In doha with all the sport including details of the deals sepp blatter claims were in place to make sure russia would host the 2018 World Football world cup. For the first time and amid ongoing violence iran has accepted an invitation to accept talks aimed at air whys civil war. The meeting will take place on friday in vienna. Iran, United States, russia, turkey and saudi arabia will all attend. Russia along sideiran along side russia is one of the main backers of president Bashar Alassads regime. The foreign minister said that the talks will be a test of how sirs iran is of reaching a political solution to the crisis. There will be a meeting on friday which will include other states from the region to test mirren tensions to finding a solution to the syrian crisis. On top of that solution is finding a time and way for Bashar Alassad to step down. We hope that such efforts can be concluded in success. In the meantime we and our allies are committed to providing increasing report to mod
Quarterly loss in 15 years. And find out what an u. S. Police department decided after investigating an officer who threw a student across a classroom. Its one of the main backers. Now for the first time and amid i dont know going violence iran has accepted an invitation to talks aimed at ending syrias civil war. Ross lend jordan now has more from washington, d. C. Iran up until now has not been in the u. S. view very helpful. They say by sending in rngc personnel, the elite military faction of the iranian government, theyre basically helping Bashar Alassad stay in power, which is something that the u. S. Does not want. They blame assad for the ongoing civil war and also for the isil in the northern part of that country as well as in iraq. But they also know that they have something that the u. S. Does not have, and that is the ear of assad. As they start this new round of discussions on friday preceded by some bilateral meetings in vienna on thursday the u. S. Is working to work with
Capitol of damascus. Emmens government denies that its Intelligence Headquarters has been taken over by rebels. Why some people wont mind being bitten by these mosquitoes. The second day of the u. N. General assembly is underway now in new york. Live pictures from that meeting. Well be following the speeches throughout the coming hours. Irans president rouhani will speak shortly. Well bring you his speech live when it happens. Well start this news hour with violence in syria. On several fronts. The battle on the Turkish Border is forcing families to cross the border into turkey. Occurred issue fighters are engaged approximate the Islamic State of iraq and the levant. 14 fighters have been killed, as well as five civilians. The coalitions been targeting Oil Facilities held by the group. Aljazeera is on the turkeysyria border. Very close to cabane. She joins us live from there. Whats the latest . Theres still a trickle of people heading in. Weve been pushed back. The border town is acros
To get its Controversial Oil sand to market amid fierce that it could damage the environment. I Nigerian Government has asked to extend emergency rule for another six months. Googood luck jonathan said that the military needed enhanced powers to fight boko haram. The government is accepting that it has not made head way in the battle of boko haram . Well, the state of emergency was declared in may 2015 as you mentioned when the president addressed the president. At that time he made it clear that what boko haram was doing amounted to a declaration of war, and a deliberate attempt to undermine authority of the nigerian state. As an as a result, the military needed an idea of what that would mean. It means that these areas continue to be active areas of operation for the nigerian military. Well, the military has the upper hand in wanting those areas above even the police and other states authority. The extra order measures have included the check points, conducting searches, and to lock
Meeting weve been waiting for has happened. Pope francis and fidel castro met shortly after the mass. The pope is said to have gone directly there. The family was in attendance. The meeting took about half an hour or so. Gifts were exchanged. A little insight, fidel castro supposedly asked for books in the past, so pope francis brought him books. Of course there has been a warm relationship between raul castro and the pope mainly because of the role the pope has had in trying to create a rapprochement between cuba and the United States, and in return the cuban authorities have allowed this place to become the testing ground for Colombian Peace negotiations. So the vatican has been working more with this administration here and in this address this morning, first homily and then the blessing at the end of the mass, he made clear that service is supposed to be unselfish and that power must relent to people and that the whole point of living basically is to be merciful to others, and that