Good evening. There are millions of people in israel and the gaza strip who are spending this night living in fear of rockets and missiles raining down on their homes and neighborhoods as outside parties hurriedly work behind the scenes to stop the exchange fire. Huge explosions rocked gaza with one strike killing at least 11 people. Israel says the targets were palestinian militants, but several of the dead included women and children. But with palestinians continuing to fire rockets into israel and tel aviv in their crosshairs, israel says it is preparing to expand its attacks. Were on the ground on both sides of this conflict starting with Richard Engel in gaza. Reporter good evening, lester, israel appears to have exceptionally good intelligence about hamas and today was able to target individual militants in their homes, but theyre also killing anyone who happens to be around them. This was a threestory house of hamas militants. Israel says its using precision strikes against gaza
Welcome to al jazerra america, i am stephanie sy. We have some breaking news to report out of libya this morning. Lib january Authorities Say they dont know the whereabouts of Prime Minister ali zeidan who has been kidnapped by gunmen at a hotel in tripoli. Security guards at the hotel described the situation as resembling an arrest with the Prime Minister taken by force at gun point. Al jazerra has learned he was taken by a group called the linear Operations Chamber it comes days after he asked the west to help stop the spread of militancy in his country. He says those militants were using libya as a base to export weapons. The kidnapping comes days after a raid by u. S. Special forces who captured an al quada leader there. Well continues to follow the story as news break. Edward snowden arrived in how caw on sunday hoping to see his son. The former nsa contractor was granted ahead sigh legal in russia last month. Hes responsible for leaking details of government surveillance programs
In egypt at least three People Killed and their teen more injured in an explosion on a tour bus in the sinai peninsula, three korean artists and their tourist were killed on the way to the israeli border. The bus killing 32 tourists what traveling from a greek oat orthx monastery a popular destination. When the bomb exploded its the first attack on tourist in the sinai in eight years, Nick Schifrin is in jerusalem with the details. Nick, what are you hearing so far . Reporter yeah, well, morgan as you just said its been eight years since we have seen this kind of tack. This is being seen as a turning point in the tactics being used by the militant groups inside sinai. This bus was carrying about 33 south korean tourists including one egypt driver and it was being led by kraft tours, i just spoke to a spokesman for kraft tours, he told me that this bomb was planted underneath the drivers seat. And he believes that monastery that you mentioned, st. Katherines is where the bomb was plante
Being convicted over a shooting in which a teenager was killed. Hello, riot police have confronted antigovernment demonstrators for a fourth successive day. Rallies also in support of their president , hes vowing to track down the leader of antigovernment protests as Rachel Lavine reports from caracas. Reporter singing the national anthem, thousands defied the ban on unauthorized protests and took to the streets in downtown caracas on saturday. Expressing their growing frustration with president nicholas and what they perceive as a crack down on the opposition. Translator we are tired of the government silencing and discarding us. Reporter antiriot police formed a line, trying to stop the protesters from advancing. Rocks are hurled at the police and then chaos and confusion. Reporter people panicked and scared start running for cover. The situation here continues to be tents, the police just fired tear gas and disbursed the crowd. The crowd is saying they will not go. People in the dis
Federal and private benefit payments. Now to the really big financial story, the fiscal cliff. House Speaker John Boehner says president obama has wasted another week by not making a real proposal. Meanwhile, republicans are divided and senator rand paul on this show last night may have made the most constructive proposal of all. Im happy not to filibuster it. I will announce tonight on your show i will work with harry reid to let him pass his big old tax hike with a simple majority if thats what harry reid wants. Then they will be the party of high taxes and they can own it. All right. Without that kind of republican strategic retreat, the december 31st deadline is not likely to be met. In todays jobs report it was positive and it beat the street and stocks went up. How do we move 150,000 jobs per month up to 300,000 which would be a Real Recovery . First up breaking news out of the Supreme Court this afternoon, the nations highest court agreed to take up the explosive issue of samese