from the from venice of caracas to the battlefields around mosul our job is to get to the truth and empower people through knowledge. this is al-jazeera. hello and welcome to this news hour. coming up in the next 60 minutes. furious armenians storm a government building after the prime minister signs a deal to end weeks of conflict with azerbaijan. the agreement which also involves russia follows a string of military victories by forces. also ahead the u.s. attorney general tells prosecutors to investigate allegations of electoral fraud

but warns them not to pursue claims that a far fetched. career is congress votes to impeach president martin vickery he's accused of accepting bribes but has denied the allegation. on 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. the deal has been signed to end weeks of conflicts between armenia and azerbaijan in that disputed region of the golan a cutback a cease fire has already taken effect but there's been angry reaction among some mean eons. reports. the deal comes after 6 weeks of relentless fighting it was 1st announced in

a facebook post by armenian prime minister. within minutes confirmation came from missouri by john moscow he would. meet on november 9th the president of the as the prime minister of india and president of russian federation signed a statement which declares the complete cease fire and military action in the no. war zone starting from midnight of november 10th moscow time. armenia's prime minister described the deal as unbelievably painful oh i don't know the backlash against him was immediate moments after the announcement furious demonstrators stormed into the parliament in your avant to protest the decision the conflict they argue is about much more than one hand. but armenia had undergone a number of defeats just hours before a very forces overran a gora car boss 2nd city shoe shop they were on the road to the capital when the

deal was signed the prospect of conflict its cost could be so much worse for the armenians given the current rate of momentum more than a $1000.00 people on both sides have died tens of thousands are now displaced. the region is within azerbaijan that has been under the control of ethnic armenians since 1904 decades of tension and violence have followed while an agreement has been signed to end the war it's unlikely it will also and the animosity between the 2 countries russian forces are already being deployed to keep the peace katia llopis of a young designer let's go to our correspondent robin forced to walk a been monitoring developments from tbilisi in neighboring georgia robin a feels a little bit like this deal came out of the blue talk us through all the very latest as you know it. well events appeared to come at lightning speed i

mean let's just take for example the news last night that a russian helicopter had been shot shot down which azerbaijan quickly took responsibility for and at that stage nobody had any idea that those operations may have had something to do with the planned involvement of russian forces peacekeeping forces in the nagorno-karabakh disputed territory. we also now understand that the talks had been taking place between nicole passion and the prime minister in deep discussion with his opposite man in the de facto armenian control karabakh. carriage to me and who is the leader of the ethnic armenians in the go in the corner karabakh and he also said that they had been in these discussions that he

and his deputies of the correct assembly had agreed that this was for them the only way forward a very painful way forward but it was the decision was taken to. basically unable some form of respondent for the armenian armed forces and civilians because they were facing total annihilation by the as ery forces who outnumbered them. and numerically and also technique technologically with their sophisticated drone weaponry for example turkish and israeli that. took an enormous toll on military personnel armenian military personnel we know that more than 1300

armenian soldiers lost their lives in over the past 6 weeks most of them young conscripts not much older than 19 or 20 years of age we never found out until now and still we don't know how many military personnel lost their lives in this fighting but the numbers are believed to be as much if not higher than the armenian toll because of the efforts it took for them to have to retake all these territories but they scored massa. of military victories by john took back territories surrounding curb back to the south along the border with iran that it hadn't controlled for a long time and it made those inroads into current uk so no what we have is this agreement that effectively requires armenian forces to withdraw from local occur

back that peacekeeping russian forces around 2000 of them will be centered in the region and they will also have to cede control of other territories by john hadn't yet been able to take back but parts of karabakh will still remain under armenian control that remains to be seen how that would work out if armenian forces were forced to withdraw and rely soley on peacekeeping troops there will also be a corridor or that would keep a safe passage way open between armenia the republic of armenia and nagorno-karabakh that's the laci corridor and all of this is timetable to take place over the next few weeks at lightning speed and the peacekeeping force the russian peacekeeping force would be on the ground would be expected to remain there for 5 years and that possibility extended i'm afraid lost connection with you so

i'll have to end it there and hand back to you in the studio because i can't i can't hear you we lost contact and many thanks robin forster walker has been monitoring developments on that deal from tbilisi neighboring georgia as we have been hearing after the trace was announced crowds of protesters stormed the armenian government headquarters in yerevan many according to the prime minister nicole resignation accusing him of betrayal let's try and get more on what is going on in europe and we can speak to the journalists neal oh you're neal so talk us through what is happening and yet a man clearly the armenians all many i mean yes not happy with what's been announced. hi yes so it centrally within about 1520 minutes of the deal being signed of this you know shocking sudden surrender deal for negotiation deal being signed. i was in my apartment at the point time is the honking to them

or just erupted on the street and then you know crowds descended on republic square the main the main central square of the city where the large government compound is protestors were breaking into the compound protesters were chanting nicole traitor nicole betrayer and then protesters broke into parliament as well and essential is that the city is in chaos at this point i mean it's that the police seem to have let it go and. everyone is incensed and what are people saying to you what is it that they are concerned about. i mean there is a great sense of betrayal here by people because the government told them for 44 days now that they were winning the war and that all the setbacks were temporary or tactical and that you know they still controlled shushi in this last battle for the last several days here and you know that they were to that they were inflicting massive loss of the other by johnny for them they held the upper hand and i mean

that this is the sense that i get from a lot of people here is you know they don't believe that the battle was actually law and that they think that nicole told them up because that nicole posen you know i'm the prime minister or they think that you know if you knew that we were losing if you knew that the situation was bad why did you keep going why did you sacrifice so many of our young men more for nothing to achieve the same end result jenna's neal how are giving us the what's going on and get it on let's get the view from baku azerbaijan capital does there is a sound the binge of aid is that let's have a listen to what he has to say. well we've been hearing from the other by johnny president who's been congratulating his nation giving out the details and saying this essentially is a capitulation by the armenian forces it has been an eventful night to say the least this is a night which started off with hearing from the armenian side can admitting that they have lost the important city of. overlooks the capital but this.

which is known as fine can the in azerbaijan we've also seen escalation from both sides saying that there were multiple rocket attacks armenians and azerbaijanis saying that they're defending their positions of trying to make sure that they hold the territory that they have and then in the wee hours of the night you heard from the armenian prime minister announcing the deal and then it is being confirmed by both the kremlin and now video conference that happened between the 3 leaders has been played on there by johnnie state t.v. in the in these in these when this was happening there was also a helicopter which was shot down by azerbaijani forces on the border between. an autonomous zone near turkey and iran and azerbaijan which was a russian helicopter to servicemen died one was injured and the other rajdhani is

were quick to apologize and say that they were sending their condolences to those crews who lost their lives and were ready to offer compensation to the russians but all of this has been overshadowed by this announcement that the conflict in nagorno-karabakh is almost over and the other by joining president saying that the important parts of it is this deal are that the armenians are going to be handing back at least 3 more territories peacefully to or budge on the forces from the outskirts of them to go in a car bomb region the are as a joining forces are not going to contin. there advance towards the capital there is going to be a corridor which is going to be established in the national monotonic zone between us or by john and nagorno-karabakh and there is also going to be peacekeeping sent is there is also talk about the turks taking part in all of this as well the other by johnny president saying that there is going to be

a presence of turkish forces here as well let's bring in a homage to head off he's a political analyst and a former professor of international relations at the baku slavic university he joins us from baku many thanks for joining us on al-jazeera it appears the steel has come as a surprise to the armenian people at least what's your reaction to this deal. thank you for having me on your program i creature from god region of azerbaijan so the long running not going to cut of a council a chasm reached it's a logical and 2 day and the war is over almost and the requirements of international law have been met i can say over the past 50 days azerbaijan as exercise its sovereign right to conduct what is hacksaw milter or a shows promise to protect its civilian civilian people and liberate its echo by

tories and yesterday that they just feel important city or crucial was liberated and logical and all the net going to come out of our war camp and if peace agrement was signed it was meditational to russia and the ceasefire can into force between the parties armenia and azerbaijan and today's argument is primal and that stablish ingle long term peace in the region or russia was expected. to. was expected to play a rather significant role in this camp late i think that turkey also we'll also take part in future taught between armenia and azerbaijan and this argument was the realization of they can set by as a genocide for many years by unfortunately our men yet you cannot international law and refuse to stop peace talks but finally today gallant or of our minion

nickel question yon was forced to accept the realities and after that protest today against the government of nickel machine and began in arming and there are many people are separate planing to overthrow pushing out from the power and i think that and open government nicol question yangon and. that has ignored into. national law for many years and deceived each nation armenian. public has come as a region has been a supporter of peace for the last sortie years and has brought for peace in the region and the. unfortunate army and government can join a deck of ocean by making false promises to its people and today we have. a clean and then the guards interrupts you can i ask you what what do you think is in store for the ethnic armenians living in nagorno-karabakh. or as

religion is or whether multicultural count 200 we have more than 4 to nations living in azerbaijan and there are 440000 armenian today living in separate cities in the major cities of azerbaijan you know we have we haven't any problem with armenian nation and we are all for together living in agony cut about on the after liberation of all i could buy a toast of azerbaijan we will in wired dollars our man yes or world citizens of republic of us religion and who used to live in are going to care about it before it is complex and we are poor to gives a living or all the citizens of azerbaijan or incorrigible or there are many of us will also have a quarrel or are in azerbaijan territory and we are for triggers a lady of azerbaijan is an army as in not going to kind of us ok ahmed side of political analyst and former professor professor of international relations from

baku slavic university many thanks for your thoughts thank you thank you for having integral part. the rest of the day's news is ahead including claiming victory in myanmar the governing party says it's won enough seats to stay in power. and bolivia's former leader it will not alice heads home from exile in argentina. at least 50 people have been beheaded in mozambique over the past 3 days police say a group linked to isolate is to blame on rest in the northern colorado gather province began back in 2017 and has since displaced thousands of people police say the fires have burned homes and executed people in the oil rich region.

the united states remains course in a political stalemate and legal wrangling over the outcome of tuesday's presidential election continues attorney general william barr has also rise federal prosecutors to investigate those allegations of voting irregularities if there's strong evidence the trump campaign has also filed lawsuits in pennsylvania among other battleground states trying to stop vote counting the president is refusing to concede defeat but his campaign has provided little evidence to substantiate their claims that's great alan fisher is live for us in washington d.c. what can we make of these comments by u.s. attorney general william barr. while critics are suggesting that this is a political move by william barr to shore up the allegations on the phone did

allegations being made by president donald trump about white spread voter fraud it's certainly opens him up to criticism that again william barr has been acting as donald trump's personal attorney rather than the attorney general from the united states even though he said in his guidance to prosecutors that it has to be substantial fraud that they can't just be chasing any sort of case it's got to be significant and what's interesting is that some people are using that to defend william barr saying look he's not looking for small cases he's looking for big cases he's told prosecutors that they've got to find this before the results are verified we've heard from the republicans throughout the day including the republican party chairwoman as she has said that the election as far as they're concerned is not over that they have a number of legal cases they're just at the beginning of that process gathering in evidence hearing from people who have complained that there were problems at their

vote they're putting those together as affidavits to present them to the court and they've gone to court in pennsylvania as well claiming that people's constitutional rights were breached because blue coty's democratic counties and republican counties were treated differently and so people had different access to airlie voting and also they had a. problems with a violation of equal protection under the law and they've coached in constitutional terms and that's a deliberate move by the republicans because they believe as this process moves forward that their cases might get closer to the supreme court and because it's a constitutional issue the supreme court will feel almost obliged to take it on and hear the case because at the moment in the u.s. this from court you can't refer the case to the supreme court they have essentially got to. see you will accept it and we'll look at it what is interesting is that throughout all of the story trump has tweeted out several times that he believes

there were problems in various states he called nevada cesspit he says the dead people people that had left the state were allowed to vote that could be people have just moved but kept the registration there which is all perfectly legal and he said in georgia they are predicting a presidential when just like they did on the night but it's interesting in all the court cases that were put forward by the republicans they have not offered any substantial evidence of widespread voter fraud in fact at that news conference where through mcdaniel she was asked why is there widespread fraud or me in the presidential elections and not in the senate races particularly the senate races where you have one who didn't answer that question. there for us live in washington d.c. many thanks. perris congress has voted to impeach president martin he's accused of accepting bribes worth hundreds of thousands of dollars from

companies that want public work contracts the votes impeach came during his 2nd congressional trial in less than 2 months marianna sanchez reports. he came to power unexpectedly martin discover i was sworn in as painless president in 2013 after big republican stepped down amid allegations of corruption now after a tumultuous time in office he's got a has been ousted. lawmakers accuse him of moral incapacity for allegedly receiving more than $630000.00 in bribes public works when he was a governor in southern region of martinis carroll said there was absolutely no proof of the allegations and denied any wrongdoing getting them i have my head apart you know very well that i never run away i hold in my hands the augments for the truth less than 2 months ago we scored a survived a previous attempt to remove him over claims he interfered in

a corruption investigation in september before the 1st impeachment trial the government filed a lawsuit at the constitutional tribunal to clarify what moral incapacity means according to the constitution but the justices said they will not have an answer before december allowing lawmakers to make their own interpretation of the law analysts say lawmakers have undermined political system if you know that i'm aggressive. this is the end of the mock receive for our country we have turned into a banana republic where the rule of law is a joke and lawmakers think they can on see a president just because they are votes. after confronting some of the worst political upheaval in recent history 7 cabinets changed at least 60 ministers resigned he's got to decide congress last year and then attempt to push forward political education reforms used. evidently this

created a great animosity from the traditional political class toward president his car who didn't have a party and in peru when a president is orphaned of political support in congress the rule has been that those governments and really bad with the coup to touch him he's got a foot congress and with the worst health and economic crisis in for more than 100 years to the end he maintained he was the victim of an opposition plot following his own efforts to introduce anti-corruption reforms and we can go live now to mariana sanchez in lima what has the reaction been where you are to this news. well myleene we are already seen reaction throughout in the airwaves around the country 1st the president of congress who will be sworn in as the new president has come out and said that $130.00 legislators vote it not all of them in favor of

the impeachment but a 106 i believe it was than the exact number 2 making as to make this vote a legitimate but that's not what's translating on the streets of peru we are seen here in lima and in other cities in the northern part of peru of people already expressing their their disgust. of this vote they are protesting this is something that we can see that will continue happening and many experts are already saying that this is a coup d'etat from lawmakers that they have taken over the government without any proof whatsoever of the guilt of discovery that it doesn't have a constitutional base and it's based really on rumors of would be witnesses in a prosecution investigation that has not yet really begun so

a lot of people will likely be on the streets. 78 percent of peruvians have supported throughout 'd for many months already. and they have said that they want it to finish his term in july so we'll have to see what happens in the next few hours where we're actually seeing pictures on the screen now live. speaking what are his next steps. we'll have to see and wait to see what he says he's like you said he's a about to speak right now. in the meantime the congress president has. already called for a meeting in congress tomorrow on tuesday 2 for him to be sworn in and really we have to see if this cover will accept this vote and right now is

a very volatile moment like i said 95 percent of peruvians have said that they think that miscarriage should be investigated after he finishes but he they have to let this cover finish so right now we don't know really if they can take back this vote or they will continue and let's see the consequences probably on the streets of lima another cities around the country many thanks marianna sanchez there for us in lima. you're watching out is there a mind top stories this hour as been angry reaction among some armenians are to deal with signed to end weeks of conflict between armenia and azerbaijan in the disputed region of nagorno-karabakh a cease fire has now taken effect. peru's congress has voted to impeach president

martin he's accused of accepting bribes with hundreds of thousands of dollars from companies that won public contracts this is him speaking now in lima again denying all those allegations. u.s. attorney general william bar has authorized federal prosecutors to investigate allegations of voting irregularities if there is strong evidence the truck campaign has also filed lawsuits in pennsylvania among other battleground states trying to stop vote counting the president is refusing to concede defeat but his campaign has provided little evidence to substantiate their claims. let's get more on this thurgood marshall jr was a member of the clinton administration's transition team he was also a white house cabinet secretary he joins us from washington many thanks for joining us on al-jazeera. what would normally be happening in this period assuming the

president had conceded by now what would the transition look like. well in many ways it would look like what is going on which is frankly the hard work of preparing to take office on day one and that would include members of the. harris transition team and continuing to build their policy briefs on the one hand to follow on his promises during the campaign but also to fill out their lists john these important personnel jobs because they will have these magnets 4000 political points many of them will need to be prepared and background check and then compared for senate confirmation. what the what is going on now because of the dispute with the election coming from the trump campaign is that lay in the initiation of

the formal transition process. let's talk a little bit about this the g.s.a. this is the general services administration this is the agency that oversees the transition which hasn't officially recognized by the victory and now we're hearing from the biden camp that they are planning on taking legal action if it doesn't recognize. the transition why is that significant well on the. head of the general services administration who is a political appointee a. career republican governments after he served previously on capitol hill and in the bush administration technically has the authority to determine.