hello. this is bbc world news. these are our top stories. two bodies from the crashed airasia plane have been returned to shore. the company's ceo says the recovery mission is still in early stages. >> they're narrowing the search. they are feeling more comfortable that they are beginning to know where it is. there's no confirmation no sonaring nothing. some visual identification but nothing confirmed. the ship carrying 700 migrants is docked in italy after being rescued by the italian coast guard. navalny and dozens of supporters are arrested

following a rally in moscow. new zealand is ringing in the new year. this is the scene where it's now 2015. the first bodies from the airasia plane disaster have been brought back to land. the operation to recover more victims and wreckage is hampered by bad weather. 162 were on board when it took off on sunday and all are feared dead. the operation is 100 kilometers southwest of indonesia. seven bodies have been retrieve ed from the water so far. two have been flown back to surabaya where the plane took off as officials try to identify and bury the dead. airasia is saying it's clear

priority is help the victim's relatives. we can get more from jane. >> at surabaya air base the indonesian military respectively bears two coffins of two that died in the air disaster. identified only by numbers, the task now is to give them names. the bodies are taken to a hospital in the city from which the ill fated flight q 8501 took off. the police are electing dna samples and photos from relatives to speed up the identification process. this morning there was a sense of urgency as another body was recover ed from the java sea and brought a shore by helicopter. the head of indonesia search and rescue agency says so far seven of the 162 people who were on board have been recovered. >> the airplane lodge has not

been found yet. today we have recovered seven bodies which include four male and three female bodies. >> the operation is continuing but rough seas and high winds prevented divers from searching the crash zone. singapore is sending two underwater beacon detectors to help find the plane's black boxes. wreckage from the airasia plane was first spotted yesterday. there are reports that one of the bodies found nearby was in a life jacket. one pilot has suggested that could mean the plane stalled and then came down. the head of the airline wouldn't speculate on the cause. >> this is the airline's worst nightmare after 13 years of flying millions of people. it is the worst feeling once it has. we stay strong for families out there to insure we can look after them. >> for relatives of those on

board, the hope of some miracle has now gone. their crushing grief is so so raw there's little that can be done to comfort them. they must wait for answers to their questions, how and why it happened. bbc news. just in the last few minutes we've learned the search and recovery mission operated by the indonesians in the java sea for wreckage and passengers of airasia plane has been called off for the night. we understand it will resume in the morning. now let's speak with bbc indonesian service journalist who's live with us here. you've been watching a press conference in the last hour. what are you told about the rescue operation? >> the head of operation rescues held a press conference during which he said seven bodies have been recovered so far, four males and three females.

he also said that the two bodies already flown to surabaya for identification. he didn't say anything about nationality of the bodies which have been recovered. during a separate interview that we did with the search and rescue operation officials, he said poor weather conditions strong winds and two meter high waves hampered the rescue and search. the visibility was 10 meettermeters. that's why they will continue operations tomorrow morning. >> did they talk about finding the plane itself? yesterday we had the reports of a shadow of the outline of a plane seen in the sea. have they talked about whether

they're able to identify the lodge? >> they haven't been able to find that. during the press conference they said so far they couldn't find the body of the plane. >> we saw a couple of minutes ago people in new zealand celebrating the new year. i'm neurosure indonesia will not celebrate in the same fashion. is it true the president has gone to social media to talk about this? >> yes. the president called for indonesians to celebrate new year modestly. he said that in his facebook account that he also calls for indonesians to remember the victims of airasia q 8501. the newest celebration will be going on in the capital. it will be proceeded by all faith prayers, especially for

the victims of airasia 8501. >> in the press conference you've been describing, we're told the search and rescue operation is suspended today but will presumably begin as soon as sun is up tomorrow? >> yes it will begin as soon as daylight in indonesia. there have been hindered by poor weather conditions as i said before. strong winds and high waves. especially the poor visibility in which the official which we interviewed earlier only 10 to 20 meters which is really hampering the search and rescue operations. >> thank you very much for your from bbc indonesian. earlier i spoke to jeffrey thomas, editor of airline ratings.com about what the search needs to find out to work out what happened. >> absolutely critical to this

is the black boxes, cockpit voice recorder and digital flight data recorder. with the cockpit voice recorder we'll get the last two hours of conversation, the entire flight. the digital flight data recorder records approximately 80 to 90 parameters. that will be the heartbeat of that airplane. it will tell us every thing we need to know about what happened to this this flight. >> one would assume inevitabley when a plane comes down in the sea it breaks up. anything we can learn from the state of the wreckage? >> possibly yes. if the tail -- when i talk about the tail i'm talking vertical stabilizer. if that is intact with the airplane, that tells us the plane basically stayed together all the way.

if it's acceptseparated from the main body and wings, that tells us it likely broke off in flight which may tell us a little more about the conditions that existed when the plane first got into strife. if the plane had blundered into a severe thunderstorm then it's possible that that could tear the tail of that airplane off. it's happened before. that will give us some clues, some early clues, as to what might have happened. really it's the black boxes. >> we have reports one of the bodies recovered was wearing a life jacket. that isn't confirmed. does that seem plausible? >> it doesn't seem plausible. unfortunately we are getting a lot of conflicting information. initially today indonesians said they detected the aircraft by

sonar. now later on this afternoon they seem to be pulling back a little from that saying we imay have located it. >> we are getting reports about a passenger with a life jacket on. i don't believe there was the time to put a life jacket on. if there was time to put the life jacket on there was also time if for the pilots to radio a distress call. some of these reports just don't seem to be credible. they're coming from a variety of different sources. we are treating them with a lot of skepticism until we see a something really concrete photograph graphically from the scene. >> as you've been discussing bad weather continues to hamper recovery efforts in the java sea. in fact the the operations are suspended today and begin in the morning. how's the weather looking at the moment? >> storms are waxing and waning

in the air. it hasn't changed much since the plane went down. let's look at satellite picture around the java sea. this is obviously an area of southeast asia. you can see the individual clusters of thunderstorms in the last day or so. now, what's happening is from day-to-day it changes a little bit. this general envelope whole patent of the storm is pretty much the same. that's not going to change for quite some time. it depends whether we get a gap in storms. that obviously gives slightly better conditions for the aircraft that's out there now. this is the forecast for the next few days. i want to show you. see winds colliding here that causes storms to basically brew. another thing happening, another interesting thing toward the north here that's a tropical storm. basically what it's doing is shunting a lot of winds and causing them to collide with winds coming in from the south.

this is an area of bad weather that's pretty much going to stay stationary for the next few days. the winds itself aren't desperately strong. it's within the thunderstorms we get the gusts of wind reduced visibility. there's the chance in the weekend or so the winds are going to ease a little bit and perhaps the storms are going to ease somewhat as well. the overall patent of this bad weather remains the same. recently we had nasty weather here in malaysia. that's actually going to improve a little with this bad weather service south. >> thank you very much indeed. now, a cargo ship carrying an estimated 700 migrants is docked in southern italy. the italian coast guard brought the ship to port early wednesday morning. the migrants are thought to be syrian and kurdish. james reynolds is in the city. i spoke earlier about where the

migrants are taken to. >> reporter: they're in a local school and gymnasium. that's where the police took them when the ship docked in the middle of the night. there was medical help for those on board. we're not entirely sure what conditions they were in. they had been hidden in the cargo ship. you imagine the conditions would not have been pleasant or comfortable. >> what more do we know other than many are from kurdish or syrian backgrounds? >> reporter: very little at the moment. we're still trying to piece this together the story of how they got on board that boat. the extend to which they were hidden and their relationship if any with the crew. one of the puzzling elements is the whereabouts of the crew. when the coast guard took control of the ship it found according to the reports we've got the ship was set on auto pilot, and there was no sign of

crew. >> you report repeatedly on migrants trying to reach the italian island. is the the route these migrants were on one that's often used? >> it's a much less common route. the route that's usually taken from countries like libya and so on is directly north towards the other side of italy towards the island of sicily as well. this route is less common. to put this in context, in 2014 italy received more than 150,000 migrants from the middle east and africa. that's a large increase on previous years. the international organization for migration says more than 3,000 refugees are known to have died trying to make the journey from africa in the middle east to europe on stable boats. medical sources in yemen say 33 have been killed in a suicide

bombing many the southern city of ibb. the group have routes in northern yemen but extending influence across the country. this brought them to conflict with local tribal groups and extremist elements linked to al qaeda based in the south. the king of saudi arabia is admitted to the hospital for tests. it gave no further details of the 90-year-old who's ruled the oil rich kingdom since 2005. the saudi stock market fell after the news was announced on state television. in a few minutes time we're going to find out about the new tunisian president to be sworn in the first democratic elected president to hold the post. protected. given new hope.

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world news, these are our lead stories. two bodies are brought back to shore as recovery operations are continuing at airasia crash site. seven bodies have been found so far. a cargo ship carrying 700 migrants boarded by the italian coast guard tuesday has arrived safely at the port of gallipoli. the u.s. authorities say a 2-year-old boy has accidentally shot and killed his mother inside a wal-mart. the concealed gun when the child reach into the woman's handgun. this happened in hayden idaho. peter gives us more details. >> reporter: it was a family shopping trip veronica with her son and three other children. they were visiting relatives in hayden, a small town in northern idaho, 100 miles from the canadian border. the tragic sequence of events was recorded on the store's a security camera.

the 2-year-old was sitting in a shopping trolly when he reached into his mother's hand bag, grabbed the small caliber handgun that went off. his mother died at the scene. her husband was not in the store at the time but arrived soon after. the children were taken to a relative's house. the victim's father-in-law said she was a beautiful, young, loving mother. she was not the least bitter responsible. she was 29 and had a permit to carry a concealed weapon. >> here it is around the holidays, just after christmas right before the new year. tragic. tragic accident. >> a spokeswoman for wal-mart said the store was cooperating with the local sheriff's department investigation. she added the shooting was a very sad and tragic accident. bbc news los angeles. more than a dozen antigovernment activists are arrested in moscow including a

member of the russian pro test group pussy riot. they're demonstrating against mr. navalny. he was suspended for praud and de -- for fraud and was detained trying to join the demonstrations. >> 18 protestor who is spent the mights on the streets of moscow after i a rally of 2,000 or so came out onto the streets tuesday night. this hard core freezing night of temperatures around minus 20 degrees continuing their protest against the conviction of navalny for fraud. he emerged as a popular and charismatic opponent to president putin here. he and supporters believe the case against him was politically motivated. so these 18 protestors then joined dozens who were arrested tuesday night for taking part in

this unsanctioned rally. their fate will be decided in the coming hours and days. they include, as you mentioned, one of the members of pussy riot a group that became notorious a couple of years ago when the all female punk group staged a protest against putin and were sentenced to prison. he is now under house arrest and will remain there until his appeal is considered. that could take several months and effectively keep him out of the political game if you'd like which it appears many people here say is what the kremlin wanted. this is a time president putin is extremely popular in russia. this is a time of increased economic difficult when the potential for protests is on the rise. >> thanks to sarah for that. let me show you pictures from bbc newsroom from auckland. it's new year's. you can see the new president of

tunisia. he's celebrating new year's. he's got a few hours to wait. if you're watching in new zealand, you're already celebrating. 2015 has arrived. these are the pictures from auckland as always. the reasonably impressive show coming up in a couple of hours where sidney follows suit. thousands already in anticipation of what is normally a show stopping performance from those that put the displays together. if you're watching in new zealand and catch the first news of 2015 thank you very much for your company. now, as promised let's talk about the newly elected president of tunisia. he's sworn in at a ceremony in the country's parliament. he's 88 and will be the first president there without a democratic mandate. we should remind ourselves how tunisia got to this point.

january 2011 a man bousazzi died after setting himself on fire. in june that year the president ben ali was sentenced to 35 years in prison. he had fled the country months earlier. the party won elections in october but fell short of parliamentary ma jorty. then the national assembly met the first time to start work on thank you constitution. the following year there were more protests over the rights of women in tunis this the draft constitution. let's move on to july 2013 opposition politician was assassinated. there were calls for government to resign. the governing islamist party did agree to new elections. we jump forward to january 2014. parliament party tunisia's first

constitution leading to elections and sebs isi winning the presidential runoff this month. all of which brings to today. let's speak to the bbc joining us live there. i was following you on twitter. i know you were there. tell me what you saw. >> reporter: yes, it was quite a festive atmosphere. the parliament was packed. the business elite were attending and foreign dignitaries. mr. sebsi appeared, a short prayer, and he put his hand on newly adopted constitution this year by this assembly. he swore off and became the new tunisian president. he headed to the palace where the interim president who ran against him in the election handed over power. again a historic moment. this is the first time in country's history a president is not ousted or toppled. >> newly elected leaders say

there's work to do. when he gets down to that work what's top of list of priorities? >> he did say top of the list are young people in this country, struggling to find jobs. he did say he's going to stick to the rule of law, that rule of law is instrumental in the next phase of transition. we have to wait and see how ambitious he is about these reforms. i spoke to him in the runoff of the campaign, and he sounded less keen on far reaching reforms, reforms many think are necessary for this transition to succeed. >> thank you very much indeed for that update. of course what's happening in tunisia matters because of significance to those there but out of unrest intu tunisia a rose in a democratic fashion. you can get those stories and all others on bbc.

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. hello. this is bbc news. two bodies recovered from the airasia plane wreckage. the recovery mission is still in early stages. >> we are narrowing the search. they are feeling more comfortable that they are beginning to know where it is. there's no confirmation of them. no sonar, nothing. a ship carrying 700 migrants is docked safely in italy after being rescued