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go and smell the roses! hello. i'm nik gowing with "bbc world news". our top stories. possible wreckage of the missing malaysian in the southern ocean. military aircraft and naval vessels head to the location. there are reports one ship has reached the area. >> every effort is being made to see it in the satellite imagery. these sightings, while credible,
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are still to be confirmed. >> renewed diplomatic efforts over crimea. the u.n. secretary-general is due to meet president putin in moscow. four men found guilty of gang rapeing a journalist in the indian city of mumbai. >> we now have a credible lead. the words of malaysia's transportation minister on day 13 since flight mh-370 simply vanished. two large pieces of possible debris have been spotted the southern most tip of the massive operation to find the amazing airlines plane. here are the images. they were taken four days ago.
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it's taken that long to process vast amounts of data. one is described as 25 meters long. the other 5 meters. both aware to be awash with water. they were spotted in the southern ocean 2,300 kilometers south of perth. it's a remote deep area of ocean with high winds and strong currents. it is four hours of flying time from perth. well, four p-3 orion reconnaissance aircraft have arrived to make more detailed assessments. one is due there at any point. malaysia says it is north and south. >> reporter: they are beginning
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the challenging task of verifying whether they are parts of the missing plane. new zealand american, and australia maritime involved in the search. the significance of the develop with anxiety to avoid giving false hope to the waiting relatives. >> >> all the families around the world, the one piece of information that we want most, that they want most is information we just don't have, the location of mh-370. ow primary focus has always been to find the aircraft. and our efforts have intensified. we now have a credible lead. there remains much work to be done to deploy the assets and this work will continue overnight. >> you're talking about the great southern ocean. you're talking about very wild seas. and you're talking about a depth of about 10,000 feet. so it's going to be probably the
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most difficult recovery of an airplane ever. if it turns out that's where it is. >> malaysia says for now the huge international search on the southern and northern arcs are positioning. they were asked whether some kind of catastrophic event, failure of the aircraft systems was now being ruled out. >> if we can confirm the debris this morning efforts on are being made to go to that location. >> many questions are not to be answered. in hours or at least days, the
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mystery may soon be resolved. well, an indian ship's captain. his sister is one of the missing passengers on the airliner. the captain joined me from delhi. >> this area has a heavy concentration of garbage due to tides. so there's lots of plastic, lots of floating damage. i have sailed through this area several times myself, the area they are indicating. and what i feel now they are saying they are zeroing down this area from a satellite image. i don't know what they can get out of that. i don't know. i really don't know what the situation is. >> captain, tell us about your sister and what she was doing on her the flight and her plans.
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>> my sister is traveling from -- to go to mongolia for a food and agricultural conference over there. in kuala lumpur she changed. and that's what happened to this flight. that's why we are here. >> what is her profession? what are her skills which meant she was going there? >> she has done social work from a reputable institute in india. the institute of social sciences. and then she had done her doctorate in the same subject. she was working for the cause of international fisherman. she was very, very involved in the last 15 years for that.
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for the plight of the international fisherman. >> did she fly to conferences, like so many of us, i suppose, moving around the world -- >> yes. she was out of the country about 15 days -- 10 to 15 days a month. >> what is your reflection of the way the airline and the malaysian authorities have been in touch with you and how much they have kept you up to date as one of just over 200 members of families around the world? >> they have kept the family up to date in the sense they said not to believe anybody. not to believe the press. not to believe the news channels. not to believe anybody. they said we will update you as and when. and please don't believe anyone. that's what they are saying. we will call you.
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>> did you believe them? have you been believing them with when their morning briefings? >> well, i've been believing them but i have been picking my bits and pieces from everywhere. because i want to believe she is still alive and she will be home for her birthday, which is the 30th of march. >> the captain talking about his sister, who is still missing. theo is joining me, who is monitoring all the different electrical details emerging. in the last few moments it has been reported. there's the location 2,300 kilometers southwest of perth. not square but the red patch there. that's where the debris was found. i'm just pausing for a moment because the norwegian car carrier st. petersburg has reached there. it was carrying cars from madagascar to melbourne. they got a request from the australian authorities to move
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to that area. let's talk about that area. it is about 10,000 feet. that is significant. >> extremely significant. >> assuming this is the debris, what happened is getting what's called the black box. is that possible at 10,000 feet depth? >> it is possible. because flight data recorders and cockpit voice recorders, there are two tops, carry sonar pingers. that can be detbgtable up so six kilometers away. it depends on the topography of the ocean floor. it isn't always flat. if there were reupbls in the way, that can disrupt things. just finding the debris detected will be found on sat lit. >> with the winds, the waves. it's 13 days ago. >> exactly. >> the aircraft sent out there. they are very well aoe equipment. the military aircraft designed
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to detect submarines. again, you have this distance. 2,500 kilometers from perth. by the time they get there, they only have three hours in which to search because they will be running out of fuel. >> let's move on to the next stage of the analysis. there's the distance. look at the size of the space there that's got to be examined. >> it narrows it down a bit. obviously this time yesterday we were talking 2.4 million square miles. that is a vast area. one slow moving car carrier isn't going to be able to cover that much distance. an australian military ship is moving in but won't be moving in for a couple of days. >> tin the a-330 they did have
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black box. >> yes. there was wreckage found within five days. at the moment we're 13 days. they didn't actually found the voice and data recorders tpfor o years. they had to use sa marines to do it. thanks very much for the moment. reports from kiev say the commander of the ukrainian navy has been released. they were detained in crimea wednesday where masked men forced their way into the naval headquarters in sevastopol. they are due hold talks with vladimir putin. eu meters are meeting to discuss the situation and what sanctions might be taken against russia. matthew, we know very clearly
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from chancellor merkel before she left berlin they are looking for a few layer of sanctions to be imposed. >> well, what she said precisely, nik, if russia escalated the situation any further and germany has in recent weeks said that would mean russia move in troops on the ground in eastern ukraine, that would trigger the next phase of sanctions. she also said a very intriguing thing just before taking off from berlin in which she said in essence if the legal basis for the g-8 group of leading industrialized tphaeuzs and it clearly accident, the g-8 no longer exists. so in essence that is her as a leading member of the g-7 group of industrialized nations saying the club of eight with russia included, that's not something that exists anymore. so the summits are on hold. and the very body itself is on hold.
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now, what she has almost signaling there i think is that german resolve is hardening. early on in this whole process it was clear that the germans were very reluctant to bring in sanctions. it looks like the resolve is hardening. that might ease the process moving forward as leaders gather to meet her. >> now, we are seeing the chancellor there. she will be arriving in brussels shortly. what about the overall atmosphere given that president putin said i have no intention or no interest in dividing aou kraeufpblt we just got a report in jeneesa saying there are indications that rush that is preparing military intervention in east and south ukraine. is there a move to give the benefit of the doubt. >> that would clearly trigger the next phase of sanctions. it would trigger, i imagine, ultimately a massive economic
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and trade war between the russia and the european union. look, what i think there is a resolve to do at this moment in time, nik, is for the eu to begin assessing, reassessing its whole relationship with moscow in terms of the energy that europe gets. it gets one-third of its gas or so in russia. in terms of the economic and trade links with russia. in terms of reassessing whether or not moscow is still a strategic partner that brussells and the rest of the eu can rely on. and if they follow through on some of the thinking that i'm hearing about at the moment, if they can maintain the momentum, then what we are seeing today is the start of a seismic shift in the relationship between the eu and russia. we have been here before in 2008 when there was that brief war between russia and georgia. then there was something ideas that the eu did not follow through. will they this time?
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>> matthew, for the moment, thank you very much indeed. the summit convenes not far from where you are in the center of brussells. what's the mood in kiev? i'm joined by david stern. david, first of all, let me just put to you what the ambassador in geneva is saying. they are preparing military intervention in the east and the south of the country. what information might be reaching where you are at the moment? >> nothing besides that. this has been a concern of the ukrainians and the people in the west some time now. ever since the russian upper house of parliament gave permission tore military intervention. and in ukraine, outside crimea and as well as russian officials, comments that they have interests as well russian-speaking population compatriots in the east.
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they have been saying they are very concerned with what's been going on there. so this is obviously a topic that is very much on people's minds. what would give reason to believe this is an even higher risk at the moment. >> david, thank you very much indeed. now, let's pick up on the latest information coming from australia and off the coast of southwest australia with the sighting of possible, and i emphasize possible debris, of the malaysian airliner on day 13 since the airliner disappeared on saturday almost two weeks ago. that debris is seen as credible, according to the transportation minister in kuala lumpur. let's go to jennifer pak. what is emerging about the
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southwest coast of australia? >> reporter: certainly the journalists are excited because we haven't had much new information since the authorities believed the flight could have been hijacked, that it was deliberately diverted by someone on board. they redefined a whole new search area saying they have been searching in all the wrong area. this is the first time we have heard of any sighting of potential debris. again, of course we have toe exercise caution. the reason it is credible is because it fits into what the authorities now have on hand, their information. they are now looking from indonesia all the way down into the indian ocean. they are looking into the northern corridor from northern thailand up to central asia. it is still ongoing. you are talking about 11 countries trying to give diplomatic clearances from military aircraft toss try to
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search. at this point in time the search effort on the southern corridor. they say they have to confirm. you can only think of the family members who are listen to go this analysis and speculation about debris and what will be next. they have been waiting so long to hear any concrete information and to make sense why this happened in the first place. >> i was very struck by what the acting transportation minister said when the events of yesterday where two members who were protesting were taken away. he said i regret the way they were treated. is there a different approach? >> reporter: at this point in
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time all the family members have been kept away from journalists. from day one they flew in family members, most of them from china. more than half come from china. they were in different hotels, separated from the media each family has been assigned a so-called care giver. some families members were willing to speak to the media. they felt they were not briefed properly, not being treated properly. when they are not getting senior officials they feel they are not getting the attention they want. they are not getting any more information even though they have insisted time and time again they have not to hide. they don't have much more concrete information to give them, which is agonizing for the family members. does this mean they will switch tactics and allow them to talk
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crimea. let's move on with the business. maryam joins me with all the business. finally an agreement on the banking union in the european union. >> a long time coming, nik. after a full night of negotiations, the agreement ends a long deadlock and includes setting up a joint authority that can restructure or shut down failing banks. a special fund we built up over eight years. it will be used to cover the bank closures. it gives the provide mary role in triggering the role of the bank. negotiators insisted on reaching a deal before european elections in may. more throughout the day on "bbc world news". >> after toyota agreed too pay $1.2 billion to settle a criminal dispute in the united states over the safety of its
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markets wide. they will stop the pumping of money into the economy. that could have an impact on demand from the biggest economy. more from me throughout the day. now back to you. a kort in the indian say citi of mumbai convicted four men of the gang rape of a photo journalist last year. they have been found guilty of five offenses, gang rape, unnatural sex, destruction of evidence. sentencing is set for friday. the 22-year-old woman was a tabbed by five men while on assignment in a deserted mill in august. the fifth accused to be under 18 at the time of the incident is being tried in juvenile court. and the main news from way off southwest australia from a patch ofs on tile sea. satellite images have shown two parts of a missing malaysian
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over russia's annexation of crimea. the u.n. secretary germ is in moscow to meet with president putin. and the can chicken from hell. a cross between a bird and a lizard. hello, everyone. we now have a credible lead. the words there of malaysia's acting transportation minister. on day 13 since flight mh-370 simply vanished. two large pieces of possible debris have been spotted by satellites just beyond the southern most tip of the massive operation to find the missing malaysian airlines plane. here are the images from the australian maritime agency. they were taken four days ago.
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it's taken that long to post that amounts of data. one is described as 25 meters long. the other 5 meters. both appear to be awash with water. they were spotted in the southern ocean 2,300 kilometers south of perth. it's a remote deep area of ocean with high winds and strong currents. it is four hours of flying time from perth. myers here's mike wild woolridge with the information. >> reporter: objects appear to be bobbing up and down in the water. one 24 meters long. the other around five meters long. search aircraft are beginning the challenging task in this remote location of verifying
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whether they are parts of the missing plane. australia, new zealand and american maritime involved in this stage. ships on their way as well. the malaysian authorities balancing the significance of the development with anxiety to avoid giving false hope to the waiting relatives. >> all the families around the world. the one piece of information that we want most that, they want most is the information we just don't have, the location of mh-370. we now have a credible lead. there remains much work to be done. this work will continue overnight. >> if the airliner has finally been located, experts foresee one of the most difficult recovery operations ever undertaken. >> you're talking about the great southern ocean. you're talking about very wild seas. and you're talking about a depth of about 10,000 feet. so it's going to be probably the
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most difficult recovery of an airplane ever if it turns out that's where it is. >> in terms of what happened on board flight mh-370, the minister was asked whether some kind of catastrophic events the failure of the aircraft systems was now being ruled out. >> it has not been ruled out. the urgency to find the black box will give us more information on that line of investigation. if you can we can determine the debris is the debris the next step is to actually find the black box. >> many questions are yet to be answered. in hours or at least days, the mystery of this new sighting
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deep in the indian ocean may be resolved. well, an indian's ship's captain, his sister is one of the missing on the flight mh-370. we spoke to me from delhi. >> this area has a heavy concentration of garbage due to tides. so there's lots of plastic, lots of floating damage. i have been through this area several times myself, the area they are indicating. and what i feel now they are saying they are zeroing down this area from a satellite image. i don't know what they can get out of that. i don't know. i really don't know what the situation is. >> captain, tell us about your sister and what she was doing on the flight and her plans. >> my sister is traveling from -- to go to mongolia for a
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food and agricultural conference over there. so she took this -- she took her flight from kuala lumpur. in kuala lumpur she changed. that's what happened to this flight. that's why we are here. >> what is her profession? what are her skills which meant that she was going? >> she has done her masters in social work from a represent you table institute of india. institute of social sciences. she had done her doctorat on the same subject.
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and then she had done her doctorate in the same subject. she was working for the cause of international fisherman. she was very, very involved in the last 15 years for that. for the plight of the international fisherman. >> did she fly to conferences, like so many of us, i suppose, moving around the world -- >> yes. she was out of the country about 15 days -- 10 to 15 days a month. >> what is your reflection of the way the airline and the malaysian authorities have been in touch with you and how much they have kept you up to date as one of just over 200 members of families around the world? >> they have kept the family up to date in the sense they said not to believe anybody. not to believe the press. not to believe the news channels. not to believe anybody. they said we will update you as and when. and please don't believe anyone. that's what they are saying. we will call you. >> did you believe them? have you been believing them
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with when their morning briefings? >> well, i've been believing them but i have been picking my bits and pieces from everywhere. because i want to believe she is still alive and she will be home for her birthday, which is the 30th of march. >> the captain talking about his sister, who is still missing. jennifer pak is in kula lumpur. she gave me the latest on how this word "credible" is now being seen in malaysia. >> reporter: certainly the journalists are excited because we haven't had much new information since the authorities believed the flight could have been hijacked, that it was deliberately diverted by someone on board. they redefined a whole new search area saying they have been searching in all the wrong area.
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this is the first time we have heard of any sighting of potential debris. again, of course we have toe exercise caution. the reason it is credible is because it fits into what the authorities now have on hand, their information. they are now looking from indonesia all the way down into the indian ocean. they are looking into the northern corridor from northern thailand up to central asia. it is still ongoing. you are talking about 11 countries trying to give diplomatic clearances from military aircrafts to try to search. at this point in time the search effort on the southern corridor. the australians saying there is potential this debris could be related to the aircraft. but, again, they say they have to confirm. you can only think of the family members who are listen to go this analysis and speculation about debris and what will be next.
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they have been waiting so long to hear any concrete information and to make sense why this happened in the first place. >> i was very struck by what the acting transportation minister said when the events of yesterday where two members who were protesting were taken away. forcibly from outside the media center where the briefings before taking place where he said i regret the way they were treated. is there any indication of a different approach to those who are close to those who are still missing? >> reporter: at this point in time all the family members have been kept away from journalists. from day one they flew in family members, most of them from china. more than half the passengers on board come from china. they were in different hotels, separated from the media each family has been assigned a so-called care giver.
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in some instances our colleagues were blocked from the families. some families members were willing to speak to the media. they felt they were not briefed properly, not being treated properly. when they are not getting senior officials they feel they are not getting the attention they want. simply because it's day 123 -- day 13. they are not getting any more information even though they have insisted time and time again they have not to hide. they don't have much more concrete information to give them, which is agonizing for the family members. does this mean they will switch tactics and allow them to talk to the media? it's unclear. at this point in time malaysian officials are treed treading a different territory because they are looking for a completely different message. haduq was detained in crimea when masked men forced their way
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into the naval headquarters in sevastopol. ban ki-moon is due to hold talks with vladimir putin. first of all, is this a hastery arranged meeting? what is the message do you think that president putin will have for the you know secretary-general? >> yeah. i think this is a hastily arranged meeting. no indication this has been arranged a long time ago. i think this is a specific mission by the u.n. secretary-general. he's coming to russia to start. we're then going to ukraine tomorrow. and it seems to be an attempt to mediate between the two sides with a specific follow of trying to persuade the authorities here in moscow and the authorities in kiev to begin formal direct negotiations. so they can reduce tensions between the two sides and try to reach some kind of diplomatic settlement, some kind of peaceful solution to this yon
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going crisis. the spokesman has been talking about the fact that the secretary journal believes there is room for some kind of peaceful settlement through negotiation. >> given russia's record overseer ya and elsewhere, do you believe that in any way president putin will give more than polite ear to the u.n. secretary-general? >> no. i don't think so. it is being directed by president putin. the question now is whether that will be enough for the kremlin to achieve its overall strategic goal i believe is to undermine roll back the ukrainian revolution and make sure that the government in kiev is compliance with what russia wants. so, you know, that is the question. is taking crimea going to be
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enough for russia, or will that be further military action? at the moment there isn't any sign as far as we can see certainly from here that they are planning further military intervention. what's being said publicly is the opposite with mr. putin saying no, no, no, we do not want to divide ukraine and the spokesperson in effect saying similar things. they are saying if necessary if the ethnic russian population in ukraine is not protected by the governments in kiev then as mr. putin's spokesman said russia would have to act. >> all right, richard. we'll wait to see what a emerges from that. let's go to india now. four men found guilty of the gang rape of a 22-year-old photo journalist in an abandoned decks
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tile milk in august of last year. >> reporter: this course has witnessed what perhaps has been one of the quickest big trials in india. it's taken less than seven months. in august 2013, a photo journalist on assignment taking pictures in the heart of mumbai was gang raped by five men and her colleague assaulted. now, four of those men have been held guilty. a fifth was found to be juvenile, which means he was under the age of 18. he is being tried in a separate court. as far as sentencing is concerned both sides will present their arguments tomorrow. the court will decide what punishment they should be given. the prosecution in fact, is saying they are going to try to see if there is any precedent in which these men can get harsher punishment. what we have seen a speedy trial is the outcome of a new anti-rape law that india passed last year.
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one of the things that it promised was quicker trials. we have seen that sometimes cases can go on for decades without outcome. even in the case of a delhi student gang raped on a moving bus, we did see an outcome in nine months. these made it to the headlines of newspapers that had the media spotlight on them. in the big challenge it will be to assure this speedy action is in short in all the numerous cases that take place across the country. stay with us here on "bbc world news" with me nik gowing. a new species of dinosaur. e thi. and you...rent from national. because only national lets you choose any car in the aisle... and go. and only national is ranked highest in car rental customer satisfaction by j.d. power. (aaron) purrrfect.
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ocean. at cargo ship fris on the way. >> the u.n. secretary-general is in moscow to meet president putin. eu considers more sanctions at a meeting with the heads of government. so it's day 13 of the search efforts. and we now have a credible lead on the search for the malaysian airliner. satellites picking up images showing two large objects that could possibly been debris found on the southern most tip of the search operation. and they are about 2,300 kilometers from perth in western australia. andy moore is with me. you have been doing a lot of digging, andy, as to how that plane came to be where it may have been found in that deep part of the ocean. what have you uncovered? >> sources were telling me last
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night they were pretty sure the aircraft would be found in this a proximate area. they gave a tract that showed when the fuel ran out it was likely to have been in the southern ocean. they were pretty sure that the search would provide some sort of evidence in this area. and it seems that that is the case today. >> well, let's just underscore where that debris is at the moment. here is the map. it's 304,000 square kilometers, andy. 2,260 kilometers from perth. it's a long way out in a very hostile ocean. what are the chances of finding much more 13 days after it disappeared. >> first of all, you have the debris field. we have reports of objects. we don't know if it was from
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mh-370. you have to find the impact point the debris itself may have gone with the currents a long distance. >> very great distances. >> from the actual impact point. so you have to go back and trace the up pact point. they can use the data they have got off the probable cause of the aircraft. >> let me just now show you and the viewers. this from the web site of the australian government. the australian maritime safety authority. an official map. i'm showing she's two lines coming down here. that's an area where the search is under way 2,300 kilometers from perth. the fact here there are two lines with this tag, possible routes, national transportation safety board of the united states. have they, the ntsb in washington, known much more all along? >> it seems so. ntsb have not said anything on record other than they are helping. >> but they clearly have a plot
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here? >> they clearly have a plot. the australians have been working on that information. there are two lines there. those two lines, according to the australians -- >> here are the two lines. >> different air speeds of the aircraft. and then you can see there are three blocks there. the first is the australian search on day one. the second larger is block is the day two. and the smaller one down to the bottom and down to the right, that is the search today. that's based on the satellite images that showed some sort of debris outside the search area. >> now, this is probably where, if it is the plane debris, the plane ran out of fuel after seven hours flying. i'm asking you that because this was all plotted through the communication handshakes every hour as the plane moved down to wherever it moved to. >> that seems to be the case. nobody is saying that publicly on the record. the ntsb is not saying that.
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they are all leaving it to the malaysians to give the public information and the malaysians it seems are not putting in the public domain information that the search authorities are clearly working on. >> right. i have to say it's only credible evidence at the moment that it may be debris. we don't know at the moment. at least not in the public space at the moment. thanks, andy. >> other news at this hour. let's go to the 11 people killed by suicide bombers in an attack on a police station in afghanistan. the attack was in the eastern city of jalalabad early on thursday morning. more than 20 others were injured. suicide bombers stormed the station in the city center close to the office of the governor of the mingahar province. nine people killed in a mini
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bus in turkey. now, they have nicknamed this the chicken from hell. scientists at washington's natural history museum say they have identified a brand-new species of dinosaur. it looks like a cross between on ostrich and lizard. >> reporter: so, hans, what do we have here? >> this is a cast of the reconstructed skull of our new dinosaur. it has a strange bony crust like a bird. it has a beak rather than teeth. and you see this growth here on the lower jaw, we have ridges that fit into this so it can slide this jaw back and forth to cut up vegetation, small animals, whatever it was eatng. >> so without teeth, that's how it eats? >> it has a bird-like beak.
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you see this sharp crest of the bone. you can see all the tkpwraoufs and holes here. this is much luke a fingernail or bird beak. >> how big would this have been? >> this creature reached a length of three and a half meters and stood 1.5 meters at the hip. >> and why is it so important? >> it is the first time, based on these three partial skeletons we're describing, a picture of what the animals looked like. we had little pieces of bones, little individuals bones, sets of bones for over 100 years. but this is the first time we really get an impression of what this creature looked like. eu, ostrich. it has a huge long tail. >> does it tell us anything about dinosaurs in general that we didn't already know? >> well, first of all, lidgeage
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of bird-like dinosaurs. it greatly increases the diversity of dinosaurs that were alive at the very end of the cru crustaceous period. it was on the decline at that time. this, along with some other recent finds clearly shows diversity was very much diminished at this point and this catastrophic impact really did a job on eco systems. >> in other words, when the asteroids hit, that was the end of the dinosaurs? >> other than birds. >> describing the chicken from hell. just time before we go. let me show you these videos from china. that's one of the air force aircrafts of the u. s. air force. on board, hi shell obama, arriving in china for a
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