more children could die. i ll be joined by correspondence to discuss the conservative leadership contest in the crisis in ukraine and the departure from iraqi politics. stay with us on bbc news. hello and welcome to bbc news. after weeks of debate, voting has closed in the conservative party leadership race. after two months of campaigning, and eight initial candidates whittled down to two, we ll find out on monday whether liz truss or rishi sunak has been chosen by party members to be the next leader and so prime minister. here s our political correspondent ben wright: after a long, rancorous campaign, it s now time to count the ballots. just 160,000 tory party members are picking their next leader, the next prime minister. and the challenges facing them are huge. they were spelt out today by the current chancellor. he is backing liz truss, presumed frontrunner. there are no easy options. we have war on our continent. we havejust come through a pandemic. but this economy i
we start with news that will have implications for europe s energy supply this winter. the russian energy giant gazprom says it has found a new problem in its key gas pipeline to europe, which had been due to reopen on saturday. gazprom says it s detected an oil leak in a turbine on the nord stream one pipeline, meaning it will remain closed for an indefinite period. the pipeline has already been completely shut for three days for what gazprom described as maintenance work. moscow denies weaponising energy supplies in retaliation for western sanctions. russia s move to keep the nordstream pipeline closed may or may not be linked to a decision by the g7 group of the world s leading democracies to put a cap on how much they pay for russian oil, in a bid to hit moscow s ability to finance the war in ukraine. the price of oil has risen sharply since the invasion, meaning its revenues have gone up even as some countries cut back on the amount of russian oil they import. the ca
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torres feared the voters have more household help us in provided. the telegraph says the front runner may set out her plans to tackle the energy crisis on day one according to that paper. she is the headline on most of the papers on saturday. meanwhile, the times covers russian president putin cutting off a major european gas pipeline indefinitely which he blames on an an oil leak. none of the papers seemed very convinced by that explanation. the ft reports on how the world s leading economies, the g7, have agreed on a russian oil price cap in an attempt to curb moscow s ability to finance the war in ukraine. back here, the express headline tories put on war footing for snap election political strategists view october it means october 2023 rather than december 2024, which is the last possible day for a general election. the guardian quotes the police chief s criticism of liz truss crime policies, labelling them unwise and meaningless. and the daily mail asks mps to end
Its newsday. Welcome to the programme. A Refugee Crisis is developing in armenia, with more than 28,000 people fleeing the disputed enclave of Nagorno Karabakh. It follows a Military Operation Last week by azerbaijan to retake the region, following months of tension. Internationally, Nagorno Kara Bakh is recognised as part of azerbaijan, but for decades, Ethnic Armenians have controlled large parts of the territory. 0ur correspondent Sarah Rainsford has more from The Border Town of goris. The slow roll out of their homeland. This is a journey no one squeezed into these vehicles ever imagined they would make. Ethnic armenians fleeing Nagorno Karabakh on whatever transport they could find. Its a week since azerbaijan seized back the enclave. It did promise to protect the armenian majority there, but no one we found dared believe that. Instead, they flooded here, to armenia. We met this family of seven who had crammed their whole lives into a few cases. Hungry and exhausted after more tha