Buried. Im lee in the sports news including women semi final day at wimbledon where Serena Williams silenced sharapova in center court show down. The word from u. N. Is a truce will come in yemen midnight on friday local yemen time for urgently needed aid to get to civilians and more than 80 of the countries 25 Million People are in some form of emergency help and the ceasefire is thought should last to the end of ramadan and that is thought to be july the 17th. The u. N. Yemen envoy says jake has been having talks from the officials government in exile and Houthi Rebels and taking place in the capitol sanaa and it has been three months since the fighting began and at least 3,000 people are known to have died to the u. N. Now and we are there in new york and this has been a round officially for what about an hour and a half two hours kristen. Tell us what you know about what is going to happen. Reporter thats right, david, this is described as a humanitarian pause with a goal of workin
The streets of the capital bangkok. Jacob zuma is sworn in as south africas president for the second time. And preparing for the pope. Jordan welcomes pope francis on his first trip to the middle east. Im wayne reporting from new zealand where a maori tribe is trying to find a use for one of its products. Breaking news coming from the somali capital mogadishu. Latest reports suggest that there have been several explosions outside the Parliament Building in mogadishu. Heavy gunfire has been reported. Witnesses spoke of rebels appearing to launch an attack during a parliamentary session. Now, we understand that alshabab, the militant group, is behind the attack. Lets speak to our correspondent who jones us on the line from joins us on the line from mogadishu. Tell us what is going on at the moment. There has been an exchange of gun fire between alshabab inside the Parliament Building. And how long has this been going on. How many people have died. We are hearing of their being four bodie
Protesters off the streets. Welcome to the programme. Irans president says his government will fight what he calls terrorism in iraq. Hassan rouhani didnt go into detail about how iran would get involved. Military forces are struggling to combat fighters. They captured mosul and tikrit from the government. We can join imran khan in the capital baghdad. Its about this time imran that parliament is sitting and Nouri Almaliki is asking for a state of emergency. Thats right. The Parliament Session is about to begin, which is what we heard from state television in baghdad. Its a crucial meeting. An emergency session of parliament declared a few days ago. Prime minister Nouri Almaliki wants a state of emergency giving him sweeping powers. Its unclear whether hell visit the parliament and meet with the parliamentarians. Hes not technically he doesnt technically have to be there. Several sunni politicians insisted that he put his case forward. Hes under a tremendous amount of pressure, a meeti
The football word cup. Well be live in rio. Could Science Fiction become fact . Japans multimillion dollar project to build killer robots. We do start in iraq where the government is struggling to battle fighters from the ice lambic state of iraq, isil. The group controls two major cities, mosul and tikrit. Almalaki has failed to declare a state of emergency, not enough politicians turned up for a session to vote it through. Irans president has weighed in on the crisis. He says his government will tackle fighters in neighboring iraq but hasnt gone into any details. On the ground, fighters from isil say theyll now march to the capital, baghdad. We have correspondents covering every angel of the story. We are live in baghdad, and in Northern Iraq where hundreds of thousands are seeking refuge. We are in beirut, looking at the attempt to link syria with iraq. Lets talk about the latest Political Developments from baghdad. The fact that almalaki didnt get the state of emergency, what happe
Ambassador to protest the drone attack that killed the taliban leader halimullah mehsud. A struggle for power for succession. Also a serious blow for pakist pakistan, and preliminary talks with the tehrikiitaliban. The peace prospects are now out of the question, and a big blow is seen to deliver to the taliban pakistan. They will not be able to recover from this any time soon. It will be interesting to see the government of pakistan has asked the Security Forces to be on red alert. Joining us now, director for the center of middle east studies at the university of denver. Thank you for joining us on this topic, now the Pakistan Foreign office has summoned the u. S. Ambassador to protest this action there are competing interests here, but the interests have to overlap for there to be any success in the region. What do you think is going to come out of this . Reporter well, i think more division and confusion. The pakistani government is torn. On the one hand they want u. S. Military su