This hearing will come to order. Thank you all for being here today. One year ago today, lyon air 610 crashed into the sea in jakarta indonesia. All 189 people on board were killed. A few months later, an Ethiopian Air flight departed, and flight 302 experienced problems shortly after takeoff and crashed. All 157 persons on board died. Both of these accidents were entirely preventible. We cannot fathom the pain experienced by the families of those 346 human beings who were lost. Many family members are here today and we appreciate their attendance. I appreciate many of them meeting with members of the committee over time. As chairman of this committee, i promise their loved ones were working to obtain a full answer as to how to prevent future tragedies. These families deserve answers, accountability and action. And the public deserves no less. The type of aircraft involved in both accidents is a 737 max 8. Manufactured by boeing. International aviation safety regulators began grounding
London another legal challenge has been launched by the prominent political campaigner an e. U. Supporter gina miller and has the backing of leading m. P. s in the former conservative Prime Minister john major bello won a landmark victory against the previoUs Government of to resume a forcing her to allow m. P. s to choose if and when to activate the bracks it process the case begins next thursday a 3rd legal battles underway in Northern Ireland where the impact of a no deal breaks it on peace in the region is under scrutiny campaigners in belfast argue that a no deal breaks it threatens the good friday agreement secure 20 years ago the deal brought an end to decades of violence or legal challenges either under way or pending across the country m. P. s opposed to Boris Johnson say they will return to Parliament Next Week and in the words of the opposition labor leader Jeremy Corbyn legislate quickly to block the prospects. Of a no deal brecks it but time of course is running out with t
Says it has reason to believe is bound for syria that is a statement from mike pompei o the u. S. Secretary of state that ship was originally called the grace one it is now called the adrian darya one it was originally flagged as a panamanian vessel and now it is being flagged as an iranian vessel the British Government seized it in gibraltar and under suspicion that it would be taken to syria to offload oil that ship was released after iranian fish officials allegedly told gibraltar officials that they would not take that ship to syria but meanwhile that ship has changed his destination a few times and now the u. S. Secretary of state says it is bound for syria he says he hopes it will change course that threat comes within or else exactly what the u. S. Government might do at this stage we dont know. Well still ahead on aljazeera the opposition kids bunning despite a ban on flies by brazils president. And the websites that have allowed hackers to quietly access apple i phone. Hello a
Handed it back to china so im not so sad state that weve had a couple of helicopters flying very much higher the situation thats something you generally the helicopters fly down the power of the harbor and at this stage tonight would seem to helicopters hovering ive essentially yet to clarify as to who is running those helicopters been suggestions out the state police but big place all right sara thanks for that lets explain whats going on on the right side of the screen there that is one child near the Police Headquarters there you can see what youll see the bits of metal and plastic with flames going on right now some kind of barricade which the protesters have bill and then set on fire with fire to obviously because its close to the Police Headquarters in one china area thats about 10 minutes walk from where our correspondents have been covering the events that. The clashes that were going on near the Legislative Council that probably explains why weve seen what sara was talking abo
Of the separatists the National Army was forced to retreat by the road leading to shop one. Still ahead here on aljazeera a battle over a sacred land find out why native american tribe is taking a whole mourners association to court. One small step for President Trump the u. S. Joins the race for military expansion into space all that and more when we return. And i despite recent rain in pakistan this is still the dry picture of course there are more showers building just in the north of syria more especially to keep azerbaijan subgoal casus and maybe if youre lucky catching the Southern Coast of the caspian temperatures in iraq still reflect pretty high values for late august Early September that will change much in the next day or so weve seen this. For weeks on end to hours down to 33 in beirut is not much different despite the rather different fear on the coast of the mediterranean for the southeast i think humidity is dropping at least the next couple of days on the eastern side o