We begin with our world lead. Today, yet another stunning new development about the man Officials Say deliberately piloted a passenger jet and the 149 other souls on board to their deaths in the french alps. Today, as teams in france recover the dead investigators in germany removed boxes of evidence from the copilots home and say they found a shredded sick note pronouncing Andreas Lubitz unfit to work. Its unclear why a doctor declared the copilot unsuitable to fly, but what is clear is that the airline never got that sick note. Want to get to cnn aviation correspondent rene marsh. Whats the latest on this note . This is another shocking revelation in this story about this pilot who deliberately brought down Germanwings Flight 9525. A german Prosecutor Says 27yearold Andreas Lubitz did not leave a suicide note and no indications of political or religious motivation but investigators make some alarming discoveries. Evidence in his home that suggest he was medically unfit for work and t
Pivots from iraq back to syria im told by several officials there have been multiple meetings at the nsc in the last week focused on syria. Secretary of state kerry is trying to get everyone from allies from russia to iran to a political road map. Were not talking about a military strike to get rid of him. Im told theres talk about expanding the trainandequip program coming up for the rebels. The white house is pushing back on the idea of a formal review. Take a listen to Deputy National security adviser ben rhodes. Theres no formal or strategy review of our syria policy. What there is, is a strategy for degrading and ultimately destroying isil that requires us to take a hard look at what were doing on a regular basis. Weve had regular meetings that the president has joined with his National Security team on this issue. And syria has been an important subject at those meetings. So call it a calibration, call it a review. One official called it a quote vigorous assessment. I think there
York city are calling the shooting deaths of two police officers. They say officer raphael ramos, on the right, and officer wenjian liu were killed while sitting in their patrol car in a brooklyn neighborhood. Heres andy rose with more. They were quite simply assassinated. Reporter two new York City Police officers are dead following an ambush saturday afternoon. Police commissioner William Bratton says officer wenjian liu and rafael ramos were shot while they sat in their patrol car in brooklyn. Both sustained gunshot wounds to the head. Officer liu and officer ramos never had the opportunity to draw their weapons. They may never have actually even seen their assailant, their murderer. Reporter the alleged assailant is ismail brinzly. His body was found in a nearby subway station. Officials say he died of a selfinflicted gunshot wound. Brooklyn residents are shocked and outraged by the violence. Weve got to take back our communities. This cant happen. If youre mad at somebody, be mad
Wounded. For iraq, this is a critical battle if the country hopes to crush isis. Meantime in rafafghanistan, the taliban admits mullah mansour was killed. Secretary of state john kerry says its time for afghans to come together for their nations future. This action sends a clear message to the world that we will continue to stand with our afghan partners as they work to build a more stable united secure and prosperous afghanistan. And in egypt, the hunt for ab answers to the mystery of egyptair 804, now use submarine it is to find the recorders while officials plead for patience. I would encourage everybody, think about the human beings number one, two, wait for the process to finish. And dont talk about mr. Soandso said to mr. Soandso in a closed room that there is something wrong in there. This is really unprofessional and not going to lead to anything that is good for anybody. To dieiest all gest all of t congressman ed royce joining me now. Hes chair man of the House Foreign Affair
Hours long standoff in the capital of bangladesh ended just a short time ago. Were learning that 20 hostages were killed, all of them foreigners. This started when a gunman seized the cafe a popular site in dhaka. 14 hostages were rescued as police stormed that restaurant a few hours ago. Six attackers were killed. Isis has claimed responsibility for the attack. U. S. Officials are casting doubt on that. One said a gunman had 10 or 12 grenades during the standoff and the entire building was shaken in the explosion. I want to get to Cnn International correspondent sumnima udas. Shes got the very latest for us. Thank you for being here. What are you learning . Reporter the latest that we got, really, 20 civilians were killed. All 20 were foreigners that were killed at the most part were shot. We dont know the nationalities. Its not been revealed to us by officials. We do not know why they were killed, how they were killed when security personnel entered the restaurant it happened. Also a