The caspian sea. And the convicted israeli spy, jonathan pallard is freed in the u. S. Im Andy Richardson in doha, with todays sport as the president of the International Olympic Committee Proposes big changes to the way drug cheats are identified worldwide. Hello, the u. N. Secretary general has condemned an attack on a hotel in malis capitol, bamako. Ban kimoon has described the siege as a horrific terrorist attack. 22 bodies have so far been recovered from the hotel. Malian special forces are still trying to dislodge gunmen from the upper floors, according to Reuters News Agency. Nadim baba has this report. Reporter soldiers help an employ of the radisson blu out of the building. Gunmen had managed to get inside shouting god is great in arabic before taking around 170 people hostage. Many were in shock. As the malian president cut short a trip to chad and flu home, the government tried to reassure people. Translator this morning at 7 00 am the Radisson Hotel was attacked. According
District. Al jazeeras mohamed vall has reported expensively out of mali. This claim of responsibility. What do you make of it . The first thing i should say is that we still need to keep doubly safe to be verified. [ inaudible ] are wellknown in the area. This is a group that is an offshoot in the wider sa sahara, and they are an offshoot of alqaeda, and they have been active in that area for a while. They have been pushed back into the mountains by the french in 2013, but that have quite a lot of revenge to reserve for the french. And its likely if they have claimed it, it is possible. If it is twar eggs what is it about a what is going on there that is refreshing their ability to do this kind of thing . Yes, it is led by a twarig man one of the leaders used to be a twarig, but one of the leaders is not. It is made of up regions around the country. Including black malians, and even from other black countries in sub saharan africa. It has northern malian elements in it. Its a group tha
Working in mali. Nicole well delve into this. Were going on this developing story. Fox news terrorism expert, walid phares joins us this morning. What can you tell us on this latest development . Basically the early information you covered. The information in mali a few years ago, tells us this is most likely the jihadly organization but we dont know which. Northern mali is basically inhabited by a different ethnicity. The took over empire is the was linked then to al qaeda. That was a couple years before the rise of isis. Later on that organization shifted its affiliation to isis. This is happening in bama co, the capital. Or are the jihadists operating in bamako in the other part of the country . Al qaeda in africa that boko haram in nigeria and other organizations have inside of that area. Certainly from what we heard so far, this is hostage taking operation. Which means it is different from what happened in paris and in terms of going into a different cheryl walid, let me break in
This hour a mixed picture there. Very much a flat situation. Cac is down a fraction and dax index as well, right around where it opened up 17 points. Overnight in asia, slight gains across the board there, very much a fractional situation with markets not moving much overnight in asia. Our top store as many as 10 gunmen in mali apparently attacking a luxury hotel taking a number of people hostage including foreigners, including french citizens. Identity of hostage takers are not known but believed to be islamic militants. We want to bring in former pentagon official, aei scholar Michael Rubin and Washington Examiner reporter, David Drucker in washington. Michael, you actually stayed in this hotel. What should we look for in the active hostage gun situation . Maria there is precedent here. If you remember back in 2008, there was terrorist hostage taking in mumbai, india. That didnt end well. One of the problems we have if these terrorists are intent simply causing carnage, inspired by t
Paris as he returned to syria. Volkswagen usa now admits a tampered with testing on luxury cars and suvs dating back to 2009. The new disclosure could mean an additional 3 billion in fines. I am sarah kelly, thank you for joining us. We begin with a bloody and dramatic standoff in mali. Initial reports indicate that 18 hostages and sheet of attackers are dead. All all other hostages have been said to be free. Jihadists took an estimated 170 people hostage in the luxury hotel in radisson blu at the city center. A malay and group has claimed responsibility. The situation is developing. Lets bring you uptodate on what we know so far. Reporter the heavily armed at drove into the Radisson Hotel grounds in the morning. They stormed the hotel lobby and opened fire. M at first i thought it was firecrackers. I did not think it was a hostage situation. But the explosions did not stop. We heard them in the entire hotel. I wanted to go into the restaurant but i saw smoke in the corridor. So i went