Placed on the cafes window. Hello, and welcome. Police in australia say theyre negotiating with an armed man hours after he took a number of people hostage at a cafe. The siege in central sydney is being described as an ongoing situation. The lindt cafe is located in the financial district close to the federal bank and the state of parliament. Hundreds of heavily armed police are in the area. Five people ran from the cafe to safety. Its not yet clear whether they escaped or had been freed. The bbcs Richard Galpin has more. Reporter hours from inside the siege, terrified staff run for their lives. Its not clear if these two had escaped or been released, but in total, five people have now got out. It seems those still being held inside the lindt cafe have been forced to stand next to the windows. Some having to hold up an islamic flag, similar to that used by militant Islamist Groups such as Islamic State and al qaeda. But so far, the authorities are refusing to speculate on what the mot
Against technology. That was actually we had this conversation a little bit about some of the limits of kind of online activism or some people say hash tag activism. This ability of just masses of people to bring attention to these issues, right, and we talked about how that kind of bubbled up during the whole Malaysian Airlines hysteria where, you know, we all of a sudden started paying attention to these 200 kidnapped girls. The other analog is joseph coney, coney 2012. One of the most Massive Campaign we have seen in terms of online activism and it was all these eyes now focused on the whole premise was lets make coney famous and that will lead to some sort of capture, but still, as you say, coney is still out there, we havent found most of these girls. So there are , as we said, limis to what technology can be, especially if you have people trying to evade. It goes back to the basic human connections. The 200 girls in nigeria will probably be found because someone informs on them a
Ingenuity, then you can get into an insoluble problem here where its a remote part of nigeria and technology is being used against technology. That was actually, we had this conversation a little bit about some of the limits of online activism and some people say activism. You know, this ability of just masses of people to bring attention to these issues. Right, so and we talked about how that kind of bubbled up during the whole Malaysian Airlines hysteria where, you know, we all of a sudden started paying attention to these 200 kidnapped girls but werent paying attention before. And the other kind of analog there is joseph kony 2012, probably the most Massive Campaign in terms of online activism. The whole premise was lets make kony famous and lead to some sort of capture, right . But still, as you say, still out there, wechblt found most of these girls there are limits to what technology can do, right, especially if you have people trying to evade. It goes back to the basic human con
Shot bella, i have a kid that age. And the idea of putting something on her where she felt she had to get help from me, away from me, is staggering in the name of some perverse sense of politics. Putting that on your kid where now he has to own that because of you. I hope that guy gets word of what his son is thinking and how hes feeling and he does the right thing. Im sure he will. He threatened to kill him. I dont have kids but i do remember, can you believe it, being that age . And i think young people are more resilient than you think. I think its a tough thing for him, no doubt, dont get me wrong. But because his head is in the right place, he has the right mindset and the right thinking that hes going to be on the right track. Its not going to be easy i dont think its going to be easy for him but i do think in the end and i hope that he will be okay. Many people have gone through tough things, this is a tough one for him, but because his head is in the right place and hes trying
Thats a tough one on a friday night, but i think its an important perspective for us to have. That kid and so many families like that one all across this country. Cnn tonight, big show, big star, d. Lemon now. That kid is doing what our lawmakers cant do. They should be taking lessons from him. You asked me the other night if i had a tear come to my eye during the inauguration and i didnt because i was afraid. But that kid hurts me, that situation. You know, i have a kid, our big shot bella, i have a kid that age. And the idea of putting something on her where she felt she had to get help from me, away from me, is staggering in the name of some perverse sense of politics. Putting that on your kid where now he has to own that because of you. I hope that guy gets word of what his son is thinking and how hes feeling and he does the right thing. Im sure he will. He threatened to kill him. I dont have kids but i do remember, can you believe it, being that age . And i think young people are