from politics to flash from housing to top this is one. of the seventy seven. people six g.w. . a nightmare inside the cockpit investigators in the ethiopian airlines crash said today the pilots did everything they were supposed to do but it wasn't enough to stop the boeing seven thirty seven max from nose diving at almost six hundred miles per hour one hundred fifty seven people die tonight pressure on boeing is there a software problem or a greater design flaw what is certain boeing's top selling plane the seven thirty seven max will not be leaving the ground any time soon. this is the day.

of four major procedures. provided by that mine fact it was not evident. that. was the. accident. is that it design problem. instead pay to see a lot. of play. also coming up tonight saving lives and risking their own tonight the red cross warning about the dangers inside been its way low but have a world away in mozambique aid workers have a reason to smile and we will rise to a week's worth of these. through a better story resilience and peace were out.

to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and all the around the world welcome we begin the day with the first look inside the cockpit of ethiopian airlines flight three zero two just moments before it crashed nose first killing everyone on board and it is a terrifying image today and their preliminary report investigators said the pilots followed all the procedures recommended by boeing to bring the seven thirty seven max out of a nosedive even using brute streams all of it in vain as the forces of two jet engines and gravity worked against them ethiopian authorities are recommending boeing review the plane software a process already underway no one today suggested that there may be a design flaw in the seven thirty seven max but this is the second time in half a year that an unstoppable nosedive has brought down boeing's best selling plane

march tenth was a clear morning ethiopian airlines flight three zero two had just left at its abbottabad for nairobi when it plummeted nose first into a field outside the capital a disaster that killed all one hundred fifty seven people on board. a preliminary report now rules out human error as the cause of the tragedy suggesting the crew did everything in their power to avoid the crash. the crew perform it all the procedures. repeatedly provided by the mind factor that was not able to control. the boeing seven three seven max eight reportedly experienced erratic climbs and a sense shortly after takeoff a situation similar to the one preceding the crash of lion air flight six one zero in october which killed one hundred eighty nine people. but it is very clear to everybody who is we do not have

a student because. number one it's the same airplane more than proud to be on the other hand the flight the duration of the flights also was almost even up on a flight was six months six minutes is very short right. scrutiny is centered on an anti stall system that has repeatedly given pilots problems it's designed to automatically lower the aircraft nose if it detects a stall or loss of airspeed anxious to wind back public trust in its products boeing announced last week it had reprogrammed the software on the seven three seven max to stop the anti stall system from triggering but the us federal aviation administration advised boeing to keep working on the proposed fix before submitting the system for a view. with its fastest selling plane grounded boeing isn't only facing increasing reputational issues analysts say a lengthy delay could cut the company's revenues by billions. more on this i'm

joined now by aviation analyst julian bray he joins me from cambridge in england mr briggs good to see you again i want to get your take on something that we did not hear today the ethiopian authorities when they released this preliminary report they did not mention the word boeing why do you think they are voided the name of the plane's manufacturer. this is a preliminary report it's supposed to be without blame and they were trying to put out over a technical report. and also they're trying to make sure that everybody knew it wasn't they have. caused the plane to crash. they were saying it was the actual aircraft itself they probably didn't mention the name boeing because quite frankly there's no need because they are actually talking about the process itself that will come along later when rates start to fly about the authorities they

recommended that boeing conduct a thorough check of the plane's software and as i said at the beginning of the show know when suggested that there may be something greater here that is wrong such as a design flaw in the plane what's your take on the the cause of these two crashes is it just a software problem that can be fixed with a software patch and you know a little changes here in there. well this is a difficult because regionally the original aircraft was very good but what they tried to do the max eight was put. on it so fuel consumption would reduce by about thirty percent so this may be a very profitable aircraft because you know if you're carrying a large load factor and your fuel costs are down thirty percent always leave a small profit in it but the problem is this is an old aircraft that they have they

have restructured shall we say and they put these two very large engines on well forward so the whole weight balance of the aircraft is different and that's why they had to bring in this computer system to make sure the plane was absolutely level because what they didn't want it to do to go into a stole position which means that the nose is going up so the computer would bring it down but was of course happened once that the computer repeatedly brought the nose down until such a point of the nose was out he facing the ground and on the power drill itself into the. i want to ask you mr bray about liability in this case we know that there are lawsuits being talked about against boeing a but what about the federal aviation administration and the f.a.a. giving the go ahead for the seven thirty seven max could this be a story of u.s.

deregulation that has gone too far and actually put the flying public in danger. well put it round another way is a suggestion that the f.a.a. which is the regulator of body. to close and in fact buying was subcontracted to some of the f.a.a. is work and. this cozy relationship is being looked at by by well a series of lawyers and others way above my pay grade but the point is that the f.a.a. has to be seen to be totally independent and the fact that they didn't come out immediately and ground the aircraft has really cool is a great problem well wired and i think it's going to be a long while before you actually see this aircraft back in the sky again and as with the computer system itself they say they've got software updates for it but really would you really want to be

a guinea pig flying in this aircraft yeah i think most people would say they want to keep the seven thirty seven max eight on the ground which is what boeing is doing right now. but we also have to remind our viewers that there are more planes flying today than ever before we're talking about you know thousands of planes that take off and land every day with with no incidents and the f.a.a. and boeing you have been the standard bearers of flying safety. is that being lost in this story or are they no longer the deserving standard bearers of flight safety. well you're quite right of course there are other aircraft which are quite happily flying around and the fact there are hundreds of thousands of flights every day and believed and all travel is safe it's safer than taking a bus in london that's how safe it is but of course everybody's attention is all

need on needs to read in our state crashes and really they've got to get to the bottom of it and find out exactly what did happen and this process today the preliminary report is part of this process now the report doesn't seek to apportion blame it is purely a technical report on what they have found from the black boxes if you recall they recover the two black boxes and they were sent to paris because they have the solidity and they do coded everything that's on the black boxes and then sent it back to ethiopia because that is see area during station over this particular incident. all right if you gave an expert julian bray joining us tonight mr bray as always we appreciate your time and your insights tonight thank you. and. with each passing day the chances of britain crashing out of the european union grows no e.u.

country would be impacted the same way by bragg's it as the republic of ireland the good friday agreement of one thousand nine hundred eight ended decades of sectarian violence between ireland and northern ireland in part because it removed any and all border checks after bret's that border checks into and out of the e.u. will be necessary and that could destroy the fragile irish peace or today german chancellor angela merkel visited dublin and she brought the two messages a promise of european solidarity with the republic of ireland and they call for patients with the u.k. as it tries to resolve its brights that blockage and she shared a personal story about her formative years in communist east germany behind the iron curtain she said that experience gives her a special understanding of the importance of tearing down walls and keeping them down. it was a musical most personally come from

a country that was separated by a wall for many years into the muslim for thirty four years i lived behind the iron curtain and. i know what it means when walls fall and when borders disappear it's hard to them and so i'm aware of the need to do all we can to uphold the peaceful coexistence here for which so many lives were sacrificed. to this is our that is the german chancellor speaking there in dublin our works of analyst alex forrest whining is back at the big table with me good to see the chancellor she's determined to avoid a no deal bricks it why did she say it in dublin when she could have just as easily said it here in berlin that's a good question i think one of them is as he said before saying to the well that the e.u. didn't stand shoulder to shoulder with the republic of ireland but i also think it's an increasing fear of being felt in capitals and particularly in off the

consequences of a no deal it on the island and particularly talk of a return to a home or to remember the republic of ireland will stay with the new northern island is in the u.k. and up until twenty years ago when the good friday agreement was signed there was sectarian violence between the two three and a half thousand people died in the so-called troubles that no one wants to say i would turn to that and i think that is what is a big fear i want to you take a listen to what the german chancellor said today about european solidarity with ireland as briggs looms take a listen. this i hope. so we do hope that the intensive discussions that are ongoing in london will lead to a situation by next wednesday when we have a special council meeting where prime minister theresa may well have something to table to us on the basis of which we can continue to talk but we want to stand together as twenty seven until the very last hour i can say this for the german

side we will do everything in order to prevent and no deal breaks that britain crashing out of the e.u. but we have to do this together with britain and with their position that they will present to us the mines on because plutonium deposits it was plutonium so if i read between the lines near l. it's what i hear is a german chancellor he's worried about the post brics that reality would the army's board if we go back to this hard border would there and perhaps a return to violence would those problems then become a problem of the european union well i think that that is a very real fear and i also think that there are politicians in the u.k. particularly conservative politicians who are very aware of and probably don't think about is a bad idea of happen so it's very sinister it is cynical it is but i do think if that is the case many many politicians are saying look this can be sorted out if

you want it to be sorted out they don't want to have this so-called stop which would keep the the u.k. in some kind of customs union which will prevent them from having outside trade deals that is what the big fear is so i think that this will be very handy for them if it was blamed on the e.u. and the e.u. can't afford to have a problem like this on its hands it's got enough problems as to so and to sort out and at the moment it's so destructive of bricks it anyway that to be involved in any talk of a border would just be awful for them ok. you know so many unanswered questions about the irish border as well as briggs it in its entirety we are are we in london tonight in terms of finding resolution to the briggs's impasse to be honest we were not very far off there are talks that have been ongoing since yesterday between the government and the opposition labor party now that has angered to reason may's euro

skeptics in her party she knew they really disliked jeremy corbyn the labor leader some of them calling him a marxist and asking why would you want to be talking to this man particularly when he would like that to be a soft bricks it so there are happy about that we there were talks at a letter to european council president don't know tusk is in production asking for another delay to bret's it but nobody's quite sure how long would last for and how long they want it to last fall there was last night in the house of commons a normal that was passed by one vote saying that they would have to be a delay to bricks it to stop and block a new dale that's now been in the second chamber the house of lords then now trying to figure out because so many of the conservatives don't like it so it's a mess and then just as a bit of a metaphor i think for how brics it is in the u.k. at the moment to day in the house of commons it had to be adjourned the chamber of

the house of commons had to be adjourned and suspended because water started leaking through the roof so no one could be done a make of that what you will for and maybe theresa may theresa may needs to build an ark like noah to save her from the bricks that flood will see as always alex thank you. for why is the irish border as fragile as it is when used for. force now for. iconic images that have gone down in european history bloody sunday a deadly incident in derry nine hundred seventy two has become symbolic of the north and conflicts between pro irish republic catholics and pro brits and protestants that conflict ended officially in one thousand nine hundred eight with the good friday peace agreement historian marisa mcglinchey says many irish republicans to refuse to accept that for her recent book unfinished business the

politics of dissident irish republicanism she interviewed some ninety radical pro irish nationalists who stand as commemorations right done today of so-called just and organizations you will hear the same traditional republican ideology unless it's been articulated as you would have heard in the seventy's or eighty's that ideology calls for united ireland and the end of british rule in the north it's also the subject of republican murals which continue to be painted in northern ireland's analysis of the militant minority is a cause for concern these radical groups are prepared to go to any lengths in pursuit of their goals. they are realistic in their assessment that popular support us and our numbers aren't what they have been in the past and so very much with keeping the film burning as essential to. the present as one of the interviews said in the book to pass the same on for the

next generation to soak up. that means that below the surface the north niland conflict has still not been settled. one of the militant groups has agreed to a rare interview we are directed to a sleepy town somewhere in the countryside these members of the republican shin fein parties. say that breck's it would actually help them in their course. people will think that there's not a chance so why did all the presidents go to jail why was the volunteers killed for nothing so you know we need to continue on monday to stop it again. but republicanism is not the only defense against us border need to fight for reunification. and these radical republicans may not be alone in thinking that unification of violence is business that should be finished all the mclin say things the ongoing date has made the prospect of

a united ireland an increasingly realistic one even for moderates. people. allowed on and. on so we distill children dynamics. marissa mcglinchey analysis has brought her to the conclusion that once britain leaves the e.u. europe will have to deal with the question of irish unification. with its whale of mozambique malawi zimbabwe these are just the latest countries finding themselves in natural disasters or man made crises so dire that help from outside is a matter of life and death and with danger usually comes yet more danger no one knows that as well as aid workers with the red cross this week the international

committee of the red cross warned the united states of the risks involved in trying to bring humanitarian aid into venezuela and that is only one flashpoint in south east africa countries are still assessing the apocalyptic damage left by side clone and yet aid workers there say there is reason for hope. this. was the first doing its. there. was this. huge. scene was we was in two weeks. you were here a positive assessment there and to talk about aid in the red cross i'm joined by dominic still hard news director of global operations for the international committee of the red cross it's good to have you here on the show it's not every day that we see red cross workers that happy especially when they're in an area

that's been hit by disaster it must make you feel good to see workers smiling absolutely absolutely yeah and that the same time i made the minds of many occasions where. i felt exactly the same because the big difference between us who are on the ground and people who are seeing these these oscars on television is be can act on we can do something so if the media makes a huge difference and i think they are beautiful pictures you know and when when you are on the ground it also makes you a target whether or not you like that the federation of the red cross and the red crescent societies they say that they are ready to deliver aid to venezuela next month. the humanitarian group says that it will remain neutral and has warned both sides in the conflict not to interfere with aid distribution ensures the safety

of your colleagues aid workers when you're in an area and there is political danger military threats protecting. this these are precisely the type of challenges that we are facing in any sort of conflict situation especially in an increasingly polarized environment and what is absolutely key for us as we are not. driving and walking around these armed protection we need to have the acceptance of all the parties to the conflict in order to be able to work and that is absolutely important and i'm always saying to my own people don't just think that if you say you are neutral impartial and that this is going to be seen exactly like this on the other side you have to prove on a daily basis through your warrick that you are what you are saying and it is

really about confidence building and it is about negotiating access on so on and so forth do you do you see yourself even in a crisis region where there are threats the fact that you're doing something good for humanity do you see that as a catalyst for warring sides to come closer together and find peace i mean are you are you a bridge to peace well i would say. when it comes to distributing humanitarian aid this is definitely in the interest of warring parties who very often. also have a responsibility for the. population where i think we can really contribute something to cause. building between parties is. such as exchange of prisoners as we are now planning in yemen this is a huge confidence building measure and as we are. usually

house the confidence of all parties we are all some called upon to do these type of operations and we see. they are not immediately leading to peace they are important confidence building measures we've got about twenty seconds mr still hard to me just ask you you know every day when you get up and go to work what do you what is the biggest challenge for you what do you see as the biggest problem well as i'm leading all our operations was. my biggest worry is of course the security and safety of our own stuff that is working in these very very dangerous places. director for global operations with the international committee of the red cross this is your heart we appreciate you coming in and we wish you all the best you're doing important work thank you thank you very much. well the day is almost done the conversation continues online your find us on twitter you there at the w.

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this is g.w. news why but from berlin tonight the irish border sit and the berlin wall the german chancellor visits ireland amid growing fears that there will be a no deal. i'm going to call for sizing her own personal history behind the iron curtain and telling the irish prime minister that she understands the importance of maintaining peace at the irish border especially with breaks at length also coming off germany's foreign minister feeling the heat of seventy of the.