Joins in the investigation of the den bre. A new olympic record the Chinese Capital becomes the first city to host both the summer and the Winter Olympics. First, a palestinian toddler has been burned to death in an arson attack in his family home in the occupied west bank. Israeli settlers are suspected of carrying out the attack on friday morning. Reporter its a scene of total devastation, a family home in the village of doumma, a blaze that killed an 18 month old toddler and injured his parents and 4yearold brother. Their nearby relatives house is scrawled on the water, seven aring and long live messiah. As they are Emergency Air lifted there is an investigation. They believe settlers are responsible for the arson attack. We saw at least two masked people according to our preliminary investigation come to two houses and then broke in windows and hurled two firebombs in with this tragic outcome. There are three illegal settlement close by. The u. N. Says there have been 120 attacks s
Political system starting with breaking news fromvack where the American Military has deployed u. S. Marines on the ground to help collision forces to fight isil. Joining kristin, what more can you tell us about this sgloiment . A detachment from the marines is on its way to iraq to support groundrations of the combined task force known as Operation Inherent resolve which consists of several countries with iraqi forces in the lead. At this stage, we dont know how many marines are part of this unit. A full contingent of the expeditionary unit would be 220 omareens. This is a detachment. Centcom is not giving a lot of details for security. This could be a rotation of troops going there to support or replace some of these just under 4,000 who are now in the country primarily in an advisory role training iraqi troops we knew they lost one of their forces in Northern Attack and we do know that there is take about retaking moss ill in iraq in the near future which would conceivably require m
Hello. We start with a breaking news from iraq where the American Military has deployed u. S. Marines on the ground to help collision forces fight isil. Live. Kristin, what more do we know about the deployment and how significant it would be . The news is just breaking. We dont have a lot of it details right now but the marines are part of the expeditionary force. They will be going to iraq to help with Operation Inherent resolve. We know 36 jus troops are in the region primarily in an advisory and training role. This announcement comes on the hooeldz of an attack in Northern Iraq on friday that killed a u. S. Marine. Its the second death of an american in iraq and this seems to be a reaction to that. It could be an effort to boost security for forces there. Anything they have to do has to be done in coordination with iraqi forces. Iraqi the Iraqi Government is leading the efforts on this this has been done in conjunction with the Iraqi Government. It is a sfort role. We do not have an
Thousands have been forced from their homes. Hello there. Warm welcome to the program. There are signs of diplomatic shifts over the war in syria. Russias Foreign Ministers says moss co is ready to provide air support to the presyrian army in its fight against isil. Until now, russia has referred to all groups fighting president assad as terrorists. They say they have been in talks with the u. S. About launching a new political process in syrias government in the opposition. The u. S. Secretary of state john kerry is on a visit to saudi arabia where he will meet the countrys foreign minister for talks on syria. Whatever is being said diplomatically, russia is still pursuing a Different Military strategy from the u. S. In syria. Jamal al shial reports. Reporter syrian state t. V. Continues its propaganda mention to try to convince people that russian airstrikes are targeting what the syrian and russian governments call terrorists. The pictures on the ground tell a different story. This
There are reports that a civilian airliner travel from egypt to russia has crashed. There are conflicting accounts right now as to how many passengers were on board and as to what exactly has happened. The Reuters News Agency is quoting the egyptian Prime Ministers Office as confirming that a russian passenger plane has crashed in central sanai. Peter sharp is on the line from there. Reporter it is very confusing at the moment. A passenger jet was traveling from the egyptian resort that is popular with russia travelers to petersburg. A russian eation Aviation Authority says it was a jet with 224 passengers on board. The latest we are getting is egypt has confirmed that the plane went down in central sanai. It was confusing earlier than that when the head of egyptian aviation said, in fact, the aircraft was safe and passing through turkish airspace but we are now hearing egypt has confirmed that and a statement from the Prime Ministers Office said they are dealing with the crash. Thank