World News Tonight (ABC) - 1999-12-26

Name: World News Tonight (ABC) - 1999-12-26
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[0:00] Now,

[0:01] >> the best local Y2K parties Monday at 9

[0:04] on AM Northwest

[0:09] on World News Tonight this Sunday, the

[0:12] latest on that hijacked airliner. A UN

[0:15] team is now on the scene and another

[0:18] passenger has been freed.

[0:22] Dozens are killed as fierce winds blast

[0:25] Europe this Christmas weekend. And on a

[0:28] day when millions of Americans are

[0:30] returning gifts, an unwelcome surprise

[0:33] for those who bought online

[0:42] >> from ABC.

[0:45] This is World News Tonight, Sunday.

[0:49] >> Good evening. I'm Carol Simpson. No

[0:51] answers tonight for 160 hostages still

[0:54] stranded on a hijacked airliner in

[0:57] Afghanistan.

[0:58] Russia called for an emergency meeting

[1:00] of the Security Council. For the

[1:02] passengers, there was only more fear,

[1:05] more uncertainty, and more waiting.

[1:07] ABC's Hillary Brown has the latest.

[1:11] A three-man team from the United Nations

[1:13] arrived in Kandahar today, but not to

[1:16] mediate between the hijackers and the

[1:18] Indian authorities. They said

[1:20] >> there's nothing to say.

[1:22] >> They were to play a humanitarian role.

[1:25] One hostage with diabetes was released

[1:27] as a goodwill gesture. The plane landed

[1:30] in Afghanistan early Christmas morning

[1:32] when the hijackers made their demands

[1:34] known. They want India to release this

[1:37] man, a Pakistani Islamic religious

[1:40] leader in exchange for their 160

[1:43] hostages. Otherwise, they said they will

[1:45] blow up the plane. Passengers released

[1:48] in Dubai on Saturday said the hijackers

[1:50] were heavily armed and violent.

[1:53] They held me by the hair, says this man.

[1:56] Then they started stabbing me. Since

[1:59] they released the plane on Friday on a

[2:01] flight fr