Sri lankas new president begins to assemble his cabinet after his surprise victory closing the door on cholera examination in haiti. A judge rules the United Nations cant be sued 4. 3. 1. 0. And lift off. And the next generation of reusable rockets heads for the International Space station the french president Francis Hollande and key members of his government are meeting to discuss security and what has been described as intelligence failings in the right of the attacks which shocked the nation and, indeed the world. Two sieges were brought to a violent end with four hostages and three gunmen killed on friday. Two days earlier 12 people were shot dead in an attack on a satirical magazine. We get the latest from paris with laurence lee in a moment. First this report from tim friend. Reporter these are the images that will stay locked in the french publics mind for decades to come. One of the most violent days in recent history. First, the end of the seem northeast of the capital. Two h
A huge search operation is underway in france to find the two brothers suspected of carrying out the attack on the office of Charlie Hebdo. The manager of a service station north of paris says he saw them around 10 30 this morning local time. There are heavy Police Presence and swat teams in france. Here is barnaby fims. Reporter to the north of paris an under search is underway for the men who carried out wednesdays attack. After a reported siting in this village northeast of the capitol. They are hunting for two men. The prime suspects. The French Police they sharif and said kouachi brothers of algearian decent are armed and dangerous. Cherif has a previous conviction of helping send jihadist fighters to iraq. But meanwhile france is grieving and not just for the dead. The french are in grief because they know their country will struggle to recover from these wounds and they fear what will come next. This is the center of paris, but the silence was observed across the country, a long
Streets to support the kings fight against isil. The transasia fight that crashed into the river in taipei experienced engine problems. In yemen houthi leaders announced the formation of a council to run the country. The rebel fighters have reportedly closed streets in the yemeni capitol. They had given a wednesday deadline to negotiate a way forward with the rival parties. Lets go to aden. Essentially theyve tried to constitutionalize their military takeover of the country by announcing the new rules the new rulers, rather have this country, they said they were forming their own Parliamentary Council of just over. 500 individuals. Theyve tried to seem a bit conciliatory in that, saying that members of the former parliaments would be welcome to join it. That former parliament was prevented by the houthi fighters from meeting in the capitol and therefore many of them do not recognize the houthis takeover and say it amount to say a coup. They said that that parliament is going to elect f
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