Tonight an in our week ahead segment, Senate Approved bill to keep the government running. Well examine how that will radically change the bank reform law in the walk of the financial crisis. We begin with our breaking news. The hostage situation started before 10 00 a. M. , 6 00 eastern. Hostages were taken in a lindt coffee shop. A black and whiel white flag wib writing is flying. To give you a better understanding, the Lindt Chocolate shop is located in the center of sydney in martin place. This is a very active place for business. During the height of the monday morning rush hour. Tony abbott said he didnt know if the incident was politically motivated but appeared to be. This is a very disturbing incident. I can understand the concerns and the anxieties of the australian people, but our thoughts must go out to the individuals who are caught up in this. I can think of almost nothing more distressing more terrifying than to be caught up in such a situation and our hearts go out to t
Spain. From the strained relationship with russia, to the bitter divide between israel and the palestinians s, u. S. Secretary of state john kerry has a lot on his agenda. He met today with foreign minister Sergey Lavrov, raising concerns about the prospects of u. S. Sanctions. We have a number of issues to talk about. Im appreciative of Prime Minister Sergey Lavrov, travelling here on short notice, changing his schedule. I look forward to our conversations. We have more on the meeting. U. S. Secretary of state john kerry, and russias foreign minister Sergey Lavrov met in rome on sunday. At a time when u. S. And russian relations reached a low, particularly after last thursday, the u. S. Senate passed a ukraine freedom account bill in which it proposed to impose new sanctions across mosul, and relieved 300 million in hardware to help fight back in the Southern Region of the crimea. The russians didnt appreciate, obviously, that bill, and put out strong words on the Russian Foreign mini
From the strained relationship with russia to the bitter divide between israel and palestinian, u. S. Secretary of state john kerry has a lot on his agenda, he met with Sergey Lavrov, who is raising seriousness about the prospects of u. N. Sanctions. Im appreciative of foreign minister Sergey Lavrov changing his schedule and travelling on short notice to be here. I look forward to our conversations. We have more from rome. U. S. Secretary of state john kerry are and russias foreign minister Sergey Lavrov met here in roman sunday, a time when u. S. And russian relations reached a low, particularly after last thurks the u. S. Senate thursday, the u. S. Senate passed a ukraine freedom account bill, proposing to impose sanctions against moscow, and relieves 300 million in hardware to help fight back the parties in the southern regions of crimea. The russians didnt appreciate the bill, and put out strong words calling it an overtly confrontational message, saying they are antirussian, and r
Will rack up costs. The Prime Minister who died after a confrontation with israeli troops, the funeral has been taking place. Also, a bbc investigation finds 5,000 people were killed in jihadist attacks across the globe in the month of november. Hello. The day is coming to an end in hong kong, and so, too, it would seem, is the occupy movement in one of the main protest areas of the city center, as the last barricades are being dismantled by the authorities. Lets give you the live pictures of the scene. As you can see from this, just a handful of hardcore demonstrators here left here in the foreground of the picture there after hundreds of protesters moved out in the course of the day. So many camped out over the course of the last couple of months. Earlier, bailiffs were breaking down barricades, removing the protesters, arresting some of them as a deadline for them to vacate just councilman caame an. The anger is still there, though. Its over the election of hong kongs leader for 201
How do they plan to keep their protest alive . Heightened emotions in ramallah, as the funeral takes place of a funeral minister. Well look into conflicting reports about the cause of his death. Also on the program, aaron joins us, and russia taking more drastic action to prop up the ruble. Absolutely. Taking russias main Interest Rate to now 10. 5 . Its all in an attempt to stop this, the value of its currency falling off a cliff. Yes, the ruble already down more than 40 this year. The question is, will it work . And what will this mean for russian businesses and consumers . Welcome to gmt in. The years since the 9 11 attacks, violence carried out by al qaeda or groups inspired by a similar ideology has been a huge problem for governments worldwide. Recently, Islamic State has been capturing territory across iraq and syria. These are groups that subscribe to an extremely narrow interpretation of sunni islam. So what threat does jihadism pose . The bbc counted the number of reported de