but this is an execution that ended the life of one man but has the potential to impact the future of many, many more to come in the weeks to come. george? with reporting and a great deal of context there, becky anderson live in abu dhabi. becky, we appreciate the insight on the situation. countries are reacting to the al nimr execution especially as becky mentioned, iran. earlier, i spoke with christopher dickey. world news editor for the daily beast. here s some of what he had to say about what may happen next. so we re really looking at not only two religious rivals, but two thee accuracies, a theocratic republican, saudi arabia, a theocratic monarchy, both of whom say god is on their side. is that something that the united states should get in the middle of and in fact it is something the united states is in the middle of right now. then you add to that, the problem of the so-called islamic state saying no, god is on our
long situation. we re joined on the telephone by christopher dickey, a veteran journalist, veteran magazine writer, who these days is world news editor with the daily beast. i understand you re in this country now, but as a long-time resident of paris, first of all, situate us, perhaps in terms of new york city or los angeles, where is the 10th arrondissement from the middle of paris, if you can draw any comparisons? it s still close to the center of paris, bataclan, the club or concert hall that is the center of a lot of the action right now is a place where a lot of young people are going to go on a friday night. it s, i don t know, what would it be like, maybe like soho, or the east village in new york. it s the kind of place where people go to have fun. it s also a kind of working
but president did not. he did not apologize. joining me now managing world news editor for usa today. owen, thank you for joining us. thank you. we got word saying secretary of state john kerry is scheduled to meet with the german foreign minister this weekend. does the administration have a damage control plan here? i don t think so. this is really embarrassing for the administration and as the german finance minister noted yesterday, it would be hilarious episode if it wasn t so serious involving the espionage charges. the united states looks terrible in how it treated one of the closest and most important allies in europe to be caught spying on them. it s interesting that we spoke to a long-time veteran cia official who said he could not
flight without a checked co-pilot supervising him. perhaps they felt comfortable he was with a pilot so seasoned. joining me world news editor for u.s. today, aviation analyst. william, let me start with you again with your reporting that investigators are looking into the captain. you talk about how they are looking into relatives of the captain, trying to get information about his behavior, his state of mind. what are they looking for? i m also curious about what your sources say why there had been such a delay in terms of interview, for example, the pilot s wife. they are trying to get more information out of relatives to determine if there s something there that other people have overlooked that may indicate why this event occurred. farce the wife goes, we re told that they would like to interview her more but at this time they haven t told us why it
hours, something that s not very easily explained, wolf. the suspicion being someone deliberately made all those turns, changed the altitude and all of the rest. barbara, thanks very much. let s take a closer look now at the suggestion that the airliner s captain deliberately redirected the plane and that the crash was no accident. that s at the heart of a new article just reported in usa today. and i m joined now by the paper s world news editor, william dermotty along with former assistant fbi director tom fuentes and our cnn aviation analyst miles o brien. william, thanks very much for cominging in. let s talk a little bit about this report that you have. tell us specifically what usa today is reporting. that investigators who have been on this since day one are telling our reporter on the ground at kuala lumpur that they re focusing solely on the pilot as the reason for the disappearance of the 777.