let's head to beijing to get more reaction. that's where many families of the chinese passengers are staying. pauline, you're hearing that some of the families that had traveled to kuala lumpur to want to be there are now headed back to china? >> yeah. we're hearing that they are going to be returning to beijing tonight. and these are about 30 relatives who had left beijing a couple of days ago, because they were so frustrated with the lack of information they say coming here from malaysian officials. they wanted to be closer to the higher authorities in malaiysia and really pressure them for more information. so these are the relatives who actually traveled there and they were sitting in on those family briefings and trying to get more information, but i should say that they were very reluctant to go in the first place. many of these chiep nies relatives didn't even have passports. they had to expedite those. they had to expedite visas. so there was a reluctance to go and also the language issue 37 they were afraid of being fa

. >> we want to get reaction from beijing about these developments. many families of the chinese families are staying there. pauline chu is telling us earlier that some of the families who went to kuala lumpur are returning to china and they wanted to try to take a mental break for the weekend. that might be hard to do now with this development that's being called an important lead. >> yeah, natalie, those relatives who had gone to kuala lumpur had left beijing a week ago. there were about 30 of them. they were so frustrated with what they say was a lack of answers from malaysian officials here in beijing. they wanted to get closer to the source of the information. but we are also being told that they decided to come back and they are supposed to arrive later on this evening before the news broke about these possible pings. so we just have to keep that in mind. we presume their travel plans are still coming back. it would make sense. many were reluctant to go in the first place. many didn't have passports and worried about the language issue and there

stephen engle is at the beijing motor show.ell you what we have coming up next. >> we will stick with cars. how are they using technology to streamline the manufacturing? we will take a look after this break. >> welcome back. more and more companies are making the shift. analysts say that ibm has to make up more ground for a profit increase. you can also add data analysis, as well. of at an annual run rate $2.3 billion. that is a fraction of the revenue last year. you can see it. they bought the cloud provider technology for $2 billion. they committed an additional $1.2 billion to data centers and other offerings. there are many ways to capitalize on the cloud. they can be found without us even knowing about it. let us take a look at how they are driving the road. instance, they said that the experience will be driven by the technology toying development from the car to the cloud. by having a car connected to the cloud, they can communicate data and provide critical real-time give automakers a better understanding of how the ve

it's almost 9:00 in the morning in beijing right now. that means that plane is the 1/2 hours late. >> the confusion, concern at that hour is completely predictable, everyone dreaded the worst, terrible accident. >> we confirm that this flight mh 370 lost contact with super air krafk control at 3:40 a.m. this morning. >> most people thought it was a straightforward crash and that you have come down somewhere south of vietnam and that the wreckage we found very, very quickly. so a lot of people took that approach. >> malaysia awaited details of its own military radar the plane had deliberately reversed course, flying back on a heading towards the indian ocean. >> how much of a turnback it made, 20 kilometers, 10. >> referee: suddenly, anything became possible, wild and intricate internet theories, a plot led by two iranians who boarded with stolen passports. the only problem, they weren't terrorists, just trying to begin new lives in europe. suspicions soon shifted to the only people capable of flying the boeing 777, the pilots. capital sh

the families in beijing discussed it because it didn't work. they feel that this -- after an hour, they walked out of this video conference. the malaysians couldn't get a good connection. and therefore the chinese families weren't getting their questions answered. it does seem they are sending the high-level delegation. what we have had in the last hour or so coming from the twitter account of the transport minister is underlining the three committees and he put out a note on each of them that the committee that's working with the families will send a high-level delegation to beijing over the weekend, perhaps meeting with families as early as monday. the committee that's responsible for the search and equipment involved in the search, they are going to, as you are suggesting there, put more auvs down in the water. that's that suggestion and the other committee, he said that committee is now looking at getting a panel up and running to investigate everything surrounding -- everything surrounding the search and what happened in the hours before a

tensions between beijing and tokyo rose last year.coming up next, we will be moving thet is markets here in asia. investors are turning live from stocks -- turning away from stocks. how bad are things? >> on the economy level, things are pretty good. the earnings season was pretty robust. the first quarter gdp numbers came at 7.4%, which beat most economists. >> but nobody believes them. >> a pullback is healthy, but what we look for our company earnings. we look for the top four auditors. we are staying away from the most risky, the chinese banks, property developers, internet stocks. we are focusing on consumer discretionary and the retailers. a lot better than what we've seen recently. january and february was around 11.8%. retail is doing well in china. >> foreign investors don't believe it. americans don't believe it particularly. selling off etf chinese stocks and you think it is undervalued, then it is a buying opportunity, isn't it? >> it is warren buffett saying. the fearful what everybody is saying -- >> [indiscernible] >> e

ivan watson in beijing.ks so much. >>> breaking news this morning. a frantic search for hundreds of teenagers who are missing after their ferry suddenly sank. the very latest on that search-and-rescue, next. female announcer: get on board for better sleep. it's sleep train's interest free for 3 event. get three years interest-free financing on beautyrest black, stearns & foster, serta icomfort; even tempur-pedic. plus, get free delivery, and sleep train's 100-day low price guarantee. you'll never find an interest rate lower than sleep train's interest free for 3 event, on now. ♪ sleep train ♪ ♪ your ticket to a better night's sleep ♪ >>> breaking news this morning. the desperate search for the missing after a ferry capsizes off the coast of south korea. hundreds of passengers believed to be trapped on board. one day later, could they still be alive? we are live with the very latest. >>> breaking news this morning, new information in the search for missing malaysia airlines flight 370. minutes ago, officials

ivan watson in beijing.s so much. >>> the deep-water search for flight 370 could eventually lead to a manned expedition to retrieve the plane's black boxes. cnn's david mattingly is down deep inside the manned submersible to show us what that's like. >> reporter: the challenge is, it is an incredibly long list, not the least of which being the tremendous depths you have to go through and the pressure you have to deal with, going all the way to the bottom of the indian ocean. we're talking a couple of miles down. there's only a half dozen manned submersibles that can actually go down and do that kind of work. this vehicle we're in right now is not one of them. we're at the bottom of horseshoe bay in british columbia. i'm with phil nuytten, he's internationally known as a deepwater dive expert. you actually develop vehicles like this so people can go deep into the water, places they never have before. and something i've been learning from you, as we've been down here, is how difficult even the simplest move se

the beijing auto show gets into gear and we are there live. welcome to "first up<'coming to you from hong kong. appeared tochitect be at odds over the strength of the economic rebound. wassurprising data which the bank of japan may be overly optimistic. the government is a bit more pessimistic. is the difference between expectations as well as reality. is expectation of the market that it will deliver on job growth as well as inflation. the boj-two percent inflation target. the numbers show that both sides are not necessarily narrowing the gap. the government is a little more pessimistic. headed towards that price stability, wage growth, as well as inflation. course, this measures growth. this is the first time this has shown such a stark difference. the cabinet is less optimistic. said this the survey confirms the boj policy is working. >> the measures are little different. japan look at of this with different formulas. >> that may explain part of this. we need to take that into consideration. methodology is different. the boj measure data on

ivan watson live for us in beijing. thanks, ivan. rosemary? >>> john, today we'll see one more day of testimony in the oscar pistorius murder trial before it recesses until may 5th. court is scheduled to resume in about 10 minutes. defense forensic expert roger dixon is expected to return to the stand. he's been testifying about the differences in sound between a gun being fired and a cricket bat hitting a door. during cross-examination yesterday the prosecution sought to cast doubt on dixon's level of expertise. >> are you a sound expert? just answer that question. >> i would hope that my -- my evidence that i present is sound, yes. >> are you a sound expert, sir? >> no. >> have you received training in decibels and sound? >> my lady, the tests that i undertook where i wielded the cricket bat was purely to determine whether the sound made by the bat striking the door could in any way be confused with the sound made by a gun being fired. >> do you need to be an expert to do that? what expert skills did you use? >> i made a sound. >> did the pr

the visit comes off the major trade tensions between beijing and brussels have finally been laid to rest and bites they must be at times but it was also an historic moment. her eyes. i know. off to meeting with president xi eu officials pulled a fast i'm committed to opening talks on a free trade agreement fta. if current negotiations on a key investment deal are ultimately successful. an fta would create a market almost two billion people and build upon our trade relationship now worth almost one of the hoff billion us dollars a day. the european union as china's largest trading partner and china is the eu second largest trailing only the united states. with many trade areas remaining between the eu and china analyst estimate of free trade deal would still take up to a decade to negotiate. bob did was the most significant step forward yet the eu china trade relations and kept a weeklong information to a vessel president she and the two hundred strong chinese business delegation cementing multibillion dollar deals ranging from aeroplanes to hold them up. it hasn't all been in business on

pauline chu is in beijing.tell us about what the families are saying and thinking as it relates to now a chinese vessel saying it believes it has picked up a pulse that may be connected to these black boxes? >> well, fredericka, they are cautious and their expectations are quite low. as soon as these reports came out about this possible ping we reached out to many of the relatives and one man whose sister was on the plane said to me, i don't believe this. listen, no debris has been found so how can you actually find the black box. he said, let's wait until tomorrow. get more information and maybe we'll find out this is a mistake again. also, a relative who is in kuala lumpur told cnn we're waiting patiently. there is no confirmation yet. fredericka, we have been tracking social media. there's a big group chat among the family members here in beijing as well as in kuala lumpur and they've been talking to each other over the past 29 days. on this particular report about this ping we noticed there was a lot of cha

all right, pauline chiou for us in beijing this morning. thanks so much. >>> all right, we fixed our technical issues. we want to get back to nic robertson in kuala lumpur for the latest on the investigation. and nic, bring us up to speed with the new developments in terms of the altitude that you were reporting and what malaysian officials are saying about the investigation this morning. >> reporter: yeah, this is a new detail we've been getting, this change in altitude. there's been no mention of any change in altitude in the route of flight 370. now, according to officials here, they lost sight of the aircraft flying over the malacca straits. this is after it crossed back over the malaysian peninsula. lost sight of it on military radar. then, about 120 nautical miles further away, they picked it up again on that military radar. the assessment they've made is what the aircraft did was dip down to about 4,000 to 5,000 feet above sea level, so it's coming down from about 35,000 to 4,000 to 5,000 before climbing back up again. that's a 30,00

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and if beijing would be convinced by that theory, that's the most probable case when beijing or china goes for a sort of military action. so for the united states, it's time to show the real visible actions. not necessarily the military. various other ways. >> we'll hear more from retired vice admiral yoji koda neighbors. find out the challenges china faces. on "newsline." >>> as we have been reporting, it is raining, windy and cold in jindo, south korea, where rescue operation continues. let's turn now to meteorologist jonathan ohn for the details there. jonathan? >> hello, yes. we are continuing to monitor the weather in south korea because of those factors with the clouds, the rain and the windy conditions. what's happening is we have low pressure located south of the korean peninsula. that is feeding into a high pressure system that's picking up the winds right off the coast. and on top of that, a stationary front is bringing in precipitation. and, unfortunately, it looks like there's more rain in the forecast going throughout the rest of thursday and into friday. this system is g

it's almost 9:00 in the morning in beijing.plane is two and a half hours late. >> reporter: the fear completely predictable. everyone dreaded the worst, a terrible accident. >> i confirm that this flight lost contact with air traffic control at 2:40 a.m. this morning. >> most people at initial stage thought it was a straight forward crash and it had come down somewhere south of vietnam and that the wreckage would be found very, very quickly. >> reporter: malaysia waited to reveal details of its own military radar, the plane had deliberately reversed course, heading toward the indian ocean. >> how much of a turn back did it make? 20 kilometers? 10? >> we are still looking at that. >> reporter: suddenly anything became possible, wild internet fears of a terrorist plot. they weren't terrorists. and then it shifted toward the pilots. analysis bit fbi of the simulator data turned up nothing. no claim of responsibility, no known ties to terror groups among passengers or crew, no motive supported by evidence. intricate analysis of sat

we want to go to beijing now.rnational correspondent ivan watson, tell us what these families want to know what they're demanding, what they're saying this morning. >> reporter: you know, christine, a lot of this makes sense. when your loved ones are missing for more than 40 days, it makes sense to be obsessed about every possible detail of what could have happened to this missing plane, but there is clearly, on behalf of the 153 chinese nationals who were aboard this malaysian airlines flight, a lot of mistrust and suspicion about the lack of information they claim that is coming from the malaysian authorities. now, amid a storm of criticism from the families' committee of these chinese families, the malaysian government has announced that it will send a high-level technical delegation to once again meet with these families here in beijing next week, while also, a malaysian government official has been a little bit on the defensive, saying wait, this isn't fair there were nationalities from 14 different countries

pauline chiou is in beijing this morning.ing, pauline. >> reporter: good morning, christine. you know, we journalists, the public, the searchers, we all use the words optimistic, encouraging, best chance, when we're talking about these ping signals as a lead, but those words don't really exist in the vocabulary of these relatives, because whatever comes out as a final result, it will most likely be tinged with pain. and it's been such a difficult month, and the relatives did mark that one month earlier today at 12:41 a.m. they held a candlelight vigil in the lido hotel. they lit candles one by one in the shape of a heart, and inside, you'll also see "mh-370" written, as well as the shape of a plane. and they held this candlelight vigil for the length of time that they believe their loved ones were on this flight, all the way until 8:11 this morning. that was symbolic of -- 8:19, rather -- of the last moment that the last partial ping was detected by satellite. but christine, it's been just excruciating. and most of the relati

what to get so much for joining us but critics say here it's easy to use winners in beijing.now the search for malaysia airlines flight and eight st seventy it has been thirty six days since the beijing bound plane disappeared after taking off from kuala lumpur with two and thirty nine people on board. australia's prime minister tony abbott is in beijing where he explained the search efforts currently underway. ivan also said yesterday that he is and i quote very confident said the recent signal the texans are from the black boxes how webber today he said that it's the numerous transmissions detected that give him a high degree of confidence. did they knew his numerous translations recorders which gives us the high degree of confidence that the seas. the blackhawks from the missing flight. what we are now doing. given that the signal from the black boxes. rapidly fighting what we are now doing is trying to get is maybe. it did take shoes this weekend. so the weekend like i said we can narrow the search area down. the feather try to do the joint agency coronation center in per

good early morning from beijing.ary twice, once inside the forbidden city, another sit-down as the news was coming out about the reacquisition of the pings. you speak to a lot of chinese, and many are skeptical of the search, even of u.s. involvement in the search, some conspiracy theories running around. but secretary hagel, more positive about the cooperation between the u.s./china and other countries and the broader relationship. here what happens he had to say to us. >> you could tell even -- >> reporter: we met secretary hagel inside beijing's forbidden city hours after search teams confirmed they had on two new occasions detected signals that could be coming from the missing jet. >> the head of the australia search saying he is, in his words, confident the wreckage will be found in the near future. i wonder if you share that confidence based on the information you know now. >> jim, you know the region and the immensity of this task. it's an immense search area. we think it's been narrowed, but i can't give you

senior international correspondent, ivan watson, joins me from cnn beijing.hy did malaysian authorities abandon this early commitment they to make technical experts available to families so that some of their questions could be answered? >> reporter: well, according to the malaysian deputy chief of mission, he's the number-two man at in beijing, he said the authorities decided this wasn't the proper time answer these technical questions that the committees that the families have put together put into writing and submitted to the malaysian authorities. instead, he informed a new delegation would be meeting with the families. today, tuesday, we've learned that the deputy foreign minister of malaysia has been dispatched to beijing. no meeting has taken place yet with the families. when perhaps 100 relatives who were in a packed conference room heard this announcement, they really exploded emotionally. for close to three hours, they took turn, at times yelling, at times sobbing, chanting "stop lying to us." at various occasions, cursing at the malaysian diplomat.

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ivan watson is live with us in beijing. he's been talking to the families about where they stand on the investigation and search. what are they telling you? >> reporter: well, i'm in front of the hotel where many families, hundreds of them have been staying. this morning, the relatives of the chinese passengers of flight mh 370 were supposed to be given a video conference briefing with malaysian authorities in kuala lumpur. on a big screen, the video came up of the officials, but no audio transmission. they couldn't hear each other. after 20 minutes, the chinese relatives got angry, they started hurling abuse at the screen, yelling things like liars and they all stood up and marched out of the conference room in protest. i think that's a very good example of how tense the relations are right now between the families of more than 150 chinese passengers of -- who are aboard that malaysian air flight and malaysian authorities. i just watched a briefing between a malaysian diplomat and official from malaysian airlines face-to-f

there are only 60,000 civil servants in beijing.there are more than 40 million scattered across the country and at five levels of government. the center, 31 provinces, roughly 300 prefectures, nearly 3,000 counties and over 40,000 townships. this is the only the state. china also has a communist party that overlaps with the state and plays the predominant role in policy formulation. the party is led from the top down, starting with the seven member politburo standing committee chaired by general secretary zhengping. these sit on the poll lilt bureau which has 25 members. the members are part of the communist party central committee. this 205-member body represents the top leadership of an organization whose power and 82 million members extend throughout chinese society. party bodies control key levers of power, noticeably personnel appointments. party committees exist in every ministry at all bought levels and in public and private companies throughout china, including foreign enterprises. to support polly making the party has often

we are live in beijing after the break. help move your career forward. we work with leading employers to learn what you need to learn so classes impact your career. while helping ensure credits you've already earned pay off. and we have career planning tools to keep you on track every step of the way. plus the freshman fifteen, isn't really a thing here. and graduation, it's just the beginning. because we build education around where you want to go. so, you know, you can get the job you want. ready, let's get to work. >>> this morning, still no sign of any debris from flight 370. that's more than after a month and a half of searching. the families of those on board say enough is enough. they want answers. they are tired, they say, of what they call stone walling from investigators. >> it's just the same thing over and over. they say they are going to send technical experts, then just a mouthpiece shows up. they can't ever answer a question, they never give information. why keep bringing the families through that point of crisis? it doesn't make any sense

many gathered in beijing overnight for a somber vigil. pauline chiou has been with the families for weeks now. pauline, what's the feeling there today? >> reporter: well, it was a very poignant night from 12:41, and that's when this vigil started -- that marked the moment that the plane had taken off a month ago from kuala lumpur. now, the families all got together, and they gathered in that big room that's normally the briefing room, but they pushed aside all of the chairs and they lit candles in the shape of a heart. they took turns doing that. there was also the letters "mh" and the numbers "370" inside and also the sharp pe of an airplan inside that heart. you saw people of all ages, grandparents, parents, young adults crying, praying, meditating, and they also had a visual presentation on a big screen of the flight path that the plane would have taken. and steve wang, a family leader, explained to us how difficult this whole time has been. >> a month's passed, and we are just going through so many, so many kinds of emotion. maybe jus

pauline chiou is live in beijing. how are they dealing with news from investigators that this mystery may never be solved? okay, is pauline with us? do we have -- i think we may have a small problem with pauline there in beijing, we'll come back to her in a moment. in the meantime we're at the international weathercenter because we've been keeping a very close eye on the weather. like we said, some days it's good, some days it's bad. right now you're saying it's pretty good? >> we're in the rare stretch where we'll have a couple days of generally clear skies. improving some time in the next several hours into tomorrow afternoon. right now the southern tear of the search zone we have a weak disturbance so that southern tier has low visibility issues but this region roughly the size of the u.s. state of kentucky so expansive area of the search zone where the weather pattern at this point looks good but i want to point out something in the corner of your screen out there. to the north and west we know there is a tropical

. >> that turn away from the route towards beijing, it was supposed to go to beijing that turn happenede last communication, good night malaysian 370" which raises a lot of suspicions. >> it does. the malaysians i think after just a few hours into this investigation have been focused on the cockpit. and we've all felt that this is something that needs to be looked at. because that plane was acting under human control. the indonesians, they said they don't know anything about this, they didn't pick up any radar. do you buy that? >> that's a good question. you wonder where were the malaysians in the first place as they crossed over the peninsula of malaysia and nobody scrambled jets, nobody went looking for an aircraft intruding their airspace. now indonesia, another country, what about their defense systems as it approached? maybe the thought it went north through the water and circumvented going over land of indonesia, the one theory is they were avoiding radar but another theory is avoiding going over land where they might get shot down or going into civil airspace because of all the a

ivan watson for us live in beijing.nk you. >>> colombia has announced three days of mourning after the passing of its most famous writer. gabriel garcia marquez died thursday. he was perhaps the most celebrated latin american writer of the 20th century. this was him a few weeks ago at his home at his birthday. he was a best known practitioner of magical realism, seamlessly blending fantasy and reality in his novels and short stories. his hometown in colombia inspired the fictional setting for his 1967 novel "100 years of solitude." it went on to sell as many as 50 million copies in two dozen languages. he won the nobel prize for literature in 1982. his widely successful "love in the time of cholera" was turned into a feature film in 2007. gabriel garcia marquez was 87. >>> christians around the world are observing good friday. many of the faithful gathering today at key sites in the jerusalem area where the bible says jesus was crucified. thousands will also gather in vatican city to be led through traditional good frid

ivan watson is live in beijing. the families can't be happy.t could be much, much longer. >> reporter: that's right. i think the families are very much aware of that. that hasn't stopped tempers from flairing. today, there was supposed to be a video conference between the families of 154 chinese passengers of the missing flight and malaysian authorities in the malaysian capitol of kuala lumpur when there was a technical glitch and the video conference didn't work. the families got up en masse shouting liars and stormed out of the conference room. it's emblemmatic of how strained the relationships are right now. some of the chinese families some of the relatives calling the malaysian authorities liars. left here on the ground to face their frustration and impatie e impatience, mid ranking diplomat and officials from malaysian airlines. during the daily briefing, they are subjected to a cross-examination as representatives of the families ask questions that the officials clearly do not have the information to answer. the families are trying to ta

all the information is having to go through beijing and the information from beijing has been limited at best. we have reached out to the chinese government to try to get a response, and so far we haven't heard back either, fred. >> hmm. and so, will, what about the sequence of events? i mean, we're only hours away now from baybreak. do you know anything about the plan, what planes will get in the air? whether ships will be redirected? are authorities giving you kind of any indication? >> in a statement from angus houston overseeing the joint coordinated effort here, he said that the royal australian air force is on standby to possibly be deployed over this new area where this ping was possibly detected. but no definitive answers as to when or if it will actually happen. that was as of the last update. when we get another update, perhaps a decision will have been made, but this is the decision we have right now and haven't heard anything about ships being re-routed just yet. we just don't have those answers and i suspect it's because we just don't have all of the details we need to ge

, then beijing decides what to pass on. all sorts of problems. one of thes we th s wquestions raises, detecting pulses under the water and spotting these objects is what they were doing searching outside of the designated search zones. because these areas that are being talked about, and they gave us gps koord nance of where they are. they're neither in the search area that was current a few days ago nor are they in the search area that's raeecently been annexed over the past few hours. it's raising all sorts of questions are the chinese running their own operation? having said that, if they find the plane, i don't think anybody will really mind. >> so, matthew, how much weight, then, considering everything you've said and what we have been reporting, how much weight are coordinators putting on this chinese report? enough to send some planes or boats to the place they're referring to, or no? >> reporter: no. enough to consider sending boats and planes is what they've said. in fact, they've said they're looking at it, they w

right now they're meeting with a malaysian team in beijing. this team is updating them on the search. the general consensus from these meetings, because this malaysian team comes every couple of days, the general consensus is that the families aren't getting much more information than what's coming out of kuala lumpur or perth. but at least they're getting an opportunity to ask a malaysian official their questions face to face. now, earlier this week we saw that the prime minister of australia, tony abbott, was in china for an economics and trade mission. he also reached out to chinese families of the passengers of mh370 over the weekend. he said they are welcome to come to perth any time. >> we would welcome, whenever they wish, families of the victims to come to australia. and they will find themselves in the arms of a welcoming friend. >> reporter: so you've got this gesture from the australian prime minister. but malaysia airlines has said repeatedly that they won't fly the families down to perth until there's confirmed debris found. and i

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they took to the streets in beijing, marching to the embassy. our senior international correspondent, ivan watson, was with them. look. >> reporter: it's shortly after 1:30 in the morning in beijing, and we're witnessing something that's pretty unusual for this tightly controlled city -- there are hundreds and hundreds of uniformed police, dozens of police vehicles, and they have all deployed around the embassy of malaysia in response to an unusual act of civil disobedience. you have several dozen relatives of chinese passengers of missing malaysian air flight 370 who are holding a silent protest. we can't see it. the police aren't letting us see it. in front of the gates of the malaysian embassy. that protest is vastly outnumbered by the police presence. thursday's drama began with an angry confrontation with representatives of malaysian airlines. relatives of flight 370 passengers demanding an audience from malaysian embassy officials and requesting details about the investigation into the plane. amid tears and fury, an elderly man collapses.

david mckenzie in beijing.nks so much. >> australian officials continuing to search for flight 370 around the clock. the weather in the indian ocean is a very big factor, because this is really so much a visual search from up in the air and on all of those ships. let's turn to indra petersons. looking at the weather there, today not ideal. what does it look like going forward? >> yeah, unfortunately, you'll start to see some clouds making their way snrint. conditions are currently deteriorating as you see the system making its way into the region. all it takes is a little cloud cover, even add in rain, high winds and the visibility goes way down. very easy to see. we do have a system in that region. unfortunately, right now it's producing some of those tough conditions that they've been concerned with. as far as rain, you can see as you go forward in time, you're still looking at some showers and spotty showers, nonetheless, making their way through the region. that's going to continue, at least for the next 48

only then does beijing decide what information to pass onto the australians. so it's proved to be a source of confusion and a source of friction as well potentially, brianna. >> you can imagine the frustration there, matthew, as they try to get all this information together and they're right there in the area, but two of the ships that are i guess you could say almost sort of the lead ships in this australian led effort, the ocean shield, the hms echo, are they perhaps headed to this area where the chinese heard the pulse signal? might they be able to lend some of their resources to see if this really is something? >> reporter: well, i mean, the australians have not announced that's going to take place yet, excuse me. but they're saying they want more information first before they decide what assets to deploy in that region. remember, this area where this detection has apparently been made is outside of the area that was designated -- that we knew of at least as the search zone. so that's something that's unusual and hasn't been fully explained, whether that m

look at what took place in beijing. that's where the boeing 777 was scheduled to land on march 8th from kuala lumpur but never did. see relatives gathering for an overnight candle light vigil on monday. 154 of the passengers on board the plane were chinese. >> these are heart-breaking scenes, of course. many of the families in beijing expressed frustration over malaysia's handling of the situation. the disappearance of flight 370 has put the malaysian government in the spotlight and some say the way their country is portrayed is negative. we have more on that from kuala lumpur. >> a malaysian government source tells cnn new analysis of the plane's flight path suggest it flew a route designed to avoid radar detection, flying off course to avoid indonesian air space. asked by a journalist to confirm the report, the acting transport minister denied and confirmed that radar had been avoided. >> it's untrue. i've got the chief of defense force militia and they have confirmed they had no sighting of the plane. >> this is a se

david mckenzie in beijing.tioned, we're awaiting a news conference from the joint agency that is searching for mission malaysia airlines flight 370. it is being described as an update on the status of the search. as we await that conference, my panel is back, and we have some questions from our viewers. so, les, mary -- i'm sorry, a viewer is asking can't the black boxes be removed and thrown out of the aircraft? it's highly unlikely, but is it possible? >> no. they're permanently installed in the tail of the airplane. and the block boxes themselves are highly inaccessible. >> another question that we were talking about earlier before we went on the air is can the black boxes be turned off? >> les? >> no. the only -- well, let me recant that. yes, they can throw a circuit breaker. they can be turned off. but it takes -- you have to climb into the electronic and engineering compartment. and it's a real process to get down there to do it. >> i just want to jump in on this question. i want to advance that question

the world's leading automakers are currently gathered in beijing for china's biggest car show.he beijing international automotive exposition as a launchpad for global manufacturers and what is now the world's largest car market, but it is also a cooling one. a growing number of chinese cities are restricting vehicles on the roads in order to combat congestion and pollution. even so, german carmakers like volkswagen and bmw are confident that there is room for expansion. >> driving in beijing requires a little patience. more than 20 million people live in the city and suburbs and ever more of them want to own a car. volkswagen cars are already very popular in china. the company's compact la vida model went down well with consumers, but now china's emerging middle class one more, better design, and better technology. vw hopes its new midsize coupe will prove a hit. >> china has become very important for vw. it is not just because of the cars that we produce in china. many of the cars here were produced in europe. cars are also being snapped up by chinese consumers. now the manufa

with more from beijing, we bring in shannon.s the russian foreign minister made any further comments on the situation in the ukraine today? >> the russian foreign minister did make some comments on the ukraine today. he said he was hopeful that the ukraine government would resolve the negotiations and all the problems relating to the legal demands and the protesters in the eastern ukraine. he called this a step in the right direction. so, comments from sergei lavrov here in beijing. >> bucket -- take us to the birth -- the importance of the economic and political ties between china and moscow. >> lavrov says it paves the way for putin to visit your later. they want closer ties financially and economically. they are working on a gas bill pipeline that will be finished in 2018, that is something they are looking to finalize the spring and that could help export the market to china, a huge amount of energy that russia aims to deliver to china, and also, russian officials have talked about china's investment crimea,e to invest in an

pauline chiou live for us in beijing. appreciate it. >>> all right, happening right now, oscar pistorius grilled again by prosecutors. did the olympic hero shoot and kill his girlfriend in a fit of fury? was this all just a tragic mistake? we're live with what he's saying this morning. that's next. i'm randy, and i quit smoking with chantix. as a police officer, i've helped many people in the last 23 years, but i needed help in quitting smoking. [ male announcer ] along with support, chantix varenicline is proven to help people quit smoking. chantix reduced the urge for me to smoke. it actually caught me by surprise. [ male announcer ] some people had changes in behavior, thinking, or mood, hostility, agitation, depressed mood, and suicidal thoughts or actions while taking or after stopping chantix. if you notice any of these, stop chantix and call your doctor right away. tell your doctor about any history of mental-health problems, which could get worse while taking chantix. don't take chantix if you've had a serious all

that's pauline report living from beijing. thank you. rosemary?rol, the head of the australian agency coordinating the search operation says as we've been reporting the signals detected by the towed pinger locator may be the best information yet in the hunt for flight 370. greg waldrun is the managing editor for flight global. and he joins now from singapore. thank you, sir, for talking with us. i would be interested to get your reading on this new breaking news coming out of perth, australia on the search for mh 370. what do you think? >> as with everything that comes out about mh 370, we need to treat it with extreme caution. there have been a lot of blind alleys in this particular search for this particular aircraft. first there were the satellite images that led to nothing. then there was debris spotted by aircraft three weeks ago that led to nothing. and now we have these pings. it's still a very early stage. until we see imagery of aircraft, of the aircraft somewhere on the bottom of the ocean, or we see some wreckage, we have to be highly s

they will be the judge of that may may a return to beijing.they are not being flown to australia, if and when they were to locate any debris directlily linked to mh 370. those in charge are saying, it is a criminal investigation, from their point of view, hasn't it always been a criminal investigation? that is what director of police, he said it from almost day one. it it is a criminal probe, it is being treated as such, they have introduced now, 170 different individuals who might have ties, who might have touch thad aircraft before it touched off. they have been pressing their side of it. look the at several areas, the pilots, mental state, was it a hijacking. all of these different elements they have been probing that they say in the same breath, all options are still on the table. mechanical failure, other sources such as this one. they are trying to get to the bottom of it. more than anything else, what it says is that there is so little evidence for what went on inside the cockpit of flight 370. until and unless they know the answer and

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pauline chiou for us in beijing. thanks so much, pauline. >>> happening right now, an olympic hero on the witness stand at this moment for a second day. he is trying to explain why he shot and killed his model girlfriend. we are live at this dramatic testimony in the oscar pistorius trial, right after the break. >> it's riveting. >>> dramatic testimony this morning at the oscar pistorius trial in south africa. pistorius himself is detailing his relationship with girlfriend reeva steenkamp, reading from text messages and admitting the two of them sometimes fought. listen. >> i think maybe that's just being sensitive, maybe insecure or jealous, and she came and she stood next to me and started tickling my neck and i wasn't kind to her like i should have been. >> cnn legal analyst kelly phelps is live outside the courthouse in pretoria. let's talk about this testimony. you know, it's surprising to hear the defense bringing up their relationship, surprising and probably important to hear oscar pistorius himself reading t

david mckenzie joins us from beijing this morning. david, you have been with these families throughout, and throughout from hope to despair. tell me what the latest is in terms of the potential legal action they could take here, because i know there was a major development late last night. >> reporter: well, that's right, poppy. you know, there are a number of law firms that have representatives at that hotel where hundreds of family members have been held up for these weeks, trying to find out anything about their loved ones. and as is always the case in an airline crash like this, you know, the legal options start to mount. and at this stage, those legal options could be potentially severe for the manufacturers, but we don't know until, of course, they conduct an investigation. i spoke to the head of litigati litigation. ran yek law.

we don't know yet what the communications are behind the scenes between beijing and perth, but it does certainly appear that they have jumped the gun, somewhat. excuse me. they have been pretty early on after the initial announcement of the signal that was detected, there was follow-up, official statements from government ag t agencies saying that this does not necessarily mean that it is connected to the plane. so, it does appear that this was effecti effectively kind of getting out on the limb, and then retracting somewhat. so we will have to wait and see. as the day progresses here in asia, what exactly they were trying to do by putting the information out. brianna. >> yes. and matthew, the sun will rise soon there in australia, sunday will begin momentarily, and will the focus today on this search, it is going to be where the new pings have reportededly been heard? >> i think that there is certainly a lot of pressure for the australian-led search teams to refocus their efforts on thatter a ya. because, you know, no matter what the questions are that have been raised by the chinese