if there is going to be longevity. after college is alan to tell you things to my my gear on al-jazeera. and for a high profile dismissal president donald trump fires defense secretary marcus spur on twitter. and our intake of his al-jazeera live from london also coming up a development that could change the course of the pandemic interim results from pfizer's vaccine candidate sure it's 90 percent effective. the u.s. president elect welcomes the vaccine news as he assembles his coronavirus task force. thousands leave the regional capital in the going to karabakh as fighting between azerbaijan and armenia intensifies.

the us president donald trump has fired his defense secretary marc esper via social media esper clashed with trump in june over sending military troops to disperse protesters is being replaced by the head of the counterterrorism center christopher miller speak to a white house correspondent can really help it in washington d.c. so what more do we know about this firing. well it had long been rumored that this could happen in fact so much so that marc esper had a resignation letter that was all set to go but then the feeling was that in fact his job was secure in so this was never handed over is what we understand now it was expected that potentially if donald trump won the u.s. election that he would fire mark asked for but it appears even though donald trump

has not been the projected winner that this is happening anyway and. what the concern is and all of this and why this has been talked about for so long as the 2 of publicly really had some distance in terms of their positions for some time as you alluded to back in june it was that incident in lafayette square where the president you know use the military to quell the protests that were happening outside the white house at his insistence that he wanted to invoke the insurrection act or have the right to do so this is something that this is was publicly disputed by mark asked for saying now was not the time to do this it was not the time to turn the military on civilians so this was the big point but there were other issues too between these 2 men publicly for instance the banning of the confederate flag on military bases and also the pushback that the president received when he

said there would be no renaming of bases that were named after confederate general so the 2 had been disagreeing publicly for some time and it appears now the president has taken care of the matter in the way that he sees fit given the fact that every member of his cabinet serves at the pleasure of the president and can really still no concession in the meantime from the president come what does this say about the president's mood right now. well what it suggests is that the president is not happy that he lost this election is lashing out at those that may be responsible for or at least that he sees as being responsible for that loss for example had mark asper been more helpful to the president he would have been able to project might and law and order which is a big part of his campaign platform but there are other people that are in within the administration that names have been circulating as potential firings as well for example the f.b.i.

director christopher ray now the president's very unhappy that he did not pursue more heavily joe biden son hunter biden's the connections or foreign business entanglements and whether or not he profited from his father's time as vice president so that would put him at risk at well for being fired and another woman that is also at risk is gina housefull they head of the cia and there's been some frustration by trump's inner circle and also the president that she has been not declassifying documents the president feels would have helped him politically with regard to the obama administration's handling of the russia investigation prior to donald trump's term so this is all something that the president believes would have helped him politically and given the fact that the election was relatively close less than $4000000.00 votes between himself and joe biden it appears he is taking this out on the people he believes may have been the reason for him losing the

election committee how can i thank you very much indeed. now the american drug maker pfizer has released interim results which show its vaccine is effective against the corona virus news has been welcomed by scientists and world leaders and triggered a surge on global markets but actually developed by pfizer and german startup biotech was found to be more than 90 percent effective in preventing code 19 among study participants no serious safety concerns were observed among the more than 43000 participants across the globe the study showed just 94 confirmed cases of kevin 19 among the participants the news has been called a great day for science and humanity and while the world health organization says the results are very positive it's added that there is still a lot of work to be done charlie and general forbes. $1300000000.00 doses by the end of the year that's the claim from drug makers pfizer and biotech after announcing their vaccine is more than 90 percent effective theirs is the 1st

successful data from a large scale clinical trial and widespread vaccinations could roll out by the end of december following an application for an emergency use approval from regulators within weeks german company biotech admit they're still waiting on more results to further predict safety. it's true that this type of medication is no approval yet which is why we are carrying out this compatibility study with more than 40000 persons to find out if there is any intolerance even a rare one what we can prove with this study is that the vaccine is compatible and that side effects are mild to moderate and that there are no severe side effects news of the vaccine sent global stock markets soaring scientists welcome the news of the 90 percent effectiveness much higher than been expected but also raised questions we have to know who received the vaccine in this 1st try you know and evaluate if this is some task. results will be extended also

to add the populations which are matched more than in needs to relax in the they mean all the people people with. who are at risk of severe infections and probably were not included in the 1st trial you know as the world health organizations decision making body met in a largely virtual conference questions were already being raised about how any vaccine would be distributed especially to developing countries the world has come together as never before we should be sliding same into result of devil or fraud and i'm not going to be fairly as lot with. not private comedy just one more reason some people are left behind 1200000 people have now died of the virus and more than 50000000 people have reported 10000000 of them in the u.s.

but the pandemic shows no signs of abating with hungry of portugal the latest countries in europe to reimpose strict measures the assembly did have one reason to celebrate the victory of joe biden means the u.s. will be reestablishing its relationship with the w.h.o. of the trouble for me began withdrawing in july the funding the u.s. brings is key as the organization revealed although the world's expectations of the w.h.o. have grown dramatically the budget hasn't charlie and al-jazeera although says the number of corona virus infections in the us passes 10000000 and the virus continues to spread unchecked in many states president elect joe biden has made it dealing with the outbreak his 1st major priority sending a task force of scientists and medical professionals i will spare no effort to turn this pandemic around once you are sworn in january 20. to get our kids back to school safely our business is growing and our economy rooted for speed again and

again approve the manufactured and distributed as quickly as possible to as many americans to as many americans as possible free of charge will follow the science mike hanna joins us live from wilmington delaware so might the president elect biden very much focusing on how he'll tackle the pandemic indeed yes he's been meeting now for some 4 hours with his staff in the theater here behind me his 1st proper day at work after having been projected as president over the weekend and the person he did was convene this coronavirus task force a very luminous body with very serious health professionals on board he and his vice president elect have been spending a great deal of time in recent months planning action plan the see says will be introduced come his inauguration on january the 20th but he did speak very briefly

today and his message was where a mosque is welcoming news of a potential vaccine but repeats the words of the director of the c.d.c. earlier this year saying that for the foreseeable future the mosque remains more potent against a virus than any vaccine and mike what are the challenges for the transition given that trump hasn't conceded yet. well many challenges are not police there's a 3 word challenge which is general services administration now this is a bureaucratic body state supposedly nonpartisan which actually signals when the transition process begins now there is no law that determines how the decision is made it is made at the whim of the person who controls or for to kill a body and that is emma murphy now she has been a controversial figure in washington she's a political appointee by donald trump she's seen by democrats as having protected

him from action against his hotel in d.c. also his actions to end construction or moving the f.b.i. headquarters for another hotel because that would compete with his so she's at the center of a massive political turmoil and to date she is refusing to sign off on the strand sishen move it has to come from her it has to come from general services administration and just to put this into a context when obama administration moved in the boat was signed off by general services administration at 1 am in the morning after the vote had come in so this just shows you that not only is trump stalling not recognizing the results of the vote but also some of his bureaucratic employees who are supposed to be conducting nonpartisan roles are following his lead mike hanna thank you very much with us markets rallied following the announcement of that major development in pfizer's

coronavirus vaccine and it's industries hit hardest by the pandemic that have seen the biggest gains including airlines and hotels cambridge on dismounting market reaction in new york for us so talk us through the reaction to this element of hope here. yeah the markets really exploded in a good way here in new york at the new york stock exchange both the dow the s. and p. and nasdaq all seeing record highs reaching the highest levels not seen in the past 7 months we've seen it all across the board there are about 2800 companies on the new york stock exchange listed and over 300 of them have seen record highs on this monday because of the corona virus vaccine announcement now the sectors that are benefiting the most are travel leisure hospitality and just to give you an idea on how big these numbers are and how big some of these companies are benefiting from

this carnival cruise line jumped their stock jumped at 1.39 percent southwest airlines a low cost carrier here in the u.s. 22 percent at one point the walt disney company 14 percent and marriott to the international hotel chain over 20 percent jump in their stock price these are all companies that have suffered badly over the last 6 to 7 months because of coronavirus and now you see just this this euphoria if you will with investors trading to get in on this market seeing that with this vaccine perhaps people will start traveling again and that's why these stocks are going so high but there's another flip side to it as well the companies that are being hurt by this today are this stay at home companies the ones that have benefited over the last 6 to 7 months because of coronavirus and that's something such as zoom of course we all use zoom now right zoom stock went down by as much as 17 percent amazon 5 percent

and netflix one point down 8 percent but overall the big message from wall street today is that there is a lot of excitement about this potential vaccine and you're really seeing that in the markets as one trader he said suddenly we have hope there's a light at the in. end of the tunnel so that's basically the mood here from wall street where the numbers have been staying up throughout the trading day and there's still about 2 more hours here in new york before the markets even close give his own to thank you very much indeed. still to come on down to 0 protests is in police clash on the streets of georgia claimed triggering in the former soviet republic. swaped of central america and a 1000000 people displaced hundreds of missing people in the wake of a storm into. the

. hollow we've got some very lively weather started to push its way in from the atlantic now more bands of cloud and rain and that was streaming as we go on through the next couple of days are turning increasingly unsettled here at least it is on the mild side thinks a good deal quater into central and eastern pots high pressure in charge here that acts as a lid on the atmosphere so the skies tend to be clear but this time of year it's also cool so single figures for many and for some wintry weather there into that western side of iraq but some places of sharri right just around the black sea pushing down tools bulgaria was that eastern side of the but it's right about here comes that western weather will see some cherry right now moving through france through the low countries and then persistent rain will gradually make its way in across western areas as we go into the middle to latter part of the weeks the cladding of attending increasingly wet and at times when the for islands whiles the west is out of england and scotland but is still getting up into the teens his own

little colder than of late but not too bad in terms of those temperatures northern africa we got some showers there are more than parts of libya and all the areas of egypt of the central areas there we go with the usual seasonal showers the sinking further south was so the piles of nigeria saying some heavy downpours and they stretch all the way through liberia. from fossil fuels to modern day renewable as societies develop it. he demands increase requiring innovative solutions to meet such tomorrow as a global power developed into the basement company nebraska power is uniquely positioned to deliver against mr brown we provide business growth promote social economic benefits and provide innovative safe and the firemen to the sound energy solutions for future generation the brush fire nearing future energy.

they're going to run to the top stories here nonzero the u.s. president has fired his defense secretary marc esper will be replaced by the head of the country's counterterrorism center was only set to be in place for just over 70 days before joe biden is an alteration to as commander in chief. the record company pfizer says it's corona virus vaccine developed with the german firm biotech is more than 90 percent effective in late stage trials on a 1000000000 doses could be administered next year. yes president elect joe biden has to do an initial meeting of his coronavirus task force promising to roll out

a vaccine as soon as possible he says he will follow the science to reopen his country's economy and. a new round of talks is aiming to bring an end to libya's years long conflict it's hoped the meeting in that unison capital can set the groundwork for elections and bring stability to the region harriet reports from tunis. the native nations has invited 75 delegates from libya chosen to represent an array of political viewpoints regional interests and social groups they've 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 or 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 brought don't remark a daffy 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 libya's domestic warning sides agreed to a permanent cease fire such deals have failed in the past to stop the fighting but the u.n. 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 case saved 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 libya's the tunisian people refuse this because they know that all libyans refuse it to us it's 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 covered in 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 sixty's 75 delegates will attempt to chart its political future clearheaded it algis eda tunis officials in the disputed region of nagorno-karabakh say the key city of shusha has been taken by azerbaijan forces claims of years area advance had

initially been denied thousands of armenians are fleeing as any forces close in on the regional capital a long line of traffic was seen on the outskirts of the capitals to buy tickets as people tried to escape the fighting but at the hamid has more from 7 in armenia. this statement of the spokesperson i'm not going to cry about which was posted on facebook would actually be deferred admission from the armenian side things did not go so well in shushi over the past 24 hours ever since president. in baquba said that. she was now under the control of the forces or what we heard on this side were deny both the ministry of defense in your event and the authorities in the going to care about saying that the fight was ongoing this morning actually saying that they were managing to put up a strong resistance and had managed to push back the their way forces from this

south of shushi now now only hearing is the opposite from the spokesperson. but he actually also added that he is very forces were within reach of stick by the kurds that would be. not a huge blow for armenian over the past 48 hours we've actually seen civilians fleeing in large numbers as they plan occurred i spoke to some of them who described really very frightening situation from their point of view constant fighting calls that shelling and they said that life was it was not possible anymore in that town foreign journalists were also less asked to evacuate depended over the past 48 i was. trying to assess his forces will continue to fight for the town they call shushi it's key for access to the regional capital lying on the main

road connecting us to find a cat 2 on media the capture is the most significant military development in moving amongst fighting in the disputed region. riot police in georgia have used water cannon to disperse protesters outside the central election commission in tbilisi the demanding a rerun of october's parliamentary poll accusing the governing party of rigging the ballot georgian dream party received nearly 50 percent of the vote open 1st to walkers in tbilisi and says both sides are blaming each other for the violence. and it's not quite clear this stage what happened who threw the 1st shot that say but. that the police that were gathered in large numbers right police used water cannon to disperse protesters the police saying that they were attempting to storm the building but the opposition stating that they were peaceful and that they had no intention of committing any violent acts but certainly

a lot of anger and frustration at the way in which the situation seems to have been handled we've seen people who received injuries not clear from whether it was from water to the power of the water cannon or other things being thrown or or other things being involved but the reason the opposition did this march is that they wanted an ultimatum for the government to me which was for the resignation of the head of the central election commission and for new elections to be called well obviously those demands have not been met and now the opposition group which is basically all the political parties that came in behind the governing party. now saying you know we will get a boycott parliaments because we don't believe the results have been free and fair and they think up to 10 percent of votes may have been manipulated somehow. lost it talks between the u.k. and the european union on

a post back to trade deal have regime officials are trying to bridge significant differences on fishing rights and competition issues and now there's another aspect to the negotiations election of joe biden in the united states congressman jim forbes. michel barnier the hughes chief negotiator on the post trade deal has a spring in his step now he has a new bargaining chip the views of joe biden the president elect thinks breck's it was a mistake and the u.k. prime minister barr is johnson who had counted on the support of donald trump as a weaker hand like johnson trump has no liking for the u. biden will follow policies that embrace the e.u. france and germany may well become more influential allies of the us than the u.k. the u.k. being outside the e.u. is no longer the main interlock for washington in the e.u.

it is outside so the special relationship is not what it used to be and people that think that it is for you so how salvage their relationship i basically believe all ahead of the u.s. election joe biden had already sent a warning shot at johnson who he's never met it was over the possibility of a hard border between northern ireland and the republic of ireland the e.u. warns that could be the outcome if the u.k. government presses ahead with a plan that breaches international law it would contravene part of the e.u. withdrawal agreement the u.k. could change or ignore export rules on goods moving from the u.k. to northern ireland biden who has irish roots believes like the e.u. the good friday agreement of 998 which brought peace to northern ireland would be endangered by a hard border. another issue at stake is johnson's plan for a trade agreement with the u.s. under biden that could all go up in smoke if there's a no deal breck's it all revisit a distant prospect of

a hard irish border. some analysts believe a u.s. trade deal has been overhyped by the british they seem to want that to prove that rex it has worked in some way and i guess maybe they can have that impact in domestic politics but from an economic standpoint what what the u.k. needs is an effective deal with the e.u. and where its economic future lies cam there be a wind of change in u.k. policy on brics it with biden as us president right now there's no sign of it but it could well be that the u.k. government is pondering its position andrew symonds al-jazeera london tropical storm rita has hit the u.s. state of florida bringing heavy rain and strong winds the forecast is fear may lead to storm surges and flash flooding cars have been submerged in flooded streets in miami and tens of thousands of households are without power schools beaches and

public transport across florida was shut before it to made landfall late on sunday the storms also expected to produce a dangerous storm surge and strong winds over parts of cuba. later cause widespread damage when it barreled through parts of central america dozens of people were killed and more than a 1000000 displaced in honduras alone the 10 of us were diane has more. this is where rescue teams are searching for survivors. guatemala's got home villages one of many hit by a series of landslides caused by storm eda an indigenous community of about a 1000 people live in this area and authorities fear many may have been buried alive across the country more than 60000 people have been evacuated and more could follow. it's a similar scene across southern mexico and central america the storm has displaced around a 1000000 people in on doris thanks this u.s.

army helicopter rescue some flood victims who've lost everything floodwaters have left dozens dead and scores homeless. for now entire communities will have to call shelters like these home their only personal space as outlined by 4 mattresses that lay next to one another. and all the time will come when i tell you we need help because we're left on the street everything is flooded people are asking to be taken out of their houses because they were trapped on a real sweetheart deal the river overflowed and water washed into the homes of dozens of families we lost all of our belongings in the flood we've been left with nothing. in the u.s. state of florida the storm could bring more chaos in nearby cuba tens of thousands of people have evacuated their homes and many are bracing for the worse. it. got so it's in my house we are ready we filled our water tanks including one on our

roof my sister went to look for bread and i board we've been searching for things in preparing ourselves. ito's been described as one of the fiercest storms to hit the region in years. governments and rescue teams in several countries fear this may very well be the beginning. of the young al-jazeera. the top stories for you and i was there the u.s. president has fired his defense secretary donald trump said marcus destroyed be replaced by the head of the country's counterterrorism center christopher miller's only set to be in place for just over 70 days before joe biden is inaugurated as commander in chief or trump's 56 year defense. as hope that a vaccine for corona virus could be administered around the world.