But thats raising some concern among activists. Power is gradually being restored in syria after a major gas pipeline explosion left large parts of the country without electricity for fascism now managed to put out the blaze on the arab gas pipeline just northeast of the capital damascus this was the scene a few hours ago there are no details yet on what may have caused the explosion but the oil minister is suggesting it could be an act of terror was an 100 joins us now via skype from beirut just bring us up to speed on the latest. The information that we have has been provided by the Syrian State News Agency as well as Syrian Government officials. What they have reported is that a large explosion on a pipeline in the early hours of the morning was the total blackout in many areas in and around the capital damascus there was a large fire we saw that on videos that were uploaded on social media but since then firefighters and Civil Defense teams have managed to put out the flames the sy
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Move to declare jerusalem as the capital of israel. Watching aljazeera live from our headquarters here in doha also coming up fighters battling flames in Southern California gain some ground but theyre also facing unrelenting wins. Under arrest georgias former president Mikhail Saakashvili says hes on a Hunger Strike after the police in ukraine detained him. Bidding farewell to a rock icon thousands of fans lined the streets of paris to face their pay their final respects to the french rocka Johnny Holiday. Our top story the arab league is holding an emergency meeting later. On saturday to discuss Donald Trumps formal recognition of jerusalem as the capital of israel now the move has drawn International Condemnation and sparked protests around the globe. On the ground Israeli Forces are firing tear gas at protesters in bethlehem on friday Israeli Forces killed at least four palestinians in shootings and airstrikes after demonstrations in the occupied territories more than seven hundred
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Block her possible nomination to secretary of state. The president thinks we are picking on people, he really does not have any idea of how serious this issue is. Senator mccain and senator graham and others want to go after somebody, they should go after me. David petraeus will be on capitol hill tomorrow to testify about the september 11th attacks onhe u. S. Consulate in benghazi, libya. We now know the identity of the fbi agent who triggered the investigation into the petraeus affair. Three people have been killed after rockets were fired into southern gaza. First israeli deaths killed a hamas military commander yesterday. Bp has agreed to pay a record penalty over the gulf oil disaster. It also includes criminal charges. Popular energy drink, fi fivehour energy, is making headlines because of a possible link to more than a dozen deaths. Carrying three babies is no easy feat, especially when theyre the heaviest set of triplets on record. Look at that. That is absolutely astonishing.