i wonder if i bit of more than i can chew where i sit around and telling myself did it really have to be seven kingdoms, why couldn't i have been five kingdoms that would have been a lot. having thrown the ball in the air i feel compelled to keep on juggling them. >> new developments in the crash of airasia 8501. indonesian officials say the plane was unauthorised to fly on the day of the crash, as crews find four large parts of the plane a migrant ship abandoned by smugglers is toed into italy. the start of a trend

the white house lashes pyongyang with another round of sanctions after its alleged cyber attack on sony forced to flee emergency alerts as bushfires threaten lives in australia. good morning to you. welcome to al jazeera america. thank you for spending your saturday morning with us. i'm morgan radford. new developments in the search for qz8501. four large parts of the jet were found in indonesiania coming as we learn that the airline may not have had permission to fly the route that it took where it fell straight into the java sea. why would the plane take the route if it was not authorised to go there, ross shimabuku. >> that's not clear. all flights from this area are suspended. the airline was permitted to fly the route monday tuesday, thursday and wednesday. it used to have a slot on

sundays, but that permission ended in object. officials say airasia has permission to fly it daily. airasia is not commenting but is helping with government investigations. >> reporter: it's been nearly a week since airasia qz8501 went down in the indonesian sea. officials are hopeful of finding the jet with the discovery of two large objects a couple of hundred feet deep. >> translation: i can firm two objects have been found, part of airasia that we are looking for. >> reporter: crews send down a remote vehicle in hopes of capturing imints. officials hope once the fuselage is found, it will lead to more bodies. friday 21 victims were found,

five with seatbelts. health officials say the identification process is difficult. >> communication is not good any more. for today's - i'm not sure we can use fingerprint any more. we have to start using the other ways to identify. >> meanwhile airasia c.e.o. tony fernandes attended the first funeral of a flight attendant. the u.s. navy left to join u.s.s. "sampson", to join of recovering operation. >> between to two ships there's three sea hawk helicopters. one bought 12 victims ashore.

>> the "new york times" says 46 of the 162 bodies on board have been recovered. if the large objects found today prove to be the fuselage it could be the flight recorders. the developing story - four large pieces of plane have been found. >> hoping to find the black boxes. >> thank you for being with us this morning. there's another plane crash in the states. in kentucky a 7-year-old is the lone survivor after three passengers and the pilot were killed when a small plane slammed into a wooded area. police say after the crash the little girl wandered off to find help and miraculously has no major injuries. officials believe there's trouble with the plane's engine. an investigation is going on an alleged al qaeda leader detained in new york died days before going on trial.

he han on the most wanted -- had been on the most wanted list for 10 years, facing charges over the u.n. attacks in tanzania. he pleaded not guilty. his wife and lawyer say he died from complications following liver cancer surgery for the second time this week it lit is dealing with a ship filled with stranded migrant. a boat carrying migrants arrived in italy on friday coming two days after an italian official arrested a ferry burning, with passengers on board. >> reporter: they spent days at see fearing they would be ship represented. italian medics were ready for them with a level of sympathy toward the refugees. many european politicians now lap.

- now lack. >> we need to create corridors to allow the people to arrive free of human traffickers that prey on desperate peep the coast guard were forced to board in the dark and on rough sees after it was transpired that the passengers and crew abandoned the ship without power. >> it was the second such incident in four days, after a vessel with nearly 1,000 on board had to be rescued, before it too, became wrecked. the commander of the local italian coast guard told al jazeera that he believed the crew disabled the ship before abandoning it. in the knowledge that the italian navy would form a rescue. >> it is dlfferent they have no -- deliberate they have no report for human life. >> you thing they may do more

like this? >> we expect there can be other new cases. we worry there'll be new cases. >> hearding refugees in a boat made for cattle - it affords the unity to move people by the hundreds into europe at a time in the winter when small boats and dinghies would not be able to cope with the waves. that is a huge problem for the border agencies. so they are all safe for now. it's a huge challenge for the italian navy and the european border force. 170,000 reached europe last year 2015 began with predictions of greater numbers.

the international organization for migration estimated that smugglers possibly made more than a million on each abandoned ship growing tensions on u.s. and pyongyang. the white house slapped sanctions on north korea, affecting an arms dealer and the it area. the sanctions are in response to what the u.s. believes was pong's cyber attacks on sony pictures. it is believed to have been targeted because its film "the interview" comically depicted the killing of kim jong un an application to join the international criminal court has been submitted by palestine, allowing it to pursue war time charges against israel. president mahmoud abbas signed the measure. they want to challenge israeli

settlements. >> significance in which we will be going through it. to seek justice through a peaceful option. it is on option that anyone who upholds the law should not be afraid of. >> if the palestinians are accepted, there's nor guarantee that the i.c.c. will take up their cause. it hinders police negotiations warning that u.s. officials may gain aid a delegation visiting the west bank, where jewish settlers threw stones investigating claims of vandalism. the delegation arrived at the location in diplomatic cars without coordinating the visit with authorities. no one was injured.

the state department was concerned by that attack buckingham palace denies charges that prince andrew had sex with a miner. court papers names the prince as an accomplice in charges against offense year by jeffrey epstein. a woman says she was forced to have sex with a prince since she was a minor. buckingham palace released a statement: new york city's top cop appeals for calm and respect, urging all officers to refrain from making political statements. this week is the funeral of wenjian liu. they said "a hero's funeral is about grieving not grievance"

after hundreds of officers turned their backs on mayor bill de blasio when he spoke at the funeral for officer rafael ramos the body of a mayor has been found. the 25 yoord had been missing before search crews found his body. he died from a fall during a hike. official plan to conduct an autopsy to term the exact cause of death white out conditions were the cause of a pile-up. 30 cars from stuck along interstate 93. the most serious crash involved a car sliding under a tractor trailer, setting both on fired. most of the injure have been released from hospital. >> speaking of wonky weather, time for a check on the weather. we turn to kevin corriveau. >> that's a great way to put it. across much of the united states, take a look at the radar and satellite and the wrongy

weather. i'll take you to new hampshire which saw an area of snow showers pushing through. we'll put it into motion. you see there it did not last long. it was enough to bring the visibility down causing the accident. west virginia ohio this will be a problem. there's advisories in effect of that area take a look at the rest of new england and new york. we are looking at significant conditions through the rest of the day. temperatures not changing too. we expect snow today. 10-12 inches of snow expected waging a battle to plagued the minimum wage. >> i'm just getting by.

>> who wants to just get by. >> the ongoing fight to hike one of the lowest minimum wages. several firefighters lose their lives when a massive fire triggers the collapse of a house in china licence to drive. the reason that thousands of motorists were happy to go to the dnv. wait until you see that story.

pass lines were longer than the d.n.v. in california, they were the 10th office to grant driver's licence for immigrants. a ban an 1993 immigrants being

able to to get a licence without proof of residency. more than a million residents were approved to apply pore the licence in the nst three years. >> california's new law is one of many on the books in 2015. more than a dozen states will see minimum wage increases of $7.25. the move prompts some in georgia and wyoming to push for change and they have lowest rates in the country. robert ray has more on new year's day, the minimum wage went up on 20 states in the district of columbia. >> who wants to just get by. >> for many people this is a life changer, coming almost exactly a year after president obama called for razing the federal minimum to 10.10. >> today a mum or dad working full-time on the minimum wage

doesn't earn enough to make ends meet. that's not right, it's wrong. that's why it's long pastime for us to plagued the minimum plagued. plagued many low-wage workers will be getting a rise it's not the case in some states especially georgia >> reporter: the state president is the trying to change that with a bill taking the wage up to $15 in the peach state. right now, it's $5.15. >> i would have liked to have put 20. i'm already being called way off the box with 15. so this is starting the conversation. >> reporter: according to mclain he has plenty of support

from democrats and will be working to convince lawmakers that the current rate is not high enough. >> the push back is they are saying "we will not make enough profit, we'll be out of business." my argument is you will still be in business. >> it may be $0.15, but it's still 15 crept. >> reporter: according to a report about 3 million low paid workers are getting a plagued. the highest is the state of washington. meanwhile congress and the white house condition to battle over an increase to the federal wage which the president wants to be $10.10 per hour. in our next hour we head to santa fa new mexico. one of the first cities to plagued the minimum wage. no wires will be charged against john hinkley in the death of james brady. prosecutors said there were

several legal hurdles. the former white house secretary was shot in the head during hinkley's assassination attempt on president regan in 1981, dying last year. medical examiners ruled his death a homicide. hinkley's lawyer was not surprised by the decision given the time since the shooting young men in south africa are putting their lives at risk to dig for gold in abandoned mines. they are forced to under ground because they can't find jobs. we talked to workers about the dangers of the illegal mining. >> reporter: each time this man goes into a mine he doesn't thing about being shot eight times, the men he has seen died or getting arrested. he thinks about his three children, saying mining illegally is not a choice it's a necessity. >> illegal mining it's not

easy, it's life. you have to choose what you think is best for you. >> about it two-thirds of illegal miners or zama zamas are undocumented migrant. it's estimated they steal 5-10% of gold platinum or other metals each year. >> reporter: for the people processing the gold they represent the bottom of a network of players. there were international syndicates involving illegal mining or other crimes. such as weapon struggling or money laundering. >> in the pursuit of metals mining is dangerous. not only do they go into abandoned mines, they are fighting with rival gangs, and people are getting killed. limited resources by the government and mine owners is making it difficult to battle

the underground industry. it's important to realise physically arresting the minors will not solve the problem. we need to address a lot of other social economic issues border control, passport issues unemployment rates. >> reporter: for this man the risks mate outweigh the sporadic rewards. he tried to start a fried chicken business. illegal mining now is supporting his family of five. >> if i open something i wish in life we had and sit and forget about mining. >> while doc is planning for the day he no longer these risk arrest or his life the mines will attract desperate people with the promise of gold. after all, illegal mining and south africa is almost as old as mining itself.

three firefighters are dead in china after fire caused a building to collapse. they were buried while trying to put out a massive fire. one fireman is still buried under the burnt out building. 11 others were injured trying to put out the fire. >> in australia thousands are fleeing their homes as wildfires rage across ports of the country. they are struggling to contain the places in south australia and victoria. six homes have been destroyed. no serious injuries have been reported. temperatures are hovering above 100 degrees, as well as strong winds contributing to the fires. going to the movies appears to be getting old for some. sales are down as movie goers sour on sequels, how some get a big-screen fix without getting off the couch. >> weekend wanderers who

stumbled on a treasure trove. why it's hailed as the biggest coin find.

all right, this amateur treasure hunter struck it big. paul was scouring the country in britain about a group of metal enthusiasts before christmas and he discovered 5,000 rare anglo

saxan coins. coleman said he almost didn't go because he could barely afford gas for the car americans love to go to the theatre, but many watched movies from home. tickets were at a record low. >> reporter: bad new froms the box office for the u.s. movie industry. 2014 ticket sales were down to the lowest level in decades, according to an estimate by the trade magazine. the numbers of tickets sold dropped 6% over 2013 an overall box office revenue expected to be 10.36 million. a decline of 5 hz. -- 5%. >> hollywood's habit of endlessly recycling symbols of action movies caught up with it

with "spider-man 2", "transformers", "the hunger games - mockingjay part 1" falling short of their predecessors. >> you can't slap a title on to a comic book that people used to buy and expect them to come automatically. i do thing that hollywood will learn. i feel like the movies will get better as a result of audiences being more discriminating. >> reporter: the growing popularity of video on demand over the internet is depressing ticket sales. more people are getting the movie fix without getting up from the living room coach. >> with ticket sales defined lings the u.s. is like -- dwindling the u.s. is likely to lose its market to china. their box office zoomed by 36%.

research shows there was a big dip in young americans going to the movies last year. in fact, americans aged 12-24 dropped 15% in the first nine months compared with the same period a year before. >> the entertainment industry is paying respects today to donna douglas who died of cancer on friday. she was known for her role as elie in the beverley hill billies, it was the number one hit for c bs for the first two years. she appeared opposite elvis presley in "frankie and johnny." protests erupted as to why police officers in ferguson, missouri were not indicted over the deaths of n armed black teen. several celebrities protested including eatedan hawk who spoke

to al jazeera. >> it's shocking the racial divide this the country. we may think why people shed tears when obama is elected - because it feels like a racial divide is healing. we feel that this must mean it's healing. then something like the ferguson case happens, and you are like "well, there's still so much suffering and so much dialogue happening in separate corners of the world." and this is one small thing. i thought - i thought we had left racial issues behind for class issues issues of environment and poverty, there are huge issues. >> "talk to al jazeera" with ethan ethan hawk airs monday night a check on the weather, and most of the country embracing a

mixed bag. what is in store? >> we talked about the snow and what is happening south. a lot of rain is here and that will lead to flooding across the state. be talked about alabama, parts of mississippi and louisiana. that will continue. the big storm we are looking at caused a problem. first was the ice. now it is the snow and you can see it here in blue. we think it will clear up later. today it will be a messy day. severe weather down towards the south, that's where the red will see the issue. we are looking at the temperatures. you are going to be 61 degrees, in new york. >> coming up in the 8 o'clock hour of al jazeera, we tell you about the teenager sparking a debate about transgender identity. we talk about people fleeing crossing the border.

we'll tell you about the other danger standing in their way. keep it here. i'm back with you in a minute for the 8 o'clock hour of al jazeera.

pass investigators find four large objects under the sea in the search for airasia qz8501. this as we learn the plane may have violated rules to fly dolling out harsh punishment in a makeshift court. how afghanistan's taliban is taking the law into its own hand a race against time as raging wildfires tear across parts of august, the worst outbreak to hit the region in

30 years chases people from their homes. >> we have to do more for the working people of our community and across the country the first city in all of america to offer workers a living wage how it helped and hurt over the last decade. good morning to you, thank you for joining us this saturday. welcome to al jazeera america i'm morgan radford. four huge objects believed to be the airasia plane that rashed in the java sea have been found the the encouraging news amidst conflicting information about airasia's permission to fly the route it did the day it was crashed. ross shimabuku is here with more. airasia flights from surabaya to singapore are now suspended. why is that. >> the air operations now are being vetted. indonesia's transport minister says airasia did not have prime ministers to fly the routes on sunday, onward monday, tuesday, thursday and saturday. the prime ministers to nigh on sundays -- fly on sundayseneded

in october. aviation authorities in singapore disputed it. the air investigators have not commented. near the site where the jet went down authorities say they found an oil spill and large objects on the seabed 100 feet down. at the moment we are sending the remote operated vehicle under water to get a picture of the objects at the bottom of the ocean. >> crews have been dealing with high seas saturday hampering the effort for bodies. the "new york times" said that 46 of 162 passengers on board have been recovered. physical conditions of the recent remains found is making the identifies process difficult. once again, we have learnt in the last half hour that four large objects were found. officials believe once they find

the fuselage they'll find more bodies and the all-important black bombs. >> thank you so much italian coast -- black boxes. >> thank you so much italian coast guards seized another boat. this is inside a ship meant to hold livestock. it arrived with 450 migrants on board. crews are deliberately disabling the ships before abandoning it knowing that the italian navy will rescue those passengers. they believe it's a new strategy by the human traffickers. >> deliberate. then have no respect for human life. we expect there can be other - there can be new cases. we worry. we worry there'll be new cases. european officials expect the flood of migrants to continue into 2015. last year 170,000 reached the

continent investigators resumed searching the greek ferry that caught fire in the adriatic sea. italian investigators boarded the ship and redreeffed the black boxes. they hope it will help them to discover what caused the deadly blaze. the ship caught fire killing 11 people. at least 19 passenger are unaccounted for. growing tensions between the u.s. and pyongyang, the white house slapped more sanctions on north korea, affecting a north korean intelligence agency and an arms dealer. the u.s. is sanctioning 10 people that worked for the groups. it is in response for what the u.s. believes was pyongyang's cyber attack on sony pictures. it was believed to have been targeted because the film depicted the killing of kim jong un palestinians are trying to join the international criminal

scourt and are at the final stage of that process. all the documents are in and ready for the review by the u.n. it's official. the united states has palestine's application to join the criminal court. where it goes from here is if a from here. this is a significant step in which we will be going through it. to seek justice through a legal option. it is a peaceful option. it is a civilized option. it is an option that anyone who upholds the law should not be afraid of. >> if the palestinian leadership has its way, the court will investigate israel's 2014 invasion of gaza rutting? the death of 2,000 civilians, and the construction of israeli settlement on land the u.s. says belongs to the palestinians. how far back into what incident the authority will apply is open

to debate. palestinians could be charged for war crimes including firing rockets into israel. most countries are recognising palestine as a state, israel doesn't. >> the government is upset because of this unilateral step. israel say that the pakistanies is not an independent state. they don't have the right to go to i.c.c. right now. and they - they expect that i.c.c. will reject the application. >> the move comes days after the u.n. security council rejected a resolution setting a deadline for the end of occupation. u.s.-led peace talks broke down. the u.s. and israel say unilateral actions like this will hinter negotiations. the spokesperson for secretary-general ban ki-moon ace the united nations received

the application and is considering appropriate next steps. if considered, it will take 60 cause for jurisdiction to kick in, and could take months before the court decides whether or not to take up the case. u.s.a. department officials say they may cut aid to palestinians if they make claims against israel violence greeted a u.s. delegation visiting the west bank on friday. jewish settlers threw estoppels at american diplomats investigating claims on property. they arrived in diplomatic cars without coordinating with israeli authorities. thankfully no one was injured. the state department was concerned by the attack in iraq members of the minority community are taking the fight against i.s.i.l. into its own hands. yazidi attacked a down on the iraqi-syrian border looking for women and girls that i.s.i.l.

abducted during the summer. the peshmerga did not know about the attack. as erica woods report the yazidi appear to be acting alone. >> reporter: around 20 armed yazidi stormed this arab town on wednesday, it caused panic. several men were killed and women and girls taken away. many escaped to surrounding towns for safety. the raid has been condemned. the attackers acted alone. >> we found tout that three yazidi girls were abducted after some yazidi youth decided to storm the village and free the girls without telling us. we condemned an act. we have no idea how many were killed and injured. >> translation: they came and arrested the mayor and another village. the imam and the mosque and two other children. >> reporter: it's believed an attack was app attempt to free women and girls, abducted by

i.s.i.l. forces. since august thousands had been taken from their home region of sinjar. amnesty international said the girls some as young as 10 would be raped. and used as a way to tempt fighters. it was that sault on the yazidi community that prompted the u.s. to join allight forces to join the fight about i.s.i.l. in september. they joined the battle teaming up with peshmerga forces. together they pushed i.s.i.l. fighters. for this attack it exposed cracks in the joint campaign. >> translation: we will make sure we find out who the perpetrators are and take them to the court to condemn what we did. it exposed tensions. arab towns say things i.s.i.l.

was chased out. they are under siege by dominant kurdish forces that controlled the area. >> translation: the peshmerga is putting pressure on us and the area is upped siege. they have arrested our men without any reason. >> reporter: in this pace peshmerga and yazidi commanders say they are against the attack. they realised to fight a foe like i.s.i.l. they can't risk fighting alone, they need to anxiety together for clarity the yazidi are ethnically kurdish. unlike most kurds the yazidi follow an ancient religion federal prosecutors say a pictured al qaeda leader died in new york overnight days before he was set to face trial. he was charged in the 1998 deadly attack on u.s. embassies in africa. before his arrest he was on the u.s. most wanted list for

10 years. his wife said he died as a result of complications during surgery. >> the afghan government is eager to prove its capabilities now that the combat mission is over. the taliban is posing a problem. many say the courts are corrupt and full of delays. they are turning to a cheaper, quicker alternative which is the taliban's justice system. jennifer glasse has more. >> reporter: a taliban coward called into session in kunar province in eastern afghanistan. three men are accused of using fighter status to steal livestock. >> translation: we question the criminals and the owners of the livestock, it's been proven that the people are criminals and thieves. >> the men's punishment - they must pay a fine, $2,000 apiece and replace a goat. their faces are black and hair cut off.

they are no longer allowed to be taliban fighters. the punishment is carried out immediately. that is the attraction of the taliban justice system. it's immediate, it's local and it's cheap. unlike the government's legal system. the government refused to comment on the taliban court system. >> there's corruption in problems in the government courts. instead of solving the case they create more problems much that is why people come to the taliban court. the convicted men are put on donkeys and taken to the village center to be publicly shamed. taliban fighters say they pay for this and other activities by collecting taxes from the people. >> translation: we don't have a specific income like at the government level like pakistan or any other government to get help or financial support. we don't have a specific source except donations from people.

>> reporter: they say the fight is not just against foreigners but anyone thats them including afghans and the government. >> we'll fight whoever tries to stop us. >> reporter: "god so great" long life to the regime. they say the fight will not end in afghanistan, they'll travel around the world to help their brothers wherever they are needed. america's 13-year combat mission came to an end on the final day of 2014. 11,000 u.s. troops will remain only in advisory and training roles. new york city's top cop is appealing for calm and respect. commander bill bratton is urging officers to refrain from making a mistake. he said poetically a hero's funeral is about grieving not

grievance. it comes a week after hundreds turned their backs on bill de blasio. >> in australia, thousands are fleeing their homes as wildfire continues to rage across the country. firefighters are struggling to contain those blazes and six homes have been destroyed. thankfully no serious injury has been reported. sweltering temperatures and winds are contributing to the flames. >> reporter: it's summer in australia, that means bushfire season. a heatwave swept across the eastern states sending temperatures soaring to over 20 degrees celsius. it's an illegal col bination - searing heat and high grasses. the worse fires in the hills near the city of adelaide. the sound over the roar over the hills is like a jet engine on an

aeroplane, getting louder and louder. thousands fled from their homes, and there are fears dozens of homes have been lost in the fires. five burnt to the ground so far. we are losing properties. we don't know how many have been lost. police declared the fire an emergency. this gives them the fire to force people to fully their homes. >> we are dealing with a dangerous fire. your life is at risk. >> it's hard work for firefighters, six have been injured. officials are calling on other states to help. they have their own problems. in the neighbouring sit of victoria bushfires threatened homes in the coastal area of the mornington peninsula. and in farming areas to the west. >> we went back got a couple of things. they said "look, we can't save everywhere itself house, they said "look, i said yours and your neighbours will be part of

them." >> reporter: a wall of flame and slok is turning the -- flame and smoke is turning the sky black. everywhere is hoping the fires will not rival ash wednesday. australia has a long summer ahead of it and fires are a dangerous part of it officials in south australia say this blaze could be the worst to hit the state since 1983. dozens of people were killed that year from wildfires. let's get a check on that with meteorologist kevin corriveau. what is the science behind all of this? >> well it is a summer. temperatures in adelaide 104 degrees and extremely dry. we deal with this in the united states in california specifically. i want to show you these are the counter fires that we are looking at. adelaide is located here but it's the wildfires or bush fears

located near residential areas such as melbourne or sydney and that is where we are dealing with the area. i want to show you the frontal boundary responsible for the winds and the high textures. this front -- temperatures. this front is pushing through. we are not getting rain out of the front. we are getting lightening and that will cause potentially more fires in the area. tomorrow the temperatures drop down as the front goes through. we are looking at the textures spiking up to 100 degrees as we go towards tuesday or wednesday next week. here we see 100 degrees. we are seeing warmer conditions to the south, and they'll creep up across parts of the eastern seaboard. new york as i said before we are expecting to see in the '60s. gabbing to you. -- back to you. >> search crews believe they found wreckage - four large objects spotted on the south java sea floor.

a live report. police training videos sparking out rage in india, we tell you why critics paint muslims as terrorist, which could lead to backlash against innocent people. >> and the suicide of a transgender teen sparking a debate over acceptance. lessons that could be learnt by the note she left behind.

we want to take you to our top story. we are learnt that indonesian officials found four large parts of airasia qz8501. the fuselage has been found, 100 feet down in the java sea. what have officials said specifically about the four parts they found overnight? >> well this is a crucial development, south of borneo where the crash happened and we are - and where bodies have been

found. they have found fewer baying pieces of the plane. one is 22 meters long and they are going to try to find the black box and the flight recorder in that area. it will be difficult, they have only detected big chunks of the plane, but have not been able to evacuate them. they have to go down deep in the ocean. they'll start to do that tomorrow. hopefully soon we'll get some answers during that fatal flight. >> going into the ocean looking for the black bombs, you spoke with the transportation minister, and he said that airasia ignored regulations. can you explain that and what else did he tell you?

it turns out that a fateful flight did not have a proper licence to fly from the indonesian government. they had a licence to fly four weekday, and it turns out that they had been flying every sunday, confirmed from the airport in singapore. to add insult the minister is looking into who is involved air traffic control, had it been his own people involved in the regulation. he made bold statements in an interview i had with him today. >> they do the same thing.

we will cancel the licence. if everybody doing it we will cancel everything. . >> all right steph live from chicago joining us from albuquerque is an air safety investigator and author. doctor four big pieces of weapon. we heard indonesia tell us that one piece, 22 meters long what might that tell us. what was the first thought that went through your mind when you heard the pieces were found. it reminded me how air safety

described their business like putting a jigsaw puzzle together. this morning it sounds like four piecesful jigsaw puzzle have been identified. they don't know what part of the aircraft they came from just yet, but we are on the way to solving the mystery. on our way to solving the mystery, we are finding out more pieces of the puzzle. specifically about the fact that the airline may have ignored regulations and didn't have permission to fly that sunday or any sunday. i'm not sure if you learnt the strong interview. who dropped the ball here? >> well it may well be someone in the management of the - the commercial management of the company. i don't see this as a safety violation, but it says that this is a new airline and maybe they have not totally got the act together or maybe there's someone in the management structure that is willing to break the law to make money. that has import for the

investigationful you say it's not a safety violation, but is it normal to have restrictions on certain days. >> i'm not totally aware of what the indonesian - sorry, the air regulators have as far as policy on this. i don't think it's unusual. in this country, at the busy airports, we talk about having slots like say, at laguardia artia. you only supposed to fly in if you have a slot. the reality is if the data reporteders are lost and we can't get info what could it sell us. what type of information does debris like that offer? >> it will give us an idea of the break-up pattern, like we said about the bodies yesterday. they tell a story about how the aircraft may have broken up.

it may not we able to answer the why. that is critical and that will come from listening to the voice recorder and looking at the flight data information. >> my last question before we let you go the high waves of the java sea. we are not mentioning the monsoon, have the elements made the recovery harder. if so what is the best policy in the circumstance not to risk more lives? >> exactly. that is another kind of rule of being an air safety investigators. when you lead the investigations you tell everywhere i know we are eager to get out there and solve the mystery. we don't want to lose anyone else while discovering what happened in the tragedy. >> alan thank you for joining us this saturday morning, our pleasure to have you with us. >> thank you a snow storm and ice on friday caused this massive car pile up in new hampshire where 35 vehicles were involved in an

accident on i 93. a tractor trailer ended up in flames. dozens of cars were damaged. 13 people were hurt. the highway opened up a few hours later. >> from cold weather in new hampshire across the country, we bring in kevin corriveau to bring in the latest on the weather. >> it's causing a problem in the south. i'll bring you down here all the way through texas. take a look at the video coming in. we had a lot of problems not only with the snow but previously westerly dealing with ice in texas, as well as into oklahoma causing problems on the highways. we talked about highway 10, 20, 44 well. let me show you what we can expect to see. most of the weather is pushing up to the north. what we are dealing with is the rain ahead of the storm system. that is causing flooding across parts of alabama, louisiana,

mississippi as well. it will continue. the system is moving east. we are dealing with this all day long. for atlanta airport we could see delays. >> facing the holiday traefrls. thank you so much. >> the u.s. imposing sanctions on north korea over the sony picture hack despite questions as to whether the rogue nation was behind it. we speak to jj green about who was targeted and if it had an impact. >> a risk for refugees fleeing i.s.i.l. in syria. landmines planted decades ago, killing and injuring innocent people today. >> japan set to restart the nuclear programme for the first time since the fukushima disaster. the government says it's needed to boost the economy. not everywhere is buying that. stay tuned.

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the top stories. four large objects believed to be wreckage from airasia qz8501, crews are trying to capture images with remotely operated equipment. the jet crash sunday in stormy weather. 46 bodies of the 162 passengers has been found. palestinians moved to join the international criminal court. the u.s. warned that the move could lead to a cut in economic assistance. officials are reviewing the situation saying it could hurt the peace process with israel. president obama has authorised more sanctions against north korea in its response to pyongyang's adelaide role in the sony picture hack. new restrictions includes an asset freeze for individuals associated with the nooe an regime -- nooe an regime. joining to us talk about that is jj green. a pleasure to have you with us. and good morning to you. rarldsless of what you -- regardless of what you and i or

anyone thinks there's speculation that the north koreans were not behind the attack. does the u.s. need to offer up proof? >> probably not. the reason i say that is the fbi has been leading the investigation from the beginning. even though there's a company that was working with the federal bureau of investigation saying they believe north korea may not be behind the attack the fbi has a significant amount of classified information that this other company does not have and that the rest of the world doesn't have. we are looking at a mountain of information that only they have access to classified information that tells a bigger story. it's a bigger picture. i'm thinking they don't feel like they need to show evidence publicly, because it would give away secrets that they don't want to necessarily give away and tell a story of how they are running the investigation. i think the administration

deciding that it was going to go ahead with the sanctions suggest that they are confident in the type of information and intelligence they have gathered. >> i want to talk about the sanctions briefly. what are the new sanctions designed to do? >> they are designed to tighten the screws on north korea. they are about 10 individuals that have been listed that will be targeted and about three organizations - the intelligence organization that is believed to be behind it. there is a resources.... >> you think it's to shake them up to scare them. >> no it's meant to tighten the screws on them. basically it's designed to make it more difficult for the government to get done what it wants to do and make some of the people that work with the government less likely to go along with the things because of personal repercussions they face. >> speaking of personal repercussions, if they were angry to launch a cyber attack

over a movie, what might they do about the sanctions. should we be concerned about retaliations. >> north korea is an unstable regime. how will the sanctions affect them. when you consider the fact that the leader of north korea is a young impulsive perp who killed his -- person who killed his own uncle, a revered figure in nooe an government circles, and with china, north korea's biggest ally. he did that. the question is what more might he do if a movie reference upset him. >> what more might we do. the sanctions are the first part of what the government described as a series of proportional responses. what other responses might we anticipate beyond the sanctions. >> i'm looking at a lot of financial machinations that may take place on the world stage. i assume there's a lot more going on behind the scenes as

far as intelligence and national security matters go that lead essentially to north korea's nuclear programme and the ability to work and engage on the black market which, believe it or not. is very vibrant. they are able to make a lot of money selling things on the black market. some of it is done with other countries like the u.s. looking the other way. in this case i'm assuming that will not be the case. north korea will have to make serious adjustments in how they deal with the world. >> joining us, thank you for being with us live from washington. jj mentioned nuclear - nukes. japan said it will begin reoperating nuclear reactors. it marks the first time since the fukushima disaster back in 2011. we have a report. the government says switching on the reactors is needed to boost of the economy. more than 1,000km south of the unfolding disaster in fukushima, japan is preparing to

embrace nuclear power. the sendai power plant passed safety standards, won local government approval and is due to be the first of japan's nuclear generators to go back online. it's seen as a vote of confidence in the area. thanks to the job when reactors were built. i feel that we can trust the company and the government. but polls show most japanese lack the trust and ops the restart. a former baker from tokyo is now a full-time antinuclear campaigner. he says the high volcanic activity means a react jor here is a danger insisting that it is not too late to stop the plant much. >> translation: if something is rejected, it needs to be rejected.

i want the residents to stand up and voice their objections. we are here to help them express opinions. you are allowed to speak up. >> reporter: his is a fight against the political tide. the japanese government is committed to nuclear energy for decades to come saying economic development depends on it. they are pushing forward. problems are emerging with another part of the policy a plan to promote renewable power. into there's evidence of a boom in solar panels. high prices for the electricity they produce in years to come. japan's utilities say they can't handle supplies of variable out put and half stopped signing agreements with them. that leaves people in the lunch. he says that the problems are the result of familiar cosy

links between the government and the nuclear power industry. when they say renewable are accepted, they are putting on a show. >> japan's government says it's trying to tixfix the problems but made it clear that japan is going back to nuclear power, come what may. >> japanese officials say energy prices are booming. co cope with the price of fuel. a new year commitment from the yeas, the ebola outbreak will end in 2015. it's aimed to wipe out the epidemic. u.n. officials say there's

enough functioning treatment sessions in west africa on track for having 100% safe burials. there's a long way to go. an estimated 20,000 in west africa are infected with the virus. ebola deaths climbed past 8,000. >> mock security drills in india is drawing in a lot of controversy. videos emerged showing police practicing arresting people posing as muslim fighters. we have this report - critics argue it's wrong to link islam to terrorism. >> this is a video causing controversy. men wearing skull caps are held down by police in what they say is a community exercises. >> parties condemn the videos promoting the idea that muslims are terrorists. >> if you think that terrorists come to the country wearing steel caps, you are making a

fool of yourself. >> this member of parliament says this portrayal of muslims is not surprising. >> it is a social mind-set. the media has to work and the muslim have to work in a way that the mind-set changes. >> the issue is sensitive in the state of iraq. where riots led to 1,000 deaths much after the first video surfaced the state's minister told that it is wrong to link muslims and terrorism. officials and police have not commented. men have been deficted.

the issue of stereotyping muslims has been trerized. >> the strnt of police says it should not have happened. >> protests turned fiment as they continued to demand the release of the main sheia opposition leader. tear gas was fired off, parking the sixth draght day of protests. >> for many syrians fleeing i.s.i.l. other dangers does not always many safety. a large number seeking shelter have been killed by land mines. activists have been accused of failing to honour to remove the

mines. >> at 13 years old. that child should be playing with the other children. he can't. running for their lives on the advance through syria. he ran through turkey into a minefield. a turkish minefield. someone to crash under the border. a mine ex-beloweded under my brother and me. my brother was killed. i lost my legs. there are more than 600,000 mines along turkey's 900 kilometre boarder and syria. planted decades ago. behind me where you can see the cars it is a minefield, and there are as many as 2,000 people there, but they are

unwilling to come to disturbingy because they were not allowed to bring cars tore cattle with them. turkey joined the land mine treaty in 2003. it was slow to clear and fence off mined areas. then the war in syria started. >> i find what happened heartbreaking. because of the fighting it was not possible to clear the field. if i opened one corridor. we would have had hundreds of casualties. as a responsible governor, i ordered fences to be put. the gore wr -- more than 40,000 fled to turkey. since then three have been killed by the mines, a dozen injured, according to human

rights watch. >> my son has no future. what future can you expect for a 13 years old boy who lost his legs. we all have no future. we lost all of our property that we built up over 50 years. >> reporter: after seeing the video, the governor promised to make sure he gets further treatment and is fitted with prosthetic lels. -- legs. we'll keep an eye on his progress. human rights watch reports that some victims told them there were no signs warning of a land mine along the turkish-syrian border. >> federal prosecutors on friday said there were several legal hurdles to the case of the federal secretary shot in the head during the assassination attempt on president regan. he died three decades later. his death was ruled a homicide.

hinkley's lawyer was not surprised more than 20 states hiked the minimum wage. the city of new mexico took the same move. there are questions about how much it helped to reduce poverty. andy gallagher reports. >> reporter: lunchtimes at africa castro are busy. for the hardworking staff there's an advantage santa fe was one of the first cities in the u.s. to put into place its own minimum wage. salaries are linked to the cost of food and accommodation. officials like to call it a living wage. >> thank you, was everything good. >> the owner says it's a policy she's happy to follow. >> paying a living wage to my employees will not affect my quality of life. i'm proud to live in santa fe and the way it's run and treats

people. it depends on tourism, it stets the minimum wij $3 higher. many thought it was a risky move. the mayor thought it was par of a legacy, not a solution to the problems. >> it's not the silver bullet. this will not help grow the middle class. we have to do more for the working people of our community and across this country. >> some in the business community are wary of local authorities setting their own minimum wage. this is a businessman that sold a restaurant in part he says because of santa fe's wage laws. >> we have to stop letting the government take over business telling us what to do who to pay, what to pay in order to sustain the free society that we have. >> santa fe refers to itself as the city different. its minimum wage policy is copied across the u.s.

there's 100 cities where similar laws aimed at reducing poverty. a decade after they established the living wage. it is radical. despite warnings that some the economy did not suffer. the problems were not solved either. poverty was among hispanics, and high. many afterward more for the families. the latest hike in minimum wage will impact about 3 million workers. the last time the federal minimum bay was bumped up was back in 2009 a teenager suicide sparking a debate over transgender accept inns. the heart-breaking note. pass parse

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a teenager's suicide sparked a debate aboutance. -- about acceptance. joshua died leaving a note expressing regret as not being accepted. >> reporter: it was dark when leyla went for a stroll. she walked out of her home in the cincinnati study of kings mill heading south along interstate 71. when a south bound tractor trailer roared by before 2:30am on sunday she stepped in front of it. that afternoon her mother wrote a facebook post that began: the next day leyla's words rang out on social media, set up a

suicide note to post to the web: she wrote since the age of four she felt like a girl trapped in a boy's body, but her family: her conservative mother and father send her to christian therapists, taken her out of public schools and tried to keep her off social media. since the story broke calls to transgender hotlines soared. >> we noticed particularly in emails friendships, in the last day or two 80% of emails coming in from people are around issues of gender identity. leyla's story put a face to a feel that people have had for a long time. >> the suicide note is a cry of desperation from an emotional articulate teen one with no hopes for a happy future:

speaking of their child's desire to live as a woman, leyla's parents said wednesday: some of leyla's supporters are not buying the version of unconditional and flooded leyla's mother's facebook page with angry messages: they posted both the parents phone numbers online. the father said in an email: >> at the same time there is anger, and anger at the situation i think is justified. what we do with that anger is the most important thing.

we can turn it in a way that will help other people that still struggling. >> leyla ended her note with a plea: joining us this morning is dr jeff garderis a psychologist and professor of behavioural medicine. thank you for being with us. >> it's my pleasure. >> teen suicide, the third leading cause of death in teens 15-24. that's a lot, a big number that gets higher when we deal with lgb teens, what did you think when we read the suicide note? >> i have seen this before and i worked with transgender children, and certainly the road that they have is the one less travelled. i think we need to understand that if we don't support all of our children especially our

l.g.b.t. children that have to go through a lot of discrimination, and they - they experience it all their hives, that they are much more at risk for depression for suicide. certainly this is a population that needs our love and they need more love because it's a very hostel world that they live in. >> i want to hone in on something you mentioned. you said the word support. almost as big a character in the story was leyla's mother. for me when i heard the story, the heart-breaking piece was the facebook post that carla, leyla's mother put out saying "my son joshua was hit by a truck", then it was deleted and there was a public outcry. what do parents need to know? >> a lot of people have been negative to leyla's mum. i think that certainly a lot of the criticism has been that she didn't perhaps have the empathy.

we need to empathy for leyla's parents and brothers and sisters. they lost a human being. that's what it is about. we are all human being, and we need to work together. we should learn some of the things that leyla's parents do and many parents of transgender children may not do right within the first few years of dealing with that situation. but most of the parents do learn, and they do accept and they do offer the support. we can learn from their mistakes. we should not condemn leyla's parents. instead we should support them and show them the empathy that we wanted them to show towards leyla. >> the reality is some raised the questioning - i was speaking to my producers about this - some said this is not anybody's business except the family. do you agree with that or do you think it's an opportunity to

have a combination. >> we do need to talk about this. i'm sad leyla's family refs to her as a boy, as -- refers to her as a boy, josh. it's part of denying a journey that their child is going through to be who they want to be. as parents we can learn from the page, we don't want a situation of an l.g.t.b. a transgender child being so rejected that they take their own life. >> quickly, before we let you go there was a religious component. where the religion didn't allow them to accept the assignment. >> no pun intended thank god there are religions that accept

l.g.b.t. children fully as they should. the ones they do not the message they are giving the kids is hate the sin, love the sinner. that doesn't work. it's a 2-sided message. and the dizzy dense in that hurts our children. they need to be fully accepted for who they are. the message, we hope does not damage more of our teening. thank you for being here. >> let's get another look at the forecast. for that we turn to meteorologist kevin corriveau. >> we are looking at pittsburgh shut down because of icing. it's a dangerous situation easing as the day goes on. take a look at the forecast map. you can see how much of the seaboard is dealing with snow rain or weather. a big problem. temperatures on the way up. look at how we go from saturday

to sunday. we are looking at washington at 67. i think we should go down south to washington much. >> it will be sweat. >> thank you. that will do it for me in new york. thanks for watching. >> pan am flight 103 explodes december 21st, 1988 was the right man convicted? >> so many people, at such a high level, had the stake in al-megrahi's guilt >> the most definitive look at this shocking crime >> the major difficulty for the prosecution that there was no evidence >> al jazeera america presents lockerbie part three: what really happened?

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