Tighter Border Control and a third body was found in the rubble where the suspected attack organizer was killed and lets rejoin our colleagues in doha with the latest in mali. Attacked a luxury hotel for the foreigners in bamako and say 170 people have been taken hostages and at least 80 of the hostages have been freed so far from the Radisson Hotel but another three people were confirmed dead and yvonne is monitoring this story from the nigerian capitol abuja and get us up to speed and what do we know . Well, what we know is that the situation is live and active and on going. The siege is still underway. We managed to speak to some eyewitnesses who are on the scene outside of the Radisson Blu Hotel. What they tell us is that French Military who operate in mali who have a base in mali, Mali Special Forces and u. N. Forces as the u. N. Peace keeper mission there are around the how elbow hotel and surrounded the hotel and some of them have tried to go in the hotel to diffuse the situatio
Has been fairly quiet. This act changes that the strike on the west african nation of mali and who was behind it. Tense city in the shadow of the fay nations most powerful, a community of its most fragile. It started from nothing and now youve got about 30 tents out here with People Living here and it just up. It is a city within a city the fight to save the place they call home. Thanks for joining us. Im joie chen. In a capital city with innocent travellers the targets of a the latest visual assault. The long reach of i. S. I. L. Might be spreading further or was it a new group . Details and insight into what happened in the west african nation of mali and how American Forces might be connected. Reporter it was an Early Morning attack on what was thought to be one of the most secure starts of mali, the Radisson Blu Hotel in bamako. The hotel serves as a popular destinations, businessmen, aid workers, airline crews. A Group Calling itself almourabitoun based in northern mali claim resp
Of thousands of displaced people to return home. Me is at victory. He is starting with action against venezuelan france has used its Aircraft Carrier for the first time to launch air strikes against i. S. I. L. It comes as president Francois Hollande ramps up efforts to assemble a coalition of countries to fight the Islamic State in iraq and the levant. He started the week with visiting the Bataclan Club with the british p. M. David kilometer ran. 89 people were killed there in the paris attacks ten days. Next Francois Hollande travels to washington where he meets obama on tuesday. On wednesday he is meeting chancellor merkel back in paris and then to meet putin. All of this dip loam as the patrol is patrolled by thousands of police and soldiers on its third day of lock down. Schools, the metro rail work and museums are all closed. Reporter in position and operational, the Aircraft Carrier is taking off, bombs loaded. A spokesman said the first of the acts were in iraq. The action coin
Last hours. Belgiums Prime Minister says the country will stay on the highest state of alert with schools and the metro shut on monday. Soldiers and police have been patrolling the streets of a capital on a second day after warnings of an imminent attack. Shops have been closed. The Prime Minister says theres the possibility of a paris style attack involving explosives and weapons at several locations. Translation i can give you information about the position of the metro in brussels tomorrow. The metro in brussels will remain closed. We have also formed the addition to close the schools in brussels tomorrow. It is our intention to make a new evaluation on the security situation tomorrow afternoon paul brennan is live for us in the capital brussels. These really are extraordinary measures to be taken in a west european country. Reporter yes. You have to think about the data that the Prime Minister and his cabinet ministers have to work with. On friday there was a raid and search of an
For the Holiday Shopping season. This is Al Jazeera America live from new york city. I stephanie sy. Protesters in chicago are hitting stleets trying to disrupt all of that friday shopping. Demonstrations are planned on up scale north michigan avenue. That is the citys main shopping area. The protesters are outraged that it took more than a year for a white Police Officer to be charged with murder in the shooting death of a black teenager. Our correspondent is live right now on chicagos magnificent mile. It looks like a windy day there, andy, but it is also supposed to be a busy shopping day. Where are protesters targeting shoppers . Because they want to hit chicago in its wallet. You can see there are shoppers out here right now. There it is a cold windy day and the protesters will be gathering in about a half hour from now. And they have one big role, economic disruption. There have been a couple of nights of protests since the release of the Laquan Mcdonald shooting video. This one