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up becoming the 1st president in the country. to. the 1st day i find you well my name is you know neal our top story. protests both for and against the or me and prime minister being playing out in the capital police are attempting to keep the apart a number of hours ago the pm. addressed supporters pledged to hold early elections with more on the day's developments. a lot has been going on in your of on lately and the 2 major rallies that were held both by the opposition and the supporters of

the prime minister they are officially over but people are still outside on this reason we're in now let's actually follow with the supporters of the prime minister because after the rally it was over they started to march around the city they were shouting slogans in support of the prime minister there were no major clashes reported that was one of the greatest concerns of the day to police they blocked off the cordon off the area and they didn't let this procession to go to the national parliament that's where the position. is held in its own rally now let me tell you that. he used his rally to make several major political statements and now instruments and for example he said that he offered to hold a referendum a constitutional referendum to amend the constitution and change the country's political system and to give more power to the president and another another take

away from his speech was that he said that he still insists that the head of the general staff of the armenian armed forces are on it just for a needs to wait and let me give you some back story here you see on a guest. along with other top generals he accused me called parchin on lately in a basically him being incompetent and of poor handling of the last war with his service john and he called for the rest of nation of the prime minister and so for that he was accused of staging a military coup and that's when the ricin crisis the recent political political crisis starts to unfold it seems like a lot lies ahead in front of the country in terms of political changes and in terms of you know over common in general the. major political crisis of the last couple of years. ok well let's just take you through the recent turmoil in the country give you a sense of why what's happening is happening the prime minister faced calls by the country's military last week to step down following last year's conflict with

neighboring. which resulted in a peace deal that many viewed as a humiliating defeat now he in turn accuse the military of an attempted coup the country's top general sparking mass rallies from both supporters and opponents the prime minister's much like received the day after the president stepped in. order to fire the chief of staff. to discuss this further let's cross live now to. professor france's national institute of languages and eastern civilization speaking to us today from london always good to see you bruno is the prime minister's pledge of early election is this the last through of the dice from what the all out of options. you know he has to do something because apparently he lost quite a lot of popularity and of course armenia was defeated in the last war that's

obvious so there is a lot of misconduct and are now i mean you know and it's logical. in this case he has to. give some appearance that he's taking into it taking into account the general situation but. of course the situation is tense and i don't know if it will really. put the country. to be cool calm. in any way for the moment it will it looks dead question is forced to do legs to respect some of the opposition. that's in the situation now that's the point isn't it of how much this call for any elections are allowance of early elections is going to

placate the they under it cries a lot of frustration perino i thought in the streets calling for him to quit now they have the chance to vote him out well they're easy i don't know but good question is when will this election a place there and if people can be patient. up to the election because you know the situation is very humiliating for all armenians situation was very humiliating also for military and situation and economical situation is very bad so all this made the situation very dance especially if we remember we remember that. arrived to. the hour here ivan is situational something that can be remapped can be you know seen as a. he didn't prepare

a new way he just. kind of. international good relation with. neighbors and with russia and and. now the situation is is. that this country was isolated and to do war the pictures we're seeing on the screen just as we're speaking to there's a lot of protesters but they're not all against them there's plenty of his supporters. today that give him confidence ahead of a photo i know it's very hard to know but if he had a vote now or to happen soon how would you rate his chances of staying in power. i of course it's very difficult to get lost and not. of course he has some popularity since he he arrived as i told you. to devour his support of. quite a lot of people. even if we can seen this evidence where.

it colored with allusion anyway there was something like a popularity but i think that he lost quite a lot of popularity and i think a. specially thought you larry t. outside of your evonne in you know in the poorest areas of our army you know i'm taking also into account. came from a kind of bach i think the situation will be very dense and i doubt he's he said he can india election but of course i have no element sure to. pick up on a point you said earlier ever since he. put pen to paper on the peace deal with us or by sean diddy effectively sign as own political death warrant where we always heading to where we are now. he has no chance i mean he laws don't work as he did

military situation was very bad but he's responsible for different situations since he didn't prepared his country to kind of a good diplomat a good diplomatic situation before the war so he was quite alone during that war and he had no no no foreign sucked or no no real headway and in fact russia didn't save him i mean that saved i mean yeah in certain sounds also the government of crimea but. their situation was very bad and of course. it's a very humiliating defeat and after the defeat no nation can support the situation and of course you have all the military because the military know how they were not prepared for that war and it's not doing it during default of military's i mean i guess they are quite quite well formed militarily but they had

no no arms they were and they were left alone and passion indeed and prepared his country for it war situation and that's an interesting point isn't it because our armenians president rhona rejected the p.m.'s order to sack the country's armed forces chief how big of an impact that that's have on the overall situation that that's very important because it means that there is a conflict between the president and prime minister and that the army is of course in a situation of true are just of a ceasefire the army is a very important element in the independent tickle situation and we have to take into account the bigger number of of soldiers coming from to just society coming from the population that when they're doing to the home after a humiliating defeat and i doubt those soldiers are. very happy news by senior government no i supposed it or not the defense ministry valid to remain neutral can

they do that and they're put in there in the current situation of what you've just been going through their feelings that the soldiers might have. to be not mutual but of course is that if the situation becomes more and more. military would have to take sight bruneau i erroneous lee place to cross the channel earlier you're speaking to us from paris today professor at the national institute of languages eastern civilizations in france bruno thank you. moving the program on simmering anger at tightening covert restrictions has boiled over in ireland denmark thousands have taken to the streets demanding their freedoms back.

well those protests in several e.u. countries come as there is an increasing transmission breaks over 19 here in fronts the health minister has described the situation as. the epidemic 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 further across the country here in paris the various discussing a mini 3 week lockdown it seems to many that the p.c.

that's been in 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 lated across the book fall behind say their counterparts in the u.k. we're almost up 30 percent in the there are still questions particularly over 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 all refusing in those countries to have not particular vaccine. so much so that something to suggest up to 85 percent 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 teen younger individuals who might accept that vaccine we cannot afford the vaccine sitting around and not being used because some of those entitled to it rejected 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 the number of cases why is there so much so that they've decided that they might reach out and obtain the make the vaccine from russia there is 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 well the czech republic is not the only country that is already doing that hungry

has been inoculated people with the sputnik the vaccine for the last month said to happen efficacy rate over around 92 percent but it hasn't yet been 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 the mc has left a trail of devastation in its wake over the past 12 months 2 and a half 1000000 people dead and run 100 $15000000.00 infected but despite little is still known about the longer term effects of the virus known. it. has been seeking answers in a special called the documentary series. well digital should good for more than a year now humanity has been dealing with cove it tricky each of us understands what symptoms have been identified but only now do we start to understand that

there is also a long coat of it 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 the same day precisely comprehensible symptoms everything is just like in that series of. the other 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 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 or you would be logical if complications off the cuff and a 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 the so-called covert tail little bit a young people who have never been in intensive care and moreover have not even consulted doctors about. manufactured not have any fever a cough at all. then i start to cough up blood and i've got a very severe pain in my leg some of the countries some symptoms were ending other were starting headaches and even congestion in my chest just by the non damage to my launce. it was just an less they're going to it it is if you are sick with something but of what exactly. it definitely hits the nervous system that this is its main target in 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 hard pathologies are 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 by 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. let's move the program on to the middle east now with the use of electronic monitoring turns in israel to make sure people are self isolating when they arrive in the country is not getting the warmest of reactions from his release all the witness a lot of the initiative. as you can see i'm standing just outside the airport building in front of the arrivals hall and the security here at ben gurion international airport just outside tel aviv is not letting the media into the building the people you see behind me are journalists and ironic ironically the reason given by the security is that they don't want the media to make this into more of a story than it is and it's it is to jase that the israeli authorities know just how controversial this program that they introducing this often is now the 1st flight will be

a flight from frankfurt where passengers will be given the choice to either quarantine at an army hotel and to mention that they have been horrific stories coming out of these hotels we've heard of the alleged rape of a 13 year old girl that there's not enough food that there's not enough accommodation all people will be given the choice to quarantine at home until now the israeli police know that a lot of people have been breaking that home quarantine so what they're introducing today and what is so controversial is this bracelet that people will be os to put onto their ankle onto the wrist and it will connect with a cell phone and they'll be a sticker on the wall of the person's home and the minute they leave their home and alert will be given and ultimately the police will be notified that the person has broken quarantine now the company that designed the technology has said that it's completely safe that there is no privacy laws being breached that they not according information they not taking pictures they say it's comfortable it's easy to wear but certainly as you mentioned it is causing

a lot of controversy here in israel and raising eyebrows the rabbis in the country say that it will not be able to be implemented over the weekend because it breaks it and just ordinary people who don't observe it have also questioned the whole egypt i'm a seat of the program asking travelers to choose between military force quarantine motel and an electronic bracelet i don't even know what to stop with it is a nightmare happening in warp speed and trialed in israel before. global debut is or launches pilot program to track returning passengers using electronic bracelets and the knesset pasta law allowing disclosing identities of unvaccinated so authorities watch how the pandemic continues to erode any semblance of civil rights since january the country has been in a lockdown on a pole and all borders have been closed and essentially what this has meant is that israelis who are bored cannot enter the country the question of course is being

awesome what will happen to stranded israelis come the 23rd of march and to the elections and there's no definitive answers being given on that as of yet the independent watchdog the israeli democracy institute has said that it is increasingly walid about the direction in which this country is headed their concern is that they rose and of the rights affected 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 question unaware citizens who traveled abroad lawfully with the full expectational that they would be able to return and without giving them a chance to prepare accordingly creates intolerable human situations now the kind of program does see a 100 kids being used but this will eventually be extended to a 1000 at the same time and that of course depends on legislation at the same time

we are hearing from the health ministry saying that it is investigating the whole issue and it hasn't ruled out returning to the previous mode of checking people's cell phones and to to determine the movements and see whether or not they pass it on the coronavirus just today a few hours ago the high court of his well wolf that they need to be severely limits put on the internal security the shin bet in terms of using this method so certainly with this is a developing story and we are seeing more noise whaley's raise concerns as. how the country is purporting to be stuck on a 5 list at the same time seems to be to being more and more human rights and that certainly is the criticism. paul asli are taking us through that will be is really government has already passed a law giving authorities access to the personal data of vaccinated people it's expected to remain in force for 3 months officials insist it's only meant to encourage vaccination particularly among the jewish orthodox in our communities

where job optic has been slow authorities claim the information won't be used for any other years we've got reaction from people in tel aviv. 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 fire people because of him to get vaccinated any dollars things and basically the corner i was in when we let them do it their way they doing you doing it's tries by size of a gun to do what it was you ordered wrought in the streets and then and demonstrate how 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. u.n.

human rights experts are demanding an international investigation into the alleged poisoning of kremlin critic alexina valmy while concluding at the same time russia was responsible something moscow has repeatedly denied our european correspondent peter oliver was at the united nations conference in geneva this report by the united nations special. put forward a number of conclusions about what happened to alexina volley last summer from the invest. geishas that they carried out the un special rapporteur say the 5 laboratories of a critically proven in their eyes that missing a volley was poisoned with a novel talking nerve agent of a type that was only available in the russian federation and could only have been administered by somebody with expert abilities namely a state actor russia denies any involvement in his poisoning this report wasn't just a look at what had happened to mr novelli that would also serve as

a tacit statement of support for the opposition figure as a politician and as a month something i question the un weapons has a pawn when put alongside statements that have been made by. amnesty international have said that they will no longer consider alexina volley a prisoner of conscience after it became clear that he advocated violence discrimination against ethnic minorities and migrants in russia human rights belong to all of us the best of us into the worst us and there is no excuse no justification for the violations that mr number only has suffered for it is his language that is used in the past it's all just a final bill this support that we are giving him is because his light right tonight was being violated we've also had reaction to this report from the russian foreign ministry spokeswoman who said that she hoped the u.n.

would put pressure on lynn to release documents moscow says it still hasn't been given despite requesting them from germany we hope that after the call of the special rep turfs beilin will stop hiding secret material from the international community and stop editing at the formulas of the discovery substances from the reports perhaps today statements by the special rep tess will encourage our partners to end their disinflation campaign and start join work which should be carried out transparently. and legally last week the e.u. high representative for foreign affairs announced that there would be further sanctions against individuals in russia in relation to the elect saying of on the case we yet to find out exactly what those sanctions will entail and who exactly will be targeted but we have heard from the deputy foreign minister in russia who said that he's not expecting too much from these sanctions this is not a surprise for us the continues to move in an absolutely normal legal way this is

an absolutely dead end path which destructively effects bilateral relations and he no way meets the interests of the european countries themselves alexina valmy took ill on a flight from siberia to moscow last summer his plane how to make an emergency landing in the city of homs he was eventually airlifted to berlin where he received intensive medical treatment and was subsequently diagnosed as having been poisoned with a novacek nerve agent russia denies any involvement in his poisoning but it's a case that continues to put increasing strain on russia's relations with the european union and the wider world. the former french president nicolas sarkozy has been convicted of corruption and sentenced to a year in prison he's the 1st former president of the country ever to have been given a chill term sarkozy's lawyers they will lodge an appeal the $66.00 are all cults are lost to serve the sentence at all or to france correspondent al gore reports

from outside the court. a former french president nicolas sarkozy has been found guilty of trying to bribe a judge and of influence peddling he has been sentenced to 3 years in jail with 2 years a suspended. will lead friends from 2007 to 2012 had deny any wrongdoing he said he was the victim of a witch hunt by financial a prosecutors. and his lawyer were found guilty of seeking to bribe judge as you bear for information on an inquiry into claims the former leader hadn't received and this of payments from. cool as u.b.s. was also found guilty according to the judge the former president was said to have forged a corruption facts with the 2 man judges also said there was a serious evidence of collaboration between the 3 men to break the law and have access to confidential information the state's case was based on wire tapes of

conversations between. with prosecutors accusing him of using secret telephone lines to cover up his attempts to and full trade the courts as he is expected to appeal against the conviction it's not over for and he could as he will have to face later in a few weeks another trial with charges of illegal financing of his 2012 presidential campaign well journalist political commentator elizabeth military believes that the spike the sentencing the matter is far from over the 1st president to jail this is a condition that. they should that is already going to so i don't think e.j. and yet. he also has interesting although the 1st president to be the object of 70 different court cases 16 of which were dismissed without merit.