colonise ation coming soon. on counting the cost the end of austerity the ideology decimation of the weakest of society for the economic mismanagement of the british and powerful to be consigned to history and the russian german gas pipeline opposed by washington and european capitals. cutting the cost on al-jazeera. i mean his prime minister says a deal has been signed to end his country's war with azerbaijan in the disputed region like outback. hello i money and saeed this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up sacked via twitter donald trump announces an unceremonious exit for his defense secretary

saying he's 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 it's 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. let's 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 you're hearing. well we've just heard from sources in the armenian in the other by johnny's 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 nagorno-karabakh 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 it's a very emotional statement saying that he kneeled before all those who've 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 we've seen between these 2 sides armenian forces trying to defend the what other by john sees as the occupied nagorno-karabakh 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 we've 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 we've been hearing from military sources on the ground telling us about the different axes through which they have surrounded the nagorno-karabakh 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 dani's might be looking at this saying that they have achieved it in 6 weeks of war. there for us who let's turn to our correspondent robin forester walker who's 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. we're 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 stone's 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 we're 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 thirty's 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 let's 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 nagorno-karabakh 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 don't 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 let's 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 let's bring in which a chance to he say purpose soria lecture in the department of political science at george washington university 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 it's 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 i'm 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 isn't 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 couldn't 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 we're 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 that's 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 they're going to series of decisive military victories but there's 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 he's 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 you're 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 trump's election campaign team on the white house have repeated the allegations of fraud and so-called illegal votes as they press ahead with challenging the results once again however they're 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. what's 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 they're 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 they're 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 it's 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 doesn't automatically mean that there was a problem there so they've 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 it's 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 wouldn't 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 he's not a loser that the he wants to keep the base energized as well and that's 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 it's interesting that the republican party is still more more or less supporting donald trump at the moment on day. we've 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 they're very much in the minority in the republican party these see there's no reason why the president can't test some of these arguments in court and they're absolutely right and he will get the chance to do that but there is growing criticism that donald trump isn't stepping away and the longer this goes on the worse it is for the country that's not starting to stopping don't trump being president of course just in the last couple of hours he's 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 instead this is

a very very called letter by a man who suspected that is time at the pentagon was coming to a close many thanks for that alan fischer there for us live in washington d.c. and just to follow on from what allan was saying there after months of speculation about the relationship between donald trump and his defense actually mark has been sacked via twitter trump tweeted that he been terminated. esben trump collided over white house pressure to deploy federal troops during nationwide protests against racism and police brutality as also attracted by effectively banning the display of confederate symbols in military installations had been reported that s but prepared a resignation letter anticipating the inevitable but he poured cold water on that in an interview with the military times publication last week saying my soldiers don't get to quit so if i have to quit it better be over something really really

big. let's go to mark jacobson here's a senior adviser to former us secretary of defense asked cos he's currently assistant dean of washington programs with sarah keyes university's maxwell school of citizenship and public affairs joining us from washington mark many thanks for speaking to us and i'll just share 2 months left of this administration why fire the defense secretary that's a great question in fact the one big thing that the secretary of defense has to do at this point is manage a transition to the incoming team and in fact the 1st rule of presidential transitions is don't create chaos don't create instability make sure that they can stay as steady as possible and the white house has just thrown all that out the window in getting rid of asked for at this point teasing that could be more dismissals to come because we are hearing rumors that he may get rid of the c.i. a director perhaps even the f.b.i. director what are you hearing. well hearing what everyone else's folks are

speculating that the president trumps hugo just can't handle this defeat right now and he's lashing out in a number of ways and again this is problematic because again you're going to have an incoming team who needs to understand what are the trouble points in each of these agencies and likewise you know as we've seen over the last couple of days american allies and frankly the rest of the world are craving the stability that's that's going to be coming with wind administration and the worry is that you'll have instability over the next 60 days that dwarfs what we've seen over the last 4 years but i but i think there's a really important point with regards to whether the department of defense or the f.b.i. the cia needs to changes at the top particularly during the transition don't really impact the operations things that are going on whether they're investigations whether they're military deployments that's steady as it goes but again this perception at the political level that there are the does is not really the best

look in the world for the united states right now no indeed and what do you make of the replacement christopher because as you say this still 2 months to go he still has a crucial role to play in leading the country. well look i i think chris miller is the wrong person at the wrong place at the wrong time but let me say that chris miller has a stellar reputation when it comes to the counterterrorism world he's been leading the national counterterrorism center he was a deputy assistant secretary working on those issues at the department defense and in uniform as part of u.s. special forces in fact was in afghanistan in the early years and again this is a 6 person with a stellar reputation in this field i hear a very good guy those who have worked with him. have been great things to say about him and they believe that he also is a man of integrity i have no reason to doubt that but the challenge is he's in

a very difficult position right now where you know he's been chosen lightly because of his perceived loyalty to the president to do what the president wants to do esp or was not viewed as that in over the last many months and it's likely that he's put in a tough situation fortunately there's a very good team of political appointees left in the military services the secretaries of the navy army and air force as well as competent military leadership but again i'm not sure anyone can really survive the churn of the white house if trump starts acting more on emotion and less consider and less focused on what needs to be an orderly transition over the next 60 days i k. at mark jacobson senior adviser to film a us actually have defense asked many thanks for speaking to us. on al-jazeera let's return to our breaking news story this hour the fact that the president has

confirmed that his country has signed a deal to end the war in the go on account of back let's go to osama bin laden who is in the capital of azerbaijan i believe you may have some updates on the story what more can you tell us. in an extraordinary turn of events in a live address to the nation and the president of azerbaijan has confirmed that his forces are going to be taking over with the help of russian peacekeepers in nagorno-karabakh of the conflict according to. is over this is the. conflict zone which is the fight has been going on for the last 6 weeks and the conflict has been brewing for nearly 3 decades this is something that we saw on the other bridge on the state t.v. statement and a video conference was played out between the 3 leaders. from armenia

from other very john and putin's from russia where the 3 leaders discussed the details of disagreement he's still speaking and we're getting some details about how this is going to come into effect at 0100 hours on the 10th of november moscow time. a cessation of hostilities is going to come into effect the the guns are going to go. and this is going to be a phased withdrawal of all of the troops that are stationed from the armenian side in the conflict zone there is going to be a presence of russian peacekeepers who are going to stay here for a number of years so details are still coming in dresses this nation emotional words to his people saying that the the people the soldiers and those who have been displayed. yes for the last 28 years were before the other by johnny president and he's trying to make sure that he addresses all of their hopes and dreams and fears

he's also said that this is something that they have been able to achieve because of the military victories that they would choose on the battlefield they have created corridors and stopped the advancing forces and the control of the armenian side in the going to karbala region just in the last 24 hours the retaking of the town of shushi was a major development which has given the armenian side food for thought and they have come to their senses he is saying that this is something that was agreed by both leaders it is going to be a car door which will be controlled by russian soldiers on the border area something around just less than 2000 soldiers are going to be there the liberation of 7 to do so settlements according to live is

a pivotal has played a pivotal role in making sure that now the conflict is over so it has been an extraordinary turn of events in the last 24 hours we're seeing the city of being taken seen statements after statements from both sides about how fighting is ongoing and now in the wee hours of the morning it's just gone past 3 30 in the morning here in the us or vij on capitol buckle the azerbaijani president confirming that the conflict between them and armenia into go in a car about is over a summit give us a bit of background to this conflict because the war while it hasn't been going on very long it has indeed been deadly. absolutely so we've seen the numbers ranging from 10025000 soldiers and civilians being killed in the last 6 weeks in september stick used each other of

starting the violence and the azerbaijani forces took this as an opportunity to get back to their own areas and they have steadily.