Last several weeks. The around under repeated shelling, the neighborhood where the embassy is, shelling, violence, rival militias battling it out for control. The government had libya growing increasingly fragile, increasingly unable to control the situation. So this somewhat became inevitable, i suppose. There had been a lot talk about it over the last several days, and they decided finally that the americans really had to get out of the country for a while. The state department is making the point, the embassy is not shut down. They say it is relocated to neighboring countries, that the diplomats will continue to carry on their work, but make no mistake, the complex, the compound, is shuttered and the americans will not be going back until the security situation improves. All righty. Barbara starr, thank you so much. Dig deeper and bring in ed royce, a House Republican from california, chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. Congressman, good to have you with us. Good mor
10 00 a. M. An the west. Dozens are believed dead in ap israeli strike a short while ago on a crowded market in gaza. More than 100 injured. This follows the shelling of a u. N. School in which 15 were killed. Thousands of palestinians were taking refuge inside that school compound and a spokesman for the u. N. Relief agency spoke to Andrea Mitchell about it moments ago. They came to a u. N. Sanctuary expecting safe haven. What happens . The artillery from that self same army crashes into the building and the consequences were absolutely traffic. Bombarded gaza over tonight. The most sustained attack in this fight yet. Theres dramatic video of yesterdays attack an gazas only power plant. You see it there. Its left an estimated 1. 8 Million People there without any power. To west africa where ebola has claimed the life of a leading doctor helping to fight the worst outbreak of that deadly virus on record. Dr. Sheikh umar kahn died yesterday in sierra leone. Hes been credited with treati
A number of the worlds top leaders will be meeting in just a few hours from now at the United Nations, but one of them, president Vladimir Putin of russia seems to be taking the lead in the Syrian Crisis. Putin is calling for collective action against the militants. He says efforts to end the war are not working and a new strategy is needed. And all of this is happening as were learning russia will be getting intelligence about isis and iraq from the iraqi military. Iran and syria will get the same intelligence. And for more, lets go to Matthew Chance who joins us live from moscow. Matthew, lets look at the optics of this. Russias president putin appearing to spearhead the agenda on syria. Whats he doing here and what are his likely intentions . Reporter well, he really is spearheading, as you put it, that agenda. Hes in the driving seat of this Diplomatic Initiative. Not only is he backing the government in syria but hes putting military forces in place on the ground in that country t
Sunday morning. Thanks for joining us. This is cnn newsroom. A warm welcome. A political transition is underway this hour in france. These are live pictures. Dignitaries have gathered there in the french capitol for the inauguration of macron. He is set to arrive shortly at his new home where he will then take over from the Current French president hollande. Melissa is in the french capitol and joins us with the latest. We can expect all the pomp and ceremony that you might expect from the french when it comes to these inauguration events. Talk us through the protocol. What can we expect . Theres a great deal of protocol on these occasions. Its a hand over of a lot of power from one man to another and every time these things are very carefully calibrated who has been invited today. How he will make his way up the red carpet. How he will enter and be received by hollande all of these things are perfectly calibrated, timed, organized, orchestrated. What is different is the leap until int