Nobel peace prize winner. They receive their joint wards. Protests in ireland over plans to charge for tapped water for the first time. Thank you for joining us. Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas has accused Israeli Soldiers of murdering one of his ministers. Ziad abu ein died after a confrontation with Israeli Soldiers during a protest of land confiscation. They have declared three days of mourning and they are calling for Security Cooperation with israel to be suspend in the west bank. We have reports from jerusalem. Reporter this was supposed to be a peaceful event, but it quickly turned violent after Israeli Soldiers confronted a group of palestinians trying to plant olive trees on land illegally occupied by israel. Zaid abu ein, a palestinian minister, was at one point hit and choked by Israeli Soldiers. After the altercation, still clearly out of breath, he spoke to the media. Were not going. This is the army of the occupation, and theyre stopping the palestinians from acting o
Fighters die at the border of tunisia. And south sudan one year on, we report from a city slowly recovering after a civil war that killed thousands. We start this news hour in australias largest city sydney. Where the time is 4 00 in the morning on tuesday. Police say 16hour hostage crisis is now over. In the last few minutes they stormed the cafe in Sydney Central Business District where an armed man was holding several people hostage. These are live pictures coming to us live from sydney. Reporter hostages take the moment and run for their lives. Moments later police stormed the central sydney cafe. One officer appears to throw a stun grenade. In the crack what was either gunfire or explosions. Per madics were already there and quickly ran towards the building. One woman could be seen carried out. The seen began monday morning rush hour. Shpolice arrived very quickly, and she was telling hem that she had gone it go inside the cafe, and the automatic glass sliding doors that normally
They scramble to clean up a Massive Oil Spill in bangladesh. Hello there. Warm welcome to the program. We start in afghanistan where violence is intensifying before most International Troops withdraw in the next two weeks. Taliban attacks have left 20 people dead and Dozens Injured and the army said it has killed more than 50 taliban fighters. In the Helmand Province workers were killed by the taliban. And in kabul a Court Official was shot dead by gunmen as he left his home. And military personnel were killed in a Suicide Attack in elsewhere in kabul. About 5,000 Afghan Police and soldiers have died along with 1500 civilians in the first half of this year. From kabul here is jennifer glasse. The taliban said that it attacked a bus carrying military personnel. It attacked during the height of the traffic rush. We went to get a burger, we turned around and they attacked the bus. The bus was engulfed in flames. I noticed two soldiers getting out of the bus. One of them was injured on his
Austerity measures. An armed man is Still Holding an unknown number of people hostage inside of a cafe in the australian city of sydney. Most of the Central Business district has been in lockdown since the seen started at 5 45 local time. These are live pictures from outside the cafe with those people are still being held. Lets get the latest from andrew thomas, who joins us live from sydney. The situation sass draghas dragged in to the night. It is now 1 00 a. M. Give us a sense of what is happening around the cafe. It seems very quiet. It does seem very quiet. Not only in the immediate vicinity but the streets as well. The lockdown began at 9 45 in the morning sydney time. There were line of ambulances and police vehicles. They have moved on, but this whole area, the sydney cbd. Its the square that is normally bustling on a monday morning with office workers, there is a television station based than square, and justin days before christmas in the main shopping district as well as the
California on the sight that was formerly the largest encampments of Homeless People in the united states. We begin in pakistan where the government has stepped up its military campaign against taliban fighters. Intelligent forces tell al jazeera that the mastermind attack on a school which killed 132 people may himself been killed in an airstrike. He took responsibility for the attacks on a video released online. He said more attacks would target military families. Its thought that he may be one of 21 taliban airstrikes in the area. Reporter the Pakistan Military said it has killed a number of taliban fighters including a local commander. The operation took place as days of after an attack on children by the taliban. We want to unite all pakistanpakistan pakistanis against the taliban. Security is tight outside of the armyrun school in peshawar. They killed more than 130 children and injured many others. People now fear more attacks. Children ask me whether theyre safe in school. Kids