a german military helicopter has crashed in northeastern mali, killlling t the two men o on bo. the chopper was assisting a u.n. peacekeeping mission. the crash is thought to have been an accident. germany has a thousand troops deployed as part of a peacekeeping mission. let's pull in tomas, monitoring the developments for us tonight. we have heard just now, to soldiers in the helicopter died. what do you know? >> that is correct. that information was confirmed and confirmed by the german mililiry and thehe german minisr of defense. the chain -- the german pilots were on board the helicopter that crashed, preliminary informationn says that because was a tetechnical f failure. investigations are underway to find out more details about exactly what happened. the news is that it has been confirmed the pilots have died. >> what do we know about the german peacekeeping mission? what are its priorities? >> it is a dangerous mission. german soldiers are part of the mission in mali, there are 15 thousand soldiers all to gather. -- altogether. it was approved by the german parliament in