Support. Checks on people entering and leaving the border zone. Reporter with the days sport as French League football resumes amid high security. A week on from the attacks in paris a welcome to the news hour. A group linked to alqaeda has claimed responsibility for a hostage stand off in mallees capital which has left 27 dead. They burst through the Radisson Blu Hotel and took about 170 people hostage. Mali troops assisted by French Special forces have entered the hotel. The remaining hostages were freed. It is still unclear whether the gunmen remain on the top floors. The Peace Keeping mission is on the ground. Two of the attackers in the siege have been killed. Reporter soldiers held an employee of the radisson blu out of the building after a hostage situation at a lasted hours. Gunmen got inside shouting gold is great in arabic before taking 170 hostage. As the full extent of the attack became clear many here were in shock. As the malian president ial cut short a trip and influenc
The caspian sea. And the convicted israeli spy, jonathan pallard is freed in the u. S. Im Andy Richardson in doha, with todays sport as the president of the International Olympic Committee Proposes big changes to the way drug cheats are identified worldwide. Hello, the u. N. Secretary general has condemned an attack on a hotel in malis capitol, bamako. Ban kimoon has described the siege as a horrific terrorist attack. 22 bodies have so far been recovered from the hotel. Malian special forces are still trying to dislodge gunmen from the upper floors, according to Reuters News Agency. Nadim baba has this report. Reporter soldiers help an employ of the radisson blu out of the building. Gunmen had managed to get inside shouting god is great in arabic before taking around 170 people hostage. Many were in shock. As the malian president cut short a trip to chad and flu home, the government tried to reassure people. Translator this morning at 7 00 am the Radisson Hotel was attacked. According
District. Al jazeeras mohamed vall has reported expensively out of mali. This claim of responsibility. What do you make of it . The first thing i should say is that we still need to keep doubly safe to be verified. [ inaudible ] are wellknown in the area. This is a group that is an offshoot in the wider sa sahara, and they are an offshoot of alqaeda, and they have been active in that area for a while. They have been pushed back into the mountains by the french in 2013, but that have quite a lot of revenge to reserve for the french. And its likely if they have claimed it, it is possible. If it is twar eggs what is it about a what is going on there that is refreshing their ability to do this kind of thing . Yes, it is led by a twarig man one of the leaders used to be a twarig, but one of the leaders is not. It is made of up regions around the country. Including black malians, and even from other black countries in sub saharan africa. It has northern malian elements in it. Its a group tha
Gunmen have taken 170 hostages at the Radisson Hotel in malis capit capitol. Europe has no time to waste. Theyre calling on ministers in brussels today to cooperate in the fight against terrorism. Shares in nike are on a run after they reveal a 2 for 1 stock split and 12 billion buy back program. Good morning, everyone. It is friday. Lets take a quick peek at what u. S. Futures are doing early hours. What we saw yesterday was a pretty flat day of trade. We saw the dow jones off by a couple of points but this morning expecting slight gains. The s p 500 seen up by 4. 5 points and the nasdaq seen higher by 11 points. Look, health care, that was the big outperformer yesterday on the back of United Health care warnings and Energy Stocks underperforming on the back of weakness in Energy Prices but for the weak we want to tell you that we are on track for hefty gains. Some 3 for the major averages. The dow and s p 500 on pace for the best week in six. Quick check on what european trade is doi
Criticized from his response to paris and the refugees. He said were monitoring the situation. Investors from all over the world are pouring money into america, this is the safe haven, the dow up 487 points since paris and it will open up again today after this latest outrage. The money is coming here. And the terror plague rolls on over there. Varney company is about to begin. All right, lets bring you uptodate, exactly where we are now. 124 guests, 13 staff held hostage in the Radisson Hotel. And they include, turks, indians, french nationals, chinese nationals and its confirmed, americans are in the hotel, we do not know if they are hostages. Malian forces clearing floor by floor and terrorists reportedly are on the 7th floor. One of the escaped hostages said they heard terrorists speaking in english and southing allah akbar. Come on in, christian whiten, the former state department official. If there was any doubt there is no doubt this is a global war and terror right at the cente