By its Ethnic Armenian population. This week, Azerbaijani Forces overwhelmed the Ethnic Armenian separatists, forcing them to surrender. Now, fears are growing of a potential humanitarian catastrophe. That region is internationally recognized as part of azerbaijan. Tens of thousands of armenians have sought refuge in the main city, stepanakert, many of them gathering at the airport. The red cross has managed to deliver seventy tonnes of aid for the first they are coping with dwindling food, medicine and fuel supplies. The red cross has managed to deliver seventy tonnes of aid for the First Time Since azerbaijan captured the disputed territory four days ago. The organisations spokesperson, jason straziuso, said the shipments contained basic staples like wheat. The organisation spokesperson said the shipment contains basic staples like wheat. An indication of how dire the situation is, none of food or medical supplies in the convoy that we sent today to draw about medical supplies but al
The United States and ukraines other allies are, quote, 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 Un General Assembly on saturday. Translation the collective west has a calling card and its 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, written ones and legally binding ones, and then they just 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 first hand. My colleague Samantha Simmons spoke earlier to phillips obrien, professor of strategic studies at st andrews university. He said there was a lot missing from mr lavrov s address. You cannot mention the ukrain
stays unsettled. further bouts of rain moving on but it is not going to be a wash out. there will be some sunshine from time to time. but saturday morning starts off very wet. look at the bright colours, some quite intense rainfall initially. it does move through north eastwards fairly quickly so by the afternoon there will be some sunny spells, a couple of showers but england and wales. the rain spreading to central scotland. the sunshine in the south, temperatures 13, much milderthan sunshine in the south, temperatures 13, much milder than it has been i3, much milder than it has been recently. eight ninths further north. sunday, we do it all again, another area of low pressure moving in. with that the fronts and further outbreaks hello and welcome to sportsday this thursday night, live from the bbc sport centre. coming up on the programme. chasing down the champions can tottenham move level on points with manchester city? west ham will be the team trying to stop them. new
of countermeasures. why did you not say those things? say those things? that is not howl would characterise say those things? that is not howl would characterise the say those things? that is not howl would characterise the situation. i would characterise the situation. the first thing is that i am not confident that by this cabinet meeting, i will have known that sage had concluded that containment was lost. and in fact, i don t think that i was told that for a number of days after. as i said, i m not exactly sure when i was told that. but this meeting was the morning after the minutes of sage coming to that conclusion. secondly, at this point in the department and nphet and the health service, we were working extremely hard to prepare for the pandemic. i had commissioned the action plan and work was under way on that and phe. we were attempting and pushing phe to build the testing system and all of the other things we were directly responsible for. as i say, we were
with fighters from hamas. the israeli military says its troops have now completely encircled gaza city, in the north of the territory, almost four weeks since the start of this war. the us secretary of state, antony blinken, is back in tel aviv, as washington increases the pressure for a humanitarian pause. antony blinken talked about isreal s right to defend itself, but also the need for concrete steps to minimise harm to civilians in gaza. meanwhile, the leader of hezbollah like hamas, a proscribed terror organisation has been speaking in lebanon. hassan nasrallah praised the hamas attacks and said, the possibility of total war is realistic . one other important line to update you on more foreign nationals have been getting out of gaza at the rafah crossing point into egypt. 124 british nationals are on the list of people who are being allowed to leave. the hamas run health ministry in gaza says more than 9,000 people have been killed in the strip since october the