it was their first flight from karachi to islamabad. but the flight never made it to the capital.he boeing 737 came down in a storm, apparently with the loss of all on board. underground, poignant reminders of the lives ended in an instant. the pilot was said to have been highly experienced. the airline said the weather was to blame. >> police are collecting debris and carrying out a determination here at the scene. there are hunks of twisted metal all over the ground here. the aircraft came down in a residential district. parts of the plane are scattered on people's homes. it was making its approach to islamabad, coming into land, when disaster struck. in the words of one local man, the sky turned red. >> some local residents told us the plane was on fire before it hit the ground, but that is unconfirmed. investigations are continuing. relatives will have many questions. muhammed was robbed of his sister. >> the rescue team found my sister's mobile phone and some jewelry near her dead body and they contacted us. >> tonight, it is a time of grief. instead of happy reunions at the

at karachi airport, an agonizing wait.elatives desperate to know if their loved ones were on the passenger list and if any survivors had been found. the airline reopened this year. it was their first flight from karachi to islamabad. but the flight never made it to the capital. the boeing 7373 came down in a storm, apparently with a lot of oil on board. on the ground, poignant reminders of the lives in did in an instant. the pilot was said to have been a highly experienced. the airlines -- air lines said the weather was to blame. police are collecting debris and carrying out examinations here at the scene. there are haunts of twisted metal all over the ground. the aircraft came down in a residential district. parts of the plane are scattered on homes. it was making its approach to islamabad, coming in to land, when disaster struck. in the words of one local man, the sky turned red. some local residents said the plane was on fire before it hit the ground, but that is unconfirmed. investigations are continuing. relatives hav

next on the streets of karachi we look at a 10-year-old scaven jer. now the u.s. and japan have reached an agreement on an historical source of friction between the two countries. on the japanese eye land of okinawa. under the terms of the deal, some of the military contingents are to be redeployed to other sites. one explains how the behavior of u.s. servicemen have had a sway. >> this started with when a tragic incident involving a member of the u.s. marine corps remaining a girl in okinawa. so people in okinawa have all legitimate reasons to be concerned. but more than that, there was an agreement forged between the two governments and it was about to be implemented. then came a new government that said something dramatically different then a stalemate began to be greater. finally this agreement is going to give more time space for both governments to solve the issue. for the united states there's a significant degree of opposition from the senate. >> well, our tokyo correspondent says both countries are keen to reduce the criticism of the bases without damagin

he is receiving treatment in karachi. they believe there is some sort of surgery on the horizon. the boy is in stable care. the parents are hoping that th son can one day li full and healthy life. >>> vice president joe biden wants to -- >> get a couple of the girls, give us some backdoor relief. >> so he didn't really say that, but the words put in his mouth aren't exactly pc or pg. >>> and imagine waking up with a penguin in your room. >> this sounds like a real-life version of the "hangover". >> the story of the penguin that went missing from seaworld. ♪ ♪ we were skipping stones ♪ and letting go ♪ over the river and down the road ♪ [ female announcer ] at nature valley, we know nature comes together in amazing ways. that's why we bring together natural ingredients, like dark chocolate with toasted oats, or sweet golden honey. perfect combinations of nature's delicious ingredients, from nature valley. ♪ ♪ i was thinking that i hope this never ends ♪ [ female announcer ] nature valley granola bars, nature at its most delicious. of. >> this may actually be one with of the weirde

he is receiving treatment in karachi. they believe there is some sort of surgery on the horizon. the boy is in stable care. the parents are hoping that th s can one day li full and healthy life. >>> vice president joe biden wants to -- >> get a couple of the girls, give us some backdoor relief. >> so he didn't really say that, but the words put in his mouth aren't exactly pc or pg. >>> and imagine waking up with a penguin in your room. >> this sounds like a real-life version of the "hangover". >> the story of the penguin that went missing from se of. >> this may actually be one with of the weirdest stories we've done. >> that's saying a lot. >> see that little guy, that little penguin? his name is dirk. dirk, over the weekend, was kidnapped. according to reports three welsh nationals between the ages of 18 and 21 broke into seaworld in queensland, australia, and swam with the dolphins and then took dirk. >> just for fun? >> well, apparently -- again, according to reports -- there was some alcohol involved, and the next day when these guys woke up, they found a penguin in their ap

. >> the boeing 737 was carrying 127 passengers and crew from the southern city of karachi and made its final approach during a thunderstorm. 20 people on a grounder also reported dead. air traffic gave clearance for landing, but lost contact with the plane minutes before it went down. witnesses say the plane was completely destroyed. it is unlikely any survivors will be found. >> for more on this, we are live with our correspondent in just summarized their. i think people are beginning to turn to some of the deeper problems that face the aviation industry in pakistan. this is the second such disaster in two years. there was another major crash in islamabad, similar to this situation with a plane going down. the airline has had a troubled history. they had to suspend operations at least four times. indeed the only just reopened at the business. people in islamabad questioning the validity -- our people in islamabad questioning the validity of the bad weather being because of this crash? >> in terms of the specifics, we do not know at this stage. yes, the weather was extremely bad. a sto

more than 1/3 are in karachi. local charities say that the children are targeted by criminal gangs and forced to become thieves and sex workers. they say the authorities are part of the problem. >> this child is a scavenger. he has been sifting through rubbish all day and shoulders the best of his pickings. what do you have here? >> i collect plastic bottles, he says. and anything i can sell to be recycled. it earned him about a dollar a day. >> i cannot take drugs like the other schoolchildren. i would like to play football and cricket with the other children. people say that we are dirty. they chase us away. >> he has only been on the streets a few weeks. he ran away from home after being repeatedly beaten by his father. poverty forces kids like this to leave their homes and they end up in places such as this shrine where they can get free food. help is out there. this is a center for street children. poverty is a major part the problem. >> they are providing protection to the children. we have financial benefit

the boeing are resinated in karachi. i spoke to the bbc's reports are in islamabad a short time ago. you were at the hospital. what can you tell us from their? >> no good news. we have seen ambulances coming from the site. there are a lot of distress relatives waiting at the hospital for some kind of news. those ambulances are only bringing the remains of those who have been killed, 118 passengers and nine crew were on board. this plan was just -- airplane was just minutes from landing. it came down in bad weather. it was a violent storm just after nightfall in this area. there are some suggestion that it -- suggestions that it exploded on impact. some feel it was struck by lightning. they saw it catch fire in mid flight. it did come down in an area that was sparsely populated. there is some damage to residential buildings. no word of casualties on the ground. as i say, no good news for the relatives waiting here. >> there is some concern about pakistan's airline safety record. has there been a formal response from the a

today's flight once again in brutal weather was in fact the maiden voyage of its new karachi islamabad service. emergency teams say they've managed to extinguish the fire but rescue workers at the scene say the destruction is so bad that there is no chance of finding survivors. of course they continue the search. i'm jim maceda, nbc news reporting from london. now back to you. >> there is an investigation under way into the cause of a deadly crash of an army helicopter in afghanistan. u.s. officials confirmed that all four american crew members onboard the chopper were killed. it went down last night in bad weather in the hlman province. it was headed to the scene of a suicide bombing. >>> a volcano in new mexico continued to spew smoke and ash today. the mountain is located in puebla and began erupting last night and sent clouds of gas and lava over a half mile high into the sky. no evacuations have been ordered so far but officials there say they're keeping a close eye on the situation. there are about 24 towns surrounding the area. the volcano is about 37 miles southwest of mexico c

more than a third of them are in karachi, where local charities say children are targeted by criminal gangs and forced into becoming thieves and sex workers. the city authorities are part of the problem. >> this is a 10-year-old scavenger. he has been sifting through rubbish all day and chosen the best of his pickings. >> i collect plastic bottles, he says, and other things i can sell on to be recycled. it turned him around a dollar a day. >> it is hard work, but i get money at the end of the day. i do not take drugs like the end of street children. i like eating biscuits. i would like to play cricket with the other children but people say we are dirty. they chase us away. it makes me feel bad. >> he is only been on the streets a few weeks. he says he ran away from home after being repeatedly beaten by his father. these children and up in places where they can get free food while living on the street part time. help is out there, but it is limited. conducted by a local charity, this organization teaches girls basic skills. many are trying to escape from a life of prostitution. she run

she was moved to karachi shuttled from house to house sich or seven different residences.t to pash war to link up with her husband, from there on to the wath valley, and another small town and finally to the compound where he was discovered and killed. we're filling in the details where and when he moved. we don't know how. >> but that certainly suggests that there was a network. you don't move from karachi to peshawar without having the facility of people supporting you. and it tells you that they were hiding in plain sight not only in that compound but also in various other locations in pakistan. >> that's true. the prevailing wisdom for the last decade was that perhaps bin laden was moving from cave to cave in the tribal areas and the border between pakistan and afghanistan. if this account is to be true, that means that he was really moving well within the settled areas, even the urban areas of pakistan. u.s. officials have said they don't believe any pakistani officials military or government or otherwise played a role in moving bin laden. pakistani officials have sai

all of them feared dead, the plane taking off from karachi, crash landing roughly five miles outsidee airport here in islamabad throughout the night. the grim recovery efforts, showing mangled and twisted debris as well as personal belongings like cell phones and passports. another twist to the tragedy, this aircraft belonged to boja airlines, a company that went out of business in 2001. recently restarted operations, its website says its inaugural flight from karachi to islamabad would be april 20th. of course, today is april 20th. erin? >> all right. >>> well, a judge's decision to let 28-year-old george zimmerman out of jail until his second-degree murder trial was welcome news to his friends and family, including his friend who told us before the show what it was like to see zimmerman for the first time since his arrest. he was there at the bond hearing. >> jormg george looked pretty tired. he looked like he'd been through a hell of an ordeal. but he looked like he's going to persevere and forge ahead with a positive attitude. to know that he's innocent just like i know he's inno

over a third of them are in karachi where they are targeted by gangs and charities to aid the problem is getting worse. the bbc has this report. >> this boy is a scavenger. he's been sifting through rubbish all day and shows us bits of his pickings. what do you have here? >> i collect bottles and other things i consider to be reseeked. it -- recycled. it irns him around $1 a day. >> it's hard work but i get money at the end of the day. i don't think -- i just like eating biscuits. i would like to play crickets with the other children but people say we are dirty. they take us away. it makes me feel bad. >> he's only been on the streets a few weeks. he says he ran away from home after being repeatedly beaten by his father. >> children end up in places where they can get free food while living to the pavements outside. >> help is out there, but it's limitted to a few like this one. conducted by a local charity, it teaches girls basic skills. many are trying to escape from a life of prostitution. man runs a center for children. >> this is protection for children. we give financial benefit

they say the blast occurred ne a waiting room for express trains linking lahore and karachi to the south. police say they suspect islamist militants were targeting ordinary citizens. in northwestern pakistan, a car bomb went off at a marketplace in january killing more than 30 people. >>> residents of syria are seeing more of what they've seen over the past year despite promises of cease-fire. the united nations brokered a truce between government and opposition forces. it didn't hold. and residents are still running from the fighting. many have taken refuge over the border in turkey. kenji gota has the latest from there. >> reporter: he points over the border to his home just a few kilometers away. he spent much of the past year with the syrian army fighting against government forces. then soldiers attacked his hometo hometown. about half of the 15,000 residents left syria. he crossed over just a few weeks ago. >> translator: the government forces attacked us after cordoning off the town. i saw children's bodies buried in the ruins of a collapsed building. >> reporter: the turkish gover

they say it went off near a waiting room for express trains linking lahore and karachi. police say they suspect islamist militants were targeting ordinary citizens. people in lahore have seen many bombings in the past, but this is the first in months. >>> canada is suspending most of its sanctions against myanmar. it's easing the five-year-old measures after democratic reforms in the southeast asian nation. canadian foreign minister john baird says myanmar's government has changed course in a major way. he notes the authorities have released political prisoners and held parliamentary by-elections. he said canadian officials have suspended restrictions on trade and investment but they will maintain an embargo on arms sales and a freeze on the assets of former military leaders. he also says canada will restore all sanctions if necessary. the united states partially lifted its sanctions against myanmar last week. the european union decided to suspend its sanctions for a year. >>> u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton says u.n. reports coming from syria are deplorable. the

this was a flight from karachi to the capital, islamabad. let's go to islamabad now. short time ago. any more details coming out? >> reporter: yeah, earlier aviation officials had said 131 people were killed. now depending on who you talk to, they're saying 121 or 122 people were on board. the crash happened about two hours ago. pakistani television stations are showing images of the aftermath of the crash. those images are showing twisted and mangled debris and what appear to be personal belongings of the passengers, including luggage, blankets, and parts of the plane. the crash happened in the garrison city of -- next to islamabad. there is concern that this plane may have crashed into a residential area. at this point there are no reports of fatalities on the ground. hopefully, it will stay that way. we are learning some remarkable new details about this aircraft and this airline. this was a boja airlines ashth, a boeing 737. a private low cast airline thos apparently shut down operations at some point and recently restarted operations, but here is the stunner. the

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it was taking off from karachi, headed to islamabad, pakistan's capital city. this airline was operated by a domestic carrier here in pakistan. officials don't believe there were any foreigners on board. and pakistani authorities also insist that terrorism had no role in bringing this plane down. they say that simply this was a very serious but weather-related tragedy. diane? >> and a true tragedy. thank you so much, mo hall meld. >>> and still ahead here on "world news," a mystery. a surfer is called by a great white shark, but is reality tv to blame? [ male announcer ] in blind taste tests, even ragu users chose prego. prego?! but i've been buying ragu for years. [ thinking ] i wonder what other questionable choices i've made? [ club scene music ] [ sigh of relief ] [ male announcer ] choose taste. choose prego. my doctor prescribed dulera to help prevent them. [ male announcer ] dulera is for patients 12 and older whose asthma is not well controlled on a long-term asthma control medicine, like an inhaled corticosteroid. dulera will not replace a rescue inhal

hundred twenty seven aboard that hard air jet the boeing seven hundred seventy three seven a route from karachi to islamabad was making his final approach to the airport in stormy weather before it crashed and its second passenger plane crash near islamabad in less than two years. iraqi prime minister nouri al maliki has cold turkey a hostile state of terror in tandem accuse it of trying to establish hegemony in the region that's a response to turkish prime minister erdogan saying he is fanning tensions between iraq shia community terry and raul emerged in iraq in the end of last year when the shia led government sacked and number of top city officials. and it's time now for the latest edition of our russia close of series and they were heading off to the country's remote north. northern russia is known for its vast and harsh climate a tiny population that lives in this area is completely cut off from the rest of the country garden explores what this distant land offers its residents. an icon of the north and yet some of the native north and peoples follow grazing reindeer wherever they go thei

that took the lives of all one hundred twenty seven people aboard the boeing seven three seven from karachi crash in islam about international airport while attempting to land or thunderstorm. that only aircraft has been banned from leaving the country the company only recently restarted after shutting down due to financial problems more than ten years ago. clearly given the interim president nominated after a military coup earlier this month has resigned he expressed concerns over the legality of his nomination in april army officers captured the prime minister along with the president of the stablished and national transitional council with its own leader u.n. security council threatened to impose sanctions on the drugs if civilian rule was not restored. a motor rally is being held in moscow in support of russia's orthodox church about seven hundred drivers and bikers tied glooms and flags to their vehicles to take part in the procession participant same event is to support the orthodox church which has come under public criticism with several protests including a punk rock group taking o

survivors among the one hundred twenty seven aboard air jet boeing seven three seven en route from karachi to islamabad was making its final approach to the airport in stormy weather before it crashed the second passenger plane crash in less than cheers. iraqi prime minister nuri al maliki has called turkey a hostile state with a sectarian agenda and accuse it of trying to establish germany in the region and that's in response to turkish prime minister tayyip erdogan saying that he is battling tensions between iraq shia community as a carrion emerged in iraq at the end of last year when the shia led government sacked and number of top so many officials. moscow is reiterating calls for nato to stay on the afghan drugs for a before the u.s. led alliance to leave the country russia is the main target for opium aspart which has boomed since the occupation of ghana stand again and artie's military contributor says washington should look to the experience of arar and dealing with a deadly problem while the american operation enduring freedom within the last ten years has morphed from counterterr

thanks for being with our team and us three o'clock here in moscow in karen's karachi well despite warnings that it was defying international law north korea launched its controversial long range rocket early on friday but within moments it plummeted into the sea it's still riled at the u.n. security council although russia is pushing for diplomacy archies peter all of our has all the developments. the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov speech speaking alongside his chinese and indian counterparts to be holding a meeting here in moscow that meeting dominated by the fallout from this failed rocket launch coming out of north korea now sigil of rove expressed russia's regret that the launch it taken place but said. it was concerned putting more sanctions on north korea wouldn't really do any good when it came to stopping these type of launches taking place perhaps in the future you know those sentiments were backed up by the chinese foreign minister saying china was opposed to any form of sanctions further sanctions being placed appalled. and now this goes against the sentiments we're hear

survivors and on the one hundred twenty seven on board the ship going seven three seven our route from karachi to islamabad was making its final approach to the airport and friday in stormy weather before it crashed it's the country's second major air disaster in less than two years. fighting continues in east africa south sudan's troops continue to occupy the sudanese oil town of conflict have been expected to and on friday when the government of south sudan and now says troops will withdraw from the disputed territory within three days so the dam broke away from the north last year following a long running civil war that claimed the lives of more than one and a half million people. now it's time for the latest edition of our russia closer series and today we're heading off to the country's remote north. northern russia is known for its vast dry and harsh climate a tiny population that lives in this area is completely cut off from the rest of the country r.t.s. tom gardner explores like this distant land offers its residents. an icon of the north the nets and other native north and peoples fo

plane crash. 131 people, including 9 crew members, were on board that flight which was going from karachi to the capital, islamabad. the plane crashing just five miles from its destination. bad weather may have been a factor. >>> republicans rally around mitt romney at their romney run and neck with president obama. the cnn poll of polls is an average of six national surveys, and it shows president obama with a slight edge, you see it there, 47% to romney's 44%. the difference, it's statistically insignificant. it's less than the sampling errors. you can call it a dead heat. >>> police in new york tearing up a basement in lower manhattan looking for clues to the 1979 disappearance of etan patz. he was of the first missing child to be featured on milk cartons across the country. a cadaver dog picked up the scent in that building. the property was searched back when patz first disappeared. >> i think what's significant is there's new technologies involved, new chemicalischemica new techniques. certainly law enforcement are hopefully we can give some comfort to the parents. >>> let's focus b

she says she went from the area around kandahar, afghanistan to karachi, pakistan.2, she says she went to here, reunited with bin laden there. then the family went to sawat in pakistan, stayed there for eight or nine months. in 2003, she stayed here for about two years. then in 2005 she says she went to that compound where they staid about six years until bin laden's death. bin laden may not have been with her the entire time, but she gave birth to four of five children. she says she only stayed in the hospital two or three hours each time. "the new york times" says she gave fake i.d. papers to hospital staff. what does that suggest about his mind set during those years on the run? >> well, i think we have this notion that he was interested in preserving his legacy. we've got that famous video of him watching his old videos, sitting there in the house in abbottabad. so it's plausible to think he wants to be seep as a major shaker. >> reporter: an u.s. official says bin laden's wife's account seems plausible. brian todd, cnn, washington. >> thank you, brian. >>> lewi

the flight to rignated in karachi. the u.s.confirms four american service members were killed in the crash of a blackhawk helicopter yesterday in southwestern afghanistan. pour weather is blamed. the chopper was responding to a suicide attack at an afghan police check point. missions like that one emphasize that the u.s. and the afghans are supposed to be partners. but chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge reports tonight it does not always appear to be the case. >> afghan forces are being trained by the u.s. military to take over the mission by 2014. but new documents obtained through the freedom of information act show that some of the afghan recruits stand accused of dealing drugs to u.s. soldiers. >> it's really troubling that our troops are being placed in this situation, where they are under enough pressure as it is. but evidently, our allies there are acting as drug pushers in some ways. >> according to judicial watch, january 2010 and december 2011, the army investigated 56 soldiers in afghanistan. for the

crashed in a fold in pakistan. 127 people were on board the boha air jet arriving in islamabad from karachi. it crashed while trying to land in the thunderstorm. it's a domestic airline with four planes and resumed operations last month after shutting down in 2001, due to money problems. >>> a delta flight was forced to make an emergency land at new york's jfk airport yesterday after losing one of the engine when is it was struck by a bird. delta said the l.a.-bound flight encountered a bird strike after taking off. the pilot decided to land as a precaution. the ntsb said the bird strikes are common. of course, who can forget the miracle on the hudson when birds struck both of the engines on that flight, forcing the pilot to land the plane on the hudson river. of course, that didn't happen this time. >>> and in our area, a fabulous time. the sun is up and beautiful out there. >> perfect. >> reporter: and enough to get you going with the energy. what are we looking at tonight, huh, gar? >> tonight is pretty good. >> okay. >> as ied earlier, you want to soak it in. >> okay. >> and that is an

that is the road that is transporting goods from karachi up to the afghan order for the u.s.s in afghanistan. that road has been shut now for nearly five months. pakistan was supposed to open that road after a parliamentary debate, it hasn't done so. i think this is an american response to that a week ago, we saw an earlier tat for tat when the head of sent come, general mathis was in islamabad and very day the defense department releases a statement say ing that the americans were not responsible for the death of 24 pakistani soldiers on the border five months ago that sparked this present problem. so you know, both sides are instead of coming together and really healing the rift, i fear they are going further apart. >> you wrote in the piece in the ft that it is time to start serious conversations with the taliban and find some way to create some level, a kind of political stability. you know this is something we have all talked about for two or three years and nothing seems to move s there any sense there is movement on the u.s. side you can the taliban side? the karzai si

crashed close to the capital of islamabad. 127 people were on board the boha air jet coming in from karachi. pakistani officials say the plane was trying to land in bad weather today. no word if anyone was killed in this crash. >>> the military says bad weather likely played a role in a deadly u.s. helicopter crash in afghanistan. four american troops were killed when the army blackhawk went down in the helmand province, which is in southwest afghanistan. defense officials say the crew was responding to a suicide attack at a police checkpoint. the military has not ruled out the possibility that enemy fire also contributed to the crash. >>> and we're learning more about one of the secret supervisors forced from their job in the wake of the agency prostitution scandal. his name is david chaney and he was assigned to protect sarah palin during the 2008 election. police kept reporters away from chaney's home yesterday and greg stokes is also out of a job. the attorney says neither man left involuntarily. lawmakers say more people connected to the scandal could step down or be let go today. mean

recently restarted operations, its website says its inaugural flight from karachi to islamabad would course, today is april 20th. erin? >> all right. >>> well, a judge's decision to let 28-year-old george zimmerman out of jail until his second-degree murder trial was welcome news to his friends and family, including frank taaffe, who told us before the show what it was like to see zimmerman for the first time since his arrest. he was there at the bond hearing. >> george looked pretty tired. he looked like he'd been through a hell of an ordeal. but he looked like he's going to persevere and forge ahead with a positive attitude. to know that he's innocent just like i know he's innocent. and everything is coming to fruition now. we're having a lot of neighbors come forward with photos and sharing their stories with me as to the proclamation of his innocence. i sat behind the martin family today. >> yes. >> i was two rows behind them. and i was observing them when george was delivering his sympathy or his condolences to the family. and i felt that george was being very sympathetic, and h