Could have survived, its our daughter. Just like every flight 17 family, they dont know the for sure if their loved ones body has been recovered. Their frustration, even their flickering hope that somehow, shes alive. Hello, im jim sciutto filling in again for jake tapper and beginning today with our world lead. Two major stories calling into question how much of the world is actually safe to fly over anymore. With trauma still fresh after a passenger plane was shot out of the sky over ukraine, the u. S. Government is now banning all flights to and from israels main airport for 24 hours. The reason one of the thousands of rockets launches by hamas from gaza struck about a mile from Ben Gurion Airport near tel aviv. Hamas controls gaza. Israels socalled iron dome is highly effective against the rockets but not foolproof. We dont want to the equate hamass rocket capabilities with the sophisticated Missile System that shot down flight 17 or the Technology Israel is using to battle hamas,
British scientists suggest the number of people already infected by a new virus emerging in china is far greater than official figures suggest. A crack down on alcohol fuelled holidays in majorca and ibiza, as pub crawls and happy hours are banned in three popular resorts. And the hernia mesh implants used with little or no clinical evidence. Find out more about that and other exclusive reports from the Victoria Derbyshire programme. Thats in half an hour. British business groups have warned the chancellor therell be higherfood prices and jobs might be affected, if britain diverges from eu regulations after brexit. The warning comes after sajid javids comments in todays Financial Times newspaper, where hes also insisted that firms must adjust to new regulations, and that not all businesses will benefit from brexit. In the article, he says. The food and drink federation have warned that the chancellors comments sounded like the death knell for frictionless trade and would result in pric
Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. Multiple usual officials and the Prime Ministers of khcanada and the uk are all now saying intelligence indicates the passenger plane that crashed in iran wednesday morning killing all 176 people on board was shot down by iran. Possibly accidentally. The british Prime Minister saying minutes ago there was a, quote, body of information showing an iranian air missile brought down that passenger plane. Brand new video sent to cnn report s s to show a missile fi into the sky and striking an object right around the the time that Ukraine Airlines flight crashed. Cnn has not independently verified the authenticity of the video. Another new video showing the fiery moment the flight hit the ground just minutes after taking off from the tehran airport. Our correspondents are covering the story from every angle including on the ground in iran. Well start with alex with new reporting about how the plane full of civilians may have been the shot down by accident.
In three popular resorts. In sport, simply the bess. Englands spinner takes five south african wickets as england dominate in port elizabeth. And will big ben bung for brexit. Join the brexitcast team for brexit gossip and serious analysis from westminster and brussels. Thats in half an hour. Good afternoon. The five mps who want to replace Jeremy Corbyn as labour leader, have been taking questions from Party Members in liverpool. The candidates called for unity within the party despite jostling for position over a number of issues. Its the first of a series of events around the country, which will culminate in a new leader being selected at the start of april. Heres our political correspondent, Susana Mendonca with the latest. Heading in to face party numbers, this, the first hustings in labours leadership contest. The opening question how to bring a divided Party Together after its general election defeat. The whole point of the labour party was that it was established to bring toget