Are. In yemen houthi fighters have launched an attack on the president ial palace in sanaa. Control of the capital since last year. We understand that the president is inside the palace, we can get more detail now by talking to hakim. Outside the president palace. It is very tense. This has been the case for the last nine hours. The close the roads leading to the president ial palace were closed this morning at 1 00 a. M. Hundreds of fighters around sanaa, from the northern and southern parts of sanaa that is why the roads are closed. The clashes erupted around 6 00 in the morning. Dozens of houses around the palace have been damaged from the heavy artillery that has been used. This looks as the most tense as it has been in months in yemen. Right now a mediation is going on to try ohalt and reach a ceasefire. Within the next hour or so. Does this represent a challenge to the authority of the president . The president allowed the houthis over the last nine months to weaken all the power
About although fiscal crisis. Stocks have been lower today. Checking the big imormd the dow down board, the dow down over 100 points. Congress just has ten days left to act. Our White House Correspondent Mike Viqueira joins us live from washington. Mike, spieker boehner saying there arent enough votes to pass a clean spending bill in the house. How is the white house reacting . The same old standoff. Right now the president has left the white house complex. He says the headquarters of fema, the federal Emergency Management association. 86 of fema employees are furloughed, not on the job and many of those on the job are not getting paid. House be republicans point out that they did pass a bill to fund fema over the course of the short term. That of course has been rejected by Senate Democrats and the white house as a piecemeal approach part of that strategy, this ongoing standoff that is happening in washington and shows absolutely no sign of abating del. The debt issue, everyone concer
Sarkozy, corruption charges. And winter games in russia. So Security Forces in egypt have come under attack in several locations. The sinai on the suez canal even in cairo itself. In the sinai incident a suicide attacker drove a car into a gate at the National Security headquarters. Four people were killed. More than 50 people were killed over the weekend, all points to a country still divided and under enormous political pressure. An update from our correspondent in cairo who we are not nawrming for security reasons. The bomb left a crater 3 meters deep. The Police General at the station says he thinks it contained 500 kilograms of explosives. He describes how it knocked out the windows in the nearby buildings. Forensic investigation later discovered it had been a suicide attack. Security in altour wasnt tight. It was in southern sinai, just an hour of Sharm El Sheik even though, tourism has droppe dropd significantly since earlier in the year. Lift travel bans on his country. He pers
I could take a picture and within minutes, tweet it to a Million People. It just finally allowed me to really share the experience with many people who wanted to come on board. Woodruff those are just some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by supported by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Ifill the United States and five other world powers resumed talks with iran today over reining in its nuclear program. Negotiators gathered in geneva, while in tehran, irans Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei said his country is willing to negotiate, but will not be cowed by sanctions. translated t
I could take a picture and within minutes, tweet it to a Million People. It just finally allowed me to really share the experience with many people who wanted to come on board. Woodruff those are just some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by supported by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Ifill the United States and five other world powers resumed talks with iran today over reining in its nuclear program. Negotiators gathered in geneva, while in tehran, irans Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei said his country is willing to negotiate, but will not be cowed by sanctions. translated t