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exhibition that show cases the most renowned artist. the united nations is accusing both sri lankan government forces and tamil tiger rebels of committing war crimes. it released a damming report into atrocities committed during the 26 year civil war in sri lanka. the u.n. says up to 40,000 tamils were killed in an army offensive to crush the movement. now, the report details horrific abuses by both sides, including torture, executions, sexual assaults and the recruitment of child soldiers by rebels, calling on the government to remove military personnel thought to be involved in such crimes, and is urging a special court to be set up with international judges and lawyers to prosecute those accused of such crimes. let s look back at how the civil war in sri lanka unfolded. after independence from britain, the government favoured the sinhalese majority. the tamils complained of scrim nation for jobs and economic opportunity. this led to the formation of the tamil tiger ....
sierra leone. the country is officially declared ebola free and saving the world s frogs - how scientists in panama are trying to stop a mystery disease first to egypt, where the head of the joint team investigating the plane crash last week in the sinai said a noise was heard in the last second of the cockpit voice recording. the administration bolsters british and u.s. suspicions that a bomb brought down the russian airliner, killing 224 on board. egypt is continuing to resist the bomb theory, saying that all scenarios are still being considered. paul brennan has the latest. reporter: it s been seven days since metro jet 9268 fell out of the sky, taking 224 people to their deaths. flowers were laid at the crash site in the desert on saturday. after a week of leaks and rumours, an u.n. official statement from the egyptian crash investigators. the debris is scattered over a wide area, more than 13km in length. which is consistent with an in-flight break-up. some ....
nigeria s new cabinet is sworn in after a five-month delay. the chinese website, alibaba breaks records in a million million dollars sale. sepp blatter has been hospitalized after suffering a small breakdown. hello the e.u. is holding yet another meeting to discuss refugees. african leaders are also attending a summit taking place in malta. slovenia, meanwhile has begun building a fence at its border with croatia to control the influx of people. until now the e.u. has failed to agree on just how to deal with the ongoing crisis. more on that meeting in a moment, but first to slovenia. reporter: early in the morning, the army started erecting the fence in at least two locations. one of the locations this place. the refugees crossed the ice cold water here last month to get to slovenia. they still call this a technical barrier. slovenia wants to close off the green border will keep accepting refugees through the main border. they say they are worried about some 2 ....
a few quick administrative notes, now would be a good time to turn off your cell phones or anything that might go beep. secondly, when we get to the q&a part of the session, we would ask if you have a question, that you make your way to that microphone there because we are videoing tonight, we re videoing ourselves and for our youtube channel and also c-span booktv is here. and lastly, at the end before you come up to get your book signed, please fold up the chairs that you re sitting in and lean them against something that looks like it won t topple over. [laughter] we re really very pleased to have robert grenier here with us this evening to talk about his new book, 88 days to kandahar. bob spent 27 years with the cia, three of them a a station chief in islamabad during what turned out to be a very critical time before and immediately after the 9/11 attacks. he was very much involved in the u.s. efforts to oust the taliban from afghanistan and bring hamid karzai to ....
i leave my grandkids to be born here. reporter: the fear and hostilities is higher than in reporter: just a few minutes ago the state department released a statement about tariq saying: mahmoud abbas said the same thing to the security council in the last couple of hours. nick schifrin live from jerusalem. thank you. iraqi government forces push north and west of baghdad into territory claimed by the the latest news and hottest trends in celebrity, style and more. . zeina khodr has the store yix. reporter: another funeral of a kurdistan fighter. the kurdistan government said they would not get involved in the battle between shia forces and sunni-armed groups. they are caught up in the conflict nonetheless. there s no official casualty. kurdish forces are suffering casualties. the fighting has been fierce in this corner of the eastern province. jel owla up to is an urban battle ground. many of the 40,000 kurd and arab residents have left. peshmerga fighter ....