Minutes. So when that statement comes, well, of course bring it to you. And of course all of this ongoing in sydney as it comes up on 6 00 local time. This siege going on now for more than eight hours. Im john vause at the cnn center in atlanta. And im natalie allen. We have been with you for several hours, and we will push on as this situation in australia continues. It is breaking news of a siege there in a coffee shop that has been ongoing. A gunman Holding People hostage at the lindt coffee shop in downtown sydney. Sky news has just informed us that the gunman is calling himself the brother, and has contacted a Radio Station and two tv stations via hostages
with demands, a conversation with the Prime Minister and an isil flag. We do know five people have managed to get out. Three men were seen running out two hours ago. Two of them were customers. The man in the blue jacket, the man in the white zirs and a few moments later there was a man wearing an apron who appeared to be a work
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of five hiking in the blue mountains, near a plate called wentworth falls, about 60 miles to the west of downtown sydney. is right near a track that goes underneath massive sandstone cliffs, and the police say that there was a landslide, that four members of the family were struck by falling rock, and in the tragic circumstances, a 49 year old father died alongside his nine year old son. another woman and another boy were seriously injured. they had to be airlifted out after being sedated and given ventilation, and they are in hospital here in sydney, undergoing surgery. we understand that the alarm was raised by a fifth member of the family, 15 year old girl, who escaped physical injury. she called for the emergency services. but she is, as you will understand, traumatised and in shock. she is in hospital also under care here in sydney. there is lots of speculation
deaths. so complete denial is really a pretty standard response from russia now. russia calls it the fabrication of evidence by ukraine. so when we hear mr zelensky speak today, of course he is a very passionate speaker, very passionate speaker in his nightly addresses in ukraine, we are likely to hear him warn about the increase of russian brutality in the east of ukraine where we know russian forces are now focusing their efforts there. thank ou ve focusing their efforts there. thank you very much. focusing their efforts there. thank you very much, for focusing their efforts there. thank you very much, for that. - a british father and son have died after a family of five were caught in a landslide while on holiday in australia. it happened in the blue mountains, west of sydney. our correspondent phil mercer can tell us more. phil, what more do we know? well, ambulance officers here in eastern australia say that this was a freak accident, a british family of five hiking in the blu