Nagorno Karabakh exodus: More than half the population has fled the war torn region into neighbouring Armenia
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 28 September 2023
⏱️ 31 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:04.8 | I'm Robyn Brandt and at 13 hours GMT on Thursday the 28th of September, these are our main stories. |
| 0:10.9 | Predictions, there will soon be no Armenians left in Nagorno-Karabakh. |
| 0:15.1 | We're in the border town, where tens of thousands are heading. |
| 0:17.9 | There's a really big crowd, lots of people milling around here, lots of people arriving all the time in cars and vehicles packed with belongings. |
| 0:25.6 | We look at the catastrophic melting of Switzerland's glaciers. |
| 0:31.0 | Also in this podcast, Barbie Fever reaches Russia, and who wants to buy the first work from the man who taught America to paint? |
| 0:51.0 | Now we start the podcast in Azerbaijan, more than a week on, from the country's 24-hour military victory in Nagorno-Karabakh, |
| 0:58.6 | because the huge outflow of people from the war-torn region continues. |
| 1:02.6 | Armenia's Prime Minister, Nikol Pashinyan, says in the coming days, he predicts there will be no Armenians left in the enclave. |
| 1:09.6 | It was thought to be home to around 120,000 of them. |
| 1:13.6 | More than half of this population has now left, packing their belongings into cars, |
| 1:17.6 | and joining the queues of people, trying to leave, via the only accessible road out. |
| 1:22.6 | Our correspondent Sarah Rainsford described the scenes where she is in the Armenian border town of Gorish. |
| 1:28.6 | It seems busier this morning than any of the days we've been here. |
| 1:31.6 | There was a really big crowd. Lots of people milling around here. |
| 1:34.6 | Lots of people arriving all the time in cars and vehicles packed with belongings. |
| 1:39.6 | We saw one car passing us earlier with a cage full of chickens on the top, |
| 1:44.6 | and a kid's bike strapped to the top of that. |
| 1:47.6 | There is really somber mood here, as people are arriving. |
| 1:51.6 | They're exhausted, they're hungry. |
| 1:53.6 | They've had an extremely long and difficult route out of Nagorno-Karabakh through the mountains, |
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