Axiom that is 90 percent the fact is we will see how germany is buying tack and u. S. Pharmaceutical giant pfizer have the world daring to hope. Plus u. S. President elect joe biden unveiling his coded 19 task force he warns that until a vaccine is widely available the u. S. Has a dark winter ahead. Im sorry kelly welcome to the program protests have erupted in armenia after its Prime Minister agreed to a peace deal with azerbaijan the truce and the fighting in the disputed region of nagornokarabakh and allows us or by john to keep its territorial days now at least a 1000 people have been killed since the longstanding conflict erupted again in september russia mediated the cease fire which moscow says will enable a permanent end to the bloodshed. Thousands of armenians demonstrated outside government headquarters in the capital yerevan to show their displeasure over the countrys peace deal with azerbaijan that also includes russia as a peacekeeper hundreds of the protesters actually made it inside the government building where they were also able to ransack some of the offices just earlier armenian Prime Minister nicola fenian had released a statement on social media saying that he had signed a declaration with the president s of russia and azerbaijan to end the war he also called the decision incredibly painful both for him and his people he said the decision was based on what he called a deep analysis of the combat situation he called it the best possible and. Russian president Vladimir Putin also announced the end of hostilities and cited russias role in the agreement. Of the republics of azerbaijan and armenia are to stop at the positions they have taken peacekeeping forces of russia are being set up along the line of contact in the corner and along the corridor connecting nagornokarabakh with the republic of armenia. During 6 weeks of fighting Azerbaijani Forces had been making steady inroads into nagornokarabakh they claim that they had taken many settlements but armenia disputes that the region had been in armenia hands since it won a war with azerbaijan in 1904 the territories also mainly inhabited by armenians azerbaijan claims it has always been an integra part of its country. And then on monday a Russian Military helicopter at the russian base in armenia was shot down killing both occupants azerbaijan said it was responsible and that it had made a mistake russia has relationships with both countries however its still not clear whether the downing of the helicopter had played a major role in the sudden peace agreement. And lets get more now we are joined by leon in istanbul youre even shadow has a view from moscow and yulia id like to begin with you because youve been covering the conflict you were recently in azerbaijan how significant is the cease fire especially given the territorial gains on the part of azerbaijan. When we look at the images coming in right now from by john we see people celebrating on the streets waving flags driving around in motorcades and these people are not celebrating another cease fire agreement they are celebrating victory and this is how its being sold by the leadership in baku the message here is we won and this is because under this new deal by john can keep the area as it has right now under its control so including the areas it has gained over the past week so most importantly maybe the town of show in the cold sure she in armenian language its a very strategic location and we heard president. John talking last night and he said the armenian Prime Minister had no other option then to sign this deal and i quote mr lee is here he said it was essentially a copy to lation. We want to get the reaction also from our ask you about that in just a moment but 1st yuri i know youre going to talk about the the wider regional view especially as youre sitting in moscow right now because we know that armenia has a defense deal with russia azerbaijan new time strongly backed by turkey given all of that what is the view from moscow today. Well sarah russia has conceded to your sad doesnt protect all of our media but in reality moscow refused a long time to do anything specific in this conflict and this lets say reluctant position was obviously undermined has obviously undermined russias prestige in the eyes of potential partners and allies so that russia now seems to change it yes that that will play peace talks in moscow in the recent weeks of that and that with a peace deal but that the deal was broken just allies off the signing off the signing and brought no pieces of you know russias obvious in action culminated in a letter. That the Prime Minister and he called russian young girl to a few weeks ago asking the russian president to finally decide what kind of concrete and 8 russia is going to offer a shoot to the conflict escalate further even back then this was a clear sign signal that armenia didnt didnt feel well enough protected by russia which moscow now is likely to change trying to be at Peace Keeping in the region indeed armenia has been a difficult position throughout especially because now as a by john is saying that turkey will play a role in the socalled Peace Keeping process yulia ill turn to you now will the armenians really accept that. Well right now turkeys role in this socalled peacekeeping process is somewhat ambiguous we dont know what kind of a role we are talking about but i guess its safe to assume that any kind of turkish presence in the area is a very very painful to accept for many armenians that azerbaijan has been pushing for this for stronger turkish and woman when it comes to the future of nagornokarabakh turkey is as of a johns most important support especially militarily they have been providing the azeri army without weapons and training and my impression is that this has really edged the leadership in on to continue with their military operation in the corner in the past week so its hardly surprising as i john is pushing for turkey to get involved and its hardly surprising to see the reactions here from turkish high ranking officials the foreign minister for example today hailed the latest developments as a significant gain so turkey too is framing this as a success as a victory for azerbaijan and turkey yury meantime a really big part of this deal of this is something that we have not seen before this is a big 1st russian peacekeepers will be deployed to this region just to walk us through how big a deal this is strategically for moscow welfare and seem so internationally indeed is going to send about 2000 peacekeepers a lot of Armored Vehicles lots of special equipment and a lot of ground for the next 5 years that sounds like a really big deal but dont forget that russia already has a military pact with armenia and a military base in the country and to know russia just finally seems to wake up so to say and to do something concrete militarily in this conflict. Id also like to ask you because there have already been 3 attempts at a truce here since this conflict escalated in the beliefs of early fall all have failed what are the prospects not only that this cease fire holds but also that there is a longer term peace reached between these 2 sides well i think this time the circumstances are different and everything happened really fast since last night and as we hear hundreds of Russian Troops socalled peace keepers already being deployed to so new facts are being created on the ground right now so the last 3 attempts at a ceasefire were actually brokered by the socalled minsk group that is part of the organization for security and cooperation in europe and this means quote consists of russia but also france and the United States these 2 players the 2 western players seem to be out of the pictures or out of the picture now so now its basically russia and turkey its also going to be interesting to see. How the situation in armenia develops we see that many people are extremely frustrated with the developments are angry are protesting are demanding Prime Minister to step down so you have the very different emotions here right now a victory on the johnny side but anger and frustration on the armenian side. With the view from istanbul yury were shadow in moscow thank you so much to both of you. Lets look at some other stories making news around the world longtime Spokes Person and veteran peace negotiator for the palestinians siad erekat has died following complications related to cope with 19 he had been hospitalized last month for treatment after his contention deteriorated he served as chief palestinian negotiator for nearly 2 decades he was 65. Never u. S. Attorney general william barr has authorized federal prosecutors to look into allegations of voter irregularities in the president ial election it is the 1st time that he has addressed president Donald Trumps repeated and unsubstantiated claims of widespread voter fraud since last weeks election one by democrat joe biden. Sit is across florida are cleaning up after Tropical Storm at flooded entire neighborhoods forecasters say that it could really intensify as it moves up the southwest coast at a strong Central America last week as a hurricane authorities in honduras have doubled the countrys death toll to at least 57. 00. It is the most Promising Development yet in efforts to control the coronavirus pandemic germany is biotech and u. S. Drug maker pfizer have announced their experimental vaccine is more than 90 percent effective in Clinical Trials the vaccines expected to be submitted to u. S. Authorities for emergency approval this month if given the green light it could be rolled out in limited quantities of the end of this year. Its somehow fitting that beyond takes headquarters in the german city of mines is located on a street called at the gold mine because the German Biotechnology Company along with its American Partner pfizer just may have struck it big. As the results are showing that after an interim evaluation the vaccine is able to prevent infection with over 90 percent probability. So. If the results are confirmed the vaccine would be a major breakthrough in the fight against covered 19 Financial Markets and researchers were delighted with the results. Because the this is been the best news that weve heard out of the medical industry since the pandemic began. These vaccines are of course being developed a very quickly at the moment but weve had a considerable group of people who have now been vaccinated and they arent showing significant side effects this is something that gives us hope because he has held the socalled m r and a vaccine works Genetic Information from the corona virus is brought into the human body by our messaging molecule the body then uses it to produce viral proteins against which the immune system forms antibodies those antibodies should then defend against covert 19 the drug have been developed in mines but the effort to develop a vaccine against cover 19 is truly a global one hundreds of people would be on Tech Laboratory in sao paulo brazil have already received the vaccine and theyre just one group of among 44000 volunteers involved in testing worldwide most of the volunteers are in the americas but there are others in europe and africa the company says so far there have been no serious side effects. This is the. Its important that we test the vaccine on people from different regions. And different ethnic groups. Should make sure that any possible side effects dont vary for people with different ancestry. Beyond taken 5 and now planning to apply later this month for emergency use approval in the u. S. Even if it all goes well authorities have stressed its unlikely any vaccine will arrive before the end of the year. And Germanys Health minister has called the news very encouraging but spawn warned against false expectations saying the vaccine wont be available over night he said that coordinating with germanys European Partners was essential in putting a stop to the pent up. Of the storage germany france and other countries certainly signed contracts nationally there is no doubt that this would have been possible and we would have got the contracts and found the people to talk to. The question is whether this would have responded to our understanding of European Solidarity if the 345 notch Member States which are also a track to pharmaceutical markets work to secure vaccine doses for themselves and smaller e. U. Member states which are perhaps not quite as strong only have the chance if i told to obtain contracts and vaccine doses months later offer to go into inflows into the equipment and that was Germanys Health minister lets bring in now debbie is Derek Williams from d. W. Science who has been following all of this for us derek how optimistic should we be about all of this and how close could everyone be to returning to some sort of normal life. Well its obvious that the news is is very good news and its important to say everybody keeps saying too that these are interim results and of course its you know these are interim results that were reported by the a company and a press release so you have to take that into consideration we still have to look at the data other scientists have to look at the data but that said theres it looks very very good if it ends up holding water. Very large scale study afic a c. Is then one of the Big Questions 90 percent a sick a c. Is way way more than and then they were hoping for they its that sort of a bottom bottom rung of about 50 percent efficiency and so 90 percent is a big great news so what exactly does that mean though darrick 90 percent effective. They they give theyve basically in these large scale phase 3 trials they they give cohorts tens of thousands of people as we heard 44000 people in this particular case are taking part in the trial and half of them have been given the vaccine and the other half and given a placebo now neither they know nor of the doctors that have given it to them know which one they got and thats Pacific Times during that during during the trial they stop and they look and see how many people have become infected at this particular point it was its 9494 people out of both of those correlates cohorts have become infected with copd at 19 and they basically a 3rd party and independent review board looked at the information on how many of those patients were from the cohort that got the placebo and how many were from the cohort that got the vaccine and basically theyre saying 9 in 10 of those people who got it were from the placebo cohort so that means that less than 10 or less than 9 of the people out of those 94. 00 who got the work people who got the vaccine so thats where that 90 percent number comes from which means that that is that fear is to be a very very strong and call it a very strong and powerful immune response in the people who get it while it sounds like encouraging news derek but i mean there are so many hurdles of course ahead so lets talk a little bit about that i mean you know 1st we have to learn more about this vaccine that we need to be produced distributed and significant quantities and then people need to be convinced to take it all to mentally what is being done right now globally to ensure that a vaccine is effective and safe so that people indeed do trust it. Well these these trials i mean thats the 2nd you mentioned save safety is the 2nd aspect of these large trades phase 3 trials they are. World wide theyve been following this isnt the 1st large or this isnt the 1st trial that this that this vaccine has gone through its been going through a series of smaller ones before hand that have been looking at that look very closely at whether or not getting this vaccine was putting people in danger and so far the results have shown that yes tick there can be some fairly mild side in fact some sometimes aching joints and shivering episodes there are some mild side effects but so far according to the data that they that they provided there havent been in major side effects and so that in the long term benefits obviously of about see. Would far outweigh any any small side effects so it looks to be fairly safe but theyre theyre still waiting on that thats the next big hurdle that has to be cleared but snacks in about 3 weeks by the end of november were were going to hear more information about the safety but so far it seems to look ok so thats safety on the how about production and distribution any any sort of gas any sort of potential timeline just briefly mo theyre saying theyre saying up to you know there could be they could be vaccinating people by the end of your a few no young that expected to be next year they said that they could get up to 1300000000. 00 its so possibly half a 1000000 its not its not the end of the race but it brings possibly the end of the race inside. Really interesting stuff Derek Williams from data science as always breaking it all down for us and i know that youre going to have more for our viewers who are interested and that is part of our covert 19 special that people can watch on you tube so now amid all the optimism of a Coronavirus Vaccine u. S. President elect joe biden is warning the country is still facing a quote very dark winter according to a tally by Reuters News Agency more people than ever are now hospitalized with kovac in the u. S. By then says that he wants a science led response to the pandemic and he has unveiled a team of Public Health experts to lead the way. It was only in january this year when the United States registered its 1st 9 corona virus infection now the country has sped past a grim milestone 10000000 confirmed cases. President elect joe biden says the pandemic will be the priority of his new administration he spent the day showin