Defiance. A start with developing news of the hostage release in syria. An american journalist, Peter Theo Curtis has been freed. He was captured in october, 2012, according to information from the f. B. I. His last known location was in turkey where he had plans to enter syria to teach english. The qatari group and in march, a group of Greek Orthodox nuns were released after being held for three months by syrian rebels. More detail still coming through on that release. To libya where violence between warring malitias continues to escalate. Armed groups have lost control of the airport in tripoli. He script has denied accusations it was behind airstrikes against the capitol. It adds to a picture of chaos and confusion as dominic kane reports. A battle for control of tripoli airport. Until this weekend, it was held by fighters who broadly support libyas new parliament. Its now in the hands of militia from mizrata who oppose this. On saturday, airstrikes were thank youed killing more tha
Wall fells, germany sell brace in the east and west n. A. S. A. Test a craft that could send a crew deeper into space than ever before. Good to have you with us. We start in asia, where president Barack Obama Joins the apec summit. He starts in china, a country the president has not visited in five years. Analysts say that repairing u. S. Relations with the secondlargest economy is pivotalle Patty Culhane has more from washington d. C. President obama heads off to asia, with stops in china, myanmar and asia. Pivot by the United States back to asia. Our desire to pivot and focus on the asia pacific region. It was part of a reelection campaign, is it a reality. Experts say except for rotating a few thousand troops into australia, the presence has not increased by much. The numbers may are looked higher, and the potential greater. Since the budget cuts have gone through, theyve healed asia level. While other areas faced skiers cuts. Fis not been as dramatic as the if you look at trade. It
Airstrikes and begin talks. Wethe pilot of the plane that crashed into the french alps was flying after being signed off sick. We have more on sports qualifications. England having to maintain their mvp run in qualifying details coming up. We begin with yemen where there have been focus on houthi supply lines. The Coalition Says it is in full control of yemens air space and it will prevent anyone from outside of the country were helping the rebels. Now under control of the yemen army. We will continue to target the movement the concentrations of forces until we clarify all the areas that theyre controlling now. Yemens president meanwhile arrives in egypt for an arab league summit. They have called for a ceasefire. Ali Abdullah Saleh who has been allied with the houthies, says he wants a return to the u. N. Brokered peace talks. The situation in yemen. Weve seen the rapt advance of the houthies, the military take over in aiden which forced president hadi to flee. So in that situation sa
Cyclones 60,000 children in need of immediate help. Josh carry is saying there must be a political not a military solution to the connell conflict in syria. He said that pressure may be required to persuade president assad to even negotiate. Mr. Carry arrived in switzerland for talks with irans foreign minister Mohammed Zarif on Irans Nuclear program. Before leaving, kerry raced the prospects 69 direct talks with the Assad Government saying the sdmrus would have to negotiate to the end with assad. We are working very hard with other interested parties to see if we can reignite a diplomatic outcome. Why . Because everybody agrees there is no military solution. There is only a political solution. But to get the assad regime to negotiate, we are going to have to make it clear to him that there is a determination by everybody to seek that political outcome and change his calculation about negotiating. Thats underway right now. And i am convinced that with the efforts of our allies and othe
Sparked weeks of riots in france. Hello. Calling for immediately head to rebuild after the cyclone devastated the island name. Pam hit on friday night with winds up to 320 kilometers an hour. The u. N. Says the official death toll has risen to 24, a figure thats certain to rise as aid agencies reach outer islands. President baldwin said the storm wiped out all development of recent years. He blames Climate Change for the disaster saying the country has already seen rising sea levels and hi year than average rainfall. Andrew thomas has this report from the capital, port vila. Reporter from the air, you get glimpses of the destruction, but its up close you can see the full impact cyclone pam had on port vila 90 of the buildings have been damaged, many beyond repair. Trees are down everywhere. Rain and floods waters made what the wind did worst. Few people died and injuries, too, were light. At the hospital it was collin lynch who hurt his foot during the storm. At his house, he showed us