let's hear more from nick connelly. the w correspondent, economy is in the armenian capital european. nick. these elections have come early . why are they seen as necessary at this point? well to me here and you're on it might be a sleepy election sunday, but i mean, it has been through a hell of a few months of that defeat as a by john tens of thousands of refugees coming here from the going to kara by the army very angry with the political leadership, they say they weren't given a chance to fight and to push those very troops back, be on the lease even cooled on nicole putting in now at the prime minister to resign and call the election team. got rid of those military leaders, but there is definitely a lot of pressure from the army, from ordinary bushes and from the opposition to get a new mandate. given the fact that he signed the 5 that gave away 30, that the armenians still controlled and hadn't actually lost in battle. this is very unpopular here, and no one knows what behind the scenes the deals were. what the threats

d w. connelly, breaking down for us. thank you us president joe biden is set to host his afghan counterpart. ashcroft on the, at the white house later today. the to our meeting is us troops withdraw from afghanistan, leaving a powerful vacuum with the taliban is preparing to fill. biden has previously promised billions of dollars in security assistance for afghanistan. but as television forces gain grounds, it's not clear if that will be enough to hold them back. searching for anything they can salvage. scott merchants pick 3 what's left of a former us base bathroom. once the nerve center for operations in afghanistan. this is what remains here. after america the longest overseas war. the north for taliban is on viewed france steadily gaining territory, taking districts after districts, the un is sounding the alarm. most districts have been that have been taken. surround provincial capitals suggesting that the taliban are positioning themselves to try and take these capitals. once foreign forces are fully withdrawn. the

d w, correspond. nick connelly is in the your median capital. yerevan. nick, it looks like with almost all the votes counted, it looks certainly like a convincing win for the incumbent. nicole passion yon despite polls that showed that he was running neck and neck with his opposition. so how did this happen? while those was definitely a bad evening, a bad election for the posters, for the pundits. i think you have to remember that, especially in smaller countries where there are the financial resources for lots of extensive polling and polling good polling is expensive. that kind of polling is normally paid for by one of the political parties that had an interest in portraying a certain tendency in voters intentions. certainly though it was very difficult to see this coming. we spoke lots of votes just at the polls. very little open enthusiasm personnel. i think maybe there was a certain unwillingness to kind of come out with their support, especially after this disaster 2 feet in war 2 as a by john, but feel maybe a grudging recognition that he was the

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d, w, correspond nick connelly reports from the border region between armenia and as or by jen where peace is fragile despite the sci fi, almost 3000 meters above sea level, but only a few meters apart, armenian, and as every soldiers stare each other down, the matter months after brutal war, so thousands killed and war crimes committed against prisoners. this proximate t campus conflict. the commanders eventually put an end to this brute. recent weeks have seen repeated shooting and meanings. soldiers kidnapped, oh, it's a pass and repeated up and down a mean years, hundreds of kilometer long border with us by john. until last autumn sees for the 2 countries international border was in practice, little more than a line on the map. armenia controlled both sides. the frontier as part of a buffer zone around the going to care about. the problem now is that these 2 adversaries have very different ideas as to whether you bought a post should be armenia accused by john of moving his positions deep into armenian territory. other east, close the borderline office will say borderline, came e

d w, correspond nick connelly is in the armenian capital, yerevan. nick, with almost all the votes, counted, certainly looks like a convincing victory for the incumbent nickel. nicola pasha yon, this is despite polls, it suggested that he was running neck and neck with his opposition. how did this happen? exactly, and this is definitely a bad election for the posters, for the pundits. some of the polls read running up to the selection, they put them just one percent apart and then we've seen now if these find results turn out to be final about 30 percent gap between the 2 leading parties are a huge, huge discrepancy there. i think there are 2 things to bear in mind here. good, high culture, social g polling is expensive and in the small country like media, often enough, those kind of polled commission by people with a vested interest. so they have to be taken with a big pinch of thought there. i think the 2nd thing is, i think there was, if you shine as the most pushing hands voted to support him openly. people we talked to, they would say that they

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w correspondence, nick connelly, who's in the armenian capital here. yvonne nick, welcome to you. it looks as we've been hearing like a convincing victory for passion yon. all that despite polls putting him neck and neck with the opposition. so how did the shake out well, so it is definitely an embarrassing day for posters and pundits here in armenia. as you mentioned, there pulls running up the selection, putting the 2 front runners within just one percentage point of each other. and if everything goes as it seems now that the final result will be almost 30 percent between the 2 front run. the so huge gap there, question and way ahead. i think there are 2 things to bear in mind here. good quality, social g polling is very expensive and in small country like armenia, where there are a whole lot of resources most that polling is commission by people with a vested interest. so it really has to be taken with a pinch of salt. i think the 2nd thing to bear in mind also is but lots of questions on support of seemingly chosen as the lesser of 2 evils. they might have agreed with his agen

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we need to be able to feel confident and safe within this country and our borders and d, w, correspond nick connelly is in the armenian capital, your event. and nick, why are these snap elections necessary? good afternoon, nick. well, it looks fairly quiet and peaceful here at this putting station in the center of europe. but it has been through an extraordinary few months after that defeated cape as a by john, as you said, in the 10s of thousands of refugees streaming into media from the going to care about an army that's very unhappy with the fiscal leadership that thinks it wasn't given a chance to fight the war and to push the very fact that it uses the incumbent, nicole pushing out of signing away territory that could have been kept, could have been defended. essentially, cooperation is going to the country now for a new mandate for new mandate. on the spot, this is essentially a referendum on the sci fi, but for the, increasingly on the threat increasingly precarious, we went to the mountains on the border between armenia and other by john to see just how close the troops are now. and just how

and our border is this is shawn to w, corresponding nick connelly, talking to some of those people. now we're talking to him. he's in armenians capital. you're yvonne. so nick, bring us up to speed the government's unpopularity. it's clear that we can hear that in the voices of those voters. is there any indication of how this election might be turning out? well, i think that unpopularity is yes indeed. a factor for the current going, but also for them main rival, the main opposition leader because you're on there's a broad tiredness and kind of disdain for the piece of cloth from both sides and people at the police station telling me that basically for them, this was the question of choosing the lesser evil in terms of the question yes, great appointment that he agreed to receive that gave up a lot of territory searches if there is haven't taken by their own alms that i'll mean you gave up voluntarily as it were. his main rival, it seems as being closer to russia, the expectation would be that it being close to russia, he could have got more russian support during that war. but his