and there's also the invasion of nagorno—karabakh by azerbaijan and turkey, with syrian mercenaries,ly, you know, created a humanitarian catastrophe within armenia. so that's been really, you know, very tough. it's been a very tough year. right. in the course of that answer, you've taken me from your home in los angeles all the way out to armenia, and i suspect armenia will figure large in our conversation. would it be fair to say that to understand you, your mind—set, your world view, one has to understand that, in many ways, it wasn't forged by your upbringing as a kid in los angeles, where you moved as a child, but it's much more forged by the collective memory your family has of armenia? i think it's a fair balance. that's a good question, stephen. i think it's a fair balance because i grew up in los angeles, i've lived here most of my life. i live between los angeles and new zealand as well. i'm a resident of new zealand. and so i think, you know, wherever you live does make a huge impact, culturally, on who you are, but i think the reverence, understanding and cultural kind of

of war and civilians held captive by azerbaijan. it's time the united states re-establish its presence in this part of the world by standing up for human rights. . mr. speaker, i rise to address also a critical need for infrastructure in america. it's time that we build new transportation systems and rehabilitate structures to support a modern economy and a way of life in the 21st century. president biden's american jobs plan is an attempt to do just that with historic investments in improving infrastructure and putting millions of people to work. we need that. the goals of this plan is to help all americans. i urge my republican colleagues to help forge a bipartisan package to invest in america. when it comes to transportation, california is leading the way by building the nation's first sustainable true state-of-the-art high-speed rail project. it will deliver fast, reliable, eco-friendly way, getting cars off the road and cleaning our air. it will spring an investment in the economy that will deal with the economic fallout of the

lost quite decisively in its fights with azerbaijan not has been the real mark on his premiership and so they've been protests calling for his resignation by the opposition who claim that he's responsible for having lost that war missed the passion it's fought back and still maintains that he has the popularity to go ahead now and win these elections and so he's making he's trying to announce his resignation kickstarts that process with elections in june expected june 20 we're going for a walk up after live in tbilisi the search for a missing indonesian submarine has turned into a salvage operation the $53.00 crewmembers are now presumed dead after daybreak was found the vessel was declared sunk on saturday 4 days after it disappeared under schapelle reports. what were search and rescue boats returned to port prepared for a change of mission a day after indonesia's navy declared a missing submarine sunk with 53 souls on board karen on gala 402 last saw the surface on wednesday off the coast of bali debris that's been found indicates its whole collapsed under pressure. i got the indone

that's important because azerbaijan today is [inaudible] and thank you, supervisor peskin, for proposing this resolution, and thank you to the board for listening on this very historic day. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. thank you for joining us this evening. operations, do we have another caller in the queue, please? >> is that me? >> clerk: yes. mr. warfield, i'll set the timer now. >> thank you. this is peter warfield, executive director the library users association. we can be reached at libraryusers2004@yahoo.com. i wanted to talk about something more general and that is a sense of withdrawal of government being accessible by folks. one used to be able to go to city hall and be able to access supervisor offices. whole range of offices, in fact, 40 hours a week. one used to be able to pick up a phone pretty much within 40 hours a week and call, and generally whether one came in person or called, there was some way to reach not only to reach the front office which could help direct whatever it was that a person was calling about or even individuals working their 40 hours at an

azerbaijan just opened a theme park in baku where they literally have wax mannequins of dead armenianmething that we continue to live with, this kind of hatred. and that's why they are really -- they are grateful. they are rejoicing, obviously, in a solemn way. but there's just -- they've all said that this is a cloud that they can't -- a weight that's been lifted off their shoulders. a gray cloud that's now gone. >> it's over a hundred years of not getting the recognition. and so you can imagine that being an open wound. and in the last minute here, in terms of the future, do you expect more countries to follow suit in recognizing the genocide, now that the united states has taken this step? >> i do. you know, if there's anything i learned in my government experience, it's that when the united states leads, others follow suit. so i absolutely expect others to make this declaration formally. and the reason for that, by the way, is because i don't expect turkey's reaction, as much as they make these grandiose statements and as much as they threaten to united states by saying, our relat

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role in the recent conflict between armenia and azerbaijan over nagorno-karabakh and this woman said it looks like they want to finish the job they started so a lot of bitterness a lot of sorrow a lot of trauma but yet a lot of appreciation as well that the u.s. government has taken this step and used the word that armenians wanted presidents to use for decades. manno it's been delayed his staff from los angeles from thank you. more than 600 families in guinea have had their homes the militia in a controversial cleanup campaign in the capital conakry the government says it's long overdue you development but residents say they've not received the compensation that they were promised honeyed has more. it's a huge campaign to clean up going to key in what the government says is an effort to develop guinea but in the process thousands of families are being evicted their homes razed to the ground in the interim we saw these machines come to destroy our houses tools windows everything they said that they wanted to widen the roads because of that they destroyed everything many of the forced

june 20th the cold pushing me and a bit of the pressure for his handling of last year's war with azerbaijan the conflict ended with armenia giving up control of several disputed territories robin firstly a walker reports now from tbilisi in neighboring georgia and says the u.s. president's recognition of the genocide in all media may boost machine ians electoral chances. i think certainly the bison statement will have to wait him given given the intense pressure that he's been on these recent months since the war over in the goal of power back which really has been the the reason why this is all been happening because the opposition. its opponents have been calling for his resignation for many months that by almost daily protests because they hold him responsible for the outcome of the ring which are media laws and huge swathes of territory surrounding the going to occur about and play and therefore missed the passion yet in fact said himself that everybody has has weighed in on. those days and has had an opinion has to say about it with the exception of the armenian electorate and so this

june the 20th the whole person has been under pressure of his handling of last year's war with azerbaijan the conflict ended with armenia giving up control of several disputed territories. and there's been a 3rd night of violence near the al aksa mosque compound in the occupied east jerusalem israeli security forces fired stun grenades and water cannon at palestinian protesters there angry at restrictions on gatherings during the muslim month of ramadan our forces reports from western. night are tonight these are the scenes that may come to define jerusalem's ramadan of 2021 since the 1st night of the holy month palestinians have been protesting against the closure of the steps outside damascus gate where they would usually gather after prayers they don't allow to the people to sit on the steps steps to drink something to do that they want to change everything and we don't forget it's a capital of palestine in this film and that if you peace in your every day there are clashes and it has turned into a war i live here at salomon streets and i can barely reach on the there is now a real dan

months time the cold has been on to civvy a pressure over his handling of last year's war with azerbaijan that ended with armenia giving up control of several disputed territories he'll stay in charge in a caretaker capacity until the election on june 20th and has confirmed that he will be standing again the death toll from fighting in ethiopia romy a region has risen to 200 up from a previous reports of 50 the clashes will between the 2 largest ethnic groups that the roma on the m horror gunman are suspected of carrying out the attack on a village in west nearly 2 weeks ago the massacre is the latest outbreak of ethnic violence which the government has been struggling to control the rebels in northern chad say they are ready to observe a cease fire and discuss a political settlement 6 days after the president was killed in the region front the change in concord rebels crossed into chad from libya 2 weeks ago calling for an end to present address debbie's rule debbie was killed in the fighting fighting the group on the front line according to the government is death was announced on tuesd

elections on june 20th a colpus indian had been under pressure for his handling of last year's war with azerbaijan the conflict ended with armenia giving up control of several disputed territories voting is underway in albania and what's expected to be a tight race between the ruling socialists and opposition democrats prime minister of iran cost his ballots in the general election a short while ago it's the 1st vote contested on the new laws aimed at stamping out to regularities the previous votes albania is seeking e.u. membership and needs to hold an election that meets international standards. indonesia's president joko widodo says the entire country is in deep sorrow after the loss of $53.00 sailors presumed dead after the submarine sank off dozens of ships the aircraft combed the area for 4 days the fate of the crew was confirmed when search crews found a brief from the missing vessel the salvage operation is on the way but. i don't put that up they are the best sons of the nation patriots guarding the sovereignty of the country all the best efforts of search and rescue had been and are stil

yet to this day, there continues to be a continuance of denial by the turkish and azerbaijan government that this ever happened. we have seen the vandalism and the hatred and how that has caused fear and insecurity for the community and for the kids who attend the armenian school and their families? our places of refuge should not be places of fear, and we must consistently condemn these acts, and we need to remind ourselves and remind the world that this kind of hatred will continue to rise if we don't at least acknowledge the mistakes and the terrible things that have happened in the past. defending human rights is not only a global issue but it is one that we must embed locally. this sunday, the armenian association of america bay area chapter is organizing a protest to acknowledge the lives lost in the genocide but also to instill recognition of the resilience of the armenian people, and thank you, once again, supervisor peskin, for your continued support of the community. >> president walton: thank you, supervisor melgar. supervisor safai? >> supervisor safai: thank you, supervisor

through force following the georgian example or more successful example of azerbaijan recently in recapturing its lost territories by force but the problem here is that you know donbass a very urban environment and that there's simply no way that ukrainian army could attempt to to recapture it without destroying. large parts of large cities and killing very large number of civilians in the process and ukrainian leadership doesn't actually seem to be aware of this and that is going to serve as something as a restraint on them because such you know such a level of destruction would almost inevitably bring in the russian army and and if the russian army weren't to intervene i think ukrainian army would be destroyed in short measure and i think these russian troop movements which people have been complaining about recently as if they were sort of. you know indicating a russian invasion of ukraine weren't really designed to invade ukraine what they were designed to do was to send a signal to kiev that you know if you attack donbass. we will in seen and destroy you and i think that's really what's

june the 20th the copa 70 and had been under pressure for his handling of last year's war with azerbaijan the conflict ended with armenia giving up control of several disputed territories. rebels in northern chad say they're ready to observe a cease fire and discuss a political settlement across from libya on april 11th calling for an end to president idriss deby is rule that he was killed fighting on the front line. as he had launched these continues on al-jazeera after inside story with peter dhabi stay with us. joe biden has designated the mass killings of armenians in 1915 as genocide summoned the u.s. ambassador and called it a wound that will be difficult to repair so where does that leave relations between 2 of nato biggest allies this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program i'm peter the u.s. had long avoided formally recognizing the 1915 mass killings of armenians as genocide but now president joe biden has become the 1st american leader to do just that he said washington is doing this quote not to cost to blame but to ensure what happened is never repeat the move has c

passion has faced growing calls to step down since armenia was defeated in last year's war with azerbaijan the country lost parts of the disputed to go to a kind of dark territory which it had controlled for more than 25 years now the fight over voting rights in the u.s. is being backed by some of the world's most powerful corporations amazon google and general motors are among the companies calling on states to stop making it harder for people to cast their ballots under gallaher reports from miami. casting a ballot in the u.s. isn't shrine does both a right and a privilege one activists across the country say is under attack last month georgia republicans passed a sweeping bill that imposed new idea requirements reduces the use of drop boxes and bans mobile voting vans laws that are now being challenged in the courts and by local leaders that is terroristic legislation that is legislation that is laser focused on. taking the brown and black voter. out calm down the backlash from what many see as laws making it harder for communities of color to vote was immediate big corporations in the

foremost in my mind is azerbaijan is holding an estimated 200 armenian prisoners of war and civilian captives. that is a diplomatic endeavor as someone who is in charge of watching that area very closely i would like your view on this unresolved issue. >> obviously the activities over the course of the last 90 days are concerning to all. one of the things that i will mention i was proud to report the active involvement of many nato nations on the periphery to call for reconciliation and call mean tensions. when all said and done most of us believed this was curtailed sooner rather than later as a result of the nations in the region to be part of the solution to rectify the situation. there was an unfortunate set of circumstances that remain to the territorial disputes that there is goodness and the fact observation post have been created jointly and the ability to see the environment is greater than the past we start a lot of work in front of us from the observation perspective nations agree that contracts they signed up to to have more momentum to achieving peace. >> from a military

it's a danger today where turkey assisted azerbaijan on making war on the armenians again and threaten another potential genocide. what a comfort it would be for the perpetrator of crime against humanity in the present day if the most powerful nation can be cowed into silence. in recognizing the genocide, you will be joining the house and senate which voting overwhelmingly in 2019 to do so. mr. president, we must not resort to euphemisms or half truths. the murder of 1.5 million armenians is an atrocity that's surely true but it was more than that. the act of seeking to destroy a people and a culture is a different kind of evil. and it was not until rafael limpkin coined the term genocide that we have a word to describe it. millions of armenians across the world, tens of thousands of my constituents, mr. president, will look to you later this week to see if you'll join the leaders in france, germany, the europe even union, the vat -- european union, the vatican in recognizing the genocide. it's my deepest wish that you will speak the truth in all of its horror and recognize the armenia

speaking of little surprises on zoom, this is video of some kind of a government official in azerbaijan who was on a group video call and didn't know it. [ speaking foreign language ] [ speaking foreign language ] >> jimmy: well. i think we just found the next governor of new york. [ laughter and applause ] oops! today, as you may know, is also earth day. earth day started back in the '70s with very lofty goals and has kind of turned into, "guys, please, just for one day try not to light garbage on or near a panda bear, okay?" humans celebrating earth day is like fleas celebrating dog day. there's actually something to celebrate today, though. president biden, and i'm still not tired of saying that, announced that the united states will cut our carbon emissions in half by the year 2030. which is huge, because the science is absolutely clear that it's necessary to avoid a worldwide catastrophe. no one should be against this. so naturally, almost every republican is against this. [ laughter ] other countries are cautiously optimistic. they're like, "okay, but last year, weren't you the gu

elections on june the 20th nicole has been under pressure for his handling of last year's war with azerbaijan the conflict ended with armenia giving up control of several disputed territories so let's go to robin force a walker who's in tbilisi in neighboring georgia he resigned i believe that was expected but is nicole pushing in confident of winning the upcoming election. i think he is and i think this is an opportunity he would now relish because he came to power off the back of a popular uprising in 2018 and something he enjoyed doing was being out on the streets gathering its supporters around marching and this is what you'll be taking up again in the coming weeks with this campaign kicking off now the question is whether the armenian people. really blame him for the war which armenia so. the last against as a by john last year lost swathes of territory around and within nagorno-karabakh and the opposition here the opposition political parties have been campaigning pretty much every day calling on him to resign but one thing they didn't want was a snap election because probably they also

and had been under pressure for his handling of last year's war with azerbaijan me conflict ended with armenia giving up control of several disputed territories let's break to rome 1st year walker's into p.c. in neighboring georgia as a roman this was always coming was near this resignation but what about the timing right now. it will 1st it is a procedural requirement that in order to hold snap elections nicole question yet had to step down 1st and now there will be some votes in parliament to to as required by law to see whether anybody else would standing or or stand for the prime ministership but that's not going to happen. and that means that. there will there will be this election that will take place on june 20th he chose today he said because today happened to be citizens day. and that was a symbolic way of saying it's now time to power to be handed back to the people this is classic nicole pressuring and stuff he's always appealed all rely on the popular support support on the street people that brought him to power in a popular uprising back in 2018 and it also of course come

in 2 months time the cult has been under severe pressure of his handling of last year's war with azerbaijan that ended with armenia giving up control of several disputed territories he'll stay in charge in a caretaker capacity until the election on june 20th and it's confirmed that he will be standing again. you're watching the news hour live from london still ahead for you on the program changing the lay of the land the german harvest under threat because of the coronavirus pandemic also are going on patrol in the gulf of guinea with the units tackling modern day piracy on the high seas. and into milan take a step closer to the italian league title will have all the football action in sports. hello there we're seeing a bit of a mixed picture over europe as we go into the next week we've got warmer drier conditions across central and northern parts of europe but as we look to the west of the iberian peninsula we're seeing a lot of thunderstorms and showers extending across portugal and into spain with some really wet weather here some rough a season as well affecting the eastern coast and t

armenia itself fears there could be another genocide after the war waged on them by turkey and azerbaijanreign minister, their ambassador in ankara protest. >> i think it's a pretty muted reaction by turkey. i think turkey understands it needs the united states more than the united states needs turkey. but nonetheless, we've seen this drift of turkey away from the west, a drift towards russia. they're buying air defense systems from russia. turkey is increasingly sidling up to iran and erdogan is becoming the autocrat, moving away from democracy. turkey is the leading jailer of journalists in the world. we've seen this disturbing drift by turkey already. and i think the president concluded, quite rightly, if the u.s./turkish relationship depends on us being complacent on a genocide, it can't be -- >> you mentioned russia. i would like to talk to you about moscow having ordered its troops to withdraw from the border of ukraine after that massive buildup. what do you make of the show of force put on with these drills. was it meant to be threatening? was it meant to be a test on how presiden

june the 20th they called me and has been under pressure for his handling of last year's war with azerbaijan the conflict ended with armenia giving up control of several disputed territories robin for sure walker has moved from tbilisi in neighboring georgia. i think certainly the bison statement will have to wait him given given the intense pressure that he's been on these recent months since the war over mcgoldrick our back which really has been the the reason why this is all been happening because the opposition. its opponents have been calling for his resignation for many months that by almost daily protests because they hold him responsible for the outcome of the in which the media lost huge swathes of territory surrounding the the going to karbala and play and therefore missed the passion yet in fact said himself that everybody has has weighed in on. those days and has had an opinion has to say about it with the exception of the armenian electorate and so this is their opportunity to have their say almost like a referendum. since on him really since those cuts as he describes it the ca

passion yan has face growing calls to step down since armenia was defeated in last year's war with azerbaijan the country lost parts of the disputed nagorno-karabakh territory which it had controlled for more than 25 years in february accused armenia's military of attempting a coup. still ahead on the al-jazeera news hour a left wing activist or the daughter of a jailed also crowds we look at the choice faced by peruvians in the presidential runoff. a celibate story mood in jerusalem on the 1st night of ramadan as its old city bustles thanks to east cover 19 restriction us. the atmosphere is a bit restless in spring quite often the shamar when this when the blood on the gulf is increasing a little bit it will make little difference to how things feel i think for the most part little bit less humid in doha for example there's the wind kills inland it tends to induce more showers in the mountains of western society in yemen and they may well start to form around medina even reactor central side you know it's quite sherry there's probably thunderstorms to be honest for the most part the sun is w

yesterday making a vaccine and the sputnik back saying they're mixing and matching that in azerbaijan in the trial and there's certainly some mouse model data from here in australia showing that corona virus spiked protein vaccines which a slightly different can induce a better immunity then if you use the 2 identical vexing it's very interesting we'll continue watching his trials for a band-aid sometimes on eochaid there from australian national university always good to get your thoughts on out of there thanks for being with us dr thank you. well as we were saying some of the world's poorest countries may have to wait longer for the 2nd dose of they have access and it's now up to 60 countries that have begun their vaccine rollout may now have to wait until june for more shots supply shortages have seen nearly all deliveries through the u.n. backed kovacs program blocked the world health organization scheme is designed to give poor nations fair access to those vaccines well meanwhile countries across south america rushing in restrictions as they battle to contain the virus there thos

passion yun has faced growing calls to step down since armenia was defeated in last year's war with azerbaijan the country lost parts of the disputed on borno karabakh territory which it had controlled for more than 25 years china has described its recent military exercises near taiwan as combat drills as an unofficial u.s. delegation arrived in taipei president joe biden sent a former senator and 2 former deputy secretaries of state to meet the island's leadership the visit comes at a time of tense relations with china just one day off to taiwan launched a new warship to boost its defenses on monday 25 chinese fighter jets on bombers entered taiwan's airspace and what type a says is the biggest incursion yet. china taiwan affairs office insists the military drills were necessary. the military drills have sent out the signal that china's efforts to contain the forces pushing for taiwan's independence and the collaboration between taiwan and the us are not just word of mouth no matter what efforts to contain china by using taiwan as its pawn are doomed to fail in the face of the staunch determi

acting as a force or truth and a force of resistance against the government of turkey and its ally, azerbaijan. the photo that i hope you'll see as i speak, it was taken during san francisco's fourth of july parade in 1918. the turkish government had just wiped out its armenian population and forcing the few survivors to flee in terror. these armenians a world away were celebrating with america in independence and speak out for those left behind. attacks reinforce our belief that public actions like your -- >> clerk: okay. thank you, caller. we apologize for cutting -- interrupting your comment. we did show your photo on command, and we are setting the timer for two minutes per person, so apologies to you, ma'am. thank you. operations, do we have another caller in the queue, please? >> good afternoon. can you hear me? >> clerk: yes, welcome. >> thank you. my name is martha hollins, and i am the president of the plaza east tenants association. plaza east has been going through a lot of meetings and a lot of things that's been going on over here in this community. i just want to say thank you fo

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