charlie angela, al jazeera. >> the german chancellor angela merkel has told her greek counterpart city's that she wants greece to grow and be released from high unemployment. powrn has pledged to provide $2.1 billion to help ease greece's humanitarian crisis. crisis will give no money without reforms. this is something he will have to consider. >> our goal should be to make necessary reforms. those that previous governments did not deal with. we must deal with tax evasion and force those who during the crisis have avoided paying their tax. >> translator: we want greece to be a strong country economically. we want them to beto have growth. we also want greece to come out of this high unemployment and we certainly want to make sure that this very high youth unemployment can be overcome and structural reforms are necessary for this a solid budget is necessary and a functioning administration is necessary. i think that's clear for both countries. >> let's get more from al jazeera's dominic kane. the two leaders look pretty friendly in that press conference but in reality how far apart are th

charlie angela is in the staging post for crash recovery crews. he can join us now from there so more pieces of the puzzle being put together, charlie. >> yes. indeed a very important revelation, the chief prosecutor from marseille in that press conference went into very minute detail. he started off saying that the conversation between two pilots during the first part of the flight was normal. it was almost playful. then with this pilot handled over the controls to obviously go to the loo estimating, the co pilot goon sound different. it was left in his sole command and he put the plane into a steep descent. this was a volunteer action. what is interesting is that during that eight minutes of that frantic descent 1,000 meters per minute, there was no response from the co pilot. the pilot was knocking on the cockpit door, trying to get back in. he was demanding access by video phone, but you there was no word said. they do not believe that the co pilot was incapacitated because they can hear him very clearly breathing normally. that is a key point

charlie angela, al jazerra. >>> syria's president says he's open to dialogue with the united states bashar al-assad made the comments in a television interview with u.s. broadcaster cbs. but said there must be no pressuring of syria's sovereignty. >> at principle in syria we could say that every dialogue is a positive thing. and we are going to be open with any dialogue with anyone including the united states regarding anything based on mutual respect. >> the united nations has more than doubled its estimates of syrians living in ba sieged areas, the new number is close to 440,000 people. >>> i three-day lockdown aimed at stopping ebola has come in to force in sierra leone the president told everyone to stay in doors from friday night to sunday morning they will be going door to door to educate people. 10,000 people have been killed in west africa. much more to come on the program program. >> i don't currently know the goals and objectives the offed saudi campaign. >> how much did the u.s. know about saudi intentions in yemen. plus. >> reporter: i am daniel lack in dawson city. home to a m

charlie angela, al jazeera. >> still cooperating on security matters even though u.s. has withdrawn even the special forces that remain. >> true that that coordination would be more effective if there were u.s. personnel in the country. doesn't mean that this coordination has been eliminated but it would be more effective if u.s. personnel were allowed to remain in that country. >> also today the white house dended president obama's statement that yemen is a model for fighting terrorism even though country appears to be spiraling towards a civil war. the white house said yemen served as a kind of template the u.s. has used and would use to fight al qaeda. let's bring in jim walsh who joins us from watertown massachusetts. jim good to see you. first the u.n. special advisor on yemen warned yemen has been pushed to the edge of civil war. i hate to say it but isn't he overly positive? isn't this already a civil war? >> (laughing) for a while it seemed like yemen was the little engine that could. it hadn't turned into iraq, hadn't turned into syria. in the last six months,

charlie angela, al jazerra. >>> the september 11th highjackings forced the airline industry to changeies for locking cockpit doors. in the united states, federal guidelines stipulate the pilot is never left alone in the cockpit. but that policy is different in other countries. now an explanation. >> this is an air butt training video. here they they explain how a locked cockpit door with be opened by entering a security code. >> captain. captain. do you read me? under the circumstances sully. >> obtainingobtaining no response he uses the emergency access procedure. on the code pad she enters the emergency code then presses the hash key triggering the time fore 30 seconds. >> after that time if there is no response from the cockpit the door unlocks for five seconds but there is a way for a pilot to lock the cockpit if they suspect anything is wrong outside. >> i don't think there is the normal procedure, i prefer to lock the door, do you agree? >> you i can't, i do. it's suspicious. >> the captain movers the to go the switch to the lock position the open light remains extinguished. if

. >> charlie angela al jazeera. >> in libya field commander with the armed group assured a council of benghazi, one of the main rebel commanders who fought former president moammar gadhafi's forces in the 2011 revolution. a fighter has been reportedly shot down over the city of zintan not recognized by the u.n. in the international community. it's not clear who or what brought the aircraft down. libyan media has reported that one pilot has been captured and another killed. after the 2011 revolution that ousted moammar gadhafi the brigade has become the most powerful seizing weapons from the deposed libyan leader. they are the main force in the libyan dawfn alliance dawn alliance which took over the capital. zeina khodr reports from misrata. >> it has been labeled as an extremist stronghold. misrata denies all that. its influence extends far beyond its borders. misrata extends to the ayes, relies on the libyan dawn military alliance to stay in power and misrata's seize the capital last year. misrata has thousands of fighters constituting one of the largest armed groups in the country.

charlie angela is in southern france. >> reporter: as search teams and forensic experts make use of theaining hours of daylight to comb the vast crash site analysis of the black box recovered on tuesday has revealed the plane's final moments. his end to go voice recordings from the plane prosecutors say the pilot was locked out of the cockpit during the flight's final moments. the copilot apparently conscious was at the controls and deliberately put the plane in to a steep descent. just before it crashes in to the mountains, passengers are heard screaming. >> translator: the most likely interpretation we can make at this point is that the copilot deliberately refuse today open the cabin door to the captain. he then activated the button that triggered a severe loss of altitude. we do not know why he activated this button but can be interpreted as a deliberate attempt to crash the plane. >> reporter: little is known about co pilot andrÉas lubitz, he was a german citizen with 600 flying is hours germany says he had no terrorist background. >> of course this is a big big job for us here, i

charlie angela, al jazerra. >>> talks twine libya's rival factions set to resume on wednesday. u.n.ey are working towards a unity government. despite the talks the fighting continues, a prominent field commander which backs the trib lee government has been killed by rival fighters. he was killed on monday by forces loyal to rival u.n. backed government based in at that track. he was one of the main rebel commanders in the 2011 revolution begins former leader muammar qaddafi. >>> forces loyal to the tobruk government, meanwhile say they have shot down a fighting jet belong to this rifle rival libya dawn. they back the legally installed government in tripoli and say the plan crashed from a tech fault. one pilot tied while the other was arrested. libya town's political base is east of tripoli. the city's brigades became the most powerful of the armed groups after the revolution, they seized weapons from forces loyal to the deposed libyan leader and consolidated their power base. and as zeina khodr reports their support is key to any deal on a national unity government. >> reporter: it

charlie angela, al jazeera. >> saudi foreign minister there says his country would do whatever it was asked to do by president hadi in yemen. a yemen specialist with the overseas institute does that mean sending in the troops as soon as possible? >> sending in the troops is one thing. but air strikes against the houthis as they continue their push south. >> the yemen foreign minister says we really don't have much time. >> the next day or two are really critical. once the houthis enter the area where president haid is hadi is located he would be forced to abandon the three largest cities if he is forced into the country or into tribal areas further east. >> if that happens, if the houthis and their merch mentors iran get control of aden how difficult would it be to take back the country? >> it is extremely difficult to dislodge any armed group from the city. and one once the houthis are in aden they essentially control a large portion of the country's infrastructure and economy and it would be extremely difficult. >> now you're expecting the houthi rebels, you call them rebels but pre