late news, fox news at night. and we are continuing our live coverage of the apec conference again live in san francisco, including, as you see right there, the meeting between president biden and president xi. who came out on top, and did you see biden s rare news conference and his handling of the questions? we will have complete coverage of all that coming up moments away. but we have breaking news coming out of the nation s capitol. a pro palestinian protest at the democratic national committee head coaches got violent tonight. more than a hundred people got arrested and it forced a lockdown of the house office building with members of congress inside. let s get to chad pergram live for us on capitol hill with the latest on a protest that might be moving to another location. chad, what do we know? reporter: trace, good evening. this was a big pro palestinian protest at the democratic national committee tonight. about 300 people were there. police fired tear gas at the c
head to the bbc news website. you re live with bbc news. to west africa now. niger s ousted president, mohamed bazoum, has been seen for the first time since the military detained him in a coup last week. following which gen abdourahmane tchiani. the head of the presidential guards unit, declared himself niger s new ruler. reporter yasmin khatun dewan is in the newsroom with more. here he is. mohammed bazoum the deposed president of niger, sat inside the presidential palace in niamey, inside niger. he, of course, has been inside that palace since last wednesday. he was arrested hours before that televised address on national television announcing a coup. he sat besides mohammed idriss deby, the president of chad, who arrived from nigeria, where discussions were ongoing concerning the situation in niger, deployed to negotiate on that coalition s behalf. that west african coalition called upon the nigerian military to give up power. you can see here an image from that announcement last w
here he is. mohammed was the deposed president of niger, sat inside the presidential palace in niamey, inside niger. he, of course, has been inside that palace since last wednesday. he was arrested hours before that televised address on national television announcing a coup. he sat besides mohammed idriss deby, the president of chad, who arrived from nigeria, where discussions were ongoing concerning the situation in niger, deployed to negotiate on that coalition s behalf. that west african coalition called upon the nigerian military to give up power. you can see here an image from that announcement last week from an organisation within the military calling themselves the national council for the safeguard of the homeland. they, of course, have received support from the wider military force since that announcement was made. you can see here the negotiations and this image that surfaced of mohammed bazoum and mohammed idriss deby speaking inside that presidential palace. mohammed idriss
what is the pentagon thinking here? what is the white house thinking here and what are we actually going to do for these people? we ll find out from the president this afternoon. the issue of these translators and you re right, they re not just translators and anyone in afghanistan who helps the united states military who might be in danger with the taliban somehow gets it in, the united states military leaders have said for a long time and they said this back in iraq that they feel a lifelong obligation to people that help this cause and if the united states want to be there to provide protection there is no obligation to bring them out. in the trump administration bringing foreign refugees of any kind from muslim countries and the wars became an issue and they shut the border to some of these countries and now it s become a liberal calling, a liberal military calling and human rights first to put that ad out in kabul and they re the ones who are trying to put the
to weigh in, is this responsibility going to rest in the hands still at the state government here of vern miyagi and the people who work for him inside diamondhead crater a stone s throw away from where we are now. thanks for your time. and kov covering the pentagon here. ask about the military response, the role of the military calling for an alert like the one we got today. walk us through the chain of events as it s supposed to happen and your sense of what went wrong? reporter: the pentagon is not really saying what went wrong. they re deferring to u.s. pacific command and beyond that, letting the hawaii civil authorities there respond to what happened here. i mean, walking through exactly how the process is supposed to work. the u.s. military would detect some sort of a missile being launched somewhere in the world. most think talking about hawaii or guam, a threat would be coming from north korea.