it was to have landed saturday morning in beijing. using rather bleak language in a statement malaysia airlines said we are working with the authorities to have activated their search and rescue team to locate the aircraft. our team is currently calling the next of kin of passengers and crew. the focus at the mama was to work with emergency responders. we will have more about that in a moment. most of the people on board flight came from china but as the ceo of malaysia airlines told reporters earlier there were passengers from a dozen other countries, too. >> there were 14 nationalities among the passengers. china, 152. plus one infant. from malaysia, 38. indonesia, 12. australia, 7. france, 3. the united states of america, usa, three plus one infant. new zealand, too. ukraine, too. canada to. russia, 1. italy, 1 pair taiwan, 1. the netherlands, 1. and austria, won. >> the nationalities of the people on that missing airplane. the flight was due to land in beijing nearly 8 hours ago. david mackenzie joins us live from the chinese capi

his replacement was known to have proceed beijing sympathies. according to others, it had everything to do with his journalism. >> i cannot think of any personal reasons that they can justify the attack. he is financially stable. he has a happy family and all we can think about is what he has done and what ming pou has done. it is one of the few independent voice in hong kong. it's famous for investigative reports. >> you cannot blame this incident to press freedom. all of this coincidence as together will make hong kong journalists very worried whether or not their freedom to report and to comment without fear has been eroded. >> while editing ming powell, it revealed a hidden offshore assets of some of china's ruling elite. >> story was published in january. lou was fired within a month. >> to most of his colleagues, it was clear the investigation touched a nerve. the situation is so sensitive that people are reluctant to talk on camera. those who do want their anonymity preserved. >> this is just the latest in series of attacks that have stea

we'll try to get -- beijing. our own afn schauffler is in seattle where boeing has a huge operation. allen i know you're trying to get set up. what can you tell us? >> we are having contact with the company, they are keeping an eye on the situation, monitoring, nothing more than that. normally in this kind of situation, aviation experts tell us that boeing will send a team, an investigative team to a crass site, if a crash is found. but generally they'll wait until that is identified, they'll be asked to come in and they'll be on their way, you can bet on that. this plane is made in everett, one of boeing's safest planes, 300 more are on order right now, and the air miles that they've flown are pretty staggering. 18 millionaire miles. more than 5 million flights and just one flight or one accident rather that resulted in fatalities. people probably remember the asiana airlines, last year that was the only 777 accident that, crash that involved a fatality. boeing hanging on with the rest of us waiting to see what

cctv news and it looked in beijing thank you for joining us. we begin this hour with the leaders in the search for all the missing malaysia airlines flight three seventy after the announcement late on monday that the flight in eighteen seventy with down somewhere in the southern indian ocean. malaysian authorities are once again briefing the media in total import of bowel. the latest on what happened to that carolina and the fatigue in our lives to follow pool. i won't. bbc middle east. if using. does he base the announcement. last night jess and lisa. my face minogue was. for many the receiving approval from the investigating authorities arrange them with the main street. it is. it is so huge and we will continue to support the one leading the investigation. all the australian defence minister has thanked the countries that joined in the search operation in the southern corridor and he said that the turning forty investigation process now will come once they are able to identify any of the objects that are suspected to belong to the missing pl

the beijing-bound flight departed kuala lumpur was scheduled to land in beijing at 6:30 a.m. it went missing two hours into the flight. at the airport in beijing the arrivals board listed the flight as delayed. >> this is very rare. for an airplane to disappear is not normal. i think we have at this hour every reason to expect that this is not going to be a good outcome. a big airplane like this, losing radar contact, it usually ends up in tragedy. it would be over water for most of its trip. so there's a chance that this aircraft went down in the water, which is going to make rescue or make the recovery efforts that much harder. >> reporter: malaysian airlines announced the tragedy on its facebook page. the airline's ceo saying, "we deeply regret that we have lost all contact with flight mh 370." this type of jet, the boeing 777 has a nearly spotless safety record since it began flying in 1995. though last summer, it was an asiana airlines boeing 777 that crashed while landing in san francisco, killing three passengers. for"nightline," gloria rivera, abc news, beijing. >> ou

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let's go to rob mcbride at the airport in beijing. what can you tell us right now? >> it is a very agonising weight for relatives, friends of passengers aboard the aircraft, waiting for confirmation that the aircraft has, indeed, crashed in the sea. what we are hearing from malaysian airline officials in beijing, and from malaysia itself is that they cannot confirm there has been a crash. they have heard the same reports that we have, quoted on reuters newsagency. that a senior vietnamese naval official said there has been a crash. the agency is trying to get this corroborated. this has been reported. they are trying to get a corroboration. until they do get that confirmation, it is very difficult for the airline to confirm that. their official position is that this airline is officially missing. it's been some 12 hours since the last contact with the aircraft, a good six or seven hours since passengers should have been arriving in the hall at beijing international airport. relatives of passengers are being looked after at a hotel nearby, where several hundred of th

the beijing bound flight departed kuala lumpur was scheduled to land in beijing at 2:30 a.m. it was listed as delayed. >> we have every reason to expect this is not going to be a good outcome. a big airplane like this, losing radar contact, it usually ends up in tragedy. it was over water most of the trip. there was a it went down in the water which would make recovery that much harder. >> the airlines saying quote, we have deeply regret we have lost all contact with flight mh 3 70. this type of jet, the boeing 777 has a nearly spotless safety record since it began flying in 1995. though last summer, it was an asiana airlines boeing 777 that crashed while landing in san francisco, killing three passengers. for"nightline," gloria rivera, abc news, beijing. >> our thanks to gloria rivera. because flight 37was a boeing aircraft, it is likely that american aviation authorities and the manufacturer will be involved in some way in the investigation. going forward. abc news will of course stay on this developing story and keep you updated with all the latest. now we're moving closer

the media in hong kong and the beijing effect. it took a while but it's happening. >> pick a brand, any brand, we have the pictures. >> last month we reported turkey's internet law allowing ut government to shut down a website without going through the courts. the law claimed its first victims - twiter and youtube. that led to a media law. turks go to the elections on sunday seen as a critical bellwether. prime minister recep tayyip erdogan's opponents say the online clamp down is a short-term political move. twitter and youtube have been used to spread stories of government corruption, if recep tayyip erdogan was out to limit the damage, turks have gone to school on how to circumvent the ban. there's a 38% increase in turkey in the aftermath of the ban, not what the prime minister had in mind when he said he could eradicate twitter and show the world the power of the turkish republic. we start in istanbul this week. >> the dye was cast for the story by recep tayyip erdogan a week ago at an election rally. >> translation: twitter

that's all from me and the team here in beijing.e sure to join us on tuesday, when we'll take a closer look at china's environmental issues, and the government's crackdown on corruption. for now, it's back to you in tokyo. gene? >> raja, thanks. raja pradhan in beijing. >> a nation of 1.3 billion. chinese leaders examine the issues at their annual national people's congress. president xi jinping faces a long list of challenges. find out how he plans to tackle them. don't miss our special coverage, "china: road to reform" at these times, right here on "newsline." >>> nearly 400 people have joined japan's nuclear regulation authority after it merged with a government-backed organization. nra officials want to boost their ability to conduct safety assessments of nuclear facilities. nuclear regulation authority chairman welcomed the staff from the japan nuclear energy safety organization. he said there are great expectations for the new members as they have high skill levels and expertise. >> translator: i would like you to do your best

jon sudworth is in beijing. jon, how did they manage to defy the beijing police, who don't like protests? >> that's right. protests are of course very rare. this appeared to be pretty spontaneous. it caught the authorities off guard. they were carrying placards. they found their way blocked by police. there were scuffles. they finally managed to push their way threw. they went on foot chanting we want the truth as they marched down to the malaysian embassy. there were more scuffles with the police outside. they were finally able to make it to the gates, to deliver a statement in response to that announcement from malaysian airlines that all hope is now lost. eventually the police were able to calm the situation and persuade the relatives to get back on buses. they were eventually returned to their hotels in john, while we can understand the emotion for what has taken place, in the end it's evidence from the british air accident investigation branch and also from this incredible statistical modeling by inmarsat w

most were on the flight back to beijing. among them, the oldest passenger on board, 76-year-old lu rushang. a calligrapher traveling with his wife. the loved ones of these passengers have waited with prayers and with hope. strangers, mostly children, have left pictures at the airplane in malaysia. this one reads "we miss you, we love you." this one simply says "please come back." >>> so difficult. so tough. awful stories. that does it for this hour of cnn newsroom. i'm rosemary church. >> for our viewers here in the united states, early start is up next. for our international viewers, please stay with us. world business today is coming up next. . >>> heartbreak in the search for flight 370. desperate families flood the malaysian embassy in beijing hours after learning the jet likely crashed and all lives on board were lost. for the very latest on the search for the plane, the investigation and the families who just want to know what happened. >>> and authorities say they're still in rescue mode, but the number of dead and mi

we have the latest from beijing. >>> and a senior u.s. official has urged china to provide more openness about its defense capabilities and intentions after beijing increased annual defense spending by more than 12%. >>> people in ukraine are divided over their country's future. supporters and opponents of the interim government scuffled during demonstrations in an eastern city and the leader of the southern region of crimea is promising more cooperation with russia. >> translator: we will maintain our strong ties with russia. >> ethic russians make up a majority of the people in crimea, the road leading to an airport near zef stoep ol has been blocked by trucks. zef soapal is home to the black sea fleet n. the eastern city of donetsk, skirmishes broke out between the government and those favoring closer ties with russia. donetsk is the support base of ousted president victorian co-vish. >>> state-run media in russia report the government of crimea has brought forward a referendum of their future. people vote on march 16. vice prime minis

by 6:30 a.m., the sun is rising over beijing. the same time flight 370 is scheduled the land. but there is no plane and no sign of phillip wood, paul weeks and the 237 other passengers and crew members on board. coming up, the news no one could prepare for. >> after more than 30 hours without any contact with the aircraft, we believe that the family members should prepare themselves for the worst. >>> a large 777 jet is missing, and the news quickly makes its way around the world. >> malaysian airlines confirms it's lost contact with a plane. >> families begin to gather at information centers set up by the airline in kuala lumpur and beijing. >> by 12 hours, disbelief started to set in. like this can't be happening. it's surreal. >> it some becomes apparent that it's going to be difficult for families to get clear information. and anxiety turns to anger. this woman is telling families she can't get them an answer until noon the next day. >> no, answer us now, this man yells. >> we're not getting any information and whether they know anything and they're not telling us, at this

beijing has its own ethnic problems. what has happened in crimea has put beijing in a bind. initial reactions were softer from beijing. but this is contrary to what beijing -- to beijing's long-held principle of noninterference. what we are seeing from china is coming to grips with the foreign policy. buta is an emerging power, foreign policy has often been dictated by being almost a developing nation. the lack of foreign-policy strategy is obviously showing. china is having a very muddled response to this, but you can be sure they are watching the moves in crimea with deep disquiet. >> thank you for that analysis. the diplomatic efforts to de-escalate the crisis continued. is togation from kiev meet with the french president in paris this friday. the presidential candidate among those who will attend the meeting as they seek to defuse the crisis. for the second time in a week, the presidents of russia and the u.s. have spoken by phone. on thursday, barack obama urged vladimir putin to again except the terms of the diplomatic solution to the standoff. before the conversation

he joins us live from beijing. raja? >> hi, gene. this once a year meeting is so important here in china that people in this country categorize it as its own season, the political season. npc spokesperson spoke to reporters ahead of the opening session. she talked about president xi jinping's determination to tackle bureaucratic corruption. fu says there will be zero tolerance for corrupt officials and anyone found guilty must be harshly punished. fu dismissed worries that other nations have exposed about china's ongoing military buildup. she said china believes it can maintain peace by strength and that the chinese people can only be rest assured if they're the strong force defending their homeland and fu acknowledged environmental problems, saying pollution is a major challenge for china, and delegates at the upcoming npc. >> translator: this year we will start law enforcement on air pollution, prevention, and control. and we will revise it to provide legal guarantee in tackling smog. >> reporter: now, today, was actually a rare bl

and he doesn't even know where the hospital is in beijing because he's not from beijing. and we have to remember of these 465 registered relatives here in beijing, many of them are from places far away from the capital city. and they've been here for 12 days now. they're not familiar with the city. they're bringing these complaint to the airline. the malaysian airlines today said, okay, we hear your concerns. we are worried that if you're feeling sick, that you're not getting the proper care, so we will consult and get back to you on this. john. >> pauline, i don't think anyone has spent more time with these families than you have. you reported to us that lawyers have started showing up there to support the family. any sign of lawsuits being filed yet? >> reporter: not yet. we haven't heard of any lawsuits, but we do know that these chinese relatives are starting to research and starting to educate themselves. as i told you yesterday, aviation litigation lawyers from the united states have flown in, and they're here at this hotel. they've been telling us, they just wait f

so they'll go from kuala lumpur airport via a specific airway to beijing. that's their primary flight plan. >> do you program in each waypoint along the way? >> correct. >> okay. >> so you build this flight plan. once you get to beijing as your final destination point, that will sit in there in the flight management system as the primary flight plan. a lot of pilots will program a secondary or a route 2. some of them will actually mirror their primary and then alter a specific leg on it if they have a problem so that they can go to an alternate airport. or some will just build a return. so you could have a kuala lumpur, go out to a waypoint and return back to kuala lumpur. say you had a fire on an engine after liftoff. you know you're not going to fly around a lot, so pull this secondary or alternate flight plan into the active flight plan, hit execute and the auto pilot takes the beijing flight plan, drives it to a secondary flight plan and it will drive this new one. what we know is somebody executed that secondary flight plan and the airplane then turned

by 6:30 a.m., the sun is rising over beijing. the same time flight 370 is scheduled to land. but there is no plane and no sign of philip wood, paul weeks and the 237 other passengers and crew members on board. >>> coming up, the news no one could prepare for. >> after more than 30 hours without any contact with the aircraft, we believe that the family members should prepare themselves for the worst. alright, that should just about do it. excuse me, what are you doing? uh, well we are fine tuning these small cells that improve coverage, capacity and quality of the network. it means you'll be able to post from the breakroom. great! did it hurt? when you fell from heaven? (awkward laugh) ...a little.. (laughs) im sorry, i have to go. at&t is building you a better network. [ telephone rings ] [ shirley ] edward jones. this is shirley speaking. how may i help you? oh hey, neill, how are you? how was the trip? [ male announcer ] with nearly 7 million investors... [ shirley ] he's right here. hold on one sec. [ male announcer ] ...you'd expect us to have a highly skilled call center

driving through the pretty intense beijing traffic problem. various measures have been introduced to try to curb this. that is the plan at least. they have not taken effect. >> the problem is that they are temporary. they will ease the problem but will not solve the problem of the number of cars on the road. last year, 22 million sold gold literally can carmakers -- sold globally. carmakers are planning to put out 120 million vehicles out in 2016. that is a big jump. toto sell them as opposed take them off the rose. >> yes. is also predict in that there will be something called peak car. the number of cars will topple at 100 million per year because of the gridlock on the roads. so it is quickly becoming chicken-and-eight. people cannot get around. people will find alternatives to travel around. the yuan is predicting that there will be 22 megacities next is predictingn. that there will be 22 megacities next year. that will be people in close park city wanting to buy cars on the road to nowhere. >> thank you for that. some call it a violation

by 6:30 a.m., the sun is rising over beijing. the same time flight 370 is scheduled to land. but there is no plane and no sign of philip wood, paul weeks and the 237 other passengers and crew members onboard. >>> coming up, the news no one could prepare for. >> after more than 30 hours without any contact with the aircraft, we believe that the family members should prepare themselves for the worst. that's a man interviewino.for a job. not that one. that one. the one who seems like he's already got the job 'cause he studied all the right courses from the get-go. and that's an accountant, a mom, a university of phoenix scholarship recipient, who used our unique --scratch that-- awesome career-planning tool. and that's a student, working late, with a day job, taking courses aligned with the industry he's aiming to be in. ready to build an education around the career that you want? let's get to work. became big business overnight? ♪ like, really big... then expanded? ♪ or their new product tanked? ♪ or not? what if they embrace new technology instead? ♪ imagine a company's future

i want to go straight to cnn's david mckenzie from beijing. what do we know about this missing plane? >> reporter: what we know this plane went missing according to state media in vietnamese air space, piers, it was due to land here at 6:30 in the morning local time in beijing, this boeing 777 from malaysian airlines. packed with 239 people onboard including 12 crew members and two infants. they are searching frantically for where the plane went down, if it did go down. at this stage very sketchy details. 13 different nationalities on board. the majority on that plane were chinese nationals, around 160 according to chinese state tv. so a desperate search, malaysia airlines has notified or is in the process of notifying the next of kin. and this boeing 777 seems to have vanished at this point. >> so there's no confirmation the plane has crashed. what are the other possibilities if it hasn't crashed? >> reporter: well if it hasn't crashed it would have presumably landed at this stage. there would be no indications of any confirmed reports of a p

andrew stevens, thank you so much in beijing. >>> all right. it would appear two passengers on that missing malaysian airliner were using stolen passports. passengers believed to be from austria and italy were reportedly traveling on passports stolen years ago. joining me now, an analyst. this means we really don't have many real clarity on the people who may have used these passports to get onboard, but give me and idea how potentially alarming, concerning this is to you, that there might have been someone who could get on a plane by way of using a passport that's been lost or stolen? >> fredricka, you're right, it is alarming. but in addition to just the passports, they would require a visa. if you have european passports, or even a u.s. passport, you need a visa to enter china. you need a visa to get a boarding pass along with your passport. evidence that you've got a valid visa to go with the travel document, in order to even get the boarding pass and ever board that aircraft. that's something that the government of china is going to have t

new new new new one of fourteen on cctv news and jonas kill bart in beijing we begin this afternoon on the hardwood as the cba semi final series between the defending champion guangdong southern tigers and the beijing ducks came down to a decisive game five down south last night long gone has been the most dominant team here in china over the last decade plus they had reached the finals each year since two thousand three twenty eight titles along the way the ducks led by stefan margaret were though it will beat their rivals for the crown in twenty twelve they were hoping to once again in the southern tigers last night in their day long on sale at with a big game for when beijing again the chance to advance from their fan base he had other plans to double the only on psych out on dvd to seven point lead late in the opening quarter in the third period they got to go back on top right of war started. they control what we have long gone from the close days and hardly contain the chinese in the pe we played play like that scene sometime tomorrow. we did the things that we will be needed to

when representatives arrived in beijing. to cover rent a bus to travel between their hotel and the meeting place. each club can carry forty passengers. it will require a tube of victory. the three thousand representatives twenty five can cost three hundred dollars a day the kiwis two hundred thirty thousand dollars accommodations and other than that. it would usually think of it and eat it or starboard tell. what i can cost one hundred us dollars every threat to the one room after the meeting would be a two million dollars. it fell off the set of measures to keep a . the kid reported that due to contest the provided that the little paper cups for your pathetic the picture version of bottled water with their names on it. apart from acting with him topless red carpet and other decorations above the cut outs to come he's a pretty small things that are mostly luck. but even if the government cut down on the little things that go to bed. security at the target market weekly report. last year the cover art over seven hundred thous

from kualawas flying lumpur to beijing.'s get the view of our chinese correspondent stephen engle. what has the reaction been like over there? >> obviously, a lot of heartbreak, a lot of questions, few answers still so many days after that accident. has spokeni jinping on it. he said china will make all efforts to address this missing airplane issue. china has sent at least two ships to the region to help with the search. premier li keqiang has spoken with the malaysian prime minister. china's foreign minister has been in contact with his malaysian and vietnamese counterparts, urging malaysia to make an all-out effort on search and rescue efforts. that chineseday leaders are very worried, and that the news is very disturbing. the overwhelming majority of passengers on board this flight were chinese nationals. 153 of them. mysteries, of course, as well, involves these two stolen passports. how could it to passengers fly on his flight to china, of all places, with stolen passwords when china has such strict visa requirements?

directing a lot of anger the government in the same way the listing of beijing but in beijing the sweet things have gone very badly they've been known quite unruly lot of anger directed at the malaysian government and is no doubt this is in the very very traumatic week for the families as the clues increase in the point to what the probability of a tragic end to this mystery. he did to them and i'm told will look like them each three seventy had been deliberately devoted by someone on board malaysia's off ortiz micah poked in the rush of criticism over their handling of the crisis would subside but it didn't. the daily briefings the foreign media continued to accuse malaysia and competence. one report to him asking what does the good old the family's an apology i really want to. it is. on tuesday this officially became the longest unsuccessful search for past and at crop in aviation history. it's the cost for ten days it took to find the wreckage of an adam air flight that crashed off the coast of indonesia's island of sulu wasting in two thousand seven. as any hopes of picking narrowin

david mckinsey in beijing. while the passengers' families await any kind of definite word about what happened, we're hearing from pilots who say one of the most logical explanations for the plane's disappearance is being completely overlacked. athena jones is here looking at this part of the story. >> it seems like every day we hear about a new theory to explain just what happened to this airplane. one of the experts i spoke with today stressed that it takes more thuan one problem to bring down a jet. what's intriguing about this particular theory is that it's so simple. theories about what caused flight 370 to vanish abound. >> the aircraft's movements with consistent with deliberate action we someone on the plane. >> could hijack or sabotage explain what was the deliberate action to take the plane off 0 course? >> i see a professional flight crew that tried to handle a situation. >> there's a simpler explanation that could account for what happened. a fire, perhaps caused by an electrical problem leaves the c

a plane was scheduled to land in beijing 12 hours ago. air traffic controllers lost contract two hours after it took off. the flight was carrying 239 passengers and crew members. four u.s. citizens were on board - three adults and baby. it's been reported that it went down in the gulf of thailand. relatives are waiting at beijing airport for news of their loved ones. rob mcbride has more. >> an agonising wait for news. here the beijing international airport to the aircraft. reports emerging that the aircraft crashed into the sea. the reports coming from vietnamese state media, quoting a senior vietnamese naval official saying it crashed 150 miles off the coast of vietnam. it's not been confirmed by mair lines. -- mair lines themselves, their point of few is is that the aircraft is missing. until we see the wreckage or that there has been a crash landing at sea. they maintain the position that as far as we know the aircraft is listed as missing. an anxious time for relatives. 40, 50 relatives are being looked after at a hotel near here. we

now, in beijing, the scene was a bit different. in beijing, there was screaming. i mean, curdling screams from a family member who doesn't accept what they're hearing, saying we need proof. we need proof. and we have heard so many lies. we want proof. so there are some family members who are accepting this, that you can see they are trying to deal with the grief of never being able to see their loved ones again. there are other family members that are skeptical of this information, that until they see some kind of proof, some kind of wreckage, they just don't believe it. they are holding on to that tiny sliver of hope that perhaps somehow their family members are still alive at this point. but authorities trying to change their minds, trying to tell them, they believe that all the lives were lost. wolf? >> what about the airline, the malaysian airlines? are they doing something special right now to deal with the anguish, to try to console these family members? >> reporter: absolutely. we were walking in the hotel room, i've been staying in the hotel where many of

they will return to beijing tomorrow to continue.nt smoothly, and the families responded as positively as could be expected with the families engaging with representatives from the relevant authorities. it has always been our intention to keep the families as fully informed as possible, and we continue to do so. specific questions. there are a few specific questions i would like to respond to. on the police investigation, we can confirm that police have interviewed more than 100 people, including families of both the pilot and the co-pilot. as far as the transcript is concerned, the technical committee is considering releasing it, and we will keep you informed about that decision. the inspector general of police will attend tomorrow's press conference to answer further questions on the investigation. we can also confirm that mh-370 was carrying wooden pallets. however, this is yet to -- there is as yet no evidence that these are related to the wooden pallets reportedly sighted in the australian search area. ladies and gentlemen, the

we go outside the embassy in beijing.uline, we know the authorities there in beijing, they don't like protests, they rarely tolerate them so clearly the government wants this to go ahead. >> reporter: yeah. and also the police don't want the paidia to capture any of this protesting on camera. in fact, they cordoned us off at the corner. we're at the end of the street from the malaysian embassy. but the family members, about 300 of thome eventually were able to get to the malaysian embassy. the police have allowed them through. as you noted, they tried to leave this morning on these big buses but the police outside the hotel where the families are staying did not allow these buses to go. we're seeing a huge, huge police presence today. so after the family members realized the buses weren't going anywhere, they decided to walk on foot about a kilometer to their hotel. you saw signs which read "malaysian government, tell the truth, we've been waiting too long." one sign said "husband, please come home, what about me and our

beijing. i was just in the family conference room when this happened out of australia. it had been originally empty, but when word got out there was this news conference, i started seeing a lot of people filing in. the atmosphere was so tense. you saw people sitting up, hanging onto every single word as john young was speaking there. it was translated into chinese. there is so much frustration because as you mentioned there were so many false leads. they don't know exactly what to make of everything. but as they have been -- discouraged so many times. yesterday, i spoke with a man who said every day he wakes up, he goes through these things at the hotel. he had optimism and he said he hoped for a miracle. that is the word he is using, miracle, he says throughout the day they're getting so little information that they get dejected, more and more every day. one thing they want is government officials from malaysia to come here to beijing. they have virtually been ignored. and so now finally we'r

beijing has fairly good security already in place. if you remember, a week or so ago there was the attack at the airport -- train station by .eaker separatists china is on high alert for continued terrorist acts. i am not saying the flight was a terrorist act but the country is on high alert. >> thank you for the latest from beijing. my next guest has been in the airline industry for over four decades. he served on the u.s. national transportation safety board, participating in numerous investigations. joining us from miami is an independent air safety consultant. 40 years in the aviation industry. when you hear of an interest -- incident like this, what do you think of it? for the very unhappy families that have to go through all this. on whattart to focus in happens, what could be because cause, what effect that would have. if it is an airplane problem we want to find out quickly to make sure we did not have one on another airplane somewhere else. that is what drives the investigators to work so hard in the beginning, to make sure w

pauline chiou is in beijing covering that emotional part of the story. pauline, you have spent a lot of time with these families. what are they telling you? >> reporter: yes, spent a lot of time with them. and i was listening to that interview with sarah bajc, some of the family members here in beijing are echoing exactly what she had said in that interview, they're saying if this was a political act of terror, they're saying please don't use our loved ones as political pawns. that's what they've been saying for days now. during a briefing with malaysia airlines, many family members say they're starting to get sick. they're feel fog teague from lack of sleep and the stress. many of these families, 465 relatives here in beijing, from all parts of china, they're saying they're not getting enough support, emotional support from the malaysian government or malaysia airlines. so they've decided to take matters into their own hands. and would people today stood up and said we are going to start a self-help family support group. and they pulled out pieces of pa

this is our track on the way to beijing, think of it that way. ale we have to do is punch in the waypoint we want to go to, where we want to go. i'm going to use this key pad here, just like you have at home on your computer. and it's just a matter of punching in a few keys. and entering it into the computer. want to do. if that's what you - it shows a white line here, just to verify. okay, we want to do it. and once you execute it, you can see outside the airplane is now turning to the left, and what did that take, 15 seconds? >> yeah. we should point out, ashleigh, this turn is not -- i mean, it's a major course deviation, but to the passengers, it wouldn't feel really that different. i mean, you wouldn't know, i wouldn't know if this was just a normal part of flying the aircraft. >> but mitch, when you did that, it looked as though there had to be two people in that cockpit aware of what was going on. so if there was a change of course, it's not something you can really do surreptitiously, is it? >> no, it's not. it's something -- any change o

we are getting into the evening in beijing. we understand the team is being put together to help the relatives, her friends, to work out what they should do. if they are waiting for information. presumably the relatives will not want to leave the area. they'll want to stay close to the airport to see if any information comes through. >> let's go to kuala lumpur's international airport. this is where the plane took off. florence louie joins me on the line. what is the situation there? >> well, family members of the passengers on the flight, some have been since the morning, and in the last few minutes some have arrived back, coming back with luggage, suitcases. i spoke to one - one man who had a brother on the flight, and he was told to go home, pick up his passport and come back to the airport, where they may be put on a flight to beijing. the airline hasn't confirmed that but we have seen families come back with suitcases. it seems likely they'll be put on a flight somewhere. a lady told us that she was informed that the ally

it was set to go to beijing. they're now saying the computer was programmed on this alternate course away from beijing. 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,

embassy in beijing, fulltime at u.s. embassy in thailand. so they already would be providing assistance, accessing information, systems and databases of the fbi from the very beginning of this incident or beginning when the plane disappeared. >> given that proximity, that's a real advantage. to what extent are they assisting and is that kind of cooperation just a given by virtue of the fact it's there or does a special request have to be made? >> no. they work closely with malaysian police every day and china every day. this would be immediate. they wouldn't have to do formal requests. they are already there. that's the basis of being there and already having the permission of the country to have that office in the embassy in the country. so they would already be working. the question whether additional resources need to be on the ground there is another story, especially since again through the computer databases those systems can be accessed here in the united states from the offices in the embassy in kuala lumpur and the other offices. >>

kagan ration from beijing by what happens if they take taiwan. >> i don't think that beijing questionss. resolve on the taiwan issue. we continue to be extremely supportive, and we continue to expand our unofficial relations, and i think does a great deal to help strengthen and to allow for a more sort of peaceful and stable environment across the strait. >> thank you so much sir. >> mr. lowenthal of california. >> thank you, mr. chair. i have one statement i would like to before ask any questions, act with the chairs comments. i recently visited taiwan and found it met with many government officials and found it very, very educational. and i, too, believe very strongly that the state department and the government should understand the importance of taiwan being part of the tpp. and i think that should be a message back. so before ask a question, that many of us i think really strongly believe, and that we should do whatever we can to encourage that. when i was there i was very impressed with the cross strait dialogue that was going on between -- between taiwan and the people's republi

she's live in beijing. what happened in the briefing?well, indeed, as you saw there, frustrated doesn't begin to describe the emotions. they are furious at what they feel is a disrespectful showing towards them and china, from the malaysian government - not just the government but aviation officials, who have been spacing them over the last few days there were several hour-long meetings held between a special envoy from the malaysian government and an envoy of the officials and families. they were told they were not allowed to ask candid questions and a lot of irrelevant information and technical details were thrown at them by the malaysians and they feel they are being deceived and that there is more behind the disappearance of the plane than they are told. the malaysian government is still not ruling out a hijacking or act of terrorism. they also said they cannot confirm that they are dealing with hijackers. they say they haven't heart from anyone or there has been no claims to corroborate the suspicion as yet. now, the relatives feel

the red eye into beijing.ir traffic controllers lost contact in or near vietnamese air space supposed to arrive at 6:30 a.m. and it never did. the plane is presumed to have crashed into the ocean. this would be only the second crash involving the 777. last july, an asiana flight crashed. they believe pilot error was to blame on that crash. this was early similar to the air france crash in 2009 killing all 228 people on board. investigators believe the speed sensors in that one, the tubes iced over on the air france plane when it flew into a high altitude ice storm. the computers shut down and the pilots were confused and disoriented. that was an airbus a-330. different planes and different systems. that investigation was hampered by the fact the plane was on the bottom of the ocean. it took the french government two years to find the plane and lift it out of the ocean. the challenge is to find this plane, the malaysia airlines plane. the cockpits have ultrasonic system that is can be detected from several hund

in beijing.here are few details, but the fact that the crew did not accepted a distress signal indicates whatever happened happened early. >> our thoughts and prayers are with family of the passengers and crew. >> reporter: international efforts are under way. here's what we know about the flight path. the trip left at 12:41 local time. it was expected to arrive in beijing at 6:30, and then it disappeared. the plane has a safe travel history with only one crash. >> the aircraft is 12 years old, and we've had aircraft flying for almost 20 years that have flown more hours and more flights in this particular one. if it was going to be a structural break up, it would have been with older fleets. >> reporter: with little information on what happened no one is willing to guess what went wrong. >> let's cross over to florence who is at the airport for us in kuala lumpur to tell us more about the operation. >> reporter: malaysian authorities have not been able to confirm anything. they have not been able

this young man heading to bm -- beijing to start a new job. he posted this picture before it took off. relatives say cell phones are ringing. experts say because a caller is hearing a ringing sound doesn't mean it's going through to a phone. >> turning to ukraine, the campaign to split off the crimean region is growing intense. in five days the region will vote on whether to become part of the russia. the government in kiev say the vote is illegal. this as the new prime minister is headed to washington. as jennifer glasse reports, the move could further divide that region. >> the campaigning is sponsored by russian supported organizations. the poster is saying no to n.a.t.o., explaining why it's clear russia is the only choice in the referendum as to whether crimea should breakaway. >> translation: all know how we will answer the question, where they'll go and why. we don't want to stay in ukraine, or with the government. we wouldn't survive. what they offer us is not life or existence, it's worse. >> this woman hands out newspapers to convinc

i went to one of the public housing complexes under construction right now in beijing. millions of units are being built across the country, and the government has announced plans to build 7 million units. that's more than last year. but the plan doesn't address the issue of the urban poor. a lot of the homes subsidized by the government are being built near areas like this one. you can see it's not very developed, and people here are living in shacks. many of them are migrant workers who work in construction. and they say they won't benefit from the government's housing scheme. >> translator: the public housing units that the government is promoting are too expensive for people like us. we just can't afford it. >> helping those very poor is also a huge challenge for the chinese government. >> kyoko what do you think are the challenges for the government to push its reforms through? >> well, as associate professor bai said the xi administration may need to take a tough approach to achieve the change that it wants. and that could be done by centralizing power around pres

by 6:30 a.m., the sun is rising over beijing. the same time flight 370 is scheduled to land. but there is no plane and no sign of philip wood, paul weeks and the 237 other passengers and crew members on board. coming up, the news no one could prepare for. >> after more than 30 hours without any contact with the aircraft, we believe that the family members should prepare themselves for the worst. [ male announcer ] this is karen and jeremiah. they don't know it yet, but they're gonna fall in love, get married, have a couple of kids, [ children laughing ] move to the country, and live a long, happy life together where they almost never fight about money. [ dog barks ] because right after they get married, they'll find some financial folks who will talk to them about preparing early for retirement and be able to focus on other things, like each other, which isn't rocket science. it's just common sense. from td ameritrade. >> reporter: a large triple seven jet is missing, and the news makes its way around the world. >> a malaysian airlines has confirmed that it has lost contact w

thank you so much in beijing.earning more about some of the passengers on that plane. >> 239 passengers 12 countries represented on that flight. two passengers that we know. 37-year-old and her husband, from canada from montreal but they called beijing home. they had two young children, we know that those children were not on the plane. earlier our affiliate caught up with the boss of the husband who said that he was a dear friend and colleague. phil wood was from united states, from oklahoma, northeast oklahoma. he loved to travel. his fremds say that he was very kind and humble and they are holding out prayers and hope. we caught up with the family and friends. >> his job with ibm took him places around the world, he was in the process of being transferred from beijing to malasia he loved the world. he loved everyone >> and that is what we are hearing from his friends, fred. he was a globetrotter and went all around the world. >> social media playing a role here how? >> huge roll. facebook dedicating a page call