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President assad. Warnings of more fires in australia. Who will be named the worlds best footballer . We will find later in the awards. The Free Syrian Army says it will not accept the new peace plan. Assad laid out some resolutions for ending the conflict in her first in the first speech since june of last year. He has been condemned at home and abroad. With an audience of cheering supporters, syrias president gave his first speech since june of last year. They are terrorists who follow all kind of philosophy. They call themselves jihadists. Who follow al qaeda philosophy. It excludes those he says are betraying syria. There is a group of extremists who understand no language other than terrorism. This group watched the speech with scorn. We hope this is his last speech, and we think it is a waste of time. He is trying to be little the revolution. We think this is the peoples revolution. They were forced to listen to the speech on the radio. The electricity was down again. We did not h
Out another nuclear test. North korean leaders promised to boost their military power in reaction to a u. N. Security Council Resolution condemning their recent rocket launch. Security Council Members passed the resolution unanimously. It expands existing sanctions, adding four individuals and six organizations, including the space agency. Assets will be frozen and the individuals will also face a travel ban. Officials in pyongyang are showing defiance. This suggests north korean authorities are prepared to conduct a Third Nuclear tests following ones in 2006 and 2009. They also declared they will no longer recognize a joint statement in 2005 from the Six Party Talks on their nuclear development. That includes plans for the country to abandon all Nuclear Weapons and programs. Officials from the u. S. , china and other countries are urging north korean leaders to exercise restraint. We call on north korea, as does the entire international community, not to engage in any further provocat
Eu Foreign Ministers have wrapped up a meeting in lithuania to discuss possible intervention in syria. Evidence does appear to show that the government was behind the Chemical Attacks that killed hundreds two weeks ago. Washingtonis asking to hold off military action for now until the u. N. Has presented results from its chemical weapons investigation. A day after barack obama failed to find backing at the g20 was rallying kerry support. A grand setting for an informal meeting. John kerry was in damage control mode. After a welcome from lithuanias president , he made his case for u. S. Intervention. The u. S. Nisters push to wait until you when weapons inspectors have published their report before deciding on a military strike. But a source said that kerry would not commit to waiting. Finding a collective agreement has been difficult, but a draft statement says that ministers have no serious doubts over who is possible for the recent chemical attack. The draft also says that any breach
Several flights are due to be canceled today. Also coming up for you this hour, what do pop music communism, and drove kerry having, and you go an 80yearold french festival. We will take a closer look at why netflix is getting such a frosty welcome here in france. But first, top officials are in paris to try to come up with a plan to fight the rise of Islamic State militants. The group was behind the beheading of a third western hostage this weekend. Here is more from french president francois hollande. Let me remind you that for the past three years, the Syrian Crisis has killed 200,000 people. 200,000. The chaos helped terrorists, so we must support those who will negotiate and make the compromises next very to preserve the future of syria. For france, those forces are the democratic opposition. A must be aided in every way possible. But our International Affairs editor is at that conference and joins us now. Was the goal to get as broad a coalition up and moving as quickly . What su