petersburg" was on its way from madagascar to melbourne, australia, when the australian government announced last night commercial satellite images showed what appeared to be large-scale debris in the ocean off the coast of australia.

and today luxury -- is richard branson's pet project -- we will take you to his many madagascar are in the caribbean. canada's professional basketball league coming-of-age? have you ever heard of it? we will kick it off with something everyone is talking about -- russian president vladimir putin going before television cameras. likes the main take away was for the time being, he has no intention to escalate things. >> the markets gave a sigh of release -- sigh of relief after his comments. but this conflict is far from over. rex -- >> he never at any point suggested russian troops would be leaving crimea anytime soon. but at least we did learn from the russian president that he has no plans to move into eastern ukraine. >> vladimir putin is telling the world he's not going to take ukraine by force just yet. he ordered soldiers in western russia back to their bases by the end of the week. they had been taking part in military exercises that were scheduled to end today, but tensions are still high. this is video of unarmed ukraine soldiers in crimea carrying their ukrainian flag and a wo

to six species that are nearly extinct in madagascar. >> they are thriving in this environment. bitt made me a uncomfortable, to say the least. giantnkfully, the galapagos tortoise do not get excited about meal time. they can live months without food. because hee new 18 is going to live to 200. to cornices and lemurs, it shelters rare birds. >> doing very well. right here. >> i see him right there. it was once native to the area of the caribbean and when he moved here, there was not a single one left. >> because they are beautiful, they may have been killed for the feathers. >> branson has a big plan for them. >> once we have enough, we will move them on and hopefully, they will have scarlet ibis there. >> i would never leave. >> yeah. yeah. yeah. >> trish regan, bloomberg. >> whether animal or human. thethose listening on radio, the first word is up next. or our viewers, the pulse is back. we'll talk to the chief executive officer. our top story is that the ukraine is in crisis and we talked to the ukraine ambassador to the k -- the u.k. he seestalk about how this evolving. you

he grew up in madagascar and he dedicated his young life to helping animals, helping protect animals,ls that may have ended up becoming endangered. once he moved to france he built this home and decided that he was going to continue his passion, continue his love for animals and he shares this home not only with alligators but snakes, tarantulas, frogs, scorpions and in case you are wondering he has the proper permit and licensing in order to care for these animals. >> the one way he's not like indiana jones this guy likes snakes. >> true. >> you go to this dude's house for coffee and cookie and you walk in and there's an alligator sitting right there, they seem tame but who knows when that thing wants a taste of your ankle. >> people have questioned when they see this video it seems like there are zebra skins and hanging on his walls. he's spent a lot of his time fighting against poachers and these are reminders of all different stories of how he couldn't protect these animals, to stay passionate and keep fighting the good fight. >> i like this guy. i can't imagine what it smells lik

in fact, i even stated a line between madagascar and australia.ry good reasons for saying that, but it is based on the theory, speculative theory, that it was a pilot incapacitation and the aircraft would continue flying on autopilot. so, the fact that this debris is to the south, the aircraft would have run out of fuel some 12 days ago. so, it's had 12 days to drift on the ocean. let's take a current of just 4 knots. that would be at least 1,000 miles from where, if this is debris from the aircraft, where the aircraft might have gone down. so, that doesn't surprise me in the least. however, there would be other pieces of debris. we know from previous aircraft that have hit water that you get seat cushions in particular that float. so, they will want to look on their satellite data for even smaller objects that are floating around. obviously, the best thing to do is to get some ships there or low-flying aircraft that can get in close with digital cameras. >> alastair, i want to tap into something that you said. what if this plane did run out of fu

or on the other side of the globe, for example, coming across madagascar, 28 years ago when they were cutting down all of their trees for fuel, for fires, as a result, no vegetation when the rains came, the hills, the water ran down, the silt came into the rivers, and you could see for miles and miles at the mouths of the rivers from madagascar flying 203 miles above the surface of the earth, you could see the effects, you could see those kind of effects in the midst of that god-given beauty that the earth is so fragile. you could look at the rim of the earth and you could see this thin film. it went into a blue band that then went into the blackness of space, and you could see what sustains all of life. the atmosphere. and as a result, i certainly became more of an environmentalist because i saw in its entirety how fragile this ecosystem is. you could see the effects of storms. we were up in january so we saw a hurricane in the southern hemisphere going clockwise, not counterclockwise, as in the northern hemisphere. hundreds of miles, this storm in the indian ocean. you could see fro

meanwhile we head towards madagascar.he weather here is brighter than it might have been. 12 hours ago this was the equivalent of a hurricane of a five-point scale before it against most severe. here the storm would fall apart. by the time it made landfall it was the equivalent of a category one thunderstorm. it is going to be wet and stormy but not nearly as bad as it could have been. >> firing shots in afghanistan. this is as much of a show of power as it is about arresting anyone. >> afghanistan police look to scare off troublemakers before the election. >>> an inquest into britain's worst sporting disaster gets under way. we'll have more on sports. >> welcome to the al jazeera news hour. pakistan's former president musharraf has appeared in court in islamabad pleading not guilty to treason charges that carry the death penalty. he's answering charges to emergency rule in 2007. >>> the international justice has ordered japan to stop its whaling program. it's rule is that it's not for scientific program and is commercial

we have cyclone helen is how intensified further and we're looking for heavy rain through madagascar as we go through the next 24 to 48 hours. we still have the problems with mudslides in that northwestern corner of the united states. it's been a really wet week here. lots of cloud and rain continuing across a similar area across much of washington state into the pacific northwest. this is the remainder of saturday, further heavy rain coming through here going into sunday. it still looks pretty disturbed. snow over the higher ground. hope as we come into monday we'll see slightly dryer weather but there is no great improvement. >> thanks, not good conditions up there in that corner of the u.s. we might stay on that story while we're there. the death toll from that mudslide is expected to rise substantially. 17 bodies have been found but more than 90 people are still missing. we'll hear more, but first, more than 100 volunteers have joined the search. >> martin was a few feet from oblivion. he was driving through osa on his 76th birthday when he stopped just short of 24-foot wall of e

petersburg" was on its way from madagascar to melbourne, australia, when the australian government announced last night commercial satellite images showed what appeared to be large-scale debris in the ocean off the coast of australia. the moment that debris was spotted, the closest vessel in all the world to that potential debris was the hoegh "st. petersburg." that ship is under no obligation to help search for what or what might not be parts of that missing plane. when the cargo ship got the call they might be helpful in the search since they were the nearest ship to the potential debris field, they totally stepped up. they said they would help. hoegh auto liner executives held a press conference in oslo, pledged their full support. they declared their ship and crew of 19 mariners would be at authorities' disposal for as long as needed. their ship had radar equipment and powerful search lights that would be used to scan the ocean surface around the clock. they said weather conditions near the ship were good, but they hadn't spotted anything so far. so the "st. petersburg" has been in the g

this system is only moving very slowly and gradually working toward madagascar before due to bend back towards the west. when close, it will be the equivalent of a category four hurricane. >> thank you very much for that. we look at nigeria now and since its capitol was built after a 1970's oil boom that grown into one of africa's most expensive cities, many elite calling it home. many others are priced out, including hundreds of thousands of civil servants who keep the government running. why asking to build affordable housing is failing. >> finishing work at a state run radio station, instead of going home, he comes here and waits. like many civil servants, he lives outside the city. going home during rush hour would extend a 20 minute trip to four hours. >> everybody wants to stay because of the facilities, because of the presence of everything you truly want, the social amenities are all present here, but the exother taint rate of houses here, it's very, very expensive. >> many properties lie empty with the middle class priced out. >> $340 a month is the average. now take a look at

what we are watching is our next weather system, which is here, madagascar, not far from antarctiantarcticaally good, flat surface seas in that area, before this next system comes and that's probably going to be sunday evening into monday. that's going to be the cycle, we are going from the summertime, consume from the fall into the winter time here, back to you. >> kevin, thank you so much. this hour, a federal judge struck down the same sex marriage ban. bisi onile-ere has the story. bisi. >> 31 page ruling on this bernard killman issued on this, just because they approved a ban on gay marriage doesn't mean it's right. the judge said also today's decision is a step in the right direction. clearly a victory for gay rights activists. i want you to take a look at a are map. including michigan right now there are 18 states that allow same sex marriage. 21 or 28 outright ban same sex marriage. four states, oklahoma, texas, virginia, and utah, have stay, unlegalizing these bans. a gay couple brought this case into the forefront after learning they couldn't adopt each other's children because of

there was one ship, a mvp ship carrying cars from madagascar to melbourne, where i am.hey have diverted that to this back in the indians ocean, where they are hoping to find this debris and solve the mystery. >> thank you very much for the details. >>> let they bring in anthony roman, now president of roman & associates. he's worked on multiple aircraft investigations. thank you so much for joining us, anthony. first, let's start with this information. many of us woke up, saw this breaking news and thought perhaps this would be it, but we don't know. the search won't resume until tomorrow. what's key here? >> well, what's key is this is the worst possible location and worst time of year to have to look for aircraft debris. the indians ocean right now, the southern indian ocean is in a stormy period. it's going to be difficult day after day for these aircraft and ships to locate this debris. . in addition, it's known there's a counter clockwise huge debris field that's constantly in this sector that rotates right from the western indian ocean right to the eastern -- the

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it was carrying cars from madagascar to melbourne. they got a request from the australian authorities to move to that area. let's talk about that area. it is about 10,000 feet. that is significant. >> extremely significant. >> assuming this is the debris, what happened is getting what's called the black box. is that possible at 10,000 feet depth? >> it is possible. because flight data recorders and cockpit voice recorders, there are two tops, carry sonar pingers. that can be detbgtable up so six kilometers away. it depends on the topography of the ocean floor. it isn't always flat. if there were reupbls in the way, that can disrupt things. just finding the debris detected will be found on sat lit. >> with the winds, the waves. it's 13 days ago. >> exactly. >> the aircraft sent out there. they are very well aoe equipment. the military aircraft designed to detect submarines. again, you have this distance. 2,500 kilometers from perth. by the time they get there, they only have three hours in which to search because they will be running o

it's a norwegian car carrier that was on its way from madagascar to melbourne when it got a request from australia to lend a hand in this search. and hakim savagna is part of the crisis management team, director for the norwegian ship owners association. i understand you are in contact with this crew, an all filipino crew. the captain has been with the company a long time, almost 30 years. what are they doing? do they have the binoculars out? do they have any sort of search equipment beyond their eyeballs? >> yes, sir. what they actually do is pretty straightforward technology-wise. they will use their eyes and binoculars. they will also use the radar that is on board. and finally they will use the directions that they get from the australian maritime authorities to the best effect in order to find this possible debris in the designated area. >> and have they had -- obviously they haven't found the big piece everybody's hunting for. but how much junk is out there? are they telling you of other pieces that seem like it might have been and it turns out to be nothing? >> well, so far they h

result thousands worldwide the subject into involuntary sterilize a show such as qantas of the madagascar the warriors. she works in a garment factory. despite her disability she has no difficulty doing her job life has in all respects normal except that she has been sterilized. she underwent surgery years ago after the birth of her first child. whew now woman like me doing the same old wheelchair my family when i went into labor i had to have the azeri and more in the evening and it's decent. my hunch is that the biggest surge in cycling our mission. she says yes hunter's mother said she agreed to the operation to protect her daughter according to the doctor's it's hard to have a second baby. she might die in childbirth. her mother had to make the decision. it is no way she could know that a few days later on tuesday he would die. the attack on which still be one of at least into the air. it was the physical process for torturing the decision. i got it. he said yes i was so lucky that he made i'm just not trying to keep you coming together with the kiwis the situation does not mean deman

that norwegian -- that norwegian ship is a merchant ship and interestingly it was on its way from madagascar to melbourne, where i am, when the australians said you've just been diverted you're on your way to go to look for this debris as well. clearly everybody is involved in the search doing whatever it is they can. >> and sarah, the prime minister came out with some strong language. he said that this is credible. does it mean that it is going to turn out to actually be the aircraft, but you would have to assume he would not come out and use that type of language unless there was some measured confidence about what the satellite images had shown, is that fair? >> i think he clearly thinks this is the most significant lead there has been in some time since this aircraft disappeared on march 8th. he immediately contacted the malaysian prime minister, yes, he's definitely taking it seriously. and the defense minister here said that he believes we will know something in the next two to three days. so they are definitely putting some weight on this. and indicating that they do believe that it i

there's a norwegian merchant ship which was actually en route from madagascar to melbourne, where i am, when it was diverted by the australians saying, can you go to the site and actually look with all the sailors and others on board and have a look and see what you see? but there's also some very sophisticated technology at work here. the aircraft are 3-p o ryan's owned by australians and new zealand. an extremely so fi ll lly se ll poseidon. it's got really up to date military software. basically a sub hunter. it's got surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities onboard. these are the aircraft dedicated to the search. trying to find those pieces of debris so that we will know for certain whether or not they are connected to malaysian air flight 370. i have to say, though, that when the prime minister came out and said this, i think it was very clear. i mean, this didn't come out in a normal safety briefing. he said it in parliament. so i think that he has some degree of hope and optimism that it is, indeed, a credible lead, abby. >> sara james in melbourne, a s austral australia. to

we now have this ongoing story surrounding some large pieces of africa,ound between madagascar, and australia is a long way out, but the aircraft is on its way to take a look at this. we're hearing reports that there could be more evidence of debris well.e site as we are covering a press conference and making sure we get the latest on that story. so interesting little show. great news makers coming up. interesting news developing as well. >> we will keep on top of all of that. thank you so much. in 11ulse:" coming up minutes. here are the companies on the move. silk ties -- they reported a record profit margin for 2013. hermes sold more high-margin closing and accessories. hermes is weathering a slowdown in luxury goods better than its peers. beats music is signing up 1000 paying prescribers in its first month. three weekption service was started by jimmy lemon and dr. dre. amazon'shas become best-selling kids movie. "the firm" is number one in digital downloads. the dvd version was released earlier this week. another big deal brewing at market. leading investment in tango that values the cal

it is like the gdp of madagascar are to buy -- >> the view out of central part. got to have it.e building. good morning. >> company news. general electric is filing for an ipo of its north american retail finance business. it is the first step towards a planned exit of the retail finance business. volkswagen is ahead of schedule. it may sell more than 10 million vehicles this year. that is four years earlier than planned. its expansion is part of the efforts to overtake toyota become the world possible are just carmaker -- world's largest carmaker. a civil investigation into business practices. this is a win for bill ackerman. he has been trying to convince regulators to shut down the company. that is today's company news. >> a big announcement from herbalife. >> the president will be making a big announcement at around 2:00 p.m. on the minimum wage and overtime issues he has been pressing so hard on. >> gap said it was going to voluntarily pay its people more. highlight the the need to increase pay for these workers. the chief economist of morgan stanley is here. mortimer singe

that life expect tap sigh, median life expectd tan sigh for males today is the same as it is in madagascar, age 60. the age for females is 73, same as in saudi arabia, but both numbers are a decade to a decade and a half lower than the analog governments in europe and in the united states; right? so part of the reason for this is that as a function of russian gdp, health care expenditures in russia are constant since the mid-1990s. the russian government is not spending more money on the welfare of the people, and it shows, it shows in the numbers. the second reason why russia's demographics are tanking is that you're seeing a wholesale collapse of the russian family. during the cold war, soviet families, by and large, stuck together not because they liked each other, because we know that we have members in our family that we coiled just as soon export to other cities, but because they had no choice. because populations were locked in place, and there was an an extended family network cohesive and kept together by political and economic circumstances. today, it's exactly the opposite. acco

. >> they are because they're basically gone out of madagascar. >> that was lovely.bout what, 8 weeks old. it's one of the few cats in the world that can actually leap in the air anywhere from six to eight feet and catch a bird flying. they come out of the grass. >> when do they start doing that, jack? >> not now. get about maybe 30 pounds but their back legs and behind legs, you see the ear, the spots. >> how are they in terms of -- >> these are threatened animals in africa because they're spotted. most spotted cats are either endangered -- >> this guy or girl is -- want to stick around for the river otter? can she stick around for the river otter? or not. okay. >> okay. >> it's a tenuous existence. >> whitney and susie and everybody at the zoo. >> i don't want you to go either. >> this is a river otter. >> how are you, river otter? >> oh, yeah. wait. >> is this a normal -- is this the otter when we think of otters this is the normal otter. hi, buddy. >> feel that coat. >> okay. i just -- >> you whipped your hand back. >> i do that for -- just for fun. >> okay. hi,

if the plane was on this trajectory it would have gone to the middle of this circle area towards madagascarre. >> the ascending 45,000 feet, he says that, again, in this theory, goodfellow says maybe it was a last ditch effort to seek breathable air or to change the climate within the cabin. >> yeah. i don't know if the worst pat of his theory is the explanation or 45,000-foot climb. that's one of the more suspected data points. >> in the simulator it doesn't sound the plane would come together. >> the idea this waypoint was entered 12 minutes before the co-pilot said good night and the plane began its change. this was not the result of a last minute panic to reach an airport. it had been planned well in advance. so it doesn't really jive at all with though theory. noout interesting as you said i think so many people want to find resolution for the families, for our own peace of mind. it makes sense this has the heroic theory and the heroic story line. i can see why people are attached to it. >> we like to think we're rational creatures. er with not as rational as we would like to think. it