The last full day of campaigning in israels election. More than 90 of buildings in the island nation have been destroyed, the president calling on the world to help his people. Aid agencies say flights have confirmed their worst fierce of widespread destruction. Heres our correspondent now Andrew Thomas whose managed to reach vanu you atu. The president of atu described the cyclone as a monster that will take many years to recover from. He believes half his countries population has been affected. There isnt information from the Southern Islands yet the ones believed to be most badly hit. 90 of buildings have been damaged, whether its a tree through the roof like this one or totally destroyed. What was it like during the storm . Its really beyond description, but it really was very, very strong. There was a lot of flooding, and there was a lot of rain and the winds so strong that you cant see anything, anything at all. Did you stay you here during it . Yes we stayed and the corner came
I really do not know what impact support of the pipeline houthis announce an agreement on finance be help come from iraq. I am Barnaby Phillips from croatia are now fighting in the war in ukraine. I am lee we willings with the sport. New formula one season is upon us in melbourne, the own 12 of mercedes at the front of the grid. First the question is has isil used chemical weapons in attacks on the iraqi carbides. The kurdish region say they have evidence which they say confirms isil used chlorine gas during an attack on january. This is a report by salina downs. Reporter the accusations have been around for months. Now, they say the proof its these plumes of orange smoke explodetion into the area which iraqi and kurdish Officials Say is chlorine and they proved isil fighters are using the gas against them. Iraqi fighters filmed this video near tikrit. They claim an is ill suicide bomber was driving an oil tanker physical with chlorine one of the worlds chemicals weapons expert says he
Clear. Its still 2015, but apparently. This is what the future will look like. Noisy, isnt it . Taliban fighters in pakistan claimed responsibility for two bomb attacks on churches packed with sunday worshipers. At least 14 people were killed and dozens wounded in lahore. Victoria reports. The Pakistani Taliban timed attacks for maximum devastation, the two churches packed with those attending sunday services. There was chaos in the moments after the bombs exploded within minutes of each other. I was on guard inside, a small gate was open. Suddenly, there was the sound of a blast and the gate was blown away. I turned around and all these splashes of blood fell on my clothes. We got busy with the rescue effort. The bombings were in the neighborhood home to more than 100,000 christians. Today in lahore, our churches were attacked. We strongly condemn the act and wee demand that the government provide protection to all places of worship of all religions including muslim prayer places. Min
Military rule, the president who was tortured by the same regime is hearing calls for her impeachment. Broad powers to make venzuelas laws. Allowing president maduro to rule by decree among rising tensions with the u. S. Hello. U. S. Secretary of state john kerry says he is willing to negotiate with Bashar Al Assad for a political transition. Up until now the u. S. Had insisted he had to go. Kerry is in lusanne switzerland for talks. James bays is there. Secretary of state john kerry in shamal sheik in egypt where he called for a fresh start. He spoke with cbs. We are working very hard with other interested parties to see if we can reignite a glom outcome. Why . Because everybody agrees there is no military solution. There is only a political solution. But to get the assad regime to negotiate, we are going to have to make it clear hoto him that there is a determination by everybody to seek that political outcome and change his calculation about negotiating. Thats underway right now and
Cyclones 60,000 children in need of immediate help. Josh carry is saying there must be a political not a military solution to the connell conflict in syria. He said that pressure may be required to persuade president assad to even negotiate. Mr. Carry arrived in switzerland for talks with irans foreign minister Mohammed Zarif on Irans Nuclear program. Before leaving, kerry raced the prospects 69 direct talks with the Assad Government saying the sdmrus would have to negotiate to the end with assad. We are working very hard with other interested parties to see if we can reignite a diplomatic outcome. Why . Because everybody agrees there is no military solution. There is only a political solution. But to get the assad regime to negotiate, we are going to have to make it clear to him that there is a determination by everybody to seek that political outcome and change his calculation about negotiating. Thats underway right now. And i am convinced that with the efforts of our allies and othe