West African Leaders will hold a summit to discuss the coup in niger. It is the First Official reaction since leaders nor the deadline to reinstate the president. The threat of military intervention has not yet been acted upon. The military has closed the airspace. Closed since sunday night, the airspace has remained empty. Not a sale airplane flying over the country. As it ignores the deadline to reinstate the president , the junta that has take own over the west african country accuses the group of preparing to intervene. Information currently in our possession indicates the forces of a foreign power but he to attack niger and its people cured in coordination as well as armed terrorist groups. So for the ivory coast, senegal and nigeria have said they would join in to drive out the junta showed the military intervention go ahead. Mali and burkina faso have said they would come to nigers defense. Enough on their platedont hao fight in the military strength ways obviously in their. Thi
Women are allowed to wear. This is al jazeera america, live from new york city im tony harris. Israeli police have opened an investigation into the death of an eritrean Asylum Seeker they mistakenly shot in beersheba. Officers thought the man was involved in a shooting attack at the bus station. Secretary of state john kerry is calling for israel and the palestinians to end the violence that has been raging for weeks now. He has asked both sides to clarify their positions over a religious site. Definitely something that the Palestinian Government wants, in the latest from the Palestinian Government today a member of the plo as well as one of the negotiators, hanan ashrawi. , occupied west bank and the rest of the palestinian territories. The issue is that they have submitted their requests to the united nations, waiting for the Security Council to meet and discuss and make a decision about it. People in gaza have been very frustrated since the last gaza war. They say the border crossin
Haze spreads. Im andrew tomas in australia. A world famous landmark, and for aboriginal people, a sacred site. When tourists climb it, theyre insulted, so why are people still trekking up . We start this news hour in brussels, where european leaders are meeting for acknowledge emergency summit on the refugee crise. The e. U. Says it will deploy more than 400 Borders Guards to the western balkans to help stem the flow of refugees. This comes at three Eastern European states have threatened to shut their borders this fount coys further north stop accepting new arrivals. 690,000 people have arrived in europe so far this year. The majority have been coming in via turkey, greece and through eastern europe, but three countries there, bulgaria, romania and serbia will shut their borders if countries further north stop accepting new arrivals. Slovenia has been struggling to cope with the thousands of people coming in. Its penalty will act on his own if the e. U. Cant solve the problem. In a mi
Through culpeper. Youre the coldest spot on the map, 32. Highs today upper 60s. By lunch time were already at the 60degree mark. Larry, over to you. Metro riders, were on schedule this morning. No issues on the rails or the buses so youre certainly good to go there. Were taking you out into Southern Maryland this morning, in clinton on branch avenue northbound. We have an accident thats causing delays all the way to the 301 interchange. Sky 9 is making its way there and will be there within the next ten minutes. Meantime around the beltway still fairly quiet with no issues around the whole capital beltway. No issues on 395 or 295 this morning. Your next trafficup date coming up in traffic update coming up in roughly ten minutes. Over to you. Following the road to the white house, all signs point to former virginia senator jim webb taking the road less traveled. The floor was his for all of 15 minutes during the first democratic primary debate. You compare that to 31 minutes for Hillary
Coalition colleagues as she tries to deliver a migration policy to satisfy them all shes adamant that europe holds the key but that might now but that might now be enough for the not be enough for the right wing of her government and at the world cup denmark joined france in the next around that australia crashed out after losing to prove all the action coming right out. Of the. Plane. Thanks for joining us everyone. U. S. President donald trump is celebrating a major victory the Supreme Court has upheld his travel ban which blocks people from several mostly muslim countries from entering the u. S. Signing the ban into law was one of the first things trump did after taking office the move triggered protests across the u. S. And caused chaos at airports the initial ban was struck down by a lower court but then an amended version whent into force last december the Supreme Court ruled the ban does not discriminate against muslims. All right lets take you now to washington to do a user cla