New technology to track drones after a White House Security scare we begin with a new threat from i. S. I. L. To the government of jordan. The group is threatening to kill a jordanian pilot held captive if the country does not release a riseninger. Prisoner. In an audio recording the joys of kenji goto jogo says jordan has until sunset to release an iraqi prisoner at the Turkish Border if not set free the kidnappers say a jordanian pilot will be executed. Residents in jordan are demanding the government do all it can to win the pilots release. Reporter anger inside the pals of king abdullah. Moments later the sister of the captured jordanian pilot breaks down. Family and friends demand their Government Act faster to secure the release of the pilot whose plane crashed during a bombing mission, as part of a Coalition Fighting i. S. I. L. Leaders in jordan say they have heard nothing from i. S. I. L. As to whether he is safe. The foreign minister saying that the request for proof of life
Devices. This is Al Jazeera America. Live from new york city. Im tony harris. The u. S. And the u. N. Are urging calm after some of the worst violence between israel and hezbollah in many years in exchange of military strikes left two Israeli Soldiers and a spanish United Nations piece keeper dead. The fighting was focused on the area where israel and lebanon in syria meet. Missiles hit military vehicles where two soldiers were killed. Israel responded with an air and ground assault hitting hezbollah targets in several lebanese border villages. The u. N. Peace keepers died in one of those vialages. Shebba farms is the point where all this took place. Nick . Yes tony, good afternoon. Were at that intersection that you just mentioned in the israelioccupied golan heights. You can see the no mans land is a mind field. This i want took place about a mile behind me, and tonight israel is giving an indication that it doesnt want this to lead to war. It doesnt want an escalation, but this year
Regulator doesnt guarantee success when you transition to high technology. I want to follow up a little bit, if its okay . Go ahead. You go and i have a question for marla after that. All right. Sometimes its easy to blame congress on funding issues. But i also think when we started the process of next didnt gen there was a lot we didnt know. Theres been a sense we are ready to do nextgen. Its a matter of funding. As we have gone through the panels at an industry level, we recognize, boy, we need to really be careful here. We dont necessarily know. And so in some cases i think what i have heard from congress is, we would like next didngen. What do you need to make it a reality . Im not sure the faa or even the faa and industry together have always consistently arctticulat that. I dont think we have always said, if you give us an extra billion dollars, here is what we would buy, here is when we would deploy it, here is the benefits we would receive. That was particularly acute to me whe
World headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with brian williams. Good evening. Im lester holt sitting in tonight for brian. Theres such deep anguish for families of those aboard airasia flight 8501. Debris and even bodies of some of the victims themselves retrieved from the java sea today left little doubt about the fate of the plane and the 162 people on board. A blue suitcase, an oxygen tank, what appears to be an undeployed emergency slide are some of the items officials have now confirmed came from the jet. The debris from the airbus was discovered off the west coast of borneo, roughly in line with the planes flight path from sura standing by to help find and recover the jets flight recorders, early indications suggest the flight met a sudden end as the crew tried to negotiate around violent thunderstorm cells in their path. Once again tonight were covering several angles of this story. Lets start with katy tur in singapore with the latest on the search. Katy . Reporte
Includes australia with a clash against new zealand we will show you how they ended the reign of defending champions in the semifinals. In yemen, they have targeted the capitol in the central yemen and adan in the south, also a houthis strong hold in the north of the country. Now saudi arabia says it isnt planning on sending in Ground Troops but it is ready for all eeventual wallties. We should be ready for all circumstances where our forces or the different threats. Air theft or ground threat, for the time being there is no such operation and we will be ready. Left the southern yemen city of adan, on the saudi protection early on thursday. He is expected to attend an arab league meeting. And the former president has called on the houthies to stop attacking adan. The ousted leader has deunderstand nod the air strikes on the capitol. The leader of the houthies said that his group will carry on fighting. What do they expect us to do . Surrender . Announce our defeat. To act like cowards