. >> nick schiffron live in jerusalem, nick, thank you. >> stay with us. we'll have much more on this attack on a school in pakistan in our next half hour. del. >> in syria, in is your generalities now taking control of two key military bases. the bases in the province in the northwestern part of the country and they lion a major highway, connecting damascus with aleppo. intense fighting has been going on. >> iran's president promising employees around central bank that only a few people in iran don't want to see sanctions lifted. a june deadline is set to reach an agreement. >> australia is remember two killed in a hostage siege at a chocolate shop and cafe. the prime minister was among those laying flowers outside the shop in downtown sydney. he says the culprit was not on any terror watch list. it's still not clear how the two hostages died. >> a 16 hour standoff comes to an end in a hail of gunfire. >> there was a number of gunshots heard, which caused officers to move straight to what we call an e.a., emergency action plan and that caused them to ente

we can live to nick schiffron live in ramallah. there are conflicting reports about how he died and now differing opinions on the autopsy itself. absolutely, he said, he said when it comes to how he died. he was buried just a few hours ago and we saw a real outpouring just a few miles from here. thousands of people coming out, mourning a man who was popular not only because he was a senior member of this government, but he for years led resistance against the israeli occupation and was in charge of resisting against settlements and wall that divides israeli from the occupied west bank. in the last few hours, a real difference of opinion on either side. palestinians have insisted from the beginning that he died because he was struck in the chest and the neck by an israeli border police officer. a statement from a palestinian pathologist said the death was caused by a blow. the israeli autopsy said: saying indications of light hemorrhaging and pressure was found in his neck. that is the only thing israel will admit to, that the borde

. >> nick schiffron live in jerusalem. talk about the significance of strikes. >> according to hezbollah, a group allied with the syrian government inside of syria, these strikes were israeli and targeted two things, hezbollah drones and surface to air missiles. if this strike was israeli, this is an attempt to make sure the missiles couldn't be brought into southern lebanon along the israeli border if israeli jets ended up in southern lebanon. we will never get confirmation from israeli officials and their silence is asaving effort to make sure the syrian government or hezbollah doesn't feel it has to respond militarily. >> let's talk about the domestic politics. israeli is holding elections fewer than two years after the previous election. tell us why. >> basically this is bottom line prime minister benjamin netanyahu had a coalition of rightists and centrists. that coalition wasn't working from his perspective, therefore he launches an election in order to try to get a coalition mormonable. perhaps right wing parties al

nick schiffron, aljazeera america. >> the location is said to be the birth sight of mary magdalene, one of the closest followers of jesus. >> a big payday for people in hong kong, this video shows people scooping up money that spilled out of a van. all told, they took about $2 million. officials are asking the public to feel the spirit of christmas and return the bills, because that's called stealing. >> party time in hong kong, look at that. >> let's look at other stories caught in our global net. >> a university in northwestern china has taken on the role of the grinch. it wants to ban christmas. the south china morning post said school officials believe its a kihsch western holiday. >> is there a mandarin word for kihsch? >> i don't know if there is. christianity within mainland china is very much state-controlled and so clearly that speak to say that. >> some made shoes not to celebrate the holiday, but in iraq, christians are fearful of celebrating after the advance of isil. "the new york times" said there was an stimed 1.5 million christian living in the country when the u.s. led

nick schiffron is live in jerusalem. what is secretary kerry hoping to accomplish this time?> what u.s. officials tell me kerry is trying to accomplish is compromise, a common path forward you at the u.n. that would combine the diplomatic efforts being done on behalf of the palestinians. last night, palestinians came out and said they want resolution as soon as this week. it's not clear that they have the votes in the security council or any country you could actually table that resolution. this is an attempt to pressure the u.s. to actually take a step forward toward palestinian stayedhood. in response, as you might expect, israel wants nothing to do with this. they do not want to talk about diplomacy at u.n. we heard from prime minister benjamin netanyahu this morning, he's talking about security and terrorism. >> we will not accept attempts for unilateral moves to be dictated to us within a given time line that. in the reality that islamic terrorism is reaching out to all four corners of the world, we will resist any attempt that will put this inside our home, inside the s