The monumental ruins of an ancient city at risk of destruction, isil fighters have entered palmyra in syria. Ramadi, the capitol of iraq and palmyra in syria. Carolyn malone reports. Reporter this appears to be the final stages of fighting for a city at the heart of syria. [ explosion ] reporter isil fighters push Syrian Government forces out of palmyra. They are now in control of the citys infrastructure including the National Hospital and Security Headquarters and of course thousands of people. Translator there are about 140,000 people here, including some displaited from homs. People are afraid. Theres no water. We can only use local wells, and theres no power most of the time. Reporter it is surrounded by gas field, and has a political prisoner prison. The human cost in terms of the refugees has been huge but the cultural loss has been incall cuable. Reporter it is 20,000 years old and has priceless artifacts. Some were bundled up and taken out of the city but much of the sites rem
War is. Now at 100 seconds to midnight. Its a close its ever been. It was there in 2020. And the bulletin of atomic scientists doesnt change the clock until january every year. It has not had a chance to do so. But if the current continues to ratchet, as it is now doing in ukraine, i think that it may indeed move a little bit closer. And of course, with every advance of the Ukrainian Army into those four territories that the have annexed claim to have annexed in eastern ukraine, the rhetoric from Vladimir Putin becomes strident and alarming. And even last night, President Biden said that we are now to armageddon since we are now closer to armageddon than any time since cuban missile crisis, 60 years ago. And we are now approaching that 60th anniversary of the cuban crisis. If that wasnt enough, we also have the episodes in northeast asia where the north koreans Ballistic Missiles over japan with the United States and south koreans conducting military exercises. Its a dangerous dangerou
Now Nuclear Weapons are back in the news as we are all recognized. The doomsday clock. The device that the bulletin of the atomic scientists has kept since the early days of the cold war is. Now at 100 seconds to midnight. Its a close its ever been. It was there in 2020. And the bulletin of atomic scientists doesnt change the clock until january every year. It has not had a chance to do so. But if the current continues to ratchet, as it is now doing in ukraine, i think that it may indeed move a little bit closer. And of course, with every advance of the Ukrainian Army into those four territories that the have annexed claim to have annexed in eastern ukraine, the rhetoric from Vladimir Putin becomes strident and alarming. And even last night, President Biden said that we are now to armageddon since we are now closer to armageddon than any time since cuban missile crisis, 60 years ago. And we are now approaching that 60th anniversary of the cuban crisis. If that wasnt enough, we also hav
The news as we are all recognized. The doomsday clock. The device that the bulletin of the atomic scientists has kept since the early days of the cold war is. Now at 100 seconds to midnight. Its a close its ever been. It was there in 2020. And the bulletin of atomic scientists doesnt change the clock until january every year. It has not had a chance to do so. But if the current continues to ratchet, as it is now doing in ukraine, i think that it may indeed move a little bit closer. And of course, with every advance of the Ukrainian Army into those four territories that the have annexed claim to have annexed in eastern ukraine, the rhetoric from Vladimir Putin becomes strident and alarming. And even last night, President Biden said that we are now to armageddon since we are now closer to armageddon than any time since cuban missile crisis, 60 years ago. And we are now approaching that 60th anniversary of the cuban crisis. If that wasnt enough, we also have the episodes in northeast asia
The rights to carry arms everywhere they go. But first. Gunmen in iraq have freed students after taking thermou them hostage. Meanwhile, a number of districts have been taken over by fighters from the Islamic State of iraq. Lets get more. We can talk to our correspondent who is in baghdad. Tell us more about these two separate incidents and whether they were carried out by the same group. Thats right. The hostage crisis came to an end about two hours ago. Gunmen marched into the anbar university. There was a stand off. A Police Station just office their university. There is a stand off for six to seven hours. Then there are conflicting reports. Some reports that would suggest that a small team of special forces soldiers went into the university. Thats where the armed fighters fled. However, thats not been confirmed. We do know that the armed fighters fled to the back of the university allowing the students and University Staff to leave by the front door and local police went inside, co