Authorities have recovered the black box. Aviation experts are trying to figure out the cause of the crash. The ceo of the airlines said the plane was flying at 38,000 feet when it lost altitude and rapidly descended for eight minutes. He said the aircraft lost contact with a control tower about 50 minutes after it took off. German wings believes citizens of germany, spain and france were on board. German chancellor Angela Merkel say people in her country share deep grief with the other countries. Translator there are many victims from this disaster, including germans. Well do everything we can to find the cause of this catastrophe. Ill be going there as well. Japanese Foreign Ministry officials quote diplomats in spain as saying two names likely to be japanese are included in the passenger list. French president Francois Holland and mariano rahoi are to visit the task force headquarters. The president s of the United States and afghanistan have agreed to slow the pace of the american
Debris is scattered for hundreds of meters in the french alps. Authorities have recovered the black box. Aviation experts are trying to figure out the cause of the crash. The ceo of the airlines said the plane was flying at 38,000 feet when it lost altitude and rapidly descended for eight minutes. He said the aircraft lost contact with a control tower about 50 minutes after it took off. German wings believes citizens of germany, spain and france were on board. German chancellor Angela Merkel say people in her country share deep grief with the other countries. Translator there are many victims from this disaster, including germans. Well do everything we can to find the cause of this catastrophe. Ill be going there as well. Japanese Foreign Ministry officials quote diplomats in spain as saying two names likely to be japanese are included in the passenger list. French president Francois Holland and mariano rahoi are to visit the task force headquarters. The president s of the United State
European Union Leaders are said to be considering launching a military operation to stop people traffickers. Theyre expected to discuss the idea on thursday on how to stop more people dying in the mediterranean. Hundreds of migrants have lost their lives in the last week, making the perilous journey from north africa to europe including 900 people on sunday. The death toll for the year has already passed 1800. We have this report. These are the latest arrivals in the Great Movement of people across the mediterranean. They set off from egypt not libya. The italian navy rescued them at sea and brought them here. Families from syria wondering what will come next. The italian authorities do their best to save lives but they do not welcome these arrivals. And so theyve made it, hundreds of young men but as you can see now many women and some very young children. They risked everything to come to europe and yet the government here in italy and governments right across europe are desperate to
European leaders are to hold an emergency summit in brussels on the crisis in the mediterranean see, more than a thousand people have arrived at italian ports in the past 24 hours many on rickety boats. Lets go on live to barnaby phillips. We know the Italian Coast Guard is still pick up hundreds of people. Reporter yes, thats right darren and perhaps you can see them on the boat behind me. The latest information we have been given is some 220 african american, i am not seeing any women or children so far on that coast guard boat, they were picked off some picked up at sea Something Like 15 miles 15 nautical miles off the libyan coast. Not far off the libyan coast. They were brought in to catania within the last half hour and will be disembarking now and well get more information about what sort of condition they might be in. What sort of vessel they were traveling off. The circumstances of how they were picked up. But the Important Information to convey i suppose is that the Italian C
Demand a complete halt to the raids as a condition for talks. Civil society in south africa come together to fight back on hate attacks on migrants. And the nfl feel the legal impact of concussion injuries. Agreeing to a 1 billion deal for players who suffered head injuries during their careers. The u. S. President has just said he takes full responsibility for the deaths of two hostages in a Counter Terrorism operation in january. The target was an alqaeda compound. As president and as commander in chief, i take full responsibility for all of our Counter Terrorism operations including the one that inadvertently took the lives of warren and giovanni. I profoundly regress what happened. On behalf of the United States government i offer our deepest apologies to the families. Based on the intelligence we had obtained at the time including hundreds of hours of surveillance, we believed that this was an alqaeda compound that no civilians were present, and that capturing these terrorists was