They were5 a. M. , informed that Traffic Control lost contact with the plane. A Ukraine Interior Ministry spokesman, they feel it was shot down by rebels. The rebels deny that at this point. According to Ukrainian Air Traffic Control, the plane was flying at almost 34,000 feet, and so it would take a fairly sophisticated surfacetoair missile to do that. Members,ngers, 15 crew a total of 295, according to the Ukrainian Government, all of them have been killed. There is an unconfirmed report that 23 of them were americans. Again, no confirmation of that. United states had closed the airspace to u. S. Carriers in april, and why the europeans did not close it, they made a basically offlimits, telling pilots because of the war zone they should avoid the area, so that was a question why the plane was in the area at the time. Russians say they close the airspace because they have to fly into russia out of the ukraine. Ukrainian see the airspace was open today. That is the very latest. We are
Efforts for Malaysian Airlines flight and age 17. Flight mh17. Bloombergs Ryan Chilcote joins me on the phone on brussels. Good evening. The 298emains of 282 of People Killed on flight 17 are now into refrigerated train cars and they are finally in route family and route to a city they are finally and wrote to a city. It could take as 12 hours to get there. Their plane took off a full four days ago from amsterdam. It should be comforting news for the families waiting for those remains. Not good news for the 16 who have yet to be found. The other news we have is the have been handed over to malaysian investigators. It happened in the last couple of hours. They have been waiting for those black boxes for a very long time. Four ministers from the European Union are scheduled to meet on sanctions against russia. What can we expect . Perhaps more sanctions. The prime it is to has been speaking tougher than any point then it any points in this crisis then at any point in this crisis. Wheneve
Spokesperson as the Parliament Begins to reign in Search Engines. A warm welcome, i am anna edwards. It has just gone 6 00 here in london and lets start with the oil story, the longawaited meeting is hours away in vienna. In the lead up to the meeting we have seen prices collapsed a four year lows. Ryan has been on the ground speaking to oil ministers, good to see you this morning what can we expect . I think if you look at the , clearly investors are not expecting a supply cut. We heard the oil minister of saudi arabia saying the gulf countries have reached a butensus amongst themselves none of them have been pushing for a supply cut so the fact that some of them have a united position suggest that that faction within opec is happy not to have that happen. You will remember the saudis had that meeting alongside the venezuelans, the mexicans and the russians earlier in the week and that failed to deliver a supply cut. There was this idea going into the meeting that there could be this
Good morning. You are watching the pulse. I am guy johnson. Francine lacqua not here today. She will be back on monday. Mark reckless of the u. K. Independent party has claimed a victory in the rochester parliamentary by election. Maybe a slightly bigger win was anticipated. , he madectory speech the point that ukip is gathering momentum. I wish i had the words to say how grateful i am. This is your victory. If we can win here, we can win across the country. If you vote ukip, you get you cap. Get ukip. Rec list affected to you cap from the conservative party. The chancesraises that more mps could make the same move. Speaking earlier this morning, ukip leader nigel farage praised reckless. These men have left the conservative party and had the necksge to put their on the line by forcing by elections. The kind of behavior we havent seen in british politics for half a century. Nigel farage speaking to anna edwards earlier. Rob hutton joins us on the phone from rochester. Good morning to y
Hello. Welcome to countdown. All. Y good morning to you Vladimir Putin addressing russia today amid the collapse of its currency and a deepening economic crisis. The ruble has rallied since hitting its lowest ever after the central bank step in to say it will help Companies Meet their debt obligations and foreign currencies. Theeaders weighing in on ruble issue. The russian crisis is on the agenda. Obama. President barack will not be helping putins case either. He is said to sign a bill pushing further sanctions on the russian economy. What are his options as he heads onto the world stage this morning . Bloombergs Ryan Chilcote reports. Extraordinaryn several days for russians. Since Vladimir Putin last weighed in on the currency, the ruble has been in freefall down at one point a full 30 since he last spoke. Far from hiding, this commercial advertising putins annual has conference suggests the russian president is ready to take the ruble and the world on. Expect a robust defense of sy