the israeli prime minister's controversial speech in the u.s. is over, but it looks like the fallout will last much longer. two australians convicted of drug trafficking in indonesia are running out of plan. their planned executions are imminent. and ferguson, missouri getting a scathing report card when it comes to race. hello, i'm rosemary church. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. >> i'm errol barnett. this is cnn newsroom.

en. >> if iran threatened to walk away from the table and this often happens in the persian bazaar, call their bluff. they'll be back. they need the deal a lot more than you do. >> the white house is dismissing mr. netanyahu's speech as more of the same. president obama said he didn't have time to watch or listen butsame. president obama said he didn't have time to watch or listen but did read a transcript of the speech. here's his response.

>> on the core issue which is how do we prevent iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon which would make it far more dangerous and would give it scope for even greater action in region. the prime minister didn't offer any viable alternatives. >> back home in israel mr. netanyahu is facing an election challenge in the coming weeks. kate bould win reports on how his feature is congress may affect his chances. >> reporter: all of the television networks in israel covered the prime minister's speech. everyone watching with great interest. the response and reaction afterward among reporter commentators and journalists and analysts was split. generally speaking folks thought the prime minister gave a good speech in terms of his delivery. he's known for doing just that. folks commenting on how many standing ovations the prime minister received. the cheers that he received when he spoke before congress. beyond that though is where

opinions divided especially over the key issue of the impact the speech may or may not have in negotiations over iran's nuclear program. >> i am proud of our prime minister who came and said exactly what we feel. it is a bad deal. >> there is no doubt that prime minister netanyahu knows how to make good speeches but let's confess the truth. that speech that we heard earlier this evening, as impressive as it may be did not prevent the iranian nuclear program. it will have no impact on the agreement that is being formed nor on the schedule. >> that madison isaac heart zog the man that benjamin netanyahu is locked in a tight race with now. the election is in two weeks. that's a key factor testimony might not be the only motivation behind the prime minister's speech but seen from israel, many folks think that the speech was targeting or trying in at least part to woo over voters at

home. that's why many commentators say they're interested in seeing what new surveys and polls show over the coming days to see how the message sits with israeli voters. kate bolduan cnn, jerusalem. as expected the speech didn't go over well with iranians. many insist the nuclear program is peaceful and the country has a right to develop it. fred pleitgen brings us opinions now from tehran. >> reporter: it's not a surprise that benjamin netanyahu's speech didn't get much live airplay in tehran. many here certainly followed what israel's prime minister had to say, and the vast voter didn't like it. >> america is trying to reach something with iran. you know an agreement. but netanyahu, israel is trying to make it like you know stop banning us. >> reporter: nuclear negotiations and the looming deadline for a framework agreement are among the biggest topics in iran these days. while most are cautiously

optimistic others say they don't believe an agreement will come through. are you confident there will be an agreement? >> yes. >> reporter: why? >> because iran exists to finish this problem. also america exists to finish this problem during the president obama. >> they made us lose hope and everything. i don't think -- i don't think so. i don't have belief in anything. >> reporter: it remains unclear how much of its atomic capabilities haven't willing to give up in exchange for sanctions relief. most iranians believe their country has a right to develop a nuclear program, especially a peaceful one. >> reporter: nuclear technology is a thing of national pride for many here. if you talk people they will tell you they badly want the sanctions to be lifted so they can finally get direct investment into the country and have a chance for economic development. the west is worried that iran could work to make a bomb if it

its uranium enrichment isn't controlled. the iaea says tehran has not given enough information to prove the nuclear program is solely for civilian purposes. mum murandi, a professor at tehran university believes fear of iran's atomic ambitions are overblown. >> in a poll carry out in iran a month ago, 70% some of iranians believe that the nuclear program is completely peaceful. in addition the fact that the religious authorities in iran have given fatwas against nuclear weapons adds to this argument. >> reporter: but fatwas will do tloitsd ease the skepticism in western countries. while many iranians hope an agreement will come together that will ease their economic pain. fred pleitgen cnn, tehran. now another big story we're watching. outrage frommous as two of its

citizens may soon face an indonesian firing squad. andrew chan and maran sukamaran were sentenced to death in indonesia for plotting to smuggle more than eight kilograms of heroin from indonesia to australia in 2005. >> we understand that just a short time ago the two were transferred from prison to an island where they are expected to be executed. we have the latest on the fate of these prisoners now live from bangkok. clemency denied quite forcefully by the president there. what options are left for the australians, and how much time do they have left? >> reporter: list and less and option -- less and less and options are growing thinner on the grown. a short while ago, our team in jakarta spoke to one of the lawyers for the two who said that they are still appealing both to the president and

attorney general to hear their appeal, to let them hear the appeal before they proceed with the execution. as we know this morning, the two australians, taken away from bally's prison where they've been -- balli's prison where they've been since 2005, transferred to security island. it's where executions take place, a recent execution just last month, as well. so the wheels are in motion. we don't know whether they have been given the 72-hour heads up if you like about the execution taking place. hasn't definitely been shared with the public. but just to give an idea of the legal ranglings, this is still a little bit of legal battle going on a legal rang buildingling between the sides. what the lawyers for both are saying is lock the president, since he came into government has outright denied any form of clemency any kind of appeals.

and he is not giving them due process. this isn't justice as far as they're concerned. they want to hear this to be heard in court. they want people to know that these are two men who have been rehabilitated. andrew chan is a preacher in prison in fact. and the other is mentoring other inmates using art classes. they're saying they are reformed characters. nascar, the foreign minister -- in fact the foreign minister is saying these two as far as drugs crimes are concerned are models for what the world over is trying to achieve with drug-regular crimes. errol? >> and it's an interesting point because execution for a failed drug smuggling attempt does seem harsh. indonesian officials have made it clear that's the law of the land there. why has the president been so hardline on this case? in previous executions you had brazilian officials saying the fact they executed a brazilian

national will impact diplomatic relations. why is he taking such a hard line on this? >> the execution seems incredibly harsh, particular flee australia. the prime minister tony abbot said we abhor drug crimes but we also abhor the death penalty. he said australians will be sickened to their stomach early morning hearing that the prisoners have been moved to execution island. now, the president despite many appeals directly from tony abbot, i mentioned the prime minister bishop as well has refused to back down or bow down perhaps this is a stance that he wants people to see since he's come in to government. but he's going to stand firm. he's. a man that's going to be turning back on any of his decisions. he spoke to cnn exclusive lyly and said no compromise no compromise on drug related

crimes because it's a huge issue. 18,000 people die every year in drug-related issues. this is the way he plans to stamp it out. human rights watch, of course has released a statement saying this is not the way to stamp it out. it doesn't deter people from carrying out those crimes as you've seen with these two australians. >> live in thailand as these two australians ahn who understand are on their way or have arrived already on a place known as execution island. we'll keep our viewers updated on what unfolds over the next few hours. thanks. still to come federal agents crack down on dozens of locations in california that they say were being used for so-called maternity tourism wham that means coming up. we'll bring you details on a damning probe that shows

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welcome back. we can report on scathing report for the u.s. city of federal ferguson. the justice department -- of ferguson, missouri. the justice department says it's found a pattern of discrimination against african-americans by the city's police and by the courts as well. >> u.s. attorney general eric holder ordered the civil rights probe after the death of michael brown, an unarmed black teen shot by a white officer. the officer was not charged in the killing. the full report is expected to be made public later today. let's show you some of the findings. it just spanned from 2012 to 2014. for two years here african-americans coulded for 85% of traffic stops in cases

where police used force. 88% were against blacks. 93% of people arrested in that time frame were african-american. >> for perspectivespencerperspective, consider that 67% of the city's population is black. investigators also found racial jokes in government emails. >> some people were trading jokes. i'll read you one of them that refers to in 2008 november right after the election of president barack obama, one person sent an e-mail in which he said president obama wouldn't likely last in office for very long because "what black man holds a steady job for four years." this is when the justice department says was going on been the scenes and it underscores and backs up what we heard on the streets there in ferguson when we were down there and people were protesting after the killing of michael brown. >> we'll talk about this more in depths now with cnn's senior analyst jeffrey toobin joining

us from designees.c. this report substantiates what so many black residents had been telling cnn that for years the police and court systems discriminated against them. what do you make of the concrete proof that we found inside the department of justice report? >> it's a very damning report and i think it explains some of the anger that we saw in ferguson. obviously the precipitating factor for the anger of the killing of michael brown, an unarmed african-american young man, by darren wilson a ferguson police officer. but the roiling resend. that african-americans felt -- resentment that african-americans felt in ferguson after years of mistreatment by the police start to come clear in this report and now the question is what is anyone going to do about it. >> i think one of the most troubling aspects is that it appears there was a real policy in ferguson to essentially use petty citations, things like

jaywalking that disproportionately affected black residents to balance the city budget. i mean, how explosive is that in and of itself? >> well this is really i think, going to be a big national story. it's not just in ferguson. you have a lot of communities where the people in charge are reluctant to raise taxes. but they still obviously need money. they are using law enforcement as an income-generating department. and they are doing that by doing lots of petty arrests, as you pointed out jaywalking various traffic infractions, and those police arrests, investigations have fallen heavily on poor and minority people. this is really becoming a civil rights issue in the united states.

dpergs is just the tip of the iceberg. >> we want to watch closely to what happened in ferguson. you mentioned the department of justice will officially release the report wednesday. then what? what is the way to fix such a systemic issue? >> reporter: what the justice department is trying to do is they are entering -- probably entering on what's call a consent decree. that's essentially an agreement between the city and the justice department to make changes did. hasn't been spelled out yet. usually what that means is that changes in training changes in certain policies perhaps a move toward hiring more african-american police officers. this is a 67% black city and only a bare handful, i think less than 10% of the police force is african-american. that's a huge problem right there. so the justice department will reach the agreement and then put in place supervision to make sure that it's followed. >> yeah, at the least you do have this report which now puts

a magnifying glass on really the warts of the city. some of its least favorable aspects. jeffrey toobin senior legal analyst from d.c. we appreciate your insight to. >> okay, errol. now for the latest scandal out of washington. hillary clinton is under fire using only a personal e-mail account and not her government account while she was u.s. secretary of state. a clinton aid tells cnn there is a reasonable explanation. clinton had a blackberry before she became secretary of state and kept using it after she joined the obama administration. the white house is defending clinton's actions but stressing the importance of preserving e-mail record. take a listen. >> we encourage people to use their official government e-mail account when they're conducting official government business. however, when a personal e-mail account is involved the law

suggests or the law mandates in fact that that record be properly preserved, and they -- and that can be done by forwarding it to an official government e-mail where it's preserved on the system. that's what secretary clinton's team did. >> since clinton left office the national archive laws have changed. private accounts are only to be used for government business in the case of emergencies. a rousing reception for israel's prime minister from members of the u.s. congress. we'll show you why some democrats say he might have changed their minds on nuclear talks with iran. sometimes romantic. there were tears in my eyes. and tears in my eyes. and so many little things that we learned were really the biggest things. through it all, we saved and had a retirement plan. and someone who listened and helped us along the way. because we always knew that someday the future would be the present.

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an ounce at the kathmandu airport left a turkish airlines plane stranded between the tarmac and a grassy area. >> we not the plane skidded you off the runway during -- skidded off the runway during landing. i know there's new information coming in to us. the fact that there were two attempts we understand to land. the international wing of the airport is closed but what do we know about what went wrong this morning? >> reporter: that's right. it's a bit too early for officials to say for sure what exactly went wrong. most of them are saying now that poor visible seems to be the main reason here. it's been raining nonstop for the past few days which is unusual for this time of the year. officials say the plane actually

circled around kathmandu valley for an hour and a half trying to land. one passenger we spoke to said he think the plane circled around kathmandu valley about seven times and made two attempts to land. the first time it got very, very close to the runway but took off again. the announcement was made that this was due to the poor visibility and when the second tampa of made again about 45 minutes later, the plane actually crash-landed. the witness, the passenger said he heard a loud sound and a plane skidded for 15 to 20 seconds and into that grass area of the runway which you can probably see in the picture now. the nose is on the ground, as you see. the front landing gear seems to have completely collapsed. and the evacuation slides are out. and of course all the passengers all 224 of them were evacuate edd safely. one official said there seemed

to be a small technical problem but didn't elane rat. poor visibility -- elab be rate. poor visibility is blamed but they're looking into it further. >> as you say, possible technical problem, but combined with this visibility issue -- and we can see this n those pictures we know of course there's fog we can see that. it happened early in the morning. talk to us about usual flying conditions what they are typically and why they would have perhaps gone ahead with this given that it's almost zero visibility from what we're saying there? >> reporter: i fly to nepal all the time actually and normally during this time of the year the skies are very clear the beginning of the climbing season the trekking season to the himalayas, the best time to see the mountains. we were just there a few days ago, and it was raining nonstop even then. the plane did circle around a few times to land. it took about an hour for us to land. and the plane was delayed

whether we tried to take off, as well. this is again maybe two on three days ago. so this is very unusual for, you know, for nepal, this weather during this kind of time. plane crashes especially smaller aircraft do crash quite regularly especially in the domestic sector of nepal. it is considered one of the most difficult places one of the most difficult countries to land in especially higher up in the himalayas. we saw a smaller aircraft crash about a year ago. so higher it up's more difficult place to land, but this is the first time in over two decades that we're seeing anything significant happen to a larger aircraft in kathmandu valley. >> all right. monitoring the situation in new delhi from kathmandu, nepal. thanks. u.s. federal agents cracking

down on what they're calling maternity tourism in southern california. >> outside o tuesday they raided more than three dozen so-called maternity hotels where foreign women are about to give birth. the alleged purpose is to have children born with american citizenship. officials say the sites catered largely to women from china who paid up to $50,000 give birth in the states. before he was one of the sinister voices of isis he was apparently a shy british school boy. coming up, new details about the odyssey of the man now known as jihadi john. plus a fugitive former nsa contractor edward snowden, wants to return to the united states but he has one condition. we'll tell you about it.

a warm welcome back to those of you in the us and around the world. i'm errol barnett. >> i'm rosemary church. we want to update you on our top stories. two australians days away from appearing before a firing squad. andrew chan and myuran sukumaran have been moved to execution island despite calls for clemency. they were viced for trying to smuggle heroin. nsa leaker edward snowden is in negotiations to return to the united states. only if he's guaranteed a fair trial. that's according to his lawyer who says a plan is currently in the works that could make that happen. snowden leaks thousands of classified u.s. documents before taking asylum in russia back in 2013. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu says negotiations with iran all but

guarantee the country would develop nuclear weapons. hoe made his case against the deal in a speech to the u.s. congress tuesday. the white house says netanyahu's speech contained nothing new. more than 50 members of congress boycotted mr. netanyahu's speech. some calling it just a stunt. they say a stupt to help him win re-election. >> one congressional leader who did attend was house democratic leader nancy pelosi. chief congressional correspondent dana bash has details on her reaction. >> reporter: if you got any glimpses of her on the floor sitting on the house floor watching the prime minister she was visibly miffed. just sort of like the president looked shortly after, she was agitated and she put out a statement shortly after saying that she was nearly in tears and in near tears throughout the prime minister's speech saddened by the insult to the intelligence of the united states.

let the me play as well what she said afterwards when those of us in the press corps tried to get her to elaborate on that. >> the united states of america has as one of the pillars of its national security and its foreign policy to stop the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. that's what we do. and that's what the president is doing in negotiations. if the deal isn't gived in we won't accept -- isn't good enough we won't accept. i don't think we needed lectures that. that's my view. >> reporter: to be clear, she is -- in one camp of the democratic party, many of those actually didn't even show up. she had a different kind of responsibility because she is the house leader. but there are a lot of democrats, and i know you heard them all day today, jake you saw them applauding very energetically, that agree with the prime minister. and they don't think that this deal that their fellow democrat in the white house working with the allies is going down the right path. there's very much a split here

about the reaction to -- not just whether the prime minister should have given the speak spooech, but more personally -- speech but more personally whether the message was accurate or frankly, offensive. >> dana bash speaking with jake tapper earlier. that's the democratic response, you could see. meantime congressional republicans had nothing but the highest praise for mr. netanyahu's speech. house majority whip tried to downplay any political differences. >> it's a small group of people i think that might have opposed it. i think most americans embraced it. the president himself i think tried to inject politics into it. but i thought the prime minister did a really good job tactfully. at the beginning of a speech at defusing policewomen political implications. -- defusing political implications. you saw not only republicans but democrats standing up giving standing ovations, more standing ovations than i may have seen for state of the union addresses. >> secretary of state john kerry and iran's foreign minister are

heading up the nuclear negotiation s negotiations in switzerland. the foreign policy chief says the talks are going well. she is urging all parties to keep up the diplomatic efforts. the us and other western countries are offering to ease crippling economic sanctions if iran agrees to curb its nuclear program. >> despite prime minister netanyahu's urgent warnings israel's intelligence agency actually reached a different conclusion about tehran's nuclear threat. leaked documents say iran was not working toward a nuclear weapon. christiane amanpour asked israel's intelligence officer about that. take a listen. >> reporter: how do you explain your own intelligence saying that hang on, he's got the timeline wrong? >> this is not the case. i am prime minister of intelligence speaking on almost a daily basis with the people of

intelligence head of musaad. i am getting all the reports on a daily basis and telling you that we now estimate that the forthcoming agreement -- it's not concluded yet, but from what we see will give less than a year breakout time in the next few years, that after five or six years, the breakout time will even be reduced, and after ten years when some of the restrictions will be all that will be lift, it might be even one month breakout time for material for many bombs. >> in our next hour, we'll get reaction from the director of the american jewish committee in israel on those suspense. iraqi forces are battling right now retake control of tikrit from isis. up to 30,000 troops and militia men have been sealing off different sides of the city. they have yet to move into the

city. >> meanwhile, a dramatic scene of caught on video just outside tikrit. we want to show it to you. iraqi forces spotted what they believe was a suicide attacker approaching quickly. watch what happened next here. [ gunfire ] [ shouting ] >> a massive explosion. you see the dust there. we are getting word -- we should say there's no word yet on casualties from this incident. >> keep an eye on that. in another story, he's one of the most recognized voices of the islamist group isis the man known as jihadi john. he's appeared in several gruesome isis videos. >> a new audio recording, if it is him reveals new details about his life before becoming the man behind the mask. we have the story.

>> reporter: the voice of jihadi john has been skrutnized for months. every vowel, every turn of phrase analyzed. now the world knowns him as muhammad emwazi. this photo was believed to have been taken in 2010 while in kuwait. and now an audio recording purported to be emwazi in 2009. voice analysts tell cnn that the voice matches that was jihadi john. >> this is a wrong thing. what happened was wrong. >> reporter: the british advocacy group released the audio tuesday. in it emwazi recounts to cage his version of events when british officials questioned him. >> after what i just told you, after i told you that was happening is extremism, this and that you're suggesting that i'm an extremist. yeah just going on trying to put words into my mouth saying new york you're doing this and this we're going to keep a close eye you on mum. we're going keep -- muhammad. we're going to keep a close eye on you.

rope we're getting a slow picture of who muhammad emwazi of before he became the mass murder here's today. >> was bullied a little because he was -- he was quiet and reserved. generally he was fine. there were no issues no massive behavior problems with him. by the sixth form he'd settled. he was working hard and achieved great grades. >> reporter: how did you first heard that emwazi was in the historic videos? what was your reaction? >> my blood ran cold. honestly even now when i hear the name, i find it difficult to marry what i've clearly seen on the tv with the person that i knew. it literally makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. >> reporter: for the people who knew him it is difficult to fathom that mum emwazi is -- muhammad emwazy is the man behind the mask. for his family believed to be in quiet it is a nightmare. british media citing british

sourcesing his mother recognized his voice from the very first beheading video. his father according to the "british daily telegraph" denounced his son as "a dog, an animal a terrorist. "atika should beer cnn, london. to moscow now. slain opposition leader boris nemtsov has been laid to rest. the outspoken critic of president vladimir putin was fatally shot friday while walking near the kremlin. there have been no arrests, but officials say they are taking all necessary steps to kwiend i fine his killer -- to find his killer or killers. a mission to eradicate polio. some parents are refusing to get their kids vaccine benated. now they are being locked up. plus, a documentary on china's air pollution is getting a huge response. a closer look at why it's gone viral ahead. ♪ calloused fingers from my guitar strings. ♪ ♪ wild like the wind in the tall

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breaking news coming in to cnn now out of ukraine. we understand at least 30 people are believed to be dead after a coal mine explosion in the eastern part of the country. this report coming to us from the reuters news service. now this explosion at a coal mine happened this the don ecoregion. you'll know this is controlled by russian-backed rebels. and it's an area of conflict over the past few millions. local official tell righter that rescue workers have not been able to make it to the part of the mine where the explosion took place. they have to remove poisonous gas first. this is still a serious situation. just to repeat, reuters reporting at least 30 people believed to be dead after a coal mine explosion there in the donetsk region. we will bring you more information as we get it. for now we want to turn to pakistan which leads the world in the number of new cases of polio. now officials are locking up parents who refuse get their

children vaccinated. more than 500 parents have been arrested in just the past couple of days. journalist michelle stockman is in islamabad to tell us more. michelle, talk to us about why these parents are not getting their children vaccinated against polio, and whether they understand the consequences if their children do contract polio. >> reporter: that's right. 513 parents were arrested. they have been released. signing an affidavit that they will vaccinate their children. there's a number of reasons that parents resist vaccinating their children. this is a small minority 5% of parent are refusers. some of the reasons include that they worry about the effect of the vaccine on their children. there's rumors that it causes sterilization. they also don't consider this particular vaccine to be of importance equal to other things such as for roads, lack of water lack of electricity.

and they're resisting the vaccine as a way to protest again the government asking them to address these other problems. there are also wishes militancy. since 2012, the taliban has banned the vaccine in areas under its influence. not own that, they've gone after health care worker that go door to door dropping off this vaccine to the children. over 70 health care workers have been gunned down, most on the job since 2012. >> and so to them, it's a matter of other things are more person. >> -- more important. >> at this point what tell take for parents to be released? presumably they will be forced to have their children vaccinated. but what if some refuse to do that? >> reporter: right now we're not aware of what the consequences will be if they don't follow through on the affidavit they have signed. this is an issue of primary importance for the government.

there's a lot of embarrassment and public backlash for the province. there are 2.7 million children, tens of thousands at risk because their parents have refused the vaccine. the highest number of cases are coming from this province. spam last year the high ever number be in the world, 327, currently leads the world in new cases with 13. the government is serious. say that sent out armed guards with the health care workers to try and make sure this happens. this is an effort to really push this vaccine campaign through. >> all right. reporting from islamabad where the government is really cracking down on parents. many thanks to you. now a new documentary about china's smog problem is a massive hit on line. >> under the dome has already gotten more than 100 million views since its release sudden night. some have criticized the film and the chinese journalist who made it saying it doesn't get

into solutions. >> earlier, jennifer turner of the china environment forum at the wilson center in washington explained why she thinks this has gone viral. >> reporter: it's a very powerful film. and she's an excellent investigative journalist but she's also tapped into what are the real fears that the chinese public has had. they've seen the air quality getting worse and worse the last few years. and she tells us well, it's been going on even longer. she's not there just to fearmonger now create, i think a primer of where is this coming from. it's the coal, the oil, steel. and it's true that while she is pointing to problems with the industry, she's also equally damning of the poor regulation, the poor enforcement and looking at the gaps in governance. what i thought of positive about it was how many people spoke to her quite openly. government researchers, i mean people on the street, obviously. >> and many internet users are

compare -- have compared "under the dome" to "an inconvenient truth," the documentary on climb change by former u.s. vice president al gore. >> for more on ongoing problems in china, we if to meteorologist pedram javaheri. fantastic movies aside, that hasn't really done much to change policy. climb change and these things continue to be an issue. what's the initial china? >> the world's large ever population is china. the largest manufacturing sector is also in china as well. you put those together it's not a good recipe. the pattern the last ten years, we've seen the lung cancer rates double across beijing in particular. they've doubled, and the smoking rates have dropped. when you think about the numbers, it's remarkable. want to show what we have as far as the air quality concerns. you typically see it in beijing unhealthy to very unhealthy, eventually for the hazardous category. at this point unusual, but in the last couple of days in the good to moderate scale. the aqi, when you get to above

500, becomes hazardous. at times we've seen this beyond index or some 20 times higher than what the world health organization would consider to be holiday. you know los angeles has a distinct for poor air quality. if los angeles were to be placed in china, out of the 74 cities the environmental protection agency tracks air quality they would have the cleanest air in the 80 scale, the moderate scale, the worst compare to the beyond index. north of the line 500 million people reside. what occurred here in 1950 the chinese government disseminated some free coal for the people across the region because north of the line climatologically speaking is when the winter temperature is below freezing. you naught into perspective and look at what's transpired in recent years. pollution levels, 55% higher. studies finding that life expectancy across the area of

china, 5.5 years shorter because of the fine particulates into the atmosphere. unfortunately, when you look at the weather pattern we know warm air typically less dense is above the more dense cooler air. the cooler air traps some of the particulates at the surface level where the 500 million people are breathing and it becomes a dangerous scenario for a lot of people across the portion of the world. look at the volcano across chile the past 24 hours. impressive sight. one of the most active volcanos in this part of the world. this is a couple of hours later, look at the trail of the melting snow as the lava coming off of the volcano. this is one of the strato volcanos when the continental plate goes underneath the flait surface. this is what you see across the cascades in washington state with mount st. helen's, same -- >> one way to melt the ice. >> quickly. >> mother nature at work.

>> thanks. always with the cool pictures. it is the last day of prince william's trip to china. we'll have an update on his final steps before he heads back home.

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welcome back. an australian radio station may lose its license after a royal prank went terribly wrong back in 2012. you may remember this. sydney station today f.m. sparked outrage when two day jays crank called the london hospital -- deejays crank called the london hospital where kate middleton was being treat for morning sickness. the nurse who took the call later killinged herself. >> tragic. the deejays apologized butted with australia's high court upheld a ruling that the broadcaster had broken the law. now today f.m. could lose its license or be taken off the air temporarily. really make people rethink -- in

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defies his critics and delivers a highly controversial speech to the u.s. congress. and a major scare for more than 200 passengers after their jet skids off the runway. hello and welcome to our viewers in the u.s. and all around the world. you have another hour with us. i'm errol barnett. >> i'm rosemary church. this is "cnn newsroom." breaking news out of ukraine where at least 30 people are believed to be dead after a coal mine explosion in the eastern part of the country. that report coming from the reuters news service. it happened in the donetsk region controlled by russian-backed rebels, the scene of heavy fighting over the past year. >> information is still coming in. local officials tell reuters that rescue workers haven't been able to make it to the part of the mine where the explosion