Struggling stock market. The Syrian Opposition has made a list of demands ahead of u. N. Brokered peace talks due later this month. They say they want to see confidencebuilding steps from the Syrian Government, including an immediate end to the bombardment of oppositionheld areas. Reporter the civil war in syria is almost five years old and its estimated a quarter of a million syrians have been killed. Underbacked talks to restore the peace are due to start later this month. But Syrian Opposition leaders want confidence Building Measures from the government before the talks begin. They want Syrian Government forces to stop bombarding opposition held towns and cities. They are calling for Political Prisoners to be released and they want humanitarian aid delivered to those in desperate need. You cant really enter negotiations while seem are being slaughtered en masse. This would be a sign by the regime to tell the opposition it is serious about negotiations. Reporter the various groups w
Happened and that invoked a 911 call. Wayne lives with his parents a short distance from the school. He has autism. His parents say lee has autism and occasionally likes to talk to children. The little kids will talk to him and he talks the same. That is the problem. The police say they dont know if lee has autism or not but they cant take any chances and they arrested lee and will leave it up to the courts to decide if he should be prosecuted. They say he understands right from wrong and holds down a parttime job at the wayne Movie Theater and normally a report of possible luring wore yeses parents but they dont want to jump to conclusions. If someone has special needs and circumstances and they need to be spoken to as well as to why that is not appropriate. The police investigated lee years ago when he was talking to children and found that that was harmless, tonight he is held on 100,000 bail pending the psychological evaluation. Thank you david. Camden county police are trying to r
Gold alert to roanoke memorial hospital. Its about as bad as you can get. It means there were multiple body systems involved in the trauma. No one on the train was injured. The train had three locomotives and 14 cars. It was traveling from roanoke to bluefield. Jean, of course well update wdbj7. Com first when we learn more about this crash. Both Virginia Tech students charged in Nicole Lovells death made their First Court Appearance this morning in Montgomery County. But it may be a while before we see them again. Wdbj7s justin ward is live at the Montgomery County courthouse to explain. Both David Eisenhauer and natalie keepers now have lawyers and are officially charged in the abduction and death of nicole lovell. Theyre due in court again march 28th for a preliminary hearing. According to arrest warrants eisenhauer did not use a gun in her death. After he was arrested he apparently told law enforcement, i set me free. The judge appointed chris tuck, out of blacksburg to represent e
Cleared of terrorism charges. All that. One beyond the boundaries of women enterprises. Mission accomplished for india as it joins an elite club of countries, the latest to put a satellite around mars. We are going to start with syria, Northern Syria actually where the Islamic State of iraq on the lavant is advance october border town. Isil has sent tanks into the town right on the border with turkey following u. S. Led airstrikes against isil fighters which began opinion monday. While turkey said it could lend military or Logistical Support to the airstrikes. With stefanie dekker, near kobani. Tell us more about this advance. Reporter we have this confirmed yesterday afternoon that following those coalition airstrikes, an isil strong hold and further to the east, there are many isil fighters who had advanced to kobane, a syrian town which is 50 meters down from where we are. We can actually just see it. Most of them were based in the south. Now, whats happening today, we had news of t
Putins plan to revise his nations space industry. We begin in syria where government jets carried out a series of strikes. Schools have been hit and many children killed. The school in the rebel held area juma was attacked. Five were killed, children. Barrel bombs had been dropped on a school. Seven children were killed. It follows an air strikes in a school bus. Four children were killed, 15 wounded. Zeina khodr has more from beirut. Over the past 24 hours there has been poor incidents in which five schools, along with a school bus were targeted by Syrian Government air strikes. What we understand from activists on the ground is that children were killed. We do not know if the schools were deliberately targeted, but they were in oppositioncontrolled territory. The government controls the skies and air power has given them advantage and they usually target rebelcontrolled territories six not to allow the rebels to govern there. Its a way where for them to retaliate. We know the attacks