Will War Resume Between Armenia and Azerbaija...

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The conflict in the Nagorno Karabakh region of the Caucuses has worsened. As of Wednesday afternoon, about 100 people had died. The region is officially part of Azerbaijan but its population is majority Armenian. So what's behind the escalated violence? 

Stephen Sackur speaks to Ruben Vardanyan, state minister of the disputed enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, run by ethnic Armenians but surrounded by Azerbaijan and the subject of years of conflict. The Armenians have traditionally been backed by Russia, but is Putin a reliable ally?