let's go straight over to our correspondent nick conley who's covering this story he's at the scene there in the armenian capital yerevan nick the opposition leader passing on his call for a general strike today in a campaign of civil disobedience is he going to get what he wants. good morning terry well i think you can probably see behind me people dancing on what is one of the busiest crossroads in the center of the arab and empty of cause lots of people out on the streets young people students in their majority seem to follow his call not to go to university to the schools but also older people we know that the roads to the airport have been blocked off as as have roads leading to i mean is border with georgia and iran so it does seem like he is really getting some traction and the people are listening to those calls that we heard on public square last night tell us about what happened on the square there last night this is a potentially explosive situation isn't it. this definitely is a story of disappointment and the will demand because it had looked in recent days as if the ruling p

all right want to bring in correspondent emily sure when in the russian capital moscow and nick conleyin kiev who are both covering this story for us and if want to start off with you i mean i'm still getting over the extraordinary turn of events here at tell us more about what happened at the a press conference held by the ukrainian security forces. good evening lou well it definitely has been a roller coaster here in kiev today so we heard from and the ukraine tiramisu both saying that this was necessary the stunt was necessary to be able to then. expose the whole mechanism the workings of this they say a russian but lots to have him killed but also talk to other individuals in ukraine they say this is necessary to have those recordings and to have the organizers of these killing compromised themselves on the basis of this seemingly successful result they say this person has now being taken into custody we don't know yet apart from this individual is ukrainian national any more about this alleged organized what we do know is that the alleged of the planned. killer in this case was so

correspondents and we sure were in the russian capital moscow and nick conley in kiev on this extraordinary turn of events nick want to start off with you tell us more about this a press conference of the ukrainian security forces that took place a little earlier on well indeed it's been an extraordinary couple of hours here in kiev we had a very. and a ukrainian interior minister your looks into looking very pleased with himself parading the resurrected a call the about chain code in front of the press and reading out tweets from other ukraine lawmakers who criticize him just a few hours before for not doing enough to protect janko who it turns out was still alive. go went on to say sorries his wife who partly was not in on this set up and to explain that his he put it there was no way around this set up and that he'd been in only on the plan for the past month off to ukrainian security that was told him about the russian contract as he put it out of his life all right emily want to go to you now from the get go russia has denied any involvement in this while the kremlin must feel vindicat

our want to go now to your yvonne and our nick conley is standing by good evening to you nic is the ruling party i mean it looks like it's doing a one eighty here is it. well that's what people here on the streets have been telling us that they believe happened they say that the government policy is being shocked by the numbers that have come out of the streets that are still out in the streets behind me celebrating the success as they see it of today strikes today states and having said that we have seen this before just last weekend before we arrived in there about it seems they were implying slightly less explicitly than they have today that they would support russian yand that they wouldn't say get in his way they wouldn't vote their candidate and then yes they we had that night nailbiting session of parliament that just went all in on all that all and late in the evening they finally denied him this the vote to see that he needed to become prime minister and that was what creates this huge disappointment shock here among thousands of people on the optics way so i think it's not over y

the six turned into a big inning with this three-run blow by nick conley.ey dickerson runs out of the room at the wall. three relievers combined on the seven hit shutout. the giants and their losing streak at six with a five matches your mac win. the a's had to sit to a rain delay before they could get the game going with the yankees. credentials with the fans as well established but he furthered that reputation on this cold and rainy mother's day. yankees got up to a 31 start. there is something going in the fifth. larry fifth drive zinn, jonathan lou) 3 to 1. the yankees immediately gunk that run back in the bottom of the fifth. don carlos stetson takes anderson the opposite way. stanton had a day. he was 4'4" with three rbis. ties them with boston for best record in the major leagues. if you are aiming for a final- round score that will win you a golf tournament, one over par 73 is not usually that score, but when you take a seven stroke lead into that final- round there is a lot of room for margin. the color of the shirts showing that mother's day was i

brandon crawford doubled, then nick conley delivers the three- run shot.raveled on 338 feet, but it was enough. the fourth home run of the year. giants beat the pirates 5-0. they snapped their six-game skid. yankees donating $10,000 for als research. and because of honor of gretchen who passed away last week. bottom of the 1st, giancarlo stanton, base hit center field, scores a couple. first five hitters in the game reach base for new york. later in the inning, aaron hicks lined one right over brett anderson's hit. that scores gregorius 3-0. gary sanchez can't handle the throw at home, allowing him to throw cutting the lead to 3-1. but in the bottom of the inning anderson goes deep for the solo home run. in the 8th, the yankee's reliever robs matt joyce of a base hit with a behind-the-back grab. new york takes two out of three in that series. >>> western conference finals, game one tomorrow night in houston. can't come soon enough for thewarriors coach steve kerr. >> i'm officially at that time where i'm thinking what do i need to answer at this point, so

snap elections but snap elections still run administered by the current government ok nick thank you so much steve conley there in yerevan armenia. now to some of the other stories making news around the world today french police have arrested hundreds of people after an artists smashed shop windows and torched cars at a may day rally in paris authorities had warned of possible clashes with groups poll and social media for a revolutionary day everywhere thousands took part in a peaceful march against government policies. u.s. news reports say president donald trump could face a grand jury subpoena if he refuses to answer questions in the russia investigation their former attorney for the president said special counsel robert mueller had made the threat during negotiations in march on a possible interview with the president and donald trump's former doctor says a letter that gave him a glowing bill of health in the run up to the twenty sixteen elections was dictated by trump himself. orenstein letter said trump would be the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency or seen had previously said h