airline executive in the so-called nut-rage case is sentenced to a year in prison for violating aviation safety law. and the retrial of two al jazeera journalists in prison in egypt resumes in cairo. hello, there. a very warm welcome to you. now, a deal aimed at ending the fight in eastern ukraine has been agreed following marathon talks in minsk. vladimir putin says the cease-fire will be implemented in eastern ukraine. it will start at midnight on february 15th. well, the violence has escalated in recent weeks, with the rebels launching a new offensive. overnight, the discussions between the russian and ukrainian presidents in the belarus capital of minsk, broken by the leaders. earlier, president putin commented on the agreement. we agreed on the cease-fire starting midnight of the 15th of february. the second important point, which is very important, is withdrawal of heavy armaments from the line of the current line for the ukrainian. the armaments and for the line
and the need to save water any way they can because of the severe drought in brazil s biggest city. well i.s.i.l. forces in iraq are moving closer to a major government base housing hundreds of u.s. troops. fighters attacked the western down of al-baghdady and anbar from two directions. it s been besieged from i.s.i.l. the fighting a few clms from an air base kilometres from an air base where u.s. troops are training iraqi troops. let s go to imran khan our correspondent in baghdad and tell us about what is happening down there? this is a serious situation. americans said there are squirmishes close to the base where the marines are based. it hasn t come under attack yet. we have seen this tactic via i.s.i.l. time and time again. when they want to make an attack on an iraqi army base - the first time in anbar province - every time they want to attack what they do is they take over towns and villages on the outskirts and use it as a launching pad. they have been successf
i understand year akon firms two australians convicted of drug trafficking will be killed this month. so greece has agreed to a four-month tension for its bail out program with the euro zone. the government in athens must now come one a list of proposed reforms to the extension to be at identified. the four-month window was brokered at crisis talks held in buts ills and the deal will be confirmed once greece s creditors are satisfied with a list of reforms to be presented monday. if the plans are not acceptable there is still a chance the deal will be scrapped. a final agreement needs to be reached by the end of april. john has more from athens. reporter: this was the greek and you are own night their it would destabilize the euro zone and make greece poorer. in a preliminary agreement reached in brussels holds those bank notes are likely to remain the products of a graphic artists imagination, still european leaders are quick to not over sale the deal. the first step i
northern nigeria. the rapidly deteriorating situation in yemen has taken a turn for the worse. the deposeed president president hadi, has left the capitol of sanaa after being held under house arrest. he became president in 2012. the first sunni leader to assume the post since north and south yemen reunited back in 1990. he resigned after houthi rebels stormed the palace. they kept monsoor and his government under house arrest. what happens now following hadi s depar sure. has he said anything yet? not yet. the expectation is that he would deliver a speech in the next couple of hours or next few hours. now we don t know, we re not sure if that s going to happen tonight or some time tomorrow but we heard that the group loyal to the political party loyal to the former president ali abdullah saleh there are expectations that they would accept that resignation they don t allow him to declare aden as the new capitol of yemen and resistence to the north we ve seen military move
blaze in the minds around cape town in the mountains around cape town dozens of miners are feared dead after on explosion in eastern ukraine. it happened in donetsk, over 30 are feared to have been killed. the rescue operation is on going to reach those at the zasyadko mine. john hendren is on the phone from donetsk, with more of what happened. reports do say 30 dead right now. 70 trapped in that mine. it s a coal mine in donetsk, which is a rebel held territory held by the separatists in this part of eastern ukraine. there was a number of ukranian parliament who said 32 people have been killed. i m not sure where he got that member. officially the people s conservative party confirmed one is dead. in these snaps the government reports lag military number. they tend to want to notify the families, and confirm those sorts of things before they give out new numbers. in this case it may be the case that that mine was run for the benefit of the ukranian republic even though i