i'm sumi so much gonda good to have you with us tens of thousands of protesters have taken to the streets of the armenian capital yet yvonne to join a general strike opposition leader nicol passion yon urged his supporters to bring the country to a standstill after he failed to secure enough votes in parliament to become prime minister passion jaan was the only candidate and had expected a different result. this is not how the vote was expected to go. was full of enthusiasm and high expectations tens of thousands had come to catch the moment of their protest leader became prime minister. then excitement gave way to sorrow. the are good and i'm going to do we have to win we can't go on like this and he will you know not only nationally this is our life they don't have the right to rule as if we don't want them famously all the people out here everyone and they have to trade us . wasn't us on the view they are all mean is ruling republican party of my after a day long session in column and the writing was on the wall eventually the votes were two. of the republicans would not back the oppos

i'm sumi so much gonda good to have you with us the european union says there is no justification for a controversial u.s. tariffs on steel and aluminum and that it wants a permanent exemption the e.u. was responding to president donald trump's decision to delay the imposition of such tariffs just hours before a deadline was due to expire the e.u. says it has noted the move by trumpet that the postponement is prolonging uncertainty for businesses. a sigh of relief for the steel industry at least for the moment for the next four weeks the e.u. can sell steel and aluminum to the u.s. without additional tariffs then negotiations will come to an end with says washington no more extensions in march trump announced plans to slap levies of twenty five percent on steel and ten percent on alan minium imports to the u.s. then two weeks later he granted the e.u. and six other countries a waiver that ends today washington says it's been unfairly treated in trade with the e.u. it wants concessions from brussels a comparison of tariffs on five thousand products shows the europeans charge on average

i'm sumi so much gonda good to have you with us we start with some breaking news out of washington u.s. president donald trump has canceled his planned summit next month with north korea's kim jong il one of the. u.s. president has accused north korea's leader of quote open hostility and anger and the move comes despite goodwill gestures from pyongyang including dismantling a nuclear test site let's get the very latest on the story now we have our correspondent michelle standing by for us in washington hi michelle tell us exactly what donald trump has been saying well he he published a letter today that basically said that president trump would cancel the summit with with north korea because of well basically the tone and the anger that was expressed by north korean officials just yesterday the north korean official that against vice president pence. who again mentioned the libya model less of as a possible model for for north korea's denuclearization and and that probably has angered the white house and president trump and so he has said he went to went out of his way to to publicly r