Protesters across the country have gathered for what they are calling a justice for all protest. Its also in new york, rather, its called the millions march. Really all of the same cause. Its a reference to the million man march held by activists 20 years ago in washington. These are live pictures of what is happening right now. Thousands showed up in the town manhattan this afternoon. More from al jazeera, Courtney Kealy who has been with these protesters. The pictures we are showing, there are thousands of people packed in the streets of new york city. What are you seeing where you are . I am at one police plaza, the police headquarters. This is where the marchers are ending to conduct this rally. It already has started. Its dark now. This whole like threeblock area is cordoned off with policemen standing quietly by letting them protest and funnel into this area. What we saw was about a mile long protest. It would be tens of thousands of people. One of the largest protests in new yor
Its sound like Science Fiction, but is closer than you think so delegates at the u. N. Climate conference in lima, peru, finally agreed a lastminute deal two days later than scheduled. Environmental groups slammed it as a week and ineffectual compromise. It lands the ground work for Climate Change talks in paris in 2016. The 4page agreement asks countries to submit a plan to tackle emissions. Talks went over the original deadline after developing nations said which countries should do more to help in the fight against Climate Change. Our developing editor says more. Reporter at long last after endless through the hours wrangling, aest lugs. Despite the celebration, many say the document is watered down and weak. This is an incredibly weak decision. We came in thinking wed get an ambitious threat. We had commitments to the Green Climate fund, the u. S. And china announcement. Instead we got a halfbaked deal. There was nearly no agreement at all. The first draft detected out of hand. We
Change talks continue. First, afghanista to afghanistan where 21 people have been killed in suicidebombings across the country. The latest attack targeted an arm bus in kabul. Seven soldiers have been killed and ten others have been wounded. Jennifer glasse joins us from the afghan capitol. Tell us about this latest attack that targeted the afghan army. Reporter well, the taliban has claimed responsibility for that attack that took place just as the sun was sitting here during kabuls busy rush hour. Suicidebomber on foot, a a suicidebomber went up in flames. Six soldiers were killed in that secon attack. Its the Second Attack here earlier a member of Afghanistan Supreme Court was shot to death as he was headed to work. The taliban has claimed responsibility for that attack as well. In the south 12 mine clearers were attacked and killed in helmonds province. And then we saw two soldiers from natos International Security Assistance Force also killed. An up tick in violence and were seein
A number of hostages in a popular cafe. Bureau,our Bloomberg Paul allen is covering events for us. What more do we know . There have been a few developments since last we spoke. The police have pushed their street,ack to hunter the block our building is on. You can see the high shot taken out of the window of our building. Building, you can see, is not a cafe. The cafe it self is about a further 100 meters up the road to the left. This is right across the street from the reserve bank of australia and directly across the plaza from channel 7, which has also been evacuated. Hourer development at this is the number of people inside the building. We have been saying it is believed to be up to 20. We have since spoken to the ceo of lindt australia and he said there were 10 working at the time and could be up to 30 customers. There could be up to 40, but that has not been confirmed by the police or any other agency. We have seen pictures of people with their hands up against the window. Two
Man who once had the ear of the countrys most powerful man. Ling jihua was a close aide of former president hu jintao. He is accused of a serious disciplinary violation. The staterun Xinhua News Agency said the communist party is investigating ling who currently serves as vice chairman of the chinese peoples political consultation Conference National committee. Ling had a long career with the communist youth league. The organization produced many senior politicians loyal to hu jintao. Hong kong media have reported that ling asked Zhou Yongkang then a member of the Standing Committee to help cover up a story. He wanted to hide news that his son had died after crashing a popular sports car. Zhou was expelled from the party earlier this month. President xi jinping has been waging a campaign that reached the upper echelons of chinese politics. The massive landslide in indonesia earlier this month has forced 2,000 people to live in temporary shelters. The National Disaster agency has ended