A possible breakthrough in the fight against covert 19 u. S. Drug giant pfizer says its vaccine candidate is 90 percent effective. Also in the news there i mean to end a decade of chaos and bloodshed in libya u. N. Backed talks have begun paving the way for a political transition. And uncertainty in peru is the president faces a 2nd impeachment trial in just 2 months coming up a live update from the capital lima. And bumpy december the legal sports news 27 seen masters champion Sergio Garcia withdrawals from this weeks tournament of the testing positive for corona virus. But were starting with breaking news this hour 1 pm in washington d. C. And literally in the last 2 minutes the u. S. President donald trump has fired his secretary of state. In his words. Has been terminated straight to kimberly how could a White House Correspondent cant believe its begun. Yes thats right mark else for is the secretary of defense or at least he was until this announcement by the u. S. President on twitter where the president says i am pleased to announce that chris for miller the highly respected director of the National Counterterrorism center will be the acting secretary of defense affective immediately he says that mark asked for has been terminated i would like to thank him for his service now we have seen before that the president has said that officials that he has fired openly in such a public way have been terminated only to have to spirit from about whether or not it was a termination or resignation why is this important because we have been hearing for days in fact that mark asked for had been preparing a Resignation Letter as weve known for months that the 2 have been at odds over a number of different issues most notably the conflict that took out place over the summer with regard to the social on ras the president wanting to utilize the military to quell some of this social unrest over racial protests in the United States mark asked for pushing back saying this is not the role of the military so it appears that there is a difference between these 2 men and whether or not this was a termination more resignation still very unclear ok is this a sign of what people feared can believe that donald trump in what looks like the last 2 months of his presidency. Doing things like this firing people making executive orders doing everything he wanted to do before he leaves office. Well you know all of the members of the cabinet serve the pleasure of the president they can be hired and fired at any time done terms not doing anything wrong per se but certainly we do see this from president s in the past they do take advantage of the fact that they know there will be limited consequences because theyre on their way out to enact things that might have been unpopular or could be not well received from the public prior to an election so yes donald trump could be doing just that in fact there are other departures that are rumored to be also coming down the pike for example being f. B. I. Director Christopher Ray another one that has been at odds with the u. S. President publicly and also the cia director Gina Housefull the allegations being that they have been pushing back on pressure political pressure from the white house to use their positions for the purposes of the president. President trump is on the been on twitter with the golf course for the last couple of days are there any plans in the diary that he will be seen publicly. Not as of right now what we do know is that mike pence the director of the Coronavirus Task force and also the Vice President currently is can be in a closed press meeting in the situation room of the covert task force its unclear 2 what they are going to discuss but the timing is interesting given the fact that we know that the projected winner of the u. S. Election joe biden has released his covert platter at least discussed the announcement of his task force today so these seem to be the only things on the schedule so i minutely the resignation or terminations of mark s. For the defense secretary was a bit of a surprise ok thank you for now kimberly how could our White House Correspondent breaking news as i said literally about 90 seconds before we came on air with this news hour with these tweets from donald trump i am pleased to announce that christopher c. Milla highly respected director of the National Counterterrorism center will be the acting secretary defense effect immediately because as you see in the tweet above that mark aspect has been terminated i would like to thank him for his service that was kimberly points out some confusion over what terminated actually means in this sense whether he resigned or was fired ok so thats what has just come out of the white house lets head to delaware. Joe bidens hometown and mike hanna is there foss well talk to you more mike in a moment i think about the coronavirus toss tolson the briefing we heard from president elect biden little bit earlier but 1st some other what is seriously reaction to this but it just shows they could be some chaotic days ahead during this transition period. Well the Incoming Biden Administration i cannot speak for them obviously but they would have expected nothing else they have been laying out all sorts of scenarios in recent months leading to this particular point trying to game out what situations may emerge during these some 70 days between pride and being projected as the winner and his inauguration as president sudden changes in government personnel certainly would have been one of the scenarios that they looked at so they are prepared they would say for this type of eventuality whether at this stage its the beginning off a scorched earth policy if one could put it like that thats far too early to say but certainly at this stage as well no reaction from the Biden Incoming administration as to the sudden departure of the defense secretary ok might lets just pause for a 2nd and go back to the coronavirus issue u. S. President elect joe biden saying there is a need for bold action to control the pandemic hes promised to put this at the top of his agenda after assuming office there was a national to address about an hour ago where he urged americans to put partisanship aside and abide by Health Guidelines biden and president elect harris held their 1st meeting with the task force formed to help deal with the crisis biden warning americans the nation was edging towards what he called a dark winter but have a listen this group will wise and detail plants built on a bedrock of science and we keep compassion empathy and care for every american at its core this election is over time to put aside the part of the partisanship and the rhetoric that designed to demonize one. This time to end the politicization of basic responsible probably kill steps like mask social distancing. So back to mike hanna now in wilmington and mike we were talking about this earlier. A lot of the similar sort of campaign lines that we heard from joe biden but i guess its the fact that there is a clear message coming from someone who should be in power in 2 months time. Oh come on lets just track this back biden was projected as the successful president on saturday. And 48 hours later he was convenient to meeting off a coronas Coronavirus Task force this as he stated through his campaign is an absolute priority he has drawn up an action plan throughout the recent months hes consulted in numerous experts and now on this day he named his Task Force Team to begin to prepare for when they move into power and generally the 20 is obviously the great difficulty is this intervening period a period during which cases are spiking around the country and joe biden making a very clear call there as hes done before but even more impassioned on this particular point that the mosque is the most important weapon against a virus attempting to deep politicize the wearing of a mosque which is largely being done by President Trump certainly has been egging it on among many off his supporters so by the skin to get back to basic Health Grounds you heard him saying that he is formulating a plan on the bedrock of science he said as well in his 10 minute address that what his administration will be doing is Incoming Administration is follow the data of the science and then act of that its a very different approach from the trumpet ministration come out ok thank you to mike hanna whos been covering the president elect from wilmington delaware were going to go to washington now to speak to julie fisher who is a professor of microbiology and immunology at Georgetown University medical. Center julian supposed to have you with us lets talk 1st of all about and just following on from what mike was talking about there the message coming from the Biden Campaign from president elect biden i guess the clarity in the simplicity thats coming from it do you think that will resonate with americans. I think its an opportunity to have a clear set of messages coming from from the president elects. So youre right im having told think of what to call it when the president elects position to make clear that this is that the ongoing cover 910 demick is a problem for which we can bring Technical Expertise to bear and that we can provide some clear technical guidance for state and local Decision Makers which is something that has been really difficult to find in the past few months i think it will help people understand it get this there are Public Health and scientific questions here to be addressed not just cultural and political issues surely theres also the news that the u. S. Drugs make a fire. Has talked about its covert 19 vaccine candidate and said it is proving to be more than 90 percent effective on track to seek Regulatory Approval to sell a vaccine by the end of the month i mean thats really positive news obviously but how have you taken that how much of a what we say how much of a grain of salt do we take that with i think its really promising news and obviously we are all excited about this evidence that we could have this much effectiveness which is actually much higher than you normally see with the typical seasonal flu vaccine but the numbers are small right now so i am taking it as a sign that we can be optimistic but we really need to wait a little while and see the numbers of. Enrolled volunteers close that we can really understand what impact this will have and rolled out at the population level so cautiously optimistic thats good im always interested though with with Something Like a vaccine about how it gets to the people you know joe biden was talking about it needs to be free for everyone and its got to get to wherever it needs it you know pfizer is a business all these other Drugs Companies their businesses as well i just wonder how much cooperation there will be in the end given the size of the situation. I think what we are seeing now is an unprecedented degree of cooperation and coordination on the International Level from Vaccine Companies even though pfizer is a company and obviously experienced at producing and rolling out treatments and vaccines the scale of rolling out a vaccine for covert 19 is unprecedented and the vaccine that has just shown such promising results requires. A cold chain it has to be kept at very low temperatures and it requires 2 doses so. Putting the the infrastructure of the clan and the management in place so that can be rolled out to the people who are 1st most vulnerable and then to the whole global population its going to require cooperation not just between the private sector and the u. S. Government but with governments across the whole world. From Georgetown Universitys Medical Center in washington thank you great to talk to you just before that pfizer news came out the World Health OrganizationsDecision Making body was meeting as covert 19 cases and deaths surge around the world the annual ministerial World Health Assembly is taking place after a shortened session back in may the w. H. O. Chief has called for Scientific Solutions and solidarity to combat the pandemic we might be tired of 19 but it is not dying of violence yes its preys on in we go home. But it preys on we can assume inequality division denounce we sure do you clean and we believe annoyance. Plenty more news coming up for you on the news are they claiming victory and meanwhile the ruling party which says its won enough seats to form the next government. Bolivias the former leader evo morales heads home after a year in exile in argentina. Swedish star striker areas slots on break him of it shows no signs of slowing down the reason hes told police he was going to sports a little later. Well move to some other news the latest round of libyan peace talks 1st of all which is happening in neighboring tunisia yam of the political dialogue is for elections to take place as soon as possible. As more. The United Nations has invited 75 delegates from libya chosen to represent an array of political viewpoints regional interests and social groups theyve gathered here in tunis to find a way forward acting un envoy Stephanie Williams is clear on the aim of the talks in tunis so. We are going to work with the 75 participants on a on the road map Going Forward the political roadmap Going Forward with the key objective being the scheduling of national elections. Cycles of violence for nearly a decade after the tribes and groups to dine market afy turned on each other. And it has morphed into a conflict in which regional and global rivalries are being played 8. Libya has had 2 rival administrations for years with the un recognizing the government in tripoli and the warlord Khalifa Haftar are leading his forces in the east last month libyas domestic warning sides agreed to a permanent cease fire such deals have failed in the past to stop the fighting but the un says the military officers have shown a sense of duty and responsibility and so it hopes for the same from the 75 delegates involved in the political talks here in tunis. Their host president. Said it was imperative libya remain a unified nation. Libya as unified nation some people talk of western and Eastern Libya but we tell them that libyans are one people this kind of rhetorical could lead to the division of libyas the tunisian people refuse this because they know that all libyans refuse it to us its a danger on the region as a whole as it could open the door to division in other neighboring nations with libya already desperate for normalcy the Global Pandemic has made worse the situation in the words of the u. N. Envoy to 19 has colluded with conflict libya is geographically nearby but a world away from the grandeur of this luxury hotel in tunis where in the next 6 days 75 delegates will attempt to chart its political future clearheaded it. Tunis u. N. Secretary general antonio terraces addressed the participants at that form urging the International Community to support the talks. Your commitment to this process will replace star leaving sort of an entity and the democratic leadership timoci of leaving the sea to sions as you engage in dialogue to resolve your differences your the to me nation will be tested however compromise is the only approach that to pave the road to National Unity you can count on the United Nations to support your efforts and i call on the International Community to provide strong backing as well including by and shooting full of the it is through the Security Council arms embargo the future of libya and all its people is greater than any parties an audio visual difference is very pleased to welcome Jonathan Winer to the new zines in washington former u. S. Special envoy for libya so well placed to talk to us about these talks actually before the tolls the 1st point i feel we should make is that the ceasefire has held and that is a massive massive platform isnt it to actually to be even be holding these talks in the 1st place well the talks could move forward so as people who are fighting one another surely strickly was being attacked sure there was continued efforts to conquer territory you cant have talks under such circumstances its good to see the foreign sponsors libyan factions supporting the ceasefire and the show so then what sort of hope do you hold out for these particular talks. Well the question will be can they find a package for a successor transition government that increases Peoples Trust and which keep intentional point case of course their appointees as a result of the dialogue that happens or people that libyans will say this is the right group we can work with this group this group represents us this group this fight is a transition its going to be hard to get what exactly they have to still trust its exactly what i suspect inside that what you just described sounds difficult because even though i mean weve heard people at these talks say you know we need to talk about libyans all libyans the fact is there has been this very stark divide thro