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the air. the eh. the air. celebrations in azerbaijan as a deal is sealed to end the conflict in the gone okada box. but there's anger in armenia protesters stormed parliament demanding the prime minister resign. you're watching al-jazeera live from doha with me fully back to go also coming up the u.s. attorney general gives the go ahead for federal investigations into allegations of voter fraud as president trump finds the election results. was.
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under in peru after congress impeaches the president and vote him out of office accusing him of corruption and the battle for online game is top tech companies rushed to launch the latest software says the industry sees a boom during the pandemic. it's a deal that armenia is calling painful but azerbaijan is celebrating as a victory after weeks of fighting in the disputed region of nagorno-karabakh both sides have agreed to hold all military action several previous attempts to end the conflict have failed in a moment we'll speak to al-jazeera hoda abdel-hamid in yerevan but 1st this report from riyadh. the deal comes after 6 weeks of relentless fighting it was 1st. nelson
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a facebook post by armenian prime minister nicole pushing in within minutes confirmation came from a server sean and moscow he would. meet on november 9th the president of azerbaijan the prime minister of armenia and the president of the russian federation signed a statement which declares a complete cease fire and of military action in the nagorno-karabakh war zone starting from midnight on november 10th moscow time armenia's prime minister described the deal as unbelievably painful. the backlash was immediate moments after the announcement furious demonstrators stormed into parliament in europe want to protest the move the conflict they argue is about much more than land. but armenia had undergone a number of defeats the forces overran nagorno-karabakh the 2nd city shoe shop and they were on their way to the capital when the deal was signed some analysts say armenia didn't have much choice the prospect of conflict its cost
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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 more than a 1000 people on both sides have died tens of thousands are now displaced. the region is within us their version but has been under the control of ethnic armenians since 1994 decades of tension and violence have followed and while an agreement has been signed it's unlikely it will also and the animosity between the 2 countries russian forces are already being deployed to keep the peace cut this with a yawn al-jazeera. live to. capitol hill to tell us about the reactions this morning 1st. when it's really
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a mixed bag of shock sadness. a sense of loss and actually also betrayal i was just actually speaking to a few women who had fled. just a few days ago and they came here to the grounds of the parliament in year around and they were they said we feel completely betrayed not only did. they think that what was the need of this conflict over the past 6 weeks and all the human loss that is bored with it for if this was the ending one woman told me very clearly well prime minister nicole should resign because he really betrayed us i asked her well you know your town is still under armenian control would you go back she said no she wouldn't go back she says she would only go back to fight but she wouldn't go back to live there because she doesn't trust the situation so you do
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have that anger coming out specifically also because. ever since azerbaijan and nouns that shushi which is. a city that has a lot of symbolism for both sides had been taken by forces well all what people here heard that that was not to the fight was ongoing until last night and then everything changed and then there was this announcement of this cease fire agreement so certainly a big sense of loss and also shock the prime minister of armenia. is under a great deal of pressure what does the future look like for him. under great deal of pressure they are called for. she resigned there were also some people here holding banners telling him to resign but he is trying to sell his position to the people he says that he has followed the recommendations of the
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chief of staff and actually the military did issue a statement saying that they agreed with the decision made by. he said that there was no way out that they had to give back to 7 regions that has always been the precondition for any kind of. negotiations with the with azerbaijan for the past 20 years and he couldn't get out of there the problem he has now is that shushi is lost it will remain there. and that is something he will have a very hard time to have people accept whether here is an own meaning or those who are actually living in the corner and there are calls for him to resign is still early hours is as we understand it is a lot of talks going on behind closed doors and he is definitely trying to sell as much as possible that this was the best choice for the country at this stage thank you for that hoda abdel-hamid in the. meanwhile have been celebrations in
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azerbaijan over the deal to end the conflict in nagano. people have been dancing in the streets of the capital who as a by john's president says the agreement which was also signed by russia and a long occupation of the area osama bin job it has more from the as a very capital. the atmosphere is a festivity been hearing people from the early hours of the morning when this news broke and their president came out on state t.v. and announced that the conflict is over under the auspices of moscow they have signed a deal and armenia is essentially going to be surrendering. to them and they have been able to achieve what they couldn't achieve in the last 3 decades of conflict we have been able to achieve it in just 6 weeks of war there is the feeling here is of optimism and celebration but there are by johnny's asking about the finer
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details of this agreement because this is not the 1st time that there is a sort of a cease fire agreement this is merely the 4th time that they've agreed to cease fire but this is the 1st time that they've essentially agreed that the forces would be drawn line corridos will be opened there will be establishment of peacekeeping forces people are going to be able to go back look just those who have been displaced in the last 6 weeks of conflict but those who've been displaced for nearly 28 years so there is joy there is celebration there is waiting to hear back from their president once again people have been gathering at the mountain square here and they expect the president to come and go in the crowd at some point but all of this happened at a dramatic turn of events last night where we heard from the armenian side that there were pitched battles we heard from the azerbaijanis they shot a russian helicopter by mistake and then soon after we heard from their president that armenia has agreed that it will surrender and they're going to karbala and the
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war should be. in the united states attorney general william barr has authorized federal prosecutors to investigate voting allegations and irregularities if there's strong evidence but the man in charge of election crimes resigned just hours after that a trump campaign has fined lawsuits in battleground states alleging voter fraud and separately the u.s. president has sought his defense secretary alan fischer reports out of sight in the white house for the moment but still using his poem as president donald trump settling scores sacking his defense secretary mark casper finding out he'd been terminated by tweet esper dubbed yes spurred by the president finally fell foul of the oval office in the summer as racial justice protests worked american cities the president considered putting troops on the street insisted that wasn't going to happen the election is still on donald trump's mind sending out a series of tweets about states he claims are in dispute in the senate republican
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leader said the president was right not to concede right no president trog is 100 percent within his rights to look into allegations of irregularities and weigh legal options but his democratic counterpart admitted he was worried when the president was taking the country baseless claims by the president and his supporters that there's been widespread voter fraud and that the election was somehow rigged or stolen from president trump. that kind of rhetoric is extremely dangerous republican see they're just at the start of the legal battle this election is not over. under pulling together evidence to put before the courts what we do have a whistleblower which i discussed earlier this week who was in detroit as an election worker not as a republican poll watcher who under affidavit says that they were told to back to
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balance that their supervisor came in and they were there november 4th ballots that came in with no date they were told by the supervisor fact take the ballots to november 2nd or november 3rd so they will count so that has been submitted to the eastern to the u.s. attorney in the eastern district of michigan and attorney general william barr has told prosecutors to investigate any substantial allegations of fraud before the results are verified is being seen by critics as a political move to give more credibility to unfounded allegations made by the president. joe biden is a new he's won and he's already getting ready for the one as american 10000000 covert cases he announced his coronavirus task force which will go to work straight away i will spare no effort to turn this pandemic around once we're sworn in in january 20th to get our kids back to school safely our business is growing and our
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economy running full speed again and again to prove x.e. manufactured and distributed as quickly as possible to as many americans to as many americans as possible free of charge will follow the science to more people who at the president's election night event have tested positive for covert cabinet secretary ben carson and david bossie who is leading the legal efforts in the contested states as america faces a spike in cases vice president mike pence who leads the administration's coronavirus task force is heading to florida for 5 days on vacation alan fischer. washington. if the o.p.'s military has captured an airport controlled by regional t. great forces according to local media troops took the airport in whole merah in the northwest region the latest strike in a week old battle with northern forces prime minister ahmed ordered the offensive in degree accusing leaders of trying to break up the country and undermining his
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leadership wanted idol has this update from the telephone and internet networks are both down very hard to come from the claims and counterclaims from both sides but if your peers military is claiming to have taken full towns homemade is the last of them and that airport that they've just announced they have taken the border if european cars with sudan and as a border crossing into sudan so a very strategic place they have taken the fighting is taking place at least 3 fronts it's a week since it's taken place one of the front is from them how to riggins border with the other one from the border. with the affair region which also has a border with at a trail and djibouti and then in the sight of saddam where who is of course the prime minister be saying this is going to be
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a quick operation and in the past few minutes he is to tip saying our law enforcement operations into gray are proceeding us plunder operations will seize a soon as the criminal. legitimate administration in the region has stalled and fugitives up a 100 and brought to justice all of them he says promptly coming within reach of course there is also the possibility that this conflict could become entrenched because both sides have been. still ahead on al-jazeera georgia's opposition calls for new elections saying there is evidence that the last one was raped why the election of joe biden could happen major impact on britain's trade talks with the e.u. .
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how i once again well the tropical storms keep coming thick and fast across vietnam and also across the philippines 2 systems rolling the way through in the case of a tie that is making its way across vietnam already saturated ground here of course from a number of storms in recent weeks that wet weather stretching across many central parts of the country and here comes the next one let's vanco ascot to roll its way in across the philippines as we go on through wednesday into thursday punches its way out into the south china seas intensifies this is likely to become a thai food eventually by the end of the week we're looking at that system also making its way back into poor old vietnam elsewhere across the region plenty of showers some of the live particularly into malaysia there are some share a making its way across southern parts of australia but for the most part it's try and it is fine and it's been pretty hot for many as well we've got some bands a cloud of rain moving through the bite so that will break the hate that we've been seeing into adelaide eventually pushing down towards melbourne where we'll see some
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floor again you're watching al-jazeera live from doha a reminder of our top stories this hour 7 celebrations in azerbaijan after a deal is signed to end weeks of conflict with as a by john's president says the agreement which was also signed by russia ends a long occupation of the disputed cardinal kind of back area where the agreement has spawns outrage in armenia with angry protesters storming government buildings in the air of on the deal costs for armenia forces to turn over control of some areas protesters are demanding the prime minister resign. and the u.s.
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attorney general has authorize federal prosecutors to investigate allegations of voting irregularities if there is strong evidence the tram campaign has filed lawsuits in battleground states and wedging frogs. congress has voted to remove president martin this car from office he is accused of accepting bribes worth hundreds of thousands of dollars allegations which is denied by anna sanchez or. alaska by president meant to be scuttled peruvians he disagreed with the vote in congress that unseated him after nearly 3 years in office where obama leave the presidential polls to go home despite many people telling me to start legal action to stop the decision but i want i will face the accusations and prove them wrong i was ahead of the curfew. because of the pandemic he's got a sympathizers gathered in different cities angry about the decision opinion poll
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say 78 percent of prove ians said he's got a should stay till the end of his storm in july 2021 i discovered came to power unexpectedly after a bit of a look at step down amid allegations of corruption in 2010 lawmakers accused him of moral incapacity for allegedly receiving more than 6 $130000.00 in bribes for public works when he was governor in southern region of war not being discovered denied any wrongdoing less than 2 months ago discover survived a previous attempt to remove him over claims he didn't or feared 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 produce political system if you let it look
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as if this is the end of democracy for a country we have turned into a banana republic where the rule of law is a joke and lawmakers think they can unseat a president just because they have votes. to discover leaves office after confronting some of the worst political upheaval in recent history 7 cabinets changed at least 60 ministers resigned he's got a dissolved congress last year in an attempt to push forward political and education reforms used. evidently this created great animosity from the traditional political class toward president for skara who didn't have a party and in peru when a president is off and of political support in congress the rule has been that those governments and really badly or with a coup might think he's got a foot congress i mean the worst. health and economic crises for more than 100 years to the end he maintained he was the victim of an opposition plot following
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his own efforts to introduce anti-corruption reforms but just i'll just be too are some breaking news to bring you now and the chief palestinian negotiator saeb erekat has died at the age of $65.00 he was hospitalized last month after contracting coronavirus the palestinian liberation organization said erekat required special kid you to chronic health problems he served as an advisor to palestinian authority president mahmoud abbas and had been the palestinians chief negotiator in peace talks with israel for 2 and a half decades john and child takes a look back at his life. so it was a familiar face in palestinian politics for 4 decades and he sort of friends from an early age. he was 12 years old when israeli tanks rolled into his hometown of jericho in 1987 he witnessed a war that would last just 6 days but which the entire middle east in the decades
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since father thought it would inform the decisions he made for the rest of his life . that a quote says he had to grow up quickly under israeli occupation in the west bank his 1st arrest at the age of 13 was not his last he attended university in the united states and moved to england to complete a ph d. in conflict resolution it was the beginning of his fight for palestinian statehood through negotiation advocating a 2 state solution based on the 1967 borders it was a compromise and a major concession but throughout his life israelis would accuse him of being an extremist and sowing division while palestinians would call him a traitor to the palestinian cause giving away too much at the madrid peace talks in 1901 he insisted on wearing the coffee the symbol of palestinian national identity he was a hero to many back home but at the conference it caused a stir. 2 years later he was left out of the final talks some of the accords
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negotiated by palestinian leader yasser arafat's but i took part would rise to become the chief palestinian negotiator in 1905 resigning only for a time in 2003 reportedly in protest of the palestinian leadership at the time his strength was as the public face for the palestinian calls communicating across language barriers to explain their position to the english speaking role while also an acceptable voice of the palestinian liberation organization to israel but over the years he has described a growing has him ism at israel's failure to deliver on its undertakings of the building of yet more illegal israeli settlements increasing number of checkpoints who tell a t. against palestinians and the israeli separation wall now more than 700 kilometers long peace talks he would say were out of sync with the reality for palestinians on the ground he remained loyal to even through his power struggle with mahmoud abbas who's now president of the palestinian authority. such was out of parts popularity
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as a politician he held onto his seat in the 2006 elections run from us won by a landslide. but with hamas in power and benjamin netanyahu as israeli prime minister the chances for an agreements waned. 3 wars on gaza followed protocol described it as the new dark age saying that leaving the middle east's most emotive conflict unresolved was simply fueling a regional descent into chaos and extremism. he turned his attention to the united nations and was instrumental in the successful campaign to gain observer status for the state of palestine within the un throughout iraq are to remain convinced that the 2 state solution based on the 1967 borders was still possible and the real alternative to a state of palestine living side by side the theatre israel in peace and security on the 1907 line. as one democratic secular state for jews muslims and
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christians can live equal or the equal voice. those who believe that they can undermine that was that solution and replace it with what i call one step 2 system . maintaining the status quo now apartheid i don't think in the 21st century they will get away with it but impossible. it was amongst the most critical voices of the us sponsored normalization deals which saw the united arab emirates and behind establish full ties with israel he described the deal as the birth of arab zionism and said the agreement was like a poison diagram stamped into the palestinians back. side about a card fought for an agreement between israelis and palestinians for decades but for his last years he was fighting his own battle lung disease kept at bay by an experimental drug eventually he would need a transplant of both lungs in 2007 he said he would hate to be
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a grandfather living under occupation. you wouldn't be able to change that again if you're just joining us on al-jazeera breaking news this hour and the chief palestinian negotiator erekat has died at the age of $65.00 he contracted kovac 19 last month and was transferred to a israeli hospital saya barrack out of course the chief negotiator for the palestinians in peace negotiations with israel will have reaction of course coming out throughout the morning here we will be speaking to our correspondent harry fawcett in just a few minutes as soon as we get him up in the meantime let's move on to other news and an opposition coalition is showing a slight lead against india's governing b.j. p.s. votes are counted in regional elections in the eastern bihar state it's the 1st major vote since the corona virus outbreak began is being seen as a referendum prime minister narendra modi's handling of the pandemic one and
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a half 1000000 migrant workers returned to bihar state after losing their jobs during the lockdown. brazil's health regulator has suspended trials of a potential coronavirus vaccine because of what is calling a severe adverse event the vaccine is being developed by chinese by a pharmaceutical firm sign of voc in partnership with a state run research institute they say they're surprised by the regulators decision one volunteer died during the transport researchers say that had nothing to do with the vaccine more than 10000 percent ians are taking on are less now return to our breaking news story this hour and the death of the chief palestinian negotiator erekat at the age of $65.00 who was hospitalized last month after contracting coronavirus let's bring in harry fawcett in tel aviv for us harry had been seriously ill of course for some time the news of his death coming in just the
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last few minutes i imagine it's still early for reactions but. died at the age of $65.00. are harry we we can't hear you unfortunately harry fawcett in tel aviv we're having sound issues with harry will try to fix them and get back to him too to give us the early reactions to news of cyber accounts death let's move on to libya now groups of soldiers loyal to the u.n. backed government have condemned talks about their country's future which are going on in neighboring tunisia there were protests in the capital tripoli supporters of the government of national course say their leaders are not being properly represented at the tunis negotiations jordanians are voting in parliamentary elections as the country struggles with deepest economic crisis in years the downturn has made has been made worse by the coronavirus fun demick but even amid
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public discontent turnout is expected to be no jordan's fundament his view is you derive as having limited power to influence government policy. the newly reelected president of the ivory coast has invited his political rivals to talks of china and tensions over a recent election the opposition call for protests after allison ouattara was voted in for a controversial 3rd term the united nations is calling for calm after several people died in violence on the main election. let's go to harry fox at once again in tel aviv for us and news of the death of the chief palestinian negotiator saeb erekat how the faucets. yes that's right as you're saying the news coming through just in the last few minutes of his death we've heard some reaction that i've seen from the israeli
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politicians if you live in the saying that she sent out her condolences that even someone who'd been working for so long towards a peaceful settlement sagarika as you say the chief negotiator of the palestinian the very stern liberation organization also the secretary general of that organization since 2015 and someone who really had come to personify certainly to an international audience and to so many here such a major figure in the palestinian movement someone who had long ex spouse and fought for an argued for a 2 state solution he was there at the madrid conference in the early 1990 s. and so for decades now he's been at the forefront of the palestinian movement he contract to the virus in early october the situation for a few days.
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