that the steps we have taken recently will lead to the establishment of a long term peace for the benefits approach azerbaijan and armenia armenia and azerbaijan signed a truce along russian peacekeepers to patrol the disputed not going to cut off the region of the terms have been met with resistance and you're about. the. protesters stormed parliament and government buildings in the armenian capital branding the peace treaty a defeat for their country. also this hour while mean stream t.v.

networks celebrate joe biden's election victory we look at how years of boosted ratings under the trump presidency could soon be reversed. very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at r t h q in moscow thanks for joining us for your global news update this hour a peace agreement has been reached between armenia and azerbaijan to end hostilities over the disputed i'm going to cut a region the deal was brokered by moscow and includes a prominent role for russian peacekeepers russian planes with hundreds of those peacekeepers have just landed in the armenian capital of them they're having to go in and you know all russia's president has expressed his hope of a lasting settlement between us or by john and armenia and the disputed region gave

a video address to the shanghai cooperation organization after a rusher russia brokered truce was signed by both parties. what is happening in caravans is a truly great tragedy i want to note with great satisfaction compromising the agreements reached on ending the bloodshed i hope that all the steps we have taken recently will lead to the establishment of a long term peace for the benefit of both as a buffer zone and armenia. we're joined again in the studio by artist murphy national to break all this down for us to tell us more about this truce and what russia's role is going to be yes supposed to be brokered by moscow has 9 points to the 1st of the most important bodies of course a ceasefire for 6 weeks the region has been seen to real war with bombardment is having a totally fire in casualties of course including among civilian population and now the sides agreed to stop it and as you just said the russian keepers are going to the region to secure the agreement it is expected that they are going to stay there

in the region for a no less than 5 years and it could be extended these are the key facts about the mission. i. they do also says that the battle lines get for using meaning the army's stop there where they are now and that means that when john will hold on to the areas it managed to seize during these 5 including very important strategically because it is located in a high heel but also culturally and religiously town of show shusha different size call it differently there is every time a leader even called the ones jerusalem off the garden and cut up our so it is very

important for both john and the media and now it will belong to the media it suffered a lot by the way during this and we hear that the only building that left intact in town is the local mosque and also the agreements has that mean you will have to return within the next weeks to john 3 territories. since 1904 well the situation now is that the territories that there are many used as a buffer zone to distance from the editor by johnny forces will now be handed back to as it of age and with the exception of the so-called lauching corridor is a 5 kilometer wide corridor or road actually connecting that media to. it will be. secured by russian peace keeper is well the greenman days in fact almost everything that i wanted since 1904 and of course

a t's kind of defeat for meaning in this is why we hear their meaning leaders speaking about it with lots of pain and these are both leaders. the text of the statement is unspeakably painful for me personally and for people i have made this decision as a result of an in-depth analysis of the military situation this is not a victory but there will be a defeat unless you recognize yourself as a loser we will never recognize all services losers and this should. unification and revival. for my part i would like to see that done very very we've sealed the deal to settle the years long conflict between armenia and azerbaijan the occupation of regime land. you can even read the leaders attitude towards those still on on their faces and you can hear it in their voices well it's sparked of course different reaction within the nation you know the media and there's a debate with celebrations in there's

a debate john and protest in violent protests i mean it was so many people calling the president a traitor earlier we've also seen scores of people fleeing this area where all the fighting is taking place how they've been taken into consideration yes i think this is one of the brightest points in this peace deal it says that now all those who were forced to flee their homes in displaced people will have a chance to come back and come back will be monitored by the u.n. and we hear from tens of thousands of people we hear from the armenian side for example it's 90000 people so that's a lot of. people and it's a good thing that now they will have a chance to come back and also the agreement says that the sides will exchange prisoners of war and the dead bodies which is also a good thing here's hoping that truth last then r.t. is more of a national thank you for bringing us that report the deal has been welcomed in

azerbaijan as maria was telling us with people celebrating on the streets of the capital but normally at the treaty is seen as a humiliating defeat and protesters have stormed the government buildings and you're about. thank you thank you thank you thank you. can thank you thank you thank you thank. you thank god was at my command in the public square the morning after. the hour he still saw you fire. your media our minister has she sang gets closer to the families of those who purchases it remains things like this. so you can rest between tommy and the nation

hear how high i am not the last great down the last 24 hours. last summer some of the old saying. believing as to what is necessary for the. next leinster agreement and labeling the traits of. the scientists are less people there than the last night and it was hard just like i've been you know much of the sort of central sitting. all of us stand somewhere on the speaker the laws of. physics congress. and the prime minister the senate. is mostly i'm missing a special undergoing treatment for the non-life threatening injuries. purchased there as yeah exactly where. i was. told this question your attitudes. towards. parts

just looks like it's going to be no november experience and i've. lost my. i think. we're not going to bring and live in the pennant journalists martin summers to dig deeper into the story there have been other peace tales before this numerous ones that did not hold do you think this agreement has a better chance of success i think it does because of the involvement of the russian military on the front lines i mean that's a big commitment to russia to making this it's not just between me neal. fingers crossed the sun. we've been saying many armenians aren't happy about this

truce at all some even calling their prime minister a traitor and rallying outside of parliament surely the deal would need the support of the public. it will but i think obviously it is a defeat for all media and there will be able to sleep the questions to be asked on that side of the fence as it were but the reality is that nagorno-karabakh has retained its independence the majority on minion population in the golden car buck will be able to have the whole thomas one call of the states but it will be they will be under their control under to get that the majority as a john the areas which were ethnically cleanse all those years ago in many respects they do belongs warming was by john so you know the this isn't just a settling of scores as it were i think in

a sense the something for both sides of the armenians look look at it objectively they will realize that they can't get more than they've got and that they're actually sustained lee independence of nagorno-karabakh. as they are mentioning earlier russia is really pivotal to this agreement and hundreds of russian peacekeepers are now on their way to karbala how do you think they're going to be met. well i think that because the on a series of one they're not in it in a position you know they're not they're the not going to try and overturn the deal to maybe some hostility from the armenian side but historically russia in armenia have been friends and they're still in the c.t.'s so together. and on in the long term i think that realistic forces in azerbaijan will recognize that this is not necessarily to be treated as the end of a big defeat that they're seeing it at the moment if peace can be said can be preserved and possibility for prosperity for future generations is is there for the

taking on this conflict of course goes back more than 30 years can you see any way to tackle the root causes of the disparate. well as i say i think what's that what this deal does is it what the azerbaijanis have done is they've recaptured the land of azerbaijan which was captured from their lives in the goal of karabakh rebels back in the ninety's but the nagorno-karabakh was given independence status when it was part of the soviet union as an independence or blast it won't be recognized as an independent state by anybody but then this this kind of dispute being resolved without it and i have right victory for one side of the other could be a model for the result of the disputes in in yugoslavia for example or elsewhere in the caucasus so. our i mean obviously it's been very distressing that all these people have been killed in recent weeks if something lasting can come out of this

which is not just a cease fire it's more than a cease fire it's a kind of settlement and fingers crossed it can stick we've been speaking with independent journalist martin somers thank you for your time and your comments. it's very much. a top u.s. justice department official has quit over president trump's legal challenge against the election results and after the attorney general authorize a probe into election fraud team trump applied for an emergency injunction to prevent joe biden's victory being certified in the state of pennsylvania. joe biden is projected to win 290 electoral college votes more than enough to get him into the white house but trump has tried to cast doubt on the result with allegations of mail in ballot fraud and while much of the u.s.

media has been celebrating joe biden's win although they could be the 1st to lose out when trump leaves office as articulate trying to explains tears on the air over the and of donald trump's presidency to long term come. my mom her grandmother this morning didn't have a great book but i do just look at this t.v. colleague of mine emotions as strong as after the end of the war or winning an olympic gold medal character matters it matters to him is truth matters because a good person. and this is a golden tie probably put on by another journalist when he realized trump was defeated he said for 4 years he'd only been wearing black ones i can probably show you hours of air time recordings proving how frenzied the liberal media are this time around but just let me ask them the past 4 years of what you called 'd one big

white house reality show where they really trauma and black tie grief for your careers voters turned out in record numbers to turn the page replacing a reality t.v. star raised in wealth he saw the presidency as the world's greatest reality t.v. show he was the executive producer the chief promoter and the star of the trump show if it wasn't for this reality show would ratings for cable news look so good throughout mr trump's 1st term an entire new standards dream team can be put together our of reporters who if you think of it probably all the president a big one for a true career boost the star and a means of trump on the campaign trail you called yourself a nationalist some people saw that as emboldening white nationalist not such a racist question among in america it's people like this that cause division one of the statements that you made in the killing of the campaign do we go honestly i

think you should let me run the country you run c.n.n. and if you did it well your ratings i mean i'm not going to give you a question you are fake news turning the loading of president trump in all shapes and forms into a perfect top story came to the rescue of cable news amid the rise of online media what will be left for them to go on about once the maggot man is out who's on healthy burgers and cans of coke are they going to count will there be someone else as important to be caught for cheating in gold for splashing the cash on my. skoal prostitutes it will have to be something else than the russia collusion story to land the pulitzer prizes cry or not cry stay tuned for the new era gone is russian collusion nobody talks about russian collusion anymore or chinese collusion or any kind of no collusion vote was 100 percent legitimate when hillary

clinton lost there was russian collusion but not this time mainstream media need this more than you can imagine mainstream media are sitting back to the other side silent president trump is going to be a citizen trump it appears he will be able to inject his opinion into anything in still maintain maybe even more of a powerful position because of the unfettered un edited expurgated on. plug in it and you'll be able to see and the thing he really wants so. if they think they're going to forget donald trump. if they think he's going to be just something from the past he can't be because their very existence their employment their revenue their their reason for being there exists a point donald trump he gave them life he gave them careers he gave them something

he created the democratic party because they became the anti trump and without trump there's nothing as the legal battle over the election gathers pace there's a growing push to reform america's electoral college system and cheers presence based on the majority vote colorado has become the latest state to support. the national popular vote is very straightforward concepts one person should always equal one vote and the presidential candidate who gets the most votes should win the election. an initiative known as the national popular vote compact is one such push although it stopped short of calling for a complete elimination of the electoral college and settle actors would back the candidate who won nationwide as opposed to statewide that's now been signed by 15 states and washington d.c. to be an active at the agreement needs the support of enough states that collectively represent at least $270.00 electoral college votes that's the same as

the threshold for winning the presidency at present it has $196.00 votes we talk to a panel of experts about what they think is wrong with the current system. we know republicans always win texas just like democrats always win california and what i tell voters here to try and get them to vote libertarian as i say your vote will have no impact on the outcome of the election so go ahead and vote for a 3rd party like libertarians if you want. that example demonstrates how the electoral college does make a lot of voters preferences not very influential i would love to see a much smaller less powerful government so that we really didn't care so much who won the election there's no rule identification of fraud in the us voting system we have a secure system what you have is a level of mistrust between both sides of this 2 party system who always believes the other side is cheating even though i think it's more of an american thing where

we don't trust this moment more like our sport we believe the other side is deflating the ball of our outgoing president we know that he tends to have more tangent than normal that has no relation to the electorial college we are technologically advanced enough to simply count the votes i think we need to even move beyond the contract and have a a system of course in representation we have a long history in united states of 3rd 4th and 5th parties trying to break into the political system and they can't because 1st of all we have this because these before there's even discussion of the contract we have this this richard 2 party system that is based on that it's a call so that contact again is a 1st step in the right direction but it's still not enough. still ahead at research breakthroughs in the u.s. and russia raise hopes of an effective coronavirus vaccine story and more after this.

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world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. welcome back student demonstrations are spreading across france over the government's handling of the pandemic. in paris as you can see there were clashes between students and police at a rally against keeping schools open during the nationwide lockdown demonstrators tried to block the entrance to high school the queues the authorities of failing to protect schools from covered 900. assaults a protest on monday at which 4 people were arrested. and the u.s.

has passed a grim milestone 10000000 coronavirus cases there is a ray of hope for a giant pfizer has announced that its covert vaccine has proven 90 percent effective in trials as a double trump though is suspicious about the timing of that announcement. as i have long said pfizer and the others would only announce a vaccine after the election because they didn't have the courage to do it before likewise the f.d.a. should have announced it earlier not for political purposes but for saving lives the company's c.e.o. however has rebuffed that saying the announcement had nothing to do with politics that scene is being developed together with german drugmaker biotech and if all goes well the majority of americans will receive it in 2021 head of the election the prospect of a job was used to score political points we will massless tribute the vaccine in just a few short weeks it will quickly eradicate the virus and wipe out the china play

once and for all if the doctors tell us that we should take it i'll be the 1st in line to take it absolutely but if donald trump tells us i said to him that we've taken i'm not taking we heard from dr john dombrowski director of the washington pain center he says government should stop the political games and focus on educating people about vaccines the covert 1000 pandemic at least in the united states is been a political football a thing to hurt donald trump the economy they will play up and the other side is this is the same way so i think it's very scary that we're here with we're seeing this tremendous and tragic intersection between politics and science which is not the way to move forward we can't make at least in the united states 330000000 vaccines right now we just impossible so we as physicians always do treat irish take care of the sickest patients 1st and worry about others so people who are sick elderly multiple medical problems they should get the vaccination 1st and we need educate people what we've done now is politicized and we need to take down the

temperature and explain people dislike a flu vaccine is healthy for you to people who are younger and healthy so people get flu vaccines they do just fine because we're finding out if you catch the corona virus they do kind of they do well so we should protect the weakest and. sickest among our population 1st russia is also in the race to launch a covert vaccine the most promising tell it it is sputnik the developed by the gonna lay out research center that's currently undergoing post registration trials with participants from around the world including stuff at r.t. the president of the italian russian chamber of commerce is also among the volunteers and he told us politics shouldn't create obstacles to countries receiving the vaccine. that. is there has been 3 days since the 2 the vaccine i feel perfectly fine i've been feeling perfectly well since the very 1st day i took it and there's a psychological difference i feel calmer when you read the press and see how big a problem the mic is and you see how much harm it has brought to the health of

people to businesses only then do you realize how vital sciences and how important it is to look for solutions together in italy we're still using methods from 916 like lock down and there aren't any other options that's fine but i'd like to think that in the last 100 years new methods have emerged vaccines for instance can save many lives and politics shouldn't prevent the spread of medicine politics shouldn't prevent human development and shouldn't create obstacles to the health of people including those in italy now who don't have the opportunity to choose whether to vaccinate or not. that's a wrap up for this hour but if all the stories haven't quench their thirst for news head on over to our web site r t dot com for countless articles and interviews including and. the world is driven by dream shaped by fun person to spread.

the dares thinks. we dare to ask. let's compare biden he comes into office potentially and this means that i believe we're going to see a repeat of 2008 remember obama took office and because obama was a pretty young guy the timing didn't come through financing he was. a law student and very good with constitutional law but he didn't know anything about wall street he kind of threw the keys of wall street over larry summers and all these other folks and they want to head and they created the global financial crisis. after

a fact that seemed to benefit the conciliate heirs in a remarkable way remember the billionaires and after the 2008 crisis all quadrupled and or more of their wealth while vast swathes of american population went bankrupt or lost their house so i'm pretty sure going to see a repeat of that applied. during the vietnam war us forces. are in los there was a secret war. for years the american people did not know. how so much of it is especially the most heavily bombed. country per capita in all human history millions of unexploded bombs still in danger lives in this small agricultural country jordyn wieber went on a canal it's happening. even today kids in laos full victims of bombs dropped decades ago is the u.s. making amends for that tragedy and what help did the people need in that little

land of mines. there was no soup will wish to leave your. club or was if you are sure to keep it quick i can board it doesn't capture remember the edge that would have been murdered by. you going to go with us because all of this going to just about because those told me game we was in the movie confused with it would seem the most serious but it is the most insidious some of what is in your city has come off the news the in. the 20th century was thing in or of revolution the great depression and world wars the 21st is the century of mental illness. those aren't my words that's what surfaced some psychiatry's to tell us the only question is we accept it as

a fact. yes or no. one else seemed wrong why don't we all just all. in the world get to shape out this day become advocates and engage with equal to trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. this is the boom bust of the one business show you can't afford a myth.