Welcome to the programme. Starting with the big developing story a growing number of Ethnic Armenian refugees have been leaving Nagorno Karabakh after azerbaijans seizure of this disputed region last week. Roads leading towards the Armenian Border are jammed with traffic, and armenians say they fear persecution and ethnic cleansing. Armenia says about 6,650 people have crossed the border so far. Our reporter Natasha Zotova is on the ground, and sent in this update. We are in this village right on the border between armenia and Nagorno Karabakh. We can see the refugees coming through the border to armenia. Here in this tent, they are being registered. People are fleeing with their belongings because they are afraid theyjust dont believe they can be safe in Nagorno Karabakh under azerbaijan role. Some people told me they dont expect to get home ever, azerbaijan is promising not to target civilians and to respect the rights of Ethnic Armenians living in the region. The problem is, lack of trust. Armenia de bod armenians do not believe they can be safe under azerbaijan rule, thats why they are fleeing with all their possessions. Nagorno karabakh is recognised internationally as part of azerbaijan, but has been controlled by Ethnic Armenians for three decades. The territory is at the heart of one of the worlds longest running conflicts. Our europe correspondent nick beake has been working with our bbc verify team and has the latest. Were talking about one of the worlds longest running conflicts. Its not often in the headlines, but now, once again, attention is on Nagorno Karabakh, with warnings there could be ethnic cleansing. In other words, forcing out an ethnic group from an area. Now, have a look at this video from the past 2a hours. The people you can see here are the ones who have already left nagorno kara bakh. Thousands have done this already. And the people you see here are Ethnic Armenians who have been living in the region. These pictures are from armenian television. Now, to understand why this is happening, lets just step back and try and get our bearings, because were talking about the South Caucasus basically where Eastern Europe meets asia. Specifically the area between the black sea and the caspian sea. Here, armenia. Its a country which is predominantly christian. Azerbaijan, mainly muslim. Theyre both parts of what used to be the soviet union. And if we zoom in, you can see the territory were talking about, Nagorno Karabakh. Its recognised internationally as being part of azerbaijan, but large areas of it have been controlled by Ethnic Armenians for three decades, and 120,000 Ethnic Armenians call it home. Now, what has happened in the past week was that azerbaijan launched a Military Offensive in response to what it called provocations and quickly made gains. The operation, though, was condemned by the european union. The internet has been heavily restricted in Nagorno Karabakh. But i want to show you one of the few videos that has emerged around the main city, stepa na kert. Now you can see its not exactly close up, but there is smoke in the distance. Now, after this was taken, a peace deal was announced in which Ethnic Armenian forces would be disbanded and disarmed. But have a look at this image here. This is something that weve been taking a look at at bbc verify. And this is, again, actually within the city of stepanakert. And you can see the big plume of thick smoke. This was from yesterday, even though a peace deal is supposed to be in place and we verified this looking at the outline of the mountains and also the shape and the colour of some of the buildings in the city itself. Now, i want to show you this video here, because this is something that was taken showing people on the streets. You can see the traffic leaving Nagorno Karabakh. This was actually filmed by the peacekeepers in the region. Theyre not from the united nations, theyre from russia. And basically Nagorno Karabakh, the people there have been told that they will be safe. That is the promise from azerbaijan. But armenian leaders are saying that they fear there will be ethnic cleansing. Now, we talk about peacekeepers, but actually its the responsibility, some would say, of lots of people within the International Community to protect the human rights and the lives of thousands of armenians, people who a week ago were living in their homes and now theyre set to be uprooted. And there is a pressing concern about what may happen next. Earlier, i spoke to carey cavanaugh, the former Us Ambassador and special negotiator for eurasian conflicts under the clinton and bush administrations. I asked him what could be done to help de escalate the crisis. Well, i think what we see right now is a real humanitarian crisis that requires Emergency Assistance for the people on the ground, and then a structured process to help people who choose to remain in azerbaijan and to help settle those who were leaving for armenia. And as viewers just saw, there is a significant number already on the road for armenia. A significant number have already arrived. I spoke to people in the region last night, and the prediction coming out of there and again, this is from individuals is that almost everyone will leave, that theres not enough confidence that they will be safe and protected given the inaction of russian peacekeepers during the fighting and given the 30 plus years of conflict with either byjune and this fighting last week. With azerbaijan. They find it hard to be comfortable thinking you could stay and not suffer reprisals or punishment. In your opinion, ambassador, what kind of International Support do you feel needs to be introduced at this stage . Well, i think theres a big problem on the ground with transparency, and this has always been an issue in this region. Already, weve seen disinformation. Weve seen reports of human rights abuses, war crimes. The challenge there, theres no independent press to help observe that, report on that. Whether its true or not, we need sort of eyes on the ground. And the other part is catastrophe of this dwarfs the ability of most countries to provide for the people in need. And i think we need to see a greater engagement of the International Community, both international institutions, un specialised agencies, but non Governmental Organisations as well, who can play a very valuable role here. The photos of refugees huge number of children. Unicef is expert at helping deal with that. But there are no un people in the conflict area right now able to provide such assistance. We have been Tracking Developments on a story very closely on the bbc. In the uk, the metropolitan police have launched an investigation into allegations of Sexual Offences following the recent claims against Russell Brand. They are already looking into a possible offence back in 2003. These new claims are also historic. The comedian and actor has denied all the allegations against him which include rape and sexual assault. Heres our media editor, katie razzall. I believe this is about freedom. I believe this about democracy. Back streaming on the Video Sharing Platform Rumble where he has 1. 6 million followers and Russell Brand was on the attack. We are going to be talking about the state and the legacy medias war on free speech and in particular how that has affected me this week. Less than half an hour before his shows streamed, the metropolitan police announced its central Specialist Command Team are investigating a number of allegations of non recent Sexual Offences committed in london and elsewhere in the uk. The senior investigating officer said. The Police Statement didnt name Russell Brand, but it did refer to this investigation by channel 4, the times and the sunday times, and made public two weekends ago. Four women made the original claims of rape and sexual assault, which they alleged took place in the us and the uk. The day before the programme was broadcast, the comedian and presenter strongly denied any wrongdoing. I dont mind them using my books and my stand up to talk about my promiscuous consensual contact in the past. What i seriously refute are these very, very serious criminal allegations. The fallout financially has been swift. Content creators earn money from streaming services when they attract advertising. Youtube has barred brand from monetising his Video Content since the allegations surfaced. Rumble prides itself on standing up to cancel culture. Its accused the Uk Parliament of a deeply inappropriate command after the chair of the media and Sport Committee wrote to its ceo asking if his site was going to follow youtube and suspend brands ability to earn money from his content. Since the story broke, the number of people following Russell Brand on social media and subscribing to his channels has increased by several hundred thousand. Katie razzall, bbc news. The philippines says its removed a floating barrier deployed by china to prevent Fishing Boats entering a disputed area of the South China Sea. This video released by the Philippine Coast guard shows a man wearing a mask, snorkel and fins using a knife to sever a rope attached to white buoys. The coast guard say the barrier posed a hazard to navigation and hinders the fishing and livelihood of Filipino Fisherfolk at the area. China claims more than 90 of the South China Sea and seized the shoal in 2012. Later on tuesday, Economic Ministry officials from japan, china and south korea will meet in seoul to resume an annualforum that started 15 years ago. The forum was initially focused on trade and commerce, but the backdrop is far more geopolitical now, especially in the wake of deeper ties betweenjapan, south korea and the us. Daniel russell is a former Assistant Secretary Of State for east asia and Pacific Under president 0bama he told me why this meeting matters. It is valuable for each of the three because they have a tremendously important economic relationship as well as because they are cheap to gel neighbours in a very difficult neighbourhood, but clearly the chinese needed more than the japanese and the koreans at this particular moment. There is some irony there because it was the japanese who walked away from the trilateral format backin away from the trilateral format back in 2019 when they got angry at the south koreans over the deployment of a defensive system to protect against north korea. President xijinping does not attend these trilateral talks, normally it is, it has historically never been the chinese president , its always been the Prime Minister who in china is nominally in charge of the economy, so at the heart, this is about the economic relationship among the three, but as you pointed out, its really driven now by geopolitics. Really driven now by geopolitics. Given china because geopolitics. Given china because my geopolitics. Given china because my current geopolitics. Given china because my current economic situation, what in your opinion will be Pitching Cuz Standing as it into these conversations . Beijings standing. Your right to point out that it is in large part of the economic slump in china that is compelling beijing to Reach Out To Seoul and tokyo, to try to pick up work that they left off backin pick up work that they left off back in 2019 and hammering out some kind of comprehensive trilateral free trade agreement. That seems pretty ambitious now, this meeting is taking place at the Deputy Minister level, thats where a lot of the hard work typically gets done so it remains to be seen if they will get an agreement on the agenda that would clear the way for a trilateral among the leaders. A Second Powerfulforce is the camp david summit, where the us, japan and korea got together at the leaders level and took their collective and their respective relationships to the next level. That makes beijing nervous and it undoubtedly calculates that it needs to try to respond to that without Reached Tokyo and seoul. A third big driver is technology. Japan and korea have aligned much more closely with the United States and with europe in seeking to protect their own technology and to restrict chinas access to cutting edge technology. So these are important priorities for china. These are important priorities for china for china. Very briefly, that handshake for china. Very briefly, that handshake at for china. Very briefly, that handshake at camp for china. Very briefly, that handshake at camp david, | for china. Very briefly, that handshake at camp david, how is the west going to be seen these developments . The west going to be seen these developments . Korea and japan, like virtually developments . Korea and japan, like virtually every developments . Korea and japan, like virtually every Country Developments . Korea and japan, like virtually every country on like virtually every country on the planet, won the best of both worlds. 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They say the commander of the Black Sea Fleet was among those who died, although they are yet to produce evidence to support their claims. Russia said at the time that only one serviceman was missing. 0ur correspondent James Waterhouse is in kyiv. We have seen a lot of russian missiles land in ukrainian cities that moscow cant control. So, the sight of a western supplied Missile Landing in the heart of sevastopol in occupied crimea well, thats against the grain, lets put it like that. Now, we have tried to get in touch with the Special Forces spokesman. He didnt mention admiral Viktor Sokolov by name, the commander of the Black Sea Fleet, nor did he provide any evidence with the claims we are hearing today. So, we dont yet know for sure that kiev� s claim of 34 Senior Officers losing their lives in that attack, whether thats true or not. Now, there is a chance ukraine acted on intelligence and took out a sizeable chunk of russias command structure. But i think there are two more obvious reasons as to why we are seeing ukraine carry out more targeted strikes inside crimea. They directly help ukraines continued counter offensive further north, where the gains are far more marginal and less obvious. And secondly, should ukraine liberate crimea, as it wants to do, and should ukrainian troops enter crimea its a big if then there will be an element of having to win hearts and minds in a peninsula that has been occupied for almost nine. Well, more than nine years. India continues to emphatically deny allegations by canada that it had a hand in the murder of a canadian sikh injune. But indian Media Outlets are now reporting that delhi does want to put renewed pressure on some foreign sikh activists naming seven britons among 19 people whose Indian Properties are set to be confiscated. It comes at a time when some british sikhs are concerned about a mischaracterisation of their community. Heres our religion editor aleem maqbool. Whenjustin trudeau accused india of involvement in the murder of this canadian sikh, he might have hoped for unequivocal public support from canadas friends. A lot of your allies have been silent on this. I wonder what your reaction to that is. But that hasnt come even from the uk. Leaving Prime Minister trudeau a lonely figure, and british sikhs upset. Some already felt they had reason to feel aggrieved. Take the case of jagtar singh johalfrom dumbarton. Hes a well known sikh rights activist, and in 2017 went to india to get married. But there, he was bundled into a car and has been in prison ever since. He says hes been tortured and is frequently marched to court, accused of extremist offences which he denies, though hes yet to be tried. There have been six years of protests. The Un Working Group publically called for mrjohal� s immediate release, but the British Government has yet to do the same. Jagtar� s brother says hes impressed by canadas stance. The canadian Prime Minister stood up for his citizen, heard about what has happened to one of his citizens, and on his own he has went into parliament, spoke to the opposition and said what he did. I dont see rishi sunak doing that. The Prime Minister has said he wants jagtarjohal� s case resolved as quickly as possible. But Narendra Modis administration has long demanded britain do more to counter a resurgent movement of sikhs in the uk supporting a breakaway homeland one they want to call khalistan. The uk governments Formerfaith Engagement Advisor agrees. It was a major finding in a report he published earlier this year. I think the British Government have been for many, many years naive in not addressingl the Pro Khalistan Extremistsl and sikh extremists that have been hiding in plain sight in the uk. British sikh groups across the spectrum expressed outrage for what they see as activism is being characterised as extremism. They feel that somehow the government is kowtowing to delhi. But this is undoubtedly a difficult tightrope to walk for the uk, for whom india is such an important strategic partner, particularly on security and trade. Aleem maqbool, bbc news, at the foreign office. The scottish actor David Mccallum with a film and Television Carreer spanning 60 years has died at the age of 90 in new york. He starred in The Great Escape and appeared more recently as a forensic examiner in the hit us crime drama, ncis. David sillito takes a look back at his life. U. N. C. L. E is an organisation consisting of agents of all nationalities. Its involved in maintaining political and legal order anywhere in the world. For a certain generation, David Mccallum was and always will be Ilya Kuryakin from the man from u. N. C. L. E. Like my friend napoleon, i go and i do whatever i am told to. Quiet, enigmatic, good looking. Just a wave and a rare smile. Were enough for the hundreds of teenage fans who found david irresistible. The fan worship was rather overwhelming for an actor who was himself quiet, thoughtful and serious. The background that i had made me very reticent. Very, very scots. I think this is where the word dour comes from that youre not. You dont show emotion. Its a very inhibiting thing. 50 years later, he was once again back in prime time as dr donald ducky mallard in ncis. 0ur victim succumbed to a cerebral embolism here in the parietal lobe. If you wanted someone who looked as though they could solve fiendishly complicated mysteries, he was your man. And he loved doing the research to make it look convincing. Clots will develop over a period of minutes or hours. See you in piccadilly. Scotts bar. Right. His first taste of Big Screen Success had been The Great Escape, but his Acting Career had begun back in the � 40s in bbc radio plays. Thank you. Good luck. Right. The child of musicians, he was born in glasgow and his family then moved to london. He left for america because he felt britain was becoming worryingly left wing. However, it didnt stop him returning to work here. They were recaptured and the architect was shot. Colditz. So very near. Not till weve done what we have to. And then sapphire and steel. Take it downstairs and burn it. However, it wasnt a patch on the man from u. N. C. L. E. David mccallum he wrote, he composed music and he knew a great deal about forensic science. But above all, he was, in the cold war, the wests favourite russian agent. David mccallum, who has died at the age of 90. The longest strike to affect hollywood in decades could be ending a development welcomed today by us President Joe Biden. A tentative deal has been struck, between Studio Bosses and the Union Representing screenwriters. Writers have been on strike since early may. The 15,000 members still have to vote to ratify the deal. Actors are still carrying out industrial action, they have been on strike sincejuly. Thats all for the moment, do you stay with bbc news. Hello there. Weve got a bit of rain on the way today, but also should see some spells of sunshine developing. And at the moment, the rain is edging into Northern Ireland, where its turning quite heavy. Weve got southerly winds feeding in, so its a mild start to tuesday with temperatures holding up into double figures. And that rain in Northern Ireland will soon spread to scotland, see a bit of wet weather as well for a time across Northern England and north wales. Across central and eastern england, a few showers will develop through the day, itll turn quite cloudy for a time as well. But it is a day where well all see some sunshine at some points during the day, and those temperatures continue to run above average for the time of year, about 16 23 degrees. Then weve got storm agnes on the way for the middle part of the week, bringing some potentially disruptive weather. Now, at the moment, agnes is this lump of cloud in the mid atlantic its got 30 mile an hour winds on it, it is a very weak area of low pressure. However, its going to pass underneath a very strong atlanticjet Stream Blowing at 140 mph, and that will deepen this low pressure rapidly. Pressure falls by over 24 millibars in 24 hours. Its an example of a weather bomb. Now, thankfully, the peak intensity of this low pressure will be well away from our shores. And actually, as the low pressure moves away from the jet stream, its going to start to weaken. As that weakening takes place, well, thats what will determine exactly how strong the winds get. Now, i think through the irish sea coasts, its here where well see the strongest gusts of wind, could get gusts of wind around 70 or even 80 mph, potentially damaging and certainly disruptive gusts of wind. Inland, yes, you could see 50, 60 odd mile an hour gusts across parts of south west england, across wales, across Northern England and Northern Ireland. But its the coast and the hills where we could see those much stronger gusts of wind, reaching 70 or even 80 mph. Now, it will stay quite windy into thursday. Agnes, or whats left of it, will be heading out into the norwegian sea. Well be left with lots of showers across western areas, with more general rain pushing back into Northern Ireland. It will stay quite blustery, temperatures around 14 21 degrees celsius. Now, beyond that, i think friday and saturday looking 0k therell be a few showers across the northwest, but a fair amount of dry weather. However, rain looks set to return from sunday and into the early part of next week as well. Thats it for now. Joe biden is set to join Car Industry Workers at the picket lines in michigan. We look into whats at stake for the us president. Nissans Chief Executive tells the bbc The Car Maker is accelerating plans toward electrification even as the uk takes its foot off the pedal. Hello and welcome to Asia Business report with me, arunoday mukharji. We begin in the us, with the strike affecting the auto industry, because the us President Joe Biden is expected to join workers on the picket line in michigan later today. The industrial unrest has highlighted a clash between the president s support for unions and his push for clean energy. 0ur north America Business correspondent Michelle Fleury has the latest from new york