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World in preserving the species. But first, the ukrainian president says hes reached an agreement with Opposition Leaders and that follows what have been described by diplomats as difficult all night talks. Foreign minister from germany england an poanld were involved. Saying poland are evolved. This is the scene in Independence Square where the situation seems to become, it was the scenes of fearsest fighting on on earlier a group of Police Officers who had been glabtsed by supporters some leas...

Charged. There is now every indication the u. S. Government is headed to its first shutdown since bill clinton was president and number of Newt Gingrich was spark of the house. There is a bill, but it has a delay to the obamacare. Republicans believe that democrats who control the senate might blink even though the democrats led by harry reid said repeatedly that any budget bill with changes to obamacare is dead on arrival. As John John Boehner walks in the public, they may not vote for the bill...

Bananas from a devastating disease. But first, to the turmoil in iraq, and leaders in the region are reacting to baghdads request for an air strike against sunni fighters. Turkeys Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan warns that it could cause a high number of civilian casualties. No decision op air strikes has been made. On the ground in iraq, one of the major battles is waged for control of a large oil refinery. There was a truce in order to allow hundreds of workers to get out. Hundreds of volu...

Small town in the united states. I state of medical has been declared in the state of nebraska. Now iraqs rebel up rising is moving closer to the capital. Sunni fighters are now battling government forces, just 60kilometers outside of baghdad. They are fighting for the city of baquoba, where overnight rebels attacked and occupied several neighborhoods. Now since the up rising started a week arc sunni rebels have so far ceased tikrit, mo sus in the north. And pushed out Government Troops to siege...

He has a known criminal record well get to in a moment. Here is one witness who says he saw that gunman at the start of the standoff. Yeah, i saw the gunman, and he was quite tall and maybe early 40s. He was very calm and just pacing. He was looking into the cafe. Customers were sitting down at the tables, still drinking. But im not sure what was going to unfold. But they were locked in. Joining me from martin place is nbc news correspondent sara james whos been following this throughout. Sara, ...

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>> what was happening inside? >> well, at this stage, i understand that there was a number of gunshots that were heard, which caused officers to move slightly to what we call an ea, emergency ashction plan, th caused them to enter. >> im not in a position to confirm that. now is not the time to secondguess or speculate. we have an investigation. we need to get it right. we have talked to the coroner. we understand the coroners jurisdiction. there is much to be done. >> reporter: was the gunman -...

Freya, what is the scene there right now like? >> reporter: its quite somber here. many of the family members of the hess tajs are gathered here. a few have already left the building presumably to go to the hospital where their family members are being held. but as i said, its quite a somber scene here at the moment. sydney is coming back to life. its sort of early morning here now, but its still very, very quiet and a very sad scene here outside the courthouse where the families are. >> what do...

We believe a police officer was injured by shrapnel. hes been treated. were waiting for the police commissioner to address the country and the media and give us the latest on what is the dramatic end about 3 1/2 hours ago and reveal as much as he can about what happened at the cafe. >> cath, when you look at the national response, we know that the prime minister asked australians to go about business as usual. that thats the best way to defy this kind of attack. people are just waking up there. ...

>> reporter: hes obviously well known to police. what was the last contact police had with -- >> again, thats -- thats part of what will come out once we go further into this. at this stage, were not going to enter into that. sorry, excuse me. >> reporter: the explanation of the gunmans actions inside. [ inaudible ] >> look, ive got no advice to that. >> reporter: are you concerned -- [ inaudible ] >> well, im concerned that there was a vicious, horrendous attack that has taken place in the hear...