U. S. Led airstrikes hit close to their bases. Yemen government cuts fuel crisis in a bid to take control of the government. And a tiny million little plastic bricks. The u. S. President has told the u. N. General assembly in new york that the world needs to join together in fighting the group known as the Islamic State in iraq and lavant otherwise known as isil. Barack obama used his 40minute speech at the u. N. To tackle a range of issues. He urged the world to counter russian aggression. He told iran to agree on a new deal on its nuclear program. He urged countries to make concrete commitments to fight the Ebola Outbreak across parts of africa, and used the speech to push for action on Climate Change saying every major power needs to join the effort. But his main focus was the u. S. Led airstrikes against isil. He said the group needs to be destroyed. I have made it clear that america will not base our entire foreign policies on reacting to terrorism. Instead we wage a focus to alqa
War vets provide humanitarian help in the worlds most dangerous area. And we will start with iraq where the military is trying to take back strategic terry and an Islamic State and tab taliban and trying to take back the oil refinery for three days and this is the oil refinery seized during the aggressive advance in june stopping production at the facility and that significant and used to produce that much, that is about a quarter of iraqs daily supplies 300,000 barrels of crude a day and using desperate tactics to maintain control of the facility and we are in baghdad with the latest. Reporter well, i can tell you in the last hour iraqi forces pushed further in the town and taken over two key buildings, the mosque and the local Police Station and these are important because it gives them a Vantage Point in the north and east of the city where isil fighters remain in large number and iraqi army are pushing Forward Harder than they have done before and on offensive and think they have t
Agency slams the international communitys slow response. And france looks to the right with the National Front coming first and second in local elections. He was one of the 20th centurys greatest ashun leaders, a man singapore people call their founding father and lee kuan yew widely credited with transforming singapore from a small port city into a financial centersent died at age 91 and criticize for being undemocratic and authoritarian and Nicole Johnston looks at his life and legacy. Reporter singapore as the world knows it might not have existed and the fourth generation sin pore saw his home land occupied first by the british then the japanese and training as a lawyer in britain he was Prime Minister this 1959 a post he would hold for 31 years, despite a ruthless style of politics lee was no independence leader and singapore became independent against its will and kicked out of malaysia in 1965 against a back drop of racial tension, at the time a fearful lee contemplated a bleak
And the magnificent men in their flying machines how they became the worlds first Fighter Pilots they have broken the cold in their thousands in memory of a man they had never met. This is a scene in moscow a vigil for boris Boris Nemtsov, opposition and vocal critic of Vladimir Putin, shot and killed near the kremlin friday night. The rally will pass through the center of the russian capital, culminating at the spot he died. Thousands on the streets. Rory challands is our correspondent keeping an eye on things. As you have been saying it is something in and of itself that this many people are out marching in the middle of moscow and a politically charged moment. Absolutely. For the last 23 years or so its been incredibly difficult for opposition movements in russia to organise rallies right in the heart of moscow. Generally they are not allowed they are pushed to the outskirts of the city. That is where the government feels safe enough for the opposition to have these demonstrations.
Strikes go on how antibiotics given to animals can affect your health as many as 700 are fared dead in the mediterranean sea, after the boat they are on capsized. Its thought the boat went down 200km south of lampedusa. The italian and maltese coast guards are conducting a major search. 28 bodies have been discovered. Paul brennan joins us live from catania. Tell us more about what happened. There are more details emerging yes, about what happened last night. Late saturday night out there in the sea, north of libya. According to the Operations Room of the Italian Coast Guard in rome which we have been able to speak to by phone from sicily it was 73 miles from the coast. A migrant boat appears to have been discovered by a portuguese merchant vessel. It approached it. It appears that the migrants flooded to one side of the boat destabilizing their vessel, and in doing so it capsized and they were pitched into the water. The numbers, according to the coast guard let me say, 28 confirmed r