illegally. trump is a. headline story. governmental rallies are held in the armenian capital with police attempting to keep the. political unrest in the country to ferment. violence erupts in several countries or europe people fight against coronavirus. un human rights experts the international investigation into the poisoning of critic. of the russia still waiting to be shown.

guilty as charged former french president nicolas sarkozy is convicted of corruption sentenced to a year and. becoming the 1st former president in the country to receive. broadcasting live from our international news center in moscow welcome to artsy and you know neal here taking you through the day's big stories. tensions are running high in armenia protests both for and against the prime minister have been playing in the nation's capital just hours ago the pm in the cold. supporters and pledged to hold early elections with more on the day's developments here's our tease. in armenia. 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 and 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 and lately in 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 a had in front of the country in terms of political changes and in terms of you know over common in general this. major political crisis of the last couple of years. well let's just take you through. why the recent turmoil in the country is happening the prime minister faced calls by the country's military last week to

step done following months of arrest little stems from last year's conflict with neighboring. which resulted in a peace deal that many view a humiliating defeat. in turn accuse the military of an attempted coup the country's top general sparked must rowley's from both supporters and opponents of the prime minister the president stepped in and overrule the p.m.'s order to fire the armed forces chief of. the international a 1st commentator marco gossage police will need to cling on to power till the election to give them any hope of winning it. 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. can only look strong if he stays in power otherwise he. appears a lame duck who is weak unable to control the situations are setting in power until

the elections is key to his chance of actually winning them i think they the population is probably a little bit divided between the kind of pragmatists who feel that he could have done much better against the bijani forces and those who feel that he's generally out cost that territory to armenia because of perhaps he is pro washington or inflation because all he's watching essentially type is drones are destroyed the mediums defenses in the going to cut a back but i was saying to his drones would 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 procure all the correct technology that would have. depended on media the armenians rather than the going about it against those drones that would depend against in syria.

another story we're closely following today a simmering anger a tightening covert restrictions has boiled over in arlon to denmark thousands have taken to the streets demanding their freedoms back. feel. all those protests in several e.u. countries as there is an increasing transmission rates over 19 here in france 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 to other across the country here in paris the various discussing a mini 3 week lockdown it seems to many that the policy 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. across the block fall behind say their counterparts in the u.k. we're almost at 30 percent there are still questions particularly over the astra

zeneca vaccine the efficacy of which older people have been questions not just by phones but also by germany and as a result of thoughts many people are 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 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 make 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 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 pandemic left a trail of devastation in its wake over the past 12 months 2 and a half 1000000 people dead 150 more 1000000 infected but the spite that's

little is still one of the longer term effects of the virus known as long ortiz has been seeking answers in a special covert documentary series. for more than a year now humanity has been dealing with covert crickey just understands what symptoms have been identified but only now do we start to understand that there is also a long coat of 8 human use names way between 5 and 50 percent of people struggle with this disease 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 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 and i started joking of the felt that 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 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 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. manufactured not have any fever a cough at all because.

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 was 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. even young people who do

not have any hope of ologies 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. of another story we're following today the use of electronic monitoring in israel to make sure people are self isolating when they arrive in the country while they are getting the warmest of reactions from is really a witness the launch of the initiative what kind 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 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 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 holy just to mysie of the 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. global debut these

are launches pilot program to track returning passengers using electronic bracelets and the knesset passed a 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 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 a 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 cation 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 in 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 keeping more most human rights and that certainly is the criticism. will be is really government has already passed the law giving authorities access to the personal data vaccinated people it's expected to remain in force for 3 months facials insist it's only meant to encourage bucks a nation particularly among the jewish orthodox and the art of communities where job uptake has been slow on claim that the information will be used for any other purpose we got reaction to that from people intelligent. 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 vaccines 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 slice of it under the influence you would rot in the streets and then and demonstrate how really had that there would 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. galatz a fraternity and loss of liberty say former french president nicolas sarkozy loves him so if a jail sentence for corruption more on his fall from grace after this short break. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the

world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. the world is driven by a dream shaped by. saying . 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 is a way any time soon.

21 months into the program welcome back human rights officials of the united nations are demanding an international investigation into the alleged poisoning of kremlin critic alexina filmy while concluding at the same time that russia was responsible something moscow has repeatedly denied our europe correspondent peter all of her was out the u.n. conference in geneva. this report by the united nations special rampant is 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. amnesty international have said that they will no longer consider alexina vilely 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 is his language

that is used in the past it's all just a final 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 that protests belin will stop hiding secret material from the international community and stop editing at the formulas of the discovery steps in. says from the reports perhaps today statements by the special that protests 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 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. a lot of interest today about this next story

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 sir cozies lawyer sees they will launch appeal and they can also be asked to serve the sentence at home r t france's. reports from outside the pars court. 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. who led 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. journalist political commentator elizabeth mood say believes that the spotlight the sentencing in matters far from over. the 1st president to be condemned to jail this is a condition that he out there you've got

a patient that he's already going to heal so i don't think he's jailed yet. but it's the see also has the interesting although having been the 1st president of france to be the object of 17 different court cases 16 of which were dismissed there without merit and he expects that his appeal sort of well you know his luck will hold and appeal but it still isn't it's a strong setback to something that out in some jurisdictions would have been thrown out of school because it was based on the almost continuous hour phone tapping by magistrates without a specific mandate on the specific object which in french already illegal so it's a pretty interesting case and that really demonstrates that french justice has become quite as has become quite politicized in recent. or great programs get their start in moments here on our t.v. back at the top with all your latest global cues and updates it seems.

her. there are tactics that can be used to get innocent people to confess to crimes they didn't commit i don't even think people in the u.s. really get that the police are allowed to lie to you. person who falsely confessed actually came to believe the lie that they were told about their own behavior once

a false confession a stake in the case is closed and nobody really can tell the difference between a good confession and one that is a. hello and welcome across top where all things are considered i'm peter lavelle on the campaign trail joe biden said nothing would fundamentally changed he was right washington is again illegally bombing syria and why trump ism will not go away any time soon.

to discuss these issues and more i'm joined by my guest marcus papadopoulos in london he's a historian analyst and author of the new book our rise rossi and the return of russia to world politics and in budapest we have george said well he's a podcast direct the gavel which can be found on you tube and rumble right generally across up rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate his go to marcus 1st i'm having a lot of enjoyment watching all of the people that criticize donald trump for bombing syria which i did at the time and the early part of his administration but the same people that criticize trump for doing that are praising joe biden for doing exactly the same thing that's probably the only value that twitter has it's a record to look at people's hypocrisy go ahead marcus welby it didn't take long for joe biden to find out it's i'm not.