alastair, are you hearing me? alastair does not appear to be hearing me. we're going to work to get him up, see if we can get that communication going. do we have him yet? alastair, can you hear me okay? >> i would personally go back on to believing that the aircraft is, in fact, actually -- i've got no sound here, so i can't actually hear the questions. perhaps you can say it again. but in failure to hear from you, i shall go on with what i think has happened here. in an emergency such as this, and we go back to the idea this was a technical emergency, let's assume that, for example, it might have been a depressurization of some sort, the actions of the pilot could be explained with all of the data we have so far. and the initial turn away from its position on route to beijing took it over the malaysian coast, and then, apparently, disappeared. now, what the pilot would do in this instance is, first and foremost, depressurization put on their oxygen mask. let's say they had many failures and there was a miss in the urgency to put on the oxygen mask. that

and alastair, there have been so many theories about where this plane could have been.een maps, we've seen redirections, redirections on computers. what theory does this support, when you see the area where this debris was spotted, where it's been found, and really, what we're learning at this hour -- and you're looking at it on your screen -- it's about 1,400 miles southwest of perth. >> yes, well, that's a very good reason why it would be there. it's also almost certain that another government would have known how it got there. i can expand on that later. but right now, it's -- you know, when the australian navy started looking in that particular spot, a spot which i suspected originally the aircraft could well have been at, if you backtrack from there to the andaman sea, the track of the aircraft would have taken it over sumatra or very close to sumatra. so, i believe this latest information has come from the indonesian government, probably delayed by a few days, but finally issued. and that allowed them to search in that particular area. >> all right, alastair rosen

alastair, thanks so much for being with us.at we've been looking at all morning, australian officials say that one of them is as big as 79 f t feet. does that sound consistent to you with something that could be a piece of this plane? >> good morning, john. well, 80 feet would pretty much be one-third of the length of the fuselage of the aircraft, or indeed, from wing tip to wing tip. whether or not those pieces float is probably outside of my sphere of expertise, but they are certainly the sort of size that could conform with a 777 aircraft that had broken up. >> one of the things people are discussing right now is the possibility that many pieces of debris could have floated together, because after all, we are some 13 days after this flight disappeared. alastair, this search area they're now focused in on, some 1,400 miles off the coast of australia where this debris has been spotted, this is below, beneath, further south than the southern-most point in the search arc where they've been focused on for the last few days. what

we're joined by former pilot and aviation consultant alastair rosenshine. he's in london. the question, the reprogramming of the computer, does it mean foul play in the cockpit? >> well, not necessarily. if there's a developing problem on board or a medical issue of a passenger being ill, which is less likely in this scenario, if there is liking of that, that the pilots may preprogram the flight system, fms as it's known for diversion, in this case, back to kuala lumpur. but it could also mean something less sensible. and would fit in with those who believe this aircraft might have been taken by force or hijacked in some way or diverted deliberate by by the pilots themselves. >> it's hard to come up with a reason why, if there was a technical issue, they would program it, and then 12 minutes later say "all right. good night" to air traffic control. that seems to be one of the things that's hard to reconcile here alastair. >> well, if the technical problem is not of significant importance to report to air traffic control, then one won't actually say anything. and i've been

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. >> alastair, this one is for you. this is from patricia. why no debris washing up on any shores? it's been two weeks. >> it seems like an obvious time that we should have something washing up on the beach by now. but that practically speaking isn't how these things go. it's a very large part of the ocean. there aren't a lot of places for the debris to wash up. and sometimes it just takes a really long time. the material that came from the japanese earthquake a couple years ago took almost 18 months before it reached land. and even then it was a tiny fraction of the amount of debris that was originally washed into the ocean, which was estimated to be between 5 million and 8 million pounds of debris. and so it -- it's entirely possible this stuff will never wash up anywhere. and the fact that it's been two weeks is really not that surprising in that part of the world. >> and let's talk about really the difficulty that they are facing there. because when you think about it, people say, why aren't the bodies washing up? why aren't they finding in example? when you look at the amount

alastair rosenschein, thank you for joining us. fascinating to hear. it's all speculation, but you have nothing else. >> nothing else. >> and a search and rescue operation. >> and at least it's a search and rescue, that's what they're calling it, so hopeful. >>> coming up, president obama heads to europe amid russian aggression. a key meeting with world leaders, next. >>> happening now, president obama is wheels down in the netherlands, heading to the hague this morning for the first day of a two-day nuclear security summit with over 50 foreign leaders. but that meeting bound to be eclipsed by the broiling trouble in ukraine and crimea, as members of the g-7 hold their first face-to-face talks on how to deal with russia. the president expected to urge continued unity against moscow. >> meanwhile, in crimea, russian troops have seized a ukrainian navy base, one of several bases they've taken control of in recent days. that as a top nato commander warns moscow could have its sights on a new territory, a breakaway pro-russian region between ukraine and mo

joining me is alastair rosenschein.ing excellent insight over the past few days from the london studio. we thank you for joining us this morning. among the mysteries according to the malaysian government, there's analysis that the plane didn't answer the final ping about 9:15 a.m. local time. leading them to think that the electronics on this plane stopped working some time between 8:11 and 9:15 a.m. do you accept that analysis? and what could it possibly mean? >> well, i assume that they're referring to the final -- the end of the flight, where it was -- after it impacted the water, if that's indeed where the aircraft is. and that's presumably why they received no signal at that point. and i have to agree with you, that until they get concrete evidence, basically, we're talking here parts of the aircraft on board one of those ships as positively identified as coming from the boeing 777, until that point, we're not going to be sure that the aircraft did go down there. it takes quite a lot to convince people, you know, e

alastair rosenschein, thanks so much. we will be right back. >>> president obama is in the netherlands today for the second day of consultations with world leaders on security. they are supposed to be discussing nuclear security, but russia's annexation of crimea is overshadowing the talks. on monday, members of what is now the g-7 voted to suspend russia from the forum and cancel a meeting scheduled for this june in sochi, russia. >>> meanwhile, ukraine has now agreed to pull all troops out of crimea after russian forces seized several ukrainian military bases there. much of the capital fell into darkness monday after a major power failure. russia blamed the ukrainian government and companies from the mainland that provide electricity, but those companies insist the outage is because of necessary maintenance. >>> and president obama's calling for an overhaul of a controversial nsa program that depends on the bulk collection of phone data. currently, the nsa collects massive amounts of data and then stores it for five yea

alastair, let me ask you this, they have the flight simulator from the home of the pilot. how unusual is it to have a flight simulator in your own home? and what kind of details might they be able to find on this piece of equipment? >> well, many pilots who are interested in aviation will, indeed, have a flight simulator at home, whether it's microsoft flight simulator or some such similar thing. this particular pilot had a rather more sophisticated system, but it's entirely possible it was for perfectly innocent purposes. however, having got this equipment, it is possible, of course, to plan possible scenarios, and the suggestion here being that he may have hijacked his own aircraft and practiced the flight using this equipment. so, obviously, the authorities will be looking at the recording data on his hard drive there to see whether or not that is the case. >> now, this is rosa here. one of the things i'm fascinated by is that malaysian officials said that one of the pings could possibly be from land, kind of making the suggestion that this plane could have landed. so,

and historic treasure designed by the renowned golf course designer alastair mc kenzie. the proposed improvements to sharp park have been scrutinized by the san francisco planning department, the san francisco recreation and parks department, united states fish and wildlife service, army corps of engineers, all with unanimous approvals. the plan to upgrade sharp park's safety, its infrastructure improvements, and the habitat enhancement project must be approved and the appeal raised by wild equity must be denied. golfers of all ages, shapes, sizes, backgrounds, abilities have and should continue to employ the gift given to the city of san francisco, the city of pacifica, the residents of san mateo county, and, yes, the new environment enhancements proposed for the california garden snake and the red legged frog who for the past 60 years or so have all lived together in harmony. i urge you to respectfully [inaudible]. >> thank you very much. thank you very much. next speaker. >>> good evening, supervisors, my name is mike waloch. i'm a 30-year resident of san francisco, [

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let's bring in former pilot and aviation consultant alastair rosenschein. he joins us live from london. alastair, this location south of the southern-most area of that southern arc that they've been searching right now. talk to me about the significance of where this possible debris has been sighted. >> well, it's off any air routes, but let's assume it is debris from an aircraft. as i said earlier, it would have drifted possibly even 1,000 miles from where an aircraft might have impacted the sea. from that basis, it might just lie on an air route between perth and south africa. but it isn't on any air route that i've ever been to, and i can't think of any aircraft that would be going down there, unless it were heading off to the antarctic. you know, if you backtrack a route from where the australian navy was searching just now to the andaman sea, which was the last radar contact from the malaysian radar sets, the aircraft would have passed over sumatra. this is indonesian air space. now, in that basis, i put it to you that the indonesians may have at some

>> alastair rosenschein, thank you so much. >> we appreciate it., because she's in for indra petersons. she's been looking at the weather over the search area. tell us -- you heard the headlines from that press conference, talking about the fact that the debris that was, possible debris that was spotted over the last weeks or so in the satellite images could still be consistent with the new search area? what do you make of that, given what you know about the currents and the weather patterns? >> well, the currents where they're talking about the new search area being definitely far less fierce than what we were talking about with the acc, that very strong west-to-east current. it's a long way to drift, but it is a very wild ocean, and so, it is possible. i think it's much better if the plane did go down in the new search area box. i think it will be much easier for folks to get out there and search not only above the ocean but under the ocean. so, it is going to be definitely positive. >> and debris could have floated -- so we're clear here, what p

this golf course which was created by the greatest golf architect in history, alastair mc kenzie, with the help of john mclaren who gave us golden gate park. it's an international treasure. and it is the creation of this golf course that we're fighting over. the golf course [speaker not understood]. that's what made the habitat possible and allows the sustaining of these populations. this is a project that wasn't cooked up last thursday in a garbage can in somebody's kitchen. it's been debated out in the hope. open. it's been transparent from beginning to middle to end ~. and the time is now to stand down and let rec and park do the job that fish and wildlife has tasked it to do in that biological opinion. that's where this came from and that's where it should go. please, allow this project to proceed. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >>> good afternoon, my name is victor [speaker not understood]. i'm a [speaker not understood] of san francisco, i'm also a senior golfer at sharp park. i'm here to support saving sharp park as an 18-hole golf course. the sooner the better. this env

as alastair reported the malaysian prime minister said his announcement was based on new analysis that comes on experts at the u.k.'s air accidents investigation branch. from inmarsat, the british company that provided the satellite data, our correspondant's been talking to the team behind the breakthrough. >> this is the very room they have would been receiving data from flight mh-370. this is where they're able to put together new analysis to confirm the aircraft definitely flew south and definitely somewhere down here. how have you finally concluded this aircraft flew south? > we took malaysian triple 777 aircraft data, modeled that and put that against the northern and southern path and what we discovered was that the path to the south is undoubtedly the one taken. >> why has it taken so long to get to this point? >> we have been dealing with a totally new area. we have been trying to help an investigation based on a single signal once an hour from an aircraft that didn't include any g.p.s. data or any time and distance information. this really was a bit of a shot in the dark. and

. >> let me stay with you, alastair.horities thought it was below 5,000 feet, wouldn't it have to adjust their range due to fuel usage? >> well, they would have to adjust for fuel. this could still be a technical problem and the aircraft headed out over the eindian ocean and there's nothing new to suggest otherwise. when the malaysian prime minister stated and quoted authorities that the transponder was switched off and that acars was disabled, this suggests considerably more information than they actually have. all they could say is these two pieces of equipment ceased to transmit, an entirely different interpretation there. so they've evaluated it and i feel uncomfortable with the statement the prime minister gave on this. but as for the flying below radar, it is possible and it would reduce the range he could fly at. but i really can't see where that's leading. >> alastair, thank you very much for that. if they believed this, why didn't they readjust their search area? it shows an urgency of getting out information as

. >> the chief executive of malaysian airlines speaking with alastair. mr. wang is a representative of some families. he did not give his first name. >> if you make a conclusion with no exact evidence, just from analysis from the satellite data, why do you make that conclusion? why do you make the conclusions that nobody is alive? that none of them survived? i don't believe that. if you make those conclusions you must have some answers. we want to know why. i think the ambassador do not respect all of the relatives. >> well, another relative is tom wood. his brother phillip was one of the 239 people on board. she spoke to bbc carolyn quinn. >> i was at work. and i got a text taking i'm so sorry. it seemed to definitive. it seemed so certain. i'm glad we had the beginning of some closure. we're sad. we're sad. but they haven't found anything, so it's a little maddening. do you understand? >> i can understand that. >> somebody is saying everything is certain, no survivors. we say how do you know that? they say, well, we used a software program. well, that's gr

understandian oechlths daniel tan's brother was on board mh370, and he's been speaking to bbc's alastair leithead about his frustration and refusal to give up hope. >> it has been the worst two weeks of my life. i've gone through a lot in my life. it couldn't be worse than that. >> presumably you have one day a sense of hope, other days loss. it is like a roller coaster. up and down, up and down. we don't know who to believe. even the government when they say something, what they said is not backed up by proof. it's just based on data, satellite data and then they conclude that the aircraft crashed there. they say that no one survived as a result. i think that is terrible thing to say without any proof. >> what now? what are you going to do? what is your family going to do now? is it simply a matter of waiting? >> as long as they don't find the aircraft, it's going to be a waiting game for us. we have to wait until they find the body of the aircraft. before that, we will continue waiting, we will continue to wait. >> until you see wreckage? >> until we see the wreckage of mh370. otherwis

alastair's ladder, exacting language. second, exacting language. we'll give you a copy of this. go to the next slide if we could. this is all talking about the rule. >> draft regulation. what i want to know is if your independent, if you put together your testimony, what is to read word for word what the treasury sent to chairman camp? it seems to me either plagiarism or contradicts what you told me earlier they prepared your own testimony and you're an independent agency. >> i respond on my time. i wrote this testimony. i read a letter to chairman camp. i didn't have any role in drafting it. the points you raise are good points and i thought it was important to put that in my testimony. it's important for people to understand these draft regulations are open to public comment. i have an open mind, but it's important for people to understand people can engage in political or dignity anyway they would like. they engage in political activity. whatever regulation may come up with is not focused on and should not be focused on keeping people from doing whatever they want elsewhere.

joining us now to talk about all of this, alastair rosenschein.r last name, sir. a former pilot and an aviation consultant. he's in our london studio. you've been helping us and giving us excellent insight all week. i want to talk to you about something pretty technical but important here, and that is the pinger batteries on mh-370, the flight. there is a source that has been telling cnn that they may have already stopped sending off those critical signals because they may have been improperly stored, possibly in high temperatures. what can you tell us about the importance of how these are stored ahead of time? >> well, you're quite right there. the ion batteries have to be stored in a cool environment and not too humid environment. but apparently, some batteries of, you know, for flight deck recorders stored by malaysian airlines have been stored in inappropriate conditions. in other words, humid and warm. and that will reduce the battery transmission time. >> it will reduce battery transmission time. let me ask you about this, then. we are seein

for a closer look at the ipo fever, we are joined by alastair warren. on the program. thank you so much for coming in. what is driving these ipos? we talk about more confidence on the markets. the ceos, what do they tell you? >> there is a bunch of things. as you have identified, one of the things is that the macro backdrop is stable. markets are good. markets have been trading up. above that, there are a couple of things. one, the flow of funds into equities has been high. observed, there has been a pretty close market for a long time. with this opportunity against reasonable valuations, they are trying to use that as a roof. private he equity funds have been a big proportion this year. >> in 2013 we didn't see that many deals. is this going to continue? >> i think you already observed the volumes. first quarter on force quarter, up three times. you are going to see an even greater pickup in terms of the second quarter. probablykely to see twice as many deals, probably more in the second quarter. we see it continuing through the year. the main reason f

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at the crimean peninsula back in a russia and we'll bring you more information on the top of the alastair without seeing to national news continues. in the meantime we'll bring you live pictures of from the kremlin. just of hours ago the russian senate voted unanimously to accept the crimean peninsula as a full member of the russian federation following a similar vote in the house of parliament the historic move comes in response to the crimean people oh well mainly voting to break away from ukraine and rejoin russia pushing into facts and extensive a ray of economic measures to support the peninsula's transition. r.i. the news continues here not international stage. a piece should i even does the u.n. charter out for some austrian journalists one paragraph three of the un charter talks expressly about the right to self-determination of peoples not the right to self-determination of states. even the population of crimea can do all that and we compare that to events on the. asking and what moral justification is there for anyone to criticize the referendum in crimea i would suggest there i

at the beginning well i'm not sure but now i think it's fair to say yes let me jump in and quote alastair heath in today's city a elite who says the u.k. establishment has always been fighting mercenary and generally put growth first so here's a here's a city am saying yeah we are mercenaries we don't care about life. we care about growth well i think the original n.h.s. would dispute that point view and point out to you that there was a very clear and very successful cohesion which was created in the forty's which involved everybody and it wasn't even a socialistic mantra it was in fact a thing where the very wealthy could receive health care just as much as the very poor so i think that was not a profitable who comes to fair minded compassionate humanistic and successful but this is a problem for area of study luminaries saying that essentially they've let these financial mercenaries loose and they're saying that they had just as valuable as this income producing assets that we can sell to overseas investors a lot of these assets are going to end up in the pension funds of german retire

an example of unrestrained arrogance and now we have the the president the elected president has alastair we heard from him today he says that he is still in power so a lot of a struggle for power there today as i mentioned before a lot of criticism today towards from the west outraged. over what's going on at the airports there what's happening in crimea we heard from the russian ambassador to the u.n. today and he spoke about the military the military movement in cried crimea let's take a listen to what he had to say about this. well of course as you know we have an agreement with ukraine though on the presence of the russian. black sea fleet with a base in the sebastopol and we're acting within the framework of that agreement i understand my ukrainian call it tried to distance himself from the so definition of aggression if in fact he were to to use that definition that would of course be completely unacceptable. and yet he goes on there to say that he's against any imposed mediation of course we heard from obama today taking a very strong stance strong diplomatic stance saying the u.s