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correspondent, nick beake in kalamata in greece. dramatic news from the court this morning. yes, absolutely. there were loud cheers when the protesters who were outside the court heard this news, when the verdict of the three judges filtered through to people outside. basically what has happened here is that the judges have looked at this case and they have thrown it out, and that means that these nine egyptian men, who have been in custody for the best part of a year, we anticipate that they will be freed. they have just been taken back to the prison where they have been detained for 11 months, but the expectation is that they will be free men. how did we get to this point? this trial started early this morning, and the defence lawyers were saying that because this boat sank in international waters, the court he had nojurisdiction, so basically no legal basis to try these nine men. the threejudges considered this and the prosecutor, who for the past 11 months has been ....
by flaunting his business value. that the scene as he makes his way to the court. we will take you back there live if there developments. we begin in the us, wherejoe biden has said the us will continue to provide support for ukraine after further military funding was excluded from a last minute congressional budget deal. the temporary measure was pushed through to avert a government shutdown, but it doesn t include $6 billion in military aid for kyiv which is a top priority for the white house. let s get the latest on this with our north america business they pushed it to the wire, an 11th hour deal but a deal nonetheless. well, look, it is a deal of sorts, and in the sense we are talking about workers being put, government worker, federal workers being put on furlough or having their pay delayed. instead this deal pushes the condition down the road for another couple of weeks, they have passed a stopgap resolution that funds the government through to november 17th. at ....
about workers, government workers being put on furlough or having their pay delayed. instead this deal pushes the can down the road for a couple of weeks they have passed a stopgap resolution that funds the government through to november 17th. at which point, the clock resets and we start again. what it does, as you say, is fund the government, what it doesn t do, is provide aid to ukraine, and it doesn t address the keyissue ukraine, and it doesn t address the key issue for republican, which is addressing concerns they have about the border, and so i think that is the border, and so i think that is the debate, that is where it shifts to next but complicating all of this, ben, is the fact that now, you have the speaker of the house, kevin mccarthy, whose position, leadership role is under threat because one of the hard liners in the republican party, his own party, has threatened to try and have him removed from position. so, the talks, next time round, could be even mo ....
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 ....
told a senate hearing that he was harassed and threatened after he raised concerns about the safety of the firm s planes. and former engineer ed pierson accused the aircraft giant of a cover up, after a door panel blew out of a 737 max nine jet shortly after take off. michelle fleury was watching the hearings. this was damaging testimony for the plane maker. boeing engineer turned whistle blower, sam salehpour, claimed boeing used short cuts to reduce bottlenecks during the assembly of its 787 dreamliner planes. he said he faced retaliation for raising safety issues. and after the threats and after this, you know, it s like, you know, it really scares me, believe me. but i am at peace. you know, if something happens to me, i am at peace because i feel like by coming forward, i will be saving a lot of lives, and i m at peace. another boeing engineer, ed pierson, accused the plane maker of a criminal cover up after a door blew out of a 737 max plane shortly after take off. and ....