Kerry is inning about dad holding talks and more and more cities fall to sunni fighters. Urging Nouri Almaliki to make his country more inclusive. John terrett is in washington, d. C. We learned a lot more now than we knew this morning when we realized that secretary kerry met with Nouri Almaliki. He has had separate meetings with meetings one with shiite, and the other is sunni. Next up, the city to the northwest of baghdad. There hes going to meet up with the current president and the United States is offering air power to the kurds in the Western Desert around their various homelands using assets the u. S. Deployed in the gulf providing there is a broad based political agreement in baghdad that had offer some protection to the iraqi people to the shi shias, sunnies and kurds, and that can be sorted out reasonbly quickly ill next be talking with allies. According to the state department hes not himself asking for Nouri Almaliki to go although of course there are calls from around the
Efforts to extend ukraines fragil fragile ceasefire as russia said it wont be going in. And the controversial biting in world soccer. Lets start the program in abuja where a Shopping Center has been targeted with a car bomb attack. At this stage no one has claimed responsibility. Abuja has repeatedly been attacked by the rebel group boko haram. Were joined live from abuja. Yvonne, what more do we know about the explosion . Do we know anything about the number of casualties. We know that the explosion was incredibly powerful. Now what we can see here is 70 or 60 burned out vehicles that have been completely destroyed. And there is a lot of building debris as Emergency Services, unfortunately, are still picking body parts up off the floor. And it is simply a very terrible scene. Thousands have shown up here to see what is going on. The military has been trying to hold back the crowd, who are just shocked and concerned about what has gone on here. And what we understand to be the Emergenc
Ebola virus has been stepped up. And case closed after 126 years of mystery. The identity of one of the worlds most notorious killers is discovered. Another welcome to the news hour. A ceasefire in ukraine is still technically in place. But in the east it has not brought peace. In donetsk the airport is still being fought over and in mar mariupol there is still shelling. There have been denials from the kremlin that it is supporting separatists. Lets go to paul brennon who is in donetsk where the ceasefire has been violated. Take us through what you have seen throughout sunday. Well, you know, its more than 48 hours now since that ceasefire was agreed and the papers signed at that meeting in minsk. But the reality is that it seems to have made very little different to the lives of people around the airport in donetsk and the south of ukraine in mariupol. The people of mariupol have been cleaning up, and the people who hope that the ceasefire would bring a rest from months of cross fire
Were about to find out who has won the big prize of the golden lyon. Welcome to the program. Bod sides are accusing each other of violating the ceasefire. Truce on friday after five months of fighting. After the ceasefire was announced, within the last 24 hours rebels sheffiel, shelling was announced. Bring us uptodate on the ceasefire so far. Whats the situation on the ground . 234 reporter to a certain extent, no news is good news. There are no gunshots that weve heard and certainly no artillery fire. We would eternally here if there were artic hear. No evidence of that. That said that doesnt mean that both side are not accusing the other of violations of the ceasefire. We heard in your introduction from National Security double, and just a couple of ours ago i scrolled across Lennon Square and spoke with a senior figure within the pro Russian Separatist Movement here in donetsk. He said he has evidence of the forces of ukraine here in the east are really rather reluctant to abide by
Stop the fire, but he does not control all of his military units. We intercepted signals from those units, and theyll keep on fighting and there is no ceasefire in their plans. And the shellings in the suburbs of donetsk has continued on. They have approved sanctions over the situation in ukraine. Presidenpresident putin believed that sanctions would be averted by the ceasefire he has brought about, hell be very troubled. Putins credibility with the west just about exhausted. We have russia admitting there were, in fact, Russian Troops involved in the annexation of crimea, and there arent many e. U. States who dont believe that russia is not involved in the fighting in ukraine. Yesterday the president of ukraine said that the ceasefire is nothing but a smoke fire for these sanctions. The sanctions will be introduced in brussels on monday. The e. U. May be willing to bar oil fo from markets. Russias response, well, we simply dont know. Well have to wait and see, but theyre promising rep