the 21st century of mental illness, my words, this time psychiatry, the only question should we accept it as a fact? 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 azerbaijan and armenia, russian peacekeepers head to go to the conflict zone after a peace deal is signed by armenia and azerbaijan. but the agreement doesn't go down well and yet, of protesters stormed the parliament of government buildings in the armenian capital, branding the treaty, a defeat for their country. and donald trump claims the

news about a potentially breakthrough. u.s. vaccine was deliberately held back until after the election are broadcasting live director our studios in moscow. this is r t international. i'm john thomas. certainly glad to have you with us. now, a peace deal has been struck between armenia and azerbaijan. to end the fighting in the disputed not gotten a kind of back region. the truce was brokered by moscow with involvement, putin expressing hope of a lasting settlement between the sides state a postcard issue of credibility of what is happening in karabakh is a truly great tragedy. i want to note with great satisfaction, the outlines of compromise and 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 azerbaijan and armenia. where my colleagues have brought down the current situation in the disputed region and the renewed hopes for a lasting peace. well, the place to brokered by most has 9 points. the 1st and the most important one is of course about ceasefire for 6 weeks. the region has been seen to bloody deadly fighting with bombardments habit to refire and of course casualties, including among civilian population. we have been receiving dramatic pictures like these for this whole month. and now the size decided to stop it. the russian peacekeepers are going to the region to secure the agreement. we know that 3 military airplanes have already lend, attain the city of yet another mania. this is, these are the pictures provided by russian defense ministry. the airplanes, broad person now equipment transportation,

special week old russian peacekeepers are going to be stationed mostly along what is known as the latching corridor. it is a 5 kilometer wide road connecting the media to the gordon and it is expected that they're going to stay there. for at least 5 years and it could be extended. what is the agreement say about specific districts? well, they do says that the army is stop there where they are now. meaning as it is by john will keep the areas that managed to seize during the fight, including a very important town of different size, call it differently. it is a strategic location because it is on the high heel and you can see the whole stip on the cat, which is the capital of the garden cut off from there. and military generals say, if you have this shushi, then you have the whole of the courtney. and now azerbaijan will have it heard as a leader call and it drew slim. so it is very important for both as it is by john, and that i mean him not only strategically but culturally and religiously as well.

well. now is it a bit john will have the control over this town. and also the agreement says that the media will have to return to 3 disputed regions, a defacto following the conflict in 1901, the luncheon regions. so as you understand this agreement is basically everything that who wanted for many decades and it is a defeat for they. i mean inside these are both leaders speaking about it so differently. 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. this is not a victory, but there will be a defeat unless you recognize itself is a loser. we will never recognize all services losers, and this should unification and revival. for my part, i would like to say that i'm very glad that today we've sealed the deal to settle

a years long conflict between armenia and azerbaijan, and put an end to the occupation. and well, obviously, the agreement sparked different reaction among people from both sides with celebrations in azerbaijan and violent protests in armenia with so many people calling the leader of the country a traitor. what about the people who have been forced to flee their homes during the fighting? have they been taken into account? yes, of course. and i think this is one of the brightest points of the sick room. and we know that tens of thousands of people were forced to flee nagorno-karabakh have now, according to this deal, they will be able to return safely back to their homes in the this will be morning told by u.n. personnel, u.n. staff. and also we hear that the sides agreed to exchange prisoners of war and the dead bodies of their soldiers and their civilians. in our many of the deals are largely being seen by the public as a humiliating defeat prompting protesters to storm government buildings in the

capital year of thanks to our economy. thanks. i think he was he can. thank you. thank god, i was at my command in the public square in the morning on the still sign. oh yeah, you're leading our minister and this is how she sang, get locals here. i'm here to see purchases or make things like this. so you can rest between a media organization here about having our last great down the last 24 hours something some of supporting the pushing out believing it to do what is necessary

for the clients to agree that the labeling the traits are placed into the scientists is less people here than the last night. there were some purchases like, i mean i've been, you know, much of the sort of central city somewhere on the speaker watching and the prime minister says, i see i'm missing a special dream. and so no life threatening injuries or the purchase there as you know exactly where you know, with all this question, your attitudes in the hearts of just looks like it's you know, the end of the november experience and i've lost my

i think it's a great sort of red cross spokesperson in believes the truce will be crucial for the thousands of people who have fled the area the impact of this killer. a shock once a lot of think you have put in across the region, have been devastated and turned their lives upside down. which speak about on 100000, people who had to leave their homes now in search for safety in 0 or 0.9 who are not horrible. may lead moving toward niña. well as its people already meet or who would care mental health support psychological support. it could also support maybe it could assistance and who are ready to pin where president across the river

to cut off 2000 by providing medical ethics homes, food aid for the term, always planned to ready to support for a few people. this escalation history, professor, peter shared his views on the complex roles of foreign powers in the disputed region. so we've got a very complicated situation here with a lot of different interests involved. you've got the turks supporting the azerbaijan position. and then you've got russia to some extent and iran supporting the armenian position. so had russia wanted to intervene more aggressively, they could have changed the balance of forces, but they have tried,

they've got friendly relations to some extent. with both sides. i think is very significant on the one hand, gets the armenian troops out of that region and allows russia to play an even bigger role a turkey and iran are also going to be involved and the country that all 3 of those countries border this region. so it's still a very tense situation where everybody is hoping that this cease fire will hold and that russian peacekeeping troops will be able to do so. the u.s. has now clocked up at 10000000 coronavirus cases, but there is a ray of hope from a giant, pfizer has announced its covert vaccine, has been 90 percent of affective in trials. president trump, though is suspicious about the timing of that announcement made some 48 hours after media outlets called the election for joe biden. 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 claim saying the announcement had nothing to do with politics. the vaccine is being developed together with german drugmaker, bio and attack, and should be widely available to the public next year. ahead of the election, the prospect of a job was used to score political points. we will massless tribute in the backseat 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 director of the washington pain center, dr. john dombrowski fears political games are taking focus away from saving lives.

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 to educate people 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 and 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 racing ahead with its own vaccine. the most promising candidate is sputnik v. developed by the gamma layer research center here in moscow. despite facing some skepticism from the west, amid claims that corners were cut to rush into production. it's currently undergoing advanced stage 3 trials involving participants from around the world. the president of the italian russian chamber of commerce is among the volunteers. he believes politics shouldn't stand in the way of countries receiving. the vaccine has been 3 days since i took 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 pandemic 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 1916, like lucked out. 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 die. still to come in the program while many u.s. t.v. networks rub their hands with believe over joe biden's election, victory trumps the fall from power. could see their bumper ratings heading in the same direction. we will explain more after a short break. this is our 2 international

tactics that can be used to get innocent people to confess, to crimes. they didn't commit. i don't even think people in the u.s. really get that the police are allowed to lie to the person who falsely confessed, actually came to believe the lie that they were told about their own behavior. once a false confession is taken, the case is closed and nobody really can tell the difference between a good confession and one that is a is your media, a reflection of reality? in a world transformed what will make you feel safe? isolation, community? are you going the right way or are you being so what is true

is in the world corrupted. you need to descend to join us in the death or inmate in the shallows. welcome back mrs. r t international. now a top u.s. justice department official has quit over president trump's legal challenge to the election results. that's after the attorney general authorized a probe into election fraud. the trumpet ministration, also applied for an emergency injunction to prevent joe biden's victory being certified in the state of pennsylvania. biden is projected it to win, at least to 290 electoral college votes,

more than enough to get him into the white house. but donald trump has cast doubt on the results with allegations of vote fraud. meanwhile, much of the u.s. media has been celebrating biden's win, although they could be the 1st to lose out when trump leaves office, as are to go comment tears on air over the end of donald trump's presidency. it's been a long time coming. my mom and my grandmother this morning. they didn't have that right. and that idea just look at this t.v. colleague of mine emotions as strong as after the end of a war or winning an olympic gold medal. character matters. it matters so much, truth matters. because the person matters 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 one big white house reality show where they've 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 straight 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 golf for splashing the cash on? my sco prostitutes, it will have to be something else than the russia collusion. story to land the pulitzer prizes cry or not cry stateroom 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 legit. him? when hillary clinton lost, there was russian cold. but not this time, mainstream media need this more than you can imagine, mainstream media are sitting back to be on the side. silent. the president is going to be a citizen, trump, it appears. and he will be able to inject, is opinion into anything in still maintain, maybe even more of a powerful position because of the unfettered, edited expurgated on plug. and he'll be able to see and indeed watch. 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 is nothing. as the legal battle over the election gathers pace, there is a growing push, particularly from democrats to reform america's electoral college system and choose president based on the majority vote. the system currently in place is aimed at giving all parts of the country a largely equal voice. colorado has become the latest state to support a change. 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. and

the initiative known as the national popular vote compact is one such plan. it is designed to ensure the candidate who receives the most votes nationwide is elected president, although it stops short of calling for a complete elimination of the electoral college to be enacted. the agreement needs the support of enough states that collectively represent at least 270 electoral college votes. that's the same as the threshold for winning the presidential election at present. it has 196 of those earlier my colleague, you know, neil put the issue up for debate. 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 mode more like our sport. we believe the other side is deflating the 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 compact 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 who gets a call. so that contact again is a 1st step in the right direction, but it's still not enough. take a swing around the globe to look at some other stories making headlines. this hour will start in peru where thousands have rallied against the impeachment of the president denouncing it as a coup. the head of state was removed from office by congress on monday, and the speaker has been sworn in as interim leader president. this current stands accused of corruption and failure to tackle the chrono virus. also, the french government's handling of the corona virus has also been called into question students in paris faced off with police and tried to block the entrance to a high school. they are angered by a decision to keep schools open despite

a nationwide lockdown and in georgia, hundreds of people have gathered outside parliament rejecting the results of the recent election in the former soviet state. the ruling party retained its parliamentary majority in last month's vote, but the opposition claims the ballot was rigged. or that does it for me to be back with headlines in about 35 minutes. this is our international 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 at the time and didn't come through finance law student then 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 went ahead and they created the global financial crisis. after a fact that seemed to benefit the heirs in a remarkable way. remember the billionaires after the 2008 crisis quadruple 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 also gone to neighboring laos. it was a secret war. and for years, the american people did not know how so much of it is officially the most heavily bombed country per capita in all of human history. millions of unexploded bombs still in danger lives in this small agricultural country. jordyn would have been going to continue to tap nothing. even today kids in los full victims of bombs

dropped decades ago. is the u.s. making amends for the tragedy and help to the people need in that little land of mines seemed wrong. roles just don't hold any new world yet to shape our disdain, become to educate, and engage with equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart, we choose to look for common ground. this is a story of women and women with troubled histories and complex court cases. you know

out there in the person that if she's innocent, they are considered the most dangerous of criminals. she's in a still body off 23 hours of the day. tell me that is not enough punishment. the world of women on death row on our team, and greetings and sal you take us here in the united states. the air is thick, my friends. it is thick with anticipation as we wait for the final counts to come in and we finally get a new president crowned. but while that american idol section of the us version of

democracy is yet to be concluded, that wasn't the only big decision made by us citizens on tuesday night that will affect the future of lives across this great country. some 32 states, as well as the district of columbia, am puerto rico, had 124 ballot initiatives spread out amongst them this year. according to the folks at the national conference of state legislatures these ballot initiatives that initiatives included california is that involves oberon lifts, multimillion dollar fight to keep their drivers labeled as independent contractors rather than employees. because you know, hey, i mean, who wants to provide benefits and protections to thousands upon thousands of drivers when you've got company shareholders to appease and bank accounts to fill. colorado in louisiana, voters weigh in on the controversy surrounding abortion laws and a woman's right to choose. as we discussed on our election, fallout show just a few days ago. you also had a slew of voters in states across the nation,

including washington d.c. vote to decriminalize various illegal drugs like marijuana magic mushrooms. you even had voters in mississippi deciding on giving the southern state a brand new flag, which was, i think, long overdue given that their original state flag up until tuesday night featured the confederate battle cross of civil war era fame. but while the initiatives across the country covered a wide range of important subject, it was 20 twentieth's most notorious party crasher cope with 19, who kept many important issues off of the ballots. in this year's elections, the new york times reported that if ever there was a doubt about the coronaviruses impact on american democracy, look no further than the sharp decline on citizen initiatives this year. there are 38 such measures slated across the country, around half the level in the last presidential election when you saw about 32 or 72 . so today my friends, let's dive into an.