>> "techknow" where technology meets humanity. monday, 6:30 eastern only on al jazeera america. >> the scattered remains of a passenger jet in the frenchable, 150 people are believed to have died. the german wings flight was flying from barcelona to duesseldorf. 16 german teenagers were on board. >> i'm david foster, you're watching al jazeera. the governor of a major city resigns saying his own security forces are guilty of mutiny. thousands of people forced

from their homes in chile as the villaricca volume volcano let's off steam. and a cartoonist with the voice of the people of bangladesh. >> well, the search has been called off for the night at the scene of the crash at the french alps. all 150 passengers and crew are thought to have lost their lives on the plane and lost altitude from barcelona to duesseldorf. 16 passengers were students from one school returning from a school trip in spain. this was the crash site before dark. some of the debris up there in the snow, but most of it down blow in the valleys very difficult to reach french

authorities have recorded already one flight recorder from the scene but it is so difficult to get to this place that they're bringing down the bodies could take significantly longer, even harder now with the storm forecast to move in overnight. this is where the ask you is being coordinated from, and it's difficult for them to see anything in the darkness and the cold and with the rain coming. we have reports. >> reporter: in a remote alpine valley, the debris of german germanwings 9525 is strewn along the hillside. no one could have survived a crash like this, and retrieving the bodies of all those on board will take days. you can make out the rescue workers struggling up the hillside trying to find the

pieces of the plane. they have found the black box flight recorder that should provide vital evidence as to why this happened. at duesseldorf airport people have gathered to absorb the terrible news. flight 9525 never showed up. it was traveling from barcelona to duesseldorf but crashed in the french alps. this is thought to be footage of the actual plane that crashed an airbus 320 filmed on a previous flight. 9 the french president was hosting the king of spain on an official visit. that has now been cut short. >> we will do everything in our power to understand the cause of the accident and recover all the victims from the crash site. it has taken place in an area

that is especially difficult to access. >> german wings is a low-cost airline owned by lufthansa, and it flies mainly short haul journeys around europe. it has an excellent history with no crashes. the passengers are thought to be french, germany nationals. >> the thought of our daughter company germanwings crashed into the french alps. now our thoughts and prayers are for the families and friend of our passengers on this dark day for our company. >> the town in germany has been hit especially hard. 16 students were returning on the plane from a

spanish-language exchange program. bad weather is threatening to further what hampen what is already a difficult search operation. the search is set to resume at first light. jacky rowland al jazeera. >> the aircraft was on its way to duesseldorf. it's from there that dominic kane reports. >> reporter: as reports came filtering in across germany of the disaster involving the german wings flight from barcelona to duesseldorf concerns was expressed particularly in one community not far from here where local families with deep concerns

because one school had sent its year ten people 16-year-olds, 16 of them, with two of their teachers to spain for a week-long cultural visit. and it has been confirmed that those pupils, those students and their teachers were, indeed, on board the plane. the school has closed for lessons. there will be no lessons tomorrow, but the school will be open to allow students to come in and talk about this tragedy which has taken 16 students out of the community. two of the teachers as well in a small town, a small community already there have been floral tributes. candles lit and left outside of the school as a marketed respect formarked respect left outside. they will all be looking for answers, and certainly that is something that everyone in germ

is now asking what caused this plane to come down. they hope that the answers will come soon. >> well now the opinion of andrew brooks aerospace expert director of aviation matters said that in these situations finding out the cause of the crash can be a long, drawn-out difficult process. >> if they issued the distress call that's totally different than if you vanished off the screen. to not issue a distress call implies a catastrophic failure. that's the fundamental difference. was it a catastrophic failure as it implies or was there something that they were unable to control. until we know that, we don't know which realm we're in. a flight cuss not go from a level benign flight in descent.

you'll have time to shriek if only to tell people i've lost my engines. but if you hear nothing then it's worse than that and you're into major structural failure. this thing would have been flown and flown and flown. that's what it does. yes, it doesn't mean that the systems are not up for it, or the engineering of low quality. this is western europe, spain france germany especially with the germans you can rest assure that this will be maintained to the highest standards. something happened to that, the airplane itself would say, if it could speak what hit me. the plane would not have collapsed. the wings would not have dropped off and disappear in the clouds unless something made it do it.

we can speculate to what that might be. and there are many answers to that question. >> there have been reports that yemen's government has asked for security council to deal with the houthi rebels. the rebels took over taiz on supplied. they're already occupy and control the city of sanaa. they say they plan to push south to the port city of aden where the country's president is trying to hold on to power. several were killed in anti- anti-houthi protests. >> they wore hats with the colors of the yemeni flag.

by day's end several protesters were dead and dozens injured. people have made it clear that they are not welcomed. but the street may be losing to the heavily armed houthies. the governor of the province resigned. his reason forces loyal to the houthis refused to obey his orders. the shia houthies have been in control of sanaa since last september. president abd rabbuh mansur hadi was forced to flee to the southern port city of aden. now the houthis are continuing their advance beyond the capitol and getting closer to the president. but they say they're not after the leader. they insist they're fighting religious armed groups. in the province tribal leaders tell al jazeera they're managing to keep the houthis out. >> the tribes are so peaceful, and this gang of houthis have dragged us into war.

>> tribal leaders say the houthis offered to negotiate but with no success so far, the daily battles continue in the mountains. >> we're defending our land, our country. >> the houthies are saying the same thing. the warring sides are slated to go to qatar in a few weeks for talks. with fast-moving events in yemen the situation could deteriorate even more before then. al jazeera. >> u.s.-led coalition fighting isil says it has carried out eight more airstrikes in syria and further six in iraq. iraq's defense ministry said that isil suffered heavy losses from the attacks east of fallujah. in morocco authorities say they've dismantleed a terrorist cell, which was planning attacks across the country. we have reports from the capital

of rabat. >> reporter: these are members of morocco's counterterrorism unit storming buildings in different cities across the country. they say it was a major operation launch simultaneously to arrest members of an armed group affiliated with isil. they confiscated weapons ammunition phones and laptops. the government said that the group was planning to target syrian political and officials. >> we were determined to continue our preventive measures. it is exactly why we continued the investigations. >> reporter: the newly created bureau is responsible for fighting organized crime and terrorism. >> since we placed the first attack in 2013 we have faced a

new challenge and the new phenomenon of the terrorist threat, and the solution was to adopt a security approach taken in a account the complexity and the evolving aspects of criminality. >> reporter: morocco is part of the u.s.-led coalition against isil. it has recently wrapped up it's security measures. that's because hundreds of moroccoens have joined isil and al qaeda in syria and iraq. abu ahmed was killed during a push by the rebels to capture the city. many of these fighters have crossed to iraq to join isil. moroccoen authorities are concerned about revenge attacks. and some people here are worried the fight against the armed

groups might be used as an excuse to clamp down on human rights. but officials say that won't happen. >> once we gain information about terrorists acts, getting prepared, we get the information. we make sure that it's true, and we inform justice. >> the army and place patrol main streets government buildings and airports. it's part of the tightened security measures implemented across the kingdom. the authorities say they have broken up else cells of groups recruiting sending fighters to syria and iraq, but the biggest concern is the growing number of moroccans fighting against isil and al qaeda fighters and the

concern is that they'll make it back to the country. >> after this break you can find out why the u. state of utah might turn once again to firing squads. and a good day in india as the supreme court strikes down a law that infuriated many.

>> i'm david foster. this is al jazeera. investigators at the plane crash

in the french alps say they have found one of the data recorders. 150 people are believed to have died. it was german wings flight 9525 on its way from barcelona to the german city of duesseldorf. the plane began to loss altitude after reaching 38,000 feet. it fell for eight minutes before crashing. six crew under 44 passengers were on board. among them two babies and 16 german high school students. many march for justice for a woman who was lynched by eight people for having burned the holy book of qur'an. 18 people have been arrested. 13 police officers have been suspended as part of an investigation into the killing.

talks in what might an unity government will resume on wednesday, but the fighting continues. the u.n.-backed leadership is operating out of tibruk only east of the country. the capitol of tripoli is under control of a rival group called the general national congress. that group has the support of the powerful libya dawn militia based just to the east of tripoli. >> it has long been criticized for acting as an independent state. it has been accused of using military force for political gain. and it has been labeled as an extremist stronghold. misrata denies all that, but there is no doubt that this city in central libya is not only powerful in its own borders but it's influence extends far beyond.

>> to a large extent the government in tripoli relies on the libyan dawn military alliance to stay in power. and misrata seized the capital last year. >> it has thousands of fighters constituting one of the largest armed groups in the country. it acquired mass quantities of weapons. they did not disarm nor did they unite with other forces, but recently violence has escalated and there seems to be a growing realization among those among the gnc that there is no military solution to this conflict. >> within the gnc there were some voices who i considered as extremists to a degree. fortunately, there are a lot of people who recognize that the

only way to make peace in libya and to move towards democracy is to have dialogue with all sides. >> but they also have a red line. the libyan dawn alliance is at war with general haftar's forces who backed the government in the east of the country. misrata and it's allyies have long aused haftar of being a dictator. so far they haven't succeeded. >> haftar only makes statements. they said the same thing about bengahzi but they have not been able to take. we tell them to take bengahzi first. >> rifle factions are now talking, not face to face, but the international community is trying hard to bring about unity.

they're working along the many front lines that have divided this country. al jazeera misrata. >> now chile the country's second highest level of alert has been issued after what is happening after the volcano of villaaricca in the south. nobody quite knows when it will erupt again here is our latin american editor lucia newman, who is pretty close. >> we're told one of the most dangerous things is not the lava, the red-hot lava that we saw spewing out of here ten days ago. but rather if such, if it were to happen again the glacier and know at the top of the volcano could melt very rapidly unleashing tons of water and it would bring with it rocks and bolders in its path. this is extremely dangerous for the 85,000 people living around

this volcano. the last major eruption was 44 years ago. people seem incredulous saying that it's been so long. nothing is going to happen. it's not so dangerous. something that seismologists something that is not true. but in fact, all around here people are building homes. as i speak they seem to believe that anything will happen to them. >> utah has become the only u.s. state to authorize firing squads to carry out the death penalty. it was a law signed after concerns following the effectiveness of all the concerns about the effectiveness of lethal injections. now firing squad can only be used if the state cannot lawfully get its hands on the drugs. let's go to a long-time leader in the fight against the death penalty. he explains why pharmaceutical companies are reluctant to provide the drugs. >> reporter: i think there are

three separate factors in play. the first is that the market has spoken. american pharmaceutical companies have determined that they don't want their life-sustaining drugs to be used in life-taking enterprise like executions. in addition that is meant that supplies from american manufacturers are pretty much dried up. in decision europe has taken the consistent position that the death penalty is a violation of international human rights law. because it's a human rights violation europe has forbade the european pharmaceutical companies from exporting drugs to the united states or to anywhere else to be used in executions. as a result of that there has become a shortage of available drugs. >> at the same time that that's happened the states have been experimenting with different drug protocols, and that's resulted in the number of botched executions. there is a very bad execution in arizona where the defendant was

gasping for breath for 45 minutes and described as flopping around like a fish. there was a failed excuse in ohio followed by another botch where a person took an extended period of time to die and a botched execution in oklahoma. the combination of the drugs being unavailable and the states being unable to administer the death penalty through lethal injection in a humane and swift way has caused a current crisis with respect to lethal injection. >> now the trials have begun on an anti-corruption campaign and the book about so-called blood diamonds. his name is rafael marquez charged with defaming several generals after publishing a book of alleged human rights abuses. he said he won't be shut up. a controversial law that makes it illegal to post

offensive content online. let's go to our correspondent in the indian capital new delhi. >> one of the largest complains was this law was used arbitrarily. anyone could use this law to file a police complaint if the person making the complaint happened to come someone of wealth or influence the police would follow through with an arrest. in 2012 during the citywide shut down of mumbai after the death of a well-known political figure. one woman posted why did the city have to be shut down. another woman liked it, and both were arrested by police. cases like this are common, and they said that a law was far too vague or draconian which the supreme court agreed with and struck down.

now with this law in the internet indians have more freedom currently to post what they want online. but even though they don't have to worry about the legal consequences there are still social and cultural consequences of posting online here. many groups use thugs and goosen to threaten people who say or post things they don't agree with. as for legality. parliament will have to write a new law specifically for the internet, one people hope will be far more fair and far less draconian. >> now this may look just like a bit of a scribble to you. it is both funny to some, and it is serious as well. and it has obtained a cultural status. we are off to bangladesh where a wise-cracking street urchin, you

may see him behind me, has jumped off the page to become the voice of the people. >> all it takes is a few strokes for him to create an image that resonates with bangladeshis young and old. bought bellied and prematuring balding,'s an unlikely candidate for the affections of his countrymen. >> many people have called me to say that they were thinking the exact same thing. that they are glad that he came out and said what they were too hesitant to say. >> he has been a huge success since he made his first appearance in 1978. he realized that that seemingly

powerless street urchin could get away saying things that others could not. >> i would make this cartoon against police officer and i would make fun of their flaws and they never got angry for that. >> he started making political cartoons in the 1960s. but his training was as an artist and today galleries and collectors seek out both his strips and his paintings. >> his character is not only a vehicle for humor but for protest against all our societies' injustice. >> he is focused less on cartoons and more on his paintings.

he creates compositions that reflect the hustle of bangladesh. al jazeera. >> i'll draw your attention to www.aljazeera.com. >> we're driving to a crime scene in a suburb outside of columbia, south carolina... we've come because more women are killed by men here than any other state in the country... around 10:30 in the morning, a