does one voice or melody stand out? how do the various parts relate to each other?e time, without piano. ♪ jesus is a rock in a weary land... ♪ (man) any music is a set of preferences we like it like that. this is how we think things go together, okay. and people really have strong preferences in terms of something like texture. there are large regions where people really only like to hear one or two things happening at the same time. there are other places where people seem to feel that's not enough. they want a really complex texture with a lot of different things going on at the same time. these are choices--it's basically about an aesthetic and traditionally people have had strong aesthetic feelings in terms of texture, as much as anything else they do with their music. [lively piano and strings] (woman) texture in music is basically the density or sparseness of the music. one very understandable example would be that if you think of a single voice or a single instrument [single violin playing] and contrast that to an entire orchestra or an entire chorus, you ca

there is some aspect of the voice that is unique to each person.lody] when you're talking about vocal timbre, you need to think about whether the sound is coming from your throat, from your chest from your head and it's different from one culture to the other. [nasal singing] [deep, throaty singing] of course, if you are a member of a culture, you sing a certain way. [lilting folk singing] and you don't think, "oh i am using this much breath. i am placing my voice here or there," you imitate what you hear. [lilting singing] and, of course it's human voice and it will be individual and different from one person to the other. but there are certain aspects of voice culture that are definitely being transmitted within the culture. [ensemble playing early music] (narrator) tone color is an important aesthetic component in the music of any culture. just as musical styles tend to change over time so does the preference for types and qualities of musical sound. the use of timbre in european renaissance music was quite different from what it is today. (zaja

voice systems are.y use a host of instruments to measure changes in heart rate to brain activity. >> there are 32 electrodes on here, it's basically a modified swim cap. >> electrodes are placed around the eyes to measure eye movements and bleption. brain signals are -- blinks. brain signals are linked to how much you are concentrating and driving, and talking on the interactions. >> you'll be able to quantify my brain activity. >> that's what we do. >> then it was time to start the engine for a warm-up lap. >> your job is go behind the black car. it will brake randomly. your job is to press the brakes when it brakes, and follow it at a close distance. >> this is awesome. it's like a real car. there's the rearview mirror, what does that do? >> you can check your blind [ laughs ] >> you're distracted. crashed. >> in addition to measuring brake response time and following distance, the researchers used drt, detection response task device. my job was to click a finger switch as soon as the light flashed gr

or bhoz voices we might have heard. none of that. he just said the data is retrievable and they have some of it. now they want to compare that. i thought this was very telling. it really speaks to how deliberate the french are as it relates to this kind of investigation. they don't yet have the second black box. specifically, they don't have any of the recording from that second black box. they're still looking for that even though the french president said they'd found the casing but not the recording. i think the disconnect there is maybe the french president is closer to the scene than the b.e.a. officer is. but nonetheless, they still need that flight data recorder recording. then they want to listen to that, look at the data listen to the cvr and compare both of those pieces of data and see how they fit together. it sounds as if only then will they try to lay out some sort of a narrative and release it to the public. i think they're going to be very very deliberate and very slow as they release this information. th

we feel that if the voices of the poor, the voices of the disenfranchised, the voices of the suffering people are heard other people will respond. so, selma, alabama is that example of where people around the country and around the world heard the voices crying out for people not being treated equally as human beings. now, the reason we were going to my comic alabama -- i want to make it there -- is because that is the state capital of alabama. we did not have much is there before from selma, but the reason we had this particular march is because of what happened to jackson in marion, alabama. your shot by a state trooper. -- he was shot by a state trooper. earlier, we had people marching to the courthouse to attempt to register to vote. but the reason why the march was decided to go to montgomery, alabama -- it was actually jim bevel who asked jackson's grandfather would you be willing to march and continue to march. he said, yes. jim said he wanted to say something to wallace. and he wanted to take his time and put his thoughts together. and he wanted to walk, so he would have time.

but they have located the cockpit voice recorder. and it is that cockpit voice recorder that has yielded these new developments tonight. now, to be clear, the french authorities have not publicly disclosed, officially disclosed what is on that cockpit voice recorder. but a source of "the new york times" describes as a senior military official involved in the investigation, an official who reportedly has heard those tapes from the cockpit voice recorder, that official has described to "the new york times" tonight what he describes is on the tapes. what he says you can hear happening in the moments leading up to that crash. rather than sort of extrapolate from "the new york times" reporting. here's how they describe it tonight. quote, evidence from a cockpit voice recorder indicated that one pilot, one of the two pilots, left the cockpit before the plane's descent, and was unable to get back into the cockpit. a senior military official involved in the investigation describes very smooth very cool conversation between the pilots during

in foreign language ] ship and i will do so now with more purpose and enthusiasm. [ voice in foreigne ] >> okay we've been listening to the american ambassador mark lippert. he looks in pretty good shape compared to when we saw him a week ago. >> not only did president park visit him in hospital but he also saw a lot of south koreans coming out, condemning this knife attack. deeply moved, showing their well wishes and sympathy, almost embarrassed that this could happen in their country to a foreigner. >> he's looking well he's saying he's eager to get back to work and we are eager to take a short break here on "cnn newsroom." stay with us. we'll be back in a few moments. take command of every urban adventure, scenic drive or parts unknown. with the highly capable gx. versatile rx. or first-ever nx turbo. come see why lexus is the fastest-growing automotive luxury brand. during the command performance sales event. get great offers on your favorite lexus models. now through march 31st. see your lexus dealer. >>> and welcome back everybody. you're watching "cnn newsroom." just on 1:30 h

the voices to the various people. that takes some time. and it's something that takes time. normally after a few days, we get a rough -- usually there are mistakes. and once we understand the flight better, we can understand better and achieve a transcription, a record which leaves us convinced that it's as good as possible. and that takes several weeks or even months. >> translator: are they speaking in english or german? >> translator: i have no answers. >> translator: so we have the full timing of the flight on the record, that's what you're saying, isn't it? >> translator: from departure to impact, at the moment i can't give you very precise details on the duration of the beginning or the end of the recording. >> translator: can you say a few more words on the file? how many minutes recording, how much data? >> translator: i have no specific data at the moment with respect to the duration of the recording, types of voices, language and so on. you needn't even ask questions of that kind. >> translator: will we need

>> one voice. strong and influential. we want the citizen in the street, wants us to have much more influence on the decision-making process. >> reporter: not every student agrees with participating in elections in which minority arab parties are never invited into jewish coalition governments. >> they could easily say what, what are you talking about? look we have arabs in our zionist parliament right they tear up bills we make in our own parliament. we have arabs who talk about the rights, they have freedom of express freedom of speech everything. what are you talking about? that is not freedom. that's just illusion. i cannot contribute to that illusion. >> more and more seem to be willing to participate. believing they will emerge with a more powerful voice. >> i think they can do something at last. because when they got united together all the parties together all the arab parties together they can make a step forward much easier right now. >> what would be a step forward? >> to make a voice of the minority to make it

those voice recorders take two hours worth of audio. we know from the french bea. >> investigator. >> press conference earlier, we know the sound takes us up to the accident. so we'll hear what the pilots were saying or not if they were incapacitated. we'll also hear any noises that were taking place in the cockpit, or the investigators will and the alarms that were going off, any warnings, all of that will be on the cvr, the cockpit voice recorder because there's a microphone over the captain, there's a microphone with the first officer and there's two area mikes as well. >> are there different sounds? depending on what's wrong on any given airplane, do the sounds differ depending on what's happening? >> absolutely. >> really? >> absolutely. so you might get a warning horn that will tell you one particular fault. there will be a warning chirp for another fault. there will be a siren for another fault. if the flight management computer is warning of something, it will make a particular noise. if they've deployed the slats or the flaps f

and they could hear voices and sounds. are still waiting for more information from authorities. we are expecting prosecutors to have a press conference later today. we perhaps will hear more then. meanwhile, a key piece of the puzzle is missing. the flight data recorder. they imagined to recover the casing but the recorder itself it missing. now the emergency workers are looking for that at the crash site. a slow and tedious recovery process. we saw earlier several helicopters land and take off again for the site and staging area behind me. also expected today, the family and friends of the victims. they are being flown in from barcelona and dusseldorf on special lufthansa flights. the idea is to get them as close to their loved ones as possible. >> erin such an interesting development overnight. so much more to learn to put the pieces together. thanks. new details about the 150 victims of the crash. passengers from all over the world, including three americans. officials have not identified one of them. the others were a

erin, they recovered the cockpit voice recorder. we know that because of word from "the new york times." they're still searching for the flight data recorder. are they concerned it may have been destroyed? >> reporter: hi, john. i think that is a concern. we know they found the casing for the recorder, but the record e itself is still missing. the ceo of lufthansa says there's a high probability that they will eventually find the recorder. the question, of course, what condition it will be in when and if they do. it can take months to analyze data from such a recorder, but that's being seen as a key piece of the puzzle right now, especially a time when there are more questions than answers in all of this, in light of media reports, citing sources close to the investigation that the cockpit voice recorder indicated that one of the pilots was locked out of the cockpit prior to the crash. a source is saying that you can hear the pilot trying to smash down the door. it was unclear why he left the cockpit. also unclear why the remaining

it's more than just voice. they can hear what switches are being thrown and what buttons are being pushed. they can tell a lot about what's going on in the cockpit from that listening device. >> reporter: flight 9525 took off at 10:01 tuesday morning from barcelona bound for dusseldorf germany with 150 people on board. investigators say the plane reached a cruising altitude of 38,000 feet. it descended for about ten minutes. the plane disappeared from french radar when it was at around 6,000 feet. investigators say the descent appeared controlled. >> the curve is compatible with an aircraft controlled by pilots except for the fact that we can't imagine pilots consciously sending an aircraft into a mountain but it may also be compatible with an aircraft which is controlled by an automatic pilot. >> reporter: finding the plane's second black box will be critical to unlock the mystery of what brought down the jet. on the flight data recorder investigators will get a second by second breakdown of how the plane's sy

voice recorder has been found. data has not been found. that will certainly fill in a lot of the missing pieces about exactly how the descent was actually entered, how it began, whether it was a number of checklist of things that had to be done, whether it was a stick that was hit. >> you'll hear on the fdr, you'll find out what moments were made. you might even -- i don't know the parameters, the door might have been locked. you'll find out an entire digital picture of what was happening. >> i want to go to peter or tom foreman who are standing by in washington. tom? >> hi, peter. this is the switch in question. explain what we're looking at right here. >> this is the cockpit door switch that we've been discussing. and here it's got a toggle switch. it has three positions. unlock. normal and lock. in the normal position you can enter the cockpit door. in the locked position, you cannot get through it. it has to be flipped up to unlocked first and then dropped back down to normal. >> i assume this is an indicator light of some sort. >> yes

it's a voice recorder.en told as well they were expecting some news the next three hours from french authorities regarding that voice recorder. we've seen footage. you can see footage there. it is badly damaged. it is seriously badly damaged, a bit battered. the orange cylinder if we can show it close up the orange cylinder in that voice recorder is intact. they're hoping they can take up information from there. we heard from the transport minister from france and he said if the voices had been recorded then they'll be able to actually find out perhaps why it happened. this is the why, carol, not the what. we asked basically deborah herzman, the president of the national safety council if it is damaged, how much realistically can you get? how much information? take a listen to what she had to say. >> so it's no surprise to hear that the cockpit voice recorder is damaged because of the type of crash that occurred and the damage that occurred to the rest of the aircraft you probably expect that outside housin

left of the cockpit voice recorder. they are still looking for the flight data recorder. stand by for a moment. coming up an experienced pilot's new theory about what could have gone wrong and caused the airliner to start its rapid descent into a mountainside. >>> we also have more on another important breaking story we are following. the united states army charging sergeant bowe bergdahl with desertion and misbehavior. he could go to prison for life. stay with us. you're in "the situation room." it's happening. today, more and more people with type 2 diabetes are learning about long-acting levemir® an injectable insulin that can give you blood sugar control for up to 24 hours. and levemir® helps lower your a1c. levemir® comes in flextouch® the only prefilled insulin pen with no push-button extension. levemir® lasts 42 days without refrigeration. that's 50% longer than lantus® which lasts 28 days. today i'm asking about levemir® flextouch®. levemir® is a long-acting insulin used to control high blood sugar in adults and

does have voices.ut they're sorting them out. it almost looks like a movie script when they're done because they will put into the final transcript the radar information that they have and any kind of recordings from the air traffic control tower and flow control and flight control. even if they don't have the data recorder they will at least have a running transcript and they will only release it in writing. you could tell he's heard something and they have been able to listen to it and they have gotten at least some of the voices. >> because he was a little unclear. i was listening to that news conference mary. did he say specifically that they heard voices during the final eight or ten minutes? >> yes. no, he would not say that. he said they heard voices but, again, he's got two hours, a little over two hours to sift through. then they have to put the time-stamps on it and put in any other data that they know. when we do this in reconstruction for private purposes for aircraft reconstruction to take

we do not have millions of dollars or an army of lobbyists we can send to the fcc to get our voices heard. we built tools using cutting-edge technology that made it easier for the millions of people who care about this issue, to have their voices heard in washington, d.c. cory: it is really an amazing thing with our society that does not like to vote unless it is a presidential election, to see such an uprising of voices regardless of what side you are on.

the damaged cockpit voice recorder could still provide information to discover the cause of this project. among the victim 16 german school children. their classmates speak of their shock and their disbelief. >> we were confused because we didn't really know why we should leave school and then we heard it from the news and it was shocking. >> hello and welcome. the french interior minister bernard cazeneuve says the voice box recorder that crashed in the alps is damaged but could still provide information to experts still trying to discover the cause of the project. let's go live to my colleague, tim willcox, in the seyne-les-alps. he will join us from the crash site. we join him now. >> hello. you're watching "bbc news." i'm tim willcox live in seyne-less-seyne- seyne-les-alps. let's take you live today where a minute silence is being held for the 45 spanish nationals who lost their lives. this is the scene in madrid also a moment's silence in barcelona, the airport from which this airbus a320 departed yesterday on this doomed flight from dis dorfusseldorf. 16 teenagers from the joseph

but my voice wasn't the sound of young america. so while they all knew me, they all watched me starve. so i've had the opportunity to tell several people nice things recently, and to see them. you should have seen when i walked out on the stage at the kennedy center honors, because you don't know who's going to be there, even though you've been there for two days by that time. you don't know who's going to perform. so when i walked out, there were several mouths that were... "the bettye lavette that i know... the bettye lavette that's my age?" >> hinojosa: "she's up there singing at the kennedy center honors, and i didn't know about this?" >> the o'jays told me, they said that... they were my very best friends in show business, and i haven't seen them in maybe 30 years, until recently. and they said, "we called everybody we know trying to be on that inaugural show. we called... pulled out every stop. so we decided we're going to stay home, we aren't going to go stand in the cold. we're going to look at it on television." so he says

so often, we are so hopeful that the voice recorder the cockpit voice recorder will be recovered recovered. they have found it it has revealed a tremendous amount of information, first and foremost, that this was, indeed, deliberate. >> well and certainly the french vea, i've worked previous cases where they were the investigative agency and quite competent. and at the press conference yesterday when the investigator was asked from the vea about those last eight minutes, he seemed shaken clearly he'd heard something but he would not comment. i suspect that this is correct and what they have revealed to us will turn out to be the case because it's the prosecution. but at this point, this is a carolina criminal investigation. the vea will continue their work, the recovery will continue. it's vitally important to grab every piece of criminal evidence. when something like this would happen you send all your criminal agents out to start grabbing information, facebook pages, social media, everything at the airline, all the records. this is a major criminal investigation now. >> all right, mary.

they found the plane's voice recorder but not the flight data recorder. they say they're making every effort to determine the cause of the crash. the head of france's air investigation agency says the cockpit voice recorder is damaged but not beyond use. >> we just succeeded in getting an audio file which contains usable sounds and voices. >> but, he said it would take weeks or months to grasp what happened to the airliner. they need to analyze carefully the sounds of machinery and voices on the recording. the audio suggests one of the pilots left the cockpit before the plane's descent and was unable to get back in. the quote is from a military official taking part in the investigations. he says there are sounds of someone knocking lightly on the cockpit door but there's no answer. the knocker then hits the door harder, but there's still no answer. investigators know that the airbus a 320 operated by germanwings unexpectedly lost altitude about 30 minutes after takeoff. the plane was flying at 38,000 feet. it descended for eight minutes and lost contact w

we did hear today was they have heard voices but they aren't telling us what the voices said. >> that won't be released until it's cleared of any criminal investigation or anything going on. that's private and it will never be released even in transcript at that point. however, having that information available is incredibly important. you can locate where the sound came from as well. you think about that. >> when i only have one track, what does that mean i'm missing? >> there are other inputs. one track is only one channel of sound. one microphone. that's going to say there was a switch flipped. that's all you'll get from that. if you have co-located microphones you can say this had a higher volume than did this other microphone. you can pinpoint which switch was pushed or the general vicinity. if there's only one channel available, doesn't mean they don't have more. he just said -- >> at this point it was damaged. they could retriever others. richard, if the conversation doesn't solve the mystery here then you'll need the other tracks? >> if there's a conversation between -- >> at

and now, the voices in the cockpit. captured on the black box. >>> inside the terror attack what we never saw until tonight. gunmen storming that museum. tourists unsure at first, as the attack begins to unfold. and then the chaos. >>> severe storms tonight for millimeters across several states. ginger zee is here. >>> and you remember tom cruise singing it -- ♪ you never close your eyes ♪ >> name that tune. and the original artists. their new honor tonight. >>> good evening. and we begin tonight with two breaking stories. the americans who were on board that jet when it crashed. but first tonight, the army argent charged with desertion. bowe bergdahl the u.s. soldier held hostage by the taliban for five years. we saw him blinking in the sunlight. set free in the dramatic exchange. the u.s. handing over five taliban prisoners to gain his freedom. after the handoff, patted down by a member of u.s. special operations forces before boarding that chopper and flying to freedom. but tonight, that freedom could be short lived.

. >> one voice. >> one voice. that it's about bringing everyone together. exactly.n it turns out that they get money from the u.s. department of -- we give a lot of money to a lot of different groups around the world that are do-gooder groups. this group then decided it was going to have an unprecedented political effort. now, they would say that is different from the money we get from the united states. >> that's what they did say. >> and the analogy -- >> they said, hey, state give us this money. we did so much good with it. and later we had to use none of that money to help this other group trying to get netanyahu out. >> it's the same kind of argument that planned parenthood makes in the united states where they say, oh yes, we get lots and lots of money from the united states government and taxpayers, but that goes on this side of the building to do women's health issues. it doesn't pay for abortions. and the critics say what's building the structure? what's holding you guys open? how are you open? you're open because of the federal money. >> money is fungible

it can be kryptonite for the voice.rlie: talk to me how you came to it and found the right meditation for you and how you wound up -- how i obtained the voice in my head, reduce stress without losing my edge. if i could say to the people out there, i'm going to help you reduce stress, help you do all of this without losing your edge and help you find self-help that works, send me one dollar. [laughter] dan: better yet, send it to me. i think, first of all, the subtitle mentions self-help and that is where it starts. i have been assigned to cover religion by peter. as a consequence, i stumbled upon self-help. i interviewed a guy who turned out to be a guy who was a massively successful self-help guru. charlie: what does self-help mean? dan: it is like what i said, meditation means a lot. self-help is ill-defined term basically books that help you improve yourself, develop your potential. charlie: there a lot of those books. dan: there are. there is a spectrum from very bad to like kind of bad. and i think he would refer

to operate in the media landscape and increasing its own voice making the government voice the loudest strongest in russia's media landscape. voice making the government >>> before the fall of viktor yanukovych and the ensuing war over ukraine, there were conflicting outlets serving audiences from moscow and kiev. when university students in ukraine called on a video to call on the russian counterparts to listen to their version, they responded in kind. they talked about the coverage of the crisis the information barriers and the importance of verifying the news reported. not that a single piece of social media interaction is likely to shift the story, it's evidence on how ukraine was being covered. see you next time at "listening post". al jazeera america gives you the total news experience anytime, anywhere. more on every screen. digital, mobile, social. visit aljazeera.com. follow @ajam on twitter. and like aljazeera america on facebook for more stories, more access, more conversations. so you don't just stay on top of the news, go deeper and get more perspectives on every issue. al

they're going to then bring in expert voice analysis people to determine whose voice is saying what. in other words, where's the captain speaking where's the co-pilot speaking. that's going to take a lot of time. then they want to marry that data. they want to marry that cockpit voice recorder with the flight data recorder. that's why it's so critical to get that. this is a typical flight data recorder. however, they come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. you see the one in the pictures from france. it's a smaller version of it. it does the same thing. it's about 25 hours worth of data, about 1300 parameters of information. everything including altitude and speed and vertical acceleration heading, pitch, all of that. what is the control column doing? what's the roll looking like? what are the inputs the pilots are making? what's the cabin pressure like? all of that is going to be on a flight data recorder. so finding that box, and if the box is destroyed, finding the chip that goes inside the box is going to be critical to unraveling this mystery. they want to marry those pieces of i

"the new york times" is reporting a development from the voice recorder from the german airliner that crashed in the french alps. and war is spreading tonight in the middle east with saudi arabia launching military attacks against rebel forces in yemen. >> the crash of germanwings flight 9525. >> voices recorded in the cockpit have been analyzed. >> during the plane's fatal descent, one of the pilots was locked out of the cockpit. you can hear he is trying to smash the door down. >> we have what is already a horrific tragedy and it makes it just that much more awful. >> bowe bergdahl the u.s. army sergeant rescued in that surprise prisoner swap with the taliban, charged tonight with desertion by the u.s. military. >> desertion with intent to shurk important or hazardous duty. >> bergdahl faces a second more serious charge of endangering his fellow soldiers. >> at the center of the controversy is going to give his first public comments. >> the words said in that chant were mean hateful, and racist. >> he stood surrounded by african-american civic leaders. >> i'll be deeply sorry and as

he was once a voice for those struggling for justice in el salvador. this year the catholic church is close to naming him a saint. the death of oscar romero stunned the world 27 years ago this week. pope francis declared romero a martyr. before he was killed, arch bishop romero wrote to pope john paul ii about the brutality in el salvador. no soldier is obliged to follow orders. obey your conscious. >> when a martyr hunter -- in all of this archbishop oscar romero has been the voice. he received a number of death threats but refused a bodyguard. saying a shepherd does not seek shelter for himself but for his flock. it happened yesterday. the priest was saying mass for a group of nuns. reportedly his last word was justice. >>> thousands of mourners gathered for arch bishop romero's funeral. a bomb exploded as he was speaking at the pulpit then the shooting began. here's our report from that day, march 30th. >> at least hundreds of people have been killed and hundreds injured. the riot started this morning for assassinated arch bishop oscar romero. 80,00

that will be on the voice recorder? >> it will be on the voice recorder, unless obviously it was something in the back of the airplane, and there were four microphones in the cockpit for that voice recorder, so whatever goes on in the cockpit, that's not on the voice recorder. you remember a couple of years ago on christmas day, on northwest airlines, the underwear bomber. this doesn't have to be a large explosion or a tremendous something to take the airplane down, it could be something like a small improvised device that just pierces the fuselage of the airplane causing a loss of cab pin pressure or a structural failure of the airplane. >> and so many questions that we still do not know, kyle bailey thank you for your expertise today. >>> texas senator ted cruz embracing his critics after his announcement of his 2016 presidential round. >> i think one of my favorite comments was "the new york times" said in the last day that said that cruz cannot be dominated because the washington elites hate him. if you're looking f

they can hear voices. that was all they told us, greta. there were a lot of questions, what sort of alarms. what sort of voices. basically cannot tell you anymore. it will be a couple of days that they have actually been able to listen carefully to the whole tape it could be months before they even get that together with other evidence and present it in a report to the public. >> are they saying they can't tell us about the voices because they won't tell us about the voices what was said or is that it is inaudible and they have to do more correction to try to make it understandable? >> well, they say they can hear some of that that they weren't prepared to tell us what it was they heard. they say that they also need other bits of evidence about the plane. so it all fits into place. what they really are hoping of course, is that they get the flight data recorder which will give them more information about the plane. but certainly greta, you know -- i don't know if you have been to any of these types of briefings but at these early stages in

the voice of the nation is the voice of middle class. >> why do you need it? correct answer is because you can. >> it's almost as if we think viewers are not interested in rural media. our news has little space for rural india. >> reporter: to under how little news coverage rural india gets it helps to brake down the outlet. we asked for three main stream papers to be broken down. the results of a study showed across the six papers the percentage of stories relating to rural india was zero. except for 1.37% in hindu in 2014. on tv an analysis of the programming on six channels reveal that the rural news didn't paying it past 7%. it was as low as 0 by 19%. that's a fifth of 1% of coverage for 70% of the population. a lack of coverage is not because of a lack of news. in the past decade a story has taken a turn for the worst. >> we had a crisis in which 300,000 farmers committed suicide since 1995. in the epicentre of the suicide it's a region. in the state in werch india, in which mumbai is the capital. >> in mumbai the great event of the year was the fashion w

so there is a voice there is a voice. for union organizers, for workers, and for employers. because there's time. there's not a rush. now we just heard some discussion about whether 11 days is probable or -- i think we all agree it's possible maybe it would be 12 or 13 or something like that but it's not in question that you only have seven days under this rule, and this is the rule by the way this is the rule that we're talking about, the law that's affected is many times think thicker than this. -- many times thicker than this so my colleague was saying if you have a labor lawyer on staff if you're a small to middle sized company you don't, you can't afford that you have seven days to go out and find a lawyer that can help you comply with this rule and with the law, the much thinkinger district of columbia thicker law, seven days. to get through -- to get your position down in writing and then you're stuck with it. and then you could have the election four days later. that's not an opportunity for informed discussion and debate for either the workers or the employers. this

the cockpit voice recorder indicates the pilot left the cockpit. and when he tried to get back in, there was no response. germanwings' parent company is looking into the reports. >>> that voice recorder has some important clues, but there's one more so-called black box that is still missing this hour. >> that's right. finding the flight data recorder will also be crucial to trying to figure out what exactly went wrong. we have more. >> reporter: this is the second strongestically investigators have in their hand. the exterior of germanwings flight 9525's cockpit voice recorder looks damaged, but french authorities revealed they've had some success. >> very glad that the first flight recorder has been retrieved yesterday, and the french authority confirmed a few hours ago that one of the audio streams is readable. >> reporter: the cockpit voice recorder captured audio up to the moment of impact. it will provide critical information like whether the pilots were talking in the minutes leading up to the crash. what were they saying and what else was ha

the world of opera has lost two star voices.ia radner, who was flying with her husband and their baby. and oleg bryjak. ♪ and then, there is the pain of haltern. tears and flowers for those 16 tenth graders and two teachers lost in the crash. one of your student died. >> yes, yes. linda, she's 15 1/2 years old. i cannot realize it, it's so, so -- so sad and cannot believe this, what happened now. >> reporter: tonight, this school has released the names of those students and teachers and they've issued a statement, one that echoes in so many places around the world, saying they will never be forgotten in our hearts. >> all right, terry, our thanks to you again tonight. i want to get right to abc's david kerley, who covers aviation for us. david, you and i were talking earlier. authorities have confirmed they have, in fact, heard voices on that black box, but they didn't go into detail about what they heard. >> reporter: or any kind of scenario, what may have happened. and actually a former ntsb official tells us he's a bit surpri

the fact that there were voices on the cockpit voice recorder. i imagine they're listening to sounds, to alarms as well. what will that be able to tell investigators? >> well it will give us an idea on what was occurring in that cockpit and why that descent started. you're not only getting voices, but you're getting cockpit sounds which can be associated with switches levers all sorts of controls in the airplane. in addition to communication with air traffic control, communication between the two pilots, communication from the pilots to the cabin of the airplane, the cabin of the aircraft possibly. so all those things come together once that digital flight data recorder and i'm thinking very positively that they'll find it that gets coordinated and synchronized together into one program. now you get a realtime understanding of what happened with the airplane. >> but just to follow up with you, isn't that also part of the baffling part. we were talking about this yesterday the big question would be and now we're learning this ten-minute descent. w

today may bring more clues including more details about what's on the voice recorder. lisa hampele, bbc news. >> let's go to our correspondent, anna holligan. how many people left today on what will be an incredibly harrowing journey for them. >> reporter: one of the hardest journeys of their life i imagine. we saw 15 families passing through dusseldorf earlier today. they all looked completely traumatized. some of them are wiping their eyes, others trying to hide their faces from the camera. and a couple of hours ago, we had a minute of silence here also at dusseldorf airport. this of course was the intended destination for that flight. and they marked that moment at 10:53, the time of which the airplane is understood to have lost contact with air traffic control. and of course at that german school, that lost 16 schoolchildren on this flight. i've been speaking to lufthansa in the last couple of minutes. they are due to hold a press conference this afternoon in colone. and i asked about the pilots, will they would be revealing anymore details about the pilots, the pi