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price rises as the government announces tax increases. i m in india where the government is announcing a new railway budget to modernize its 160-year-old train network. hello, there, thank you for joining us. six israelis are in custody this hour, suspects in the killing of a palestinian teenager. benjamin netanyahu said everything is being done to find those responsible. the 16-year-old s burned body was found in a forest. his cousin was later caught up in protests and beaten by police. he has now spoken about his ordeal. we off the from occupie report t jerusalem. the 15-year-old will spend nine days under house arrest. he says he was innocent. i was brutally attacked when i was just watching what was happening. israeli police say the u.s. citizen was arrested on the scene of the protest, together with five others. he was wearing a kafia. three of them out of the six were armed. the family said this mobile phone footage show the israelis beating him when ....
i leave my grandkids to be born here. reporter: the fear and hostilities is higher than in reporter: just a few minutes ago the state department released a statement about tariq saying: mahmoud abbas said the same thing to the security council in the last couple of hours. nick schifrin live from jerusalem. thank you. iraqi government forces push north and west of baghdad into territory claimed by the the latest news and hottest trends in celebrity, style and more. . zeina khodr has the store yix. reporter: another funeral of a kurdistan fighter. the kurdistan government said they would not get involved in the battle between shia forces and sunni-armed groups. they are caught up in the conflict nonetheless. there s no official casualty. kurdish forces are suffering casualties. the fighting has been fierce in this corner of the eastern province. jel owla up to is an urban battle ground. many of the 40,000 kurd and arab residents have left. peshmerga fighter ....
we begin in israel where six israelis are in custody, suspects in the killing of a palestinian teenager. the murder of 16-year-old mohammed abukhdair, burnt alive set off violent protests. his cousin caught up in demonstrations and allegedly beaten by israeli police. mahmoud abbas is asking the international community to step in and investigate crimes against palestinians. translation: i ve asked for an international investigative committee to be formed connection to the terrorist crimes committed towards the palestinian people and the aggression, especially the burning of a child, burnt alive. this child is only 15 years old. he was burned alive. this remind us of lots of events that took place in the past - killings and burnings. his cousin has been released from gaol. nick schifrin reports from jerusalem. good evening. this region has been on edge. the arrests are a maim yore wreak in major break in a case. it is hoped it will quell the anger. it is increasin ....
emerging economies agree to create a development bank. . there are signs of the conflict between israel and palestinians might be about to escalate. an israeli deadline for people to leave their homes passed two hours ago. the live presidents over gaza as the israeli aerial bombardment continues, sporadically but continually for a ninth day. binyamin netanyahu says he has no choice but to, as he put it, step up the strikes. hamas said it was never properly consulted about a ceasefire and promised to fight on. you can see the results of a number of bombardments there on your screens, the live pictures coming to you from gaza. there were strikes on the strip overnight and into wednesday morning, and now. more than 200 palestinians have been killed. a man has been killed by rocket fire. for parts of gaza which the iranian military is thought to be targetting next - israel told 100,000 people north of gaza strip to leave their homes. residents have been warned in border t ....
sectarian life could pull a ro rock iraq apart. kurds have lived semi semi autoously in northern iraq. now with the upheaval in iraq the kurds share a 600-mile border with the new islamic state. forces are fighting the sunni insurgents and pulling away from baghdad economically and politically. the time has come for us to determine our own fate. we must not wait for others to determine it with us. president of the semi autonomous kurdish region of northern iraq. they live upon some of the richest oil fields in all of iraq. as the government in baghdad fractures in sectarian divisions the kurdish pull away in states that they can take care of. they threatened off advances of isil and declared their own islamic state. the fighting has made the question of borders and security even more important to the kurds who see the baghdad government and nouri al-maliki as opposite of their goals. it will hurt you and it will take the region in a maze that you cannot exit. seco ....