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Connections to this guy. they dont want to release his name because they want to understand whether this guy is part of a bigger terror network. if this is just the first of a second or third incident thats going to play out today, tomorrow, in the near future and get to the bottom of that before they start releasing this guys identity. >> were following breaking news out of sidney, australia, that could have implications around the world. were looking at potentially ten hostages being held in t...

Hi, richard lui breaking news this hour. theres a possible hostage situation going on now in sidney, australia. police have evacuated the area. theres a report of isis like flag in the windows. nbc news has not confirmed that. stay with us for more. police making an arrest in the shooting death of an auburn university football player. a 22-year-old is charged with the murder. police are working to determine a motive. new york man has been arrested in connection with the assault of two police off...

Strategic communications conversations going on between this person and someone that is officially associated with isis whether that be back in syria or whether it be someone who is the senior australian isis leader arrested in september along with 15 other people. drawing that association is really hard to do. we know in 2005 that there were jihadist terror cells operating in melbourne and in sidney. how do we know its not part of a wider growing franchise of terror cells going on across austra...

This is taking place. there have been evacuations linked to suspicious packages around the city. and were also told that air traffic has been rerouted near sydney. but the prime minister has urged people to go about their business. >> the whole point of politically motivated violence is to scare people out of being themselv themselves. australia is a peaceful, open and generous society. nothing should ever change that. and thats why i would urge all australians today to go about their business a...

Were grabbed. >> and it was similar to when the three men came out. it seemed that the police were quite surprised that the other three men who managed to get out earlier had actually got out of the building as well. so if you had a guess, and thats all we can do right now. we would say they escaped. we just dont know if they were released and got out of there as fast as think could as anybody would. >> as you mentioned, the australian police very tight-lipped about talking about it. of course s...

Melbourne and sidney and the most recent ones you described in september also uncovering this sort of growing disenfranchisement of australian citizens who happen to be muslim. but again you go back to foreign policy time line. australia special forces have been operating in afghanistan and withdrew recently in november and theyve been decimating leadership along with u.s. crews and have been operating with u.s. drug enforcement agency in afghanistan and annihilate the factories bankrolling the ...

Find out exactly what has been happening and what is likely to happen in the hours ahead. but for right now, if youre just joining us in the united states or all around the world, there is still this breaking situation in sydney. a gunman is still holding a number of hostages, an unknown number of hostages, at the lindt coffee shop. police have made contact with the hostage taker, but theyre not saying anything about what he might want. and we have these dramatic images now. five hostages have m...

Political district of this capital. just to one side of it is a reserve bank of australia. opposite are two of the biggest four banks of the country and opposite is our studios and on top of our studios are the state government offices. the premier and their government workers and down the block is the second most important war memorial in this city, second most important in the country where we do all of our war memorial activities, et cetera. its a critical geography involved here. this is the...

You know what that means. splat. its time to dump this weeks news on one of our faithful viewers. who is playing tonight? >> tonight we have james brown. he hails from sidney, australia. he is a student studying psychology, and he is an american politics junky for some reason. >> james, nice to meet you. thank you for doing this. i was wondering whether you were an american in australia, but you are aussie? >> pure australian. >> what kind of time difference? >> its midday on saturday. >> so you...

Comes to terrorism. this attack was nothing less than savage. sources say isis terrorists beheaded four christian children in iraq. all of them under the age of 15. according to the leader of the anglican church in baghdad, it is because they would not renounce jesus and convert to islam. crews on a fire ship in the caribbean leaving three people dead this morning. the oceana insignia was docked in st. lucia when a fire started in the engine room. there were more than 600 passengers on board a...