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Attacking the west. Plus. World leaders at the United Nations, promising billions of dollars to fight Climate Change, and new projections that ebola could reach nearly 1. 5 million cases by january. President obama says air strikes in syria have stopped an eminent threat, and are the start of a campaign to dismantle isil. Last nights mission was backed by five gulf arab nations. Air strikes and tock hawk missles hit strong holds for the islamic state, this shows an air strike on a supply depot. The headquarters inside syria, the operation also reportedly killed dozens of fighters plotting attacks on the u. S. And europe. Something the Pentagon Press secretary called an eminent threat. A few hours ago, the pentagon revealed more details from the operations, mike is here with us what more do we know. After all the presiden ....
Arch we begin in iraq who aere fight against the Islamic State group is widening. Hundreds of iranian troops cross into iraq to help kurdish fighters take back a city from the i. S. Its the first report of iranian soldiers directly involved in the situation. Jennifer glasse has more from erbil. Reporter it was an operation aimed by the iranians, it seems, as protecting their own border essentially because the face where they are fight something 30 kilometers from that frontier. There has been iranian involvement in this fight in the sense of advisors, iranianbacked malitias, Security Officials who come and go between the two countries but this does, indeed, seem to be the first time that regular troops have been involved. They stayed. They were engaged in the fighting, and they retreated very early this morning, we are told, back across the border. The peshmerga say they a ....
A result of a powerful typhoon still battling the philippines. Tonight six detainees from Guantanamo Bay are in hospital in uruguay, transferred by the u. S. Government as being held for 12 years without charge. This is the Largest Group of detainees to be transferred out of the military Detention Center in cuba. And the first to go to south america. Among them four sir yarnings a tunisian syrians, a tunisian and a palestinian. A lawyer is speaking out. He represents a man whose Hunger Strike at guantanamo sparked a protractored legal battle protracted legal battle over forcefeeding. She criticized how officials treated him. We tried to send him juices so he would be safe. The Defense Department said no, we ....
Were going to rejoin their coverage now and see what is going on on the ground. They describe a series of cells, a few weeks ago that there was a major operation a number of arrests carried out as part of a Police Operation to dismantle what they described as a network of jihadi cells. The authorities in france, like elsewhere in europe and the west have really raised the alert that we have seen in recent times, a lot of Violent Attacks carried out by groups affiliating themselves to isil, groups who up until now mostly have concentrated their attacks in the region of the middle east. We saw a day ago an attack in istanbul. There is no way to say whether these were linked, even in inspiration, but the french said we cannot sitcom place sent and assume we are far away from the danger the danger can come to us. Thank you for that. Well leave it there for now. We can cross to ....
Putin. The goal getting russia to stand down in the crisis with ukraine. And vintage vehicles. A collection of rare classic cars ruing away in a barn for d cashes rusting away in a barn getting a new life at the auction block. Good evening and welcome to Al Jazeera America im stephanie sy. And im antonio mora. Tonight we begin in the home of the dangerous al qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula yemen where another rebel group the shia houthis are in full control of the government. The houthis staged a coup today dissolving parliament and putting their own council in charge. That council will now create a traditional leadership that will govern for two years. The houthis had threatened to take unilateral action this week to dissolve yemens political stale made. That resolution passed setting in motion todays takeover. The Uni ....