And journalists stand in solidarity with our colleagues imprisoned in egypt for 200 days now. Tens of thousands of palestinians desperate to escape as israel intensifies its assault on gaza. Families gathered up their belongings after israel dropped leaflets threatening a new round of attacks. Human watch rights describes the destruction of homes as a war crime. One has died in israel but the Palestinian Death toll continues rise. So far what is now the 9th day of the assault, 1,530 palestinians have been wounded. Lets take you live, now to gaza city. John hendren is there. John, what is the latest . Reporter were beginning to hear air drops downtown in gaza city, and we have heard a number of rockets thought the day. Things seem to have accelerated over the past 24 hours since thats fire seemed to be possibility and then faded into oblivion. Both sides have been very active. Some 40 homes have been destroyed. Those rockets keep coming out, but there have also been buildings. We were a
Plus im james bayes at the United Nations. World leaders are gathering. The focus on isil, and in the next hour or so a speech by president obama. We have gone beyond the boundaries of human enterprise. Mission accomplished, india joins an elite group of countries becoming the late toast put a satellite around mars. The United Nations General Assembly is getting underway in new york as we speak. These are live pictures coming in to us from that meeting. Well be following the speeches this throughout the coming hours here on al jazeera. U. S. President barack obama expected to speak shortly, and well take that speech live. But well begin this news hour proper with news from syria that fighters from the opposition muse muslim front with evacuating their bases, and another group says it too is leaving its bases. Lets get the latest from zana huda. What are we to make of this . Reporter these are powerful rebel movements. They have told their followers to leave their bases, headquarters, a
Our lead story, fading hope for a deal with iran over its 23450ush8ing program. A 6month tentative agreement expires in two days. Working on a deal to ease concerns iran could use the Enrichment Lab to produce Nuclear Weapons. Ran insists it only wants fuel reactors for energy and medical applications. Secretary of state john kerry says there is a lot to be done to finalize a deal by monday. We are working hard. We hope we are making careful progress but we have big gaps. We still have some serious gaps which we are working to close. The good thing is that p5 plus 1 are united and working in concert, and we are simply going to not say anything substantive about the discussions while they are going on. The tentative agreement expiring monday is with iran and the p5 plus 1. Includes the u. S. , russia,shine, france, the united king. Com and germany. Iran agreed to rule back parts of the new orleans well for release from some of the sanctions. The interim agreement went into effect on jan
Russias defiant rockers pussy riot announce what is next. And the government says it has recaptured a key town in south sudan. We begin in lebanon, where former finance minister has been assassinated and at least five other people were killed. Dominic kaine has the latest. Reporter these chaotic scenes show the immediate aftermath of the explosion. A car bomb detonated in lebanons Downtown Business district. The bomb killed a close aid to the exPrime Minister and one of the leaders of the future movement. The force of the blast blew out windows across a wide aria. Translator we were inside and felt glass breaking and coming in, and then we heard the sound, and thats what hand. We waited until it was all broken and then went out and saw this. Reporter the killing comes as he was preparing for meetings in january over the internation lal tribunal looking into the 2005s 2005s a nation. His son said the respects are those who are fleeing International Justice and refusing to represent them
In new england. There are reports of at least two feet of snow in massachusetts, and the storm stranding thousands of airline passengers. Much of the east coast being crippled by the storm. Erika pitzi is in new york where the roads are the major story, but we begin with john in boston. And the wind is making it feel like it is well below zero. You know, dell it is, and it has warmed up in just the last hour. The temperature was around 11 or 12 degrees, but the wind chill makes it feel below zero. Let me show you around where we are. This is the finishing line pretty much of the Boston Marathon over there. So you can tell exactly where we are. And look at the place. There is hardly really anybody here. There is more traffic than there was earlier, that is true, but im afraid there is an awful lot of snow on the ground and the number of snowplows and people working to clear this stuff really outnumbering the people who are here. So although the snow has stopped in boston and the sun is