Syria has accused turkey of latent aggression after the shooting down of the syrian warplane which ankara says violated its airspace. They shot down the plane near the turkishsyrian border after it ignored warnings to turn back. The pilot was able to eject afely before the crash, kilometer inside syrian territory. The region has been the scene of frequent fighting between Government Forces and rebel fighters during syrias threeyear civil war. Smoke rising near the border between sir key between turkey and syria marked where the lane had been shot down. Prime minister erdogan told supporters at an election rally that the plane had violated their airspace and congratulated the military for bringing the plane down. Forces denied the charge, saying it was an act of latent aggression, accusedday, syria turkey of supporting rebel forces in the region. It is not the first time a Syrian Government aircraft has been fired on by the turkish military. In september of last year, a syrian helicopter was shot down. That incident also occurred in this area. The helicopter was reportedly al times to leave turkish airspace. They said that these same warnings were made on sunday, but it seems that one of the pilots ignored them. Jones ingo to dorian istanbul for more on this story. This is not the first time such an incident has taken place. Turkey has repeatedly warned it would take such action. Should fear escalation from syria . Ankara does not seem to care one way or the other on that. Says that it is operating within international law. It says that damascus is well aware any plane violating firedh airspace would be on. They say they will carry on. In fact the turkish president has also congratulated the pilots and the chief of staff for what they call a successful operation. This incident comes as Prime Minister erdogan is under intense pressure in turkey. Is the shooting down of the syrian aircraft linked to that . The leader of the opposition did say that he believed the leader of the turkish government would try to provoke a crisis with syria to direct outlook attention away from these charges of corruption that is set the Prime Minister. The government denied that. Tensions have been building. That syriaent says has been locking their Defense Systems on turkish jets all last week. What ever the reason behind it, whether it is deliberate or not by the government, it is adding to fears and tensions in the country, and a feeling of uncertainty which is expected to carry up to the crucial elections this sunday. Dorian jones in istanbul. Thanks for that. Ukraine has expressed concern for what it describes as a massive buildup of troops along the eastern border. Moscow to missed dismissed any fears of a russian invasion. Russian president putin expressed his support for an Observer Mission to ukraine in a call to german chancellor angela merkel. That is according to a Statement Released by the kremlin. Observers have allowed in the country, but they are not being allowed access to crimea, which russia has effectively annexed. Russia has expanded its military control of crimea, but ukrainiannot all soldiers are ready to leave. Officers are still waiting for the order to withdraw. Ukraine still controls about a third of its military fleet to make even though the russian navy surrounds it. Capitulation in crimea is very complicated. Our commanders have orders to use weapons to defend themselves. Kieve government in goes todges that crimea russia, at least for now, but what matters is holding on to the rest of ukraine. They point to the buildup of forces along the eastern border indication of an invasion. Russia denies this. Thousands of progovernment supporters called for the leader to design. They want russia to take control just as they did in crimea. In other news, polls have just closed in france and municipal elections that are seen as the first real test of Francois Hollande and his socialistic government since they came to power two years ago. His personal Approval Ratings have been at record lows. With the mainstream conservative opposition embroiled in scandal, analyst expect the e. Uiimmigrant and Anti National front will pick up many votes. A second round will be held next sunday. An oil tanker intercepted by the u. S. Navy off of libya husband returned to the capital of tripoli. The Morning Glory was captured almost a week ago. It had been it legally loaded with almost 200 barrels of crude. The ships crew have been detained and are being questioned. Libyas Prime Minister was sacked over the incident last week after his government failed to stop the ship. Former spain Prime Minister adolfo suarez, known as the father of spanish democracy, has died at age 81 after a long battle with dementia. The politician was the first democratically elected politician after the end of Francisco Francos dictatorship. He served as Prime Minister from 1986 until 1991 and played a key role in france in spains transition to democracy. Authorities are investigating the disappearance of mh370 insist that the search for the aircraft remains intensive. French satellite images appeared to show debris in the indian ocean. Airline officials have confirmed the passenger jet was carrying wooden pallets, similar to one cited by an australian spotter plane. Another plane begins the long flight to the search zone. Eight aircraft are hunting for kilometersthousand south of perth. Released satellite images of a large floating object there. Now the french also have satellite images that may show debris. Australian spotter lanes made their first visual sighting. Objects,er of small fairly close together within the australian search zone, including as i understand it, a wooden pallet. It is still too early to be definite, but obviously now we have had a number of very credible lead, and there is increasing hope. No more than hope. Planes from japan are on the way to birth to join in the effort. To joineir way to perth in the effort. Because the search zone is so far from land, planes have a limited time for the effort. Chinese warships are set to join on tuesday. Sports news. 31 to hoffenheim thanks to a winner by antonio modest. Two players had drawn level, are nowbayer leverkusen without a win in their last seven games. Nuremberg received a body blow bavariansid, and the quickly fell three goals behind before clawing back 32. Minutes,e last 2 there was a remarkable52 win for the visitors. On saturday, munich failed to wrap up the bundesliga title they needed. E a spirited game. Here is a report. They piled the pressure areas just one of good chances for the host. He had had that 20 centimeters lower, we would have been behind. You cant control everything in the game. The longer it went on, the more we dominated. Go,ith eight minutes to they convert it into the opening goal. By now, the battling knights were running on empty. Ity set up mario to make 20. Their 18th win in a row. The title out of ovarian watches for a few days bavarian clutches for a few days with the win against hanover. Victors away 30 from home. This was a solid away win for dortmund. Presentableeveral chances. Onvert, 10. Levandoski stole the over, taking on han singlehanded. It was the strikers 16th goal of the season. 30 for dortmund. Is on tuesday. And they did their best to scuttle the party plans. The home side took the lead leons powerful strike, but they would not roll over. 2 more goals to settle the win. There was an trade from the bottom of the eighth was the good table. The new stuttgart coach could there was only one goal in it, but it was enough to lifted the hosts temporarily out of trouble. As heee vital points tries to keep stuttgart up. Much in a hectic game. Stoodas a chance for guard. One for hamburg. It was scrappy after the break, too. Men. Uests were down to 10 and the end, the match was settled. 10 in the 69th minute. It was enough to give stood guard the points, but much hard work remains. Supper we played some good football, but at other times, we looked like a bad team. We have to fix that discrepancy. Hamburg, meanwhile, was left in ruin defeat against a regulation rival. The rest of the weeks results look like this 11. Beat clemens 31. That leaves the bundesliga table looking like this, with three games remaining. They are starting to threaten their chances for qualifying for european football next season. Hamburg and nuremberg have much to do if they hope to beat the drop box. Dw. Re watchingdw do stay with us and check us out on the internet at dw. De. On monday, the regional parliaments of crimea you voted unanimously to apply for membership in the russian federation. The previous day there was a massive vote in the switch from kiev to moscow. Consolidateders their hold on the territory. Ukrainian soldiers on the peninsula had been holed up in their barracks for two weeks. On monday, crimean authorities issued an ultimatum to them. Either join the separatist state defense forces, or leave the territory and take their families with them. Police were out on the streets of paris on monday after strict rules were issued cutting the number of cars. Vehicles with evennumbered license plates were banned. There were exceptions for drivers with at least two passengers. Are also hybrid vehicles, low omission vehicles, electric vehicles, etc. In those cases we do not find them. We let them drive on. Over 22s have to fork euros on the spot. The program was declared a success. Shifting weather and helped the air clear and authorities lifted the restriction after a day. Fashion designer lorenz got, the girlfriend of Rolling Stones front men make jagr, was found dead in her apartment in new york. The report ruled that the 49yearold committed suicide by hanging. Scott and jagr had been a couple since 2001. Pulled out of their tour of australia and new zealand after hearing of the news. On tuesday, 120,000 people in moscow celebrated the news of the crimean peninsula. After a long, difficult, exhausting see voyage, crimea has returned to their home port, to russia. And the kremlin, not like before, putin and representatives of crimea signed a bilateral treaty, paving the way to joining the russian federation. In an address to the nation, putin stressed that crimea was an inseparable part of russia. He called the recent change of coup andt in kiev a said russia stepped in to protect ethnic russians. He also made strong accusations against the west, saying it had intervened and other crises without the backing of the Human Security counsel and that interface interfered in ukraine. In the case of ukraine, our western partners have crossed a line. They have behaved rudely and in him unprofessional way. Do not want to divide ukraine, but crimea will remain russian. Crimea is russias most important strategic factor in the region. It is a bold plan that will in russia,popular but internationally his country is becoming increasingly isolated. Also on tuesday, germanys highest court rejected all strut challenges to theesm. They found that the esm does not violate our limits right to budgetary matters. To stabilizeonated eurozone finances. Sack up a second round of talks on saturday. The council is considering a further lifting of sanctions in return for tehran scaling back its Uranium Enrichment Program in the longterm. Both sides describe the talk as positive. They will meet again in april. On wednesday, Russian Forces ukrainianol of the army and navy a quick scuffle ended without a shot being fired. Arch is theature commanderinchief of the fleet. Black sea he advised ukrainian units in crimea not to defend their faces. I would like to warn everyone, and especially the officers of the Ukrainian Naval forces, god forbid you make a single shot, even from a slingshot. Dont lay with fire. Kiev are powerless. Moscow was unimpressed. Pro Russian Troops tightened their hold there. Wednesday the Washington Post reported the National Security agency has reported every single phone call in one country. Documents provided by former nsa contractor Edward Snowden show the existence of the voice Interception Program known as mystics since 2000 nine. The white house refused to answer questions on the report. I dont have response except to say we do not as a general rule comment on every subject out again and or report. This weeks allegation increased pressure on president barack obama who has repeatedly assured americans that the nsa is not spying on ordinary people. The Washington Post has not identified the targets country, saying that ever met officials worry that could hurt the u. S. , but the documents show the nsa at least had contingency plans to carry out similar eavesdropping operations in other countries. Journaling german chancellor angela said that they must take a united stance against the russian annexation of crimea. There is no place for moscow in the g8 group of industrial nation. As long as there is no political environment for a for him like the g8, neither the summit or the g8 formats exist any longer. Her position has the backing of the vast majority in parliament, but the left party accused her of likely following washingtons lead and called sanctions against russia a mistake. U. S. President barack obama announced extended sanctions to include a bank and 20 figures close to russian president vladimir putin. Cow to missed the dismissed the move and retaliated with sanctions of its own against leading american politicians. On thursday an indian court convicted a group of men of carrying out two gang rapes which shocked the city of mumbai. It is the latest of a series of prominent cases that have led to a rethink of how the Indian Justice system deals with crimes against women. The latest conviction came a month after the crimes. The judgment has been delivered very quickly. The charges have been proved and the families have received justice. Men attacked their victims at this abandoned mill in mumbai. One of the women, a photojournalist, challenged conventions by stating rape is not the end of life. Where manya society rape victims are shunned by their families, fired from their jobs, or driven from their homes and villages. The attackers will face life in jail. Took ahursday, australia leading role in the search for the missing Malaysian Airlines lane. The operation focused on the southern indian ocean after satellite spotted two large objects floating. The 20,000 square kilometers search zone is located about 2500 kilometers southwest of perth. A number of nations have joined the search or the parade for the plane. The black box will only transmit homing signals for 30 days after crash. Ski star announced the end to her career after picking up her award for the world cup. Of course this is a very hard decision for me. On one hand competing is a lot of fun, but it is collected for the last 15 years. Everything was focused on it. Olympic careerr on a high in sochi with a gold to add to her olympic medal tally. She also won two World Championships in a decade of toplevel world competition. Injuries threatened her future on occasions, but she always stood up after the knox. Knocks. On friday, the European Union beefed up its sanctions against russia. It also found a Partnership Deal with the crane and government. It recognizes the aspirations of the people of the crane to live according to democracy and the rule of law. For now, economic inks will not the titans. Sources say be leaders wanted to avoid provoking the russians unnecessarily. With moscow still demanding unpaid gas bills fromkiev, the ukraines interim premier says thats energy must not be used as a fulcrum and repealed appealed to solidarity. We need to pay the price for peace, stability, security, and values. Brussels after a few hours. As part of the deal he signed, he and his successors will be back regularly. The turkish government blocked the microblogging site twitter on wednesday. Many were quick quick to out with them with the use of proxy servers. Organize demonstrations against the government. A constantlso been stream of compromising audio files and video, accusing erdogan of corruption. Government passed legislation enabling authorities to shut down websites. We have a court order now. We will wipe out all of these. The International Community can say this or say that. I do not care at all. The European Union condemned the van, as did turkeys president. Is alose ally of erdogan fan of social media and xucaono the following program original production of link tv. Thrup on the wall, theyre keeping an eye owe. Uncle sam keeps an eye on you. Here sharon keeps an eye on