live from washington. this is bbc news help is on the way — the first aid convoy has reached nagorno karabakh, since azerbaijan captured the disputed territory five days ago ukraine claims russian navy commanders have been killed by a missile strike in crimea and — sudan's army chief tells the bbc — he's ready for peace talks with rebel forces. hello, i'm nomia iqbal. we begin in nagorno—karabakh: the region of azerbaijan that was, until this week, ruled as a breakaway republic

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 organisation's 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 also dropped body bags, not so pleasant to think about but dignified management of the dead. earlier on saturday, azerbaijani forces showed off weapons captured from ethnic armenian forces. local officials said the terms of a ceasefire were now being implemented, including evacuating the wounded. but later the truce was apparently violated, with an azeri soldier wounded in an exchange of fire. in new york, azerbaijan's foreign minister jeyhun bayramov told the un general assembly that baku was determined to, quote, "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.0ur correspondent rayhan demytrie has the latest. it will make the political situation

is that they surrender to azerbaijan and send the cease—fire agreement and send the cease—fire agreement and now, what is happening is that was part of the cease—fire agreement that they agreed to lay down their arms in this process is they signed this ceasefire agreement on wednesday. and now what's happening is the process of disarmament, because that was part of the ceasefire agreement, that karabakh armenians agreed to lay down their arms. and this process is ongoing. today, the minister of defence of azerbaijan published a list of military equipment that has been seized so far. but of course, all eyes are on the humanitarian situation in nagorno—karabakh itself, in the regional capital, stepanakert, where there are thousands of people who were displaced by the conflict. and as we speak, they are in the basements with no electricity, no heating, very little food and lots of uncertainty. rayhan, if the ceasefire holds, is a big effect, could mark the end of a conflict that has raged on for decades. what's the sense in the region of whether or not this could be a long term end to this?

well, for sure. what happened on tuesday was almost kind of finale of the war that began three years ago in 2020, when azerbaijan launched a military offensive to retake its territories that it lost in the 19905 to armenia, and it succeeded militarily. three years ago, it retook lots of territories surrounding the enclave of nagorno—karabakh. and now, on tuesday, it finally moved to kind of establish full control over this territory. but once again, there is still quite a lot of uncertainty because azerbaijani authorities are not in the regional capital, stepa na kert. there were talks between azerbaijan and karabakh armenians and azerbaijan says that there will be many more needed to come to the terms and to start

the process of reintegration, as they say. to the war in ukraine now. russian foreign minister sergey lavrov says — the united states and ukraine's 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". here's mr lavrov — addressing the un general assembly on saturday. translation: the collective west has a calling card and it's 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 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 first—hand. 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 isa it is a speech that comes from the point of view of weakness but he did not even mention the it was a speech that you would say really comes from the point of view of weakness on ukraine, that he couldn't even mention the ukraine war, that there was no discussion of russia's right to invade ukraine, of russia's annexation of ukraine, the parts of ukraine. so, in that sense, it was really running away from the story of the moment which is the fact that the russian army is an ukraine and fighting a huge war. so i think we have to say it is expected but it is not a speech of strength. well, as the war grinds on in ukraine, the number of amputees coming back from the battlefields is increasing. fifteen thousand men and women lost limbs in the first half of this year alone — according to official figures released by the country's ministry

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turning to sudan now. the head of the army claims — he's ready to talk peace with the rebel commander whom he is battling for control of the country. the brutal civil war has left more than 5,000 people dead — according to the un, with five million displaced. general abdel fattah al—burhan, of the sudanese armed forces, has told the bbc he's prepared — in principle — to sit down with mohamed hamdan dagalo, leader of the of the rebel rapid support forces. our diplomatic correspondentjames landale reports from new york. since april, sudan has been gripped by fighting. the army and rebel forces locked in a bitter struggle for power. thousands have died, millions displaced. at the heart of the conflict is this man, general abdel fattah al—burhan, leader of the sudanese armed forces who seized power two years ago. his enemy, mohammed hamdan dagalo,

also known as hemmati, leader of the so—called rapid support forces, a group accused of horrific war crimes. general, how did you do? i met general al—burhan in new york, where he had addressed the united nations and he claimed he was ready to consider a cease fire. are you prepared to sit down and talk with the leader, hemmati? absolutely. whenever he commits to what we agreed injeddah, we will sit to resolve this problem. at those talks injeddah, in saudi arabia during the summer. both sides agreed to protect civilians, something both sides have failed to do. the sudanese armed forces have been accused by the un and charities of targeting civilians with indiscriminate air strikes on residential parts of khartoum. why are the civilian casualties so high?

why are your forces deliberately targeting civilians? this is not correct. they are fabrications of some stories by the rebel forces. they bomb civilians and film it as if it was the armed forces. we are professional forces. we walk with precision and select our targets in areas where only the enemy is present. is the future of south sudan a failed state like somalia or a divided state like libya? is the future of south sudan a failed state like somalia or a divided state like libya? well, sudan, the sudan will remain united. the sudan, because of its sons, will remain a state intact, not a failure state. but right now, it looks like one with a humanitarian crisis and millions fleeing their homes, many into neighboring countries, prompting fears

the fighting could spread. james landale, bbc news, new york. in other news. tropical storm ophelia is bringing heavy rain, storm surges and winds up and down the east coast of the u—s. the storm made landfall in north carolina saturday morning and is now working its way north. the main concerns are power outages and flooding. pope francis has celebrated mass at the end of his two—day visit to visit to marseille, during which he highlighted migrant and refugee rights. crowds in the southern french city cheered as the pope made his way to the velodrome stadium, where president macron and tens of thousands of people took part in the act of worship. the comedian and actor russell brand says it has been �*an extraordinary and distressing week�* after rape and sexual assault allegations were made against him. in a video published on social media he thanked his fans for their support and criticised news outlets, the government,

and tech companies. ellie price reports. hello there, you awakening wonders. a direct appeal to supporters, with no direct mention of the allegations against him. obviously it's been an extraordinary and distressing week and i thank you very much for your support and for questioning the information that you've been presented with. in this three—minute video, russell brand talks instead about media corruption and collusion. i need your support now more than ever and more than i ever imagined i would. july the 1st 2012 was when my rape happened... this week russell brand faced allegations of rape and sexual assault following claims made by four women in the channel 4 dispatches programme and the times and sunday times. he denies the claims and insists his relationships have always been consensual. the bbc has also heard from one

woman who said the comedian exposed himself to her in a bathroom in this building in los angeles where he was recording his radio 2 programme. he then joked about the alleged incident minutes later on air. by now you're probably aware that the british government has asked big tech platforms to censor our online content and that some online platforms have complied. youtube has now suspended russell brand from making money from adverts after it said he had violated its creator responsibility policy. online retailer asos has asked for its adverts to be pulled on rumble, the digital platform on which mr brand plans to post his next video on monday. the bbc has made several requests to talk to mr brand over the past week but he has avoided questions and scrutiny, choosing instead to speak directly to his followers on social media. but the questions keep coming. and the investigations into his alleged behaviour continue. please, if you can, stay free. ellie price, bbc news.

haiti's prime minister, ariel henry has called for urgent united nations action to bring stability to his country. he says the security situation has led to a new humanitarian crisis — displacing thousands of people. he told the general assembly — the security council must act to authorise an international force, to help haiti's overstretched police and military subdue rampant armed gangs. mr henry said kidnappings for ransom, arson, massacres, sexual violence, and people trafficking are all on the rise. the country's stability has deteriorated, as its largest economic driver — agricultural production, slowed due to natural disasters like the devastating earthquake in 2010. those have led to illnesses, such as cholera, spreading on a mass scale. meanwhile, political corruption has made it nearly impossible for the prime minister to manage the chaos.

the un says — more than two thousand people have been killed in haiti since the start of this year. while the biden administration said they will not be sending troops to haiti, they will continue to offer financial and humanitarian support. secretary blinken spoke of additional measures the us is taking to support haiti. on current and former asian officials were enabling the violence and with that step we designated more than 50 individuals. —— haitian. in ghana, hundreds of demonstrators gathered in the capital accra on saturday — for a third day of anti—government protests linked to economic hardship. dozens have been arrested for defying a police order not to assemble. our newsroom reporter daniel dadzie has more. so, these are the scenes on the street leading up to the government in the capital for three days, the protests have

defied the reigns, waving placards and nationalflags among others. they decry the high cost of living and lack ofjobs as they march under the watchful eye of riot police. the occupyjulorbi demonstration began as a hashtag on x, formerly known as twitter. on thursday, the police picked up 49 of these protesters for violating the public order act and the gathering unlawfully. since then, these policemen have barricaded the street leading up to that very presidential residency but democracy hub gh which organises demonstration has vowed to occupy that very premises. don't we have the right to demonstrate?— don't we have the right to

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spoke with two people involved in the project. richard greenwood is a meteorite researcher at the open university who will be analysing some of the asteroid samples, and anjani polit, from the university of arizona's lunar and planetary laboratory who has been involved in planning the mission. this was an incredibly complex, challenging mission and we've had so many people working to make this happen. the spacecraft launched seven years ago and it's been on itsjourney to asteroid bennu, where we mapped and characterised the asteroid in a lot of detail. we collected the sample in 2020 and now it's been on its way back to earth for the last two plus years. can ijust say, you kind of skirted over. you collected the sample. i mean, it was quite an incredible collection, a collecting of the sample. that's right. it was a very challenging event. well, first of all, asteroid bennu was covered by rocks and boulders, which we were not expecting. so even trying to find that place to sample was a huge challenge

for the team. and we had to completely revamp how we approached that. and then the actual collection event itself was touching the surface of the asteroid and blowing nitrogen gas into the surface to direct the sample into the sampling head and then backing away from the asteroid. but the asteroid surface as well responded in a way we did not expect. amazing. richard greenwood, let me bring you in here. you are so as we understand it. so this capsule is now hurtling its way back to earth. and then there is going to be a queue of more than 200 scientists who want to get their hands on some of this rock from the meteorite or particles from the meteorite. and you are one of them. are you hoping to get hold of a bit of the a bit of the dust? we are, yeah. we're part of the very large worldwide team of scientists who are so excited. and we will get our hands on some of this material and do some analysis.

and we say we're really keen to find out how this material fits in with the other extraterrestrial samples that we've got. but it could be totally unique and that's the exciting thing. how do you actually go about examining what's the process? well, we'll receive the samples and they'll be in nitrogen to keep them pristine so they don't touch. i've never been touched by the earth's atmosphere and we've got special what we call glove boxes to handle the samples. so we analyse the material so that it's never seen the earth's atmosphere. and we put it we in particular do a thing called oxygen isotope analysis, and that helps to fingerprint very precisely the material and allows us to match it with all those meteorites and other samples that we've already analysed. and what do you hope to find? what can it tell us? well, i mean, it's it's from the very earliest phase of solar system formation. so it's going to tell us about that that phase before the earth forms how asteroids came together. and indeed, it also contains

material that probably predates our solar system. so it could tell us something about the different stars that contributed material to the solar system itself. but so it's a very, very exciting sample. anthony, back to you about sort of the actual mission itself. first of all, why this particular asteroid and there are some concerns that it might be heading this way at some point in the future. is that right? right. so, asteroid bennu is a carbon rich asteroid, and asteroids like that may have delivered water and organic molecules to the early earth. and so that is one of the big reasons that we specifically chose asteroid bennu. there were also engineering constraints for the mission in terms of what roads we could get to and get back from in a reasonable time frame. asteroid bennu is also interesting, as you mentioned, because of those planetary defense, those security concerns.

and so we need to understand its orbit and a lot of detail and its material properties so that if in the future there is a risk to earth, we understand it and have plenty of time to respond to it. the risks are very low, but asteroid bennu is currently the most hazardous hazardous asteroid that we know about. so definitely want to keep your eye on. and richard, i mean, we get a sense from you how excited you are to be getting very up close and personal to part of bennu. you know, really, because i mean, although we've been studying the asteroid for two years and we sort of have a broad idea of what it's going to be like, it's in fact, because of its weakness, it would never survive entry into the earth's atmosphere on its own. so, it's very likely to be quite unique. and so, obviously until that capsule's opened and we get a chance to study it, we really don't know

what we're going to get. and so it's enormously exciting. stay with us here on bbc news hello. the weather in the north atlantic is becoming a lot more turbulent. thejet stream is increasing in strength and the weather will be turning more and more unsettled in the coming days, in fact, rest of the weekend. for some of us, it's going to be a real mixed bag with spells of wind and rain sweeping across the country. here's one such weather front that's sweeping across the uk right now. it's bringing outbreaks of rain almost anywhere. it won't be raining all the time. you can see sort of these distinct clumps of rain crossing the country, but without also strengthening winds. and they are coming in from the southwest. actually, remnants of

an old hurricane here. so temperatures early in the morning, 16 in plymouth, even about ia or 15 there in the lowlands of scotland. and it is a large area of low pressure ahead of it. the winds are coming in from the southwest. so relatively warm direction. and these weather fronts will be brushing the u.k. all through the day on sunday. but it is not a coherent area of rain. in fact, pulses of rain sweeping across the country could be wet for a time in the morning. then the sun will come out. then the winds will strengthen again. and then towards the second half of the afternoon, i think that's when we'll see the really heavy rain and gale force winds around western parts of the uk. but all the while i think in central and eastern parts of the uk it's not bad at all. warm by day and actually the evening is not looking bad at all either. but this is 7:00. look at that heavy rain sweeping across western parts of the uk. the wind rose as they're showing gusts of wind in some places, 50, 60, maybe even approaching 70 miles an hour around scottish coasts. and then that weather front sweeps across the uk monday and behind it i think it's going to be quite a strong

west south—westerly wind. it'll bring showers to scotland, but elsewhere i think a pretty decent day and quite warm highs approaching 20 degrees widely across england, high teens there in scotland and northern ireland. and then midweek we're watching a particularly potentially particularly nasty low coming our way, could bring severe gales, perhaps even stormy conditions around around some coasts. so i think the time when that's going to happen will be around about wednesday. so if you're travelling this week, especially middle parts of the week, keep track of the weather. i think we'll firm up the forecast sometime late sunday and into monday. bye— bye.

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