This is Al Jazeera America. Good morning live from new york city. We begin with expectations at the United Nations today. Palestinian president abbas is calling fob an end to direct peace negotiations with israel. Ahead of his speech to the u. N. General assembly, he wrote an oped for the Huffington Post says saying the same pattern will not work, because israel is the occupying power. That is why a collective, multilateral Peace Process is necessary. Abbas says similar negotiations worked with the iran nuclear deal. We have more on what to expect from the palestinian president today. Reporter a symbolic day for palestinians. For the first time the United Nations will be raising the palestinian flag alongside 193 member state flags. Palestine remains an observer state at the international body, but the palestinian president says this gesture is a sign of the future. Translator when we go to the General Assembly, the flag will be raised and god willing, will raise this flag above jerusa
N. A. T. O. Renews pledges to defend mem berls, including neighbouring turkey. New threat. We are trying to salvage what we can. South carolina residents trying to recover amid rain falls of dangerous flooding. Pluto revealed. Discoveries about the mysterious planet billions of miles from the sun evening, im antonio mora, this is al jazeera america. We begin with a Shocking Development in the battle for House Speaker. The front runner dropped out of the race just before a meeting to nominate the party. It throws the area into chaos. Al jazeeras Michael Shure reports from capital hill. A shocking day on capitol hill. A day we were supposed to know who the republicans were nominating for speaker of the house. Turns out that at the end of the day we are further away from knowing who that will be. It started with an abrupt withdrawal of majority leader of Kevin Mccarthy. Reporter when the day began, Kevin Mccarthy was the frontrunner for House Speaker and then the unexpected. What happened
Why 2015 is shaping up to be the hottest year on record by a wide margin. Tonight, the fate of the man Authorities Say organized the deadly attacks in paris is still not clear. Police raided the suspected hideout today. Two people were killed. Their identities are not yet known. Eight others were taken into custody. Police say he is not among them. Prosecutors say the raid in the paris suburb might have thwarted another attack. Dana lewis has the latest from paris. French leaders have spoken of a war with those who carried out last fridays massacre. Today, in the northern paris suburb of saint denis, it sounded like one. Tonight, the paris prosecutor said he believed the architect of the paris attacks was inside a thirdfloor apartment. He is suspected of carrying out a very great number of terrorist attacks and that in the interest of the islamic state. This witness was received on the 16th of november, and with great caution, we verified all of the data that the, particularly the bank
Tighter Border Control and a third body was found in the rubble where the suspected attack organizer was killed and lets rejoin our colleagues in doha with the latest in mali. Attacked a luxury hotel for the foreigners in bamako and say 170 people have been taken hostages and at least 80 of the hostages have been freed so far from the Radisson Hotel but another three people were confirmed dead and yvonne is monitoring this story from the nigerian capitol abuja and get us up to speed and what do we know . Well, what we know is that the situation is live and active and on going. The siege is still underway. We managed to speak to some eyewitnesses who are on the scene outside of the Radisson Blu Hotel. What they tell us is that French Military who operate in mali who have a base in mali, Mali Special Forces and u. N. Forces as the u. N. Peace keeper mission there are around the how elbow hotel and surrounded the hotel and some of them have tried to go in the hotel to diffuse the situatio
This morning millions of merps are taking to the skies are, the roads, the rails, all trying to get to their holiday designations. This is a live look at how crowded the skies are right now. Many travellers could be seeing delays. Good morning and welcome to your world this morning. Reporter according to the Popular Crowd sourcing, today is the worst day for Holiday Travel, so expect traffic jams and long lines at the art port warnings are already out because of some dangerous weather reporter this bus Holiday Travel week started off wet. Its not Getting Better you have to visit, right. Reporter more than a hundred million travellers will hit the road more than ever before. You have to keep an eye on the skies just as much as they do the road. Fog may have led to this chain crash killing at least three people. Cross parts of the west, snow is so heavy it is slow in the search and rescue mission in washington state. A missing skier had to be halted because of avalanche dangers. Dangerou