ok, thank you very much for updating us, olga ivshina. i will be i updating us, 0lga ivshina.minister of foreign affairs later in the programme. around the world and across the uk. this is bbc news. bring you different stories from across the uk. cold and alone, the winter months are particularly bleak for people experiencing homelessness, and figures from the charity shelter suggests numbers are rising. adam's been sleeping rough for several weeks. it's really tough. it's degrading. because you can sleep in a doorway with a mat and people are walking up and down. research shows that across the wider south east region, hastings has the highest proportion of people experiencing homelessness, with one in 79. this is followed by brighton and hove, where one in 88 people are homeless. and then crawley, where one in 111 people are without a home. every homeless person, all they really want, is just normal life. for more stories from across the uk, head to the bbc news website. you're live with bbc news. christmas is nowjust days away and this time of year is normally the busiest in

here's the bbc russian services' olga ivshina with the background.as finally, azerbaijan got full control of the territory of nagorno—karabakh. and because of that, ethnic armenians who lived in the region, nearly 100,000 of them have escaped to armenia, being afraid of ethnic cleansing and possible repressions. authorities in baku have promised that they are ready to welcome armenians to azerbaijan but they have to accept azeri citizenship. but i think the core thing here is, because of the conflict has been going on for decades and decades, there is a huge mistrust and a lot of bad memories on both sides. both sides accusing each other of war crimes and slaughtering civilians. and on that, bearing in mind that, it's really hard to build civil negotiations. it's really hard to stick to the diplomatic process. joining me from the armenian capital yerevan, is vahan kostanyan, the deputy minister of foreign affairs, of armenia. welcome to you. thanks very much for being with us. bring us up—to—date on what is the latest situation three months on with t

olga ivshina is here with me now. what has he been saying in this news conference?— conference? image of a — conference? he was trying to pro'ect an image of a strong i conference? he was trying to pro'ect an image of a strong man i conference? he was trying to pro'ect an image of a strong man who h conference? he was trying to pro'ect an image of a strong man who ish conference? he was trying to project an image of a strong man who is in l an image of a strong man who is in charge, who is in control, who is ready to face challenging questions and deal with problems quite quickly. he mentioned the russian economy is quite strong and russia is persistent to continue the invasion, which he calls a special military operation. the most interesting thing i think with the big screen is situated behind the journalists' backs and behind those, some questions were projected sent by members of the public and some of those questions were quite challenging, saying, mr putin, are you and we living in separate realities awareness this will going to end? these were quite challenging questions