With the murder of 2a year old chris kaba. Hello. The International Red cross says its managed to deliver seventy tonnes of relief aid to the disputed enclave Nagorno Karabakh for the First Time Since azerbaijan captured the territory in a lightning operation five days ago. Tens of thousands of armenians have sought refuge in the main city stepanakert, where food and medicine are running low, and power cuts are frequent. Families remain stranded in the local airport, where russian peacekeepers are based. They are sleeping on the ground, cooking food on fire and not having an access to clean water. Moscow said there were over two thousand people, including a thousand children, sheltering at the peacekeepers� base camp. I was joined earlier by our correspondent Rayhan Demytrie who gave me the latest. The political situation is that Karabakh Armenians, they surrendered to azerbaijan. They signed this Ceasefire Agreement on wednesday. And now whats 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. Whats 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 1990s 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. Earlier i also spoke with jason straziuso, spokesperson for the International Committe of the red cross. He brought us up to speed on the humanitarian work they are doing in the area. The last couple of days, we sent in several convoys, 70 tonnes of humanitarian goods. That was mostly wheat flour, but also yeast and some sunflower oil. Obviously, the supplies can be used to make bread and other bakery items. Thats an indication of how dire the situation is. Not enough food, not enough medical supplies. That convoy that we sent in today did drop off some medical supplies but it also dropped off body bags. Not so pleasant to think about, but an important aspect of this is dignified management of the dead. So its a well rounded humanitarian effort from our teams the last couple of days. And take us through the geography. What areas are your aid managing to get through to . Well, were going into the region through two different roads. The roads that are available to us and that has. That. The main road, the last corridor has been blockaded for a while. We have moved through there. We have done medical evacuations there over the course of the last several weeks. We did medical evacuations today of 17 people. We did nine yesterday. So over the last 72 hours, lets say, there has been an increase in humanitarian access. And what assurances have you received from the warring factions that you are going to be able to do your work to get into the areas that you need to . I think the sides understand that we are a neutral organisation, that we dont take sides. This helps facilitate the activity, the work that we carry out. We have close contact with both sides and we wouldnt be able to move through without permission and we dont seek to move through without permission. So those open channels of communication are in place all the time and allow us to carry out these these trips. You obviously have your own kind of stocks, but whats your expectation from the International Community in this kind of situation . One of our approaches is to work with other nations that might be allied or partners with the governments involved here and remind the governments involved that they do have a humanitarian duty, that medical supplies must be allowed through, the food must be allowed through, and that anyone whos wounded or sick must be allowed to receive medical care. So those kind of conversations do take place with other nations that might be involved in this region. Here in the uk, dozens of Business Leaders have written to the government expressing deep concern over what they call the � constant uncertainty� which they say plagues the hs2 High Speed Rail Link. The former Prime Minister borisjohnson has also warned ministers not to in his words � mutilate� the project by scrapping the birmingham to manchester leg. Rishi sunak has refused to deny he might scale back hs2 because of spiralling costs. Noor nanji, reports. It� s a massive, decades long project, meant to create more capacity and speed up journey times. But hs2 has also been plagued by delays, cuts and spiralling costs. It was only earlier this year the government announced it was pausing work on the new Central London terminus here at euston. Now question marks are hanging over the line that links the West Midlands and crewe, before moving on to manchester. Recently, the Prime Minister rishi sunak and Chancellorjeremy Hunt have not been willing to say that they are committed to hs2 being built to manchester, casting fresh doubt over the project� s future. The Labour Shadow ChancellorRachel Reeves has also refused to commit. In a letter to government, Business Leaders and Companies Including manchester airports group, british land, virgin money and the northern powerhouse, have called for clarification and renewed commitment to hs2. The letter expresses deep concern over the constant uncertainty over the project, adding that repeated mixed signals were damaging the uk� s reputation as a place to do business. I hope the Prime Minister takes the weekend to reflect on being a northern mp and what he should be putting first. The future of the country, or the short term interests of the conservative party. Because former tory leaders and britain� s leading Business People are all telling him he needs to think again before he makes what might be his worst decision as Prime Minister. Today, the chair of the National Infrastructure commission warned against truncating the line. The importance of this railway line is that it connects the three principal cities in britain, london, birmingham, manchester. Its a significant part of the governments levelling up agenda, it has already started to create big opportunities in birmingham and it will do the same in manchester and across the north west. It will link into the governments new railway which it is planning to build between manchester and leeds. This is a fundamental part of levelling up. And to stop it now would be a tragedy. Former Prime Minister borisjohnson has also weighed in, urging the government against building a mutilated version of hs2. On thursday, the chancellor insisted no decisions had been made, but once again the route ahead for hs2 seems uncertain. Noor nanji, bbc news. With me is the host of the calling all Stations Podcast and author, Christian Wolmar what is your view . Given the cost doubling from 33 million to 17 and 33 billion rather than 71 . I doubling from 33 million to 17 and 33 billion rather than 71 . 33 billion rather than 71 . I that was a bad 33 billion rather than 71 . I that was a bad idea 33 billion rather than 71 . I that was a bad idea to 33 billion rather than 71 . I that was a bad idea to start 33 billion rather than 71 . I that was a bad idea to start with. 33 billion rather than 71 . I that| was a bad idea to start with but deluding this they spent £20 billion is probably going to cost another 20 billionjust finish that is probably going to cost another 20 billion just finish that bit and scrapping the rest of it is a bad idea in terms of the whole project because it� s supposed to go to manchester, that� s what all benefits from. Is to cost another billion cost quite 100 billion can spend on all sorts of other things and they are really stuck between a rock and are really stuck between a rock and a hard place temporary glad not administaff to make a decision over this because there is no easy solution. The line which is just a bit in birmingham doesn� t really offer very much and not many people are going to use it because they have to get used to that made scrap that bit and it� s not going to really transform the midlands and the way it is supposed to enter manchester it becomes much better in the Business Case much betterfor manchester it becomes much better in the Business Case much better for it and makes much more sense but in terms of costs, it will go one to 20 or 35 at a rate with their planning to spend 7 billion on itjust from the london birmingham bit and it� s an enormous sum of money and with them to do is get a grip on it, actually have a proper look at it and we cut some of these costs . Would buy the argument of the Railway System in this country that needs updating. It� s Railway System in this country that needs updating. Railway system in this country that needs updating. Its not such a bad s stem needs updating. Its not such a bad system and needs updating. Its not such a bad system and you needs updating. Its not such a bad system and you can needs updating. Its not such a bad system and you can get needs updating. Its not such a bad system and you can get to needs updating. Its not such a bad. System and you can get to manchester in 15 minutes in birmingham in one hourand a0 and in 15 minutes in birmingham in one hour and a0 and the trains are new and fairly efficient and it is quite and fairly efficient and it is quite a good journey. But this is my capacity and not about high speed but we really the capacity now that Business Travellers gone down after the pandemic and commuting is reduced and do they really want this extra capacity and this, does it make sense . There is no easy option. Thank you for being with us. Ukraine says russian commanders were among those injured in friday� s missile strikes on the headquarters of russia� s Black Sea Fleet in occupied crimea. The building in sevastopol appears to have been hit by at least two missiles, causing extensive damage. There are reports that the missiles used were storm shadow missiles supplied by britain and france. It comes as reports in us media suggest america is planning to give ukraine more advanced, longer range missiles to help with its ongoing counteroffensive against russia. Meanwhile, russia� s foreign minister Sergey Lavrov has used his address to the United Nations general assembely in new york to criticise the unites states, nato and the European Union for trying to force the world to play according to their own self centered rules. Translation the collective west has a calling card and its 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. Earlier i spoke to phillips 0� brien, professor of strategic studies at st andrews university. He told me there was a lot missing from mr lavrov� s address. 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. Yeah, he also said that ukraine� s peace formula was completely not feasible. What do you mean by that . Is that about president zelensky saying that russia would have to leave every inch of ukraine for a peace to be declared . That is exactly right. The ukrainian position now is that ukraine has its internationally recognised borders and peace can be achieved when russia leaves ukraine and so that ukraine is restored to its original borders. The russian position actually legally now, it is against International Law but the Russian Parliament has annexed parts of ukraine, so they are saying those are now parts of russia. Basically, the visions of a peace treaty now are too far away. Neither side has any sort of reason to negotiate with the other at present and so i think lavrov was just simply saying, don� t think there is going to be a peace deal because there won� t. So let� s talk about the war itself and these reports that the us is to give kyiv long range atacms missiles. Just tell us what those are and what difference they could make in the warfor ukraine. Unlike the Storm Shadows which we have been hearing about a lot for the last few weeks, attack � ems, they� re usuallyjust referred to as attack � ems, are ground based, they are fired from the himars system, they are very long range, they are actually a little bit longer range than the Storm Shadows, and the Storm Shadows go up to 250 kilometres, attack � ems can be 300, so they are a little bit longer range and they are very explosive, they carry a big punch, so itjust will add greater range to the Ukrainian Campaign on crimea. What we are seeing now is a real concerted Ukrainian Campaign on crimea, and that is something the attack � ems could make a really big difference on as they can hit basically anything in crimea, and they can do a great deal of damage. The head of the army in sudan claims he� s ready for peace talks with the rebel commander with whom he� s been fighting a brutal civil war the un says it� s has left more than 5,000 people dead, and five million displaced. General Abdel Fattah Al burhan, of the Sudanese Armed forces, has told the bbc he� s ready in principle for talks with Mohamed Hamdan dagalo, leader of the of the rebel Rapid Support forces. James 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 Civi