gulliver cragg joins us live from the capital, yerevan. what is the situation like in the capital right now? gulliver: in the center of , most of ththe roads are blocked. there is very little cicirculation, very littltle traffic. on street corners, there are blockades, mostly young people standing by cars they have parked to control traffic. they let people through if they are supporters of the revolution, as they call it, including quite a lot of large trucks that go to republic square, where there are trucks going around with a lot of people waving armenian flags and dancing to music, and shouting "victory" or "pashinyan." there is a carnival atmosphere. you get the sense these people think they will win and are not giving up. young people are dancing in the streets, actually. genie: at the moment, pashinyan has not been voted prime minister. there are negotiations underway. can the sides negotiate their way out of this crisis? gulliver: it is hard to say. the optimism of those out on the street, and all supporters of the opposition movem

that was gulliver cragg reporting from armenia. emmanuel macron is kicking off a trip to australia. french president landed in sydney earlier for talks on trade, defense, and china. billion submarine deal between the two that will be talked about. in the meantime, president macron is being hosted to a lavish dinner at sydney opera house. our reporter joins us from sydney. president macron spoke to journalists briefly as he was on his way in. many french journalists were asking him about why he was not here in france on this bank holiday that is a major protest day. indeed.: a first step for emmanuel macron, the first french president and australia, and it took them to the sydney opera. what better place to start a the prime minister from australia, malcolm turnbull? before this, emmanuel macron came here, walked a few hundred meters, and you had dozens of tourists and french ex-pats here to take a picture. he did take the time to do a few selfies with them. as journalists were there, they asked him questions. the french journalists asked about mayday. emmanuel macron could not have

gulliver cragg reporting. in france, commemorations have taken place for v-day, marking the end of world war ii in europe. may 8, 1945, the day when nazi germany surrendered to the allies. from a military parade to wreath-laying ceremony's, the events on the champs elysees were led by emmanuel macron. more on their simple look -- symbolic significance. reporter: these commemorations are highly symbolic for macron in many ways. they are quite political. it has been almost exactly a year since macron's election. the victory against marine le macron became the youngest french president, who of course wants to shake up france, but also europe. in a speech at the european parliament in strasbourg last month, he warned against the rise of populism and nationalism sayingthe continent, that he does not want to belong to the generation of sleepwalkers, a generation who has forgotten about its own past. europe hasus that not always been a constant of peace -- quite the opposite. in fact, europe has been ravaged by war's