Sundays final or going to stay home and stay away from what should be a showcase and joyous event. Kicking out the clutter. We investigate the meaning of the stuffed paradox. Welcome to the program. German chancellor Angela Merckle said a diplomatic solution is still the only way to resolve the crisis in ukraine. She was speaking ahead of talks with the french president hollande and russian president Vladimir Putin taking place in moscow in a few hours time. That meeting follows a visit to kiev where they put forward a new peace plan. No details of that plan have been released but some reports suggest it could include a redrawn ceasefire line and greater autonomy for the breakaway regions. However chancellor merkel says she will never decide on questions of territorial integrity over the head of another country. While there has been continued fighting over the past few days in Eastern Ukraine, prorussian rebels have surrounded the town of debaltseve. Now you can see in the territory he
The data recorders from the air asia flights is recovered. Also reaping the rewards of 12 years in the making boyhood is the big winner at the Golden Globe Awards. Hello. Thanks for being here with us from bbc world news. France is to mobilize 10,000 troops to protect the country, this on the back of last weeks terrorist attacks in paris. The defense minister says they will boost security around what he describes as sensitive sights including jewish schools. Well, the move alerts from a crisis meeting to discuss security at the palace that took place this morning. 17 people died in the attacks carried out by three islamist gunmen. The scene of one of the attacks was a kosher supermarket in paris. Thats expected to receive a visit shortly from israels Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is in paris. As of course is tim wilcox following all events. Tim, this will be a symbolic visit, wouldnt it . Reporter it will david. Weve been told by the Israeli Embassy here that he will be visiti
Coast guard. Opposition leader navalny and dozens of supporters are arrested following a rally in moscow. Those pictures are in auckland. If youre in new zealand or countries already into 2015 happy new year. The first bodies from the airasia plane disaster have been brought back to land. The operation to recover more victims and wreckage is called off for the day. Earlier it was hampered by bad weather. The plane took off on sunday 162 were on board. All are feared dead. While the recovery operation is due to resume first light on thursday, it will continue between the island and around 100 kilometers southwest of indonesia. Seven bodies have been retrieve ed from the water. Two of those have been flown back to surabaya where the plane took off. Officials are trying to identify them. Airasia is saying its clear priority now is to help the victims relatives. Jane can give us more details. At surabaya air base the Indonesian Military respectively bare two coffins of two that died in the
Children and a woman with stab wounds in a family home in the Northern City of cairns. And the murky world of online sex and blackmail. We have a special report from the philippines on a digital brand of organized crime. Jamies here with all the business, including a look at the fallout from the Falling Oil Price for the wider industry. Exactly, stephen. As oil prices fall, so investment falls. Workers are being laid off. First in the oil industry, and then in connected industries. And Oil Revenues Fall for governments as well. They rein in spending and the fragile politics of many Oil Producing nations will start to fracture. Well be looking at the countries already in danger. A very warm welcome to gmt. It is 7 00 a. M. In washington. Noon here in london. 3 00 p. M. In the Iraqi Kurdish regional capital of erbil, where kurdish leaders are claiming a significant victory in their military confrontation with the militant group known as Islamic State. Kurdish peshmergas say they have pus
Hello. South korea is testing the ability of its Nuclear Power plants to fight a cyber attack. The move comes after threats by a hacker to damage Nuclear Power stations if they with respect shut down by christmas. Diagrams of some of the countrys Nuclear Reactors have been published online in the last few days. Steve evans is in the capital seoul with the latest. Reporter the hackers call themselves the opponents of Nuclear Power from hawaii. Though nobody believes that hawaii is necessarily any connection to them. Theyve been posting documents, internal documents from the Nuclear Industry here in south korea on the web over the past few days. Now, though, theyre also putting warnings up on the web. They say that if three reactors arent closed by christmas day, then a round of destruction will occur. And also theyre threatening to put about 100,000 new documents on the web and asking the question, is this really what you want, this kind of information about Nuclear Power to be out ther