Ap dutch court has ruled the Oil Company Shell can be sued in the netherlands for the actions of its subsidiary in nigeria and four nigerian farmers and fishermen from river state first filed the lawsuit back in 2008. They want shell to cleanup its oil spills and pay compensation. Appeals court finding opens a way for other possible legal action against shell. The company has previously faced accusations over all ledged arrest, forfeiture and wrongful death in nigeria. In 2009 shell paid more than 15 Million Dollars to the family of the environmentalists but the company denied any culpability in the death and the payment they say was a humanitarian gesture. In january shell agreed to a 75 million out of Court Settlement with community in the delta region. The companys rusted Oil Infrastructure ruptured twice this 2008 flooding a village with more than 40 million liters of oil and shell taken to court over its Exploration Program in the arctic, the company in year halted its drilling th
2034. Also the vatican says mother theresa will now be made a saint. 17 Foreign Ministers are currently meetings in new york at new talks on how to end the war in syria. They are trying to arrange a ceasefire from january, and then direct negotiations between the Syrian Government and the opposition. The opposition says it wont agree to a ceasefire unless president assad steps down. And they have yet to solve their differences in the talks to define who is radical. On the two important aspects, one is the opposition groups, and the other is a come situation of the opposition and a list of terrorist organization. There seems to be no agreement. Our diplomatic editor, james bayes joins us from outside of the talk in that hotel in new york. So what can they hope to achieve . Reporter well, you heard about that difference that the foreign minister told me about, about who should be part of the opposition. Thats one of the main Sticking Points. Another is the future role of assad. What they
Numbers are at record levels and millions more will soon be on the more. And the vatican says mother theresa will be named a saint. Foreign ministers from around the world are trying to revive the syrian peace process. They are hoping to arrange a ceasefire and direct talks between the Syrian Government and the opposition. There are, though, major obstacles. One of them is which groups will be defined as radical. Jordan will be compiling a list. And lastly, the future of syrian president , Bashar Alassad, the opposition says it wont agree to a ceasefire unless he steps down. Lets go to james bayes. These talks are now underway after a delay . Reporter yes, thats right. And that shows the difficulty of all of this. They have a very ambitious goal to try to get in january, a ceasefire, and talks between the Syrian Government and some of the Syrian Opposition. Thats going to be very, very hard to achieve, and as you say, i think we got an indication of that, the main meeting took place ab
For the purpose ministers from around the world are in new york to try to revive the syrian peace pros. They hope to arrange a ceasefire and direct talks between the Syrian Government and the opposition. Lets go live now to new york. Our diplomatic editor james bays is with us from there. James, the meeting is underway. Whats the latest . Well, theyve all arrived, the Foreign Ministers for this meeting, as you say, the aim is very ambitious. After many years of bloodshed, more than over 250,000 people dead in syria, theyre trying in january to get a ceasefire in syria, and to get facetoface talks between the Syrian Government and the syrian opposition. Having said all that, there are great sticking points here, sticking points some of them that have been around when they loft tried to have talks two years ago, but also throughout the five years of the conflict. For example, the future of president assad in syria, would he have any role in the future of syria, would he have any role in
They will be transferred from their commands, needless to say this will impact on their future careers in the department dramatically. Reporter and weve been told their suspension will last at least 30 days. This by the way is the sixth time since june that a suspect has somehow escaped nypd custody. The chief of the Department Says this is not a training issue but rather a matter of officers simply paying attention. Were live, dray clark channel 7 eyewitness news. Thank you. Were following a developing story in new jersey. Police in newark are investigating a string of gas station robberies. Armed suspects reportedly held up the speedway gas station on park avenue and the exon on mccarter highway early this morning. No injuries were reported. It is unclear exactly how many other places were robbed. We are working this story. We will bring you new information as soon as it becomes available. Dropping, and its looking like our last weekend of fall will start out blustery. Meteorologist