Cohn. The u. N. May be closer to tracking him down. Thanks for being with us. Voting has begun in the final phase of indias 5week general election. Three more states are casting their votes. The leader of b. J. P. Is contesting a seat in a Battle Ground city. He is a poor front runner, but has been given a spirited fight, leader of the anticorruption Common Man Party yip. The Ruling Congress party has been suffering. The general election is an undertaking happening in nine phases. From 7 april until monday thats five weeks. Results will be announced on may 15th. Nearly a million polling stations were prepared. People voted to elect 543seat Lower Chamber of parliament. 272 are noded nor an needed for an outright majority. We go live to new delhi to our correspondent. We are on the last day of the vote. Why is this area so important . As mentioned, we have Narendra Modi fighting against others in the congress party. The reason this place is important, one of the final cities to be voting
Monitoring a woman who was working for the director. Large parts of the west ant artka have began to collapse. A rise in global sea levels is now inevitable. There was a startling Development Today in nigeria in the case of hundreds of missing school girls abducted a month ago. The radical Armed Islamic Group Boko Haram released this video saying all of the women in the vails were kidnapped and have been converted to islam. The leader says the girls will be held in the Nigerian Government freeze all militant prisoners. Now from the capitol of abuja. Their kidnapping shocked the world. Now these images are likely to cause further distress. In the 17 minute video released by their boko haram kidnappers, the girls are heard speaking in arabic. Three of the girls are interviewed to say they were christian but converted to islam while the third says she is muslim. Its hard to determine from the video the location where it was shot. Boko haram leader also makes a separate appearance. In his
To collapse, raising sea levels from 412 feet. We are getting our first look at hundreds of Nigerian School girls ab ducted nearly a month ago. Boko haram released this video claiming to show the missing girls. The leader says they were converted to islam and would be held until Nigerian Government frees militant prisoners. We are joined from nigeria by rawya rageh. Has nigeria responded to the release of this video . There hasnt been a definitive government statement per se. A Government Agency issued a statement saying authorities viewed the video and are looking at all option, considering all options in responding to that video. The interior minister reiterated the longstanding government line that they will not negotiate with those they describe as terrorists. Its still not clear to us whether, indeed, those featured on the video are the kidnapped girls or not. Some of the families of the victims have not been able to identify their loved ones on the video just yet and a borno stat
Germany. First, prorussian separatists in Eastern Ukraine are claiming a massive victory after sundays referendum on autonomy, selfrule. They say an overwhelming majority of those that turned out voted in favour of the move. Final results are expected in the coming hours, and will come as e. U. Foreign ministers meet in prus else to talk brussels to talk about the crisis. Spiritists in donetsk will discuss the vote. 89 voted in favour of creating a peoples republic. Threequarters of the public turned out to vote. There are no international monitors and no official electoral role. Its impossible to know how many did vote, let alone how they voted. Organizers are planning ahead wanting to block the donetsk reason. Translation we know, of course, this vote will not be recognised internationally by europe each organizations and the whole world. We wanted our voices held. Thats why we held the vote. Ukranian elections will not take place in the donetsk region, because it is illogical and co
The anth arctic. And revealing secrets from a tomb uncovered in egypt. Today the world saw at least some of those 276 nigerian schoolgirls for the First Time Since they were kidnapped almost a month ago. Their captored the heavily armed group, boko haram released a video. In it the group gave the government its demands, a prisoner release in exchange for the girls freedom. Reporter their kidnapping has shocked the world, and now these first images of nigerias missing girls are likely to cause further distress. The kidnappers are heard speaking in arabic, reciting lines from the quran. Three of the girls were also interviewed. Its hard to determine from the video the location where it was shot, boko haram leader also makes a separate appearance. In his second video since the girls were taken, he says he will not let the girls go unless incarcerated members of the group are released from custody. The government has repeatedly maintained it does not negotiate with what it calls terrorists