governmental rallies are held in the capital with police attempting to keep parts. in the country to ferment. violence erupts in several countries or people fight against. human rights. international investigation. still waiting to be. proved. guilty as charged former french. 2 has convicted of corruption and sentenced to

a year in prison. becoming the 1st former president in the country. right here in moscow this monday the 1st of march welcome to the news our own r.t. . tensions are running high in armenia protests both for and against the prime minister being playing out in the nation's capital just hours ago the pm. supporters pledged to hold early elections with more on the day's developments here. in europe. laws 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 the streets and we're 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 that day the 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 quit and let me give you some back story here you see on a guest. along with other top generals he accused me called lately in basically 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. well let's just expound a little constantine was going through as regards the recent turmoil in the country why it is occurring the prime minister face told by the country's military last

week to step into that follows at last year's conflict with neighboring resulted in a peace deal that many armenians views a humiliating defeat a months of protest have followed at in turn accuse the military of an intent to. the country's top general spark mass rallies from both supporters and opponents all the prime minister later the president stepped in and overruled the order to fire the armed forces chief ops the. international affairs coleman to remark. need to cling on to power on till the election whenever the it's going to be to give him any hope of winning it. well i think what's going on here is that after the defeats in the going to come back. here lation is looking for a strong leader and russia can only look strong if he stays in power otherwise he. appears a lame duck who is weak unable to control the situations are playing in power until

the elections is key to his chance of actually winning them i think that is the population is probably a little bit divided between income pragmatists who feel that he could have done much better against the as bijani forces and those who feel that he's generally at cost that territory to armenia because of perhaps he's a pro washington or inflation because all he's watching essentially tough is drones are destroyed the mediums defenses in the going to cut a back but i was saying to his drones will be shot down extremely successfully in syria i would live by the same kind of russian technology that he tried to blame early on so the question is why didn't he use will why didn't he procul the correct technology that would have. depended on media the armenians rather in the going to come out against those drones that would depend against in syria.

ok let's move the program on simmering anger a tightening covert restrictions has boiled over in arlington denmark thousands have taken to the streets demanding their freedoms back. leave. all those protests in several e.u. countries come as there is an increasing transmission rates over 19 here in france the health minister has described 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 to other across the country here in paris the various discussing a mini 3 week lockdown it seems to many that the 50 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. across the book fall behind say their counterparts in the u.k. we're almost 30 percent in there are still questions particularly the astra zeneca

vaccine the efficacy of which in older people had been questioned not just by phones but also by germany and as a result of thoughts many people are refusing in those countries that 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 those 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 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 has 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 sputnik the vaccine from russia there's a huge interest in the russian vaccine we can't 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 have an efficacy rate of 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 deciding to make their own way the pandemic left a trail of devastation 15000000 more infected but the spite that little is still known about the longer term effects of the virus known as long covert. has been

seeking answers in his special covert documentary series. well there's a good choice for more than a year now humanity has been dealing with covert key just understands what symptoms have been identified but only now do we start to understand that there is also a long cove 8 years names way between 5 and 50 percent of people struggle with this disease for much longer than expected people 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 date precisely comprehensible symptoms everything is just like in that series of.

the other will 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 bad and had to call a doctor again i realized that i couldn't walk more than 100 to 150 meters 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 could in the most severe cases have 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 tail little monk ovid a young people who have never been in intensive care and moreover i have not even consulted doctors about. did not have any fever a cough at all. then i start to cough up blood and i got a very severe pain in my leg some of the consciousness some symptoms were ending

other was starting headaches and even congestion in my chest despite non damage to my launce. it was just an less. it is if you are sick with something but of what exactly. in the cove 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 produce a covert micro bleeding and swelling. massive weakness is also what everyone describes and what is completely unusual for other diseases in the visual and hearing impairment dreams become weird even hallucinogenic and techie cardia can be terrible and completely inexplicable even young people can have it. 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 stay sick yes something like this. every day we see more and more patients for whom kovi 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. ok let us stay with the theme because the use of electronic monitoring tags in israel to make sure people are self isolating when they arrive in the country is not getting the warmest of reactions from its release policy or witness the launch of the initiative and of. as you can see i'm standing just outside the 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 if that 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

an alert will be given and ultimately the police will be notified that the person has broken home 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 where 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 to authorities watch how the pandemic continues to erode any semblance of civil rights since january the country has been in a lockdown or 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 on says been 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 the concern is that they arose in of the rights affected is not proportionate but rather extreme even in view of the current health challenge the extreme 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 a movements and see whether or not they pass it on the coronavirus just today a few hours ago the high court of israel woold 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 to. how the country is purporting to be stuck on a 5 at the same time seems to be caving more most human rights and that certainly

is the criticism. of the israeli government has already passed a law giving authorities access to the personal data on facts and 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 are a communities where job optic has been slow and claim the information won't be used for any other purpose we got reaction from people in tel aviv. 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 and out of 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 and the door listings and basically the corner office and when we let them do it their way they doing you doing it strikes by his

lies even to the wall of lies you would rot in the streets and then and demonstrate how really have that there won't be discrimination between people who've had the vaccine in people who haven't everybody should do it and then everything will be open to everybody. from the trappings of the only say powerless to the supposed confinement of a prison cell former french president nicolas sarkozy lands himself a jail sentence for corruption and moral is from grace for. join me every thursday on the alex simon sure and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see if.

the world is driven by a dream shaped by one person if there is. no day or thinks. we dare to ask. on the campaign trail joe biden said nothing would fundamentally change he was right washington is again illegally bombing syria and one trump islam will not go away anytime soon.

human rights officials at the united nations are demanding an international investigation into the alleged poisoning of kremlin critic alexina foley while concluding at the same time that russia was responsible something moscow has repeatedly denied our europe correspondent peter all over was out the u.n. conference in geneva. this report by the united nations special wrap on to put forward a number of conclave about what happened to alexina volley last summer from the investigation that they carried out the u.n. special operators say that 5 laboratories of unequivocal improvement in their eyes that missed in 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 a tacit statement of support for the opposition figure as a politician and as a man something i question the u.n. weapon toes upon when put alongside statements that have been made by. 'd amnesty international that said that they will no longer consider alexina volley a prisoner of conscience after it became clear that he advocated violence and 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 raptor beilin will stop hiding secret material from the international community and stop editing at the formulas of the discovery it subsumes. says from the reports perhaps today statements by the special rep tess will encourage our partners to end their descent from ation campaign and start join us 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 like saying of ali took ill on a flight from siberia to moscow last summer his plane out to make an emergency landing in the city of homs he was eventually lifted 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. another big story of the day 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 jail term. they will lodge an appeal and he can alter loss to serve the sentence

of home r t france correspondent. who are reports might side the. the 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 suspended. will lead friends from 2007 to 2012 had deny any wrongdoing he said he was the victim of a witch hunt by financial 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 fact 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 is expected to appeal against the conviction it's not over for unequal as he will have to face later in a few weeks another trial with charges of illegal financing of his 2012 presidential campaign. all right let's keep attention from swer a culture of security bill which would stop people sharing images of police officers online is back up for debate there this time in the senate it comes after the country's interior ministry revealed of attacks on officers of more than doubled in the past 2 decades recent yellow vests them locked on protests of only exacerbated the situation.

ok. ramon on the corner but there are some. things. well the country sees iran and 85 incidents of violence against officers recorded every day in january alone more than 2200 cases were registered on thursday a police station near parlous was attacks with projectiles fireworks by iran 30 people 4 suspects were arrested one officer reveal what he thoughts is behind the funds. 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 soft sell 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. you know just to go through this a little bit proposed security bill would curb people's ability to share images in the media and all line which identify officers suspected of wrongdoing or employing heavy how that makes those protesters feeling guilty of violating the law could

face jail time a large fines critics claim it will prevent people exposing any police brutality here's our get. 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 filmed 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 if you'd like to delve deeper into any of us our stories i recommend our website as a solid starting fresh updates lively debates always to be found there as they close this is. i'm after to answer you watching another log that additional going underground is the united states.