A final pitch. Elections will not bring an end to months of conflict and a war in detroit has been turned into a symbol of unity new zealand win the rugby world cup, beating australia in the final. Well be live from twickenham for all the reaction in sport. We begin in egypt where a Russian Airliner crashed killing everywhere on board. It carried 224 passengers and crews, including 17 children. Theres no word on what caused the crash. Countries are expressing condolences. Russian president Vladimir Putin declared a day of mourning. Here is what we know the plane took off saturday morning from the egyptian resort sharm el sheikh. The jet, belonging to metro jets, was on its way to st. Petersburg. It vanished from radar 20 minutes after taking off. Wreckage has been found south of a coastal city. Peter sharp begins our coverage. Desparate relatives arrived at the airport hoping for good news much reports of survivors were discounted. Translation they told us the landing will be at 11 40.
World football brazil and argentina face off in a world cup qualifier so, then, the European Union signed a deal worth more than 2 billion to try to stop the flow of refugees and migrants. Its been taking place in the maltese capital, and planned after around 800 drowned when a boat sank off the coast of libya in april. Lets join lawrence lee live from valletta. What do we know about this agreement . Well, of course, it was planned from the european perspective to be the sense of this. Over 2 billion investment. European leaders describe it as a sweetener. They accept its not much money. In return they believe it is legally binding to repatriate failed Asylum Seekers and migrants back to africa. That caused problems in the summit. As day two started, we saw the big difference between the european perspective and the african one as well. This is a leak of the action plan that the europeans agreed. Coming courtesy of mark, who ran the blog, migrant report in malta. You spent a lot of tim
Morning. By the week, you want to transition to that bigger coat in the closet, probably. Its pretty nice out there this morning. Meteorologist bill henley is standing by. This is on track for the middle of october. Normal is actually a little cooler than it is right now temperatures are cooler. We have a nice breeds for parts of the area. Philadelphia the a ninemileanhour wind. If the wind is dying down, northeast philadelphia into central new jersey, so the temperatures are settling down as well. 40 and 50. 51 currently in wilmington and northeast philadelphia, while its 55 at philadelphia international. The normal low temperature for philadelphia is in the upper 40s. So were getting a mild start, it will be a cooler day overall however we will see sunshine, 10 0057 degrees, go through the forecast neighborhood by neighborhood, were right back in ten minutes. Its a thursday morning. Jessica boyington has your first alert traffic. Bill, we are starting out in new jersey, we are good t
Recovery for palestinians left injured by violence in the occupied territories. France has secured the support of russia to tackle the Islamic State in iraq and the levant as part of a grand coalition over syria. The two countries will share military information about their air bombardments over syria after both stepped up their campaigns recently. France is lobbying countries to back its campaign after many were killed in the attacks in paris. Both have agreed to coordinate strikes on Oil Infrastructure that i. S. I. L. Is using to fund its fighters. Putin has also indicated that he is ready to support groups in syria who are fighting i. S. I. L. Reporter we agreed today to reinforce our Anti Terrorist work, improve exchange of operational information, fighting terrorism, set up a constructive relationship between our military specialists in order to avoid duplication and incidents but instead concentrate our efforts toward a more effective fight against terrorists and try to avoid st
Europe, one note at a time. And celebrating the birth of christ. The u. N. Has helped to facilitate a deal which could see thousands of Syrian Rebels and their families leaving the yarmouk camp. Yarmouk is divide between el news rah front and pro and ant antigovernment most of them Palestinian Refugees trapped in the camp south of damascus. Buses have already started to arrive to transport rebels and their families out of the area. Many are expected to head to raqqa, six hours away. Gabriel elizondo has more. Confirming the United Nations is involved in this deal in syria but backing away from reports that it is a u. N. Brokered deal. Telling al jazeera the u. N. Is an observer but not part of it. Thats all were hearing from the u. N. This deal, details of which are very vague, potentially could involve i. S. I. L. Fighters given safe passage out of the yarmouk refugee camp and into the i. S. I. L. Stronghold of raqqa. This would be important because the yarmouk refugee camp is a very