sseldorf. something happened 45 minutes into this flight and it took a ten-minute descent to then slam into this mountainous region in the french alps. we have much more on what we re hearing from an investigation. just heard from the ceo of lufthansa saying they ll be taking a plane, presumably these loved ones and family members to go to as close as they possibly can to that crash site. more on that but first let me turn to the u.s. government s decision to charge sergeant bowe bergdahl with desertion and also charge him with misbehavior before the enemy. this official announcement coming from an official with the army in ft. bragg. 30 minutes from now, stay right here for that. bowe bergdahl he s the soldier who left his post in eastern afghanistan. that was june of 2009. he was captured and held by the taliban until last year he was released after the united states arranged that exchange. and we talked a lot about that. remember these five men here? these five members of the taliba
that should happen live during this show. he was the soldier that left his post in afghanistan back in june of 2009. he was captured and held by the taliban for a number of years, five years. last year last may, the united states worked out his exchange for those five detainees you see on your screen here. five members of the taliban who had been held at guantanamo bay. reports emerged in january that the pentagon had decided to charge bergdahl with desertion, but so far the pentagon has adamantly denied those reports. let s go first to ed lavandera. he s live with so much to impact on this. i think as we await sort of news of any kind of disciplinary action let s begin with the possibilities. what are the options he could face? brooke i just hung up a phone call with the attorney for bowe bergdahl. and he tells me confirms to us that what the u.s. military will announce here at 3:30 eastern
our negotiations have made progress but gaps remain, and there are people in both countries and beyond who oppose a diplomatic resolution. my message to you, anymore of iran, is that together we have to speak up for the future we seek. the president s talking to the people of iran while talking down to some of the critics here and there especially in america. how do you feel about that? wally follows this closely. what message did he send to you? six years, that video should have been addressed to the iranian people when they demonstrate inside the streets of tehran in june of 2009. if the president wants to speak with the iranian people the thing they want to hear about is how fast can we change the behavior of the regime. if not the regime. that video is really directed at the ayatollahs for a strategic communications purpose not for the people of iran. so i think there s something wrong in the perception. here in washington of hour iranians are perceiving their own regime. do
on iran, president opposed those. lobbied members of congress and members of his own party not to push for tighter sanctions on iran despite we discover ad secret nuclear facility back in 2009. the president basically sought to engage iran, i would say accommodate iran at virtually every stage of his presidency. back in june of 2009 when you had the revolution because the mullahs fixed elections in june 2009, the president spent almost a week without criticizing the violent suppression of that revolution. he was wary of even challenging the mullahs rhetorically in that instance. then we had the discovery that the president had some harsh words but not nearly as tough as gordon brown the perform former prime minister of britain and nicolas sarkozy former prime minister of france. all throughout his administration he sought to look at iran in the most positive light. he has as the end goal warmer
with that thunderstorm in some way. and we know very clearly, as we remember air france back in june of 2009 that ice, frozen particles and instruments on airplanes do not mix. this is the flight radar 24 tracking website. this is the path as the plane took off from surabaya java heading north and west towards singapore, you can see just before it lost contact with air traffic control, the altitude was at 32,000 and it was ascending according to airasia. now what we see, typically, across this part of the world is a significant amount of moisture. and the more moisture we have available, the more thunderstorms build across the region. so this is the anatomy of a thunderstorm. almost a slice or right through the middle of a thunderstorm, just to give you an idea of what kind of components are inside a thunderstorm and to give you an idea of what piloting encounter