We may never know what drove a man in sydney, australia, to take 17 people hostage. What we do know is the standoff lasted 16 hours, made International Headlines in large part because of this. A black banner, the gunmen forced his captives to display. It appears the man acted alone, and had no connection to isil. Still, it was a clear attempt to provoke fear. Reporter hostages pick their moments and run for their lives. Moments later police storm this central sydney cafe. One officer appears to throw a stun grenade, then crack of what was likely either gunfire or flash explosions. From different sides of the building, the scene plays out. Paramedics were there waiting and quickly ran towards the building. One woman would be seen being carried out. Her foot injured. The siege began during monday morns rush hour. A woman was phoning police. Three police on motorcycles arrived and some others on foot very quickly. And she was telling them she had gone to go inside the cafe, and the automa
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Its rescued most of the hostages at the westgate Shopping Mall in nairobi. A two day standoff that killed more than 68 and wounded more than 150. The initial attack happened saturday. The Somali Militant Group al shabaab has claimed responsibility. I have to be honest with you, we havent seen a great deal of movement within the building or on the side streets. Personnel carriers moving in and out and it has been very, very quiet from the building itself. Its very difficult to get any kind of confirmed information about whats taking place inside. But clearly the headline is the Kenyan Military believes that they have secured most of the building and released most of the hostages although again i really want to stress that this is not yet over. There are still clearly hostages in there, and there are still clearly some of the governments, some of the attackers. It is surprising i think that we dont know precise number of the government. Gunmen. And one of the things the Kenyan Security s
Kremlin is echoing Donald Trumps talking points saying this is all fake news, this is something that never happened, why does this witch hunt continue, et cetera, et cetera and the president is going into the meeting on monday wondering why the fbi didnt look at the dnc server more, not blaming president obama for the hacks that occurred during the election instead of blaming the president of russia himself, so we see hes walking into this meeting already prepared, essentially, to make concessions, whether that is potentially allowing the russians to take crimea, recognize crimea as russia, or cede syria to russia, making that their spear of influence in exchange for kicking iran out of the country. So theres a lot here and Senate Democrats have every right to be concerned that the president is going to go into this with a former kgb agent whos well prepared, knows exactly what he wants, and the president has already expressed his weariness over the conclusions of our Intelligence Comm