Correspondent Christiane Amanpour who has spent a lot of time with malala. People were expecting her to win last year. This year, is it a surprise . I think it was a surprise, perhaps the Biggest Surprise this year, the bookmakers had been favoring her. The pope had been the favorite. A lot of people will be gratified to see she has this. It will be inspirational for young girls in particular. The world over to see that she has been recognized at this level. But also, the Nobel Committee deciding to link her award with that of this indian childs right activist as well, he, a hindu, she a muslim from pakistan. A message to india and pakistan, you have your differences, your different identities, but you have a common goal, a common challenge, the world does as well, to educate children. He, by his own words, has freed about 80,000 children from servitude created programs like rug mark. To show that rugs made in india have not been made by children working in servitude. In terrible condi
Deceased. This crisis unfolding at a militaryrun school in peshawar, with dozens of others injured. It was just before 12 00 p. M. When a group of gunmen stormed the school after scaling the walls. The Pakistan Taliban claiming responsibility. Calling this a revenge attack after they say pakistans military launched a Major Military against them. The military runs a number of schools, they call them the army public schools. Clearly this was chosen because of its affiliation with the military and also because it was a soft target. There are children there. A taliban spokesman claiming six suicide bombers were ordered to attack the school, their goal to shoot older students. A security official says 700 students and staff were in the building when the attack began. The students are aged 1018. Pakistan military Officials Say Paramilitary Forces are now on school grounds. Confirming they exchanged gunfire with the terrorists. Most of the students and staff have now been evacuated, but this
An assault being launched at that location, the industrial location not the second one thats going on. This is the location where the two kouachi brothers are believed to have been holding at least one hostage . Yes. And all im being told is that there has been an assault launched on there. The surrounding conditions militated is what im told. I dont know what that means but it goes along with what theyre hearing. The small amount of smoke were seeing from that industrial complex, thats the location of the printing shop . That seems to be the location from where all that took place. I cant see the smoke from here but i did also hear those two detonations and it could have been that something was set off. Its unclear whether or not the suspects that of course appear to be holed up there, whether or not they had explosives or whether or not the police itself is using some sort of stun or smoke grenades as part of a siege at some operation from the movement were seeing around here. Theres
about is what will this mean for the u.s./russia relationship? it has been tense of late. the questions about whether or not president obama will still go in september to the g-20, white house spokesman jay carney asked about that the last several weeks. he has always maintained it is the president s intention to attend the g-20 summit. and the winter olympics, there have been called by some lawmakers to boycott the u.s. olympics in 2014. jay carney saying that s something that is speculation at this point. it s a ways off. but clearly, the white house, which has not yet commented on this, certainly not happy by this decision today. we do expect that there will be some comment, if it doesn t come in the next couple hours, jay carney will be briefing reporters, and certainly the top of the agenda today. i m sure it will. dan lothian, many thanks to you. let s head to london now, nakita
morning, including some breaking news out of afghanistan. that s right. we begin there where afghan president hamid karzai s half brother was found shot to death at his home. ahmed wali karzai was the provençal council chief of kandahar. he suffered gunshot wounds to his head and chest according to hospital officials. a spokesman for kandahar s government said a guard killed karzai. the taliban says we ve seen the worst so far. excessive heat warnings and advisories posted in 23 states. the heat in many areas could reach 115 degrees. the heat wave is being blamed for one death in madison county, illinois. in oklahoma it was so hot, that part of a highway buckled. look at that. motorist was hospitalized after his bike hit the buckled pavement. in arkansas several communities have opened cooling centers. good rule of thumb in tis heat whatever you re doing don t overdo it. if you re going to go outside in heat like this better be drinking a lot of water before you come