Wedlock and niger the highest rate of Child Marriages in the world, plus. Im john holman on the South Pacific coast where hundreds of thousands arrive each year and majority of their eggs are being stolen. Russia says air strikes overnight on i. S. I. L. Positions inside syria have killed 12 fighters and moscows military campaign entered a third day and monitoring groups say the targets include i. S. I. L. Stronghold of r temperature raqqua province and are concerned about the actions and worries that those with president Bashar Alassad are bearing the brunt of air strikes and foreign minister confirmed their target is not just i. S. I. L. But other armed groups like alnusra and they say they should target i. S. I. L. And no other groups and french president is meeting russia leader Vladimir Putin and we will go to the capitol in just a moment but this report from our diplomatic editor james base. Reporter World Leaders have been in new york and said their priorities to get peace effor
Known about the Russian Airliner breaking up in his flight. And he conquered hollywood and washington. Fred thompson lost his battle with lymphoma we begin on capitol hill, days after becoming House Speaker, paul ryan takes a hard stance against president obama. On the issue of immigration, ryan said highs approach would be different to that of john boehner. The republican candidates are making way today. The speaker elects paul d ryan. Reporter following his election as House Speaker on thursday, paul ryan made the rounds of the sunday show saying its time for the republicans to go on offense. We have to be a bold alternative party, a proposition party, we dont like the direction the country is headed. We owe it to the people of the nation to do it differently. Ryan vows hell focus on reducing spending and cutting the debt. One thing hell not be working on is immigration reform, that is until president obama has left the white house. This president tried to go around congress. Why wou
London. First to egypt where the minister for aviation said the pilot of a Russian Airliner did not make a distress call. All 224 people on board of the plane died in the crash. The cause is still unknown but both flight data recorders have been covered. The flight was due to land in st. Petersburg where peter sharp now reports. What remained of the russian holiday charter flight lay strewn in pieces across the desert. It came down near an exception air force base. Their seven and rescue teams needed little time to determine no one survived the impact. What will do you remembe determine what happened are the black box, up until this point there are no indications that anything out of the ordinary happened on this aircraft. What we can say is that it happened due to the technical difficulties and the team of experts are the one who is are able to prove or deny this. Earlier relatives desperate for news had arrived at st. Petersburg airport. They told us the landing will be at 11 40. My
Virus. Egypt has confirmed there was a loud noise heard in the last second of the cockpit recording recovered from last weeks plane crash. A man leading the investigation says all possibilities are being considered as to what caused the plane to plummet and all were killed when flight 9268 crashed in the Sinai Peninsula and paul brennan reports. Reporter its been seven days since metro jet 9268 fell out of the sky taking 224 people to their deaths and flowers were laid at the crash site in the desert and after a week of rumors and speculation and finally a officin official stat from investigators. Debriss are scattered over a wide area, more than 13 kilometers in length which is consistent with an inflight break up. Some parts of the wreckage are missing and it is hoped to locate them in the in coming days. Reporter the lead investigators confirmed that metro jet 9268 was 23 minutes 18 seconds in the journey and reached an altitude of over 3,000 feet and climbing and traveling at 281 k
Package, plus. Im stronger and more determined. No more street harassment. I feel i can save the world. And we hear the remarkable store of a blind karate competitor hoping to beat palestine taiwan reaffirmed its commitment not to seek independence from jchina. Chinese leader xi jinping and taiwans president ma yingjeau. The meeting has been called a symbolic moment of reconciliation. Translation today is an extraordinary day. The leaders of taiwan met a gathered. This historic moment will open a new chapter, leaving a mark history. Translation both sides speak to one china policy. We have to recognise that although theres one china, we have to agree. No independence will be seen from taiwan. It is not allowed by the constitution. Before the meeting, xi jinping made comment about the china sea, impacting on taiwan, did we learn about what is likely to happen there. He made the comments before arriving at the 5star hotel in the ball room. And both leaders had initially agreed that at th