xinhua, is the official state media. two days ago, the chinese, one of the government agencies, sending out the satellite pictures of some debris in the south china sea, which turned out to be a false lead. and the chinese official said it should never have been released in the first place. we have more images coming from the chinese. these are being taken seriously, in perth. and they correspond with the earlier images found by the australians. together with this, and coming from xinhua, it has much more weight. and it has to go forward with the focus because there's so little to go on at the moment. >> andrew stevens, on the line from perth, where this search is now being coordinated. and the news, which we're getting from the xinhua state news agency, that a chinese air crew has spotted two suspicious objects. andrew reporting. two, big objects. smaller arounds what could be a debris field. the area that they're talking about here is in that area that was captured by chinese satellite imagery, just a few days ago, tha

. >> reporter: according to to china's state run xinhua news a gang of men wielding moves dressed in black stormed the train station in kuhn ming. the capitol of china's yunnan province. survivors describing screens of blood shed. i saw a person come after me with a long knife and ran away. china gun laws with the toughest in the world. in recent years they have seen massive stabbings. a spree targeting school children. seven children died in one attack in 2010. the government has blamed some of the past attacks on the mentally unstable. individuals protesting the leadership. the motive for this attack is still unknown. gloria, abc news, beijing. >>> difficult pictures tonight. back here at home where the u.s. justice department is now reviewing the death of a man who local authorities called accidental. but after his own family stepped in to find his body they reported their discovery an unexplained injuries. abc on the case tonight. >> reporter: the mysterious death of alfred wright is you should a microscope. the 28-year-old married father of three found dead in november in east t

. >> the xinhua are very clear about the government stance on corruption. i also spoke to an expert about this. he is a former translator of deng xiaoping and long-term observer of chinese politics. he says the probe against zho is a strong sign the communist party is feeling the strong pressure to go ahead with the anti-corruption campaign. >> the party and the government are dedicated to fighting corruption, not on a daily basis, but perpetually because if corruption remains unchallenged and unchecked, the party loses its raisin debt ra. it loses its reason for existence. >> he also points out it demands the participation of all chinese people and that the internet could become an important part of the drive. >> china has the largest mobile phone users and largest internet users, and people can actually exercise their own leadership in the way to expose corruption by various government and party officials. this reinforces this dynamics between the party on the one hand, the government on the other hand, but also more importantly, the people at large to cr

china's central television quoted the xinhua news agency as saying that the crew spotted multiple suspicious objects floating in the ocean. it said two are relatively big. and many smaller ones are scattered within a radius of several kilometers. the plane was running out of fuel, so its crew had to turn back. but they asked other search teams to head to the area. they passed along the coordinates to australian authorities who are orchestrating the search operation. the news agency says the chinese crew spotted the objects from an altitude of 10,000 meters. sources close to the search say it's usually difficult to identify floating objects from that altitude. >>> let's now turn to the latest business stories with ron madison. >>> well japanese consumers are rushing to buy before the sales tax is hiked from 5% to 8% next week. a surge in personal computer shipments. industry officials say domestic shipments of pcs topped 1.2 million units in february. that's up 22% year-on-year. and the third straight month of record highs. demand is also being driven by microsoft, which will end its support

engulfed by a fresh protest against spending cuts and unemployment this week journalists from rt xinhua agency roughly covering an arrest was attacked by riot police in madrid. take a look the he was filming a so called march of dignity when baton wielding officers pushed into the ground and he can't stand yesterday protesters of all ages accuse the government of forcing them to pay off the state's debt. the cost of their own health and education. but the zipper is inoperable marches in savings. in the evenings. he was an easy week approved a sunscreen which kicked off with more tuesday and wednesday. not as bad as in love isn't just to make it to twenty before being rescued by one week and wanting to not have to pay it scores again to two streets to demonstrate against unemployment debt and cuts by other for more cuts despite violence and arrests during a similar rally last weekend. we'll be able to talk to any sort of in treatment and he often we see more deals creates its funding and enterprises and small business right now we're still far from even talking about coming out of the cr

the xinhua news agencies told that police shot four attackers and arrest a fifem. >>> at least one persontion crash that happened in morning on an icy aaa in denver. rescuers pulled the violents from the wreckage and load them into ambulances, there is word that at least 30 people were hospitalized including childrenment according to one victim, people were just trying too fast for the snowy conditions. >> it three people are recovering after a rare avalanche in an urban area of missoula, montana. snow slid down mount jumbo into eye northeast missoula neighborhood. >> we weren't sure what happened and then all of a sudden here comes from the fire department banging on our doors. >> officials say heavy snow on top of a weak layer of snow may have cause the,000. witnesses say they had no idea what was going on. >>> freezing weather in the northeast has turned the thunderous roar of niagara falls into a soft trickles. parts of it are frozen. researchers say more than 88% of the great lakeses are now covered with ice. the night sky above parts the united kingdom were shimmering. the lights ar

they are really putting the pressure, externally, and we can see it in the from xinhua the state run news agency that behind the scenes the pressure that would be more intense, and whether it is going to prompt the prime minister to finally come forward with the facts and give the world some sort of a handle on which to make sense of this story. but certainly, the chinese are not pulling back here. it is going to be interesting to see now as the sending down more people to be part of the investigation team, and there is a lot of whispers and rumors about how difficult to get information from the malaysians to the various participants in the investigation, and it is going to be interesting in the next two or three days to see what the chinese are providing, because they are providing a barometer of how the malaysian government has been handling this. >> yes, 135 chinese nationals on that plane. thank you. and now, there is some focus on the pilots of the flight 370, and now we are digging deeper into what they may be looking for. [ chainsaw whirring ] humans -- sometimes life trips us

that's what they're being called by shin xinhua, the chinese new agency. what we know is frustratingly vague. there are two relatively big objects surrounded by smaller white objects over an area of several square miles. nothing more specific than that. aviation experts i've been talking to say that could tally with a debris field from something like a downed plane, but could is the operative word here. we just don't know. now, you said that a p-8 poseidon, a u.s. plane was diverted to that area. it's got to the area. and frustratingly, it can't locate that debris field which the chinese saw. now, what we are learning through tweets from the search coordinators is that the chinese aircraft was actually just heading back out of the search zone on its way back to perth when it saw these objects. it sounds like they saw them at quite a high altitude, 33,000 feet, perhaps. we're just trying to confirm that, but this is what we're getting from a tweet from the search organizations. any visual from 30,000 feet is obviously going to be very, very difficult to ide

today, xinhua, china's state run news agency ran an english run editorial that accused ha lay shah of a -- malaysia of a dereliction of duty. cnn's david mckenzie live from beijing. david, that's very strong language. where is it coming from here? is it coming from that frugs stration that the families at home are feeling now? >> i think it comes from two places, jim. one is, yes, those families that have been stuck in that hotel, hundreds of them, who are already boiling over in frustration. today they had a major argument with the airline which is taking care of them in beijing. they're telling the airline they refuse to go back to their homes, they're not taking any kind of stipended and also comes from the chinese government which appears to show its limit of influence in the situation. though china is far more powerful than malaysia, at least privately, it appears their pressure hasn't been bearing fruit. they've gone public with the bold statement saying it's a dereliction of duty and more needs to be done by malaysia to solve the situation, jim. >> looking at that editorial as

. >> china surging its own territory for the missing jet according to xinhua news agency.hasll right -- already redirected satellite and forces. scientists in beijing say it will be found. a plain 60 meters long can be located easily by the eyes in the sky, that is what the chinese are saying. still, 26 countries are now involved in the search-and-rescue operation, looking for clues. the coasts ofing australia. ocean is next, even after their traffic control says that it never entered australian airspace. malaysia has come under intense criticism for the search operation, especially from china. sometimeseries of conflicting information released. they did say the surge has been a logistical nightmare, a challenge, and it thanks all the nations giving it a helping hand. this is the longest search for a jet in modern aviation history. arment is linda reporting. hiseorge osborne delivers budget tomorrow. our u.k. viewers can watch at life and in full from 12:30 london time. >> the latest data on eu car registrations. we'll see how any sanctions on russia may affect automakers.