Said to be inside a Printing House not far from pariss main airport. The suspects are holding a hostage. According to a french lawmaker theyve told the police that they want to die as martyrs. One reportedly traveled to yemen for al qaeda terrorist training. Meanwhile, there is now a report that five hostages, this by the way is a live shot going on right now, that have been taken inside a cosher supermarket in paris. No other details are available right now. But we will be sure to bring them for you as soon as those details come online. But as you can see right now, this is a live shot of what is going on with the second hostage situation at a supermarket in east paris. We are now less than a half an hour away from the december jobs report. According to one survey, they added 240,000 jobs last month, that is less than in november. But would mean almost 3 million jobs were created in 2014. Thats the most in 15 years. Onto our other top stories, the European Central bank to help jumpsta
The ruble plus fall. Almost 11 butd turned again, plunging to an alltime low of 79 to the dollar. Oil resumed its plunge as well. West texas intermediate brent trading above 60, both of those five years. In sydney, australia, the hostage siege ended in a deadly shootout. The gunman was a selfproclaimed islamic eric cleric from iran. Here is the us join prime australian the Prime Minister, tony abbott. Not only us in australia but tens of hundreds of millions of ple around the world sydney has been touched by terrorism for the first time in years. The mans former lawyer said it was unlikely he was involved in terrorism as part of a group. He was acting alone. In pakistan, and attack by the taliban on a school. 126 people killed, many of them students. A taliban spokesman said that the attack was in retaliation for the killing of taliban tribal members. And they take over in the oil business. Of a takeover in the oil business. All has agreed to buy repsol has agreed to buy talisman energ
More than 3 today and crashed through the 50 per barrel mark and has been trading under 49. European stock markets are mixed a day after the selloff in asian markets were lower at the close and equity futures are on the rebound. In europe, the economy has hit another speed bump. Growth slowed in the Fourth Quarter which bolsters of those in the European Central bank and they say they should add more stimulus. There is where that verizon has approached aol to some combination. The two companies have had discussions about a potential acquisition or joint venture. Meanwhile, dish network has come out with a plan for viewers who do not want to pay all that money to cable tv channels and their cable providers. 20 per month, they are offering plain tv with a dozen channels to be streamed on the internet and among them is espn cnn, and tnt. The ceo of sony has made his first Public Comment on the cyber attack. He spoke at the Consumer Electronics show in las vegas. They were, the victim of on
They are young and they have a smile on their lives and a song in their hearts. Tom unlike friday, on a cynical surveillance. Vonnie Angela Merkel is stamping out any optimism of a solution to the greek crisis. She met late in the night with leaders of greece and france. Merkel says there is a lot to do before that can happen. Angela merkel i will have some bilateral talks and have already spoken last night with the french president and the greek Prime Minister. It was a friendly, constructive exchange, but it is clear further work between the institutions is necessary. Vonnie merkel is referring to the imf, the ecb, and the european commission. President obama says the u. S. And its allies are not losing the fight against Islamic State but he says more needs to be done to help iraq. He told the atlantic several days after he told that to the atlantic several days after ramadi was captured by isys. By isis. Maybe this is a prediction but i say it with full confidence. The president wil
Counterterrorism operations. Peter cook has details on u. S. Counterterrorism operations that killed an american being held hostage. Peter president obama says he takes full responsibility that accidentally killed two american al qaeda hostages, one an american. He had been held by al qaeda since 2011. The other, an italian held since 2011. Since 2012. What we learned today from the white house is a u. S. Intelligence official said that this compound along the Afghanistan Border did campaign contain al qaeda terrace and was targeted because of that, but what was not known is the hostages were also being held there. They were killed in essence by accident. The president did take responsibility. As president and commander in chief, i want to take full responsibility for all of our Counterterrorism Operations including the one that intermittently took the life of warren and giovanni. I profoundly regret what happened. On behalf of the United States government, i offer our deepest apologie