Forced from their homes in Campaign Violence in nigeria. The biggest suppor sport will continue in january despite officials calling to postpone in because of the Ebola Outbreak. So Kurdish Forces engage in a desperate battle in kobane, saying isil is sending in reinforcements. The fighters are pouring heavy tanks into the border. And its been overrun again despite coalition airstrikes. Isil continues to push further into can kobane from the south and east, where there is severe fighting. We have more pictures, and in the back ground and haze you can see kobane movements with tanks going on the occur tissue side. Now Stevie Decker has been in on the turkish syrian border. With just a couple of hundred meters away from the border with kobane, that is the eastern side of the town which is being held by isil. Were hearing military activity. There has been thatthose sounds throughout the last couple of days when isil managed to get inside kobane especially on the eastern and southern side.
President obama met with congressional leaders to discuss the crisis in iraq hours after iraq asked for assistance. Iraqi has officially asked for the help of the United States. According to the strategic Framework Agreement between iraq and the United States to help in the air raids against the strategic targets for such groups in order to break the psychological situation that exists and to help the Iraqi Military forces to eliminate the danger of these groups positioning themselves and hunkering down and start defeating them. This comes as the islamic stathes Islamic State in iraq and the levant attacked iraqs refinery today. Al jazeeras omar osa la with more on todays refinery attack. I spoke with one person who works at the refinery, and basically at noon this day the staff was at the refinery and were asked to leave. The fighters of Islamic State in iraq and the levant as well as other fighters are controlling the refinery. Officials around the refinery said 75 of the refinery, i
It was a big day at the u. S. Supreme court. Today the high court gave a huge victory to the big four television networks. The justices ruled that the internet start up company aereo is violating copyright when it takes programs from the airwaves and allows viewers to watch the programs on smart phones and other devices. How did they lose this one . Aereo is just over two years old but it was a company that struck fear in the heart of broadcasters. It allowed consumers to watch over the air, stream it by internet. The Court Decision against aereo may mean one less big competitor in the tv world. The nations highest court has pulled the plug on an Innovative Streaming Service that was hope to go change the way americans watched television. In a 63 decision the Supreme Court ruled start up aereo violates copyright law by rebroadcasting Television Programs without paying for them. Its a big win for Television Companies and the four major networks. Its probably the biggest supreme Court De
And was that a bite . Suarez is hit with a disciplinary charge at the world cup. The United States has asked iraqs Prime Minister to form a National Emergency government, one that would include members of different factions in iraq. The americans say its the only way to stop the violence that killed over 1,000 people this month alone. Al maliki says he wont bow to International Pressure to do so. Heres what he said on iraqi state television. Translator the council forming a National Emergency government as they like to call it is an attempt by some in the opposition to launch a coup against our political process in order to destroy it. Uz special forces are in iraq and arrived in baghdad and are there to help the government beat the rebels but its a big task. These are all the areas held by the rebels mostly in the north and west. Theyll be particularly in whats going on here at the bajai oil refinery. Lets go now to our correspondent in baghdad. Al malikis statement is clearly defiant
Efforts to extend ukraines fragil fragile ceasefire as russia said it wont be going in. And the controversial biting in world soccer. Lets start the program in abuja where a Shopping Center has been targeted with a car bomb attack. At this stage no one has claimed responsibility. Abuja has repeatedly been attacked by the rebel group boko haram. Were joined live from abuja. Yvonne, what more do we know about the explosion . Do we know anything about the number of casualties. We know that the explosion was incredibly powerful. Now what we can see here is 70 or 60 burned out vehicles that have been completely destroyed. And there is a lot of building debris as Emergency Services, unfortunately, are still picking body parts up off the floor. And it is simply a very terrible scene. Thousands have shown up here to see what is going on. The military has been trying to hold back the crowd, who are just shocked and concerned about what has gone on here. And what we understand to be the Emergenc