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

And Valerie Sanderson ended the early hours of Sunday the 24th of September.

These are our main stories.

What now for the Armenian civilians in Nagorno-Karabakh,

following Azerbaijan's takeover of the disputed territory?

Ukraine says Russian Navy commanders were among those hit in Friday's missile strike

on the headquarters of the Black Sea Fleet in occupied Crimea.

Also in this podcast, the long-term consequences of COVID.

What we found was that five months after discharge,

patients who were previously hospitalized were at three times more likely to have abnormalities,

involving multiple organs compared to patients without COVID-19.

And how is French cinema managing to survive

with only one in 50 films covering its production costs?

It's less than a week since Azerbaijanis forces captured the disputed enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh

in a lightning operation.

Since then, there have been increasing concerns for the welfare of the territory's ethnic Armenian population.

Many of them were displaced in the fighting and have taken refuge in the main city, Stepanikert.

The local authorities say the terms of a ceasefire are being implemented,

including the delivery of humanitarian aid and the disarming of Armenian separatists.

But food and medicine are running low and power cuts are frequent.

Media access to the region has long been tightly controlled by the authorities,

but the BBC has been allowed in under the close watch of an Azerbaijan military escort.

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