this sp cnn breaking news. hello and a warm welcome to our viewers joining us in the united states and all around the world. i m bianca nobilo with our continuing coverage of the war on hamas. some 80 egyptian ambulances entered rafah border crossing this morning to receive injured palestinian patients, and an egyptian reporter told that at the crossing. if the patients crossed into egypt, they will be the first palestinians allowed out of gaza since the war began more than three weeks ago. cnn s scott mclean is covering this live from london. what more you hearing about these ambulances? the fact that there are 80 or so ambulances at the border is about the same number of palestinians that we had been told yesterday by the medical director of the al shifa hospital in gaza that would be leaving gaza for egypt. he said there were 81 badly injured palestinians who would be able to or would be transported to the rafah border crossing with the understanding or with the plan
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Planned talks fall through. And Malala Yousafzai says she is happy and honored to become the youngestever recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. [ applause ] the u. N. General assembly is being told the Ebola Outbreak cannot be controlled without Massive International response. The virus has killed more than 4,000 people mainly in west africa. It says if the virus is not brought under control, the world may have to live with it forever. Quite a stern warning from u. N. Officials that the clock is ticking. Reporter a truly scary thought. Think about this, the leader of the u. N. Mission on this saying if you dont contain it now, the world will never be able to contain it. And he said the virus infection rate is doubling every three to four weeks, so basically the message to all of the countries across the globe is that this can be contained but only if the they act fast. This outbreak has moved out of rural areas. Its affecting a whole region, and its now also impacting on the whole world.
The heads of thousands forced from their homes by Boko Haram Campaign of violence in nigeria. And i have the sport, the host of the biggest football tournament in africa ask them to postpone it because of the Ebola Outbreak. Kurdish forces engaged in a desperate battle to defend kobane and isil sending in reenforcements and pouring more tanks and weapons on the border and Kurdish Forces managed to regain their Security Headquarters in the town but it again has been over run despite more Coalition Air strikes and representatives of the Kurdish Forces told al jazeera that isil continues to push further into kobane from the south and east where there is fierce fighting and we will take you there live a mile or two away from kobane and stef decker is on the turkish syria border and stef when we have spoken to you over the past few hours behind you we have heard the sounds of battle. Is that still going on . Reporter yes, in the last half hour or so we saw increased activicoun activity and
Going to school. The mobile peace price is awarded. This is al jazeera america. Live from new york city. Im david shuster. We begin with a new death toll from the ebola virus. The World Health Organization says 4,000 people have died in west africa from the current outbreak. That is more than the reported number of cases. World leaders say the spread of the virus has outpaced the worlds response with only a quarter of the 1 billion requested by the United Nations now funded. Paul brennan reports how World Leaders are trying to respond. The country is stricken by ebola says its a strategy unforeseen in modern times. Liberia, sierra leone and guinea wants international assistance, money, medical assistance and training, the imf has pledged 500 million. But the u. N. Said it could cost 1 billion to stop the outbreak. Arriving in monrovia, troops are receiving final training. These soldiers will help construct Treatment Centers and not have direct contact with ebola patients themselves. We