let's bring back dominic cain.you were telling us it is surely set to raise concerns in germany, given lufthansa and germanwings exemplary safety record. >> yes indeed, that is something that will be paramount of importance to all that operate in germany given the safety record being exemplary this is the first fatal incident. condolences were given to the families of those involved in this incident. clearly his colleague angela merkel is going to want to go into more detail about this and the gem man government is going to be very keen to find out what exactly happened in this incident that brought that plane down, on a journey which is routine for a short haul no frills airline. i'm sure when the c.e.o. of germanwings speaks to the media he will seek to allay fears concerns. we expect that to happen within the hour. >> just a final thought before you go. has there been a response in the media there to this crash or is it too early yet? >> >> i think it's a bit too early to go into that. certainly it is talked abo

dominic cain.jazeera coming up here on al jazeera we will listen into the saudi king making his first major policy speech, since he became the king. and ships away, the new eyes in the sky over washington d.c. >> sharing the same responsibility. >> pictures have emerged the two helicopters crashed killing ten people among them three french sport stars. the amateur footage was there on argentine yeah t.v. earlier on tuesday. the athletes were taking part in a reality television show when the crash happens. daniel has more. this is all that remains of the helicopters. part of a reality t.v. show. that was being filmed the ever the channel t.f. 1. among the dead was the olympic swimmer, she won three medals a t the london 2012 games including gold in the 400-meter freestyle. at the time, she spoke of her pride to represent france. you don't really take it in, it is true, i won my 400 meters and then the next day the president came to visit me, even if i don't do it for that, this is another dimension.

lets cross over now you to dominic cain who's been talking to us all morning from berlin.ring us up to date with details you've been hearing there that are emerging about the crash. >> three updates to bring you actually. in the first place the german government has set up a crisis response team, which it is sending to the incident. secondly, the german government has set up a telephone hot line for all those wanting more information about their loved ones about the incident, and that sort of thing and the third one is for germanwings the company concerned has changed its on line representation, turned it to black in a gesture appropriate perhaps to the gravity of the situation, so clearly, a sense that something terrible has occurred. looking at a statement from the german foreign minister, referring to this as a catastrophe that has happened gives a sense of what the official view about this incident is in germany. there will be a news conference by germanwings in a few minutes. seeing as we know that 45 of the people onboard the crew onboard the plane rather was spanish

let's go to our correspondent dominic cain in berlin to find out if anymore detail is emerging there.e've been getting the most of the information we've got so far has been coming from france and from the french president himself. what's happening in germany? >> let me read to you a tweet that lufthansa has on it's site. >> we he do not know what happened to flight knife fine 25. if our fears are confirmed, it is a dark day for lufthansa. we've spoken physically there's a degree of ambiguity about the situation, but the tweet would give credence to the idea that some tragedy has occurred which president hollande has gone into great detail about spoken about how this is a tragedy, would take time to find out what caused this crash and his expression of three. there is a sense from lufthansa on their social media site that they are still hoping to find survivors. >> what about germanwings itself? we know that it's a budget airline. it's a low cost carrier but it is a subsidiary, isn't it, of lufthansa. >> yes indeed it is. this would be the first fatal incident involving one of its airl

dominic caine was there and filed this report. >> in the center of frankfort the police step in to prevent protesters from taking over the streets. they called off thousands of people to descend on europe's financial district. >> above all i think that it's the big symbol for monetary in europe and it's important for a lot of people, from lots of different countries come together and fight the politics. >> in some areas clearly, it had taken a physical form. police held hundreds of people in different parts of the city to prevent them from committing crimes. >> things like these demonstrate anger against the authorities, and against the role of the european central bank and that's what was brought into the streets of frankfort to try to disrupt and prevent the inauguration of the $1 billion bill. inside of the building, the president of the ecb did acknowledge the protestor's point of view, but said that the fiscal policy is not the cause of the country's economic problems. >> it has always been understood that countries have to be able to stand on their own two feet. that each is responsi