Well cross over to andrew simmons. Andrew will tell us more about what youre learning on abaaouds death. Well, the confirmation of abaaoud is indeed dead. It had been suspected that he was in that apartment when so many special forces attacked it for a period of three to four hours with fierce resistance from all of those inside. Now there is this confirmation, we are told, it is fingerprint evidence that has convinced the authorities, that it is in fact him, and francoi the french pror has said that this confirmation is indeed the case, but he cannot say whether or not he had actually blown himself up or whether he was crushed when the building partly collapsed, or he was thought repeatedly by the forces. It is unclear, but it is definitely him and of course, this brings to a close the speculation about who this man was and confirms that their intelligence was correct, that indeed, this man was not with a string of terrorist attacks behind him, according to Intelligence Services. He w
Ruled an accident. Plus. Im in aberdeen where thousands of jobs depends on the oil industry and where the current low oil prices are raising concerns about the future. We begin with breaking news out of mexico. There has been a gas explosion at a Childrens Hospital in mexico city. Officials say one person is dead and 54 injured. Many of them children. We are looking at the latest pictures coming from there. Its a massive explosion. Lets bring in adam raney, on the line from mexico city tijuana. What happened . A gas truck filling up tanks, it looks like at a cafeteria at this maternity and Childrens Hospital exploded and nearly collapsed most of the hospital. Theres reports following the local government chief, of two confirmed deaths. Dozens injured, many with burns. They are rushed to other hnts in the area. This is western other hospitals in the area. This is western mexico city. People are wondering if some of the people they knew in the hospital that have been evacuated, and we ma
Austerity and rolling out the red carpet for the u. K. Film industry. The latest results from the baftas. At least 40 people have been killed during a riot at a football match in cairo egypt. Medical sources say its the worst football related violence since fighting in port said leaving more than 70 dead. Rob matheson has more. Reporter groups of football fans tried to get into the stadium in cairo. They had come to watch a premier league game between zamalek and emmpi. Some did not have tickets. Police tried to stop them with barricades. When that doesnt work they fire tear gas. Some people have accused the police of using violence to try to pacify the crowd. The police denied this. It appears that in the confusion a stampede occurred and many died from suffocation. We need to look at how it was handled. I mean the way the police dealt with the violence and how egyptian blood is so cheap and how fans are killed easily over a football match. Reporter egypt is no stranger to football vi
Will elect a new leader in the next week. Its 5th in 6 years before my childs livery, she sudak a born johnson expected to run. Ah, me barca this is al jazeera life from london, also coming up at least 30 days off to chat Security Forces crackdown on Anti Government protested looting and torching the Prime Ministers office. Ukraines National Grid starts imposing blackouts on its citizens to allow infrastructure destroyed by russian ass strikes to be repaired. And as hong kong ease is more of its covert restrictions. This outrage in china over the death of a 16 Year Old Girl in a quarantine facility. Ah, the u. K. Prime minister has resigned after a turbulent 44 days in office full of policy, you turns market turmoil and cabinet resignations. Less trust said she was quitting because she couldnt deliver the mandate. She was elected on by the tory party after being forced to rip up her economic plans. The tories now have one week to elect a new leader with candidates rumored to include fo
With the u. S. Doing so much to help us fight ebola and, again, one of our compatriots didnt take care so hes gone there and put some americans in a state of fear, and put them at some risks, i feel very saddened by that and very angry with him to tell you the truth. Well take you now to developments out of kabul, afghanistan, standing next to the new president , lets listen in to their first joint press conference. [ speaking a Foreign Language ] [ speaking a Foreign Language ] we are standing by for a translation here, but we, of course, want to see what comes out of this press conference. Youre seeing the nations newly elected leader standing next to mr. Cameron. Kabul has still been the focus of taliban attacks in recent days and weeks and, of course, the country, this new leader, has signed the new status of forces agreement allowing u. S. And other forces to stay in the country past 2014. Were going to continue to listen in and see if any news developments come out of this press