Power struggle. A new Opposition Controlled National Assembly is sworn in in venezuela, but not all members are allowed to take their seats deadly journey. Dozens of refugees drowned trying to reach greece when two boats sank in rough sees. Rough seas. Good evening, im antonio mora, this is al jazeera Americas International news your. We begin with a deepening diplomatic divide between saudi arabia and iran. The Saudi Arabia Foreign minister says the severing of diplomatic ties with iran will not affect the peace talks in syria. The two nations opposing sides in the negotiations. Saudi arabia wants the syrian president and iranian ally Bashar Alassad to have no future role in syria. More of saudi arabias allies are following the kingdoms lead. Kuwait recalling the ambassador for iran, and bahrain stopped flights there police fired shotgun and pellets at protesters in the tiny gulf state of bahrain. Day four of protests following saudi arabias execution of 47 people, including the shia
The u. S. Gun lobby prepares for battle as obama p president obama tries to bring in stronger control measures. Strongercontcrr control measures. Chinese stock markets of plunged as much as 8 and trading has been stopped for the day. Ininvestmentors reacted to the latest signs of economic slow down in china by selling off shares. Those worries appear to have spread to other markets. The prices in market and hong kong has also fallen. Our correspondent in beijing. Why do we think, then, that this plunge has occurred in the Chinese Market . Reporter well, most analysts you speak to say that they believe its more poor factory activity data. In other words, china is making stuff the rest of the world seems to no longer wants. Manufacturing output has continued to contract for the fifth consecutive month. Also the chinese currency is continuing to weaken. It is the symbolism of it all today that really matters because this was the full day of trading in 2016. The government had put in place
Wildlife is under threat. We will tell you why saudi arabia has severed diplomatic ties with iran after demonstrators targeted the embassy on saturday night. They were protesting after saudi arabia executed a proposal entity shia cleringic. Nimr alnimr was among 47 men put to death. Reporter the saw deembassy ablaze in tehran. They lash out while nimr alnimr was executed on terrorism charges. The saudi government says it made repeated requests for iran to protect the embassy. They were ignore in order. In response the kingdom has cut diplomatic ties with tehran. We are determined not to allow iran to undermine our security. We are determined not to let iran mobilise or create or establish terrorist cells in our country or in the countries of our allies. Reporter the execution of nimr alnimr has prompted protests among shia communities across the middle east. Nimr alnimr and the other men, including alqaeda preacher. Faris alzahrani, were charged with plotting and carrying out terrorist
Been bangladesh has also been affected. The u. S. Gun lobby prepares for battle as p obama plans to bring in stronger control measures. First chinese stock markets have plunged by as much as 8 automatically triggering a suspension in trading. Investigators reacted to these latest signs of economic slow down in china by selling off shares. Those concerns have begun to spread globally and have already dragged european stocks sharply lower. Going to adrian brown our correspondent. This mechanism is meant to prevent the panic from spreading, but it doesnt seem to be working because the European Market are sharply down as well. Reporter absolutely right. It has been a big day for the blue chip index here in china, in shenzhen and shanghai but for all the wrong reasons. The shanghai index felling by 4 . That was enough for the mechanism to kick in. It brought a halt and then it continued. It then felt by 7 so that was enough for the market to shet down for the rest shut down for the rest of
Boiling over this morning a day after the kingdom announced its cutting ties with tehran and bahrain will be cutting ties with iran and saudi Officials Saying iranian diplomates have one more day to leave their country and shia protesters storming the Saudi Embassy on sunday angry over the execution of 47 men accused of terrorism including shia cleric alnimr. Began three days of mourning and he has been buried in an undisclosed cemetery and he was a central figure and protests by saudi arabia shia minority and arrested in 2012. This morning Irans Foreign Ministry accusing the kingdom of covering up the executions. Moves to another and this indicates its intention and it is wonton of diplomacy to create tension after tension and crisis after crisis. Major sunni and shia powers in shia and yemen and fears the standoff could have tensions across the region and Al Jazeera Gerald tan reports. Reporter the Saudi Embassy ablaze in tehran. Iranians lash out after leaving shia cleric was among