World cup quarterfinal day. Its the clash of the continents. The allmean tie sees germany and france reviving their old rivalry while 5time champions brazil take on south colombia. The funeral of 17yearold medium abu khadair who was murdered is taking place in jerusalem. His body was brought through the streets. It through large crowds of people. Ahead of the funeral security was tightened across jerusalem. Tensions have been high. Security forces firing tear gas at crowds in the East Jerusalem area. Live for us in East Jerusalem. Nizrene. Some pretty emotional scenes in the past half hour . E motion al scenes. The funeral is over. They have already buried him at the back of the cemetery behind me. We saw a very huge crowd of thousands of people participating in the funeral procession. They are not only from East Jerusalem. They came on foot from other parts of East Jerusalem because today, jerusalem is on lockdown because its the first friday in ramadan and the noon prayers are very i
Israel i police say four jewish worshipers have been killed in an attack on a synagog. Two palestinians from East Jerusalem are believed to be behind the attack. These are the latest pictures, live pictures in fact of west jerusalem from the scene of the attack. The attack happened at a synagog in a neighborhood of west jerusalem. Lets speak to our Stefanie Dekker from joins from our bureau in west jerusalem. Bring us u uptodate on whats been happening and the different reactions so far. Reporter well, the casually count is four israelis killed, who are praying inside the synagog. Also a number of injured. We are hearing, we spoke to the hospital that four of those are in an extremely critical condition. We are also hearing that the two palestinian attackers as you said from East Jerusalem have been killed by police. On the political front the isreali Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has convene the a security meet on how to deal with this. His words have been harsh saying we will res
Bagram air field along with susan rice and the president also brought along a surprise guest, Country Music star brad paisley who gave a concert for some 30,000 troops there. Mr. Obama talked to the troops about what they have achieved in afghanistan and what the future may hold for them. And once afghanistan has sworn in its new president , im hopeful well sign a bilateral Security Agreement that lets us move forward and with that bilateral Security Agreement, assuming it is signed, we can plan for a limited military presence in afghanistan beyond 2014. Because after all of the sack k kri fiss we have made, we want to make sure that afghanistan can never again, ever be used again to launch an attack against our country. And this is the president s fourth trip to afghanistan as president. So this trip comes on the memorial day weekend but also comes a few days before president obama lays out his Foreign Policy agenda. It also comes just ahead of the next round of afghan elections. The
With ebola is back on u. S. Soil today. Can she fight off the virus that has killed more than half of those unlucky enough to catch it in this worst ever outbreak. Hello, welcome to the lead coming to you live today from jerusalem where a ceasefire between israelis and palestinians has now passed the 15hour mark. The longest pause in hostilities weve seen in nearly a full month since it all began. Under this agreement, the ceasefire is it supposed to last three days to let both sides give not killing each other a chance. Israel with drew its Ground Troops from gaza and the Israel Defense forces declared mission accomplishednouncing they had dismantled the network of tunnels hamas is accused of using to sneak into israel and stage attacks. Hamas the militant Palestinian Group labeled terrorists by the u. S. Government. Controls gaza. Some of the 200,000 palestinians now displaced are returning to the rubble where their homes used to stand to see if they can salvage anything. Each hour t
The pope with the peoples touch announces plans for a visit to the city of brotherly love in 2015. All of that coming up right now. We want to begin this hour in jerusalem. Theres been a deadly attack inside a sin going synagogue. Come coming after tensions between israelis and palestinians. We have more from ben wedeman on the latest. I know this is still a breaking story. What is the latest information . Reporter yeah, we understand that this attack took place at about 7 00 in the morning. That was two hours ago. Two trackers, apparently two attackers, apparently both from East Jerusalem, came to this synagogue here. They were armed apparently with a handgun, as well as axes and knives, according to police spokesmen. They went inside the synagogue, killed four of the worshipper, sick others are wounded. They Police Quickly came to the scene, killed the two attackers. Two policemen were wounded, as well. Of course, the Israeli Police are describing this as a terror incident. Of course