22nd, 2016. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to this edition of today on Tuesday Morning. Im Savannah Guthrie alongside matt lauer. Were covering this breaking news out of belgium. The Prime Minister said this is a terror attack, a dark moment for his country. What we feared ed ed ed ed has happened. Someone or someones went up to the airport area, detonated one device outside of the building. Someone else, apparently a suicide bomber inside the terminal, packed with morning commuters. People lining up to catch flights to other parts of europe and parts of the world. Near a starbucks, waiting to get coffee. Standing side by side, everyone with a backpack, suitcase or package, when the explosion the devastation is apparent for anyone who can see the images. At least 15 people confirmed killed. This is an area of an airport where you havent gone through security yet. You pull up in a car, get off a bus. One of our colleagues from msnbc said, he came up from a rail system beneath into the
That story. 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 we continue to follow a news alert out of brussells, belgium. The airport is closed and flights are being diverted. After a series of injured. Two explosions went off while hundreds of passengers were trying to check in. A belgian broadcaster quotes a witness saying the explosion was close to the American Airlines checkin area. The belgian interior minister has increased the countrys terror tevel to maximum. And another explosion has been reported at the a metro station near the European Union buildings elsewhere in the city. This blast also comes just days after a suspect in the paris terror attacks was arrested in belgium. 3 3 3 3 a developing story this morning in st. Pete. Police are investigating the death of a 91year old man. Who died one week after being injured on a psta bus. Fox 13s Shayla Reaves joins us now from st. Pete police department. 3 3 3 3 3 new this morning a popular show at the Animal Kingdom came to a scary end. After a float caught on
Western hemisphere. Mexicos western coast braces for Hurricane Patricia. Tens of thousands of palestinians are allowed into prayers. Israel eases restrictions on access to the al asqa mosque. Were counting down to the Rugby World Cup semifinals that get underway in 24 hours time. Its the world champions on saturday. Well hear them from later in the program. South africas president zuma will freeze a rise in fees proposed for University Students next year. It came after massive demonstrations in the capital city of pretoria. Here thousands of University Students. This is what they think of the proposed increase. Some of them tried to storm the seat of government but were held back by riot police that fired stun grenades and used water cannons. Al jazeera was in the middle of that protest. This is what she sent us. Reporter these protests where we are now have been going on for over eight days. Theyve, in fact, spread across the country, and that will explain why students are becoming in
And it really is food for thought, we take a look at a new museum in london that devoted to what we eat. But we start in the vienna and u. S. And russia and saudi arabia and turkey are gathering to talk about the crisis in syria, it will provide an opportunity for diplomates to find out more about russias Bombing Campaign and the meeting comes just a few days after Vladimir Putin met Bashar Alassad and we go to barnabie phillips and is russia positioning it self to be in the driving seat when it comes to working out what is going on in syria . It does, marteen, russia has taken bold and decisive steps in resent weeks and there is an obvious contrast between russias actions and the actions and hesitancy and doubt of the United States but all four countries here are militarily involved to some extent in the conflict in syria. As you are suggesting some of them saudi arabia, turkey, the United States will have a lot of questions over russias motives, a lot of skepticism, a lot of daughter
For what could be the biggest hurricane in the nations history. And it really is food for thought. We take a look at a new museum in london that is devoted to what we eat. South africas president , jacob zuma, says there will be no fee increase for University Students next year. He made the announcement after a day of volatile protests where thousands of demonstrators tried to storm government buildings in pretoria. Our correspondent has the latest. Reporter many of these students have dispersed from the grounds of the Union Building and police are continuing to fire stun grenades trying to make them leave after the announcement that there would be a 0 fee increase. Many students are angry after tear gas was fired, some of the students suffering from that tear gas, but they are trying to leave as quickly as they can. A small group still close to the Union Buildings, running away from the Union Buildings as well as police try to disperse them. Israeli police say 30,000 palestinians have