hello. a warm welcome. the fate of ethnic armenians in disputed nagorno karabakh is hanging in the balance, as their leaders say most will likely leave their historic homeland now controlled by azerbaijan. the region is internationally recognised 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. some aid has reached the enclave, but food, medicine and fuel are all in short supply. in new york, azerbaijan s foreign minister 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 week s hostilities began. she sent us this report. this is t
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 . here s mr lavrov addressing the un general assembly on saturday. translation: the collective west has a calling card and iti 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 don t 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. the bbc spoke to phillips o brien, professor of strategic studies at st andrews university. he said a lot was missing from mr lavrov s address. it was a speech that you would say really comes from a point of view of
the impossible became possible. that s how the head of nasa described an extraordinary mission to retrieve a capsule containing fragments of an asteroid on sunday. the capsule had travelled a billion miles to land on the asteroid, named bennu, before returning safely back to earth earlier after seven years in space. scientists are now examining the sample, which they hope is 250 grams of rock and dust from the surface. they say it could explain how life on earth began. the retrieval of the capsule happened in the us state of utah, from where rebecca morelle reports. it has entered the earth s atmosphere. a first glimpse of the capsule after its epic journey through space. high up in the atmosphere, a parachute opens, slowing its descent. touchdown! it has touched down. a textbook landing in the middle of the utah desert. for the team who have spent decades working on the osiris rex mission, it s an emotional moment. it went absolutely perfectly. perfect landing, we didn t mov
we begin in nagorno karabakh, where fears are growing of a potential humanitarian catastrophe after military action by azerbaijan. that s 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, azerbaijan s 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 week s hostilities began. she filed this report. this is the first time journalists have been allowed into karabakh since the s
hello everyone. thank you for joining me this sunday. i m fredicka whitfield. we begin in hollywood where after the last four days of marathon negotiations, striking writers and studios could reach a deal as early as today. it s a glimmer of hope for an end to a strike that has dragged ob for nearly five months and impacted the production of scores of tv shows and movies. cnn s parent company, warner brothers discovery, is a part of the negotiations with the union. cnn s camila bernal joining me from los angeles. camila, how hopeful are people? reporter: people are really on pins and needles. they re very hopeful but also very cautious because they know at the moment there is no deal. this is day five of these marathon sessions, but they re waiting to see exactly what is going to come out of all of these negotiations. a lot of people want to return to work. they want to see a deal happening, possibly today. that is a very likely possibility because we had heard that by the