a warm welcome to the programme. we start in the us, where at midnight eastern time tomorrow the us government will run out of money to fund itself, unless congress can agree a last minute deal. if the story sounds familiar, well, it is. it would be the 22 time in the last 50 years, that us government services have had to be shut down because of a budget deadlock in congress. the last time in early 2019 saw a month of widespread disruption to the world s largest economy. erin delmore reports from new york. the clock is ticking. they will need to agree on a deal to fund the federal government passed september 13. the federal government passed september13. right the federal government passed september 13. right now the senate has bipartisan support for a bill but house republicans have rejected it. hardline conservatives calling for deeper cuts and tying any government funding bill to the ongoing issue of immigration and security at the us southern border. house speaker kev
his plane crashed near moscow, his fate ensuring that the russian president s revenge wasn t even a dish that was eaten particularly cold. the war between ukraine and russia, though, where ukraine s progress through russia s ferocious systems of mines and anti tank defences has been slow and painful during the summer, continues to drag. the americans say ukraine has now started to make notable progress, but ukrainian manpower is being increasingly squeezed, and that s a growing problem. at the same time, russia has now had to impose strict daily limits on the amount of bullets and shells its forces can use. so, both sides are feeling the pinch. we ve been seeing some remarkable shifts over the summer altogether. china s economy has received a series of knocks, with exports significantly down. bloomberg the american financial and media conglomerate now says china will never be able to overtake the us economy. xi jinping s system faces some difficult internal challenges, to
hello, i m samantha simmonds. the international red cross says it s managed to deliver 70 tonnes of relief aid to the disputed enclave nagorno karabakh for the first time since azerbaijan captured the territory in a lightning operation five days ago. tens of thousands of armenians have sought refuge in the main city stepanakert, where food and medicine are running low, and power cuts are frequent. families remain stranded in the local airport, where russian peacekeepers are based. they are sleeping on the ground, cooking food on fire and not having an access to clean water. moscow said there were over 2,000 people, including 1,000 children, sheltering at the peacekeepers base camp. i was joined earlier by our correspondent rayhan demytrie who gave me the latest. the political situation is that karabakh armenians, they surrendered to azerbaijan. they signed this ceasefire agreement on wednesday. and now what s happening is the process of disarmament, because that was part of
with the murder of 2a year old chris kaba. hello. the international red cross says it s managed to deliver seventy tonnes of relief aid to the disputed enclave nagorno karabakh for the first time since azerbaijan captured the territory in a lightning operation five days ago. tens of thousands of armenians have sought refuge in the main city stepanakert, where food and medicine are running low, and power cuts are frequent. families remain stranded in the local airport, where russian peacekeepers are based. they are sleeping on the ground, cooking food on fire and not having an access to clean water. moscow said there were over two thousand people, including a thousand children, sheltering at the peacekeepers base camp. i was joined earlier by our correspondent rayhan demytrie who gave me the latest. the political situation is that karabakh armenians, they surrendered to azerbaijan. they signed this ceasefire agreement on wednesday. and now what s happening is the process of
meanwhile, russia s 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 don t 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. for more on this i m joined by phillips o brien, professor of strategic studies at st andrews university welcome to you. good to have your own. what you make of the comments of sergey lavrov? to be as expected? on the on