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

I'm Rachel Wright, and in the early hours of Sunday,

the 1st of October, these are our main stories.

The vast majority of ethnic Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh have fled across the border.

A last-minute stopgap measure to avoid another US government shutdown, and...

Eyes and humans begin their annual turf war in Australia.

Also, in this podcast, what the election result in the Maldives means for China and India,

and the unusually super-friendly animal barred from a US baseball stadium.

He is my emotional support alligator.

I wake up, he'd be laying on my head, make me fall up.

The pictures show an endless stream of cars full of people in their possessions.

Armenian officials say over 100,000 Armenian residents have left Nagorno-Karabakh,

and enclave surrounded almost entirely by Azerbaijan, except for the one road out.

Many are still stuck in the endless traffic jam on that one road through the mountains.

Journalist Srinesh Sakishyan is one of those waiting to cross the border into Armenia.

This exodus is unbearable, not only psychologically, as many people here are becoming refugee

already so time in their lives, but this exodus is also unbearable physically,

because we already 60 hours spent in this road.

It seems like we can't reach border.

But once that border is reached, crossing it can be a daunting prospect.

Gev Iskashyan and his family were among the lucky ones to have completed the journey

from the Nagorno-Karabakh's largest city to the Armenian capital, Yerevan.

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