officials hope the protesters and government officials can discuss the matter peacefully, and civillyrepresentatives of taiwan and china signed the trade agreement last june. lawmakers haven't approved it. but it would open up trade ak s across dozens of service sectors. protesters fear it would threaten smaller businesses and they worry it would mean fewer jobs for graduates. they're demanding that the deal be canceled. >>> a japanese architect has made this mark with innovator designs using paper tubes and other everyday materials. now he has been awarded this year's pritzker prize known as the nobel of the architectural world. jury members announced their decision on monday. the u.s. prize honors living architects who make a significant contribution to humanity. his works include the center pompidou mets in france. he's designed other cultural facilities and residences in countries around the world. but jury members made special note of his creative designs for disaster situations. he used paper and wood, for example to build a temporary cathedral in christchurch, new zealand. the

the two teams from the two countries the foreign ministry's a great reason to official in iraq after hitting only in shenzhen china on the sideline to financial records talks the national gulf until cooked to cancun and that two thousand trial. the scotsman says the discussions will be held over to thinking thinking thinking to achieve level officials of the foreign ministers. now he presented nineteen eighteen epidemic to channel the asian oceania thespian else. cami is likely to send some to call the template for normalizing relations with japan. she was a little more than usual. i think the abductions are a big issue for japan. we would like to have proper discussions on that age. a deal with it. he maintains that the abduction issue has been sent on earth straight into allow the parent of the best team in camille attack to the north of the envelope and do it any mobile yet. some japanese officials even eighteen and noting the change in the north into tears and ending its international isolation. michelle obama has said that chinese test in teaching pain and is quite at the start

officials at the u.s. internal revenue service now say online currencies will be taxed in the same way as stocks and other forms of property. people use virtual currencies to settle transactions just as they would conventional forms of money. but, irs officials say online currencies like bitcoin should not be treated like cash. the irs officials say profits made when investors trade virtual currencies are taxable, just like profits from stock trading. and they say wages paid in virtual currencies will also be subject to income tax based on the market value of the currency when it was received. japanese government officials also say virtual currencies aren't the same, as conventional money. they say transactions made with online currencies should be taxed. well, failed bitcoin exchange mtgox has submitted documents to the metropolitan police department here in tokyo. mtgox representative director mark karpeles said in a statement on the company's website that the executives consulted the police about the di

japanese officials announced an initial set of sanctions on tuesday. these include freezing talks on simplifying visa procedures and postponing discussions on a new investment pact. >>> red cross officials from japan and north korea are set to resume talks on repatriating the remains of japanese people who died in what is now north korea during world war ii. the japanese side is aiming to make progress not only on that issue, but also to restart government level talks on the abduction of japanese citizens by north korea. nhk world's takafumi terui reports. >> reporter: officials from the japanese red cross left for the chinese city of shenyang on wednesday morning. sources say more members are likely to join the north korean delegation than at the previous meeting two weeks ago. >> translator: last time we talked about adding the government officials handling this issue to our discussion. that has now happened for both countries. i hope we can make practical progress through dialogue. >> reporter: the director of the japanese foreign ministry knows the

he called on officials to grab any opportunity. in addition to the red cross talks to try and negotiate an end to the abduction issue the families of the inductees held a joint meeting with some of their asian counterparts. in the gathering in tokyo was the first of its kind in four years. they discussed a recent report by un special commission which denounces the abductions as crimes against humanity. government officials also participated in the pledge to seek international support on the issue. some of these in late march un human rights calls it is expected to pass a resolution on human rights situation in north korea the japanese government will make the most important to ensure that the commission's report will be on sore eyes and included in the real issues. ryan jones and joy came from thailand and his aunt was abducted by north korean agents. he says this family has suffered years of pain and sorrow without her that's our problem and gopal quite cool dude report released today we turn over look them in the us the move is a

pentagon officials confirmed the launch. they said the north koreans should stop provocative acts and work to improve ties with their neighbors. japanese defense mistakenly or the debt has ordered his staff in self defense with this amount to continue to gather information. an insurgent attack at an election commission office in the afghan capital kabul. i plan to find people that he intended to set off explosives twice at the entrance to the office and stoned and died on tuesday exchanged gunfire with the security forces for about four hours. police say the victims include two election officials and one candidate for provincial council i can tell that he issued a statement to claim responsibility for the attack the group declared earlier this month that it was sabotage the april if the presidential election has been targeting police stations and hotels used by foreigners. the worsening security situation has prompted the organization for security and cooperation in europe to decide to evacuate all fifteen members of the ele

white house officials say the leaders spoke by phone. they expressed grave concern about what they see as russia's violation of ukrainian sovereignty. obama and merkel reportedly agreed to work to the to stabilize ukraine's economy. they promised to support the interim government until a presidential election scheduled for may. they agreed on the need to send international observers, and for russia and ukraine to hold direct talks. ukraine's interim prime minister arseny yatsenyuk said ministry level talks with russia have already begun. russian president vladimir putin said on tuesday that he's ready to use force in ukraine, if necessary, but he said no action is needed at this point. russia's leaders are turning up the financial pressure on their counterparts in ukraine. they say they'll no longer offer discounts on natural gas. putin struck a deal in december with then-president yanukovych. he offered to cut the price of gas by 30% by executives with russia's state controlled gas producer gazprom say they decided to cansing the contra

officials say capitalists pouring out of the country. officials with the economic and almond industry estimates capital outflows soared to seventy billion dollars in the first three months of the year that's more than the amount investors moved out of the country during the whole of last year. officials don't expect to report any economic growth for the first quarter the deputy economy minister says sanctions are not having a strong impact as the evening we affect individuals. still he says related factors are hurting economic growth and encouraging investors to pull out their money. the search for debris from the missing malaysia airlines flight and each tree seventy was suspended on tuesday due to pour weather conditions in the southern indian ocean. it just disappeared more than two weeks ago on a flight between calling for an ageing show up on sumner miller in bangkok as the story passengers on board the missing plane have reacted with anger to the official announcement that old bullock received and all countries involved in domestic

corruption by various governments and county officials. these reinforces his side dynamics between the part of the one hand the government on the other hand the whole school. more importantly the people of the option to create this kind of a united front against corruption the environment and corruption are just two of the many issues npc delegates would be to tackle when the meeting convened on wednesday. and be sure to join us for full coverage of the opening day of the nbc as the series from the scene continues the emission of one point from him. this percentage solution six and the future. your annual national people's congress didn't she do these things is the one with the challenge it's our special coverage these two. it's a b rating on wednesday and took your meteorologists robert spencer has more raw for. the us as a lawyer nice seeing out here it's not just the rain but even some thunderstorm activity in the snow fall the higher elevations. across much of japan tyranny is in the satellite picture a storm system which is moving in

officials and also airline officials., i was in the room with these 400 relatives as they asked questions. it was really impressive when you realize how much they've studied this information. they've had 14 days to go over all of the data. their questions were very pointed and methodical. one woman got up and asked about civilian radar as well as military radar. she said, "where is the civilian radar in a building?" and the military officials said it's in one room. where is the military radar? it's in another room. it's in the same building. the two teams are separated by a wall. so, the question is, why weren't these two teams monitoring civilian and military radar sharing the same data and they're under the same roof? that's one question. another person got up and asked the malaysian air force official, could another country's military have shot down this plane? now, the malaysian air force official said, very carefully, based on the data and radar at this point in time, shooting by the military is not highly possible.

an official from the russian navy denied the report. oleksandr turchinov warned people in crimea not to react to provocations. >>> the united states is hoping diplomacy and the threat of sanctions will help settle the crisis in crimea. u.s. president barack obama has referred to statements by nato and the group of seven industrialized country that strongly condemn russia. he says he'll continue diplomatic efforts but also suggested other options. >> if, in fact, they continue on the current trajectory that they're on, that we are examining a whole series of steps, economic, diplomatic, that will ice late russia. >> u.s. secretary of state john kerry and assistant secretary of state victoria nuland, will both visit the ukrainian capital of kiev on tuesday. the u.s. defense department says it is suspending military exchange programs with russia. such contacts are aimed at reducing the chance of an emergency resulting from a misunderstanding. the announcement came as russia's president vladimir putin paid a surprise visit to inspect milita

officials say the final signal indicates the plane could have had its land area. the train in northern india china and central asia. it can also travel to an area between western java indonesia and the southern indian ocean police in abilities and as officials from more than twenty countries in this area is to cooperate in gathering information. the surge was already highly complex multi national anthem. it is now become even more difficult officials met on sunday with the masses from the cna is and how this assisting in this such assets. so they go the alchemist avila beach country was asked to pay a fine when the aircraft a full blooded territories the news that moment. on saturday utility six the homes says that the fifty three year old captain at twenty seven year old co pilots in the suburbs of the month or in question that family members investigators say experts and now examining data in a flight simulator discovered at the captain's home. jens has started a campaign for a general election that is seen as a precursor to a presidential poll. tens of thousand

ukrainian officials say russian forces shot and killed one of their soldiers in crimea on tuesday and wounded another. yet with whom you will in turn prime minister says the conflict is moving from a political tool a military one and is calling for international dialogue to prevent an escalation. he and his son. but the demure put in is showing no signs he wants to talk with russian officials openly mocking the current economic sanctions. western leaders may have to take a tougher approach if they want results craig dale went into the world. red cross officials from tok joined kelly gang had begun talks on returning the remains of japanese who died around the end of world war two when one is now north korea the two day talks are now underway in the northeastern chinese city of shenyang they follow a meeting earlier this month. japanese representatives said they were grateful for holding the talks without the long delay that occurred between earlier meetings. they say they expect to take part in sincere and deep dialogue government officials and other experts also attended there is tra

officials proposed the meeting. suga said sunday's meeting between xi and park will have no impact on the upcoming trilateral summit. >>> the president of taiwan is trying to figure out how to respond to protesters angry about a trade deal with china. ma ying-jeou called his cap net together for an emergency meeting. the demonstrators have occupied parliament since last tuesday. on sunday, they stormed the cabinet building. police managed to force them out, but about 100 people were hurt. representatives of taiwan and china signed the agreement, the trade agreement, last june. the protesters fear it will threaten small and medium-sized businesses. but ma says increased investment from the mainland will create more jobs. he has rejected demands to cancel the deal, and he has refused to meet with the protesters. >>> china state media says the crew of a chinese plane has spotted objects floating in the southern indian ocean. teams from a number of countries will follow up to see if they're related to the missing malays

foreign ministry officials issued a statement. they wrote that the security council unjustly condemned them for launching midrange missiles last week. they called the launches self-defense drills. they said they're firing off the missiles in defense of what they call the increasingly hostile policies of the united states. the north koreans say if the u.s. conducts their drills again they won't rule out conducting a new form of nuclear test. they do not clarify what that meant. the north koreans have launched a number of missiles towards the sea of japan over the last several weeks. diplomatic sources say officials in pyongyang have warned north korean fishing and cargo ships in those waters to be on the alert until tuesday. south korean commanders have sent ships equipped with the aegis missile defense system to the area. >>> international teams have looked for the malaysia airlines plane for more than three weeks. they've covered thousands of square kilometers over land and sea. now they're taking their search under water. u.s. f

catherine ashton city officials will review times. if the russians don't win friends call us at some new mandates that was cautious about putting more pressure on russia. fearing the situation could escalate ambassadors from the nato countries and getting together for an emergency meeting. representatives from all twenty eight member countries will take part just days after another meeting on the crisis those from poland's requested these topics. the nato treaty says the party's focus on together whenever one of them feels their security is threatened this time now for delays in and business news the week i itch and i could more easily thing that talking about this situation in ukraine leaders of the west are threatening sanctions against russia and quits the ukraine's are wondering about financial support. yes and actually japan might be able to help that they are by discussing it right now. in fact the finance chiefs of japan in the us there are also working on a plan to help ukraine and calm financial markets. they want to keep the

hello love him and families of the veggies before officials on its official talks between the two nations resume on sunday. participants included the parents of make the meal was kidnapped in nineteen seventy seven. they met the north korean born daughter of magazines and mongolia. earlier this month i do. the cabinet will always tend to dialogue and action policies. the result the abduction issue it all thomas said he hopes the families of all japanese inductees will be able to hold their loved ones. she gaelic he's a guy who leads the group of family said the upcoming tracks are a significant opportunity for settling the issue he says he wants government officials to continue working until they find a resolution with their counterparts in community anti government protesters in thailand are gearing up for another mass rally on saturday. they're demanding the immediate resignation of caretaker prime minister you will auction a lot. they're real hedonistic and the political influence of her brother constitutional law who lives in self imposed . rosalind of the bali nine in bangkok has the

held by 20 top businessmen and officials. >> we're imposing sanctions on more senior officials of the russian government. in addition, we are today sanctioning a number of other individuals with substantial resources and influence who provide material support to the russian leadership. >> the new sanctions also punish bank rosea. the bank has the 17th largest asset value in russia. u.s. president barack obama says he signed an executive order penalizing key sectors of the russian economy. they include financial services, energy, natural resources, and defense. russian leaders have responded with retaliatory measures of their own. they've banned nine u.s. bureaucrats and lawmakers from entering the country. officials in russia's foreign ministry say they've repeatedly warned the u.s. that the use of sanctions is a double-edged sword that will come back and hurt the u.s. like a boomerang. >>> people in the west may be critical of the russian president's stance on crimea. but in russia, putin remains popular. a new poll puts his support rate at above 75%. that's the highest it's been in

today, rush president putin made it official.signing into law the annexation of the crimyin peninsula. no longer a part of ukraine. this week has been marked by sanctions tit for tat between u.s. and russia. the u.s. slapped penalties on putin's inner circle including his chief of staff, billionaire friends and a bank so kind to putin associates it could be called put yip's piggy banks. >> next, russia's turn. a ban on travel to russia on top u.s. officials including top white house aides and republicans john mccain and speaker of the house john boehner. but in a signal that tensions may be cooling down putin said he doesn't see an immediate need for further retaliation. is it too late? russian stocks have been feeling the pressure. two top credit rating agencies put russia on notice of a potential down grade in visa and hafter card stopped serving two russian banks president putin down played the impacts but the british prime minister is disagreeing. >> we've seen a $0.10 wipe off the value of the russian stock market this month

u s korean officials say the tank it doesn't belong to that. us officials described it as as a people is that so they said their forces will take it back to libya. researchers in it so we did have spent the last five years tracking the global weapons trade and they say china's sales are booming. i expect that the stockholm international peace research institute say china is now the world's fourth largest supplier of arms. members of the stockholm international peace research institute on monday released the report on the on stage is as international transfers of major conventional weapons stored fourteen percent over the last five years the united states was the world's top on supplier manufactures that to twenty nine percent of the world my kids. rochelle was second at twenty seven percent in germany was third with a seven percent. china leave from france into fourth place its exporters ground six percent of them i get really sick it's a chinese on zac's bullets had more than tripled over the last five years the pakistani government to listen

in two thousand and two north korean officials said. you'll want to have died years before they provided remains they claimed were hers. japanese officials say a dna test proved they were wrong the open tennis say they didn't ask their granddaughter what happened to me to me. they say they didn't want to make the meetings political japanese government officials say at least seventeen of their citizens were abducted in the nineteen seventies and eighties. eye japanese health officials are looking down the road been trying to steer clear of the crisis the decades old universal health care system is under strain and things are expected to get worse as the population ages. some government leaders are looking at transforming one of the most expensive parts of the system hospitals and hk world's julie cohen has the story. on the eye. at any given moment the zookeeper in japan i use in the healthcare system for alterations. for vaccinations or just for a checkup. running it cost four hundred billion dollars annually. found the bill goes up by

so what happens after they officially asked russia to incorporate well. the russian presence will have to have consultations and informed the parliament the federation council as well as the government at the time i'll have to check the production costs and so forth. if the agreement follows the constitution next we know that the parliament will preview the region's status within box and then the cool season will be amended if need be to accommodate the new region so this is how the procedure goes somewhere expecting this to start in the next few days the tales of luck. that decree from russia's president. now called let's take a more details look at the outcome often recommend an incline me a better than ninety six percent said and the one to claim the ad to be part of russian descent three percent say that stayed with ukraine who sprays can government is not recognized by them that the proteas and the remaining one percent of ballots with its contents not the financial times has written to turn on a woman eighty two percent. i love that is reported back

defense officials say the base commander was detained. ukrainian officials are worried about minority groups. they've announced plans to help move them out of the region. they also announced the country will leave an association made up of former soviet republics. crimeans are seeing other changes in black and white. a russian government newspaper is being distributed for the first time. >> translator: i'm very happy. president putin is the best. there are no other leaders like him anywhere else in the world. >> reporter: the headline on the paper read "reunification". >> russian and western envoys exchanged harsh words at an emergency meeting of the u.n. security council. >> yesterday, a historic event took place, the reunification of russian crimea, something our people have waited for for six decades. it was in compliance with international law, democratic procedures and went ahead without interference. >> ambassadors from western nations don't accept russia's arguments. >> russia has decided, it seems, to rewrite its borders. but it c

or lower level airline officials. so finally they've got this meeting, they're going to have a similar meeting tomorrow morning. >>> and you say you were in the room when they were asking these questions. could you tell that they had some sense of relief from getting to ask these questions directly to government officials? >> i wouldn't say it was relief. it was more of this -- the sense of it's about time, we've been asking for this for so long. and there was a good amount of sort of scolding and criticizing of the competency of the malaysian government. we heard a lot of that. and we heard a lot of comments from parents saying this has been 14 days of pure agony so we deserve these answers. i can describe the atmosphere in the room. it was packed. keep in mind, 154 of these people on that airline was from china. so these are their family members. there were about 400, 500 people in this room. they were all very serious, quiet, very focused on the presentation, this power point presentation that was given to them abo

amazing officials believe the aircraft's main communication systems breast six top. the suspect is kentucky down by the entity by someone on the plane. even after those systems for a science. i'm a sahm married to a radio show to st easing to a westbound direction. and crossing the streets of glasgow. it all struck out two fifteen am. even though the meat is of the region officials say their data shows up playing climbing to about thirty thousand can conduct the tears. i have been the maximum recommended africa took the plane. it launched the new anyhow to seven thousand aviation and the risk the safety case matt points out that that low altitude pilots can fly at st suite of instruments denying any of you. someone in the car that turned up the instruments to hide their whereabouts. it was anything they wanted to descend low enough to fly the plane without instruments and visually check their intended destination. it will be going on. even after the money stance on tonight's contest signals based on the plane officials say it could have been trying for nearly seven h

many senior party officials have already been convicted. lot of people welcome the government's firm stance. but others suspect it's all part of a power struggle. the government is expected to face strong opposition from those with vested interests. people wonder if the government leaders are capable of exerting strong measures against such powerful figures. >> let's talk more about the upcoming npc now. conichiro, let's start off with security and about the kedly attacks last saturday. what more do you know about what happened? >> chinese authorities speculate that there were more than 10 incidents. they say they randomly attacked people at the railway station with knives. police say they shot dead four attackers and have taken another into custody. investigators are looking for the remaining suspects. they believe separatists from the uighur autonomous region carried out the attack. you may recall here in beijing last october, uighurs were to blame for that attack. now, the npc does not begin until wednesday but another important meeting

it's the first time officials have handed out this type of punishment. the banner reading "japanese only" was displayed at the sat ma stadium when they played a match against sagan tosu. j league executives reprimanded the club and ordered their march 23rd home game to be played without any fans in the stands. >> translator: any foreigner seeing that language would have taken it as discrimination. i think it was discrimination, too. >> he says ur rawa officials failed to remove the banner until the end of saturday's game. the club had been informed about the banner about an hour earlier. the league also says the club bears grave responsibility because its support es have repeatedly caused trouble including a similar problem in 2010. the world soccer body fifa adopted a resolution for calling for stronger actions again racism and discrimination. >>> tokyo police believe they may have a lead in their search for the person who defaced books related to ann frank and the holocaust. they're questioning a man who has reportedly admitted to vandalizing books. st

we are waiting any moment for a news conference with this official announcement for the malaysian officialse plane was hijacked. that's what we expect him to say. we will bring that to you as soon as it happens, but our reporting continues on twitter on abc7 news bay area. >> investigators are in castro valley where a woman was found dead in her house. her daughter discovered the body around 4:00 this afternoon at the home on stanton avenue. abc7 news reporter alan wang has been speaking with neighbors tonight. alan? >> reporter: alameda county's crime scene center is parked out front and crime scene detectives is moving in and out. the woman's body is still in the home partly because police were delayed while waiting for a search warrant. the neighbors agree that they were shocked when they saw a girl leaving her castro valley home in tears. she just found her mother's body in the house at 4:00 p.m. >> we were sure this was a homicide. >> i am shocked and scared at the same time. >> they lived next door. they say the family has a third grade daughter who attends stanton elementary school a

but the official says that about 2:40 a.m. local time, the civilian and military radar lost all contact with the aircraft, strait of malacca is in a body of water that separates the peninsula from the indonesian island of sumatra. it's many hundreds of miles from the usual flight path for aircraft traveling from kuala lumpur to beijing. so it was way, way off course, according to this malaysian air force. no explanation, obviously, given. still no sight of any debris. no sight of this airliner. peter goels is joining us right now, former ntsb managing director. so the -- this air force official from malaysia, peter, is now saying the plane was hundreds of miles off course from where it would have been going if on a normal route from kuala lumpur to beijing. what do you make of that? >> even more perplexing. i think it starts to narrow the options down. if this report is true, it means a couple things. one is, was there someone unauthorized in the cockpit ordered the transponder turned off, ordered the plane to fly, you know, 9

new united include a former official from the sea of japan officials from siemens of germany and omar da of canada prosecutors said on tuesday that the officials allegedly ran all kinds cartel between nineteen ninety eight in two thousand and eight. their beers for subway contracts totaled about one point one six billion dollars reportedly causing a corporation that order the works to lose some three hundred seventy million dollars. the court has yet to decide whether to try it the officials but local media say they could be sentenced to prison terms of two to fifteen years if convicted bt says it has been informed of the charges against its former official in brazil the company says he will cooperate with the investigation is asked to by authorities. trade officials from japan and australia have been trying to craft an economic partnership agreement for seventy years but they've hit a roadblock in their latest round of talks over the tariffs japan levies on beef imports japanese agriculture the distribution of the higher she met australian trade and investment minister andrew robb in

now that's something that malasian officials are looking at extensively. they are looking at everyone in the flight deck, the two pilots, the cabin crew and the passengers. chinese officials say they have done their own investigation saying none of the passengers could have been involved in obviously what was a plot to turn this aircraft around by someone who knew what they were doing. they are saying it was not achinese citizen. >> the american ship the u.s.s. kidd is turning around, turning the investigation into an aerial search. what are you hearing about that there? >> yeah, well, what we're hearing is that it makes sense quite honestly. because when you look at these two corridors that are being focused on now based on satellite information, you've got over land for the majority of the northern corridor it's over land so obviously a water search isn't going to help with that. and down in the south it's such a vast area in the southern part of the indian ocean that having ships on the water doing some searching looking for any clues just wouldn't be l

officials in ukraine's at least two people dead and dozens in tears after demonstrations ten berman in the eastern part of the country. supporters and opponents of it into catholic last just a spoonful of rice and then in creamy and the sizzle be honest if you want to join russia. the ride the girls attending this plan in the city of donetsk hundreds of people gathered in a show of support for the mood to join the bunch opposite them was an equal number of supporters of the eu into confidence authorities say two people died and more than fifteen point six. the most innocent center based in cities including current cough and her ask her to stay to be made to release this weekend's principle of the crimean defend them first it is going to get into this as his computer is set to try to use all options should the tennis friends. ukraine's east to the gym. the arts from the united states and russia discuss the crimean defendant could not narrow that to fix this. he was sent to upstage on hannity and russian foreign minister sergei and love from sat down together for a sec silence the old qu

the ftc official talks between the two nations could see him on sunday. dean critique of current sensing camille attack was kidnapped in nineteen seventy seven they met the north korean born torture of making the mongolia and he and his smile. throughout. all weekend to dialogue and action policy is to squeeze all the abduction issue at all it was. said he hopes a fairly simple japanese inductees will be able to hunt them out to others. she leads to release the grip of the families said the upcoming talks on a significant opportunity for a sampling of the shield. he says he wants cup and officials to continue working until they find a resolution which take on deposits in town. south korean official said pretend the remains of chinese soldiers killed during the korean war. it's the best director penetration since the nineteen fifty three colleagues disagreed it doesn't have the names of four and twenty seven on them such as those held in china international airport chinese officials received a call to develop them on to a transport plane. tell him to stand

it is easy to hear us yawn when we hear you officials -- either you -- when we hear eu officials talk about sections. everyone has been in their own corner with different interests, more dependence, less dependence on russia. what we are seeing in catherine ashton and angela merkel is a change in tone. angela merkel has given up on vladimir putin or is showing signs of her patients snapping. she has been the one talking to you and -- to put in and understanding him on a different level. she said he seems to be in a different mold -- that is partially the answer to one of your questions. it is hard to judge how vladimir putin will react to the sanctions. the public line from the kremlin -smanctions,ctions we don't really care. they are targeting officials close to put in -- the head of security service, the defense minister, the head of the state-run gas monopoly. this is the top-tier list. presumably in a first run of sanctions it would be visa bans. slightly low level officials so they keep some ammunition so they can escalate if putin were then to move on to steps beyond just crimea

officials are hoping to turn the area into an international business hub. another strategic zone includes osaka, kyoto and kobe in western japan. this zone will be established to serve as a base for promoting business and research in advanced medicine. >>> microsoft's ceo has unveiled a new version of the company's popular office software for its rival apple's ipad. the application includes word processing, as well as spread sheets. >> vision is pretty straightforward. it is to make sure that the 1 billion office users and growing can have access to the high fidelity office experience on every device they love to use. >> the ceo made the announcement in san francisco. microsoft is hoping to increase crofts by strengthening the new service. it enables ipad users to retrieve data from any computer using cloud technology. users in 135 countries and regions can download the application from apple's app store. >>> european union's trade chief has partially defused a major dispute with officials in china. carl degut says the eu has dropped an investigation into c

why did that official end up on this hit list? we don't know, of course.who says he's on the hit list, who said he had nothing to do with evan ebel. he told the denver post, although he never crossed paths with evan ebel. he did have some involvement with hamaidan al turkey. he was sentenced to hard time in the state of colorado, who vigorously contested his innocence, trying to get moved home to saudi arabia to serve out the rest of his sentence there. his request to go home to saudi arabia was denied. one of the people who says he's on the hit list says he did have an involvement in that case. the denver post says the fbi has been investigating any financial transactions between that prisoner and this gang. this 211 crew. mr. al turkey has denied any involvement in tom clemens' murder, his lawyer has called any speculation to the contrary outrageous, and rightly so. mr. al turkey is only circumstantially linked to these murders. but that's all. it's only circumstantial and it could very well be a co ins denls of timing, but where did that hit list come f

officials broke lawn on the $1.5 billion development today. it will include more than 3000 housing units, 200,000 square feet of retail and more than 30 acres of parks. >> to parks, are going to be here on the waterfront and it completes a critical part of the bay channel. >> mayor jean quan helped bring in a chinese development group and is a major difference investor in the project which is been 12 years in the making. >>> the discovery of a shattered window on a high-rise in san francisco prompted emergency officials to shut down the street in the financial district for about four hours today. fire officials say they responded to a call that a window was broken on the 17th floor of 275 battery street. concerns that the glass would fall below prompted officials to shut down battery from sacramento to california street. many financial district workers came out of their offices to see what was going on. >> i just moved here in october so i've so i've dealt with falling ice from buildings but not glass. as far as the streets being closed, it is

meanwhile anxious family members are meeting today with officials. obama makes his first ever visit to the eu headquarters in brussels, including top european officials cementing the russian takeover of crimea. you might call it cheese diplomacy. the chinese president kicks off his trip to france in the gastronomic capital, marking 50 years of diplomatic relations. first, a search for flight 370, back underway after being put on to badr a day due weather. the malaysian airliner is thought to have crashed 18 days ago now. thousands of miles off course in the indian ocean. recovery of the wreckage could be the key as to how and why it went so far off course. the battery for the black box on board the plane has just two weeks left before it runs out. charlotte hopkins has the latest on the search. >> one dozen aircraft from five different nations took off in perth on wednesday morning, continuing the search for the malaysian jet. it has been 18 days since it disappeared from radar screens. positions on the plane five hours after it vanished, it came dow

the chinese official me to official visits to the north. last year. but about a week left until the new security summit in the cave where leaders of korea and japan are set to attend all eyes are on with the president talk and prime minister of it will finally sit down for the first ever summit. seoul says it is open to the one on one but stresses tokyo should first take sincere steps on historical issues. a case on acetate. with speculation by the president at the menu and japanese counterparts and next week's nuclear security summit in the netherlands. so he says there's no reason to oppose a sincere and constructive dialogue with tokyo. korean presidential spokesperson kim wilde told reporters monday. what's the point is whether any cost to bring out a productive outcome. not having tops for talks. the spokesperson said to create an atmosphere for productive discussions you'll have to probably take concrete steps to resolve its colonial and other historically she was with neighboring nations. on saturday a president that welcome the prime minister

australian officials had about pieces of debris.uite a large piece, almost 79 feet in size floating about 1,400 miles off the southwest coast of perth, australia. i want to bring in david soucie, formerly faa investigator, author of the book "why planes crash." david, just in terms of what we should be looking for and what investigators will be doing for the next several hours, how do you see this playing out? we know sflieatellites were redirected. we know there's a poseidon aircraft on the scene. we know there's an australian destroyer on the way. we know there are four other aircraft, australian aircraft, new zealand aircraft heading toward the region if not already there. how does this -- how does this play out? >> the investigators are facing a critical junctionture at this point because the first thing they want to do is identify positively whether this is debris from the aircraft or not. if they're able to do that from the air, using the orions, using the satellite images, whatever it might take, trying to get as low as they

officials tell fox these intelligence assess.e into account that president putin, likely wants to create a land bridge from crimea into ukraine. i should say from crimea into the north. this isn't new information. he wanted to do that for a long time. to do so they need to take more ukraine. here's ukraine and there's russia. he has to do this. that's where the bridge would go right here. john busse. we owls thought he -- he made the point for years he wants the bridge there. >> we have known for some days now about the buildup of troops on the border with eastern ukraine and it'sing are. we're going to go in if we feel the russian population is being percent indicated. our defendant secretary says the russian defense secretary says they're not going to cross the border, they're just there. part of this is a bargaining chip. there are sanctions being drawn up with the house and senate, additional sanctions. sanctions being codified and refined in the european union. the imf is negotiating a deal with ukraine. so, all of these thi

it's been two weeks before they have gotten any official response.y feel even though there has been meetings with the malaysian ambassador, and several officials here as well. what we understand is that these relatives are in a closed-door meeting with chinese government officials, and they are wanting to get a backing from the chinese government. as they said they were, they feel the disrespect is not just to them, but towards the entire people of china. >> thank you very much for that. >> that's margo joining us from beijing. >> to other news - an international team of monitors is being sent into ukraine as the new incarnation of the country takes shape. the team will begin its work after russia dropped objections. there is disagreement on whether they'll be allowed into crimea. fireworks lit the skies over moscow after vladimir putin signed a law entering the region into a russian federation. thousands celebrated in simferepol. ukraine has been moving closer to the west. germany's foreign minister is due to visit. on friday european leaders signed

. >> the data that led officials to the conclusion of what happened to the jetliner and the fate of its passengers. >>> and more than 100 people now declared missing after the weekend's massive mudslide in washington state killed eight people and destroyed 30 homes. >>> good afternoon. i'm tori campbell. topping our news -- a major gang bust on the peninsula. just a few hours ago, agencies in san mateo county announced the arrest of 16 people in a year-long investigation called "operation sunny day." these are several of the suspects arrested. the charges range from murder, attempted murder, conspiracy to commit murder and attempted armed robbery. officials say the arrest involves members from three separate peninsula gangs and that this is the largest case of its kind to ever be prosecuted in the county. tonight, on the news at 5:00 and 6:00, allie rasmus will have more on the details of this operation. >>> emotions remain high after malaysian airlines informed families that flight mh-370 has gone down in the indian ocean. brian flores joins us live to explain why despite this morning'

but many officials have a different view. they state the unknown gunmen also killed a member of the local self defense unit of ethnic russians. it's not clear yet what exactly happened the international community has criticized russian leaders. i believe that he in russia for what they've done or on the wrong side of history. kerry said the us does not support the annexation. and sometimes it gets washed a half to be stamped out. the european union released a statement saying it will take a concerted action representatives are expected to discuss either sanctions against russia or later the week. i mean a species of this as japan will increase pressure on russia. japan cannot ignore a month and the team visited the school by force. of this as his government will consider financial assistance to help lead to a peaceful outcome in ukraine. professor no bullish note the mighty oak aussie university is an expert on russian politics. smart money says recent events have highlighted the wayne clough of the west. will you meet these

this morning, officials in the u.s.at seems to indicate the jet did take that turn from its scheduled route, headed out into that huge area in the indian ocean, which is why a navy destroyer is heading there now to join in the search. this amid worry from malaysian officials that communication systems on the plane seem to have been shut off, shut off at different times, and that's significant, because it points to the possibility of a deliberate act. and reuters is reporting its unnamed sources say the plane seems to have been flown intentionally towards the andaman islands. at a minimum, that tells you the direction the plane was flying. perhaps that's all it tells us. jim clancy has the latest live from kuala lumpur. jim, what can you tell us this morning? >> reporter: all right, let's go back. as we look at all of those reports, this is a quickly developing story. last sunday we had the military here, the malaysians telling us that they believe that the pilot may have attempted a turnback. remember, off went the swit

officials are still being very cautious. but behind the scenes, there is an expectation that the u.s. navy will move its destroyer, the "uss kidd" where it has been searching on into the indian ocean. this is a vast area to search but they believe now that they have some information at least that indicates this plane may have flown up to four or five hours out into the indian ocean and that may provide the final answer about what happened to this flight. wolf? >> if it flew four or five hours after the transponders stopped transmitting signals back to ground station, it could have gone a lot further than the indian ocean, right? >> they have calculated at this point the range of the aircraft, based on the fuel that they thought would have been left from the last time they had communication with it. that's part of why they are looking there. there are also indications, wolf, that the satellite that picked up the pings, they have been able to do some calculations about where all of this came from. so the clues are not adding u

they are supposed to have a meeting with chinese government officials as well as malaysian officials. security has really stepped up. they aren't allowing us inside that building and one of our producers actually saw a swat team go in about 30 minutes ago so clearly there's this expectation that there may be a big confrontation because emotions are running high. john? >> so they've got this meeting coming up next with chinese government officials. but in the medium term, i guess, what's the plan here for these families? clearly staying at the low teho beijing is not a long-term proposition for them. >> reporter: no, many of them say they want to go to kuala lumpur, as i mentioned, they're also saying they are not ready to go to australia even though malaysia airlines has said once there is actual concrete debris, for example, that they can find then they'll begin considering bringing relatives there. but the relatives say at this point they're not even ready to go there to keep an eye out on the recovery effort. they're also -- there's also talk of possible lawsuits. as i've reported

according to police officials. there were five assailants police officer shot and killed four of them and attain the remaining suspect at the scene but two days later china's state run channel on news agency reported there were actually eat suspects. they say three were already in police custody. the online version of the chinese magazine tiny she published a report on tuesday it said police discover that the suspects thinking bombs in the same region on every twenty seventh. the magazine says the police detained three of them but the remaining five fled my car to cleaning. with the launch launch of the spending spree. police officials spoke on the phone to nhk they said three suspects are being detained in the autonomous prefecture but they declined to comment on their link to the canoeing attack saying that a special investigation team is working on the case. people across china are trying to get on the path to wealth but some of them are getting lost along the way. an estimated twenty six million people have bee

what are malaysian government officials and airline officials saying?'re calling it credible information. they're heavily reliant on what the prime minister said in parliament today. they believe that, you know, if the prime minister of australia is telling parliament that they believe these objects, these two objects in the indian ocean, could well be linked to flight mh-370, then it's credible information. but they also applied a lot of caution today because they reminded everyone that there is no proof yet. there is no identification. and so we're hanging on these words, could be, might be, we simply don't know yet, wolf. and all those aircraft and ships have to first get to the location, locate those two objects and then identify them. a lot of hopes and fears of family members hanging on all of these events as they'll come through, we'll keep you updated on that, wolf. >> saima, mohsin in kuala lumpur. so why don't the flight recorders have gps data to make them easier to find? one of the questions many of you have asked us. we're going to get answ

there has been no official complaint. as to the building's inspection, it was checked out at the end of february, maybe two weeks ago. everything checked out fine. there were no indications or red flags raised at that point. placedhan a phone call yesterday, nothing stands out in recent days that could have pointed to something like this. >> hopefully more answers will come out. thank you, chris. we have learned that oscar pistorius will testify in his own defense during his murder trial. he could be the first witness his lawyers call. photos ofs displayed the blood stains found in the athlete's house after he shot his girlfriend. his eyes and began heaving. he says he shot reeva steenkamp by mistake, thinking she was an intruder. a eric holder is endorsing plan to reduce sentences for nonviolent drug dealers. the prisone population by 6500 inmates in five years. stands and as the commission has recognized, certain types of cases result in too many americans going to prison for too long and for no truly good law enforceme