A search and rescue mission is underway for a missing passenger plane. The air asia flight which is a malaysiabased Budget Airline took off from indonesia and was due to lands in singapore more than seven hours ago. Gerald tan has the latest. Reporter asat the airport pima pima wait of news of their loved one 162 passenger and crew were aboard the flight to singapore. The plane and air bus through 20 lost communications with air Traffic Control 42 minutes after take off. Translator i hope for a miracle and may god save them all. I should have been with them but i canceled two weeks ago as i had something to do. I have two friends on board with five family members. Reporter indonesias Disaster Management authorities quickly set up a Crisis Center at the airport to relay any updates of any developments. Translator we are winding our search radius. The indonesian military, National Search and rescue as well as singapore search and rescue have started to move so have our navigation ships w
Begansmoroccos gold is threaten is the future of the product. Ray search and rescue mission is underway for a missing passenger plane the air asia plane which is a malaysiabased Budget Airline took off from indonesia and was due to land in singapore more than seven hours ago. Gerald tan has the latest. Reporter at the airport Crisis Center in indonesian, a people anxiously await news of their loved ones. 162 passengers and crew were on board air asia flight qz8501 to singapore. The plane and air butt 320 lost communications with air Traffic Control 42 minutes after taking off. Translator we have informed the coastal guards and all ships in the area to be on stand by and to relay information of any signs of the missing plane. We will provide updates of any developments on an hourly basis. Reporter at singapores airport, those waiting for the flight to be to arrive are being given the same scant information. The plane lost contact as it flew over the java sea. The area was cloudy. Air as
And the government celebrates its 250th birthday. At least 700, 000 people in the philippines have been evacuated as typhoon hagapit makes landfall. Knocking out power and toppling trees. The slow moving storm is currently hovering over suma province. Will make its way west. Andrew thomas, we know during typhoon haiyan, the government obviously hoping that those mistakes are not repeated this time around. Theyre absolutely determined to do better this time around. 150 volunteers are producing about 10,000 family ration packs every 24 hour period. Things like sardines, rice and should be sustaining a family for two days. This should not be the only distribution center. A lot of criticism last time around for typhoon haiyan, was to augment more regional distribution centers. This tops up those sources. So thats one way the philippines government tries odo better this time around. They are hoping that their countrymen are better radar. My report looks at that preparation. The typhoon didn
The korean air executive who flew into a rage over a pack of nuts is found guilty over a violation of air safety. Greeks show support for their new government, but debt talks with the e. U. Have failed so far. First and eception court released to al jazeera journalists on bail, Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohammed were detained 411 days in cairo. Theyre accused of colluding a the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood charges they and al jazeera deny. Their clothing, australian peter greste was freed and deported february 1. Hed suspended 400 days behind bars. The trial will resume on february 23. Victoria reports. Al jazeera englishs cairo bureau chief Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohammed were arrested december 29, 2013 always peter greste correspondent. Originally it was believed to be temporary and based on bureaucratic problems with media accreditation. Within days, egyptians top prosecutor announced they were held on terror related charges alleging they were aiding the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood. T
Good to have you with us on sunday the guns will stop in ukraine that is at least what leaders agree to earlier today. Negotiations between ukraines government the separatist and russia and france and germany ended with a deal based on septembers broken truce. As the german chancellor said there was only a glimmer of hope, this is the end and rory challenge reports from minsk. Reporter putin said not the best of his life and others agree, more than 15 hours of wrangling trying to reach a breakthrough on ukraine. The waiting journalists had had many hopes of announcement dashed, then well into thursday morning it came. The first thing is a ceasefire starting at midnight on 15th of february and the second thing that i think have very important is withdrawal of heavy weapons. Reporter these have been incredibly tough negotiations going in the germans were particularly down beat about chances of success and even now with the agreement signed Angela Merkel says hard work remains. Translator