Theres a growing sense of uncertainty after an attempted coup. There are on going gun battles. The president was forced to flee his palace by helicopter. His convey came under attack and Houthi Rebels took control of a state news agency. The fighting is being heard from blocks away. Government forces and Houthi Rebels have been battling near the president ial palace since early monday. The believe is a symbol of who wields power in yemen something hard to know at the moment. The information minister describes the scene as utter chaos. To be honest, i dont think any single party is in control. There are places where the state securitys in control places where houthis are in control. Both ministers of defense and interior were in this committee but there are people who wear the uniform that do not obey the orders of their superiors. Houthi rebels have been at odds with the government for years and took control of most parts of the capital last year. Mondays fight that go made the situati
Attack. Hello. First to our top story. E. U. Foreign ministers have pledged to counter radicalized europeans returning from syria and iraq. Meeting in brussels and kuwait, leaders vowed to use the most robust strategies at home and abroad to combat terrorism. Ideas put forward including more support for police in the middle east and north africa cracking down on arms trafficking. They are going to lay out the finalized strategies in february. They said a continued dialogue was needed. Part of the narrative is that we have a double standard. We only care about victims in europe. We know very well that the first victims of terrorists and terrorist acts are muslims and arab countries. We need to work on developing a dialogue and alliance of civilization and avoid any kind of perception of clash. Douglas weeks is a london based terrorist researcher. Thank you for joining us. Thank you. They are calling for a Broader Alliance for tackling terrorism, dealing with radicalized people returning
Mitchell. U. S. Officials confirmed that the u. S. Aflying manned surveillance flights over nig nigeria after boko haram released video of some of the captured girls in an unknown location. A terror group issued a video message demanding a release of their own militants in exchange for girls. Stephanie gosk filed this report from the capital of cameroon. Reporter the parents of the school girls are getting their first opportunity now to pore over this video and search for their children, agonizingly. We spoke to a father in the capital of nigeria, he looked at the video and recognized two of the school girls but didnt actually see his daughter. Even if he did, it only a slight comfort. They are still in the hands of boko haram earn the leader says they will not be released until prisoners, boko haram prisoners are released from prisons all around nigeria. Were getting interesting information here in cameroon from the military. This gives an idea of how well armed they are. About a week
This is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. The level of concern here in the United States over the deadly mers virus has been raised a notch with word late yesterday that the disease has for the first time in this country been passed from one person to another. There have been hundreds of confirmed cases of mers overseas since 2012, with almost a third of the cases proving fatal. But it showed up here just three weeks ago when a person who had arrived by air from the middle east. Now Health Officials say that patient has passed it along to someone else, raising new questions about how its transmitted and how big a threat the virus could turn out to be. Weve asked our chief medical editor, dr. Nancy snyderman, to put it all in perspective for us. Reporter the illinois man who tested positive for mers antibodies became infected after coming in contact with a Health Care Worker who traveled to saudi arabia for a business. Had two business meetings, somewhere around 35, 40 mi
The airasia crash. An indonesian officials the fuselage from the jet that crashed last month may now have been found. Search verse also recovered the cockpit voice recorder. David has been watching all this from indonesia. The most important thing is that relatives of all the victims may get answers as to why this plane went down. What is the latest on the fuselage and blocks . Reporter thats right. Big developments here in indonesia this afternoon. This is coming from a senior official with the search and rescue organization here. His name is mr. Cipriati. Hes been in front of the cameras regularly over the past two weeks. On the other side of the java sea, borneo they have been staging the ships, planes, and helicopters for this haasive search effort over the last 17 days. The direct quote from him about the fuselage hes using the words main body of the plane. He is saying, divers have found it in the location to the northeast of where we found the tail. He goes on to say, but i have