Probe in to their disappearance. Saudi rape i cant has began an investigate. Its the worst disas her during the pilgrimage in morning two decades the crush happened the outskirts of the holy city of mecca. In an area called mina. As huge crowds of pilgrims were on the move. There was a suds rush of people heading towards the jamarat pillars which are surrounded by a fivestory structure known as the jamarat bridge. Omar al saleh reports from mina. Reporter a second tragedy within weeks. Saudi Authorities Say a sudden surge among a huge crowd of april gyms led to a deadly stampede. Hundreds died and many more were injured. Translator we were coming back from the jamarat on and the way back i met my husband, the pilgrims began pushing each and pushed people to the ground. I have about to die. Reporter the pilgrims were making the way to take part in the stoning of the devil ritual which is part of the hajj pilgrimage. Translator after this painful incidents i asked the authorities to inve
Volkswagen appointing a new ceo. There will be no speedy end to the crisis. And the last british resident at Guantanamo Bay is now to be sent home. Hes been detained since 2002 but never been charged. In sport, argentina have claimed their first win at this years rugby world cup. The south americans running in seven tries against georgia in a convincing 549 victory. Well, sepp blatter is facing criminal proceedings in switzerland. The head of footballs world governing body is being questioned by swiss officials four months publicly announcing that he would step down as fifa president after allegations of corruption in the organization. More from our Sports Correspondent lee wellings. Reporter the net of the criminal investigation has been closing around fifa headquarters. The question has been when the investigation would reach the president. The answer came on the day sepp blatter chaired an executive Committee Meeting. Behind closed doors he was interrogated by swiss officers and dat
Addressed. Of course the refugee crise in europe, the fight against isil and a topic that was top of the agenda last year, the on going war in syria will be high on the agenda. The president is expected to sit down with russias leader for the first meeting in two years. Vladimir putin has not been to the unga in 10 years. Other speakers, chinas president xi will be speaking, frances president hollande, russias president Vladimir Putin, irans president rouhani. Thats just a few of the leaders that will get to the podium this morning. Todays gathering of word leaders is actually one of the biggest in years. We are live in the unit nations. A big year, john, tell us more about it. Well, its always a big year here. You know that. Theres always a news headline to come out of the leaders week of the United Nation emassembly of which today is the first day in the 70th session and this year round, it appears to be syria and the reason is that president obama is going to sit down with president
And the walking fish that are among hundreds of new species discovered in the himalayas. Hello the Islamic State of iraq and levant said it was behind four suits attacks. At least 15 people are killed. 11 yemen troops and who are fighting for the saudiled coalition. The targets were hotel being used by the Yemen Government as its infortunately headquarters and sill la occupied by Coalition Forces. Isil had carried out attacks before. But these are the groups first known attacks on the yemen administration. The group claims to have carried out a suicidebombing at a mosque in which 7 people were killed. These are the four suicidebombers isil says were behind the attacks. They drove cars packed with explosives into a hotel where government leaders had faced their headquarters. This is the moment that the hotel was hit. A compound used by soldiers from the United Arab Emirates was also targeted. I have huge explosions and rush to the area. I was drove two Armored Vehicles drove through che
Welcome to inside story. Im ray suarez. 15 years ago, a conference of the worlds nations agreed to the Millennium Development goals. The ambitious set of targets were meant to lift the worlds poore poorest eradicating poverty, and many more things. It was time limited and came to a close this year. The world did well. Around the world the way health and poverty are conventionally measured show improvement. Ambitious. Reporter back in 2000 the former u. N. Secretary general came up with the plan, the Millennium Development goals consisted of eight targets. The mdgs would run for 15 years. That time is now up. So was it a success . Well, its mixed. One target was to half the proportion of People Living on less than a dollar a day. That was met in 2010. The other goal, reduce the Maternal Mortality ratio, that number did not go down at all. Theres a whole new set of complex and Ambitious Goals called the sustainable Development Goals. Theyll be called the global goals. There are many pres