Female cabinet ministers resign in a corruption scandal. And we report on assets to create the world east largest marine reserve. We begin this news hour with the fight for kobani and what could be a Major Development and turkey fighters from iraq to travel across the territory and that is good news for defending kobani and resupplied by the u. S. Airforce and ammunition and supplies were dropped from the air and we have reaction from inside syria. Reporter isil forces surrounding the kurdish town of kobani and what stands in their way Kurdish Forces on the ground and they had weapons air dropped in the heavily devastated town. Translator in the earlier hours a good quantity of weapons, ammunition and equipment were air dropped by american planes over kobani and the quantity was great and not bad at all and will help defend kobani and america and we hope for more support and aid. Reporter after dozens of u. S. Led air strikes on kobani Kurdish Forces were calling for more weapons and i
Unite that, oh, that an orchestra speaks better than all the summits and all the who searches about about peace and about friendship used to perform as in the orchestra of women. And many are under the age of 13. 0 can, i says say they want to challenge the status quo of Classical Music by creating an orchestra that is truly diverse emission they hope to continue long after their 1st performance. Jessica washington out a 0. My galan indonesia. Ah, it says al jazeera, these are all top stories. Almenis Prime Minister says 49 of his soldiers have been killed in fighting with us by john fighting began early on tuesday, around 3 cities along the border. Armenia says as a by johns army began the shelling, but as a by john is plain, armenia is king charles. The 3rd is in northern ireland. First official visit, as monarch, he is attending a service for his late mother quinn is with the 2nd hair at saint annes cathedral in belfast. Earlier he met political leaders from both the union and natio
The executive director of the American Society of comptrollers. Without further ado, please join me in welcoming one of my favorites, robert hale. [applause] good morning. How is everyone doing . Listen, i am glad to be here. For a number of reasons. One of them is that comptrollers do not get invited out that much. I have a number of stories. Bad news is you have a serious problem and if you dont have an immediate transplant, youre going to die. But the good news is i have three donors, you can choose any one of them. One of them is a former olympic athlete and prior to her demise, she was practicing every day for the olympics. Another one was a former triathlon athlete and he was swimming and running everyday. The third one is an 80yearold comptroller. Which one would you like . And he thought for a moment and said i will take the comptroller. They prepared for the surgery and should the mans wife said why would you she was a heart transplant donor of an 80yearold . And he said, his
The current top stories here on al jazeera quinn, elizabeths 4 children have performed a traditional vigil around the coffin of their late mother, said giles, as cathedral and edinburgh, britons new king charles. The 3rd stood for 10 minutes with his siblings, princess, an prince, edward, and prince andrew. Or the queens coffin will lie at rest in scotland for 24 hours. Where morn as you can see them filing in there and those live pictures can come and pay their respects before coffin moves to london later on tuesday for madison has more, its a time when the family is able to show their respect. So theyre there to a certain extent, humility, i suppose, but certainly they indicate how somberly they take this situation publicly to the members to the people around them to, to show their public respect for Queen Elizabeth to 2nd. It is a very unusual situation. In one respect, because this is the 1st time that a moment has taken part in it, the princess, of course the princess while is the
A u. S. Court convicts steve van n of contempt of congress. Donald trumps former aid refused to testify in front of lawmakers investigating last years assault on the us capital. And where has all the luggage gone airports around the world struggle to deal with a lot of baggage crisis . Well, tony white ah hello there. Im really mohammed, ukraine, and russia have agreed to sign a deal to restart grain exports out of ukraine. For months, russia has blockaded ports on the black sea, vital for shipping, ukrainian grain to the rest of the world. The deal will help alleviate a global food crisis triggered by russias invasion, but ukraine says it doesnt believe russia will keep its promises. A landmark built against the backdrop of mutual mistrust. Representatives from russia and ukraine signed an agreement in the stumble, refusing to sit down together at the same table, and carefully avoiding shaking hands. The un secretary general said the deal offer the beacon of hope. This is an agreement