Board. A defiant israeli Prime Minister to continue operations in syria day after one of his warplanes was down. To be honest im not sure she really understands the food horror of what has happened here a call from britains foreign minister. Supervised the return of refugees to me in march plus. A month ago the cloud bridge project in costa rica where reforestation efforts could provide an important lesson for the rest of the world. And best and russia say theyre looking at all possible causes as the hunt for clues began to why a plane crashed soon after take off all seventy one people on board were killed the difficulties investigators face can be seen in these pictures from the crash site near moscow wreckage of the plane is lying in fields covered with thick snow debris and human remains were spread over a radius of one kilometer now the short haul flight took off from dont want to Dover Airport on sunday few minutes later its in the air on the city on the way rather to the city of when it went missing from radars the plane crashed in the village of near moscow witnesses say they saw a burning aircraft fall from the sky or a challenge reports. The answer no their line out with sixty five passengers and six crew on board came down four minutes after it took off in bad weather conditions wreckage was scattered across snowy fields near the village of going over eighty kilometers southeast of moscow rescue teams were unable to reach the crash site by road and walk to the scene. I saw an explosion on the ground and i called Emergency Services they asked me many questions i told them there was a fire it was very visible and i did debris of the plane is spread over radios of at least one kilometer investigators are using modern equipment taking into consideration the large territory. To get a view from the air the short hole set a lot of airlines jets took off from moscows dumb idea of a sunday afternoon on its way to the city of or sq in the urals most of the sixty five passengers on board were from the region at the airport their family and friends of those on board the flight began to wait for news with little hope that anyone had survived. Or to some who have found a breeze from an a n one for a plane and the bodies of two big tims. Is just the most important thing now is the organized collection of debris and remains of the big it was by ministry of emergency situations workers. Transport to authorities soon confirmed everyone in the plane had died russia has suffered two major air crashes in recent years in december two thousand and sixteen a t u one five four military aircraft crashed into the black sea with the loss of ninety two people it was blamed on pilot error in october two thousand and fifteen a russian air bus crashed in egypts Sinai Peninsula killing all two hundred twenty four people on board i still said it placed a bomb in the aircraft. Right to me putin has canceled a trip to sochi which was shut jeweled for monday he was due to meet the Palestinian LeaderMahmoud Abbas now that meeting will now take place in moscow from where putin will monitor the investigation investigators have found a flight recorder from the plane and this will be crucial in determining why this relatively new aircraft came promising out of the sky various causes are being considered including pilots era bad weather conditions well perhaps Something Else really chalons zero mosque. Keith mckay is an aviation consultant with mackie pardon me makee international he joins us via skype from Ocala Florida thank you very much for joining us so obviously witness accounts are going to be very important in Something Like this and when its early on often there are conflicting reports but what the tickler things have you heard so far that really stick out to you well i rochelle or you know the aircraft wreckage just scattered over a very wide area and this indicates probably impacted. Rather flat and broke up and a high rate of speed was the pieces were spread out weve heard report that there was fire on board the aircraft before it crashed weve also heard that the pilot was trying to divert to a nearby aurora for an Emergency Landing but none of these things are really concerned what will really do now the investigators will do is theyll attempt to recover both of those black boxes of they have won and theyll leave the other one to do a complete investigation one of the black boxes is called the digital flight recorder and it records all the parameters of the airplane the power of the engines were producing the position of the flight controls anything at all regarding the airframe of the aircraft and the other is the cockpit voice recorder it records all the conversations that were taking place in the cockpit the radio transmissions and any communication between a pilot so in flight its at so as of a very valuable sentimentally were going to probably you know go ahead but the next thing that will be investigated im sure as the teams assemble of will be teams with various specialties like go weather power plants airframe structure Human Factors that packages that if i can enter effort aside because the video that were showing right now i am theres so much snow that conditions are so so bad there whats what role might weather play and Something Like bringing a plane down and again we dont know but when you see these pictures surely thats one of the first questions that people have. Well the first thing theyre going to want to do is see if the aircraft was partly d. I. s its been sitting over night it might have accumulated a great deal of ice if the ice wasnt properly removed that would have been a very bad thing. If the weather was bad presumably there on takeoff and climbing out if ice was a factor engine ice or Something Like that that should show up with the concept that voice recorder conversations the digital flight data recorder so that will be important no there were no thunderstorms obviously in the area so primarily were going to be concerned with ice they got here warrants of visibility should not been an issue so theyll be able to sort through the weather things rather quickly as they conduct the investigation all right keith mackey joining us from ocala and florida thank you very much appreciate it youre welcome rachelle u. S. President onil trump has questioned israels commitment to peace with the palestinians he did this in an interview with an israeli newspaper owned by american billionaire and backer Sheldon Adelson the us president says israel settlements in the occupied west bank are complicating the Peace Process and also threatened again to withhold aid to the palestinians unless they agree to talk israels Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu has vowed to continue military operations inside syria a day after one of its f. Sixteen warplanes was shot down by enemy fire israeli warplanes carried out a series of strikes on what it said or iranian targets in syria on saturday that yahoo says the operation was a serious blow to iran a fossil report some western islam. Israeli soldiers collected debris on sunday at the site where an air force f. Sixteen fighter crashed a day earlier while the Investigation Continues the army told aljazeera it had confirmed the plane was struck by a syrian antiaircraft missile the first israeli fighter shot down since one thousand nine hundred two. At the border israeli media reported anti missile batteries have been increased after extensive israeli counterstrikes the day before inside syrian territory. But on the show yesterday we landed hard blows in forces of iran and syria we made unequivocally clear to everyone that our modus operandi has not changed one jot we will continue to hit back for every attempt to holler for any blown flick to join us this is been our policy and this remain our policy. The incident began with the downing of what israel says was an iranian drone launched from syria that had crossed into israeli air space iran continues to deny the charge the secretary of the National Security council saying the allegations by zionists that they hit iranian bases in syria is a lie we are in syria as consultants we dont have the kind of military presence for them to make this allegation the years israels government has been talking about a mounting iranian threat on its Northern Borders i dont think we we that we were not to vulnerable but we certainly didnt expect it to happen this quickly so thats why im saying its a wake up call for the future the army knows how to respond. In a way or want to create an escalation. The only way it will create. Whats in this collision israeli politicians have been praising what theyve called a current public reaction to this incident but theyre also aware that it highlights increasingly complex and difficult relationship with russia and its role inside syria israel struck targets close to where Russian Forces are based on saturday. Prompting a statement from Russias Foreign Ministry calling it absolutely unacceptable to endanger the lives of russian soldiers inside syria. This after months of diplomatic efforts to convince russia to help constrain iranian activity there. The one former senior Israeli MilitaryIntelligence Officer the loss of the plane and the extent of the retaliation dont represent a new phase in the conflict rather a reminder of its stakes. In the longer run but look the long the arena presents in syria should come to an end and we expect russia and the United States to make sure that this is going to be the end result israel says its military response is now complete but this weekend has put the dangers of a largescale cross border conflict into sharp focus ari force it out his ear a west jerusalem the British Foreign minister has urged me on mars later on sponsored to allow the un to supervise the return of her head to refugees or is johnson made the plea after visiting displaced muslim villagers in Rakhine State and refugee camps in bangladesh it toward an area and me and mar where homes were destroyed and new ones are being built johnson says a search he appears to be removed from the reality on the ground. Im not sure she really understands the full horror of what has happened up here i dont think shes been in a helicopter to see what we have seen today and really what i was trying to get over to is the importance of her leadership i believe in her and i believe in her leadership i think shes done incredible things in her life im very sad to see whats happening to burma now and to see the direction the country is going i believe she can still make a change and make a difference but to do that she needs to show lead get the agencies in get the refugees back home in a way that is safe and voluntary and and dignified north korea is a one point delegation has left seoul leaving the south korean government to consider an offer of a summit n. P. R. The group which included the powerful sister of north Korean Leader kim jong il and in its visit by joining south korean president moon j. N. At a concert given by a north korean arch for the two sides have been holding talks on the sidelines of the winter games on saturday Kim Kim Jong Un extended a rare invitation to president to visit. Natasha going to aim has more from seoul. Even as athletes competed on the snow and ice diplomatic developments continue to steal at least some of the spotlight during whats being called the peace olympics the last three days have been historic and a high point in interest and relations north Korean Leader kim jong un sister kim jong became the first member of the ruling family to cross into the south since the korean war she came with an invitation kim jong un is asking the south korean president in to visit pyongyang at a convenient time soon if this meeting transpires it would be the first time that kim jong il has met with the south korean president since taking office in twenty eleven president moon says hell begin arranging the conditions to make that visit happen but he stresses that any rebuilding of interest korean relations must involve dialogue between the United States and north korea u. S. Vice president mike pence sat very close to the north korean delegation during the Opening Ceremony he m. A North Koreans rebuffed president moons attempts to facilitate a midi skeptics say that this north korean Charm Offensive is heavy on the symbolism but they doubt that it will result in anything substantive they say this is an attempt by the North Koreans to drive a wedge between the United States and the South Koreans into an advance their own agenda but for now president moon and Many South Koreans are encouraged by the prospect that what weve been seeing could be the beginning of a reboot of injury in relations robert hellacious a professor of Political Science and diplomacy at the sun National University hes skeptical that the past few days of diplomacy will lead to an actual breakthrough. The best thing that the olympics can do right now is sort of for stall the march to war that seemed to be taking place last year as long as the olympics make a look at the north and south are talking to one another then becomes much harder for donald trump and the Trump White House to on t. V. And advocate for for strikes right we know that some people are some pretty seriously thinking about it they just vetoed for example just a couple weeks ago they vetoed a highly qualified potential ambassador pick for south korea someone is quite a hawk but apparently wasnt hawkish enough because the trump people are generally considering the strikes well as long as the north and south are talking you know the americans need south korean buy in on the strikes as long as the north and south are talking they wont get it so thats sort of one of the things i think that moon is doing right this gives him time to figure out how to respond to the americans if we can do some small things like cultural events and sports and music and things like that and that kind of generates a few small steps that lead to that larger steps and so on thats great right i mean if this is what it takes to get the North Koreans in the room and talking so much the better and i dont particularly mind one way or the other but weve had these kinds of things before and they havent really worked right and im not really sure that sort of cultural interaction can actually generate any meaningful concessions on either side the political gaps are pretty big but we should always keep trying right its certainly better than we were a year ago when you know with fire and fury and all that. But in my head of the news hour including the scandal surrounding a leading British Charity oxfam deepens what revelations staff and africa used prostitutes in a lawsuit filed by new yorks attorney general is the latest problem for hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein and his former company and sport. Speed skating legend that is makes history at the Winter Olympics. Irans president has called for a year of unity country celebrates thirty nine years since the Islamic Revolution it comes just weeks after antigovernment protests in cities across the country. Called on all Political Parties to put aside their differences and look to the future. Report from tehran. In a state of the union speech irans president listed the governments successes rouhani focused mostly on domestic issues speaking about things like Economic Growth what iran is doing to address the impact of Climate Change and irans ability to manufacture military hardware like tanks and antiaircraft Missile Defense systems all part of a successful effort he said to have security independence and a larger role in the region. In the course of the last year we overcame terrorism we achieved great victories ive i still in the region help to the people of iraq and syria through had good results and the people of the region got rid of evil terrorists indirectly addressing recent protests by opposition groups rouhani acknowledged shortcomings saying the government must do more to resolve what he described as a backlog of Economic Issues show yet. The government needs to be more transparent and we need to result banking issues address taxation and budgeting in and correct the economic structure of the country. For the hundreds of thousands of iranians who joined a celebratory rallies thirty nine years later the Islamic Revolution is a continuing way of life honey told the crowd that they were the most important part of ensuring the success of the islamic form of government in iran that our. Elections are the biggest part of protecting the Islamic Revolution people voting in their leaders in parliamentary and president ial elections but when someone is elected the opposition and the youth elite should respect the choice of the people instead of chanting slogans go to the ballot box. As he o