Countrys most powerful man. Ling jihua was a close aide of former president hu jintao. He is accused of a serious disciplinary violation. The staterun Xinhua News Agency said the communist party is investigating ling who currently serves as vice chairman of the chinese peoples political consultation Conference National committee. Ling had a long career with the communist youth league. The organization produced many senior politicians loyal to hu jintao. Hong kong media have reported that ling asked Zhou Yongkang then a member of the Standing Committee to help cover up a story. He wanted to hide news that his son had died after crashing a popular sports car. Zhou was expelled from the party earlier this month. President xi jinping has been waging a campaign that reached the upper echelons of chinese politics. The massive landslide in indonesia earlier this month has forced 2,000 people to live in temporary shelters. The National Disaster agency has ended its search for the missing after
Clooney, his fiancee and alist celebirty friends arrive in venice to kick off the superexpensive wedding bash. When and where the longtime bachelor will tie the knot. Find out soon enough. Good morning. Check out the new pictures out of venice this morning. The man who once publicly promised permanent bachelorhood, were not talking about Ron Claiborne here, George Clooney, now tying the knot. That doesnt look like the face of a man dragging, does it . George clooney and Amal Alamuddin hosting twin parties. Shes a stunner in this red dress for her ladiesonly dinner. A report from venice on the Wedding Party ahead. But start with the breaking news overnight, the birth that could impact the future of the white house. Chelsea clinton delivering a baby girl. We have all the detail this is morning. The questions, will being a grandmother make Hillary Clinton a stronger, more relatable candidate or make her not want to run at all . Lets get it over to the newest member of the abc news team, t
Rocked northeastern japan. Authorities say theres no major damage but warn another tremor may hit within days. South koreas intelligence Officials Say north koreas defense chief may have been executed for treason. The move follows the purge. Officials from the National Intelligence service gave the update on twoed a Parliamentary Committee in seoul. They say minister of Peoples Armed forces Hyon Yong Choi was shot to death at a firing range in the capital late last month. They suspect he was executed after not obeying kim jongun and expressing his dissatisfaction. He visited moscow shortly before his death. He held talks with his russian counterparts. The former chief became the countrys defense chief last year. Kim has reportedly ordered several executions including his uncle in december 2013. He was considered to be second in power in the north. Officials in seoul say the execution was carried out without a decision by the Political Bureau of the Union Workers party of korea or court
Discovered. Theres an army facility there where this originated. You will remember last week we told you about live anthrax samples that had been sent out fee ya via fedex to laboratories in nine different states. Now a sample is found that had been irradiated in 2008. Think know they have one live batch and theyre checking to make sure a shipment from that batch sent to australia doesnt also contain live anthrax. Both the army, the department of defense and the cdc now working to make sure no one becomes sick as a result of these samples that have been discovered. Thats the latest from the live desk. Back to youlert right now. The right lanes in both directions on the arlington Memorial Bridge are shut down. Theres also new weight and pedestrian restrictions. Megan mcgrath is live with more on why these lane closures are happening and the impact this will have for drivers out there. Megan . Reporter barbara engineers have been taking a close look at the Memorial Bridge since a routine
Government would like to cooperate more closely with the United States on these sorts of things as they have their own problems with china, but at the moment it is legally impossible. That is the view in tokyo, what about the allegations in spain, 60 million calls monitored in one month alone. Tom, what is the root of the source of these claims . The information came out from the journalist glenn greenwald, responsible for linking the story about edward snowden, information that was published in him window this morning in undo newspaper this morning. Interesting that the monitoring activity according to these peaked on the 11th of december and that there was a lull in the activity around christmas. Coming on the day that the spanish and u. S. Ambassador was summoned by the french government. He met this morning with a minister in the Foreign Ministry and the spanish capital. No reaction after the meeting, but it is bad timing and there may be more pressure on the Spanish Government to