An activist could wind up in jail in russia hours after given a suspended sentence. New years celebrations underway in parts of the world where 2015 has already begun. Good morning, welcome to Al Jazeera America. Im stephanie sy. Im del walters. There has been a breakthrough in the search for airasia flight 8501 indonesia Officials Saying sonar appears to show the plane at the bottom of the java sea. That Development Comes a day after the first signs of debris were spotted. Seven more bodies have been recovered from the water. Four men and three women. Todays search is hampered by Stormy Weather and high seas. Well have a report from indonesia in a moment, but first we have the latest on the investigation. Officials appear to be making progress and quickly. I think so. Of course bad weather played a part in bringing this air craft down and now is hampering the search, but it is huge that the sonar has found the bulk of the wreckage. Three days after the airasia flight 8501 vanished fro
President obama justifies actions saying time is up in mosul. Today, with our support, iraqi and Kurdish Forces took a major step forward by recapturing the largest dam in iraq near the city of mosul. And authorities in missouri say police came under heavy gunfire overnight as a peaceful demonstration against the shooting of a black teenager turns violent. Announcer youre watching worldwide exchange, bringing you Business News from around the globe. So a very good morning, everybody. Lets talk a little bit about this bhp billiton story. Unlocking value, but for who . Bhp billiton shares as the mining giant announces it will spin off 14 billion worth of assets into a new company to be listed in australia. It comes as bhp posts full year underlying net profits of 13. 5 billion. Thats up 10 on the year. Well, lets catch up now with john wilson. Well speak to him as he comes good. But meanwhile, i want to fill you in on the mollermaersk story. After the shipper delivers a 1 is billion buyb
That is about 100 billion over the past two months. If you go back to january, we are looking at about 200 billion in total. Just to give you an idea of how large that number is, i inc. The the one in asia i think next one in asia is korea. China is 10 times larger. Imports down 2. 5 . Ist you cant take away here that things are chugging along slow, but it is the old engine of growth that is helping keep the economy moving along. Not exactly a bad thing. If you look at exports, that gives you a snapshot of how other economies are doing. Especially trade with developed economies like the u. S. Didnt they see a fall in u. S. Exports compared to the previous level . It depends how you look at it. Twoway trade. Obviously, the u. S. Still has a trade deficit for china. China does export more than advise from the u. S. What you are looking at is the biggest export markets of china. The u. S. Is still number one. It is always very close. Thatkong, when you look at , asean region have been gro
out of the wreckage herself and found the closest residence and reported the plane crash. kentucky resident who opened his door to the 7-year-old survivor spoke this morning to msnbc s frances rivera. she d walked about 23 three-quarters of a mile in woods that in 2008 we had an ice storm here and knocked down a lot of trees and this wood had never been cleaned up. i wouldn t want to walk through that woods after dark. now, unfortunately the four other people who were on board that plane were killed. that were the girl s parents and a sister and also a cousin. investigators from the national transportation safety board are expected at the crash site this morning. going to bring you more on this plane crash as we learn all the details this morning. on the condition of that little girl as well as we learn more. there is also a big development this morning in the search for the wreckage of the air asia crash in the java sea. we ll have a live update in just a little bit.
but they did inform me that the ships are looking 24 hours which is very encouraging. able to access the two spots which they think the aircraft could be. seven bodies have now been recovered, including a flight attendant in her air asia uniform. a woman and a teenage boy have arrived from the crash site. it is nighttime here in indonesia. day four of the search. it was another tough day for families. they pulled out even more debris and even more bodies flopy sies from the water. still, relatives are holding out hope somebody will be found alive. the news is not encouraging. investigators have been combing the water and there were reports they had sonar images of the fuselage. but air asia ceo came out and said they do not have those images. they are officially still looking. as of now, they ve recovered seven bodies from the plane and they ve taken them to a local hospital. in fact all of us here at the airport will be moved to a local hospital where family members will