The Global Climate agreement reached in peru. Hello. Welcome to the program. We start in syria now where theres been intense fighting in the province of aleppo. Rebel fighters say they killed several soldiers and destroyed vehicles. But the Syrian State News Agency quoting a military source says the government remains in control of the village. Kurdish fighters say they have made advances again isil in kobani. Elsewhere isil is taking on Syrian Government forces for control of an airport. We explain the strategic importance. Reporter the airport is one of the last remaining regime strongholds in the east of syria. The forces of president Bashar Al Assad held onto the airport and parts of provincial capital while isil consolidates its hold on the rest of the province. There are oil fields around the airport. Winning control of the airport gi gives isil control of the oil. Isil has made previous attempts, but the fighters have been beaten by Syrian Forces and the pr proassad channel play
Beneficiaries agreement in environmental history. And kurdish fighters have made way in the syrian town of kobani. Japans Prime Minister shinzo abe has won a landslide victory in the countrys election. Called two years early after japan slipped into recession last month. We know that shinzo abe has appeared at the time Party Headquarters and addressing his supporters. What did he say . Well hes been celebrating his victory. It is a victory he few i think that he would win, when he called this election a month ago. But nonetheless, one that has been extremely satisfying to him. His plan has worked out and means he has what he says is a mandate to carry on with his economic policies and his other policies. There was no great fistpumping celebration for the japanese Prime Minister as he marked his victory seat by seat. Rather he had an air of a man whose plan had worked perfectly. He had publicly courted this. My economics policies are still only halfway done but i believe we have moved a
Hostage situation started just before 10 00 a. M. , that would be 6 00 p. M. L local standard time. They have blocked off the there. This im dovt, youve been watching al jazeera, these are the global headquarters. A siege in australia entering a 10th hour after a man believed to be armed walked into a sydney cafe. Five have run from the building. Its unclear how many others are inside. Well, the siege brought much of sydneys Central District to a stand city. This is close to the harbour, thousands of workers have been evacuated from the offices and police set up a cordon around the cafe well, this is the scene in st. Martins place. You can see a couple of armed me, Security Forces there just behind one of those lamp posts. We saw the lights in Central Business district. We are expecting any moment now to hear from the New South Wales police once again. Its been a couple of hours since they made a statement. We are expecting a Live Press Conference any moment. In fact, i believe that is
Injured at the moment. Weve been working through negotiations to try to make sure that the people inside are cared for, but that they have what they need toso they dont become ill or injured. Well continue to do that. Andrew thomas joins me live from sydney. Any update to the situation there, andrew . Reporter in the last 45 minutes three people have emerged from the cafe, theyve either escaped or released, were not sure. But the Police Confirmed that three people have got out of that cafe. But what still is not clear is how many more hostages remain inside the cafe or, indeed, how many hostage takers there might be if there is more than one. We do know there is one armed man inside that cafe. The police would not confirm whether there were any more at all inside. The whole of the area has been locked down. Macquarie street, martin place 200 meters to the left up there. This road is normally a busy thoroughfare. But now its completely closed off by the police. This central sydney squar
I do not like green eggs and ham. Mike lee, i am your father. Im a big fan of eating white castle burgers. Most americans could not give a flying flip about a bunch of politicians in washington. Who cares . You know, almost all of us are in cheap suits with bad haircuts. Who cares . Now the senate vote is finally on. Returning to real business like the upcoming showdown over government funding and the debt ceiling perhaps. President ial sales pitch, two for the price of one. Obama teams up with both clintons to try to boost support for hiS Health Care law. The citys been a little political, this whole obama care thing. What we are confident about is that when people look and see that they can get highquality, Affordable Health care for less than their cell phone bill, theyre going to sign up. But its hillary who has the first word. They have fabulous daughters. They each married far above themselves. And at the United Nations, its a near miss for president obama and irans president rou