follow yahoo! and certainly investors will be keeping a close eye on what happens over the next few days. ah, this is al jazeera and these are the headlines. ethiopia has declared a nationwide state of emergency earlier, the prime minister had asked all ethiopians to mobilize to fight rebels antigua say they ve taken control of 2 times along a major highway in the cap to the capital. t large explosions have gone off near a military hospital and cargo before rains old gun farm at least 19 people are confirmed dead. this being no claim of responsibility for the attack. so farm world leaders have agreed to and deforestation by 2030 handing the you and climate summit in glasgow. its 1st major deal is part of a greater push to limit the rise global temperatures to 1.5 degrees celsius in the coming decades. the un mission and central african republic was accused security forces of opening fire on unarmed peacekeepers. the un says the gyptian peacekeepers suffered heavy, far from pr
uniformed officers gathering. that s the area we believe the man was shot according to eyewitnesses. fire and rescue tell us they transported him priority one, which means life-threatening injuries. the entire area, including the white house, was locked down immediately at that time. roads in the area are still closed. things are loosening up a bit. they allowed people who had their cars parked on 17th street to come in and remove their cars from this area. they re still not letting pedestrians anywhere near the white house. the streets and the buildings near the white house also being impacted by this shooting. let s go to jackie bensen. she s live along constitution avenue where secret service agents are focused on a parked car there. jackie? reporter: jim, yes. this is where they believe the man was walking around. you can see the ellipse behind me. you can see the uniformed secret service officers and the the man is said to have been walking around the ellipse. when w
he just keeps walking. he kind of walks around a group of crowds, walks in between a few cars. we see him walking up to the gate. we saw the police officers come in and shoot him down. reporter: again, witnesses saying they say a man near the ellipse behind the white house walking with a handgun in plain sight when police ordered him to put down the gun. he refused. the fbi is still investigating this man s background. we re told from sources he is from the allentown area of pennsylvania. d.c. police have taken over this investigation. we just saw their forensics lab roll onto the property of the white house about a half an hour ago. that is the very latest here on 17th street. mark segraves, news4. immediately after the shooting, the secret service and d.c. police focused on a parked car possibly belonging to the gunman. jackie bensen is along 15th jackie? reporter: jim, a d.c. police mobile crime unit just rolled up to this scene. what we have been watching here are
suspect had a hand gun when he was approached by the security check point excuse me when he went to the security check point. we are told the secret service asked him to drop the gun. when he refused, they shot him. the white house did go onto lock down and the people inside and those around the white house were asked to stay put. we spoke to one of the guys. he was a witness inside of the white house and said he was there today to receive an award. we heard one single gun shot. to me it sounded like a high caliber rifle. officers come out probably 30 seconds later, move, move, move. then i could over hear on his walkee shots fired, shots fired, suspect down, suspect down. reporter: again, obviously it was a very scary tense situation for those people inside the white house at the time. it was around 3:00 so there pedestrians outside here. now, you can see it is very quiet but they are still clearing the area as they continue to investigate the details of today s