i know it's very late in the evening for you because you're in christchurch new zealand. how much do you know about this particular incident, and if not much, tell us what you know about this model of plane. >> it's a work horse and a low cost airlines, pretty much a state of the art aircraft with high computer control and it has a good safety record. it's operated all over the world successfully. the details are all very doubtful at the moment. >> we heard reports of there being a distress call, david can that give us any clue as to what kind of difficulty that the plane got into? >> this would have to be confirmed by the investigators who will start looking into all these sort of things. the investigation will be taken by the french authorities with assistance from the germans from the aircraft manufacturers. it's early to speculate until we get factual evidence about what transmission were made and what happened. basically, if there was an emergency on the aircraft, the priority is to try to keep the aircraft flying and under control, and once you've done that, you put

new zealand to the arctic. storms of this size can effect gps, but no damage was reported. in the southern hemisphere, the skies painted pink and purpose over christchurch, new zealand. more on our stories at our website. go to www.aljazeera.com. today on "talk to al jazeera." astronaut chris hadfield. >> it's the raw human experience that's at the core of anything that matters. >> it was a young boy from ontario that became the first canadian to walk in space. >> it's hard relentless. the selection process to become an

time lapse video taken outside christchurch new zealand. severe solar storm hit earth on tuesday and put on a light show. it put on a show in both the northern and southern hemisphere. pimm: this is "money clip." we are streaming everywhere, online, on your phone, your tablet, your amazon fire tv. i'm pimm fox. today is a big day for apple. the stock everyone loves to talk about is joining the dow jones industrial average. scarlet: it means that the dow jones industrial average starts to look like what the real economy does. apple is the heaviest rated stock and it was not in the dow jones at all. in terms of money, i was surprised, because there is not as much money -- very little money benchmarked to the dow when you compare to the s&p 500. directly indexed money is about $33 billion as of the end of 2012. $1.87 trillion contrast that with the s&p 500 -- $1.87 trillion benchmarked. mid-caps.illion for the s&p small-cap 600 has about $31 billion. that is about what we are comparing the dow with. according to our senior etf analyst at bloom

heading south the aurora australia s painting the guy pink and purple above the rooftops of christchurch, new zealand. we're looking heavenward, russia is commemorating the world's first spacewalk. we saw that country take the lead in the space race against the u.s. >> reporter: he's 80 years old but his fans see him young at heart. a hero here in russia and a legend among fans of space exploration. that's because of a remarkable feat exactly 50 years ago. the space race was heating up between the usa and the soviet union. so news that cosmonaut leonov was a huge deal not just for russians but people around the world. half a century later he remembers the political pressure as well as the technical challenges that he faced. >> what i remember is unusual science. i heard my heart beating. i heard myself breathing which never happened before, and at that moment someone calls me and says alexi how are you? we the members of the politburo are gathered here and can see you tumbling there. we ask you to be cautious. we're waiting for pup come back. >> leonov's spacewalk almost ended in tragedy. his space s

in the southern hemisphere, the skies painted pink and purpose over christchurch, new zealand. more on our stories at our website. go to www.aljazeera.com. today on "talk to al jazeera." astronaut chris hadfield. >> it's the raw human experience that's at the core of anything that matters. >> it was a young boy from ontario that became the first canadian to walk in space. >> it's hard relentless. the selection process to become an astronaut is nearly impossible. >> the research lab a politically complicated program coordinated between 15 countries, including the u.s. and russia. >> there's's great arguments on earth over great money and territory and inertia. but in parallel with that there's a lot of cooperative things happen that we often forget. >> plus here hadfield reflect on the risks and the tragedies on the private sector space industry. >> you don't always get it right. what richard branson is doing to space travel is really hard. >> and youtube sensation. >> i wrote a bunch of stuff including a cover of david bowie space odyssey. >> i asked him about the "you are here