This is Al Jazeera America live in new york city. Im del walters. Russias foreign minister meeting in moscow with the u. N. Special envoy on syria. The envoy painting an optimistic picture on moving forward on peace talks. The government in damascus has indicated they are ready to participate, and they have a substantial and numerous delegation. We need, and we will ask the opposition, all of the oppositions to actually be represented. So that we can start working. When . As soon as possible. It was those russianlead air strikes in syria that drove a wedge between moscow and the west, but said Sergei Lavrov saying it is not crucial for the syrian president to say in power. Paul brennan has more on what that means for u. S. Russian relations. Reporter in september after a series of defeats at the handing of rebel groups and isil, russia started carrying out air strikes in syria, supporting assads government forces. Vladimir putin suggesting that bolstering assad was simply the only way
At this point in time the United States last not made odetermination about the cause of the incident. However we cant rule anything out complug the mobilityd of terrorist involvement. Are obviously you heard the announcement from the British Government about steps they were taking to ensure the safety of the British Public and currently the Obama Administration is reviewing a number of steps that we can take. Both russia and egypt have said its too early to draw conclusions. The egyptian president says hes doing everything he can to ensure the safety of egyptian passengers. That the airport is safe so a good standard. The number of people confirmed to have been killed when a factory collapsed in pakistan is risen to 31. 100 still missing in the rubble. There are allegations that the building was poorly constructed. An investigation wl begin once the recovery effort is complete. At least one person has been killed, and 45 people are missing, in brazil after a dam burst, flooding a mine
Intercepted, that a rebel group may have put a bomb on this plane. Egyptian investigators have not officially determined whether an explosion or mechanical problem brought down the plane but the British Government says information now points to a bomb. We have concluded that there is a significant possibility that that crash was coughed caun explosive device on board the aircraft. The british are advising only but essential travel be permitted through Sharm El Sheikh. There will be no commercial flights permitted to Sharm El Sheikh from now. All commercial passenger flights will be returning from Sharm El Sheikh. Have restricted u. S. Embassy employees from traveling to the area. Its important to tell works not to go to the sinai now. In the sinai, egypt is fighting rebels associated with i. S. I. L. Alert to u. S. Airlines to avoid flying below 26,000 feet there. Warning, exercise extreme caution during flight operations, to avoid violence or unrest. There are no regular carriers that
Indias Prime Minister is greeted with protests at a rally in kashmir. Egypt is confirmed there was a loud noise heard in the last second of inflight recording recovered from last weeks plane crash. The countrys aviation minister has revoold the final few moments of flight 968. All were killed when the metro jet plummeted to the ground in the sinai province. A noise was heard in the last second of the cvr recording. A Spectral Analysis will be carried out, by specialized labs, in order to identify the nature of this noise. The committee noted media reports and analysis, some of which claimed to be based on official intelligence, which favors a certain scenario. For the cause of the accident. The committee was not provided with any information or evidence in this regard. The Committee Urged the sources of such reports to provide it with own information that could help us to understate our mission. Earlier egypts foreign minister criticized the west for not sharing its intelligence on the
Politics, the ongoing wars in the middle east, u. S. Empire, and working with the late historian howard zinn and more. In the Police Boycott of director plus films of speaking out against Police Brutality. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Doctors without borders has released an internal report on the u. S. Bombing of its hospital in kunduz, afghanistan. The airstrike killed at least 30 people, including 13 Staff Members, 10 patients, and seven unrecognizable victims get to be identified. Doctors without borders has said the strike appears to be a war crime. In a report describes patients burning in a beds, medical staff who were decapitated and lost limbs, and Staff Members shot from the air while they fled the burning building. The report described doctors and other medical staff thing shot while running to reach safety in a different part of the compound. Doctors without borders says it provided the