Cup . The u. S. Says the strikes over Northern Nigeria as part of a rescue effort to find 200 kidnapped school girls and boko haram operates in three states in the north and there was a state of emergency a year ago. Boko haram has bases with chad and two other countries and they were taken and sought they were held somewhere in this area. On top of the surveillance the u. S. Sent a team of 30 experts to help with the search and china and france have sent technical experts and on monday boko haram released the video offering to swap the girls for jail members. U. S. Experts are studying the pictures closely for any clues that might help them and we will go to abuja and how does is the search and rescue effort shaping up and how difficult is this going to be . Reporter details emerging from washington about the makeup of their 30man team. We understand that this team involves officials from the state department, from the dissent department and we have f. B. I. Personnel and military per
Beginning to go after. A major break through in the city of aleppo. The siege of the jail by opposition forces. Troops began by capturing the town of hilam, its northeast of aleppo city. And it means that the president s forces are now within reach of costello road. And that links it to the northern countryside. In and around the prison, it means that ashams government will be able to cut off weapons to the rebels on the outskirts of the city and the turkish border. Next to the prison, five miles northeast of the 50. In terms of the ongoing conflict, monitoring events from nearby beirut. And the military balance in this conflict, which is over three years old now. On the one hand, the capturing of this prison, it has a strategic location, and it will help the government to cut off the rebels ability to supply the weapons and more rebels and men. And at the same time, this has become a very critical battle. And it has been going on for 13 months. Deadly crashes have been taking place fo
The Government Faces growing criticism and happy families and australia is to make adoption easier. But we open in the democratic republic of congo where the biggest rape trial in the countrys history is waiting for victims, 130 women say they were raped by government soldiers and waiting to find out if the men will be convicted or not in a special military court. And, malcolm web is at the town of the center of the allegations. This woman says when she was 16 rebels abducted her and kept her prisoner six months raping her repeatedly and when she escaped she was pregnant. In november 2012 a few months after giving birth things got even worse. Translator we heard that government soldiers were coming and were looting, 17 of them came into where we were hiding, there were 14 of us and they raped all of us, after they finished one of them took my baby boy, i found him the next day but later he died. Reporter she is dozens of women who say they were raped in the same time in the same town e
Nigeria. Im felicity barr. The vatican faces more claims of child abuse. A Vatican Committee against torture. A pro russia rebels have shot down an eastern ukrainian helicopter, the crew survived but their condition hasnt been released. Earlier 4 Ukrainian Police officers were killed april a shootout. In that same city. Nick spicer reports. The Army Operation to dislodge prorussian militia, push past the roadblocks which ring this staunch separatist town and push on towards the center. There was gun fire and multiple explosion. Brought down by heavy machine gun fire, crashing into the towns river. The ministry of defense said the two pilots survived and evacuated to a military hospital. Braved the cross fire to bring the injured to the towns hospital. By midday the fight was over. The tactics of Ukrainian Army changed over the morning, prowrgprorussian elements are l in evidence. We were told the army had cornered a group of separatist fighters. Translator from the 25 of us that went i
Including just a month away from the world cup in brazil. Right now ill let you know who is in and who is out. Boko haram has released a video showing the first pictures of more than 200 girls kidnapped from their school in nigeria a month ago. The rebel Group Responsible for a series of atrocity say the girls have converted to islam. The boko haram leader offered to release them in exchange for prisoners that are held. Their kidnapping has shocked the world. Now the images of the missing girls are likely to cause further distress. In the first video release from the boko haram. It was heard to determine from the video where the location was shot. The leader also makes a separate appearance. He said he will not let the girls go unless incarcerated members of their group are released. What more have you been able to glean about this video . Reporter well, jane, so far the government has not made any remarks or comments from this video. It took them weeks to acknowledge the initial kidna