The president of armenias self declared Nagorno Karabakh republic has signed a decree which will dissolve all State Institutions on january the first. More than half the Ethnic Armenian population has fled since azerbaijan seized control of the region just over a week ago. The exodus of Ethnic Armenians surpassed 65,000 on wednesday. Many have ended up in the Armenian Border town of goris, from where our correspondent Sarah Rainsford updated me earlier. Were on the town square in goris, which is the main Armenian Border town, which is receiving refugees from Nagorno Karabakh. And you can see some of them behind me, just some of the giant aid effort thats been launched here to help people. Obviously, its Government Institutions that are involved, but also local people, lots of local businesses bringing donations to be handed out to people as they arrive here. Localfamilies, in fact, right across armenia, posting on social media, offering places to stay for people because there is a huge
Welcome to bbc news. i m david eades. our top stories: russian attacks resume on mariupol s steel works, despite hundreds of ukrainian civilians remaining trapped inside. those who ve escaped tell their story. translation: for a month we were eating - over a0 of us six food tins. we boiled two buckets of soup out of them, and that was it for the whole day. a special report from the balkans on beijing s big european investment push, with accusations some chinese firms are treating workers like slaves. an alarming rise in executions in iran since the hardline cleric ebrahim raisi was elected president. and broadway is back with its busiest season in more than a decade, but covid is still
This is bbc news. i m david eades. our top stories: is the us supreme court about to overturn the 50 year federal law on abortion rights? a major moment is looming for one of the country s most contentious issues. russian attacks resume on mariupol s steel works, despite hundreds of ukrainian civilians remaining trapped inside. those who ve escaped tell their story. translation: for a month we were eating - over a0 of us six food tins. we boiled two buckets of soup out of them, and that was it for the whole day. a special report from the balkans on beijing s big european investment push, with accusations some chinese firms are treating workers like slaves. and broadway is back with its busiest season
This is bbc news. i m david eades. our top stories: is the us supreme court about to overturn the 50 year federal law on abortion rights? a major moment is looming for one of the country s most contentious issues. russian attacks resume on mariupol s steel works, despite hundreds of ukrainian civilians remaining trapped inside. those who ve escaped tell their story. translation: for a month we were eating - over a0 of us six food tins. we boiled two buckets of soup out of them, and that was it for the whole day. a special report from the balkans on beijing s big european investment push, with accusations some chinese firms are treating workers like slaves. and broadway is back with its busiest season
From the front line. translation: for a month we were eating - over a0 of us six food tins. we boiled two buckets of soup out of them and that was it for the whole day. weeping translation: there | is no house any more. of course there isn t. this is mariupol after two months of war. homes, play parks, cafes are now charred in blasted ruins. tens of thousands of people are thought to have died. many of the survivors came here, the azovstal steel plant. as the city fell, pounded into smouldering ashes, ukrainian fighters used the underground chambers to stay and fight. translation: there were five very powerful bomb shelters that,