Been deployed in the area. And more than a dozen people are injured in bombings near kabuls airport. And power shift, National Assembly tomorrow there are fears of violence as government supporters vow to save the legacy of the late hugo chavez. And financial crisis. Well have to sacrifice essential services for the people of puerto rico. Puerto rico defaults on a 1 billion debt payment and lawsuits loom because it paid some creditors at the expense of others. Good evening im antonio mora, this is al jazeeras International News hour and we begin this evening with the diplomatic crisis involving saudi arabia and iran. U. N. Security council has just condemned the attack on the Saudi Embassy in tehran and a number of nations are siding with the saudis. Bahrain, sudan and the United Arab Emirates has either cut ties with iran or have substantially reduced them. There are fears growing over the future of the syrian peace negotiations. The u. N. Special envoy for syria, Staffan De Mistura i
Ending gun violence in america. The president complete with attorney general Loretta Lynch today. The topic of discussion, allow to get guns off the streets. He says hes tired with congressional inaction and hes using executive powers to tighten up the nations gun laws. A lot of the work has gone on behind the scenes to take a look at what the president ask do using his executive authority has been grounded in the knowledge that the gun lobby and the republicans in congress who regularly do their bidding are going to look for ways to stop it. Mike viqueria joins us from washington. Mike, the president seems, appears ready to take on this fight. Well he does and josh earnest went on to say that whatever the president proposes they feel they are on solid legal ground. It was a year ago when president obama what infamously said he was going ouse his pen to Block Congress on some of the issues that frustrated him and none more so than his own reckoning, than president obamas own accounting
Earlier, we saw that massive fire that engulfed a luxury burj right next to the khalifa. 15 people reported injured. One had a heart attack. The fire broke out two hours before midnight. Burning debris had been raining down. The dubaioned, authorities are saying that 15 people have been injured, 14 of them light in injuries. Thousands of people gathered, waiting for those fireworks in dubai. We will keep on top of that. We are now less than an hour away from the markets close. Julie hyman has a latest on the markets. Excited because there is suspense on the year to date are the year to your return. As betty mentioned, we are hovering near the lows of the session, lower than typical volume as we are in a holiday week. , the yeark at the s p to date, which we have been checking frequently, it is now in the red. Now, down. 4 . I want to check on apple as well. That is one of the stories we have been watching. We always watch apple. It is such an enormous company. But it has been underperf
All right. Happy new year, rick, to you and everybody at the chicago merc. We have some serious breaking news from dubai in a scary situation. Here again is sue herera. Absolutely, brian. Here is what we know. A fires a engulfed the address hotel located in downtown dubai. These pictures are coming to us from the Associated Press. This fire broke out just a few hours before dubais massive fireworks display was set to go off. It is in the address hotel. It has engulfed at least 20 floors according to the Associated Press. We dont know the cause of that fire. We dont have any word on casualties. We do know that First Responders are on the scene. Once again, it is a massive fire in a tightly populated area of dubai in a very popular area of dubai im told, and, brian, i think you also stayed at that hotel, have you not z . I have been to that hotel, i have not stayed there. I have been to that region. That is the premiere shopping and recreation and dining destination in dudubai. I dont wa
Know, as these violations as we confirm these missile launches, weve been swift in condemning them as we did, as ambassador power did, in the Security Council, and measures that we will take in response to those confirmed missile launches, we are actively considering additional measures at this moment. Well, if you say to me, ambassador, that theyre the most sanctioned, it almost implies that theres nothing else we can do. If thats the case, then were in deep trouble, but those sanctions are going to be coming off assuming implementation. So, the bottom line and i see a shaking the head no, but as far as i understand, those sanctions are going to be coming off upon implementation. Sir, those nuclearrelated sanctions thats what im talking about, will be off. Will come off when iran has rid itself of 98 of its enriched uranium stockpile. If those sanctions no longer exist and if youre saying theyre the most sanctioned country in the world, i assuming you are saying there are nonnuclear s