By Armenian Separatists for decades, but is internationally recognised as part of azerbaijan. The United Nations says its sending a mission to the region this weekend, to assess the humanitarian situation. The team will look at the needs of people remaining in the territory as well as those who are on the move. Azerbaijan has said it would allow such a visit to take place. We will have more on that later. The Us Government will run out of money to fund itself by the end of saturday unless congress can agree a last minute deal. It would be the 22nd time in the past 50 years that Us Government services have had to be shut down because of a Budget Deadlock in congress. The House Of Representatives will reconvene in washington On Saturday Morning local time. Sean dilley has the latest. Well, this is what you get when the House Of Representatives is led by a Different Party to the one that controls the senate and also occupies the white house. Deadlocks. Not unheard of. The government shut
Meanwhile, russias Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has used his address to the Unted Nations General Assembely in new york to criticise the unites states, nato and the European Union for trying to force the world to play according to their own self centered rules. The collective west has a calling card and it 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 fulfill them. As President Putin pointed out, the west is one that is truly an empire of lies. Russia, like many countries, knows about this first hand. Earlier i spoke to phillips obrien, professor of strategic studies at st andrews university, he told me there was a lot missing from mr lavrov s address. It was a speech that you would say really comes from a Point Of View of weaknes
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israeli air strikes in gaza and focusing on gaza city where israel s defence minister now says that the israeli troops are operating in the heart of gaza city which the minister claims is the heart of terrorism. the area is the one of the most densely populated parts of the territory, and has frequently been hit by the israeli military in the last month it says it is targeting hamas, which israel, along with many other countries, considers to be a terrorist organisation. in this bulletin we will bring you the developments from right across this region, from here in israel, inside gaza and from lebanon as well. but we will start this hour with the latest developments from our middle east correspondent yolande knell. flares hanging in gaza s night sky are ominous warnings of incoming israeli fire. but, increasingly, the israeli prime minister s being pressed for a pause in fighting. i did ask him for a pause yesterday. this is a key moment. israeli troops are now said to be i
documents. that was part of a deal to end his iii year legal battle over the leaking of vast amounts of secret us military information on the internet. the 52 year old is now on his way home to australia following the hearing. and from where a southeast asia correspondent jonathan had sent this report. the last stage of a very long journey. julian assange walked into the courtroom on this remote pacific island to hear whether the agreement he d struck with us prosecutors would stick. after two hours of very careful consideration by the judge, it did. he pleaded guilty, and she agreed to a sentence equal to the time he d already served in britain. but his lawyers still insist his prosecution for breaking an espionage law was unjust. we firmly believed that mr assange never should have been charged under the espionage act, and engaged in exercise thatjournalists engage in every day. and we re thankful that they do. it is appropriate, though, for this fight to end and it is appr