conservative party members are arriving in manchester for the annual party conference. it comes as railway unions stage strikes across the uk over pay and conditions. police in the uk have named 15—year—old jessica baker and coach driver stephen shrimpton as the two people killed in a crash yesterday. they both died when the school bus overturned on the m53 in the wirral. the us government edges towards shutdown after members of congress fail to reach an agreement on spending. government agencies will begin shutting down unless a deal is reached by the end of saturday. now on bbc news — newscast.

the bbc news is that they've released some new guidelines for presenters and personalities use of social media. news people have to stick to the rules of being completely impartial and not say anything controversial which is all has been the case, but presenters of certain flagship programmes like much of the day your antiques roadshow have been told they can't tweet anything that might be considered controversial while their shows on air orjust before or after they are on air. this is a reaction to that whole row about gary lineker and his tweets that caused a huge for rory and then the bbc had to wrestle with its commitment to impartiality but then what about folk who aren't doing news shows and

maybe do a handful of shows a year or a collection of shows but also do lots of other work and might want to express views about stuff? and news about gb news is that ofcom, the communications regulator, has announced they are doing an official investigation into those comments by the actor and commentator laurence fox on a show the other night when they were talking about some comments made by a female journalist. we can chat about what is going on in gb news now because we arejoint in is going on in gb news now because we are joint in the studio by one of the presenters. it is nice to see you in real life rather than on screen. do i look better? the same! which was already good. what is the last 48 hours been like a gb news? to be honest, it's been an interesting moment because we have worked _ interesting moment because we have worked very hard at gb news to make sure that _ worked very hard at gb news to make sure that we _ worked very hard at gb news to make sure that we follow all the guidelines and that we are all trained — guidelines and that we are all trained properly with all the ofcom guidelines that some of us have come

from, _ guidelines that some of us have come from, myself from the bbc, we were really _ from, myself from the bbc, we were really making headway because we have last _ really making headway because we have last week beat bbc news and sky news over— have last week beat bbc news and sky news over average views and for three _ news over average views and for three consecutive days we also beat sky news _ three consecutive days we also beat sky news and we have been making realty _ sky news and we have been making really great headway. but the last 48 hours — really great headway. but the last 48 hours have been quite tough in a sense _ 48 hours have been quite tough in a sense because it is disappointing because — sense because it is disappointing because the things that were said on air are _ because the things that were said on air are hot _ because the things that were said on air are not really the way that the chahhet_ air are not really the way that the channel operates. a lot of people have _ channel operates. a lot of people have treeh— channel operates. a lot of people have been saying freedom of speech, freedom _ have been saying freedom of speech, freedom of— have been saying freedom of speech, freedom of speech and laurence fox had talked _ freedom of speech and laurence fox had talked about freedom of speech. yes, had talked about freedom of speech. yes. there _ had talked about freedom of speech. yes, there is freedom of speech but let's not— yes, there is freedom of speech but let's not conflate that with being misogynistic, sexist or racist. those — misogynistic, sexist or racist. those things aren't allowed and that isn't a _ those things aren't allowed and that isn't a standard that we would have at gb _ isn't a standard that we would have at gb news. most people at gb news that i speak to don't think that it's acceptable what he said and neither— it's acceptable what he said and neither do our viewers. can it's acceptable what he said and neither do our viewers.- neither do our viewers. can you understand _ neither do our viewers. can you understand how _ neither do our viewers. can you understand how it _ neither do our viewers. can you understand how it happened? l neither do our viewers. can you - understand how it happened? what was your theory about what was going on? i can't really speak about what was

going _ i can't really speak about what was going oh~ — i can't really speak about what was going oh i— i can't really speak about what was going on. ijust think laurence was talking _ going on. ijust think laurence was talking as — going on. ijust think laurence was talking as though he is a 17—year—old around his mates in a pub and _ 17—year—old around his mates in a pub and hot— 17—year—old around his mates in a pub and not actually respecting the space _ pub and not actually respecting the space that he was in riches whilst we do _ space that he was in riches whilst we do like — space that he was in riches whilst we do like to have an entertaining sehse _ we do like to have an entertaining sense of— we do like to have an entertaining sense of the news, we are also quite serious _ sense of the news, we are also quite serious~ i'm — sense of the news, we are also quite serious. i'm quite a serious jourhaiist _ serious. i'm quite a serious journalist. i might laugh and joke and make — journalist. i might laugh and joke and make fun in light of things, but my messes — and make fun in light of things, but my messes is usually a serious one and gb _ my messes is usually a serious one and gb news suspended him immediately. there was no question about— immediately. there was no question about that — immediately. there was no question about that. dan has also been suspended, they are being investigated for their behaviour. i investigated for their behaviour. wonder investigated for their behaviour. i wonder what your human reaction was. yes, as a colleague, but more as an individual when you first watch the exchange on the telly or social media? ., ., ~' exchange on the telly or social media? ., ., ,, , , , media? look, this is my view. lawrence _ media? look, this is my view. lawrence didn't _ media? look, this is my view. lawrence didn't need - media? look, this is my view. lawrence didn't need to - media? look, this is my view. lawrence didn't need to sink l media? look, this is my view. | lawrence didn't need to sink to media? look, this is my view. i lawrence didn't need to sink to a similar— lawrence didn't need to sink to a similar level, i've looked at some of the _ similar level, i've looked at some of the things ava says on social media — of the things ava says on social media and _ of the things ava says on social media and see talks in that way to some _ media and see talks in that way to some of— media and see talks in that way to some of the people who are tweeting her and _ some of the people who are tweeting her and things. but that doesn't mean _ her and things. but that doesn't mean that— her and things. but that doesn't mean that if lawrence is having

exchange — mean that if lawrence is having exchange with her, especially on air live on— exchange with her, especially on air live on a _ exchange with her, especially on air live on a news channel, that he should — live on a news channel, that he should be — live on a news channel, that he should be going down the same sinkhole — should be going down the same sinkhole. for me, the language on air was— sinkhole. for me, the language on air was totally unacceptable. this is not _ air was totally unacceptable. this is not something i would allow on my show _ is not something i would allow on my show it— is not something i would allow on my show it is— is not something i would allow on my show. it is being investigated because _ show. it is being investigated because this is not the charter on bbc news —— gb news. so you can have lots of different views, which we do have, but you must treat each person with respect as well. because i wonder, gb news champions is the fact that you will hear bold opinions and makes an argument that you will hear bold opinions that you perhaps don't hear as much of elsewhere. i wonder where, and again i'm not asking you to speak on behalf of the whole channel, but for your own show, for instance,

where you draw a line on a channel that is proud of being bold in its opinions, between being bold and then a line over which you would deem to be acceptable. i mean, you have drawn part of that line in what you have just said but ijust wonder how you kind of wrestle with that. well, i wouldn't tolerate someone being misogynistic, and that is what i felt that was, that was a misogynistic, nonsense comment that gb news would not stand by and neither would i. and i don't know what went on within all of that, but if i have comments like that in my show, i would shut that down instantly and demand an apology from the person there. but i don't know what happened but the bottom line is that management would not tolerate that and neither would i. do you think laurence fox should ever be back on gb news? it's not for me to determine what the management should do, should or shouldn't do, they are investigating so they will investigate and then they will come up with a decision, it's not my decision to make. and how does it work on the channel, with you as a presenter and a contributor? done in a very straight way, and this is something a bit more commenty so you can kind of maybe

let rip a bit more or... so, what the deal is, just like you have news commentators on the bbc, and with this new guideline, where people are not strictly close to the news, they are free to speak, but the news readers, so we have news bulletins on the hour and sometimes at half past the hour, they do not express an opinion so we follow the ofcom guidelines which are that if somebody is a news reader, they do not express an opinion on the news and we are very strict with that, and they do not crossover. but i am a commentator and broadcaster, i am a journalist, but i'm not a newsreader. just looping back to the laurence fox issue, i get that there is the ongoing gb news investigation and gb news is a kind of corporate entity as a channel will come to a judgment on what happens, i just wonder what your view is? would you be comfortable being on the same network as laurence fox were he to be welcomed back? you know, for me, if i... i don't like hearing misogynistic or racist comments so in my view, personally, i don't know

what they are going to do, i think it's down to them, i don't know what happened there for that sort of comment. me personally, if it was me, i don't know, i probably wouldn't want him back on air but that is down to the management, it's up to them. what about dan wootton? well, again, it is down to them to make that decision, it's not my decision to make. because he had a different role in it, didn't he? he has been criticised for sort of allowing it to happen, he didn't say it. again look, they are investigating it and, as you know when something is being investigated, you try not to comment on it because there would have been other things going on but i'm not aware of. gb news are taking quite a serious approach to this. we have never suspended people instantly like that and that is the first time that two people, as far as i know have been suspended immediately. there was no question as to whether they should or should not be suspended. at lunchtime today, lee anderson, who is a gb news presenter or commentator, i'm not sure which category he is in, he posted a picture of him in the pub with suella braverman, the home secretary, saying,

exclusive scoop, i am going to be chatting to the home secretary in her first interview since she has got back from washington, dc. just explain to people why it is ok for a conservative mp to be in view... deputy chairman of the party as well. notjust any old mp but a senior one, to interview a conservative minister. i mean, if you look at it, a lot of the other broadcasters, lbc and those broadcasters, they have mps presenting shows and doing that anyway. but that is only one element of the show and the show is wider than that. so there will be someone from the other side of the... somebody who is from the left making comment and somebody with a different view so we have an array of all views. so we follow the rule of due impartiality which is that you must have an array of views so that might be one element of the programme but that isjust one element. there are lots of other elements within the programme whereby there are a diverse range of opinion so it's notjust one tiny, tiny... that is just one tiny section of it. but is the interview

with lee anderson just him and suella braverman in the pub having a chat? no, because there are obviously other people around. so this is a part of a full show. but in the interview with the home secretary, there are other people there to provide that balance? the balance will be provided around the show so it is one show. so, if you have a show, you don't have to have those people sitting there with him throughout. you can have a part of a show where you will have somebody with an opinion and within the show there will be other opinions. it is all part of the same show. do you think there are too many tory mps on gb news as presenters? well, how many are there? i don't know the exact number because some come and go, don't they? how many is too many for you? i don't have a view of how many, i was asking you. i don't really look at it like that. we look for people who have a certain, who want to present and talk about the politics of things. if you look, as i said, lbc, they have had plenty of tory mps and labour mps and all sorts of mps

going on there so we are not alone in doing that. talk tv have mps on their programmes as well so i think it is pretty standard that mps appear and present programmes. do you think it enriches the kind of media landscape and conversation, if you like, that in the mix now, in a way that didn't happen, say, ten years ago maybe five years ago, that you would have formats where a sitting mp, from whatever political party, interviews a fellow sitting mp from that same political party? because journalistically, that is a novel concept in british broadcasting. and people will have a view as to whether it is terrible or great. but there are plenty of... look, we don't have to do things the way we have always done it and gb news are a disruptor so we are changing the landscape of how things are done. and, you know, if that... as long as we show balance throughout, then that is what is imperative in this and that is the due impartiality that we are required to show with ofcom so as long as we comply with the rules, just like everybody

else, ijust don't see the problem with it. on that concept of the sort of due impartiality, have you thought about how this model might work when there's a general election campaign, and the impartiality rules on broadcasters are even stricter than they are in normal times? well, we just follow the same rules as everybody else. so, obviously you're not allowed to say, if they are electioneering and things like that, we are all in purdah, we can't say... there are certain things we can't do. so we work alongside everybody else. we're ofcom, regulated, just like the bbc. so, we follow the same rules. and talking about the bbc, what do you think about the new guidelines for tweeting? sorry, x—ing. what do we call it now? posting on x. i'm actually... look, i left the bbc for the very reason that i was unable to speak or say anything. it seems a bit ridiculous...

that is because of due impartiality, which is the very thing you were defending. no, no, well, that's why i left, so i could have a due impartiality. that's what ijust said. i left. because, to me, the bbc was very restrictive in what i could say, i had to follow a narrative. i wanted to have an opinion, i wanted more opinion, more views and opinions, which is why i left. 0k, what narrative do you think you felt you had to follow, out of interest? well, let's talk about brexit, then. when it came to brexit, it was... everyone was so remain, you literally couldn't say anything. i'll give you another example, black lives matter. at one point, my boss actually told me, asked me to do a piece to interview someone about an event to promote a black lives matter event. and i said, but they're a marxist, left—wing pressure group. they shouldn't be on the bbc, and that's not really... and i refused to do it. so it was sort of, no, this is the way we think and this is how it has to be. you know, you couldn't really discuss or question things like climate change. and i wanted to have a wider conversation about it. and so i felt that i was being literally as if someone was choking me, because i wasn't

able to say anything, so i left. specifically to be able to listen to more views and have more views. and so listening to this now, ijust think it is typical that they start allowing it, but that is because they can't defend it, because they can't defend having people like carol vorderman on air, making... with such hateful... have you read some of the tweets she has made for people who are on the right and things? you can't have somebody on a state—owned broadcaster coming out with something like that. gary lineker, with his posts with regards to language that is akin to nazi germany, or germany in the 30s, which is nazi germany. he shouldn't be making comments on state—owned broadcaster... on a state funded broadcaster, sorry. itjust seems... so i don't believe the bbc, if you work for the bbc and you are high profile, i don't believe that you should be pushing your opinions, especially gary lineker. thanks for coming back to the bbc tonight to speak to newscast. thank you, i enjoyed it. thank you very much. that's news about the news.

let's talk about news about politics. because party conference season has got under way. chris, you have hotfooted it back from bournemouth, via glasgow. i have, yes. you know what, i shouldn't admit this, but i'm already a bit tired. that's not a good sign. and i've only done, like, one day at the liberal democrats. so i was very much a part timer, because i turned up for ed davey, the leader's speech, and so was getting teased by colleagues about being a part timer, a tourist, a holiday—maker, because they were all a little bit... notjust my colleagues, but generally, when you get to the last day of any of the party conferences, the general sort of mood is one of exhaustion slash hangover, slash sleep deprivation. and ijust turned up for one day, i have only done one day. i had a little trip to scotland as well. but, yes, i can always feel a bit tired. and we've still got plenty more to come. well, turning up in the newscast studio are two people who needed immense wealth of stamina at various points in their career. justine greening, former conservative cabinet minister, hello. and asa bennett, a former adviser to liz truss. great to be here. so, asa, cast your mind back to a year ago this week,

liz truss was writing her conference speech with you. calm period? nice time, happy memories? it was surreal, looking back, - for a very particular reason, yes, we know the political stakes, we knew what the bin - fire outside was like, _ and effectively it was the last roll of the dice to try and save her leadership, while trying - to stamp her mark of authority on the party _ and yet it was actually quite a calm writing process, because she knewl what she wanted to say. it was just editing, - polishing, going through and looking at endless drafts. just tweaking sentences, making sure it's perfect. | yet at the same time, - the reason i make this point is we were on the top of the midland hotel, in birmingham, and the protesters were playing their tunes _ throughout those days. and so we would be going - through these drafts while i'd be hearing them pumping out things like the spitting image song, - you know, throw a chicken| in the air, stick a deckchair of your nose, pounding through the windows. i

you're like, must not laugh. and that big long speech ended up being about 22 minutes long in the end, once it was delivered, because you had to chuck so much of it out. nearer 30 minutes. i think the only edit, really, was just for the 45p lines. i you were talking about how this time last year there was this sense of the conference speech being the last roll of the dice. how soon after it, or maybe even before it, did you think she's not going to last? even if, at that point, it could have been longer than the time frame it ended up panning out? when did you find yourself thinking, you know what, this is not rescuable? well, certainly in the initial days afterwards, i allowed myself, i with close aides, to think it was a second wind, - a new lease of life. able to start discussing plans for a relaunch - and christmas, new year, . a new leg to the premiership. but it was all stone - dead, in my view, a week or so after when she had to come out |and say i'm sacking kwasi kwarteng.|

justine, what you think the atmos is going to be like at tory conference this year? because it's a year before an election, you'd think it would be quite gung ho, yay, let's go for it? i think it's going to be quite tough. the issue of high speed two is clearly going to dominate it as well. interestingly, i remember going to the conservative party conference last year, thinking liz truss should have resolved the 45p tax cut question. the worst thing to do is to leave it in the air. because, actually, you knew she was going to have to back off it. i was pretty sure the rest of it would have to go as well. so i think for this year, what sunak needs to do, of course, is unite the party. he needs to actually bring the internal workings of the conservative party together. he's launched policies on net zero that have caused a row in the party. he is maybe going down a route on high speed two that's caused a row in the party. one of the traditions,

preconference, is that the pm does all these interviews with regional tv and local radio, as liz truss famously did. the highest rated episode of newscast ever, our supercut compilation of those interviews. so, let's listen to rishi sunak chatting to annabel tiffin from north west tonight about hs2. is hs2 value for money? well, the h52 business case - is public and everyone can see it. do you think it is value for money? well, you can see it when it is public. i prime minister, do you think it is value for money. you were a chancellor. i was. actually, the last update was done before i was chancellor. _ but do you think it's value for money? the reality of h52 is the costs have doubled since it was originally- budgeted for in 2012. that's just the reality. so that's no? there are lots of different reasons for that. - fundamentally, again, _ there's this fixation on one thing. across the north, people use buses every day. i people use their cars every day. it's important that we are able to invest in all those forms i of transportation too, _ because those are incredibly good value for money and that's why we are doing that, too. - rishi sunak sounding

quite hoarse already, which, if memory serves, is not a great thing before a conference speech. but let's see. justine, what should he be doing about hs2? and, of course, you were a transport secretary who gave a green light to hs2. yeah, he should confirm it's going ahead. in full, from euston to manchester? yes. yes, i personally think was a mistake to cut the yorkshire leg. the whole point of the strategy was to connect up this broader country to high—speed rail. it would be the equivalent of saying, right, we'lljust do the motorway system to birmingham. and that's a good idea. so... it costs so much more now than when you were sat behind the desk. and there is a treasury spreadsheet always there that says, no, this is all too much. at what that mises is the opportunity cost of not at what that misses is the opportunity cost of not doing it, the potential, the economic growth that is unlocked by getting on with this. if you'd taken this attitude in victorian times, we wouldn't have the rail network today. people would have said, oh,

that's quite expensive, why do we need that? but, actually, we get the value of that literally 140, 150 years later. these are long—term projects. it is hard to value that long—term value. but it's undoubtedly there. asa, i wonder how you read this, both politically and also the machinations of how it's played out? because we've kind of had a look into the workings of government, with the bonnet up, courtesy of this photo that was taken by steve back, legendary westminster political photographer, snapping that half an a4 page with some of the numbers around hs2 in the meeting that the prime minister and the chancellor had. which led them to be asked questions about whether or not they could commit to the whole thing and not be able to answer them. and now they find themselves in this bind where they are not answering them, the questions keep coming, they are clearly trying to work out what they want to say. but they haven't got the benefit of time, because the hare is already running. well, we've seen that i when the prime minister comes off the fence, _ he can definitely do so with a bang on things like net zero.

he clearly is itching to come off the fence on hsz. - his treasury mind will bej telling him that the costs are through the roof, i something must be done. at the same time, - the statesman in him wants to have legacy projects. and this is the bind he finds himself in. we know that he clearly was trying to sit down with the chancellor, i jeremy hunt, and make decisions on this. - and he seems to, i think, - to have been almost overwhelmed by the strength of backlash in response to it. _ but this is the challenge, isn't it? because the city of manchester, the people of manchester are about to host the conservative party _ how can you turn up there when you are not willing to answer probably the most strategic question the city asks, which is, is this key rail line coming to us or not? i wonder what each of you would say to the sort of question, if you had rishi sunak on the other side of this table, what should he do in manchester? what does he need to do? notjust on a question like hs2, but the big vision thing,

after a year of trying to stabilise the ship of government, to give himself and give the party the best chance of being as competitive as they can be in the next year? he's got to deliver on a promise of equality of opportunity, and have some real ambition. this country has ingrained inequality of opportunity. that is notjust going to change. you are going to have to take strategic decisions to make things different. high speed two is one of those, but by no means the only one. he should be going to conference with a bold package to give people a sense of genuine change. at the moment, he's got a conundrum. he says it's about change, but the net zero case was, actually, let's do change a bit slower. he says it's about change, but the high speed two decision is, well, actually, let's not change this bit of the country, they don't need a high—speed railway line. so, he's got to be bold. but it's about having the right vision that will really deliver

on a promise that won the conservative party a landslide, which was levelling up. do you think he has it in him? well, time will tell. but i don't think... that sounds like a no. i've not seen a sufficiently ambitious plan to tackle the level of challenge that britain has, and we have to see the levelling up promise delivered on, and it's an economic question as much as anything else. it's going to be talent and human capital that wins the economic races in the 21st century. and therefore, the conservative party really needs a comprehensive plan as to how it's going to deliver on that vision. i it strikes me that rishi sunak is| gearing up to run on, effectively, a money saving expert manifesto. because when you see how - he justified the change on net zero, he kept saying, you know, i'm going to take _ the tough decisions. i'm not going to have _ you paying thousands of pounds more to hit net zero. he wants to do it in a way that's affordable for families. - thus he opens the dividing line with labour of, well, _ they would make you pay- through the nose for net zero

and their environmental greeny plans, i'm sensible. _ in the same breath, i you can imagine h52, whatever way he lands on this, i clearly he is going to have to pose as the champion of the public purse. i think that's going to be the theme that runs through so much of this. he is going to say that effectively he is on the side of people, i hard—working people, their pay packets. i you're going to have| lots of refrains about the pound in your pocket. this is the kind of martin lewis pm, effectively. i and i suppose you've kind of got to do that, because there is not money around for the traditional pre—election tax cuts. so the only way you can help people financially is by stopping imposing costs, i suppose. but technocrats don't win elections, people take it as given that you are going to run the country effectively. you don't get any brownie prizes for being competent. they don't want - you managing decline. gordon brown, theresa may, decent people. that's not enough. what people want to see is where you are taking the country. the reality is, on issues like social mobility, there is a huge part of the solution that comes from outside of government. it's about businesses

changing as well. it's not all about spending more money through a failing system. it's about changing the system, that is a fundamentally different objective than just saving a few taxpayer pounds. well, you've taken us to the end of this episode of newscast. so, thank you for everyone who hasjoined us in this episode of newscast. you can listen to our daily podcast episodes on bbc sounds. bye— bye. newscast. newscast, from the bbc. good afternoon. it was a fine start to the last day of september, albeit a little chilly, but rain is now moving in on this area of low pressure here. that will bring some rather wet weather across northern ireland, much of northern and western england and wales throughout the remainder of daylight today, but further north across scotland,

staying fine and dry as it should do across southern and eastern areas, and still feeling quite warm. but with this rain, there are some really quite lively gusts of wind to come as well, which will make it feel a bit cooler, and fog over the hills around some of the coasts as well. but it is mild and muggy air that's pushing northwards, so we should still see the 19s and 20s, and temperatures won't drop much overnight, because although a lot of the rain as it sweeps its way northwards and eastwards clears away, we are left with a legacy of cloud, more rain coming in across parts of england and wales through the night, and some mist and fog even at lower levels further south. look at the temperatures — 16 to 17. that's around what we'd see during the day at this time of year. and that's because we're pulling in some humid air, and that will be around for the next couple of days. that means not only mist and fog over the hills and around the coast but at lower levels to the south of our weather front first thing sunday. to the north, it looks like a brighter day, just a scattering of showers really for scotland

and northern ireland, but this rain ever present for parts of england and wales, and cumbria could see 30 or 40 millimetres of rain before it starts to clear away, and it might well still clear away from the north during the latter part of tomorrow afternoon. but ahead of that system, 23, 24, but even with the rain further north, 18 to 20 degrees. it is really mild air, which will still hang around during sunday night and into monday, with further pulses of energy, if you like, running along this same weatherfront, and given the fact it is very warm air, we could get some quite significant thunderstorms across england and wales in particular, as we head through sunday night into monday. it will be sunny spells and scattered showers for monday again across scotland and northern ireland, but these could be really intense gusty winds with them, and even some hail, but still warm, because it is warm air. and again, we could start the day with some mist and fog as well through the morning rush as we will see on sunday. beyond that, it looks showery across scotland and northern ireland as we go through the week, but we will see temperatures building in the south. goodbye for now.

live from london. this is bbc news. more than 100,000 ethnic armenians have now fled nagorno—karabakh since azerbaijan's offensive on the region began earlier this month. conservative party members are arriving in manchester for the annual party conference.

it comes as railway unions stage strikes across the uk over pay and conditions. police in the uk have named 15—year—old jessica baker and coach driver stephen shrimpton as the two people killed in a bus crash in the wirral yesterday. and it's one year since russia's illegal annexation of four ukrainian territories, a decision that sparked almost universal condemnation. armenia's government says more than 100,000 ethnic armenians have now fled nagorno—kara bakh. it means that that almost the entire population of the enclave has left since azerbaijan seized the region last week. that's after azerbaijan took control of the disputed enclave after a lightning military campaign earlier this month.

nagorno—karabakh was controlled by armenian separatists for decades,