We begin in nagorno karabakh, where fears are growing of a potential humanitarian catastrophe after Military Action by azerbaijan. Thats the region that is internationally recognized as part of azerbaijan but large parts of it have been controlled by Ethnic Armenians for three decades. Tens of thousands of armenians have sought refuge in the main city, stepanakert, many of them gathering at the airport. They are coping with dwindling food, medicine and fuel supplies. In new york, azerbaijans foreign minister, jeyhun bayramov, told the Un General Assembly that baku was determined to reintegrate Karabakh Armenians as equal citizens but his armenian counterpart demanded the un establish a mission in the region to prevent further killings of Ethnic Armenians. The bbc� s olga ivshina is one of the first journalists to have reached the region since this weeks hostilities began. She filed this report. This is the first time journalists have been allowed into karabakh since the start of recent hostilities. Were currently in susa, a key point in the area. It sits on the mountain which overlooks several strategic roads and towns. The conflict between azerbaijan and armenia has taken Tens Of Thousands of lives. So, the question everyone is asking now will this ceasefire hold 7 Azerbaijan Military has told us theyre currently in control of khankendi, a city down there, which Karabakh Armenians call stepanakert and consider their capital, so its very important. However, azerbaijan has provided no details, no evidence, and this is as close as we are allowed to go. The biggest question now is what happens to Karabakh Armenians who have lived here for several decades . An azeri official has just told me that they will only target armed rebels and they are ready to provide Security Guarantees for the civilians. We are currently conducting mine cleaning. We also established Camps Temporary camps. In these camps, we can provide food, water, electricity and also heating for up to 1000 people in each camp. However, there is a lot of mistrust on both sides. Destiny of these people is now the factor in azeri hands. 0lga ivshina, bbc news, karabakh. Earlier, the bbc spoke with jason straziuso, spokesperson for the International Committee of the red cross. He brought us up to speed on the humanitarian work they are doing in the area. The last couple of days we have sentin the last couple of days we have sent in 70 tons of humanitarian aid, mostly wheat flour, some yeast and the supplies can be used to make bread and other bakery items. As an indication of how dire the situation is, not enough food, not enough medical supplies. It also dropped off body bags not so pleasant to think about but an important aspect of this is a dignified management of the dead. So it is a well rounded humanitarian effort from our team is the last couple of days. 0ver team is the last couple of days. Over the last 72 hours, there has been a big increase in military presence. This site understand we are a neutral organisation and we do not take sides. This helps facilitate the activity and the work we carry out. We have close contact with both sides and we would not be able to move through without permission and we do not seek to move through without permission. So those open channels of communication are in place for the time and allow us to carry out these trips. 0ne allow us to carry out these trips. One of our approaches is to work with other nations that might be allied all partners with the governments involved here and remind the governments involved that they do have a humanitarian duty that medical supplies must be allowed through, that food must be allowed through and that anyone who is wounded or sick must be allowed to receive care. So those kinds of conversations to take place with other nations that may be involved in the region. Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov says the United States and ukraines other allies are directly at war with moscow. Lavrov also blamed the collapse of the black sea grain deal on ukraine. He further criticized kyiv� s peace plan as, not feasible or realistic. Heres mr lavrov addressing the assembly on saturday. Translation the collective west has a calling card and itj has long been to reject the principle of equality and their Total Inability to reach agreement. Being used to looking down at the rest of the world, americans and europeans make all sorts of promises and they take on commitments inter alia, written ones and legally binding ones, and then, theyjust dont fulfil them. As President Putin pointed out, the west is one that is truly an empire of lies. Russia, like many countries, knows about this firsthand. A prominent Uyghur Academic has been reportedlyjailed for life by china for endangering state security. 57 year old professor rahile dawut is an expert on Uyghur Folklore and traditions and had been teaching at Xinjiang University college of humanities before her arrest. She lost her appeal last month. China denies allegations of crimes against humanity towards the uyghur population located in north west china. Live now to rushan abbas, who is founder and Executive Director of the Non Profit Group campaign for uyghurs. She is an activist and her group was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize last year. She joins us now from falls church, virginia. Thank you forjoining us, first of all, tell of the little bit about the work that rahile dawut carries out . About the work that rahile dawut carries out . Thank you. Rahile dawut dawut carries out . Thank you. Rahile dawut is dawut carries out . Thank you. Rahile dawut is an rahile dawut is an internationally recognised Uyghur Intellectual and is an expert in folklore and has written many publications and given lectures worldwide and on different platforms and stages. She is highly respected among the uyghur Diaspora Community as being one of the prominent scholars in uyghur academia. So what is your reaction then, sorry to interrupt you, what is your reaction to this reported life sentence . Your reaction to this reported life sentence . Your reaction to this reported life sentence . Well, Extremely U Set life sentence . Well, extremely upset because life sentence . Well, extremely upset because she life sentence . Well, extremely upset because she is life sentence . Well, extremely| upset because she is sentenced for life in a secret trial by a so called Citizen Charges and endangering the Government National security, or whatever the terms they use to justify its crackdown on the uyghurs. The Chinese Communist regime regards any study of Uyghur Culture as a threat which is demonstrated by this imposition of a life sentence on rahile dawut. Her only crime is being an uyghur, and being a uyghur anthropologist. Her story illustrates that beijing is ruthless in its elimination of the Uyghur Culture as she represents the Hundreds And Thousands of uyghur scholars, writers, professors, University President s, and doctors and philanthropists. 50 president s, and doctors and philanthropists. President s, and doctors and philanthropists. So the Chinese Ministry of philanthropists. So the Chinese Ministry of Affairs Ministry of Affairs Spokesperson said she had no information on the case of rahile dawut but did also say that china handles cases in accordance with the law. I know that you have your own experience because your sister is also detained. Do you know where your sister is and how long has she been detained for . Yes, in september 2018, just six days after my first public speech at the washington think tank, my older sister was unjustly detained by the regime is a retaliation for my exercise of free speech as a us citizen. This month wejust marked the fifth anniversary of her detention and we do not know anything about her condition or her health and we have not been given any proof of life. The chinese regime is maintained silence regarding her situation. There media outlet attacked me and accused me of stealing other peoples photos and claiming my missing sister and a line about her determination and then laid out, the chinese minister of Foreign Affairs in late 2020 confirmed her wrongful imprisonment based on all these ridiculous fabricated charges and sentenced her harshly. My sister is a retired Medical Doctor and has no political history. She is a mother and grandmother who continues to suffer in prison today is. What suffer in prison today is. What can families suffer in prison today is. What can families like suffer in prison today is. What can families like your suffer in prison today is. What can families like your own suffer in prison today is. What can families like your own and the family of rahile dawut do to try to work out first where relatives are and help them to freedom . Relatives are and help them to freedom . ,. ,. , freedom . Unfortunately, we do not have much freedom . Unfortunately, we do not have much help, freedom . Unfortunately, we do not have much help, although l freedom . Unfortunately, we do| not have much help, although in august 30 one, 2022, the Un Human Rights Council said chinas crimes may constitute crimes against humanity and they confirmed everything we have been saying for years, but what hinders the International Community from preventing this massive genocide, a year past, nothing has happened or changed. While facing chinas horrific actions, the Global Response has been painfully slow and hesitant. We have witnessed it history unfold and our effort to prevent never again has already delayed and china continues its genocide with no sides of any stopping. The families like those of rahile dawut and myself and my sisters and just recently, today actually, we have a nine Year Anniversary date of another professor, prominent professor, nine years ago, he was arrested. This is happening in todays world and in the zist in todays world and in the 21st century but families have absolutely no information while chinas government has denied any wrongdoing and spreading disinformation and false propaganda about the uyghurs. Thank you very much are talking through your experience in giving background on rahile dawut as well. Just to reiterate, china denies any crackdown in the uyghur region and says it handles cases in accordance with the law. Lets get some of the days other news now. British interior minister Suella Braverman will visit the us and talk about the unsustainable pressures created by illegal migration this week. Braverman faces criticisms in the uk for her policies, such as sending Asylum Seekers to rwanda, that have failed to take off so far. Almost 115,000 people were detected arriving by small boats in the 12 months tojune, a 26 year on year rise. The bbc has learned that the uk government will make a definitive decision on the northern end of the hs2 rail line in the coming week. Rishi sunak has been urged to confirm if the route from birmingham to manchester will go ahead. Recently, the chancellor, jeremy hunt, has spoken of costs being out of control. Pope francis has celebrated mass at the end of his 2 day visit to marseille, in france, during which he highlighted migrant and refugee rights. Crowds cheered as the pope made his way to the citys stadium, where president macron and Tens Of Thousands of people took part in the act of worship. Theres been another dog attack in england, believed to involve an xl american bully. A man was taken to hospital after being bitten on the arm yesterday evening at a park in south london. Meanwhile, dog owners marched from Trafalgar Square to Parliament Today to protest Government Plans to ban the breed. Barry caffrey reports. This is pasley park in walworth. It was here where a man was attacked by a dog just after 6 00 yesterday evening. He is currently in hospital with serious injuries. A local resident told me the dog jumped over this fence of this Dog Exercise Area and bit the arm of a man in his 405. Police say the owner of the dog, believed to be an xl bully, fled the park before they arrived. Efforts are now being made to try and track down the owner. These people had mixed views about american bullies being in the park. I have fear when i see one of these dogs. I tend to walk on the other side of the street and it does worry me for children and other vulnerable people. If you have an xl bully, you should have the dog muzzled all the time if its out in public, kept on a lead, and if you are going to let it off, it needs to be in a secure place. Idont think it is the dogs, i think it is the owners because some owners train their dogs to be protectivel over them and when they say attack, they attack, but with this dog here, it is ok. I this dog is not trained to be an attack, he is trained to be friendly and good to everyone. A number of other recent attacks including in walsall where a man died, prompted the Prime Minister rishi sunak to say he had ordered urgent work to define and ban the animals. Chanting save our bullies today, protesters gathered to march to parliament to voice their concerns about the governments plans to ban the breed. They say despite their fearsome appearance and build, the dogs make lovable household pets. Personally, my dog is as soppy as anything. You know, hes around my grandchildren. I have an autistic grandson and he is really, really calming for him. Literally sleeps beside him and it does him good. I agree that they are dangerous. None of us that are here today discriminate that. Were not saying they are not dangerous in the wrong hands there. My female is 53kg, of course she is dangerous in the wrong hands but she is trained and well mannered and well loved and shes fed correctly. The dog control coalition, a group including the rspca, battersea dogs home, and the royal kennel club, said banning specific breeds was not the solution, pointing to irresponsible breeding, rearing and ownership. Barry caffrey, bbc london. The comedian and actor Russell Brand says it has been an extraordinary and distressing week after rape and Sexual Assault allegations were made against him. In a video published on social media, he thanked his fans for their support and criticised news outlets, the government, and tech companies. Ellie price reports. Hello there, you awakening wonders. A direct appeal to supporters, with no direct mention of the allegations against him. Obviously its been an extraordinary and distressing week and i thank you very much for your support and for questioning the information that youve been presented with. In this three minute video, Russell Brand talks instead about Media Corruption and collusion. I need your support now more than ever and more than i ever imagined i would. July the first 2012 was when my rape happened. This week Russell Brand faced allegations of rape and Sexual Assault following claims made by four women in the channel 4 Dispatches Programme and the times and sunday times. He denies the claims and insists his relationships have always been consensual. The bbc has also heard from one woman who said the comedian exposed himself to her in a bathroom in this building in los angeles where he was recording his radio 2 programme. He then joked about the alleged incident minutes later on air. By now youre probably aware that the British Government has asked Big Tech Platforms to censor our online content and that some Online Platforms have complied. Youtube has now suspended Russell Brand from making money from adverts after it said he had violated its creator responsibility policy. 0nline Retailer asos has asked for its adverts to be pulled on rumble, the digital platform on which mr brand plans to post his next video on monday. The bbc has made several requests to talk to mr brand over the past week but he has avoided questions and scrutiny, choosing instead to speak directly to his followers on social media. But the questions keep coming. And the investigations into his alleged behaviour continue. Please, if you can, stay free. Ellie price, bbc news. And finally, on sunday, a capsule is expected to fall from space and land in the american state of utah. It contains rocks and dust from the surface of an asteroid called bennu, which could give important clues about how the earth was formed. The bbc science correspondent Rebecca Morelle is in utah where the capsule is expected to return to earth. The clock really is ticking for the team. They are gearing up for the dramatic conclusion of this seven year long 0siris rex mission. So, after travelling for billions of miles through our solar system, this capsule which is carrying the precious fragments of asteroid bennu will make its way through the atmosphere and all the way down to the ground here in utah. But that descent is going to be perilous. It will speed through the atmosphere at 27,000 miles an hour, experiencing temperatures of 3,000 degrees celsius. It is going to need two parachutes to slow it down and offer, hopefully, a soft landing. The capsule has no tracking or gps on board so the team are going to have to use long range telescopes and infrared cameras to try and find it as it comes through, so it will be a nerve wracking wait for them. Once they have the co ordinates, they will get into their helicopters and head out to the Recovery Site because the key thing is to get the capsule and its contents into a clean room as soon as possible because they do not want any contamination. The big question, i guess, is why go to all of this trouble . The first reason is a really good one. We want to find out about asteroid bennu because it tops the list of nasas most hazardous space rocks. There is a one in 1750 chance of it hitting earth in the next 300 years, which is small, but significant. So if you want to stop or prevent Something Like this from happening, it helps to know what the asteroid is actually made of. But bennu is not all bad. In fact, it could actually tell us about our origins because asteroids are perfectly preserved time capsules, they are these relics, leftovers from the formation of the early solar system. So there is an awful lot we can learn from them. Scientists are desperate to get their carefully gloved hands on this Asteroid Sample once the capsule is open. It will be a painstaking process, a few weeks long, but they say the wait is going to be worth it. Rebecca morelle, bbc news. Lets find out more with keith cowing, editor of spaceref. Com. Hes in reston, virginia thank you forjoining us. Rebecca was quite excited in the desert in utah, how are you feeling about what is going to happen in utah, Sunday Morning . Just as excited but im not sure she gave you a wonderful overview of what is about to happen and what everybody is excited about. Happen and what everybody is excited about. What a Scientist Exectin excited about. What a scientist expecting to excited about. What a scientist expecting to happen excited about. What a scientist expecting to happen and excited about. What a scientist| expecting to happen and hoping to happen on Sunday Morning . Bennu is of a particular class, it means that has organic chemicals, things we eat that made us up, that led to the origin of life on earth, it is a very old piece of rock, here is my scale model of it it is a tangerine, that is roughly the shape. It was made of parts from a bigger thing that got blown apart billions of years ago there is evidence some of the rock still have water on them and you need a big well to do that. You have this collection of rocks with chemicals on it that could lead to the origin of life on earth, and also water, which the ocean make the oceans come from, and thoughts could be things like the asteroid which has a lot of similarities to comments could have rained down on the earth and bought us our oceans in the chemicals that resulted in the chemicals that resulted in you and i being on tv tonight. I am in you and i being on tv tonight. Iam in in you and i being on tv tonight. I am in astrobiology so i am excited from that aspect of it, but there are geologists who do not care about the bugs they want to know what the rockstar, is something for everybody with the submission. Something for everybody with the submission. How to ensure these particles, the submission. How to ensure these particles, what the submission. How to ensure these particles, what you the submission. How to ensure these particles, what you want| these particles, what you want to study actually gets to earth safely, how will that take place . Safely, how will that take lace . , safely, how will that take lace . , place . The way the spacecraft comes and place . The way the spacecraft comes and it place . The way the spacecraft comes and it is place . The way the spacecraft comes and it is designed place . The way the spacecraft comes and it is designed to i comes and it is designed to comes and it is designed to come in and land like they wanted to, that has shaped, and they have had these kind of spacecraft recovered before they have had practice and they have been practising on how to get this, they are pretty sure it will come in but you want to get it nonetheless in case something goes wrong, get it into a bag and another bag and get it to the laboratory and make sure everything is sealed off as soon as possible to make sure whatever is inside came from the asteroid not from the suv that drives it back to the laboratory. Suv that drives it back to the laboratory suv that drives it back to the laborato. ~. , , laboratory. What happens first who are the laboratory. What happens first who are the first laboratory. What happens first who are the first scientists who are the first scientists who are the first scientists who get their hands on these extracted parts from bennu . 0nce extracted parts from bennu . Once they get the spacecraft inside the glove box and everybody is wearing all the fancy gear they will inspect the outside of the spacecraft to see if there is any damage and how it survived and outlooks, then they will open it up methodically and stop at each point you see if anything has leaked out and so forth, also collecting all the material as they get to the large container in the middle, there is probably a bunch of rocks and stuff like that various like the size or smaller and bits of peoples and things like that inside the actual collection facility. They will methodically move in and just look at the stuff, they want to be sure they dont monkey with it until they are ready to pull it out, then they will do chemical testing on. It is only 250 xi or nine ounces in mass, and total. How much of that will be looked at, what every tiny particle be looked at . , , at . The answer is very carefully at . The answer is very carefully and at . The answer is very i carefully and judiciously, at . The answer is very carefully and judiciously, it is worth its weight in gold, they have a process, they know roughly what they have and they make a tree and divided up to people and hold some aside and they have very effective ways of looking at things now, you can use a very small part, they will be very, very careful about going through each of these things because, they may leave some of it untouched because ten or 15 years we may have new ways of looking at this stuff, because as that is how we look at some of the rocks that have come from the moon. ~. ,. Rocks that have come from the moon, ~. ,. , , rocks that have come from the moon. ~. ,. , moon. What is a best case scenario. Moon. What is a best case scenario, what moon. What is a best case scenario, what could moon. What is a best case scenario, what could we. Moon. What is a best case. Scenario, what could we learn in the next few weeks and months . Months . Again as in astrobiology months . Again as in astrobiology guide, | months . Again as inj astrobiology guide, i months . Again as in astrobiology guide, i would want to see some more organic compounds and a greater diversity, this thing punched into the surface of the asteroid outside the crust where the sun beats down on things very hard. I would like to see organic chemistry there and all sorts of precursor molecules, because that means it is all over the place and life is probably an obvious thing that is going to happen. I have to end you there. But i hope you find what you want. Stay with us here on bbc news. Hello. The weather in the North Atlantic is becoming a lot more turbulent. The jet stream is increasing in strength and the weather will be turning more and more unsettled in the coming days, in fact, rest of the weekend. For some of us, its going to be a real mixed bag with spells of wind and Rain Sweeping across the country. Heres one such Weather Front thats sweeping across the uk right now. Its bringing outbreaks of rain almost anywhere. It wont be raining all the time. You can see sort of these distinct clumps of Rain Crossing the country, but with that, also strengthening winds. And they are coming in from the southwest. Actually, remnants of an old hurricane here. So temperatures early in the morning, 16 in plymouth, even about 1a or 15 there in the lowlands of scotland. And it is a large area of low pressure ahead of it. The winds are coming in from the southwest. So a relatively warm direction. And these Weather Fronts will be brushing the uk all through the day on sunday. But it is not a coherent area of rain. In fact, pulses of Rain Sweeping across the country. Could be wet for a time in the morning. Then the sun will come out. Then the winds will strengthen again. And then towards the second half of the afternoon, i think thats when well see the really heavy rain and Gale Force Winds around western parts of the uk. But all the while, i think, in central and eastern parts of the uk its not bad at all. Warm by day and actually the evening is not looking bad at all either. But this is 7 00. Look at that heavy Rain Sweeping across western parts of the uk. The wind roses there showing gusts of wind in some places, 50, 60, maybe even approaching 70 miles an hour around scottish coasts. And then that Weather Front sweeps across the uk monday and behind it i think its going to be quite a strong westsouthwesterly wind. Itll bring showers to scotland, but elsewhere i think a pretty decent day and quite warm highs, approaching 20 degrees widely across england, high teens there in scotland and northern ireland. And then midweek were watching a particularly potentially particularly nasty low coming our way, could bring severe gales, perhaps even stormy conditions around some coasts. So i think the time when thats going to happen will be around about wednesday. So if youre travelling this week, especially middle parts of the week, keep track of the weather. I think well firm up the forecast some time late sunday and into monday. Bye bye. This is bbc news. The headlines armenia calls for International Intervention to prevent Ethnic Cleansing in nagorno karabakh, days after azerbaijan seized control. Tens of thousands of Ethnic Armenians are seeking refuge in the enclave, theyre facing dwindling food, medicine and fuel. Russias foreign minister, sergei lavrov, has accused the us and its allies of creating an empire of lies. Speaking at the united nations, he also called latest efforts to revive the black Sea Grain Initiative unrealistic. China reportedlyjails a prominent uyghur scholar for life, amid a years long government crackdown against the minority ethnic group. And, nasa awaits the return of a Spacecraft Carrying Dust Samples from whats been described as the most dangerous rock in the solar system
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