This first move. The Federal Reserve raises Interest Rates for the first time in almost a decade. Markets around the world are reacting. And back on display. Why the mask of king tut needed a face lift. Ogood evening im antonigood ev. This is al jazeeras International News hour. The fight behind the fight of i. S. I. L. Defense secretary ash carter made an unexpected trip to baghdad acknowledge he said he was there to help but he received no new commitments. Foreign secretary Phillip Hammond told parliament that russia continues to target Syrian Rebels with air strikes. Only a quarter aimed at i. S. I. L. Targets. And there are signs that i. S. I. L. s economic engine is starting to sputter. The u. S. Military says its finally seeing a drop of i. S. I. L. s oil revenues. Jamie mcintire is at the pentagon with more. Reporter antonio, here is a phrase that kept coming up during the visit to iraq. We want to accelerate the pace of operations but with iraq answer permission. Carter was say
Planned talks fall through. And Malala Yousafzai says she is happy and honored to become the youngestever recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. [ applause ] the u. N. General assembly is being told the Ebola Outbreak cannot be controlled without Massive International response. The virus has killed more than 4,000 people mainly in west africa. It says if the virus is not brought under control, the world may have to live with it forever. Quite a stern warning from u. N. Officials that the clock is ticking. Reporter a truly scary thought. Think about this, the leader of the u. N. Mission on this saying if you dont contain it now, the world will never be able to contain it. And he said the virus infection rate is doubling every three to four weeks, so basically the message to all of the countries across the globe is that this can be contained but only if the they act fast. This outbreak has moved out of rural areas. Its affecting a whole region, and its now also impacting on the whole world.
The heads of thousands forced from their homes by Boko Haram Campaign of violence in nigeria. And i have the sport, the host of the biggest football tournament in africa ask them to postpone it because of the Ebola Outbreak. Kurdish forces engaged in a desperate battle to defend kobane and isil sending in reenforcements and pouring more tanks and weapons on the border and Kurdish Forces managed to regain their Security Headquarters in the town but it again has been over run despite more Coalition Air strikes and representatives of the Kurdish Forces told al jazeera that isil continues to push further into kobane from the south and east where there is fierce fighting and we will take you there live a mile or two away from kobane and stef decker is on the turkish syria border and stef when we have spoken to you over the past few hours behind you we have heard the sounds of battle. Is that still going on . Reporter yes, in the last half hour or so we saw increased activicoun activity and
Yousafzai says she is happy to become the youngestever recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. In the last hour members of the u. N. General Assembly Says the Ebola Outbreak cannot be controlled without a Massive International response. The u. N. s secretary general says more money is urgently needed. Over 20 million has been raised for the trust fund in the last week, but we need more, we need much more. Of the 1 billion sought, only one quarter has been funded. We also need a surge in trained healthcare personnel who can deploy the staff to enable our treatment units and community centers. Lets go straight to pattive culhane who is live from us on the u. N. Sounds pretty bleak there . Thats right. The message is the world is late to the fight against ebola, but it doesnt have to be whole late. This whole week has been an attempted wakeup call to countries across the globe. We saw secretary of state john kerriment come out unusually with slides saying that every country in the world can p
John mccain warned democrats to turn it down. Lets stop this. Lets stop it, sit down, sit or consider the speakers proposal. Wase said john benard brave, dealing with the tea party and the debt ceiling. We should not get anywhere close to it. We are close now. Warned veterans groups area message, defaulting is not an option. Just a day and a half left and the ball is still in the houses court with the democratically controlled senate waiting. Are learning some latebreaking details of washington. A spokesman for john banner says the house will vote tonight to reopen the government and avoid a default. Stay with us on air and on the line online as we continue to monitor the situation. In Baltimore County lycee a gun man is on the run. Details are still coming in but we can confirm a serious shooting in woodlawn. Sky team 11 was over the scene at Cambridge Court and investigators do not have a suspect description. The victim is a mail but his agent name remain unclear. Another homicide is