they were traveling through a town on the island of mindanao. no one has claimed responsibility for the blast. government officials this year signed a peace accord with members of the biggest muslim rebel group. they hoped to end more than 40 years of conflict on mindanao, but some militants opposed the accords. they've continued to carry out sporadic attacks on government forces, and other targets. >>> greece's prime minister is calling for a snap presidential election, and that's sending jitters over the financial markets. ron madison is here with more. ron? >> yes, certainly is, gene. markets seeing quite a bit of volatility across the globe due to growing concerns over greece's political uncertainty, and china's economic growth. some investors are buying back european shares, though, that were sold off during a broad sell-off in the previous session. as you can see there, markets are modestly higher at this time. frankfurt is leading the pack, it's up by about 0.8% at this time. we've got a rebound in chinese shares, also supporting market s

so he went down to mindanao, and i retraced his steps down there.had a car and a driver and i said, i want to go right back into that lake district where these guys were doing all of that early fighting. all of the senior guys in world war i had cut their teeth on the morose in the philippines. my driver says, i'm not going to go any further. it's dangerous. so, i can tell you today, a sentsent sentry sentry later the mindanaroas are still raising hell. the same ones. screws came back, wanted to stay in the army. they didn't have enough company commands and battalion commands for the west pointers, but they had made him captain, made him a regular army captain. and he considered himself a first-class regular army captain. his first duty after coming back were serving in three states in the west, where he was a supervisor of training for the militia units that were transitioning into what was becoming the united states national guard. when he got to alabama in 1912, he immediately caused a shakeup. there was increased federal money coming into the an

very stormy conditions are likely to happen over mindanao over the weekend. now across australia, it's mostly dry over the western areas. but not so over the southeast. lots of clouds are developing across this location. and, in fact, sydney saw thunderstorms and gray clouds. cumulus clouds up there, and significant flooding. and also power outages were reported in many parts of new south wales. now, unfortunately, more heavy rain is likely as we go into the next couple of days. most of them are daytime thundershowers so sydney, 29 degrees for the high on your thursday with daytime thundershowers. staying that way for the next couple of days. now, talking about heavy rainfall. significant rain fell in southern parts of california, actually los angeles. you saw record rainfall for this time of year on your tuesday. flooding is occurring. the heaviest rain is now shifting towards the north over san francisco area, probably up to 130 millimeters of rain is likely in to next 24 hours that's more than the monthly rain fall for december. that is going to be accompa

and the philippines due to a low pressure system that is east of mindanao, we're likely to see some scatteredstorms to be continuing. these are temperatures for asia. tokyo at 10 degrees for the high today, but we actually marked 0.4 degrees for the morning hours. and snow is keeping on falling across the sea of japan side. it's up to more than two millimeters high in some locations which is likely to continue with about 60 centimeters of additional snowfall in some locations. here are your new year eve outlook all the way into new year's on wednesday. i'll leave you now for your extended forecast around the selected cities around the globe. ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> and that concludes this edition of "newsline." i i'm keikichi hanada. on behalf of our team, thank you for staying with us. >>> good evening from los angeles, i'm tavis smiley. merry christmas. tonight a conversation with musician dave koz. his latest holiday offering titled "the 25th of december." featuring duets with some of his friends, johnny mathis, eric bonet, gloria estefan, india arie, stevie wonder, and jonathan butler. he and jonathan,

. >>> tropical storage ajagni dumped heavy rains on southern mindanao. forced to seek shelter at evacuation centers the storm then pushed its way through eastern and central islands where most of the deaths occurred. a cold snap and heavy fog in delhi in southern india is causing travel chaos. then fog also infield enveloped airports. active fog killed at least 20 people. >>> check of the weather with richard. richard any chance of this heavy fog lifting at all? >> it's going to get a little bit less but most of south asia, sri lanka has had horrible problems with heavy fog. other areas of india will start to see some very heavy rain developing over the next couple of days. at the same time we'll see things warming up you slightly higher in new del high. delhi. across the eastern areas line here we've seen associated with the frontal system, giving us nasty pictures. these pictures out of romania where the warmest christmas in years, now they have driving snow coming across much of the region. this time of year we should look at maximum temperatures of m

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