Britain decides to recognize palestine as a state. New laws restricting political dissent. And how to avoid another money melt down. Six years after Lehman Brothers collapsed, the financial war games. We begin this news hour with breaking news from baghdad. There have been three bombings, one of them a Suicide Attack that has killed at least 30 people. On mainly shia neighborhoods and follow a string of similar attacks on recent days. Al jazeeras imran khan is on the phone from baghdad. What do we know . Reporter let me give you the latest figures. These bombings took place, first one cardamia northern baghdad, nine were killed there and 22 were injured and then a suicide bomber blew himself up driving a car in a car showroom, at least 15 People Killed there and 32 were injured and then there was an improvised explosive device in a very crowded marketplace in sadr city. They wait until people are out doing their late night shopping going to restaurants et cetera. These attacks are desi
Descent. We begin in iraq where fighters from Islamic State of iraq and the levant are edging closer to gaining complete control of the western Anbar Province which is close to the border of syria and runs to the capital baghdad. The u. N. Says 180,000 people have been displaced in and around th the strat central tow. Top level generals retreated from the base. Anbar province is where i. S. I. L. Has made other strategic gains. Fallujah is partly under its control. Zena hoder has the latest for us in erbil. The iraqi army is calling it a tactical withdrawal but undoubtedly its another setback for the military in this province. Theyve been losing ground over recent weeks. Iraqi officials appealing for help military assistance as well as Ground Forces, foreign Ground Forces to help them hold anbar, a strategic province. I. S. I. L. Really has an open corridor between its corridors in iraq and syria. The iraqi army calling this a tactical withdrawal but it really raises the question on th
Afghanistan. And a swiss museum accepts hundreds of artworks from the son of hitlers art dealer, with the promise to return any looted pictures. Hello there thank you for joining us. World leaders have failed to reach a deal with iran at the end of historic talks in vienna. Instead they have decided to extend the talks until the middle of next year. All sides saying that progress has been made towards an agreement. It will meet again in december, draw up a time line by march and look to seal a final deal by july 2015. The u. S. Secretary of state john kerry says real and substantial progress was made at the vienna talks but hes warning that the negotiations cannot drag on. We are certainly not going to sit at the negotiating table forever. Absent measurable progress. But given how far we have come over the past year, and particularly in the last few days, this is not certainly the time to get up and walk away. These issues are enormously complex. They require a lot of tough political d
We look at the space plans for 2015. Well start with some developing news coming out of saudi arabia. Two policemen have been killed on the border with iraq. It happened in a Police Patrol area near arra. Local Police Say One of the two attackers exploded a bomb that killed him. On saturday, the Saudi Arabian agency said it would reopen an office that had been closed two years ago. Bangladesh nationalist party leader has been prevented from leaving her office in the capital of dhaka. Mohamed, away more do you know . So far its been confirmed that the two people who were killed are members of the opposition rather theyre activists of the opposition, local activists. It is not entirely clear yet who they were killed by. We are expecting more information from us about that soon. What we do know is that the these killings about violence that has taken place in the run up to last years elections when you had 67 people mostly opposition activists killed almost every single day. That has not
Oil prices. We begin in egypt where coordinated attacks have killed dozens of soldiers in east sinai peninsula. Islamic state of iraq and the levant soldiers said they carried out the bombings. Government crack down on former president mohamed morse. 2600 have died but some you put the figure at more than 40. Military base headquarters and a housing complex for army and Police Officers. The town of rafa on the gaza border was also hit. Road side bomb in suez city to the south. Now earlier we spoke to Hilary Mann Levitt at the american university. Weve seen them increasing in intensity for the past year and a half since the overthrow of president morsi in egypt. This is something historically true in egypt that each time government in egypt going back to gamal abdelel nasser, in the 1950s, to suppress this nonislam ick regime, not that the muslim brotherhood, but not that groups have split off of the muslim brotherhood, to become very violent, in order to fight against a government they