Welcome to your world this morning im stephanie sy. Im del walters and flags flying half state in washington in honor of scalia. Preparations underway for his funeral and his body is back in virginia after his death in texas and sparked a partisan battle on who may take his place on the Supreme Court and vowing to block the nomination and vibing vikara begins the coverage. Reporter took america and congress by surprise the death of Justice Scalia after being on the bench since 1996 appointed by ronald regan and hot button of the cultural war the battles fought for decades now handled by the Supreme Court that this has already become such a volatile issue and consider the docket for the balance of the Supreme Court term, cases involving affirmative action, involving abortion, involving pos executive actions on immigration and whether or not they are going to be legal. These are vital issues not only to americans in general but in an Election Year to the base of both parties both conserv
Dilma rousseff. So to the conflict in syria and we are entering a fifth day of talks in geneva, the u. N. Special envoy says the distance is large and Staffan De Mistura will spend the day meeting with both sides separately and agreements on one objective which is keeping syria together, lets speak to james base who is following the talks of course in geneva and james talks have not started yet. They have not started, no, nick and that is interesting because Staffan De Mistura said he would be meeting the government side in the morning, those were his comments. They did not announce a meeting but told cameras that will film the start of the meeting were called to be there and have been told to go away and come back just afternoon geneva time so pretty clear to me there has been a postponement of what was going to be a morning meeting now going to be an afternoon meeting with the government tied. One reason for that possibly here very clear feeling the government side is under pressure
Army. And controversy in south korea, schools change the way they teach history. Hello, Israeli Forces have shot dead at least two palestinians in another day of violence in occupied East Jerusalem and the west bank, a Palestinian Woman was shot after she reportedly attacked Israeli Forces with a knife and has been taken to hospital and is in Critical Condition. This comes a few hours after a palestinian teenager was shot and killed near lions gate in the old city and forces say he tried to stab an officer and two palestini palestinians were shot in a settlement outside jerusalem and two israllies in Critical Condition after being stapled in that same incident. Over in gaza a rally there has been held as you can see in solidarity with palestinians across the west bank and occupied East Jerusalem and they opened a recession a short time ago and israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been briefing them about the latest security measures. Translator we are fighting on all the front
And hoping to enburundis unrest and talks underway to try to resolve the monthlong violence. Dburundis unrest and talks underway to try to resolve the monthlong violence. We begin with details of a rare deal to evacuate syrians trapped by the fighting in two parts of the country and on syrias border with lebanon a group of rebel fighters and their families have been stuck in this area under siege by Government Forces and now these families are being allowed safe passage to go to idlib where el nusra are strongest and shia families trapped in two towns controlled by rebels and under the u. N. Backed deal will be given safe route to damascus where the government will largely still have control. Now the fighters and their families will be leaving and headed to lebanon and they will continue on to turkey before finally settling in idlib and shia families will go from idlib to turkey and beirut before settling in damascus. This is not the first evacuation agreement of its kind. In fact, in
Gone through. Well the u. N. Is warning 8 Million People have been affected by the earthquake in nepal and for those still trapped under the rubble time is running out, the government says more than 4300 bodies have been recovered and that number could easily double and smoke from funeral is hanging heavy over the capitol kathmandu and so many victims they had to cremate bodies before being identified and aid is trickling in and 15 million from Emergency Response fund to help victims and nepal Prime Minister said they are short of tents and medicine as well as food water and shelter. And short supplies and continuing aftershocks mean crowds of people are trying to leave nepal just about any way that can. And lets go to our correspondence who is in the historic duba square in kathmandu and the window closing and take us through the search for survivors in the rubble we can see behind you. Reporter well its a search going on but as you mentioned 72 hour window has now closed and locals h