this is deja vu news for live from berlin in a new genre coverage teams locate the flight data recorders of a passenger plane that plunged into the java sea investigators hope the data will reveal why the aircraft went down just minutes after takeoff from jakarta with dozens of people on board. and voters in kyrgyzstan choose a new president after violent protests ousted the country's previous government in october the front runners promising a fresh start and end to corruption. a

michael loco welcome to the program indonesian search teams have located the flight recorders of a passenger plane that crashed into the java sea on saturday 62 people one on board the boeing 737500 aircraft authorities now hope the black box data will clarify why the plane came down only minutes after taking off from jakarta. looking for clues to make sense of tragedy indonesian search and rescue teams sort through debris found by divers in the java say. body parts and children's clothes were among the 1st items retrieved from the water. already located the plane's black box recorder confirming the debris is from the missing boeing 737500

. still hoping for unlikely good news the relatives of the 62 people on board with authorities where they hand over d.n.a. to help identify potential victims. 4 people on the plane. leaves in the khasi her husband lives and works here so his wife and 3 children plan to visit and holiday here. but it ended like this. air flight left to carter airport on saturday down for a 90 minute journey to pontiac. but lost contact only minutes after takeoff from online service flight radar $24.00 shows the plane suddenly losing altitude and speed boats will continue to search the ocean as authorities try to piece

together what happened to flight s.j. 18. joining us from for more on this developing story is journalist. christian the flight recorders have been located what more can you tell us. yes look both black boxes has been located so it and if you see its. signal from look at that would be transmitted from. that it or not and also from the cockpit voice recorder. was also confirmed by the day for us that indeed that is the price you know and for all of these indices even so the next challenge is to find and retrieve the black boxes in south because we know according to the divers that this sea bat. i think so it's.

believed that the black box itself is is might put it under the descent of man. for the next hour on thought of the leaving the black boxes it's a lawyer it's questionable it's only less than 25 meters in in the what that's $25.00 meet the deep. i know it's early days but is there any indication at this point as to what might have led to the crash. it's quite early. even though the nephew the man that is of the mystic nevil found a bluff. but after find a black box you'd have to process this possibly we've got to washington d.c. united states to get the debt up and that and that. would be to

keep to door. to to know what costs. to cross but despite that if they get to say that. this deal in the states off kollek been all those debt that so. often they find that martin and this is fine day half a whole small of pot including the landing gear and that is the bottom of the engine that they're buying but for to be good they be that with the bigger suit with the crane so investigators still also in fault. if you go into giving back mostly. so investigators still collecting data at this point this of course was a giant air flight has the airline had any safety issues in the past. so find. good safety to courts

and. i accept my not in seat as with the fact that if these the this is the 1st time that the ad have made it exit and with these. we can call it the last man in the last press conference that the admin and say that. morphy and in good condition also that the end of coffee sting operations continues to be in the last few days and passed over for 5000 in the base prior to divide up right and there is not any call mechanical problems reported writing those flights net that's. what they did the management and last minute minute now it's getting a press conference ok chris. thank you so much for your time. let's take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world at this hour

at least 11 people have been killed in landslides triggered by torrential rain in indonesia's west java province scores are missing among the victims were members of a rescue team caught as they search for survivors of the 1st landslide. chinese authorities have sent supplies and medical workers to a province as it battles a new coronavirus outbreak the capital she is under lockdown and its 10000000 inhabitants are being mass tested to help curb the spread. at least 3 people have been killed by a bomb blast in the afghan capital kabul officials said the victims were employees of a security firm affiliated with the interior ministry that country has seen a spate of targeted killings as government negotiators prepared to resume talks with the taliban and ending decades of conflict. pakistan has been

hit by a massive power blackout with all major cities plunged into darkness after a breakdown in the national power grid pakistan's energy ministry urged people to remain calm and said it was working to restore power quickly. voters in kazakhstan have been choosing a new parliament the ruling your aton party is expected to win the vote cementing its influence over the central asian country those social democratic opposition is boycotting the election dozens of protesters have reportedly been detained in the capital on maty after publicly supporting the boycott. polls have closed in kyrgyzstan in a presidential election that comes after protests ousted the government last year voters have been also been deciding on constitutional changes which were initiated

by populist candidate surges of power all his promise of a fresh start for the central asian country and an end to corruption has made him favored to top the poll us. for more on this i am joined by our correspondent emily sure win in moscow emily just recently came back from reporting in bishkek emily greetings the previous head of government such as a power of is considered the favorite what how do you how do we do define him politically in other words what can you tell us about his platform. well so that is a part of is kind of a divisive figure in some ways though he has now become very popular he was actually in prison on charges of kidnapping a public official until he was freed by protesters in in that revolution that happened in october when people took to the streets to protest against the recent

parliamentary electoral election results. and he then became acting president he's known as kind of a nationalist he's become known for wanting to nationalized the country's gold mines for example and he's been presenting himself as kind of a man of peace of the people he comes from the countryside himself where he's now very popular and he's been saying that he wants to reform the country and get rid of the corruption and the kind of clan politics that kyrgyzstan has become kind of known for when i was in bishkek people told me that for them a lot of people told me that for them he kind of stands for stability and that they kind of that they finally want a strong hand especially after the recent protests the recent revolution you know to where their dequeue stand is known as the island of democracy in central asia citizens also voted on constitutional changes including limiting the power of

parliament is shifting back to authoritarianism. well i think that's a concern among some of the experts that i spoke to and also some activists who have been taking to the streets every weekend every sunday to protest against these constitutional reforms they say that not only do they give the new president who most likely will be part of too much power but that they also could limit kind of democratic freedoms like freedom of speech they say that part of himself has actually just written this constitution in order to have more power and that he'll be kind of on using this word that refers to the former central asian authours hereon rulers of your as it were this is a country that has seen 3 revolutions in the last 15 years and i think everyone agrees that they want change i think the question is just for many people how they

want it whether they want stability or whether they want to continue on the sort of democratic path that the revolution heralded we only have about 30 seconds or so but the virus pandemic has should kyrgyzstan's cash strapped economy hard pushing up prices on everyday goods how is it likely to impact the country's political future. well the experts that i spoke to say that the economy is the economic situation is actually so bad that it could next year be a poison chalice for whoever takes over in the country and that it could actually lead to new protests and potentially even a new revolution in the country emily sherwin thank you so much for that. snow storms in spain have left 4 people dead and cause transport chaos across much of the country the capital madrid has seen its heaviest snowfall in almost half

a century many of spain's providence provinces remain on alert as storm filomena continues to wreak havoc but it's also brought a little respite to a country that has been hit hard by repeated waves of covert infections. after a grueling 2020 for spain january's snow fall has provided less relief. in madrid they threw snowballs. and danced for joy in the streets. the fun even evoked holywood it's a wonderful life. jurassic park. where there's a friend of mine a criminal i've never seen anything like this. and it's magic. i don't think it's an exaggeration to say there's a lot of people on the streets despite the pandemic. it's just so much fun.

on spain's roads though drivers went so amused as they became trapped in the snow. you know there's the i guess. i haven't any food since 4 pm yesterday. i don't have much left to drink and i'm gradually running out of fuel. spain's interior minister said 1500 people were rescued from stranded vehicles and he had words of reassurance regarding supply of the coronavirus vaccine. security forces have deployed all their capacity to prevent this situation from affecting in any way the plans to contain the pandemic or the vaccination campaigns that the autonomous communities are continuing this. good news for those anxiously awaiting inoculation in the streets of madrid though people were clearly happy to let the virus take a snow day. and

a reminder of the top story that we've been following for you indonesian search teams have located the black box flight recorder of a passenger plane that crashed into the java sea on saturday we'll have more headlines at the top of the. look closely. carefully. simply due to the good. actually.