And a ban for taxi booking service uber over allegations that a woman was raped bay cab driver. And bracing for the storm, typhoon weakens in the philippines but still forces millions in manila to take cover. Hello, the United Nations is appealing for at least 16. 4 billion, thats to deal with humanitarian crisis worldwide in the coming year. They say theyre facing an unprecedented level of snead globally, with people being forced to flee from their countries. We go to james bays at the United Nations with more of what is being said. James . Theyre asking for 16. 4 billion. Now last year the amount was 12. 9 billion. Thats a 21 increase in the need perhaps referring to what it was a decade ago in 2004, just 3 billion. It has gone up in the last decade, some 600 . Why . Because of the unprecedented series of Global Crisis were seeing. The priorities is syria, south sudan, iraq and the Central African republic. They required 70 of the funding required. Afghanistan, somalia, the democrati
On a hostage situation in a sydney cafe entering its 10th hour. Is in sydney. What is the latest . Unfortunately, we havent had much of an update in the last couple of hours. It has been three hours since we saw two of those hostages escape , or at least were released. They looked terrified as they ran through the doors of the lindt cafe in sydney. About an hour before that, there had been three men that escaped. An update into get about 15 minutes from the New South Wales premier, and the Police Commissioner. Hopefully, we might get a little bit of an update. They certainly have been keeping everything under wraps. We heard from Deputy Commissioner Catherine Byrne saying that they are going to monitor social media feeds to get more of an indication as to what may have prompted these hostage situations. They have also indicated that the gunman is known to police. They wont be releasing the name for their purposes. Im sure that the area around the cafe is in lockdown. What about the res
It is just on 6 00 here in london. Oil producers have already got down to business and the leading players supply one third of the world posco crude oil got together last night to see if they could preemptively agree to a cut in output. Interviewgot the only with the chief executive of the biggest publicly traded oil rosneft,raws left what did he have to say then . It is a dark morning here and cold in vienna and especially for those were hoping for Higher Oil Price because the man. Coffer their hopes yesterday the stage was set for a grand deal between saudi arabia, venezuela two countries from opec and mexico and russia two countries outside opec to agree to cut output to boost prices. The first three of those countries mexico and venezuela and saudi arabia cooperated in 1999 when oil had just dropped below 10 a barrel and there was hope and suspicion that they might do the same thing yesterday, alas i spoke with him just as he came out of the meeting and he said oil is tumbling sayi
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Pulse. I am guy johnson. Vladimiran president putin is competing with leaders in the land, peace talks we could call them but his latest to cuthave been a threat in cut the flow of natural gas to the ukraine. A few words with president putin. The hot topic in the lawn is without a doubt the war in ukraine. They were supposed to meet last night at 7 00 p. M. Local time, that was going to be their first meeting since they met at the dday celebration in june. The meeting did not happen until a 11 00 p. M. And did not and until after 130 in the morning. We will Still Standing there outside the hyatt hotel when he came out and i had an opportunity to ask him what he makes of the allegations that he is not doing enough to resolve the crisis in the ukraine. He inferred that the criticism is nothing new. It will get messy in this video but how about a watch. Askeveryone wanted to questions from the russian president. The russian president got in his limousine and before he was whisked away, wa