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Youre watching cnn. and we start with breaking news in the search for airasia flight 8501. there have been reports of debris being spotted in the java sea. we know for the last three days a massive search has been under way for that plane that carried over 160 people. andrew stevens is now going to join us live from surabaya in indonesia. youve been there for three days. youve seen. youve watched the family members waiting for any news. how serious, how credible is this new information? >> repor...

>> indeed it does robyn. and what is more positive if you like to use that term is that its only 5 miles or 6 miles from the last contact with this aircraft. we we believe from the evidence weve received so far that there was some sort of weather-related upset of this aircraft lost contact, something, something catastrophic happened. therefore, the airplane should be in the immediate area. so sightings of debris we had yesterday, which were 1,000 miles away were obviously not the airplane. this ...

Saying that the timing of this verdict was a blatant attempt on the part of the government calling it a blatant attempt on the part of the government to put a stop to a protest that was expected on january 15 which was the original date scheduled for this verdict. yesterday, however, the court abruptly taking the decision to announce the verdict today, just before the russian holiday season which began on january 1, when many people have left moscow. nevertheless his supporters even though they ...

Distances between where this debris is. so were still trying to calculate the actual coordinates of where theyre saying these objects are, robyn to where we last heard from the plane. but certainly, it is in the search zone. this has been a big search zone a search zone that has been getting beggar by the day, 156,000 square kilometers by now, about the size of greece. so it gives you an idea of where the search has been looking over a vast area. but now what we can say is that the government is...

Over. they want to know what has been found, and we still could be some sometime away from this because if helicopters cant get in there and the visibility is low and the sea is rough, its going to make it difficult for the surface vessels as well. it could sink some of the objects, scatter the objectingsobjects. but there are 40 vessels in the search region. it is a big search region 156,000 kilometer search region. and they have been really methodically plotting and ticking off region after re...

Quoted that the objects could have come from a plane. i need to underline this. none of this is confirmed. cnn has not been able to confirm this at the moment. so we have to be careful about making too much speculation. but certainly, if you look at the leads weve had so far, this would appear to be easily the strongest. it is in the right direction the last area where the plane was last seen. they are objects which could perhaps be associated with an airplane. the issue now, obviously, though r...

Been asking for a ten-year jail sentence for navalny on charges that he embezzled hundreds of thousands of dollars from a russian subsidiary of a french cosmetics firm. hed already been serving under house arrest in connection with another case. but navalny has always maintained hes innocent of these charges. and in his last words to the courts he remained defy and the, robyn? >> hes a man who has called the putin government a party of crooks and thieves. hes certainly been a thorn in the side o...