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nick norris from western australia was traveling with his three grandchildren. three of 80 kids on that flight. he was bringing them home for the new school year. his family said nick loved his grandchildren and sailing and looked forward to sailing with them in the waters off perth. and one of the dozens of aids researchers and on board. one friend and colleague said he was a scientist with the heart of an activist. another remembers him as an extraordinary leader, scientist and humanitarian who fought ceaselessly for the sbdignity o the people affected with hiv and aids. >> moscow says that's not the case. we are live with the latest. >>> plus, as loved ones mourn the victims around the world, we will look at the global repercussions. stay with us. >>> welcome back to the special coverage of the downing of flight 17. you are watching cnn and cnn international. welcome to our viewers in the united states at this hour. russia, as you have probably heard denied any involvement in bringing down the jet at the united nations on friday. the ambassador questioned why

product in western australia.re in early discussions with potential buyers on the wheat stone deal. apache announced last year it would sell nearly $10 billion worth of assets as it seeks to cut its debt. that's of the roundup of the top corporate headlines this hour. >> travelers in china will soon find it easier to get a luxury ride around town. chinese taxi booking service kuaidi is adding high-end cars to its cab offerings. roz is mere with more on this. kuaidi, what does it mean? >> quickly. kuaidi actually means to quickly get a taxi. and it is an app backed by alibaba, taxi booking app and already very, very popular in china. has like 100 million users and tpwhupets to add luxury-end cars to its range, which means things ike audis, buicks, b.m.w., s-class cars that you can glide around in comfort of a nice, slick car. it's launching a new app, e-how, kind of like number one special car. with this website, it's actually a phone app. you can then book these cars very, very similar to other high-end car bookin

they are expanding operations in western australia.r, they have raised full-year guidance on that. goldman sachs trumps everything. they come out with commodities this morning calling iron ore at a price of $80 over the next five years. copper at $6,600 over the next five years. if you thought brent was spared, it is not. $100. gtech is out there. they have made an offer for international game technology's and they are paying an 18% premium for the honor. $18.25. keep an eye on that. the spirit of cento up 6% -- santo up five point 79%. the ceo is -- 5.79%. that could come from a number of key shareholders. that is giving a little bit of a boost. back to you. >> thanks very much, manus. here are the big headlines. janet yellen told lawmakers the central bank must press on with record monetary stimulus. >> although the economy continues to improve, the recovery is not yet complete. even with the recent declines, the unemployment rate remains above the federal open market estimate participants' of its longer run normal level. >> day to w

it's going to be the southwestern parts of western australia where we see the worst of the weather.here could be gusts over 125 kilometers per hour, jane. >> thanks. going to jail for being in debt was once routine punishment in the western world in some parts of the u.s. that practice still goes on with private contractors profiting from people unable to pay fines for minor offenses. from georgia, tom ackerman sent us this report. >> reporter: after a minor driving violation, nicole thought she had paid her debt to society with the $1,400 in fines, fees and hours of community service. but two years later, she is still paying $35 every month to a company called centinal defenders? >> they call my phone and threaten me that i am going to go to jail. they will take me back in front of the judge. they are rude, real rude. >> 30 years ago, the u.s. supreme court ruled no one could be locked up because they didn't have the money to pay a fine. >> is routinely ignored by private protection service companies like this one which operate under contract to the local governments. the companies

. >> a scientist who changed lives for the better as a leading researcher at western australia's departmentagriculture and food, he helped rehabilitate thousands of acres of land damaged by salt in the soil and water. >> he and his wife were returning from the netherlands where they were visitig family. cnn's anderson cooper spoke with his brother drew. >> my brother was one of the most generous, warmest people i've ever known. guy that enjoyed life, liked adventure but just cared a lot about a lot of other people. he had a very, very strong family man, loved his kids and his grandkids just a wonderful individual. >> he had three grown kids, is that correct? >> that's correct. >> and i understand they live near him. how are they holding up? >> it's been really tough, as you can imagine. such a shock and that's, you know, we're just trying to process this. it just happened so suddenly and i just -- it's hard for me even to still comprehend what happened. >> when something like this happens, i mean, what is the process? did somebody contact you? how did you first learn that your brother and h

they expanded operations in western australia. the price of iron ore has dropped 27% this year.ending its lead over boeing on this second day of the former airshow. the deal included a $13.8 billion agreement with their -- with air asia. pentagon confirmed that the f 35 will not make it. the fleet was grounded after one plane had an engine fire. the manufacturer is lockheed martin. to "countdown." said she islin watching the labor market. guest stephanie flanders joins us. let's just start with a broad question. what would you take from yesterday's testimony? >> especially since mark harney started to introduce that different language around rate rises everyone has been waiting to see what we get that in the u.s. him a what we see that in the second half and we have seen janet yellen reluctant to go down that path in a clear way. what she has done not just with this testimony but in recent speeches, she started to talk about the uncertainty around the path of interest rates. you can see why. the central bank spent several years trying to take the uncertainty out of markets and y

the expanded operations in western australia. output matched estimates.il prices have fallen only seven percent this year -- 27% this year. those are your headlines. theme running through markets and this morning, it is tech. the fed concerned about tech valuations. they should a report. sent facebook and twitter lower. a partner atw is passion capital. decidesshocking the fed to send us a memo to tell us that tech is overstretched? >> i think it is interesting. they had to try to assert what their involvement would be and how engaged they could be with the market. it was a bit of a stretch for them to say is valuations were overstretched. >> do you disagree? >> i disagree. i think it was a sweeping generalization and it was ill guided. a lot of media coverage, some of the examples people would throw out to validate janet yellen's comments. >> the biotech index has a multiple of 500. >> things like facebook. of 20% since the beginning of the year. up 136% from a year and a half ago. in orders of magnitude -- >> let's leave that aside. apple and ibm, ibm h

immediately launch a diplomatic effort throughout all of eastern europe, get all of the western diplomats from europe, australia united states, all together to really come up with a plan. s last thing i would do is surge funding for the info war. we are losing an information war to the russians throughout all of eastern europe. that cannot happen. we can win this argument. capitalism, free markets, human rights, that's an easy win for us. >> so then if you maybe not necessarily put your money where your mouth is, if the president puts his hen where his mouth is, what should he do? >> there is a lot of things he can too individually and a loft things he can ask congress to do. >> we'll leave it that 'cause it is complicated. that is it for us. i'm glad to have you here on the set. before you go, i got to toss to "the five." do you think the ukrainian president is a bonafide foe against putin? >> i think yes, he is trying to be. but he's got some challenges. >> okay. good to see you. thank you. >> i'm arthel neville. stick around. "the five" is up next. i'll be back on in an hour alongside eric shaun. keep it rig

so if you take a look at the asian theater it is heavily subscribed by qatar, australia, potentially the western coast of canada. if the u.s. gets its act together ourselves. the idea that the russians shift their gas over to the east or that this deal with china has all of the price issues resolved, you notice the one thing that was kept secret was pricing. and i think it must be pretty obvious to us why that is because the chinese are not going to pay the russians the kind of prices that the ukrainians or anybody else would pay. that's ridiculous. so there room for maneuver of gazprom has always been overstated in the debate and the degree of competition over gas control in russia is increasing. those are strategic opportunities and you know we ought to get our act together here little bit and think about how we can help ukraine, how we can influence russia how the e.u. can get into the act in a way that really is a net benefit and then think about again and i apologize to those who think it's unrealistic that there is a plus, plus solution which is frankly better than where we are now. it won

western pressure. president putin says this puts relations at a dead end. >>> australia's senate voted to scrap the country'sr box emissions. this is one of the main priorities of the prime minister abbott many many the course of last year's campaign. australia is one of the world's biggest emitters per capita. critics say this is something of a backwards step. mr. abbott said it's a destructive tax. >> you voted to scrap the tex many september last year, and today the parliament finally listened. today the tax that you voted to get rid of is finally gone. a useless, destructive tax which damaged jobs, hurt family's cost of living and didn't help the environment is finally gone. >> tony abbott there. stay with us on bbc world news. coming up shortly, after a pretty brutal terror attack and the hundreds of muslim weegers, what's the impact on the minority group? we'll find out. vo: this is the summer. the summer that summers from here on will be compared to. so get out there, and get the best price guaranteed. >>> we have breaking news for you. that is a senior israeli official told the bbc there will be a co

well, if you take a look at the asian theater, it is heavily subscribed by qatar, australia, potentially western coast of canada, if the u.s. gets its act together, ourselves. the idea that the russians simply shift their gas over to the east, or that this deal with china has all of the price issues resolved, you notice the one thing that was kept secret was pricing. and i think it must be pretty obvious to us why that is because chinese are not going to pay the russians the kind of prices that the ukrainians or anybody else have paid. that's ridiculous. so the room for manuever of gazprom i think has always been overstated in the debate and the degree of competition over gas control in russia is increasing. those are strategic opportunities and we ought to get our act together here a little bit and think how we help ukraine, how we can influence russia, how e.u. can be put into the act in a way that is of benefit. think about again, i apologize to those that think it is idealistic, but there is a plus-plus solution which is far better where we are right now. won't satisfy everybody but far bett

so we excluded north america, australia, new zealand, japan, western europe, more recently joined by other success stories within the developing countries that have had greater political and economic freedom. but the strange thing is the exclusion of the history of development that excluded all the successes. that shows you something in the way in which this debate has really not been happening enough, that we would treat the evidence in such a strange way, and we would celebrate, bill gates would celebrate just a very few years of apparent success which he's automatically without further evidence giving credit to the dictator and not kind of reflecting this long history of success of democracy and development. so, of course, one other bit of direct evidence is when you see something good happening in a country, you -- there's always this tendency to infer that the leader must be a good guy because good things are happening. that's a very strong tendency in development. even if you have direct evidence that the leader is not such a good guy. so this guy had been kind of showing his a

those positions are also held by many other democratic leaders, many other western leaders in europe and beyond in canada and australiaderstand that there is strong international support for israel's position. and ultimately, what are we asking for? israel is asking that people shouldn't shoot rockets at our citizens. it's the most basic fundamental demand. and what we're doing now in gaza is legitimate self-defense. we are taking on. we are trying to target those who are trying to kill us. those terrorists shooting rockets at our people. those terrorists trying to come across the border and kill our people. we're trying to stop them. and what country on the planet wouldn't be acting as we would in such a situation. >> finally, mark, yesterday secretary kerry was overheard saying about the israeli operation, it's a hell of a pinpoint operation. obviously, sarcastically describing the damage in gaza. do you feel that kerry and the united states are with you or is this getting to the point where you no longer have the full heartfelt backing of the united states as they see the casualties on the other side as well? >> fi

well if you take a look at the asian theater committees have only subscribed by australia and potentially the western coast of canada and if the u.s. gets its act together itself. if they shift their gas over to the east. they have all the price issues resolved and you notice the one thing that was kept secret was pricing. and i think that it must be pretty obvious, that is why the chinese are not going to pay the russians the kind of prices that the ukrainians or anybod were ae have paid. that's ridiculous. the room for the maneuver i think has always been overstated in the debate and the degree of competition over gas control in russia is increasing. those are strategic opportunities and we ought to get our act together here a little bit and think about how we can help ukraine, how we can influence russia to my how the eu can be running into the act and the way that really is a nice benefit then think about again, i apologize to those who think it's idealistic it won't satisfy everybody but that's what we have. >> i am a faculty member at the university of the district of columbia and my question i

i think that when you have every major western government starting with the united states and now australiahe netherlands and others, basically saying you rebels did this with at least some support from the russian federation and oh, by the way, allow our investigators to go to the crime scene so we can obtain the evidence of your guilt, i think it's going to be difficult for most of these countries including the u.s., including the european agencies, including australia, that have the expertise, to be able to be seen by these rebels and russia as independent transparent investigators. it's going to be hard to find the expertise worldwide that's not involved with this have victims from their own country. >> tom, would you assume that perhaps president putin may give a scapegoat to this investigation? that maybe he's got somebody in the rebel forces that he's willing to sacrifice or put out there to try to get the attention in the spotlight off of himself? >> that's a great question. you would have thought he might have done that earlier to get the pressure off to do that. the only problem w

australia will now focus on retrieving the bodies that are still there. also in a related news story in a show of unity, they rejected the resignation of the prime minister. >>> and from western africa, the ebola virus is spreading. two americans are not coming home at least for now. they have been exposed and have been put into quarentine for 21 days. they are actually showing signs of improvement and the centers for disease control may soon warn travelers not to make nonessential trips to new guinea and sierra leonia. >>> every year nearly 5 million people are treated for skin cancer. >> between one and five americans will develop skin cancer. we harp on uv exposure and the sun and that's one of the few things we can control. >> the surgeon general said 90% of melanomas are from exposure. they also asked communities to provide more shade and recreational areas for tanning beds. the survival rate for melanoma is high when it is caught early but it is a different story when it is at a different stage. >>> and the signs are as easy as abcde. it is a sent mist trick call. -- asymmetrical. or has it all changed in reason months. >>> the city of oakland will introduce the new dir