Gaza this close to where we were reporting. Residents are cleaning up in Northern California after the strong ers quake to hit the San Francisco bay area in a quarter of a century. The 6. 0 magnitude earthquake struck south of napper. It happened at 3 00 in the morning. 100 critically injured. A state of emergency has been declared. People are coping with Power Outages, gas leaks. Jacob ward joins us from napper. When the mistaking began the make or break difference was what the buildings were head out of. Here in the middle of downtown napper they are made from brick. It is stable against the forces of gravity, but turned to liquid in the lateral motion you see. This building was, in fact, recently seismically retro fitted. You can see the steel beams placed in there that have, in fact, kept the structure standing even though the brick peeled away. The demonstration speaks to how lucky we were that this happened at the time of day it did. Typically on a sunday afternoon the wine bar w
That left thousands dead from chuck out to check out the supermarket putting food on the plates for some of u. K. s poorest. Start of the newshour in australia where an arm man is Still Holding an unknown number of people hostage inside a central sydney cafe. Martin place is where it is. This is the scene outside. We see Security Forces there behind a lamp post on the right of your screen. Others are positioned elsewhere. Its an area which has been locked down since this siege started at 9 45 local time, 12 hours, its 9 oclock at night, and much of the area remains cordoned off. Andrew thomas, our correspondent, close to that area. There is an area that has been sealed off. I know we cant go into it. We heard from the New South Wales Police Commissioner sa short while ago a short while ago. Not a great deal of detail coming out, but a few interesting points. They are being careful, camy about what they are saying. They have cagey, they have more information about what they are sharing.
Extremist group al morabitum which we havent really heard of before. How big is this is the first part of the question and secondly how do you rank the groups and their threats toward the homeland . Which one should we be the most wary of . Let me bite that off in a couple of different chunks madam vice chair. We did point out in our statement this year to the emergence of this group in north africa which is an offshoot on which is al qaeda and ghraib, and internal fights about direction is a group that we know of as the al mura battalion which includes known links to al qaeda and they have engaged in internal feuding that has put them into separate organizations from the way we look at them. We look at that grouping as a significant threat to our interest in and across north africa. As far as the ability to project a threat potentially to the homeland i would describe that as more potential than actual at this point but they certainly have taken note of what happened in western europe
From our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Charlie on sunday, the world watched in horror after isis released a video of the beheadings of 21 christians on the libyan coast. The Egyptian Military launched airstrikes targeting isis training sites and camps. The egyptian president said there is no choice other than a u. N. Backed coalition. He sent his foreign minister to new york to ensure the International Community is up to its responsibilities. The Security Council expressed support for a resolution against libya. Joining me now is the egyptian foreign minister, sameh shoukry. I am pleased to have him on this program. You are here at your president s request to do what . To get what kind of resolution . Mr. Shoukry primarily to present a draft resolution to the council that is supported by the arab group in new york to provide the necessary facilities to the legitimate government in libya to counter the terrorist threat that is escalating on libyan soil. To reiterate th
Traveled to syria or attempted to travel there and who will return home. At least 3400 of them are from western europe. And that includes visa waiver countries, where theyre a plane ticket away from the United States. What we dont know is how many people are inside the United States following isil, and who are becoming inspired to carry out their own attacks. Separately al qaeda remains focused on conducting attacks against or homeland while aq in the ungoverned areas of pakistan may bes weak as it has been in many years, al qaeda in the arabian peninsula, or aqap still poses a clear threat. The group is enjoying a safe haven in yemen, with the huiti the group has already attempted to sense nonmetallic and essentially undetectible bombs into our country on four occasions, beginning with the Christmas Day 2009 bomb. Aq has published stepbystep directions for building that bomb in the latest inspire magazine. Our efforts to confront aqap are significantly diminished with the removal of t