A possible breakthrough in the fight against covert 19 u. S. Drug giant pfizer says its vaccine candidate is 90 percent effective. Also in the news there i mean to end a decade of chaos and bloodshed in libya u. N. Backed talks have begun paving the way for a political transition. And uncertainty in peru is the president faces a 2nd impeachment trial in just 2 months coming up a live update from the capital lima. And bumpy december the legal sports news 27 seen masters champion Sergio Garcia withdrawals from this weeks tournament of the testing positive for corona virus. But were starting with breaking news this hour 1 pm in washington d. C. And literally in the last 2 minutes the u. S. President donald trump has fired his secretary of state. In his words. Has been terminated straight to kimberly how could a White House Correspondent cant believe its begun. Yes thats right mark else for is the secretary of defense or at least he was until this announcement by the u. S. President on twi
No more. No more than 18 months. U. N. Led to a preliminary role for libya aimed at ending a decade of violence. Also this hour as Coronavirus Infection soar last year of the World Organization warns against lifting receptions quickly and a controversial plan to turn a World Heritage site in indonesia into a Jurassic Park style tourist attraction. Forces golds mosque is finally gets underway for a 7 month delay. All eyes are on big number who is aiming to win back to back mages out driving his opposition. Thank you very much for joining us. We begin this news hour in ethiopia, where the Prime Minister says military gains have been made in the northern teague, a region where the federal government is battling local forces. But the conflict is raising fears of a humanitarian crisis. Phone lines are cut off and transport has been halted in and out of the region. If the opium Prime Minister abu ahmed says the military offensive had, quote, liberated the western part of to gray. And the reg
Conflicted zone theyve tried to capture areas village after village settlement after Settlement City after city trying to clear them off of the people and majority of the areas that weve seen in this conflict have been devoid of any civilian population because as the by jenny forces were advancing forward they were using artillery and drone strikes to try and clear the areas from fighters to civilians had been stepping back and weve been seeing those civilians fleeing those areas in the last 48 hours as well especially in the or step on a kurd as its known by armenia lot of people have been fleeing those areas as well and this is going to be a major setback for the armenian Prime Minister its not clear how politically any leader could survive such a major deal since 1902 we were speaking to as a burgeoning officials who say that per capita perhaps they have one of the worlds highest. Refugee pop pop relations the people whove been displaced from the region i make about a 1000000 and th
The republicans have doubled down on their claims of u. S. Election fraud but with little extra details of their claims is what the White House Press secretary had to say about the Democratic Party and their response to the election they have taken a Global Pandemic and turned it into a nationwide electoral epidemic they have taken based on what they call a Natural Disaster if you use that and turn this into a National Disaster and fisher joins us live from washington d. C. Do the republican claims hold water. We still got to see evidence that thats the issue that theyve had since they started making these claims they have got anecdotal evidence theyve got hear see evidence but they havent produced any hard evidence that they could take to a court for example in the valley they say theyve got 3000 names of people who voted in nevada but moved out of the state no thats not on usual there are many military families in the voter who might have been moved but had registered to vote in the
This idiom, he says its entered ag sam, a district thats been under a 1000000 control for almost 30 years. Its one of 3 areas that a media has had to hand back as part of a cease fire deal. Both countries signed the agreement to end 6 weeks of fighting over no know how to back russia, help to broker the truce, and has peacekeeping forces on hand to oversee the transfer. I mean ians are angry about giving up the land and theyve been protesting to demand the Prime Minister resigns. On some of the busiest binge of aid is in a summit yesterday on thursday. You were in physically which was one of the areas that was handed back to john. Now its happening in baghdad. Just talk us through whats going on. Well weve heard from the ministry of defense that a very forces have moved into the 2nd ghost town and the area which is almost the size of new go in a car about that is being handed over. So in around nagornokarabakh, there were 7 regions, 3 of them under this deal are going to be handed back