Russian defense Officials Say more than 2,200 opposition fighters have laid down their arms. The fight for aleppo appears to be in its final stages. The u. S. Has strongly condemned russia, which backs the regime of president bashar al assad. Despite our best diplomatic efforts to reduce the violence and increase the flow of humanitarian assistance, the assad government, backed by the russians, continues to try to bomb innocent civilians. He emphasized the u. S. Will continue to make diplomatic efforts but added hes not optimistic. The Syrian Civil War has raged for six years. The besieged city of aleppo has endured months of intense bombardment that has created a humanitarian crisis. Antonio gutierrez has been sworn in as the next secretarygeneral of the united nations. The former Prime Minister of portugal pledged to tackle global challenges. Already humanitarian and Development Efforts will be insignificant without the active involvement of Member States and the contributions of civ
Russian defense Officials Say more than 2,200 opposition fighters have laid down their arms. The fight for aleppo appears to be in its final stages. The u. S. Has strongly condemned russia, which backs the regime of president bashar al assad. Despite our best diplomatic efforts to reduce the violence and increase the flow of humanitarian assistance, the assad government, backed by the russians, continues to try to bomb innocent civilians. He emphasized the u. S. Will continue to make diplomatic efforts but added hes not optimistic. The Syrian Civil War has raged for six years. The besieged city of aleppo has endured months of intense bombardment that has created a humanitarian crisis. Antonio gutierrez has been sworn in as the next secretarygeneral of the united nations. The former Prime Minister of portugal pledged to tackle global challenges. Already humanitarian and Development Efforts will be insignificant without the active involvement of Member States and the contributions of civ
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Electronics stocks move higher. A spanish person becomes the first person to contract ebola outside west africa as president obama outlines plans to screen passengers for the ebola disease. Ebola is a very serious disease. And the ability of people who are infected to carry that across boarders is something that we have to take extremely serious. Announcer youre watching worldwide exchange, bringing you Business News from around the globe. Rio tento has ejected a takeover bid from glencore back in august. They have created the worlds biggest liners. Rio tinto shares are leading the ftse. Glenn core is trading higher while the news lifted other m e mining stocks. Glencore has not rumd out a fresh approach, this a according to its sources. Chris is with us for the next half an hour and nick, as well. Nick, do you think this announcement, this deal that glencore is looking at rio tinto, do you think that suggests Iron Ore Price ves bottomed . Not necessarily at all. One of the main ration
For the third year in a row, the philippines is being hit by a deadly typhoon as the United Nations hosts its annual Climate Summit. More than 90 people have already died. We will speak to lidy nacpil, a leading filipino climate activist. Then saleemul huq of bangladesh and how peru has become one of the most dangerous countries in the world for environmental activists. It is a risk of life or death for us. If i stand in front of the loggers to represent my community and say to them, sir, you have to leave because this is our land and then it is a risk. It is been this way for a while. That was the voice of edwin climat chote. He and three others were killed by illegal loggers as they tried to stop them from cutting down the ancient trees on their land. Two of theak to widows of the men. All that and more coming up. Welcome to democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Protests continue across the United States over Police Killings of unarmed africaname