Today the United States praised afghanistan for a successful president ial election. The white house called the vote an important milestone and commended the Afghan People. 7 million voters showed up, making turn out nearly 60 , almost double the last election. Violence didnt erupt as expected, scatter attacks killed 20. We have more on the first true attempt at democracy the queues started forming well before kabuls polling stations opened. Despite the taliban threats to tart the election, people wanted to vote. In afghanistans 5,000 year history this election marked the first democratic transfer of power. People here have been eager to seize the chance. We dont care about the taliban. For me, i dont have a threat from taliban or im not afraid of them. 12 million were eligible to vote. In parts of the country where the taliban held sway, polling stations were closed. This is where people queue up, dipping their finger in indelible ink. They pick up a ballot paper, go into the privacy
These signals and the objects could not be verified as being related to missing aircraft at that point in time. That remains the case. Thats the man at the helm of the search for Malaysia Flight mh370, saying crews cant confirm whether pings detected on sonar are from the missing planes black box. A chinese ship picked up two pulses from the indian ocean on saturday. They were detected in the search area. The teams are focussed on the area where the sound was picked up. Its encouraging but warns against creating false hope for families of missing passengers. We need to keep at the forefront of our minds families and friends of 239 passengers aboard the flight. Speculation and unconfirmed reports can see the loved ones of passengers put through terrible stress, and i dont want to put any further put them under any further Emotional Distress at this very difficult time. Now, that airplanes black box has a battery life of about 30 days, with malaysia airliness flight 370 disappearing more
Afghanistan. Votes are cast in afghanistan. Well watch it in the weeks ahead. Two decades ago humanity showed its worst nearly a Million People were butchered in rwanda. Cut down by machetes as a country turned on itself. Vigils and memories to honour all that was lost. A frame of remembrance is travelling over the country. 20 years ago today a plane with the president in it was shot down. Im here to ask god to keep me well, thank him and to ask that the genocide never happens again. There has been services across the country. People gatored at a church. Members of the ruling hutu group, tutsis and moderates. People have been divided after belgium colonized rwanda in 1916. It introduced identity carts. The minority tutees being an elight over tutsis. 20,000 tutsis were killed in riots. In 1994 the president s plane was shot down, setting off the 100 days of violence. Many girls were raped and some made painful choices whether to keep the children. They are still trying to make sense of
Authors sebastian younger on the reality of combat reporting. We are not seeking thrills, most of us, i dont think. Its feeling that you think youre going to die. Its like poison getting injected in your brain is horrible. Cold case saving patients with suspended animation. Science and Technology Correspondent jake ward on the medical breakthrough. It is the newest cyber bug to spread across the internet. And for many it may prove to be the moment costly and distrulentive. Its called heart bleed and has the ability to break into web administrators. Codes that protect your password and confidential information. Its exposed. Hundreds of passwords, hackers, attackers are racing to take advantage of it. It is complicated but important that you know the facts. Joining us to talk about the bug is staff technologist for the Electronic Frontier association. What is heart bleed . Its an extremely serious bug announced yesterday in a software that almost all web traffic uses to encrypt communica
Symbolizes one of the bloodiest eras in history. The number of guns held Still Matters in afghanistan. This rally also wouldnt you like to be a fly on the wall of frances next cabinet meeting. Francois hollande announces a new lineup that includes his former partner, segolene royal. Aaron joins us talking about one of the biggest walkouts in lufthansas history. Bad news if youre planning to fly lufthansa over the next three days. The pilots of germanys Biggest Airlines are refusing to fly saying the payoff is not good enough. That means 4,000 Flights Canceled affecting some 425,000 passengers. Welcome to gmt everyone. Midday in london, 7 00 a. M. In washington and 8 00 a. M. In iquique, chile where tens of thousands of people have been evacuated from their homes. A magnitude 8. 2 earthquake that sparked a small tsunami. Six people died, landslides have blocked roads and there has been electricity blackouts as well. President Michelle Bachelet declared an emergency, shes deployed extra