you are hearing from the malaysian prime minister najib razak, a principal broker of the agreement. he's in the philippines capital to witness the sign. we heard from the islamist chairman. let's go back to the malaysian prime minister najib razak. >>..piece and prosperity for brothers and sisters in the philippines. that peace process what is strengthened our countries as we look ahead to a brighter future in m ago, -- mindanao. we'll remain as a mediator and continue our work. ladies and gentlemen, i wish to conclude by paying tribute to the efforts that made the agreement possible. throughout the peace process both sides give their all, so that the people here may enjoy the boundless dividend of peace, that they may work, learn and live again. 40 years ago darkness name to minedanao. in a struggle that reached a generation, 150 lives were lost. today we turn to face the light. today belongs to the philippines and the people of the bangsamoro. thank you. >> we have lost the connection to manila. ut signing of that landmark deal in the philippines capital between the philippine gov

i spoke with my malaysian counterpart najib razak and informed him of the developments. i should inform the house that the task of locating the objects will be extremely difficult scrks it may turn out that they are -- and it may turn out that special analysts to possible objects related it the search have been identified. >> we are expecting a news conference from australia at 12:30 eastern time this morning. we'll bring that to you live. in the meantime i have lisa stark on the telephone. our own lisa stark, who covered many an aviation story, and alan diehl, an ntsb investigator. now todd curtis, our aviation contributor. todd, what do you make of this story? >> i think this is a significant development, in that australia, for its - it has a long and closely involved role with the united states with military and intelligence activities, given what the president spoke to earlier, about having a shared typical intelligence with malaysia with respect to aviation, he hinted the atypical things that are not shared may be in thing of the united states. it wouldn't surprise

. >> these are developments announced by prime minister najib razak on saturday. they focus on two areas, the first that there's evidence of action on the flight deck of the triple 7 to shut down the transponders and turn the aircraft in a separate direction. >> they confirmeded satellite information showing that the aircraft entered two sky highways, a northern and a southern one. the northern one goes from northern thailand up to khazakhstan, and the southern one goes from indonesia to the southern parts of the indian ocean. that indicates someone has experience or was able to coerce the pilot to change your his turn of direction or that the aircraft in some way automatically went into the sky highways. most likely it was deliberate action like the prime minister said. also a shift back to the investigation of the passengers. the crew and the flight deck crew. what is their background. could they have been involved in a hijacking. that has been floated as a possibility, it's not definitive. that information is not coming out until you have physical proof. record

. >> that was malaysia's prime minister, najib razak delivering that heart breaking news, getting new data surveillance. his announcement comes as several ships are now heading to an area where australian search crews spotted two objects that could potentially be debris from the missing plane. you can see where they are using flares to mark the spots there in the water. one is described as an orange, rectangular object, the other a grayer/green circular object. it's the best lead they've had. nbc's tom costello, who's been following this story for us since the beginning, joins us now with more on the search. and tom, did it come down to that satellite analysis? >> yeah, mrsat, which was receiving those pings, you recall, off the acars system to a satellite 22,000 miles or so up in orbit, tried to refine that data even more. they had already suggested somehow this plane may have taken a southerly arc, you may recall, so they were trying to get a fix on these pings they were getting once an hour coming from the satellite and figure out, okay, where would this plane be, so now they belie

the prime minister najib razak delivered his first conference since the jet and 239 people disappeared a week ago. he said communications had been cut, and that investigators hadn't ruled out hijacking and revealed knew data showing the plane was deliberately steered off course. >> it then flew in a westerly direction back over peninsula malaysia before turning north-west. up until the point at which it left military primary radar coverage. this movement is consistent with deliberate action by someone on the plane. >> well, scott heidler is with us from kuala lumpur with the latest. we heard the evidence pointing to deliberate action to turn off the plane's communication systems, to take it off course. does that many a hijacking? >> not necessarily. obviously it's pointing in that direction. we have someone deliberately turning off transponders so the plane can't be seen on radar, as well as making a deliberate move away from where it was supposed to go. obviously there was foul play going on. it was a hijacking, someone in the flight deck with psychological issues, someone in the crew

. >> it was not an accident, malaysia's prime minister najib razak fold reporters today. >> two of the communications systems on board flight 370 were turned off apparently deliberately. one after the other. then he confirmed that military radar had indeed picked up flight 370 as it changed course and flew westover malaysia before turning to the northwest. >> this is consistent with deliberate actions by someone on the plane. >> reporter: even though the main communication systems had been disabled, najib said the plane continued to ping a satellite, the last signal from the plane came at 8:11 a.m., 7 and a half hours after it took off. >> due to the type of satellite data we are unable to confirm the precise location of the plane. >> reporter: where it went is the next part of the puzzle. the key question as the search continues, which direction did the plane go? how far and were pilots involved? >> despite media reports that the plane was highjacked, i wish to be very clear we are still investigating all possibilities as to what caused flight 370 to deviate from its original flight p

. >> i have pledged to prime minister najib razak of m mma mma may -- malaysia full cooperation.he crash zone is about as close to nowhere as possible to be, but it's closer to australia than anywhere else. >> today they sent 12 planes aloft. they did spot three objects, but could not ascertain whether they were connected to 370. >> randall pinkston joining us live from washington, d.c. this morning. thank you very much. >>> coming up on al jazeera america, some say florida is one of the most dangerous states to live in, especially if you are homeless. and celebrating america's architecture, we'll talk about an exhibit that puts the spotlight on immigrants who came here and made history. >>> we are following breaking news out of a new york city courtroom. the son-in-law of osama bin laden has now been convicted of conspiring to kill u.s. citizens. serving as a spokesman for al-qaeda, he was the voice in these videos made after the september 11th attacks on the u.s. calling for recruits to go on mores missions. again, he has been found guilty in that case. ♪ >>> wall street at thi

the nation prime minister najib razak made a brief statement. in the search and rescue operation provide imagery seventy is still on knowing its focus on the area from which we receive the signal from the plan. the biggest two cents on his traces of oil sponsored by another plane off the coast of vietnam. search teams from china vietnam singapore the philippines and the us are trying to dedicate the aircraft. last month said from the moomba imports continue to wait. in summation. now we turn our attention to the middle east where israel's navy has this corner freighter to the red sea port of iraq. after seizing a shipment of real money and markets apparently intended for palestinian militants israel intercepted a book called clause c on wednesday it has dozens of rockets made in syria were found on board which would have put israel's biggest cities under threat. it accuses iran of orchestrating the delivery but officials and terror on and godson deny any involvement the government of libya is threatening to bomb a north korean oil tanker if it t

minister najib razak today reported the findings about flight 370 tt nd british in >>> tonight how authoritiesd down a location. sat satellite that helps track planes picked up "pin" from the aircraft long aftee ped transmitti >> reporter: the malaysian prime minister today reported findings about flight 370 that british investigators gave malaysia yesterday. ever asked to to find the locati >> its last position was in the middle of the indian ocean west of perth. sot) "data signals from oth malaysian 777 just enabled o wledge of how it >> reporter: a satellite that helps pick up pings helped investigators establish the two original northern and southern arcs announced over a week ago. then engineers refined the data further and suggested focusing the search on the southern corridor about one thousand five hundred miles west of perth, australia have, 1,500 miles west of perth, australia. >> we'll hope this will be the only time we ever have to try to contribute to find the location of a commercial airliner off of a single piece of data. >> reporter: with the pings the engineers found a pattern

malaysian crime mr najib razak says international efforts to locate the missing malaysia airlines flight and reached three seventy has entered a new phase. he revealed the news conference on saturday that the investigators now think the aircraft's communications systems were deliberately switched off. bays

malaysian prime minister najib razak today reported the findings about flight 370 that inmarsat and british investigators gave malaysia yesterday. >> its last position was in the middle of the indian ocean, west of perth. >> reporter: and inmarsat satellite that helps tracks planes picked up pings from the aircraft long after the transponder stopped transmitting. those pings helped investigators establish the two original northern and southern arcs that were announced more than a week ago. then inmarsat engineers refined the data further and suggested focusing the search on the southern corridor, about 1,500 miles west of perth, australia. chris mccloughlin is the company's senior vice president. >> we hope that this will be the only time we're ever asked to try to contribute to find the location of the airliner off a single piece of data. >> reporter: with that single piece of data the pings inmarsat's engineers found a pattern by comparing of other malaysian airline triple 7 flights in the region. that lead them to conclude flight 370 took the southern route. >> the signals from other mal

more relatives of passengers continued to arrive in the capital cloak for malaysian prime minister najib razak urged him to be patient. the company fully understand the feelings of the families of the passengers cover they need to understand that the situation is extraordinary. the need to understand that we are doing everything we can to save the passengers. a ten kilogram house cat attack the job losses owners in the dog in the bedroom. they were afraid to leave the room as local media reports the cab owners had to call nine one the common animal rescuers found the cat in the kitchen and walked back in laws have been released demand areas are now investigating the reason of the animals aggression another unusual animal behavior occurred in maryland surveillance cameras recorded three while he is entering a school building the camera video shows ian was rushing to find a taxi incident occurred late at night when there were no children in the morning by morning the deer were released. the smashed glass doors and jump down. local media reported that school guard dogs help india to find a way ou

as you will be aware, last night the prime minister of malaysia najib razak announced new evidence regardinghe disappearance of ma 370 on the 8th of march. based on this evidence, the prime minister's message was that we must now accept the painful reality that the aircraft is now lost and that none of the passengers or crew on board survived. this is a tragic day for all of us at this airlines. while not entirely unexpected after an intensive multi-national search across 2.4 million square mile area, this news is clearly devastating for the families of those on board. they have waited over two weeks for even the smallest of hope of positive news about their loved ones. this has been an unprecedented event requiring an unprecedented response. the investigation under way may yet prove to be even longer and more complex. than it has been since march the 8th. but we will continue to support the families, as we have done throughout. and to support the authorities as the search for definite answers continues. i will now ask our group to provide you with fuller details of our support of the famili

it wasn't until a week later the next saturday, that the prime minister najib razak announced they were in this words, expanding the search area. well, what they were really doing is moving the entire search area from the south china sea where the plane wasn't to the indian ocean, where they suspected it probably was. why did it take so long to analyze that data? well, it was turned over to the u.s. aviation administration answer the national transportation safety board for analysis but why couldn't the malaysians have analyzed that themselves. were they told earlier enough that this flight had gone missing. that it wasn't just another domestic flight coming back. that it was a missing airliner. it will focus on all of those things. i don't think we're going to hear much on that. unfortunately, we're not going to hear much into the all-important investigation into the people, the motives, who could have taken over the jetliner. was it steered off course intentionally. was this just a matter of catastrophic mechanical malfunction? that investigation continue here's as well, poppy. >> jim

today plainings prim malaysian r najib razak said it went down in tinneddian ocean. >> it's been concluded flight mh370 flew along the southern corridor and that it is last position was the middle of the indian ocean west of perth. this is a remote location far from any possible landing sites. >> charlie: the conclusion was the result of new analysis from satellite data. debris was spotted in the area 1500 miles off the southwest coast of australia. joining us now from washington, colonel steve ganyard. he is president of the advisory firm avisant international also a marine corps pilot, served in the state department political military affairs and from the cbs washington bureau bob orr, homeland security correspondent for cbs news. welcome. >> thank you, charlie. >> charlie: the first question, what is the key piece of evidence that led the prime minister to make the announcement he made? >> i think what inmarsat, which is the company that has the satellite constellation that was getting the pings, did additional forensics, they got boeing to help out and did a peer review study of are we

i've certainly offered prime minister najib razak of malaysia the full cooperation of australia. we've also just appointed air chief marshall anxious houston, a former chief of our defense force, very well respected in our region and in the wider world as the chief of the coordinating center. so angus houston can liaise with the senior officials of all the various countries who have a stake in this. >> how would you categorize then that cooperation or the challenges of that cooperation? >> the challenges are considerable. but let's not underestimate the good will. everyone wants to get to the bottom of this mystery. everyone is united in their common grief, in their common anxiety to resolve this. i don't think we've got a whole lot of competing national pride at stake here. i think we've got at stake here a hole lot of people who just want to solve the problem. >> as a final question, what message do you have for the families who have loved ones on board the flight 370, but also for their search teams who are going out there every single day about how important the search really

. >> that was malaysia's prime minister, najib razak delivering that heart breaking news, getting new his announcement comes as several ships are now heading to an area where australian search crews spotted two objects that could potentially be debris from the missing plane. you can see where they are using flares to mark the spots there in the water. one is described as an

i have offered prime minister najib razak, the full cooperation of australia.orld, as the chief of the water world, angus houston can liaze with the senior officials. >> reporter: how would you categorize that cooperation or the challenges? >> challenges are considerable. let's not underestimate the good will. everybody wants to get to the bottom. everybody is united in their common brief, in their common anxiety. i don't think we have a whole lot of competing national pride at stake here. i think we have at stake here a whole lot of people who just want to solve the problem. >> reporter: what message to you have for the families and also the search teams? >> please keep it up for the teams. we admire the work you have put in. we deeply respect the professionalleism you bring to the task. i say to the families, we will not give up. should you choose to come to australia, you will find yourselves in the arms of a friendly country. >> thank you very much. >>> despite that, families are still wondering if they are being told the truth. malaysia says they are not h

. >>> malaysian najib razak holding a surprise press conference at 10:00 p.m. in kuala lumpur to say that based on satellite information, information gleaned from satellites that there is confirmation that no one on board flight 370 has survived. what they did not say is that any debris or wreckage related to the plane itself has yet been found. he did also say that there would be a press conference tomorrow detailing more what they knew and obviously how they came to know it. but we do want to turn now to abc's david kerley. david, you've been tracking this story from the very beginning, two arcs, david, of course that became one. he confirmed as well that it was the southern corridor where this plane did fly well off the coast, the southwest coast of perth, as we see there. we see these two search areas. now, david, debris could have drifted as far as 700 miles to the west of that second area there. so based on what we just heard, again, with no plane or wreckage, what does it tell us at least about how they came to -- how they came to identify the southern c

. >> announcer: straight to the prime minister mohd najib tun razak with major developments for the search370. >> this evening i was briefed by representatives from the uk accident investigate route or aaid. and they informed me that the uk company that provided the satellite data which indicates this -- ♪ i have already spoken to the family of the passengers and crew to inform them of this development. for them the past few weeks have been heartbreaking. i know this news most be hard. i urge the media to respect their privacy and allow them the space they need at this very

satcha, el primer ministro de malasia najib razak lucio conmovido durante esta rueda de prensa y dijo aerolinea malaysia anuncio que la operacion de busqueda multinacional del vuelo 370 continuara hasta que sean encontrados los restos.la zona donde se cree que cayo el avion es de muy dificil acceso y como no existe ningun lugar dode aterrizar, concluyen en que el avion termino en el oceano, y que todas las vidas de las prsonas que iban abordo, se perdieron, es decir, no hubo sobrevivientes. durante el fin de semana, satelites de diferentes paises habian captado imagenes , que sugerian eran parte de un ala e incluso cinturones de seguridad. los barcos que participan en la busqueda del aparato han tenido problemas para llegar al lugar donde flotan esos objetos debid a las malas condiciones climaticas.tras identificarse la zona de escombros en el indico, estados unidos y australia enviaran barcos equipados con sistemas de localizacion sonar para buscar la caja negra, el paradero del fatidico vuelo se habia convertido en uno de los grandes misterios de la aviacion moderna. durante mas de