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welcome to our viewers on public television in america and around the globe. a cargo ship carrying around 500 migrants who were abandoned by their crew in the mediterranean has arrived at a port in southern italy tonight after being towed by the italian coast guard. these pictures show the boat being pulled into port. most of the migrants are thought to be syrian and include children and pregnant women. it is the second time in a week that a ship has been abandoned by the people running it. our correspondent reports. >> these grainy nighttime shots show italy's rescue of the drifting ship.

it was abandoned deliberately, leaving the migrants on board to be rescued by the coast guard. it is a new tactic, and it appears to have for that have worked. for italy -- it appears to have worked. for italy, this is the second time in a week. the crew abandoned ship and left it headed straight toward shore. 700 migrants for the middle east -- from the middle east were on board. they had each paid thousands of pounds for smugglers to get them to europe. the migrants found on the drifting ship may come in the end, be the lucky ones. they're desperate voyage from the middle east across these waters to europe has become the most dangerous migrants journey in the world. last year, more than 3000 people drowned trying to get here. >> ships sinking off the italian

island in 2013 killed hundreds of migrants. it spurred italy into expanding its own rescue efforts. a year later, italy and that you decided -- the eu decided this encouraged more migrants to attempt the trip. in october, a smaller force took over. but migrants escaping moore refused to be put off -- escaping moore -- war refused to be put off. >> if you close the door, they will come through the window. the trick is to find safe, legal ways for refugees to come to europe. >> until that happens, migrants will continue to make their trips in the dark. for the passengers, the risk appears to have paid off. >> today the united states

announced official sanctions against north korea in response to the cyber attack on sony pictures last month. the white house said this is the first aspect of the u.s. response to the attack, which north korea continues to deny. it is targeted at three entities, including a military intelligence agency and government officials. just how punishing are the sanctions supposed to be for north korea which of course is already under a sanctions regime because of its nuclear program? >> exactly. how do we measure what effect they will have? it is hard to see when you are cut off from the rest of the world what additional sanctions will do. u.s. officials could not even save the 10 individuals concerned have any assets in the united states that could be affected. it may be a more symbolic gesture at this stage. as you said in the introduction, this is the first aspect of the u.s. response, implying there is

more to come. there may be an invocation that america is not responsible for the internet outage that took place over the holidays. >> when americans say when -- that it is the first aspect of their response, what exactly does that mean? >> barack obama said there were going to be sanctions. he said what can you do to north korea, to a country that is always so cut off from the rest of the world? we shall see. we shall he if there are any cyberattacks, punitive sanctions , but still, there is a lot of doubt over how effective sanctions can be on a country that is so isolated already. >> word relations with the u.s. stand now? >> welcome you to be sure of one thing, and that is that there will be a bellicose loud, full

throated response from jan yang -- from pyongyang full of anger and indignation. whether there can be some sort of breakthrough like we had with cuba before christmas has to be doubted. relations are pretty poor. it could be that pyongyang will be put on the list of state sponsors of terror. we will have to wait and see. >> thank you so much for joining us. after nearly a week of searching, so far nearly 30 bodies have been recovered from the airasia passenger jet that crashed on sunday. poor weather conditions have hampered operations. in the sea of borneo trying to pick up a signal from the blackbox recorder. >> today was the day the bodies really started coming in.

this u.s. navy helicopter is carrying four of the dead from the air asia flight. this afternoon, it landed three times. 12 bodies in all. the crew of the u.s. warship the uss sampson found him floating about 30 miles away on thursday. why they had drifted so far apart is still unclear. out in the sea the weather is still the biggest problem for the search teams. it is now the middle of the rainy season, and thunderstorms, almost every day. a small armada of ships is now stationed, including one with sophisticated sonar and a special underwater microphone that can listen for the black boxes. >> they are using two technologies, says this official, sonar and echo scanner. this allows us to create a

picture of the undersea environment, to see wreckage and even bodies in the water. the bodies recovered today were placed in coffins and carried aboard a special plane back to their families. when they spotted the first wreckage in the sea on tuesday, there was optimism here that the rest of the plane would be found within days. but not anymore. while they are continuing to recover more and more bodies from the surface of the sea, and small bits of wreckage, the truth is there is no idea where the main part of the wreckage is . crucially, they have still received no signal at all from the plane's black boxes. bbc news, indonesia. >> for more on the search, i spoke a brief time ago with michael goldfarb, who formerly

served as chief of staff at the federal aviation administration. the search continues for the few sludge. are you confident the blackbox recorder will -- few sludge. are you confident the blackbox recorder will be found? ? >> this morning, we picked a bigger pieces of the fuselage. we found passengers still in their seats. we are using reverse engineering to search. i don't think it is going to be much time before we have the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder. >> as you watch this unfolding on the other side of the world do you feel that lessons have been learned since the disappearance of malaysia airlines? >> no. i mean, you would think the obvious lesson learned is tracking. everybody has found that the gps on their iphones can precisely locate a cab anywhere in the

world, but we can't find where the plane went down, we can't find the black boxes. the change has to come from regulators, from the faa. >> on some flights, we can download a movie. why don't the airlines spend the money so we know exactly where a flight is at any given moment? >> it was never in the past viewed as a very good use of resources. entertainment, netflix downloading, streaming, the technology exists. the question is not the technology. one of the concerns is the data stream itself. will it overwhelm the cost of airline operations? if something was not anticipated, it would come on and i think we would see that

happening, but it is taking far too long to get that done. >> we have seen the training of pilots and air traffic control. >> the faa is on a list of eight countries not prepared for safety standards. the burgeoning middle class the desire to fly for a first, has really overwhelmed the infrastructure, as you suggest. it is not just pilots where we have a shortage. it's like the wild west of aviation in many ways. >> do we need an international safety board? >> unfortunately, international bodies move as fast as molasses. a kind of work to the lowest common denominator, and i think that is a problem. but yes, the answer is air

travel is global. it is not nation boundary driven. we should have the capability. >> thank you so much for joining us. >> my pleasure. >> we will continue to bring you the latest developments on that story. in other news, apple under fire for its flagship system. a lawsuit in california alleges that it takes up so much space and has far less memory that advertises. the technology giant so far has no comment. the sister of the spanish king has launched an appeal. she is accused of involvement in the financial wrongdoing of her husband.

she and her husband have both denied the charges. prince andrew has been named in court documents by a woman who claims she had sex with him when she was underage. the woman, who has not been named, says she was forced to have sexual relations with the prince on three separate occasions by a billionaire business associate. our world correspondent peter hunt reports. >> he did, four years ago because of his friendship with a sex offender. prince andrew was forced to give up a job he loved, flying the flag as a special representative abroad. the prince is paying a high price for his friendship with a registered sex offender who has been to prison. the well-connected billionaire was sentenced in 2008 to 18 months in jail after pleading guilty to an offense of

soliciting a minor for prostitution. now, as part of a long-running legal battle prince andrew has been named in court papers in florida. it is not an action against him. rather an unnamed woman is alleging that as a minor, she was the victim of a sex trafficking scheme run by epstein. the document claims that one powerful individual epstein forced her to have sexual relations with was a member of the british royal family prince andrew. the woman was reported to have been 17 when the took place this island in the caribbean. buckingham palace responded robustly saying any suggestion of impropriety with underage minors is categorically untrue. tonight, an american lawyer, alan dershowitz, also accused, has denied the allegation. >> we know she has lied about other public figures, including

a former prime minister. but they must be presumed that all of her allegations against prince andrew are false as well. >> prince andrew denies alienation's while continuing his work as a senior royal. >> you are -- denies the allegations while continuing his work as a senior royal. >> you are watching bbc news america. china is cracking down on a population. we have a special report. it is one of the largest halls of anglo-saxon coins ever found in britain and it was found by a man with a metal detector. the coins were buried just two feet underground and could be worth millions of dollars. robert hall has the story on this very happy new year for some. >> under the green pastures of bucking am sure, a metal

detectorist's dream. they could never have imagined how the day would unfold. one man took these pictures as a crowd formed. >> first, all we could see was a container with just a few coins showing. the conclusion was this could be quite a big find. we started to trowel out and get the basic shape of what was underneath the ground, and then we started to get a bit more involved. >> as the minutes passed, it became clear that this was something extraordinary, layers of coins, mostly in pristine condition, wrap it in the lead container. first tens, then hundreds, then thousands. >> as far as we can tell, this is probably the second largest collection of anglo-saxon coins

ever found, much larger than anything we have ever seen before. >> the coins are now at the british museum for detailed examination. they are thought to be worth at least one point 5 million pounds. >> how did they get there? did they come from the royal mint? were they hidden by viking invaders? were they part of the saxon settlement? this investigation has barely begun. robert hall, bbc news, buckingham. >> china says it is facing a growing threat from militant islam. the government is carrying out a year-long crack on on what it calls -- crack down on what it calls terrorism driven by religious extremism.

the province is jailing hundreds. violent attacks have continued. widespread intimidation makes reporting from the region extremely difficult as our china editor has been finding out. >> closer to baghdad than beijing, this province is home to 10 million. the language, culture, and religion are different and china doesn't trust them. every crowd has its informers hunting down traders. when you walk through the food market, you think it is a normal, relaxed society. but you cannot criticize the government without risking many years in jail. i can ask about the food they are eating or the hats they are

wearing, but i cannot ask about anything else because it is simply too dangerous. the surveillance state. beijing says terrorists must be chased down like rats in the street. counterterrorism trumps civil liberties. the moment beijing's patience snapped, tiananmen square, october 2013. the attackers came 2000 miles to strike at the heart of the nation, killing and maiming innocent tourists before setting their vehicle on fire. they filmed themselves just before the attack. brainwashed, says beijing, by jihad he videos -- jihadi videos from abroad but is that the full story of

radicalization? i have it on good authority that the government destroyed their mosque and they vowed revenge. i'm trying to talk to those who knew them. our car was turned back by police. our second attempt on a public bus. beijing fears religion breeds terror. for anyone under 50, religion is not -- under 50, beards are not allowed. government officials are not allowed to pray in mosques. at police checkpoints young men are targeted. now their mobile phones are suspect. they have to check to make sure they do not have any illegal materials or materials of a religious nature. no shooting.

the village where the attacker came from is in just a couple miles. we have come a of thousand miles but we are stuck here now because they have taken our passports. the state fears uighurs and uighurs fear the state. no one dares speak up when beijing makes no distinction between those who voice of grievance and those who resort to terror. punishing the many for the violence of the few risks a war of attrition. carrie gracie, bbc news, sin jim china. >> in afghanistan, a new beginning without the presence of u.s. combat troops who have ended their mission.

just as the country tries to establish security, it is also working to preserve its musical heritage. under taliban rule, all forms of music were banned but a new generation of artists are upholding afghans cultural traditions. -- afghanistan's cultural traditions. >> they live in a city in the country full in certainties. but the students in this free class at the school in kabul are developing skills on one of afghanistan's traditional incidents. this 15-year-old said he thought the classes would be very difficult but with the teachers support, he has managed it. >> it is my country's own instrument and this is my entries need -- my country's

music. i am learning it because it is good from our future -- for our future. in another room, these experienced players practice for musical events in pakistan. many afghan musicians sought sanctuary in pakistan. later, to escape the harsh taliban rule, when music was forbidden. >> i was here within weeks of the fall of the taliban to witness music's revival. now, firmly rooted here again. >> we don't need to go very far to generate interest.

the interest exists. i think people are very keen to come and learn about music whether it is performers, traditional music, music in general, or to learn the instrument. >> perhaps nothing reflects the soul of afghanistan more than its music, enjoyed by people today in many different forms. wedding parties in halls like this are big business for the country's bands and singers. at this wedding inside the hall, men and women are separated as has become the custom. but contemporary music is the bridge between them. back at the music school, every sign that a new generation is ensuring that the tradition will continue to flourish. >> you can find much more and

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