Supporters of President Trump take to the streets across the country demanding a vote recount in battleground states and theres a role reversal with the democrats of stealing the 2024 years after the opposition called the republican election when. Europe expresses hope of better transatlantic ties under joe biden as we examine not everyone on the continent is. Broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is our International Im sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us lets start with some breaking news this hour an agreement has been reached between armenia russia and azerbaijan to end hostilities over the disputed. Region joins me live in the studio now with the latest. This is. A big moment a big deal in fact in our earlier conversation you said fact its a Pivotal Moment tell me what we know so far. It is. Clearly a Pivotal Moment for the entire conflict the whole conflict between the armenian breakaway region of the car back in azerbaijan and who which is essentially a war between the armenia and azerbaijan the armies now again why its so important and why this agreement it clearly has more weight than everything thats been agreed on or signed before is because it was hammered out by the leaders with the mitigation of the russian president Vladimir Putin plus as we understand the Prime Minister of armenian he called posturing on in the president of his or by john in the homily of took part and that now what i can tell you is that this ceasefire is comprehensive and its already in place it came into effect at midnight moscow time and let me just go through some of the most important elements of that truce deal now according to it the military forces of us are by john and our media must remain and the positions that they are currently taking and also a crucial element of that deal is the introduction the setting up of a Russian Peacekeeping mission that according to the Russian Ministry of defense will comprise of almost 2000 troops and also 380. 00 hardware units now this is something that had been discussed previously and there were hints that a Russian Peacekeeping force could be introduced but there have been no official announcements while now is the time besides this transport hubs and key junctions in the conflict zone must be blocked and this should allow Free Movement of refugees and also the exchange of prisoners now clearly one of the most important announcement on that agreement that was made came from the russian president Vladimir Putin who spoke late in the night and this is what we heard from the russian leader. He would you do me and your bridge and president obama leave or me as Prime Minister nicolle pressure now and russia have signed the declaration announcing the cease fire and stopping combat nagornokarabakh conflict zone what were hearing from from the president was or by john sounds much more positive if you compare it to the armenian reaction reaction which well hear about later. If the president is calling this agreement historic and he also makes it clear that from the air by johnny viewpoint they see this as somewhat of a victory and theyre saying that 2 districts of the gorn a par are going to be somehow given to us here by john as a result of this deal so this is what exactly this what exactly was said by the. Leader. I would like to see that done very very weve sealed the deal to 60 years long conflict between our media and. The occupation. Now just for you to understand the contrast when it comes to the reaction from armenia i hope that you can see the pictures that are just that were just beginning to receive from yet yvonne thats the capital of armenia where there are protests people have stormed the parliament and also some of the government buildings and theyre protesting against this decision perhaps one of the reasons for it is that element that i mentioned in which which makes it clear that the armed forces of azerbaijan and armenia must remain in their positions and earlier on monday we heard from the leadership that they took a crucial city of shushi which is the 2nd biggest city in that region so that could explain it and also lets just listen to what nicole pasha on the Prime Minister of armenia said because it seems that for him judging from his words it was a very difficult decision not only for the government of armenia but for the country the nation as a whole. I signed a statement with the president s of russia and as visions and the karabakh was 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 indepth analysis of the military situation and assessment of the people who knew 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 new 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 as we are watching out for all the developments from. The protests that have broken out there i do have to remind you of Something Else something very important that happened on the border of armenia and azerbaijan but in a different area thats about 200 kilometers away from the conflict zone out about 5 pm moscow time on monday a Russian Military helicopter was shot down from a surface to air missile so potentially that situation was very explosive and at this point we understand that some kind of truce agreement was back then in the making but then shortly at about 3 hours after the incident an apology came from who they were saying that was a tragic accident that was due to Poor Visibility and due to all the tension and the pressure that was heightened and that was there on the air by tony military at the time so perhaps because of that apology the situation got very calm and the response from the Russian Foreign ministry was this they were ready to accept that apology. We assessed positively the fact that book who immediately admitted its guilt we also know the assurances given to us by the as are bijani site that a prompt investigation of this incident will be carried out and the perpetrators will be punished. Well at least we understand at this point that this incident so to say no longer matters because the truce agreement has been announced all eyes though will be on. Starting from this point because of the protests that are occurring there we understand that. There are layers of the society that are completely not happy with this they believe that the agreement that im telling you about is something its not rather a win win situation but its something that armenia at some point should regret so this is what well be watching out for and well be giving all the latest updates from the capital of armenia all right ilya we know that this is a volatile situation and it is developing through the night we know that it could have been a lot worse given the fact that we have the helicopter incident as well its good that cooler heads of prevailed and in diplomacy is taking place thanks for staying across that we know that youll be on top of course. All right for more on this were going to cross live to Earl Rasmussen the executive Vice President of the Eurasia Center thanks for being with us here on r t international. So this is not the 1st season fire that has been called over this disputed region. Weve heard more of the same in the past this seems a little bit different though considering the players are in that are involved are you more confident in this ceasefire this time i think. The positive i mean i understand difficult for me especially but i think of the positive step forward and it seems much more. Much more stable i think well see out of this versus the prior ceasefire and. An end and i understand how difficult it is but i think for the region its its its much better to end this hostility because otherwise i dont really see i dont know if i can see into this in the long term you mentioned armenia there so will this be seen as a win for one side specifically about john over the other weve already seen protests in the armenian capital about this where people arent really happy why arent they happy well i think you know theres a serious ben ben a contentious issue for a long time i mean internationally its its recognized as part of the by john but its been a historically its been a separate region theres a lot of armenian. Influence there theres a lot of closeness there from a Historical Perspective it was kind of independent for a long period of time so i think you know theres attachment there theres theres. Just historic feelings and sturrock ties and and i you know maybe some armenians will look at this is a negative. Maybe some are arguable johnnies may look at it as a meme as a negative as well but i i think. In general i think the Prime Minister was very brave and courageous and taken the steps and i think both sides need to. I need to look at this from a long term perspective and what and and and what it can provide when things like this happen in the world its easy to lose track of whats really at stake here thats the people on the ground i mean its easy for us to talk in terms of politics and war and negotiations and cease fires but there are real people who are affected what will it mean for those people who have been forced from their homes of this conflict do you expect them that that they have the ability to return to their homes now you know i i believe that theyll still be some agreement and some arrangement that theyll be able to return if if this continued youd have even more people without homes and more people dead so i think. If youre looking at it from a peoples purpose for effective i think its much better to move in this direction i mean just you know i dont know the difference of seeds in terms of seeds ive been yet of and ive never been through but but i think weve already got people that have died weve got people that are homeless weve got refugees and and i think it would have if it continued to just continue even be even worse now im going to ask you to go down the rabbit hole just a bit for some speculation its a long drawn out conflict stretching back 3 decades is this just another chapter in the story or is this more of a conclusion at long last well. Im going to go on a limb here that its just another chapter. I would hope that its long last but i mean look this is been going on for i mean more than a decade so i mean its i mean a lot of a lot of this happened you know we basically had a fairly peace fairly cease fire from a bot. 1904. Until recently but if you go back the region has been back and forth and you had the the autumn an empire that was fighting over it and you had became man of protectorate of the russian empire and then we had. You know the soviet union. And how its kind of gathered together as one region. So in that area was kind of in the middle so its always been a you know a kind of a border a dividing line between with now armenia and azerbaijan. But it always does have been kind of the middle ground so its been even for centuries i mean we had the issues with both the russian in the ottoman wars going on back and forth and it was caught in the middle so you know youve got different cultures. And sometimes those cultures sown which sometimes they dont feel right away wherever and so im hoping that this is a step for that hoping that in a modern more modern society will will will work out our differences. Maybe this is an area that people need to look at a potentially independent region completely i mean thats an option that maybe should be considered but certainly is a long drawn out complicated story and at least it seems like a step in the right direction or rasmussen executive Vice President of the razor center its always good to hear thoughts help us wrap our minds around these types of situations thank you sean. An hour earlier about johns president announced the capture of a strategic town in the disputed province of karbala sparking celebrations on the streets of baku azerbaijan the Defense Ministry said the town of shushi had been quote liberated from the armenian occupation after more than 28 years sure she lives on the main road connecting nagornokarabakh with armenia heres what the local leadership has been saying that. We must now acknowledge that the chain of misfortune has befallen us and the town of she she is completely out of our control any hopeful or inspiring propaganda will only serve to distance us from reality the start there is a city of shows she is now under the control of the over the Azerbaijani Army that has been confirmed now by majority side after that they have published a video showing that the as a bridge on the forces is controlling the city of the streets of city of shushi but the above the question now whats next what city will be next is it a step on a kurd or maybe there will be this settling in shoes they will have a break maybe after 4 or 5 days of heavy fighting across the region of the core of baka here in armenia the people of the spirit they are filled that they have been left down and they dont know what to do actually and we can notice that in their faces because they have suffered a lot they have given a lot and struggled all these 4 for more than one month. And they sick roofies a lot now the fighting had been settled for a break as we believe but we still receive some information from our sources instapundit go to that. The shelling is still and step on a kurd and the city of moore to need to the no more to any to the north and also on the road that connects the gorn acre of with armenia its a matter of time now. Now the arrival of Azerbaijani Forces there has sparked a mass exodus of civilians in these images from sunday you can see a line of traffic leading out of the main city step on the current the disputed province has it been the focus of intense fighting since late september despite 3 attempted cease fires it is legally part of azerbaijan but has a majority armenian population and has been pushing for independence for more than 3 decades the latest flare up in the feud has left hundreds dead now a quick reminder of our breaking news an agreement has been reached between russia and john to end the hostilities over the disputed nagornokarabakh region after the break well bring you more world news stay with us this is our international. Treaty. Not my president is your. Meal liberal ideology. Welcome back this is our t. International now in the u. S. There have been more claims of election meddling only this time not by outside actors but from the inside with donald trump accusing the democrats of massive voter fraud after joe biden was proclaimed president elect. President trump has yet to concede the election he claims there has been serious vote fraud and is vowing legal action we believe these people are thieves the big city machines are corrupt this was a stolen election the best pollster in britain wrote this morning that this clearly was a stolen election that its impossible to imagine that biden out ran a bomb in some of the states where it mattered they stole what they had to steal clashes have occurred in several states between rival crowds with several arrests having been made thats as a Trump Supporters stand by the president in questioning the election results. On saturday many Media Outlets called the race for biden after days of counting the projected president has promised to help america become a nation healed but like in 2016 its all gotten off to a shaky start with more allegations of meddling arties down hawkins comments. For Many Americans the 2020 us president ial 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 thats how the media and many people saw it where were you in 27. When we had the worst president we could argue its unfair to rank trump as the worst president ever after just one year but clearly those scholars see in him a Great Potential worse in most dangerous president in the history of our country or the worst whereas hes americas ever. Thousands of jubilant people celebrating on the streets a far cry from the scenes we saw after the last president ial election seemingly the only tears this time with those of joy. For a lot of people who have really suffered 4 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 well for all its might be exaggerating but to some it really looks like a savior has the same that upon america except this is a reality only hall. Half of the country but inspired it did landslide or blue wave didnt happen and no matter how many times he was called worst president in American History the worst president the countrys ever had trump still managed to gain the support of close to hall for electorate and they alongside his Campaign Team are not giving up without a fight. I. Mean this is not it will be over and immediately. With the Democratic Leaders will trump us 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 easily when if you count the illegal votes they can try to steal. The election from us and trumps team up behind him ready to do battle in the countrys legal system and highest courts to stop what they see as an injustice these lawsuits 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 trumpet bought in camps wont end anytime soon how do we know this well that simple the last one dragged on for trumps entire term a democratically elected president was accused of just about every wrongdoing trump is already acting like a russian donald trump is actively or was actively colluding with russia own told mahlers office about more contacts between trumps orbit and its it appears trump himself in russia they didnt 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. No 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 while its not for us biden or trump to decide whether any wrongdoing took place during the 2020 lection it looks like math will be down to the Supreme Court but what we do know is that trumps 4 years in office might have taught him a valuable lesson about how to fight his battle and so far it looks like there will be little unity along the way. Europe has been taking a keen interest in the u. S. Election with joe biden said for the white house brussels has expressed hope bilateral ties will get a boost though some in the e. U. Are skeptical things will actually improve to show dubinsky principles or any e. U. Leaders were signaling their congratulations a 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 u. S. Back into the paris climate agree fault 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 where is 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 wont 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 thats 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 isnt going to change washingtons approach to International Issues overnight because he cant its 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 dont think anything is going to change there. Theres 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 theres 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 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 were sending a message not only door citizens but also to the rest of the world europe is the world power and then of course theres the issue of braggs 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 lets not forget that trump gained more than 70000000 votes trump is and is alive and kicking and joe biden is going to have to do an awful lot to reach out to those voters. Former Austrian Foreign minister believes ties with europe wont be a major priority for but personally i dont see 2 European Union issues being top chanda we might believe that we are so important that washington wakes up in the morning and now cares 1st and foremost about how to repair the alliance how to get back to better relations with the various e. U. Member states no i think their 1st and foremost Foreign Policy agenda with the need to peoples republic of china and how to handle all the open issues with them but personally i would share the position by former president of to you being commissioner. Nothing is going to change because although he constitute a lot and there are certain constant. Factors that continue one of them is to trade deficits and the other one is to treat this and of course the burden sharing within the alliance. In a quick reminder now of our breaking news an agreement has been reached between armenia russia and azerbaijan to cease hostilities over the disputed nagornokarabakh region was about johns president called the agreement historical and said it brings it to an end the long term conflict 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 by john has apologized for that in