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 sparked that was the ignition that's when the protests started that's when people started 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 saudis 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 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 mountain which it is for you or for me we don't have that feeling it's for that for them it's a matter of honor a matter of national pride so that defeat and having to concede to. 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 wound 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 room 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. 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 street 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 this 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 in everybody to refrain from violence so to me it looks like the last world 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 hard core 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's not 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 discuss the latest developments with the vice president of the country's national assembly and an armenian the tenet general a veteran of previous wars in the corner cut about. but if you knew that for 30 years the military has been poorly managed in terms of equipment and maintenance this led to the army becoming weak and flushing 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 took a community. is 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 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 putting 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 his thoughts. and our merkel's at the center of media attention for allegedly refusing to take the astra zeneca covert job herself a german leader explained that her age was the reason. and 66 years old and i do

not belong to the group recommended for us doesn't it. a vaccine so far approved in the country for those under 65 but the chancellor statement has added to the controversy where many in the e.u. are refusing western shots over reports of poor efficacy leaving significant numbers of unused jabs meanwhile the head of the world health organization has warned rich countries against restricting shot supplies to developing nations as our europe correspondent peter albert 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 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 shots

aligned unused because not enough people enrolling or just not turning up for the appointment 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. and on the other hand there have been reports of vaccine reaction was both must continue to be well monitored is something quieter share 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 are all and now it's backfiring of course we see a very small percentage of western europeans getting the vaccine it's angle of merkel spokes person 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. and that it prevents many infections and protects against serious illnesses vaccination can see. 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 are 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 made 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 are undermine the deals that call vioxx hours in place and reduce the number of those this come by. oh 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 them and there's no better be over of course if some kind of trees feel safe with these vaccines and they want them to. and should should have them or sell them or or gets it to the poor countries we can't have vaccines staying in it in. some order some cold spots

refrigerated areas around the earth while e.u. nations a 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 of a r.t. . we discussed the low uptake of astra zeneca shot with the director of health care at the international federation of the red cross and red crescent he told us the consequences of not using all available doses are dire. and i actually called that we have hundreds of thousands of those but effective and safe vaccine lying go unused in the european countries when we have many elves 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. 1000 so we really need to accelerate the distribution of vaccines and to do that one of the critical point. has been means information and mistrust and not only in 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 ease 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 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. still had a recovery coming patient tells our team about getting hundreds of death threats and being blamed for a lot of restrictions we hear from him among our stories after the break.

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in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the debt. or a maid in the shallows. welcome back to the weekly health authorities have warned against reported u.k. plans to make over jobs mandatory for some workers pointing out it may be illegal under current legislation and once chief medical officer has already told health staff that getting an ocular added is their duty on the national health service the n.h.s. is reportedly considering making it a bleak atory for certain employees but any chest dr bob hill top us that some medical workers say doesn't attack on their autonomy. the idea of making x. and nation compulsory is very short sighted we 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 panels but the u.k. medical chiefs say the number of coronavirus patients has dropped and pressure on the n.h.s. is easing and officials even suggested that the country's coded alert level should be downgraded but that in mind by bell again says mandatory and i can 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 a survey early on in the pandemic which showed the vast majority or doctors certainly felt that the government had completely missed and on the krona virus and demick and that confidence nothing has really happened to improve their confidence in government. one of canada's covered victims has worn the stigma attached with the disease and stopping many from reporting that they could be infected quite long cronk received hundreds of death threats after it was revealed 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 that you know creates allergies where i can't taste her might you know my nose gets blocked up in and that's what i was relating it to and that's why the 2nd day i booked a task like weighted 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 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 19 and when i was traveling from calgary back to new brunswick i was considered an essential worker so we were required to isolate and i didn't have symptoms at that time my symptoms didn't come to 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 subsequent public restrictions and lockdowns he told us of the dangers of public shaming. a lot of people are so worried about. not

because of it's going to harm them but it's because they're worried of what the 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 the 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. now for some world news and brief writers have graffitied and torched police found whole projectiles at law enforcement and damage banks and stores on the 2nd week of spanish violence against the jailing of rapper public herself for insulting the royal family in lyrics and tweets the officers inside the burnt police van escaped unharmed more than

a dozen demonstrators were arrested. 3 officers have been injured as hundreds of anti-lock down and back seen protesters and ireland attacked police with fireworks and cans police charged the crowds hitting them with batons and made $23.00 arrests. and we can share with you stunning footage as russia's space agency ross cosmos launches its 1st ever arctic satellite to monitor the environment of the frozen territory the rocket carrying the satellite took off from baikonur cosmodrome in kazakhstan. everything from brand names to work relations and even family ties are showing signs of breakdown as u.s. political divides begin to affect practically every section of society as artist and quarter explains. if you take joe biden's words at face value you might think political polarization in america is no big deal the nation is not divine to this

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. 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 are related to you you've been bearish the kings and family name ok as 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 i 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 hated the tea 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 a family over politics it has. you could 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 it went ahead but that's the test that i made in the style of clothing and i think if they don't think it's a good thing you probably shouldn't buy the wrong item either unless you want to incur the wrath of those who don't agree with you going to 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 podcast just robert young warns the hostilities not just here insults but it's also 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 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 hamas genius lifestyle now the person that is very very conservative sees the fringe of the liberal city life in the liberal city live sees the fringe of conservative ecosystem they are on top of each other in a digital way that simply didn't exist until this moment. that's been our recap of just some of the stories that help shape the world these last 7 days all the latest on up to the minute reports follow us on twitter or instagram.

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