Reason its already been muted by covid19, with rising numbers. But then youve also got people traveling home. They havent been to their homes for a very long time because of the lockdown in place in pakistan. Its only now, about a week ago, that these flights have been resumed, which is a Huge National holiday in pakistan, just around the corn r er on sunday. The festivities have been dampened each more by this tragedy. John . Thank you very much. I do have to say, based on the pictures were seeing here in addition to the loss of life from the plane crash itself, there will be concern about loss of life and the structures damaged as the plane went down as well. Well stay on the story all morning long. The other top story, the memorial day weekend in the United States. The unofficial start of summer and millions of americans are expected to be out and about. We have new guidance for them. But as this happens, new word of a spike in cases in some areas. Alabamas capital, montgomery, the
It could be days before they can start recovering the victims of flight 9925. The flight crashed in the french alps killing all on board. Theres no word on what caused the crash, but one of the black boxes has been recovered. Helicopter crews say the plane is in pieces. No piece is bigger than a small car right now. The head of one rescue team says the debris is scattered over ten acres, some in areas much higher than the mountain peaks. Translator our priority is to get as many bodies back as possible so that specialists of criminal identification may be able to identify them. But not only the bodies anything that can help to identify them such as personal belongings which will be scrupulously picked up and taken away. Students at a school near dusseldorf started a memorial for 16 teenagers killed in tuesdays crash. They were returning to germany after a Student Exchange program in spain. Two of their teachers were also on board that plane. Lets head to correspondent Erin Mclaughlin a
Dozens of current and former u. S. And israeli diplomats that they have talked to many others. No surprise officebviously that the United States and israel would spy on each other. The real surprise is that israel would try to use this information against the white house to further its position. And it was discovered as you say by u. S. Intelligence agencies spying on what israeli was doing. And hearing language in conversations there. Which made them realize that the information that they had and were discussing could only have come from a knowledge of what was going on inside those talks. So eavesdropping at the highest level. Chris in. So nic, we have the intrigue of the politics surrounding the talks, lets get into the talks themselves. The issue of centrifuges. Thats central. What do we understand . Well one of the points that arises in the wall street journal article is they used a number of 6,500 centrifuges, a part of the deal. That iran might be able to use the ir4 centrifuge.
For Malaysia Airline flight 370 flight 370. A fourth week begins for one of the biggest aviation mysteries of all time. A new search area is focused in the indian ocean. It is 1,000 kilometers from the original search area. In fact, take a look at this image. It was captured by a new Zealand Military plane on friday. Aired on Chinese Television. Shows an unidentified object that the ship will attempt to locate and take aboard. Meantime, the Chinese Official News Agency says the aircraft spotted three, quote, suspicious objects in the indian ocean. The acting minister made a comment of hope. He made that statement after meeting with families of passengers. I understand the appeal and peace for the family and hoping against hope, no matter how remote, of course, we are praying and we are going to continue our search for the possible survivors. But what they want is a commitment on our part to continue the search and that i have given not only on behalf on the malaysian government, but so
Trying to free Kayla Mueller as well as other hostages. That happened last july inside syria. U. S. Troops attempting this daring escape attempt to release these hostages. It failed. This primary hostage in this failed attempt was james foley, a journalist who was later killed by isis. When u. S. Troops were there, there was evidence inside those jail cells, some writings scribbled on the walls that is believed to belong to hostages but key to this particular case are some hair strands that were found, and a u. S. Official tells us they believe those hair strands belonged to mueller. Why is this important . Because last july is when that rescue attempt was, michael. What we know is that she was alive as recently as july. Michael . The statement from kaylas parents, is it directed towards isis . It is a specific address to the captors. They dont directly say isis but clearly thats who they are talking to. What the Public Statement says is that the parents of who are at this point, micha