And doing it one rare orchid at a time. The syrian army has launched a longplanned offensive in northern homs province. The fighting is focused on two areas, they are both part of a rebelheld area called the plains where a major highway passes through. These pictures are said to show the latest aerial bomb bart. In the homs country side. Its been hit almost daily since russia began launching airstrikes against what it says are isil targets, activists a say center for internally displaced people has been hit killing eight people including children, lets get the latest from zeina khodr who is monitoring the situation for us from neighboring lebanon what, more do we know and how much involved is there from the russians . Reporter well, what we understand from Syrian State Television is that this ground offensive, air and ground offensive has begun in the Northern Country side of homs, we also understand from okay activists on the ground that there is fierce fighting. Neighborhoods are com
This is not your stage. The Young American woman murdered overseas in florence, italy. And tonight, new images. The last time she was seen alive. E. And authorities revealing how she was killed. And here in washington, the president s final state of the krun union. Tonight, what he will tell america. Good evening tonight from washington. And we have breaking news as we come on the air this evening. A tenuous situation involving america and iran. Two small u. S. Naval vessels with nearly a dozen sailors are being held by iran tonight. The u. S. Navy Operations Center in bahrain lost contact with the two navy vessels. There are five sailors on each craft. The white house and the pentagon are watchingg this very closely and so is our chief Global Affairs correspondent martha raddatz. Reporter tonight, those ten sailors remain in the hands of the revolutionary guard navy, according to irans news agency trying to prove the sailors were what they called snooping. The two small navy vessels w
Lead to humanitarian 1 august, which is iraq. Ah, g 7 Foreign Ministers demand russia hands back the separation Nuclear Plants to ukraine to ensure its safety. Ah, until mccrae, this is al jazeera live from doha, also coming out. Oh, anger in the occupied west bank on to is railing forces kill a sinew commander of a palestinian crude. Al jazeera visits refugee camp and gaza with palestinian sy is riley strikes, have killed at least 9 children and to close price in kenyas president ial election. But it could be a week until official results are announced. Would g 7 Foreign Ministers have demanded that russia hands back . Europes Largest Nuclear power plants, ukraine, to ensure its safety. The separate caea plants is near the city of inner hota and southern ukraine. It has 6 reactors, and usually generates nearly half of the countrys Nuclear Power. Russia has been shelling the town of nicole, which is across the river. Last week, ukraines Nuclear Agency said shells had a nitrogen oxygen
This virus. This is just among those who were able to get tested. More than 12,000 lives have now been lost. New york city remains the epicenter of this crisis. It has received a shipment of 600,000 muchneeded masks, but there are still shortages of a lot of important equipment like gowns, like ventilators. The state saw its largest increase in deaths so far today, more than 731 souls lost, but experts are cautiously, cautiously optimistic that the state may be close to the apex of this. We talk about the apex and is the apex a plateau . And right now, were projecting that we are reaching a plateau in the total number of hospitalizations, and you can see the growth and you can see its starting to flatten. Again, this is a projection. It still depends on what we do. And what we do will affect those numbers. This is not an act of god. Much of the rest of the country is doing its best not to wind up like new york. But for many, it could be too late. Health officials are now worried that t
All part of an effort to rid the streets of violent offenders. Probably the most Violent Group of people ive seen in the last few years. Reporter theyre violent not for money or turf. It was basically they hated the other gang. Reporter Police Released this Surveillance Video they say was committed by members of that new gang. We found out fairly quickly that these groups every day were planning on ways to commit violent acts within the community of oakland. This reporter this is all part of operation seize fire. Oakland city officials hosted a huge press conference with other local state and federal Law Enforcement which have been leading related efforts. There were 23 arrests and in those arrests we have seized 55 firearms that included four assault weapons. Reporter afterward, mayor quan told us that it was meant as a warning to those offenders. Its basically a warning to those people that are out of control. Reporter how officials weighed in on the gun control debate. Im john sasak