Saying hes been terminated. Drug giant pfizer says its covert 19 vaccine looks to be 90 percent effective sparking hope that the global outbreak can be brought under control. President elect joe biden is still warning of a dog when to head off to the u. S. Infection count pos its 10000000. We begin with breaking news in the conflict between azerbaijan and armenia in the disputed region of the going to cut back on me as Prime Minister has announced just in the last hour or so he signed a deal with azerbaijan and russia to end the war nicole delivered the news via a statement on his Facebook Page saying the agreement would come into force on cheese day. He described the decision as unbelievably painful but one which had to be made her Armenian Forces had just lost control of a major city in a going to come back not far from the regional capital. Lets go to a binge of aid who is in the capital of the by john who bring us up to date what is the latest that youre hearing. Well weve just heard from sources in the armenian in the other by johnnys side confirming to us that the president of other via john is going to address the nation tonight this is being told ya that there are by sources close to the presidency as the news broke that the war may be over between armenia and azerbaijan about the disputed nagornokarabakh region a deal about italy has been reached between armenia and azerbaijan with the presence of the russian president and both sides have agreed to a text which has not yet been officially released here in azerbaijan but if you look at the statement that has been released by the by the president by the Prime Minister rather. Of armenia its a very emotional statement saying that he kneeled before all those whove lost their lives the soldiers and the people and this is a painful. Painful day for him for him to be able to take the decision which is in the best interest of his people and as you mentioned this is come on the heels of the last 6 weeks of intense battle of that weve seen between these 2 sides Armenian Forces trying to defend the what other by john sees as the occupied nagornokarabakh region and they have been pushed back village after village town after town by the as or by joining forces and just 24 hours ago they were able to capture the important city of on the way to the capital of the disputed region so it is a Significant Development it appears that the conflict may be drawing to a close but it is very interesting that these dramatic developments have taken place in the middle of the night where just a few hours ago we were hearing from not just the Armenian Ministry of defense but for also from the region Regional Government saying that the fighting is continuing their forces are putting up stiff resistance and. Going to push back either by joining forces but all the elder while their Prime Minister and the president of the right john with the russians were signing a deal which effectively means that armenia will withdraw from the conflict in zone a somewhat have we heard from turkey yet because obviously they played a key role in supporting the as aries. Yes so there is so far because it is very late hours of the night we have not heard from many World Leaders including those who have been supporting these 2 sides weve only heard from the kremlin confirming that this deal has taken place earlier in the day the deal was signed in moscow in the presence of russian president Vladimir Putin and the scant details that we have seen from russian official agencies as well says that there will be peacekeepers which will be deployed there are some indications and there is no confirmation so far from either side that there might be a turkish presence in there as well but we are reaching to hear from the azerbaijani president more details are going to come from him as sources tell us that this is going to address the nation the statement and the text is going to be released to the public and so far all this all 3 sides concerned have not really the specific text which outlines what this deal will mean will there be complete withdrawal of all forces who is going to guarantee the east are there going to be a military post that the azerbaijani side will be able to make there are they going to be able to take the complete area under their control or will be able to keep it will they be able to keep all of the areas that they have taken so far so those are all the questions that we are trying to look answers for. President will address the nation and the statement that has been signed by all sides is released it is worth noting that in the last few hours weve been hearing from military sources on the ground telling us about the different axes through which they have surrounded the nagornokarabakh region and this is something that their budget president had been alluding to in the last 6 weeks but it appears that what had not been achieved in nearly 3 decades of negotiations either by danis might be looking at this saying that they have achieved it in 6 weeks of war. There for us who lets turn to our correspondent robin forester walker whos been monitoring developments from tbilisi in neighboring georgia robin as osama was saying that this coming about this statement on facebook from the armenian Prime Minister the emotional statement coming and on facebook in the middle of the night what more you hearing from the armenian side why do you think this is coming about now. Were not for the 1st part of your question i can tell you there i spoken to a spokesperson of the Foreign Ministry who confirmed that this statement was for real and i think there was some concern that this coming at such an extraordinary moment in this conflict at such a time of night that there may be doubts about its veracity but it was confirmed to me by i mean is Foreign Ministry and i was told. Not only that but there was also put some doubts about whether or not such an agreement could even be possible or even hold given attempts at cease fires over the past few weeks to pull the 2 sides apart but this certainly does seem comprehensive but one has to take a step back and look at the military conquest on the ground that has been achieved by azerbaijan to have taken back so much territory and to have been within a stones throw a few kilometers of stiff panic at the capital having claimed to have taken this enormously significant symbolically culturally significant city of shusha shushi. And to have those heights which are above the city is to panic as shushi is is a citadel fortress for us at beit jala and to have got that far it seems extraordinary how and why it would have agreed to cease hostilities for an end to the conflict when it had made such enormous progress on the ground and i wonder just wonder how that news will be taken when people wake up a sermon will be able to let us know how that is in barky because i suspect it azerbaijanis wanted this conflict to be concluded militarily. And of course. Certainly armenians the information were getting is that armenians on social media have expressed horror. That the president the Prime Minister has agreed to this but i have also been hearing that the kyra back to a factor or thirtys also agreed this with russian u. N. To prevent any further loss of life in the go to care about because the Armenian Forces there had been under such intense pressure and so many of their personnel were dying being killed by the extraordinary military technology that the as ery forces were able to bear on them and lets not also forget the civilian casualties that were going to be sustained had the bombardment of stepparent occurred been allowed to continue we understand that tens of thousands of Ethnic Armenians civilians were still likely to be trapped inside nagornokarabakh and a humanitarian disaster was looming well that still needs to be figured out whether that is going to now be resolved there are all kinds of questions that we just dont have answers for at the moment but this is really a quite Extraordinary Development robin as you say it may have been a short war but it was a deadly war many thanks for that robin farceur walk and monitoring developments from for us from tbilisi neighboring georgia lets try and get a few more to the questions that have been raised by our correspondents because the latest fighting over the disputed region began on the morning of september 27th the region is internationally recognized this pos of azerbaijan according to 4 Un Security Council resolutions but not gonna cut it back has been run by ethnic amini and since the war in 1994 hundreds of thousands of as areas were displaced during the conflict then the weeks. Fighting have involved tekkie which is backed azerbaijan and russia which has a defense treaty with mania lets bring in which a chance to he say purpose soria lecture in the department of Political Science at George WashingtonUniversity Joins us from washington d. C. Many thanks for speaking to us richard f. S. K. Your reaction to this news. Well it unexpected and the. End of the conflict seemingly as declared by this through this a statement by Prime Minister nico passing on which as you have said was highly emotional raises a set of questions and its too early to tell by far to come to some sort of more concrete set of interpretations of that and spoke one of the things that im interested in is we can think about International Relations is characterized by a series of bargaining and agreement possibilities and it would be interesting to see as one of the reporters mentioned what exactly the sort of agreements over and beyond the armenians having to withdraw from 7 districts in the who are car obama. Are all about well this is something that is the principal question isnt it where does it where is that going to leave those Ethnic Armenians living in the conic how to back. Yes it does and one of the things that we have to understand is the potential for this to have turned even more her if i couldnt already has in terms of the history of mass occurs there was a massacre it soon get in 1998 for example of armenians and include jolly there was a massacre of 600 hours or regime needs and so what were dealing with is a. Operational environment of ethnic translate and that given the prospects of Certain International factors such as for example the prospect of russia shifting its broader neutrality in terms of this conflict within the context of the shoot down of a helicopter by the us or bijani is today. All of the there are several examples of events that have rapidly taken place in addition to the series of. Very definitive and heavy odds are going to johnny military victories that would portend for the armenians to try to sue to some form for some sort of agreement that has for turkey that thats been tracking at how crucial do you think techies who all has been. In getting to this point. Well again this boils down to what sort of bargaining in negotiation concerns you here but a type of ceasefire or even Peace Agreement arrangement between observation and armenia would both bode well for erdogan won and is consistent with what some call his new optimism policy whereby turkey through soft power through influence on political and cultural institutions exert its influence in ways that are reminiscent of the role of the Ottoman Empire and days of yore so that. This might not be from the point of view of. Earth on. A bad outcome to this conflict it certainly is for many armenians a perfect outcome given the loss of life but within the context of eyes of asia and president. Obama this this might be a proper way to conclude this conflict given that theyre going to series of decisive military victories but theres concern now with the shoot down of this helicopter of perhaps a possible shift in russian alignment and this suits their purposes well and so far as Armenian Forces are compelled now to withdraw from those 7 districts that they have been in charge of since the 1990 s. Why should you think the people of amin yeah going to support their Prime Minister in this may. My impression is that this is going to be very dicey that. The Prime Minister has some real. Public cell initiative to sort of bring home some of the advantages given that the armenians had suffered a series of military setbacks and that the prospect of conflict and its cost could be so much worse for the armenians given the current rate of momentum so hes in a difficult position to be sure and it remains to be seen what the future holds for him many thanks for your thoughts richard. Professorial lecturer in the Department Political science at George Washington university as richard mentioned that just before the knees of the conflict ending came through as a by john apologized to shooting down a Russian Military helicopter of its border with i mean youre killing 2 russian personnel a helicopter was flying more than 70 kilometers away from the disputed region but as a by john says a war was a contributing factor to the incident which it says was accidental. Donald trumps Election Campaign team on the white house have repeated the allegations of fraud and socalled illegal votes as they press ahead with challenging the results once again however theyre provided little to no evidence of their claims trump is refusing to concede defeat to president elect joe biden nor suits are being launched across several battleground states. There is only one of the party in america that opposes voter id one of hearty in america that opposes the verifying signatures citizenship residency eligibility there is only one party in america trying to keep observers out of the count room and that party my friends is the democrat party. And fishes live for us in washington d c. Whats near is still pursuing these legal strategies but has he provided any evidence. Well the Republican Party say that this is the start of a process and theyre starting to gather together affidavits that the present to court have gone to a court in pennsylvania and essentially said that there was a constitutional error there because voters in different parts of the state were treated differently depending on the counties and whether they were democratic counties or republican counties by tagging it with a constitutional question of course that suggests that they hope that this will eventually rumble all the way up to the Supreme Court but evidence is very lacking when it comes to the allegations that theyre making for example they say that there were thousands of people in the vi there who voted who no longer live in the state that its not unusual there are a lot of military families in the valley the most important elsewhere had registered to vote there or people have gone to college there are various reasons for that so that doesnt automatically mean that there was a problem there so theyve got this difficulty to prove such as in pennsylvania when they said observers were allowed in the room they already tested one example of this new court and they had to admit that that observers where actually in the room at the time and so its a high bar for them to clear one of mcdaniel who is the chairwoman of the Republican Party said that if this were it was on the other foot then the media wouldnt have declared the winner at this stage the reality is 4 years ago with the same sort of data the American Media declared donald trump to be the president when a lot of the gaps in many of the states where exactly the same the trump group are also suggesting that they will call for recounts in a number of states including in wisconsin that happened in 2016 Hillary Clinton called for a recount in wisconsin she was about 20000 votes behind exactly where donald trump is now recounted all d the votes and in the end Hillary Clinton managed to get 200. 00 extra votes. So this is clearly donald trump pushing ahead with the idea that hes not a loser that the he wants to keep the base energized as well and thats maybe what the republicans are trying to do as well because of the keep the base energized 2 very Important Senate runoff races coming up in georgia on january the 5th they want to make sure they get a big tonneau then and this could be an issue for them allan its interesting that the Republican Party is still more more or less supporting donald trump at the moment on day. Weve had maybe 2 or d 3 people who have come out and called joe biden the president elect of the apartment president elect in one case so theyre very much in the minority in the Republican Party these see theres no reason why the president cant test some of these arguments in court and theyre absolutely right and he will get the chance to do that but there is growing criticism that donald trump isnt stepping away and the longer this goes on the worse it is for the country thats not starting to stopping dont trump being president of course just in the last couple of hours hes fired for his defense secretary sent out a tweet saying that he had been terminated in the last hour mark has released a letter to the president he says it was an order to his country and he also says that he respects the constitution so we understand that the president s right to replace him at no point does he think donald trump for his leadership no point does it donald trump for the opportunity to set of ins