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this is coming to live from the exodus. that's the price for peace armenian civilians prepared to leave homes as part of a cease fire agreement. the deal ended 6 weeks of fighting over the next car region . the resentment of the deadly conflict still simmers also coming out. peru is a country without a leader of the interim president steps down to move on leashes celebrations in the streets. protests the nation now faces a constitutional crisis,
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plus germany, braces for tighter credit virus measures. to meet regional leaders, it's expected they'll recommend even tougher limits on social contacts to her soaring confection right. formula one's 1st and only black history. lewis hamilton secures a record equalling 7th for the one world title at the display from behind in treacherous conditions. hello i'm terry barton. good to have you with us also has agreed to extend a deadline for armenia to withdrawal from a disputed district by 10 days. it follows a peace deal that ended 6 weeks of is fighting over the nagorno-karabakh region.
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residents of the district which borders the corner car park began a mess. exit is ahead of the mishal withdrawal deadline on sunday armenian separatists have controlled the district since the 1990 s. when armenia and azerbaijan fought a border war after the breakup of the soviet union. aku said it was postponing the deadline for humanitarian reasons, but it denotes the burning of homes by armenians before leaving the area. the extension comes after an appeal from armenia and mediation from russian president vladimir putin who brokered the peace agreement russian troops are acting as peacekeepers and will continue to do so in the region for the next 5 years. it's a russian flag now flying at the ancient amini and dot event monastery in the disputed district. russian peacekeeping forces a setting up here as part of
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a cease fire agreement brokered by moscow. guiding the christian ministry is one of their duties along with supervising the exodus of amini and troops and civilians from the area or the armenian priests who live in the monastery are allowed to remain christian amin ians resent having to give over their homes to muslim azeris but the terms of the peace deal, and now azerbaijan, to take control of kandahar for money controlled by armenians. both ethnicities have lived here at different times. according to moscow, more than 4000 people have died in the 6 weeks of fighting in and around nagorno-karabakh. i mean, it's a still burying their dent you'll see that all the dead guys and now our sons,
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it doesn't matter who died relative or non-relative. we're grieving for everyone. but all the sort of this agreement with azerbaijan is not mere children. it's about capitulation. that's all sort of us in the field of the russian peacekeeping mission will last for 5 years, with an option for in your own, azerbaijan would have liked that key ally, turkey to be directly involved too. and ankara pushed for that. but moscow got its way, the armed conflict may be ended for now, but overcoming resentment in both our media and azerbaijan won't be so easy. and joining us from our main is, is our correspondent, emily, sherwin, emily, armenia and azerbaijan keeping to the peace accord this time around.
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well, so far this peace deal that was signed last week seems to be holding previous cease fires that were negotiated both by the u.s. and by russia collapsed almost immediately into fighting in the past few weeks since fighting broke out at the end of september. but this one seems to be holding so far last week by john took over a strategic city in the 2nd biggest city there, which is the hilltop, the hilltop town of shushi. and that was kind of a turning point, the prime minister here in armenia and you signed that deal. he said he did it with great regret. and now russian peacekeepers will be controlling the border and also a strategic road that connects armenia with nagorno-karabakh. so that peace is holding some experts say that this conflict is just refrozen as resentment continues on both sides. now armenia was supposed to withdraw its troops from areas
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that were yielded to with drole already taken place. so there are 3 districts that are actually outside of it that have been under armenian control under international law. they've always been or for the last for these last years they've been very districts and those 3 districts are supposed to be handed over. now one of the districts was supposed to be handed over by yesterday, the calm but charred district. and very president said that he would be giving an extension of the deadline to withdraw there for 10 days. and that he, that was because of humanitarian grounds. after all, we've been hearing reports of huge traffic jams from the calls much our district of
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people fleeing the region before arrive to come here and people packing all their belongings, kind of truckloads of furniture or cattle and so on. and they've even been burning their houses there in the district because they don't want to leave anything behind for what they see as the enemy. and we thank you very much, the twas and we sure when you're a well, peru's has been plunged into its biggest constitutional crisis in decades following the resignation of its interim president, after just 5 days in office. but reno agreed to step down after his short term was marked by deadly unrest. to prompt a half his cabinet to resign, people took to the streets of the couple to celebrate arena resignation. he took over the top job after legislators voted to oust his popular predecessor over
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corruption allegations or tester. say that move amounted to a parliamentary arena or made the announcement that he was stepping down in a short televised address. the is the moment when the country is going through one of its greatest political crises. i want to hold a country that i present my revoke the resignation of the post on the presidency of the republic like call for the peace and unity of all peruvians. my commitment is to peru it's really been we asked our correspondent, johan ramirez of belts, reactions in peru. here's what happened out there resignation and there. 2
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2 was i think, i think this is the way this is deliberate. so was the cause i said the original words, party and celebration did come through. they're hard to understand exactly what our course, what it was saying. but again, this is with us here in the studio to put it into context for us. good to see you. javier. so jubilation there in the streets of lima is a really much to celebrate in peru right now. well, not really, terry. what people are celebrating is the simple fact that the population was able to not let what parliament was trying to do happened that easily without any consequences. and it is simply the fact that they impeached the president might have been be scared about who was in power because he was the vice president of another president that had to resign due to corruption allegation this just to give
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us a brief idea of the scope of the problem that is going on in peru, they basically have every single politician, somehow accused of very bad corruption scandals. and this is what led to a power struggle between parliament and the president might have been discarded. actually not the one that just resigned, but the one before him who wanted to fight that corruption. now, when many know the president who just resigned was in charge of parliament as a president of the parliament and had to take over after my team to scott was impeached. but the population was so angry by seeing this power struggle and politicians simply adhering power for the sake of it. not really because anyone was seriously fighting corruption that they took to the streets and it was effective. now my money, you know, had to resign and that's the situation we're in right now. ok. the peace from process aside, we don't really, you know,
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it's hard to get through the allegations right now. what happened? but why did merinos appointment? this was a parliamentary process. you know, there wasn't a coup, was a coup in that, in the traditional sense. why was, why did his resig, why did his appointment cause such outrage? well, it's because i think he's got to was very popular among peruvians because he wanted to fight corruption. and once they accused the parliament accused of this got to as well, of allegedly having been corrupt when he was in regional government in the past. they simply make that impeachment and placed the president of parliament who had been fighting. not of these got a very often in power as the president. the problem is once he was there, he named the cabinet of this new government, including many members of congress and of parliament who are themselves being investigated for corruption. so it is, i mean it's sounds ridiculous,
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but it is really a circus if you will, and that in and in a way. and that's why people are so angry and it's easy to understand. it's very complex. just just one question. any idea who's going to replace who's going to come in next as prime minister? we don't really know right now because there was a parliamentary session where the parliament was going to name a new president of that parliament who would then assume take over the functions of the executive. but that session had to be postponed and it will continue on monday afternoon, peruvian time. so we will definitely see a lot more going on through the next few days. taps a new prime minister for the end of the day who can get us. thank you. so much so you looked out some of the other stories making headlines around the world today. hurricane lata has rapidly gained strength and trench will rain and flooding to colombia's caribbean coast. the u.s. national hurricane center warned a lot of will likely be an extremely dangerous category. 4 storm, when it approaches the central american mainland late on monday,
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at least 7 people died and several others were injured when a fire broke out in a crowded residential district of hong kong. on sunday. the blaze occurred around 88 am local time in the heavily built up kowloon area, packed with older apartment blocks and businesses. all topas electoral commission says the european challenge. your son do has won the presidential fold in the kremlin back combin to igor dordogne. olva is a former soviet state which gained independence in 1901 and has close historic, cultural and linguistic times to neighboring romania. 2 weeks into germany's one month partial lockdown. chance of the merkel is due to discuss further ante coronavirus measures with the country's 16 state premiers. additional measures may include reducing the maximum size of social gatherings from 10 to 5
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and mandatory face coverings for school students and stuff. germany is just one of many european countries currently posting record high infection rates. new infections across germany as a whole are increasing at a slower race. but overall numbers haven't started to decline. chancellor angela merkel is due to meet state leaders to assess the situation after 14 days of lockdown. listen, it's several state premiers have already called for stricter measures instead of men via a nexus that if we were to take it a step further, the best thing to do would be to further limit personal contacts. listen often doctor 2 weeks of lockdown. we must be patient, it's the next. we need to take a few days to assess the results before before we restore, having everyone crazy. again, the economy minister also favors a measured response. i know you are shut down. there are a yoyo lockdown will create a situation where we'd constantly be confronting people with a round of tightening,
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but easing restrictions followed by a renewed tightening in the end will be impossible to justify. and it would also damage the economy of the army's lending a hand with prevention measures including contact tracing. germany's defense minister says she's increasing the numbers of soldiers available from 15220000 devils to be expected to help with a future vaccination program to tighten when we're planning on having 26, that's a nation centers that most of the mobo so that we can also got so many people living in regions with a large land mass, but a small population in france a can. many things are on the table in the ongoing fight against the virus that set for rapid easing off restrictions. or coronavirus testing labs have long since reached their limits here in germany, in an attempt to ease the pressure, a new strategy is in place for the winter. fewer tourists targeted at those who
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need them most and more rapid test spot. the new strategy comes with its challenges as we discovered at one hospital in berlin. a coronavirus test to make sure this patient's not infected ahead of her operation in a few days time. doesn't hurt exactly, but it's very unpleasant. it feels like the swab is toking around in your brain, but the test is obligatory to protect other patients and staff at hospitals like this one in berlin. but many people in germany would like the chance to be tested more regularly. it would be good if we could use the tests to make things like travelling easier to be a bit safer. that doesn't look likely any time soon. the testing capacity at its limits, the government is trying to ease the pressure on overworked labs, even some hospitals are shifting away from the more reliable p.c.r. tests. instead,
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using the faster cheaper antigen test to check best stuff for the virus that has the advantage of rapid tests is that we get a result within 30 minutes. it's relatively reliable and a relatively easy testing system. but on the other hand, the disadvantage is that we know the rapid tests are slightly less sensitive to the virus. the p.c.r. test is the gold standard. it's more precise than a rapid test. says no, because it's a fine balance between what's reliable and what's practical. but the rapid test come with that challenges too. in germany, they can only be administered by a trained health worker that costs time and money and means people can test themselves at home. no man understands the thailand. as hospital staff, of course we would have like to keep using the p.c.r. tests because they're more sensitive. but i understand the labs are at their limit and we need that p.c.r. as more urgently for the patients. when they arrive with symptoms,
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then we have to know fast, but for sure whether they really have coronavirus or not. bowman gets tested once every 2 weeks enough to feel safe. he says. but it's clear any hopes testing could be rolled out on a broader scale and will have to wait for many. that means a test of patience. instead. see, look some of the other developments in the pandemic. iran's president hassan rouhani has called for a national mobilization against the virus. the country recorded its highest number of daily cases. yet on sunday, the british prime minister boris johnson has been told to self isolate for 2 weeks after coming into contact with someone who tested positive for the corona virus. italy has registered nearly 34000 new cases of corona virus in just one day. as infections continue to surge there. in parts of italy, the health system was pushed to the brink of collapse during the 1st wave of the pandemic spraying us president. donald trump has apparently acknowledged
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for the 1st time that his democratic rival, joe biden won the presidential election earlier this month. trump tweeted that biden won because the election was rigged and repeated on substantiated claims of election fraud. but just hours later, he reversed course with more tweets, saying he won the election and would dispute the vote count. he accused what he called the fake news media. one sided coverage, fighting in northern ethiopia threatens to tip the country into civil war. the conflict comes down to a power struggle between prime minister and the leader of the rebellious region. other countries are being drawn into the conflict raising fears of destabilisation across the region. tens of thousands of civilians have fled the fighting cross border river into sit down and to graze. leader has admitted
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ordering a rocket attack on neighboring eritrea as a close ally of ethiopia's federal government. let's go now to ethiopia's capital, addis ababa and talk to journalist samuel guess who choose santa if you know he is, president says he's confident that his forces can restore order in to drive province west. what's he up against militarily? oh, but if you're going to prime minister to be exact he is the determination is there, the support is there. he has already quote, it's a great government ego. the one to the new administration. and he is one of them was a source in the region. so the mission is there, but hopefully it is it's
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just coming to and as you mentioned, the u.s. has already said about bt 5000 moves. but that's an official number. there are thousands of them. you know, so it's just not me. so if i understand you correctly, we're looking at a very formidable military force into gripe province. why would the rebels, they would launch an attack on their northern neighbors in eritrea, when their dispute is primarily with prime minister and the central government in ethiopia. you know, the c.p.s. was a government for the police 7 years with you and they would see how the war it was the d.p.s. government that you know, that conflicts with the interfere. so they go under the president
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too hard and he's your least wanted to, you know, people that he felt was an invasion of this nation. so when i became, 2000, he t., when he tried to bring peace between ethiopian natives that he was never was with the ford nation that was against exists of the left. and that's how the conflict began. some of just very briefly, what about the, the humanitarian implications of this for the region? you mention those refugees. how serious is it? i mean, 55000 people, a number of 25000 of this is done. there are the 4, you know, the people that moved to the students and it was all the people young children left behind. the ngos being pushed out of the great region looted by the tepee and the
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full use of the police. so it's just there, it's not just with the if you look at the conflict, it's not just with the act, but it will if some would come to the european nations. samuel, thank you very much. that was journalist sam. we'll get to shoot in a now a new 1st in space exploration. nasa has successfully launched a crew of astronauts into orbit on a privately owned spacecraft. the team of 4 is heading to the international space station after taking off from the kennedy space center in florida. it's the 1st time it on musts company has ferried crew on an official nasa mission. the new crewmembers will run experiments aboard the i.s.a.'s. they are scheduled to dock after just more than 24 hours or so in formula one
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british driver lewis hamilton made history at the turkish prime prix. his win there are means he has equalled, has all time record of 7 world titles, but it wasn't easy. in istanbul, he had to come from behind and he had to do it in the wet lewis, hamilton started 6th on the grid. it is tim ball park, the mercedes driver stayed patient in the wet and slippery conditions. strategy was key. when the chance came, hamilton struck storming past racing points to snatch the lead. he never relinquished it and went on to seal the victory along with this season's world championship. this means hamilton has now equaled the great michel schumacher his all time record of 7 formula. one world titles that he dreamed of this is, as he has, you know,
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young and when i was young, when we were watching the world. this is way, way beyond our dreams. and i think it's so important for kids out that i hope you see this and know that no one to tell, don't listen to anybody that tells you you can't achieve something. dream the impossible and speak it into existence and you've got to work for it. you've got to chase it and you got to never give up. lewis hamilton has solidified his place as one of the greatest racing drivers of all time. and he could go on to reach even more milestones with just weeks to go until christmas. santa claus has found his way to malls. 'd across the united states, but even father christmas has to deal with tight restrictions during the ongoing pandemic. sansa is doing his best to stay jolly while social distancing
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in this mall in bridgeport, connecticut. santa sits behind a glass shield, but everyone still joined in the festive spirit. spite the changes this year sense is still checking whether the kids for naughty or nice and if there's a chance for a keepsake holiday. thatcher, remember 22. just reminder of the breaking news story that we're following for you here today on d. w. has agreed to extend a deadline for armenia, its withdrawal from a disputed district to 10 day presidents have been preparing to leave the burning home. it follows a cease fire deal that ended 6 weeks of fighting over the corner, reached karun faces a constitutional crisis following the resignation of its interim president, manuel merino held office for just 5 days. protesters are celebrating
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a move which followed street demonstrations that left 2 dead and dozens you're watching detail leave coming up. next is our science magazine more today. and you can always get all this news information any time you want on our website. of course, the c.w. dot com. thanks for coming
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