Its late night on capitol hill with the debt limit deadline less than a week away. House rumHouse Republicans saidy would keep on talking after the mighting with the president this afternoon. Its the most activity that we have seen since the Government Shutdown ten days ago. Mike viqueira reports from washington. The president and House Republican leaders met forean hour and a half behind closed doors at the white house. Is no deal yet its the first positive sign in weeks. Returning to the capitol after the meeting republican leader eric cantor was up beat. We had a useful meeting and it was clarifying to both sides where we are. And the take away from the meeting was that our teams will be talking further tonight. Well have more discussion and the press said he will go and consult with the administration folks and hopefully we can see away forward after that. It began with a sudden move from the g. O. P. Leaders. We want to offer the president the ability to move. En increase in the d
Bangladesh factory destroyed by fire. An emergency Cabinet Meeting has been called in libya after the apparent kidnapping of the libyan Prime Minister. Members of the libyan revolutionary Operations Chamber took ali zeidan from a hotel in tripoli and are now holding him at an unknown location. The militia is under the command of the military. It says it was acting on the authority of the justice ministry. Al jazerra has more from tripoli. Reporter we talked to people, commanders in the revolutionary chamber here and they confirm that they have detained ali zeidan on account of what they call a bribery crime and that dates back to last september when ali zeidan september checked to what we tall to bribe the people who are blocking oil refinery in east lib ya. We also talked to the minister of justice he said that he was not briefed on the detention in advance. And he also confirmed that ali zeidan has been detained. We also talked to the general prosecutor because the revolutionary cham
From the moment the Egyptian Military are m1, a one 260 million in cash aid, and 300 million in loan guarantees. Washington has done this before. Not giving aid to a key military ally and cut off weapons delivery to bahrain in 2011. Counterterrorism and Border Security and the Peace Keeping in the sinai. Administration says they are committed to keeping peace in the sinai and its peace treaty in israel. They also believe especially ahead of the upcoming trial of morsi. I think after the violence and after the announcement today of the morsi trial i think the white house is an embarrassing position if it doesnt in fact take some action. But its important to know that the white house is not writing egypt off. Its still a key strategic participant, we are having relations with it. Israel, saudi and gulf stayed urge to keep the aid as is. But the warehouses white houses alternatives appear pretty firm. Including the muslim brotherhood. Rosalyn jordan, al jazeera the state department. Okay,
Welcome to al jazerra america, i am stephanie sy. We have some breaking news to report out of libya this morning. Lib january Authorities Say they dont know the whereabouts of Prime Minister ali zeidan who has been kidnapped by gunmen at a hotel in tripoli. Security guards at the hotel described the situation as resembling an arrest with the Prime Minister taken by force at gun point. Al jazerra has learned he was taken by a group called the linear Operations Chamber it comes days after he asked the west to help stop the spread of militancy in his country. He says those militants were using libya as a base to export weapons. The kidnapping comes days after a raid by u. S. Special forces who captured an al quada leader there. Well continues to follow the story as news break. Edward snowden arrived in how caw on sunday hoping to see his son. The former nsa contractor was granted ahead sigh legal in russia last month. Hes responsible for leaking details of government surveillance programs
Their proposal to avoid a default on the debt. The government needs approval from congress to borrow more money. Otherwise, by next week, it might not be able to pay its bills. U. S. Media has reported the legislation would allow the government to avoid a default for six weeks. I would hope that the president will look at this as an opportunity and a goodfaith effort on our part to move halfway, halfway to what hes demanded, in order to have these conversations begin. The proposal does not include any measures to resolve the shutdown of Government Services that started last week. But it would give republicans and democrats more time to negotiate a deal for a deficit reduction over the longterm. The president is happy that cooler heads at least seem to be prevailing. In the house. That there at least seems to be a recognition that default is not an option. Carney welcomed the republicans offer but he said white house officials have not seen the details of the proposal. The head of the I