Hello and welcome. A manhunt is continuing in the austrian capital, vienna, for heavily armed gunmen who carried out what the countrys chancellor called a repulsive terror attack. Two people are known to have been killed one of them a woman and Police Say One gunman was also killed. At least one more is on the run. There were attacks in six different locations, near to each other. About 15 wounded people are being treated in hospital, including an anti terror officer. Mark lobel has the latest. Austrian police order people to take cover. Restaurants are locked down. Weve been told that because of an ongoing attack in the city centre that the restaurant is closed at the moment. We cant leave until the situation has actually been confirmed and cleared. News of the incident emerged at 7 53, this tweet revealing a Police Operation underway. Three minutes later, reports of shots fired. Details are emerging of several rifle wielding attackers in six locations. One witness recalls what he saw
Hello, and welcome if youre watching in the uk or around the world. Im tim wilcox. Four and a half years after britain voted to leave the europen union, Boris Johnson will travel to brussels this week to meet European Commission president , ursula von der leyen, in a last ditch effort to salvage a post brexit trade deal. It comes after a 90 minute phone call between the two leaders failed to produce a breakthrough. A senior uk government source warned that a deal may not be possible. Laura kuenssberg has this report. Its not always good to talk. The Prime Minister tonight spent more than an hour in conversation with the eu chief, but they seem only to have agreed on what they disagree on. A statement from both of them said, we agree that the conditions for finalising an agreement are not there, due to the remaining significant differences. We asked our chief negotiators and their teams to prepare an overview to be discussed in a physical meeting in brussels in the coming days. In other
Four and a half years after britain voted hello, and welcome to bbc news. Four and a half years after britain voted to leave the europen union, Boris Johnson will travel to brussels this week to meet European Commission president ursula von der leyen, in a last ditch effort to salvage a post brexit trade deal. It comes after a 90 minute phone call between the two leaders failed to produce a breakthrough. A senior uk government source warned that a deal may not be possible. Our political editor, Laura Kuenssberg has this report. Its not always good to talk. The Prime Minister tonight spent more than an hour in conversation with the eu chief, but they seem only to have agreed on what they disagree on. A statement from both of them said. In other words, months of technical negotiations have hit the wall. So instead, the Prime Minister will leave westminster to go to brussels for the first time in months, his team warning that a deal may not happen at all. We are at a critical moment in th
And met with president karzai. Today, the Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman about improvements in the country as the u. S. And prepare to remove troops from afghanistan in 2014. From the council on foreign relations. Is an hour. Welcome to the foreign relations. Im johnathan karl. A high honor to be here with levin. Introduction. S no interduck carl levin is the chairman of the Senate Armed Services from the great state of michigan and of special interest to me, just back from a trip to afghanistan where he commanders over there and also had a one on one president karzai. Im eager to hear about that and senator levin has some tomarks about the trip afghanistan and then we will have a conversation. Levin . R well, thank you, jon. We appreciate the invitation to join you this morning and look forward to that conversation as well. Just here to share my ideas but hopefully to receive ideas that we all need in this kind of a world that we live in. Mentioned, i recently returned from
Doubts of russias handover plans. And in gaza the fuel pumps are running low again. But this time the reason could be more serious, and it could last a lot longer. And in london the latest from europe, including an u. N. Officials damning report on bedroom tax. And hundreds of critics pushing for spains independence. We begin with syria, and some of the worlds most powerful nations are scrambling to resolve its issues overwhelm weapons. The russians have a plan. The u. S. Has a different plan and we do know that differences between the United States, y. Y. Russia and france will meet soon. Were at the u. N. James, do we know any more . Yes, this is a meeting of the permanent five members of the u. N. Security council. 15 members on the Security Council, but these are the five that always sit on the council, and the five that have that allimportant veto, which means if there is something that they dont like a resolution that they dont like, they can stop it. Thats why these are the key