i'm rebecca ritter's it's good to have you with us polls have just closed moments ago in armenia as a snap parliamentary elections reformist prime minister nicola passion pushed for the early ballot after a peaceful revolution swept into power earlier this year the prime minister is now seeking a strong the mandate from voters for his reform agenda he stepped down two months ago so polman could be dissolved to this election national road a wave of popular discontent and mass protests against corruption but the former ruling party still dominates the current parliament. for more i'm joined by journalist joshua cooke charities in the capital yerevan joshua what was the turnout for today's election. well as you said the polls just closed but we the latest data we have is now three hours old five pm local time at that point it was just under forty percent eligible voters had voted it was interesting is that that's down from fifty one percent in the last parliamentary elections last year most people i've talked to every survey did that to the fact that the former ruling party used to use s

reporter a beggar ritter's joins me now with or in the movement to get taxis services to provide a dedicated women only fleet rebecca a big move in india in particular yeah well the women safety is a big issue in india thompson reuters ranks india as the most dangerous country in the world for women there are very high risk of sexual violence so viewers are probably remember that horrific case about five years ago a young woman who is raped and murdered on a bus. as you mentioned there was the case that was also gone on a lot of public attention of the woman who was raped by her driver so of course incidences like this is not exclusive to india obviously they're going to says that they're not doing enough to combat violence against women so it seems women are taking measures in their own hands and one young woman from india. has launched a petition calling for indian ride sharing app ola that's their big competitor to hire two hundred more famous drivers by twenty twenty it's already had fifty thousand signatures and just a. few months so quietly you can see it there are just so quite a lot of interest already in th