. >> reporter: referring to the armed group, al qaeda in the islamic maghreb, or aqim. it's recently stepped up its operations in mali and beyond. aqim's rank has disciplined factors. mucmukmoktar bell mokta rrchl a, the malian hold killing 28 people. neighboring burkina faso, attack on a luxury hotel and a cafe. most of the victims were foreigners. al qaeda in the islamic maghreb has shown its ability to carry out attacks that are planned and carried out across borders borders.people living in settlements along the border are now living in fear after a number of cross border attacks by the group. facing a common group, the governments of mali and burkina faso have agreed to work together. >> translator: what we are forced to do now is to coordinate our antiterror measures exchange intelligence and strengthen border security. that requires close military and strategic cooperation. >> analysts doubt that mali and burkina faso can effectively tackle al qaeda militarily. >> translator: mali and burkina faso are facing numerous challenges. their militaries are not well trai

al qaeda in the islamic maghreb said it was responsible.ur correspondent mohammad adow is in ouagadougo. >> we are at the scene of the attack on friday, the splendid hotel where abandoned vehicles are lying outside the hotel. the hotel is said to be largely destroyed and investigators from france, the united states and burkina faso are still combing the debris looking for any leads they can find, at moment alia the president of burkina faso, marked kristin cam poor, where the attack firsin compaore, thew solidarity, the more underlying serious reason for their visit is the realization that al qaeda in the islamic maghreb is now flexing its muscles carrying outs attacks not only in mali but the need to jointly counter al qaeda in the islamic maghreb in burkina faso. the militants are heavily challenged. >> a very small band of the world's wealthiest people own as much as does half the world's population. that's according to a report by the aid group oxfam. it says that 62% of the superrimsuperrich own as much af the people do. microsoft foun

that was the first assault coordinated between al-qaeda and the islamic maghreb france has sent 3500 troops to the country in efforts to cut off the supply route. this is quite rare, it is still a force to be reckoned with. >> absolutely. this is the message that they're trying to convey to other terrorist groups and other potential sympathizers in the region. that this group still assists and it sill has the ability to strike and really exist in what is a complex and fast jihadi network of groups. you'll note that isil, isis, daesh, whatever you want to call t in africa it is starting to have a strong presence, in libya. and in boko haram has given allegiance to the group. >> how does it go about getting sympathizers what is, if you like, the fan mess toe. >> well, the travel zones for al-qaeda he's lambic maghreb. the methods they're using are quite new. they're employed tactics that they had used in paris. they've upping the ante in perries, and. >> one thing that people have used to differentiate between isil and al qaeda is that isil sees its job to establish its presence, it's

al qaeda in the islamic maghreb says it was responsible. the threat was transnational.ur correspondent mohammad adow is in ouagadougo. >> we are at the scene of the attack on friday, the splendid hotel where vehicles are lying outside the hotel, the hotel is said to be largely destroyed and investigators from france, the united states and burkina faso are still doamg debris looking for any -- combing the debris look for any signs they can find. accompanied by the president, shown the abandoned vehicles and also the cafe where the ra tack first began. now president of benin is the second west african leader to visit burkina faso to show solidarity. but the serious reason for their visit is the realization that al qaeda in the islamic maghreb is no longer confined and is flexing its muscles carrying out a fact not only in mali but its neighboring countries and the need to jointly encounter al qaeda, the mysteries of both mali and burkina faso are heavily challenged. >> a very small band of the world's wealthiest people own as much as half of the world's population. net wo

the dust hadn't even settled before al qaeda and the islamic maghreb took credit for the attack. they are the same group that carried out a similar assault on a hotel in mali that left 20 people dead. and today's siege signaled an expansion for the terror group. jirnlg up until now, they've only carried out minor attacks along burkino faso's border. >> axelrod: jonathan, thank you. today, president obama declared flint, michigan a disaster area, clearing the way for federal aid. the problem is contaminating drinking water. adriana diaz is there. >> we need to get these pipes out of the ground! >> reporter: the president's announcement did not quell anger outside flint city hall, where flint-born activist michael moore blame the the governor for a crisis that goes beyond water. >> it's not just the water crisis. it's a racial crisis. it's a poverty crisis. began in april 2014 when the city switched its water source to the flint river to save money. but the corrosive river water wasn't properly treatd and stripped lead from pipes, causing a number of children with high lead in thei

. >> al-qaeda's regional affiliate called al-qaeda islamic maghreb claimed responsibility for the assault. the president was elected two months ago as burkina faso's first new leader i this is his first crisis to deal with. >> it is important that we can share information with our neighboring countries and share military means to fight against the scourge. >> the challenge for him now is to come up with a long-term plan to tackle armed groups. >> staying in burkina faso, an austrian doctor and his wife has been kidnapped. they had been working as volunteers. >>> the bodies of two men and three women have been recovered. the coast guard released the video of their latest rescue of refugees crowded on to a dinghy. they hit rough seas and they were taken to safety off the italian coasts. >> saturday morning in stuttgart and thousands of people were on the streets, drawn here to show their support for the coalition government. recent opinion polls suggest a growing number of germans think they should not be quite so welcoming. but in stuttgart that sentiment was absent. >> we're here to show

. >> an al-qaeda regional affiliate called al-qaeda islamic maghreb took responsibility for the assault. this is the first attack of its kind in burkina faso's capital. the president was elected two months ago. how he deals with this crisis will be seen as his first big test in office. >> we would like to salute the response to the security forces. the doctors and red cross who participated in this situation, and the support we've received from the french and americans. it's important to share information from our neighboring countries and share military means to fight against this urge. >> the challenge for him now is to come up with a plan to tackle those armed groups. al jazeera. >> and al jazeera is live, just explain, if you will, why an al-qaeda affiliate would target burkina faso. >> i believe from what people are saying on the streets is that the al-qaeda and others are trying to leave the message that they can strike at any time, at any place, at any given place. that's what happened. so far it's been said almost 18 nationalities were inside the hotel and one of the ministers w

>> reporter: erin what we snkno is that al qaeda and islamic maghreb according to groups has claimed responsibility. an affiliate group is the same group who stormed the radisson hotel in neighboring mali, in the capital bamako, killing 22 in late november. also on a friday, very similar modus operandi, going in with gunmen and killing a number of people while they sat, in that case had breakfast. tonight we understand it happened just after 8:30 p.m. local time, they would have been having dinner. we can tell you according to eyewitnesses, erin, that these attackers were light-skinned, wearing covers over their faces, and they were speaking a language not native to burkina faso. >> this adding to who was responsible. al qaeda claiming responsibility. was there any warning, robin? >> reporter: from what we understand, there was a warning from several western countries. france issuing a warning to their citizens. the united states, britain, have travel warnings in various parts of burkina faso. it really is located in a concerning place in west africa. it's right next door to mali whe

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. >> reporter: an al qaeda affiliate known as aqim or al qaeda in the islamic maghreb, claimed responsibility for the attacks. two malian nationals and an algerian, all in their early 20s. attack on the hotel that they called a den for spice. mohammad adow, al jazeera, ouagadougo, burkina faso. >>> the u.s. ambassador to israel says israeli vigilantism in the west bank is going unchecked. says there is a lack of thorough investigation and seems israel has a different standard of law for jews and palestinians. comments as unacceptable and wrong. >> too much attacks on palestinians, lack of vigorous investigation and response by israeli authorities, too much vigilantism goes unchecked. rigid standards for law one for israelis and one for palestinians. >> five soldiers have been killed in a training exercise in the french alps. a group of 50 skiing when the avalanche struck. >>> argentina's president has promised justice will be done in the case of the death of former state prosecutor alberto nisman. mauricio macri visited his two young daughters, former argentinian president cristina kirchner c

al qaeda in the islamic maghreb claimed responsibility for the attack. video from the capital, ouagadougou, showed fire along a city street and security personnel swarming the area. the attackers set cars on fire as they went into the hotel. five hours later, commandos trying to free hostages used explosives to enter the building, starting another fire. the number of killed is uncertain. upwards -- one estimate puts it upwards of 20. carol: in hawaii, a search is underway for 12 crew members who were on board two marine helicopters that crashed. the helicopters collided during a night time training mission . marine officials tell us each chopper had a crew of about 6 or more. they were all from the marine corps base on the islands. debris has been spotted in the water near hawaii's oahu island. there's no word on the s stus of the people onboard. michael: turns out it was not a mechanical problem after all. a navigation error is being blamed for putting american sailors into iranian waters. defense secretary ash carter says it's unclear if the crew made

the group al qaeda in the islamic maghreb has claimed responsibility for the attack. burkina faso and neighboring mali, which suffered a hotel terrorist attack by the same group in november, today said they would partner to counter the threat. syria's government says militants from the islamic state group, or isis, have carried out a massacre in a city isis controls in eastern syria. the alleged attack on civilians happened in deir al-zour. a province adjacent to the isis stronghold of raqqa. syrian state-run news agency says isis executed 300 elderly people, women, and children in deir al-zour yesterday. the britain-based syrian observatory for human rights said isis shot or beheaded at least 135 people, and more than half were government soldiers. the human rights group said isis also kidnapped 400 people in the city. the syrian civil war has claimed more than 250,000 lives and caused more than four million syrians to become refugees. a pair of rare, winter tornadoes cut through central florida before dawn today. one twister touched down in the sarasota area, 50 mil

al qaeda in the islamic maghreb claimed responsibility for the attack. that's the same group that carried out an attack on a hotel in mali two months ago. taiwan has elected its first female president. with 56% of the vote, tsai ing- wen will lead the self-governing island. the 59-year-old favors independence for taiwan but promised "consistent, predictable and sustainable" relations with mainland china. in response to her victory, china said it won't tolerate pro-independence activities in taiwan, an island of 23 million, and reiterated its view that china and taiwan are one nation to be unified eventually. pher win and said it maintains" profound interest" in continuing peace and stability between china and taiwan. high waves are hampering the coast guard and navy search for 12 u.s. marines who were on board two helicopters that collided off hawaii. nobody has been rescued from the water, and debris from the helicopters stretches for seven miles from the island of oahu. the marines were on a routine training mission when their giant "super stallion" he

al qaeda in the islamic maghreb has claimed responsibility for the attack. that's the latest from the breaking news center. happening right now.. police are looking for a shooting suspect.. identified as 37-year-old gerardo campos-torres. police say he's suspected of killing 76-year-old bacilio garcia vasquez and critically wounding another in a shooting last night near rancho and washington.

. >> an al qaeda affiliate known as aqim or al qaeda in the islamic maghreb claimed responsibility for the attack. in a statement the group revealed the identities of the three gunmen. they are two malian national nas mohammad adow, al jazeera, ouagadougo, burkina faso. >>> another suspect in the paris attacks is now in custody. morocco'morocco's interior minid he is in custody. belgian national of plo moroccan accident. >>> broad day late, 100 yards from a police station. at this point no group has claimed responsibility. >>> the price of oil drops again as iran enters the stage. coming up in tonight's in context segment. why aren't they slowing production to buoy the price back up? >> more details have emerged about ten american sailors picked up in iranian waters last week. the u.s. military says they were held at gunpoint when they were first found, but no shots were fired. the military has said the boat's engines had a mechanical problem. the sailors were releaseafter 15 hours. >>> iranian officials are promising to cooperate on future inspection efforts. two days after the nuclea

these west african countries are starting to see where the islamic maghreb is spread down.was formed maybe 15 years ago in algeria. and at the time to it formed, they were only attacking algerian force, police, military, political figures and at that time the number two to osama bin laden admonished them that you are not there to do local my algerian matters. you are to spread out and attack westerners. in the decade-and-a-half they have spread into countries south of algeria in mali, like we saw recently. the interesting thing about this country is that it was already a little bit under siege by colombian drug traffickers who flew drug routes into that region, then from there took cocaine into europe. but that was a jumping off point and they've killed many, the drug cartels have killed many political figures and the security has had tot 'le them. so these countries in that part of west africa have had a great deal of difficulty first with drug traffickers, now with the spread of aqim. >> well, beyond aqim and west africa, this is another soft target that's been hit. we se

one is al qaeda and islamic maghreb. this marks a dramatic increase and likelihood of the capacity within the north african region. there have been attacks in attacks in neighboring countries. this is the first major attack in the capital of burkina faso. clearly the people they're trying to kill indicate they're trying to get maximum attention and strike at soft targets with links to the west. >> david mckenzie live in johannesburg. thank you very much for your reporting. and we will stay in touch with you to get the very latest on this continuing situation there. >>> any minute now, we could get word out of vienna on whether decades' old sanctions against iran could be lifted. that's where the international atomic energy agency is expected to certify if iran has kept its part of an historic deal in the program. it's taken years of diplomacy to get to this point. between 2006 and 2007, the u.n. security council passed six resolutions targeting iran's nuclear program. in 2013, the p5+1 countries of russia, u.s., china, b

it was the first assault coordinated between al-qaeda and islamic maghreb. we explain the growing danger of the groups like this. >> operating to insure that they can strike anywhere in africa, especially in west africa, and also they realize that africa is really the soft spot, the center of terrorism in the world because you don't have a government that can reach to many regions. there are so many normal and coming into africa at this moment and creating this disrupted attention of the african government. they need to not talk about the security challenges. so in fact africa has become the new playing ground for these forces. they know they can do well in a systemic approach because they know through conventional war they would not be winning. they have been able to dip in convention in the force there is, but now with the approach striking in places where you have citizens like hotel they can make sure that they have a role to play so that the people are in charge of the government, take this in account, and consider them as interlocutors. >> still ahead

. >> reporter: an al qaeda affiliate known as aqim or al qaeda in the islamic maghreb claimed responsibility for the attack. the authorities of the three gunmen, two malian gunmen, called a den for spies, mohammad adow, al jazeera, ouagadougo, burkina faso. >>> argentina's president has promised that justice will be done this the case of the death of former state prosecutor alberto nisman. nisman was found dead in his apartment in buenos aires, hours before he was due to tell congress that former president cristina kirchner conspired to cover up iran's alleged involvement in the 1999 bombing of a jewish center. daniel schweimler is live, tell us what's going on. >> we're in a plaza in the center of buenos aires, people are writing candles out here to mark that one year since the body of alberto nisman was found in the apartment in buenos aires. people are asking for answers to the questions that were asked immediately after the body was found and throughout the past year. we still don't know how to official pronounce whether he committed suicide or was killed. that was part of the investigat

al qaeda in the islamic maghreb claimed responsibility for the attack. in iraq, security forces have been going door to door, searching homes in areas of the capital baghdad after three u.s. contractors went missing. the three u.s. citizens were reportedly kidnapped by militiamen from an apartment described by some iraqi authorities as a brothel. meanwhile a new u.n. tally , describes a "staggering civilian death toll" from violence in iraq, with nearly 19,000 civilians killed from the beginning of 2014 through october. a leading yemeni journalist has been killed in an airstrike by the u.s. backed sai led coalition. almigdad mojalli was killed sunday morning while on assignment for voice of america. he had traveled outside the yemeni capital sanaa. he was looking for witnesses to airstrikes that killed at least 15 civilians last week when he himself was killed. here in the united states, democratic presidential candidates hillary clinton and vermont senator bernie sanders faced off in the final democratic debate before the iowa caucuses. during the spiri

a group quad al qaeda in the islamic maghreb has claimed responsibility. the same group launched an attack at a hotel in mali in november. >>> boston police now have a man in police custody for a violent attack on new year's day. news of the arrest was breaking last night during our 10:00 hour. 22 yard pereira is being charged with rape, kidnapping and assault. he's accused of attacking a woman in dorchester. that woman found unconscious near columbia road just before 7 a.m. on new year's day. police say dna helped link pereira to the crime. >> heather: new this morning, a driver hospitalized with serious injuries after this head-on crash on the cape. look at this, it happened along route 6 a in sandwich overnight. the cars crossed the center line and hit the other. the jaws of life had to be used to get both of the drivers out. the crash is still under investigation. >> blair: a taxi driver is facing charges this morning. police say he was on drugs and alcohol while driving three kids to school. it all happened yesterday morning at shea memorial drive and