famous armenians. we needed an armenian.lp me find a window, a lens with which to look at a country which for some reason i'd manage to not visit on my travels. then, this guy reached out. serj tankian, front man for the armenian-american band system of a down. and the whole thing started to fall into place. serj first visited armenia 17 years ago. since then, he's performed a number of shows, including one with system of a down, during the centennial of the armenian genocide. we meet up at dolmama, his favorite restaurant in yerevan, and right away, i identify a potential problem. >> anthony: now, my first question is, i understand you're a pescatarian? >> serj: yeah. >> anthony: how does one -- >> serj: you're like, "what the -- are you doing?" >> anthony: this is a landlocked country in the heart of like meat- on-a-stick zone. >> serj: yeah. >> anthony: well, i'm interested to see how you navigate your way through this week. >> serj: yeah, yeah, yeah. well, we've got amazing trout, and um, lots of great veggies. >> anthon

famous armenians. we needed an armenian.help me find a window, a lens with which to look at a country which for some reason i'd manage to not visit on my travels. then, this guy reached out. serj tankian, front man for the armenian-american band system of a down. and the whole thing started to fall into place. serj first visited armenia 17 years ago. since then, he's performed a number of shows, including one with system of a down, during the centennial of the armenian genocide. we meet up at dolmama, his favorite restaurant in yerevan, and right away i identify a potential problem. >> anthony: now, my first question is i understand you're a pescatarian? >> serj: yeah. >> anthony: how does one -- >> serj: you're like, "what the -- are you doing?" >> anthony: this is a landlocked country in the heart of like meat-on-a-stick zone. >> serj: yeah. >> anthony: well, i'm interested to see how you navigate your way through this week. >> serj: yeah, yeah, yeah. well, we've got amazing trout, and um, lots of great veggies. >> anthony

armenia but as i keep saying there was no geopolitical or foreign policy related dimension to the armenian revolution and as i keep saying there was no geopolitical plot it was a purely internal process that had to do only with armenia it's important to emphasize that and we say that this process will not result in a foreign policy u.-turn why do we say that because our people the people who made the revolution happen had no problem with armenia as foreign policy so they had no demands in terms of foreign policy and the way the government represent the people who started the revolution and prevailed so we must act within the limits and demands of this political process this velvet revolution so i want to say yes those who said the political changes in armenia will lead to problems in armenian russian relations were wrong they've always been wrong and they always will be wrong if they stick to this point of view. correct me if i'm wrong but you say that not only to russian journalists but in the course of meetings as world rights i have a question about that do your counterparts hear you an

our relations with the european union but as i keep saying it won't be happening at the expense of armenian russian relations and vice versa we won't be developing our median russian relations at the expense of our relations with the e.u. for example that's our policy we won't adhere to a policy that implies developing relations with one international partner at the expense of relations with other partners i believe we should be reliable partners for everyone every global act we have ties with our relation should be transparent to all sides and should rely on the principle of reciprocity we all should act in good faith what i mean is that for example it should be unambiguously clear for the west what is happening between armenia and russia what russia should enjoy just the same kind of transparency when it comes to ties between armenia and the e.u. certainly we will continue developing our relations with the e.u. us iran georgia and other states alike but that's not going to be done at the expense of our ties with russia and vice versa what we have with russia is not going to affect relatio

armenia but as i keep saying there was no deo political or foreign policy related dimension to the armenian revolution and as i keep saying there was no geopolitical plot it was a purely internal process that had to do only with armenia it's important to emphasize that and we say that this process will not result in a foreign policy u.-turn why do we say that because our people the people who made the revolution happen had no problem with armenia as foreign policy so they had no demands in terms of foreign policy and the way the government represent the people who started the revolution and prevailed so we must act within the limits and demands of this political process this velvet revolution so i want to say yes those who said the political changes in armenia will lead to problems in armenian russian relations were wrong they've always been wrong and they always will be wrong if they stick to this point of view. correct me if i'm wrong but you say that not only to russian journalists but in the course of meetings as world rights i have a question about that do your counterparts hear you an

the armenian people the whole nation started to think differently this has nothing to do with the government because it's already happened and there won't be a return to the old ways the people realized that their position and their views were a key factor they realized it wasn't one single person or even a hundred people that forged this new reality this was our shared endeavor we've all been involved in it but when we renounce the old crooked reality it just collapsed because all this time it had been standing on our own shoulders by refusing to support this corrupt and fake reality we freed ourselves of this burden i understand that purely in terms of news terms of information flow it's important to say who stepped down as prime minister and who replaced him but this is not the key change that took place in armenia it's not about who's prime minister it's about the people's way of thinking their perception of reality their understanding of their role in the life of the country and the nation there is never going to be a return to the old ways. what are your relations right now with your p

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military helicopter into this ethnic enclave to visit the majority armenian population. had that in common with christian amanpour. just before air, i talked with christian. >> your path and tony's were different. but in a way you ended up doing different things which is shedding light on places that we think we know. >> you are right. i thought about that and i talked about it a lot with tony. i knew him even before he came to cnn. and we met through fell low foodie here in england, we talked about his route and my route and he never called himself a journalist, proudly didn't call himself a journalist. but he was a correspondent. and he went to all the places that i did, whether it is iran, vietnam, wherever any of us went as a foreign correspondent. but he told the flip side of the story, through food, through pop culture, and the history and the geography of the place. through his own unbelievable breadth of knowledge with his writing, he was able to tell us the ordinary side of the places and bring these breaking news stories, as he told me once, if you have seen pa

in your house all day with the children because it gets told dangerous yes i wasn't ok in those armenian enough are involved in efforts to combat right wing propaganda and chant but army is no afraid to put up and tie nazi signs outside his house. the buy the let's go with the more during the last big demonstration i couldn't even pin them up on the wall with much less mouth them here. they grabbed them out of my hand and seriously threatened us with war. in march right wing extremists and hooligans broke through the cordon in front of our men's gallery and stormed into the courtyard and to wait luckily the police were there to prevent anything more serious from happening. ever since the murder of fifteen year old mia can you have seen that street hijacked by heatedly migration of. color has become a microcosm of germany's internal division striking a nerve around the country and fueling the polarized attitudes against migration the state law that simple unfortunately we have to expect that there will be more murders it's an unfortunate situation owing to all the migrants that we've let

. ♪ >> anthony: serj is armenian. like most armenians around the world, he wasn't born in

. - armenian. - i'm african american and my dad is jamaican, so i actually have (mumbles) going on.

the old city is split into the muslim jewish christian and armenian porters but for the past fifty years jewish settlers have also been moving into the muslim quarter now appear is where while settler families live and the guys stop the music as they go past the house but that's not been enough to stop the settlers complaining to the police. oath about. the settlers complained again tonight there are jewish homes here this woman says this is going to go on all month. jerusalem police told al-jazeera in a statement that they are constantly trying to maintain the delicate balance between allowing in ensuring the freedom of religion and worship and maintaining public order and quality of life for local residents the police see offenses of noise and disturbing the peace is one of the most serious offenses that cause harm to the public and the quality of life for our local residents the police presence is provided for settlers who choose to live in the hearts of the muslim quarter. or are you heard with fines running into the hundreds of dollars mohammed's wish to continue this ramadan tradit

up of politicians from the anti establishment five star movement on the far right in the party as armeniansthree months of political deadlock since election in march you're up to date with your headline stay with us on our next stop it's rewind. hello and welcome again to rewind to i'm laura cairo and this series we're revisiting some of the best documentaries on al-jazeera english since we launched more than a decade ago back in twenty thousand the people in power series traveled to west africa to expose the shocking story of how young gone and children were being murdered because of the mistaken belief they were possessed by evil spirits no one knows the.

was controlling christian refugees and eastern portions of anatolia in what is often termed the armenian genocide. it was thought if the british controlled mostly, they could keep the refugees in the north and prevent any expansion of attacks on the christian populace. a second reason for attacking north was to control the grain for people and buzzer. -- in basra. advancing onnits mosul learned of the war's in war's end from turkish soldiers under white flags. turkish forces were forced to abandon the mosul governorate. such successful action encouraged similar movements. by mustafa kemal, and he wanted to fight. constantinople ordered him to withdraw. capitaltulation of the gave additional support for those turks who believe the ottoman government to be corrupt. he invited all turks to only accepted the laws drawn at the armistice of boudreau's -- mu it'sdros. -- midros. it's fascinating that president goethe one reminded the -- president juan reminded -- theident erdogan reminded turkish people about this in 1917. treatiesirst of these we will mention is the treaty of several is the tr

i've always recognized the genocide of the armenian people which is what they wanted to stop doing. they may have attempted to lobby. in 2011 over seven years ago spoke to one staffer and i'm on the opposite side of their issue and i've never changed my position. >> they sent you e-mails about lobbying on behalf of the client that the sba -- [inaudible] [inaudible conversations] >> we'll leave that for the reporters another fact checkers. the next question will ask you rst. we are in hurricane season and indeed the national flood insurance program you both reference the four is going to expire at the end of july. there are homeowners in this district complain about in a double-digit percentage increases in their premium. the program itself is under water more than $4 billion in the red even after bailout. do you support reform to the program and if so what should be changed. >> we price people out of their homes, but the seawall is going to help the people in staten island. it's been built to withstand a 300 year storm. as i said can we cut fema to agree 50% complete that people wil

is the conversation of the armenian genocide being recognized ever going to happen and you know, so yeahere's things that i do care about and things that i want to know and things i would love to be more involved. just seeing this success was i think gives the whole team hope. >> yes. and if i can be used as a vessel and they could all use me, they can use me. you know, but the attorneys. they can, i think everyone on the, on that side knows that, that i'm we're all in it together and we just all have the same goal and if i am the voice that goes in and tries to, i mean there's over 3,000 people in the same exact situation as alice and it's not that, it just so happened to be b that alice was on my screen at that moment at that time when i was on, but it doesn't mean that we're going to stop here. >> what have you learned in this past six months, seven months that make you say i want to keep doing this. >> i told sean, the attorney, i was like can we start a firm? like let's do this. just get the best people together. if i could be the vessel, i'm, i could bring awareness. >> dad was a l

i have always recognized the genocide of the armenian people. they may have attempted to lobby -- they met in 2001 well over seven years ago spoke to one staffer. i'm on the opposite side of the issue and i've never changed my position. >> the delta association that they sent you e-mails about you lobbying on their behalf of s.p.a. -- t at the >> i'm sorry, is this a filibuster? >> we have to leave that for the reporters and other fact checkers. the next question we're going to ask you to answer first. we are in hurricane season. and, indeed, the national flood insurance program you both referenced before is going to expire at the end of july. there are homeowners in this district complaining about annual double digit percentage increase and their premiums. the program is under $24 billion in the red even after a bail out. do you support reforms to the program? >> we have to reform the program. we priced people out of their homes. but the seawall will help the people in stanton island. it's been built to with stand the 300-year storm. we've gott

the old city is split into the muslim jewish christian and armenian porters but for the past fifty years jewish settlers have also been moving into the muslim quarter now appear is where while settler families live and the guys stop the music as they go past the house but that's not been enough to stop the settlers complaining to the police. over that of. the settlers complained again tonight there are jewish homes here this woman says this is going to go on all month. jerusalem police told al-jazeera in a statement that they are constantly trying to maintain the delicate balance between allowing and ensuring the freedom of religion and worship and maintaining public order and quality of life for local residents the police see offenses of noise and disturbing the peace is one of the most serious offenses that cause harm to the public and the quality of life for our local residents the police presence is provided for the settlers who choose to live in the heart of the muslim quarter . with followings running into the hundreds of dollars how much wish to continue this ramadan tradition has

i have recognized the genocide of the armenian people which is what they wanted me to stop doing. they may have been tempted to lobby. in 2011, over seven years ago, i spoke to one staffer. i am on the opposite side and have never changed. [speaking simultaneously] dan: did they send you emails about you lobbying on their behalf? [applause] dan: that the client owed -- [speaking simultaneously] errol: we are going to leave that for the reporters and fact checkers. the next question we are going to ask you to answer first. we are in hurricane season, and indeed the national flood insurance program you both referenced before is going to expire at the end of july. there are homeowners complaining about annual double percentage increases. the home itself is underwater, $400 billion in the red after a failed. do you support the program and what should be changed? michael: we have to reform the program. we have priced people out of their homes, but the seawall will help staten island. it is being built to withstand a 300 year storm. when is 50% complete, the people who are protected by

president of the presidium of north korea's supremes people's assembly kim young nam and the new armenian prime minister nicolas passion young going beyond that so you get people like the president over as a vice president or better routes the bolivian president the kazakh president the kyrgyz president which basically paints a picture that this is with a few exceptions largely a kind of post soviet affair most of the leaders who are coming here are going to be from you know the former communist states of the u.s.s.r. and its near abroad and i think that kind of reinforces what i was saying in my report that we just watched that you know with western leaders annoyed at russia at the moment for a good many reasons most of them have chosen to stay away from this world cup well will continue to follow events with year area and the teams across russia that are reporting for c.n.n. i'll just say we're the month long football fest begins thank you. well i have some boxes here in a moment where the look at the weather here on al-jazeera then he has. also big to deal with north korea he's an unwi

the president of the presidium of north korea's supreme people's assembly kim yong nam and the new armenian president nicol posh union going further down than that though you get countries represented like azerbaijan better reuss bolivia kazakstan kyrgyzstan except which goes to show that actually this party at the moment from a global leader perspective seems to be more of a post soviets affair former u.s.s.r. republics and members of the near abroad basically for western leaders for western countries they are largely staying away reinforcing what i was saying in my package there that russia still has this problem with its own reputation for the moment we'll leave it there rory and look forward to that clock ticking away to the start of the event for the moment we'll leave it there thanks for the challenge in moscow which is going to bring you some breaking news coming out of argentina and politicians have now voted to allow abortion in the first fourteen weeks of pregnancy they had been debating the highly contentious issue most of the night hundreds of people had gathered outside congres

the old city is split into the muslim jewish christian and armenian porters but for the past fifty years jewish settlers have also been moving into the muslim quarter now appear is where while settler families live and the guys stop the music as they go past the house but that's not been enough to stop the settlers complaining to the police. over that of. the settlers complained again tonight there are jewish homes here this woman says this is going to go on all month. jerusalem police told al-jazeera in a statement that they are constantly trying to maintain the delicate balance between allowing in ensuring the freedom of religion and worship and maintaining public order and quality of life for local residents the police see offenses of noise and disturbing the peace is one of the most serious offenses that cause harm to the public and the quality of life for our local residents the police presence is provided for settlers who choose to live in the heart of the muslim quarter. finals running into the hundreds of dollars how much wish to continue this ramadan tradition suddenly become ve

the old city is split into the muslim jewish christian and armenian porters but for the past fifty years jewish settlers have also been moving into the muslim quarter now appear is where while subtler families live and the guys stop the music as they go past the house but that's not been enough to stop the settlers complaining to the police. over that of. the settlers complained again tonight there are jewish homes here this woman says this is going to go on all month. jerusalem police told al-jazeera in a statement that they are constantly trying to maintain the delicate balance between allowing and ensuring the freedom of religion and worship and maintaining public order and quality of life for local residents the police see offenses of noise and disturbing the peace is one of the most serious offenses that cause harm to the public and the quality of life for our local residents the police presence is provided for settlers who choose to live in the heart of the muslim quarter. girt with fines running into the hundreds of dollars muhammad's wish to continue this ramadan tradition has su

there is a gigantic number of cases trying to figure out who is white -- are armenians white?raqis white? are supporting jews white? i think the final disgrace of this comes after world war i, because during world war i, congress passes a law that says anyone who is honorably discharged c b a naturalized citizen if they were an alien when they came and. my grandfather became a citizen by serving in world war i. he was not a citizen. towards the end of the war, they started naturalizing you. he became a naturalized citizen while still in uniform. a man whose last name was toyota sought naturalization having served both in the coast card in the navy, and the ru supreme ruled-- the supreme court he could become a citizen. eight to one voted no, you can't become a citizen because you still have to be white. to his credit, chief justice william howard taft was in the dissent. >> for anyone interested, the thessic work on this is book "white by law." >> i have written two books on immigration, mostly concentrating on our immigration laws. how did they evolve? how did it go from the

there were one million armenians that died in the 20th century. stalin created a famine between -- campaign in the ukraine between 1932 and 1942. it was devastating. nazis had what they call a hunger plan because they wanted to take over the ukraine and part of the soviet union. there were famines during the chinese war. the japanese inflicted starvation during world war ii on its enemies. the largest famine on record in the world was in chinese -- was mao's great leap forward. this is documented that there were at least 25 million people that died in china between 1958 and 1962. that is over a four-year period. onhe interesting things in that effort is that many people were sent to agricultural areas to urban areas and what the chinese did is they thought it was good to mix ground glass with soil. they thought it was a way to improve production. millions of people died as a result of this kind of farming. there are novels dedicated to some of this that talk about the devastation in the agricultural system in china. it is for good reason that chin

armenia but as i keep saying there was no geopolitical or foreign policy related dimension to the armenian revolution and as i keep saying there was no geopolitical plot it was a purely internal process that had to do only with armenia it's important to emphasize that and we say that this process will not result in a foreign policy utan why do we say that because our people the people who made the revolution happen had no problem with armenia as foreign policy so they had no demands in terms of foreign policy and the way the government represent the people who started the revolution and prevailed so we must act within the limits and demands of this political process this velvet revolution so i want to say yes those who said the political changes in armenia will lead to problems in armenian russian relations were wrong they've always been wrong and they always will be wrong if they stick to this point of view. correct me if i'm wrong but you say that not only to russian journalists but in the course of meetings as world rights i have a question about that do your counterparts hear you and b