Popes big outdoor mass wednesday at the basilica. Theyre holding off on installing a life size crucifix that will hang above the holy father. Is it going to be ready . By all accounts they are going to be ready. The crucifix borrowed from the chapel of Little Sisters of the poor a few blocks from here, its supposed to hang almost like magic on the other side of the basilica. They were going to install it today but because of this weather theyve decided to hold off until tomorrow. It was really incredible. We had a few technical difficulties. We cant show you exactly what we saw but one of the most Amazing Things is this cross that was discovered almost by accident in a storage room in the basement of georgetown university. Its actually the first iron cross used by the catholic colonists who landed at st. Marys in maryland and it was the first cross used in the first Catholic Service in the english colonies. Well hope to have more for you a little bit later. Bruce, thanks for that. Toda
Before the crucial nomination contest begins and fighting for an apology, the philippine women kept as sex slaves by japanese soldiers during the second world war. The syrian army is striking hard at rebel positions gaining ground and leverage ahead of proposed talks between warring parties this week and activists say government helicopters pounding aleppo and focusing on the Southern City of hama and captured the strategic town of Sheikh Maskin in the southern providence offender of deraa and russia air strikes have been key to the gains and moscow says the intervention helped the ground and we report on the governments resent advances. Reporter the syrian flag flies again on shake shake and it has take intense fiebling with rebels to retake the town in the southwest providence of deraa and show them entering the town center after securing supply lines and also reported to be continuing on the outk t outskirts and it is on the main road linking damascus with deraa and they began givin
Of art is a papting on a wall painting on a wall, but its being displaced in all shapes and sizes across the city the u. S. Is making a renewed diplomatic push to find a resolution to end the war in syria. Secretary of state john kerry is in saudi arabia meeting leaders from the gulf to try to ease their concerns about warming relations with iran. Kerry says he is confident peace talks on syria shelled scheduled for next week will go ahead. One of the things that we did today which i think i think is is very important is to set up a clarity on how to proceed forward on the initial steps on the negotiations on syria, and we are confident that with Good Initiative in the next day or so those talks can get going and that the u. N. Representative special envoy will be convening people in an appropriate manner for the proximity talks that will be the first meeting in geneva to begin to lay down the process to try very hard to implement the geneva communication and have a transition that tak
Investors sell their shares causing markets to fall by more than 6 . And the bolivian lake that has dried up, and with it, a way of life. We begin with those upcoming talks on syria, which are scheduled for friday. For weeks now there has been speculation about who will be invited and who will attend. Within the last hour, the invites for those crucial talks in geneva have been sent out. Lets go to james bayes in geneva. Who got the invite. Who is coming, james. We dont know. We simply know that the invites have been sent out, jane. It was a very short news release by the united nations, telling us that those invites have been sent out to the talks, again, saying that the talks start on the 29th of january. That was the date that was set 24 hours ago, it hasnt slipped yet, and they were set out in accordance with security resolution 2254. The process that lead to these talks, which was supposed to take place on friday was the socalled vienna process. Bringing together all of the intern
Live for you in doha. Manchester city, action coming up later on in the program. Syrias main Opposition Group has been in its First Official session in u. N. Backed talks aimed at ending the countrys civil war. It says its been given a positive response and insurances woulassurancesthat these humanis will be addressed. Key Syrian Opposition figure Mohammed Aloush will be attending peace talks aimed add ending the war. The humanitarian crisis in syrian is continuing. Fleeing advances by progovernment forces backed by russian air strikes. Lets cross live to geneva and speak to our dploi diplomatic es bays. When if likely are we to hear about it . The meetings are over. The 17 members who met mr mr. Demistura, moments from now, theyre going to come down the stairs of the unite united s palais. Yes they are prepared to talk but if they are going to stay here for any period of time, they need concrete measures on the ground, measures outlined in the United Nations resolution, stopping the b