The country of yemen sits on the knifeves edge. Twin suicide attacks on mosques on the capital killed 127 people the white house says it cannot confirm that. Washington is watching the violence in yemen very closely. Shia houthis, battling for control in a country from the crossroads. Our report reporter the attackers knew the mosques would be packed for friday prayers. The heart of yemens capital, two mosques were targeted. Both belonged to the power base for houthi fighters who control the capital. Witnesses say the first explosion was inside one mosque and the blast went off and people fled. More targeted the other mosque. Rescuers struggled with the high number of casualties. Bodies were taken out. The hospital, the field for blood donations. The attacks happened a day after intense fighting at the airport in the southern port city of aden thats where the president has been trying to build a power base ever since he was forced out of the capital by the houthi advance. For hours, in
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
Sparked weeks of riots in france. Hello. Calling for immediately head to rebuild after the cyclone devastated the island name. Pam hit on friday night with winds up to 320 kilometers an hour. The u. N. Says the official death toll has risen to 24, a figure thats certain to rise as aid agencies reach outer islands. President baldwin said the storm wiped out all development of recent years. He blames Climate Change for the disaster saying the country has already seen rising sea levels and hi year than average rainfall. Andrew thomas has this report from the capital, port vila. Reporter from the air, you get glimpses of the destruction, but its up close you can see the full impact cyclone pam had on port vila 90 of the buildings have been damaged, many beyond repair. Trees are down everywhere. Rain and floods waters made what the wind did worst. Few people died and injuries, too, were light. At the hospital it was collin lynch who hurt his foot during the storm. At his house, he showed us
Years after he was killed. The latest as Lewis Hamilton declares a maid in monaco poll position. Party time in bavaria. As at a time bundasleague title is lifted. Hello. Iraqi forces righthand side the u. S. Led coalition have started their fight back against the Islamic State of iraq in the levant in iraq. Coalition airstrikes started areas near the proofvincial capitol capitol. Iraqi troops and their shia militia allies are trying to take control of that town to link fallujua. Zeina hodr reports. There has been military progress against the Islamic State they have recaptured the town of hoseba. They have pushed isil out of the town. The iraqi forces were sent to the area to stop isil from advancing further. Isil has managed to take towns and cities. Excuse me. Towns and villages since it captured ramadi on sunday. The capture of hosaba really the aim is to protect the habanea military base which was really under threat just earlier today. The base is the staging ground for the govern
India as the government cracks down on foreign funded ngos. Iraq launched a military operation to retake anbar from i. S. I. L. And some fear could raise sectarian tensions and anbar is mostly sunni province in the west and i. S. I. L. Took control of ramadi the province and capitol last week sending iraqi troops running. Ramadi lies just 115 kilometers from the capitol baghdad and we are hearing that three suicide car bomber have blown up a military convow southwest and we are on the Anbar Province to bring us the latest on this and what do you know . The bombings are in a village where the army convow was going cast and hearing at least 25 soldiers have been killed in that attack its a very typical attack by i. S. I. L. We have seen the car bombs before. If you remember when they went into ramadi just last week they used fix car bombs and Security Forces and were able to enter the city that way. We are expecting to see a lot more of these kinds and its one of the most effected weapon