in the day's headlines on rust in our media grows as protesters stormed government buildings in the capital we hear what the situation is on the ground. several countries in europe are rocked by violent protests after the tightening up one of ours restrictions. plus we look into the plight of the coated long haul are still experiencing health problems months after getting grown a buyer. and a proposal by the israeli government to use electronic tags to ensure people self isolate is met with a mixed reaction. to

watching our 2 international bring your live news update from our studio here in moscow to into the program. we start this hour with the growing unrest in armenia where protesters have stormed a number of government buildings in the capital armenian president. prime minister have already met to discuss the political situation in the country the pm the said that the results would be of the meeting will be announced later in the day that says the city braces itself for 2 mass rallies both in support of and against the prime minister it's more on the story so far here is r.t. is constant in rushkoff. so far we know that the opponents of the prime minister are roaming around the cities storming into different government buildings demanding the resignation of nicole pasha none recently they broke into the us about 30 of the central district of on before that they hit another government building where several ministries are located and those were quite chaotic scenes as the crowds were smashing through the hallways and i guess those people who were

at their desks at that time might have been really frightened the crowd specifically were addressing the government employees urging them to stop taking any called orders and do not calm to the pro passion and rally they do not stay inside for too long they storm in they shout slogans with the help of a bullhorn and then they move on so it looks like the police simply can't catch up with them now the protesters are said to be coming back to the national parliament that's where the opposition has been camping out for the last several days turning the area into the center of an uprising against nicole anyway that shows you how much attention is in the air right now as the political crisis in armenia unfolds at the political front the situation develops pretty fast we've just received information that the authorities have agreed to snap elections but they will go forward only if the had of the general staff of the armenian armed forces the need . growing along with other top army generals have called for the

resignation of the prime minister and he called partially now and after that he was accused of staging a military q so after that i wanted to be a mystery but so far it hasn't succeeded because the president hasn't signed on that order. we have 2 rallies in the year of on schedule for today one staged by opponents and another one by supporters of the prime minister nicola the turnout of the rallies will be crucial for both sides as it might show who dominates the streets and. the hearts of regular people go we fight for power. now for a quick recap of some of the events that have led to the recent turmoil in our media armenian prime minister faced calls to step down by the country's military last week and head back accusing military officials of an attempted coup and sacking the head of the military that sparked mts rallies from both supporters and opponents of the prime minister later the armenian president stepped in and over

would order to sack the chief of staff a month of unrest i'm from a conflict between armenia and azerbaijan last year that resulted in a peace deal that didn't sit well with many armenians. violent protests have broken out in ireland and denmark as people took to the streets to demonstrate against stricter coronavirus curbs.

well those protests in several countries come as there is any decent transmission rate over 19 hearings from the health minister has just like the situation as. the epidemic here with tens of thousands of new cases being registered every day now as a result of that over the weekend several times in france went into new weekend lockdowns and it does look as if that is going to be expanded there across the country here in paris the various discussing a mini 3 week lockdown it seems to many that the 50 that's meeting place for several months now is more working but that's not the case according to the country's director general of health the situation is obviously very tense the government has taken strong braking measures particularly with the curfew the latter works very well well the e.u. of course is still having problems with its vaccine rollout it's been slow from the

start only around 8 percent of adults have beem. across the book fall behind say that come to parts in the u.k. were almost 30 percent in there are still questions particularly the astra zeneca vaccine the efficacy of which in older people had been questions not just by phones but also by germany and as a result of that many people are refusing in those countries that have not particular vaccine. so much so that some figures suggest up to 85 percent of doses in germany have been used and possibly around 90 percent of doses haven't been used in france so much so that there are pools now to give those extra time since team younger individuals who might accept the fact see. we cannot afford the vaccine sitting around and not being used because some of those entitled to it reject it well as the e.u. is struggling to get the doses of the vaccines that people actually want to take some countries are now taking matters into their own hands let's take the czech

republic for example which is declared a new nationwide state of emergency as a number of could be doing to patients why is there so much so that they've decided that they might reach out and obtain this make the vaccine from russia there's a huge interest in the russian vaccine we cannot wait for the european medicines agencies approval the state institute for drug control must examine the documentation and if they approve it the health ministry has to issue an exemption for the czech republic not the only country that is already doing that hungry has this been enough to happen if at this rate of around 92 percent of the house and yet being given regulatory approval he in europe but it seems as the vaccine continues to hold across the bloc countries now are deciding to make their own way . around 115000000 people have been infected by corona virus globally until point

5000000 have died since the start of the pandemic but despite this relatively little is known about the long term effects of the disease also known as long arches unprocessed examines the condition as part of his coronavirus documentary series. political show goodish for more than a year now humanity has been dealing with coded key just understands what symptoms have been identified but only now do we start to understand that there is also a long coat that we use names way between 5 and 50 percent of people struggle with this disease for much longer than expected people who have been treated at our hospital they are coming back and these situations are becoming even more common than simple i got sick this is very worrying.

just like how same day precisely of comprehensible symptoms everything is just like in that series of. i thought that i was cured and everything would return to normal but unfortunately this was not the case i started choking of the felt then i had to call a doctor again and i realized that i couldn't walk more than 100 to 150 meters so i was getting tired immediately and i would get a burning feeling in my chest you know it would be logical if complications off the coast but it cut in the most severe cases of patients who lie like this in intensive care on ventilators but in fact this is not the case the majority of people with these so-called kovi tell you a little bit a young people are going to have never been in intensive care and moreover i've not even consulted doctors about covert. you know i did not have any fever a cough at all because.

then i start to cough blood and i got a very severe pain in my leg some of the consciousness some symptoms were ending other were starting headaches and even congestion in my chest just by the non damage to my lawn so it was just endless there it is if you are sick with something but what exactly where nobody can. cope it definitely hits the nervous system that this is its main target then which way the. small from both these occur in the vessels of the brain little haemorrhages all this becomes evident via very different symptoms sometimes rather obvious and sometimes not a headache is something understandable and this is not due to intoxication but due to covert micro bleeding and swelling. massive weakness is also what everyone describes and what is completely unusual for other diseases visual and hearing impairment dreams become weird you know even hallucinogenic. cardia can be terrible

and completely inexplicable even young people can have it. but the even young people who do not have any hope of ologies or they go through an e.c.g. an echo the doctors find nothing. all this made us realize that this is damage to the central nervous system so the brain sends you some kind of a signal i stay sick yes something like this. every day we see more and more patients for whom koby did not end with them leaving the hospital sometimes the consequences last for months and how long it will last is completely incomprehensible the most important thing here is not to miss the moment and see a doctor in time. and there is really a government proposal to use electronic bracelets to insure people self isolate when returning from abroad has been met with a mixed reaction by israelis artists pulse their reports from the airport where the program was launched as you can see behind me it's largely deserted there are 4

flights that are scheduled to arrive this afternoon and passengers on those flights will be part and parcel of a new pilot program that is being launched today and which is hugely controversial a year ago one would not have imagined that we'd be in a situation now when you arrive in israel you have one of 2 choices either you quote in team in an army hotel or you can go home and do a home quarantine for 10 days but now you have to go home with an electronic monitoring system this entails wearing an electronic bracelet either around will restore your ankle now this bracelet is part of a tracking system it's connected to a smartphone which is connected to stick that is placed on one of the walls of a person's home the company monitor. the whole system will receive some kind of signal the moment the person steps foot out of the home so it's a way to try and stop people breaking home quarantine and it's also a way for the israelis to reopen the skies and return to some kind of normality the

company that has designed the technology says that everything is safe and that people should not be worried in fact it is not as intrusive the stick knology as are the apps that are currently being used in israel the company has also stressed the point that it's not monitoring any kind of personal information it's not to coordinate the information and at the same time it's not taking pictures it's also say that the bracelet is to quote comfortable that it is efficient that people won't even know that they have it on them it's very light and it's waterproof they actually gone so far as to call it a freedom bracelet saying that it gives passengers arriving in israel the choice to do an army hotel quarantine or a home quarantine having said all of that it still hasn't satisfied many people who are critical of the whole program asking travelers to choose between military force quarantine motel and an electronic bracelet i don't even know where to start with it is a nightmare happening in warp speed and trialed in israel before its global debut

is or launches pilot program to track returning passengers using electronic bracelets and the knesset pasta law allowing disclosing identities of unvaccinated to authorities watch how the pandemic continues to erode any semblance of civil rights now land and a border is here in israel have been closed since january and at this point in time they will remain close for at least a now the 2 weeks the only people being allowed into the country are stranded israelis aboard an independent organization the israel democracy institute is a watchdog and is why we eat about the direction in which this country is headed. our concern is that they rosing of the rights affects. it is not proportionate but rather extreme even in view of the current health challenge they stream changes in policy from one of a food open air port to complete closure without warning and where citizens who

travelled abroad lawfully with the food that they would be able to return and without giving them a chance to prepare accordingly creates intolerable human situations now the pilot system sees $100.00 tracking systems being issued it is a plan in place to expand this to a 1000 but that depends on legislation we've also heard from the health ministry that they haven't ruled out the possibility of wheat introducing monitoring people's cell phones and that was something that the israeli internal security the shin bet it was involved in last year but also proved to be hugely controversial. the israeli government has already passed a law giving up already has access to the personal data of unvaccinated people expected to remain in force for 3 months and the government insists the law is only designed to encourage vaccination and says the information will not be used for any other purpose this is what people on the streets of tel aviv's have to say about it . but i'm concerned that the government wants to share private medical information

with institutes that are not relevant i see it as a major violation of civil rights i definitely all about it to let this information out in order that as an incentive to people to get like seen and as. taking us one step closer to normal life it's very simple you know very far people because of into vaccinated and the dollars things and basically the corner office and where we let them do it their way they doing are they doing it strikes by these lies of it under the rule of law as you noted right in the streets and then and demonstrate i really hope that there won't be discrimination between people who've had the vaccine in people who have and everybody should do it and then everything will be open to everybody. we now have breaking news on our t.v. the former french president nicolas sarkozy has been found guilty of corruption and sentenced to jail and falls a 2 month trial into the so-called wiretapping affair he was convicted of corruption related offenses and influence peddling sarkozy is the 1st former

president of france to be jailed i'll bring you more reaction to this and other stories after this short break. lead. to financial guy i don't find any i'm on if you. like i said that's not my it's from the future tracker.

welcome back to the program the french senate is set to debate a controversial security bill this week which aims to restrict the sharing of images of police officers online it comes after the country's interior ministry revealed that attacks on officers have more than doubled over the past 2 decades with recent. protests only exacerbating the situation.

room no no more. regular errors. around 85 incidents of violence against officers are recorded and friends every day and january alone more than 2200 cases were registered and just last thursday a police station near paris was attacked with projectiles and fireworks by around 30 people officials say that 4 suspects were arrested after that incident one french police officer told us what he thought is behind the violence he forces you to give a lot of what we need to do is to try to resolve the problem upstream and try to

find solutions to the tensions that are undermining the climate between the police and part of the population is especially the youth and we have to focus on the background for example if we're talking about the sort of cell police station attack now journalists wrote a little less than a month ago about a pregnant woman who had been stopped by a police patrol from a veiled woman who was 4 and a half months pregnant was. pushed to the wall by a policewoman and lost her baby following this even if the media doesn't talk about it people don't forget i'm not sure there is a link between the 2 cases but this kind of information circulates in the press but also circulates by word of mouth so that doesn't help to ease tensions this is not a problem that appeared suddenly it has an origin. article $24.00 of the security bill would curb people's ability to share images identifying police officers in the media and online as found guilty of violating the law could face up to one year in prison and 45000 euro fine critics of the bill argue it could stop people from

exposing police brutality there's no again. to ski close to. what really has exploded these last few years is police violence today's police violence is no longer the same as it was 10 or 20 years ago today people film these kind of violations and put them on the internet only the day before yesterday there was another case of police violence that was filmed in paris on the video we can see 2 police officers who insult and handle a black man quite roughly so we have to read between the lines and understand that this is a defense strategy developed by the ministry of the interior and in particular by the police force which ultimately puts on an equal footing police violence and violence committed against the police which is also real today we have to completely change our strategy but i think that during the term of a manual micron it's already a little bit late to make changes because the presidential campaign will start in

a few months and it's late to make decisions that have not been made in the last 4 years. trump has returned to the political stage giving his 1st public speech since leaving the white house it comes as a recent poll suggests he still remains the most popular republican presidential candidate for the next election. do you misread. this speech was highly anticipated due to the fact that donald trump is not on social media giving us a piece of his mind any longer now trump did not say whether or not he would run for president in 2024 but he certainly left open the possibility. oddly even. to beat them for a 3rd ok. now he started off by making clear he would not be starting his own political party he would remain with the republicans now

all taken among attendees of the conservative political action conference ended. that a very solid majority said they would vote for him and wow the republican party has many elements within it that do not approve of donald trump among rank and file republican voters trump remains wildly popular where in the middle of a historic struggle for america's future america's culture in america's institutions borders and most cherished principles our security our prosperity and our very identity as americans is at stake like perhaps at no other time. so no matter how much the washington establishment of the powerful special interests may want to silence us let there be no doubt we will be victorious and america will be stronger and greater than ever before he also spoke about the issue of immigration he criticized the handling of the pandemic and gave

a very harsh critique of the new administration so at this point people are looking on and saying that while democrats and others are saying that the country is healing and reunifying that doesn't really seem to be the case donald trump remains the center of republican party politics and the partisanship and division that gave birth to donald trump remains intact the last 4 years things have become more and more intense and even though donald trump is out of office the polarization of the country which certainly ask elated during his presidency is not going away the country remains intensely divided. back to our breaking news now the former french president nicolas sarkozy has been found guilty of corruption and sentenced to one year and jail if it is a 2 month trial into the so-called wiretapping affair sarkozy was found guilty of bribing a judge and exchange for inside information on an investigation into his presidential campaign finances sarkozy is the 1st former president of france ever to have been

jailed. to discuss this story further we cannot be joined live by journalist and political commentator and elizabeth sarkozy is the 1st former president of modern day france to be jailed quite a dubious honor what do you make of it. well 1st he is the 1st president to be condemned to jail this is a condition that he could have nation that he's already going to kill so i don't think he's jailed yet. but it's d.c. also has the interesting in the 1st president of france to be the object of 17 different court cases 16 of which were dismissed without merit and he expects that his appeal sort of well you know his luck will hold in appeal but it still isn't so strong set back to something that in some jurisdictions would have been thrown out of court because it was based on the on a continuous of phone tapping by magistrates without

a specific mandate on the specific object which in french or it is illegal so it's a really interesting case and that really demonstrates that french justice has become quite as has become quite politicized in recent years are you surprised at all by the verdict and what do you think about the sentence too harsh to did not go enough they were pushing for him to serve to yours. personally. i mean i've lived in other countries and i'm french i'm the daughter of lawyers and i'm amazed that it in this case the specific case or the cases were really interesting and this is fascinating that this came to justice essentially because as i said the magistrate of the newly formed by cars were all financial investigations a body of the french investigative magistrates decided to listen to. these telephone to his wife to his lawyer which is completely in constitutional lawyers communication should be proved and they did this for hours and weeks and the judge

as it has been a report has not been disproved that the judge has within that out that would come in and listen for a time to try to find things to pin on and these are things that should be thrown out of court in any democratic country and i suspect that any appeal nicolas sarkozy and his lawyers are expecting that they will be thrown when he appeals well that appeal regardless of how it does turn out to sarkozy have any chance of redeeming his reputation at this point. well it's going to be interesting i it's become very polarized and he has disliked like other presidents in other countries or disliked another prime ministers in other countries that it's late and this has become much more political in terms of proving that he's done anything so far this is the 1st time that a court actually say that he's guilty of trying to get information by talking to a jew and a civil servant and promising

a job to that civil servant who never got it but it's but the repetition is something that's entirely distinct from the actuality of the fact if you look at the prime minister. and if you pick who was actually condemned to not being urgent all because of using the a city finances when he was the deputy mayor of arabs to finance the action it's got to that was proved and went and taught politics in a university in canada for a year because he couldn't present himself to any post in france and then he got back and after that he became the 1st he was elected as mayor below it was elected as an m.p. and he became france's foreign minister so it's not finished i would say for anybody in france who's had that kind of problems before we've been speaking with journalist and political commentator and unless both want to thank you for time and your comments thank you that's a breakdown of today's top headlines for now thanks for tuning in wherever you may

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