Outrage. Has anything really changed . Laura welcome to our viewers on Public Television in america and also around the globe. Authorities say they sorted out who caused the germanwings crash on a French Mountain top but not why he did it. The voice recorder shows that copilot Andreas Lubitz knocked the pilot out of the cockpit and started the plane into dissent. We start why his hometown in germany. Reporter hes the boy dreamed of being an airplane pilot but is he a mass murderer . The crash is yielding clues. Andreas lubitz, the copilot, may have caused this deliberately. The french prosecutor in charge of the case today said that is the most plausible explanation to what can be heard on the cockpit voice recorder. He activated the controls to start dissent. We have no explanation at the minute why he did that. Reporter but that can be analyze as his intention to destroy the plane. So heres what the voice recorder shows. For the first 20 minutes of flight all is normal. Then the captain leaves, is thought to go to the toilet. Thats when Andreas Lubitz grabbed the controls and began the dissent. Lubitz ignored him, shouted and then started to batter the door down. The copilot could be heard breathing normally. The passengers didnt know what was happening until the last minute but we could hear the cries just minutes before the crash, before the impact on the ground. This is a tiny air land in the ryanland where his dreams were born and rhineland where his dreams were born and they couldnt believe he flew a plane into a mountainside. Were just speechless. Its shocking. No one can imagine what really happened up there. Its being reported he deliberately crashed the plane. We cant believe it at all. Reporter the glider which he first learned to fly, from here he went on to join germanwings two years ago and be copilot on the illfated flight 9525. He was really just a very normal, not very remarkable, nice young man who made his hobby flying gliders into his job and thats what everybody wants to do what you enjoy for your work and that was certainly his goal. Reporter all that made Andreas Lubitz inspiration a boy who graduated to flying passenger jets. So here at this little flying club, along with the profound shock, there is disbelief that Andreas Lubitz they knew could have anything to do with the crash. But in france prosecutors believe evidence is mounting up. This evening German Police began searches at two addresses used by Andreas Lubitz. Hes not the type of guy who would try and kill other people absolutely not. That would be totally against his character as far as i know him. Reporter this was a nation already traumatized by so many lives. Now its conflicting that it may not have been an accident but a crime. Laura the apparent actions of copilot Andreas Lubitz, a transport correspondent richard reports on the investigation and the issues now facing the airline industry. This is the normal procedure. Richard it looks like the security measures brought to make it safer after 9 11 have left a pilot kill all his passengers. Bulletproof doors keep terrorists out but they can be used against the crew too. Its a scenario no one wants to even think about a pilot deliberately crashing a plane. But how can it be that within the space of 10 minutes the captain of this flight was unable to stop his colleague apparently flying this aircraft into the ground . Once the cockpit doors are locked, even a small gun wont open it. You need the right code. Ultimately, though the person inside has the control. New recruits for the psychological test and pilots keep tabs on each other too. That morning from dusseldorf to barcelona so the captain would have obviously felt fairly confident with the copilots demeanor with that day and ultimately confident to fly. Richard the focus now shifts to the man at the controls Andreas Lubitz. Investigators will delve deep into his life and the lives of his families problems with the law or his love life. The British Pilots Union is calling for tougher checks on recruits. An initiative you need to spend more time on and that is the human being. You need to understand the human being better, how to select them, how theyre trained. What, if anyone, is showing signs and can be reported to the authorities. Richard easy jet will change its rules tomorrow to have two people in the cockpit all the time. Others are following suit but not lufthansa. [inaudible] i repeat it in english without any doubt. My Firm Confidence in the selection of our pilots, in the training of our pilots, in the qualification of our pilots and in the work of our pilots has not been touched by this single tragedy. Richard the french authorities seem convince they know what happened on this mountain side. They may never know why. Richard, bbc news. Laura and for more on todays revelations im joined by kyle, a pilot and aviation analyst. What is your response to another pilot apparently deliberately killing all his passengers abusing that trust that they had placed in him . Kyle you know, its a very sad tragedy, the whole situation and, you know, these pilots are really trained. Most pilots have a passion for the job, a passion for flying. And to see this, if the allegations are true, is very sad. Laura what do you think needs to change in response . Kyle i think International Countries all around the world just like the u. S. Need to adopt the policies that is in place here in the u. S. Where two individuals have to be in that cockpit at all times. Not necessarily both pilots but perhaps a pilot and a flight attendant. Thats the policy the way it is now here in the u. S. Laura but even so on the human side do you think pilots need to be psychologically evaluated regularly . Kyle i actually do. Here in the u. S. When you go for a commercial pilot medical certificate, you basically have to declare every physician that youve visited since your last application for medical certificate. And its basically like sort of like selfreporting. I think, you know, after this incident that that possibly should be implemented or it there should be routine psychological evaluations perhaps every year or every two years. Some airlines if there is any suspicion, like here in the u. S. , theyll send their pilots for psychological evaluation. Laura do you worry as well those rules put in place after the 9 11 attacks that were supposed to protect pilots in the cockpit apparently put passengers at risk . Kyle no. I think here in the u. S. The policy works fine. Passengers here in the u. S. Are completely safe. The policies put in place are actually doing the job very well. Its the other countries around the world where the policies need to change. And just today we actually heard that the German Airlines are establishing new Company Procedures similar to the policy here in the u. S. And that should be adopted by airlines around the world. Laura if you were ever concerned about another pilot, would there be a proper reporting procedure so you could communicate your concerns . Kyle there would be. You would basically go to a Human Resource representative at the airline, but the fact is youre not with the same flight crewmember for a long period of time. You often cant pick up on these signs. Youre going through your normal flight task, your checklist, your operational procedures and quite frankly you might not pick up on any kind of psychological disorders or things that are not normal during the course of a routine flight. Laura kyle bailey, thank you very much for joining us. Kyle thank you. Laura the relatives of the 150 veterans are mourning their loss. Now more who traveled to the crash scene to grieve. Reporter its a journey from a nightmare, this the heartbreaking final destination for some of the families of the victims of the plane crash. More coaches arrived with the grieving not far from the snowcapped ravine where the bodies of their relatives lie. The flags of the country of those who perished. All around the sound of helicopters heading to the crash site. We spoke to the man who was first to see the wreckage. He took pictures on his phone. He showed on a map where he was weveraged into the ravine just wenched into the ravine. It was he who recovered the black box recorder that today yielded so many secrets. As a rescuer i go on a lot of accidents and see ugly things but never anything on this scale never. The scene was surreal and i knew from the first moment there would be no survivors. Reporter we took to the air to get a sense of the enormity of the recovery operation. These skies above the Southern Alps are a wellwarm route for pilots from every major airline. The jagged edges and rugged peaks of the mountains are accessible of course, only from the air and thats making the recovery and salvage operation after the crash even more difficult. Emergency crews are having to be wrenched down and some are a little more than shingles. Its a crash, we dont know where exactly. Reporter on the ground we caught up with a longtime resident near the crash site. She heard the plane go down and the noise haunts her. You feel like you are in a movie. Nothing happened here. You have sometimes an accident on the slopes. Its not possible. Not here. All the light of the world turned on your valley. 10 hours, 12 hours one day. And all the world, look at you. Reporter yes, the world has come here as teams continue to sift through the debris of an international disaster. Laura clive reporting there. Youre watching bbc world news america. Still to come on tonights program, saudi arabia has a campaign against shiia rebels, a country already mired in conflict. A member of the Illinois ArmyNational Guard and another chicago man have been arrested on charges to conspire to support Islamic State. We look at radicalization in the u. K. Reporter hundreds of britains have followed the jihadist trail to iraq and syria, some to fight, some to die. The bbc has been studying their profiles to find out whos going, why and what happens to them. We looked at nearly 116 individuals, 36 of these are reported to have died and 13 have been convicted by the courts. Weve been able to create a map of britain to look at where people have gone from. So what can we learned from this data . One of the key findings is that people tend to go in clusters from the same place. Here in coventry went in march, 2014, two are now dead. They only became religious a few months earlier and appear to have radicalized quickly. Social media can also play a role. Here in portsmouth, one man went first and then contacted friends online, drawing in five of them. Theyre seen here on cctv. One has been jailed, three are dead and one whereabouts is not known. Organized groups also sometimes play a role. Two young men from cardiff appeared from earlier videos, they were linked to men handing out leethals to an extremist group. And its not just young men going out to iraq and syria. One girl left a school in east london in december. Three of her friends then traveled out in february to join them, a sign that its women and also people of school age who are now being radicalized. This is just a sample and it shows there are no hard and fast rules for why people go to syria but friendship groups and the role of influential individuals often using social media certainly plays a major part. Laura today the saudi arabias president went to rihad due to shiia rebels. Response air strikes begins. Frank reports. Frank in the yemeni capital today, thousands gather to denounce saudi arabias air trikes on bases taken over by rebels. These are supporters. Elsewhere in yemen, the air strikes have been broken by others. This is now a divided country. The air strikes hit military targets but also killed civilians. Saudi arabia is leading a 10nation coalition to try to reverse the takeover of yemen by a group it believes is backed by its rival, iran. The objective is to defend the legitimate government from the takeover attempts by the militia in yemen. Frank yemen is in the grip of its most severe crisis in years as competing forces fight for control of the country. It also risks spinning beyond yemens borders. Yemen is the poorest country in the middle east but it is strategically important. Its become a major base for islamic militants in recent years. So the turmoil there does have serious security implications to the west. Worst case, yemen could become another failed state like syria and libya. Yemen is the home of al qaeda and the arabian peninsula, a major terrorist group that has plots against the west and the u. K. Itself. If the country falls into further political, socioeconomic collapse, it means that groups like terrorists will plot activities around the world. Frank al qaeda in yemen is considered the most Dangerous Branch in the world because it smuggled bombs onto planes. They will now be looking to exploit the growing chaos. For the saudis, running this campaign from this operations room, intervention came at the last minute. But entering yemens conflict is one thing getting out may not be so easy. Yemen is already awash with weapons and competing factions. Now its impoverished population is basing itself for hardships. Laura all this week the afghan president and the nations chief executive Abdullah Abdullah has been here in washington. The u. S. Has agreed to keep 10,000 troops in afghanistan through the end of this year. Its a country ready to secure itself. Dr. Abdullah joined me just a short time ago. So tell us what happens after the end of this year. You have this commitment now from 9,800 troops to help Afghan Forces until the end of 2015 but then what . Dr. Abdullah this is what we have asked for as far as the support for the mission which includes the training of the Afghan Forces. And also that will enable us to deal with the challenge of taliban during the year and this is an opportunity that we should utilize. Laura when will Afghan Forces be able to defend the country by themselves without the u. S. . Dr. Abdullah that is the aim, that is the goal. And already Afghan Forces have taken huge responsibilities on their shoulders. From 130,000 troops International Troops three years ago to 30,000 troops today. Its a huge undertaking by our forces and we are moving towards selfreliance. Laura moving towards it. Do you think when the next american president is elected youll be asking him or her if you can have American Forces for longer . Dr. Abdullah we are talking about the continued engagement, continued cooperation. And the troop presence is one aspect of it which at the moment we are talking about 2015 and thats what we have that was our demand, that was our expectation. Cooperation will be needed to provide afghanistan with the enablers to provide support for us to be able to finance our Security Forces and until we will be able to stand on your own feet. Laura you want your country to be peaceful. Will there be peace talks with the taliban . Dr. Abdullah we hope. There are some prospects for it. Once it starts, that does not mean that does not necessarily mean the end of hostilities the same day or next day. That will be the start of a process and we can judge it on that base at the time. Laura so far those talks of the Afghan Taliban have not begun. Are you confident they can even start . Dr. Abdullah thats what we offered. We have kicked the door for negotiations open and we hope the taliban will seize the moment and seize the opportunity. If they believe by any chance they can overtake by military force or through violence, that will not happen. Laura what about the threat from Islamic State . We had president ghani talk about that. Dr. Abdullah the threat from isil is something that nobody can ignore especially in conditions like afghanistan where some are under the taliban influence and there is some insecurity in some parts of the country and these sorts of groups take advantage of the sort of situations in parts of afghanistan. Is it an immediate dramatic, imminent threat today . So far no. We need to maintain focus on it and we need to bring the focus of our partners over the potential which exists there so not to let it to grow. Laura ow, this week you have been talking a lot about womens rights in afghanistan. Yet, only a week ago a woman was lynched and killed in your capital kabul. How long until women really get equal rights in your country . Dr. Abdullah that was a tragic incident. A heinous crime committed in daylight by mobs. Those people have been arrested detained. An investigation is under way. And they will be treated in accordance with the law of the country, and it was not taken lightly by the people of afghanistan nor by the government of afghanistan. And to deal with this issue seriously that will help prevent such tragic incidents. Laura Abdullah Abdullah, thank you very much for joining us. Dr. Abdullah thank you. Laura today marks six months since 40 students disappeared in mexico. They dispeered in the town of iguala. They were killed by gangs. Disappearance has galvanized Mexican Society but has anything changed for people in the communities . Katy reports. Reporter 43 families Still Holding out hope theyll see their loved ones again. The Basketball Court is the heart of the Rural College a place where people used to come to relax. Now its a shrine to the disappeared. Families dont think enough is being done to find them. Sometimes we think the worlds forgotten us because we dont get any support. We know people from around the world know what happened here but we have no way of knowing if theyre supporting us. Reporter across the state security has been beefed up since september, especially here in iguala, a town thats been the center of this horror story. The students came here to stage protest and thats when they were allegedly handed over to criminal gangs by corrupt police. They werent the first to disappear here though, and they werent the last either. His brother was kidnapped eight weeks ago. He was blindfolded, shot in the head and his body bumped. But she says her family is one of the lucky ones. We used to have to thank god for another day of life for our health, to be looked after. Now we have to thank the criminal gangs that were alive, but we also have to thank them for giving us my brothers body because there are some people, those families have disappeared, who dont have their bodies or only parts of them. Reporter life carries on in iguala and what happened here in september. But why it happened divides mexico. The typical response to somebody killing or being killed is they were involved in it so its serious because its a way of taking responsibility away from the states and get to the bottom of a crime so we understand how it happens. Reporter in the six months that have passed, much is being said but not being changed. Police have come here in droves but very little difference. Crimes continue and many residents continue to live here in fear. Laura mexicos questions bringing todays broadcast to a close but you can find much more about all of todays news on our website. Im laura trevelyan, thank you for watching and, please, tune in tomorrow. Make sense of International News at bbc. Com news. 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