this is what happens to pensions in britain. as a report. from the. scene would you date as president know how many armenians prime minister nicole question now and russia signed the declaration announcing the ceasefire and stopping combat. conflicts. armenia russia and reach an agreement to cease hostilities over the disputed not about the region. protesters stormed the parliament and government buildings in the armenian capital

outraged at the deal they see as a defeat for their country. this comes after azerbaijan launches an investigation after admitting to shooting down a russian military helicopter over our media airspace moscow has since welcomed an apology over the incident which killed 2 of the 3 crew on board. and supporters of a president trying to take to the streets across america demanding vote recounts in battleground states and there's a role reversal with team trumpet using the democrats of stealing the 2020 votes for years after the opposition called into doubt the republican election when. broadcasting live to referee studios moscow this is our team international and i'm

sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us let's get right to it with some breaking news this hour a peace agreement has been reached between armenia russia and azerbaijan to end hostilities over the disputed not going to cut about region russian president vladimir putin announced the ceasefire earlier he would meet today as a bridge and president army as prime minister nicola and russia have signed the declaration announcing the cease fire and stopping combat in nagorno-karabakh conflict zone. joins me in the studio with the latest ilya this is a big deal. has been going on for decades but it seems right now there might be an end possibly to hostilities let me know what's going on so far what do you know well sean clearly this is a pivotal moment absolutely and perhaps the most important development in months if not years in this whole conflict between me and breaker a region of nagorno-karabakh and azerbaijan and book which is essentially

a war between the armenia and azerbaijan and armies now there's something that adds extra weight to this truce steal the fact that it was hammered out by the leaders so the mediator was russia's president vladimir putin who we've just heard and also there were the parties to the negotiations were the armenian prime minister nicole posturing on and the president ilham aliyev now i can tell you that the cease fire agreement is already in place it's taken effect at midnight moscow time and let me just go through some of the key points of that truce deal so according to the dream and the militaries of both armenia and azerbaijan must observe their positions must stay in the positions that they are currently taking now something that is absolutely vital and crucial in this case is the introduction of a russian peacekeeping mission not something that have long been talked about but

never been announced officially now is the time there will definitely be a russian peacekeeping mission that is supposed to comprise of almost 2000 russian troops and also $380.00 units of military hardware that announcement came from the russian ministry of defense besides this key transport hubs injunctions must be unblocked which is supposed to allow free movement of refugees and. hopefully a proper exchange of prisoners between the sides i can tell you that while asked months of previous version of the cease fire was announced after talks between the top diplomats the foreign ministers of russia armenia and azerbaijan but that agreement never properly worked perhaps it was able to lead to a situation in which the worst case scenario was avoided but still it failed to stop the bloodshed and this perhaps explained why talks on

a higher level were required i can tell you that a little earlier book who announced that it had taken more territories and the nagorno-karabakh region including the town of shushi which is the 2nd biggest town after the capital of nagorno-karabakh and that and yes the armenian side as it usually happens denied losing control over that part of the breakaway region but then it was apparent it became apparent that because advancements have taken place and this perhaps explains the mood of president ilham aliyev who said this when he was addressing the nation right after the announcement of the cease fire deal. because. for my part i would like to see that i'm very good to do we've sealed the deal to settle a years long conflict between armenia and azerbaijan computer the occupation of.

the mood though is strikingly different on the other side of the frontline i can tell you that in armenia this truce deal drove some people mad and almost instant the protests broke out in the capital which has already led to violence i can tell you and hopefully you can see the pictures that the protesters stormed government buildings it seems that some armenians see this as a defeat and they are not willing to accept the terms of the deal which led to a situation in which overnight the prime minister nick called to have to go live to address the nation and he was saying that he had no other choice given the actual military situation on the front line and he explained this by saying that his army was up against someone he called terrorists and also 'd the military of a mighty nato country and that he was clearly referring to the support that is

there by john is getting from turkey now by the way something very important for me to say is that nicole possibly not was the 1st official the 1st leader of a country to announce the cease fire and this is the tone this is the rhetoric that he was using let's just listen to a part of the statement that he 1st made. i signed a statement with the presence of russia and as a vision to end the karabakh war starting at 1 am today the text of the statement is unspeakably painful for me personally and for our people i have made this decision as a result of an in-depth analysis of the military situation and assessment of the people who know it best who is based on the belief that this is the best possible solution to the current situation i will tell you about this all in detail in the coming days this is not a victory but there will be no defeat until you admit that you lost we will never

recognize ourselves as the losing side and this should be the beginning of an era of national unity and revival now there's another element to the story that i've not mentioned so far because on monday at about 5 30 pm moscow time a russian military helicopter was shot down over the armenian air space but space but it was very close to the border where i was there by john and potentially as we understand this situation could've led to something much more explosive but then almost immediately at about a couple of hours russia got apology from but who was there by johnny military admitted that it was a tragic accident when they shot down the russian military helicopter from a surface to air missile launcher and this is the tension somehow and russia welcomed that apology here the statement from the russian diplomats. we assessed

positively the fact that book who immediately admitted its guilt we also know the assurances given to us by the ears or by joining site that a prompt investigation of this incident will be carried out and the perpetrators will be punished. so again you can just imagine how tense the situation was so it appears this true steel was in the making why and that helicopter crash happened and obviously again this could have led to much worse scenarios but in that case the sides managed to come to some kind of understanding that it was a mistake and then we realized that they were able to proceed with the cease fire agreement that we're talking about now and again this is a very important development because we've heard none of this before and this is clearly an agreement between the leaders that require us to be observed i mean if

this is the time to act and to do something for the leaders what else can stop them it's putin it's a league of and it's posturing on there you have it so i can tell you though that for us it's time to watch out for what's going on in armenia because clearly some layers of the population there are completely not happy with it though decades of conflict in this particular go around other ceasefires had not held throw into the works a helicopter crash that makes things even more tense political fallout sure to happen especially from the armenian side this is one we're going to be watching closely we know that you're going to cross it for us thanks for that report appreciate it. meanwhile protesters outraged at the agreement took to the streets of the armenian capital as we just heard they stormed both the parliament and government building armenia's prime minister vowed those behind the unrest would be prosecuted local journalist joe. reports from the center of those events. but here and in their

public square and you're a fan of this so about an hour and a half ago 2 hours ago when the statement starts come out on the switch. on his. facebook. people starts to gather it and the government building just behind me was broken into a. protest to smash the insides put out flags and within half an hour it was at aldershot as those thousands of people. safe they called for a little cafe that's been if told me they were looking for action yeah i'm. an engineer trying to find him. at least kind of still try to stop in the 1st and just stepped aside to head out the protesters inside the building where they kind of pulled apart the buildings might also look smashing glass. scuffles breaking out for a few fights between protesters you're going to see wonderful things and something happening again behind me and this this this kind of stuff is live the place

between protesters between some place but mostly stepping back and allowing people to express that around. come on this we can cross live to jim john jones who's a former u.s. diplomat who always has his finger on the pulse of the situations jim how confident are you that this is the end of the matter are we going to be hearing about this for decades more to come. well thank you sean yes and in terms of the end of the matter i don't think this falls the overall question of the current and what its status will me if for that short term you cease fire holds and the previous ones have not and with the introduction of russian peacekeepers that helps to stabilize the situation yes that that possibly could work but there is still a lot of political wreckage left over that would have to be negotiated for a long term solution to what is the status quo not harbach or arts as the armenians caller and also the other areas surrounding record

a current path that connect our media to a new government harbach that i don't think even the armenians are saying they don't consider part of azerbaijan but they have been holding sense here early in 1906 weeks of fighting have left many dead in this specific go around it reopened old wounds that go back decades and infected fresh pain and suffering in the region will either side think that this was worth it we know that armenia is really better at this point. absolutely there is no way to sugarcoat it from the armenian side they've lost a significant amount of territory they were holding including as it was mentioned the 2nd largest city inside the door of a car. they probably felt that there was a stronger. that it could have expected stronger support from the russians but you know there's a complication here to this remember the mr pushing young was brought to power in one of these color of pollutions in 2018 and trying to pursue a policy that was not as moscow centric as previous armenian governments he wanted

to reach out more to the west and many people in fact even considered him somewhat anti russian and then when the chips were down he expects the russians to come to armenia as a rescue which the russians really did not the russians i think are more focused on how do they keep the lid on this are how do they limit also outside influence letters from turkey or from nato or from other powers over an area that let's be honest was part of the show union and part of the russian empire before that and they really do not want to see any other spear of influence extended in that about that other sphere of influence famously when president trump got involved just a few weeks ago he said it would be a quote easy solve yet his ceasefire collapse within hours of that agreement why has this conflict proven so difficult to solve. i think there's just a fundamental question of what what will be done with regard to car buckets of rain the armenian rage and of course since the the war that took place one show union

fell apart virtually all of the as areas have left that territory so much as almost a purely armenian territory they don't want to be part of azerbaijan and then you also the prom you can't connect you're going to carve off to armenia without taking some other azeri territory there's also the complication that this area where the helicopter was shot down is this a region called matthew giovanni is an auxiliary region that's not connected to the rest of azerbaijan so it's just a lot of. very difficult territory questions and demographic questions sitting on the table that don't have any easy resolution. when we sit here and have these discussions and talk about political decisions and cease fires and what have you it's easy to lose the real toll that it's taken on the people the conflict has left civilians caught in the middle many have been forced from their homes many dead as we've already mentioned will this mean that their lives can slowly return to normal

somehow. oh dad remains to be seen and of course the ones who are killed their lives are not returning at all that clue to the soldiers on both sides and i think this is a very bitter pill that the army has to swallow and i think what we're what they were can anticipate there will be political repercussions in our media has actually maybe in the corner of our remarks as well but i don't think mr pushing yan's political life span is is going to be measured in years not even weeks or maybe days and on the other hand this is a real feather in the cap for mr alejo plan azerbaijan and let's also be clear mr atwan in turkey a lot of people including myself a lot of it but not more than he can chew given how many other fights he's picked his neighbors it looks like there's me a trade off for him well yeah i don't want to certainly using harsh rhetoric just even a day ago in this conflict jim johnson always a pleasure to hear your thoughts and takes on the situations that are difficult for many people to get their minds around thanks for being with us here former u.s.

diplomat john all right now let's give you a quick reminder of the breaking news this hour an agreement has been reached between armenia russia and azerbaijan to end hostilities over the disputed now going on about region after the break we'll bring you more world news this is our to international stay with us.

anyone else seems wrong. just don't call. me. to shape out. active. and engaged with equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. r.t. international now in the us there have been more claims of election meddling with donald trump accusing the democrats of massive voter fraud after joe biden was

proclaimed to president elect. the president trump has yet to concede the election he is vowing legal action claiming that there has been serious fraud we believe these people are thieves the big city machines are corrupt this was a stolen election the best poster in britain wrote this morning that this clearly was a stolen election that it's impossible to imagine that biden out ran a bomb in some of these states where it mattered they stole what they had to steal clashes occurred in several states between a rival crowds with several arrests having been made that's as trump supporters stand by the president in questioning the election results.

on saturday media outlets called the race for biden after days of counting the president elect has since promised to help america become a nation healed but like in 2016 it is off to a shaky start with more allegations of meddling artie's down hawkins comments. for many americans the 2020 us presidential election had so much riding on it it was symbolic a long awaited chance for justice to prevail for the country to correct the mistakes of 2016 at least that's how the media and many people saw it where were you in 27. when we had the worst president we could argue it's unfair to rank trump as a work person ever after just one year but clearly those scholars see in him

a great potential worse in most dangerous president in the history of country or the worst whereas he's america's ever. thousands of people celebrating on the streets a far cry from the scenes we saw off to the last presidential election seemingly the only tears this time of joy. it's. a case where a lot of people who have really suffered for years ago when trump won broadcasters showed scenes of people in shock and crying today a biden declaration shows coverage that would make you think jesus had returned all 4 hours might be exaggerating but to some it really looks like a savior of the senate upon america except this is a reality for only half of the country biden's predicted landslide or blue wave didn't happen and no matter how many times he was called the worst president in american history the worst president the country's ever had trump still managed to

gain the support of close to half a lecture it and they alongside his campaign team are not giving up without a fight. i. was able to be over and immediately. with the democratic leadership all trump has so far also refused to concedes making a slew of allegations about the legality and accuracy of the voting process if you count the legal votes i easily win if you count the illegal votes 'd they can try to steal. the election from us and trump's team up behind him ready to do battle in the country's legal system and highest courts to stop what they see as an injustice these are a lawsuit will be brought starting on monday as you know from the very beginning the mail in ballots were a source of some degree of skepticism if not

a lot of skepticism as being innately prone to fraud this fraud war between the trump and biding camps won't end anytime soon how do we know this well that simple the last one dragged on for trump's entire term a democratically elected president was accused of just about every wrongdoing trump is already acting like a russian try. is actively or was actively colluding with russia hone told mahler's office about more contacts between trump's orbit and its it appears trump himself in russia they didn't believe trump when he denied there was any collusion for example so why should he give his opponents the benefit of the doubt what claims the president made yesterday were simply not supported you know i think what the president needs to do is frankly put his big boy pants on he needs to acknowledge the fact that he lost and he needs to congratulate the winner well it's not for us biden or trump to decide whether any wrongdoing took place during the

2020 alexion it looks like math will be down to the supreme court but what we do know is that trump's 4 years in office might have taught him a valuable lesson about how to fight his bottle and so far it looks like they'll be little unity along the way europe has been taking a keen interest in the u.s. election with joe biden set for the white house brussels has expressed hope of bilateral ties will get a boost though some in the e.u. are skeptical things will actually improve. picks up the story. only e.u. leaders were signaling their congratulations or sense of relief i think in europe that biden is the president elect there was a lot welcome particularly over the fact that biden has said he would bring the us back into the paris climate agree fold but there was also this carefully wooded suggestion about the challenges that are faced in the future and cooperation on those challenges together one of the big issues the european leaders are going to

be thinking about is nato trump was seen as being divisive not particularly supportive of the alliance worse joe biden seen as somebody who is a big supporter of nato and may look to reinforce the alliance but there are some aspects of that that he won't be changing from the trumpet administration in clued in perhaps the 2 percent of the g.d.p. that trump demanded that other nato members pay their fair share that's likely to remain the status quo and those the suggestion that joe biden will not be making a u. turn on other important decisions joe biden isn't going to change washington's approach to international issues overnight because he can't it's a mistake to believe that everything changes europe must above all count on itself nothing will be easy there are also many issues where i don't think anything is going to change there. there's also the issue of trade this is been

a massive problem with all these tariffs that trump has been imposing on e.u. products over the last 3 years now joe biden comes into the presidency with a u.s. trade deficit of $170000000000.00 u.s. dollars with the e.u. so trade is something that is going to be continuously a difficult issue there's also talks coming up over the digital tax on tech giants which of course friction over the past year or so and there is this continuing dispute over subsidies for airbus and boeing so that is unlikely to resolve itself very soon now the e.u. has also been pushing ahead with this agenda of more sovereignty in defense in trade trying to perhaps sort of rally itself up against the u.s. and that is also unlikely to change when it up this marks a new chapter in european history one where europe is independent where we can be

proud of our european culture and identity will be able to stand up against china against the united states against the disorder we are currently witnessing european strategical told them is goal number one for generation we're sending a message not only door citizens but also to the rest of the world europe is the world power and then of course there's the issue of bragg's it those negotiations not going to well between the u.k. and the e.u. but the e.u. is hoping that a biden presidency will not give special treatment to the u.k. particularly if there is no deal breaks it so lots of issues that europe is waiting to find out about but the reality is joe biden has so much on his plate domestically trying to create the harmony within the u.s. and let's not forget that trump gained more than 70000000 votes trump ism is alive and kicking and joe biden is going to have to do an awful lot to reach out to those

voters. breaking news an agreement has been reached between armenia russia and azerbaijan to cease hostilities over the disputed region was about john's president called the agreement historic and said it brings it to an end to the long term conflict. though he said he had no choice but to sign the document this all comes hours after azerbaijan said it was launching a probe into the downing of a russian military helicopter over armenian air space 2 of the 3 crew members on board were killed john has apologized for that incident a move welcomed by moscow we are keeping across the story for you and we'll bring you more as it develops this is our national have you with us.

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