Support. Checks on people entering and leaving the border zone. Reporter with the days sport as French League football resumes amid high security. A week on from the attacks in paris a welcome to the news hour. A group linked to alqaeda has claimed responsibility for a hostage stand off in mallees capital which has left 27 dead. They burst through the Radisson Blu Hotel and took about 170 people hostage. Mali troops assisted by French Special forces have entered the hotel. The remaining hostages were freed. It is still unclear whether the gunmen remain on the top floors. The Peace Keeping mission is on the ground. Two of the attackers in the siege have been killed. Reporter soldiers held an employee of the radisson blu out of the building after a hostage situation at a lasted hours. Gunmen got inside shouting gold is great in arabic before taking 170 hostage. As the full extent of the attack became clear many here were in shock. As the malian president ial cut short a trip and influenc
Welcome everyone to Al Jazeera America live from new york city. Im tony harris. We begin with breaking news out of mali where a siege in the capitol, bombco, finally is over. The countrys security minister says all of the hostages are now free, but at least 18 people are dead. Witnesses say gunmen stormed the hotel more than seven hours ago, with guns and grenades, and a group linked to alqaeda is claiming responsibility. Yvonne ndege joins us. How did this siege to the best of our knowledge come to an end . Reporter we know the various security sees involved in trying to diffuse the siege at the hotel, has been surrounding the perimeter wall of the radisson blu for at least seven to eight hours. Those consisted of French Forces, Malian Special security forces, and also u. N. Peace keepers. Because there is a u. N. Peacekeeping mission there. And at some point during the course of the day, they were able to access the premise. They were able to get into the hotel, and at least 80, peop
Missile strikes against targets in syria from ships in the caspian sea. Plus jonathan pallard freed in the u. S. After 30 years in prison. Hello, latest reports say Malian Special forces remain locked in a standoff with gunmen on the upper floors of the hotel in the capitol bamako. State television says 18 bodies have so far been recovered from the Radisson Blu Hotel in bamako. Many of the 170 originally held hostage were able to escape. A group linked to alqaeda has claimed responsibility for the attack. Translator i thought it was firecrackers and didnt realize it was a hostage situation. I left to go to the restaurant, and then i saw there was a lot of smoke, so i returned to my room. At one stage the Malian Forces came to get us. They knocked down our doors and evacuated us in small groups. Thank god were safe. Reporter we can speak to a journalist outside of the hotel in bamako. Bring us up to date on what you are seeing and hearing at the moment. The latest reports were hearing a
Tighter Border Control and a third body was found in the rubble where the suspected attack organizer was killed and lets rejoin our colleagues in doha with the latest in mali. Attacked a luxury hotel for the foreigners in bamako and say 170 people have been taken hostages and at least 80 of the hostages have been freed so far from the Radisson Hotel but another three people were confirmed dead and yvonne is monitoring this story from the nigerian capitol abuja and get us up to speed and what do we know . Well, what we know is that the situation is live and active and on going. The siege is still underway. We managed to speak to some eyewitnesses who are on the scene outside of the Radisson Blu Hotel. What they tell us is that French Military who operate in mali who have a base in mali, Mali Special Forces and u. N. Forces as the u. N. Peace keeper mission there are around the how elbow hotel and surrounded the hotel and some of them have tried to go in the hotel to diffuse the situatio
A group linked to alqaeda has claimed responsibility for a hostage stand off at an upmarket hotel in malis capital which left 27 people dead. Gunmen burst through the entrance to the Radisson Blu Hotel and took 170 people host inning. Troops assisted by French Special forces entered the hotel. All the remaining hostages were freed but its unclear whether gunmen were remaining on the top floors. The u. N. Peace keeping commission are also on the ground. Forces were going room to room. Reporter soldiers help an employee of the radisson blu out of the build after a hostage situation that lasted many hours. Gunmen had managed to get inside shouting god is great in arabic before taking around 170 people hostage. The full extent of the attack became claw p clear, many were in shock. As the malian president cut short a trip and flew home he tried to aassure people. According to the information we have, men were able to walk into the hotel. We activated our crisis scroll. The cell includes hea