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Global News Podcast

Azerbaijan hails surrender of Nagorno-Karabakh Armenians

Global News Podcast

BBC

News, Daily News

4.38.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Ethnic Armenian separatists agree to disband and give up their weapons as part of a ceasefire. Also: Venezuelan security forces regain control of a prison run by a powerful criminal gang, and the discovery of ancient wooden logs suggests humans were building shelters almost half a million years ago.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Life's Less Ordinary is the podcast from the BBC World Service, bringing you extraordinary

0:05.8

personal stories from around the globe.

0:08.6

Search for Life's Less Ordinary wherever you get your BBC podcasts.

0:14.0

This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

0:17.4

I'm Robin Brant and in the early hours of Thursday, the 21st of September, these are our

0:24.3

main stories.

0:25.7

The president of Azerbaijan says his forces have restored the country's sovereignty over

0:30.8

the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region.

0:33.7

America's central bank has left interest rates unchanged but has dampened hopes of a rapid

0:38.6

fall in inflation.

0:40.6

And Venezuela's troops have seized the country's largest prison, which had been controlled

0:45.0

for years by a powerful criminal gang.

0:50.3

Also in this podcast, guess what you can get away with as a new baby name in Australia.

0:55.2

My jaw hit the floor when I saw the birth certificate.

0:57.8

We're going to start in the Caucasus, where a hastily agreed ceasefire between Azerbaijan

1:06.1

and ethnic Armenians in the breakaway enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh appears to be holding.

1:11.8

In an address to the nation, the Azerbaijani president, Ilam Aliyev, hailed the success of

1:17.4

his military's offensive, saying sovereignty had been restored.

1:21.3

He also insisted that he had nothing against the ethnic Armenian population.

1:25.8

I've said the Armenian population living in Azerbaijan are our citizens.

1:33.2

To put it simply, Armenian nationalists, war criminals, leaders of Armenia and Karabakh

1:39.2

took these people hostage, poisoned their brains, despite all the injustices and all the

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