well david shin is a former us ambassador to ethiopia, and he joins us live from washington, d. c. sir, thank you so much for joining us here now to 0. lots to look at in this story. let's start with the comments that we've just heard from the you, us ambassador, to the un accusing the security council of not taking the situation t gray more seriously. obviously some members of the security council do. others don't want to get involved. how do you think that deadlock can be broken? and if it can't, then what can the international community do? what maybe a question of convincing those members who are not yet on board. the situation n t gray really is serious and that you're going to have a looming catastrophe there quickly. if you don't do something about it, i don't make any country on the world is interested in seeing and other major famine in this part of the world. some countries are willing to help out the others . ready are dragging their feet for whatever reason, i guess, whatever reason for countries like russia and china analysts phase that they don't necessarily want to g

david shin, formerly us ambassador to ethiopia, thank you very much. thank you. armenia is in battle, prime minister nichol passion. yon has held on to his grip on power, months after defeats in a conflict with azerbaijan, that prompted mass protests demanding his resignation. passing out one sunday snap parliamentary election, tens of thousands of his supporters rallied in the capital. he ran as he fled, to build what he called a new armenia, rory challenge reports now from the armenian capital. yeah, in the end, it wasn't even close with a much bigger victory. them pre election polls predicted nicole pasheti and it's celebrating. it's a radi and central yerevan on monday nights. the thank the country and talked of work to be done. i mean, the political crisis that suffered anatomy on november 9th and over the republic of, i mean, i gave a mandate to our government. and this political team to establish a dictatorship of low and right, the people implemented and i don't have a lot so jubilation for the prime minister and his supporters. but although wi

david shin was the us ambassador to ethiopia . he's now a professor at george washington in the states. he says this election is not necessarily of indication of abbey, a man's performance is prime minister his party, their prosperity party will in all likelihood, when most of the of the votes, in part because some parties are boycotting the election. so i may actually last from his standpoint like he did fairly well. the bigger issue though, as. ready to what extent can he carry out his promises or a more democratic future for indeed there. ready are many challenges to his role behind the scenes that will not be accounted for in this voting process. and that will be a major challenge about $37000000.00 ethiopians registered for this election. that remains to be seen. how many of the 37000000 will actually vote that's out of a population of about a 109000000. so it's going to have to be a very high percentage of the $37000000.00. make this a really credible election. but there are so many challenges already in the election that do