President. And there are calls to help the developing world as tuberculosis joins hiv aids as one of the worlds most deadliest infectious diseases. So we begin in vee an where World Leaders are arriving ahead of talks to find a solution to the what are in syria. Its the first time all Major International players in the conflict will be in the same room. But there are serious divisions. On wednesday iran said it would take part in the talks for the first time the country has agreed to be involved. On the one side we have russia and iran backing president Bashar Alassads forces on the ground. They say damascus must be helped militarily before a political process can begin. Then, orange, we have the u. S. And its regional allies turkey and saudi arabia supporting groups fight ago sad and insisting that he must go. And every day the humanitarian situation is getting worse. More than 250,000 people have been killed. And more than 10 million have been displaced by four years of war. Saudi ar
Egypt has prevented the uk Budget Airline easy jet for sending flights in or out of Sharm Elsheikh and 8 of 10 have been cancelled and cancelled because of fear that a bomb brought down an airliner on saturday and several governments warned against travel there and lets cross live to london for the latest and paul brennan is there and does this apply to easy jets regular flights or just the additional repatriation flights. Just the repatriation flights and it has been confusing and fluid in the last 70 minutes and an hour ago i read the statement that easy jets said the following egyptian authorities currently suspended uk airlines from flying into Sharm Elsheikh and in 12 minutes they clarified with the following saying the situation for uk flights in Sharm Elsheikh remains fluid and advised the egyptian authorities will allow a restricted number of uk flights from Sharm Elsheikh today two of which are easy jet flights. After the initial statement we phoned around some of the other ai
Where the provinces first female leader is faces cultural challenges as she tries to govern. So then the ruling party in myanmar says it will accept the results ive nations parliamentary recollection. Earlier the Opposition Leader hinted at victory during an address to supporters, results from a ca across myanmar say her party is going to get 70 of the seats. 33 million voters went to the polls to choose representatives in myanmars national parliament. And ethnic seats. A Record Number of candidates were running more than 6,000 for 91 political parties. But there are concerns the process is marginalizing minorities. None of the two many parties would field a single muslim candidates despite muslims making up around 10 of the population, including the Ethnic Rohingya people and myanmars 70 yearlong conflict with effect anything groups. Booths in seven town were closed due to security concerns, lets go straight to Scott Heidler who is there. Scott give us the latest situation on the grou
Being reused in south africa. Russias federal security chief has called for the suspension of all flights to and from egypt until the cause of saturdays plane crash is known. The Egyptian Government has deployed special forces to the Sharm Elsheikh airport from where the flight took off. Security Officials Say its possible a bomb planted onboard by isil could have brought down the plane. Thousands of british tourists are stranded outside Sharm Elsheikh airport, egypt refusing extra flights to fly them home. Easy jet said eight of its 10 flights have been suspended on that friday. Egypts Civil Aviation ministry would the airport cant handle the extra traffic. Lets go live now to al jazeeras rory challands. Tell us what the Russian Federal security chief has been saying, calling for the suspension of flights to egypt. This is a Significant Development in the on going investigation into the crash of the metro jet plain in sinai. Early on today, there was an Emergency Security meeting held
Enough to build three eiffel towers. Russias president Vladimir Putin has ordered the suspension of all russian flights to and from egypt, president tin asked the government to find ways to get russians home from the country. There are 45,000 russians curveball on holiday in egypt. The Egyptian Government deployed special forces to Sharm Elsheikh airport. More than 200 passengers and crew onboard a russian aircraft were killed when it crashes on saturday in egypts sinai desert. The e. U. And u. S. Security Officials Say its possible a bomb was planted onboard the plane by isil and that it could have brought down this airplane. Meanwhile, thousands of british tourists are stranded at Sharm Elsheikh after egypt refused to allow extra flights to fly them home. Easy jet said eight of its 10 flights on friday were suspended. The Egyptian Civil Aviation Ministry said the restrictions are due to limited airport capacity. Roar challands is in moscow. Weve got paul brennan, as well. Quite signi